Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

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

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

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

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    I am just sitting here recovering from dinner, and writing some code.  I probably won’t be able to stay awake past 10:00 pm, which is becoming normal for me.

  3. 3.

    bemused senior

    Made a brisket pot roast in the slow cooker, buttered parsnips, Brussels sprouts, home made dinner rolls with my daughter’s help. Came out delicious. The grand twins (age 4) each got a flashlight from Santa and spent the day going on “adventures” throughout the house lit by their lights. They are my antidote to depression.

  4. 4.

    RandomMonster

    Not sure I can watch something that even hints at kitten harm. Is it actually watchable? Otherwise, Happy Festivus to you, Cole. Also, is there an FSM equivalent for XMas?

  5. 5.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    As we all look forward to the start of a new decade, it’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.

    ~ Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor

  6. 6.

    Martin

    Weird. We’re also watching Don’t Fuck With Cats. Agreed on it being very good. Not for the faint among us.

  11. 11.

    Patricia Kayden

    No matter what trump says,No matter what the GOP says, No matter what ANYONE says…Being impeached has REALLY gotten under his skin. He is seething with uncontrollable rage.On Christmas night, he's sitting on the crapper posting angry tweets.While Nancy prays for him.?— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) December 26, 2019

  14. 14.

    frosty

    @Anne Laurie:

    And may all us Jackals celebrate many more together…

    I’ll double down on that. I’ll include everyone’s non-human companions, too.

    ETA: no 502 or 524 messages for me, ever. I must be a special SPECIAL commenter, LOL.

  15. 15.

    StringOnAStick

    We’re in the middle of a long drive from Denver to an Oregon location we’re considering retiring to. Even along the interstate in Salt Lake city we couldn’t find a place open for lunch today other than Denny’s and we didn’t want to wait 45 minutes for that, so: onward!  Found one place open for dinner in Idaho falls, an IHOP.  Tomorrow we drive by the Malheur Wildlife Refuge; I wonder if Rep Shea will try that crap again?

    Merry Christmas to all, or as the photo of a church sign at MPS says: “Wishing you a happy whatever doesn’t offend you”.

  17. 17.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Patricia Kayden

    I don’t understand Trump’s psychology. Why does he care so much about what others think of him and his place in history (only third president in history to be impeached) when he regularly demeans people and minorities at his rallies or in his tweets? He probably doesn’t see anything wrong with that, but he has to know a lot of other people disapprove of it

  18. 18.

    frosty

    @StringOnAStick:

    “Wishing you a happy whatever doesn’t offend you”.

    I’m going to have to steal that.

    ETA: Navigating Visual and Text, I managed to get this right. Maybe if we rename Visual to WSYWIG and text to HTML it makes more sense? We’re all semi-computer literate, right? /sends msg to WaterGirl/

  19. 19.

    mad citizen

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: We watched the Queen’s address tonight, and then the last three episodes of Season 3 of The Crown.  Up to 1977.  Glad to live in a non royal nation.  Now if we could only do some Deep Structural Change to our democracy…

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    And here we blissfully went nearly a full day with barely a mention of the Apricot Atrocity. Nothing to understand beyond this:

    1) If it affects or is directed at him, it is ipso facto important and demands attention.
    2) If it affects or is directed at anyone or anything else, it is not and does not.

  24. 24.

    Aleta

    Went to my friends’ for a group dinner.  I’ve been horribly down and I *really* didn’t want to go.  It felt impossible.  As soon as I got there I had a fantastic time the whole time.

  26. 26.

    JustRuss

    Had a nice day- slept in UNTIL 10 AM,…

    Jealous. Got together with friends today, one wanted to meet at 8 AM but I was able to negotiate 9:00.  Got there 9:15, she was in the shower and didn’t make an appearance until 9:45. *sigh*

    Still, a merry time was had by all, hoping the same for the rest of you jackals.

  28. 28.

    Yutsano

    This is literally the first time I’ve been able to post all day. It might have been that mobile got it worse, but yeesh. It’s been interesting to not have this all day.

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Windy and steady light rains. Got some baking done. Contemplating din-din but too drained at the moment to do anything about it. Just about have the energy to bring out and use the stepstool to reach the wine rack and put a bottle in the fridge.

    Shall rally to the cause in a few hours.

    How about out your way?

  31. 31.

    Anne Laurie

    @Yutsano: For whatever reason, my phone (which I am not logged into, cuz tech-illiterate) at least lets me see what the front page of the blog looked like before it went into another ‘Error 502’ spasm.  On the laptop I use for posting, when the site’s down, I just get a message page reassuring me that it’s a widespread problem (& not just a glitch in my personal system).

    Since a lot of my posts for the last few days have been pre-scheduled (we’re all working around IRL commitments as well as FYWP), it’s very reassuring that I can at least find out which posts have / haven’t actually shown up on the front page…

  33. 33.

    frosty

    @Aleta: 

    As soon as I got there I had a fantastic time the whole time.

    As an introvert faking it as an extrovert, I’ve had this happen more than once. Dreading going there and then it turns out to be a good time.

  36. 36.

    Marcopolo

    Late frohliches weihnachten to all my fellow BJers. Just finished watching Purple Rain for the first time since I caught it in the theater in 1984. Such great music.

    Just want to note how cray cray the weather is. It was 67 in St Louis today. May hit 70 tomorrow. As someone who normally experiences some seasonal affective disorder from Dec-Feb I can tell you sunny balmy days go a long ways to alleviating the condition–though you would never catch me dead moving to some strange plac–like Florid–in the winter to beat it.

  37. 37.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @NotMax:

    Cold right now, but it was sunny and in the 40s or 50s (I forget which). Would’ve preferred snow for Christmas, tho. Better than the fog we had all day yesterday

  43. 43.

    Kayla Rudbek

    Christmas so far: out to the far suburbs on Christmas Eve for gumbo at my MIL’s. Today, Mr. Rudbek and I went to late morning Mass, and once again I walked out irritated at the historical inaccuracies in the homily.  Baked two pumpkin dairy-free pies and then headed out to the far suburbs again for dinner. Irritated at my eldest brother-in-law as is usual (I swear that he’s a real-life version of an internet troll). Tomorrow is a family birthday celebration so back out to the far suburbs for a third time (Star Wars around lunch, dinner reservations for 6 so we may bring our running gear and get out into the outdoors in the time between). And the car that we’ve been driving for all of this has developed a shudder at 15 mph.  Fortunately we have a second car to take tomorrow.

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Martin:

    The decade of the ’20s, which is what is commonly meant by such a phrase, does start next week. Now, “21st century,” etc., I am with you on that. It is numbered from a fixed starting point. But nobody’s talking about the 203rd decade.

  48. 48.

    Chris T.

    @Martin: Well, yes, but we just short-sheeted (short-decade-d?) the first decade by making it years 1 through 9, and have the second as years 10 through 19, as a patch.

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    I went to bed a little after 10:00 because I was exhausted from the socializing today (Wednesday) and because the site was making commenting impossible. So of course I woke up over an hour ago and have been wide awake since.

    I did feed the housecat, so she’s happy (and back to sleep).

  53. 53.

    FelonyGovt

    I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. We had a nice dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Looking forward to that odd, laid-back period between Christmas and New Year’s.

  54. 54.

    Redshift

    Merry Christmas, everyone. Ours was a little odd, with various friends and relatives cycling through on different days (but none staying with us), but mostly good. Any day that starts with pancakes and mimosas is a good day.

  55. 55.

    Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ

    I made my stepmom’s recipe of Chicken and Dumplings.  Ate far too much, of course.  Just finished last three eps of The Expanse.  Highly recommend it to any of you that like scifi.  Blessings to all!

  56. 56.

    Tinare

    I almost stopped watching Don’t F*ck with Cats after the first few minutes, but I’m glad I stuck with the whole thing.  I don’t remember hearing about that guy at the time. I thought it was a really well done documentary, but I didn’t like the way it ended.

  60. 60.

    Anne Laurie

    @Mary G: Even in Tornado Alley (the Midwest), tornados used to be a seasonal problem — mostly in the Spring, around Easter not Xmas.

    Amazing the lengths to which the Global Climate Change Hoaxters will go!

  61. 61.

    Martin

    @Mary G: We’ve had one hit the city before. Not a ton of damage, but still. My wife and I had just arrived at a restaurant for dinner and it was raining so hard, we just sat in the car and waited for about 15 minutes for it to ease up. The tornado came out of that cell about 2 miles away. This was before kids, so maybe 25 years ago?

    These are basically just waterspouts that make it to land.

  62. 62.

    joel hanes

    Merry Christmas, John Griffin Cole, and thanks for creating this place.

    Also, you mensch, having one of the five or six twitter accounts that hilzoy puts in her twitter sidebar makes you a member of one very exclusive club.

    I’ll bet you’re the only member of that club who has a pair of striped Key bib overalls.

    Best to Steve

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