Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

The lights are all blinking red.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

In my day, never was longer.

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

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

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I live with Nancy Smash’s spirit animal:

Trust me.  You don’t want to mess with this:

And if you were wondering…

No, this is not the laundry you were looking for:

And last, as we knew…

This is not your internet. It is my internet:

Tikka and Nancy agree: there’s more manhood in a fixed feline than in the entire bloated carcass of Dear Hairpiece.

And with that — an alternative to politics open thread.

PS: The original of the title character:

 

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  7. 7.

    Immanentize

    I see that Tikka looks at YOU that way, but I am uncertain whether she views the world that way.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    Non-politics?

    Mentally flagellating myself for giving in to temptation and splurging on something extra-special for Xmas dinner during the monthly grocery run yesterday.

    This too shall pass.

  10. 10.

    geg6

    We had our office suite holiday potluck today. The food was amazingly good and mostly fairly healthy, for a holiday party anyway. Admissions, Bursar, Student Aid, Advising, Registrar, Campus Health Center and Tutoring Center. Plus our work studies. It was nice.

  13. 13.

    zhena gogolia

    @geg6:

    You must be the tiredest people around right now.

    Today I had a first for me — an e-mail from a student asking if she could borrow my copy of one of the required texts so she could write her final paper.

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    A close inspection of Sister (my Les Paul) during last night’s restringing revealed rusty screw heads on the bass side of her bridge pickup mounting ring — right where I rest my right hand when I play. I shall need to replace the screws. Is it too much to ask of Epiphone that it install screws that don’t rust? Grumble.

  17. 17.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @JPL: I was joking. Everyone in that room appeared to forget Pence was there and I thought you might have too.

    @zhena gogolia: On one hand, it’s horrifying that she didn’t have the required book by the end of the semester. OTOH, textbooks are stupidly expensive. Textbook sales people never tell you what they cost when they come around to your office. It’s just shocking. And publishers keep those prices up by requiring authors to put together a new edition every three years or so, thus killing the used book option.

  23. 23.

    The Dangerman

    I don’t get the meeting today. If the Hair Apparent(ly not) has the votes in the House as presently constituted, hold the vote. Asking Dems for the votes to put it over the top is only something an amazing asshole … oh, OK gotcha…

  26. 26.

    Ruviana

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: That whole industry is about to change in crazy ways as publishers want to push books to online platforms and discontinue paper textbooks in some cases. Of course the students will respond to these new products in the same way–they won’t read them.

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    Tough call, although I’d opt for emery cloth. Any halfway decent hardware store or department will have it. Dunno the design and layout of the instrument so whether it is practical or feasible is something only you can tell. Must be guitar sites where this is covered; highly doubtful you’re the first to have it happen.

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:
    Screws need not be worked on in situ. They can always be removed and put back,so their location on the guitar is not really an issue..

  30. 30.

    Immanentize

    Ok. The gender of Tikka? Some say “he,” I thought “she.”

    Tom, did you really make Nancy Pelosi’s Spirit Animal a DUDE?

  33. 33.

    Wapiti

    @The Dangerman: I think that Turnip wants Schumer to commit to voting for the thing, so the Republicans can move the goalposts – and then the House Dems have to bail it out. Pelosi counts votes – both hers and the other side’s – and says that the House Repubs don’t have the votes. She wants them to vote (and likely fail to pass the bill) so the government shutdown is clearly on the Repubs.

  38. 38.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Ruviana: I was in a paper mill earlier this week that produces the heavy cardboard that is used in textbook covers. They have seen business drop a lot over the last few years and are expecting it to get much worse in the near future.

    Why do you care? It’s a union mill, that’s why!

  40. 40.

    Steeplejack

    @Roger Moore:

    Back in the early days of VCRs I pretty much gave up on recording anything because one of my cats loved to sleep on the cable box. I didn’t notice it when I only watched TV live, but sometimes when she shifted her position she would change the channel. Really noticed it when I would come home, get 15 minutes into a recording of a good movie and then suddenly have it switch to an hour of the Humidity Channel.

  42. 42.

    Jay C

    Wow. Tikka’s cattitude come though loud and clear in those pics: definitely Do. Not. Mess. With.

    @Wapiti:

    I think your analysis may have been right, but then, Trump opened his yap in that meeting and changed the whole dynamic. Now he’s made it clear that (the generally unpopular) “Funding The Wall” is a hill he’s willing to die on, and Congressional GOPers have been put right on the spot to do or die with him. And now it’s become an either/or situation with no good outcome for them. More “stable genius” politicking…..

    ADD: File this under “I can’t do this to me!!!”

    Scott Dworkin
    ✔
    @funder
    BREAKING: GOP consultant tells me Trump is “absolutely enraged” by the news coverage of his meeting with Pelosi and Schumer today. Trump apparently blames Pence for not speaking up. He thinks Pence “lost it for him.” And he wishes he never held the meeting, calling it a “set up.”

  45. 45.

    delk

    @Gin & Tonic: I fell down leaving my doctor’s office on my way to early vote! Broke my nose, my T1 vertebra, and my wrist. Just grateful I didn’t break any teeth.

  48. 48.

    delk

    @Gin & Tonic: just external. Four pins. It wasn’t too bad of a fracture, but one of the HIV drugs I took years ago pretty much destroyed my bone density. Have to call tomorrow to set up PT.

  52. 52.

    sm*t cl*de

    @Jay C:

    Trump apparently blames Pence for not speaking up. He thinks Pence “lost it for him.” And he wishes he never held the meeting, calling it a “set up.”

    Imagine my surprise to discover Trump blaming someone else for his senile incompetence.

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