Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

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

T R E 4 5 O N

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

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, it’s door #2)

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

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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  9. 9.

    WereBear

    @Baud: They LIVE for contrarian clickbait headlines.

    Upsides of Death You Haven’t Considered

    What If You Didn’t Like Grandma Anyway?

    Think of Death as Your Debt Erasure Move!

  10. 10.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WereBear: You left out Haven’t You Waited Long Enough for Your Inheritance???

    ETA: also Don’t Let Them Fritter Away You Inheritance on Assisted Living!

  11. 11.

    Narya

    Kitchen update! Walls are up and painted (!!)—picked a color yesterday (outside in daylight) with a piece of cabinet handy. Last thing he did was put up this plastic/zippered entryway from kitchen to DR, so dust from Floor Guy to rest of the unit is reduced. Floor Guy starts Monday—and cabinets might be in by next week? Dunno. Appliances a week from Monday.

  13. 13.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Trigger warning on that Dangerous Ones ad. At 1:30 you see a quick montage of Trump, Barr, Lindsey, and Mitch. White hot bolt of rage.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    joe biden:
    – won’t ignore a pandemic because it’s too mean
    – repeal trump’s billionaire tax cut
    – best towing capacity in class

    I like it, but it’s an ad only a white guy could make.

  16. 16.

    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly: And the religious themes!

    Don’t You Want to Meet God?

    Get FREE Republican Upgrade on that Condo in Heaven

    COVID-19: Here’s how to get those extra points on your Heavenly Reward

  20. 20.

    OzarkHillbilly

    For Paula White and her fellow prosperity Gospel Travelers: I Need a New Jet

  21. 21.

    Geminid

    Thiel is surely an asshole, but that he pulls his financial support from Trump’s campaign is good news. Ms. Cracker shared a trump fundraising appeal the other day, and it had a smell of desperation. Will other wealthy trump supporters decide to stop throwing good money at a loser? The massive trump campaign may hit a cash crunch even as it has to defend more states. The “Death Star” may actually be a ponderous gravy train that runs low on coal this fall.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I will never understand those who preach that a Muslim’s reward for a godly life of refraining from sinful indulgence shall be an eternity of free booze and sex.

  26. 26.

    cmorenc

    The supposed “lack of enthusiasm” about Biden is because, except for “high enthusiasm” MAGA voters, the order of preference for the next President was:

    .1) Someone else

    .2) Someone else

    .3) Biden

    4)……

    ………..

    10,000) Someone else, so long as it’s NOT Donald Trump

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:  @WereBear:  @Baud:

    “Come for the politics, stay for the depravity”?

    [NB: Of course, if you kids were to respond “You’re just saying that because YOU can’t come up with any similar marketing slogans,” I wouldn’t deny it.]

  28. 28.

    evodevo

    @Narya: Yes…this is important!  I was looking for muted gold one time, picked color in dim fluorescent light, ended up with …lemon yellow…

  30. 30.

    SFAW

    There may not be a lot of enthusiasm for voting *for Biden*, but there’s plenty of enthusiasm for voting *against Trump*, and it’s likely that largely serves the same purpose.
    — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 2, 2020

    I am reminded of my oft-mentioned NPR anecdote from 2016, to wit: The alleged/self-described Dem voter who said (more-or-less) “Give me a reason to vote for Hillary, but without mentioning ‘Donald Trump’ or ‘the Supreme Court.’ ” Of course, now she’d have to update it to add “and without mentioning how Trump’s incompetence and stupidity led to the deaths of 150,000-plus Americans.”

    I’ve never been a Nate Silver hater, but if he keeps up with that stupid shit …

  31. 31.

    SFAW

    @evodevo:

    Yes…this is important!  I was looking for muted gold one time, picked color in dim fluorescent light, ended up with …lemon yellow…

    Sincerest condolences. Maybe Narya’s contractor(s) can fix that for you.

  32. 32.

    Baud

    @SFAW:

    There were plenty of reasons to vote for Hillary so that was always bunk.

    I’m curious about how many people who support antifa today did not support Queen Antifa in 2016.

  36. 36.

    raven

    @Amir Khalid: I know you’ve tried to help me but I don’t understand this soccer stuff??? Liverpool wins something then gets their asses handed to them the next week??? What a weird structure.

  37. 37.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    There were plenty of reasons to vote for Hillary so that was always bunk.

    I know. That voter reminded me of the SNL “undecided voter” sketch

    I’m curious about how many people who support antifa today did not support Queen Antifa in 2016.

    I did not see that one coming. Nicely done.

  44. 44.

    PST

    Our fifth wedding anniversary is tomorrow. We were already pretty old when we married (I was 61), so we thought it wise to pick a big holiday in order make it easy to remember even if we grew forgetful. I thought of that this morning when I walked into the kitchen and found my wife unloading the dishwasher. “Now where did I put my coffee?” she asked as she finished. Sure enough, her full cup was in the cupboard with all the clean empty ones. We laughed and laughed, but I think we were right in picking the date.

  45. 45.

    SFAW

    @rikyrah:

    And fireworks in a tinderbox ?

    Well, it’s not as if the trees there were doing anything to help Dear Leader get re-elected, so screw ’em.

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    @PST:

    pick a big holiday in order make it easy to remember even if we grew forgetful.

    There’s a holiday tomorrow?

    More seriously: Happy Anniversary!

  48. 48.

    Betty Cracker

    @SFAW: Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but I think Silver is saying the opposite of what the NPR ninny said four years ago, i.e., that most people don’t NEED a reason to vote for Biden other than that he’s not Trump. The same wasn’t true of Clinton because this is a deeply dumb and sexist country with a crappy media that piled on Clinton for stupid shit while treating Trump’s incoherent demagoguery like an amusing sideshow.

    Silver did that too, to some extent, but he’s less egregious than most, IMO. I don’t think he’s wrong here. Trump is so awful that there’s reason to hope negative partisanship will carry the day, even if many/most Democrats don’t fall in love with Biden or expect daily pony delivery. How that will play out past the election is an open question.

  50. 50.

    snoey

    @raven: Translated to old time baseball they lost the first regular season game after clinching the pennant.

  52. 52.

    hueyplong

    @Betty Cracker: I read it the same way.

    No matter how many attack ads Trump runs, one thing that will not change is the voters’ perception that Biden is not Trump.

    You could say that there is an exception for the “Biden is senile” ads, but it seems inevitable that Trump will at some point have an incident that makes his own cognitive and neurological failures impossible to ignore.  With months to go he’s already on the defensive as to whether he can read, walk, and drink liquid, and his condition worsens irreversibly, day by day.

  56. 56.

    narya

    @rikyrah:

    @SFAW:

    @evodevo:

    I’ve done enough crafty stuff to know that full-spectrum (preferably daylight) is the way to go–and my cabinets are “ginger,” so picking the right unobtrusive very very very light peach absolutely requires full sun. It’s actually why I decided against all yellow tiles: I do love yellow, but I was picking the (Fiesta) color w/o being able to see it in person, AND I had only seen the cabinets in person once, and trying to match a light golden brown and a bright yellow seemed like a very bad idea. I actually think I’ll like my alternative (75% lapis blue, 25% bright yellow randomly mixed in) better anyway. I really really like my contractors (in case anyone in Chicago is looking for a contractor). Still two weeks to go (at least), but yeah, progress!

  57. 57.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Betty Cracker: How that will play out past the election is an open question.

    He’ll get blamed for everything, including his inability to get Republicans to join with him in solving anything.

  58. 58.

    Spanky

    “Hello, sweetheart!”

    A bald eagle just glided past, up the Patuxent, looking for fish. The air and water are perfectly still at the start of another hot Southern Maryland morning.

    It’s going to be a good day.

  59. 59.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: @hueyplong:

    but it seems inevitable that Trump will at some point have an incident that makes his own cognitive and neurological failures impossible to ignore.

    And yet some people have no problem ignoring them.

  62. 62.

    rikyrah

    Don’t let a 4th of July barbecue be the reason you’re on a ventilator. The hot dog isn’t worth it. Is that really the last memory you want about you on a GoFundMe page?— ᴅᴏʟʟᴀʀ (@callmedollar) July 3, 2020

  64. 64.

    rikyrah

    We've been told repeatedly that there is plenty of testing available–but there most definitely is not. No one in the administration is addressing this. @VP Pence & @SecAzar should be commandeering equipment for the nationwide testing Trump promised in MARCH. It is JULY. https://t.co/1QPf9eNgHm— Victoria Brownworth #NoMaskNoService (@VABVOX) July 3, 2020

  65. 65.

    rikyrah

    Ummmm ???

    Y’all. Why my mama said my grandpa posted a nude of hisself on his Facebook that he meant to send to some woman and now my daddy had to go over to his house and take it down. I’m sksmfmjakakakdkkxjajajsjjdjdjdd— Big Tai (@HoeStopTwatchin) July 3, 2020

  66. 66.

    Aleta

    @OzarkHillbilly: But the governor said  “face coverings”  and showed us a silky little scrap of flag colors—he can’t be a communist!  Even if he was quaking.

  68. 68.

    p.a.

    @Amir Khalid: Compare to Talking Heads’ great line, “Heaven is a place, where nothing ever happens…”

    (just broke Fear of Music from the vault a few days ago)

  70. 70.

    gkoutnik

    @snoey: Ha!  My son’s company got a skybox for the SF Giants’ opening day after they had won the World Series the previous season.  World Champion pennants, Bumbargtner riding around the outfield on a horse and everything.  Good times.  They lost to the Rockies.

  74. 74.

    David Evans

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I finished The Wysman, rather late at night because I couldn’t put it down. It’s very congenial. Reminds me a bit of Bujold’s Chalion. The ending was just right. What are you writing now?

  76. 76.

    SFAW

    @Betty Cracker:

    I agree with your assessment re: what Nate’s saying — it’s approximately the same as mine — and I don’t think Silver was adopting (for lack of a better term) that moron’s viewpoint. And I realize he’s more of a “balls-and-strikes” person than an opiner/pundit. I’m just a little annoyed that he’s giving oxygen to the “people are unenthusiastic about Biden” BS trope. At some level, it’s not too far removed from “Cokie’s Law.” Yeah, I realize I may (or probably?) be over-worrying. I don’t think I’m being a concern troll, at least not intentionally, but I can see how my comment might look that way. [Not saying you were calling me one, just trying to assess my own words.]

    I don’t hate him, not by a long shot. The anti-Silver hatred I’ve sometimes seen here is a little mystifying. But I’m just a tad skittish that the “thought leaders” will end up going down a slippery slope to “yeah, Trump’s terrible, but that Hillary Biden, well I just don’t know.” I don’t want them turning this into a tight race.

  77. 77.

    TS (the original)

    @PST:

    so we thought it wise to pick a big holiday in order make it easy to remember even if we grew forgetful.

    We obviously married too young – and do forget the day more often than not.

    It was nice to read some news that had me smiling – have a wonderful anniversary.

  80. 80.

    SFAW

    @rikyrah:

    We’ve been told repeatedly that there is plenty of testing available–but there most definitely is not. No one in the administration is addressing this

    I thought I had heard/read somewhere that testing was now in the 500K-per-day range. So at that rate, everyone in the US should be able to get tested … hmmm, carry the 7, divide by X … by 2022. Seems reasonable.

  81. 81.

    Suzanne

    @Betty Cracker: I read it same as you.

    You know, if not for the fucking Trump Plague, economic devastation, and cops killing the citizenry…. I would be deeply enjoying this election year.

  82. 82.

    ThresherK

    @SFAW: I am reminded of my oft-mentioned NPR anecdote from 2016, to wit: The alleged/self-described Dem voter who said (more-or-less) “Give me a reason to vote for Hillary, but without mentioning ‘Donald Trump’ or ‘the Supreme Court.’ ”

    I didn’t hear this, or read you relating it. But it sounds very NPR: Sixty-odd millions of Hillary voters, and by NPR’s reckoning, each one of them holding their nose and going “Ehhhhhhhh, I guess, if I have to .”

    My favorite NPRism: Their ombud, a few months before the rise of the Tea Party, in a local NPR affiliate interview, saying “We want to appeal to right-wingers without debasing our journalistic output.”

    The delusion that anyone couldd make that Venn diagram of two separate circles intersect was so precious. And it continues to illustrate their raison d’etre.

  85. 85.

    charluckles

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    This is really aggravating:

    “Mask-wearing soon turned into a partisan squabble between lovers of liberty who hate government mandates and supporters worried about getting sick or infecting others.”

    These people aren’t lovers of liberty who hate government mandates.  They are fascists following the head of their cult over the side of the cliff and threatening to drag us with them.  This has far more to do with the worst leadership this country has ever seen than it does with “freedom.”

  86. 86.

    catclub

    @Betty Cracker: there’s reason to hope negative partisanship will carry the day, even if many/most Democrats don’t fall in love with Biden or expect daily pony delivery.

     

    This bodes extremely badly for getting things done once Biden is in office.  I would predict two years and out, like Obama and the House.

  88. 88.

    Amir Khalid

    @raven:

    Yeah, it happened. The title was already decided because Liverpool were too far ahead on points for anyone to catch. Second-place Manchester City’s loss to Chelsea left them 23 points behind Liverpool with only 21 points to play for. If Liverpool lose all the rest of their matches, and City win all the rest of their matches, City still finish two points behind Liverpool.

  89. 89.

    SFAW

    @ThresherK:

    I didn’t hear this, or read you relating it. But it sounds very NPR: Sixty-odd millions of Hillary voters, and by NPR’s reckoning, each one of them holding their nose and going “Ehhhhhhhh, I guess, if I have to .”

    I’m hurt that you don’t hang on my every word.

    The moron in question was one of a few “Democrats” who were interviewed by NPR before and after the DNC convention, to see if their views had changed. The (approximate) quote was uttered after Hillary officially had the nomination. I don’t remember if I yelled “you fucking moron!” at the radio when I heard that, but I sure as hell thought it.

  90. 90.

    hueyplong

    @raven: I have never had a Facebook account.  Laziness at first, intentional later.  Also don’t have nyt subscription.

    You’re probably better informed; I apparently spend less of my time pissed off

    We’re both ok with our choices.

  92. 92.

    p.a.

    @raven: If someone can introduce into tRump’s calcified gray matter the idea that he can make more $$$ as an ex-pres in 2021 and beyond, he may go without much hoohah.

  94. 94.

    SFAW

    @sanjeevs:

    The figures seem to bear out Silver

    Never said they didn’t. I’m worried about the perception-becomes-reality issue, and whether Silver is (unintentionally) reinforcing the “well, I guess I’ll vote for Biden if I have to” thing. That sentiment (theoretically) leads to lower Dem turnout, especially when the Rethugs are doing what they can to suppress Dem voters.

  98. 98.

    SFAW

    @p.a.:

    If someone can introduce into tRump’s calcified gray matter the idea that he can make more $$$ as an ex-pres in 2021 and beyond, he may go without much hoohah.

    Great idea, and the Traitor-/Grifter-in-Chief might just believe it.

  99. 99.

    trnc

    Wait, what?

    DeSantis instructed bars, which are allowed to open to half of their usual capacity, to stop selling alcohol as one concession to the surge in coronavirus cases, but the state does not have restrictions on the number of people who can gather in stores and gyms.

    “I have an idea!”

    “What? Close businesses to stop the case surge?”

    “No, no, no! All businesses get to stay open, but they can’t sell their product. High Five!”

    Pause

    “OK, so I have your tickets for the convention next month. You should definitely go.”

  102. 102.

    SFAW

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    When we got married, my sister embroidered a sampler with the date on it. It’s hanging in our kitchen, and every December, I have to check it to be sure of the date.

    When I was a couple years out of college, I had to remind my friend (who was/is a year older than I) which day his first anniversary was. He thought I was kidding/wrong, until I explained to him how I knew. So you’re doing fine. [As I age, I find that I have to have certain mnemonics/triggers to remind me of various key dates, etc. ]

  103. 103.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @SFAW:  IIRC the going payrate in prison is about $0.21/ hr. I don’t think even trump would go for that.

  105. 105.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    IIRC the going payrate in prison is about $0.21/ hr. I don’t think even trump would go for that.

    “Hey, Donnie, all those other LOO-ZAHS are making only 15 cents an hour, so you’re kicking their asses!”

    Hey, it could work.

  106. 106.

    debbie

    @PST:

    Happy Fifth! I’ve done similarly dumb things. I think it’s because what I’m doing (emptying dishwasher) is stupid and boring.

  110. 110.

    debbie

    @Betty Cracker:

    I mean, who knew Trump could be as bad as he’s turned out to be in so many ways? Even people who had endured Trump for decades (like me) could not have known the absolute extent of his awfulness.

    We had fears and worries, but now we know.

  111. 111.

    Nicole

    The ad for me at the top of this page is Hobby Lobby, quoting a Bible verse under a picture of the American flag. I laugh, because that was a waste of whatever money they spent. Unless their intention was to remind me how much I hate Hobby Lobby, in which case, Mission accomplished.

  112. 112.

    Frankensteinbeck

    I am delighted with Biden and enthusiastic to vote for him, but that is moot.  Silver is wildly understating the situation.  The people who don’t like Trump LOATHE him, and we’ve had three years of them turning out in huge waves for the chance to show it.  Now Trump is actually on the ticket.

  113. 113.

    trnc

    I think a comment of mine from 10 minutes ago was eaten, but it’s possible I hit “Clear comment” by mistake. Anyway:

    DeSantis instructed bars, which are allowed to open to half of their usual capacity, to stop selling alcohol as one concession to the surge in coronavirus cases, but the state does not have restrictions on the number of people who can gather in stores and gyms.

  114. 114.

    Kay

    I will always like Nate Silver for this:

    Nate Silver, the editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight, said The Times’ report showed “the case that the Comey letter — or the media’s handling of the letter — cost Clinton the election is painfully obvious.”

    He did it several times, including in a longer analysis piece. He also went after NY Times reporters on their excessive coverage of the emails directly, on Twitter. He was the first person to call them out directly and back it up by measuring the extent of the excessive coverage, by comparing it to coverage of all other issues in the campaigns- in his typical obsessive fashion, he was on this for several weeks :)

  115. 115.

    Ken

    @OzarkHillbilly: I keep expecting someone to demonstrate the obvious by defecating in public, perhaps on the statehouse steps, while screaming “FREEDOM!”

    Anyone know any underemployed performance artists?

  116. 116.

    TS (the original)

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    When our daughter was young we met a couple who shared our anniversary (also in December) For the next few years, we celebrated together & then they moved interstate. That seemed to be the end of remembering.

  117. 117.

    Kattails

    @raven: I think the goal needs to be to make his life in office so miserable that he’s happy to let go of the job. He never wanted that anyway, just the glamor, so make it unglamorous, dirty, make him long for the good old days of hanging out in Trump Tower.

    But I did read that article and it is rather scary. Good info to keep pounding home to voters.

  119. 119.

    debbie

    @rikyrah:

    I want to punch the radio every time I hear some idiot saying the higher numbers are because of all the testing. BULLSHIT. The numbers have always been high; we just didn’t know it because THERE WAS NO TESTING.

    (bold removed)

  120. 120.

    SFAW

    @debbie:

    I was always appalled by the “McConnell and Ryan will rein in his worst actions/impulses” idiocy.

    I confess he has gone far beyond what I thought he could/would do, but that’s only because of my lack of imagination, i.e., I didn’t think/conceive of some of the areas where he plowed a path of destruction, I never thought he wouldn’t.

  121. 121.

    Nicole

    @rikyrah: Oh my God, I clicked over to read that Twitter feed, and that was absolutely hilarious. Thank you for posting.

  126. 126.

    debbie

    @SFAW:

    Looking back, I should have realized it after he made that elevator escalator speech. Instead, I thought it proved he would never win.  ??‍♀️

  127. 127.

    Mike in NC

    As long as I’ve lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line — over 30 years — I’ve heard many people state some variation of “the Civil War never ended” and they had a valid point. Now we have a chance to rid ourselves of a disgusting malignant narcissist who’s also a white supremacist. Fat Bastard needs to be made the last president of the damned Confederacy.

  128. 128.

    Aleta

    Today’s the day that Woodman’s in Essex MA claims the right to  celebrate that it invented the fried clam.

    eta  I mean “Woodman’s OF Essex”

    a deep fry joint needs cachet you know

  131. 131.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @WereBear: Republicans see every crisis as a marketing challenge an opportunity to separate credulous, poorly informed not-rich people (and the governments that ought to be looking out for their welfare) from their cash & fork it over to the Global Oligarchy’s richer-than-Croesus members.

    FTFY. :^(

  133. 133.

    Suzy

    @debbie: It seems to me that there has been a REAL SPIKE of infections. Because almost all states reopened too soon.

  134. 134.

    Aleta

    @Kay:  I  remember that well.    Oddly didn’t noticeably penetrate the fortress-like skull of the NYT.

  135. 135.

    Jinchi

    @SFAW: I’ve never been a Nate Silver hater, but if he keeps up with that stupid shit`

    Nate was smacking down nonsensical hot takes like this one from CNN

    Why Trump’s enthusiasm edge over Biden could matter

    Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in pretty much every single national poll. Yet the same polls find that Trump’s supporters are much more enthusiastic

    This is supposed to be a problem for Biden.

    The Trump campaign is clearly trying to get the media to hype the enthusiasm angle, rather than the obvious takeaway that this election is all about Trump and most Americans hate him.

  136. 136.

    SFAW

    @debbie:

    Looking back, I should have realized it after he made that elevator escalator speech. Instead, I thought it proved he would never win.

    For a not-brief-enough period during the campaign, I held out the “hope” (a/k/a delusion) that he would get to the RNC convention, and during his acceptance speech, would say “I did this just to show what morally repugnant assholes you all are.” In other words, trolling the entire Rethug Partei. When I mentioned this fantasy to my New York-living brother, he quickly disabused me of that idea, saying “No, he’s just an asshole.”

  138. 138.

    debbie

    @Suzy:

    As angry as that makes me, I’m even angrier that the really effective Medical/Health Directors have all been forced out of office. I consider mine (Amy Acton) to have been the best, but the assholes parading with their AR-15s on her front lawn proved to be too much for her.

  139. 139.

    SFAW

    @Jinchi:

    The Trump campaign is clearly trying to get the media to hype the enthusiasm angle,

    Yeah. And when that doesn’t pan out, they’ll try to move the conversation to some other “hot take.”

  140. 140.

    The Moar You Know

    I will never understand those who preach that a Muslim’s reward for a godly life of refraining from sinful indulgence shall be an eternity of free booze and sex.

    @Amir Khalid:  that does seem odd.

    Let me inform those folks that, as a guy who didn’t really refrain from anything for a couple of decades as a working musician, that an eternity of free booze and sex just sounds frankly exhausting and more than a bit repetitive.

    Me, I’m thinking heaven will be a gigantic library consisting of every book ever written, me not needing reading glasses, and all of them being comprehensible to me in their native languages.  Throw in good coffee and a nice ribeye steak every night and I’m good to go for a few millennia at least

    And my pets, of course.  My dog, my cats.  A decent blanket we can all hang out on.  Yep, good to go.

  141. 141.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jinchi: If four people out of ten choose to get Trump’s face tattooed on their asses while six out of ten are happy to vote for Biden, Biden still wins. Once a person is enthusiastic enough that they are sure to vote, excess enthusiasm doesn’t matter.

  142. 142.

    Ken

    @debbie: How do the idjits who claim it’s due to more testing explain the number of hospitalizations? Or do they bother?

  143. 143.

    debbie

    @SFAW:

    I’m with your brother on that one! That dry-iced entrance of his to make his acceptance speech said it all.

  145. 145.

    Aleta

    Speaking of the NYT, wow what a headline on its site page.

    Bounties Uproar Casts a Shadow Over a Rare Trump Foreign Policy Achievement

  146. 146.

    debbie

    @Aleta:

    Not clicking, but I can’t imagine what the “achievement” is, other than burrowing up Putin’s ass further than anyone could have imagined possible.

  148. 148.

    Barbara

    @Jinchi: I don’t see how Parscale hyping enthusiasm is a good strategy for anything except, possibly, keeping the money spigot turned on. When I am reminded of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters, that just amps up my determination to do everything possible to remove Trump root and branch.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @The Moar You Know: As someone who last night got 5 1/2 hours of uninterrupted sleep for the first time in…. decades(?), heaven to me would be a nice long nap.

  150. 150.

    The Moar You Know

    NEW: GOPers–from Trumpers to more establishment types–are buzzing about a Tucker 2024 run.@ltthompso: “he’d be formidable”@RichLowry: “he has an opening”Sam Nunberg: “If Biden wins and Tucker decided to run, he’d be the nominee” https://t.co/0mS1Xgtnbl— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) July 2, 2020

    @rikyrah:  God doesn’t love me enough for that to happen.  He’s the very worst sort of rich kid; snobby, only the BEST schooling, and a fucking coward to boot.  Anyone with any moxie would destroy him in a debate.

    If he’s stupid enough to run, call me, I know a crapload of his former classmates and we have enough on that guy just from his year in San Diego to ruin his life.  I’m serious.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ken: But the death rate is going down!

    Tune in next week to see what they come up with next.

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    narya

    Nate Silver is the reason I was anxious on Election Day. He said that the monster’s chances were about the same as a pro football kicker missing a field goal from (some not-crazy-range) yards, and I had JUST seen that the previous weekend. (I don’t like or watch football, but a friend was here watching a game.) And I thought, uh-oh.

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    Barbara

    @rikyrah: They don’t seem to have learned much from watching the presidential edition of reality tv. All I can think is that these people just don’t know what it means to have a serious job, where you are accountable for consequences. They just want to be reassured that the people who share their world view are still in power.

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    MomSense

    @Kay:

    Yup, I love Nate.  He also took over my fantasy football slot when I decided I just didn’t have the time.  I think the others missed me for the easy win.

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    laura

    @rikyrah: A bittersweet tale of a Lion in winter. The crossroads of loneliness, technology and family matters. Exit Playa One, enter lockdown for life. Dreams, desire, connection just a few taps on the keyboard and then it was all just too much -way too much. I hope after they force him into their home they work on getting grandpa a boo.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @The Moar You Know: I take melatonin. I still wake up several times a night but I can usually fall back to sleep. I can always tell when I have forgotten to take it: I can’t fall back to sleep and there is no point in even trying.

    YMMV.

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    Emma from FL

    @raven: And states like California and New York would stop sending taxes to an illegal regime and we would have ourselves a nice civil war.

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    Geminid

    @OzarkHillbilly: I get good results from the Kroger’s equivalent of advil PM. Besides the NSAID, there’s a little anti-histamine to settle the brain down some.

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    mrmoshpotato

    @gkoutnik: Thanks for the reminder (and also the reminder that nutjobs will be yelling at NPR about treason on Twitter tomorrow.)

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