Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I was promised a recession.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

This fight is for everything.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

T R E 4 5 O N

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Let’s finish the job.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

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Sunday Open Thread: Cookies and a Puppeh

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I’m going to bigfoot myself with an Authors in Our Midst post in a couple of minutes, but I wanted you to have an open thread to discuss other things. But stop by the Authors’ post to check out the latest author highlighted.

Meanwhile, here is Bixby unboxing his gifts.

Sunday Open Thread: Cookies and a Puppeh

Bixby LOVES his boxes, so I saved a box and packed some new chew toys into it. He had much more fun opening the box than playing with the toys.

Funny story I may have told you before, but he loved boxes AND our UPS driver when he was still a puppy (100 lb puppy) and one day on a walk, he almost knocked over the UPS driver, trying to get to the boxes the driver was carrying. I was embarrassed, the driver was amused.

Also, I made some hopped up chocolate chip cookies, adding coconut and oatmeal because why not? Recipe here.

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  5. 5.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Our little guy (beagle mix) likes to shred tissues and napkins. I have a habit of accumulating them in my pockets, and he’ll pick my pockets and then take his treasure off to shred at various favorite perches around the house, We usually don’t catch him at it, we just find the evidence.

    When we first adopted him at 18 months, he used to love to shred toys, especially squeaky toys. We had a running joke about Sam being able to perform a double squeaker-ectomy is 30 seconds. His brain actually seems to have matured in that aspect if not too many others, and we now actually own old doggie toys. With intact squeakers.

  6. 6.

    Kelly

    Our cats Phoebe and Martin recognize the sound of the UPS truck and get excited at the prospect of NEW BOXES.

  7. 7.

    TaMara (HFG)

    Seditious fool has President Pelosi trending on twitter and I’m here for it.

  8. 8.

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

    Our pet peeve enjoys her rawhide chews but not just for chewing, oh no. She has to make Fetch happen. Throw it down the hallway, endangering all devices and fragiles, so she can start it all again. And she barks until you comply. Tedious, but hey.

  13. 13.

    MagdaInBlack

    Gordita has had her pick of boxes this year, from amazon. She spent so much time in one I was starting to worry, but she got bored with it and moved on to a different one. Now she’s back to HER big red chair, boxes are suddenly ALL boring.

  14. 14.

    Elizabelle

    Homer Simpson voice:  “Coconut.”

    Will have to make up a batch of those cookies.  Have everything in the house to make those, and they would be divine with hot coffee for an alternative breakfast.

  15. 15.

    narya

    I had a bunch of egg whites left over from the batch of hazelnut sable I made (one of which I filled w/ poached pears and hazelnut frangipane and the other of which is in the freezer), so I’ve been aging the whites, and today is macaron day. Also: venison cheesesteaks. And this morning’s run was slushy but not icy, so yay for that. I signed up for a year-long virtual challenge, so we’ll see how many states I can complete.

  17. 17.

    planetjanet

    Could you substitute steel cut oats for the rolled oats? I keep steel cut oats around as a pantry staple, but not rolled oats.

  24. 24.

    Elizabelle

    @planetjanet:   I googled quickly and short answer:  no, too chewy with the long-cooking steel cut.  Some possibility short-cooking steel cut could work.

    You’ll want to research.  Appears you may be able to use a cup of long cooked steel cut — with additional flour — per cup of rolled oats.

    Happy googling.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:   Trump is such a criminal.

    Raff, flat out:   “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong.”

    Very short pause, but Trump barrels on.  Starts asking about shredding.

  30. 30.

    Elizabelle

    Trump:  “Have they moved the inner parts of the [Dominion] machines, and replaced them with other parts?”

    Official:  “No.”

    Angela Merkel and others from the sane world have to be alternately laughing aloud and quite concerned about the coming 18 days.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    @MattF:   Yesterday!  Jebus.  Was guessing this was from before Georgia certified.

    Fuck Trump.  The criminal.

    I hope this gets him in a LOT of trouble.

  36. 36.

    Elizabelle

    @planetjanet:   Think I saw that McCann (maker of steel cut oats) might have some info up on their website.

    It’s an interesting question you raise.  I just use rolled, but good to hear you might use others, in a pinch.  Even in meatloaf.

    But.  Coconut.   Mmmmmmm.

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    The Washington Post has a long write-up on the call. Didn’t Lindsey Graham once say that trump trying to intimidate state election officials would be a crime? Not that I expect him to do anything at all about it.

    The rambling, at times incoherent conversation, offered a remarkable glimpse of how consumed and desperate the president remains about his loss, unwilling or unable to let the matter go and still believing he can reverse the results in enough battleground states to remain in office. …

    Trump sounded at turns confused and meandering. At one point, he referred to Kemp as “George.” He tossed out several different figures for Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia and referred to the Senate runoff, which is Tuesday, as happening “tomorrow” and “Monday.”

  41. 41.

    mrmoshpotato

    @MattF:

    Also, one may assume that Trump has been calling R Senators and giving them the same treatment. 

    “Steal the election for me!” bellowed the traitorous orange mobster shitpile.

    We’re less than 17 days away from the Biden/Harris administration…

  47. 47.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    How is what Trump is doing not illegal? And if it is illegal, is there any possibility at all of criminal prosecution post-Jan. 20?

    That goes for not only this crime, but whatever other crimes he is committing between now and then. I expect it’s not a short list.

  50. 50.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: from the article:

    Trump’s conversation with Raffensperger put him in legally questionable territory, legal experts said. By exhorting the secretary of state to “find” votes and to deploy investigators who “want to find answers,” Trump appears to be encouraging him to doctor the election outcome in Georgia.

    like a mobster, trump’s lizard-brain knows to keep it vague– “people are saying…” “isn’t it true…?”. He should definitely be impeached– not that I’m gonna start screaming about Pelosi. The American people are too disengaged, too immature, frankly, to demand it.

  52. 52.

    Elizabelle

    Amy Gardner’s first paragraphs in the WaPost story.  Kudos to her.

    President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that election experts said raised legal questions.

    The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point warning that Raffensperger was taking “a big risk.”

    Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office’s general counsel rejected Trump’s assertions, explaining that the president is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that President-elect Joe Biden’s 11,779-vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate.

  56. 56.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Elizabelle: The real pathetic thing is winning Georgia still has him losing overall.  Even winning Arizona as well still has Biden at 279 electoral college votes to 259.

  57. 57.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I want there to be CONSEQUENCES for four years of criminal behavior, goddammit! Not hand-wringing about “legally questionable behavior”. I want this fucker on trial. We need that as a supposed “nation of laws”.

  58. 58.

    kindness

    Imagine this conversation at the dog park:

    Pup1 – Man I woke up from a sound sleep this morning and my OneWhoFeedsMe was just sitting there staring at me.

    Pup2 – Oh, mine does that all the time.

    Pup1 – Makes me wonder how long they’ve been sitting there staring at me.

    Pup2 – Yea, it’s kind of creepy.

    Pup1 – Yea.

  60. 60.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Elizabelle:

    alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him with vague criminal consequences 

    NY AG James needs to drop a house on all of them.

  62. 62.

    Elizabelle

    @mrmoshpotato:   Yes!

    You’ve seen the meme with the Donald’s long red tie poking out where the Wicked Witch of the East’s feet were.

    Drop that house.  Send Donald to the Big House.

  64. 64.

    Nutmeg again

    I always love to see the big guy… and I used to put oatmeal & coconut into my cookies, back when I had a household to cook for! Yum. I will enjoy, virtually.

  65. 65.

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

    2 things: surely I’m not the only one to notice that from the red tie up, Trump is the colors of fire, right? Even an atheist can identify The Devil.

    Also, let’s get back to dogs, okay?

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