Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.

'Jaynestown'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Sep 10, 2024 9:30:40 pm PDT #2480 of 4000
Our wings are not tired.

The memes are brilliant. Many pet eating varieties.

eta: Even the moderators were much better than previously and Fact Checked him!


Cass - Sep 10, 2024 10:13:54 pm PDT #2481 of 4000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

eta: Even the moderators were much better than previously and Fact Checked him!

I really appreciated this.


Calli - Sep 11, 2024 4:00:24 am PDT #2482 of 4000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I reviewed KD Spangler’s Bluesky thread on the debate, and I got the impression that Harris whacked Trump all over the debate stage like Serena Williams smashing a tennis ball at Wimbledon. Which was a nice thing to wake up to.


Toddson - Sep 11, 2024 5:31:55 am PDT #2483 of 4000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I sat through the hour-plus of descriptions, commentary, etc., then when he started the stupid lying in that stupid voice I gave up and went to bed.


Steph L. - Sep 11, 2024 6:00:45 am PDT #2484 of 4000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I watched Jon Stewart's debate recap, and that's all I needed to see. The look on Harris’s face when Trump was talking about immigrants eating cats was the exact same look I have when my dad starts talking about the hallucination people in his apartment.


Laura - Sep 11, 2024 6:42:39 am PDT #2485 of 4000
Our wings are not tired.

Oh! I haven't watched that yet.


Dana - Sep 11, 2024 7:01:39 am PDT #2486 of 4000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I got the impression that Harris whacked Trump all over the debate stage like Serena Williams smashing a tennis ball at Wimbledon

It was some good shit. She mocked the size of his rallies and said people left early because they were bored! She called him weak! She said he was fired by 81 million people!


Jessica - Sep 11, 2024 7:32:21 am PDT #2487 of 4000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

No matter what vile shit Trump says, his base thinks he's the messiah.

Ugh, too true and too upsetting. The unhinged overconfidence is a PLUS for his followers, no matter what actual words come out of it.

I think Kamala finished stronger than she started, and by the end he was an incoherent rambling mess while she was looking cool and confident. Turnout is going to be the key to a win, as always. That there are more left-leaning adults of voting age in almost all states isn't in question, it's how many of them will show up.

My heart goes out to the moderators, who valiantly did their best. "Would you like to respond to...the rest of that?"


Toddson - Sep 11, 2024 8:19:33 am PDT #2488 of 4000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I'm hoping that the newly registered voters (most are young) and the endorsement of Taylor Swift (and her cat) will increase turnoug.

Also, I came across this comment: one cannot think the name “JD Vance” without picturing a shuddering and exhausted davenport .... which was followed by someone commenting he treats women like furniture.


askye - Sep 11, 2024 10:27:30 am PDT #2489 of 4000
Thrive to spite them

I've read some articles about the debate. I didn't watch it.

Fox News had an opinion piece tried to spin it as the moderators were totally unfair to Trump. It has this paragraph "Rather than patiently and systematically challenging Harris with evidence that his administration had helped the middle class more than hers, Trump reverted to form, claiming once again that he actually won the 2020 election. "

When has Trump ever patiently or systematically challenged anyone with evidence?

Taylor Swift has officially endorsed Harris. And Trump seems to think that will hurt her in the marketplace.

M's mom said she thought that Harris and Trump did the same in the debate. But she didn't watch all of it. I brought the outrageous lies and she couldn't believe he said that...or well she could but was like "he said that?" It was pointed out to me that a lot of people around here will vote for Trump and I said I knew SC would go from Trump ..

Interestingly in Brevard I didn't see as many political yard signs as I've seen in the past. I only saw a handful of Presidential ones and only one of those was Trump.

I think the last thing I saw from Nate Silver was Trump winning the Electoral College by a landside and Harris winning the popular vote by a small amount. That worries me.