Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I really should read my own blog.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

In my day, never was longer.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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Cream of the jest, she said piously, is that those cosplay Nazis supposedly sign a pact against masturbation…

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  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I’ll just note that, in the first tweet, only one set of guys looked like they were in good shape.  And it was not the Nazis.

  3. 3.

    Patricia Kayden

    Are there members of the GOP or people in Trump’s orbit that have COVID-19 but are keeping it a secret hoping they don’t need hospitalization?— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) October 4, 2020

  8. 8.

    Goku (Amerikan Baka)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Just in case you didn’t see my reply from downstairs:

    I apologize if I was wrong. I like to think of you along with the other regulars here as a friend

  11. 11.

    JaySinWA

    Posted below but fits better here, homophobia does one in:

    In West by God Virginia a house delegate resigns to spend time with his family after Facebook group membership exposed:

    BREAKING: Del. John Mandt is resigning from his seat in the WV House of Delegates effective 11:59 p.m. tonight and will suspend his campaign for re-election.— Taylor Stuck (@TaylorStuckHD) October 4, 2020

    Referenced article

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @dmsilev: When I was in college, I sometimes refused to balance my checkbook because that way I couldn’t be out of money.*

    *The bursar’s office still cashed my checks and, I think, added it to my parents’ bill.

  16. 16.

    Ken

    @JaySinWA: I’m not sure he’ll be spending more time with his family.  In the twitter responses, one person posts a screenshot where Mandt says his daughter doesn’t think he’ll be elected because of his anti-gay stance, and “When family turns on you they aren’t family.”  Charming fellow.

  17. 17.

    sanjeevs

    NEWS: One of Trump’s personal assistants has tested positive for coronavirus, sources tell me. Nick Luna, as bodyman, works in very close proximity to the president so it’s not surprising.

    Another factor that is unsettling White House aides tonight is Nick Luna is married Cassidy Dumbauld, who is an aide to Jared Kushner. More people in the circle around Trump’s senior adviser diagnosed with coronavirus.

     

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1312586170325495809

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    Pot roast in the Instant Pot and start button pressed. Using directions found somewhere online for cooking it when frozen. Trying a variation for pot roast which includes ¼ cup of horseradish.

    Was going to make potato pancakes to go with it but it’s too darn hot to go potchkying around in the kitchen.

  21. 21.

    JaySinWA

    @Ken: Okay the article quote was a different phrasing

    In his resignation letter, Mandt said he needed to focus on his family and his business.

    Focus on his family is a little different than spending time with them. It appears that his daughter may not welcome his attention.

  22. 22.

    RaflW

    I enjoyed a little trip thru twitter to see lots of very, very proud boys, men, kweens and so on. Lovely!

    And, since this is an open thread (and maybe this is old news around here, I was offline for 4.5 hours – woah). Texas A.G. Paxton has had some very serious allegations lodged against him, it seems.

    Senior officials in the Texas Attorney General’s Office have asked federal law enforcement to “investigate allegations of improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential crimes” by their boss, the Austin-American Statesman and KVUE-TV first reported Saturday.

    The senior staff members, including Jeff Mateer, who resigned from his post as Paxton’s top aide this week after several years leading the agency, notified the agency’s human resources director that they sought the investigation.

    “We have a good faith belief that the attorney general is violating federal and/or state law including prohibitions related to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential criminal offenses,” seven agency leaders wrote in a one-page letter obtained by the Statesman.

    Jay-zuz, not having lived in TX for 25 years now, I didn’t know the bastard has also had pending felony securities fraud charges against him for five fuckin years. So glad I don’t live there any more.

  23. 23.

    Tim Now Sir Simon Poshlord

    Punch Nazis, or Make Fun of Nazis?

    Which is more fun?

    Follow yr heart.

     

     

    In

  27. 27.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    @JaySinWA: File this under “I didn’t think I’d get caught, so I’m under attack.”

    “Everything electronic can be fabricated,” Mandt said. “It’s by design, my family, my business and I are being attacked.”

  28. 28.

    Kay

    It appears that an election worker’s decision to throw out nine military ballots in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, amounted to a mistake and not “intentional fraud,” the state’s top elections official said Wednesday.
    Workers in the elections office in Luzerne County are getting training on handling mailed-in military and overseas ballots, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said during an online news conference.

    Wouldn’t it be great if the DOJ lawyers who invented a crime to please Dear Leader got fired for this campaign stunt they pulled? Remember when people used to get fired for garbage work? What happened to that?
    We should start that again. Quality is really suffering with these incredibly low standards, where nothing is ever a firing offense.

  29. 29.

    Kent

    @Kay:

    It appears that an election worker’s decision to throw out nine military ballots in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, amounted to a mistake and not “intentional fraud,” the state’s top elections official said Wednesday. Workers in the elections office in Luzerne County are getting training on handling mailed-in military and overseas ballots, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said during an online news conference.

    Wouldn’t it be great if the DOJ lawyers who invented a crime to please Dear Leader got fired for this campaign stunt they pulled? Remember when people used to get fired for garbage work? What happened to that? We should start that again. Quality is really suffering with these incredibly low standards, where nothing is ever a firing offense

    I’m a little out of tough with PA election news.  But according to the recent PA Supreme court ruling wouldn’t these ballots have been considered “naked ballots” as they were in unmarked envelopes, and therefore, weren’t they actually REQUIRED to be thrown out?

  30. 30.

    Kay

    Ivanka Trump
    @IvankaTrump
    · 58m
    Nothing can stop him from working for the American people. RELENTLESS! ??

    Pathetically desperate to remain in power. We all have to make sure and vote and get rid of these people. As bad as it is now, they’ll get worse.

  32. 32.

    JaySinWA

    @Thor Heyerdahl: I don’t think he feared being caught. I think he is shocked that this blew up on him, and he fears the repercussions.  I doubt it crossed his mind that this was going to amount to anything. Suddenly it did. Of course he was trying to keep it within a circle of like minded people, so in a sense he new it was a problem, but he expected his party to support him as this leaked out.

    ETA he was living in a bubble and thought people like his daughter were outliers.

  33. 33.

    Kay

    I was thinking today that even if we win Melania will do the Christmas decorations again. So that’ll be awkward, knowing as we do now that she resents the work and doesn’t want to do it. I for one think she shouldn’t have to. Just hire someone for that, right? I’m sure they’ll be fine decorations. I bet people would volunteer “I’d be honored” Great! Have at it. We’ll just have to muddle through somehow, even without the red trees or scary hall of mirrors.

  35. 35.

    MisterForkbeard

    @NotMax: We just started trying a new variation on this in the slow cooker: sliced pepperoncinis with the pot roast, some water or broth with onion and some pre-packed ranch and au jus seasonings. Really good, actually.

  36. 36.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Patricia Kayden: well, some people are making comments about Chuck Grassley refusing to take a test. I mean I don’t know anything about it. I just saw some people talking about it.

  38. 38.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Steeplejack (phone): dumbass CJ John Roberts was there maskless – as were the Scalias. I hope the Scalias don’t socialize with the liberal justices. I did not have praying for Roberts to be okay on my 2020 Prayer Bingo Card.

  39. 39.

    Kay

    Hours before they were seen watching Tuesday’s presidential debate without masks in violation of safety protocols, members of President Donald Trump’s family, campaign staff and White House team also flouted a mask mandate at a hotel frequented by visitors to Cleveland Clinic.
    Trump and his traveling entourage spent several hours ahead of the debate at Cleveland Clinic at the InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland, one of several hotels near or on the campus of the world class medical facility, and used by people traveling to the clinic for work and medical procedures.
    ABC News spotted Eric and Lara Trump, White House adviser and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien — who has since tested positive for COVID-19 — walking around the hotel lobby without masks, perusing the snack shop and a buffet that appeared to be set aside for the White House group.

    More potential victims of the Trumps. They basically invaded Cleveland. There will perhaps be casualties.

  41. 41.

    Ken

    @Kay: You think Melania will still be in the White House after Trump loses?  I’m betting she’s back with her parents, and the only reason I think she won’t have already filed for divorce is the pre-nup doesn’t allow it.

  42. 42.

    Original Lee

    First BTS, now Gay Pride! The douche-Nazis are definitely getting humiliated from all different directions!

    Found out today that a neighbor who had a “mild” case of COVID-19 has had his sense of taste skewed since he got it back, and he’s depressed because half of his favorite food tastes terrible. Dishes with garlic and/or onion in them taste like dirty sweat socks. He is hoping things will return to normal eventually.

  43. 43.

    Ken

    @Kay: They were at the hotel several hours before the debate, and still arrived late to the debate?  “Stuck in traffic” does not apply to the president, so the late arrival almost had to be deliberate.

  45. 45.

    Ruckus

    @dmsilev:

    If he doesn’t get tested he can’t die of covid. Which would mean who the hell knows what at the end of the day. I’ve given up trying to make any logical sense of republican views/bullshit. They sure have.

  46. 46.

    Kay

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I loved how we all had to pretend the nation would grind to a halt in his absence. There might be a noticeable drop in revenue at his golf courses now that we’re not footing an inflated tab for this weekend, but that’s about it. Slightly fewer lies were told, although the team made a good effort to fill in for him there. No can match his lie volume, of course.

  47. 47.

    JaySinWA

    @Ken: I don’t get the Melania divorce talk. She’s riding the tiger and doesn’t dare dismount. There’s no money there, and I’m not sure there’s another sugar daddy at the end of the line. Sure, she hates him but they were kind of made for eachother. Grifters both.

  48. 48.

    Kay

    @Ken:

    I disagree with the conventional wisdom on Melania. I think they’re a perfect match. She’s exactly like him. In the tape her best friend made of their conversations – apparently just standard behavior in Trumpworld, secretly taping friends and family members- she mentions the children her husband put in cages and then blames Obama. It’s like listening to him. They’re made for each other.

  51. 51.

    dmsilev

    @Ruckus: Trump spent months claiming that the US was doing too much testing, and that the only reason we had so many cases was that we did too many tests. I guess Grassley is just showing his allegiance to Dear Leader.

  55. 55.

    smike

    @RaflW:

    Yeah, I still live there and I must say that I heartily approve of his cohorts’ actions. Imagine how bad it must be for them to do so. Scha-de-licious.

    ETA stuff

  56. 56.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @dmsilev: I can’t make out Grassley at the WH event, not that the pics are super clear when you zoom in.  C. Boyden Grey was sitting right behind Kelly Anne and he looks ancient. Kind of surprised to see him invited, being a Bush guy.

  57. 57.

    Jay

    U.S president Trump isn’t staying in any old hospital room. Walter Reed Hospital has a six-room presidential suite just for the commander in chief that includes an intensive care unit, a kitchen, a living room, a bedroom, & a dining room with a crystal chandelier. pic.twitter.com/QQVhFYjzLJ— Richard Southern (@richard680news) October 3, 2020

    People died in the hallways of hospitals waiting for a bed and then were loaded into a freezer truck once they died. https://t.co/Ki3SnChZqV— Michael (@MeetMichael_) October 3, 2020

    As fall and winter hit, people will once again, die in hallways or alone at home.

  59. 59.

    Mary G

    Hope @maggieNYT takes her own advice: “it is really important for voters to drill down on the question of the seventy-two hours, because if that wasn’t true, not only were they letting him do events, but they weren’t telling the public” https://t.co/ClLzB7GwZs— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) October 4, 2020

    Maggie wants voters to find out when Twitler got the ‘Rona? Isn’t that her job?

  61. 61.

    Punchy

    @Jay: 7 kids?  And I thought my uber Catholic sis’ 5 kids were excessive.  Roe v. Wade is gone-zo….likely, so is gay marriage, birth control, and the color pink.

  63. 63.

    RaflW

    BTW, an aviation reporter I follow just pointed out that the two different photos the WH put out this evening, one with white cabinets and Trump in a jacket, and one with stained wood cabinets and Trump in shirt sleeves, show in the EXIF data embed that they were taken 10 minutes apart.

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    Just for the record, pot roast turned out really tasty. Now Instant Potting baby potatoes in the cooking broth; couldn’t wait for those to be done before sampling the meat.

  67. 67.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @RaflW:

    Got a link? I’m seeing chatter about pictures on Twitter and Instagram, etc., having EXIF data scrubbed automatically. People are trying to find other sources for the original photos.

  70. 70.

    Redshift

    @Steeplejack (phone): I’d be interested to know about the videos. Based on these guys’ track record, I would not be at all surprised if Trump’s “I’m feeling much better” video today was recorded before he left the White House.

  74. 74.

    Redshift

    @Kent: I do recall one article saying that the whole situation was arguably caused by GOP lawsuits about absentee ballot procedures, but I don’t remember the details.

  76. 76.

    Calouste

    Pompeo is cutting short a trip in Asia, that he’s only leaving for today. Apparently he wants to be back in time to attend the shitgibbon’s miraculous recovery.

  78. 78.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @JaySinWA: I know Walter Reed is an old hospital but 1/ i thought it was recently remodeled and 2/ I just don’t believe Walter Reed’s cabinets would be wood -even in the presidential wing. For sanitary reasons wouldn’t they be laminate?

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    @rikyrah

    Quite satisfied with the result. Enough so that am currently cooking the second hunk o’ beef in the same broth (pot roast comes in two-packs at Costco).

  94. 94.

    NotMax

    @rikyrah – @NotMax

    Only negative (and that so slight as to be hardly worthy of mention) is that since the meat is unthawed it cannot really be seared before cooking.

  95. 95.

    prostratedragon

    @HumboldtBlue:  Combined with the anniversaries of the Wilson stroke and the Mocking of Hillary yesterday it’s enough to make a person hedge a bit.

  96. 96.

    TS (the original)

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    The Trump administration doesn’t voluntarily disclose White House visitor logs

    I’m so old I can remember the GOP members screaming for President Obama to display the White House visitor logs.

    But – they are some interesting pictures and information on who was at the event. I hope they are all having panic attacks.

  98. 98.

    Martin

    @MisterForkbeard: The red tab is a ‘sign here’ flag. Trust me – I see a zillion of them.

    That said, you only put those on a paper where it’s unclear where to sign – not on an obviously blank piece of paper.

  99. 99.

    rikyrah

    Lots of debate staff tends to indicate that Trump was positive (and knew it) before the debate. This is negligent disregard of CDC health advice. Funny that they were too late to the venue for tests despite that being a condition. They sicken me. If Biden has it, it’s deliberate.— Ingrid Sylvia Virgona (@IngridVirgona) October 4, 2020

  100. 100.

    TS (the original)

    @Punchy:

    Get rid of birth control & we’re back to the 19th century when every woman had a dozen or more children and died having the last one.

    This is what they want.

  104. 104.

    rikyrah

    To the G7 ally who suggested Trump could appoint Ivanka: The U.S. is not a banana republic, so no, a president cannot "appoint" someone to replace him/her. The Presidential Succession Act is detailed in our Constitution in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 6 and in the 25th Amendment.— Carolyn B. Brodersen (@BroderWriter) October 4, 2020

  108. 108.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @HumboldtBlue:  Hush. You’re giving away our secret cabal’s super secret strategery for secretly taking over the world. It’s a SECRET.

  109. 109.

    Sab

    @rikyrah: I live near Cleveland and have a degree from CWRU, and I am furious with Cleveland Clinic and CWRU higher ups who thought that it was a good idea to bring this people into town. They spread disease wherever they go. Why did the Clinic and Case think that this time would be different?

  111. 111.

    prostratedragon

    Hardly shocking considering this group, but certainly appalling:

    With President Trump hospitalized for COVID-19 at Walter Reed medical center, officials spent Saturday sowing doubt about his condition instead of offering clarity and reassurance. Doctors and members of the White House staff provided conflicting information about the timeline and progression of the president’s illness, making a bad situation even worse. Asked what it’s been like for insiders trying to get information about the president and the virus spreading through the government, a senior White House official told Intelligencer, “That’s easy. We don’t get any.”

    […]

    “Ninety percent of the [White House] complex most certainly learned about it in the news, as has been the case ever since,” the senior official said. “There are reports that COVID is spreading like wildfire through the White House. There are hundreds and hundreds of people who work on-complex, some who have families with high-risk family members. Since this whole thing started, not one email has gone out to tell employees what to do or what’s going on.” [My emph]

  116. 116.

    TS (the original)

    @MagdaInBlack:

    One of my gg grandmothers had 15 children. She died having the 16th & at the inquest everyone said – ” She had all the rest so easily, we didn’t expect this to happen”

  118. 118.

    Ohio Mom

    NorthLeft12: I am assuming that “bodyman” is the Americanized version of “personal valet.” Which all presidents have.

    I heard Michelle Obama talk about Batak’s. All I remember is that this fellow took care of the president’s wardrobe, laying out the day’s clothes, taking care of laundry, etc.

    But I imagine it is also things like supplying towels at the excercise machines, water at the podium, etc.

    Michelle described this position’s purpose as ensuring the President can concentrate fully on his job. No wandering around the kitchen wondering What am looking for again? for the president.

  119. 119.

    Kropacetic

    @HumboldtBlue: Jaime Harrison: so, the first step in terms of working with the other side is not to call the other side nuts.

    And if the other side is nuts?

    I guess suck it up, buttercup, and play nice.

  120. 120.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @JaySinWA: He “resigned” from a legislative body that’s been out of session since March, and “suspended his campaign” for re-election less than a month before the general. How much you wanna bet he wins next month & slides back into his seat next January as if nothing had happened? Because in Thugworld, nothing really did happen except he pissed off a bunch of f****ts and f****t-enablers, and that doesn’t count, amirite?//

  121. 121.

    evodevo

    @Patricia Kayden: Given the constant atmosphere of terror the WH staff works under, I would not doubt it….plus there is the fact that they DON’T test everyone every day…it’s done randomly with a testing regime that gives a lot of false results…so….

  123. 123.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Ken: IMO there are three things the All-White House hopes to hide from the US electorate:

    1. The WH was fully aware that Dolt45 and members of his retinue were positive for COVID-19 before they left for the debate venue
    2. Their arrival there was deliberately late to leave no time for the organizers to test them and get the results back
    3. Removal of their masks, along with Hair Furor’s histrionics, were a deliberate attempt to infect Joe Biden and as many of his staffers as possible with COVID-19

    IMO revelation of #3 is the (you should pardon the expression) killer for his reelection chances. And TBH I think it’s only a matter of time. Maybe that’s what Rick Wilson was tweeting ominously about last night.

  125. 125.

    Ian

    @Another Scott:  I don’t claim to be a senate parliamentarian, but for what I recall senate committee meetings can be held in remote.  Grassley could be sick as all hell and still get Barrett out of the judicial committee.  It is the full senate vote that requires in person voting.  We would need 8 Republican senators out sick.

    Furthermore, I believe these are rules of the senate, which if Mitch McConnell cruelly finds bothersome he will vote to change without losing a moment of sleep

    *edit- truly, not cruelly.  My computer knows what I’m thinking better than my fingers.

  126. 126.

    Betty

    @Kay: Chris Wallace reported that they came too late to the debate to be tested as required. This needs some follow-up since it appears they were in town.

  127. 127.

    J R in WV

    @Mai Naem mobile:

    I just don’t believe Walter Reed’s cabinets would be wood -even in the presidential wing. For sanitary reasons wouldn’t they be laminate?

    That too. But just look at the other furnishings, carpet, drapery, stuff you can’t sanitize without tearing it out first. Someone with no idea of how to finish a space that must be sterile at all times picked out the whole suite furnishings. Someone who never spent any time at a hospital at all. A political Hack, in other words.

    Actually, I think wood is more sanitary than plastics, naturally anti-microbial in many cases. I know that’s true of cutting boards, wood is safer than plastic.

  128. 128.

    debbie

    @J R in WV:

    FWIW, Clorox and Lysol wipes’ instructions include that they can be used on wood surfaces. Not that I intend to do something that might mess up my furniture.

  129. 129.

    MagdaInBlack

    @NorthLeft12:  In my world, a “body man” is a “collision repair technician”……the one who repairs the damage when you have wreck your car.

  131. 131.

    brantl

    @J R in WV:

     

    Actually, I think wood is more sanitary than plastics, naturally anti-microbial in many cases. I know that’s true of cutting boards, wood is safer than plastic.

     

    Um, no, wood isn’t as its porous, and bacteria are harbored in the pores. They use bleach on wooden cutting boards, in commercial kitchens.

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