Just remember to kill the Gippers, Cole. Most satisfying part of that game. ;
I’m dedicating tonight to WoW, maybe the new Mario remasters, and… don’t know. Maybe I’ll finish my Wasteland save.
3.
PsiFighter37
Going to go to Biden’s website tomorrow and figure out what I can do to help out without either donating money (my job doesn’t really allow for it) or travel (given the times + a small child). Shit keeps getting real.
PF37 +3 but coming down fast
4.
cain
Mourn and organize at the same time.
My one fear is that Trump will have a supreme court nominee in teh balance and that will motivate the evangelicals to come out in waves to vote for him.
The stakes have grown larger for the biggest political battle in our country’s history.
5.
Hunter Gathers
I was promised a handbasket.
6.
Arclite
If there were ever a year that caused people to start drinking, 2020 would be it.
7.
Jerzy Russian
I quit the wrong decade to quit drinking.
There is still smoking, sniffing glue, and at least one other vice (snorting cocaine perhaps?).
8.
Gin & Tonic
@cain: I’d submit that the battle over slavery was the biggest political battle in the country’s history.
9.
Mai Naem mobile
@cain: I think it will. The thing is that if Trumpov get the 6th vote on the court I think the true Evangelicals believers are going to find out that the GOP doesn’t give a shit about abortion and that it’s just a wedge issue to motivate rubes like them to come out and vote for them. I guarantee an abortion decision will end up leaving blue states alone and not really outlawing them. Unfortunately what the rubes will find out is that they will be losing a lot of other legal rights that the leftie judges have been providing them.
My one fear is that Trump will have a supreme court nominee in teh balance and that will motivate the evangelicals to come out in waves to vote for him.
I think there’s more of us than them. As long as we all turn out, it shouldn’t matter how many of them turn out.
Sure losing abortion means a lot of folks are going to lose money fleecing the rubes. So it’s possible they wont have a true believer – but you never know. They might do it. In the end, overturning a settled law that is over 40 years old is not something lightly taken by any jurist.
Tonight, I’m going to open a special bottle of bubbly, and drink a toast to Ruth, this is the night to thank her for who she was and what she accomplished for all of us in her life. Tomorrow, we go to war with her at our backs!
Playing Ghost Recon Wildlands. Too distraught to do anything else. No money, nowhere to go, no one I can see.
I’ve been playing Witcher 3 – getting the last campaign finished.. I never finished it. It’s been a tough fight since I’m doing the last boss fight. Painful.
It just seems that we just got out of the wild fires with the rain – but now it’s been replaced by a political wildfire. Twitter has exploded.
@PsiFighter37: There’s a list of all sorts of things you can get involved in for the election. It’s in the sidebar on computers, and in the hamburger menu on mobile.
Postcard writing, phone banking, text banking, etc.
I’m one of those goofballs that thought she was hellishly irresponsible for not retiring 10 years ago, but then again, I never have seen any olds – liberals included – as indispensable.
We’re suffering as a nation from the hubris of the old.
Please pass batons when you’re heartier.
21.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@cain: Contraception is what is on the plate. That, and forced Christianity(spit) of one particular flavor.
22.
Dahlia
L’shanah Tovah to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah tonight.
23.
Villago Delenda Est
In my case, it’s back to Nar Shaddaa in SWTOR. Then on to Tatooine.
Worth nothing how much RBG herself would have felt – knowing what a whole her death will leave – including her own legacy. She would have left this world with a lot of regret on how things turns out. But she would have still left with her head metaphorically held high.
27.
laura
@cain: I’d like to direct your attention to Janus which overturned Abood which was a unanimous decision and settled law for forty years. Crushing Unions and Women’s rights? This Court is A-OK with that in the fevered race to return to the Lochner era.
Please prove me wrong.
28.
hitchhiker
I quit drinking for good just after the 2016 election, because it was obvious that there would be no in between … i was going to let myself get shitfaced every day just to stay numb, or i was going to find a different way.
If there had been an option to smooth out the day with that one half glass of wine each night, that might have been nice.
But it was a bottle or two, and it started as soon as I could get to it, so that was that. Tonight would have been three bottles, after the last 3+ years of feeling like a shitty old failure. I don’t seem to have a once-in-a-while button, either. It’s every day, or never.
I’m so glad. Holy fuck, I’m glad to be coherent tonight, and able to do my part to bring this ugly bit of American history to an end.
29.
Ohio Mom
Dahlia, Thank you. Happy new year to you too. Though at the moment, it doesn’t feel too celebratory, does it?
30.
Anne Laurie
You picked the right decade to stop drinking, Cole.
As others have pointed out, given the past three years, if you were still drinking you’d be dead by now.
You’re more useful here with us, fighting for justice, whatever the odds.
31.
Mai Naem mobile
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: there’s not going to be a ‘Christian abortion decision. Its going to be a GOP abortion decision. It will be a states rights’ decision leaving the blue states alone because the Country Club low tax GOPrs still want to allow their daughters/wives/mistresses to have safe legal abortions.
32.
Zelma
I haven’t had a drink at home for weeks but I poured myself a couple of glasses of wine tonight. Also smoked too many cigarettes. I don’t know why RBG’s death and the Republican response has thrown me into despair, but it has. It’s not like I’m surprised.
Look, I’m a historian which means I’m basically a misanthrope. You can’t spend your life studying history and end up particularly surprised about the propensities of the human animal for stupidity and evil. I’m an old woman; I’m a lot closer to 80 than 70. I have lived though lots of bad shit, but I’ve never been so afraid that our democracy, however imperfect, would collapse.
I’m not starting it again. These times demand everything I’ve got, and I’m never sure how much that’ll be.
I prefer living or dying on my feet, to on my knees puking into the porcelain god :) whatever happens, I could be dealing with that AND also having to get high/drunk/etc at the same time. And hangovers… but honestly the needing to get high is almost worse.
Let the chuds do the drinking. On their boats. Which they’re sinking :D
34.
featheredsprite
If you are depressed, you need to read this. Seriously.
@WaterGirl: just taking a moment to thank you for all you do here.
36.
Lyrebird
@Dahlia: To you too, thanks! And wishing that this dark night will somehow be the start of a good new year for everyone whatever they do or don’t celebrate.
Grateful Balloon Juice is here. Thanks blogfather dude!
@hitchhiker: Good on you, 10 years for me tomorrow(the 19th).
38.
Ruckus
We just had a 4.8 earthquake about 14-15 miles from me. Decent shaker.
Nice that the world doesn’t stop being the world just because our politics suck donkey balls.
39.
Starfish
@featheredsprite: That was depressing. We’ve done that for almost four years and are burning out from having done that for four years and have very little to show for it.
40.
AndoChronic
I couldn’t imagine drinking going through this shit show. It would be bad. It’s a good thing you’re not too John. Play the tape forward!
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mmolleur
John, the country we thought we knew is dead and gone. Something new is struggling to be born. Are we going to finally realize our potential and become a multi racial democracy, as I thought we would when Obama got elected? Or is the USA going to become some kind of Chistofacistic theocracy with a caste system? If it’s the latter, you can start drinking again.
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DougJ
Don’t mourn, organize
MisterForkbeard
Just remember to kill the Gippers, Cole. Most satisfying part of that game. ;
I’m dedicating tonight to WoW, maybe the new Mario remasters, and… don’t know. Maybe I’ll finish my Wasteland save.
PsiFighter37
Going to go to Biden’s website tomorrow and figure out what I can do to help out without either donating money (my job doesn’t really allow for it) or travel (given the times + a small child). Shit keeps getting real.
PF37 +3 but coming down fast
cain
Mourn and organize at the same time.
My one fear is that Trump will have a supreme court nominee in teh balance and that will motivate the evangelicals to come out in waves to vote for him.
The stakes have grown larger for the biggest political battle in our country’s history.
Hunter Gathers
I was promised a handbasket.
Arclite
If there were ever a year that caused people to start drinking, 2020 would be it.
Jerzy Russian
There is still smoking, sniffing glue, and at least one other vice (snorting cocaine perhaps?).
Gin & Tonic
@cain: I’d submit that the battle over slavery was the biggest political battle in the country’s history.
Mai Naem mobile
@cain: I think it will. The thing is that if Trumpov get the 6th vote on the court I think the true Evangelicals believers are going to find out that the GOP doesn’t give a shit about abortion and that it’s just a wedge issue to motivate rubes like them to come out and vote for them. I guarantee an abortion decision will end up leaving blue states alone and not really outlawing them. Unfortunately what the rubes will find out is that they will be losing a lot of other legal rights that the leftie judges have been providing them.
Jacqueline Squid Onassis
@cain:
I think there’s more of us than them. As long as we all turn out, it shouldn’t matter how many of them turn out.
Mousebumples
I’m with you. She fought for us. Fighting for her wishes is the best way for me to grieve and honor her memory and life’s work.
feebog
I think if anything this is going to motivate more occasional voters to come out for Biden. As noted above, shit has gotten real very quickly.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
Playing Ghost Recon Wildlands. Too distraught to do anything else. No money, nowhere to go, no one I can see.
cain
@Gin & Tonic:
Fair – l lets constrain it then within our life time then.
cain
@Mai Naem mobile:
Sure losing abortion means a lot of folks are going to lose money fleecing the rubes. So it’s possible they wont have a true believer – but you never know. They might do it. In the end, overturning a settled law that is over 40 years old is not something lightly taken by any jurist.
Sister Golden Bear
Tonight we cry
Tomorrow we fight
✊?✊??️?✊?✊?
blackmtn
Tonight, I’m going to open a special bottle of bubbly, and drink a toast to Ruth, this is the night to thank her for who she was and what she accomplished for all of us in her life. Tomorrow, we go to war with her at our backs!
cain
I’ve been playing Witcher 3 – getting the last campaign finished.. I never finished it. It’s been a tough fight since I’m doing the last boss fight. Painful.
It just seems that we just got out of the wild fires with the rain – but now it’s been replaced by a political wildfire. Twitter has exploded.
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: There’s a list of all sorts of things you can get involved in for the election. It’s in the sidebar on computers, and in the hamburger menu on mobile.
Postcard writing, phone banking, text banking, etc.
Election Action!
Political Fundraising
Taking Action: Things We Can Do
Voting Plan Illustrations
I Voted!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I’m one of those goofballs that thought she was hellishly irresponsible for not retiring 10 years ago, but then again, I never have seen any olds – liberals included – as indispensable.
We’re suffering as a nation from the hubris of the old.
Please pass batons when you’re heartier.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@cain: Contraception is what is on the plate. That, and forced Christianity(spit) of one particular flavor.
Dahlia
L’shanah Tovah to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah tonight.
Villago Delenda Est
In my case, it’s back to Nar Shaddaa in SWTOR. Then on to Tatooine.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Mai Naem mobile:
A Christian conservative abortion decision will confer rights to fetuses. Maybe pregnant women won’t be allowed to exit the country, even.
cain
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I think voting laws and civil rights will be as well.
cain
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Worth nothing how much RBG herself would have felt – knowing what a whole her death will leave – including her own legacy. She would have left this world with a lot of regret on how things turns out. But she would have still left with her head metaphorically held high.
laura
@cain: I’d like to direct your attention to Janus which overturned Abood which was a unanimous decision and settled law for forty years. Crushing Unions and Women’s rights? This Court is A-OK with that in the fevered race to return to the Lochner era.
Please prove me wrong.
hitchhiker
I quit drinking for good just after the 2016 election, because it was obvious that there would be no in between … i was going to let myself get shitfaced every day just to stay numb, or i was going to find a different way.
If there had been an option to smooth out the day with that one half glass of wine each night, that might have been nice.
But it was a bottle or two, and it started as soon as I could get to it, so that was that. Tonight would have been three bottles, after the last 3+ years of feeling like a shitty old failure. I don’t seem to have a once-in-a-while button, either. It’s every day, or never.
I’m so glad. Holy fuck, I’m glad to be coherent tonight, and able to do my part to bring this ugly bit of American history to an end.
Ohio Mom
Dahlia, Thank you. Happy new year to you too. Though at the moment, it doesn’t feel too celebratory, does it?
Anne Laurie
You picked the right decade to stop drinking, Cole.
As others have pointed out, given the past three years, if you were still drinking you’d be dead by now.
You’re more useful here with us, fighting for justice, whatever the odds.
Mai Naem mobile
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: there’s not going to be a ‘Christian abortion decision. Its going to be a GOP abortion decision. It will be a states rights’ decision leaving the blue states alone because the Country Club low tax GOPrs still want to allow their daughters/wives/mistresses to have safe legal abortions.
Zelma
I haven’t had a drink at home for weeks but I poured myself a couple of glasses of wine tonight. Also smoked too many cigarettes. I don’t know why RBG’s death and the Republican response has thrown me into despair, but it has. It’s not like I’m surprised.
Look, I’m a historian which means I’m basically a misanthrope. You can’t spend your life studying history and end up particularly surprised about the propensities of the human animal for stupidity and evil. I’m an old woman; I’m a lot closer to 80 than 70. I have lived though lots of bad shit, but I’ve never been so afraid that our democracy, however imperfect, would collapse.
Chris Johnson
@hitchhiker: Likewise, except I quit in 1992 :)
I’m not starting it again. These times demand everything I’ve got, and I’m never sure how much that’ll be.
I prefer living or dying on my feet, to on my knees puking into the porcelain god :) whatever happens, I could be dealing with that AND also having to get high/drunk/etc at the same time. And hangovers… but honestly the needing to get high is almost worse.
Let the chuds do the drinking. On their boats. Which they’re sinking :D
featheredsprite
If you are depressed, you need to read this. Seriously.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/18/1978624/-Breathe-We-got-this
dnfree
@WaterGirl: just taking a moment to thank you for all you do here.
Lyrebird
@Dahlia: To you too, thanks! And wishing that this dark night will somehow be the start of a good new year for everyone whatever they do or don’t celebrate.
Grateful Balloon Juice is here. Thanks blogfather dude!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hitchhiker: Good on you, 10 years for me tomorrow(the 19th).
Ruckus
We just had a 4.8 earthquake about 14-15 miles from me. Decent shaker.
Nice that the world doesn’t stop being the world just because our politics suck donkey balls.
Starfish
@featheredsprite: That was depressing. We’ve done that for almost four years and are burning out from having done that for four years and have very little to show for it.
AndoChronic
I couldn’t imagine drinking going through this shit show. It would be bad. It’s a good thing you’re not too John. Play the tape forward!
mmolleur
John, the country we thought we knew is dead and gone. Something new is struggling to be born. Are we going to finally realize our potential and become a multi racial democracy, as I thought we would when Obama got elected? Or is the USA going to become some kind of Chistofacistic theocracy with a caste system? If it’s the latter, you can start drinking again.