Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

So many bastards, so little time.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

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

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

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

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Everybody saw this coming.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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

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Cincinnati Meet Up Open Thread: Steve in the ATL Edition

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From commenter OhioMom:

Steve in the ATL is coming to the CVG on Monday, January 14 and Tuesday, January 15. How about welcoming him with a Cincinnati meet-up?

Steve will be in Blue Ash and Ohio Mom suggests we meet at Slatts Pub on Cooper near Kenwood because it’s relatively quiet for a bar restaurant. But any and all other suggestions welcomed. Leave your preferred day, time and location in the comments.

You all know what to do.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    cintibud

    Would love to but can’t make Tuesday evening – That’s our food pantry night. Monday would work though.

  2. 2.

    lamh36

    my moms and sis lived for years in Cincy.

    I tried but didn’t stick.

    have a great meet up guys!

  9. 9.

    Mary G

    @lamh36: I miss him so much. I was like, yes, Paisley is adorable, but why does he have bandaids on two fingers? I suppose it’s some golf thing, but I went right into being bad at hanging pictures.

  12. 12.

    Ohio Mom

    @debbie: I dunno. If was carrying my baby, or was with someone who was carrying a baby, and Obama came up to us, I’d be more likely to drop the phone or accidentally turn it off than get actual footage as good as that terrible camera work was.

    Cincinnati has a reputation as Dullsville. Considering that most of the local jackals seem to have logged off, maybe it’s so.

  19. 19.

    zhena gogolia

    Colbert tweeted:

    My network will be carrying Trump’s Wall speech live. So at 9pm Tuesday, tune into CBS to See B.S.

  24. 24.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @zhena gogolia: Bravo. Poking his bosses in the eye. I keep waiting for one of MSNBC’s liberals to point this out

    Markos Moulitsas @ markos
    NBC News: “The four major networks have not had a consistent policy when it comes to airing presidential addresses on immigration. They aired President George W. Bush’s prime-time address on immigration in 2006, but did not air one by President Barack Obama in 2014.”

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mary G:

    I suppose it’s some golf thing, but I went right into being bad at hanging pictures.

    LOL! We all want and expect him to be perfect!

    “Can’t hang pictures straight? Fuck that, no way I’m voting for him!”

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Ohio Mom:

    If was carrying my baby, or was with someone who was carrying a baby, and Obama came up to us, I’d be more likely to drop the phone

    I’d be more likely to drop the baby.

  28. 28.

    Keith P.

    “Halftime show Imagine Dragons with special guest L’il Wayne.”
    Dear lord, what hast thou wrought?

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @PaulWartenberg:

    I have a request to all Balloon Juicers.

    Hug your loved ones.

    Good advice always, but has something happened to prompt that comment? Hope you and yours are okay. Please let us know.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    Wife is a former national local union officer — can we bring a baseball bat???

    Kidding !! Steve in the ATL seems to be a good guy, his job doesn’t kill that off at all. People working for the Trump, on the other hand…..!!!

  34. 34.

    eemom

    Somebody on FB just posted a TUNE OUT TUESDAY! thing telling people to spread the word NOT to listen to whatever shit spews from Dump’s anus-mouth tomorrow evening on the major news networks.

    I’m like, this is your rallying cry — spread the word to tune out?? You couldn’t pay me to tune in.

  36. 36.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    How about Monday? I have a card that we can all sign and send to the granddaughter of the Juicer (whose nym I’ve forgotten!) from Beavercreek who was at the last meet up here. The card says:

    We took a vote
    YOU
    Should get well soon

    like it’s a campaign button with stars and bunting at the top/bottom and the inside says
    THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN
    I’d enjoy it if I were a kid!

  42. 42.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @eemom: how about a 9 pm money bomb to the DSCC. Mitch McConnell does not want to be minority leader again.

  45. 45.

    Steve in the ATL

    @J R in WV: I’m bargaining 4 and 6 year contracts right now, so are expecting to be doing business with unions for a long time!

  48. 48.

    Ohio Mom

    @cintibud: When I moved to Cincinnati as a VISTA worker, one of my coworkers was driving me to a meeting I don’t remember where, maybe Bridgetown? When we got to Cheviot, Maxine said, “This is Cheviot. People who are born here, die here.”

    Which I grew to learn, was never quite true, even when it was more likely to be true. But Maxine’s words have stayed with me for 40 years.

  52. 52.

    Lyrebird

    @lamh36: Second try at a thanks, and did you see the song listed there with LMM (it’s a remix of his song) and Bebe Winans and PBO?

    I hope posting this works this time. Flaky router.

  53. 53.

    cintibud

    @Ohio Mom: LOL, more true than not. Something I learned when I first moved down here in 1978, although I was on the East side at the time.

    Here in Cincy when they ask what school you went to, they mean High School, not college – as you no doubt learned

  56. 56.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    for any rodent scientists in the house, how do rats know when a ship is sinking?

    Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, as recently as late last year explored the possibility of becoming president of the University of South Carolina, four people familiar with the discussions said….
    As of last week, a person close to Mr. Mulvaney said he was still interested in the presidency of his home state university, which will become open this summer.

    in the meantime, of course, he’s going to do everything he can to help trump degrade every norm and institution and tradition of the American polity, because….

  61. 61.

    Ohio Mom

    @CarolDuhart2: The minute SITATL said Blue Ash, I thought…hmmm, that’s not going to be easy for Carol. I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.

  62. 62.

    Ohio Mom

    @cintibud: Yes, just last month I was somewhere off my beaten paths, saw this woman looking at me, looked back at her. We agreed we look familiar to one another, then she asked, “Did you go to Walnut?”

  63. 63.

    Yutsano

    Aww I hope y’all have a great time! I don’t know if anything happened with Rue, but as far as I’m concerned I’ll be over in the Seattle are from January 26th through the 29th. My appointment is Tuesday morning and I might squeeze in a couple of other things with friends but otherwise my schedule is wide open.

    Adam/AL I can e-mail this to either one of you if you need it.

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I wonder if this lady will ever know she’s having a moment of fame on twitter, and if she’d even begin to understand why people find her words so remarkable

    Sahil Kapur @ sahilkapur
    “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html
    naked link because link button seems to be borked

  65. 65.

    Mary G

    Good to know that Mueller’s still out there:

    Paul Manafort's team has one hour left to file their response to the special counsel's claim of lying. We're going down to the wire.— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) January 8, 2019

    The lawyer can get an extension if he cries about the dog eating the paperwork, right? These deadlines set in stone?

  66. 66.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @CarolDuhart2: We should meet closer to you! I wish I remembered where that was; I know Kathleen is more western. What about something in Oakley? Steve in Demopolis and Ohio Mom and I could hop down 71. At least there’s time to plan!

    I’m off to the hay now, but will check tomorrow at some point.

  67. 67.

    Mary G

    WTF?

    Whoa, this.. "In addition to the existence of city patrol, the ELC reveals Border Patrol’s belief in its ability to demand assistance from any civilian, and, if they refuse, the option to charge them with a misdemeanor or issue a fine of up to $1,000." https://t.co/DbG439qwIo— Melissa del Bosque (@MelissaLaLinea) January 7, 2019

    This shit is unAmerican as fuck.

  68. 68.

    stinger

    @lamh36: I do feel a little bad for the guy because, from now until he breathes his last, he’ll never be able to just play a game of golf. Surely sometimes he would prefer to be left alone. It seemed that what called him over to this group of admirers was the chance to hold a baby!

  70. 70.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yutsano: Send it to me and I’ll put it up next week as meetup thread to see if there’s any interest. How’s that?

  71. 71.

    lamh36

    Off to bed, but first ‪just my daily reminder,if ya haven’t already, to go check out Spiderverse while it is still in theatres ‬

    ‪Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse ‘What’s Up Danger Song’ Movie Clip (2018… https://youtu.be/-euUGPQZoHw via @YouTube‬

  72. 72.

    PaulWartenberg

    @lamh36:

    (raises hand) I am familiar with the works of Neal Adams and George Perez…

    (looks at Netflix link) It’s not a major comic series… (does research) It looks like it started as a webcomic and got pick up by Dark Horse, so the pedigree is good.

  75. 75.

    lamh36

    The fact that he’s a Dem donor is besides the point…

    #DEVELOPING: A 2nd death investigation in 2 years, at prominent #democratic #donor Ed Buck’s WeHo apartment. In 2017, Gemmel Moore was found dead of an overdose. This AM, LASD says another young black man died inside Buck’s place. Buck’s attorney says it was another OD. @ABC7

  79. 79.

    Mary G

    OK, I’m warming up to this woman:

    .@CillizzaCNN – looks like your ‘character count’ argument to avoid including my full quote is straight up wrong.Also: where are all the “Pinocchios” for Republicans this week (many of whom are much more senior than me) blatantly lying about marginal tax rates? https://t.co/d8VIMLKaYD— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 7, 2019

    The amount of tut-tutting over her playing fast and loose with facts in the media has me wanting to slap someone. STILL so many misogynists around DC and NY media.

  82. 82.

    The Dangerman

    @Adam L Silverman:

    You do understand that there are some things that I do not need to know, right?

    Oh, hell, we’re not talking about Trump’s package again are we?

    Clemson, thank you.

  83. 83.

    Yutsano

    @Adam L Silverman: Can do. Faxed over some requested info to unemployment today so hoping that bottleneck unsticks, I know I’m okay through the end of the month right now, but I do need that UI money to start flowing soon. Or I’m going to be a hurting unit.

  86. 86.

    Ohio Mom

    @CarolDuhart2: I am wondering if we can ask @cintibud: to give you a lift — since he is coming from the west side, and Northside (I think I remember correctly that’s where you live) is on the way to points east.

    But I haven’t the faintest idea how to make this happen.

  90. 90.

    Ohio Mom

    It’s Friday night — don’t know if anyone is checking this thread or not. I just sent an email to Anne Laurie asking for another thread so we can finish hashing the details out and get this thing started (ifwe’re not all still snowed in Monday).

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