Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

This blog will pay for itself.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

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

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

All hail the time of the bunny!

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The willow is too close to the house.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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I can understand the thrill of competitive shopping, but not the aggressive ‘conservative’ whinging about how everyone has to publicly applaud your every action. Ooooh, you get to do what you like, with only the tiniest modifications to your usual routine! What a bold free spirit! Yay, snowflake!

Medieval proverb: Take what you want, and pay for it, says God.

Speaking of pissy little snowflakes…

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  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    Is the clip in that last tweet real?  I can’t tell anymore.

    Also, too:  “mask Karens”? Jesús, María y José.

  3. 3.

    Anne Laurie

    @Jerzy Russian: The first part, AFAICT, where Trump yells at the reporters, is real.  And so is the image of Trump ‘dancing’… but that’s photoshopped in from one of his pre-election rallies.

  4. 4.

    West of the Rockies

    Republicans are addicted to playing the victim.  If there is a cross to climb, a dirge to be sung, a lamentation to be wailed, and–especially–a camera to sob into, Republicans will go full Sarah Bernhardt.

  5. 5.

    Achrachno

    I’m getting old and stupid, I guess.  That Trump video made no sense to me, and not just because T. was talking.  Was that a cat or a guinea pig?  What was I supposed to take from this?

  6. 6.

    Another Scott

    @Achrachno: It’s just making fun of Donnie via a mashup of videos of 1) one of his press beratement sessions; 2) him “dancing” at a couple of his COVID rallies; 3) the famous bopping cat.

    It’s well done – note the cat in the videos on the monitors and the shadow of Donnie on the wall.

    HTH!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  7. 7.

    Brachiator

    The country would be better of if Trump did nothing but his goofy dance from now until January 20.

    Oh man, that clip is so well done!

    Great music selection as well. It’s got a nice beat; you can dance to it.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    I can understand the thrill of competitive shopping

    What is “competitive shopping” and what is the thrill?

  10. 10.

    Kent

    Well Geez….who remembers Bush asking everyone to go shopping after 9-11 as a form of national sacrifice or something?

    That’s the GOP way.  When the going gets tough the tough go shopping.  It’s your fucking patriotic duty.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Brachiator: The country would be better of if Trump did nothing but his goofy dance from now until January 20 Dump, Dense, all of their family, all of the cabinet and the rest of this Soviet shitpile mobster conman bastard administration threw themselves into an active volcano.

    Fixed.

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Kent: Well Geez….who remembers Bush asking everyone to go shopping after 9-11 as a form of national sacrifice or something?

    I do!  War criminal Bush can hop in a lava lake too.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mary G:

    Interesting that there are seven words/term in that list. Like George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV.”

    The WaPo article is from late 2017. I wonder whether the directive still remains in place. I feel as though I’ve heard CDC officials use the term “vulnerable” to refer to high-risk individuals, but perhaps those are health experts from non-HHS agencies.

  22. 22.

    PeakVT

    @mrmoshpotato:  I can understand there might be a bit of excitement if you are bidding at Sotheby’s or Barrett-Jackson. At Wally World, I have no idea what the thrill might be.

  24. 24.

    Jay

    @PeakVT:

    at Wally World, it’s not a bid, a money competition, it’s physical, combining track and field, with MMA.

    oh, and “Outbreak”,…..

  25. 25.

    WereBear

    @mrmoshpotato: The “thrill” is exercising power. “I’m Cult of the Savvy! I never pay full retail!”

    I wonder if they would be any different if this was an actual Zombie Virus. “Not everybody turns into a Zombie. And my mother-in-law is exactly the same. You’re just trying to scare me.”

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jay: at Wally World, it’s not a bid, a money competition, it’s physical, combining track and field, with MMA.

    Even in nice, friendly Canadia?

  28. 28.

    Jay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    yurp.

    Co workers told me that half of the shit, ( and it is shit), in the “Black Friday” flyer, which was supposed to start Monday, only arrived today, Covid.

    And Order Online and Contactless Delivery is down 40%.

    Assaults are up 22%.

    Lucky I wrote off a Shingle Hatchet for Tool Rental Use back in February when nobody was paying attention.

  33. 33.

    Jay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    so, you didn’t hear about the poisonous rats?

    cute, black and white, fluffy,

    chew then groom with Poison Arrow Tree bark mixed with saliva, into specialty hairs designed to hold the poison, and yet, for some reason, ( they haven’t figured it out yet), aren’t affected.

    Every thing that bites them or handles them is.

    So when confronted, their whole attitude is, “what, you want a piece of me?” , really?  then, saunter off.

    It’s been a weird year so far, we could use less weird.

    I don’t know about Werebear’s MIL issues. I don’t get to read every comment these days. Brain fog amongst other stuff.

  34. 34.

    Geminid

    Since a few days after the election I’ve been trying to listen to less news, more classical music on my commute. I was amused the other day to hear that French composer Offenbach wrote music for a Snowflake Ballet.

  35. 35.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Assholes demand to be praised for being assholes.  This is central to Republicanism and has been for at least a decade, because it’s an extension of their demand to be praised for being racists and that has been central since Reagan.  Trump’s election was specifically about that demand.  They wanted, not just a racist, but a raging and idiot asshole to validate them.  They got it, and they’re having a hissy fit that life is reining in that freedom to be the worst human being they can be.  They are, in fact, entirely willing to die for it as long as that requires no effort or doing anything scary.  They glory in other people dying for it.

  36. 36.

    Jay

    @mrmoshpotato:

    sorry if my humour is dark.

    Dec 23, I have an MRI and CT scheduled.

    Based on those results, they will decide if I have to have 1/2 of my right lung carved out, 1/4 of my left lung, and roughly 1/3 of my kidney, because of Covid.

  38. 38.

    Jay

    @rikyrah:

    sadly, it is what it it is.

    Strokes are a big deal in my family, since 1945.

    Before then, It was Nazis.

    Weird times.

    Thank you.❤️❤️❤️❤️

  40. 40.

    Aleta

    {{ @Jay: }} ? ?  Please keep us informed how you’re doing.   Of anything at all, incl. depression if you wish (which would be understandable).  If it helps to write.  ? ?

  41. 41.

    Jay

    @Barbara:

    @Aleta:

    I will post, as I can,

    others here are dealing too.

    Will try to keep it less “Dawn of the Dead” and more “Zombie Land” or “Shawn of the Dead”.

  42. 42.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Whiny ass titty baby is now a thing among “conservatives”, who should be dragged, kicking and screaming, back under the rocks from which they oozed.

  43. 43.

    RSA

    @Mary G: That article is from 2017.  It turns out that if you search (for example) for “vulnerable” and “covid” on cdc.gov, you get some hits.

  44. 44.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    The ghost f Hugo Chavez ordered a War on Black Friday and I missed the memo?

    Won’t anyone thinking of our sacred consumer traditions.?

  45. 45.

    Ksmiami

    @Jay: oh dear I’m so sorry- I hope they find that whatever damage you sustained can be healed though as there is so much we are learning about the disease and that for every innocent Suffering a Republican gets it double…

  46. 46.

    HeartlandLiberal

    FWIW, the Federalist Bot posting that is a self-declared satire account, “powered by P.A.R.O.D.Y. Engine.” I know, I know, it is very hard to tell the difference anymore.

  48. 48.

    different-church-lady

    @Jay: Meh. We’ve now got “Don’t touch the wooly catapillars if they’re white — those are toxic.”

  50. 50.

    J R in WV

    @Jay:

    Sorry to hear of your exposure to Modern Medicine, which as wonderful as it can be is also invasive and uncomfortable at best.

    Best wishes for the minimal interference needed to restore your health. Strokes aren’t the killer they once were, hoping Covid effects aren’t either.

    Thinking of you.

    ==============================================================

    @Geminid:

    less news, more classical music

    I recently heard a long performance of Erik Satie’s solo piano music, on election evening, actually, to avoid getting upset as the numbers came in slowly and inaccurately  – Gymnopedies, ran several hours, almost hypnotic.

    So I clicked on the Balloon Juice Amazon link and looked up Satie, and ordered a set of CDs with all Satie’s solo piano music. Then, getting carried away, I ordered all of Debussy and all of Ravel. Yay, I thought.

    Unfortunately, I learned that the reason such recordings aren’t more popular is that all composers write their best pieces, their better pieces, and their not so good pieces. So now I have to weed out the not-so-good things from the huge amount of things I have on hand.

    The point of all this is that Wife and I have tinnitus, we hear background noise, buzzing, humming, etc, all the time. So far it only bothers us when there is no actual sound to distract us, as in at bedtime. So out family doctor recommended listening to soothing music in the bedroom, which really works.

    I am able to concentrate on the music, note by note, and it not only distracts me from the tinnitus sounds, but from other thought processes, like The Donald and what he will be up to tomorrow…

    But selecting the music is important, you don’t want The Stones on there, for example, or the 1812 Overture with cannons. I love Rachmaninoff, but it isn’t good sleeping music, too much drama.

  51. 51.

    StringOnAStick

    @Jay: I’m so sorry about the impacts Covid has had on you.  I sincerely hope that your upcoming imaging studies show no need to do any of these surgeries and that anticoagulant drugs can be The answer.  The only positive thing is that as a Canadian you won’t go bankrupt from the medical costs like an American could.  The kind of work you do would most likely be a job without health insurance here.

  52. 52.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Jay: @Mary G: 82 more days ‘till sanity,….

    Is something significant allegedly happening on 18 Feb? Or is  arithmetic incompetence another one of your signature skills?

    @mrmoshpotato: @Jay: Stop being a dicknose.  You are disgracing your country.

    Ya know, Moshie, there ain’t a lot we agree on, but this is one of those stopped-clock moments that come twice a day. Well played!

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