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After roe, women are no longer free.

A consequence of cucumbers

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

I really should read my own blog.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Good lord, these people are nuts.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    Yutsano, I just heard from you Mom.  She asked me to pass this message along to you:

    What the hell are you thinking?  It’s cold in Seattle at that time, and meeting indoors would be not only risky but terribly foolish.

    Signed, your mom

  2. 2.

    Urza

    Can’t promise the weather, but I have a nice roofed deck over in Sammamish that would be good for at least a few people to be mostly distanced.  If its good weather and someone brings chairs I also have a second uncovered deck.  Can do some grilling or something.

  8. 8.

    sphouch

    There are all sorts of locations around where you can socially distance a get-together.  Wineries, breweries, Interbay golf center, the Lauren Culp for Governor campaign hq…

  9. 9.

    opiejeanne

    Dear Yutsano, I love you and I love BJ meetups, but we’re not even having our quarantined kids over on Thanksgiving, so I’m sorry but we’ll have to say no to this time.

  10. 10.

    Dan B

    @Urza: Covered deck sounds fine.  I have a 10 x 10 fabric shelter, portable, and some umbrellas that could waterproof your other deck if it isn’t too windy.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit party, now wants to rebrand it, per this post in The Guardian’s coronavirus liveblog:

    Nigel Farage plans to rebrand the Brexit Party as an anti-lockdown party called Reform UK, the party leader has announced in an article in the Telegraph where he says “it is time to redirect our energies”.

    The plans to change the name are subject to approval of the Electoral Commission.

  13. 13.

    J R in WV

     

    I would fly to Seattle for a meetup, but for the Trump Plague.

    I persist in calling the current plague that — Trump Plague

  14. 14.

    H.E.Wolf

    My partner and I are being prudent for the foreseeable future, so I’ll be skipping in-person meetups for a while.  Ask me again in 2022. :)

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    To be fair I’m not asking anyone to commit to anything. I’m just gauging if there’s any interest. I will be over on Saturday now and I will have many other points of interest to explore. I’ll leave it open but it won’t be my last trip. And I am going to work on ending my exile next year.

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    @H.E.Wolf: Let’s go for this: after I have moved (which will be early 2022 hopefully) and Covid is under control we do a housewarming meet-up?

  18. 18.

    gene108

    @WaterGirl:

    What the hell are you thinking? It’s cold in Seattle at that time, and meeting indoors would be not only risky but terribly foolish.

    Words of wisdom. Best thing for all of us to do is avoid each other as much as possible.

    Please call the Seattle meet-up off. It’s so damn foolish.

  20. 20.

    Calouste

    @Amir Khalid: 
    Why does the Electoral Commission need to get involved in renaming Brexit Party plc into Reform Party plc? Shouldn’t that just go to Company House? (Yes my American friends, the Brexit Party is a for profit company masquerading as a political party, with Farage as one of its three directors. People can’t become members, but they can make donations. It’s a level of grift that even the shitgibbon must be jealous of. )

  23. 23.

    HinTN

    @J R in WV: I second that sentiment. I, too, would delightedly load up on the BNA – SEA direct flight to make this scene. Alas, the Trump Plague prevents my attendance this time.

    Y’all have a wonderful, safely separated time on that there back deck.

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Amir Khalid: Nigel Farage is a whiny, bratty, stupid child.

    He can rebrand once he gives the NHS £350 million per month (or was the lie per week?).

  27. 27.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Amir Khalid: I saw some video he made about pushing back against the lockdown in England, and he was obviously not in England at all but in the atrium of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. It kind of undercut the message.

  28. 28.

    chopper

    100,000 cases a day in the us so i’m hunkering down like a motherfucker. meetup is no bueno for now.

  29. 29.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Yutsano: Let’s go for this: after I have moved (which will be early 2022 hopefully) and Covid is under control we do a housewarming meet-up?

      Once both are really truly true, then yes!

  30. 30.

    CaseyL

    I’d have to see what the venue is. I’m waiting to go online for some phone banking, so I can’t linger, but has a Zoom meetup already been ruled out?

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    @CaseyL: No, i promised some zoom meetups and then it got lost in the shuffle of the crazy last few months.  But we could make that happen once things settle down a bit.  Let’s see what the next week brings.

  32. 32.

    Emma

    Just to add that cases in King County have been increasing quite a lot, even more than the April numbers. I’m convinced that the only reason we haven’t regressed to phase 1 or official shutdown is because of the election. Sorry, Yutsano, another year :(

  33. 33.

    Fair Economist

    @Amir Khalid:

    Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit party, now wants to rebrand it, per this post in The Guardian’s coronavirus liveblog:

    Nigel Farage plans to rebrand the Brexit Party as an anti-lockdown party called Reform UK, the party leader has announced in an article in the Telegraph where he says “it is time to redirect our energies”.

    Killing the economy wasn’t enough, so now he wants to kill all the people too?

  35. 35.

    The Enderville Phantom

    Masking and length of time together: The factoring of COVID-19 transmission. With that in mind, it is possible … for a impromptu waving as we order take out at more or less the same time someplace. In that way maybe we could bond over signing John Cole’s holiday card on a table, with hand sanitizer bottle nearby for the pen, one at a time, distancing and writing, “Seasons Greetings from all of us” before departing. The weather may be iffy as November rolls on for outdoor walks around Green Lake, Carkeek Park after Dick’s hamburgers, etc. Who can say? Be safe.

  36. 36.

    hotshoe

    I’d love the excuse for a trip to Seattle, but …

    November average weather is high of 51, low 43, and 15 days of rain per month. That doesn’t sound like quite so much fun. Cool and damp. Not as bad as, say, South Dakota, but … I’d rather be taking a trip to warm and dry instead.

  37. 37.

    thalarctosMaritimus

    I prefer to think of it this way–it takes a pandemic and an economic crash to keep me away from a Seattle BJ meetup.

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