Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

So many bastards, so little time.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Their freedom requires your slavery.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

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

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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  1. 1.

    SoupCatcher

    So far three Republicans voting Yea on House Resolution 72 (de-Greeneing of committees)

    eta. In less than three minutes, that number has ballooned to eight.

    2eta. They may not get to 200 Nays.

  5. 5.

    df

    Up to 11 Republicans now (and an MSNBC commercial). There’s a Simple Green(e) joke in here somewhere, like: “normally Simple Green is used to clean, but this time we simply had to clean Greene!”

    The bones are there.

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    rica Werner @ericawerner 8h
    McConnell warns on Vote-a-Rama amendments: “We’re gonna put senators on the record” – including on Keystone Pipeline, $15 min wage, stim checks to undocumented immigrants, and more

    he thinks getting Dems and Republicans on record on the minimum wage is a threat to… Democrats?

    Is the Keystone Pipeline even on the FoxNews radar anymore?

  9. 9.

    Ken

    The poll Goldmacher quotes has 25% approval for House Republicans, 21% for McConnell.  Is it possible we’re breaking through the crazification factor?  Though McCarthy is at 27%.

  15. 15.

    Leto

    @Baud: the fact that McConnell thinks that widely popular legislation will hurt Dems helps to emphasize the moral/legislative rot that is the party of Trumpov.

  16. 16.

    Chyron HR

    McConnell warns on Vote-a-Rama amendments: “We’re gonna put senators on the record”

    I know most voters are too dumb to understand what’s going on in congress, but surely the money boys pulling the GOP’s strings aren’t going to be happy with McConnell if he proposes a $2000 basic minimum income and it, you know, passes?

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    In better news, Johnson & Johnson just submitted an application to the FDA for their vaccine. If the Pfizer and Moderna reviews are any guide, the process will take around 3 weeks.

  18. 18.

    MisterForkbeard

    Uh:

    stim checks to undocumented immigrants

    How the fonk is this supposed to happen, anyway? The stimulus checks go out based on tax records. Undocumented immigrants don’t do formal tax filings, with the exception of Dreamers. So if he wants to have a “do dreamers gets stimulus checks”, then SURE let’s have that fight.

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: The Keystone Pipeline is still there, because R’s and their media have been cauterwauling about the fake 40k job losses due to Biden’s EO, while the pipeline was already stalled out due to court order. It’s complete bullshit anyway – we lost maybe several hundred temporary construction jobs at most.

    But I don’t understand. Why would they vote on it? It’s not part of any upcoming legislation. The permit was denied, that’s it. Nothing for congress to vote on.

  21. 21.

    Mike in NC

    So Moscow Mitch is dragging out the usual GQP blather about “checks to undocumented immigrants”. An oldie but a goodie.

  22. 22.

    David Fud

    @Leto: ​He is threatening the centrist Democrats. We all get to fight over the same handful of people who are stuck in red states with a -D next to their name.​

  28. 28.

    df

    @Ken: Mm, agreed. Maybe she’ll split from the Republiqans to form the Greene Party.

    I have to say, subbing “Q/q” in for things makes for such rich and varied wordplay. Q-CA is *chef’s kiss* (I’ve seen Q-GA used for MTG too).

  29. 29.

    Brachiator

    Speaker Pelosi’s office just sent out a press release referring to @gopleader as “McCarthy (Q-CA)”

    Oh, shit. Love it. Push their noses in it.

  30. 30.

    Jeffro

    @Mary G: go Virginia!

    those Democrats, always actually DELIVERING for their constituents

    no wonder R voters hate us – it’s jealousy!

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    @Ken: During the Civil War, some people in Missouri with the surname Green added an “e” to denote they supported the Confederate cause.  My family did not.

    There may have been an “e” on the end of the name in England, back when spelling was arbitrary and fluid.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    @Mike in NC:

    So Moscow Mitch is dragging out the usual GQP blather about “checks to undocumented immigrants”. An oldie but a goodie.

    They keep coming back to lies. That’s all they got.

  34. 34.

    Leto

    @David Fud: @Baud: as Baud said, they’ll vote no. It’s a feckless threat based on thinking this is some type of gotcha. It’s also thinking that there will be another Tea Party style uprising ala 2009/2010 where they’ll come back into power. Shit ain’t happening.

  36. 36.

    Brachiator

    @MisterForkbeard:

    How the fonk is this supposed to happen, anyway? The stimulus checks go out based on tax records. Undocumented immigrants don’t do formal tax filings, with the exception of Dreamers. So if he wants to have a “do dreamers gets stimulus checks”, then SURE let’s have that fight.

    You have to have a Social Security Number, SSN to get a check. Not an ITIN, which many undocumented people have.

    The law was changed to let a person with an SSN who was married to a person with an ITIN gets a check.

    Old law penalized citizens if they were married to a person with an ITIN. The GOP loves them some bigotry.

    This was changed.

    Otherwise, people with an ITIN do not get checks. Period. End of freaking discussion.

    ETA: Hell, the first stimulus mailing had checks going to inmates in prison. The GOP was only mildly perturbed.

  39. 39.

    Mary G

    @MisterForkbeard: Actually, some illegal immigrants do pay taxes, though far fewer did under you know who.

    Wiki on CBO report:

    Research reviewed by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office indicates that between 50 percent and 75 percent of unauthorized immigrants pay federal, state, and local taxes. Illegal immigrants are estimated to pay in about $7 billion per year into Social Security.

    They can even apply to the IRS for a tax ID so they can get credit from year to year.

  40. 40.

    Ken

    @MisterForkbeard: It’s complete bullshit anyway – we lost maybe several hundred temporary construction jobs at most.

    Yeah, but once the pipeline is complete, it will provide 40,000 jobs for, um… one person every 100 yards pedaling a bicycle pump to move the oil?  Or maybe 40,000 jobs cleaning up the spills, if they’re planning to have them with any regularity.

  45. 45.

    sab

    I have for years now called them Congresscritters to be gender neutral (//politically correct.)  Not any more ever.

    I have tremendous respect for all those people who hid under tables in fear for their lives for a whole day and then came back to work all that night doing their jobs. A lot of them had past histories that made the situation more real and therefore more frightening. But that night and the next, there they were.

  47. 47.

    Mary G

    @Baud: So happy that we’re no longer helping MBS bomb whatever he feels like. This is a big fucking Biden deal to me.

  50. 50.

    Baud

    @sab:

    Our Congresscritters are cute furry puppies

    Their Congresscritters are rabid nutria rats.

    It’s a useful term because of its flexibility.

  54. 54.

    VeniceRiley

    Moderna jab two 3 hours ago. No side fx so far.

    I’m calm when reading the news because no matter how bad the Q nuts get, they’re not the boss of me.

  56. 56.

    Brachiator

    @Mary G:

    They can even apply to the IRS for a tax ID so they can get credit from year to year.

    The GOP has gone out of its way to make sure that people filing tax returns using ITINs do not get many individual tax credits. Including children.

    This is cruel, and not enough people know about it. Or care.

  58. 58.

    Elizabelle

    Good evening.

    Do we have a list of who were the 11 Republicans who supported stripping GreenE of her committees?  Kudos to them.

    And even more to the Democrats, for standing firm on this.  The threat for payback when GOP takes the House:  we’re skeered.  Rilly rilly skeered there.

  66. 66.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Anne, you should really edit/remove the last line.

    White people using racist stereotype-speak for jokes is really not a good look.  And I say that as someone who has made that same mistake (and far worse ones) in the past.

    Otherwise, yay Nancy!  Love the trolling.

  67. 67.

    Geminid

    @Leto: The Tea Party movement is still around. In fact, trump turbocharged it. In Virginia and elsewhere, they traded their tricorn hats for polo shirts and rebranded themselves as “Constututional Conservatives.” That’s put Virginia establishment Republicans in a fix: they can’t win statewide offices with these nuts, but they can’t win without them either. McCarthy and other national Republican leaders have got the same problem.

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Cheryl Rofer: I apologize to Adam Kinzinger, who I am sure reads this blog, for earlier saying that he caved

    Liz Cheney did cave.

    Chris Smith! A little surprised at Fred Meijer’s spawn not voting with Upton.

    Anything to be read into those Florida votes?

  75. 75.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud:

    ETA: It’s amazing how unmissed Chris Matthews is.

    He got some old friend to publish a piece in Washington Monthly the other day about Tip’n’Ronnie and their bourbon. Or maybe the pigeons and squirrels down at the park told his wife they were gonna quit showing up to listen to it even if he was throwing out cheese and caramel popcorn, and she got somebody to take pity.

    I wonder if he let his colorists go now that he’s not on TeeVee….

  79. 79.

    evodevo

    @Baud: If it was your first shot, you probably won’t have anything other than a sore arm…it’s the SECOND shot that has given people side effects like a fever, etc.  I’m scheduled to get the second next week…I’m planning on a day or two off afterwards just  in case…

  80. 80.

    Ken

    @Baud: Functional how?  Lots of choices among the vertebrates.  Hippos, for example — but we have toilet paper and bidets.

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    @John S.: Her limit: self-preservation.

    Cheney overestimated standard republicans, assuming that they would reject the crazy QAnon bullshit, and that she (Cheney) would get credit for getting out ahead of the Republican crowd by speaking up against it first.

    So I don’t think it was the courage of her convictions last week – she just miscalculated and immediately scurried back to self-preservation mode.

  82. 82.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Ken: “It’s Not Easy Being Greene”?​

    More like

    “We’re all queasy seeing Greene!”
    or “It’s so sleazy being Greene!”​​

  85. 85.

    sab

    @sab: I had a longer comment. Forgot to push ” post comment”. Oh well. Lost some psitive  Gonzalez career points. Oh well.

  93. 93.

    sab

    Blind cat just fell off the sofa with a thud. Now he expects to be spoon fed goodies and be kissed and hugged a lot, then fed more goodies.

  98. 98.

    trollhattan

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Hazy recollections of an article I once read, saying that the operation can’t easily be started and stopped and kind of needs to keep producing oil 24/7-365, which is dubious when the oil price is below the cost to produce. But since it’s not technically “oil” IDK how they even price the stuff.

    I just love the idea of Alberta suing the US to force us to build that dang pipeline, eh?

  100. 100.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @WaterGirl: huh, maybe it’s like DKos or TMPCafe (if that still exists) for alumni, they just gave him a log in and a user ID number and he and David Corn yell at each other about the FAQs (I don’t know that he ever worked at Washington Monthly, but it seems like a lot of old school Dems and pundits did)

  108. 108.

    Baud

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    ​Lots of things you can do with a reprehensible tail…​

    Coincidentally, “A Reprehensible Tale” is the name of my memoir on my presidential runs.

  109. 109.

    sab

    @Ken: He does fall off late at night. Then he yowls. We pretend not to hear him. There is a lot of manipulation going on on both sides. He would do better with a wristwatch. He tends to have his outbursts too early.

    I would scoop him up and bring him to bed, but last year I did and he peed on all my pillows.

  110. 110.

    Starboard Tack

    @evodevo:

    I had the second Pfizer Tuesday evening. Yesterday was like I had the flu. Temp up to 101. Tylenol brought it down. Today I just have the sore shoulder.

  111. 111.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Ken: @Baud: Don’t forget controlling the mouse without having to take your hands off the keyboard.​

    Well, shit, you don’t need a reprehensible tail for that. Just train the big toe on your dominant foot.

  114. 114.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Omnes Omnibus: he’s just lucky that militias hadn’t united back then or you would have grown up in the Georgia countryside making corn squeezins, instead of growing up in the Wisconsin countryside making corn squeezins!

    @sab: ok, you get a pass then.  I was born in Illinois, though, so I’m part of the problem. Thankfully these militia men will be no match for the minimum wage guard at the security gate of my community!

  116. 116.

    Dan B

    @evodevo: I’m envious. I scheduled two weeks ago with Kaiser in Seattle and still have a month of super contagious variants to go. Plus two weeks till it takes effect. My partner signed up three weeks ago and had his first Fauci Ouchie last Saturday. I would have signed up earlier but I kept trying to get on the sign up web page and I was told several times that my password and security question answers were wrong. Fuuuuuuck!

  117. 117.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steve in the ATL: he’s just lucky that militias hadn’t united back then

    I, um, oh fuck it.  Never mind.

    ETA:  That’s the kind of shit you pull in labor negotiations, isn’t it?

  118. 118.

    Gravenstone

    @Baud:  You can always stop by WaMo if you want a Matthews fix. They seem to be trying to rehabilitate his image there for some reason.

  119. 119.

    Miss Bianca

    @sab:

    Blind cat just fell off the sofa with a thud. Now he expects to be spoon fed goodies and be kissed and hugged a lot, then fed more goodies.

    Well, to be fair, so would I.

  121. 121.

    sab

    @Steve in the ATL: Near my parents about thirty years ago they built a very secure luxury condo complex gated community. Big brick walls all around with gates, and electronic stuff on top of the walls. Very secure.  But no restrictions on homeoweners, and one of the owners rented to a burgler, who proceeded to burgle.

  122. 122.

    bookdragon

    I am astonished that Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) from my district grew a spine.  He voted against impeaching Trump both times so I was all set to sent him a nasty letter about being a Paul Ryan-level spineless coward.

    Now I’m just wondering how MTG was a bridge too far, but Trump inciting an insurrection wasn’t.

    But if he’s showing at least an ounce decency now, I guess I’ll take it. (Not that I’m voting for him in 2022.  Those impeachment votes disqualify him for office as far as I’m concerned)

  123. 123.

    Dan B

    @sab: Our young athletic rocket kitty fell off the back of our sofa last night, with a thud!  He was sound asleep and just slid off the side.  Came over to me for hugs.  Quite amazing for a formerly skittish feral kitten to seek out a hoomin for post-trauma hugs.

  125. 125.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Liz Cheney says that she voted against the measure because she doesn’t think Democrats should tell Republicans how to do their committee assignments. And Democrats will be sorry when Republicans get the majority back!

  126. 126.

    randy khan

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Interesting list.  Chris Smith has not survived as long as he has as a Republican from New Jersey by voting to support bigots and nut jobs.  I’m not sure what has caused some of the others to do the right thing.

  129. 129.

    sab

    @Dan B: Let me know about your progress with feral rocket kitty. Ours hates me, but sleeps on my husband’s hip every night (rough work, he rolls and tosses all night, and she hangs on like grim death.) Then she smiles at me, wanting breakfast.

  138. 138.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Omnes Omnibus: the deal I’m working on  at the moment is so small (barely over $200MM) that I can’t even get excited enough to pull any shit.

    @sab: ha!  this is a golf community, so everyone is *totally* reputable

  143. 143.

    Ken

    @sab: Seriously, I thought he meant the MyPillow guy.  I don’t know if his pillows are cheap, but I have heard he’s lost a lot of business.

  145. 145.

    Ken

    @Steve in the ATL: the deal I’m working on  at the moment is so small (barely over $200MM) that I can’t even get excited enough to pull any shit.

    So do you work on a commission basis?  Or a percentage, like a theatrical agent?

  146. 146.

    Bill Arnold

    @Patricia Kayden: ​

    Those eleven Republicans who voted the right way better brace themselves for death threats. They’re now in the firing line.

    They’re about (excepting the 3 who voted for impeachment) to their first lesson on the true nature of the Republican party faithful.

  149. 149.

    sab

    @Steve in the ATL: Not sure about the golf community aspect. Across the street from our oldest country club , Portage (which a newspaper wag, back in the day when that was allowed , called Portly and Aged.)   I believe he was a major mentor to Connie Schultz. Stewart Warner, if that means anything to anyone. Cool guy.

  150. 150.

    zeecube

    Maybe all the Rs who voted Greene off the island pissed about Greene not retracting her BS about “false flag” school shootings?  At least, I think the Fla-Rs considered it a factor.

  151. 151.

    japa21

    @Bill Arnold: Some of them are from suburban districts where Qanon stuff doesn’t fly. Voting for Greene would probably have caused them to lose the next election.

  152. 152.

    localcomment

    @BlueGuitarist: Katko is one of the few R’s in a Dem+ district. He has coasted the last few cycles against the same weak opponent, which hopefully will change.  Even though he’s quite young, he is more of an old school NY pro-business Republican.  He might be smart enough to see that to stay elected in this district requires a healthy distance from the Q nuts and hard core Trumpsters. If he gets primaried from the right, the district will go Dem.

  153. 153.

    Dan B

    @sab: Will do.  Rocket kitty was a tiny runt in a feral cat colony my partner feeds at his house.  He was friendlier than the rest so his personality may have been amenable.  It did take him a year, plus liberal use of treats and canned food – occasional Fancy Feast plus Friskies. ( none of that awwfffuuul organic expensive stuff…)  We also played with him tossing mousy toys which he would chase and fetch!?!  No more of that.  We have to get up.  He is more affectionate every day and is finally discovering laps.  Only took a year and a half but it’s rewarding seeing him be happy.

  154. 154.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @randy khan: IDK but apparently Steny Hoyer went Off on his Republican counterparts and walked around the chamber with a large print out of the Majorie Taylor Greene AR-15 “The Squads worst Nightmare” campaign  ad, loudly berating the Republicans by name…

  158. 158.

    Mel

    @Baud: I went to high school with  a guy who had a vestigial tail. It was about  three inches long, and he could wiggle it back and forth slightly. That made for one hell of a party trick !

  160. 160.

    Dan B

    @sab: Is Portage near the Portage Lakes – Turkeyfoot Lake?  We had fun visiting a couple of Seiberlings at their place on Turkeyfoot and another lake.  And then there were the geese, oy!

  162. 162.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    @Cheryl Rofer: Bullshit. Liz Cheney voted like she did because there were protests against her by Wyoming Republicans. She’ll be apologizing for her impeachment vote any day now.

  166. 166.

    Bill Arnold

    @Ken:

    Don’t forget controlling the mouse without having to take your hands off the keyboard.

    Seriously, I mostly use touchpoint keyboards with a red mouse nub inside the g/h/b/n keys and thumb-controlled buttons. (Several used Lenovos.) Fingers do not have to leave the keyboard. There’s a pad on the laptops but I turn it off.  An acquired taste, admittedly.

  169. 169.

    A Ghost to Most

    @VeniceRiley: My wife got the second Moderna shot today (she’s an RN). All her colleagues, and now her, report a bit of a whammy with the second shot. Chills, aches, etc.

  171. 171.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    I had the nanobot injection 2 hours ago. I can now hear George Soros as clear as a bell in my head.

  174. 174.

    Dan B

    @schrodingers_cat: Also Subsole, I believe, asked about the motivations of Modi vs. farmers and their demands in the previous post.  I gave the best I knew and said I felt it was potentially the most dangerous crisis on the planet.  If you could look for it ( I’ll look up post and comment number.) that would be great.  It’s worth flogging since it’s getting little attention compared to Russia and Myanmar.

  176. 176.

    trollhattan

    Save us from Techbros.

    Chamath Palihapitiya helped grow the world’s largest social media company, founded a multi-million dollar investment fund, and last week became one of the major backers of the campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

    Palihapitiya, a 44 year-old billionaire who was an early executive at Facebook, donated $100,000 to Rescue California on Friday, the committee supporting the Newsom recall.

    He’s been needling Newsom in the press, too.

    Palihapitiya, in an interview last week on CNBC, slammed the Democratic governor for the state of affairs in California, saying he “has done a terrible job,” and citing high crime rates, high taxes, poor air quality and residents leaving the state.

    He hasn’t launched an official campaign, but last week the billionaire tweeted out a link to what looked to be a campaign website called Chamath for CA.

    “California is a mess,” the campaign site reads. “It’s too expensive, our teachers are underpaid, and our schools aren’t good enough.”

    –Sac Bee

    I will agree that two years in, the governor has not made California cheap. Loser.

  180. 180.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Ken: wouldn’t that be nice?  At least my hourly rate will go up if the $15 minimum wage passes!

     

    @Omnes Omnibus: almost brought in Adam Silverman for close protection in one contentious negotiation.  The union guy who threatened us had been a D-1 nose tackle, but we realized he had played in the PAC-10 so we weren’t scared.

     

    @Miss Bianca: absolutely not!

  182. 182.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @zhena gogolia: thank you! Posting from my old phone as I can not handle my laptop at the moment. It doesn’t let me do very much. I am glad Steny gave them some Hell they all deserve it.

  183. 183.

    Ken

    @Dan B: It’s worth flogging since it’s getting little attention compared to Russia and Myanmar.

    Or GameStop, or plane colors, or…

    The press reminds me of the dogs in Up.  Squirrel!

  184. 184.

    Dan B

    @schrodingers_cat: Sorry.  Watergirl posted a photo of him some months ago.  He was lacking his chomps and showing his impressive fangs.  I could try e mailing WG anothe pic but hate to impose.

  185. 185.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Dan B: Your synopsis was on point and succint. India’s farming sector has been in crisis for a long time  now and precedes Modi. But Modi’s solution will only make the problem worse. Its not just Sikhs though. Jats from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have also joined the protest.

    *Jats are a caste ( they can be either Sikh or Hindu)

    Also farmers have been harder to demonize for the Modi government than Muslims or liberals.

  193. 193.

    Ken

    @trollhattan: “[California]’s too expensive, our teachers are underpaid,”

    There’s a certain tension between those two statements, not quite rising to cognitive dissonance.

  194. 194.

    Bill Arnold

    @trollhattan:

    Save us from Techbros.

    Well, evil billionaires. Some non-techbro young(er) billionaires are pretty nasty. (Though maybe not as annoying.)

  195. 195.

    Bill Arnold

    @Old Dan and Little Ann:

    I had the nanobot injection 2 hours ago. I can now hear George Soros as clear as a bell in my head.

    Since nobody else is asking, what exactly is Mr. Soros saying? Are the nanobots preventing you from divulging those secrets?

  198. 198.

    Punchy

    So….it appears the Colorado Trollop has watched her fellow GA flamethrower get smoked and realized she outta shut her pie hole to keep her gig.  Looks like these punishments may be influencing better behavior?

  199. 199.

    Anotherlurker

    @evodevo: 24 hours after my first shot, I’m achy and tired.  However, I have to say that it is better than the alternative.

  200. 200.

    J R in WV

    @opiejeanne:

    There may have been an “e” on the end of the name in England, back when spelling was arbitrary and fluid.

    I recall one of the founding fathers who said “It’s a mighty poor man who can only think of one way to spell a word!” Ben Franklin maybe?

  203. 203.

    Miss Bianca

    @Punchy: What gives you the impression that Boebert is shutting up? Has the level of her rhetoric dropped, or just her tweet volume?

    IOW, sre we talking “absence of evidence” or “evidence of absence” here?//

  206. 206.

    Ken

    @Punchy: What do you mean “keep her gig”?  Greene is still in Congress, just not on any committees.  She might even prefer that, it means fewer required meetings.

  207. 207.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    You got to get the shot, man.  It’s wild.  Seriously though.  Arm is feeling sore and round 2 is 3 weeks away.  Pissed that my 77 year old parents are still waiting for their phone call..

  208. 208.

    df

    @J R in WV: I sent a photo of some Black Plague etching I’d found to a librarian friend of mine. It included phrases like: “Lord, haue mercy on London. I follow. We fly. Wee dye. Keepe out.”, next to various parties in the image. I asked her if that was indeed two separate spellings of “we” in the same image. She said that yeah, people would just kinda spell things however back then, even in the same work. I was amused.

  210. 210.

    Jeffro

    @trollhattan: save us from folks with more than tens of $M, techbros or not

    Many, many of them are reaching the scale where they can easily “outvote” not only millions of their fellow citizens but their companies have a larger net worth/GDP/whatever than whole countries.

    Needs addressing, democracies, STAT!

  212. 212.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @df: it was a better time, well, black plague aside

    speling wyse, it was a better tyme

    on a semi-related note, the BBC History Extra podcast has been doing an “everything you wanted to know about…” series. Last week’s was the black death. I haven’t listened to it yet.

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    SWMBO

    @Ken: ​
      How is the oil sludge being moved now? By truck or train? What happens to those jobs? Do we pay them to not ship it? We’re losing jobs on this in any case. This is all smoke and bullshit being thrown into the air to distract from the jobs we’re going to lose?

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