I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Anyone else looking forward to seeing what our Funk selections will be for the TrumPence Convention?

I am! Although, candidly, I don't even know where to begin. But somehow this band seems to capture the absurdity of it all. The Fun Company. Funco! With that goofy smiley face on the label, it reminds me just a bit of the old Newbury Street Comics logo. I know absolutely nothing about these guys and my limited internet search has found zip. But here is their big hit, Zambezi, Pts. 1 & 2 for your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptsw0nZnHhQ

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I am! Although, candidly, I don't even know where to begin. But somehow this band seems to capture the absurdity of it all. The Fun Company. Funco! With that goofy smiley face on the label, it reminds me just a bit of the old Newbury Street Comics logo. I know absolutely nothing about these guys and my limited internet search has found zip. But here is their big hit, Zambezi, Pts. 1 & 2 for your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptsw0nZnHhQ

When it comes to the funk, never gonna give you up, never gonna let me down.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

A long-lost page from the Kamasutra has been found:

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

When it comes to the funk, never gonna give you up, never gonna let me down.

By the way, I saw Femi on Friday night. Make sure you get to that show.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

By the way, I saw Femi on Friday night. Make sure you get to that show.

It's 50-50 now whether I will make it. It's next Tuesday night.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I am! Although, candidly, I don't even know where to begin. But somehow this band seems to capture the absurdity of it all. The Fun Company. Funco! With that goofy smiley face on the label, it reminds me just a bit of the old Newbury Street Comics logo. I know absolutely nothing about these guys and my limited internet search has found zip. But here is their big hit, Zambezi, Pts. 1 & 2 for your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptsw0nZnHhQ

Hanging out in the heat dome. Time for some sweaty funk. New Orleans style. The Meters, Hey Pocky Way, which was also a hit for the Wild Tchoupitoulas, which sometimes used the Neville Brothers for their backing band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEtXT9w9AYU

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Hanging out in the heat dome. Time for some sweaty funk. New Orleans style. The Meters, Hey Pocky Way, which was also a hit for the Wild Tchoupitoulas, which sometimes used the Neville Brothers for their backing band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEtXT9w9AYU

What is it about a heat dome that makes the funk so damn funky? What am I even talking about? Check this shit out. Nite-Liters, Down and Dirty. And it is! Your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68umXWWJAM

[SEC_Chick]

It should surprise no one that I quite liked Cruz's speech. It was the only part I watched last night. Of course Trump leaked to friendly delegations that an endorsement would not be coming, and the jeering was planned, not spontaneous.

The establishment hates Cruz far more than Trump, mainly because Cruz actually wants people to be committed to the principles that the party supposedly stands for. There is far more money to be made in the consultant class with Trump. That's why you have the official RNC spokesman, Sean Spicer (of Twilight Sparkle defense fame) go out and call Cruz an asshole. And lie that he did not give the remarks that had been submitted and approved (until people show you what he said matched the advance copy you gave to journalists, idiot).

Branch Trumpidians are incensed at the failure to endorse, but if a man says, "Vote your conscience and uphold the Constitution" and you take that to mean "Don't vote Trump", perhaps the problem isn't really Cruz.

I would not be surprised if there is some booing tonight during Trump's speech. Or some walkouts. But some anti-Trump delegates have been stripped of their credentials, because, you know, unity.

Cruz's maneuver only works if Trump loses big. If he wins, traditional Republicanism is dead. If he loses by a narrow margin, the same smarmy grifters remain in charge of the RNC. But if the GOP faces total annihilation at the hands of Trump, it is really the only scenario in which conservatives will have a role in rebuilding.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick

It should surprise no one that I quite liked Cruz's speech. It was the only part I watched last night. Of course Trump leaked to friendly delegations that an endorsement would not be coming, and the jeering was planned, not spontaneous.

The establishment hates Cruz far more than Trump, mainly because Cruz actually wants people to be committed to the principles that the party supposedly stands for. There is far more money to be made in the consultant class with Trump. That's why you have the official RNC spokesman, Sean Spicer (of Twilight Sparkle defense fame) go out and call Cruz an asshole. And lie that he did not give the remarks that had been submitted and approved (until people show you what he said matched the advance copy you gave to journalists, idiot).

Branch Trumpidians are incensed at the failure to endorse, but if a man says, "Vote your conscience and uphold the Constitution" and you take that to mean "Don't vote Trump", perhaps the problem isn't really Cruz.

I would not be surprised if there is some booing tonight during Trump's speech. Or some walkouts. But some anti-Trump delegates have been stripped of their credentials, because, you know, unity.

Cruz's maneuver only works if Trump loses big. If he wins, traditional Republicanism is dead. If he loses by a narrow margin, the same smarmy grifters remain in charge of the RNC. But if the GOP faces total annihilation at the hands of Trump, it is really the only scenario in which conservatives will have a role in rebuilding.

I think you are completely delusional about Cruz. While most of your analysis makes perfect sense, you do not factor in to your calculations the fact that Cruz is a galactic, pompous, raging, smarmy, self-righteous, egomaniacal asshole who no one in the world (let alone the Republican Party), besides you, likes. He will always be seen as a disloyal (to the party) prick that is completely out for self. If he thinks last night's "gamble" helps him win the nomination in 2020, he's a few bullets short of a full clip.

TM

[Adder]

Originally Posted by SEC_Chick

The establishment hates Cruz

Because nearly everyone who has met him hates him.

mainly because Cruz actually wants people to be committed to the principles that the party supposedly stands for.

The establishment hates Cruz because he actively tries to make them look bad by posing harder for the things the party tells the rubes it stands for but doesn't really.

Whether that's because Cruz really believes those things (making him a moron) or because Cruz only cares about the advancement of Cruz (bingo!) is the question.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Adder

Because nearly everyone who has met him hates him.



The establishment hates Cruz because he actively tries to make them look bad by posing harder for the things the party tells the rubes it stands for but doesn't really.

Whether that's because Cruz really believes those things (making him a moron) or because Cruz only cares about the advancement of Cruz (bingo!) is the question.

Some of the reasons everyone hates Cruz aren't related to policy but process. His willingness to shut the government down, for example, despite the disaster shut downs have been for Republicans in the past, and to hold progress on any issue or appointment hostage, and his constant use of trantrums to stall the process to try to get his way.

He has been unique ineffective in all of this - what does he have to show? But it seems to build his popularity nonetheless, at the expense of making it impossible for anyone else to get anything done.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Some of the reasons everyone hates Cruz aren't related to policy but process. His willingness to shut the government down, for example, despite the disaster shut downs have been for Republicans in the past, and to hold progress on any issue or appointment hostage, and his constant use of trantrums to stall the process to try to get his way.

Right. His behavior suggests he either doesn't understand these things, or doesn't care, because he can personally benefit regardless. As SEC has demonstrated.

He has been unique ineffective in all of this - what does he have to show?

He was among the last three remaining presidential candidates, got to speak the convention and thinks he'll be a 2020 contender. It's hard to see him as caring about anything else.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Some of the reasons everyone hates Cruz aren't related to policy but process. His willingness to shut the government down, for example, despite the disaster shut downs have been for Republicans in the past, and to hold progress on any issue or appointment hostage, and his constant use of trantrums to stall the process to try to get his way.

He has been unique ineffective in all of this - what does he have to show? But it seems to build his popularity nonetheless, at the expense of making it impossible for anyone else to get anything done.

Ted Cruz's biggest problems are that nobody is as smart as him, as principled as him, or in any way is more important than him. He shut the government down because he was right and if the Congress wasn't going to do what he said, he was willing to sacrifice the whole country to get his way.

He'd be worse as President. Imagine 4 years of nothing but vetoes, no matter what party a bill comes from. That's Ted Cruz as President. Imagine Executive Orders to put Muslims in concentration camps a la the Japanese in WWII. That's President Cruz.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

What is it about a heat dome that makes the funk so damn funky? What am I even talking about? Check this shit out. Nite-Liters, Down and Dirty. And it is! Your Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68umXWWJAM

Here's some weird ass funk for Monday Daily Dose. Harold Alexander with Mama Soul:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3yHN1Q5oN0

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Here's some weird ass funk for Monday Daily Dose. Harold Alexander with Mama Soul:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3yHN1Q5oN0

And now it's time to get raw. Raw Soul. Frank Beverly's Raw Soul. Which is how I like my Soul. Soul Tartare. Today's Daily Dose is Color Blind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLKvw8LIBc