Work email just received from our building management:
Dear Tenants,The ______ Tenant Appreciation Holiday Reception has been rescheduled to honor the National Day of Mourning for former President George H.W. Bush.
The ______ Tenant Appreciation Holiday Reception has been rescheduled to honor the National Day of Mourning for former President George H.W. Bush.
Guess I better remember to wear black tomorrow or I am going to be such a pariah.
I honestly do not remember anyone making one quarter of this amount of fuss about Reagan, Nixon, Ford. WTF is going on, seriously.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Actually, what I meant to say is that I'm really really broken up about this and I think I should probably take the day off to collect myself.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
I remember Reagan's memorial period being very prolonged and even more obsequious than this
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
Expect Slate to issue a correction post-haste that Sully is in fact a good boy.
― jmm, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
I think for National Mourning Day I'm going to grill some hamburgers, make a peach cobbler, go to the water park, shoot off some fireworks...what else?
― WmC, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
well Reagan was "transformational" as even Prof Obama pointed out
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
i'm going to shove some broccoli up the chute
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
I honestly do not remember anyone making one quarter of this amount of fuss about Reagan, Nixon, Ford. WTF is going on, seriously
The snowballing beauty of the Electronic Age
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Gonna do some aggressive bush trimming.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
that dog is fake
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
When Reagan die the orgy of mourning went on for a week. The lucky bastard proved lucky one last time, for it was 2004, an election year and the war was going badly for Shrub.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
*died
the mourning for reagan felt like it went on for literal years tbh
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
mourning in America.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
that #slatepitch is one of the only mostly-correct ones
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
yeah the reagan shit was such a big deal even in the uk. it really bummed me out
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
Ahh, see, I had no cable in '04, and internet news wasn't quite as In Your Face at that time iirc, so it was easier to take brief note of a president's death and move the fuck on.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
I hope I don't tear up when George Jr. salutes the riderless horse.
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
Of course, he does that every time he sees a horse, but still.
Usually with just the one finger, but I think he'll be able to rein it in this time.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
There's tons of pernicious political correctness in the US. 94% of it is stuff like this, which is never called political correctness because powerful people like it. https://t.co/zSPFfRhxj9— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) December 3, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
That grocery scanner: read somewhere earlier this year that that was misleading, that he was being shown some new model that was different than whatever had been previously used. No idea if that's true.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
And also the correct answer to "How has the National Debt affected you personally?" was "It messes with my approval ratings. How has it affected yours?"
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
Dole made it! always there for WW2's worst veterans.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
WATCH: Former Sen. Bob Dole is helped out of his wheelchair to salute the casket of George H.W. Bush in the U.S. Capitol. pic.twitter.com/BeIz3USrHr— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 4, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
stop lying about my record
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
lol
you can't hear Dole saying "WE BELONG DEAD"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ypzRDq3PGI
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
Charlie Pierce and Jennifer Rubin go at it.
While crediting him for raising taxes despite a campaign pledge, Pierce went on to slam Bush for changing his positions on abortion and “voodoo economics,” and said that “The primary legacy of George H.W. Bush, as president, is that battlefield courage does not necessarily translate into political courage.”
Rubin, who has become one of the most prominent anti-Trump conservatives, leapt to defend Bush.
“Oh my, I couldn’t disagree more,” Rubin said, adding that “you can pick small things, small mistakes in anyone’s career,” but praised Bush for his handling of the end of the Cold War, his decision not to occupy Iraq after the first Gulf War, the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act, and his signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“He bent the knee of fealty to the elements that created the modern Republican party,” Pierce said.
“No, I don’t think so. The far-right was there when Ronald Reagan was there, he just came along after him,” Rubin replied, then took aim at Trump by contrasting Bush’s foreign policy chops with Trump, whom she said is “so disruptive and so at odds with our allies.”
“Donald Trump has never been part of a conspiracy to sell missiles to the Ayatollah,” Pierce blurted out, a reference to the Iran-Contra scandal.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
what they actually want is for us to hush so they don’t have to think about what it means that they *still* adore someone who voted against the civil rights act, pushed the drug war and resorted to “hey, black crime” in an effort to retain political power.— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) December 4, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:11 (five years ago) link
it's true, Trump's conspiracies are generally worse
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
meanwhile, over in the nyt, ross douthat longs to feel once more the reassuring pressure of the white anglo-saxon protestant jackboot upon his eager, panting throat
Put simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
not sure I have the intestinal fortitude for this take this morning
― resident hack (Simon H.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
Uh, I highly douthat, Ross.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
i'm savouring the extremely spicy thought that people who got to their station in life on merit are nonetheless unquestionably inferior to someone else of a white anglo-saxon protestant persuasion who could be - should be! - holding that station instead
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
the new york times, folks - it's good
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
sweet! I can't wait!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
It kinda all depends on your perspective. If you're an accelerationist who believes we should purge human life from the planet ASAP, Anglo-Saxon leadership kinda seems like the way to go.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
my god, than you! That Douthat column was an even better than my most lurid imaginings.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
I can't even type straight!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
it's a glittering gem of a piece, i'm glad someone else was as moved by it as i was
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
I will defend to the death Douthat's right to indulge whatever kink tickles his particular fancy so long as he refrains from getting all prescriptive about it.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
douthat - marquis de sade of op-eds
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
Every VP since 1977 is at President Bush’s funeral, except one. Mondale, Quayle, Gore, Cheney, Biden, and Pence are there. The only one missing is President Reagan’s VP, George HW Bush.— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 5, 2018
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
He’s there
― chinavision!, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
what a horribly formed "joek"
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
wow ari fleischer is blowing the lid off this whole fuckin' scam - bush faked his death and has joined jfk jr and trump to expose the international elite's paedophile ring #qanon #WWG1WGA #GreatAwakening
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
TBF did anyone get close enough to say with 100% certainty that the casket didn't just contain an animation cel from 'Two Bad Neighbors'?
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
If I could have had a few days of Bush lying in state wearing a shaved-down rainbow afro wig, I could have died happy.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
Oh god, and this was our very last opportunity to make that a reality.
At last, I am in mourning.
― Mom's out working, for fulfillment (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link