Post CF and on-going Trump outrages

[Railer13]

@Atamasama

I don’t think he has any political future.

I certainly hope you’re right, but the guy has risen from Congressman to Director of the CIA to Secretary of State. He may have gone as far as he can go, but he definitely wants to be president.

[Roderick_Femm]

@Atamasama

I don’t think he has any political future.

This has proven numerous times in the past to be a dangerous prediction. I don’t rule anyone out as a threat.

[Atamasama]

@Roderick_Femm

This has proven numerous times in the past to be a dangerous prediction.

Yeah, I thought Trump could never get nominated. Ex-president fucking Trump.

[LSLGuy]

Pompeo looks like a very credible Soviet era senior apparatchik. IOW, he’s perfectly typecast to be the Brezhnev-equivalent that initiates the final fall of America into permanent authoritarianism.

[Yookeroo]

@Aspenglow

I’m conflicted on this one. I think both Sondland and Pompeo are scum.

Scum going after each other is always a good thing.

[Senegoid]

We’re not done discussing badgers and badger horns yet. For those still wondering, it comes from the Favorite Avatars thread just last week, where we discussed Lewis Carroll’s descriptions of raths and toves.

Which board avatars do you like?

Lewis Carroll himself gave conflicting descriptions of toves, raths, and perhaps other critters. Before writing Looking Glass, he wrote a periodical called Mischmasch, in which he may have given the description you mention. But in Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty gives some different descriptions. Slithy_Tove’s avatar follows Humpty Dumpty’s definition and agrees with Tenniel’s illustration: [image] To be sure, the Wikipedia page for Jabberwocky seems garbled…

@Senegoid

To be sure, the Wikipedia page for Jabberwocky seems garbled: At one point, it says:

For example, following the poem, a “rath” is described by Humpty as “a sort of green pig”.[18] Carroll’s notes for the original in Mischmasch suggest a “rath” is “a species of Badger” that “lived chiefly on cheese” and had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag.[19]

Later, the same page says:

Tove: Humpty Dumpty says “‘Toves’ are something like badgers, they’re something like lizards, and they’re something like corkscrews. … Also they make their nests under sun-dials, also they live on cheese.”[18] Pronounced so as to rhyme with groves .[21] They “gyre and gimble”, i.e., rotate and bore. Toves are described slightly differently in Mischmasch : “a species of Badger [which] had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag [and] lived chiefly on cheese”.[19]

(ETA: Emphasis added by me.)

[eschereal]

Stags do not have horns.

[Atamasama]

Correct, as antlers are not horns but rather a part of the skull. They are no more horns than a prominent brow ridge on a human would be.

The more you know!

[LSLGuy]

@Atamasama

They are no more horns than a prominent brow ridge on a human would be.

So all those Star Trek aliens have antlers. Who knew?!1!!

Not I, that’s for sure. Thank you!

[Senegoid]

@eschereal

Stags do not have horns.

Fighting ignorance in the Pit now are we?

[eschereal]

The messagebored’s charter is to fight ignorance. Why should and forum be exempt? (And besides, it was not fighting ignorance so much as being pitantic).

[Hamlet]

Another softball lobbed over the plate…

[Just_Asking_Questions]

@Hamlet

Another softball lobbed over the plate…

And if you hit it for a home run, people will hate you because you broke one of the many* unwritten rules of baseball, and dishonored the game, and may cause opposing pitchers to throw at your head.

*How many are there? no one knows, because no one wrote them down.

[Toxgoddess]

Oh yeah? Then explain staghorn corals, huh??? And staghorn sumacs? They wouldn’t have called them that if stags didn’t have horns because “not-stag horn sumacs” just sounds dumb.

[Atamasama]

People park in a driveway but drive on a parkway.

We name things stupid names.

[Johnny_L.A]

National Review Confirms 'Startling' Report On Trump's Current Grasp Of Reality

[Akaj]

The National Review article linked to there is worth a read, too.

Maggie Haberman Is Right | National Review

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@Akaj

The National Review article linked to there is worth a read, too.

Very paywalled.

[Northern_Piper]

I clicked on it from inside the Huff Post article and got through.

[Akaj]

@BippityBoppityBoo

Very paywalled.

@Northern_Piper

I clicked on it from inside the Huff Post article and got through.

I also got right through from HuffPo. But here’s a sample:

Just how far out there is Trump’s theory? Consider that, even if it were true that the 2020 election had been stolen — which it is absolutely not — his belief would still be absurd. It could be confirmed tomorrow that agents working for a combination of al-Qaeda, Venezuela, and George Soros had hacked into every single voting machine in the country and altered the totals by tens of millions, and it would remain the case there is no mechanism within the American legal order for a do-over of any sort. In such an eventuality, there would be indictments, an impeachment drive, and a constitutional crisis. But, however bad it got, Donald Trump would not be “reinstated” to the presidency. That is not how America works, how America has ever worked, or how America can ever work. American politicians do not lose their reelection races only to be reinstalled later on, as might the second-place horse in a race whose winner was disqualified. The idea is otherworldly and obscene.

(bolding mine) I wonder if all this was inspired by the Kentucky Derby winner likely being disqualified …