Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

The revolution will be supervised.

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

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

This blog will pay for itself.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

Books are my comfort food!

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    Humanity. Just glorious ??

    I’ll take a couple to adorn the entrance to the Baud! White House. Class up the place a little.

  6. 6.

    Geminid

    Hey OH. We were yakking a couple weeks ago about carbon capture, and you expressed skepticism as to whether companies were actually sequestering CO2. Well, I was reading last week about implementation of the “Q45” tax credit, and sure enough the Trump people are trying to set up an honor system for qualifying for credits, instead of strict auditing. So your skepticism was well founded. I still think it’s a good program. But like the rest of the federal government, it badly needs new management.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    re: an equation for immortality, shall provide only a punch line. Write your own build-up.

    “So I went back to check the math it turns out I forgot to carry the woo.”

    :)

  9. 9.

    satby

    I’ve been up an hour enjoying the lamentations of the Bernbots, but watching that gymnast has me tired enough for a nap already. Whoa!

  10. 10.

    satby

    I’m sure I’m not the only person whose disappointment about Warren’s lackluster showing is greatly tempered by the feeling that at least it looks like we’ll have a real Democratic nominee instead of one of the carpet baggers to vote for in November.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    @satby:

    Nope. Same here.  Although I came to the conclusion that Warren didn’t have a path before yesterday.  Still, the scale of the loss yesterday was a disappointment.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    @Baud:

    That’s how emojis come out if they can’t be displayed (or aren’t picked up in the copy/​paste process).

  18. 18.

    satby

    @Baud: and she’s going to go back to being a powerhouse Senator, maybe in a Senate with a Democratic majority, at worst. Possibly tapped to head Treasury if stars align later. I wanted to vote for her, but I can live with these results.

  19. 19.

    Steeplejack

    @satby:

    I agree with all of this. But I also can’t believe that Sanders apparently is going to win California. I guess Biden was hurt by people voting for Warren and Bloomberg, but still . . .

  22. 22.

    rikyrah

    Black voters are the Democratic Party base & we determine the nominee. We aren't low information voters. We are pragmatic voters. We are patriotic. We have served this nation even when treated like a 2nd class citizens. We're the conscience of America. We're the ones who saves it— Bougie Black Girl (@BougieBlackGurl) March 4, 2020

  26. 26.

    Baud

    Does Bloomberg drop out or is he inspired by American Samoa to soldier on? The next big question in this race.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    @Baud:

    I’m exercising my Bernie animus. I can see how voters, especially young ones, respond to his lofty promises and his calls for a “new politics,” but I can’t get past the hurdle of how is he going to actually get anything done.

    Morning Joe just showed a clip from his speech last night. Probably triggered me.

  30. 30.

    rikyrah

    Also let’s dispense with the false narrative we heard that Black voters wait for White voters in IA to tell them who to vote for. If anything, there’s far more evidence of the opposite — many Democrats waited to see who the true base of the party (AA voters) would back. https://t.co/UcD37MFB9m— Lily Adams (@adamslily) March 4, 2020

  31. 31.

    geg6

    So anything interesting happen last night?

    I deliberately tried to not pay attention and binged the first three episodes of the latest season of Outlander instead.  Was gobsmacked when I was done around 11 and headed to bed.  Before shutting off the tv, I caught a few minutes of coverage.  Couldn’t believe what was happening.  Biden couldn’t have had a better night if he’d engineered it himself. But he didn’t; it was the voters and, I think, Jim Clyburn.  Pretty amazing.

  37. 37.

    Shalimar

    @Baud: The answer to that question depends on whether Bloomberg has been telling the truth about being in it to beat Trump.  If that is really his goal, then dropping out and endorsing Biden is the best result he is going to get.  He got into the race when it looked like Biden was unraveling.

    If his goal is to win for himself, then he will stay in or run as an independent, and risk giving us Bernie as our nominee.

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    @eclare:

    I hadn’t been following the projections, and I thought maybe Biden would narrowly win in California after his bump last weekend.

  40. 40.

    OzarkHillbilly

    FTFNYT: California Had Its Driest February on Record. Here’s How Bad It Was.

    Not a drop of rain fell in downtown San Francisco this February. Or in Big Sur State Park. Or in Paso Robles. February in California was so dry that it is raising concerns that the state, which, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, only fully emerged from drought last March, may be headed for another one.

    “It was the driest February on record,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles.

    Ordinarily, 90 percent of California’s rain falls during the seven-month period between Oct. 1 and April 30, with half of the state’s total precipitation falling during December, January and February. The rains that come in February are part of a seasonal pattern that nourishes plants, replenishes reservoirs and, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, restores the snowpack that provides up to 30 percent of the state’s drinking water.

    But this February “was not just merely a below average month,” Dr. Swain said. “It was, in a lot of places, a completely dry month, which is truly extraordinary.”

  42. 42.

    John S.

    @geg6: And to think we had a troll last week exclaiming that Clyburn’s endorsement meant nothing, and that Wilmer was unstoppable.

  43. 43.

    sanjeevs

    Can someone explain to me how Trump got 1.8 million votes in the Texas primary against essentially no opposition . That’s around the same number as Democrats turned out in the state.

  46. 46.

    geg6

    @Baud:

    Yup.  Looks like African Americans and suburban women made up their minds and came out in droves and the vaunted historic revolutionary youth vote did not.  The 2018 base has spoken.

  47. 47.

    geg6

    @John S.:

    Berners truly have no understanding of the black community, especially in the south, and women.  And they don’t want to.  Fuck ‘em, as a great man once said.

  48. 48.

    satby

    @Steeplejack: sorry, Sanders. If it holds that he underperformed his polling numbers and there’s a late surge for Biden (both likely) Sanders won’t get as big a delegate share as was expected only last Saturday. This sparks much joy.

  51. 51.

    Ken

    @NotMax: Dyson immortality isn’t exactly woo, but it requires that the immensely powerful machine intelligences running at the end of time will have nothing better to do than simulate eons-dead human minds.
    Also that the phrase “for an eternity of torture” never creeps in anywhere.

  53. 53.

    Ken

    @sanjeevs: There may have been primaries for other offices, bond issues, etc. that would give voters a reason to ask for the (R) ballot.

    Another question is whether they pre-printed them with an “X” next to Trump’s name, or bothered to add a write-in line.

  54. 54.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @satby: I’m with you. I’m disappointed with Liz’s showing, but hugely RELIEVED that a Democrat is taking the lead. I didn’t realize how stressed I was about a potential Bernie candidacy until now. Many thanks to Clyburn, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, O’Rourke et al who coalesced around Biden – and to Warren, who murdered Bloomberg’s candidacy in its crib.

  57. 57.

    mali muso

    @geg6: Fellow Outlander watcher here!  Been reading those books since the late 90s as a teen, so it’s a hoot to watch them finally be brought to life.

    RE: last night, I was a little shocked at the increased turnout in Virginia.  Then again, I can easily imagine a fair number of suburban white voters who would normally be Rs being turned off by the crassness of the Orange One and comforted by the stability of Uncle Joe.

  58. 58.

    Quiltingfool

    Good morning to all.  Little late here as I’ve been cruising around the Internet; I love me some Liz, but, sadly, it’s not going well for her.  I’m not surprised, though.  She is so qualified to be a leader, smart, passionate, empathetic; right now, people are scared and they aren’t willing to chance the presidency and they believe that a woman candidate will tank.  Don’t like it, but I get it.  People want Trump OUT, period.  They know Biden.  They like him.  Yeah, he’s an old white guy, but people know him and there aren’t any surprises.  Now, the GOP may turn on the burners to get him on Ukraine, but not sure that will work too well at this point.  Voters heard all that a couple of months ago, and yet, they still voted for him in large numbers.  If they thought Biden was dirty, I don’t see them voting the way they did.  People are tired of the Trump shit in their faces, every damned day.  I hate to admit this, because I’d like to think I’m a good person, but every morning when I check the Internet, I secretly hope the ferret-headed shitgibbon has “shuffled off the mortal coil.”  Very bad, I know, I keep reminding myself not to wish for that, because “be careful what you wish for, unintended consequences, etc.”. But still…

     

    Well, my thoughts on that.  Time now to go load a quilt top on my quilting machine frame and get it done!  My Etsy store needs more merchandise!  Haha!

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