Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The willow is too close to the house.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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  3. 3.

    jl

    What, no Possum stew? Ramps? Spells and hexes? Bear grease?

    Edit: what ever happened to WV road kill cuisine? That was W by God VA on fleeeeeeek (as the dang kids say these days), and I think was a BJ category tag for a while.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    An old friend from high school got in touch with me via text after my brother gave her my cell phone number. Fortunately, we are both still liberals. Phew!

  12. 12.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Just got back from a long follow-up visit to my cardiologist. I got really good news though. When I left the hospital, my ejection fraction (the amount of blood expelled from my heart) was 30%, which is much below normal which starts at 40%. Today, that fraction was 65%. I don’t have to go back for 6 months. Yay!

    Then I got in my car and the radio told me all hell has broken loose with Sessions’ rejection/firing. Come on, Mueller. Make my day.

  13. 13.

    The Moar You Know

    hahahahahahahahahaha all you need is a one eyed kid with a banjo passing it out of the tailgate of his broke-ass 72 Ford pickup.

    Your state is one giant stereotype.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    Adam! Betty! Everyone else in Florida!

    BREAKING: Calling all FL hands!!! We have tens of thousands of rejected absentee ballots that we can get perfected before the deadline tomorrow at 5pm, but we need YOUR help. Please send an email to. [email protected] you are able to help #BringItHome— Pam Keith (@PamKeithFL) November 7, 2018

  19. 19.

    jl

    @The Moar You Know: ’72? Aren’t you rich and fancy. Who has money for that kind of brand new fangled stuff? I’m thinking more like the skeleton of a ’48 F with a patched up engine that makes periodic chuffs.

    I remember a ’55er growing up as a kid, that was like that, except most of the exterior body work was still there. You could hear it across the fields, going chuff…. chufff… chuff… Sounded like somebody but a steam engine in it.

  21. 21.

    RobertB

    As far as WV traditions go, I know pepperoni rolls were unknown to me in Huntington, back in ’87. My wife (from Morgantown and a WVU grad, but I love her anyway) was visiting, and said, “Let’s get some pepperoni rolls.” She absolutely wouldn’t believe that there was no such thing at the grocery store, until I let her look for herself.

    As far as that article goes, I’m going to tell my wife about it when she picks me up from work. “Not sure about how sophisticated Marshall is, but I know they’re not selling moonshine in the parking lot at football games.” She doesn’t know whether they are or not.

  26. 26.

    Aleta

    (CBS this afternoon)
    Abrams’ campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo said thousands of absentee and provisional ballots remained to be tallied.

    “We have three factors to be considered here: outstanding votes, absentee ballots to be counted, and provisional ballots,” Groh-Wargo said. “Given those three issues, we believe this is likely heading to a runoff.”

    Under Georgia election law, a candidate for governor must reach 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff. As of early Wednesday, Kemp’s share of the vote stood at 51 percent.

    … Black voters comprised about 30 percent of the electorate and whites 60 percent — figures similar to recent elections. Abrams won the bulk of black votes (92 percent) and Kemp was up big among white voters (74 percent).

  27. 27.

    imonlylurking

    If anybody in Florida is available to help review ballots, there are apparently boxes of rejected absentee ballots that may be able to be fixed and counted. The deadline is 5pm tomorrow.

    Look up PamKeithFL on Twitter.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    @RobertB: Mine was until about 39 years ago when used a clod chisel to cut a hole in the tranny hump and put a Hurst on it. That series of Chevy trucks had column and floor shifts and the hump is lower on the column. The clearance was wrong so I drove it with a reverse shift pattern for all those years until I had the rear end rebuilt and the shop made it work correctly. It bummed me out because I always figured if someone tried to steal it they wouldn’t be able to figure out the pattern!

  33. 33.

    Dev Null

    Has anyone commented on this yet?

    Apologies to any commenters who have already fingered this atrocity.

    Might be a stunt / joke… but I do not know how to (in)validate if so.

    TPM also has pix.

    “He might have been there for the garden tour.”

    I would prefer to believe that this is a hoax.

  34. 34.

    MomSense

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    That is great news. My friend’s ejection fraction rate has never gone above 23 since her heart attack 5 years ago. It’s hell. I’m so glad that you are improving!! After seeing what my friend had gone through, I’ve been worrying and hoping you would get good news so this makes me really happy.

  36. 36.

    Raven

    @kindness: When I moved to Georgia 35 years ago I used to take some Shine up to Illinois. The dude I got it from said “sip it and when you feel it coming on, STOP “!!!

  38. 38.

    lamh36

    @NatJackTweets
    10m10 minutes ago
    More
    The governor’s race in Georgia is not over yet! Stacey Abrams is just a few thousand votes shy of forcing a runoff election. With at least 77,000 absentee and provisional ballots from majority Black and…

  42. 42.

    zhena gogolia

    @Aleta:

    Isn’t it the whole point of firing Sessions? Sessions couldn’t oversee Mueller because he recused himself from Russia-related things, and that’s why Rosenstein was put in charge. So the whole point of firing Sessions was to get Rosenstein out of there and put in a Trump-friendly AG who isn’t recused. I would have been flabbergasted if Sessions had been removed without removing Rosenstein from oversight. It’s bad but it’s not surprising.

  50. 50.

    Yarrow

    Trump has certainly taken attention away from the elections, and even his crazypants press conference, by firing Sessions. The cable networks still have race results on the bottom of the screen but they’re all Sessions/Mueller investigation all the time at this point.

  52. 52.

    Gravenstone

    @kindness: Colorless. Beer is also clear (usually), but colored.

    My quantitative analysis prof absolutely hammered the difference between clarity and color descriptors.

  53. 53.

    JPL

    @lamh36: I’m glad she is fighting but it is going to an uphill climb. The fact that she came close proves that you don’t run republican light races as a democrat to compete. Jason Carter got his butt beat as did Michelle Nunn and I hope that the democratic party of GA learns a few lessons from her.

  56. 56.

    dexwood

    @kindness:
    True, but I once had some really good moonshine in North Carolina that had been aged with peaches in it. By aged, I mean the old gentleman would bury the container for three weeks. The peaches were strained out and the color was close to beer.

  57. 57.

    Yarrow

    @Gravenstone: Ha! You actually made me laugh out loud with that one. And then I started coughing because I’m sick. Still worth it. Hilarious to think of the Queen of Concern Susan Collins doing anything like that.

  58. 58.

    Yutsano

    @JPL: If she can get to the runoff AND somehow get some of the dirtier tricks to get her base out, it might just happen. Either way, I’m glad she’s not just fading into the weeds. Especially when it’s this close and when there was so much copulation of rodentia opposing her.

  59. 59.

    Gravenstone

    @JPL: The color in beer comes naturally. I was just pointing out that it’s also typically clear, that is you can discern an image viewed through it. Moonshine would be described as ‘clear and colorless’ . Beer would be ‘clear and amber (or red or brown or …)’. It’s just a quant thing that left an impression on me.

  60. 60.

    khead

    That article is a steaming load of clickbait bullshit.

    EVERYone in WV KNOWS the GOOD moonshine comes from McDowell County. I have stories. Explosive stories.

  61. 61.

    Yarrow

    For those who remember this tweet from Feb 2017:

    @20committee
    John Schindler
    Now we go nuclear. IC war going to new levels. Just got an EM fm senior IC friend, it began: “He will die in jail.”

    There’s an update:

    Just got a terse message from the same friend.Three words: Fuck this guy.https://t.co/q8Ej4qaaWX— John Schindler (@20committee) November 7, 2018

    Buckle up.

  62. 62.

    Emma

    Local CBS news reporting that all top offices in Florida are within less than 1% of a recount. Gillum only needs 500 more votes. Senator and AG may be even less.

  63. 63.

    lamh36

    @JPL: In Stacey’s case…she should fight. Kemp’s suppression efforts were so fuq’n blatant…that someone should be fighting for every damn voter who was turned away. I sincerely think, this is why Stacey is doing it.

  64. 64.

    Martin

    Reminder that the GOP has control of the House for another 9-10 weeks. Trump can do a lot of damage in that time, and the norms to defer decisions to the elected group will be summarily ignored.

  65. 65.

    JPL

    @Yutsano: That’s what I think. Normally runoff’s in GA have large republican turnouts and low democratic turnouts, but in the next month Mueller could have a few more indictments which depress the republican vote.
    At least that is what I hope.

    @Gravenstone: phew Now I don’t have to worry about whatever dye they might use.

  66. 66.

    jl

    I think there will be frantic activity to shut down Mueller and make as much of it disappear before January 3, 2019 as possible. They are afraid of fighting a 2 front war, one in the House and one against Mueller, to try and hide their vast history of criminality. Given a comment above, wonder if stories from foreign ICs will start popping up in the press again.

    @MatthewNusbaum
    Wow — @kaitlancollins reporting on CNN that Sessions asked Kelly if he could stay until the end of the week and Kelly said no, had to leave today. It’s Wednesday!!
    https://twitter.com/MatthewNussbaum/status/1060293276459241473

  67. 67.

    JPL

    @lamh36: Even if she doesn’t win by fighting she might cause another house seat to flip.
    That would be GA district 7 in which Carolyn Bourdeax is only 900 votes behind.

  70. 70.

    Bill Arnold

    Are there any suspicions that GOP RFing in Georgia was computer related? The focus seemed to be on suppression, with the exception of that last minute (Sunday) purified bullshit accusation[0] by Kemp of Democratic voting system hacking. Was it projection? (That accusation alone could have provided the margin.)
    My guess is that the GOP in Georgia stayed away tampering with the voting machinery and the rest of the vote counting apparatus, excepting asymmetric distribution of voting machines.
    (Florida, OTOH – some locales look odd.)
    [0] Until proven otherwise, of course.

  71. 71.

    J R in WV

    Good moonshine is really good. Poor moonshine is really poor. I have a friend with degrees in bio and chem, with a family heritage, and his is smooth and nearly tasteless. His is very small batch non-commercial. Making a lot for sale is very difficult to control for good flavor.

    Temperature control is key as there are many alcohols that are both dangerous and disgusting to taste. Ethanol has a narrow band of temperature when it is evaporating and no other alcohols are evaporating.

    I have some taste experience, but have never even seen anyone actual cooking mash. My first taste was at a horse trader’s yard. I was shopping for work horse tack with a friend one very cold February … walking past a storage shed I saw friend Tommy drinking a clear fluid … if it was water it would have been solid. That was really good, of course it was really really cold.

    Eastern KY makes some good shine too. Wife used to attend UMWA (miner’s union) conventions, there was always some really high end pro level ‘shine at those.

    I don’t see that generations old heritage crafts are bad stereotypes, frankly.

    I haven’t ever seen ‘shine at a WVU sports event, personally. Never!

  73. 73.

    Corner Stone

    @Yarrow: Dick Pic Schindler has been reporting the same exact thing for three years now. Someone call me when he gets back from his honeymoon with Louise Mensch.

  74. 74.

    TenguPhule

    @J R in WV:

    Good moonshine is really good. Poor moonshine is really poor.

    Obviously you keep the good stuff to yourselves and only sell the dregs to Costco. //

  75. 75.

    RobertB

    @Raven: My brother had a ’67 LeMans, which is halfway between the Tempest and the GTO. It had a weird combination of features, like a straight-6 OHC engine, and three on the tree. We did that thing too, where we cut a hole in the hump and put a shifter in there. It had the habit of getting hung up in it’s linkage, and you’d have to crawl under the car and unstick it. It was a beautiful car, though – the best looking of those mid-60’s Pontiacs, IMHO.

  77. 77.

    psycholinguist

    That’s apple pie moonshine. Look at the jar, there is a cinnamon stick on the bottom, dead giveaway – take good moonshine, add a little sugar, apple cider, and pie spices and there you go. Some of my students families here in East Tenn make this stuff every Christmas and bring me a jar or two as a present. I’m up to about 3 cases in my liquor closet now, but don’t nobody tell them that.

  79. 79.

    Sloegin

    Shine on, Mountaineers!
    Seriously though, anyone notice that the caravan has all but vanished from a certain propaganda network? Stunning. You’d think they’d run with it at least thru the end of the week.

  80. 80.

    HeartlandLiberal

    John Cole, you should comfort yourself you were not born and reared in Alabama. We left in 1969, and sometimes it still feels like we are living it down. I regularly torture myself by going to al.com, the north Alabama conglomerate newspaper site online, and read articles, then I REALLY torture myself by reading the comments. It was especially excruciating during the Roy Moore election, but is always so when questions of Black vs. White, racism, sexism, progressives are discussed. Of course the front page of al.com is always saturated with pictures and stories about Alabama football and the sororities, all seemingly populated only by blond and beautiful young women.

    I should tell anyone who asks why we did not move back “home” when we retired to just go read the comments on al.com.

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