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White supremacy is terrorism.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Let’s finish the job.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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We are aware of all internet traditions.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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  1. 1.

    Quinerly

    I have been watching from the beginning. Quite beautiful.

    The honor guard carrying her casket up the Capitol steps was amazing. Nancy and Chuck were at the top to greet her. ?

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    They said on MSNBC that only two Republicans are there — Steve Scalise, and a Congresswoman from Indiana whose name escapes me.

  5. 5.

    germy

    @SiubhanDuinne:  only two Republicans are there

    Somehow, Jon Karl won’t call that “another sign of the divisive nature of our politics” (the way he did when ABC News showed the “Vote him out!” footage last night).

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    @SiubhanDuinne:  I’m fine with that.  It did not dishonor John Lewis one bit that trump was not one of his mourners.

    For RBG and EFG:  Fuck ’em.

    I liked the rabbi’s comment that dissents to improperly decided cases eventually become how Americans come to view the issues. Always fight, always dissent.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Elizabelle:

    I dunno. You’d think Mitch McFuckingConnell could have shown up with his fellow Congressional leaders. I understand most members of Congress weren’t invited b/c of social distancing, and may visit privately later on, but c’mon, man.

    I really like that rabbi. 

  12. 12.

    Quinerly

    @SiubhanDuinne: you are watching with JoJo and me (JoJo is the only dog I have ever had who actively watches TV. He was transfixed on the casket, the steps, the “click click” of the honor guard).

    I was coming back to the thread to say several Repugs invited, only 2 showed up.

    Doesn’t Nancy look great? And, Joe… I have always thought he was a handsome man. ?

  17. 17.

    Almost Retired

    I was looking for a list of the invitees, so that the Republicans can’t shriek that the guest list was politically lopsided. I really want to know who, on the Republican side, was invited and elected to skip out on honoring this brilliant and gracious woman. But, alas, my google skills are inadequate. Or maybe it’s just not public.

  19. 19.

    debbie

    @Almost Retired:

    NPR just reported that Pelosi said the Big Four (whatever that is) had been invited. I’m assuming McConnell and McCarthy, but I can’t figure out the other two. Scalise may have been one. That still leaves one person who didn’t show up.

  22. 22.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    I had thoughts while watching this, which I won’t say very elegantly.

    We don’t all live to see the end of the fight. RBG and John Lewis did not live to see the regime overturned, but they fought every day with all their heart. Others, like Al Franken and Hillary Clinton, were political casualties while they still had years of service to give us.

    The women who started the Suffrage movement in 1848 in Seneca Falls died before seeing the fruits of their labors in 1920. African-Americans have been fighting for equality for 400 years and have seen progress made in millimeters undone over and over.

    Yet they fought, and they fight, and they will fight.

    We don’t know what the end of the fight will look like. We don’t know if we’ll personally see it.

    Nevertheless, we persist.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:”And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”

  26. 26.

    Aleta

    Guess they figured the so-called political “optics” were much more important than honoring the institution and the woman who represented it.   To recognize her today after dishonoring her last week — omg  their  hypocrisy might be denounced on one TV show while another outlet was criticizing them for being near the casket of the justice who said

    “It is essential to woman’s equality with man that she be the decisionmaker, that her choice be controlling,” Ginsburg told Senators during her four days of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee. “If you impose restraints that impede her choice, you are disadvantaging her because of her sex.”

  28. 28.

    Catherine D.

    My niece just moved to Washington and walked over to the Supreme Court yesterday to pay her respects. Too late for the “vote him out” chants, though.

  29. 29.

    Betty Cracker

    Justice Ginsburg’s husband Marty did all the cooking in the family and teamed up with other SCOTUS spouses to produce a cookbook. Here’s what the Ginsburgs had to say about that (NPR):

    “I learned very early on in our marriage that Ruth was a fairly terrible cook and, for lack of interest, unlikely to improve. This seemed to me comprehensible; my mother was a fairly terrible cook also. Out of self-preservation, I decided I had better learn to cook because Ruth, to quote her precisely, was expelled from the kitchen by her food-loving children nearly a quarter-century ago.”

    Justice Ginsburg takes umbrage, sort of. “I think that is most unfair to his mother,” she deadpans. “I considered her a very good cook. In fact, one of the seven recipes I made was her pot roast.”

    Within the last week or so, I read that when Marty Ginburg was dying, RBG’s clerks dropped by with food to keep the family fed and had to show RBG how to work the new fangled oven.

    The Ginsburgs were also famous for trading off parenting duties to accommodate their careers at the early stages. Truly equal marriages are still somewhat rare in my neck of the woods.

  31. 31.

    mad citizen

    @SiubhanDuinne: There are two women in our (Indiana) delegation, both Republicans.  I’m thinking it could be mine, Susan Brooks, who is retiring, so no campaign considerations.  Also she was a U.S. Attorney.  Nothing about RGB on her website, though.

  33. 33.

    mad citizen

    Feb 20, 2016, from similar event for Scalia, per CNN:    “In the afternoon, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the court to honor Scalia. They were greeted by Chief Justice John Roberts and then met with members of Scalia’s family, including Army Lt. Col. Matthew Scalia, the late justice’s son, and his wife, Michelle, in the Solicitor General’s office.
    The President and first lady stayed for roughly 25 minutes.”

    (Obligatory) Sigh.

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    I can argue with only one sentence of your comment:

    I had thoughts while watching this, which I won’t say very elegantly.

    Au contraire, the whole thing is elegant, eloquent, and profoundly true.

  38. 38.

    Ruckus

    @germy:

    Lindsey just doesn’t understand, we have been helping. We’ve been donating to Jamie Harrison. Oh wait he meant helping him…..Well we are helping – to throw his ass out.

  39. 39.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @opiejeanne:

    WHAT? Jesus Christ, really? Is there no bottom to their petty meanspiritedness? (Don’t bother to answer that; it’s a rhetorical question.)

  41. 41.

    germy

    @Ruckus:

    I sensed a certain amount of… contempt… from Hannity.  He’s trying to end his show while Lindsey babbles like a televangelist begging for donations.  And Hannity smirks and says something about “maybe Rosie O’Donnell and Barbra Streisand…”

    It’s like Hannity was repelled by Lindsey’s loser stench.

  45. 45.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: History can move slowly. My grandfather was sent to the Gulag a half-century before the independent Ukraine he worked for came to pass. His son did not live to see it either. Yet now his great-grandson is an elected member of the Verkhovna Rada (i.e. Parliament.) I think my grandfather would view that as success.

  46. 46.

    Ruckus

    @germy:

    The only nice thing about any of the conservatives is that most of them don’t seem to like each other any more than we like them. It’s just that they just like hating others in the same amount.

  49. 49.

    The Moar You Know

    I sensed a certain amount of… contempt… from Hannity.  He’s trying to end his show while Lindsey babbles like a televangelist begging for donations.  And Hannity smirks and says something about “maybe Rosie O’Donnell and Barbra Streisand…”

    It’s like Hannity was repelled by Lindsey’s loser stench.

     

    @germy:  Hannity’s just living his dream of bullying a gay man on national TV.  The comments about O’Donnell and Streisand are the tell, as if you couldn’t tell already.

    Graham is in a fight for everything this cycle.  If he loses he’s going to get outed and worse.  And he’ll have no friends, he sold everyone who might have felt a shred of sympathy for him out in 2017.

    When he got a look at the kompromat package he should have told everyone to fuck right off and publish.  One more term isn’t worth the rest of your life.  He’d be in far better shape today for any sort of post-politics career than he is now.

  51. 51.

    Ruckus

    @Dupe1970:

    It’s understandable. Very, very understandable, but couldn’t one of the gun humpers just have accidentally pulled a Jack Ruby and done the world a favor? I can’t imagine anyone complaining. And plenty complained about who Ruby did in, we wanted answers. Do we need that from teddy?

  52. 52.

    mad citizen

    @SiubhanDuinne: Because sadly Colbert never finished his 435- part Better Know a District series.

     

    Wiki: “Better Know a District began as a “435-part series,” 435 being the number of United States Congressional districts; however, on November 29, 2005, Colbert banned California’s 50th District after his “friend” Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the 50th’s Representative, pled guilty to receiving over $2 million in bribes and resigned his seat. California’s 50th is now the lone member of the “Never Existed to Me” category, and the map showing the United States’ Congressional districts now looks as if the district does not even exist. This brought the series to a “434-part series”. After this, Texas’s 22nd congressional district was retired on April 4, 2006 when Tom DeLay announced that he planned to leave Congress. Texas’s 22nd was reinstated on June 8, 2006, with a fake interview in which video of DeLay in three previous interviews on other television networks was interspersed with questions from Colbert. The district was put back into retirement at the end of the segment.”

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    Justice Ginsburg is the first female U.S. government official to lie in state at the Capitol.

    I almost want to say that this does not seem possible.  It does not seem reasonable.

    In any event, a suitable honor for Justice Ginsburg.

  54. 54.

    Another Scott

    RIP Justice Ginsburg. You changed America for the better and were a great example for all of us.

    In other news, BBC News:

    Magawa the mine-detecting rat wins PDSA Gold Medal

    25 September 2020

    Magawa has won a gold medal for detecting mines in Cambodia

    An African giant pouched rat has been awarded a prestigious gold medal for his work detecting land mines.

    Magawa has sniffed out 39 landmines and 28 unexploded munitions in his career.

    The UK veterinary charity PDSA has presented him with its Gold Medal for “life-saving devotion to duty, in the location and clearance of deadly landmines in Cambodia”.

    There are thought to be up to six million landmines in the southeast Asian country.

    PDSA’s Gold Medal is inscribed with the words “For animal gallantry or devotion to duty”. Of the 30 animal recipients of the award, Magawa is the first rat.

    The seven-year-old rodent was trained by the Belgium-registered charity Apopo, which is based in Tanzania and has been raising the animals – known as HeroRATs – to detect landmines and tuberculosis since the 1990s. The animals are certified after a year of training.

    […]

    It’s not how big we are, or how extraordinary our gifts, it’s what we decide to do with our lives.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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