Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

The lights are all blinking red.

He really is that stupid.

Books are my comfort food!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

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Bach Gets It: Boris Johnson Edition (With Bonus Tikka)

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Via my sister, the music theorist, and with a special place in our hearts for valued commenter and grand master of invective, Tony Jay, this:

 

Also, because who doesn’t need a little hostile cat action in the afternoon, please enjoy the picture below:

Bach Gets It: Boris Johnson Edition (With Bonus Tikka)

For the caption, I’m wavering between “You lookin’ at me?” and “Do you feel lucky today? Well, do you, punk?”

Last: y’all may have noticed a protracted lack of much stuff from yours truly. I’m rounding the last turn on my long-promised South Sea Bubble book — fixing footnotes.*

It is my hope though not my promise that I’ll be a little more useful around the joint once the MS goes back to Random House. In the meantime, I’ll keep on trying to satiate the jackaltariat with the occasional buffoonery.

With that, the thread is open.

*Mamas. Don’t let your babies grow up to put TKs in their citations!

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  1. 1.

    ThresherK

    I don’t know where we landed on this earlier, but:

    AMC has Christmas in Connecticut, free, on demand for some providers. I will be watching it tomorrow night.

  4. 4.

    Tom Levenson

    @Just One More Canuck: Always.

    He’s particularly pissed at this very moment, because he thinks it’s been dinner time for the last hour, and I insist on waiting til 6.

    No mere clock is the master of him!

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    I still don’t get why people cite the Dutch tulip craze (which was not that crazy) and not the South Sea Bubble for pure 18th century financial chicanery. Heck I would have never heard of it if I hadn’t come across a video series documenting the shenanigans.

    And remember: Everything was Walpole.

    EDIT: Serious Tikka kitteh is serious. You might want to give up the foods a bit early.

  10. 10.

    Tom Levenson

    @Yutsano: The Skreenmaster was an astonishing politician. Not well enough known. Held magnificent grudges too.  (And was not-incredibly accused of pimping out his wife to the Prince of Wales.)

  19. 19.

    Jay

    @Yutsano:

    the Dutch Tulip Craze, was crazy. A 5%er horticultural trend in real “fancy” tulips carried to excess becomes a gold rush mania leading to bank loans, mortgages, securitization, Corporations, Syndicates all clustered around a handful of tulip bulbs leading to mass planting, food shortages and then the complete bust leaving nothing but tears and a few who made out like bandits.

    the South Sea Bubble was a case of wallpapering with nothing real around it, a pump and dump kept alive by grifters finding new marks.

    the Dutch Tulip Craze was like the Art Basil banana, the South Seas Bubble is a Dotus branded condo.

  20. 20.

    Gin & Tonic

    I’m curious whether anyone has made their own vanilla extract. Perusing the tubes I find proportions ranging from 1 bean per 8 ounces of alcohol all the way up to 5 beans per 8 ounces. Given the price of vanilla beans, this is not an insignificant difference. Anyone?

  22. 22.

    Jay

    Your taxpayer money will be used to fund programs in which LGBTQ people, women, religious minorities, and other vulnerable people are discriminated against for "religious" reasons. That's unacceptable, and there's something we can do about it.— Charlotte Clymer?️‍? (@cmclymer) December 16, 2019

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Spouse has done this, half a dozen or so in white rum IIRC, and I have to ask what size beans? They vary a bunch.

    Has the price come back down at least a little from what they were a year or two ago? [vanilla may well go the way of the dodo with climate change]

  27. 27.

    Tony Jay

    Thanks, Tom. That means a lot.

    If I’m not around or commentating it’s because I’m taking a conscious step away from any kind of politics for a little while, just until this dark rage I still feel hovering an inch off my shoulders has started to lift. I don’t want to be thinking these thoughts about the various strains of humanoid bacteria I have to share the shell of a country with, so it’s best I don’t think about it at all.

    I’ll be back, eventually. Hopefully to raise a glass to President Pelosi and the turning of the tide.

    Be good to one another (whispers) I may be watching.

  28. 28.

    zhena gogolia

    For decades, the gun lobby and its allies in Congress have blocked the federal government from funding research into gun violence and how to prevent it. That blockade ended today when budget negotiators in the House and Senate agreed to appropriate $25 million to the CDC and National Institutes of Health to study the issue, the first federal appropriation in nearly 25 years.

    Pushed by House Democrats led by Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, the agreement is being called a “deal of historic proportions” by Mark Rosenberg, who headed CDC research on gun violence in the mid 1990s when Congress passed the “Dickey Amendment,” cutting off virtually all federal research funding on gun violence.

  29. 29.

    Leto

    @Jay:

    then the complete bust

    I appreciate that what made the Tulips so valuable also caused the markets eventual bust. Fitting.

  31. 31.

    Splitting Image

    Brexit always puts me in mind of George Frederic Handel, who was a German who moved to England to compose Italian operas and French dance suites for London audiences, and whose career was a fifty-year long demonstration of what’s wrong with the whole Brexit idea.

    Handel would have cheerfully endorsed this fugue, and could probably have added a few other words to decribe Boris Johnson.

  32. 32.

    Gin & Tonic

    @trollhattan: If you shop around online you can probably get them for under $3/ea in bulk. King Arthur sells extract for $150/qt, so going by your recipe, that quart would be close to $100 homemade (6 beans per cup means 24/quart, plus a quart of decent booze.)

  35. 35.

    Leto

    @Tony Jay: If you don’t mind me asking, and I’m sure you’ve probably already spoken about this, but where abouts on the island are you? We lived in the midlands, Oxford area. Just curious!

    If we don’t see you around again for a bit, hope you have a Happy Christmas and a proper holiday feast!

  36. 36.

    Jay

    Imagine having a passport that allows you to move freely between, live in and work in 28 countries, including many of the worlds most affluent, with excellent free health care and social services wherever you go & voting to tear that passport up and be stranded on Gilligan’s Island.

  39. 39.

    Tony Jay

    @Leto:

    The Socialist People’s Republic of Liverpool. Home to funny accents, fantastic football, and a finely honed sense for the very real danger Tory Governments pose to cities that won’t bend the knee to the Blue Menace.

    Things be bleak. I’m sure examples will be made. Por encouragement les autres, or whatever they say over there where we soon won’t be able to go.

    Ack! I’m doing it again. Merry Christmas, and a tolerable New Year.

  43. 43.

    Leto

    @Tony Jay: Liverpool!!! Darn, I was going to recommend a nice little tea room down near where we lived (town of Brackley, home of the dastardly Mercedes Benz F1 team). Enjoy your time off. We’ll keep the lights on and the sticky toffee pudding sticky.

  46. 46.

    JPL

    So I have on the TV for background noise which I can ignore but suddenly I heard I’m Mike Bloomberg and I approve this message…..then I saw an Ensure ad.   I assume I missed his ad, but I wonder how many didn’t make that connection.   Sometimes saying I approve this message at the end doesn’t work.  just sayin

  47. 47.

    Jay

    Owsley County, Kentucky,

    98.2% White,

    voted 95% for Dotus,

    45.3% rely on SNAP benifits, ( Food Stamps).

  49. 49.

    Sab

    @Tony Jay: I did my junior year abroad as an American student in Durham in  1975-76. I saw how much ties with the EU were needed, I also saw how much people hated the transition. Sigh.

  53. 53.

    mrmoshpotato

    Bravo!  That’s an absolutely lovely way to convey that Boris Johnson is a lying shit.  Perhaps the sequel can convey that Nigel Farage is also a lying shit.  Or if you want to hit everyone, UKIP party are all lying shits.

  58. 58.

    The Golux

    @zhena gogolia:

    Pushed by House Democrats led by Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro…

    Connecticut congresscritters (DeLauro, Himes, Murphy) been doing the state proud lately.

  59. 59.

    Sab

    • @Yutsano: My across the street neighbor planted a bunch of tulips a couple of years ago. None of them sprouted in her yard. Many of them sprouted in my yard. I feed my squirrels.  She doesn’t feed hers. Coincidence? Is that enticibg rodent theft?
  61. 61.

    Soprano2

    It’s not pleasant to leave the mid 80 temps of Maui for the icebox that the MO Ozarks are currently in. My stepson says we should liquidate everything and move to Maui, but he rents a room in a house with 5 other people just so he can afford to live there, so we won’t be doing that anytime soon. It was a great vacation, though.

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