Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Giving up is unforgivable.

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

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

The willow is too close to the house.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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

Republicans do not trust women.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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Proof of Life: Cincinnati Meet-Up

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From party-planner Ohio Mom:

Here we are at the Meet up. It’s me, Ohio Mom, standing, and Ohio Dad at the end of the table, caught with his fork in his mouth.

I’ll let everyone else identify themselves in the comments.

That’s Ohio Dad waving.

It’s hard to get a good photo of lots of people eating at a long table.

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I believe there’s going to be a (quite small & select) Denver meetup this evening, too.

Remember, you don’t need an out-of-town visitor for a meet-up… just somebody who’ll propose a date and place, and at least one other BJ jackal to show up.

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  1. 1.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    The small Denver meetup tonight has increased by 33%! One more person (Scamp Dog) will be joining moi and PsiFighter37 at the Jagged Mountain Brewery at 7pm.

    If you want to attend and tell us about it, email me: scott (at) dauphinehotel.com

    I’ll be the one in the bright red, Washington Capitals 2018 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!! hoodie. Eat it Cole and any other Pens fans who happen to read this. :P

  3. 3.

    GrandmaBear (fka glaukopis)

    I’m next to waving Ohio dad in the middle photo. Thanks to all for the lovely get-well card for LittleBear in Cincy children’s hospital! She liked it!

  4. 4.

    hedgehog the occasional commenter

    Fine looking jackal pack there!
    Wish I could make the Denver meetup but other plans already in place :( Enjoy and post pics for us!

  5. 5.

    Josie

    Meet-ups do sound like fun. I spend two weeks of every month in Houston helping with my son’s children. I hope at some point the Houston jackals will plan a meet-up while I am there. There must be at least a few who live there.

  7. 7.

    Steve in the ATL

    It was a lot of fun! Cincinnati has some great Juicers. Looking forward to the meet up with the Westside crew who were too cool for this group (Cincinnati humor).

  10. 10.

    EveryDayIHaveTheBlues

    Looks like a most excellent time was had by all.. Very sorry to have missed it. Ah well, perhaps next time…

  11. 11.

    ThresherK

    Looked like fun. Glad to see people (but with my memory for faces I prolly won’t remember enough to put them together).

  13. 13.

    JPL

    It looks as though a good time was had bad all. I didn’t read about any jackal fights in Cincinnati so that’s good.

  16. 16.

    Ohio Mom

    Special thanks to Anne Laurie and Adam for their behind-the-scenes help pulling this together. And thanks to Steve for inspiring us to meet, and everyone who braved the cold and joined us.

    I had a great time. It’s fun finding out how much you have in common with people you had only known by their aliases. It’s a good antidote to the news.

    Now who is in charge of the next meet-up?

  17. 17.

    Ohio Mom

    P.S. To CarolDuhart2, in case you are reading this: I wanted to arrange carpooling for you but I couldn’t find contact info for you. Next time, ask Adam or Anne Laurie to send me your email. We missed you, and the others who came to the meet up in Mason in I don’t remember — was that two years ago?

  20. 20.

    Blue Galangal

    Blue Galangal – I’m at the end of the table (on the side) next to Scott in the 3rd photo. Thank you, Ohio Mom, for organising this! I’m up for another meetup whenever. :D

  23. 23.

    cintibud

    I’m the guy with a beard in the middle of the top pic. We had a blast and were happy to meet such cool folks!

  24. 24.

    Kathleen

    @Steve in the ATL: Doubt I was included in the reference to absent “WestSide” crew (I am on the west side) but I’ve not been on BJ and was not informed of this event. Glad you had a good time and hope you have an uneventful trip home!

  25. 25.

    Kirk Spencer

    @Josie: one of these days I’ll actually be lurking and see a Houston meet up. Hesitant to suggest one when my schedule is so irregular.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    From a Washington Monthly article on today’s Brexit vote: Trump supposedly tweeted this, minutes after the vote.

    “If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?”

    Two questions: 1) does anyone think Trump is able to think that clearly and then write that sentence and 2) do we think that tweet is really referencing the shutdown?

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @Kathleen: Sounds like you might have gone if you had known about it!

    Does anyone keep names and contact info for people who have been to meet ups so that if another meet up is being planned, everybody can be contacted? If not, they should.

    I would, in fact, be willing to keep that database if people wanted to send me that info after a meet up.

  29. 29.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Kathleen: no worries—based on my meeting with the union today, I’ll be back….

    ETA: Bella Q and I are at the Brown Dog in Blue Ash if you can brave rush hour

  30. 30.

    Yarrow

    @WaterGirl: Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council is the one who tweeted that.

    If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) January 15, 2019

  34. 34.

    Kathleen

    @WaterGirl: Yes I would have and that is an excellent idea. In fact, I organized the meet up here a couple of years ago and have a few email addresses/phone numbers from that event.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    @Kathleen: If you want to send me the info, I will get that started. If you are agreeable, I will write to Adam to put us in touch.

  36. 36.

    Ohio Mom

    @Kathleen: I couldn’t remember who organized the first meet up, now I know. I remember that afternoon fondly.

    I will ask Anne Laurie to send you my email — then you can send me yours and I will make sure you hear about the next one. Which may be as early as the spring, if/when SiubanDuinne drives through.

  40. 40.

    Ohio Mom

    @debbie: Nah. I kept Steve out of camera range, per his request.

    One thing I appreciate about Steve is that I only had to know one name. With the rest of us, it’s like reading a Russian novel: everyone has at least two names. It’s a work out for your memory.

  41. 41.

    debbie

    @Ohio Mom:

    Plus, it’s even harder to keep names straight when you have to overcome what you thought everyone looked like. When I managed a sales force, I spoke on the phone with the reps for at least six months before actually meeting face to face. None of them looked like what i thought they would.

  44. 44.

    Ohio Mom

    @debbie: Yes, I’ve had the same experience. Except when I saw a photo of Majorx4, he looked exactly as I imagined. I don’t know what that means.

    Do I remember you are in Columbus? When we have an afternoon meet up one day, you will come and I will be gobsmacked that you looked nothing like I think you do.

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