Chit-Chat: The Feels

[Affogato]

16 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

I think they're referring to the Signal chat where the professor was privy to our plans to bomb Yemen.

 

3 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Sweet Jesus, the irony is so enormous that I'm damn near speechless. Bolded mine.

The White House Correspondents’ Association is reversing course and canceling its plans to have comedian Amber Ruffin headline this year’s annual fundraising dinner in Washington, DC.

Instead, the association says it will celebrate the First Amendment and the free press.

“At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists,” the association’s president, Eugene Daniels, wrote in a memo Saturday.

He said the association’s board voted unanimously to make the change, and did not immediately announce any new speakers.

People have to ignore trump. It is the only way to get to him. Either go on as if he is not in the room or cancel it and go to another party he isn’t invited to attend. I get that they want access, but I’m not sure they will get it anyway.

[peacheslatour]

1 minute ago, bluegirl147 said:

I saw that earlier.   Any real journalist won't go.  If they go it continues to normalize the Trump administration.

Backi 2015, when he first ran for president, a lot of us thought it was a joke, Then I started seeing him on CNN, being treated like a serious candidate. I will never forgive the media for legitimizing him and acting like he was equal to Clinton, Obama or even the Bushes.

[bluegirl147]

Just now, peacheslatour said:

Backi 2015, when he first ran for president, a lot of us thought it was a joke, Then I started seeing him on CNN, being treated like a serious candidate. I will never forgive the media for legitimizing him and acting like he was equal to Clinton, Obama or even the Bushes.

They need to be shunned.  

[Browncoat]

22 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

Speaking of groundhogs there was one in my yard earlier.  I throw out produce I'm done with and he or she always comes and eats it.  I also throw out bread and apples and a lot of deer come to eat that.

The veg and apples are fine, but bread is not ideal for animals.  They'll eat it, of course, but it's like candy for them.

[Affogato]

I attended a discussion and it was mentioned that right leaning media disseminates a huge amount of disinformation and that left leaning media is more reliable in what they report, but tend to leave out information that does not support their views. I’ve been turning this over in my mind recently. No real thoughts, but I wonder if that could explain why here we are, this unbelievable and unimaginable thing has happened again. some of it has happened because a large number of voters have been validated that they are unhappy with how things are going, and it is explained by immigrants, or that all their money is going to people in other countries or free loaders, or that someone is angry because abortion of adult children. Sometimes I think someone needs to address the misinformation in the room. On Tik Tok, probably, and where people will see it. 

[ebk57]

10 minutes ago, Affogato said:

I get that they want access, but I’m not sure they will get it anyway.

That's just it - they won't get it anyway.  And they should know this at this point.  If they don't, they're stupid.  I don't know what else to call them.  So... fuck them.

 

5 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

They'll eat it, of course, but it's like candy for them.

Wait, are you saying candy isn't good for us???

[Spartan Girl]

17 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Sweet Jesus, the irony is so enormous that I'm damn near speechless. Bolded mine.

The White House Correspondents’ Association is reversing course and canceling its plans to have comedian Amber Ruffin headline this year’s annual fundraising dinner in Washington, DC.

Instead, the association says it will celebrate the First Amendment and the free press.

“At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists,” the association’s president, Eugene Daniels, wrote in a memo Saturday.

He said the association’s board voted unanimously to make the change, and did not immediately announce any new speakers.

 

Amber needs to go on Seth Meyers and rip them a new one.

[Affogato]

7 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

The veg and apples are fine, but bread is not ideal for animals.  They'll eat it, of course, but it's like candy for them.

https://deerassociation.com/provide-emergency-winter-deer-food/

Apparently providing browse for deer in winter ideally involves a chainsaw, meaning it involves providing the kind of food they would find themselves, as a supplemental to what they would find themselves. It is a delicate issue. Also, if you have deer you might also have bears around, and no one wants that, particularly. I don’t know where you are, but they are big and scary.

[tearknee]

7 minutes ago, Affogato said:

I attended a discussion and it was mentioned that right leaning media disseminates a huge amount of disinformation and that left leaning media is more reliable in what they report, but tend to leave out information that does not support their views. I’ve been turning this over in my mind recently. No real thoughts, but I wonder if that could explain why here we are, this unbelievable and unimaginable thing has happened again. some of it has happened because a large number of voters have been validated that they are unhappy with how things are going, and it is explained by immigrants, or that all their money is going to people in other countries or free loaders, or that someone is angry because abortion of adult children. Sometimes I think someone needs to address the misinformation in the room. On Tik Tok, probably, and where people will see it. 

1951 Refugee Convention is a good example.

Edited Saturday at 10:07 PM by tearknee

[Affogato]

13 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

They need to be shunned.  

For people like Trump, who exhibits all of the behaviors typical of Narcissists, I assume he has a violent and hurtful escalating tantrum when he is ignored, and people want to avoid that.

[peacheslatour]

1 minute ago, Affogato said:

For people like Trump, who exhibits all of the behaviors typical of Narcissists, I assume he has a violent and hurtful escalating tantrum when he is ignored, and people want to avoid that.

All the more reason sane people should do it.

6 minutes ago, Affogato said:

https://deerassociation.com/provide-emergency-winter-deer-food/

Apparently providing browse for deer in winter ideally involves a chainsaw, meaning it involves providing the kind of food they would find themselves, as a supplemental to what they would find themselves. It is a delicate issue. Also, if you have deer you might also have bears around, and no one wants that, particularly. I don’t know where you are, but they are big and scary.

My husband puts out bread for the bird when it snows. And do you know what? They don't eat it, it just attracts icky, horrible rats. I don't know why he does it. We have a suet feeder and they vastly prefer that. Most birds are meat eaters.

[bluegirl147]

5 minutes ago, Affogato said:

https://deerassociation.com/provide-emergency-winter-deer-food/

Apparently providing browse for deer in winter ideally involves a chainsaw, meaning it involves providing the kind of food they would find themselves, as a supplemental to what they would find themselves. It is a delicate issue. Also, if you have deer you might also have bears around, and no one wants that, particularly. I don’t know where you are, but they are big and scary.

There are no bears in the woods around my house. And they don't get a lot of bread.  There are usually four or five of them so each one usually gets just one or two pieces.

10 minutes ago, ebk57 said:

That's just it - they won't get it anyway.  And they should know this at this point.  If they don't, they're stupid.  I don't know what else to call them.  So... fuck them.

 

 

Willful ignorance doesn't even begin to describe it.

4 minutes ago, Affogato said:

For people like Trump, who exhibits all of the behaviors typical of Narcissists, I assume he has a violent and hurtful escalating tantrum when he is ignored, and people want to avoid that.

 

1 minute ago, peacheslatour said:

All the more reason sane people should do it.

 

I agree.  He needs attention.  And if he wants to throw a temper tantrum or ketchup so what?  Giving into a mad king just makes him madder.  He is always going to do horrible things.  Kissing his ass won't stop that.

[ProudMary]

24 minutes ago, Affogato said:

People have to ignore trump. It is the only way to get to him. Either go on as if he is not in the room or cancel it and go to another party he isn’t invited to attend. I get that they want access, but I’m not sure they will get it anyway.

 

13 minutes ago, ebk57 said:

That's just it - they won't get it anyway.  And they should know this at this point.  If they don't, they're stupid.  I don't know what else to call them.  So... fuck them.

 

2 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

Willful ignorance doesn't even begin to describe it.

Case in point:

Hey Disney, how'd that $15 million settlement that ABC made with DJT & Co. in the Stephanopoulos lawsuit, hoping it would buy you favor, work out for you? 

Disney and ABC hit with FCC investigation over DEI policies

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/business/dei-disney-abc-fcc-investigation/index.html

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating ABC and parent company Disney over its diversity, equity and inclusion actions, FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced Friday on social media.

In a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger, Carr wrote that he wants “to ensure that Disney and ABC have not been violating FCC equal employment opportunity regulations by promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination.”

[Dimity]

2 minutes ago, ProudMary said:

Hey Disney, how'd that $15 million settlement that ABC made with DJT & Co. in the Stephanopoulos lawsuit, hoping it would buy you favor, work out for you? 

Neville Chamberlain famously declared "peace for our time".   Appeasement NEVER works.

[Lantern7]

4 minutes ago, ProudMary said:

Case in point:

Hey Disney, how'd that $15 million settlement that ABC made with DJT & Co. in the Stephanopoulos lawsuit, hoping it would buy you favor, work out for you? 

Disney and ABC hit with FCC investigation over DEI policies

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/business/dei-disney-abc-fcc-investigation/index.html

To channel Shaquille O’Neal: “Hey, Mickey! Tell me how Trump’s ass tastes!”

Seriously, why should a company not directly involved with the government be investigated for (*clutching pearls*) DEI?

[Anela]

30 minutes ago, Affogato said:

https://deerassociation.com/provide-emergency-winter-deer-food/

Apparently providing browse for deer in winter ideally involves a chainsaw, meaning it involves providing the kind of food they would find themselves, as a supplemental to what they would find themselves. It is a delicate issue. Also, if you have deer you might also have bears around, and no one wants that, particularly. I don’t know where you are, but they are big and scary.

We have apparently had bears in the area, but I've never actually seen one. except for one that I think was ahead of us on the trail at a park. It's a long trail, that stretches through counties. It came out of the water, and the trail was drenched. It was almost dark, so I thought it was a massive dog, at first, and we held back because our dog is reactive.

They've had paw prints from bears, in the snow around the trails, in the past. We throw food out for raccoons and possums, all the time. I've never thought about it attracting bears, too.

22 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

All the more reason sane people should do it.

My husband puts out bread for the bird when it snows. And do you know what? They don't eat it, it just attracts icky, horrible rats. I don't know why he does it. We have a suet feeder and they vastly prefer that. Most birds are meat eaters.

We saw birds eating meat out of a saucepan that dad left outside. I threw bread out, and they ate that too, but they were loving the meat.

[Dimity]

26 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

Willful ignorance doesn't even begin to describe it.

We're experiencing the same thing here in the run up to the election.  Poilievre is doing - or more accurately not doing - stuff they'd be screaming about from the roof tops if the Liberal leader was doing it.  

One example, he still refuses to get his security clearance despite having been the leader of the opposition for something like 2-3 years.  If a Liberal leader did that it would be A Very Big Deal.  To the Cons though it's shrugged off as being a non-issue.  The hypocrisy is incredible.

My Maple Maga sister and her friends buy in to every lie and evasion and think anyone pointing out these kinds of things are just stupid liberals who don't really understand "how these things work".  Sigh.

[Affogato]

6 minutes ago, Anela said:

We have apparently had bears in the area, but I've never actually seen one. except for one that I think was ahead of us on the trail at a park. It's a long trail, that stretches through counties. It came out of the water, and the trail was drenched. It was almost dark, so I thought it was a massive dog, at first, and we held back because our dog is reactive.

They've had paw prints from bears, in the snow around the trails, in the past. We throw food out for raccoons and possums, all the time. I've never thought about it attracting bears, too.

We saw birds eating meat out of a saucepan that dad left outside. I threw bread out, and they ate that too, but they were loving the meat.

It takes a lot of calories to fly and stay warm. 
 

a long time ago I knew some people who were cornered on a roof for hours by a large Newfoundland dog they mistook for a bear. 

[Anela]

5 minutes ago, Affogato said:

It takes a lot of calories to fly and stay warm. 
 

a long time ago I knew some people who were cornered on a roof for hours by a large Newfoundland dog they mistook for a bear. 

I don't think it was a newfoundland, but it was a reminder to be more careful out there. :) 

[Affogato]

2 minutes ago, Anela said:

I don't think it was a newfoundland, but it was a reminder to be more careful out there. :) 

Yes, they are bold in some places. Wherr I live, inside a city, we have coyotes. I haven’t seen any bears, but I’m in more salt marsh territory. Sometimes deer and bear show up in urban areas, following rivers, I suppose. 

[peacheslatour]

1 minute ago, Affogato said:

Yes, they are bold in some places. Wherr I live, inside a city, we have coyotes. I haven’t seen any bears, but I’m in more salt marsh territory. Sometimes deer and bear show up in urban areas, following rivers, I suppose. 

We get squirrels, rabbits, raccoons and the occasional deer. And we're in town. But it's kind of a resort town on the lake so we get animals looking for water.

[Anela]

14 minutes ago, Affogato said:

Yes, they are bold in some places. Wherr I live, inside a city, we have coyotes. I haven’t seen any bears, but I’m in more salt marsh territory. Sometimes deer and bear show up in urban areas, following rivers, I suppose. 

We're semi-rural, and this was in a town fifteen minutes away. It did come out of a canal. 

I suppose I should have moved this to the other chit chat thread. Sorry.

[fairffaxx]

35 minutes ago, Affogato said:

a long time ago I knew some people who were cornered on a roof for hours by a large Newfoundland dog they mistook for a bear. 

Don't laugh -- in poor light, a Newfie looks just like a bear.  I think they do it on purpose because, in reality, they're so loveable & cuddly that no one would respect them if they didn't look like big bad bears.

[peacheslatour]

8 minutes ago, fairffaxx said:

Don't laugh -- in poor light, a Newfie looks just like a bear.  I think they do it on purpose because, in reality, they're so loveable & cuddly that no one would respect them if they didn't look like big bad bears.

They are sweeties. My son's friend in school had one, coincidentally named Bear.

[tres bien]

The thing that puzzles me is that Eugene Daniels the WH Correspondents president is an African American gay man and did he not have a say in who would be the comedian this year?

Amber Ruffin is an African American gay woman 

Eugene Daniel’s should resign 

[peacheslatour]

1 minute ago, tres bien said:

The thing that puzzles me is that Eugene Daniels the WH Correspondents president is an African American gay man and did he not have a say in who would be the comedian this year?

Amber Ruffin is an African American gay woman 

Eugene Daniel’s should resign 

No wonder they're so afraid of pronouns. They're baffled by them to the point that they can't tell what's going on. "OOH, scary pronouns." If it wasn't so terrifying, it would be funny.

[annzeepark914]

28 minutes ago, Dimity said:

 

Isn't this Arte Johnson from Laugh In?

[nokat]

5 hours ago, Affogato said:

Let us hope people continue to tank Tesla. He deserves it.

He gets plenty of government money.

[Affogato]

47 minutes ago, nokat said:

He gets plenty of government money.

 

[lookeyloo]

9 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

She must really want to be a Kennedy wife.  She was having an affair with him when he was still married. Acted like his anti vaccine campaign was just a difference of opinion and stayed with him after he caught sext cheating and now watching him dismantle our health system putting us all in danger.  

She must have enough similar beliefs to be with him. In my opinion.  

[Annber03]

Yeah, nothing says "time to dance" like watching people suffer and watching important organizations and departments being gutted, or watching our government commit a massive national security breach that puts our country and its servicemen and women at significant risk.

You really need to just...stop. 

[Affogato]

4 hours ago, Soapy Goddess said:

The REAL Saturday funnies:

 

Snoopy is not a trump support. I object to this libel. 

[Spartan Girl]

3 hours ago, Annber03 said:

Yeah, nothing says "time to dance" like watching people suffer and watching important organizations and departments being gutted, or watching our government commit a massive national security breach that puts our country and its servicemen and women at significant risk.

You really need to just...stop. 

And keep Snoopy’s name out of your mouth!

[fastiller]

16 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Sweet Jesus, the irony is so enormous that I'm damn near speechless. Bolded mine.

The White House Correspondents’ Association is reversing course and canceling its plans to have comedian Amber Ruffin headline this year’s annual fundraising dinner in Washington, DC.

Instead, the association says it will celebrate the First Amendment and the free press.

“At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists,” the association’s president, Eugene Daniels, wrote in a memo Saturday.

He said the association’s board voted unanimously to make the change, and did not immediately announce any new speakers.

Another example of Obedience in Advance.

[Dimity]

So very hard to believe that this man is the father of Booby Kennedy.  The Kennedy family is horrified of course.  As are all of us.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 02:35 PM by Dimity

[Dimity]

1 hour ago, bluegirl147 said:

Their own world will be destroyed soon enough.

This.  It's already happening of course.  A day does not go by without some MAGA supporter whining that they had no idea they'd be the one who lost their job. 

If things continue as they are a lot of MAGA supporters will be shocked, just shocked, to learn that they are losing their SS and their Medicare.  Some are so deep in denial maybe they will still rejoice that the billionaires are still billionaires but that won't put food on their table.

[Absolom]

1 hour ago, bluegirl147 said:

Their own world will be destroyed soon enough.

The leopards aren't done yet.  Almost everyone's turn will come.  Unless the poster is in the top less than 1%, there is at least one leopard waiting.  There's probably a dozen. My neighbor danced until her daughter was fired.   Another stopped dancing when she had to find money to help her niece come for a vacation so her sister wouldn't run the risk of having the airfare on HER credit card.  Why yes, the "vacation" included a bit of "emergency" medical care. Whether the person posting is so dug in here that they won't admit it is another matter.  

[tres bien]

59 minutes ago, fastiller said:

Another example of Obedience in Advance.

Exactly 

The association says they will instead celebrate the 1st amendment and the free press 

And how will they do that? Will the 1st amendment stand on the podium and give a well vetted speech? It’s a concept or is it like “corporations are people too”

Free speech and the free press is already withering on the vine and you people have yanked it off and are ok with killing and burying it 

Go talk to your colleagues at AP or ABC or CBS ( NPR is probably the next victim on the chopping block). But there’s more. DC law firms Columbia University The Smithsonian Institution John Hopkins. He’s already sent out threats to French based companies that do business in the US

Yeah but go ahead and have your celebratory dinner for the 1st amendment if it will make you feel better about yourselves 

[Dimity]

I'm sure the MAGA are all sitting there with their fingers in their ears going "la la la I can't hear you":

[Affogato]

9 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

In case my comment is being misinterpreted, I'm not saying I'm happy about it.  I'm saying the poster who posted "The REAL (sic) Saturday funnies" has (inadvertently?) told us how they really feel.  It's not about finding a best path forward with governing that does the most good/hurts the least people, it's destroying "other people's" worlds.

I didn’t think you agreed with the sentiment. I just would really not want Snoopy and peanuts co opted by Maga. 

[Lantern7]

If anyone from Peanuts would be MAGA, it’d be Lucy. She’s that mean.

[nokat]

2 hours ago, Dimity said:

I'm sure the MAGA are all sitting there with their fingers in their ears going "la la la I can't hear you":

Apparently firing people costs money. I am not at all surprised about the expense. 

[Dimity]

1 hour ago, Lantern7 said:

If anyone from Peanuts would be MAGA, it’d be Lucy. She’s that mean.

 

4 minutes ago, nokat said:

Apparently firing people costs money. I am not at all surprised about the expense. 

And having to hire them back costs even more.  Which has been happening as well.  So essentially these unneeded govt workers that got fired, got rehired, some got fired again, and then got rehired again (sigh) but all were still on the payroll in one way or another but weren't working.  The efficiency is mind boggling.

Edited Sunday at 05:30 PM by Dimity

[Anela]

10 hours ago, Soapy Goddess said:

The REAL Saturday funnies:

 

Trump has cut funding for food banks in northeast Ohio.  Is that why you’re dancing? 

Kamala voters weren’t voting to destroy anyone’s world.  

[Dimity]

4 minutes ago, Anela said:

Trump has cut funding for food banks in northeast Ohio.

He really does want to starve people into submission doesn't he?

[Anela]

2 minutes ago, Dimity said:

He really does want to starve people into submission doesn't he?

He does not care about anyone.

[Affogato]

2 minutes ago, Dimity said:

He really does want to starve people into submission doesn't he?

No. That would imply he would feed people if they submitted. He simply doesn’t want to feed them and doesn’t care if they starve. 

[Dimity]

We are seeing the MAGA mindset at work here in Canada right now with the people we are calling Maple MAGAs.  My MM sister just responded to a post one of our cousins made which listed about 20 times that the leader of the Conservative party has voted against any initiative that would actually help people (things like increasing the old age security, reduced child care costs, subsidized dental care and the like).

Anyway out of that entire list she nitpicked one item which in her opinion was misleading.  It wasn't.  But she couldn't even begin to argue with any of the other things.  This is someone marching towards her own senior years in the very near future, without a company pension or benefits to  fall back on BTW, and she is so blinded by her hatred for "the libs" that she can't see that she's only going to hurt herself.  Or maybe she does see it but she doesn't even care.

Edited Sunday at 05:55 PM by Dimity

[Absolom]

I continue to be astounded at the people who put someone else's philosophy and propaganda ahead of even their own self-interest.  I'll starve so some poor child doesn't get a cup of milk.  It amazes me how both stupid and cruel some people can be.  

[PRgal]

Forgot to mention:  my mail in ballot came in a few days ago.  I registered ON THE DAY Canada announced its federal election. My husband is also going to be voting by mail and should get his in a few days.