Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Be a wild strawberry.

The lights are all blinking red.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

Books are my comfort food!

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

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Always Oppressed, Always Stupid

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The man who called GWB the “first great leader of the 21st century”, and who still supports the Iraq war, senses the yoke of tyranny descending on his delicate shoulders because Andrew Cuomo shut down part of the Thruway during a blizzard.

Where I grew up, in a state where you can carry as many guns as you want (which as we all know is the true test of freedom), the major highways had gates that could be closed during blizzards. We didn’t whine about our precious freedoms when the governor closed them, we just understood that the roads needed to be plowed, and it’s hard to plow a highway strewn with abandoned or wrecked cars. Apparently that little bit of common sense is a bridge too far for JPod.

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Chill Tundra

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Serious economic terms of great vividness! Professor Krugman, on the Right’s “Bodyguard of Zombies, Counterattack by Cockroaches”:

… Today’s right wing never gives up on a politically convenient argument, no matter how thoroughly it may have been refuted by analysis and evidence. It may downplay that argument for a while — though often even that doesn’t happen — but it always comes back.

Inequality is a clear though not at all unique example. Consider three arguments one might make against 21st-century populism:

1. Inequality isn’t increasing.
2. OK, inequality is increasing, but it’s not a problem.
3. OK, it would be nice to have lower inequality, but any proposed solutions would do more harm than good.

Which of these arguments does the right choose, when making its stand? The answer is, all three. Argument 1 faded away briefly when the CBO published its landmark study documenting the rise of the one percent, but as we’ve just seen, it’s back (this is an illustration of the concept of cockroach ideas.) Argument 2 doesn’t stand up under scrutiny, but it just keeps being made anyway — it’s a zombie. But meanwhile, argument 3 is made against anyone like, say, the new mayor of New York who proposes even the slightest effort to equalize opportunity.

This kind of thing flummoxes many people, who imagine that we’re having a real debate. It makes perfect sense, however, once you realize that the other side here isn’t engaged in good-faith argument, just looking for anything that comes to hand, with no regard for consistency…

I’d love to be having real debates on these issues. But we aren’t having and can’t have such debates, because the cockroaches and zombies get in the way.

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Apart from unpleasant topics like zombies, cockroaches, rightwingers and the current weather, what’s on the agenda for today?

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Speaking of Snow

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It’s kind of a hot mess outside the Cole abode. We don’t have too much accumulation (two-three inches, maybe), but it was another one of those perfect situations to make the roads treacherous, because it was moist and rainy before the cold, so there is a slickness underneath the snow, as well as whipping winds and a really cold temp, plus those little snowflakes that seem to always fall forever.

At any rate, Lily went out to potty early this morning, but because she absolutely loathes having cold feet (that’s how the shoulder injury happened, if you remember), she has started to go outside five times, walked out onto the porch, said screw that, and turned around and gone back inside. Finally, she couldn’t take it anymore had to go out, grudgingly walked out into what she considers Antarctica, and was underneath the pine tree doing number two when the most awesome thing (for me) happened. The wind picked up, and a giant clump of snow was knocked off the pine tree branches, right smack onto Lily’s back as she was in her indelicate and uncomfortable #2 position. Mid-poo, she raced the length of the yard, ran around in circles as if she was under attack, squatted and finished her business after thirty seconds of frantically looking for the snowman who assaulted her, finished her business, and ran inside with a very wounded look on her face.

I was in hysterics. I still am. I hope this does not make me an awful person, but I did wipe down her tootsies and she’s on my lap underneath my bathrobe and on top of my pj’s.

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Open Thread: But It’s A Dry Snow…

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True fact for you warm-climate disbelievers: Dry snow — the light powdery fluffy kind that happens when the atmospheric humidity is low — is much easier to deal with than the high-humidity kind.

So far, praise goddess, we’re getting the fluffy stuff. And the towns twenty miles further north and east (seaward) have gotten fifteen inches to our six, so far… but we’re probably looking at another full twenty-four hours before we have the final totals to establish bragging rights.

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Thursday Evening Open Thread: Branding

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Going out to remove the first six inches, of a projected ten to fifteen, from the front steps & walkway. Yes, I know I’m lucky in comparison to many of you Midwesterners…

Along with complaining about the weather, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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