Thursday Night Open Thread

A lot of people liked Tom Petty. I mentioned before that I never sought out his songs, but I never turned the radio off when they came on. I liked his stuff better than I realized. And, recently while going through some of his music, looking for a video to share tonight, actually, I heard even more that I liked. Now I’m kinda sad that I wasn’t a fan.

Why was a listening to many Tom Petty songs instead of one particular one, especially for a Thursday Night (some of you understand what’s behind that question)? The answer is style vs direct. Some of you understand that answer. If you don’t, it’s not a big deal. Just enjoy the music.


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What’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

Three Fingers Pointing Back

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized President Trump’s deal with Mexico saying that Trump was engaging in “threats and temper tantrums.”

In Trump’s defense, at least he never destroyed an entire industry by passing a partisan socialist bill in a party-line vote at midnight on a Sunday.

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Less Collateral Body Movement Than a 1950’s Hanna-Barbara Cartoon


[Amazing Russian Floating Folk Dance “Birch Tree / Beryozka”] (Viewer #31,078)

Part of me enjoys the beauty, grace, and precision.

Part of me wants to scream “Stop moving like that! You’re freaking me out!”

Link of the Day: All’s Fair in Love and Doxxing

[High Praise! to The Babylon Bee]

Daily Beast Reporter Tracks Down 11-Year-Old Who Told Joke About Pelosi At School

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Vintage Trump (Poem)

[Trump’s quotes are from an actual event.]

“We are gonna win, win, win,”
Trump told reporters,
“We’re going to win with the military;
“We’re going to win at the borders!”

Masterfully he played
On that same string:
“We’re going to win with trade,
“We’re going to win at everything.”

“And some of you are friends,
“You’re going to call,” he swore,
“You’re going to say, ‘Mr. President, please,
“We can’t take it anymore’!”

” ‘We can’t win anymore like this’!”
He said in the limelight,
” ‘Mr. President, you’re driving us crazy’!”
And yes, he was right.

The crowd loved the gimmick:
And the common touch,
” ‘You’re winning too much’,” he mimicked
” ‘Please Mr. President, not so much’!”

“And I’m going to say, I’m sorry,
“We’re going to keep winning!
“Because we are going to make America
“Great again,” he said — grinning.

Trump Truths: Uranium

Iran wants more enriched uranium. Eyeing a red button, President Trump says “we deliver”.

Taxes Explained for the Little People

[Submitted by Slapout (High Praise!)]

Historians Discover Boston Tea Party Participants Disguised Themselves As Blond-Haired Blue-Eyed Women

Is this the new face of the American Revolution? [photo credit: Medium]

BOSTON (AP) – Thanks in part to new evidence recently discovered in a Boston attic, historians have confirmed a new theory that the participants in the famous precursor protest to the American Revolutionary War – the Boston Tea Party – actually disguised themselves as blond-haired, blue-eyed women while tossing crates of tea into Boston Harbor.

Local historian Henry Jones, Jr. said that the discoveries overturned conventional notions of how the brave American rebels were actually dressed during their daring raids on the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver

“People have very specific notions when they hear the retelling of the Boston Tea Party narrative,” said Jones. “One of those notions is that the participants who boarded the ships, grabbed the tea, and threw it overboard had disguised themselves as Native Americans. You know – feathers, war paint, rain dances, selling cheap beads and blankets to tourists, that sort of thing. However, new evidence discovered in the attic of a mansion in a Boston suburb paints a very different picture. According to eyewitness descriptions, these ‘Indians’ were actually blue-eyed, blond-haired women. This is backed up by several pencil sketches showing that these participants had very high cheekbones.”

“The odd thing, though,” noted Jones, “was that most of the participants in these sketches appeared to be women. Which doesn’t really make sense, because crates of tea weighed an average of 100 pounds, and women have an inherent lack of upper body strength which would make them incapable of hoisting a tea crate up from the ship’s hold and then lifting it over the railing into the harbor.”

Feminist historian Peggy Sanger – less confused by the apparent conflict of facts than her peer – offered her own clarifying interpretation.

“Jones is a man. Therefore a dumb, short-sighted, oppressive tool of the patriarchy. Obviously these were actual women in these drawings. Women who used to be men, and who retained the robust physiology required to cast off the shackles of a repressive breakfast beverage. Only a short-sighted misogynist like Jones would think otherwise. Strong, proud, Aryanesque, Native-American women are indisputably responsible for the Boston Tea Party.”

At press time, tests to determine the documents’ authenticity were able to confirm that the information contained therein was at least 1/1024th accurate.

[IMAO Ace Reporter Anonymiss contributed to this story]

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Straight Line of the Day: In the Future, Your Cell Phone Will Also Serve As…

[High Praise! to CLIFFY and Oppo for the suggestion]

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

In the future, your cell phone will also serve as…

The Illustrated Frank J: All of His Have Velcro

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IMAO Reader Survey #30

There are a lot of scary characters in folklore, the written word, and in video (movies, TV, etc.). They all tap into certain fears we have, so not every character is as scary to everyone as the character might be to you.

Which is the scariest character?

  • Nancy Pelosi (92%, 178 Votes)
  • Frankenstein's monster (3%, 5 Votes)
  • Freddy Krueger (2%, 4 Votes)
  • Other (Provide details in the comments) (2%, 4 Votes)
  • Count Dracula (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Michael Meyers (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Jason Voorhees (1%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 194

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He’s Just Lucky Climbing on Furniture Isn’t a Crime

During a recent interview, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke said that President Trump should be “brought to justice.”

Absolutely. We should have a public trial in 2020, and if he’s found guilty of fixing the economy, he should be sentenced to 4 more years as President.