Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The lights are all blinking red.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Most of you should go to bed and try to be better Jackals in the morning.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

No one could have predicted…

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk

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Hola, jackals. What is this Easter? Arbor Day? I can’t be the only one basically confused as heck about what season – indeed, year – it is. Day 4, 873, 952 of the Trump Reich has broken my time sense. I get that it’s Christmas, but I’m still waiting for summer 2020 to happen and I can’t accept that we’re actually moving into 2021. How dare we.
Yet, this year has been a complete whirlwind. How can being stuck in one place also seem like you’re running pell-mell from thing to thing? Funny. It’s been good to tackle holiday cheer. That’s a nice feeling, the eternal battle to craft the perfect holiday treat. Holidays. A time to fatten your friends and family, that’s what I love.

Unicorn Vanilla cookies, Bulla Bread & BBQ Lamb patties – this years gifties

I’ve also been doing zoom script reading after script reading. You’d be surprised how much narration a good reading requires. Somebody has to set the stage for the actors. I’m doing a little zoom reading of Gift of the Magi and a seasonal folktale or 2 on Thursday, about 3pm PST. If anyone is interested, feel free to shoot me an email for the link. Just doing something fun for people who don’t get to witness a table read. Next year, I’ll be starting a table read workshop focused on giving under-represented minority writers a chance to have their works read/performed. We’ll see how it goes, I’m not exactly a very important person. We’ve nearly made it to the end of 2020. That’s not a bad thing. Obligatory Hime & Odo photos below. No polly ticks! Take a break from the stupids.

2 ridiculously fluffy cats, lounging like the scabs they are.

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Ghosts of Holidays Past: Flashes From The Past Edition

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Wonderful flashes from the past from ET and AliceBlue

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Grandma's house

Wonderful flash from the past, in 1970-something, from ET:

It was the year of the stove. Was it a portent of the future?  No. I don’t so much remember it but remember that I loved it.

Alienated

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I’d like to add one thing to Mistermix’s piece below, and that’s that I don’t have the fucking energy to engage with these trump-humping choads around me. Every day, I drive around, and still see Trump 2020 signs up. There is literally no point in arguing with them. It’s not about issues or what is best for them, it’s about cultural identity. It’s as pointless as telling them that their Friends of Coal bumper sticker or Confederate flag are stupid and counter-productive. You might as well tell them their NFL team sucks, too.

So fuck them. I’m surrounded by them, and it’s depressing. It’s the new Cult of the Lost Cause. And I’m tired of centrist Dems telling me we need to reach out to them and progressive Dems tell me that the right economic policies will turn the tide. The only thing that will get their votes is if you say the right racist things and hate the same people they do and pretend to LURV the baby Jeebus.

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Attempted Autogolpe by Idiots

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Somewhere, the ghost of Richard Nixon grins mirthlessly.

But despite the ‘Stupid Watergate’ memes, the current WH mess reminds me more of the last days of the Reagan (mis)Administration. While the television pitchman promoted beyond his talents grows increasingly distant from reality, the Oval Office is in the hands of swashbuckling grifters (Oliver North, back in the day), xenophobic sadists (Elliot Abrams), and grey-faced men in nicely tailored suits just hoping they can escape scrutiny for their own behavior (James Baker, George H.W. Bush). How seldom reboots do justice to the original sagas…

… Members of the group assembled­ in the Oval Office on Friday for a marathon meeting that lasted more than four hours and included discussion of tactics ranging from imposing martial law in swing states to seizing voting machines through executive fiat. The meeting exploded into shouting matches as outside advisers and White House aides clashed over the lack of a cohesive strategy and disagreed about the constitutionality of some of the proposed solutions…

Aides said Trump has been searching frantically for pathways to reverse his loss — sidelining officials who try to level with him about it and embracing those claiming to have a solution.

They dropped hundreds of thousands of ballots in each state. It’s all documented,” the president claimed falsely in a call Monday to a gathering of the pro-Trump youth organization Turning Point USA in West Palm Beach, Fla. “The problem is that we need a party that’s going to fight. And we have some great congressmen and women that are doing it. And we have others, some great fighters. But we won this in a landslide. They know it, and we need backing from — like the Justice Department and other people have to finally step up.”…

“He is grasping at straws,” one senior administration official said. “If you come in and tell him he lost, and that it’s over, he doesn’t want to hear from you. He is looking for people to tell him what he wants to hear.”…

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First Born Unicorn

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Alex Padilla will replace Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate. He ain’t Karen Bass, and he ain’t Barbara Lee, but he did win a statewide race and he’s apparently quite popular, though why that matters in a state that doesn’t have a single Republican in statewide office is beyond me.  I have a hard enough time keeping up with New York politics, so Californicators can chime in on this one.

Also, Biden is speaking in Delaware. (YouTube Link).

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Four Directions: I Should Have Asked DougJ for Song Lyrics

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DougJ asked if I would put up a fundraising thread for Four Directions.

Four Directions (ballot access for Native people)

Goal Thermometer

They are doing good stuff in GA too, and the money we give them goes a long way.

In case you missed it, this is a great story passed on to us from gkoutnik at the end of October:

A few days ago, Doug put up a fundraising post for Four Directions, a GOTV organization “dedicated to getting Native Americans to the polls.” I thought it was a good idea (everybody votes!) and donated, and then the link appeared in comments the next day. I thought it was still a good idea and added a little more.

Yesterday I got a phone call from Lewis Cohen, Finance Director for Four Directions, thanking me for the donation. Then he said, “Let me ask you what may seem to be a strange question, but… where did you hear about us?”

Turns out they had a big spike in donations, mostly from some place called “Balloon Juice.” They had no idea who we were or how we found them. I described BJ as best I could (that was interesting) and he again expressed his gratitude.

Their motto seems to be: “Advancing equality at the ballot box across Indian Country.” So – thanks, folks, from Indian Country.

Let’s make Mitch McConnell irrelevant.

Open thread.

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