Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Petty moves from a petty man.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Let there be snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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  3. 3.

    Brachiator

    I definitely can sympathize. I am dealing with my own sinus issues.

    Hope you feel better soon.

  6. 6.

    Damned_at_Random

    Stillers-Browns at 8:15 your time, if you can still enjoy football in the end times. I can, but I’m still wondering what Cheney et. al. were trying to prevent in last week’s oped. suspect this is a long way from over

  9. 9.

    Mike in NC

    We’re tuning in to CNN at 10PM EST tonight to catch the two-hour report on Trump’s attempted coup against the Constitution. He egged on the violent mob with an evil speech using language copied from the works of Hitler, one of the few authors he ever read.

    We have ten days until this fascist bastard is gone and I have no confidence that he and his henchmen aren’t plotting further damage to the country.

  12. 12.

    Bruuuuce

    Missed the Parler thread below, but found a really good explainer on Section 230 that basically shuts down almost every specious argument being offered by the butthurt right wing (and misled left).  Now I am no longer arguing with folks on it, just throwing them the link and telling them to read why they’re wrong

  13. 13.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    So when they make the feature length film on this 5-10 years from now, who plays Trump?

  16. 16.

    Redshift

    We had our annual pre-VA legislature brunch event in Fairfax this morning. Gerry Connolly (VA-11) spoke about the assault on the Capitol, and covered a lot of the same material as in this talk:

    Video: Rep. @GerryConnolly’s Dramatic Account of the Assault on the Capitol (“I’m determined. I’m not afraid. I will not be intimidated. And I hope you won’t either. We will stand up for the best of what America represents and we will call out its worst”) https://t.co/X8zKH66JfO
    — Blue Virginia (@bluevirginia) January 10, 2021

    And my rep, Don Beyer, spoke (as he has online) about how Kevin McCarthy should resign for continuing to support the election lies even after the attack, pointing out that as awful as they are, Hawley and Cruz are back-benchers in the Senate, but McCarthy is the GOP leader in the House.

  17. 17.

    Ohio Mom

    Damned_at_Random: and we still haven’t finished with the Mueller report’s loose ends, and who knows what else? So much to investigate…

    Meanwhile I am still coming to terms with the idea that Cheney did something I appreciate.

  21. 21.

    RaflW

    Is my searching borked, or are there no commentariat opines on the Schwarzenegger video in recent threads here?

    The sword part was over the top Hollywood, but the rest of it was, I though, remarkably good. His talking about how post-war, his dad was frequently drunk and abusive living through the regrets and bitterness of serving the Reich was pretty danged unusual from a politician.

    I felt like his calling out that “We need public servants that serve something larger than their own power” was a pretty apt diagnostic of the Cruzs, Rubios and Hawleys of this country.

    I don’t have any great love for how Arnold ran CA. But he is doing what needs to be done to not have the right half of this country just go totally Lord of the Flies.

  22. 22.

    BR

    @Ohio Mom:

    Same here on Cheney.  I said this to Adam a week ago in a comment and he said Cheney has a very different concept of what national defense means, but he is sincere about it.

  23. 23.

    cain

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Also, a mechanism to give his daughter power. She’s going to come out of this smelling like roses. As more stuff comes out, she’s going to look like a principled conservative. Not sure if that’s going to help her when she runs for President.

  24. 24.

    BR

    @RaflW:

    I wonder if this is the time for everyone who has maga relatives to send the Arnold video to them. If even 20% of them are reached by it, it’s a start.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @BR:

    (THREAD) Media has yet to do a deep dive on precisely what Trump *said* in his January 6 speech in DC—a speech now called an "incitement to insurrection," and the basis for an article of impeachment coming Monday. This thread unpacks the speech. I hope you'll read on and RETWEET.
    pic.twitter.com/ba6eaNScNW

    — Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 9, 2021

  26. 26.

    RaflW

    @Ohio Mom: I’ve seen comments that I find credible that the Cheney +9 other Sec Def’s letter may well have been an element in keeping the Captiol sacking from getting even more out of hand/deadly.

    It seems like it at least sharpened the minds of some career Pentagon folks, yes?

  29. 29.

    RaflW

    @Mike in NC: There was an epic, 100+ tweet thread yesterday unpacking nearly line-by-line the speech and its subtexts, coded (and naked) exhortations to violence, blame-laying and such. Not sure in the huge swirl I was in yesterday there who the person was. Shouldn’t be too hard to find, but I am trying to have a tweet-break for a while.

  31. 31.

    RaflW

    @NotMax: I literally used the BJ search function on the home page to look for it. So, um, yeah either I am terrible (I even spell checked his name!) or ‘search provided by google’ is crap.

    But mostly I’m a moron for not scrolling down like three posts! Duh!

  32. 32.

    CaseyL

    I hear ya, John. I’m longing for a return to the time when “feeling like I’m coming down with something” was cause for some basic preventive measures rather than an obsessive symptom-watch/where-have-I-been accounting.

    I saw the Ahhnold video, and was duly impressed. I hope he’s right about the sword analogy.  It depends on how deep a dive we do to find/expel everyone involved in the coup attempt.  Arnold compares it to a tempered sword; I prefer a debrade-the-wound.

  36. 36.

    Damned_at_Random

    @RaflW: I’d like to know exactly what went on in the Pentagon during the insurrection. Was the delay in approving deployment on the MD national guard just a product of confusion- or an intentional stall? Were some Trump appointees shut down by the professional military? I’m not generally this paranoid, but the events of the past couple of weeks have really rattled me

  37. 37.

    Nicole

    I hope you feel better soon, John.  My husband tested positive on the 4th for Covid and has been isolating since Monday night away from my son and me.  It’s been tough, especially because we talked to our doctor, and she thinks I may have had it first- I had a high fever for three days right before the New Year. However, I tested negative 3 times over an 8 day period, (including right in the middle of my symptoms and the same day my husband tested positive), so we have to act as though I’ve not had it, which means isolation from him until the 14th.

    I’ve had fatigue and a low-level temperature for several days after the fever broke; it’s still not back to normal, but trending downwards.  And the fatigue is a little less every day.

    The only place I can think of where I could have caught it was my son’s pediatric dentist- I wasn’t unmasked for even a moment, but the patients were ( it had been over a year since my son had been seen and he had so much plaque I’m lucky there weren’t cavities, too).  It just sucks; this thing is really, really contagious.

    That said, there’s plenty of things we can catch that make us miserable but aren’t Covid, and I will send all the good thoughts that you just have one of the annoying other things.

  38. 38.

    Punchy

    Not joking, Johnny — I know THREE people who claimed to have “sinus infections” that quickly thereafter tested +. Seriously, keep vigilant for taste/smell, cuz that’ll go next if indeed yer +.

  40. 40.

    RaflW

    @Damned_at_Random: IIRC a McConnell staffer was able to phone a former FBI official who then phoned a career DoD person who it sounds like finally broke the logjam.

    And given the stooges Trump installed in the weeks before this despicable attempt, it is certainly possible that non-uniform Pentagon people were obstructing the provision of aid prior to that call. Investigations need to be painstaking, detailed and thorough.

  41. 41.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    If you’re looking for a little non-political controversy, let me toss this one out there. Animated character with 20-foot prehensile penis: appropriate children’s TV or not?

    I learned about this somewhere over the last couple days but haven’t the foggiest idea where. I have a vague memory that it might have been mentioned by Stephen Colbert or one of his guests.

    Speaking of internet rabbit holes, it turned out my wife had never heard of Randy Rainbow when I pulled up his post-insurrection “Sedition”. So we went deep down the RR rabbit hole for awhile.

  43. 43.

    Feathers

    @RaflW: I don’t know that this is the issue with your search, but sometimes either Google’s trawlers won’t have reached very recent activity or the algorithm is weighted in a way that older material is seen to have more interaction and thus weighted highly enough to knock the brand new stuff you are looking for out of the top search results.

    Google is constantly mixing up the way results are delivered and sometimes things just aren’t what one would hope.

  44. 44.

    Hungry Joe

    All this Pence and Cheney talk got me thinking about post-War GOP Veeps: Nixon, Agnew, Bush I, Quayle, Cheney, Pence. (Ford and Rockefeller semi don’t count — were  appointed, never ran for Veep.) Good god, what a sick and/or pitiful crew.

    Democrats have had LBJ (Hi there, Raven!), Humphrey, Mondale, Gore, Biden, and (sooooooon!) Harris. Not half bad.

  45. 45.

    cain

    @RaflW:

    Man just imagine what that would mean if it all comes out – that there are individuals ready to stage a coup. This is like beyond any other political scandal that I think we have witness thus far because how pervasive it is.

    I think though the FBI is going to have to look at itself first and purge their own folks before embarking on this. How many of them participated or throated support? Every Trump supporter within the FBI should be worried.

  46. 46.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Hungry Joe: post-War GOP Veeps: Nixon, Agnew, Bush I, Quayle, Cheney, Pence.

    Evil, Evil, Evil, Stupid, Evil, Stupid. Hmm, a pattern develops.

  48. 48.

    RaflW

    @Feathers: I wondered about that. And the box is very basic on the home page (which is probably appropriate). I was looking for a ‘sort-order’ option, because the results I got seemed very date-random, so I was tryna figure out how many pages I’d need to click thru.

    But then, spelling turned out to be key! (I’m an absolutely terrible speller, so I won’t cast stones).

  50. 50.

    Ohio Mom

    I have never followed Schwarzenegger, not his film career or his political one — I have a vague memory of an embarrassing divorce, that showed him to be a dick of husband — but could it be that he has grown and matured politically? He’s older and wiser?

  54. 54.

    sdhays

    @cain: The USPS law enforcement arm is going to be busy. Apparently, they’re the ones called in to investigate other Federal law enforcement when those agencies don’t know who to trust.

  55. 55.

    Barbara

    One small mercy is that Steven Sund is gone as of yesterday one week prior to the date he said he would leave, which, under the circumstances, was pretty suspicious given 1/16 is 2 days before MLK Day and 4 days before Inauguration.

  56. 56.

    Mary G

    @RaflW: I was off the computer doing life things this morning and may or may not have had time to go through the old threads, so I am glad you linked the Arnold video. I loved it. Our not so great Governator has grown into a mensch.

  60. 60.

    cain

    @sdhays:

    @cain: The USPS law enforcement arm is going to be busy. Apparently, they’re the ones called in to investigate other Federal law enforcement when those agencies don’t know who to trust.

    Unfortunately a Trump crony is in charge of that as well. Considering that the USPS had a hand in delaying the mail – Trump has corrupted so many agencies.

  62. 62.

    PsiFighter37

    @Ohio Mom: He got divorced when it came out that he had fathered a child with the housekeeper who looked after his and Maria Shriver’s house. That was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back.

  64. 64.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mike in NC:

    Glad to know about that. I’ll also be watching Nancy SMASH! on 60 Minutes tonight. From the tiny clip I saw, she’s going to be fierce.

  65. 65.

    TS (the original)

    @Scout211:

    Saw this earlier at Wapo.  Your link has more information. My disgust at Kevin McCarthy has only grown with his tweet.

    The GOP has so much blame in all/any deaths related to the Capitol invasion & they put out mealy mouthed statements of being so very sorry.

  66. 66.

    Feathers

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Studio Ghibli’s Pom Poko, currently available on HBO Max, is about a group of Tanuki (Japanese raccoon-dogs) who use their fabulously large testicles by stretching out their scrotum and using them to fly. The Tanuki are battling developers who want to destroy the forest where they live. They even kill some of the workmen.

    It is based on a creature from Japanese folklore. Westerners are probably more familiar with the shapeshifting foxes, because female ones will seduce men and lead them astray, which offers wide possibilities for artistically tasteful, yet racy films. The raccoon-dogs (more closely related to dogs, but tend to be called raccoons in English) have more transformative ability, but mostly involving their enormous testicles, which they use to make humans look foolish. Not as many sexy movie possibilities.

    Do not know of any Danish super penis folklore.

  68. 68.

    Mallard Filmore

    @Nicole:

     

    it had been over a year since my son had been seen and he had so much plaque I’m lucky there weren’t cavities, too

    “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. Its been over a year …” … since I have seen a dentist. I used to scrape plaque off the inside of my teeth on a weekly basis with a tool from the drug store. With the pandemic, I have been home and able to brush (softly with a soft toothbrush) after EVERY meal or snack. So far there has not been any plaque forming.

  69. 69.

    Nicole

    @gbbalto: Thank you- it looks he’s coming through with very mild symptoms, which is a relief.  And, on the good side, it means we won’t be sweating about when he’ll be able to get vaccinated as he’ll probably have immunity for some months.  (It’s the reason I hope my doc is right and I did have it even though I tested negative).  Obviously we’re still masking up and washing our hands and social distancing and will until the CDC says otherwise, but we’re feeling a great deal of gratitude for his mild case.  It’s just luck; you never know.  I know so many people here have had rougher times with this freaking virus.

  70. 70.

    Geminid

    Someone probably has already said this, but Speaker Pelosi will be on 60 Minutes. After the Bears-Saints game, I guess.

  73. 73.

    Nicole

    @Mallard Filmore: The kiddo has been much more attentive to his teeth since the dentist visit, for sure.  He did not enjoy the scraping one bit.  This was the first time the dentist really had to go after his teeth and I think he hopes it will also be the last.

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    Respite-y.

    Am still somewhat in shock after the monthly shopping quest yesterday after seeing fresh blueberries on sale at a much lower price than in summertime. Normally gaze longingly at them but cannot bring myself to justify the cost. This time the purchase was nigh unto irresistible (at Whole Foods, of all places, where had stopped in order to replenish the stock of not-dark rye flour).

  75. 75.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Hope you feel better soon, Cole.

    Also, that Black officer in the video being chased up the stairs by white insurgents wasn’t running away — he saw the doors to the Senate chambers were open and deliberately made himself bait to draw the mob away.

    He was the one person standing between democracy and the rule of tyrants. If the traitors had succeeded in taking hostages, we undoubtedly would been watching live-streamed executions of senators and others.

    Officer Eugene Goodman is a fucking hero.

  77. 77.

    sab

    @RaflW: I had a hell of a time ordering Tom Levenson’s book from Nook until I realized they might think he was named Thomas Levenson. Presto! Magic!

  78. 78.

    Tony Jay

    @Damned_at_Random:

    I’ve literally just spent the evening watching Sam Rockwell’s calm, soothing voice emanate from the mouth of a silverback gorilla. Far too manly for Pettygrift’s whiny nasal hooting.

    Just get a giant sausage skin, lightly seared, and stuff it with John Voight, Gary Sinise, Kevin Sorbo, Rosanne Barr, et al, topped up with a few dozen litres of pig-fat and a thatch of crystallised cat-piss. Put it in an ill-fitting suit and you’re good to go.

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    @RaflW:   You are right – the search results are not in chronological order.  They are sorted in terms of the best matches to the search term.  So a thread from 2005 that had his name in the title and the post 15 times would show up well ahead of a post from yesterday where it was mentioned 5 times.

  81. 81.

    Ohio Mom

    PsiFighter37: Oh it all comes back to me now — I’d forgotten Arnold had married into the Shriver-Kennedy clan.

    Still, I remember the gist of it, he was a rotten husband back then.

  82. 82.

    sdhays

    @cain: Weren’t they the ones who brought in Ghislaine Maxwell? They were in the news in the last few months regarding a big arrest.

  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    @Barbara: Your comment sent me to google, and while they didn’t say WHY he resigned earlier, the article did say that the new person had taken over on FRIDAY, so that’s good.  I couldn’t imagine why they didn’t fire his ass and have him gone in 45 minutes.

    I thought leaving him in place for 10-days was a terrible mistake, so I’m glad that didn’t happen.  There’s a lot of ass-covering and shredding and getting your stories straight that can happen in 10 days.

  85. 85.

    Lapassionara

    I am very concerned about the inauguration ceremonies. I have no confidence that Biden and Harris can be kept safe if they are outside when taking their oaths. I hope they decide to move to an inside location, some place not protected by the Capitol Police.

  86. 86.

    Bruuuuce

    @sab:

    So which side are you on?

    The outside, looking in, as usual :-)

    I believe that 230 is doing a good job, and that the vast majority of the calls for its abolishment or major edits are wrong. But IANAL.

  90. 90.

    Redshift

    @Barbara:

    which, under the circumstances, was pretty suspicious given 1/16 is 2 days before MLK Day and 4 days before Inauguration. 

    And one day before Q day (17th, for the 17th letter), which is one of the days there’s been chatter about a repeat attack.

  93. 93.

    Redshift

    @WaterGirl:

    I thought leaving him in place for 10-days was a terrible mistake, so I’m glad that didn’t happen. There’s a lot of ass-covering and shredding and getting your stories straight that can happen in 10 days. 

    Yeah, especially since leaving in 10 days was what he announced, not what anyone else requested.

  94. 94.

    Martin

    Man, conservatives are losing their absolute shit out there regarding the account bans and shutting down of Parler. We need a special explainer for the snowflakes titled “That’s not censorship, that’s capitalism”.

  96. 96.

    Another Scott

    Airspace above 18,000 feet from South Carolina to NJ has been cleared due to #COVID19 exposure at one of the busiest FAA control centers outside Washington.

    FAA center undergoing decontamination, hence nobody to manage that airspace meantime. Welcome to 2021.??‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/THu5Gsg5Ae— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 10, 2021

    The pandemic isn’t over. Nobody should be flying unless it’s an emergency.

    Grr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  98. 98.

    Bruuuuce

    @Martin: See my link upthread about Section 230. Tell them to read it all the way through, because almost every one of their arguments gets shut down in it.

  99. 99.

    Redshift

    One of the reports that came out fairly soon after the insurrection was that higher-ups in the Capitol Police didn’t expect this crowd to be any trouble because they were “pro-police.”

    I hope (probably in vain) that one of the results of this is that anyone whose threat assessment puts “pro-police/anti-police” above “do they have guns” is summarily fired. If your job is to protect other people and you make your own safety is a higher priority than theirs, you’re not doing your job.

  100. 100.

    NotMax

    @Martin

    Yuppers. Free speech does not mean free of responsibility or of consequences.

    Taking a dump in the punch bowl will get you ejected from the gathering.

  101. 101.

    Jinchi

    @RaflW: I’ve seen comments that I find credible that the Cheney +9 other Sec Def’s letter may well have been an element in keeping the Captiol sacking from getting even more out of hand/deadly.

    Yeah, it’s pretty clear that word was going around and people in the military were getting concerned that Trump was up to something. Publishing that editorial was a good move. Unfortunately, it implies that senior officials in Trump’s administration were complicit in the attack on Congress.

  103. 103.

    Jinchi

    @Martin: We need a special explainer for the snowflakes titled “That’s not censorship, that’s capitalism”.

    I’ve seen a few of those, but they’re on Twitter, so maybe the snowflakes can’t read them anymore.

  104. 104.

    Martin

    Ok, it’s starting to get real out there.

    Blue Cross Blue Shield has pledged to give no money to the campaigns of members of Congress who voted to challenge the election results. Commerce Bank, Marriott, and Citibank are also pledging that.

    What’s important about this is both the recognition that in terms of PR, association with these individuals is toxic, but also it’s a formal recognition of the 147 legislators that challenged the results. No weaseling out for the ones that tried to keep their head down.

  106. 106.

    Martin

    @Ken: Except that doesn’t explain the capitalism part. They’re still stuck on why Apple can pull Parler but not be forced to pull the MSNBC app.

  107. 107.

    Ken

    @Redshift: I’d think the death of Officer Sicknick, and the injuries suffered by other capitol police, would prompt all police to re-examine that assumption.  Not that I’d want them to adopt a policy of “shoot anyone waving a Blue LIves Matter flag, because they’re only using it to get past my guard”.

  108. 108.

    Just Chuck

    @Martin: Because MSNBC doesn’t give a platform to violent fascist white supremacists?  Apple is not obligated to be neutral either legally or morally.

  109. 109.

    Jinchi

    @Damned_at_Random: Was the delay in approving deployment on the MD national guard just a product of confusion- or an intentional stall?

    I’m guessing it was intentional. Trump was ignoring calls for assistance. Apparently Pence was the one who authorized it in the end.

  110. 110.

    Ken

    @Martin: Tell them that if they want the MSNBC app yanked, they need to go on that website and look for people calling for the murder of police officers and members of Congress. Then they can report MSNBC for violating the terms of service.

    As a side effect, it tricks them into reading something outside their news bubble.

  111. 111.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    I can just be sick and not worried that I have killed someone

    I often wake up feeling that way too.

  112. 112.

    Martin

    @Just Chuck: See, that’s the problem when nobody discriminates against you. When that suddenly happens as a normal part of capitalism, it’s bewildering and infuriating to them, even though it’s perfectly normal to everyone else.

  113. 113.

    Baud

    @Ken:

     Tell them that if they want the MSNBC app yanked, they need to go on that website and look for people calling for the murder of police officers and members of Congress

     

    They’ll be the ones posting those comments.

  115. 115.

    Fair Economist

    @Punchy:

    Not joking, Johnny — I know THREE people who claimed to have “sinus infections” that quickly thereafter tested +. Seriously, keep vigilant for taste/smell, cuz that’ll go next if indeed yer +.

    Enh, like most respiratory infections, this has very variable symptoms. I’m just getting over COVID, and in my case I felt a little sick for 2 days, and then the next day my fever went up to 103, and stayed at 100-102 *even with aspirin and ibuprofen* for 3 days after that. Then it “broke” and started going between normal and slightly elevated (99.x) for a few more days, and since then it’s been normal. I didn’t lose my sense of smell and taste until *after* the fever broke and went down to that variably slightly elevated level.

    Edit: FWIW, I get a lot of sinus infections, and for the first two days I was thinking “maybe this is a sinus infection”. In my case I figured it was *likely* COVID because my husband was already running a high fever without serious nasal symptoms with *his* later-proved-COVID case, and right now, there is very little flu to cause that.

  117. 117.

    catclub

    @Martin: Blue Cross Blue Shield has pledged to give no money to the campaigns of members of Congress who voted to challenge the election results.

     

    I read this and get VERY cynical.  Blue Cross is  clean, but the ‘Health insurers Benevolent Association’ still gives to the same GOP crowd.

    Or Blue Cross gives to the PAC that supports the GOP member.

  120. 120.

    TS (the original)

    @WaterGirl:

    and while they didn’t say WHY he resigned earlier,

    The Wapo article on him leaving early included the information that another officer had died which I thought may be related.

    Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund stepped down from his post on Friday, days earlier than he said would following a deadly breach of the Capitol complex by a mob supporting President Trump.

    …….

    On Sunday, Capitol Police announced the death of another officer, Howard Liebengood, 51, who was off-duty when he died. The agency’s statement did not release a cause or date of death of Liebengood, who had been with the department since April 2005.

    Liebengood was at the Capitol on Wednesday, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters. His death was a suicide, these officials said. There were no further details immediately available.

  125. 125.

    NotMax

    @catclub

    Brian Blessed still kickin’. I’d bet he can produce a perfectly cromulent American accent.

    Or, if CGI could be used to shrinkify whatever the actor’s name is for Captain America, use it to tallify Jack Black.
    ;)

  126. 126.

    patrick II

    Bernie

    Wealth of Elon Musk on March 18, 2020: $24.5 billion
    Wealth of Elon Musk on January 9, 2021: $209 billion

    Why? Is Tesla doing that well all of a sudden?

  134. 134.

    catclub

    @patrick II: Why? Is Tesla doing that well all of a sudden?

     

    Tesla is doing slightly better over the past year. Tesla STOCK is going crazy. Like, Tesla stock adds up to more than all the other automakers, combined, plus airlines.

  136. 136.

    Damned_at_Random

    @Tony Jay: Sam can play creepy – he can play anything. But Roseanne Barr might be a good choice at that. she has the perfect voice for it.

  138. 138.

    Just Chuck

    @Sm*t Cl*de: Wait, Winnebago is named after a guy with a 20 foot prehensile penis?

    Awesome.  Now I want one.  A Winnebago that is, I’d prefer to keep a more, ahem, fitting form.

  141. 141.

    Just Chuck

    @catclub: Tesla likely owns the patents on a lot of battery technology that they’ll be licensing out to other carmakers.  But a P/E Ratio of 1700:1 is … let’s say “not sustainable”

  142. 142.

    Barbara

    @WaterGirl: When he used the term “First Amendment activities ” I knew a cover up was afoot. DoD is using similar language. Working as I do in a location where I have a bird’s-eye view of a lot of protests, and having attended more than a few, the level of security is ALWAYS higher than what was on display last Wednesday, no matter who is protesting or what the subject.

  145. 145.

    Calouste

    @patrick II: Tesla is the new Bitcoin for a certain type of gamblers investors. They’re somewhat ahead in the electric car game at the moment, but older car manufacturers are catching up fast. BMW for example has said that it will have 25 electric models by 2023

  148. 148.

    Kent

    @Baud:

    @patrick II:

    Tesla is way overvalued.

    Sure it is.  But a WHOLE lot of investors who thought that same thing have lost tens of billions of dollars trying to short Tesla and have lost their shirts in the process.

    That’s why I buy index funds in my retirement accounts and don’t mess around with this sort of thing.  It’s not always rational.  And it might take longer than you can afford to be proven right.

  150. 150.

    WhatsMyNym

    @Kent: Shorting any stock is not for amateurs, you have to be able balance the losses with the rest of your portfolio.

    I’d stay away from Tesla and their products.

  151. 151.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @cain: I don’t get why there would be any Trump supporters left at the FBI. He did nothing but bash them for 4 years.

  152. 152.

    Tony Jay

    @Damned_at_Random:

    If Barr wasn’t a complete fucking loon she could have made a lot of people smile by doing a reverse Sarah Cooper and putting her voice onto videos of Trump speechifying. Perfect whiny timbre. But, yeah, loon.

  153. 153.

    Calouste

    @Martin: You know what would really work? If they said they wouldn’t donate to the RSCC unless they can make sure the money doesn’t go to those seven seditious Senators. Moscow Mitch would have them out of the caucus, if not the Senate completely, before the clock strikes the next hour. Because no fundraising is no power for Mitch.

  156. 156.

    Miss Bianca

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Speaking of internet rabbit holes, it turned out my wife had never heard of Randy Rainbow when I pulled up his post-insurrection “Sedition”.

    I’m just glad I’m not the only person who thought of that one! Randy Rainbow will have dashed it off in his sleep, I am sure, while I was wrestling with line 1!

  157. 157.

    Another Scott

    @patrick II: The recent runup in Tesla was because they were added to the S&P500, so everyone who has an S&P500 index fund had to buy their shares.

    Some of the rise before that had to be in anticipation.

    The rise before that, dunno.

    He’s been getting lots of good press with his rockets, etc., and still leads the electric car race – for now.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  158. 158.

    J R in WV

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    So when they make the feature length film on this 5-10 years from now, who plays Trump?

    Boris Karloff? Too good looking…

    Peter Lorre? Nope, too small

    Vincent Price? Nope, can’t do  a Staten Island accent.

    I dunno…

    ETA: Who was the guy who dressed up in a clown suit to kill youngsters? John Wayne Gacy? Him!!

  159. 159.

    J R in WV

    @Damned_at_Random:

    I’d like to know exactly what went on in the Pentagon during the insurrection. Was the delay in approving deployment on the MD national guard just a product of confusion- or an intentional stall? Were some Trump appointees shut down by the professional military\\

    When you ask “Were some Trump appointees shut down by the professional military?” the answer is “No, some professional military folks were shut down by Trump appointees!”

    You got it exactly backwards!!!

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