Everything that happens before that still counts as 2020.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 19, 2020
Biden to get coronavirus vaccination Monday, assess White House staffing in pandemic https://t.co/4z0KldJnlb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 19, 2020
Warning: Designated ankle-biter-of-Democrats Linskey is a little too enthusiastic about the difficulties the incoming Biden team will be facing, so trust her information but not necessarily her predictions:
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, plan to begin their course of coronavirus vaccinations Monday, after the recent infection of two people in his orbit, including a senior adviser, brought the pandemic closer than before to the former vice president and senior members of his team.
The Biden team also is rethinking how to organize the president-elect’s West Wing staff, which will take office amid what is expected to be a bleak and dangerous winter because of the pandemic. The new administration does not plan to have its full staff work out of the typically cramped White House offices immediately after taking office Jan. 20 because of medical concerns, officials said Friday…
In deciding when to receive the two-shot regimen required for the coronavirus vaccine, Biden has had to weigh his own health risks against the politically tricky image of skipping ahead of some health-care workers to receive an inoculation.
Biden, who at 78 will be the oldest president ever inaugurated, is in a high-risk category because of his age. His incoming medical adviser, Anthony S. Fauci, had recommended that he and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris receive vaccinations, along with President Trump and Vice President Pence. Pence and his wife, Karen, received their shots Friday in a televised event…
Biden’s vaccination will be done in public in Delaware, but his aides declined to provide details about exactly when or where the shots would be given. Biden and his wife will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Psaki said.
Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will start their course of vaccinations after Christmas, Psaki said. Biden and Harris have separate medical teams and Psaki said the quartet was spacing out the inoculations based on advice from their doctors…
Biden plans to announce his selection for additional administration posts next week, but Psaki declined to say whether all of the Cabinet slots will be announced by Christmas, which the Biden team had hoped to do.
“It’s all based on when decision-making is made and we want to give him the time and space to do that,” Psaki said. She said that Biden’s team does expect to name the first 100 appointments by the new year…
I owe somebody a hat tip for this one:
Baud
I assume that’s because some people have had allergic reactions to the vaccine.
Baud
Today in things I didn’t know were things.
Barbara
@Baud: The delay seems excessively cautious to me.
Frankensteinbeck
That is a dime’s worth of information in a heap of bullshit assumptions. Balancing political considerations of the vaccination? Seriously? Biden is getting vaccinated because it is medically idiotic not to. Period.
Baud
@Barbara:
Can you be excessively cautious with the front line against fascism?
Anne Laurie
I assume it’s ‘designated survivor’ protocol, like the President & the Vice President not travelling on the same plane — better to put up with a relatively minor inconvenience than to risk even a vanishingly unlikely dual tragedy. And for Harris / Biden, better to be seen observing all the forms than to give the ankle-biters another niblet to gnaw.
NeenerNeener
That Sound of Music parody is brilliant.
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
Damn, good transition. Most of my friends are trans and I’ve seen how good being beautiful can be for a trans woman’s recovery from the Hell of dysphoria. Good for her.
Good for her on the advocacy as well, and good for Rai. Being trans in India, yikes. I hope Shaine helps validate the transgender Indians who follow, because they also desperately need role models.
EDIT – My biggest disappointment on trans issues is still England. What the Hell, England. The twisted obsession with portraying trans rights as opposed to women’s rights is especially prevalent and wretched.
WereBear
We just endured four frickin’ years of surface instead of substance, and many of us did not survive. Most of the rest of us are trying to survive.
The sooner this disgusting blend of Survivor and The Great Race reality show ends, the sooner the nation gets its life back. Exile all the political reporters who don’t really report on anything to the celebrity beat, where their heart is, and maybe the nation will make it.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Mousebumples
I had wondered if they were waiting to name an AG until we know Georgia runoff results (historically, Senators get more benefit of the doubt from the other party – eg a reason to pick Doug Jones). But knowing his choice sooner is good too!
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
737 MAX: Boeing ‘inappropriately coached’ test pilots, say senators
I’m a little confused, I understand these were test pilots, so the protocols are different, but this just sounds like the pilots received training.
And who exactly expected something else from a trump FAA?
rikyrah
NOBODY should be working in the White House until it has been scrubbed and fumigated within an inch of its life.
All staff need to be tested before any 46 folk start working there
All religions under the Democratic Party tent need to do their own version of a blessing before 46 and MVP start working there.
And before 46 and Dr. Jill start living there.
Not kidding.
NotMax
Gonna repeat this from late night thread because it’s so enjoyable.
An oldie in computer years terms but still a hoot. How about dinner … and a show?
evodevo
@Baud: It’s probably also because a lot of people have normal immune system reactions that result in fever and malaise for 24-48 hours, which would render you somewhat compromised if you are the head of state…or the presumptive one, so you wouldn’t want your second in command feeling ill at the same time you were…
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
I am ambivalent about this. It’s great that transgendered women are achieving breakthroughs in visibility and acceptance, especially in a conservative society like India’s, and I wish to see these breakthroughs happen in Malaysia too. But I have a problem with beauty pageants. Beauty pageants for cisgendered women already strike me as a dated and sexist concept, and the judging is so capricious and unfathomable that I don’t even understand how they are a meaningful contest at all. Transgendered women deserve a better vehicle for change.
OzarkHillbilly
Closure of iconic Cliff House ends a remarkable era of San Francisco’s history
Amir Khalid
Takumi Minamino has scored his debut Premier League goal for Liverpool against hosts Crystal Palace. Liverpool lead by that goal.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: If I’d been sitting at that table, the video would’ve been only 17 seconds long. I’d of smashed that little fucker flat the second his head appeared. It’s the cockroach reflex.
Baud
Politico
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
No dessert for you!
:)
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: A lickspittle’s lickspittle.
SiubhanDuinne
Joe Biden’s first run for President of the United States was 32 years ago.
Joe Biden will be inaugurated as President of the United States 32 days from now.
Coincidence?
NotMax
@Baud
From summer of 2019, about Pompeo:
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
A person would have to be nuts to ever board one of those things.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s a sign from God.
Baud
@debbie:
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that.
debbie
@Baud:
Would you carry those nickels on board with you or check them through?
OzarkHillbilly
Dr Jill Biden says op-ed attack a surprise – but won’t let president-elect fight back
Anybody else bothered by this headline? I gotta admit, it pisses me off.
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
I agree. When it’s safe to go flying again, book your flights only with airlines that don’t fly the 737 Max.
Amir Khalid
Sadio Mané scores. Liverpool lead Palace 0-2.
ETA: Bobby Firmino scores on the stroke of halftime. Liverpool now lead 0-3.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
The body of the article had a lot of sneering commentary too.
John S.
@NotMax: So… he’s a rocket powered butt plug? Seems appropriate.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: With a headline like, “Joe Biden Emasculated by His Wife,” I couldn’t bring myself to read it.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
The Guardian has always treasured its misogynist values.
John S.
@OzarkHillbilly: You’re not missing anything. The fucking Guardian… I love their news, but anything that smacks of opinion or commentary is just as batshit crazy as Fox News — just from the other side of the spectrum.
Amir Khalid
@John S.:
Their reporting is mostly good, but I gave up on their opinion writing long ago — except in the football section.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid: I mostly agree with you about beauty pageants… except that, especially for marginalized groups, there’s a lot of participants who want to show themselves off, to feel beautiful & celebrated, however temporarily. While I hope I’ll always decry specific incidents of abuse / injustice (kiddy contests, IMO, are child abuse), the older I get, the more I’m willing to let grown-ups do what makes them happy, as long as they’re not harming others by their behavior.
(Side bar: Many many years ago, for a freshman college class, I had to memorize the rules for daily-cow beauty contests. At the time, contestants were awarded up to 100 points… including 25 for the size & shapeliness of their mammary glands — reasonably enough — and 10 for poise. And I have to admit: Some dairy cows really do have more ‘poise’ than others!)
OzarkHillbilly
@John S.: Yeah, it depends on the author and the topic before I read an editorials. Some of them I enjoy but they all seem to have subjects that send them a little over the top.
Amir Khalid
Liverpool captain Jordan “Hendo” Henderson scores from long range. Crystal Palace 0-4 Liverpool.
OzarkHillbilly
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but until your last sentence I wasn’t sure you weren’t being sarcastic.
John S.
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s a fair point. There are some pretty good ones, but others… man, I just roll my eyes and scroll. There’s one in particular (whose name escapes me). She’s some sort of anti-feminist feminist contrarian blogger who spawned out of an incubator at the Rand Corporation or something. Blecch.
sab
Poised ones are the ones that actually want to be there in that contest.
OzarkHillbilly
@John S.: The purity pony screeds are numerous. There are a # that I just can’t.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: We were at a conference in “the City” fifteen years ago and we took the city bus from Union Square to the beach. Walked up that hill and had breakfast at Louis’
raven
@Anne Laurie: Sound like the plot in the first episode of “The Undoing”.
Geminid
trump still threatens to veto the National Defense Authorization Act. His ostensible reasons are language restricting his ability to withdraw troops from Germany and other countries, renaming military bases, and the omission of changes to regulation of social media. But a more significant sticking point may be the addition earlier this month of the Corporate Transparency Act. Sponsored by Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), this law would crack down on the use of shell companies to hide corporate identity for money-laundering and other purposes. This would hit trump where it hurts. Congressional leaders seem determined to override a veto.
OzarkHillbilly
One from the File of Unintended Consequences: Lorry drivers heading to EU face ham sandwich ban
Cheryl Rofer
Coming to this late, but something that jackals might appreciate.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m not sure why delivery took so long, but my BJ Pet Calendars finally arrived yesterday — and they are really beautiful!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I am always saddened a little bit by the passing of these cultural landmarks, even if I never had and was unlikely ever to visit them.
Amir Khalid
Bobby “Dazzler” Firmino scores again. Crystal Palace 0-5 Liverpool.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Impatiently tapping feet waiting for already late delivery of cigar reorder here and also for a gift ordered to be sent to Mom’s place for her housekeeper. Both via USPS (neither from Amazon).
OzarkHillbilly
@Cheryl Rofer: Thank you.
germy
Has Adam Silverman discussed this?
It’s apparently not a “norm” and I wonder what’s up. And from what I’ve read, it may fuck up vaccine delivery.
Suzanne
I think more that a few of us were waiting for the other shoe to drop w/r/t pardons yesterday. Any thought they’ll come today, or do they not do that on weekends?
germy
@Cheryl Rofer:
I still say Gary Busey is the father.
OzarkHillbilly
@Cheryl Rofer:
Perfection.
phdesmond
@SiubhanDuinne:
i’m not surprised. i sent an envelope priority from boston to kansas city, and it took from dec. 3 to 12 to get there.
Amir Khalid
After coming off the bench to provide the assist for Firmino’s second goal, Mo Salah scores one himself. Crystal Palace 0-6 Liverpool. We can be confident now that Palace will not come back from behind to draw with Liverpool like they did two seasons ago.
While I was typing, Mo Salah scored again. Crystal Palace 0-7 Liverpool. This match is developing not necessarily to the home team’s advantage.
germy
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
So a Cracker Barrel can move in there as part of the glorious efficiencies wrought through unbridled free enterprise. Can’t imagine your problem with this.
SiubhanDuinne
@phdesmond:
DeJoy to the world…
Baud
@germy:
If there is a deal, there’s going to be massive propaganda campaign from the usual suspects to blame Democrats for the bill’s shortcomings.
germy
So… no chance in 2024?
arrieve
@OzarkHillbilly: This news made me really sad. I grew up in San Francisco and when I was a kid going to the Cliff House was the treat for special occasions, like breakfast after my first communion. I suspect that it will reopen under new management at some point in the future, when we’re able to go out in public again, but it will be turned into a glitzed up exorbitantly expensive restaurant where ordinary people never dream of going.
At least the sunsets from Ocean Beach are still free.
germy
@Baud:
“It’s always the fault of the Democrats. Look how Obama handled the COVID crisis.”
Anne Laurie
@OzarkHillbilly: No, seriously — I hadn’t appreciated the concept either, as a city girl, but some cows loved standing in the center ring, showing off for the audience. And some did not.
If you’ve ever watched a dog show, it’s not so different. Cat shows, on the other hand… the ones I’ve seen (it’s been years), even the winningest champion cats seemed to barely put up with being groped by strangers in front of the cameras. But cows, like dogs and humans, are very social animals; showing off for an audience comes natural to us!
Suzanne
@OzarkHillbilly: That doesn’t quite enough of Jared’s cheap and sleazy pretense. And the utter weakness of a dude who grew up with everything, bought and paid for by his criminal family.
I hate Jared so hard.I hope everyone who has a degree from Harvard considers it smeared and diminished by the fact that Jared has one, too.
Amir Khalid
@germy:
Sad by a man who can’t quite manage a convincing imitation of a human.
Mike E
@rikyrah: I know it won’t happen but they should raze the WH to the ground… because the Orange Stank won’t ever come out of it, never mind the Russian spy tech that surely would take at least a year to eradicate
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: We have a local joint called the Du Kum Inn that I have been eating breakfast at for almost 40 years. New ownership acquired it a couple years ago. We continued to patronize it for a year and a half or so even as the changes mounted. Eventually it got to the point where none of the things that brought us in to eat there remained. The fact that Cracker Barrel is the now preferred choice is a sign of how bad things got. (a truckstop Denny’s is the only other option)
germy
@Amir Khalid:
Close enough for a Republican
I mean, Trump is a poor simulation of humanity….. and look at all the votes he got. Crowds cheer him, and he’s like a computer glitch.
rikyrah
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie: I like the animal competitions at county fairs. I watch them mostly for the pride these kids take in their accomplishments, but you’re right, some animals really do like being the center of attention.
germy
It’d be great if they were so ashamed they mumbled something about going to a state college. And then when pressed, blurting “Well, Massachusetts is a state!”
Mike E
@OzarkHillbilly: Guardian articles pop up in my Google feed and I regret clicking on them pretty much every time. Yesterday, I just had to read what the comments said about their “Many are embarrassed from Louis Armstrong’s selling out Jazz and being an Uncle Tom” clickbait and the 400 readers did not disappoint in their evisceration of it.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
I have an annual subscription to Bodacious Bovine magazine.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly:
Aren’t greased pigs sometimes a little too smug, though?
rikyrah
mrmoshpotato
Yes! Countdown for the world starts at 11:59:51AM EST January 20, 2021.
Then, (sorry Aud Lang Syn) we all sing Bye Bye Donny as one – one humanity.
rikyrah
germy
“DeJoy to the world, the mail has come…”
etc.
Amir Khalid
Fulltime: Crystal Palace 0-7 Liverpool. I’m a happy Liverpool supporter tonight.
rikyrah
The direct look into the camera is what kills me ??????
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: I don’t know about that but they’re definitely hard to pin down.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly:
Okay you win.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mike E: I didn’t bother reading that article, I’ve been reading there long enough to be able to tell when to skip one just by the headline. And I never read the comments.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: We new zero about it and just stumbled up the hill!
germy
Deconstructing a NYTimes headline:
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah:
And quadruple sweep every millimeter of that place for Russkie bugs!
mad citizen
Saw this piece at Raw Story last night and wondered what others think:
BUSTED? Why the numbers behind Mitch McConnell’s re-election don’t add up
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/why-the-numbers-behind-mitch-mcconnells-re-election-dont-add-up/
In any case, we need paper ballots.
raven
@raven: knew
sab
@mad citizen: Don’t ES&S machines have paper ballots now? But Republican Sec of State won’t want a recount and will certify as okay when it is not.
As I remember, similar mess in Cleveland OH in 2004 resulted in a couple of innocent election workers going to prison for election tampering when they couldn’t get the numbers to work. Same company’s machines.
Mike E
@OzarkHillbilly: one stands out for its brevity, which I paraphrase here: A good person, a generous soul and a singular talent that lit up the sky
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Whenever I go to a new to me place I love to just wander around and see what’s there, even if I am there for a specific reason. It’s how I found Astral Glass in New Haven.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I new that.
mrmoshpotato
@Cheryl Rofer:
Excuse me while I bookmark this Twitter account!
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: ca ching!
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s what I was thinking of. I loved those. My father-in-law was an ag teacher, 4-H and FFA advisor and judged all the local fairs for 30 years. I loved the fair circuit, it became like family =-)
Eta: Lotta summer romances came out of those fairs
raven
So I spent a boatload of cash on a lazyboy recliner and it’s no better than the old beat up chair we had. I’m beginning to think nothing is going to help, my butt is destined to hurt when I sit!
The Moar You Know
Ahhh, damn. This breaks my heart. I lived in SF for 7 years; my girlfriend at the time was a native. We went to Louis’ frequently. They had a sweetheart of a waitress there who, at the time, was in her nineties.
I’ve been to the Cliff House even more. It’s an incredible old-school SF building. And they had the food to back it up.
Between this and my best friend from college dying this October – he also lived on the Great Highway, same road as both Louis’ (technically on Geary, I think, but right at the top of the Great Highway) and the Cliff House, I don’t think I’m going to be able to return to SF ever again. It’s a city that for me is now just inhabited by ghosts of a far better time.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@mad citizen:
Sorry to say it, but McConnell won Kentucky for real (and I say this having once called him a “Howdy Doody looking mitherfucker to his face when he was a local official here in Louisville). The spreadnecks out there in this benighted hellhole may hate him and think he’s a crook, but he’s THEIR crook, and he holds up things or stomps on programs benefitting, you know, THEM and those pointy headed city elites, then that’s OK.
Those voters don’t want a better deal or better life – they’re just fine living the way that mama n’em always lived. Meemaw and Peepaw were just fine with a straight line to the ditch, why should anything be different?
Also, party registration numbers are useless in this instance.
KY rural voters adore their cruelty.
jeffreyw
@germy: He’s a method actor. He’s just not very good at it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@sab:
KY uses paper ballots.
sab
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Thanks. I read that on Raw Story last night and wondered what your take on it would be.
Chyron HR
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
So you’re the one who turned him to evil.
Baud
@germy: Our Senators will be calling the NYT garbage in no time.
MattF
I think it’s fair to wonder if this was deliberate.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: Bookmarked.
Gvg
@raven: my skinny father says he researched it and the best solution is from long haul truckers. A kind of airbag cushion that you adjust to be right for you, and it looks like it’s mostly deflated until you sit on it. I think he got it off amazon, but not sure. Definitely a trucker item though.
dads bottom bones were rubbing him raw, he tried all kinds of cushions. He is too skinny. I am not, but now that I’m older, I need to try his cushion.
RandomMonster
So does Devin Nunes.
mrmoshpotato
@RandomMonster: Yes, but it’s a dirty mag to Devin.
frosty
@debbie: @Amir Khalid: Unfortunately the 737 is all that Southwest flies and they’re my airline of choice. Easiest to cancel and use the price of your ticket later, even for another destination.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do if I ever get a chance to fly again.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Anne Laurie: In before times we would go to the county fair (yes, there are farms in Montgomery County, MD) for the horse and mule events, the Llama obstacle course (one obstacle was tourists”), and the dairy cow judging, where we were always pro-Jersey. The commentary on the udders and teats was hilarious).
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
What can I say? I like teats.
dww44
@mad citizen: At least that’s what the Dominion system in Georgia does: an initial machine count that can be backed up by actual paper ballots. And they did back up the machine count.
Kathleen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
As do their execrable No KY exurbanite brethren.
Deep Southerner
@raven: Give the chair time, I’m sure once you settle in you’ll like it. Came here to ask what you thought about Bert being named HBC of your Illini.
frosty
@John S.: @Amir Khalid: Hadley Freeman is the only one I read regularly, but then, she’s usually not writing anything political. Her last interview with Michael J. Fox was funny because she couldn’t stop being a total fangrrl while trying to be a journalist.
But some of the others, sheesh.
Ken
@Anne Laurie: A couple of years ago, I talked with a guy who does small-animal judging for fairs. He’s got about a dozen books to memorize: chickens, ducks, rabbits, guinea pigs…. He said that a few don’t matter, since no one ever shows up with a mink – or if they do, it’ll be the only one so wins by default.
There go two miscreants
@rikyrah: That was even funnier than the cat-fight during the Zoom call posted recently! My grandkids have a dog that behaves similarly (altho not as funny as that one) toward one of his chew toys — it’s his nemesis!
J R in WV
@Anne Laurie:
Surely to doG she means “Dairy” cows?
;~)
There go two miscreants
@J R in WV: Well, those cows need daily attention!
Ken
Distraction? The Brexit situation has developed not necessarily to Britain’s advantage.
Ken
I was expecting the “Trump, McConnell, Barr” joke.
(For those who don’t want to dig through the thread, “On your way to dinner you pass a lake where Trump, McConnell, and Barr are drowning. What wine do you order with your meal?”)
mad citizen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Thanks for this local perspective. It seems the stupid infection is still peaking in the hinterlands, same as it is my stupid state of North Kentucky–oops, Indiana. (My growing city of 90K actually went Biden 49 to 48%).
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Typical male.
WaterGirl
@raven: You had such high hopes!
danielx
@mad citizen:
Fishers represent!
Also too, yesterday was Keith Richard’s 77th birthday. He will outlive us all.
RandomMonster
@OzarkHillbilly: Her milkshake brings all the Bauds to the yard.
UncleEbeneezer
@Anne Laurie: THIS. Equality is about having marginalized groups represented in everything, including stuff that may be problematic (most stuff is). If it makes them happy and affirmed, then that’s a good thing, regardless of whether pageants are outdated/exploitative. We could say the same about the modeling industry, but I’m always happy to see the numerous groundbreaking Transgender models who are getting major magazine covers, ad campaigns and walking the biggest runways etc. THEY love it. They tell us so. And they tell us why it is important to them. We should applaud and support them. It’s perfectly fine to save our criticisms of the system/industry for another conversation so as not to rain on their well-deserved parade.
mrmoshpotato
@RandomMonster: Just for clarification, I was calling Devin Nunes the cowfucker, not Baud.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@danielx:
will his vaccination be a public event? maybe get him and Mick together?
Reminds me I own a copy of his memoirs that I’ve never read. It’s said to be one of the best of its genre
raven
@Gvg: cool
geg6
I just finished up the Wind of Change podcast. Gotta say, I found it highly entertaining. The interview with Klaus Meine in the last episode, especially, was great fun. I think I’d like him IRL, even though I’ve never been much of a fan.
debbie
@phdesmond:
I ordered a couple of things from Bed, Bath, and Beyond on 12/6. It didn’t leave the warehouse until 12/10. Since then, it’s traveled to three different spots in Texas (Midland, Irving, and Haslet). I’m afraid to look at a map because I’m betting I could walk faster than this fucking package seems to be moving.
natem
Lefty Bro Twitter is mad that Barack Obama, who is famously still in charge of everything, isn’t using his super powers to make
Congress come together on passingMitch McConnell and Ron Johnson pass the COVID relief bill.germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
COVID will need to be vaccinated against Keith.
hedgehog mobile
@SiubhanDuinne: Got mine Thursday (calendar B). Love it!
germy
@natem:
What good is a magic wand if it sits and gathers dust?
debbie
@rikyrah:
Joe will need to speak about this once he’s in office, sparing no details about the sabotage committed by the most unAmerican American president.
natem
@germy: A Rainbow and Pony-Powered magic wand, even
raven
@Deep Southerner: I wasn’t happy at first but, then, I’m not sure how attractive a job it really is and he is from Illinois and that may help recruiting.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
That was his practice run for when he accepts the GOP nomination for president in 2024.
germy
@natem:
mrmoshpotato
OT – just checked Paul Rudnick’s Twitter account and fucking hell does Jared’s disgusting pasty assface have some creepy ass uncanny valley shit going on!
danielx
@debbie:
I feel your pain. Two packages with Christmas cookies sent out from post office on December 7th via two day priority mail, cost $21.10 per package. As of this morning they are still showing as “in transit”. Going way out on a limb, I’d say they are lost in transit.
robmassing
Yeah, protecting the life of the f-ing PRESIDENT is reaaaaaal tricky, you moron. You know what else health care workers don’t have? A round-the-clock secret service detail, transportation in fortified armored limousines, command of the most powerful military in the history of the planet, …..
debbie
@rikyrah:
“Pick on someone your own size!”
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@mad citizen:
Louisville is placidly blue, but there’s a lot of rural resentment that people here don’t enjoy singing “Rock of Ages” while fucking over significant pluralities of people who don’t look, think or talk like rural Kentuckians.
They’re perfectly happy to take our money, though.
The Mayberry Machiavellis seem to have a redistricting plan afoot so that instead of a 5/6 GOP congressional delegation, it will be 6/6, now that the resentment junkies have veto-proof majorities in the General Assembly (they also want to decimate home rule, since the LGBT protections, Green initiatives and immigration supports here spring from those powers and are thus offensive to mama n’em back in the holler 150 miles away). As I understand, this would require some major line changes and would result in lines running from downtown to either the Tennessee, Virginia or West Virginia border. I think it a bit of a long shot because some existing congressmen would get districted out, but I’ve learned to never underestimate the pig ignorant destructive stupidity of Kentucky wingnuts.
jeffreyw
@mrmoshpotato: Make Baud deny it.
Frankensteinbeck
@Ken:
No, it’s not top-down. The Tories don’t have to use it as a wedge issue. It’s a whole cultural stain. Rowling’s bigotry is mainstream fare in England. Take all the American anti-trans hate tropes and throw in some ahistorical bizarrities like claiming that trans women are stealing and destroying the safe spaces like women’s restrooms that the women’s rights movement fought so long and hard(?!) for.
@natem:
But not THIS relief bill. Rose twitter is adamant that this relief bill is a useless sell-out and must be voted down. They’re demanding Democrats pass a much better relief bill, and loudly declaring that negotiation is bad and unnecessary. It’s pure underpants gnomes logic, a step 1 not only without a step 2, but denying the need for a step 2.
West of the Rockies
I’m sure you’ve all seen the Guardians Space Force unveiling, which tips off Star Fleet and the USMC semper fi motto.
One assumes they have their own theme song like the other branches do. I am fairly sure it will sound a lot like the stirring and haunting Imperial Storm Troopers march.
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck: See my # 65.
M31
in honor of Keith Richards’s birthday here’s the story where he pulls a knife on Donald Trump
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@West of the Rockies:
“I am Groot” repeated over and over in the tune of the Stormtrooper March.
Geminid
@West of the Rockies: there is a Space Force March. Haven’t heard it, though. The Space Force motto is “Semper Supra.”
Mo Salad
@M31: He showed the knife to the manager in a “Do I have to do this myself?” moment. It was the 40 roadies with tire irons and hockey sticks that eventually fended Donald off. Which is also awesome.
rikyrah
@germy:
Which is the point
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@natem: something seems to be churning in that corner of the universe. Guess who!
Biden, of course, won the working class, if you define “working class” by income.
rikyrah
@dww44:
lawsuits had to be filed to get back the paper trail.
Matt McIrvin
@natem: The awfulness of Obama is a central article of faith of Lefty Bro Twitter at this point; everything has to come back to it at some point.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Unambiguously oppose socialism?
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
And Republicans!
The Thin Black Duke
@danielx: In the end, the only survivors standing in the ruins of civilization will be Keith Richards, Willie Nelson and Betty White.
danielx
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yeah. He pwns the libs and that’s what they care about.
Fuck those guys, and Bernie too, and the horse he rode in on.
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
No….name what he did.
Not amorphous, he did this, he did that..
Name the policies that phucking HELPED YOU?
danielx
@The Thin Black Duke:
And Buddy Guy, 84 and still going strong.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@The Thin Black Duke: after the three of them gang up on Kissinger and sacrifice him for a hundred more years each
at least I hope so
mrmoshpotato
@The Thin Black Duke: And Norman Lloyd! 106 this past November!
The Thin Black Duke
@mrmoshpotato: Gee. At 66 years old, I feel like a spring chicken.
WaterGirl
@danielx: Or someone at the post office is munching on cookies!
germy
@mrmoshpotato:
He’s the guy who fell off the statue of liberty in that Hitchcock film. What a career.
Kathleen
@danielx: I was at the post office yesterday to priority mail some Christmas cards to Tampa (I’m in Cincinnati why did I wait so long) and I was told while the system said they’d be delivered on 12-21 the desk clerks said between CoVid and heavy volumes (and I’m sure DeJoy’s rodent procreating measures haven’t helped but the didn’t say that) they’d be delivered God knows when (my paraphrasing)
TomatoQueen
@The Thin Black Duke: I won’t mind that asteroid that’s aimed at us, then.
Bill Arnold
@OzarkHillbilly:
I clicked through to the Martin Pengelly twitter account and it is quite negative about Trump, so there’s that. Low replies twitter account if you want to tell him to fuck off for the Biden piece. :-)
Rob
OMG the so long farewell video is perfect!
Ruckus
@Frankensteinbeck:
BREXIT – BRITAIN.
Do those two words together say enough? They are shooting themselves in the crotch, just for the enjoyment? Who can tell what the hell kind of logic, or should it be anti logic some people use as a standard of thought and reflection?
mad citizen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s a good read. Saw this article on Keith’s ghostwriter the other day: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/28/james-fox-keith-richards-has-a-fantastic-memory
Have heard Keith/Stones doing Run Run Rudolph twice today already on the XM radio
Yes Fishers represent. Went over to the library and there is a COVID testing site across the street. Unlike last time I noticed it, today there were 8-10 cars spilling out into the road waiting to turn into the testing lanes.
Uncle Cosmo
@MattF: “Under plenty of perjury” – Yet another object lesson in the unwitting mayhem (and revelation) that can pounce when the morbidly obtuse and linguistically inept leave the proofreading to their SpielCzech and OttoKorrekt software…
mad citizen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Unbelievable (re: redistricting). I looked once and in Indiana the Dems had something like 45-46% of all rep. votes, but of course only have 3 of the 9 congressional slots.
Matt McIrvin
@West of the Rockies: Thunderbirds… are… GO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qSCZCw8Yg
mad citizen
@danielx: I was lucky with USPS this week, I guess, after seeing a news story on packages stuck in our local airport facility. Mailed 3 boxes of cookies from central Indiana, and I think one or two got delivered late Friday (perhaps one in Denver area), and my Cali-bound package is reported in Sacramento USPS today.
StringOnAStick
I plan on sending out a “Merry Holidays ooh yeah we moved” cards but at the rate in getting things done it will be way after the new year. Given the issues with mail, that’s probably ok.
We hadn’t planned to move to a new state until next spring but a few things lined up to make us look for a house sooner and when we found one, it closed in two weeks so our last two weeks in CO were a packing frenzy inside an epidemic. Plenty of casual acquaintances no idea we left.
Sister Golden Bear
@Anne Laurie: I’m ambivalent about trans beauty contests for similar reasons also somewhat different reasons. They’re both a dated sexist concept and a way to for trans women to feel beautiful and celebrated — and FWIW, I have friends who competed in pageants, and one reason I’m a burlesque performer is I know how affirming it can be to have an audience cheering for you.
But the bigger problem that is it’s part of how the trans women celebrated by wider society are invariably the ones who fit heterosexual cisgender ideals of beauty. E.g. Laverne Cox (who I adore) may be much taller and broader than the typical cis woman, but she otherwise fits conventional beauty norms.
However, many of us, especially late-life transitioners, who don’t “pass” — a term I hate, I prefer “blend” — and life is definitely much harder if your “visibly trans.” Witness the “man in a dress” attacks on Pennsylvania’s health director. I myself am borderline, and usually get treated as a woman, but I still all-too-often get referred to as “sir” — sometimes malicious, sometimes unconsciously.
Zelma
OK, now I’m going to be humming “So Long, Good-bye” all day. But it was delightful.
Sister Golden Bear
@Frankensteinbeck:
Sadly, you’re correct. There’s definitely a broad streak of Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes. Even in “liberal” news sources like the Guardian. And a few years ago, anti-trans protesters hijacked one of the major Pride parade. Plus regular news stories about vicious harassment of trans people by the regular public.
Miss Bianca
@Sister Golden Bear: Yeah, the whole TERF thing just weirds me out. Maybe because sex/gender essentialism seems so last-century to me by now.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Ken:
danielx
@Steeplejack (phone):
Zing! ::::::blowing smoke from imaginary pistol barrel::::::
Darkrose
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s the Guardian. Sneering at the insufficiently left (as they define it) is what they do.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Cheryl from Maryland: I love Jersey cows! They look like delicate deer, not huge bovine animals. Those eyes! And they give less milk, but it is much higher in butterfat. Altogether, the creme de la creme of dairy cows.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@debbie: I ordered some stuff from a company in late November and they shipped it out the next day via USPS. In the tracking, it moved until 11/24, then nothing … apparently lost in a mail warehouse somewhere. I called the company a week later and they sent out a rush, priority replacement that did arrive in a few days. I hope 46 makes it a priority (along with everything else) to unfuck the mail system.
Lyrebird
co-signed. underlined. highlighted. QFT.
Darkrose
@Sister Golden Bear: Feminism Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe is amazing. “Fine, you say TERF is a slur? I’ll call you a FART from now on.”
Origuy
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s been a while since I was in Spain, but I think they still have ham and cheese there.
Matt McIrvin
@rikyrah: This might be enough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Reconstruction#/media/File:The_Shell_of_the_White_House_during_the_Renovation-05-17-1950.jpg
Sister Golden Bear
@Miss Bianca:
Agreed.
You can’t say trans women aren’t women without defining womanhood in terms of bodies.
You can’t define womanhood in terms of bodies without policing women’s bodies.
You can’t police women’s bodies without being misogynistic.
You can’t say trans women aren’t women without being misogynistic.
Not to mention, if you’re aligning yourself with the far-right bible thumpers, that’s not exactly feminist.
Sadly this isn’t the first time. Last time around they teamed up with Jesse Helms in the ’80s to make sure trans women couldn’t get necessary medical care covered by insurance — an exclusion that largely exists to this day.
J R in WV
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
All you say is true. But our Holstein milk cow was a dear. Way lots of milk, huge amount of cream floating on top. We fed everyone on the farm whole milk, made butter, etc, etc. Ice Cream!! She was a really sweet person. I sill miss her. Molly, by name.
Would go for a Jersey if we did a second milk cow… But won’t be doing that, need to stay retired farmer, construction guy, etc. Retired!! Do you hear me?!!!
Ruckus
@danielx:
My BJ calendars arrived 10 days after being sent, at 8 days they still showed “label created, not yet arrived at PO.” On day 9 it showed that they would arrive 3 days after they actually did. Only on day 10 did it show they were out for delivery.
DeJoy has really fucked up the USPS. I wonder what else did they destroy other than sorting machines?