US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

quincie do you go to the beach

We went there (Henlopen)! Official high school senior trip.

we went to Rehobeth, Bethany and Dewey as a family.

I went to the beach this year! It was in Nicaragua.

the letter is about a condo in Ocean City though?

xxpost I've been in DC for like 15 years and have never made it to the Delaware/MD beaches. Not really feeling keen on them atm.

tobo otm

BK kinda has admitted drinking excessively and regretting behavior. i thought we were going after him for sexual assault (and lying about his actions in the Bush years, which the gen public doesnt care about).

that mentors song came out in 1985. i definitely saw the phrase “findum, fuckum, and flee” on playground graffiti.

xp

I have heard enough Dewey stories from former Dewey group house bros that I an def never renting a place there.

I love camping at Cape Henlopen. Good times.

Anyway Quincie is on the right track. The Bart crowd wanted to party, obv, but they also weren't very creative or adventurous about it.

They went where their parents already had houses, yes. But more to the point they went where their parents took them when they were kids. Their wildness always and only happened inside their rich white preppy-ass comfort zone. Sad!

Oh and, their parents totally let them have the keys to their vacation houses, eschew eschewed chaperoning, and looked the other way. many even bought the keys. Because Beach Week. Privilege is a hell of a drug, yo.

My friends who went to DC area private schools in the first half of the ‘80s/knew guys who did say the FFFF thing was in a song by the Mentors, a band fratty douchebros really liked because of that song.

― suzy, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 9:35 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the only time I spent at Rehoboth Beach was with.....David Brock! about 18 years ago I was briefly friends with him, and I spent a weekend at his house there, around the time of his conversion from right to left. I hated his book about Hill but it was hard to hate him as a person

― Dan S, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 7:38 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dude; what?

he wasn't terrible

Crud, that got garbled by kindletyping

I mean bought the kegs.

The parents in question figured they had good enough lawyers and they also dgaf

Also kinda amazed by the Brock story

hmmm, i wd've hated him as a person

I thought the Mentors song refered to an earlier usage. Or was a song based around an existing saying rather than one they coined.
I was thinking that I was mainly aware of them years later, late 80s rather than early.

Singer El Duce may be more infamous as somebody accused of killing Kurt Cobain or rumoured to be hired to do so.

tobo otm

BK kinda has admitted drinking excessively and regretting behavior. i thought we were going after him for sexual assault (and lying about his actions in the Bush years, which the gen public doesnt care about).

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 9:44 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hate that the pyrometer details of drunken escapees are being used as a smoke screen for the actually bad stuff and being used to reinforce the utterly odious ‘boys will be boys’ narrative that seems to go along with this.

I still don’t trust David Brock.

Drunken escapees

New band name thx

I don't totally, either, but he's on our side

xp morbs, I would have thought I would too

Oh, the beach. Haven't been in four years now, but next summer? Heck yes.

lmao https://acculturated.com/poptimism-killed-intelligent-rock-music/

crossing the streams sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb0W0lHCVQA

@ morbs - the drinking is one way back towards the assault claims. Kav spent half his hearing time denying he'd ever been a drinker to the point of blacking out or forgetting things, to the point where he was making up insultingly implausible garbage to paint himself as a saintly little college boy who just liked a little beer now and then, like any true american. proving that this was completely absurd makes his story less plausible and corroborates a detail shared in the accounts of all of his accusers (thus supporting the point that they are remarkably consistent and also not generic).

as a bonus it proves he lied to the senate. in any universe where collins and murkowski vote "no" to protect themselves on the center, they'll have cover to protect themselves on the right: "I was totally all set to vote yes on this great constitutional originalist but I was deeply disturbed that he would lie to my colleagues in the senate."

Mindy Moderate's speechwriers aren't quite so perspicacious.

I keep seeing "Mindy" itt and I'm like who?

Ditto "Huckleberry," which confuses me because of the two Huckabees in the news, and "Huckleberry" is neither.

Fwiw I have no trouble with Yertle and Yam. But after a web there are just too many people in the news and it's enough just to keep track of all the real names. Gah.

Web = while, Christ I need to go buy a computer

actually all the nicknames are stupid and ppl should stop already

Huckleberry = Lindsey Graham
Mindy = Murkowski?

Maybe I'm completely wrong.

Great job America

The video of Trump mocking Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony at his rally. Remember, aides were initially surprised at his restraint on the matter. pic.twitter.com/p75xQrDeJD

— andrew kaczynski🧐 (@KFILE) October 3, 2018

Mindy moderate is collins
Huckleberry is graham

I think both come from Charles Pierce at Esquire

Huckleberry = Lindsey Graham
Mindy = Murkowski?

― DJI, Tuesday, October 2, 2018 8:47 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe I'm completely wrong.

― DJI, Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Huckleberry is Charles Pierce's

Mindy is mine.

And they're not stupid.

I don't give a fuck what I call Lindsey Graham, nor should you.

goddammit why did i watch that video

( had one beer

I enjoy a tipple every now and then

the FFFF thing was in a song by the Mentors, a band fratty douchebros really liked because of that song.

I didn't know anyone liked the Mentors, and I saw the Mentors live. (They opened for the Revolting Cocks, a Ministry side project that, at the show I attended, had more women dancing onstage than dudes playing instruments.)

Why is Elton John holding up a pink sign at that rally?

he's still standing!

Mukowski Lisas and Red Hatters

a mentors fan on the supreme court

Iove maura's posts crossing the streams

cool

Diane Feinstein threatens to vote in favor of Kavanaugh's confirmation if voters annoy her.

Listen to her say, "I'm a vote on your side. Don't lose it."#BelieveSurvivors #MeToo #StopKavanaugh https://t.co/pLpUdaltCQ

— 🕉 Scap🌹☮ (@scapelliti) October 2, 2018

you can call various senators whatever you like, but it's precisely as witty as forks' replace-Trump-with-Drumpf plugin. and at least he didn't have to explain it

the only one of these nicknames that is funny is bart

none of the nicknames are ever funny. Christ all the fuckin dem bloggers calling Bush "Shrub" for eight years. sterling effort there

C-Plus Augustus is better, admittedly.

can we all at least agree that Drumpf is the least funny

still like the diaper don nickname for jr.