Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

I really should read my own blog.

When we show up, we win.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Motown is Joe-Town!

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

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

Please don’t feed the bears.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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Thursday Evening Respite Open Thread

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(Bonus points: Champ’s a rescue… well, actually a ‘foster fail’.)

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  3. 3.

    Death Panel Truck

    I had a beautiful black cocker named El Duque, for Orlando Hernandez. Best dog name ever. He was The Duke.

  6. 6.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    I imagine Trump’s animal spirit is either a slug or a poisonous toad.

    Trump doesn’t like dogs, wasn’t that enough of a warning?

  7. 7.

    Betty Cracker

    @trollhattan: And we already have anecdotal evidence (from the first Mrs. Trump’s tell-some book) that dogs sense that Trump is evil and react accordingly. Major and Champ can take care of it if Trump refuses to vacate the White House on 1/20/2021. Just let them sink those fangs into his nutsack, and he’ll skedaddle!

  13. 13.

    Alison Rose

    @Boris Rasputin (the evil twin): Even more of a warning that dogs (and probably all animals) don’t like him. I mean, I’m assuming they don’t because unlike Trump, animals have more than three functioning brain cells.

    God forgive me, but I’d love to see Trump try to pet a dog and have it bite the fuck out of his tiny little hand.

  18. 18.

    narya

    Add-on to last night’s recommendations (BGinCHI thread): NK Jemison’s Broken Earth trilogy is spectacular. There’s also the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie.

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    Jeffro

    @Salty Sam: I have a beer coozie from the 2012 race with Biden and the phrase “cheers, champ!” on it.

    They can bury me with it, I’ll never sell it ??

  24. 24.

    Ken

    @JaySinWA: Was that the dog with the ambiguous gender?

    (As in, it had one set of genitalia, but Trump used the wrong pronoun, and it went downhill from there as usual.)

  25. 25.

    Kent

    Gotta say…we are closing in on nearly 2 weeks of constant endless smoke here in the Portland area to the point that your eyes burn when you go outside and you wear your mask to filter the smoke out of your lungs.

    I’m fucking done with this and 2020.

    I can handle the pandemic if I can go for long walks and bike rides and hikes outdoors with the dog.  I learned to live life while being anti-social.

    I can handle smoke that keeps you indoors if you can go out to coffee shops and such and spend the day in places like Powell’s Books or the local library.

    I can’t handle the combination.  This has been the longest 10 days of the pandemic for me.  I’m just fucking weary of it.

  30. 30.

    cckids

    @Shana: Does Pence have a pet?

    Pence & Mother have (IIRC) a small menagerie of cats, dogs and a rabbit. It’s his one redeeming quality. Trump was vocally disgusted when they brought their pets to DC, he thought it was dirty and ridiculous.

    He’s just such an ass, on every possible level.

    ETA: they also installed a beehive at the VP residence. I really don’t want to find things to like about M/M Pence at this point.

  34. 34.

    trollhattan

    @Kent:

    Too bad your midweek storm was a bust. Is there another on the way?

    We got serious onshore air overnight and this morning’s AQI was 0. It’s 30 now (drivers be driving) but what a relief. Sat photos show the smoke pushing northeast towards Idaho, who have fires of their own to deal with.

  35. 35.

    cain

    @Kent:

    I’m with you.. I was just describing how shit life has been on my work zoom call. Mustard colored days, smoke, soot, and having to wear masks while going out because the smoke is so bad.

    Fuck this year. Not only for the pandemic, wildfires, but I’m still mourning Neil Peart, Chadwick Boseman, and others. Bah.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @trollhattan:

    OMG, that shepherd gives Trump one hard stare and Trump’s moving faster than we’ve ever seen him, stage left.

    I want to see that happen so hard.

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    Mary G

    @Heywood J.: Ivanka has an all-white designer dog that shed all over her couch the one time she published a picture of it, so it has never appeared again that I know of. Probably has its own nanny.

    ETA: Here’s an article. They named it Winter.

    Presumably, Winter is the first and only dog for the First Family. President Trump entered the White House in 2017 with no presidential pet — the first president to do so since James Polk.

    The president’s first wife, Ivana, wrote in her memoir, “Donald was not a dog fan.”

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Shana:

    Does Pence have a pet?

    He/his family had several pets (rabbits and such) when he first became VP. I remember that Trump mocked him mercilessly for the moral weakness of liking animals. Don’t know what the situation is now.

  48. 48.

    RedDirtGirl

    So pleased to hear the positive stories about Mandy Patinkin down below. I had always liked him, but picked up some chatter a while ago about him being a dick.

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    Kent

    @Mary G:@Kent: It is unbearable, but what else can we do but bear it?

    Oh, we’ll get through.  It’s not like we are living through Stalingrad or something.  But fuckit, I don’t have to like it.

  53. 53.

    JoyceH

    Have you folks seen this? Coronavirus Task Force member is going to vote for Joe Biden because Trump doesn’t really care about anyone but himself.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/olivia-troye-coronavirus-white-house/2020/09/17/d3f67ede-f8ed-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_4p-0917-trumpformer%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

    Watch the video, the Post article leaves out the best part – Olivia Troye says that Trump once said that maybe the Coronavirus was a good thing, because “I don’t have to shake hands with these disgusting people.” Who shakes, or used to shake, hands with Trump? His slavering fans who attend his rallies. This is almost a Face In The Crowd moment…

  54. 54.

    Jinchi

    @SiubhanDuinne: I remember that Trump mocked him mercilessly for the moral weakness of liking animals. Don’t know what the situation is now.

    Don Jr discovered they were an endangered species of rabbit and paid $10,000 to hunt them in Melania’s renovated Rose garden.  The controversial concrete paths were actually lines of sight for his high powered scope.

    I’m pretty sure this is true, but in the spirit of the times I refuse to fact check it.

  55. 55.

    Heywood J.

    @Mary G: OK, thanks for the link. It’s a pretty dog, but a Pom-Husky mix would definitely need some attention and activity.

    The dog looks quick and agile, which will come in handy when a coked-up Donny Junior comes over and tries to, well, you know….

  56. 56.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @SiubhanDuinne: I had a chance to be attacked by a police German Shepherd once. Volunteered to wear the padded suit during a demonstration.

    A 100-lb dog leaping at you at full speed is like a freaking freight train!

    Trump wouldn’t get 2 steps before that dog got a hold of his fat ass and brought him DOWN.

  57. 57.

    Jess

    I had to laugh at the first exchange of comments after the story at the link:

    Carlos Vasquez

    He’s America’s creepy, drunk uncle!

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    Jason Heck

    Consider your pussy grabbed, my guy!

  58. 58.

    Shana

    @Jeffro: “I’ll never sell it.”  Good for you. I wouldn’t either.

    BTW anyone know where I could sell some John Anderson memorabilia? I found a bunch when cleaning out my parents’ house.

  60. 60.

    arrieve

    If I were not already going to vote for Biden, the dog would have convinced me. I love that face!

    Of course Trump doesn’t see the point of animals. They don’t have any money he can screw them out of.

  62. 62.

    J R in WV

    @Alison Rose:

    God forgive me, but I’d love to see Trump try to pet a dog and have it bite the fuck out of his tiny little hand.

    I don’t have  a  link, but I’ve seen the video more times than enough to think it would be easy to find. They were going to shoot a commercial with Trump at a busy desk, with a Bald Eagle on a stand on the desk.

    It didn’t work out well, because before they could even start, the eagle did it’s best to take off a piece of Trump’s face, any part, eagle was not picky. Eagle was accurate, though, in it’s understanding of Trump!

    Trump, sadly, ducked away pretty well for a sedentary toad, and was not injured… but there was not ever going to be a video of Trump with an eagle!!

  63. 63.

    J R in WV

    @Shana:

    BTW anyone know where I could sell some John Anderson memorabilia? I found a bunch when cleaning out my parents’ house.

    People do collect political stuff like that. Maybe eBay? Or a pro political collectibles dealer…

    My dad and uncle collected button-style pins from way back… wife has them all now, from early 1900s — as well as a big collection of depression era mine-issued script, paid as wages, only good at the company store. Not for sale.

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