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Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

I was promised a recession.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

No one could have predicted…

Please don’t feed the bears.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

People are complicated. Love is not.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

We’re not going back!

Consistently wrong since 2002

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

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  2. 2.

    freelancer (itouch)

    Thank you for the OT, but given the confluence of politics, nerds, and Cole’s gaming interest, I would’ve posted this Mass Effect 2 launch trailer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2O-0-fQOOs&feature=youtube_gdata

    music by Two Steps from Hell – Heart of Courage

    fucking epic.

    All thoughts on our snarky softhearted blogmaster and his friends and family. Our thoughts, and those of other strangers they will never hear from in real life are with you and are pulling with John Cole today.

    /shameless emopants

  3. 3.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @freelancer (itouch):
    Seconding the emopants revolution. We are all John Cole now. Too bad we don’t have those shirts yet. I foresee a “post yourself wearing your BJ shirt” thread out of solidarity.

    Here’s wishing that bastard a speedy recovery (said with the utmost love). Tunch wills it, so it must be.

  6. 6.

    robertdsc

    I imagine a flurry of Tunch posts with ASCII graphics screaming FEED ME!

    I got nothing on this spending freeze other than that it feels conservative, and that’s a big minus in my book since conservatism has destroyed the country.

  7. 7.

    GReynoldsCT00

    All thoughts on our snarky softhearted blogmaster and his friends and family

    I hope someone posts for him later to let us know he’s okay…

  8. 8.

    WereBear

    @robertdsc: Yes, but my instant reaction is that it can target crap we need to get rid of, and prelim reports seem to point to that.

    Let the Republicans fillibuster to keep money flowing to Big Agro.

  10. 10.

    Chyron HR

    I think Obama should implement a spending freeze on Big Argo. We can’t keep wasting billions every year trying to get the Golden Fleece.

  11. 11.

    harlana peppper

    Is John having surgery today? Whatup? Sorry, I’m out of touch here, last I saw he was complaining about his shoulder.

  14. 14.

    DZ

    @WereBear:

    Big Argo is a great target but also the Export-Import Bank, the Market Promotion program and every other piece of corporate welfare.

  16. 16.

    geg6

    I’m late to this, but big time good vibrations being sent out to John. Hope someone comes and gives us a progress report. Perhaps Tunch and Lily could guest blog.

    Can someone point me to info on the spending freeze? I heard something about student aid and need to know if this means a freeze or what for my students’ funding.

  17. 17.

    Luthe

    Anne, you have *excellent* taste in music. Do you like Within Temptation, too? /shameless goth

    Best wishes for John today!

  18. 18.

    Scuffletuffle

    Maybe the spending freeze should target insurance coverage for the Senate and House congresscritters… My guess is that big Insurance will cover them for free/or for services rendered and taxpayers would get a little back in taxes to help underwrite our own premiums. It’s a win-win.

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    Luthe

    You know, I just had a thought. I was reading Ezra’s piece about all the ways the spending freeze could go wrong, and it occurred to me that the problem that Obama’s having is that no plan survives first contact with the enemy Senate. He keeps proposing all these great plans, which inevitably go the World’s Shittiest Deliberative Body ™ and are mangled within an inch of their lives before dying an ignoble death. And yet, he keeps doing it over and over again.

    Le sigh.

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    Spending freeze? Bah humbug! Has everyone close to Obama forgotten, or not understood, the lessons of 1937?

    Let’s get the economy back on its feet and creating jobs before we start to think about dealing with the deficit. For which, spending reductions will never be sufficient. It’s time for a VAT. It’s long past time for a VAT.

    Best of luck today, John. May the injury gods give you a hot-looking therapist, so you can dream of doing unspeakable things to her while she’s doing unspeakable things to you.

  21. 21.

    valdivia

    Thinking of John and sending him all the good vibes he can get from the coastal elite parts of this country in his Real America region of WV.

  22. 22.

    Robertdsc-iphone

    He keeps proposing all these great plans, which inevitably go the World’s Shittiest Deliberative Body™ and are mangled within an inch of their lives before dying an ignoble death. And yet, he keeps doing it over and over again.

    I said it before in another thread but I see thus and think back to Lieberman’s killing of the Medicare buy-in. Per TPM reporting, it was Rahm who said to let Holy Joe have his way. If Rahm had simply convinced Joe to let the bill have a vote, it would have passed. Instead, Rahm did the opposite. This is where I see that the Administration has gone so far off the tracks.

    Separately, for the fucknut Blue Dogs who whine about spending, the Administration could have explained in clear terms that cutting spending was the wrong thing to do & that their districts would benefit from more spending. Instead, they cut cut cut & give nothing in return. It’s infuriating.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    Maybe we can have a politics-free open thread where we all post what we think Tunch and Lily’s first words will be when John comes home?

  28. 28.

    Fergus Wooster

    Best of luck, John. Bizzarro-Tunch and Bizarro-Lily (sadly no pics on hand) wish you well.

  33. 33.

    Admiral_Komack

    Posted on Tue, Jan. 26, 2010
    Stimulus funds to rebuild infamous Dillon school

    J.V. Martin Junior High School, which President Obama used in campaign speeches as an example of gross educational neglect, will get federal stimulus money to build a new school. The federal Department of Agriculture confirmed Tuesday J.V. Martin, which is in disrepair and has parts of his campus that date back to the 1800s, would qualify for a federal loan program targeting rural areas. The county is eligible for nearly $40 million in loans and grants. Dillon voters had agreed to borrow money to build a new J.V. Martin and finance other construction projects. But financing disappeared when the financial markets sank in 2008 and lending tightened. Obama last year held up J.V. Martin as an example of some 1,200 crumbling schools he wants to replace using billions of dollars in his economic-stimulus bill.

    But dealmaking to get the $789 billion stimulus package passed severely diminished the amount of money dedicated to school construction and had dimmed the chances the package would deliver a new school in Dillon County as many had hoped. This despite the president making a compelling case for building a new J.V. Martin during a national TV appearance. Obama invited Ty’Sheoma Bethea, then a J.V. Martin 8th grader, to sit in first lady Michelle Obama’s mezzanine box in the House of Representatives during his first State of the Union address a year ago. Bethea had written Obama a letter imploring the president to improve her crumbling school. Bethea became a minor celebrity afterward, and the now-Georgia high schooler is still an advocate for rebuilding J.V. Martin.

    Obama campaigned at the school – profiled in the award-winning documentary “Corridor of Shame” – and several other poor South Carolina schools on his way to winning the state’s decisive presidential primary in January 2008. According to the Agriculture Department the “Dillon County School Facilities Corporation in eastern South Carolina has been selected to receive a $35.8 million loan and a $4 million grant to improve education services in three school districts in Dillon County.” The stimulus money will be used to construct two new schools and renovate two existing schools.

    — James Rosen

    © 2010 TheState.com and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.thestate.com

    http://www.thestate.com/local/story/1128685.html

    -Gee, I guess this is Obama’s fault too, darn him!/snark

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