Anybody remember James Stockdale? He was Perot's running mate. I remember a televised debate with him, Quayle, and Gore. Stockdale was a war hero, and for 7 years he was brutally tortured as a POW in Vietnam, but never cracked. At the debate, he was unprepared and forgot to turn his hearing aid on. Those two jerks ran rings around him and he became a laughing stock. Perot and Stockdale still got 19% of the vote in 1992.

Rule #1: Don't look bad on TV. #politics #media

Spent most of the last several weeks away from home. We were on vacation, and last week i worked remotely from the middle of nowhere while my family went kayaking and hiking. I feel more relaxed than I should be, considering. Staying busy, listening to so much music I might need a break from THAT (never!). Hoping you all are doing well - I'm catching up on the firehose, just hanging at the back....Cheers all.

Very high on my list of reasons to be thankful is that I am not cursed with taking everything everybody says literally. I can’t imagine what a prison that must be, to assume every single utterance is 100% without irony or humor or sarcasm.

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Wow - one of the most Biden-friendly, Trump-hating, liberal echo chambers in all of internet media pulls no punches today.

https://www.rawstory.com/drop-out/

So much "food for thought" out there today, yet I am still starving.

Just saw a commercial that suggests we could all get along better if we came together and ate some sausages. Because pork and pork by-products are the great unifier, bitches.

This is only half-snark, but with all the hashtag requests will there be any characters left for the posts? I mean…. #debate #debate24 #debate2024 #trump #biden #tapper #cnn #question #interruption #whackjob #orangedroolius #danabash #lyingliar #elections #convictions #felon #dementiadon #donsnorleone #jackedup #adderall #isthisshitannoyingyet #sleepyjoe #tfg #maybejustputapieceofblacktapeoverthefirehose #maybejustignorethefirehose #satiremaybe #fiftyonemorecharactersandthisrantisfinallyfinished

No filters for me thanks. I am looking forward to the COSO hot takes, recaps, and dialogues about the thing with the guys in the place. I’ll be watching something else, however.

Ahhh the American zeitgeist, gotta love it. Figure a few months before someone names their kid "Huak Tuah". We will literally make ANYONE famous.

When I say the setlist was amazing - that's for me personally - all of Yoshimi in order, and they did more than half of my favorite album Soft Bulletin. Sure I would have loved to hear some really old stuff live but I don't die on that hill anymore.

#cosomusic
I was way too absorbed to take any video - but Flaming Lips put on a freaking seminar last night on how to entertain an audience (they always do). This was the 4th time I've seen them and the best performance I've seen them put on, and the longest. Wayne's voice held out all night, the set list was amazing, the band was super tight and the crowd was all in. What a great show.

Flaming Lips. Wow. And this is the first song.

Joe Biden should totally walk out on stage tomorrow night and place a bottle of mountain dew on his podium.

Been up since 445. Long day of meetings but I'll need to rally later because we're seeing Flaming Lips tonight and that is always exhausting!

What the fuck is wrong with these people? I’d vote for a rancid pile of shit before I voted for her. And the pile of shit better not be a carpetbagging handjobber else I’d write in “bowl of pus”. These people are lost in hate.

Apparently I have two "go-to" critiques of lead singers:
1. I love the way they deliver the lyrics
2. They sound like someone taking a hard shit in a gas station rest room
#cosomusic