Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republicans don’t trust women.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson: the bland and smiling face of evil.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Come on, man.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

How are Republicans going to find someone with more charisma and personal charm than Jim Jordan?

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Bark louder, little dog.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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  2. 2.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Trump says he will not attend Biden’s Inauguration.  Does that mean that Trump now knows he is going to lose?

  3. 3.

    rikyrah

    That picture is fantastic.

     

    I am carrying my Mail Ballot. I’ve never voted by mail before. I’ve been voting Early for the last 15 years.

     

    Just a little anxiety about voting a new way.

    My signature on file is only a couple of years old, so I’m not scared of that.

    I always got such satisfaction in reviewing all my choices before printing out the ballot and submitting it during early voting.

  4. 4.

    Ken

    I took a nice long walk and snapped pictures of the fall foliage to send to my parents, who are staying in the house as much as possible.

  5. 5.

    debbie

    @rikyrah:

    Just checked the 10-day weather forecast and saw I’ll need to dress very warmly for in-person voting next Friday. I’ll just shiver the germs off me.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    @Litlebritdifrnt:   I am OK if he can’t attend because he’s six feet under.  Or hospitalized.

    Or under federal marshals’ care, en route to whatever jurisdiction where he first faces trial

    Besides which:  Biden’s inauguration is likely to be small and mostly virtual.  We won’t be out of the COVID woods yet.

  10. 10.

    Bill Arnold

    Since open thread, whew:

    Democratic presidential nominee Biden tests negative for COVID-19 (Reuters, October 10, 2020)

    WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday before a campaign trip to Pennsylvania, his aides said in a statement.

    Also, since this is a pets thread,

    The Fish Dance

    ? Imgur /gallery/69vce8w pic.twitter.com/wqEQF1kE6r
    — Gorgeous Animals (by the ‘Six Stinky Cats’) (@GorgeousFellows) October 9, 2020

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    @Litlebritdifrnt:   Hmmm.  Maybe he will be in the air.  Or already in his non-extradite haven.

    Just want him gone.  And in serious legal trouble up the orange wazoo.  For the rest of his life.  Make an example of him.

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    @Litlebritdifrnt: My guess is that on the evening of January 19th, he tells the crew of Air Force One to fly to Moscow. Then, because he’s been a constant jerk to everyone he perceives as beneath him (i.e. “everyone”) and because he’s not exactly a details person, he wakes up on the 20th and quickly discovers that being in Idaho doesn’t help much on that whole “hiding from extradition” thing.

  13. 13.

    bjacques

    Hurrah! In Amsterdam, I got my absentee ballot from Texas Tuesday, dropped it in the Consular drop box yesterday before noon. Absentee ballots apparently went out the 19th, but I didn’t expect to get one since the online registry didn’t list me after two attempts to register. I can only vote in federal races, being away more than five years, but that’s fine with me.

  16. 16.

    dmsilev

    @Bill Arnold: Very good news, and as a reminder, Trump and his medical team have repeatedly refused to state that Trump has tested negative for the virus.

  17. 17.

    raven

    In “damn we needed this” dog news. It looks like the meds were really doing a job on Bohdi and, since we stopped them, he’s about back to his normal 16 year old self.

  18. 18.

    patrick II

    Lindsay Graham has refused to get a Covid test before the scheduled debate with Jaimie Harrison tonight. As a result, the debate has been canceled. That seems to be rewarding Graham for what is, considering his circumstances, a decision endangering Harrison and others. Graham got his butt kicked last time and would likely get it kicked again. A better solution would be to still have the debate and if Graham refused to conform to the debate’s requirements leave Harrison to answer questions unchallenged.

  19. 19.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    We had a “walking farmers market” in our neighborhood bordering City Park here in Denver.  It was even written up in the Post as a “thing” to do this weekend.  Weather is fantastic.  Everbody’s out and almost everybody’s wearing a mask.

    Shortly we’re heading out for an afternoon of biking along the southern part of the Highline Canal.

    This is why we moved back to my wife’s hometown from the first or second-reddest county in Misery.  Don’t miss that for a second.  Now if somebody would just buy the old B&B back there…

  20. 20.

    Percysowner

    I voted in person Thursday, so that’s done. I did go to the I voted thread and post, so all my bases are covered.

    I’m glad Biden’s negative, I’m still going to worry about Kamala until she’s 2 weeks away from Pinkeye Mike.

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    @raven:   Good news.  Rock on, Bohdi.

    In other news:  Chris Christie is out of the hospital, as of today.

    NJ website a few days ago posited that, as a VIP, he might have been receiving an exceptional standard of care. (Although, also obese and asthmatic.)  I could not tell if that was just distracting reporting, but he has definitely left the hospital.

    Here’s the NJ.Com story from a few days ago.

  25. 25.

    patrick II

    According to Kevin Drum, via the Washington Post, Trump has made a 1.88 Trilliion dollar stimulus proposal to Pelosi, who may be close to accepting.  The problem may be, according to Kevin, getting the deal through the Senate.  In some ways, the rest of the Republican party is even more fascist than our sitting president.

  28. 28.

    Redshift

    I finally remembered to look up the process for tracking my ballot, and it was confirmed received on September 30, the day after I dropped it off! I didn’t realize until this year that early voting starts in Virginia before almost anywhere else, so I’ve been greatly enjoying being in the spotlight for record turnout and lines.

    (While I’m always an optimist, this is the first time we’ve had no-excuse early and mail voting, so turnout isn’t precisely comparable.)

  30. 30.

    Ken

    @TaMara (HFG): In the last open thread, Dorothy A. Winsor shared a weird little report that Trump had met with senior advisors and family to float a plan to resign, with Pence to pardon him.  Part of the deal was for SDNY to drop any pending charges.  I have my doubts.

    By the way, happy Ten Ten TwentyTwenty everyone.

  32. 32.

    prostratedragon

    Has this shown up here?

    The White House Presidential Personnel Office is considering asking nearly every political appointee in the Trump administration to write and tender provisional letters of resignation right before the election, according to two senior administration officials.

    The personnel office would then decide which ones to accept and which to reject — giving President Donald Trump maximum flexibility in choosing his team in a possible second term.

    You know how some things prompt enormous gales of laughter not because they’re funny –they might not be at all, objectively– but because of the release that comes from having the blatantly obvious made too plain to miss? Like Dave realizing at last that HAL needs his ass unhooked? I’m at that stage with our Presidential shitshow.

  35. 35.

    Steeplejack

    I just got up from a nap a little while ago. My “sleep hygiene” continues to be awful during the corona times. I have quit fighting it; I pretty much sleep when I can and accept the times when I can’t. Thank God for cable TV and the Internet.

    I’m picking up my Trader Joe’s friend in about an hour. After five months of chauffeur duty five days a week, we’ve tapered off to this one pickup on Saturdays, when the person who usually gives her a ride home doesn’t work. She could take the Metro train—both of her stations have reopened—but it’s a nice way for us to taper off. We get a chance to talk a bit (masked, of course), and we get food from this or that restaurant to take home (separately). I’m thinking Lost Dog Café today—I’m due for one of their excellent pizzas—but B. has good suggestions, so I’ll see what she says.

    I passed on my niece’s sixth birthday party at Sighthound Hall this afternoon. Not a huge number of people scheduled—fewer than 10, I think—but some of them are outside of my “bubble” and I just don’t trust the odds.

    Quiet evening ahead, doing the usual and thinking about buying an Anolon hard-anodized wok skillet that showed up on the radar at a huge discount. Trying to decide if I really want it or I’m just hypnotized by the low price.

    . . . Hmm, the list price at the Anolon site is much lower than at the site that was luring me in, so the discount price, while still tempting, is not that much of a steal. Dims my ardor a bit.

  37. 37.

    Catherine D.

    I’m testing my new convection oven (for those who asked on the recipe thread, it’s a Ninja Foodi XL). I just baked a loaf of bread in an Emile Henry loaf pan, and it rose and browned evenly without rotating the pan. In my old convection oven, I had to turn the pan halfway through, and it still wasn’t even.

    On to try dehydrating some sage, because the plant needs a serious haircut!

  39. 39.

    Mary G

    Filled out my ballot on Tuesday then let it sit on the table while I procrastinated taking it to the drop box because I haven’t driven in months. Yesterday housemate B asked me about it, and I asked him to do it for me. We filled out the declaration about who is delivering it and he took it off. He sent me a video of him putting it in. He isn’t eligible to vote himself, as he is here on a green card, so it was a way for him to participate a little.

  40. 40.

    Elizabelle

    Fun.  NJ.com has an article, with plenty of embedded tweets, about Claudia Conway.  Because she and Kellyanne are Jersey girls, too.
    How Claudia Conway, Kellyanne Conway’s teen daughter, became a celebrated voice of opposition

    Last week, Claudia scooped her mother, a senior counselor to the president, on the news of Kellyanne’s own positive COVID-19 test. Claudia, who later tested positive for COVID-19 herself, had said she noticed her mother coughing in the house after Trump tested positive, and predicted Kellyanne’s test result. (In a comment on one of her TikTok videos, Claudia said her COVID-19 symptoms include a pounding headache, difficulty breathing and chills.)

    In a later video that has since been deleted, Kellyanne can be seen admonishing Claudia.  “You’ve caused so much disruption,” she says in the video. “You lied about your f—ing mother, about COVID! About COVID!” she screams.
    “It’s how I interpreted it,” Claudia says in reply.

    “You’re taping me again?” says Kellyanne, ostensibly noticing Claudia’s phone.
    ….  Kellyanne grew up in Atco and the Conways have homes in Alpine and Ventnor City. She responded to the attention Claudia’s videos have gotten on Twitter early Tuesday.
    “My daughter, Claudia, is beautiful & brilliant,” Kellyanne tweeted. “She has access to top doctors & health care & lives comfortably. Like all of you, she speculates on social media. Yet she’s 15. You are adults. We have COVID, but it’s clear who’s really sick.”

    Yep, Kellyanne.  Uh huh.  You would die without the attention.  Also, the f-bomb seems to be bigly popular in the Trump sphere, no?

  41. 41.

    Gin & Tonic

    My son is flying to Mexico today. Some trepidation about the whole airport/airplane hygiene thing, but it’s been over two months since he’s seen his wife in person, and who knows when the next opportunity will come up.

    Best not ask what any of us think of US CIS these days. Clearly hoping for better times.

  43. 43.

    Elizabelle

    @Steeplejack:   I hope you get another lucky housecat before too, too long.

    If you can find one in need of adoption.  That heated throw might be getting lonely.

  46. 46.

    patrick II

     

    Republicans in the Senate are perturbed at Trump for going behind their backs to deal with Pelosi.

    “There’s no appetite right now to spend the White House number or the House number,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) on the call. Meanwhile, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, said it would be seen as an “an enormous betrayal by our supporters” if Trump agrees to anything that expands Affordable Care Act programs to deliver relief — something that was done in the previous bipartisan round of stimulus, the CARES Act.

    A betrayal of their supporters to expand healthcare during a pandemic? Who are their supporters — the Walking Dead? For better or worse, Trump is at least transactional. How do you deal with a Republican Senate bent on inflating the death toll for ideological reasons? And what kind of ideology calls for mass human sacrifice?

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    @Bill Arnold:  Very relieved to see this.

    You’re not totally out of the woods until Day 14, but 11 days is the magic date by which you can pretty much conclude that you are home free.  By tonight it will be 11 days.

  52. 52.

    patrick II

    @patrick II:

    So, Trump is holding another rally at the White House and the Senate is complaining that they don’t want to  expand ACA healthcare during a pandemic.
    That’s teamwork. Trump gets them sick and the Senate makes sure they don’t get well. Nicely done.

  54. 54.

    prostratedragon

    @Gin & Tonic:
    Not before the election. Further in the article this point is made, and some reasons are given, some having to do with the need for people to plan things. There is an even greater possibility that a lot of ship-jumping is about to take place. This would bring about my prediction that this administration is going to redefine the term “lame duck.”

  59. 59.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Elizabelle:
    NJ website a few days ago posited that, as a VIP, he might have been receiving an exceptional standard of care. (Although, also obese and asthmatic.)

    I wonder if they gave him the Regeneron (sp?) cocktail trump got

  60. 60.

    JMG

    Just watered the hydrangeas we put in by the driveway in July. Otherwise a quiet day. Mass. early voting doesn’t start until next Saturday. I’ll be there very early.

  61. 61.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud:   I know.  COVID brain.

    Was looking up the real estate.  Atco (where Kellyanne was raised) is maybe 20 miles southeast of Philly area.

    Alpine NJ — where the Conways have a home — looks really nice.  Big homes on wooded lots (some with pools) near the Palisades above the Hudson River.  NE of Teterboro (the executive jet airport for NYC — where Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, by the way) and not hard to get into Manhattan.

    And Ventnor City is a beach just south of Atlantic City.

    They own some nice real estate, it would seem.

  62. 62.

    Steeplejack

    @Elizabelle:

    I’m not ready yet. The last couple of years the housecat had gotten to the point where I couldn’t travel much without it being a hassle to arrange for her care, so I was looking forward to long day trips and some overnighters. But then—COVID-19. I’d still like to do that before signing up with another cat.

  63. 63.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Elizabelle:
    Was headed outside, but then this came up. I saw it a few days ago, and was in awe of that lying sack of shit daring to suggest its us who are “sick” when she’s been shilling for that orange plague rat and has now brought the disease home to her family. Cant get much sicker than that. She can STFU.
    NOW I’m going outside =-)

  65. 65.

    Ken

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Though I guess he held forth to Rush Limbaugh for 2 hours a day or so ago.

    Commercial breaks.

    Come to think, it may have been the first time a commercial was interrupted for commercial breaks.

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:   Christie might actually answer that one.

    He is a jerk and asshole, for sure, but he does not seem as ridiculous as the Trump quality psychopaths.  He might genuinely see the benefit in telling New Jerseyites how his experience was.

  70. 70.

    Another Scott

    @dmsilev:

    Here’s the epi-curve of the White House outbreak, from what has been publicly reported so far. Strongly suggests a common exposure on Sept 26 or 27. An investigation should be able to determine the likely source and identify, warn those most at risk. 7/13 https://t.co/ibH4irvMmE pic.twitter.com/5cGG3iYGJb— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) October 9, 2020

    Yes, September 26 was the infamous Amy Covid Barrett event.

    (via Helen Branswell).

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  73. 73.

    Mallard Filmore

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

     

    He may not have the stamina to do more than 15 minutes. Though I guess he held forth to Rush Limbaugh for 2 hours a day or so ago.

    Sitting down with a telephone to talk with Rush is not the same as standing for a speech.

  74. 74.

    Elizabelle

    @Steeplejack:  Yeah.  That has stopped me from Shanghai-ing a dog, too.  Would like to do some extended travel if Europe ever lets us back in.

    Am grateful I get to walk the darling French bulldog next door.  (And she’s stopped barking at me, too.  Small mercies.)

  78. 78.

    mrmoshpotato

    This fits here. LOL

    Small child ran up to me & the dog out on a walk today “can I pet your dog?” I say sure ask JoJo to sit and he lets her, she licks his hand & I literally watched this kid melt. He whispered thank you with huge eyes, ran back to his yard yelling “I PET A WOLF!!!” day made— m i s c h a s m o m (@mischasmom) October 10, 2020

  82. 82.

    Geoduck

    @patrick II:  The Shiatgibbon isn’t really a fascist like Barr or Moscow Mitch. He’s a Shiatgibbonist.

    And I got my WA state ballot in the mail and am filling it out. Then ho for the nearest dropbox.

  83. 83.

    grandmaBear

    I requested my absentee ballot first week of August, saw a notice on the website my ballot was processed & mailed the 2nd here in SW Ohio, and finally got it today. Will deposit it in the drop box on Monday. Finally!

  87. 87.

    laura

    Roadie brother the younger came by to get some advice on a business proposal and our voter guide. Then we reminisced about Eddie Van Halen – he feels terrible for the crew who’ve been with the band forever and what a terrible time it is to look for jobs in the music industry. Then we talked about the election, the Senate and our tattered reputation.  Finally he showed us pictures of the property he owns that was destroyed in the Berry Creek fire above Lake Oroville. They believe the fire temps were around 1200°. We’re having pork chops and the last of the summer corn for dinner.

    I sure miss Mnemosyne and hope she’s well. And I’m sure glad to hear good news about Raven’s Bodhi.

  88. 88.

    zhena gogolia

    @raven:

    Oh, great!

    I lost my 15-year-old cats within a week of each other in Jan 2017, and I still haven’t recovered from that.

  93. 93.

    germy

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Back in the 1980s I dated a young lady whose parents lived in Alpine.

    I’ll say this:  the police are the most polite I’ve ever seen.  We had minor car trouble one day, and they were acting like hotel concierges.

  94. 94.

    Ken

    @germy: I thought it unlikely.  As Hercule Poirot would say, the psychology is wrong.  The report above that Trump has told everyone else to resign is much more believable.

  96. 96.

    Kent

    Conversation overheard yesterday between my 17 year old LGBT daughter and my 5 year old Catholic mother-in-law.

    Daughter:  “Explain to me this business of the virgin birth.”

    MIL:  “It means that Mary was a virgin and became pregnant and conceived through the power of the holy spirit without ever sleeping with Joseph.”

    Daughter:  “So if Mary was Jesus’ only natural parent then Jesus must have been trans or LGBT because he would not have gotten any Y chromosome from his father, only  X chromosomes and DNA from his mother?”

    MIL:   Umm….?????

  100. 100.

    KithKanan

    @Redshift: Makes sense, but seems unlikely as, so far, the deal described is entirely between Republicans. I can’t see why NY State would take that deal at least without a hell of a lot of sweetener.

  101. 101.

    Ken

    @KithKanan: I can’t see why NY State would take that deal at least without a hell of a lot of sweetener.

    “And he promises to stay in Florida, and never set foot in New York again?”

  103. 103.

    LadySuzy

    @Ken: Could Pence pardon him pre-emptively ?  But anyway, it would enrage Americans. I’ve always been nervous about Trump resigning, and then Pence bringing back home a good number of republicans who are planning to vote Biden. However, in a scenario where Pence would preemptively pardon Trump before the election, I think the Biden republicans would be pretty disgusted and still vote Biden.

    I can picture Trump resigning after the election though.

    One thing for sure: let’s brace ourselves. The end of the Trump presidency will be every bit as chaotic, as abnormal, as awful as the last three and a half years.

  104. 104.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    Got my ballot Tuesday night, and took my husband’s and mine to the dropbox Wednesday morning. I was surprised at the number of people waiting to drop off ballots at 11:00 on a week day morning. I guess that’s a good sign.

    My son and daughter-in-law who live with us are planning to vote in person, but my son turned around from his drive to work this afternoon because his shop is closed for at least a few days – someone tested positive. Now he has to wait to find out what the contact tracing protocol will be, and what his own risks are. Because of his position, he’s pretty sure he would have been at least peripherally exposed, depending on the timeline, so we’re all quarantining and wearing masks in the house.

    And I don’t know what it will mean for their voting. If he isn’t infected (fingers crossed) it will have no effect. Early voting doesn’t even start until 10/26. But if he’s infected, he could  just becoming out of the contiguous stage when voting starts, if all goes well.

    Anyway, good thoughts, please, for our family. It’s a little nerve-wracking.

  106. 106.

    KithKanan

    @Ken: I think the majority of the people who voted for the NY AG would prefer he set foot in New York to go two places – court and prison – so I can’t imagine them taking the deal absent blackmail.

    I do admit it’s likely that he grossly underestimates just how much the people of his former home state loathe him.

  111. 111.

    trollhattan

    @laura:

    Terrible news about your brother losing his house. That fire took out pretty much everything the Camp Fire missed two years ago. Encircled most of Lake Oroville, including the dam and spillway complex. You can see that the brush and trees that had survived the spillway failure and reconstruction were consumed by the fire in this live webcam view.

    Had this fire occurred two years ago, it would have literally overrun the spillway reconstruction project site. As it was, construction had to be halted during the Camp Fire.

    So weary of the fires.

  112. 112.

    LuciaMia

    Bidens’ having a Town Hall this Thursday. Is that a new thing? Or the date for the canceled second debate and Bidens just showing up on his own.

  114. 114.

    thruppence

    Just got our family Colorado ballots in the mail!!! Plan to place them in drop off box on Monday. Blows against the empire.

  115. 115.

    JPL

    @mrmoshpotato: That is so sweet.

    My little grand imp who’s twenty months old, would run in the house and say the dogie.  Then he would pet the dog and say nice.    Recently he switched though from saying the dogie to calling him by his name.

  116. 116.

    Ken

    @LuciaMia: I think I first heard of it two days ago.  Trump was making six different sets of contradictory demands for the debate, so the Biden campaign went to the network and said “how about this instead?” and they said yes.

    Which I do hope is irritating Trump.

  118. 118.

    JPL

    @LuciaMia: ABC is allowing him the time slot.  I’m not sure about the other stations, but I heard trump was trying to convince NBC to let him have the slot.    After he chickened out of the debate that would be wrong

     

    or what Humanities Prof said.

  120. 120.

    LuciaMia

    @Ken: Yeah, just read a piece on it at CNN. Sounds like Trump is trying to set up his own town hall at NBC the same night. Dueling town halls. Will banjos be involved?

  123. 123.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @Kent: Sweet!

    But you really should tell her that when baby Jesus was born, three separate guys all turned up with presents.

    And there’s an alternate explanation for why a guy would do that when he hears that a certain girl has a baby….

  124. 124.

    dmsilev

    @LuciaMia: Huh. Yesterday, the plan from Trump and co was to have a hate-rally instead of the debate or a town hall. Wonder what tomorrow will bring.

  126. 126.

    dmsilev

    @Kent: The joke I remember from high school biology class was that the H in ‘Jesus H Christ’ stood for ‘haploid’.

  130. 130.

    mad citizen

    Re: Any sort of pardon “deal”: We’ve put up with the shitstain for 3 years and 8.5 months.  I think we can wait it out donnie.  Pardon away on federal, but no dice on NY stuff (or any other state).  He has no hand with which to bargain.  Anything he could threaten or do will only further tear down the party he sucked the life out of, like the parasite that he is.

  132. 132.

    Ken

    @LuciaMia: Dueling town halls. Will banjos be involved?

    Pleasepleaseplease let the network execs get together and agree that after the broadcasts start, they’ll merge their feeds and convert it to a joint town hall – without telling either campaign.  Biden will grin, Trump will explode.

    Plus the technical requirements give them a perfect excuse to mute the microphone of the one not talking.

  137. 137.

    JoyceH

    @dmsilev: My guess is that on the evening of January 19th, he tells the crew of Air Force One to fly to Moscow.

    Nah. He’ll have them fly him down to Mar A Lago. The Trump jet will be warmed up on the tarmac, with Erik Prince’s mercenaries available to cover his retreat.

    Meanwhile, did anyone notice from the Trump Balcony speech that he had a very fresh and large bandage on the back of his hand? Off meds, baloney, he got an IV of something today.

  138. 138.

    SectionH

    This “Trump might resign for pardons” story seems to be BS. Guy who tweeted it – Jon Cooper – is apparently a lefty grifter (sigh) and the “source”account (JewishNewsUSA) has been suspended from Twitter. Check nycsouthpaw, who retweeted Dave Weigel.

  142. 142.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    “Trump might be ridiculous for the rest of the world, but he is sane and wise man for the Taliban,” a senior Taliban member told @Samiyousafzai of hope for a Trump 2020 win.

    ***

    The militant group expressed some concern about Mr. Trump’s bout with the coronavirus. “When we heard about Trump being COVID-19 positive, we got worried for his health, but seems he is getting better,” another Taliban senior leader told CBS News.

    The pied piper of fundamentalist terrorists

  143. 143.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: Hey, I said yesterday on BJ that Schumer should insist on that before they vote on a lifetime appointment to the supreme court.

    It’s not just the COVID drugs that mess with your brain, it’s also COVID itself.

  145. 145.

    Ruckus

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    It’s possible he knows this. But.

    It’s so difficult to tell what he actually knows at any given time that it might be better to ask if he believes something, rather than knows something, seeing as often he states something and the opposite in the same sentence as if both are true.

  149. 149.

    kindness

    Dropped my ballot off at the local county election office.  One more vote for Uncle Joe & Kamala.

  151. 151.

    Ruckus

    @debbie:

    If he’s no longer president he’ll have zero pull with most anyone. So as he won’t be able or willing to cart off anything himself, has zero pull left and zero dollars to pay anyone, not that he would anyway, I don’t see him walking off with much of anything whatsoever.

  152. 152.

    Jim Appleton

    Anyone else around here notice a lack of Rusky’s in the comments?

     

    In 2016, one of the srv’s as I recall stunk to high heaven as a Ruskibot.

     

    So far this year, I’m not seeing anything similar.

     

    Am I delusional, missing the obvious, or is there something else going on?

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    Ken

    @Jim Appleton: World petroleum market crashed, giving Putin more to worry about at home?

    Or they recognized that this nearly-top-10000 blog is filled with savvy people who recognize their crude attempts to poison the narrative?

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    Sister Golden Bear

    So some real talk on World Mental Health Day.

    I’m really struggling right now. Variety of things, including difficulty finding full-time work—and the possibility of having to take a lower position, with a definite pay cut—to find some (age discrimination is A Thing). Plus being really isolation after six-months of quarantine, and knowing any job I get will be remote for at least until mid-next year.

    During the past few months I’ve been marginally functional, but I can feel myself starting to not even be able to do that—not great when it’s a time I really need to hustle. So I’m talking to my doctors about adjusting my meds upwards.

    Anyway, this is a long way of saying: if you’re also struggling there’s no shame in trying anti-depression and/or anti-anxiety meds—upwards of a third of the country is on them right now. I look at it as the equivalent of the ER stabilizing a patient first, before treatment can begin. If you’re drowning, you can’t swim for shore if you’re underwater, you need to be able to be to stay on the surface first.

    Might be worth a thread where people can share about how they’re doing.

  156. 156.

    PPCLI

    There was an excellent ad for Biden during the Texas – OU game. I’m not sure if it was national or just local. Iraq vet talks about Biden’s success in getting armored vehicles that had better armor against IED’s. I don’t know how effective it will be, but I assume that Iraq vets haven’t forgotten Rumsfeld’s indifference to their well-being on this issue. It was a compelling ad.

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    trollhattan

    @SectionH:

    It doesn’t pass the most cursory of smell tests. Trump quitting is the least Trump thing imaginable. He’d sooner pull a Fuhrerbunker. Hard to say whether Melanie would agree to an Eva.

  159. 159.

    J R in WV

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    @Ken:

    Part of the deal was for SDNY to drop any pending charges.

    Why would he need to have SDNY to drop any charges, if he’s has a pardon? That dog won’t hunt.

    That’s a little mistake, they mean the Manhattan DA Vance, who is going to bring state charges, unless he gets paid off again. He’s (Vance is) nominally a Democratic DA, but really, whoever has the most money to contribute to his pocket.

  161. 161.

    Sloane Ranger

    Open thread so posting to say I have just watched The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice. Does this air in the US? If so, what do you think?

  165. 165.

    J R in WV

    @Jim Appleton:

    I think there have been a couple, so far, who were not received with any warmth. I forget their Nyms, but I recall the anger they were received with.

    But nothing compared to the 2016  election cycle.

  166. 166.

    SFBayAreaGal

    Watching Secrets of the Underground on the Science channel. I want to travel to the places they explored.

  167. 167.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @KithKanan: Clearly what he wants is for NY State to drop pending charges, but if he doesn’t know what to ask for, fuck him with a rusty chainsaw.

    I recall an old “Law & Order” episode in which a miscreant plea-bargained for all charges in “New York County” to be dropped. After the hearing where he pled guilty to other charges, cops arrested him as he walked out of the courtroom – & as he spluttered about their deal, the DA noted that the crimes had been committed in various parts of NYC – and “New York County” was only one of 5 counties within the city limits, so charges for anything done in Bronx, Queens, Kings (Brooklyn) or Richmond (Staten Island) Counties – some of which he had just confessed to as part of the plea bargain – were still active… :^D

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    Subsole

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: It sounded like Limbaugh had to cut him off at the end.

    That kind of shit is why I strongly doubt he is just gonna vanish when this is over.

    “But enough about me. What do YOU think of me?”

  170. 170.

    SectionH

    @trollhattan: I was very WTAF skeptical seeing the report this am. But y’know, off the looking glass…

    I don’t think Melania would agree, at least given a choice…

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    Fair Economist

    @Jim Appleton: Yeah, way fewer trolls, of any persuasion. Still lots in twitter comment threads, so my take is the paymasters are steering them away from more social communities, where they get called out and pied, to more anonymous ones where they face fewer controls.

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    SectionH

    @Sister Golden Bear: I’m sorry things are so tough for you right now. Worrying about your job, job-hunting, any and all of that shit is just awful at the best of times, never mind with the general appalling mess of this year. I hope things get less overwhelming for you very soon.

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    Sloane Ranger

    @debbie: No. It’s more like a light hearted commentary on that week’s episode complete with celebrity guests, outtakes, viewer bakes ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous and the baker sent home that week reminiscing about their time in the tent. It’s fun but very English.

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    Geminid

    @Sister Golden Bear: Depression is tough, and I don’t  know anyone who has put it behind them faster than one step at a time, and often it’s two steps forward one step back. But almost all paid work is needed and valuable, even if it doesn’t  pay well, and it usually brings contact with people even if done remotely. So work might make you happier even if you don’t use your highest skills, and it won’t prevent you from finding a better job. And I know regular exercize helps; very easy for me to say, a lot harder for you to do. But part of my heart goes out to anyone who is feeling depression hard, because I’ve been there. I hope things get brighter for you.

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