Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together

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Ahh. Let’s go back to last year at just about this time. Picture it, a young (sorta, if you squint) ingenue about to sign away their freedom – I mean, swear fealty to these United States of America that has nurtured and abused- trauma- wait, I gotta think. Made life interesting on a near daily basis for our person. Here’s pictures!

  • I Love It When A Plan Come Together 2
    Registered to vote the same day
  • I Love It When A Plan Come Together
    Getting all citizeny here
  • Making the best choice
  • A real ballot box, thank you

Well, I am pleased to report –

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

  • VOTE ACCEPTED BISHES!
  • Eating a sandwich of RESPONSIBLE VOTING
  • Santa Cruzing
  • Golden Gating

Not a bad birthing day present, using my power to vote. I like to think of us as a million middle fingers raised in a salute to the GOP. And it all happened thanks to you curmudgeonly lot. Here’s an update & open thread. Don’t bust up the joint. Plus, here’s the obligatory smug cats pictures.

  • Hime is pleased to not live with one of Those humans.
  • Odo is concerned you haven’t noticed how good looking he is.
Obligatory cat pics

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  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Just got the alert for the latest Rick Wilson/Molly Jong-Fast podcast, entitled: “Chill The Fuck Out: This Isn’t 2016”

  9. 9.

    danielx

    Most excellent birthday…and thanks for reminding me of why we worry and why we do as we do.

    Hime and Odo rule, though they do appear sadly malnourished when they see themselves in the mirror.

  11. 11.

    Benw

    Lol awesome. I’ve never seen a hand holding BUSINESS REPLY MAIL look as much like a middle finger as before

  18. 18.

    HumboldtBlue

    @ruemara:

    I got dozens and dozens of texts over the past few weeks and I made sure to respond to every damn one with a “thank you and I’m already on the team.”

    You volunteers are appreciated, trust me, even if it doesn’t seem so.

  20. 20.

    Yutsano

    Wait.
    What?
    BIRFDAY????
    Mine’s tomorrow! We’re (almost) birthday buds!!!!
    WOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!

    EDIT: お 誕生日 おめでとう ございます!!!

  23. 23.

    Redshift

    @HumboldtBlue: I’ve been getting a lot of nice responses to my campaign texts. There’s the usual scattering of people who are sick of the texts and asshole Republicans, but other than that, people are really psyched to vote and happy to share with someone when they have.

  24. 24.

    Mary G

    Happy Birthday, fellow citizen! I’ve been to a couple of those swearing in ceremonies; it’s always very dusty in the room. Plus a sunny day in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, no better place to be on earth. It was so monumental filling in that Biden/Harris box and getting the text and email back!

    @ruemara: New citizens are the bomb. Thank you for texting.

  25. 25.

    Benw

    Yo, yesterday my kids and I carved Jack o Lanterns, cause that’s what we do before Halloween. We’re not letting them go trick or treating (kids, not jack o lanterns), because we’ve already got people posting in the community Facebook page that they’re coming to the door WITHOUT MASKS to hand out candy because THEY DON’T LIVE IN FEAR. It sucks. On Saturday we’ll go to the botanical gardens, outdoors with masks so the kids can strut their awesome costumes, then come home to some scary games and a pinata we’ve STUFFED with candy. We’re priviledged to be able to do this. Happy birthday and damn the GOP for fucking up Halloween

  27. 27.

    Mary G

    Happy Birthday, fellow citizen! I’ve been to a couple of those swearing in ceremonies; it’s always very dusty in the room. Plus a sunny day in San Francisco and Santa Cruz, no better place to be on earth. It was so monumental filling in that Biden/Harris box and getting the text and email back!

    @ruemara: New citizens are the bomb. Thank you for texting.

    4-year-old twin girls dress up as Trump and Biden ahead of Halloween, 2020 election #Halloween2020 #Election2020 https://t.co/arSDsuFaYf pic.twitter.com/jmUy0lMDVs— KTVU (@KTVU) October 30, 2020

  29. 29.

    RaflW

    It’s not 2016, but the fuckery is afoot. If you requested a ballot by mail in MN, the instruction letter inside the packet says ballots postmarked by election day will be counted.

    Now a three judge panel of the 8th Circuit has ruled 2-1 that ballots received after 8pm Tuesday (by mail, I guess they mean?) must be segregated, and that further litigation is anticipated. So, yeah, MN voters. A US Circuit Court says – with less than 5 days to voting day, “oopsie, change of plans, disregard the info *from your election officials*.

    God damned GOP fuckery.

    Oh, and it doesn’t escape notice that if you’re in line to vote at 8pm Tuesday, election judges have to let you vote and your ballot is not provisional. But if the USPS stops by at 8:01, into the boo-boo pile it goes!

  30. 30.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Redshift:

    people are really psyched to vote and happy to share with someone when they have.

    Yup, that was me. If it came from a personal number with an introduction and name I responded warmly.

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    Love this photo caption in the SacBee:

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, left, drop off their tickets to Diane Hobler, right, after voting during COVID-19 protocols at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. RENÉE C. BYER [email protected]

    Bold mine. Thinking about putting it in a comment on Rod Dreher’s blog. He’ll either trash it or write 4,000-5,000 words on how it signals the doom of civilization. I kind of like having Doug Emhoff style himself Second Partner.

  37. 37.

    tokyokie

    Congratulations on your gaining your citizenship and voting, ruemara! Several years ago, during the Bush II administration (shortly before the fees for various components of the process were raised), the spousal unit got her citizenship, and as I looked around the room, I saw a family who were likely Muslim refugees from the former Yugoslavia, a family that was likely from Indonesia or Malaysia, several people who were likely from Africa, as well as lots of Chinese and Hispanics. And I thought, pretty much every one of these few dozen newly minted citizens won’t be voting  Republican. I called the local Democratic Party and left a message urging them to begin sending somebody to register the new citizens to vote, but I doubt anybody followed up on my suggestion.

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    @ruemara:

    Happy B day, happy voting and happy citizenship.

    It’s a screwed up place now, but most of us really want to make it better and make it worth your while to join us, and, thank you for helping to do that, by your joining us in being able and participating by helping to get out the vote.

  40. 40.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    I confess, I’m in a very strange mood, but the dropping of the ballot in the box brought a tear to my eye.

  44. 44.

    opiejeanne

    Happy birthday and congratulations on being able to vote.

    Your photos of SF are beautiful, but you’d better feed those kitties right quick because they’re starving, probably.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    re: military ballots

    …the rules on postmarks and deadlines are different for each state.

    For example, South Carolina allows military ballots to arrive through Nov. 5. Washington state has the most generous grace period, military ballots can arrive through Nov. 23 and still be counted.

    Several of the states that are considered critical for an Electoral College win also have sizable absentee military voting populations.

    For example in Pennsylvania, almost 8,400 service members voted by mail in 2016 and the state allows military ballots to arrive through Nov. 10. Florida will accept military ballots through Nov. 13. Source

  47. 47.

    J R in WV

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    .          HAPPY BIRFDAY ~!~!~~=!=

    Congratulations on the newish citizenship, thanks so much for voting for Joe and Kamala. Looks like you had a very nice birthday/election participation celebration. San Francisco, what a town. I didn’t realize you were there. Maybe we can take you out to dinner in a year or two, after the Trump Plague is overcome.

    Welcome to America ~!~

    I know you’ve been here for a long time, but just wanted to let you know lots of Jackals are glad you’re here and joined up. Take care and keep in touch. The cats are really cute. Why don’t you feed them some tuna on us!!

  48. 48.

    satby

    Now belated Happy Birthday ruemara, and congratulations on your first vote as a U.S. citizen! The good guys need all the help they can get.

    Do you live in Santa Cruz? The Mayor is a friend of my son’s (both of them, they all grew up together). So proud of what he’s accomplished.

  49. 49.

    Kathleen

    Happy Belated Birthday and congratulations! As Victor Laslo said to Rick in Casablanca, “Welcome to the fight. Now I know we will win.”

  50. 50.

    Spanish Moss

    Great post, and congrats!

    I turned in my ballot at a drop box yesterday. While I am glad to know that it was in time to be counted, I really missed the in-person experience. Something about standing in line with my fellow citizens to fulfill this important duty moves me every single time. Makes me feel part of something bigger than myself or my family.

    In 2016 I cried on the way home after voting, thinking that I had just voted for the first female president. And then I cried even more the next day. Hopefully I just voted for the first female VP.

  51. 51.

    Citizen_X

    Late to the party, as usual, but congrats on voting! Mission accomplished, new-ish fellow citizen!

  54. 54.

    laura

    Belated happy birthday – and many happy returns. This post has all the feels; cats and ballots and Bay Area beauty. Also, a sammich. Thank you citizen.

  55. 55.

    JAFD

    Happy happy birthday to you, RueMara. and many many more !

    Congratulations on your USA citizenship.  We’ll all try to make sure you never regret it.

     

    PS.  Please pet the kittehs on my behalf

  56. 56.

    BruceFromOhio

    Happy Birthday to a fellow Scorpion! May all your sandwiches be RESPONSIBLE VOTING sandwiches!

    Love Santa Cruz, years past there was a Santa parade the first Friday in December down N. Pacific – a very memorable experience. And some UC:SC students would do a-Capella carols in front of a building near Church Street. Just a marvelous time and place. I hope you enjoy it there!

  57. 57.

    AJ

    Happy birthday and way to make this happen!! You did it!

    Am moved and inspired by your example

    Hope to follow in your footsteps when I trust our immigration bureaucracy again.

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