Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

You cannot love your country only when you win.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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  3. 3.

    Aleta

    Many scenes of  goats venturing with increasing confidence into the emptied streets of a Welsh town that’s shut down.

    https://twitter.com/AndrewStuart/status/1243329253288169473

     

    eta:   From the 3rd or 4th  day of his story:

    Andrew Stuart @AndrewStuart

    They know exactly what they’re doing. Have some lunch from a bush and then go for a lie down in the churchyard

    I, for one, welcome our new goat overlords

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    @Jerzy Russian: That’s like the classic definition of ‘seminar’: “Semi, meaning half” and “ars, meaning ass”, ergo “any half-assed discussion”.

  10. 10.

    burnspbesq

    My old neighborhood in Orange County had a coyote problem even before this. Can’t imagine what it’s like now.

  11. 11.

    scav

    @dmsilev: Ze French Ducks, it does not matter what dey wear upun dair heads. It is ze attitude zat iz important, ze style, ze élan.

  13. 13.

    bmoak

    I was once chase by a goose in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.  A lot of wildlife in there.

  14. 14.

    Jerzy Russian

    @dmsilev:

    I had never heard of that, which is amazing considering the hundreds of seminars I have gone to over the years.

    meaning ass

    Speaking of which, a “burro” is an “ass”; a “burrow” is a “hole in the ground”. Evidently not everyone knows/knew this, since my late father often spoke of people who struggled with these concepts.

  15. 15.

    L85NJGT

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    The latest Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll finds Biden getting 55 percent support, versus 45 percent for Trump.

     

    If there was any more evidence needed, Biden has a thirty point lead for the nomination. But some just refuse to get it. kos pointing out AOC is consciously uncoupling from Sanders won’t help. The Senator and his inner circle see politics as a zero sum game, and anything short of a metaphorical pipe wrench to the head, will not register. Because self-validation can only occur if a corrupt system keeps him down.

    If Senator Sanders wishes to continue to tilt at windmills while a minimum 200,000 of his fellow citizens die, that’s his choice, but history will not judge him kindly.

  16. 16.

    Anne Laurie

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: what is a “semi-respite” thread?

    My personal definition:  We’re still (mostly) talking about The Only Topic These Days, but trying to keep it to uplift, jokes, personal stories & light snark.  You can blow off steam about your besieged family or idiot coworkers, share rude jokes, lament the tragedies & triumphs going unnoticed elsewhere.

    No impersonal tragedy porn or copypasta rants about politics/politicians.  I think I give y’all enough other threads where you can share that already!

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    @Jerzy Russian: Pretty much, yeah.

    @burnspbesq: My old neighborhood in Orange County had a coyote problem even before this. Can’t imagine what it’s like now.

    If they’re like New England coyotes, they were mostly taking advantage of the people-related trashcans, the rodents those trashcans attracted… and the feral-or-not cats connected to the people.

    Those coyotes are probably pissed that their new food resource has suddenly collapsed on them!

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    @L85NJGT:

    If Senator Sanders wishes to continue to tilt at windmills while a minimum 200,000 of his fellow citizens die, that’s his choice, but history will not judge him kindly. 

    Oh that ship sailed in 2016.  Pouty Asshole’s supporters fucking over Hillary and bringing on 4 years of horrors.

  30. 30.

    James E Powell

    @L85NJGT:

    If Senator Sanders wishes to continue to tilt at windmills while a minimum 200,000 of his fellow citizens die, that’s his choice, but history will not judge him kindly.

    I don’t think most people care how history will judge them and if they do, they have an inexhaustible capacity for justification.

    It’s possible that in 2016 Sanders did not realize that his bullshit smearing of Hillary Clinton would help Trump win. But in 2020, it is no longer possible to justify opposition to the Democratic nominee.

  35. 35.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @burnspbesq:  @Anne Laurie:

    My old neighborhood in Orange County had a coyote problem even before this. Can’t imagine what it’s like now.

    Huh. Two nights ago a raccoon walked up to our front door, bold as brass, and stood there looking at me through the kitchen window with an obvious, impatient air of “Well, what are you waiting for? Let me in already.” We see plenty of raccoons in our very urban neighborhood, but generally at a distance and in the act of getting out of sight. This was a first – it didn’t occur to me that it might be because the world has changed so much around them.

    I didn’t let him in, though.

  37. 37.

    Anne Laurie

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I swear, raccoons (at least the suburban/urban ones) now regard us the way humans regard hoofstock — large, dumb, potentially dangerous but too useful not to keep around!

    Even (almost) 50 years ago, the bucolic Midwestern college where I had my first work-study job was home to some very pushy coons.  Was vacuuming in the Ag Dept office building when I was startled by a *very* large trash panda stomping down the hall; one of the professional janitorial staff said, Oh yeah, usually he joins us for [night shift] lunch on the loading dock, and he gets a little pushy when we don’t show up on time…

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    @mrmoshpotato: Night shift janitors — not us work-study kids, the professionals who did the serious cleaning — tended to leave a loading dock door open, unless it was really cold.  They were the ones shifting heavy equipment into / out of the building, and when the suits weren’t around to bitch, the fewer interruptions the better…

  46. 46.

    Anne Laurie

    @mrmoshpotato: As a fresh immigrant from the Bronx, I actually worried a bit at first about human blow-ins, since the loading dock door was ‘invisible’ from the outside.  But my shift was 8pm-midnight, and there was always another janitor or two within earshot.

    Also, any random strangers would probably have been scared off by the raccoons, protecting their turf.  They got pretty territorial about the dorm dumpsters — we learned not to try putting our trash out after the bars closed.  :)

  49. 49.

    WereBear

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Never want to mess with a drunk raccoon.

     
    We once left out a bowl of mini candy bars after retreating from the deck at the lake, and the next morning we found only the wrappers, neatly sliced open.

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