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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Women's Rights / A Woman's Place Is In The House / Thursday Evening Open Thread: Nancy *SMECK*

Thursday Evening Open Thread: Nancy *SMECK*

by Anne Laurie|  February 4, 20216:34 pm| 214 Comments

This post is in: A Woman's Place Is In The House, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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Speaker Pelosi's office just sent out a press release referring to @gopleader as "McCarthy (Q-CA)" pic.twitter.com/I0Ijghe0R3

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) February 3, 2021


The most popular congressional leader in America: Nancy Pelosi

(from new Q poll) pic.twitter.com/PZ9rEcRXuD

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) February 3, 2021

Elsewhere, the Disloyal Opposition:

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

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) February 4, 2021


Pleeeease don’t throw us in that briarpatch, Massa Mitch!…

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  1. 1.

    SoupCatcher

    February 4, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    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.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    @SoupCatcher: Unity!

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    February 4, 2021 at 6:43 pm

    @SoupCatcher: ‘In a bipartisan rebuke to whackaloon Representative Greene, the House voted today to…’.

  4. 4.

    John S.

    February 4, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    Bipqrtisanship!

  5. 5.

    df

    February 4, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 6:45 pm

    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?

  7. 7.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 6:45 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Thank God Tulsi isn’t still in the House.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Yeah, none of those seem problematic to Dems.

  9. 9.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    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%.

  10. 10.

    TS (the original)

    February 4, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    11 GOP vote yes – 198 no, zero dems vote no,  4 outstanding, 2 from each party

    @SoupCatcher:

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 4, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    @SoupCatcher:

    Up to 11 now.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 6:47 pm

    @Ken:

    All Confessional leaders poll lower than the norm for whatever reason.

  13. 13.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    @df: “It’s Not Easy Being Greene”?  Though I hate to associate her with Kermit.

  14. 14.

    HypersphericalCow

    February 4, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    That is quite excellent shade.

  15. 15.

    Leto

    February 4, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    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.

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 4, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    @SoupCatcher:

    They may not get to 200 Nays.

    They’re at 199 now with only one R vote outstanding.

  20. 20.

    Feathers

    February 4, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    @Ken: People don’t know who McCarthy is.

  21. 21.

    Mike in NC

    February 4, 2021 at 6:51 pm

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

  22. 22.

    David Fud

    February 4, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    @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.​

  23. 23.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 6:53 pm

    @David Fud:

    Yeah, but they’ll vote no on all those amendments.

  24. 24.

    Mary G

    February 4, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    Democrats in array. I love to see it. And one additional Republican has decided to put country over party for Marge than the impeachment.

    Virginia's about to legalize weed and ban the death penalty https://t.co/XKMYdrOMDR #Local pic.twitter.com/RDPtQuyLKx— ? R Saddler (@Politics_PR) February 4, 2021

  25. 25.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: isn’t the price of oil still too low to make the tar sands dirty oil worth the extraction?

  26. 26.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    @Mary G:

    Elections have consequences.

  27. 27.

    Geeno

    February 4, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    @SoupCatcher: The GQP uncivil war continues apace.

  28. 28.

    df

    February 4, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @Mary G: go Virginia!

    those Democrats, always actually DELIVERING for their constituents

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

  31. 31.

    gwangung

    February 4, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @Mike in NC: Yeah, bagging on those Swedish and English scofflaws who overstay their visas is a real winner…

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    February 4, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:01 pm

    @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.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:03 pm

    LGM

    BIDEN TO STOP U.S. SUPPORT FOR THE WAR IN YEMEN

  36. 36.

    Brachiator

    February 4, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    @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.

  37. 37.

    Just One More Canuck

    February 4, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    @Feathers: to know Qevin is to hate Qevin

  38. 38.

    Cheryl Rofer

    February 4, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    These are the 11 Republicans:

    Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)
    Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
    Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)
    John Katko (R-NY)
    Fred Upton (R-MI)
    Carlos Gimenez (R-FL)
    Chris Jacobs (R-NY)
    Young Kim (R-CA)
    Maria Salazar (R-FL)
    Chris Smith (R- NJ)
    Mario Diaz Balart (R-FL) https://t.co/Nfx5FiObv8

    — Rebecca Kaplan (@RebeccaRKaplan) February 4, 2021

  39. 39.

    Mary G

    February 4, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    @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.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 4, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    @df:

    What the House did this afternoon was the Greene New Deal!

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    @Baud: What a fucking warmonger….

  43. 43.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    I assume they were personally threatened by Greene at some point.

  44. 44.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:  Not Cheney?

  45. 45.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    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.

  46. 46.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: 
    He’s probably doing it for the wrong reasons.

  47. 47.

    Mary G

    February 4, 2021 at 7:08 pm

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

  48. 48.

    John S.

    February 4, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: So in the end, Cheney decided not to be a profile on courage. I guess she has her limits.

  49. 49.

    debbie

    February 4, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Guess we’re all in the digital Thunderdome with Gym. //

  50. 50.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:10 pm

    @sab:

    Our Congresscritters are cute furry puppies

    Their Congresscritters are rabid nutria rats.

    It’s a useful term because of its flexibility.

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    @Baud: Ahhhhh…. that must be it.

  52. 52.

    df

    February 4, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    What the House did this afternoon was the Greene New Deal!

    Ah, this one. This one is my favorite. Thank you.

  53. 53.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    Biden seeks to restore ‘badly damaged’ refugee resettlement program

  54. 54.

    VeniceRiley

    February 4, 2021 at 7:14 pm

    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.

  55. 55.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:14 pm

    @Baud:  Tell Speaker Pelosi she is a cute furry puppy to her face. I dare you.

  56. 56.

    Brachiator

    February 4, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    @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.

  57. 57.

    Patricia Kayden

    February 4, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    @SoupCatcher: 

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

  58. 58.

    Elizabelle

    February 4, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    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.

  59. 59.

    JPL

    February 4, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    @VeniceRiley:  Congrats.

  60. 60.

    debbie

    February 4, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    See Cheryl’s embedded tweet above.

  61. 61.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    @Elizabelle: It’s above in this comment thread.

    ETA Disapointed that Anthony Gonzalez (R- Oh, Indianapolis Colts

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 4, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    @df:

    How nice if you to say so! Just sent it to the FTFNYT as a comment.

  63. 63.

    Elizabelle

    February 4, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    @debbie:   @sab:

    Thank you!  Missed it; just skimmed the thread.

  64. 64.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    Secretary Pete on Joy Reid coming up.

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

  65. 65.

    MisterForkbeard

    February 4, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes. The price would have to… triple, IIRC.

    Doesn’t matter to them.

  66. 66.

    UncleEbeneezer

    February 4, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    @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.

  68. 68.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 4, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: wow—was not expecting a “spinal tap” reference from you!

  69. 69.

    MisterForkbeard

    February 4, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: And no Liz Cheney.

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 7:23 pm

    @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?

  71. 71.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 4, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: Kind of surprised that Young Kim voted for the measure and Michele Steele didn’t.

     

  72. 72.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 4, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    @VeniceRiley:

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

    The tail starts growing after 6 hours.

     

  73. 73.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I could use a functional tail right now.

  74. 74.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 4, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    I contain fucking multitudes.

  75. 75.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    @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….

  76. 76.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    February 4, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    @Baud:

    It’s amazing how unmissed Chris Matthews is.

    Who?

  77. 77.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 4, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    “Imperial Yankee culture from the northeast” is apparently ruining Georgia!  So knock it off, MomSense, Immanentize, and the rest of you clowns!

  78. 78.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 4, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    @Baud:

    Prehensilism R Us

  79. 79.

    evodevo

    February 4, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:30 pm

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

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    February 4, 2021 at 7:30 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:32 pm

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

    More like

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

  83. 83.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: “Imperial Yankee culture from the northeast”

    I think my great-great-grandfather brought some of that when he came through Georgia with Sherman.

  84. 84.

    BlueGuitarist

    February 4, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Why are Katko, Kinzinger, and Upton the only 3 to vote for both impeachment and to boot Greene?

  85. 85.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:34 pm

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

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    @evodevo: ​
      I don’t think a fever is as useful as a tail.

  87. 87.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    @Ken:

    Hold my coffee.  Get my keys out of my pocket when I’m carrying a package with both hands.

  88. 88.

    JPL

    February 4, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:   Comments about the Parkland shooting were difficult to forget.

  89. 89.

    Uncle Cosmo

    February 4, 2021 at 7:36 pm

    @Mike in NC: ​
    I wish we could cut off the checks going out to Obstructioninst Minority Leaders, but hey.

  90. 90.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:36 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: I was born in North Carolina, so there.

  91. 91.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    @JPL: ah! Seems obvious now that you point it out, thanks

  92. 92.

    Uncle Cosmo

    February 4, 2021 at 7:38 pm

    @df: ​ It’s the Global Qligarchy Party until & unless proven otherwise.

  93. 93.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:38 pm

    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.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    February 4, 2021 at 7:38 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s worse than that.  He seems to be posting regularly at the Washington Monthly.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    February 4, 2021 at 7:40 pm

    @sab: As he should.

  96. 96.

    JPL

    February 4, 2021 at 7:40 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: GQP it is.

  97. 97.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 7:40 pm

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

  98. 98.

    trollhattan

    February 4, 2021 at 7:40 pm

    @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?

  99. 99.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:40 pm

    @Baud: What the fuck is a functional tail if it’s not prehensile?

  100. 100.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 7:41 pm

    @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)

  101. 101.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 7:41 pm

    @sab: @WaterGirl: Don’t you risk training the cat to fall off the sofa in order to get treats?  You’ll be hearing thumps night and day.

  102. 102.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 7:41 pm

    @sab: One that provides balance or something to lean on.

  103. 103.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:42 pm

    @WaterGirl: As he will be.

  104. 104.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    @Ken:

    Oh fuck yes.

  105. 105.

    Uncle Cosmo

    February 4, 2021 at 7:44 pm

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

  106. 106.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 7:45 pm

    Ryan J. Reilly@ryanjreilly 2h
    “He noted that SCHWARTZ still owes him money.” Feds charge Peter Schwartz after a friend tipped off the FBI.

    “Friend”

    I don’t know about Biden and this election stuff, but that cheap fucker still owes me a hundred bucks from last year’s Superbowl!

  107. 107.

    Another Scott

    February 4, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @Baud:

    Not even a little? Are you sure??! A teeny, tiny bit??!!
    Not even a Mr. Creosote amount???!?!ONE

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  108. 108.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:48 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:48 pm

    @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.

  112. 112.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I need one of those.

  113. 113.

    Uncle Cosmo

    February 4, 2021 at 7:50 pm

    @Baud:  Hey, even I get the presidential runs from hamberders & covfefe… :^p​

  114. 114.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 4, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    @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!

  115. 115.

    Bupalos

    February 4, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    Can it be something other than a… Q poll? Please?

  116. 116.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 7:54 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:54 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:54 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    @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.

  120. 120.

    Patricia Kayden

    February 4, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    Just want to put out there that @OneFreshPillow is a progressive company if you wanted to throw your resources behind them instead of starting something from scratch. And their pillows are great!— April (@ReignOfApril) February 4, 2021

  121. 121.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @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.

  124. 124.

    Mike in NC

    February 4, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @sab: I know of a guy who sells cheap pillows and is looking for business these days.

  125. 125.

    Cheryl Rofer

    February 4, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:03 pm

    @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.

  127. 127.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 8:03 pm

    Elizabeth Warren will be on Chris Hayes.

  128. 128.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 4, 2021 at 8:04 pm

    @sab:

    I would scoop him up and bring him to bed

    and call him George?

  129. 129.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 8:04 pm

    @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.

  130. 130.

    Gravenstone

    February 4, 2021 at 8:04 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: Maybe they should hold another vote on placing Greene on whichever committees Cheney sits on ? Wonder how she’d feel about that?

  131. 131.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    If the Republicans get the majority back, committee assignments will be the least of our worries.

  132. 132.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: His name is Mac.

  133. 133.

    Patricia Kayden

    February 4, 2021 at 8:06 pm

    @sab: Awwww.  And some scratches on the belly too.

  134. 134.

    Barbara

    February 4, 2021 at 8:06 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:  That seems to be the agreed upon message that bypasses the hard decisions. Make it all about process and party prerogative.

  135. 135.

    HumboldtBlue

    February 4, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    @Baud:

    Aint that the truth.

  136. 136.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 8:08 pm

    @Mike in NC: Tell me more. I had five plump down pillows. Now I have two flat things from the Dollsr Store.

  137. 137.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @sab: I think Mike meant the MyPillow guy.

  138. 138.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 4, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @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

  139. 139.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    @Ken: Seriously?!

  140. 140.

    Baud

    February 4, 2021 at 8:12 pm

    My Pillow guy has ruined all pillows for me.  I’m forced to use rolled up beach towels.

  141. 141.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 8:12 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: That’s what your side always says until you send the Pinkertons in.

  142. 142.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 4, 2021 at 8:12 pm

    @Gravenstone: if the poisonous apple doesn’t fall far from the poisonous tree, she’d probably shoot her in the face

  143. 143.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    @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.

  144. 144.

    Mel

    February 4, 2021 at 8:14 pm

    @VeniceRiley:  Congrats!!

  145. 145.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @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.

  147. 147.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: “I don’t like… the Pinkertons” (link fixed, though the other one is good too)

  148. 148.

    Miss Bianca

    February 4, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    if the poisonous apple doesn’t fall far from the poisonous tree, she’d probably shoot her in the face.

    Problem?

  149. 149.

    sab

    February 4, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:17 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    @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…

  155. 155.

    Jeffro

    February 4, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: lol – one of the few times I ‘get’ a reference around here ;)

  156. 156.

    Leto

    February 4, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    @Baud: Bags of rice here.

  157. 157.

    Bill Arnold

    February 4, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I contain fucking multitudes.

    Figuratively or literally?

  158. 158.

    Mel

    February 4, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    @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 !

  159. 159.

    Leto

    February 4, 2021 at 8:30 pm

    @Mel: if you can wag it back and forth, I don’t think you can call it “vestigial” anymore.

  160. 160.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 8:30 pm

    @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!

  161. 161.

    zhena gogolia

    February 4, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    @EmbraceYourInnerCrone:

    "They're not 'The Squad' They're Ilhan. They are Alexandria. And they're Rashida. They are people. They are our colleagues … this is an AR-15" — Steny Hoyer printed out one of Marjorie Taylor Greene's incendiary tweets pic.twitter.com/pXOmMtyrFs— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 4, 2021

  162. 162.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    February 4, 2021 at 8:32 pm

    @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.

  163. 163.

    cain

    February 4, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    @Baud:

    Elizabeth Warren will be on Chris Hayes.

    ohh la la

  164. 164.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 4, 2021 at 8:35 pm

    @Dan B: You can’t talk about kittehs without sharing photos.

  165. 165.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 8:35 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Steny’s pissed.

  166. 166.

    Bill Arnold

    February 4, 2021 at 8:36 pm

    @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.

  167. 167.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 4, 2021 at 8:36 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
      Clearly, you are wrong. He just did it.

  168. 168.

    cain

    February 4, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Truth, she demands kitteh pics. I’m always obligated to share.

  169. 169.

    A Ghost to Most

    February 4, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    @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.

  170. 170.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    February 4, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    It’s not easy being Greene

  171. 171.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    February 4, 2021 at 8:40 pm

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

  172. 172.

    Mel

    February 4, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    @Leto: Still vestigial (no longer needed or used for its original function), even with movement,

  173. 173.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I don’t have a photo sharing app but BaBu, aka Rocket Kitty, is in calendar 1.  He’s grey striped with a white chest and white underside of his chin.

  174. 174.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 8:47 pm

    @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.

  175. 175.

    Mel

    February 4, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    @Dan B: Oh, what a lovely kitty!

  176. 176.

    trollhattan

    February 4, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    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.

  177. 177.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 4, 2021 at 8:52 pm

    @cain: Your kittehs are full of win and awesome!

  178. 178.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 4, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    @Dan B: Alas, I didn’t get the calendar.

  179. 179.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: My educated guesses about Modi’s plan for farmers is “The Sound of Silence” post.  Comment 220.

  180. 180.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 4, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    @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!

  181. 181.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 4, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    @trollhattan: These Indian techbros are the worst.

  182. 182.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    February 4, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    @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.

  186. 186.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 4, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    @Dan B: Don’t worry about it.

  187. 187.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I tried to explain the Farmer’s situation.

    Post: The Sound of Silence

    Comment: 220

    Feedback welcome.

     

    I see you Commented.  Thanks!

  188. 188.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 4, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    @trollhattan: He is Sri-Lankan American via Canada. Phew.

  189. 189.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Thanks!  My attention is piqued when something about India gets through the US media.  It is still confusing because of the huge number of moving pieces.

  190. 190.

    Miss Bianca

    February 4, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    @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.

    LOL!!

  191. 191.

    Dopey-o

    February 4, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo: It’s the Global Qligarchy Party until & unless proven otherwise.

    Qonfederate Party? Q-federates?

  192. 192.

    Dan B

    February 4, 2021 at 9:11 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: You are not responsible for a sub-continent.

     

    Unless Baud commands you to do so, of course.

  193. 193.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 9:12 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 9:16 pm

    @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?

  196. 196.

    J R in WV

    February 4, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    @Ken: ​
     

    Though McCarthy is at 27%.

    Isn’t that now spelled McQarthy? Ask Madame Speaker!!

  197. 197.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 4, 2021 at 9:17 pm

    @Dan B: I know but every time i I see a moronic and entitled person of Indian origin getting media eyeballs I inwardly cringe.

  198. 198.

    Punchy

    February 4, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 9:21 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 9:21 pm

    @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?

  201. 201.

    WaterGirl

    February 4, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    @Dan B: I’m sure these aren’t the right ones, but they are the ones I found.

    Thursday Evening Open Thread:  Nancy *SMECK* Thursday Evening Open Thread:  Nancy *SMECK* 1

  202. 202.

    WaterGirl

    February 4, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    @Punchy: Or perhaps fear of law enforcement investigation re: Jan 6?

  203. 203.

    Miss Bianca

    February 4, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    @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?//

  204. 204.

    Miss Bianca

    February 4, 2021 at 9:27 pm

    @WaterGirl: @Dan B: What pretty kitties!

  205. 205.

    WaterGirl

    February 4, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    @WaterGirl: Babu would like to have a word with you.  Wobbles is the orange kitty.

  206. 206.

    Ken

    February 4, 2021 at 9:30 pm

    @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

    February 4, 2021 at 9:55 pm

    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

    February 4, 2021 at 10:03 pm

    @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.

  209. 209.

    Jeffro

    February 4, 2021 at 10:12 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Ann: did you have to enter a Duo code or did it activate on its own?

  210. 210.

    Jeffro

    February 4, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    @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!

  211. 211.

    Jeffro

    February 4, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    @Dopey-o: Grand Q Party

  212. 212.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 4, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    @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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    karen marie

    February 4, 2021 at 10:43 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: So many podcasts, so little time!

  214. 214.

    SWMBO

    February 5, 2021 at 1:51 pm

    @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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