Rob-in-New Mexico
@rob-in-newmexico
Rob Vaughan. DC ➡️ SF ➡️ HI ➡️ NM. PhD in my 50s in American Studies from Univ of Hawai`i. Along the way I taught college for 20 yrs. Then high school for 5. Retired now. Before teaching, 20 years in trucking. CDL to PhD. Long strange trip, etc.
I sat a couple rows in back of Mitch McConnell at the South Bend Cubs game on Sunday. Should return to the Senate any day now.
John Nance Garner (VP under FDR, 1933-41) famously said the vice-presidency "wasn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." Not sure if that makes it a "fake job" or not, but it does sum up nicely the current holder of that office.
Trump loves fanfare & spectacle, and the USS Missouri, site of the Japanese surrender ending WWII, is now a ship museum in Pearl Harbor. Why doesn't Trump surrender to Iran on its deck?
Every time these racists say “Somalians,” I hear a William Bendix-type character in an old Hollywood film talking about how much tickets are going to cost for the Friday night fights. “Ducats for ringside sellin’ over on Flatbush now for fifty Somalians!”
If I had the $, I'd go for this Biedermeier Birdseye Maple chest of drawers.
Of course it costs lots of money to service clocks up in towers! How much would YOU charge just to Spring forward and Fall back!
Quote with a fictional band not Spinal Tap. Otis Day and the Knights (from Animal House)
Gotta be honest, I saved this image for when I thought it'd be the Dems caving. Go team D!!!
White House aide Steven Cheung modeling the hand-me-down suit he bought from his employer for $200. He’ll be adding the 7’ long red tie ($100) when he gets his next paycheck.
Cedar Crest, NM. Since yesterday: snow, rain, sleet, hail, then more snow. I put the phone down every now & then to gaze out the window. Lowers both my blood pressure and my sense of existential despair. Okay. Break’s over. Back to reading about the latest dumbfuckery from our psychopathic leaders.
'68 Ford Galaxy station wagon w/ 390 cid, 4 bbl carb. Drove one of these bad boys back in the mid 70s. Could pass everything on the road, as they'd say, except a gas station.
Every day Team Trump has a major, amateurish screwup. Every day this Casey Stengel quote goes through my head.
In first Trump admin I joked he would bomb Belize because their beauty pageant entrant wouldn't show him her breasts. Now ... Now I just don't know what he's gonna do.
At the eye doctor's yesterday. Background music in the waiting room: "Only Sixteen." Love Sam Cooke, but couldn't help feeling a bit creeped out.
Did they lure Boebert down to the Situation Room telling her it was named after that dude from Jersey Shore and he'd be there to "de-brief" her?
I was thinking of Captain Kangaroo, if the Capitan were ever to wear brown, which he would never do.
When you're no longer mayor, you're no longer on the Goody Train.
Updated architect's rendering of interior of Trump's ballroom.
No Kings march in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Good crowd, good people. Not a terrorist in sight. Just a large gathering of fellow Americans demanding their country embrace its core values and knock this shit off.
The GOP congressman called the Capitol police because he honestly believes "an ANTIFA commando, outfitted in a giant frog costume, dropped from the ceiling a la Tom Cruise in that Mission Impossible movie and put that American nazi flag in that poor young man's cubicle."
Bold new advertising idea for Wells Fargo: Sponsor ICE raids w/ the bank's famous stagecoach logo slapped all over the goon squad's SUVs. Music blaring from loudspeakers like it's an ice cream truck: 🎶 O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street Oh please let it NOT be for me 🎶