Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

How stupid are these people?

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Second rate reporter says what?

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

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Friday Evening Open Thread: Clown Cars Full of Crash Dummies

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  2. 2.

    MJS

    It is an absolute clown car, and the Supreme Court should get off their asses and end this shit right now.

  3. 3.

    Kent

    Anyone on twitter following what is happening with the TX SCOTUS case?  Have they thrown it out yet?

  6. 6.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: Maura Healey has been awesome! My two minute claim to fame, I have been on a Zoom call earlier  this year with her. It was some kind of a campaign training session before the convention.

  7. 7.

    Karen S.

    Good evening, everyone. To soothe myself as this absurd and dangerous exercise to steal the election plays out, I’ve been doing my holiday baking. I started a bit later than I normally would, about a week ago, because I figured, “Why bother?” We can’t and won’t hold our annual holiday party as an in-person event, but my wife encouraged me to bake anyway. It makes me happy and we can deliver baked goods to family and friends while wearing masks and socially distancing instead of them eating them at our party. My wife has planned a Zoom holiday party, so while we can’t do an in-person party, we can invite people to our Zoom event who live across the U.S. and around the world. It’ll be fun, just in a different way. (So far, I’ve made butterscotch cookies, kitchen sink cookies and cut-out sugar cookies. snickerdoodles, dulce de leche sandwich cookies, pinwheel cookies and gingersnaps are on the way!)

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    cain

    Even better is that some lawyers filed amicus brief on behalf of New California and New Nevada. We have gone off the rails crazy now and now a laughing stock for the rest of the world. They are all laughing at us.

    The SCOTUS is reduced to this now. An entire party ready to throw out the election results but also filings from individuals representing states that don’t exist.

  10. 10.

    Brachiator

    It’s 37 days after election, all 50 states certified, 306 electoral votes confirmed for Biden, won by 7 million votes nationwide, Trump has lost 55 court cases, no evidence of fraud & yet he’s still trying to overturn election results & 90% of GOP is complicit

    Next week may see the end of two farces.

    In the US, the Electoral College will be meeting and slam down Trump’s idiotic attempt to steal the election.

    In the UK, Boris Johnson may have to finally own the consequences of his lies and evasions about BREXIT.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    They’re weak people who can’t handle living in a democracy. They want an American Erdogan, Orban, Putin.

    Either that, or they’re too weak to stand up to one.

    Or, they want to be the American Orban. Do with smarts (ed., they think) what trump almost blundered and blind-squirrel-sniffed his way into. I haven’t been through the list, but I’m pretty comfortable saying Dan Crenshaw would like to stand on a balcony under banners bearing his image. Cruz, Hawley and Haley all seem to think they could successfully ride that tiger. I’m vaguely surprised that, as I understand, Liz “Dick Jr” Cheney is not on the list.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Colette

    Rain! RAIN! You guys, it’s RAINING!

    We (California generally and the Bay Area specifically) need this so much. Drought has been the dried-up, sour old pickle on the shit sandwich that is 2020.

    RAIN!

  15. 15.

    Mike in NC

    Has any of Trump’s minions told him about the Person of the Year thing yet? I picture him chewing on the Resolute desk.

  16. 16.

    RSA

    I’m not especially knowledgeable about the law or even politics, but I’m okay at basic logic:

    The ballots in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin contain votes for President and for members of Congress. Throwing out those ballots means that the elections of 54 House Representatives should also come into question. Should those elections be overturned as well? Remarkably, 16 Republican Congressmen from those four states signed on to an amicus brief. As soon as they volunteer to give up their position, I’ll trust their sincerity.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @Karen S.:

    Would you be willing to share your cookie recipes with TaMara so she could feature them in a food thread?

    Also, what are “kitchen sink” cookies? Sounds as though you toss in more or les whatever you have kicking around cluttering up your spice cabinet, but there has to be some kind of underlying theme.

    Anyhow, it all sounds delicious and I wish you could share with Jackals.

  18. 18.

    CaseyL

    @cain: It’s complete batshittery.  LaLa Land.  Utterly insane.

    Also a logical extension of the sovereign citizen bullshit the GOP has been playing footsie with for the last 10+ years.

    It’s perfectly obvious the GOP, root and branch, is out to destroy the US, and they figure there will never be as good a chance to do so as now.

  20. 20.

    Dan B

    @cain:  We should alert ICE that people are sneaking into the US from New California and New Nevada.  It’s our patriotic duty!

  21. 21.

    Mary G

    Speaking as a resident of New Tennessee, and the only member of the New Tennessee Bar Association, the results of the presidential and senate elections in Tennessee are fraudulent and should be invalidated.— Randal Cooper has all your cwab related content (@fancycwabs) December 11, 2020

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    burnspbesq

    @Kent:

    The Supreme Court website says that the court will release an orders list at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, and may release opinions on Monday. That would be cutting it close vis-a-vis the Electoral College vote. Hopefully they will dispose of Texas v. Pennsylvania some time over the weekend.

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    burnspbesq

    Steve Vladeck on Twitter:

    SCOTUS doesn’t move fast. Ever. The fact that it hasn’t said anything yet about Texas’s overturn-the-election suit is evidence of exactly *nothing*, and folks telling you otherwise are wrong. The anxiety is understandable, but don’t read things into silence here

  30. 30.

    hitchhiker

    Open thread?

    Here’s my reality: Daughter #2 is expecting twins a week before the inauguration. Her epic pandemic pregnancy has been a warm light shining on our family since last spring, challenging again and again my resolve to keep my hands and mind to myself. For example, I am a person who skips to the end of a book I’m enjoying because I enjoy reading it more when I’m not anxiously wondering what’s going to happen. She and her beautiful spouse are adamantly refusing to learn the gender of these babies; they have the ultrasound techs warn them when the camera might spoil the surprise, so they can look away.

    Gahhhhhhh.

    The babies now weigh about 5# each, with 5 weeks to go before they induce labor/do the caesarean, depending on whether or not they’ve shifted to be both head down. She lives about an hour away, part of which is a ferry ride between our island and her peninsula, and tomorrow we’re going to have a very careful visit.

    This is my world when I’m not obsessing over republican traitors, and boy am I grateful for it.

  31. 31.

    TS (the original)

    @Baud:

    They are indeed. This was Josh Shapiro talking to Nicolle Wallace about the GOP members of congress supporting the Texas case to the SCOTUS

    They need either a surgeon to repair their spines or a psychologist to examine their brains

  33. 33.

    Karen S.

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    You’re right about kitchen sink cookies in that they do tend to be loaded with lots of stuff, but from the recipes I’ve come across they all generally have chocolate chips or chunks, potato chips, pretzels and/or nuts, toffee, sometimes dried fruit and shredded coconut.

    Would I email her the recipes?

  36. 36.

    Dan B

    @Mary G:  I am the Supreme Leader of New Idaho and it includes all the pretty parts of Montana and Wyoming!!  Just because I have been there and deemed the inhabitants worthy of my simply-devine omnipotence.

    Prepare yourself for further proclamations!!!

  39. 39.

    burnspbesq

    @debbie:

    Paxton is a third-rate lawyer with great instincts for pushing Texas crackpots’ buttons. This abomination is the opening salvo in his 2022 re-election campaign.

  40. 40.

    Anonymous At Work

    Sad part is that the National Bullshit Radar works perfectly. FOX “News” has just convinced half the people that it’s the National Truthteller-and-Great-Leader Radar instead.

  42. 42.

    Anotherlurker

    @Comrade Colette:  Being a L.I.er, fairly recently re-located to the East Bay, I can say that I’m enjoying the sprinkles and the overcast.
    I would love to see a multi-day soaker .

  43. 43.

    Tony Jay

    @hitchhiker:

    Oh now that sounds truly wonderful. Something totally nice to look forward to.

    Twins. It’s like most of the ‘family’ work is done in one swell foop.

  44. 44.

    Punchy

    @burnspbesq: still seems excessive to keep the country’s pysche on hold for a whole ‘kend.  If someone hands me a shit sando with a side of dung chips and Pepsi Max, I dont need an entire weekend to figure out Im not eating this meal….

  50. 50.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: Yeah, I figured they wouldn’t come within a million miles of even ruling on the merits, this thing is so absurd. Lack of standing is pretty obvious.

  52. 52.

    Ralphie

    I’m vaguely surprised that, as I understand, Liz “Dick Jr” Cheney is not on the list.

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Surprise, surprise…Rep. Cheney is one of the good guys on this one.  She’s on Trump’s shitlist because she has been publicly calling for his concession.  He no like.

  58. 58.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Ralphie: I despise her, but I’d like to lock her and trump in a room for five minutes. I think she’d walk out of an empty room, belching and picking the last of him out of teeth.

  61. 61.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Karen S.:

    Yes, please email her. Can’t wait to see especially the recipes for your butterscotch cookies and gingersnaps. Yum yum yum.

  62. 62.

    There go two miscreants

    Since this is an open thread: my calendar arrived today, looks very nice!

    I had also ordered some seasonal card from CafePress, and they arrived a couple of days ago. My total order was 24 cards — two packs of 10 and 4 singles; they arrived in six separate packages, each package also including 24 envelopes!!

  69. 69.

    geg6

    @burnspbesq:

    He and his team are pretty damn impressive.  Took on the Catholic Church and UPMC, two very deep pocketed and influential behemoths here in PA.  He has balls of steel.

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    burnspbesq

    It should not be lost in the shuffle that Alito and Thomas would have granted leave to file, but “no other relief.” It’s unanimous on lack of standing.

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