Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I was promised a recession.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

You cannot shame the shameless.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

People are complicated. Love is not.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Usually wrong but never in doubt

In my day, never was longer.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Dragged up from below as it fits right in.

    Demolition crews were spotted Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago removing the helipad constructed during Donald Trump’s presidency. Source

  3. 3.

    JustRuss

    They shoulda had a Go Fund Me to put Trump’s name back on the thing before they whacked it.  I’d have chipped in.

  6. 6.

    karen marie

    The detonation people did a great job! That building collapse is the most competent thing ever done with Trump’s name attached. Nice!

  8. 8.

    waspuppet

    I understand they had to take off all identifying signage, but I was hoping some worker had spray-painted TRUMP on the roof before the blast.

  9. 9.

    Jeffro

    My name is OrangeMan, King of…nothing, not anymore!  LOL
    Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level boardwalk stretches far away.

  12. 12.

    germy

    We were watching Inside Edition last night and they did a segment about the model of air force one that trump took with him from the White House.  It used to be in the oval office.  It could be seen on a table when foreign leaders were visiting.

    It’s on display at Mar a Lago now.

  13. 13.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    That IS satisfying.

    Back from our second Moderna shots, so far doing just fine. Having my second cup of half-caff, which may defeat the purpose of going half-caff, but I don’t care.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    @germy: ​
     

    Of course he stole something. I’d be surprised if the model was all he and his parasitic consort and spawn made off with.

  18. 18.

    eddie blake

    @Jeffro:

    sweet. orangemandias! king of not a thing!

    OT- i forget who recommended it on the other  thread, but mz. blake and i watched netflix’s the dig last night. it’s about the sutton hoo find in england. REALLY top-notch stuff.

  19. 19.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    amazes me those rotting hulks couldn’t convince the lumpen that maybe trump wasn’t such a great businessman… oh well

    what’s the state of AC in general these days? I guess I should ask, pre-Covid. Were/are there enough busloads of people coming to play the dime slots to keep it going?

    @germy: of course he swiped something, and of course it was, essentially, a toy.

  22. 22.

    VeniceRiley

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I didn’t get 2nd dose side fx for a whole day. Then fatigue and chills snuck up on me. Keep some dayquill or poison of your choice handy. Even just aspirin will probably do.

  23. 23.

    schrodingers_cat

    Reposting from last thread. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks.

    I have a question for the lawyers of Balloon Juice

    Twitter has banned the Orange person and many white supremacists since the election but in India the BJP blue checks are using Twitter as their Radio Rwanda clearly running afoul of many Twitter guidelines yet Twitter does not ban them.

    Is there a way to make Twitter follow its own guidelines outside the United States using our justice system.

  24. 24.

    Jeffro

    Noted in the WaPo’s rolling updates section: Biden receives ashes for Ash Wednesday

    Biden, a practicing Catholic, made a short, previously unadvertised visit Wednesday to Georgetown University to receive ashes for Ash Wednesday.  His motorcade was rolling from the White House at 10:17 a.m., and he had returned by 10:54 a.m.  The White House said Biden received ashes from the Rev. Brian O. McDermott. Catholics receive ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead to publicly express their faith on the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter.

    Y’all remember the orange moron getting ashes…or even know what Ash Wednesday is…right?  No?  LOL

  26. 26.

    Jeffro

    Btw if there are any interested front-pagers/those able to post tweets, there’s a thread up by Jean-Michel Connard ( @torriangray) about his idiot RWNJ older brother the survivalist in Texas…who didn’t think to buy a manual can opener and, well, yeah…  LOL

  27. 27.

    germy

    @Jeffro:

    I’m going on record now:

    If they try to cancel Christianity, if they try to force me to apologize or recant my Faith, I will not bend, I will not waver, I will not break.

    On Christ the solid Rock I stand.

    And I’m proud to be an American.

    — Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) June 22, 2020

    (She was worried Biden would cancel Christianity if he won the election.)

  31. 31.

    Jeffro

    @germy: oh my dear lord (pun not intended but hey)

    Yes, Jenna, YES: we are coming to ‘cancel Christianity’ (eyeroll)

    It’s just not possible to get through to these people.  trumpov is a good, god-fearing, pro-Christianity guy but that Joe Biden, HE’S going to ‘cancel’ Christianity.  Yep that makes sense.

  32. 32.

    Another Scott

    @germy: “Republicans don’t lie to be believed.  They lie to be repeated.” – LOLGOP

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Who tries to keep that in mind, but doesn’t always succeed.”)

  33. 33.

    cope

    @germy: Wow, she’s “on record” is she?  Is Twitter like part of your “permanent record”?  That goes right next to her being on record that conservative women are “hotter”.  That took some guts on her part.

  34. 34.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    After 6 months of shoulder pain I finally went to the doctor yesterday.  He offered me a cortisone shot and I was all for it.  Then the nurse brought it in and it dawned on me.  “I had my first vaccine 2 weeks ago and the 2nd one on 2 weeks. Is this a good idea?”  She then went to ask Doc and I heard him say, “Oh, yeah.  I forgot to ask.”  So his advice was to come back 3 weeks after my next vaccine.  Ugh!   I don’t like the idea of helping a doctor to not fuck up!

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @germy:

    On Christ the solid Rock I stand.

    I remember Tammy Faye Baker belting out a hymn of that name on courthouse steps at some point in her and her (ex?) husband’s trial for bilking your Aunt Millie out of her pension check to build an air-conditioned doghouse.

  41. 41.

    FelonyGovt

    That video is almost as satisfying of the one several years ago of a workman removing the name T**** from a hotel in, I think, Brazil.

  46. 46.

    scav

    @germy: Oh Jenna sweetheart, I think that solid rock you’re standing on just might be your head.  Maybe your heart. One of the two.

  48. 48.

    Fester Addams

    If legally enjoined from putting the shithead’s name on it I’d have gone with just “RUMP”.

    And there would have been a phone app that let a few hundred thousand people push the firing button at once.  The actual imploder would have been randomly determined by cloud software.

  49. 49.

    Roger Moore

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Twitter put a gigantic loophole in their policies that lets politicians get away with way more than private citizens.  That’s the only reason they didn’t ban Trump years ago.  It was only when they decided he had violated their even laxer policies that they finally banned him.  I think they’re going to vigorously resist any attempt to ban a politician who’s not obviously on the way out.

  51. 51.

    nevsky42

    The Plaza, even when it was running, was just awful and rundown.  It would have been the worst place on the boardwalk if the Taj Mahal wasn’t still running at that time as well.

    If the Taj Mahal wasn’t the perfect metaphor for everything Trump; impressive-looking from a distance (in the dark) but once you actually got there you saw how everything was a facade, cheaply-made and falling apart.  It was one of the last poker rooms still running, but by the end the place had just become filthy.  You could hold the top chip in a stack and pick the whole stack up.  At the very least, that imprinted on me the need to wash my hands and not touch my face long before covid…

  52. 52.

    karen marie

    @clay: Not physically or legally but as an historic artifact.  I like to think the news reports of what a dirty, nasty building owner he is gave him agita.

  54. 54.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @mrmoshpotato:

    @Gin & Tonic:
    Sconed!

    Yummo!

    A random thing I have learned from baking shows: Apparently most of the English-speaking world pronounces “scone” to rhyme with “bun” rather than “bone”.
    I find this strange.​

  56. 56.

    Spanky

    @Benw: Just for the record, Trump didn’t screw up the AC casino. He syphoned all of the money out of it for himself, decared bankruptcy, and left all those creditors – the ones who figured an AC casino was a slam dunk – holding the bag.

  58. 58.

    The Moar You Know

    Is there a way to make Twitter follow its own guidelines outside the United States using our justice system.

    @schrodingers_cat: There’s no way to make Twitter follow its own guidelines INSIDE the US using our justice system, never mind outside.  If there had been, Trump’s account would have been taken down his first week in office.  Twitter, like any other social media outlets at the moment, is not subject to any government regulation.

    There might be local laws in India that they have to follow.  Doubt any BJ lawyers are licensed to practice in that country.

  60. 60.

    West of the Rockies

    @germy:

    Jenna Ellis, like most conservatives, is a poseur, a humble-bragger who bravely confronts non-existent threats.

    As a Christian, I will punch in the nose any Xenamorph that dares try to burn my bible and lay eggs in my face!

  62. 62.

    karen marie

    @eddie blake: That story not only repeats the lie about outgoing Clinton staffers removing Ws from keyboards but enhances it with “famously.” JesusmotherfuckingChrist.

  66. 66.

    Doc Sardonic

    @geg6: Omnes (I think is in WI) would have a better idea on viability, I just happened to see that on my news crawl this morning.

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Promotions for Female Generals Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump’s Reaction
    WASHINGTON — Last fall, the Pentagon’s most senior leaders agreed that two top generals should be promoted to elite, four-star commands.
    For then-Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the tricky part was that both of the accomplished officers were women. In 2020 America under President Trump, the two Pentagon leaders feared that any candidates other than white men for jobs mostly held by white men might run into turmoil once their nominations got to the White House.

    I’m sure Lt Col Ersnt (ret) is gonna raise some hell and demand some answers.

  69. 69.

    karen marie

    @Spanky: Get yourself a half pint of cream and make these – they’re the best. I make them with dried cherries or dried cranberries but they’d also be great without a fruit addition.

  70. 70.

    James E Powell

    The consensus of the Very Serious People seems to be that if Biden & the Democrats don’t get Republicans to vote for the COVID relief package, it’s a total failure.

    They also seem to be obsessed with the idea that Biden has to give up the minimum wage increase. Nobody wants to go to one of those diners and ask the employees about it

    It’s like the VSPs don’t want Biden to be completely successful. They need him to lose on something, anything.

  73. 73.

    JanieM

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Heh. Among the people I used to visit in Ireland, I mostly heard it pronounced more like “sconn” (rhyming most closely with John, but not really quite that, either).

    Here’s a lighthearted article about it. Better to fight over pronunciation that religion, anyhow.

  78. 78.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jeffro: one of those days when you wish the Xians were right about the whole hell thing, and trembling before a just God

  80. 80.

    mrmoshpotato

    @James E Powell:

    The consensus of the Very Serious People seems to be that if Biden & the Democrats don’t get Republicans to vote for the COVID relief package, it’s a total failure. 

    The Very Serious People can very seriously go suck an ass’s ass.  Nice to see 8 years of “NO!” just didn’t happen.  Was Obama even President?

  87. 87.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @rikyrah:

    @Jeffro: Another weight lifted off the soul of the US. It’s hard to feel anything but a kind of numbed relief reading that. The amount of damage and evil that guy single-handedly created…

    Time for the old joke. “We should say something good about the dead. He’s dead. Good.” Many attributions for that on the internet, but the oldest I found was Moms Mabley.

  88. 88.

    Old School

    @geg6:

    Anybody know what his chances are? Sounds like he’d have name recognition and lots and lots of money for a run.

    Alex Lasry is not that well known.  His father, Marc Lasry, is a co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.  But Herb Kohl made the leap from the Bucks’ front office to the Senate, so there is a history there.

  89. 89.

    RaflW

    Limbaugh has left the chat.

    To which my friend notes online:

    Minnesota warming up today due to passive heat loss as the gates of hell are thrown open in welcome.

  90. 90.

    karen marie

    @mrmoshpotato: The last four years of Republicans telling Dems to fuck off have also fallen into the memory hole. Was there a single call by anyone during fuckwit’s term that Republicans should work with Dems? Nope. This has gotten past annoying.

  94. 94.

    trollhattan

    Cancer generally wins. As a Sacramentan I apologize for our role in launching his career. An own goal if ever there were one. Only difference between Limbaugh and Trump is one of them didn’t get $400M from Dear Old Dad. Their wants in life were the same.

  97. 97.

    Nora Lenderbee

    My husband and I both cheered. I don’t care if that makes us bad people. Too bad the fucker didn’t croak 30 years sooner.

  100. 100.

    clay

    @rikyrah: Glad he lived long enough to see Republicans lose the Senate and Presidency, and Biden dismantling everything he spent his career trying to achieve.

  101. 101.

    The Moar You Know

    Limbaugh is dead.

    @rikyrah: wish he’d come back to life just so he could die again.  Once is getting off too easily for the staggering amount of evil that thing propagated in its lifetime.

  104. 104.

    Mike in NC

    Good riddance to that POS. I worked with idiots back in the 90s who blared his garbage through the office.

  105. 105.

    Ohio Mom

    Old Dan and Little Ann:

    Yup, doctors make mistakes which patients must catch and head off.

    The questions is, where is your bottom line? What level of mistake are you willing to let slide and what is a deal breaker?

    I don’t have a firm rule of thumb myself, I just go on gut reaction. So some doctors have gotten second chances after taking my correction, and others… I have replaced.

  107. 107.

    rikyrah

    @James E Powell:

     

    The consensus of the Very Serious People seems to be that if Biden & the Democrats don’t get Republicans to vote for the COVID relief package, it’s a total failure.

     

    They can go phuck themselves.

     

    Nobody gives two shyts about bi-partisanship.

    They want the check.

    They want the relief.

    If you work for government, you want that money so that we don’t have to start layoffs.

  109. 109.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Jeffro: Watching the Biden town hall last night, seeing the Trump Casino implosion this morning, and now the Limbaugh news. Yeah, it’s been a pretty good last 24 hours.

    Takes the edge off learning that DeJoy is planning to eliminate first-class mail and two-day local delivery.

  115. 115.

    Just Chuck

    Am I a bad person if I laughed out loud at learning that Rush died?

    While I was listening to Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky at the time?

  116. 116.

    mrmoshpotato

    @karen marie:

    The last four years of Republicans telling Dems to fuck off have also fallen into the memory hole. 

    Yes.  Though I’d argue the past 4 years of death and destruction were thrown down the memory hole.

  117. 117.

    Jeffro

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: I know, right?   Trumpov sent packing, Giuliani being sued, Dobbs losing his show, etc!.  The hits just keep on coming! ?

    I think Biden’s gonna have to sack that whole board and fire Dejoy.  It’s getting really bad across the country

  121. 121.

    Martin

    @schrodingers_cat: No. Can’t even make Twitter follow their own guidelines in the US using our justice system.

    But, the State Department can talk to Twitter about things. I would write to Uzra Zeya and express your concerns and ask if the State Dept. could work with Twitter on that.

  122. 122.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jeffro:

    We’ll be toasting ol’ Rushbo at the Fro household tonight, that’s for sure

    toasting the roasting?

     

    @leeleeFL:

    I thought, “I really wish I could’ve seen his face when he found out Jesus is a Hippy!”

    and… um… doesn’t have blue eyes like the ones in the (very tasteful, I’m sure) paintings in his house

  124. 124.

    Ohio Mom

    Just last night I was wondering, “Isn’t Rush dead yet?” I was only a few hours early.

    As Shakespeare pointed out, whatever good he did (call his mom on Mother’s Day? Okay, I’m stretching here) is now interred with his bones, but the damage done to our national discourse will go on. Sadly.

    On another note, I saw a tall building imploded once, about 30 years ago. It’s fine seeing it on video but nothing compares to seeing it in person in real time.

  126. 126.

    sab

    @hueyplong: No. Mar a Lago was a pretty building before Trump. Scour it down and it could be a pretty building after Trump.

    I don’t want everything he touches to die. Just people who chose to work with him.

  128. 128.

    Martin

    @sab: Agreed. It was built by Marjorie Merriweather Post. She left it to the NPS when she died, but they couldn’t afford the upkeep, gave it back to the family, who sold it to Trump.

    My wife likes to decorate with art of architecture, and we have a number of pieces that are made up of old postcards of different buildings. One had a postcard of Mar A Lago from the 1930s. We removed that when Trump started running, and we’ll put it back when he no longer owns the property. But it’s a lovely, historic building that deserves better than to be owned by Trump.

  132. 132.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Jeffro: Hence my occasional monicker for Dolt45: Orangecandyass. As with “Trumplthinskin,” feel free to appropriate, expropriate, and inappropriate, so long as you use it liberally.

  135. 135.

    rikyrah

    @Jeffro:

     

    I think Biden’s gonna have to sack that whole board and fire Dejoy.  It’s getting really bad across the country

     

    I live in an Urban Area – 5 blocks from my local Post Office.

    I haven’t gotten any mail for over a week.

     

    I want that muthaphucka IN JAIL.

  137. 137.

    karen marie

    You just cannot make this shit up:

    Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state’s power grid.

  139. 139.

    Almost Retired

    @nevsky42:  Yeah, the Taj Mahal was just gross.  I was there at the end of 2015 on a day trip during a conference in Philadelphia. Dirty carpets, gross bathrooms, worn furniture, something short of the “best people” dealing cards and slinging cocktails, etc. SAD!!  As it happens, I won about $350, which at the time I didn’t think would make much difference to someone of Trump’s alleged wealth.  But, I’ll bet now he could use that cash.

  140. 140.

    JAFD

    @Gin & Tonic: Breakfast with Bob Dylan …

    “Everybody must get sconed…”

    In other news, got an Email, “Due to the forecast of a winter storm, all COVID-19 vaccination appointments that were scheduled at Essex County College, Sears, Kmart and West Caldwell Tech for Thursday, February 18th are being moved to Sunday, February 21st. The appointment time you received for your vaccination will remain the same.”

    When I got Jab #1, was minimal discomfort – on ‘needle scale’ where 9 is “we have to draw a couple of vials of blood, and … there’s gotta be a vein here somewhere…” that jab measured about 1/2; and no side effects – that evening, wondered “what’s this bandaid doing on my arms – oh yeah, got shot this morning.”  So not fretting.  Want to get it out of way.

  143. 143.

    sab

    Only open thread today: just got my first issue of Garden and Gun Magazine. It’s interesting. This month’s recipes not so useful since I doubt I will ever cook a wild boar. Or chicken and waffles since my mom’s waffle iron traumatized us all.

    Nothing on guns.

    They seem to be very aware that if your magazine is catering to those who love southern food and culture then black people are a huge part of your target audience.

    I am looking forward to future issues.

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