Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

He really is that stupid.

Consistently wrong since 2002

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Let’s finish the job.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

In my day, never was longer.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Promised in another thread to link up yet another TV comedy holiday tradition at NotMax manor. Especially for anyone who has worked in retail, here ya go.

    Don’t let the posted length of the video put you off – for whatever reason, it contains the same episode twice.

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    Keith P.

    I bring myself to check out redstate periodically, and they’ve got a story about Jason Miller backing out as WH communications director. Basically a few deleted tweets from someone saying the “family reasons” is BS and was tweeting about him needing to resign the day before he backed out.
    Dying to know the reasons. It can’t be the facial hair (NOTE: We can tell you have no chin, even with the goatee). Maybe an affair? Maybe he tweeted the Russian thing from the other day (not that one…the other one. No, the other other one)? But needless to say, it still looks like a solid prediction that the Trump Administration will be pretty scandal-ridden, and it’s only a matter of how much protection Congress gives.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Heading to bed, wishing all Juicers the happiest of holidays, whichever ones you celebrate (if any), with whom, and however you celebrate them.

    This community is a great blessing.

  10. 10.

    frosty

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I’m kind of meh on saturnalia tbh.

    I’m pretty big on Yule though. Nothing like lighting a fire to celebrate that the days are going to start getting longer, even if they’re going to get colder until the equinox.

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    SFBayAreaGal

    O Holy Night – A Gift to us from a Christian, a Jew, and an abolitionist.

    Great background story to the song O Holy Night. Two versions of the song is also offered. One by Enrico Caruso and the other by Celtic Women. Listen to both versions. You won’t be disappointed.

    http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1607075

  14. 14.

    frosty

    Adding my thanks to all you jackals, front pagers, frequent commenters, occasional commenters, and lurkers. I’m glad to be part of this community and really happy that John got it started and keeps it rolling. Happy Holidays to you all and good luck to all of us in the New Year.

  15. 15.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Settling down in our Chicago hotel after an uneventful flight from Albuquerque. Heading tomorrow to my son’s flat for Christmas presents, bagels and lox, just like they had in Bethlehem.

    ETA: I’m also glad for this community of snarling jackals. Wouldn’t have made it through 2016 without you.

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Keith P.: Based on screen caps of her deleted tweets it appears he and AJ Delgado had an affair and she’s pregnant. Miller is married and has kids. In fact he used the fact that his wife is Jewish to argue with Chris Hayes that he could not be an anti-Semite, despite what he was tweeting, because his wife is Jewish and she doesn’t have any problem with it. Delgado is Cuban American, born in the US, and has the worst put on/fake accent I’ve ever heard. I lived in Miami for three years. I’ve dated women from Miami. I’ve taught women from Miami. I’ve never, ever heard an accent like that.

    Anyhow, here are the tweets with screen caps of her now deleted tweets:
    https://twitter.com/meredithmusing/status/812864343251517440
    https://twitter.com/Stephynb/status/812817932430483456

    The fact that two grown people in the US in 2016 cannot figure out the need for contraception, especially when having an affair where one of the two is married is just stupid. With a capital stupid!

  18. 18.

    Keith P.

    @JJ: There’s that one, plus the rumored Lewandowski-Hicks affair, and it looks like the Trump campaign had a whole lotta fuckin’ going on. Can’t wait to see the tell-all’s that come out (I doubt Trump will be able to enforce his NDAs on a public campaign)

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    Lyrebird

    @SFBayAreaGal: That’s awesome — thank you! Have loved the French version since I had to learn it in school, but didn’t know the full story.

    Dunno how many of you saw this PBS show about the PA National Guard bringing Christmas to a little town in Luxembourg during WWII.

    My mom saw the whole thing… the blurb at the link does not explain that it was a Jewish soldier, Corporal Harry Stutz, who came up with the idea and got it rolling.

    And thank you Anne Laurie — I just saw those yesterday/today. I know that people claiming religious belief as a justification have a lot to answer for, but for me Hanukkah is especially pertinent this year: fighting back against forces that want to stamp out others’ traditions. Getting paid to make a wedding cake for a couple whose relationship you don’t approve of AIN’T the same as, say, trying to make one group of people sign a registry & stop wearing what they choose, stop saying their own prayers…

    Wonderful holidays and/or catch-up days while everyone else is busy to all!

  20. 20.

    SarahT

    De-lurking to raise a glass of holiday cheer to allayouse, c/o Ted Baxter: “Open your lips and down your throat; May you never wake up lying next to a goat”. Would substitute “Republican” for “goat” but it doesn’t rhyme. Anyway, happy Sunday to all – thanks for making 2016 just a little bit less unbearable. L’chaim.

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    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman:

    The fact that two grown people in the US in 2016 cannot figure out the need for contraception, especially when having an affair where one of the two is married is just stupid. With a capital stupid!

    If you’re dumb enough to have an affair, you may be looking for some excitement. Going without contraception ups the excitement factor. Plus, you can pretend it “just happened.” If you have contraception lying around then you planned it. And planning to cheat on your wife means you’re an adulterer. If you didn’t plan it and it “just happened” then it’s not your fault and heat of the moment and everyone makes mistakes. And if she’s on the pill, well, we all know how the pill really aborts babies and should be outlawed. Plus if she is on the pill then she’s a slut. So….

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    Yarrow

    @EBT: Yeah. How people negotiate their relationship or relationships is not my business. But if someone is cheating and lying to their spouse, that’s likely going to end up being a problem for them and their relationship. Better to be honest if you need extra-marital experiences. But if the excitement that comes from sneaking around is what they really need, they’re not going to get that if they’re honest before something happens.

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    Ajabu

    Well. we’re off tomorrow night for our cross country 25th Anniversary festivities. (with luck, I’ll dig out from under it financially by, oh, 2018…)
    But – it’s what my bride wants and she’s sure as shit getting it.
    And my 50 years in the music biz will get me at least some B listers in attendance and it will likely be more interesting than the Shitgibbon’s inaugural, so there’s that.
    And here for all my BJ family, my favorite Xmas performance ever.
    “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooc5eJc5SHA” rel=”nofollow”>

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    EBT

    @Yarrow: People who need excitement should roleplay in public. There isn’t a rush like a mock abduction on the side of the road, complete with rope and duct tape.

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    Yarrow

    @EBT: That sounds terrifying! I’m not sure how it compares to the excitement of fearing you’ll get caught cheating, though. I don’t see those as the same kinds of excitement.

  33. 33.

    ThresherK (tablet)

    Here I am, awake and not by design. It’s been a thing as of late.

    Made a lemon pudding cake in the evening, for wife and I to bring to Xmas dinner in almost 12 hrs.

    She surprised me with a great card. As in “I was carrying the mixer bowl and sat on the card” in the evening. (It’s not a Hallmark btw.)

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