i think 'even Hitler loved his dog' is a good general point
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
Disappointing news. I was really looking forward to two sentences of rote tribute followed by fifteen minutes of riffing on his Electoral College victory.
Trump will attend but not speak at this week’s funeral service for former President George Bush https://t.co/ONo7GLTijW— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 3, 2018
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
start an unnecessary war that kills hundreds of thousands of civilians,
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
imagine his chagrin on learning that Poppy was the last GOP prez to win California.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
your mistake there is the assumption that trump has the capacity to learn
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 December 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
oops sorry
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
"Some people say he's the last one to do it. Some say others could still do it, maybe me. Well, I'll just say it: I could probably do it. But right now, they're saying, he's the last one."
― crüt, Monday, 3 December 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
I forgot to keep paying attention over the weekend. Were we able to collectively as a nation shave all the rough ages off and fully rehabilitate one of the finest presidents, indeed one of the finest men, to have ever graced humanity with his beneficence and wisdom?
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 December 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
totally
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Noice.
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 December 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Monday, December 3, 2018 2:56 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they tried but perrin shut that shit down
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
In observance of the national day of mourning for President George H.W. Bush, the Clinton Presidential Library, 42 bar and table, and the Clinton Museum Store will be closed on Wednesday, December 5. However, the library lobby will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for visitors to sign the condolence book.
I sure hope the radio plays something besides Lee Greenwood on Wednesday.
― pplains, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btCNAMna-PE
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
I just watched a piece of the laying-in-state ceremony. When the camera panned to a front row seat with Cheney, Powell, Scowcroft, et al, I almost called INTERPOL.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
Pence trying on Poppy's shoes w/this eulogy...
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 December 2018 22:25 (five years ago) link
Spent about 15 minutes on H.W. with my 3/4 class today. I told them they'd only see four or five presidents die in their lifetimes. When I did my own tally later, I realized that was way off: there've been nine die in mine (Kennedy, Hoover, Eisenhower, Johnson, Truman, Nixon, Reagan, Ford, Bush), and I'm only 57.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 December 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
yes, but there will only be four or five presidents in their lifetimes
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
I was thinking just Trump from now till the end of time.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
Bush is the sixth president to die in my lifetime (Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush).
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
Only four for me but god willing I'll see three more.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
Same with unperson. Presumably Carter will be next, being realistic.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
It is weird realizing that after Carter passes, the most senior of the ex-presidents will be Clinton. (It's also weird remembering he's now 72.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
Although W is 72 as well. Huh.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
Hell, spinning this all out further, given Trump is 72 as well, I'd put an even chance that within ten years Obama could be the only current ex-president still with us. Signed, Your Presidential Morbidity Bulletin.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I'd say there's a good chance there'll only be Obama + sitting president at one point.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
id put money on it that at least one of clinton and w ends up still being around in 20 years
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
All summer of 1946. Thanks a lot baby boom.
― jmm, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
Oops, forgot about W...he'll be around for a while.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
Huh, I didn't realize Hoover hung around until '64.
― WmC, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah I remember seeing a photo of him with Kennedy once.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
(And since Wilson, Coolidge and Harding were all gone by '32, Hoover really was the loneliest guy in terms of a unique experience for two decades.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
I realize now why I said four or five; from my own list, I was too young for the first five to have any meaning (no recollection of even Truman's or LBJ's death, when I was 11 or 12; if I were American instead of Canadian, that might not be true). So there've been four, starting with Nixon, in my adult life.
― clemenza, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
hmm making me think I should start a presidential deaths poll
so far Reagan dying was my favorite
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
Reagan would get all the votes.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
I'd cast one for Nixon. God, was he a shit.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 December 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
only Republican presidents have died in my lifetime #blessed
― Freda VanFleet (symsymsym), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link
― WmC, Monday, December 3, 2018 11:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i remember reading that jfk gave all the living ex-presidents a call during the cuban missile crisis to let them know what was going on, and hoover was one of them. i find it so weird to think of hoover being alive during that era, his presidency feels like it happened in a different universe compared to the postwar dudes.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
the Clintons are going to be on their arena tour longer than Cher
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
no Dem president has died in almost 46 years. spoooooky
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
I absolutely do remember Truman and Johnson dying w/in a month of each other. I had already read a lot of schoolboy presidential history.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
The Hoover phone call is on YouTube.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
Presumably Carter will be next, being realistic.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, December 3, 2018 6:10 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'll bet carter's healthier than trump despite being a 95 year old cancer survivor
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
Eisenhower was first to go in my lifetime, Johnson the first I actually remember.
― suzy, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:55 (five years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, December 3, 2018 6:22 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pact with the devil otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
More like there were just more GOP presidents
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
Don't Democratic presidents tend to be younger, too (or at least post-WWII)?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
Bill Clinton is vegan iirc so he might be around for a while
― crüt, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
Clinton is one blowjob away from a cardiac arrest
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 02:45 (five years ago) link
Best cinematic version of Poppy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvrIiqLv7M
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
I dunno. He doesn't get hit in the balls in that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5pTyUgfxo
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 04:03 (five years ago) link