Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

“But what about the lurkers?”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

The willow is too close to the house.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Happy May Day!

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… aka Beltane, or Walpurgisnacht, the festival to mark the start of the bright half of the year. To our agricultural ancestors, it meant the beginning of six months of hard work to ensure that the year-end festival at the beginning of November would celebrate prosperity, or at least the chance of making it through the dark winter. And if that sounds somehow political, well, we humans are a political species…

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  1. 1.

    Xenos

    kalo protomagia!

    May day in Greece is a holiday of flowers – you make wreaths of dandelions and other wildflowers, and fly kites. It is to celebrate the return of Persophone to her mother Demeter, and the six months of warmth to keep the world alive for another year.

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    WJS

    May Day in Germany means get drunk–you have a day off!

    Despite the fact that we had rain, thunder and lightning last night, pretty much all of our neighbors got drunk and celebrated May Day. And the German kids did their American counterparts proud by TP’ing the town. One thing they don’t get in America is how useful it is to have a wagon for all the beer.

    Here in Germany, you’re nobody if you can’t pull a wagon full of beer around behind you when you’re celebrating (insert random holiday on which to get drunk).

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    c u n d gulag

    How long before some troll comes here and says:

    “Comrades!
    ARISE!
    It is ‘International Workers Day!’
    Time for you Libtards to drink the blood of little Christian children!”

    Back to reality:
    Happy May Day, everyone!

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    JPL

    Growing up Catholic meant making paper flowers for Mary. I used to love those flowers made out of tissues. Today’s celebration might involve cutting a few calla lillies and putting them in a vase to brighten my home.

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    JGabriel

    Question: Orson Scott Card, Orson Bean, is there anyone named Orson who isn’t right wing freak?

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    moonbat

    I don’t know if this is an Okie only manifestation of May Day but we used to make paper cones with handles, fill them with flowers, leave them at someone’s door that we liked, ring the bell and run away. Being Okies, we usually swiped the flowers from someone else’s garden if I remember correctly

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    c u n d gulag

    @JGabriel:
    Well, there’s Orson Welles – but he’s dead.

    And he drank no wine, before it was time.
    IT’S TIME!

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    JGabriel

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    Linda Featheringill:

    Haymarket Square, Chicago, 1886.
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    Nasty business.

    Yep. Link for those unfamiliar with the Haymarket Affair.

    I think of it as America’s Tiananmen Square, because, in the same way the Chinese don’t remember Tiananmen, the world is taught about Haymarket Square while Americans have, well, suppressed it.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @amk: I would say that the campaign season has started. [Insert deity of choice or not] help us all.

  27. 27.

    Schlemizel

    @c u n d gulag:
    I’m up for that! Been a while since the last Christian child blood drinking. The renewed vigor would do us all some good.

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    Amir Khalid

    I have already seen The Avengers. You should too. Transformers-class big and loud, but genius smart rather than Transformers-class obnoxious and stupid.

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    Neddie Jingo

    Can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet….

    Hooray! Hooray!
    The First of May!
    Outdoor fucking begins today!

    What with the Beltane/Walpurgisnacht connection, it seems only appropriate to mention this — and encourage it….

    Grab a blanket, a bottle of plonk, and your preferred squeeze, head on out to a discreet woodgrove or pasture, and celebrate the Dignity of Labor!

    (Perhaps it goes without saying, but bring some rubber thingies, or you might wind up in a completely different sort of Labor…)

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    Hujo

    Happy May Day!

    Osama is still dead, and Jessica Simpson is still pregnant. And Mitt Romney is still a jerk (but a white one, which will earn him some votes).

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    Hungry Joe

    I’m going to out myself here: Today Simon & Schuster is publishing “Anyway*”, a middle-grade novel — my first book. On Scalzi’s “Whatever” site he has a feature called The Big Idea, in which an author writes a short essay about his new book. Well, Scalzi, an old friend from wayback, spotlights my book in today’s Big Idea.

    (The book’s subtitle: *A Story About Me with 138 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti.)

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    Hujo

    @Hujo:

    Osama is still dead, and Jessica Simpson is still pregnant. And Mitt Romney is still a jerk (but a white one, which will earn him some votes).

    Jessica Simpson is no longer pregnant–life goes on

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