Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

So many bastards, so little time.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Please don’t feed the bears.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

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.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Let me file that under fuck it.

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

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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  3. 3.

    lowtechcyclist

    According to @taniel, Georgia residents who aren’t registered to vote have until December 7 to register for the January 5 runoffs.  Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight is still registering people.  Just sayin’.

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    @Yarrow:

    That has to be the most Trump thing ever–utterly on brand.

    “I’m being treated so unfairly” needs to be on his tombstone. Soon is fine.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    More and more each day, Trumpers remind me of the bank robber in the old joke:

    ”ALL RIGHT, MOTHERSTICKERS! THIS IS A FUCK-UP!”

  13. 13.

    download my app in the app store mistermix

    Of all the things I won’t miss about Trump, it’s the whining that I won’t miss the most.

  14. 14.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Cheryl Rofer: I’m surprised at Nambe, but even there the margin is…large. I wonder if more non-Puebloans voted at the Nambe site than at most of the others, contributing to a higher Trump percentage. Will ask around.

    And LOL to your deliciously incisive tweet.

  15. 15.

    Steve in the ATL

    Question for the environmentalists:

    Are wool dryer balls a great way to save energy and reduce the use of chemical-laden dryer sheets, or are they simply overpriced tennis balls?  My golden retriever are having a difference of opinion.

    TIA!

  18. 18.

    patroclus

    %$#@!!!  Clark County Registrar says that we’ll have to wait til tomorrow for final votes there.  And now he’s saying that even then, it won’t be final for various types of ballots.  And he’s saying Saturday or Sunday for mail ballots.  And 11/12 is the ultimate deadline for all others.

  22. 22.

    narya

    @Steve in the ATL: I personally hate and never use dryer sheets. However! i hear that the wool balls are a good choice, and I’m finally going to try them, to address wrinkles; Zum soap is having a big sale til friday (indigowild is their address), so you can get them for less if you want.

  24. 24.

    Old School

    Nevada mail ballots are accepted until next Tuesday.  Rejected ballots cans be cured until the 12th.  As a result, Nevada won’t be final until Friday the 13th.

  25. 25.

    trollhattan

    @narya:

    The spouse took a couple of fabric science classes (yeah, they exist is all I know) and learned those dryer sheets make fabrics more flammable. FWIW.

    Am personally not fond of detergent or any product that scents clothing. Also hate shampoo that smells like food.

  32. 32.

    Tony Jay

    @download my app in the app store mistermix:

    I’ll miss the various nicknames. Four years of working out the most insulting, incisive, and yet pithy alternatives to calling any of these hate-cannons by their given names has been a most pleasant passtime. Like constructing a haiku, only without the need for talent or ability.

    But it’s over now. (Weeps)

  33. 33.

    Soprano2

    I think it’s hilarious that Trump’s followers believe that Fox News calling AZ for Biden actually means anything! Do they know that it’s the actual vote count that matters, and not what they see on Fox News?

    Oh, and Cheryl’s tweet made me ROFLMAO. That’s going to be my response to all their tears when Biden is finally declared the winner. I’ve had to listen to four years of “fuck your feelings, libtard, suck it” from them, so the least I can do is return the favor.

  36. 36.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Ralston is the premier political reporter in Nevada.

  40. 40.

    hw3

    We know the buses would end up leaving because they aren’t getting paid, so milling mobs of country bumpkins standing around in the winter weather of Detroit and Philly would be a site to see. Go Cheryl!

  41. 41.

    Old School

    Most Clark County ballots should be counted by this weekend.  They will give another update at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow.

  50. 50.

    Amir Khalid

    @Eric NNY:

    Cheryl evidently has the same policy on profanity that I do: use it but sparingly, so that when you bring it out, it really packs a wallop.

  51. 51.

    anon

    So here is a funny story to take some edge off. Shortly after the 2016 election, I posted about how I noticed one of my tenants (minimum wage jobs) had a massive Trump banner in their living room window, and I asked if it would be bad to jack up their rent. I ended up  increasing their rent 5% a year because, capitalism.

    Fast forward to 2019. They told me they weren’t renewing their lease , as quote, “we bought a house.” This wasn’t unusual as there were many safe Detroit suburbs where you could buy a house for $150k. But when they moved out and texted me their forwarding address, my jaw hit the fucking floor. It was a street address for a upper middle class suburb, where if you told people you lived there, they would assume $500k mcmansion . I thought to myself, damn , maybe Trump did help them do really well. So I google street view’d the address. It was a trailer park.

  53. 53.

    prostratedragon

    Cute how he thinks no one has ever been pissed-offer than they, whose pissed-offness is like unto the annoyance at a fly, in comparison to some.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @trollhattan:

    Am personally not fond of detergent or any product that scents clothing.

    Nor do I. Several brands make unscented detergents, dryer sheets, etc.

    Also hate shampoo that smells like food.

    “Mmmmm, your hair smells like pork chops!”

  60. 60.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @narya: the dryer sheets (and also liquid fabric softener) coat the laundry with waxy/surfactant substances https://home.howstuffworks.com/dryer-sheets.htm. I personally use liquid fabric softener on most of my clothes (excluding the workout/bicycle clothes) and vinegar instead of fabric softener for the towels (as I want the towels to soak up water).

     

    And I also use a wool dryer ball (most of the time-sometimes it gets stuck in a load and gets transferred out of the dryer) I haven’t used dryer sheets in years as I’m not all that keen on having wax-coated dryer lint around.

  62. 62.

    zzyzx

    Mean to post this here. Oops.

    PA SoS said that there are about 550k votes left.

    So…. current gap 112k, 550k left…. Biden just needs to split the rest of the vote about 60/40 to catch up. He’s far out pacing it. (OK, 60.181818…%)

  70. 70.

    zzyzx

    @Baud:

    I was giving the number to catch up, not what he was getting. My point is that he was doing far better than what he needs. It just has to keep going!

  78. 78.

    Subsole

    @hw3: Again, the people who won’t leave their house in broad daylight without enough throw-weight to equip a fireteam…

    Are gonna go catch hands…

    From Detroit???

    Like, I get the little weasel is trying to drum up another Kenosha klan killer. But seriously? That ain’t a lesson y’all want to learn, kids. Not after the last 4 years.

    These people are terrified of cities as tame as Dallas, and they’re gonna army up and roll through Philly? Do they not listen to their own propaganda?

  82. 82.

    zzyzx

    @Subsole: yep. That’s why everyone is so confident but I’m still here like, “Yeah I see the math but I still need for it to happen first! I mean what if 150,000 people accidentally forgot to vote for president or something?”

  84. 84.

    zzyzx

    OK, if Biden wins, what will be the call that puts him over the 270 count on AP?

    I figure in descending order of likeliness

    1) PA
    2) NV/AZ
    3) GA/AZ
    4) GA/NV (AZ rescinded)
    5) NC/AZ
    6) NC/NV (AZ rescinded)

  88. 88.

    Ohio Mom

    Cat club: There is a wide variety of approaches among Jews who keep kosher; one person’s method might not pass muster with another.

    There can be a fair amount of cattiness involved in judging another household’s adherence to what the judger thinks proper (“I was in her house and I saw (disputed brand of food) in her pantry”).

    At any rate, yes, bacon is off limits but there is a such thing as kosher beef fry, which is something of a substitute. And many would accept vegetarian “bacon” and “sausage”, as well as Baco’s (do they make them any more?).

    Pendant off.

    I keep thinking that today should feel like waiting for a very pregnant family or friend to give birth: Is she in labor yet? Did they leave for the hospital? and so on. Happy anticipation, excitement about the new arrival.

    Instead I feel like we are on a death watch.

  93. 93.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @zzyzx: That’s a little closer than I’d like, but PA mailins were running about 65% Democratic, 25% Republican, 10% no party.

    If anyone wants to obsessively watch the PA count vote by vote, the official Counting Dashboard is here.

    They’re showing a total of 2,612,841 ballots and there were 2,506,557 as of Election Day. So I guess they’ve gotten about 100,000 late ballots. And that’s not saying they were postmarked late, just arrived late.

    What principle do Trumpidiots think they’re following by demanding that votes cast and sitting in the election office before the election should not be counted?

    Biden had won 78 percent of the mail votes counted as of this morning.”

    Well, that’s a little more comfortable than 65%. The 65% number I gave above is based only on Democrats, and technically we don’t know if Biden got 100% of registered Democrats. But he probably got a nonzero percentage of the Republicans and we’ve already heard that independents are breaking for Biden.

  94. 94.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Quinerly: My theory is that conservative Hispanics and Anglos who live in the area happened to vote at the Nambe site. Don’t know for sure, though. Will ask a friend who lives near there.

  95. 95.

    Splitting Image

    @zzyzx:

    OK, if Biden wins, what will be the call that puts him over the 270 count on AP?

    I figure in descending order of likeliness

    1) PA
    2) NV/AZ
    3) GA/AZ
    4) GA/NV (AZ rescinded)
    5) NC/AZ
    6) NC/NV (AZ rescinded)

    It’s going to be PA. Nevada might finish counting first but they’re going to stall on calling it until Arizona confirms that Biden won. They’ll have egg on their faces if they put Biden over 270 then have to recant.

    If Biden does win NC or GA, it will almost certainly be pending a recount. PA should be finished counting before that happens.

    So I’d put my quatloos on PA for the call, although I guess there’s an outside chance that both NV and AZ confirm before PA does. PA also looks like it will have the safest margin for Biden when this is all done, so we’ll probably hear a call not too long after Biden takes the lead.

  96. 96.

    Brachiator

    @Ohio Mom: 

    Cat club: There is a wide variety of approaches among Jews who keep kosher; one person’s method might not pass muster with another.

    Hmmm. Is mustard kosher?

    There can be a fair amount of cattiness involved in judging another household’s adherence to what the judger thinks proper (“I was in her house and I saw (disputed brand of food) in her pantry”).

    How bout ketchup?

    At any rate, yes, bacon is off limits but there is a such thing as kosher beef fry, which is something of a substitute. And many would accept vegetarian “bacon” and “sausage”, as well as Baco’s (do they make them any more?).

    Semi-seriously, how has “impossible meat” and similar products been accepted?

    Pendant off.

    They give pedants pendants?

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