I'm getting my American news from The London Times this morning. For this post, I was charmed by the description of Fetterman as "the Democrats’ most unbiddable member in the upper chamber."
I think it's funny to call the Senate "the upper chamber," and I have to go talk with AI to get a handle on what "unbiddable" means. Once you see the root, "bid," as the "bid" in the phrase "do as you are bid," it's easy to see the meaning of "unbiddable." You can't tell Fetterman what to do.
I spend some time musing about the word "bid" — looked it up in the OED, read the very lengthy etymology, and scanned the quotes. Here's one from a 1984 book called "Country Voices," which is a collection of oral histories from rural England: "You didn't go to a funeral unless you were all in mourning, and you didn't go unless you were what they called ‘bid.' When anybody had died, there'd be a young man come round to bid you to the funeral..the joiner's lad."
Do you see why it would be the joiner's lad? And would you like that approach to funerals? You don't just decide for yourself should I go or not.
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They are stating this is a test for the level of scandal people are willing to put up with. I don't think that's what's at play here. We've long shown we're up for any level of scandal as long as the person doing the scandalizing is wearing the team's colors.
What's at stake here is the level of competence we're willing to put up with and the level of character we're going to demand from our 'leaders'.
I don't have high hopes on either end that we're in a better position to judge today than we were 250 years ago. I am sure we're not.
“ He's a born undertaker's mute.
I can see him in his black silk suit.
Following behind the funeral procession...
With his features fixed in a suitable expression.”
DEzis lean into NYzis, and now MAzis, and Nazis they didn't have time for. Throw another baby on the barbie, and so it progresses.
So, Fetterman has spoken. How come the DNC hasn't spoken? Nothing to say? That's... unusual. The media is suggesting there's some activity out in the bullpen though, Janet Mills is stretching and warming up.....
I daresay John is jealous...
Graham can change his own underpants too.
Not beholden to others like that...
The thunderer is tedious platner is a thug like stsrmers gang
LOL! Talarico and Platner are going to be the face of the Democrat party for the next 5 months.
With X the media can't bury them.
When do we get to see the dick pix? September?
You mean behead another baby,
Or bake em in the oven...
No babies on barbies or in blenders, but the end result is the same. Dead kids. Land cleared. Mission accomplished. Your tax dollars at work...
Change is gonna come!
That pur british servicemen in jail
The Democrats stopped caring about scandals between the Clinton impeachment ("just sex") and the Senator Al Franken "Stuart Smalley" sleeping-woman-boob-grab photo during early TDS.
"If Trump can get away with it so can we."
They then put literal psychopaths in charge (e.g., Adam Schiff, Susan Rice) of pulling sleepy Joe's strings. In context of Crossfire Hurricane, endless lawfare, the Mar-A-Lago raid, acceptance of Supreme Court Justice harrassment, and weak Secret Service actions against the 2024 Trump attempted assassination, we are firmly in an era of Praetorian Guard politics.
The internal Democrat resistance to this form of governance use Fetterman's stroke and cognitive status to voice the quiet parts out loud.
What happened to Galindo? Do we get to hear about concentration camps and sterilizing Jews too?
And would you like that approach to funerals? You don't just decide for yourself should I go or not.
Was this at a time when funerals were often held in personal homes? I could see the need to limit attendance.
AOC in a Hijab!
Nothing says vote Democrat like your leading Woman in a Hijab.
remember The Olden Days?
back when the left claimed that Elon Musk was "evil" ?
because he was photographed holding his arm in a way that they could pretend was a nazi salute?
remember? remember those days?
NOW, the democrats are running a Senate candidate that not only has an Actual Nazi tattoo, a candidate that has STATED that women deserve to be raped. A canidate that is a member of a pedo group..
BUT! that is ALL OKAY!
because that candidate claims that he is NO LONGER a nazi..
NOW, he claims that he is a true communist.
The Democrats stopped caring about scandals between the Clinton impeachment ("just sex") and the Senator Al Franken "Stuart Smalley" sleeping-woman-boob-grab photo during early TDS.
Hey, leave Stuart Smalley out of this. He helped people. And I don't think he was enticed by dozing dames.
Maybe it's a subtle prompt for Platner to bid 'farewell' to his ballot opponent, so that she can fare well against Collins in the fall. The Brits used to be very good at subtlety.....
The nazi tattoo is concerning. The fact that he defends himself by saying that he's not a nazi, he's a communist, and that hasn't knocked him out of the race, is mind-boggling.
The closest to strelnakov although tom courtney was more noble
Not exactly sure what he means by "Republicans f**king love him" - Republicans are pleased with the idea of running against Platner, not with the idea of him becoming a United States senator.
They will probably put janet mills back in
Are there any normal people in the national public eye running as a Democrat?
also, a year ago, the Dems were saying, that they NEEDED to get young white men back..
NOW; they're trying to, with
Platner, and James Talarico and (in Iowa), Rob Sand.
this is apparently, as good as they can get.
@TosaGuy --
Joe Manchin was the last normal Democrat in the public eye. They lied to him to get his votes for Bidenflation and DEI, and then he was forced to retire.
"Was this at a time when funerals were often held in personal homes? I could see the need to limit attendance."
Maybe it was more about insuring that there would be good attendance. Inclusion, not exclusion. Mandatory inclusion and you must wear mourning.
I THINK this is at least marginally related: a couple of days ago, my husband exclaimed, "Talerico is really short!" He'd run across a picture of Beto and Talerico standing together, and Talerico just cleared Beto's shoulder. (Beto is of course famously quite tall.)
Today I decided to see if I could figure out how tall Talerico is - "tall" being a virtue for whatever reason in electoral politics. Off to Google I went, to ask "how tall is talerico?" First, autocorrect autocorrected my question to "how old is talerico?," which is weird because the t is nowhere near the o, et cetera, and told me that he's 37. Then, when I manually corrected the query, I was informed that there is no public record of his height.
Onward! I then asked for "Beto and Talerico" in an image search. Lots of individual pictures of each man; I scrolled and scrolled, and for pages, no image of the two of them together came up. Hmm. (Also, every image of Talerico speaking was taken from a low angle.)
Okay then - I went to Grok. I asked, "Can you find a picture of James Talerico and Beto O'Rourke together?" Grok thought about that for a long time, the sources it was checking flitting by: Facebook kept coming up again and again.
Interlude: at this same time, my husband, who has an iPhone and pretty much uses the Apple defaults, searched for "Talarico with Beto" in Safari, and the picture he had originally seen popped up immediately; it was from Facebook. Beto looks like the Frankenstein monster in it, and Talarico looks like ... actually, it reminded me of that one strange picture of the Bidens and the Carters, in which the Carters look like dolls and the Bidens look like giants. Talarico was tiny in every respect.
Back to my phone! Finally, Grok said that there were no "widely disseminated" pictures of the two men together. But, gentle reader, here's a link to one picture from the Texas Tribune from some appearance or other.
In that one picture, apparently the only one Grok could ("could") find in all of the interwebs, Talarico is standing on the left, holding a microphone and speaking, the camera angled up. Beto is on the right with a number of people between them, slouching and leaning on something, and because of where the camera was located, Beto, by contrast, is pretty straight-on. The two men's apparent heights were therefore about equal.
I conclude that too many people are asking for the picture my husband found, and just as the "Talarico eating ribs" picture did the opposite of helping Talerico appear worthy of election in Texas, The Algorithms have decided that if people see the contrast in height, they'll reject him even harder. We can't have that!
So how do I think this is related to the post? In that you have to go to London to hear Fetterman, because his opinion - which seems to me to be at least half-right in that Republicans do love Platner (I'm still not sure about Maine Democrats, though I am pretty sure they'll vote for him anyway if he wins the primary) - is so damaging to the Chosen One. Talerico, touted everywhere these days as "the new Beto," "Beto 2.0," "better than Beto," is clearly and profoundly Bet*A*, a serious defect in a Texas politician, whether or not it should be. But you won't hear about that defect from domestic sources.
Janet Mills is still on the ballot.
But 1/3 of the vote has already been cast.
Democrats wanted to defeat Paxton with some kind of Puritanism about marital fidelity, and now they can't do it. So what good is their scrubbed-clean little choirboy Talarico now?
Maine Democrats: "Vote for the pervert who got a Nazi tattoo! It's important!"
Platner is a totenkopf tattooed, deadbeat oyster farming adulterer. I'll bet it'll come out that he also wears socks that scream 'I have no idea what I'm doing!'
Hes the Reaver version of skippy o rourke
"For this post, I was charmed by the description of Fetterman as "the Democrats’ most unbiddable member in the upper chamber."
I regret that most congresscritters are eminently biddable, that is, to the highest bidder.
Interesting that no reporters are interviewing the chicks he sected. Is there a rule about quoting minors?
I am at a loss as to how tRump Swabs or Paxton supporters can proclaim Platner’s personal sexual behavior is disqualifying.
I am also at a loss as to how Platner supporters can find Trump’s personal sexual behavior disqualifying.
The Republic is screwed because the general consensus among way too many Republicans and Democrats is that character is not a consideration.
One step closer to the emperor forcing the Senator’s spouses into having sex with horses.
Platner is called an oyster farmer..
ALL of the oysters he sells, get bought by his mom's restaurant.
in other words, he's living off a family woman.
Rob Sand (here in Iowa) has received about HALF of ALL the money he's raised from his wife (who runs her family investment company)..
a majority of the rest of the money he's raised has come from his wife's PARENTS (who OWN their family investment company)
James Talarico doesn't seem to HAVE any money.
where are the Democrats that can support themselves?
Most politicians have sketchy private lives. You're just a gullible rube and boob if you care. And Fettterman, Mr. Brain damage is now the Go-to-Voice-of-Reason for the MSM.
Nazi Tattoo is just stupid, dishonest, cheap shot. But of course, the morons swallow the lie.
Susan Collins needs to be gotten rid of. She's the worst of both parties.
"First, autocorrect autocorrected my question to "how old is talerico?," which is weird because the t is nowhere near the o,"
Siri once told me the location of the nearest 7-11 was "minus 4". I stopped using Siri.
Maybe it was more about insuring that there would be good attendance. Inclusion, not exclusion.
Now that puts it in a whole new light. How many people hid under the coffee table when the joiner's lad came knocking?
Not many. I shouldn't be cynical. But it is an interesting cultural relic.
So, Talarico's mystery girlfriend was outed today. And...she's an abortion lobbyist. If the GOP had a sinister strategist putting forward candidates to make the dems look bad, they wouldn't be doing a better job than what is actually happening.
One of the things that really bother me about Platner is he has a 100% disability rating from the VA for supposed PTSD. This usually indicates that the recipient cannot reasonably hold a productive job. It also means we are already paying him about $4,000 a month.
So, this guy that cannot hold a productive job wants to be a Senator? A more ironic situation would be hard to find.
"A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; "Death's Head Units"[2]), ran the concentration camps and extermination camps." - Wikipedia
Is Platner's tatoo specific to these guys?
And he got it in croatia that was more blood thirsty
Your average senator today is merely a number as a D or an R. It is the natural end result of the direct election of senators. Instead of state governments sending a representative on their behalf, we send people (insulated by six-year terms) whose role is to represent themselves instead of their state.
There is something about the Democrat system that pulls up some of the worst people. A bad Republican is just a swamp creature that is politically worthless or worse to the Right, but the bad Democrat is often a psychopath who couldn't get job at any company with standards, and who has a closet full of horror show that gets ignored. Platner said he joined US military to kill people, that he did kill Iraqis and Afghans, and says he had an excellent time doing it.
Take the traitorous kennedy dodd combo
"So, this guy that cannot hold a productive job wants to be a Senator? "
That really says a lot about the state of things with Democrats.
Although he's now my favorite Democrat, Fetterman got chosen and elected despite having a brain injury that made it difficult for him to speak coherently. Same with the guy they chose for President, and the lady to follow him. I can't understand how they choose these people who rightly should be at the bottom of the list. They are being selected for some reason other than competence, and in the Fetterman case, they didn't even get the ideology right.
"When anybody had died, there'd be a young man come round to bid you to the funeral..the joiner's lad."
This one's easy to comprehend. In rural England, before the railroads, nearly everything someone owned was either made by oneself using what skills possessed or by a local craftsman -- the local blacksmith or the local joiner. The smith made virtually everything common that was metal -- pots, pans, hinges, latches, hooks, hoes, sickles, and scythes... but not many nails. No call for them. Anything wooden was made by the joiner -- from houses to furniture to coffins, all made by joining bits and pieces with mortises, tenons, and pegs. Fancy caskets used to bury the gentry and other highborn folk were made by specialist working in the larger towns and cities, but if a plain pine box suited your station, then the joiner's work was fine. Now, there's no point gathering for a burial if there's no coffin ready for the deceased. There was no other preparation. Every village vicar had his Book of Common Prayer. He just read from the chapter contain the service for the dead... Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, blah, blah, blah... everyone's heard it on TV a million times. The mourners put on black and followed the priest. The only real preparation was in the joiner's shop. He seldom kept a finished coffin ready; people didn't die that often. So each death called for some carpentry. When that was finished the burial could commence. (The interval between the completed joinery and the funeral itself was called the death watch. The women sat with the body watching for the slightest signs of life to make sure no one was buried alive, a popular dread of the time. All the Romantics toyed with premature burial in their works.) When the coffin was complete, the joiner sent his apprentice, his lad, around with the news.
Politics is like a pendulum.
The harder it swings in one direction, the harder it will swing back.
Platner is just chuck u's chew toy
Democrats don’t get American men - Don Surber https://share.google/ygpcqCVIilayReKL5
"When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."
“I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars,”
“You will end up with great health care for a fraction of the price and that will take place immediately after we go in. Immediately! Fast! Quick!”
"We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt. ... Well, I would say over a period of eight years. And I’ll tell you why.”
Step right up!
See the three headed midget!
I think it was Bloomberg who characterized him as a carnival barker.
Much more interesting than Platner's foibles is the question: Why are the Dems so intent on stringing up Susan Collins?.
She's the most milquetoast of Republicans. Thirty years in and no major legislation while frequently crossing the aisle to vote with Dems.
Dems poured a record $48 million to defeat her in 2020. Collins still won by 9 points.
Fetterman is correct. It's highly unlikely the Dems can unseat Collins, all the while inflicting damage to their national brand by nominating a Nazi womanizer.
I read lots of Regency novels, and bidable is constantly used to describe wives who will happily do their husbands bidding.
I presume "joiner's lad" refers to the assistant of the master joiner who is building the coffin?
"Democrats really, really like Platner..."
What the hell is wrong with them. There are millions of people to pick from and somehow they found one of the worst, and they convinced themselves that's great. I cannot understand the mind of the left. Maybe there is none.
You people sound like Democrats: He's a Nazi Womanizer
KKKak/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetrollaccount said:
"Politics is like a pendulum."
Please cite specifically what areas that the pendulum has swung so far that the you and your leftist democrats have decided that Nazism, pedophilia, child genital mutilation, violent storming of churches,organized street thuggery and crime, drug trafficing, human trafficking, assassination , rape, murder, and islamist theocracy must be forced upon us citizens?
The pendulum - it'd be nice if politics behaved like a pendulum! But instead its swings leftward keep growing in magnitude, and its swings rightward barely clear the center line. What's up with that? Is it that the point of suspension is attached to a ceiling that's being gradually tilted, but the point of observation uses a horizontal ceiling to define its frame of reference?
(Wow, that's needlessly geometric.)
…he trained terrorists so they have to put him in the senate so he’s untouchable…
…he trained ‘their’ terrorists…
"The pendulum - it'd be nice if politics behaved like a pendulum! But instead its swings leftward keep growing in magnitude, and its swings rightward barely clear the center line"
Politics isn't a pendulum. It's a rachet.
It's how you end up with idiots like Rich claiming he's "more conservative than most". In the democrat party, I suppose he is.
Tbe pendulum works for some eras and political situations. I think it's best suited for homogeneous non-multicultural places like Japan or Iceland. It'd work in pre-multicultural USA too. It's not very good in the mass media and technology era either.
The ratchet metaphor works, but a screw/corkscrew adds a third dimension. The culture rotates and one side becomes the other side, but in increments and with some shifting sentiments as the whole thing moves together.
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will precisely replicate their 1900, 1935, or 1962 positions again.
“Senior Democrats fear ….” Oh, bullshit! Anybody who is still a Democrat is amoral for one reason or another - evil, ignorant or stupid. Open borders, check. Mutilate gender confused children, check. Men in women’s’ sports and locker rooms, check. Crooked judges, check. Election fraud, check. Etc. Etc. “Senior Democrats” know that and will welcome anybody who wins the seat.
I'll just note that it was totally not a surprise to see RCOcean screaming his support of a man who has a Totenkampf tattoo and who praises Hamas for murdering thousands of Jews. He sounds like RC's dream candidate, in fact.
On a broader note: It can't be much longer before the majority of Jews break away from the Democrats, right? It's one thing to claim "But but they just hate Israel, and I as a good leftist do too!" But it's entirely another to have Democrats running on pure straight up "the only good Jew is a dead Jew!" like Platner and that one person in Houston Galindo. And all of the rush of Democrats like AOC to put on the Burka and bow to Mecca... when has that EVER turned out well for Jews?
You have inspired me to think about where words come from. It's interesting and it adds to our understanding. And with laptop computers it's easy to search.
Upper and lower House dates to the meeting rooms in Federal Hall in NYC where the first Congress met. The House got the big room, the Senate got the smaller upper room.
Those Republicans that condemn Susan Collins for her political survival should consider whether they'd prefer another Democrat Senator, instead. Maine is not MAGA, except for the townies in rural areas.
We wish we would move the ball a little more the Dems go all ranming speed without a prompt
NeggNogg writes, "I presume 'joiner's lad' refers to the assistant of the master joiner who is building the coffin?"
You assume correctly, though we should not think of a master's apprentice as his assistant. That overstates the apprentice's role. In the guild system, an apprentice was virtually a slave. In the usual case, a boy was entered into the trade at age 7. His parents could and frequently did receive payment for the boy, whose new master assumed all responsibility for the entered apprentice, in loco parentis, as it were. The apprentice received food, clothing, and a place to sleep, but no wages to speak of. Nor was he free. A runaway apprentice was a criminal. An apprehended runaway would be returned to his master, but if caught a second time, the runaway was frequently flogged while tied to a post in the village square. If the master rejected him, the apprentice was often condemn to be transported to the colonies. However, in the ideal case the apprentice would be put to general work -- cleaning, fetching this and that, running errands -- his actual involvement in the master's trade was quite limited, the knowledge and skill imparted gradually over the 7 years of the contract. Having reached the age of 14 years, the apprentice was freed from his obligations to the master to depart and undertake the journey to find a new master in the trade who would take him on as a qualified assistant. From this we have the term journeyman, which we still use. After seven years of service as a master's assistant, the journeyman became a candidate for mastership in the trade, which might or might not be granted.
Platner did offer Democrats freshness and authenticity. Mills seemed as appealing as warmed up mush. Platner turned out not to be authentic at all and to be burdened down with all the baggage of an obsessive internet commenter (and now apparently of an obsessive internet philanderer).
He's not actually a Nazi, but that's how the game is played. Get used to hearing about "six-gender Talafreako" every day for the next six months.
Fred Tuttle was an eccentric elderly Vermont dairy farmer. Democrats could vote in the Republican primary, so they assured that he'd get the Republican nomination for Senate to give Leahy a free ride to victory. This time, Maine Democrats may have played the same trick on themselves.
I am at a loss as to how tRump Swabs...
Will you ever grow up?
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