Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Let’s finish the job.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

The willow is too close to the house.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

This fight is for everything.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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New Biden ad. Keep them coming.

Also, I walked into the living room to find this:

Open Thread: I'm With Him

No idea why Gabe has fixated on Scout these days, but he’s all in. Wherever she is, he’s not far away.

We are expecting between 6-12 inches of snow tonight. I’m not happy about it. The ducks will hate it, but the dogs will be overjoyed.

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This was them during our Easter snowstorm. Happy, happy puppies. Also, here’s their annual Easter Dane photo.

ETA: Facebook reminded me that exactly one year ago today, Bixby met me at the door, standing, and then insisted on going outside for the first time, on wobbly legs. After that his recovery was unstoppable.

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  1. 1.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I don’t doubt the Mercers and Adelson and who knows who else will come through with cash, but…

    Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh 1h

    Susan Collins, call your office. Her Dem challenger Sara Gideon raises a whopping $7.1M in the first quarter. Collins? Just $2.4M as a vulnerable senator.

    and in other news:

    PublicPolicyPolling @ppppolls 15h
    Our new *Kansas* poll finds that if Republicans nominate Kris Kobach for Senate, he would trail Democrat Barbara Bollier 44-42. Another potential Senate opportunity for Dems if things break the right way

    Bollier is also doing quite well in fund-raising

  2. 2.

    CaseyL

    Joe’s ads have been consistently excellent.  Love the all-Democratic candidate montage!

    And I love that Gabe is crushing so hard on Scout, the same way I got such a kick out of the ducks’ crush on Jake.  Animals forming interspecies relationships – on their own initiative and decision – just delights me.

    When I was a kid, I was mad about race horses – and one of the quirks I found so relatable* was how so many of them had non-horse companions they couldn’t bear to be without.  Chickens, goats, all kinds of little friends who traveled and stabled with them.

    *Possibly because I was terribly shy back then, and it was easier for me to be friends with animals than with other humans.

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    Six, hell, two months ago I saw no path to taking the senate. I’m vastly more hopeful now. Too bad it’s costing [checks] 136,938 unnecessary deaths.

    Joe will be fine. The math to compare Joe versus Donny has not been invented.

  5. 5.

    StringOnAStick

    I live in the same area as TaMara, and I measured 10″ of snow on Monday. I fooled mother nature though by protecting the daffodils and species tulips, let everyone out yesterday and just covered them all back up again 40 minutes before the first flakes started.

  6. 6.

    Ohio Mom

    Trollhattan: Shush! Don’t jinx us!

    Seriously, I remember when I though Trump was a nonstarter. I split my sides laughing at his debate performances. I wince at that memory.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    @Ohio Mom:

    Do you recall Cole’s “Tweet like Trump” threads? Hilarious. (Seriously, I was an enthusiastic participant.)

    I gave him 0.001% chance. Duh….

    Lesson learned. Fight like fuck; beat the bastards.

  8. 8.

    Another Scott

    Good videos.  (I’m always distracted by webcams that focus behind the subject, but that’s me.)

    Just sent Joe my first donation to him.

    Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  9. 9.

    CaseyL

    @TaMara (HFG):  Oh, good, I wasn’t totally wrong :). Had to do a lot of editing on that comment, though!

    That’s definitely a new-kid kind of thing:  find the biggest, toughest guy and be his friend.  (New inmate thing, too, now that I think about it.)

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    So, everything is going Just Fine.

    Trump’s attempt to enlist businesses in reopening push gets off to rocky start

    President Trump’s attempt to enlist corporate executives in a push to reopen parts of society amid the coronavirus pandemic got off to a rocky start Wednesday, with some business leaders complaining the effort was haphazard and warning that more testing needs to be in place before restrictions are lifted. The president spent much of his day hosting conference calls with company executives, industry groups and others that he announced Tuesday as part of a hastily formed outside advisory council devoted to the issue.
    […]

    Many of the chief executives urged the White House to focus more on mass testing, according to several participants on the calls. Public health experts have argued that widespread testing is a key prerequisite to reopening the economy because it would determine who is infected and needs to be isolated, giving Americans greater confidence that they can safely return to work and public life. Trump seemed to downplay the issue while speaking Wednesday in the Rose Garden.
    […]

    Some of the groups involved in the calls were notified in advance of Trump’s announcement, while others heard their names for the first time during the Rose Garden event Tuesday night. “We got a note about a conference call, like you’d get an invite to a Zoom thing, a few lines in an email, and that was it. Then our CEO heard his name in the Rose Garden? What the [expletive]?” said one prominent Washington lobbyist for a leading global corporation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. “My company is furious. How do you go from ‘Join us on a call’ to, ‘Well, you’re on our team?’”
    […]

    Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, said Trump is guided by his instincts and his sense of what the American people want, balanced with the views of experts such as Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

  12. 12.

    Fair Economist

    Some good news on the family front. My sister-in-law-in-law, who was diagnosed with COVID a while back, is recovering (never hospitalized, “just” really sick at home) and seems not to have given it to my brother-in-law, who has some chronic lung diseases. So, disaster avoided for us it seems.

  14. 14.

    Barbara

    @dmsilev: The average CEO has to be at least a bit of a cold fish to get to where they are but they are rarely stupid. Anyone fairly assessing the facts has known since February that widespread testing is imperative and that it is still not happening.

    Second day in a row with 2500 deaths.

    ETA: I had a dream last night that I suddenly felt ill and was having a hard time breathing. And then I woke up.

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: What, you’re not willing to lay down your life in the greater service of hedge-fund profits and a marginally higher rate of return on the Dow? You unpatriotic monster you.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    @Barbara: That showed up, several times, in the parts of the article I didn’t quote. Basically, you get the sense that CEOs of actual companies are doing their best to tell Trump no no no, and it’s the right-wing “economists” and the finance types that are egging him on (though, for the latter, the CEO of Goldman went on the record as saying go slow and test thoroughly).

  20. 20.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @dmsilev: not just CEOs

    Jim Acosta @Acosta · 12h

    AFL-CIO says its president Richard Trumka was not notified that his name was being added to a WH list of people advising admin on reopening US. “We were not asked, just announced,” spokeswoman says.

  22. 22.

    laura

    @dmsilev: the billionaire class just cant seem to catch a break with BillInGlendaleCa – that dude’s been holding a grudge since the great bankster getaway of ’08, possibly earlier.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    Vincent Price double feature

    The Last Man on Earth and The Masque of the Red Death

    ETA – don’t be afraid of massive amounts of garlic. :)

  27. 27.

    Jay

    I wrote about America’s habit of calling people “heroes” and leaving them to die unprotected. https://t.co/ugxrn3BOpd— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) April 15, 2020

    We are at 85% VOC, today. 15 days into the month and despite trying to limit the store to 50 customers, cutting 4 hours off the day, we are 2 days away from setting record sales for April, any April ever. Despite having 50% fewer staff, ( shelter at home, self quarantine, generous sick days, over 65 and immune compromised on partially paid furlough).

    My Department hit 122%, and yesterday I pulled a 16 hour day, ( no staff), no breaks, no lunch and 342 contracts along with 461 phone calls (in).

    We have “customers” deciding that their “essential need” is an ornamental cactus.

    Stay home, shelter in place, don’t touch your face, stay 6 feet apart, wash your hands you dirty filthy animals.

    We have “customers” deciding that their “essential need” is to recreationally shop for appliances that they have no intention of buying.

    Stay home, shelter in place, don’t touch your face, stay 6 feet apart, wash your hands you dirty, filthy animals.

    Today, I saw clusters of “socially dressed” teens, not socially distancing, blocking the isles, on their phones, pretending that hanging out in flooring was like being at the mall.

    Just because we are open, doesn’t mean you are supposed to go there.

  28. 28.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    I was reading the post on South Dakota—for some perspective, Sioux Falls/Minnehaha County has about a quarter of the population of Nashville itself (not counting the rest of the metropolitan area). However, they have about 3/4 of the confirmed cases Nashville does.

    That is some truly bad management, from a public health perspective.

    I always love seeing your pups & their cohabitees, TaMara. I don’t know that I’d want to live with a couple of Great Danes, but yours are magnificent.

  33. 33.

    Jay

    Tomorrow 43,000 taxpayers, who earn more than $1 million annually, are each set to receive a $1.7 million windfall, on average, thanks to a provision buried in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.The rest of us will get $1,200 https://t.co/XlJvi3XAiz— Randi Rhodes (@RandiRhodes) April 15, 2020

  34. 34.

    CaseyL

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio:

    I’m a sucker for YouTube videos about animals, any animals.  I’ve seen posts from people who have entire dog teams of Huskies living in their homes, folks with six or more Goldens, Danes .. and households with multiple (big) dogs and cats!

    I honestly don’t know how they do it.  On the one hand: so many furkids to cuddle and love, and be loved by.  On the other: so much dogfood, so much poop to pick up and dispose of, so much doggie bathing, walking (though they probably, hopefully, have huge yards), vet bills…!

    I would love to have a menagerie…. if I lived in a massive house with a massive yard and more money than I knew what to do with.  Without those things, I just don’t know how people manage.  I salute them.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    A repost from the semi-respite thread:

    China Global Television Network spotlights three doctors who have become unlikely media stars in the pandemic: Anthony Fauci, New Zealand’s Ashley Bloomfield, and Malaysia’s own Noor Hisham Abdullah. Dr Fauci you guys already know; Dr Bloomfield and Dr Noor Hisham are the directors-general of their countries’ respective health ministries.

  36. 36.

    Mai naem mobile

    My fantasy Nov 5th is to see AZ, CO, NC, ME, MT,  KY, IA, SC, TX and GA and keep AL in the Senate. I didn’t even have Kansas in the mix. I would love to see another shocker. The Dakotas or Nebraska. It’s a pity Ron Johnson isn’t running this year. I think his ass would be grass.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    THREAD: This is the true human cost of #COVID that you don't see on TV very often. CNN obtained photos from ER staff at a Detroit hospital, showing bodies pilled up in vacant spaces because the morgue was full. Nearly 1,500 people have died in Michigan, and 23,000 nationwide. pic.twitter.com/zqzkv1sZAB— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) April 13, 2020

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    My mask wardrobe is nearly complete — I now have 6 cloth masks and only need 1 more so I don’t have to wash them more than once a week. I got a couple for G as well so he doesn’t have to walk around in a bright orange bandana, which is the only one I have that he was willing to wear.

    Oh, and I’m being furloughed, so that’s fun. At least they’re keeping my job in place and are paying my entire health insurance premium. God only knows when we’ll be able to re-open. 

  43. 43.

    Jay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    tons of minimum wage “essential” workers have died, are dying and will die.

    Doesn’t matter if “the economy reopens” or not. They are deemed “essential” and completely disposable.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    The scene on Grand Ave. in downtown Lansing about 15 minutes ago where conservatives have jammed streets around the Capitol to protest Gov. Whitmer's stay-at-home order. It took about 10 minutes for this ambulance to evade traffic by turning the wrong way down a one-way street. https://t.co/xxoGnfg3EK— Gongwer Michigan (@GongwerMichigan) April 15, 2020

  46. 46.

    rikyrah

    So, I have my first tele-medical  appointment tomorrow.

    I have eczema. Usually, it’s under control until it turns very hot or very cold.

     

    But, with all the hand washing and using hand sanitizer, I had a breakout. But, since  I have been home and using all natural oatmeal soap, it has gotten under control. But, I will be going back to work soon, and I need a renewal of the prescription.

    My hands look ok now, but in two weeks, they will be a disaster.?

    I need that prescription?

  48. 48.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    @dmsilev: Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, said Trump is guided by his instincts and his sense of what the American people want, balanced with the views of experts such as Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

    Sarah Huckabee Sanders was on Fox today making a really strong case for our Glorious Supreme Leader President Trump, long may he reign, that his greatest and most important skill is that he listens carefully to a wide range of viewpoints, can grasp complex information, and use it to make the wisest possible decisions on behalf of the American people.

    President Trump’s attempt to enlist corporate executives in a push to reopen parts of society amid the coronavirus pandemic got off to a rocky start Wednesday, with some business leaders complaining the effort was haphazard … Many of the chief executives urged the White House to focus more on mass testing…Trump seemed to downplay the issue while speaking Wednesday in the Rose Garden.

    Oh, never mind.

  50. 50.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    @NotMax: “I’ve overseen more testing for Covid-19 than all previous presidents combined.”

    If he actually said this, I know logically it must be true and yet…

  53. 53.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Start hitting Fuckface von Clownstick with chairs.  Lots of them.  Never stop.

  60. 60.

    WereBear

    @Mnemosyne: Oh, and I’m being furloughed, so that’s fun. At least they’re keeping my job in place and are paying my entire health insurance premium. God only knows when we’ll be able to re-open.

     
    I am in that boat, and I’m not complaining about that boat, but it is a lonely boat :)

  61. 61.

    WereBear

    @dmsilev:

    Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, an informal Trump adviser, said Trump is guided by his instincts and his sense of what the American people want, balanced with the views of experts such as Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx.

     
    Did the truth just slip? His “instincts and his sense of what the American people want” is in opposition to the infectious disease experts?

  62. 62.

    Amir Khalid

    @WereBear:

    Somehow, I don’t think the American people are all that keen right now on being out and about, going to work and school and the grocery store etc., during a pandemic that might kill them.

  63. 63.

    Krope, the Formerly Dope

    @Amir Khalid: Somehow, I don’t think the American people are all that keen right now on being out and about, going to work and school and the grocery store etc., during a pandemic that might kill them.

    His authority is absolute. He’ll make us.

  64. 64.

    TS (the original)

    @rikyrah:

    But, with all the hand washing and using hand sanitizer, I had a breakout.

    I had to stop with the sanitizer and go back to the bar soap with minimal additives. I also got some hand balm from the pharmacy. So far, so good.

    As an added advantage – the soap is seriously cheaper than the hand wash in a bottle I used to use.

  69. 69.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @frosty: Thanks for hijacking the “I’m with him” post, Jay.

    Par for the course for our resident Knucklehead Of The Frozen North. Did he manage to misspell any common English words in the process?

    And yeah, WTF is VOC? Vermin Of Canada??

  71. 71.

    James E Powell

    Are we ever going to learn what VOC is? And is 85% VOC good or bad? would 100% VOC be the best or the worst?

  72. 72.

    Scuffletuffle

    @rikyrah: go to healingearthvt.com and order the Eczema Salve for your hands. It works like a dream and smells awesome.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    @Scuffletuffle: would that work for someone who doesn’t have eczema, but current has rough, red hands from all the hand washing?

    Also, wondering what it smells like because I am allergic to a lot of scents.

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