#shrimpy and paul

[twilighttwilight-nihilnihil]

Marc Bell

Maggot Brain, Issue #4

Spring 2021

[waxsuyaaa]

omg side order was so good

my annoying rant about everything down below⬇️ also if you dont have the dlc dont press the keep reading button

OKAY so for starters it was actually kinda disappointing to see that most of the gameplay has been shown already in the trailer, i would’ve liked to have been surprised..

and there is no feeling of progressing forward like any other storymode since you go to the start every single time you lose and all your achievements disappear unless you get into the boss fight, and only if you win you get one singular key

and all the powerups that you’re used to having just gone. poof. disappear.

i would’ve liked to see npcs that you can actually talk to because somehow there is no button to talk to pearl? like maybe they should have made a feature when you’re right underneath pearl to press A and talk to her for a bit, even if its something simple like “yo! let’s get back on track!”

you can’t even talk to marina and all she asks is if you need something to be hacked, which makes her seem as she’s just there for that mechanic and nothing else— as someone who never played splatoon 2 and doesnt know her personality im not sure what the hype is about for her

we should have been able to go into the elevator and actually walk around and talk to the characters and like salmon run, when it says ‘time to go to work!’ for side order it would say ‘arrived at floor’ or smth like that.. i would give anything to be able to walk around and interact with everyone in the elevator, like if the characters pearl, marina and dedf1sh weren’t there it would function the same

why arent we able to talk to them like. dedf1sh is such a cool character where is the lore? they just stand in a corner and is just there…

it would be so amazing if you could slowly befriend dedf1sh and get exclusive gear/random stuff from the metro or smth from them as the friendship points rack up and they become more open to you

and all the bosses are easy to tell apart from the silhouette and you can easily guess how you’re going to fight them, i want that little moment of mystery as well as not knowing how hard it’s going to be

coloured fingertips dont even seem like a thing anymore, it was just for agent 8 and her blue palette things

it looks as if you have to fight many of the same boss to get the locker key and after it just becomes repetitive and there is no story whatsoever, the villain is a glitchy entity called ‘order’??? like if that same glitchy entity thing switched to agent 4 for like half a frame the entire fandom would go WHOAH WHAT WAS THAT and we’d be talking about it for ten thousand days

the only motive is that you have to save everyone from being grayscaled blablabla but you dont even have any evidence of the character even being there, the character palettes are just a cheap way to implement more weapons, like what do you mean we don’t get the actual characters standing around the outside of the spire.. i want to talk to paul and warabi and ikkan (cough cough i mean quinn and mashup???)

we cant even get these extra characters because 3d modelling is SUCH a LOT of EFFORT for such a huge company like nintendo we should feel so sorry for all the work that they had to do, they put in their best effort (sarcasm)

all the enemies/foes are just remodelled salmon run enemies like battering largo or whatever (they could remodel the enemies but not the bands?? what)

also wheres cypher? i thought the shrimpy character would be a main character that wanders around and sells you stuff but theyre not even in sight

so uhh you can say ‘skill issue’ or smth because OHHH I HAVENT FINISHED THE GAME YEAH THIS PERSON IS JUST COMPLAINING BECAUSE THEYRE BAD AT IT or whatever im just disappointed that it was kinda overhyped and i drew art for a character that didnt even exist (skeleton agent 4)

[technicolorfamiliar]

Technicolor Familiar Watches Too Many Conrad Veidt Movies Part 3 of ?

Part 1 // Part 2

Anders als die Andern (Different From the Others), 1919 Dir. Richard Oswald ⭐4/5 Watched Nov 15, Archive.org It really breaks my heart that so much of this film was lost and destroyed, and that the story is unfortunately still relevant 100+ years later. Maybe I don't have as much to say about this one because it's so chopped up, and because it's already been written and talked about so much. I am glad it seems to have found its proper place in literature/content about LGBTQ+ history, getting the acknowledgement it deserves. Despite already knowing so much about the movie from various books, podcasts, and documentaries, I was still very affected by the story and performances, especially towards the end. It really hit a nerve, surprisingly so. Connie's Paul is really lovely, tragic, and so sweet with Kurt.

Jew Süss, 1934 Dir. Lothar Mendes ⭐3.5/4 Watched Nov 26, Youtube There's something about the structure and the hazy, dreamy quality of the film itself that makes this seem like a fable. There are parts that are deeply upsetting and chilling despite the mediocre supporting cast. It's imperfect, but definitely did a lot more than other films to create complex and sympathetic Jewish characters in the 1930s (even if still playing on stereotypes). I'm a total sucker for 18th century opulence and fashion so I can’t complain much. And oh boy, does the 18th century suit Connie. He knows how to work the lace and silk to great affect. Some of the things he's doing as Josef are really fascinating and gut-wrenching. He's doing so much vocally, too. He's in an entirely other class compared to many actors of that era. P.S. The scenes with Josef and his mother and daughter were, uh, interesting. I have… mixed feelings.

Rome Express, 1932 Dir. Walter Forde ⭐3/5 Watched Nov 26, Youtube My expectations were pretty low for this one based on some things I'd read online, but it's a cute if slightly baffling train thriller with an ok-ish ensemble. I'm a little biased, my inner child fuckin loves trains so any train movie is at least going to be semi-enjoyable. I was so stressed the whole time about how everyone was handling that apparently very expensive painting. Connie is so extra, though. Why is Zurta eating a banana as soon as he jumps onto a moving train? Why does he hold a gun like ~that~? Why are his fingernails so long?? It's so funny seeing him next to all these tiny British actors. It may partly be how they dressed him for the role, but he makes everyone else look positively shrimpy.

All Through the Night, 1942 Dir. Vincent Sherman ⭐3/5 Watched Nov 27, Vudu Once I finally leaned into how silly this movie was, it was pretty entertaining. The dialogue alone is so stupid, but self aware of how stupid it is. And it features one of my favorite gags of all time: making up gibberish words for technical terms with complete confidence. There's a dog. (Question: Is the dog a nazi like the monkey in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Does the dog know it's complicit in war crimes??) Peter Lorre looks like he'd rather be anywhere else. Mrs. Danvers is there. Some of the visual comedy is actually pretty great -- the dog in the boat at the end when Connie is being totally deadpan serious? Hysterical. (DID THEY BLOW UP THAT DOG?) I think this was the first time I've heard Connie speak German, too.

The Spy in Black, 1939 Dir. Michael Powell ⭐3.5/5 Watched Nov 27, Youtube Interesting that the main character, the person carrying this British movie in the late 1930s, is a German U-boat captain. But wow. I'm obsessed. Hardt's entrance into the hotel? Baa-ing at the sheep? The delicious gluttony with food? Dragging the stupid motorbike up the stairs to his room? "It is evening. And I am grown up."?? We love a sexy, honor driven character like Captain Hardt. Therefore, Valerie Hobson going for the British officer seems totally unlikely and unbelievable. I think I like this movie marginally better than Dark Journey, as far as espionage films go. It's slightly more engaging (but that may be Connie and Valerie Hobson's chemistry) and the story is a little better.

[thatsnotbuddies]

🙊 🎼 🌈 ☕ for the artist ask meme? <3 <3 <3

yayyy tyty for the asks <3 <3

🙊 Share your latest silly doodle with no context

hehehe

🎼 Your favorite music to draw to right now?

When I was working on shrimpy n sweaty it was Cowboy Carter and Monarch by The Ghost of Paul Revere on repeat.

Been travelling but if I were to draw rn, it would probably be Chappell Roan!

🌈 Do you use more warm or cold colors?

I think I lean towards warm colours ☀️🧡 But it depends on what I'm drawing. With hockeys I'll lean into their team colours, mostly.

☕ Do you do warmup sketches before drawing? (Bonus: do you have any to share?)

I go in raw, no warmup sketches.

I should though because I do find it takes a few minutes of fucking around with the piece before the muscle memory kicks in and I get into the zone.

send me some artist asks!

[gleeandshame]

GBBO 2023 ep 4

Guess I'm semi-liveblogging

Alison calling Noel a little shrimpy and then just wheezing at her own joke, yesss, slay, I started wheezing too

Oh no looks like they have to do a hostess cupcake, those actually takes pretty bad to me

"The things that you love the most hurt you the most" - babe....

But seriously chocolate week is always the hottest day :/

As if Sachretorte means anything to most ppl... I mean maybe it does! Good luck Saku

Hmmm, i know i've had Amaretto in cake so high hopes for that

Me uncultured and don't know about alcohol

Saku shotgunning those raspberries, yes, looool

Go Rowan!

Nicky skipping off

Oh wait it's a cheesecake?

I've never heard of caramelized white chocolate in my life

I feel like i'm going to set up a charity for everybody that's ever worked with caramalized white chocolate - loooool

Alison throwing the sheet behind her, incredible

Give her water and a fan brooooo. let her go indoor for a second :/

"What do i do?" and some throat noises from Rowan

Tasha noooo. maybe they don't eliminate anyone and do a double elim next week. we'll see

Christy assembling in the freezer, slay

can white choclate be cheese cake? I'm confused oh well

When saku leans her head on winners, that's so cute

Matty eating everyone's cheesecake is funny... like same

Boo, I hope they don't elim

"It's still early days" - I like Dana's personality but I'm not sure how she is as a bake still

Alison rolling over whole bench, amazing

Dan and Matty helping out :)

But you're not invited Paul

Alison plucking Nicky's chocolate from the air and immediately putting it in her mouth, yes yeees

Good job Matty

OH kay, yeah I was about to be mad, lol. Thought it was a fake out. Good.

It's been a while since a star baker call! Matty calling his mom, :) okay, he's going slightly up in my opinion

[chuuyanaurkahara]

pls rate my oc's one by one

i can also rate your oc's if you want

virgil: he seems like a chill guy, but not someone i'd like to be around.

bruce: his music taste is good. i imagine he buys all of his clothes from hot topic.

paul: i might have missed something, but his only personality trait is being married to jonathan. this makes me forget him easily.

jonathan: i can remember him better than paul, but that's because he can't stop mentioning korn.

amy: i would not get along with her irl. she is constantly aggressive.

jake: to sum up his character, he is a pathetic guy who flirts with every living being. it was annoying how earlier 'versions' if him could not do anything else besides flirt once a woman was in the picture.

burrito: i'd his character is more developed than the others, but still a bit bland. the story about his robotic limbs is kinda cool tho, i leave you that.

shrimpy: way too overpowered. their personality isn’t that well developed(or i just can't remember).

now. these characters are a bit underdeveloped imo, but they still make a fun group with interesting dynamics.

your more recent ocs(anyagonist, vermis or whatever he's called, the watcher and vincent(that's his name, right?)) are more developed. i don't know enough about your newest oc to properly rate them, so they're not here.

antagonist: he has an interesting backstory that, paired with his personality, makes him an overall interesting character.

vermis: he has a good backstory too, but i don't see why he killed his 'parents' when he could just have killed some random people.

the watcher: interesting concept, but not so good delivery. his reasons for being able to travel through universes and his immortality seem lazy. so does his reason for staying in this universe.

vincent: he can paint. his name is vincent. that's all i know about him or all that i remember. his universe is confusing, especially the part with contrasts.

i know these ratings seem harsh, but they're my opinion. i am sorry if you didn't hear what you wanted to hear.

also, yes. please rate my ocs. i want that criticism.

[judejuggs]

lets hear it for the boys!!!!

Francis was given a super big baggy robe situation to hide her curves. it only serves to make her look shrimpy as hell.

As an oblate, Adam recived his Official robes pretty young. he had a- uh- growth spurt, and no one wanted to buy him new ones. especaillybecause he gets them covered in paint. rather than roll them up, his sleeves are pinned back for painting.

Michael gets more fabric because he's more important.t hats the rules. i dont know if a prior would get to wear the big cross if theres an abbot but i think its cunty so he gets to keep it.

sebastian's robes are bunchy and baggy because they are full of secrets.

Paul is the abbey gavedigger, so he decided to forgoe sleeves completely. His robes are filthy at all times.

Decided to acutally design robes for the various nuns isntead of drawing them all in the same vague black shape. self indulgent character design notes under the cut

Isabeau is really shy, so she wears her wimple to hide in like a turtle. same goes for the big sleeves.

Agatha is the abesses daughter, so she gets a special long wimple like her mommy. Its mostly for intimadation because from a distance you cant tell the difference between them.

Francis gets cold easily, so she actually wears two robes at once. Whcih makes her a lumpy potato. She keeps her wimple roguishly askew so that her little curl can stick out. She keeps her sleeves rolled up for work and.... other tasks.....

Heloise has a wimple as short and blunt as her. She has to wear a big bunchy robe to accomodate her....booba... Her sleeves are also rolled up for work but only to her wrists.

Genevieve suffers from being Tall. Thats it. Sorry, they cant all be winners.

[twisted-wonderland-but-gayer]

Floyd " Shrimpy's not that mad at me." Yuu doesn't show up to Floyd'd basket ball game. Floyd " Oh no Shrimpy is mad at me! I need to do something."

There is now an entire eel, way to big for your bed draped across it and covered in rose petals with a shrimp in his mouth, seductively. Mucus is dripping into your mattress. Paul Blart Mall Cop is playing for your new date starting now.

[melancholic-pigeon]

Too Short For Ao3 Fic #3? 4?

SO this is the extended edition of the bonus wip I did with Sally's birthday. The overall fic it belongs to is Extremely Smutty, so I went in and revised out the brief references and I'm posting the family-centric g-rated stuff for anyone who wants that but not the smut! Cough.

Also, I felt bad about missing WIP Wednesday again. Lolsob.

Percy rouses at around eleven PM to a sketch of himself on Jason's pillow. There's a note on the other side. 

I wanted to wake you up to say goodbye, but you looked so comfy I didn't have the heart to. your mom's presents are in the bag by my desk. say hi to everyone for me. I'll call tomorrow anyway.

love you to the moon and back.

-J. ❤

Complete with a little red heart. He doesn't even care that the doodle of him next to it, burritoed in a pile of blankets, includes a little spot of drool— he can tell by the rest of his cartoony, ballpoint features that Jason put it in because he thinks it's cute.

(And by the fact that he's said so, several times.)

Percy gathers up his junk. The cornflower blue sweatshirt he steals goes halfway down his fingers. He's come to accept that at six foot three and counting, Jason is the taller of them and always will be— barring some sort of horrible wood-chipper accident or curse from a grumpy deity. 

Fortunately, there's something about looking up to meet someone's eyes that Percy finds incredibly attractive. He has since Annabeth outgrew him for the first time in eighth grade. 

He heads out in his own jeans and the boxers he packed and the sweatshirt that smells like cinnamon. Once he boards the train, he stands with his arm around a pole and the other holding the bag against his chest, and tries to stay casual and keep the grin off his face.

It's almost midnight when he gets home. His mom, of course, is still awake, so he heads into the living room to greet her.

"My other half says hello."

There's a pile of presents on the coffee table. He puts the bag with the rest of them and sits down, kissing her cheek.

"He didn't have to get me anything." She closes her book and eyes the bag with a fond sigh. "How is he?" 

Percy's the same way she is, always happy to do favors and give gifts, but feeling pretty awkward about receiving them. Jason's even worse, the three of them in an ongoing and circular competition to never let any of it go reciprocated. 

"Working too hard, as always. Pulling As and winning games and barely sleeping to do it. His stepmother's up his ass and his father's a bully, so, you know, news at eleven." He leans his head onto her shoulder. "That's why he gives you stuff. He's trying to show you how much he appreciates you." 

She sighs, and Percy knows it's because she's just as frustrated by the whole thing as he is. 

"He knows I appreciate him too, I hope." 

"Without a doubt." Percy smiles at her, watching as she goes a little pink and smiles back. "You have a talent for making him feel appreciated." 

"He treats my baby like a prince," she says softly. "That's why I appreciate him so much in the first place. How could I do anything else?"

Percy turns his face into her shirt collar, another futile attempt to hide his goofy expression, 

"He really does, doesn't he?"

Holding doors, pulling out chairs, offering an arm on unsteady streets. Jason's never laid his coat over a puddle, but Percy's pretty sure he would, if the option presented itself. 

His mom starts playing with his hair, her fingers light and familiar.

"I'm just happy you're happy, sweetheart."

He knows that feeling too. 

Half asleep from the petting, Percy lets himself be a little babyish. It's after midnight now, which means it's her birthday, and he knows that sometimes she misses when he was Estelle's age and little enough to curl up in her lap. He's way too big for that now, obviously, but he can still slide down the couch and rest his head there. 

"You too, Mama." 

She looks at him, her eyes misty with emotion and almost green in the light.

She's smiling, too. 

She smiles a lot, these days.

—

In the morning, Paul makes coffee while Estelle helps unwrap the avalanche of presents. She's at the age where ripping paper makes her squeal with hysterical laughter, which worms its way into Percy's heart and melts it into pudding. 

Several of them are from Percy's friends, including a handbound book of original recipes from Leo, a lovely silver bracelet inset with mother-of-pearl that Beckendorf made himself, and a huge sheathed knife with a matching decorative handle from Clarisse. The last one makes his mom snort as she gets up to put it on the bookshelf, out of reach of curious toddler hands. 

"Decorative. Sure." 

"I bet she'd teach you how to use it if you asked." 

"I know how to use a bowie knife, dear. Your father and I used to catch and cook our own fish when we went camping."

"Which reminds me, he still hasn't taken me out," Paul cuts in, frowning. "I've been saving up dad jokes and embarrassing stories for four years."

"I'll bug him about it the next time we talk," Percy promises. "It's probably the ADHD." 

"Do you want me to bug you about bugging him?" 

"If you haven't set something up by blueback season, yeah." 

Percy and Paul went in on a pound of jasmine tea, which his mom reaches for next. She immediately asks for a cup— it's one of two days out of the entire year where she lets other people wait on her, for a change, and even that took a lot of cajoling. 

Paul makes the tea, since Percy usually scalds the leaves and it turns out tasting like grass. She probably wouldn't complain anyway, but it's her birthday, and she deserves to have the best tea that can be made in their kitchen. 

"Is the last bag from Jason?" Paul sets the mug on a coaster in the middle of the coffee table, and Percy scoops the baby into his lap so she doesn't try to grab it. She mashes her tiny hand against his cheek.

"And Thalia. I'm not sure if they went in on stuff or he just packed them both in one bag to make it easy." 

Either is a possibility. He watches as his mom reaches in and pulls out a large wrapped frame, Thalia's spiky handwriting answering the question. 

Whatever's inside, it makes her shut her eyes and exhale deeply through her nose. 

"Please pass on that I am absolutely furious."

She turns the frame around. An autographed vinyl EP of Sign O' the Times by Prince— one of the albums Percy grew up on, though she skipped a number of the songs when he was little. Thalia must have spent a fortune on it. 

"That woman is incredible," Paul breathes, lightly touching the glass. "How does she get this stuff?" 

"See!"

"She has friends in high places." Percy grins as Estelle reaches for the album, and holds her over the glass so she can touch it too. "She's also really good at barter chains."

His mother shakes her head, but he can tell how delighted she is— the two of them have spent hours animatedly talking about music, Thalia hanging on every word and groaning with jealousy over the concerts his mom went to in the eighties. 

"I know exactly where I'm going to put it." 

Thalia got her a turntable for her fortieth birthday last year, as well as a full set of replacements for every worn-out record in their collection— and had the originals framed too, since they had sentimental value. They're currently occupying the better part of two walls of his mom's study. 

There's a blank spot by her bookshelf, right underneath the first copy, that the autographed album will fit into perfectly. Percy grins. 

"I'll hang it up for you later."

She doesn't argue. There's only Jason's left, his careful print written out across the same paper Thalia used. The crinkling draws Estelle's attention, and she gleefully reaches over to help tear it off.

Their mom gasps at what's inside and puts a hand to her mouth, her eyes going bright.

It's a watercolor portrait of Percy and Estelle, laughing by the shoreline. She's dressed in a little bucket hat, a ruffled swimsuit patterned to look like a clownfish and the coolest shades in the world— sparkly blue frames shaped like seashells that he kind of wishes he could get in his size. He's in a wetsuit, having spent the morning surfing, and he's holding onto her hands so she can jump at the waves. In the distant background is the Montauk lighthouse.

It's beautifully done, like everything else Jason's ever put to paper, but Percy's never choked up like this over one of them.

"You remember that, Beluga? That was on my birthday, when you came and visited me and Jason at the beach."

"Beach?" she asks, expectant. Paul bursts into laughter, sounding as rough-voiced as Percy feels.

"You're your mother's daughter, sweet pea."

"Beach!" Estelle insists. Percy noses her pudgy cheek.

"It's too cold to swim, baby." His mom's eyes are sparkling, still a little teary. He can see Estelle in the smile on her face. "But we could go for a walk and visit." 

"Brunch first." Paul kisses her— Percy averts his eyes, wrinkling his nose at his sister to make her giggle again— and gets up, heading back into the kitchen. 

It's a lovely way to spend a late morning. Pale blue araucana eggs courtesy of Grover's new hens, a blueberry coffee cake from Nico by a fantastic hole in the wall in Hell's Kitchen, Paul's signature home fries made with blue potatoes and seasoned to perfection; all of it delicious.

Jason calls while Percy's doing the dishes. After his deep, resonant performance of the happy birthday song, the five of them chat on speakerphone for a little while, though he has to excuse himself pretty quickly to keep banging through his reading. 

"Maybe next year," Percy sighs. His mom puts her hand on his hip, then crouches down to help Estelle with her light-up sneakers. 

"He's always welcome for a rain check."

"He's always welcome, period," Paul adds. For the second time, Percy gets dangerously close to sniffling. 

Montauk is a little far for a day trip, so they head to Brighton Beach instead. Estelle's shrimpy legs get tuckered out more quickly than the grownups' do, so Percy ends up carrying her on his hip, snuggled into his jacket to block the chilly breeze. She points at seagulls, shouting triumphantly every time. 

"More bird!"

"That's right. A whole flock of 'em."

They watch for a while as the gulls fight over a discarded pizza crust. Then Percy feels an arm around his back and a head against his shoulder.

"I don't know how I got so lucky," his mother murmurs, barely audible over the rushing of the waves.

Percy's eyes sting. 

For most of his life, her birthdays had been spent without fanfare. He was rarely actually there for them anyway, and Gabe complained so much it was easier to just ignore the day and focus on survival instead. 

She'd been triaging like that since before she even met his dad, keeping herself afloat when nobody seemed to care if she drowned. It would have been easy to lie down and give up. Percy's pretty sure he would have, in her place. 

He turns to hug her with the obligatory proclamation of a Stella Sandwich. He catches Paul's eye over her shoulder, and gets a wide, sentimental grin in response. 

"Luck's got nothing to do with it," Percy tells her, leaning his cheek against the top of her head while his sister wriggles with delight between them. 

"Listen to our son," Paul adds. "He's very wise, as you raised him to be. This is all on you, honey." 

Within moments, she's surrounded by her whole family on all sides, and Percy has another arm around his back, and he's getting a little choked up over it all. 

When she first started dating Paul, back when Percy was still in middle school, she'd spent weeks all aflutter. It was the happiest he'd ever seen her at the time. They'd sit outside and work on her car together, and she'd slip into song like a grease-stained fairytale princess without even thinking about it. 

Seeing them interact is like cool water on a burn, Paul's devoted kindness soothing a lifetime of sitting back and watching people treat her like dirt. He worships her, just like she deserves and long overdue.

"I love you," she says, tearful and muffled in someone's shoulder. "All of you, more than anything." 

"Love Mama," Estelle replies, and that's it— Percy's blubbering.

It'll never undo the damage, but it's about time she got a chance to heal and thrive. 

-here in our bed, chapter 7, ~6200 words

[opportunistic-chicanery]

Anonymous asked:

"Call me a tater tot again and I'll figure out your coding and rewire it."  ( @paul-ite​ )

“Give me your best shot, shrimpy.”

[arecomicsevengood]

Do people know about Maggot Brain magazine, edited by Mike McGonigal, published by Third Man Records? Mostly a music magazine, with some comics or art related content. New one’s dedicated to Karl Wirsum, reprints 12 pages from issue 2 of the Zongo series of Gary Panter’s Jimbo, has an illustration of an article on Milford Graves by Christine Shields of the nineties alt-comic Blue Hole. Also interviews with Terry Riley and Hamid Drake about Don and Moki Cherry, two members of The Raincoats, Headroom, etc. Issue 4 had a two-page Shrimpy And Paul comic from Marc Bell and a reproduction of a John Meijas zine, alongside an interview with Tom Scharpling and a reprint of the liner notes to the “Blue” Gene Tyranny/Peter Gordon Trust In Rock reissue. Not necessarily worth tracking down for the comics content alone but as a music magazine that talks about archival record-nerd stuff it is very much up my alley. Also neat to look at the ads and see that friends of mine have LPs coming out I had no idea about.

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What Republicans Are Saying About Trump Now

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What Republicans Are Saying About Trump Now

Many Top Arizona Republicans Hammered Donald Trump Earlier In The Gop Primary Season Now That He’s Set To Be Nominee They’re Changing Their Tune

For most of the past year, if they mentioned Donald Trump at all, Arizona’s Republican establishment accused him of firing up the “crazies,” or of being coarse, ill-informed and inaccurate.

Today, many of the same politicians are coming to terms with the reality-TV star as their party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

Despite worries Trump will hurt down-ticket Republican candidates in November, Arizona Republican leaders say they will support him as the GOP nominee. Or they are at least open to doing so.

It is a far cry from the anger and bitterness some Arizona Republicans directed at Trump over the past several months.

Senior U.S. Sen. John McCain found himself in a bruising public feud with the real-estate mogul after Trump mocked McCain as “weak on immigration” and a “war hero” only because he got captured by the North Vietnamese.

Junior U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, last year called Trump’s views “coarse, ill-informed and inaccurate” and “not representative of the Republican Party.”

Gov. Doug Ducey, who was conspicuously absent from Trump’s three appearances in the state, is now preaching GOP unity and is a delegate to this summer’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Around the country, Republicans hoping to keep control of the U.S. Senate have been doing a similar dance with their party’s incoming standard-bearer.

More Republicans Now Think Donald Trump Is ‘unfit To Be President Of The United States’ Watergate Reporter Claims

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More members of the GOP think President Donald Trump is “unfit” in various ways to be serving as commander-in-chief after reading Defense Secretary James Mattis’s resignation letter, said legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein.

Bernstein, who helped uncover the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, made his remark on CNN’s Reliable Sources show on Sunday, three days after Mattis resigned. Mattis left his post a day after Trump’s plans to withdraw troops from Syria were announced.

“It’s all one big one story and that story is about the fitness or unfitness of Donald Trump to be president of the United States,” Bernstein said. “And what the Mattis letter has done in a monumental way is to push Republicans into making some real judgments.”

Bernstein concluded: “They’re talking to each other, there is coming to be a much greater consensus that he is unfit to be the president of the United States.”

The former Washington Post reporter elaborated that Republicans were saying “that he is unfit on psychological grounds, that he is unfit perhaps because of his contempt for the law and particularly unfit in his conduct of foreign policy in such a way as to be a danger himself.”

Bernstein claimed that Mattis, as well as former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster were of the opinion that Trump is “unfit.”

Co Senate Candidate Should Denounce Trump & Join Cheney At The Evil Doers Encampment Outside The Shrimpy Gop Tent

The Republican challenging U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet made me laugh Tuesday when he told Colorado Politics, “Republicans may be looking around saying, ‘OK, we really want to win,’ as opposed to looking at the litmus, purity test that often is the assembly.”

Republicans are looking around and saying, ‘Ok we really want to win?’

I want to believe Bremer, because it would be good for all of us. But all I see is Republicans, well beyond the assembly, acting as if they really want to lose.

Yes, they say they want to win, but then they dress in multiple layers of ideological straight-jackets that make it impossible for them to win in Colorado.

if Bremer were right about Republicans in Colorado really wanting to win, he’d join Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney and object to Trump.

But he knows if he did, he’d join Cheney at the Evil Doers encampment far away from the already shrimpy Republican tent.

But this might set him up to win in Colorado someday.

The GOP’s continued love for Trump, and Trump’s love of the spotlight, spells death for statewide candidates like Bremer in next year’s CO election.

But Colorado’s Republicans don’t want to change course.

That’s the confounding part. You’d think they’d want to win at something they spend so much time and money at. Why waste your precious time on Earth?

Bremer was a competitive athlete, which might explain why he projects his desire to win on his fellow Republicans.

So again, here’s what Bremer thinks.

If only.

Republicans Have Embraced An Authoritarian And Are Ready To Undo Voting Rights And Outlaw Abortion What’s Next

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They’ve been after the right to abortion for decades. The next thing they did was go after the Voting Rights Act. And just watch: They’ll go after Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act next. 

Nothing is sacred to Republicans anymore. Not the right to vote. Not the right to be free of search and seizure in your own home. Not the right to be free of religion if you so choose. Not the right to be free of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, creed or national origin. The only “right” they respect in this day and age is the right to follow Donald Trump, and they are in the process of turning that right, at least within their own Republican Party, into an obligation. To have rights, such as those enumerated in the Bill of Rights, is a founding principle of democracy. To impose obligations, as in the obligation to adhere unquestioningly to a leader, is a principle of authoritarianism. 

In a previous decision in 2007, Roberts had written that “the way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” which is like saying “the way to stop getting wet is to come in out of the rain,” ignoring that you might be wet because someone is pouring water on you.

The 15th Amendment said that neither the United States nor “any state” could deny or abridge the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Trump’s New Loyalty Test Makes It Clear: Republicans Who Vote To Acquit Are Siding With The Insurrectionists

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For weeks now, Republicans in Congress have been playing a rhetorical game regarding the impeachment of Donald Trump on charges — for which he is quite obviously guilty — of inciting an insurrection. On one hand, Senate Republicans want very badly to acquit Trump, even though this would allow him to run for office again, believing that the Republican voting base is more loyal to Trump than they are to the GOP or to the nation itself. On the other hand, they don’t want to come right out and say that Trump was justified in sending a violent crowd to storm the Capitol on January 6. That sort of overtly fascist stance can hurt one’s bookings on cable news shows and cause corporate donors to put you on ice for a cycle. 

So Senate Republicans glommed onto what they thought was the perfect strategy to have it both ways: pretend that they are springing Trump on a technicality.

Last week, in a vote called by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted affirmatively on the claim that it’s unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for Trump now that he’s out of office. “Impeachment is for removal from office, and the accused here has already left office,” Paul argued, clearly imagining himself a true artiste of hair-splitting. 

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On the flip side, Trump has posted just one statement directly criticizing the Biden administration, lambasting it over its temporary pause on using the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine.

In the weeks after the riot, which featured his second Senate impeachment trial and his departure from office, Trump has mostly curtailed such election messaging. But Cheney’s recent criticism of his falsehoods has coincided with a much greater push on his end. In the past week alone, Trump released about a half-dozen statements questioning the legitimacy of the election.

A Trump representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump did publicly comment Sunday about Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit’s failed drug test, which he tried to tie to his election loss.

His recent messaging comes as Facebook’s Oversight Board said the social media giant was justified in barring Trump from its platform after the riot, citing the “ongoing risk of violence,” while Twitter suspended an account that was posting Trump’s statements, circumventing its ban on him.

“We’re four months after Jan. 6,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “An insurrection, something that was unthinkable in this country. And the message from people who want to get rid of Liz Cheney is to say, ‘It’s just time to focus on the future and move on.’ Like this was 10 years ago and we’ve been obsessed with it since.

More Voters Have Negative Than Positive Views Of Trump As President And Biden As A Possible President

Voters’ perceptions of Trump as president – and Biden as a possible president – differ substantially. And while voters generally hold positive feelings about their own preferred candidate, supporters of Donald Trump have more positive views of Trump’s presidency than Biden supporters have of his potential presidency.

Among all registered voters, larger shares say that if Biden wins in November, he would be a poor or terrible president than a good or great president ; 29% expect him to be an average president. Evaluations of Trump’s presidency also are more negative than positive: 53% say he is poor or terrible, while 37% view him as a good or great president. Just 9% say Trump is an average president.

Registered voters who support Biden express mixed views about how he would be as president. About half say that, if elected, he would be a great or good president. About four-in-ten Biden voters say he would be an average president. Just 7% say he would be a poor or terrible president.

Voters who support Trump are much more positive about his presidency. About eight-in-ten say he is a great or good president. While 14% view Trump as an average president, just 4% of Trump voters say he is a poor or terrible president.

Similarly, nearly nine-in-ten Trump supporters have negative views of Biden’s potential presidency, but their views are less intense: 61% of these voters say Biden would be a terrible president and 25% say he would be poor.

Voters More Confident In Biden On Several Issues And On Bringing Country Closer Together

Overall, similar shares of registered voters are very or somewhat confident in Trump and Biden to make good decisions about economic policy, although voters are more likely to say they are very confident in Trump . And about as many voters express confidence in Biden as Trump to effectively handle law enforcement and criminal justice issues.

On four of the six issues included on the survey, however, voters are more likely to say they have confidence in Biden than Trump.

About half of voters are very or somewhat confident in Biden’s abilities to handle the public health impact of the coronavirus, while 41% say they are confident in Trump.

And more voters are confident in Biden than Trump to bring the country closer together. Still, fewer than half of voters are confident in Biden to help unify the country , while just 31% are confident in Trump.

Biden also has a 13 percentage point advantage over Trump on effectively handling race relations .

Views About Prospects For Future Generations Improve Among Black And Hispanic Americans

About half of the public says life for future generations of Americans will be worse than life today, while a quarter say it will be better and a similar share say it will be about the same. Within nearly all major demographic and political groups, more say life will be worse for future generations than say it will be better.

Younger adults are somewhat more likely than older adults to say life will be better for future generations. A third of those ages 18 to 29 say this, compared with about a quarter of those ages 30 to 49 and 50 to 64 and 20% of adults 65 and older.

A third of Black Americans say life will be better for future generations, while a smaller share of white Americans say this. About a quarter of Hispanic Americans say life will be better for future generations.

There are only modest partisan differences on this question, though Democrats are slightly more optimistic .

However, Democrats have become more optimistic about how life will be for future generations of Americans since the question was last asked last fall, while Republicans have become less optimistic. In September, just 14% of Democrats said life would be better for future generations; today, roughly double that share say this . In contrast, the proportion of Republicans saying life would be better decreased from 31% to 23% over the same period.

For Republicans Fealty To Trumps Election Falsehood Becomes Defining Loyalty Test

Debra Ell, a Republican organizer in Michigan and fervent supporter of former president Donald Trump, said she has good reason to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

“I think I speak for many people in that Trump has never actually been wrong, and so we’ve learned to trust when he says something, that he’s not just going to spew something out there that’s wrong and not verified,” she said, referring to Trump’s baseless claims that widespread electoral fraud caused his loss to President Biden in November.

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In fact, there is no evidence to support Trump’s false assertions, which culminated in a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. But Ell, a Republican precinct delegate in her state, said the 2020 election is one of the reasons she’s working to censure and remove Jason Cabel Roe from his role as the Michigan Republican Party’s executive director — specifically that Roe accepted the 2020 results, telling Politico that “the election wasn’t stolen” and that “there is no one to blame but Trump.”

“He said the election was not rigged, as Donald Trump had said, so we didn’t agree with that, and then he didn’t blame the Democrats for any election fraud,” said Ell, explaining her frustration with Roe. “He said there was no fraud — again, that’s something that doesn’t line up with what we think really happened — and then he said it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.”

Steve Schmidt: Trump Has Done ‘tremendous Damage’ Through Incompetence Ineptitude

As lifelong conservatives, these members of the Republican resistance say they are in a unique position to reach like-minded voters who are uncomfortable with Trump’s rhetoric and actions but hesitant to back a Democrat.

“What we wanted to create is a movement among rank-and-file Republicans to give them a sense of community and a sense of encouragement from walking away from this president,” said Tim Miller, a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee. He is now an adviser to Republican Voters Against Trump, a super PAC that he said will “create a permission structure for them to say for the first, maybe only, time that they won’t vote for a Republican.”

Trump retains widespread support among Republicans in polls — 90 percent of those who identified as Republicans said they would vote for Trump, and 71 percent viewed him very favorably, according to a New York Times/Siena University poll released last week.

But Republicans advocating for Biden said cracks are forming that they believe they can tap into. Trump trailed Biden by 20 points among independent voters, the NYT/Siena poll found, and just 61 percent of self-identified Republicans said they viewed the country as being on the right track. The president’s support among the groups that were key to his win in 2016 — seniors, non-college-educated whites and men — has also been shrinking in multiple polls over the past two months.

Why Would Kathy Hochul Keep The Man Most Responsible After Cuomo For The Nursing

Former President Donald Trump ripped into embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a New York State Republican Party fundraiser Thursday night — alluding to the governor facing impeachment after a state investigative report branded the three-term Democrat a serial sexual harasser of female underlings.

Trump also was bullish that the Republicans have a chance to win the governorship.

“Cuomo’s got real problems,” Trump said at the event held at the Trump National Golf Course in Briarcliff.

He gave a shout out to the state Senate Republican Minority Leader Robert Ortt, who would participate in a Senate trial to remove Cuomo if the Assembly impeaches him.

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Have Expressed Reluctance Or Misgivings But Havent Openly Dropped Their Backing

Paul Ryan and John Boehner, the former speakers of the House: Both have expressed their dislike of the president, but have not said whom they will support in November.

John Kelly, a former chief of staff to the president: Mr. Kelly has not said whom he plans to vote for, but did say he wished “we had some additional choices.”

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska: She has said that she’s grappling with whether to support Mr. Trump in November. She told reporters on Capitol Hill in June: “I am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time.”

She said: “I think right now, as we are all struggling to find ways to express the words that need to be expressed appropriately, questions about who I’m going to vote for or not going to vote for, I think, are distracting at the moment. I know people might think that’s a dodge, but I think there are important conversations that we need to have as an American people among ourselves about where we are right now.”

Mark Sanford, a former congressman and governor of South Carolina: Mr. Sanford briefly challenged the president in this cycle’s Republican primary, and said last year that he would support Mr. Trump if the president won the nomination .

That has since changed.

“He’s treading on very thin ice,” Mr. Sanford said in June, worrying that the president is threatening the stability of the country.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

Senate Republicans Decided Bipartisanship Was In Their Interest This One Time

While infrastructure is proving to be an area where Senate Republicans are willing to break with Trump, it’s too early to say whether this is the start of a trend.

For one, some of the 18 Republican senators who voted to close debate on the infrastructure bill may still end up ultimately voting against it. But ultimately the votes are expected to be there for the bill’s passage, meaning that in this case Republican senators seem to have calculated that doing something for their constituents and demonstrating that the Senate isn’t totally broken is worth the tradeoff of handing Biden a major bipartisan win.

That doesn’t mean that it’ll be smooth sailing for Biden’s legislative agenda heading forward, however. McConnell, after all, said in May that “one hundred percent of my focus is standing up to this administration,” and with Republicans entrenched against any sort of voting rights legislation, it’s unclear what major policy areas if any could be ripe for bipartisan agreement after infrastructure.

The vast majority of Republicans are opposed to the legislation. House Republicans are as tightly bound to Mr. Trump as ever, with many continuing to support his election lies and conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. And with the approach of the 2022 elections, members of his party will have less and less room to maneuver away from a figure whom their base still reveres.

The Gop Might Still Be Trumps Party But That Doesnt Mean Theres Room For Him

Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump crossed lines that no other president has come close to. And if there was ever any doubt, the final months of his presidency put that to rest.

From the moment President Biden was declared the winner, Trump refused to accept the results of the election, repeatedly dismissing them as rigged or fraudulent, even going so far as to pressure Republican officials, like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to overturn them. This culminated in the events of Jan 6. At a rally that day, Trump told his supporters that the election was being stolen and said, “Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down.” A few hours later, some of those supporters stormed the Capitol, threatening officials and destroying property. They also disrupted the certification of the Electoral College vote, usually a ceremonial affair. Five people died.

List Of Republicans Who Opposed The Donald Trump 2020 Presidential Campaign

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This is a list of Republicans and conservatives who opposed the re-election of incumbent Donald Trump, the 2020 Republican Party nominee for President of the United States. Among them are former Republicans who left the party in 2016 or later due to their opposition to Trump, those who held office as a Republican, Republicans who endorsed a different candidate, and Republican presidential primary election candidates that announced opposition to Trump as the presumptive nominee. Over 70 former senior Republican national security officials and 61 additional senior officials have also signed onto a statement declaring, “We are profoundly concerned about our nation’s security and standing in the world under the leadership of Donald Trump. The President has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term.”

A group of former senior U.S. government officials and conservatives—including from the Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43, and Trump administrations have formed The Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform to, “focus on a return to principles-based governing in the post-Trump era.”

A third group of Republicans, Republican Voters Against Trump was launched in May 2020 has collected over 500 testimonials opposing Donald Trump.

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Looking for new GOP leaders to emerge

There are Trump voters who seem ready to move on. Tricia Moore is an attorney and the president of the Licking County GOP women’s group. Asked if Trump remains the leader of the party, she starts her answer by giving the former president his due: “Trump is a bigger-than-life figure. I think he is not afraid to say what he believes in, not afraid to say things that are unpopular.”

But she then makes it clear that she’s already looking to others as the future of the party: “I think that there are other Republicans that are coming out strong and standing for these conservative values that are going to step forward.” Moore notes that she’s been watching Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis closely and likes what she sees.

Still, it’s hard to get past Trump’s dominance, something he’ll deploy to influence next year’s midterms.

And that complicates things, according to Ohio Tea Party activist Tom Zawistowski. He says Trump’s time as president is to be applauded, but he also says Trump could have won reelection if he’d been better organized, more disciplined and had surrounded himself with better people.

Now Zawistowski wonders about Trump’s next phase. “What’s Trump 2.0 really look like?” he asks. “How much did he learn from this experience?”

“The problem there is that Trump’s like the big elephant in the room,” Zawistowski says. “If he says, ‘I’m endorsing this person,’ well, I got news for you: That’s probably who’s going to win.”

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With Trump Off The Ballot Republicans Look To Regain Votes In The Suburbs

Trump’s influence in Ohio — even after defeat — so far has showed no signs of decline.

In the Ohio legislature, where the GOP controls the agenda with a super-majority, Republicans are looking to enact new restrictions on voting, following Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 elections. There have even been proposals to rename a state park after Trump and to honor him with a state holiday. U.S. Senate hopefuls are jockeying to be the most pro-Trump Republican candidate. And the fact that a Cleveland area GOP congressman, Anthony Gonzalez, voted to impeach Trump in January has made him a handy target for Republicans looking to catch Trump’s eye, and maybe an endorsement.

But even at the Licking County GOP gathering, there were a number of opinions about the former president and the role he should play going forward in Republican politics.

The guest speaker at the event was GOP consultant Matt Dole, whose remarks offered a bit of consolation to audience members who may have loved Trump but were far less fond of his Twitter habit.

“We had to defend whatever Donald Trump did on a day in and day out basis,” Dole told his audience of about 50 Republican Party members. He added that they were all for Trump’s policies, “but sometimes his tweets got in the way.”

Republicans wish Trump were still in office, but according to Dole, they are now free to go on offense and focus on attacking the policies of Biden and the Democrats.

Republicans Who Voted To Convict Trump In Impeachment Trial Face Backlash

The seven Republicans who sided with Democrats by voting to convict former President Donald Trump have been rebuked in their states and criticized by other factions within the party.

The rift over Trump comes as the GOP hopes to win back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.

Backlash has been swift and unrelenting for the few Republicans in Congress who voted alongside Democrats in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.

Some of the seven senators who voted to convict Trump on the charge of inciting the deadly Capitol riot are facing censure and criticism from within the party. One Republican who voted to impeach Trump in the House was reportedly even denounced by members of his own family.

“Oh my, what a disappointment you are to us and to God!” read a letter to Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., signed by multiple family members who support Trump, The New York Times reported Monday.

“It is now most embarrassing to us that we are related to you. You have embarrassed the Kinzinger family name!” read the letter dated Jan. 8, five days before he voted to impeach Trump.

The rift between Republicans who have vocally condemned Trump over the Jan. 6 invasion and those who want to keep him as a party leader comes as the GOP hopes to win back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections. Trump, who maintains , has strongly indicated he plans to remain active in politics.

His state’s Republican Party censured him hours after the final vote.

Most Republicans Still Believe 2020 Election Was Stolen From Trump Poll

May opinion poll finds that 53% of Republicans believe Trump is the ‘true president’ compared with 3% of Democrats

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A majority of Republicans still believe Donald Trump won the 2020 US presidential election and blame his loss to Joe Biden on baseless claims of illegal voting, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.

The 17-19 May national poll found that 53% of Republicans believe Trump, their party’s nominee, is the “true president” now, compared with 3% of Democrats and 25% of all Americans.

About one-quarter of adults falsely believe the 3 November election was tainted by illegal voting, including 56% of Republicans, according to the poll. The figures were roughly the same in a poll that ran from 13-17 November which found that 28% of all Americans and 59% of Republicans felt that way.

Biden, a Democrat, won by more than 7m votes. Dozens of courts rejected Trump’s challenges to the results, but Trump and his supporters have persisted in pushing baseless conspiracy theories on conservative news outlets.

US federal and state officials have said repeatedly they have no evidence that votes were compromised or altered during the presidential election, rejecting the unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud advanced by Trump and many of his supporters. Voter fraud is extremely rare in the US.

Reuters contributed to this report

‘nothing There’: More Republicans Are Calling Out Trump’s Election Lies

WASHINGTON — The more we learn about Donald Trump’s baseless, false and discredited claims about the 2020 election, the more baseless, false and discredited those claims have become.

Just consider the revelations over the past week — from Republicans:

In Michigan, a GOP-led investigation by its state Senate concluded that it “found no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud in Michigan’s prosecution of the 2020 election.”

Regarding Arizona, a report co-authored by former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson criticized the so-called “audit” of the election results in that state, saying it “does not meet the standards of a proper election recount or audit,” and that it’s being conducted by an “inexperienced, unqualified contractor.”

And over the weekend, ABC’s Jon Karl writing for the Atlantic had former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr debunking Trump’s claims about the 2020 election results. “If there was evidence of fraud, I had no motive to suppress it. But my suspicion all the way along was that there was nothing there,” Barr said. “It was all bullsh!#.”

Predictably, Trump lashed out at those GOP findings.

“Michigan State Senators Mike Shirkey and Ed McBroom are doing everything possible to stop Voter Audits in order to hide the truth about November 3rd,” the former president said in a statement, which even included those state senators’ phone numbers.

Even Bill Barr doesn’t buy them.

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Book review: 'Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners' a warm, funny debut

It’s 2017, and Violet Baumgartner is writing her annual Christmas letter in her florid style: “I know that my modest little Christmas correspondences can’t hold a candle to the day-to-day joys and sorrows of your lives, I do hope you’ll indulge this meek attempt to share a glimpse of our year with you.”

Thus begins Minnesotan Gretchen Anthony’s warm and funny debut novel, “Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners,” told in the voices of the Baumgartner and Endres families who’ve known one another for years.

More accurately, this is the second beginning of the story, since there’s a two-page lead-in during which Violet is stopped by a police officer and quizzed about “who threw the first punch:”

“It was disorienting. Distasteful. Her cheeks burned as if she’d been slapped. Her family’s health, its very survival, would forever fit squarely on her shoulders alone.”

Why Violet got stopped by police is the rest of the story. We learn in Violet’s Christmas missive that she’s planning a fancy black tie retirement party for her husband, Ed, whom she always refers to as “Dear Ed” as though that’s his whole name. Planning for the party sends Violet’s jittery friend Eldris Endres into a dither about what to wear. Eldris doesn’t know that her patient husband, Richard, has been laid off. Rounding out the cast are Cerise, Violet and Ed’s lesbian daughter, and the Endres’ son Kyle, Cerise’s best friend since childhood.

At the heart of the story is the relationship between Violet, a controlling woman who does want the best for her daughter, and Cerise, who tries to outmaneuver her mother when she becomes overbearing. Cerise, who’s 30, is in a committed relationship with Barb, whose parents are rich but she wants nothing to do with them.

The fun begins at Dear Ed’s party, which Violet has planned down to the last hors d’oeuvre. Even though Violet is mortified that Ed tells his favorite fart joke to 200 guests (his job was researching gastrointestinal problems), the party is going well until Kyle’s fiancee, a snotty TV weather forecaster, announces Cerise is pregnant. That startling news causes Violet to fall down and hit her head on the floor.

When Violet returns from the hospital, she dedicates her forceful skills to finding the identity of her grandchild’s father because Cerise and Barb refuse to discuss the details of how the child was conceived. This leads to a hilarious scene in the sperm donation clinic where Violet tries to pry information about donors out of a confused young receptionist who keeps saying all information is private.

“ ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake,’ said Violet. ‘We’re not here to donate. Like I told you, we simply would like to get a look at the men our daughter may have chosen with which to impregnate herself.’ “

While all this is going on, Violet and Eldris are worried about what Richard is doing when he’s gone so long every day. So they arrange for Ed to follow him, leading to one of the book’s several surprises.

Some readers posting online disliked Violet, who has her fingers in a lot of civic responsibilities, including chairmanship of the Faithful Redeemer Lutheran Church Christmas Fair for the Homeless. Her first order of business at one meeting was to review the teens on the volunteer roster: “Some of their crew hadn’t shown up at all, which, after chasing home several girls who looked like they’d melted into their jeans like chocolate into a mold, Violet thought perhaps was more blessing than curse.”

Violet does run a tight ship, from her immaculate home to rules for raising Cerise. And there’s no doubt she enjoys her admired status. Fans of public television’s “Keeping Up Appearances” show will see a lot of Hyacinth Bucket in Violet. But her redeeming virtues come through just enough to make you feel some sympathy for her.

When Violet learns she will be a grandmother, she feels it’s imperative to fit the child into the public family narrative, making sure their status in the community remains assured.

Cerise and Barb face the same problems every about-to-be parents face: Are they ready for this baby, who they refer to as Shrimpy? What if the child is not perfect? And they sometimes irritate one another with the way each handles her parents. Barb thinks Cerise backs down when her mother becomes too dominating and Cerise wants Barb to have a relationship with her mother and father.

Another thread is Violet’s reaction when she and Barb’s mother begin to communicate and Violet is very impressed at the family’s wealth. When the couple finally visits, there’s a raucous dinner party involving pills, mixed-up wine glasses and flying food. It does not end well.

Gretchen Anthony

What does end well is this story, with a surprise conclusion that you will not see coming. Most of all, these characters are real and they all learn something about themselves, family and friendship in the course of the story. Special applause goes to Anthony’s pitch-perfect dialogue.

If you’re looking for a heartfelt and well-written book, “Evergreen Tidings From the Baumgartners” is for you. It would fit nicely under the Christmas tree.

GRETCHEN ANTHONY READING

What: Gretchen Anthony introduces “Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners”

When:  7 p.m. Wednesday

Where: SubText Books, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul

Admission: Free

Publisher/Price: Park Row Books, $16.99

Source: https://www.twincities.com/2018/10/20/book-review-evergreen-tidings-from-the-baumgartners-a-warm-funny-debut/