Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

After roe, women are no longer free.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

In my day, never was longer.

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

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  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    KITTEH!!!

    The first week of furlough has been interesting. I’m finding that without work I don’t have much need to leave my house. Oh and unemployment is completely sideways right now until a back end situation gets resolved. My only saving grace right now is will I get another round of pay in the pipeline come Monday? It is possible that will happen since the pay period ended right at the shutdown and the pay contractors got it all loaded before things went dark. It happened last time but no guarantees.

    I at least have enough money for rent. NOT MUCH ELSE…but I will at least have that.

  5. 5.

    plato

    Stupidity? Corruption? Take your pick.

    The UK will spend more than £100m chartering extra ferries to ease “severe congestion” at Dover, in the case of a no-deal Brexit.

    Over the last few months, additional ferry contracts were awarded to French, Dutch and British companies.

    The contingency plans allow for almost 4,000 more lorries a week to come and go from other ports, including Plymouth, Poole, and Portsmouth.

    Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable called the move “complete madness”.

    “The government has the power to stop “no deal” at any time but instead is spending millions on last minute contracts,” he said.

    “The fact that this money is predominantly going to European companies is nothing short of ironic, reducing Britain to a laughing stock on the global stage.”

    The Department for Transport (DfT) said the awards were “a small but important element” of its no-deal planning.

  7. 7.

    MattF

    Taking a break from some exceedingly peculiar dreams. The first involved repeated visits to Miami Beach, the second involved Kim Jung Il. Message is unclear.

  9. 9.

    smike

    @MattF:

    Taking a break from some exceedingly peculiar dreams. The first involved repeated visits to Miami Beach, the second involved Kim Jung Il. Message is unclear.

    The message is clear: “Quit repeatedly going to Miami Beach to find Kim Jung Il. He ain’t there. Never will be.”

  10. 10.

    Sab

    My hyperthyroid cat has been wandering the house with exactly that expression. He has eaten a pound of roast beef slices and a pound of roast turkey slices all by himself in less than a week. It’s kind of scary. He’s due to for his treatment on Jan. 8. We can’t wait.

  12. 12.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Sab:
    Hope your kitty’s treatment goes well before he eats you out of house and home

  13. 13.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    But now you have a nice, shiny, federally-compliant, license. Doesn’t that make you feel happy inside? //

    Did you need the long-form birth certificate as part of your necessary documents?

  14. 14.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: I needed to show a REAL ID in order to get my REAL ID.

    I was born in the Texas borderlands, and I confirmed my Democratic voter registration on the application for the DL, so I’m pretty sure my citizenship is going to be revoked sooner or later, anyway.

  15. 15.

    Mary G

    It’s been cold and windy all day and I feel, like Cole says, like hammered shit. I got nothing useful done except changing the cat litter.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Wasn’t there some Republican legislator in Colorado a few years ago who was unable to get a driver’s license for his daughter because the state refused to accept her US passport as proof of citizenship?

    @Cckids:

    This is why I did not change my name when we got married in 2006. I could already see which direction shit was flowing and that it would end up being way more trouble than it was worth given that my husband didn’t care one way or the other.

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    satby

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: @Cckids: and it’s all just a voter suppression scam when it comes right down to it. And another way to burden lower income people who end up driving on expired licenses with jail terms and penalties. A huge, ridiculous scam.

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    Betty Cracker

    The mister and I have both had Florida driver’s licenses since Ronald Motherfucking Reagan was president, but when we tried to get new ones to reflect our change of address, the DMV demanded all sorts of proof of our existence, marital status and residency. I’m not sure what changed. Prior to that, we were able to renew and make changes online for many years. Anyhoo, two months and $100 later, we’ve finally gathered the necessary documents. I wish folks who blithely dismiss the difficulties of getting a state ID for voting purposes could have this experience.

  24. 24.

    JPL

    @satby: Maybe females will consider keeping their maiden name. There is a burden placed on women to keep a paper trail of their name change.

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    satby

    @JPL: I kept my birth name 37 years ago when I got married anyway. Luckily, since that only lasted 10 years anyway.

    @Betty Cracker: Real ID is the change, and as you said, a costly hoop jumping scam. It was infuriating that I had to gather all sorts of additional documents to satisfy the DMV when the first document I produced was my U.S. passport.

  27. 27.

    Betty Cracker

    @satby: I thought Real ID was a program in California — didn’t realize it was a thing nationwide! Is it some Homeland Security nonsense?

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    Chris T.

    @Betty Cracker: Yes. It was a Bush-43 thing, with an ever-delayed implementation since it was completely ridiculous. Unfortunately, Trump is also completely ridiculous, so here we are.

  30. 30.

    satby

    @Betty Cracker: yes. And after 10/20 will be required even for domestic air travel.
    Though the anti-counterfeiting aspects of the ID don’t need to be tied to all the document requirements. The Republicans saw an easy way to suppress voters by making the initial ID burdensome to get.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    @satby

    Yup. It was certainly challenging, and a royal pain in the keester to renew the driver’s license this past May. At least it’s good for another eight years. FSM alone knows what will have to haul along into the DMV by then.

  32. 32.

    satby

    @Chris T.: a passport and a previous drivers license. And bills within 60 days in Indiana, original SS card… I forget what all else. I went back three times, and if I had taken a married name I also would have had to produce my divorce decree though my divorce was in 1992. The third time was because my original utility bills to prove residency had aged over the 60 days (it took me that long to cool off). I hope the Democratic House takes this up as part of their anti-voter suppression efforts.

  36. 36.

    Ken

    @MattF:

    Message is unclear.

    I think it means you’re afraid you’ll forget your locker combination and your teeth will fall out.

  37. 37.

    debbie

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    It will also make getting into federal buildings much easier, should you have that need.

    I got one last month. No biggie. I had the necessary proof with me, and I carry the same things when I vote. I’m paranoid some dickwad GOP observer will step forward to challenge my identity.

  38. 38.

    Ohio Mom

    I’ve gotten next to nothing done this break but hibernating. It turns out I was born to lie in bed and read all day long. I have finally found my calling. Too bad it doesn’t pay.

    I am forgiving myself because driving Ohio Son almost every day of the week to either school or work will start right after New Years. That doesn’t pay either.

  39. 39.

    J R in WV

    @Ohio Mom:

    Ohio Son will be working for free???// Zounds, they make them stupid in the schools now!!!! ;-)

    Anyone see the 16-y-o graduating from HS and from Harvard U the same time next month? Amazeballs!

  40. 40.

    FlyingToaster

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Passport will do. In Massachusetts, the RMV notes that if you already use a US passport to fly or enter Federal buildings, you won’t need a RealID. Which is certainly my plan ?.

  41. 41.

    Ruckus

    @Betty Cracker:
    lIt’s a homeland security concept. It’s ID on a national level. They let the states set rules based around the concept so that no one could say, “It’s a National ID.” But everyone should. It does two things. Makes ID an issue that will at some time in the future be required by everyone. And it is stupidly hard to accomplish unless you have your “Papers” in order and of course costs more. What do you think will happen when people without a birth certificate try to get “Real ID” instead of the fake stuff we’ve all been using for decades? Voter suppression. All the poors, minorities, immigrants without 14 types of paperwork will never be able to vote. I wonder who in GWB’s tenure was the asshole who came up with this shit.
    ETA And of course I forgot to add that CA seems to think this is an asinine concept, just another example of better government through actual thought rather than racism and grifting.

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