Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

White supremacy is terrorism.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Books are my comfort food!

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

Democrats are back in array!

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

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KEEP YOUR GOAT SMELLING ASS AT HOME

This is a fucking disaster and apparently I was wrong earlier this year when I predicted all this and said “at least this will be an opportunity for America to learn about the concept of exponential growth” because we haven’t learned a fucking thing.

Why is everyone so stupid and selfish?

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  3. 3.

    debbie

    Used to be they predicted 300,000 deaths by the end of the week. It now appears we’ll hit the 300,000 mark this weekend or early next week at the latest. These assholes with their lawsuits are drenched in the blood of the countless lives they chose not to save.

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    Republicans insist that America needs our very own Putin. After being rejected twice by the electorate, they still want to cram him down our throats.

  5. 5.

    Cameron

    It is pretty discouraging.  I have to go to West Bradenton every month to have my INR checked, and the number of mask-less people on the bus has been increasing for the last three months.  Last I checked, Florida was still getting slapped around pretty good by COVID-19  Though I was treated to the spectacle today of a dude apparently using the mask to hold his chin on, since he wasn’t covering either nose or mouth.

  6. 6.

    Scout211

    Speaking of selfish and stupid. . . At our little local grocery store, we observed a woman with no face mask in the produce section COUGHING!  My husband might or might not have used a swear word or two.

  8. 8.

    BretH

    Also consider staying home a gift to the younger ones – even though my 16yo daughter outwardly copes I have to remember this is a much larger percentage of her life than mine. Plus all the things that brought her joy and connection like Marching Band are not happening.

  9. 9.

    VeniceRiley

    @BretH: I fell for the kids because that does seem interminable.  On the other hand, this year is a much larger percentage of us old’s time left. Imagine lockdown for a year in a senior living facility when you only have 5-10 left. 10%-20% of your remaining time, lost to covid, IF you live.

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    I don’t know. We did pretty well here in CA for so long, and now people are acting like extra-suicidal lemmings. Here in the OC the previous highest number of new cases a day was 1,945 which was two days because the health department took Thanksgiving day off. Today we crushed it with 2,655. So 5,000 next week?

    LA County is even worse, per the LAT:

    The COVID-19 crisis hit what Los Angeles County officials called “uncharted territory” Friday, as the daily case count surged dramatically to 13,815 and total cases topped 500,000, the latest signs that the virus is spreading with ferocious speed.

    “We’re on a very dangerous track to see unprecedented and catastrophic suffering,” said L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “At this point, we’re seeing daily numbers of cases and hospitalizations that we’ve not experienced and, frankly, did not anticipate.”

    The surge in cases is causing hospitals to see a run on patients and some intensive care units to reach capacity. As of Thursday, there were 3,850 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, including 856 in ICU beds — both records.

    The number of people hospitalized in L.A. County with coronavirus infections has doubled since Thanksgiving and quadrupled in the last month, when there were 942 coronavirus-infected patients in L.A. County hospitals on Nov. 11.

    My housemate who went to Guatemala to see his dying aunt has finished isolating in his tent in the garage for 14 days without getting sick, so that’s something.

  19. 19.

    Mary G

    Of course Alito and Thomas said the court should’ve allowed the case to be filed:

    Justices Alito and Thomas indicated that the court was (in their very consistent view) required to hear the case but that they too “would not grant other relief” – meaning they too wouldn’t sign on to Texas’ request for an injunction throwing out the election.— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 11, 2020

    ETA: The thought of the temper tantrum being thrown at the WH or on the golf course is very satisfying.

  20. 20.

    namekarB

    Why is everyone so stupid and selfish?

    Wearing blinders does not mean the horse is stupid. It merely means the horse only sees what the driver wants it to see. The difference between a horse with blinders and a “True Patriot” with blinders is the “True Patriot” puts the blinders on by choice.

  21. 21.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Yes, but there are still 126 assholes in the House of Reps and 17 asshole Attorneys General across this nation. The Democratic Party needs to target every single one of these motherfuckers and defeat as many of them as possible in the next election cycle.

    And Giuliani and every other fucking lawyer on Trump’s team needs to be disbarred.

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    @Mary G:

    I don’t know. We did pretty well here in CA for so long, and now people are acting like extra-suicidal lemmings. Here in the OC the previous highest number of new cases a day was 1,945 which was two days because the health department took Thanksgiving day off. Today we crushed it with 2,655. So 5,000 next week?

    Defiance is increasing. If they don’t know someone in the hospital right now, people don’t care.

    I’ve also noticed more people, often urged on by reporters and media people, disputing the idea that health authorities can connect any particular behavior to infections.

    It’s ridiculous. We may be heading towards another superspreader around Christmas.

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    I love this, from the Supreme Court:

    “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot,” the court said.

    I mean, it should have been obvious that this would be the logical result.

    So is Trump going to throw a fit about the justices that he put on the Court?

    Of course he will.

  31. 31.

    Cheryl Rofer

    @debbie: Looks like Alito and Thomas would have been willing to hear the case and THEN tell Texas to jump in the lake

    ETA: I’m glad, too, that we finally have a Friday night GOOD NEWS drop.

  32. 32.

    debbie

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    I wouldn’t trust them…

    Of course, I wouldn’t trust this guy either:

    If the two Senators from Georgia should lose, which would be a horrible thing for our Country, I am the only thing that stands between “Packing the Court” (last number heard, 25), and preserving it. I will not, under any circumstances, Pack the Court!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020

  33. 33.

    wvng

    @Brachiator: ” We may be heading towards another superspreader around Christmas.” The numbers now don’t yet include the surge coming from Thanksgiving.

  34. 34.

    wvng

    There are two final cards to play in this farce. First the vote by the electoral college. Second the bull republicans are planning in the House and Senate o January 6..

  35. 35.

    Brachiator

    @wvng:

    ” We may be heading towards another superspreader around Christmas.”

    The numbers now don’t yet include the surge coming from Thanksgiving.

    Fair point. But we are two weeks away from Thanksgiving. I would think that we are seeing some impact from that holiday in the numbers.

     

  36. 36.

    John Revolta

    “Exponential growth” is a bit of an abstract concept for these mooks. I’d be thrilled if they just came to grasp that all the people that have been telling them that COVID is no big deal have been lying to them for all these months. (I ain’t holding my breath for that either.)

  37. 37.

    MoCA Ace

    because we haven’t learned a fucking thing

    Looks around and starts to raise hand…

    I am in a real pickle here.  My daughter and husband both had moderately symptomatic COVID (positive test four weeks ago) and both grandkids (toddler and ten) had “colds” but not tested.  Now Mrs MoCA is practically giddy that, seeing as how they are now “immune”, we can have them over for Christmas.  I miss them all dearly but rattling around in my skull are the warnings to not gather with people not in your household.

    Do I risk life and limb by putting myself between the Mrs and her grandkids?   Or do I hold my tongue and hope to live to see another Christmas?  This is so fucking hard.

  39. 39.

    moops

    Thanksgiving hospitalizations are starting to hit.   With vaccines being approved people are getting very careless.   It is going to be horrible.

  40. 40.

    Jay

    @MoCA Ace:

    Sima this am noted a case in China.

    Woman had covid in Britain, recovered, tested negative, flew to China, quarantined for 20 days, went home, 21 days later had covid again, tested positive, ( same British strain).

    Early on, around April, it was noted that the virus can cross the blood brain barrier, be eliminated in the body, and later reinfect from the brain.

    We still don’t know enough about the virus.

  41. 41.

    Hoodie

    @debbie: They hold to a theory that the SC must allow filing of any case involving original jurisdiction.  It’s not a widely held theory — it’s too fringe for even Roberts, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Barrett.  On the merits, however, it’s 9-0.  Not surprising, agreeing to go forward with this nonsense would strip away what little legitimacy the Court has left.

    Of course, the assholes that filed and supported the case knew this would happen.  This is all about ginning up a campaign issue for  the Georgia runoffs and for 2022 and beyond — nonexistent voter fraud by non-white people.

    I’ve heard some people say there is a conflict between claiming voter fraud and trying to get Republicans to vote in the Georgia senate runoffs, but this misses the point.  The Trumpians know that there is no voter fraud.  What they want is an excuse for suppressing nonwhite voters that they can sell to the squishy middle for whom Trump was too over the top.   I think they believe that Trump’s loss told was due to his open racism,  so they want to use voter fraud as an Atwater-type wedge issue like welfare was in the 80’s, i.e., black and brown voters haven’t earned the right to vote.  In other words, voting is a privilege, not a right.  A white privilege.

  42. 42.

    planetjanet

    @debbie: I concur with Debbie.  It would be one thing if they were able to quaratine for two weeks before seeing you.  But if they have already had Covid, they have not had good habits so far.  Once bitten, twice shy.

  45. 45.

    MoCA Ace

    @planetjanet:  Actually they do have good habits… its just that he works with at least one COVID denying idiot who came to work sick!  The asshole bragged about it and the SIL actually led a little worksite revolt with management but it was too late.  She is working from home and both kids are home/online virtual schooling.  He did just go back to work because in this fucking country you work or you lose your home.

    But yes, I hear you.

  46. 46.

    There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)

    @Leto: 
    Does that mean one’s ass smells like a goat, or one just smells like a goat generally, or one actually goes around smelling actual goats? And which is worst?

  47. 47.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I’ve been following the Arizona COVID statistics since the election. We’ve got basically between 70-100 people dying daily. If my memory serves me right I think we had around 50 people dying daily during our spike during  late spring/early summer. Our numbers aren’t NY or Fl but we’ve hit over 7K dead and at the rate we’re going we will easily hit over 8K dead.

  49. 49.

    Skepticat

    I’m back in The Bahamas, and this second-world country is doing quite well, partly because it has a rather elegant system that’s a bit onerous to navigate but worthwhile. One has to have a negative COVID test within five days of entry, and I ended up paying almost $300 for a rapid turnaround test and missed my first flight because my first test results never arrived. Once you email the health department your negative test results, they issue a travel visa with a QR code. There’s a fee that covers a small health insurance policy and a rapid COVID test. When you arrive, they send you an email survey each day for 14 days that asks about possible exposure and symptoms. On the fifth day, you have the rapid COVID test, and the QR code puts the results in your file. I had mine yesterday, and they emailed me the result while I was on the ferry headed home less than an hour later. If only the States had a system and the dedication one one-millionth as good.

    People in Abaco seem to be very good about wearing masks, distancing, and washing their hands, and the authorities aren’t fooling around. I’m happy to be safe on a tiny desert island even though I have no home and there’s still no power 15 months after Dorian. The cats and I again are staying in the small guest suite of a neighbor’s house that survived the storm, but I’m totally overwhelmed by the work I need to do to finish cleaning up my debris, handling the salvaged stuff, and battling the jungle (though that’s hiding some of the debris). I doubt I’ll be able to afford to rebuild, but it’s difficult to imagine not living here. This is my 52nd year on this cay, but perhaps at my age I ought to give it up. But not until I can return to the States without fear of selfish, stupid people trying to kill me.

  50. 50.

    RSA

    Why is everyone so stupid and selfish?

    On the plus side, a decade from now when American schoolkids ask how ordinary Germans could have ignored concentration camps during WW II, teachers can point them to 2016-2020 America.

    On the minus side, those teachers will be harassed and fired by the parents of those kids.

  51. 51.

    Jay

    @MoCA Ace:

    test, quarantine, test,

    but they can’t quarantine because pay check and the 14 day quarantine isn’t based on medical data so much, as how much vacation time most workers have.

    We really don’t know much about how much protection a mild case confers, or how infectious people remain,

  53. 53.

    MoCA Ace

    @Jay:  Exactly, and people are dropping like flies around here.  One of my coworkers was out today because his fiancé tested positive.  Wife works at a pharmacy and I’m in the office with my door shut when I can’t find an excuse to be in the field.  I consider it a small miracle we haven’t caught it already.

    Thing is I don’t know if I can convince her… Fuck.  We have made it this far I don’t want to stumble now when the end is in sight.

  54. 54.

    Jay

    @MoCA Ace:

    I start work again tomorrow. Reduced duties, hours.

    Ditto for volunteer work, but up to 4 hours of teaching/instruction only, and no field work.

    Still on blood thinners, steroids and latest MRI and CT scans have the Doctors still talking about organ transplants.

    Not something to risk.

  55. 55.

    Ella in New Mexico

    KEEP YOUR GOAT SMELLING ASS AT HOME

    OMFG!!!!

    The ONLY people I have EVER heard use that phrase are my husband and his extended family.

    They’re from the Gettysburg, PA area, but my husband’s family extending back to the late 1700’s comes from West Virginia. They were Hessian Mercenaries during the Revolutionary War, conscripted against their will, who had the good sense to disappear into the  boonies when their bosses the Brits tanked and eventually resettled in the remote areas of WV. There’s a wilderness area named after them in the Monoghahela National Forest: “Dolly Sods”.

    John, we might be related in a weird, non-blood kinda way. No wonder I lurve you so much. :-D

  58. 58.

    No One You Know

    @Jay: Seconded. I don’t expect to be seeing my son. I sure as hell wouldn’t risk grandkids… or my own continuing life. There will be another year. Zoom the holiday.

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