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October 25, 2020

At the Sunrise Café...

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64 comments:

stevew said...: So we see, summer is gone. Soon too will be our exhaustion with the 2020 election. Nov 4 cannot get here soon enough for my taste.

The southern coast of Maine was noisy today, big surf, lots of surfers, cool temperatures. The sunrise was magnificent with terrific colors. Just the right amount of clouds to create contrast and autumn color. Lots of tourists in town. Fall decorations (Halloween themed) in abundance. It's decorative gourd season mother fuckers (h/t McSweeney's).

Biden continues to produce a steady supply of gaffes. Saw something saying he has announced an extended lid with 9 days to go. Of course he did. Much remorse among early Biden voters.; 10/25/20, 6:21 PM
Howard said...: There was a big Trump parade of flag bedazzled trucks running through center Mass this morning. Looked like they was all haulin ass south to find a waffle house.; 10/25/20, 6:35 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: #Humper'sPixelatedWang

Lewd Humper vs LudeMedia--
are those Finger Lakes tattoos -- where Mom was from?

Hmmm---Could she be Humper's Honeypot??
Yifei Liu – 'Mulan!'
[yes guise the actress who plays beloved Disney character Mulan].

"Lude Media revealed that Yifei Liu was a mistress kept by Xinyu Yue and has since become the CCP’s “BGY” tool overseas. Yifei Liu has gained the nick name 'Billion Yifei' earlier, and now with the drug using photo of Hunter Biden’s, she won the title of 'Drug Yifei'. She has completely become the overseas BGY weapon of the CCP."; 10/25/20, 6:51 PM
roesch/voltaire said...: Watching CBS interview and I thinking Trump no longer remembers what he said or what the facts the are..for example he claims I never said lock her up about the Michigan Gov. when it is on tape, really I think America has had enough of this con.No wonder a conservative news paper In NH has endorsed Biden.; 10/25/20, 7:01 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Neighbor put a Trump sign on her lawn last night. It was gone in the morning.

Democrats are such tolerant people. And so respectful of others rights.; 10/25/20, 7:01 PM
Phil 314 said...: Why is Wisconsin spiking with COVID now and why did it avoid an earlier big spike when its neighbors (Michigan and MInnesota) had ones?; 10/25/20, 7:03 PM
rehajm said...: Bob Dylan singing the Terms and Conditions of a standard Digital User Agreement

...for the terms they are a changin'...; 10/25/20, 7:04 PM
Phil 314 said...: “There was a big Trump parade of flag bedazzled trucks running through center Mass this morning. Looked like they was all haulin ass south to find a waffle house.”

I’m old enough to remember when jokes about black folks eating “chitlins and watermelon” was ok. Now its racist. I wonder how long it will take for such comments as Howard’s To become racist towards poor white folks.; 10/25/20, 7:08 PM
Narr said...: 2020 . . . 2 2 weird. I'd like to put a lid on the whole thing and wake up in '21.

Autumn chill and damp here, and the colors haven't been very vivid so far, with a few exceptions.

Narr
Waiting for a late October Megasurprise; 10/25/20, 7:16 PM
Nichevo said...: Howard said... Looked like they was all haulin ass south to find a waffle house.

Sure they were. All that votin' makes a man hungry.; 10/25/20, 7:20 PM
America’s Politico said...: Will everyone here accept me as the Greatest of All Time in Political Consultancy after Nov. 3?

Remember what I had said before: Dems will control WH, Senate, and House.

Next POTUS/VPOTUS: Biden and Harris
Next Speaker: Pelosi
Next Majority Leader: Schumer

GOP will out of power for next 12 to 16 years. If Biden serves 4 years, then Harris will serve the next 8 years.

Cheers!; 10/25/20, 7:30 PM
Jupiter said...: "Antifa black bloc rioters attack the “Jews for Trump” caravan participants in Manhattan. The Village People is blasting in the background."

Sounds like they're saying We don't want Jew here!

No tiki torches, though.; 10/25/20, 7:39 PM
Joe Smith said...: @AA

Here's one for you, hostess Ann...

Bob Dylan singing the Terms and Conditions of a standard Digital User Agreement:

https://twitter.com/damienslash/status/1317161605323476992; 10/25/20, 7:39 PM
Jaq said...: "Looked like they was all haulin ass south to find a waffle house.”

Remember when Democrats used to be the party of the little guy? Now they are the party of the ultra rich and the little guys are just collateral damage of globalization, too stupid to realize they should be on the dole, Democrats like their poor people to be happy with handouts. I think that the real change started with the “drag a $100 bill through a trailer park” comment. Then Democrats realized the juice they could get by appealing to the last acceptable bigotry, because certain people need that shot of dopamine they get from feeling superior.; 10/25/20, 7:46 PM
tim maguire said...: stevew said...Much remorse among early Biden voters.

I don't know if that's true or not, but someone on my Twitter feed posted Google analytics after the last debate showing a 400% increase in searches for "how can I change my vote?" Hopefully this will create some awareness of the dangers of advance voting.; 10/25/20, 7:46 PM
Breezy said...: The only attendees at the Biden event were electric vehicles, maybe 50 of them. The combustion engine vehicles all voted with their wheels.; 10/25/20, 7:47 PM
buwaya said...: In re dancing and its machismo implications, from the old post below. This is from John Reed's "Insurgent Mexico", where Reed was "embedded" in Pancho Villa's Division Del Norte.

"Villa himself stood leaning against a car, hands in his pockets. He
wore an old slouch hat, a dirty shirt without a collar, and a badly
frayed and shiny brown suit. All over the dusty plain in front of him
men and horses had sprung up like magic. There was an immense confusion
of saddling and bridling—a cracked blowing of tin bugles. The Brigada
Zaragosa was getting ready to leave camp—a flanking column of two
thousand men who were to ride southeast and attack Tlahualilo and
Sacramento. Villa, it seemed, had just arrived at Yermo. He had
stopped off Monday night at Camargo to attend the wedding of a
_compadre_. His face was drawn into lines of fatigue.

"Caramba!" he was saying with a grin; "we started dancing Monday
evening, danced all night, all the next day, and last night, too! What
a _baile_! And what _muchachas_! The girls of Camargo and Santa
Rosalia are the most beautiful in Mexico! I am worn out—_rendido_! It
was harder work than twenty battles...."

Whatever else Villa was, he was indisputably a macho man.; 10/25/20, 7:48 PM
chuck said...: I found this interview with Robert Barnes informative.; 10/25/20, 7:51 PM
Jaq said...: I think maybe the reason Democrats don’t believe the stuff that’s coming off of Hunter Biden’s laptop is because they know that all of the accusations they throw against Trump are made up.; 10/25/20, 7:55 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: yo Meade!

on an [O] positive note:
We remember you resuscitating that expiring geezer on the path,
and knowing now that you regularly donate blood,
we must say, again, thou art a true hero-- a Giver of Life.

AA is a lucky gal!; 10/25/20, 7:57 PM
Lucid-Ideas said...: You want the epitome of a weird conversation? Try explaining to your fiance (who happens not to be American) that you're not texting another woman and are commenting on some ex-lawprof from MI's blog on wordpress.

I gotta stop opening althouse.blogspot.com first thing in the morning. My woman is starting to think this site is some kind of side piece.; 10/25/20, 8:07 PM
narciso said...: Lol

https://mobile.twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1320530967619084288; 10/25/20, 8:14 PM
WK said...: Great weekend. Parents 65th wedding anniversary. Dinner with family, grandkids and a few friends. Nice to get together. My mother’s aunt/uncle lived next door to my father’s family. Have a picture of the two of them together at ages 2 and 4. Long time of knowing each other.
Voted early with 19 yo son on his first presidential election. Took about 10 minutes to get though line, ID verification and voting. Didn’t want to fight Nov crowds. Fall colors peaking. First year of not going to the Circleville pumpkin festival in a while. Sounds like they had a nice rally however. Wonder what else call will bring.; 10/25/20, 8:15 PM
narciso said...: Never mind then

https://mobile.twitter.com/LokiJulianus/status/1320523313282797570; 10/25/20, 8:23 PM
Michael K said...: Howard forgot the legendary waffle house scene with Obama, "Can't I just eat my waffle?"; 10/25/20, 8:24 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: since Xiden must hunker in his bunker cuz of the antics of Humper's

...can Kamala toe the line and Blow
the Lid off of 'Oscar The ex VP Grouch's' bungalow

Or does he know he's a clunker, his poll #'s sunk, and sunker
and his "rallies" will attract less supporters than Trumpers?; 10/25/20, 8:25 PM
Jersey Fled said...: GOP will out of power for next 12 to 16 years.

I seem to remember someone saying the same in 2008.; 10/25/20, 8:29 PM
narciso said...: What do we know for sure

https://mobile.twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1320412727937060865; 10/25/20, 8:33 PM
mockturtle said...: Narciso @ 8:33. So true. I've know a great number of scientists and they know, far more than does the layman, the limitations of their knowledge.; 10/25/20, 8:58 PM
Rory said...: "Then Democrats realized the juice they could get by appealing to the last acceptable bigotry, because certain people need that shot of dopamine they get from feeling superior."

This remains a key: what we're seeing is contempt, which is harder to confront than hatred because it's fed by the contemptuous person's need to feel superior.; 10/25/20, 9:04 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "Why is Wisconsin spiking with COVID now and why did it avoid an earlier big spike when its neighbors (Michigan and MInnesota) had ones?"

Your frame of reference is wrong, Phil. None of the states in the midwest, upper midwest had big outbreaks in the spring- not even Michigan. What Michigan had was a really, really bad mortality rate in the Spring. CFRs for the three states in your comment are, as of tonight, MI=4.28%, MN=1.76%, and WI=0.87%. Total confirmed cases are MI with 176K via 4.5 million tests, MN with 134K via 1.8 million tests, and WI with 209K via 2.0 million tests.

All in all, Wisconsin has done a much better job than the other two states, but all three are in the same boat with regards to the pool of never infected. Shutdowns broke the numbers of infected, but could never extinguish the virus- you are seeing the result of that along with what is probably seaonality. The pandemic has moved from North to South and back North as the seasons have progressed. A similar pattern to Europe.; 10/25/20, 9:06 PM
Kathryn51 said...: WK said...
Great weekend. Parents 65th wedding anniversary. Dinner with family, grandkids and a few friends. Nice to get together. My mother’s aunt/uncle lived next door to my father’s family. Have a picture of the two of them together at ages 2 and 4. Long time of knowing each other.

Thank you WK. A FB "friend" (picture White Guilt Lady Voting For Biden) recently posted that she "doesn't recognize America any longer". I wanted to tell her - that's because you are looking in the wrong places.

Thank you WK - for confirming that there is evidence in abundance that the America of our childhoods, the America of our young adulthood, etc. etc. still exists everywhere and Anywhere. One Takes. The. Time. To. Look.; 10/25/20, 9:20 PM
RK said...: Don't Get Tricked; 10/25/20, 9:36 PM
stephen cooper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/25/20, 9:40 PM
PubliusFlavius said...: Malia Obama's JP Morgan Infinite Visa

Cutting Coke

http://is2.4chan.org/pol/1603590895672.jpg; 10/25/20, 9:40 PM
bagoh20 said...: "Watching CBS interview and I thinking Trump no longer remembers what he said or what the facts the are..for example he claims I never said lock her up about the Michigan Gov. when it is on tape,"

You got a link for that showing Trump saying it? The crowd chanted it, you know, American citizens. Trump didn't say it. Even Newsweek fact checking ruled it "mostly false". Do you think they are in the tank for Trump?

Stahl lied. These same people have been lying to you about Trump for 4 years now, and not in a small way - big serious lies, hour upon hour, day after day. Trump told you the truth in that interview, but you foolishly choose again to listen to the same people who lied right to your face so many times. You never even questioned them.

Imagine if you knew those were all lies before they bombarded you with them 24/7 for the last four years. Would you believe them anyway. I think you would, because you keep believing them. Isn't that embarrassing?; 10/25/20, 9:41 PM
stephen cooper said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/25/20, 9:59 PM
Lawrence Person said...: Twitter/Facebook/MSM cross the Rubicon.; 10/25/20, 10:07 PM
Narr said...: test

Narr
and good night; 10/25/20, 10:08 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Humper Biden didnt kill himself

...he wouldnt 'overdose' due to the current shit-show would he?; 10/25/20, 10:17 PM
Joe Smith said...: "Whatever else Villa was, he was indisputably a macho man."

¿Quien es mas macho?; 10/25/20, 10:25 PM
Rick said...: roesch/voltaire said...
Watching CBS interview and I thinking Trump no longer remembers what he said or what the facts the are..for example he claims I never said lock her up about the Michigan Gov. when it is on tape, really I think America has had enough of this con.

This is almost exactly like Biden claiming he never claimed he would end fracking. Isn't it revealing rv believes one is disqualifying while the other is irrelevant? And the difference is only the link from Team Red to Team Blue.; 10/25/20, 10:28 PM
RNB said...: RV: "No wonder a conservative news paper in NH has endorsed Biden." Oh, my God! Turn out the lights! When the GOP has lost the endorsement of "a conservative news paper in NH," it's all over!; 10/25/20, 10:51 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: ok, just heard SloJo sez candidate's kids are off-limits.

With respect to that, let's hope and pray for Robert Hunter Biden,
that he will get the help he needs, and turn his life around.
God's love and grace are greater than any of our sins.

May it be so.

But Pluggs, pulling the plug on his campaigning til the election
just doesnt pass the smell test.

Would the Dems dare pull this?:
Since "JoeMentum" has soured to "JoeMentia" and is failing, would they,
in order to provide cover to yank Joe, "off" liability Hunter before he
snitches, Joe goes into mourning, Blames "Qanon" & TrumpChumps for
"savaging"**(which he has done already) his son to the point of a̶r̶k̶a̶n̶c̶i̶d̶e̶
--sorry--suicide, which will a)garner sympathy b) show what a bunch of
meanies the Trumpers are.

Would they? Nah, right?

**Biden: Trump, Republican Party Has ‘Savaged My Surviving Son’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/01/14/biden-trump-republican-party-has-savaged-my-surviving-son/; 10/25/20, 10:52 PM
Jaq said...: Hunter with Obama in the Oval Office

https://gnews.org/455034/

The Russians sure have a lot of pictures of Hunter to plant on that hard drive.; 10/25/20, 10:52 PM
Jaq said...: Being Joe Biden’s brother pays really well.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1320391173756882944; 10/25/20, 10:56 PM
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...: Leaving tomorrow for a four day trip to Missouri with a toe in Kansas. We are flying into Kansas City, spending a couple days, and driving down to Branson. Very much looking forward to it as I have never been to either Kansas or Missouri and my itchy travel feets are going nuts. Got upgraded to first, too!

Sad thing is that only a few people know we are going anywhere, and we're radio silent on social media about any travel. Don't want to hear it from the sanctimommies. Life goes on. We'll wash hands like we always do, wear our stupid masks, and go spend money in hotels and restaurants and destinations because we want to do our part to help the hospitality and tourism industry survive. Plus we love to travel more than anything in the world and we're not giving it up. Sorry.; 10/25/20, 10:56 PM
Jaq said...: "Old man wanders aimlessly while wife speaks"

https://mobile.twitter.com/ErinMPerrine/status/1320055836501303299; 10/25/20, 10:58 PM
Drago said...: Breezy: "The only attendees at the Biden event were electric vehicles, maybe 50 of them. The combustion engine vehicles all voted with their wheels."

Nicely done.; 10/25/20, 11:05 PM
LA_Bob said...: tim maguire said, "Hopefully this will create some awareness of the dangers of advance voting."

Damn right. This is the part a lot of people never thought about.

narisco, a very different kind of censorship, no?; 10/25/20, 11:12 PM
Crazy World said...: Lovely day here in Hawaii, blue skies for miles and outstanding trade winds, you go girl Amy!; 10/25/20, 11:42 PM
Gospace said...: Demoncrats are desperate. Throwing out all kinds of crap. Look at these tweets by Dr. Jack Brown, whoever the hell he is. There's a bunch of legal eagles here- do you agree with me that this falls under one of those cases where a public figure can sue for libel?; 10/26/20, 12:21 AM
Drago said...: GOP will out of power for next 12 to 16 years.

Jersey Fled: "I seem to remember someone saying the same in 2008."

Actually, they said the GOP would be in the wilderness for 20 to 40 years in 2008.

In 1992 they said the republicans would be in the wilderness for 2 generations after Clinton's win.

In 1976 they said the republicans might never win the Presidency again.

So what that all means is that if Joe Biden's carcass is carried across the finish line by Big Tech/Big Media/Vote Fraud, the democraticals really will follow thru with all their threats to create a one-party permanent majority by changing everything....and eventually the Constitution itself.

They will "black swan-proof" the electoral process and the Republic forever.; 10/26/20, 12:41 AM
tim maguire said...: What’s the deal with “the lid’l?

Since when do campaigns make public announcements that the candidate needs to take a nap? I assume his staff is still working, just Biden isn’t. Why publicly announce that? For what purpose would they want everyone to know that Joe is tired today and won’t be doing anything more? Especially when it’s still before lunchtime. Will he be calling lids in the Oval Office?

It seems more like a label the opposition would put out there. How are the Democrats so bad at this?; 10/26/20, 4:37 AM
Big Mike said...: Now they are the party of the ultra rich and the little guys are just collateral damage of globalization, too stupid to realize they should be on the dole, Democrats like their poor people to be happy with handouts.

@tim, despite being from the state which elected (and re-elected and re-re-elected) Bernie Sanders, you seem to have broken the code.; 10/26/20, 4:58 AM
Big Mike said...: ok, just heard SloJo sez candidate's kids are off-limits.

His kid isn’t a child anymore.; 10/26/20, 5:04 AM
Ralph L said...: chuck, thanks for the Barnes law link.; 10/26/20, 5:55 AM
Ralph L said...: Since when do campaigns make public announcements that the candidate needs to take a nap?

The reporters demand to know in the morning if they can spend the afternoon toobing.; 10/26/20, 5:58 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “ ok, just heard SloJo sez candidate's kids are off-limits.”

“His kid isn’t a child anymore.”

I think, maybe, the standard that I would use would be whether the character or actions of the child affected the qualifications ofvtecparentvfor elective office. Which means that Hunter (and Jim) Biden are fair game. Hunter has long been his father’s bag man. Joe brought his son along on foreign jaunts. Money from foreign governments was passed to Joe through his son, Humper, and brother, Jim. A lot of money. It was bad enough when we just knew that the Chinese government, along with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, were paying off Humper and Jim Biden. But Humper, in his coke addled state, turned In a laptop to get it fixed, forgot about it, lost legal ownership to it, and the contents on it turn out to show that his father, running for President, was routinely receiving kickbacks from Hs son and brother for the doors he opened for them. So, hell yes, his son, Humper, is not off limits, because putting him off limits would put the facts of Joe’s bribery, extortion, and selling his government office to other countries off limits.

But by that metric, Trump’s oldest three kids, and the spouses of the two married ones, shouldn’t be off limits either. His son in law, Kushner, is his brains, and likely the key to his foreign policy successes, and his two oldest sons are some of his hardest hitting advocates. Luckily, for Trump, none of them are crack addled grifters, like Humper Biden is. On the flip side, I would put Trump’s younger two kids off limits,band esp. his youngest.; 10/26/20, 6:31 AM
Jaq said...: "@tim, despite being from the state which elected (and re-elected and re-re-elected) Bernie Sanders”

Vermont has a Republican governor who started lifting the lockdowns in April and declared that the police would never be used to enforce suggestions made to the citizens re COVID. Just sayin’ Never any travel restrictions. People from out of state were asked to isolate for two weeks, on the honor system. Vermont has done pretty well, but with the leaf peepers, cases are starting to rise a little. The cold will drive it off, though, hopefully.; 10/26/20, 6:48 AM
Big Mike said...: @tim, no resident of your state can escape the shame of having elected (and re-elected and re-re-elected) Bernie Sanders.; 10/26/20, 9:04 AM
Iman said...: I have determined the Howard is an asshole, but had no idea he’s a Masshole, as well.; 10/26/20, 9:31 AM
Kai Akker said...: DJIA -743 at 12:28 p.m. This is more than merely a matter of Wall Street "analysts" deciding that Biden does not have such a great chance to be elected and shower stimulus all over them, after all. The Institutional Index has broken a couple measures of support, so the formerly hot stocks could be in for the cold shoulder for a while. (Quite a while, IMO; YMMV.); 10/26/20, 11:32 AM
Jaq said...: I think that the market is freaked out that Biden is basically senile, as he proved again today, and he might lose and the Democrats might take the Senate, as people decide to vote for Trump, but rein him in. Gridlock.

If the Democrats tried, they could work with Trump, he’s basically a Democrat on most issues, but they want control of the graft too.; 10/26/20, 5:21 PM