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Late-Night Open Thread: Floriduh Man, Impeachment Inquiry Edition

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  2. 2.

    Calouste

    In that picture in the tweet by Jon Zal, Gaetz also has that weird forward lean that Betty Cracker pointed out about the shitgibbon. Gaetz btw missed out on a career as taste tester in the Louisville slugger factory.

  4. 4.

    Keith P.

    it’s a relief that Matt Gaetz is a congressman because if he wasn’t he would for sure be a Florida cop that plants cocaine on people

    The only way coke would leave Officer Gaetz’ hands would be go into his nose, on his gums, or up his ass.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    Tried out an Instant Pot recipe tonight for pork loin found somewhere online and copied/pasted into the IP recipes folder quite a while back. Was extremely skeptical about the cooking time recommended but I’ll be doggoned – setting it for 7 minutes worked like a charm.

  8. 8.

    moops

    @NotMax:

    And yet my cooking pinto beans for 40 minutes at high pressure, and still too firm. humph. This device requires more study.

  10. 10.

    moops

    Does Phil Ehr have a chance at all in Florida 1 ? I would guess the withered folk there would dig a veteran, but that is a very red district. It would be nice to at least make Matt sweat a little and wipe that smug off his face.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    Short notice: If watching David Bowie in a crappy movie is your thing, The Hunger is coming up at the top of the hour on TCM. Drowns in its own adoration of stylishness.

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    My favorite part of the Constitution is where it says “Even if the evidence shows you did the crime of which you are accused, to which you have publicly confessed, you can go free if enough of your frat bros show up at the police station & cry.”

    BWHAHAHAHaHA!!!

  16. 16.

    moops

    @NotMax: I did the pre-soak. this is pinto beans. perhaps other bean varieties work better. The energy use is a lot lower. my pinto bean recipe takes a long time on the stove.

  18. 18.

    J R in WV

    @NotMax:

    One thing I have heard from some IP users regarding beans is to never fill the cooking pot more than halfway.

    I don’t use an “Instant Pot” but I have a lot of experience with pressure cookers, plain old heavy pot with a spout on top and a weight to produce yea many pounts of pressure. Beans and other legumes can be a big problem if they have hard or firm skins that come off the bean or pea while under pressure. The skins can froth up a little bit and proceed to block the vent, with predictable unhappy results.

    Grandma used to make soup in her pressure cooker, and once a tomato seed stopped up the vent. There was an over-pressure safety valve, but when the valve popped and the pressure dropped, all the soup came up out of the safety valve and onto the ceiling. Grandma was bothered by this. Fortunately she was in the living room doing a crossword puzzle at the time

    I think split peas are worst. I use a very tall pressure cooker and keep to a relatively shallow portion of beans/lentils/split peas. And I listen for the regular pressure control valve to hiss regularly!

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mary G:
    I was just viewing YouTube memorial tributes to Grandpa Mason, who spent his final years at a shelter mentoring the kittens. Caution: a cover version of Sarah McLachlan’s Angel pkays over the end of the video.

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    NotMax

    @J R in WV

    Good point, as there might be a piece of schmutz lodged under the sealing ring of the Instant Pot, enough to prevent the pot from holding full pressure. Or the sealing ring could just not be seated properly (easy fix – take it out, put it back in) or at or near the end of its useful life and need replacing (replacement rings are inexpensive).

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    SFAW

    @Calouste:

    Gaetz btw missed out on a career as taste tester in the Louisville slugger factory.

    I don’t know if that line is original with you, but it’s A-number-1-double-plus-good.

  22. 22.

    SFAW

    “Instant Pot this” and “Instant Pot that”! WTF do you kids think this is, an Open Thread?

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    I still want the (I hope still-uncompromised, at least in some offices) FBI to investigate Gaetz for a violation of the Espionage Act. Put the fear of whatever-fucked-up-god-he-worships in him. Which I hope would culminate in a new mug shot.

  24. 24.

    Catherine D.

    @NotMax: I use one gasket for meat dishes and another in a different color for when I make yogurt. Plus I have a spare in case I rip either of the others.

  25. 25.

    kindness

    I’m annoyed and at the same time get such a kick out of all these conservative men out there that splash Spartan imagery all over their cars. As the 300 quote above, these guys really think of themselves as modern day Spartans. It’s twisted funny because these blow hards are typically fat & out of shape wanna bes who wouldn’t last a day in a Spartan camp. They would be the ‘entertainment’ till they were dead.

    Makes me wish I had a time machine I could help them out a little.

  27. 27.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @NotMax: That’s a general caution for pressure cooking – I recall my manual p/c recommends “not more than 1/3 full” – & it’s for safety: Beans & other legumes have a habit of foaming while cooking & if the foam reaches the escape valve it can clog it. Once that happens pressure can build up enough to blow the top off the pot – & least worst case is that no one’s in the kitchen to be seriously injured or burned by the lid as it punches a hole in the ceiling & the extremely hot contents splashed through the room. Careful, jackals!

    (ETA: Cf. J R in W V at #18 soupra :^D.)

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    blackcatsrule

    @Amir Khalid: I was a devoted follower of Grandpa Mason and his kittens and cried like a baby when Shelly wrote that his end was near. Am also still grieving the loss of my tiny gray fluffgirl this spring so I think it hit me harder than it should. Give a kiss to Bianca from an anonymous internet stranger.

  31. 31.

    The Moar You Know

    I was just viewing YouTube memorial tributes to Grandpa Mason, who spent his final years at a shelter mentoring the kittens.

    Oh damn. Damn damn damn. Now I gotta go cry. He was the best.

  32. 32.

    SFAW

    @kindness:

    As the 300 quote above, these guys really think of themselves as modern day Spartans.

    Well, Ephialtes lived in or near Sparta, didn’t he? And Gaetz and his moron minions are certainly closer to Ephialtes, at least in spirit, than Leonidas and the other ronin.

  33. 33.

    Miss Bianca

    @Amir Khalid: I was just thinking about Grandpa Mason a day or two ago, and thinking how strange it was that thanks to the Internet, I could find myself sniffling over the memories of cats I never met, like Mason and Tunch.

  34. 34.

    Julia Grey

    The Gaetz stunt was meant to reinforce the notion that the committee depositions are “secret” and “held in the capitol basement” by deranged Democrats.

    They are really pushing those ideas, conveniently leaving out the fact that there are Republicans on those committees, too, who are privy to all those “secrets.” This needs to be more effectively publicized.

    This idea of Democratic secrecy is getting out of hand with the general public. Lots of people believe that Republicans are being kept out of the hearings. This is being reinforced by the fact that there’s not much exculpatory leaking by Republicans going on…probably because there’s not much exculpatory testimony.

    This “storming” of the super secret hearing room is really a great piece of theater, because it’s superb publicity for the bogus accusation of Democratic secrecy, and demonstrates to Republican constituents that their boys are willing to “fight” for the president.

    Really, they are working the public opinion ropes about as well as possible under the circumstances.

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