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Oddments

These are just a few little things I spotted and thought I’d bring to your attention.


I don’t usually mention Laura Ingraham around here, but when I do, it’s because she said something remarkably stupid.

If you know Minnesota, and I know it well, especially Milwaukee, it’s changed. It’s never recovered from 2020. It’s not the same place. And Tim Walz was empathizing with all the DEI initiatives that were swirling about the controversies.

Somebody who knows Minnesota well ought to know that Milwaukee is in Wisconsin.

I appreciate the sentiment and the spectacular sideburns, but no, I can’t listen to Nick Offerman sing this song a second time.

The two kinds of weird, illustrated.

Also weird: this is what has the Republicans upset:

Weird.

This is not weird, this is straight up normal Minnesota.

Rep. Tim Walz won the Minnesota congressional delegation’s annual hotdish contest for the second year in a row. The Democrat’s blend of bacon, ground turkey and other ingredients was declared the winner. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., started the contest four years ago.

Walz’s winning “Turkey Trot Tater-Tot Hotdish” recipe:

You’ll have to follow the link to get the actual recipe. It looks good, but it’s definitely not vegetarian. I guess turkey is not meat, but bacon is.

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  3. Reginald Selkirk says

    Also weird:

    That Time Trump Nearly Died in a Helicopter Crash? Didn’t Happen.
    Former President Donald Trump told a jaw-dropping story Thursday about nearly dying in a helicopter ride with Willie Brown, the former California politician and ex-boyfriend of his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

    There was only one problem with the story. Or maybe two. Or maybe three.

    It wasn’t the famous former San Francisco mayor on the helicopter flight at all. It was Gov. Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, who bears little resemblance to Willie Brown.

    There was also no emergency landing, and the helicopter’s passengers were never in any danger at all, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was also on the flight.

    Jerry Brown, who left office in January 2019, said through a spokesperson, “There was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.” …

    Other than those details, Trump’s account is 100% accurate.

  6. Silentbob says

    The Democrat’s blend of bacon, ground turkey and other ingredients was declared the winner.

    Well guess we know what happened to the pig he was cuddlin’. 8-0

  8. birgerjohansson says

    Myself @ 7
    Automatic voter registration is a normal thing in modern industrialised countries outside USA.
    The only people who would oppose it would be those who thrive on suppressing voter turnout!

  11. Doc Bill says

    There was a delightful exchange between Tim and his daughter, Hope, at the State Fair.

    Tim: And then we’ll get some corn dogs.
    Hope: Dad, I’m vegetarian.
    Tim: OK, turkey burgers, then.
    Hope: Dad, turkey is meat.
    Tim: Not in Minnesota.

  12. Walter Solomon says

    These Internet streets are rough for the regressive right. You love to see it!

  13. StevoR says

    @6. SilentBob : To quote Charlottes Web Some pig! ;-)

    @11. Doc Bill : Turkey used to be a country but thenm they changed the spelling into Turkiye – which I still think make sit look I’ve mistypoed it.

  14. muttpupdad says

    Poor Kari is still sadden by all those still burning hole where grand cities once stood, there are no more liberal bastions left for her to burn down.

  15. Reginald Selkirk says

    @13: which I still think make sit look I’ve mistypoed it.

    It’s hard to imagine that happening.

  17. Big Boppa says

    My granddaughter is a vegetarian. She once said to me, “I never eat meat of any kind. Not even fish. But sometimes I like to have a little bacon because well, it’s bacon. Right?”.🥓

  19. birgerjohansson says

    If you cut a very small piece off Turkiye you might use it for cooking without Erdogan noticing.
    Going off on a tangent. -I found a different odd thing. You know the obsession with prayer? 8 years after the gang of Skepticrat/God Awful Movies started, the old testament god almost caught up with them, as a Florida hurricane aimed at them delayed their journey home from Orlando. But not stopping them…
    It is like the “boobquakes” that are caused by immodest clothing worn by women. The never quite hit the target.

  20. birgerjohansson says

    If Vance holds a pig upside down towards the ceiling and sings “Spider Pig, spider pig…” it will be the good kind of weird.

  21. says

    Nick could use a little auto-tune, but I appreciate the effort. On another note, when they do PZ’s all=star bio-pic, Nick will play him. Just grow in around the sideburns and the time in hair and make-up will be minimal.

  23. ricko says

    “Somebody who knows Minnesota well ought to know that Milwaukee is in Wisconsin.”
    Yeah, I’m from Wauwatosa… You know, the city that’s another huge part of Milwaukee County. You know, the leader of the Milwaukee area… Jiminy Ch*istmas.

  26. Robbo says

    @Reginald Selkirk

    I’m in Minneapolis. I know exactly where the Milwaukee Avenue Historic District is! though I never knew it’s name or history. I have driven and biked by and thought it is a really cool little neighborhood!

  29. Robbo says

    give laura ingraham a break. she is not so wrong…

    Milwaukee is literally just down the road from Minneapolis.

    Get on I-94 in Minneapolis. Drive 340 miles east. Tadaa! Milwaukee!

    Also, Memphis is literally just down the river from Minneapolis.

    Get in a canoe on the Mississippi. Paddle south some 850 miles. Tadaa! Memphis!

    The Memphis Twins are my favorite baseball team!

  34. gijoel says

    Kevin Sorbo demands Kamala Harris prove her “blackness” by using the n-word.

    Best Xitter comment: “If you wanna hear the N-word so bad, just go hang out with your base. You’re weird. Delete you account, bro” —

  35. says

    That’s even dumber than when Trump congratulated the people of Kansas after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl while he was president. Ignorant, but you can kind of see it, if you squint a bit.
    Milwaukee, Minnesota? Jiminy Christmas, it’s your own damn country. Learn something.

  36. Reginald Selkirk says

    @3

    BBC article
    “Well, I know Willie Brown very well,” Trump said, before speaking of the flight and claiming the former mayor had told him “terrible things” about Ms Harris.

    “He had a big part in what happened with Kamala,” Trump said.

    The former mayor also denied this.

    “That’s so far-fetched, it’s unbelievable,” he told local TV station KRON. “I could not envision thinking of Kamala Harris in any negative way…

    I’m guessing that Trump knows Willie Brown about as well as Laura Ingraham knows Minnesota.

  43. Reginald Selkirk says

    The first rats desert the sinking ship

    Trump Dinner Guest Nick Fuentes Declares ‘War’ on the Ex-Prez

    Nick Fuentes and his army of white supremacist followers played their opening hand in a self-declared “war” against former President Donald Trump Friday…

    “We support Trump, but his campaign has been hijacked by the same consultants, lobbyists, & donors that he defeated in 2016, and they’re blowing it,” Fuentes continued. “Without serious changes we are headed for a catastrophic loss.” …

  44. Reginald Selkirk says

    The other Black politician who says he was with Trump in that near-fatal chopper crash

    The man who almost crashed in a helicopter with Donald Trump told POLITICO Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — despite the former president’s repeated insistence it was Brown.

    It was Nate Holden, a former city councilman and state senator from Los Angeles, who said in an exclusive interview late Friday that he remembers the near-death experience well. He and others believe it happened sometime in 1990.

    “Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco,” Holden said. “I’m a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles.

    “I guess we all look alike,” Holden told POLITICO, letting out a loud laugh…

    Also aboard was Trump’s late brother, Robert, the attorney Harvey Freedman and Barbara Res, Trump’s former executive vice president of construction and development. Res told POLITICO on Friday that she also remembers the ride well. In fact, she said she wrote about it in her book, “All Alone on the 68th Floor.”
    Res remembers Willie Brown, too… But the man on the helicopter was definitely Nate Holden, she said…

    Before he hung up with POLITICO, Holden assured a reporter that nobody discussed—let alone criticized—Kamala Harris as Trump claimed Brown did.

  47. says

    @37 Reginald Selkirk commented: ‘We have the flight records’: Trump insists that he was on helicopter with Willie Brown
    Trump told the New York Times he had records to back his claim, but he has not produced them.
    Lying liar lies, film at eleven.

    I reply: Here is a very well researched article on tRUMP’s murderous helicopters:
    https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/08/10/trumps-broken-down-helicopter-was-a-vehicle-to-make-up-shit-about-kamala-harris/
    This is how horrible the mainstream media is: tRUMP lies, murders, deceives and the main slime media help him WTF (cross-posted from infinite thread)

  50. Reginald Selkirk says

    Personally, I have seen enough of the “biting an Olympic medal” shot. It’s getting pretty stale.

  51. KG says

    Personally, I have seen enough of the “biting an Olympic medal” shot. – Reginald Selkirk@50

    So have I, and I’ve never seen it! (I don’t watch sport.)

  52. birgerjohansson says

    About white rappers leaving.
    Is there any chance to encourage rich really reactionary people to leave Merica for real if Harris wins?
    Will any english-language country look attractive to them? The Brit channel islands, maybe? Monaco, if they can be arsed to learn a second language.
    Singapore is an authoritarian country who flogs people. Promising, but non-aryan.

  53. Reginald Selkirk says

    Trump bizarrely claims nobody knows his Democratic rival’s last name

    On stage, Trump reeled through his standard list of grievances and disparaging remarks about America, adding some new material for the crowd.

    “Kamala Harris. You know it’s interesting nobody really knows her last name,” he said.

    “If you ask people, do you know what her last name is, nobody has any idea what it is,” continued the former president…

    Oh certainly, you are convincing me that you are not at all weird. (backs away rather quickly)

  56. says

    birgerjohansson: Why would any super-rich asshole expat need to learn another language? Wherever they choose to move, talking to ordinary shmucks won’t be the reason.

  57. birgerjohansson says

    Brony @ 55
    Kamala Sauron-Baby-Eating-Demon-From-Place-Inhabited-By-Darkies maybe?

  60. Reginald Selkirk says

    JD Vance is an abject moral failure

    Vance on racial attacks against wife Usha: ‘Don’t attack my wife. She’s out of your league’

    Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) doubled down on defending his wife, Usha Vance, against the white supremacist attacks she has faced since he was tapped as former President Trump’s running mate last month.

    “Look, my attitude to these people attacking my wife is, she’s beautiful, she’s smart. What kind of man marries Usha? A very smart man and a very lucky man, importantly,” Vance said Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week.” “And my view is, look, if these guys want to attack me or attack my views, my policy views, my personality, come after me. But don’t attack my wife. She’s out of your league.” …

    The correct response: “Racism is wrong.”

    Vance’s response: “My wife gets a special exemption from your racism, and by the way I will find a way to compliment myself in the process.”

    What a guy.