Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

We still have time to mess this up!

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

I was promised a recession.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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

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

In my day, never was longer.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Let there be snark.

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  2. 2.

    westyny

    I would say “second!” but I’m afraid of the Wrath of Cole.  Besides, by now I’m probably fourth! or fifth!

  6. 6.

    CaseyL

    A very excellent thing, and I hope David continues to update us on how Claire is doing.  (Hint, hint.)

  9. 9.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    By letting some people make some good shit happen here, you make lots of good shit happen. I’m pretty sure that’s not a bad thing.

  14. 14.

    catclub

    From TPM:

    Trump released a statement describing the Vance probe, which may be reviewing allegations of tax, bank, and insurance fraud, as “a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of our Country.” That now includes the Mueller investigation and two impeachment trials.

    Speaking of which, when is the DOJ going to release the unredacted Mueller report?

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    @leeleeFL: ​
    1. Fuck ZERGTrash!

    2. If you click on any post title, you can navigate by the upper right hand arrows post-by-post instead of having everything on one long page, and no ZERGTrash.

    Using Firefox here, btw.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    @David Anderson:

    ?

    On other topics:  Did anyone listen to the Garland hearing?  I caught some of it, but not all, and generally ignored GQP questions since they’re all morally and intellectually bankrupt.  Did anyone signal whether they would vote against confirmation?

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    @Ben Cisco: ​
    Woot!

    Think last week’s weather must have borked vaccine shipments because our county has no, zero, nada appointments for priority groups. Hope they double-up this week, and the planes keep their engines on the wings.

  28. 28.

    JoyceH

    I so enjoy ordering groceries online for curbside pickup! As soon as you click to complete your order, you get an email with the subject line, “Groceries ordered! How easy was that?!”

  29. 29.

    Another Scott

    In other news, Reuters:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on Monday in Virginia on drug trafficking charges, the U.S. Justice Department said.

    The movie “Traffic” was a pre-documentary??

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  30. 30.

    Ksmiami

    @SiubhanDuinne: yeah now can a certain blogfather call his fuckstick Senator and tell him to stop preventing women from serving in Biden’s cabinet? My patience with Manchin has really run low and I’m ready to fly to WV and find a young smart person to primary him…

  33. 33.

    jeffreyw

    I could have has a vax appt for Saturday and had to turn it down because we were snowbound, they called again today and set us up for  Wednesday, noon.  No idea what brand we will get.

  38. 38.

    zhena gogolia

    Something that cheered me up enormously was that the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle had clues for Jen Psaki and Lloyd Austin.

  41. 41.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Ksmiami: ​
     

    My patience with Manchin has really run low and I’m ready to fly to WV and find a young smart person to primary him…

    Mine too, but in WV, it’s either Manchin or a party-line Republican. And frankly, I don’t think even Manchin wins next time. In the meantime, a 50-50 Senate is way better than one where they’ve got 51.

    We simply have to pick up some Senate seats in 2022, that’s all there is to it, so that not every last thing is dependent on Manchin’s and Sinema’s whims.

  42. 42.

    Ken

    @zhena gogolia: Further verification of my theory that the world is run by a secret cabal of cruciverbalists, who bring certain people, companies, products, etc. to prominence so they can use their names when creating the puzzles.

  46. 46.

    Ruckus

    @jeffreyw:

    Pfizer and Moderna are so close in efficiency that it really shouldn’t matter.
    Word is that Moderna is first shot annoying and from personal experience Pfizer is annoying on the second. Seemingly annoying for a day or two and then back to normal.

  49. 49.

    cain

    @Ksmiami:

    @SiubhanDuinne: yeah now can a certain blogfather call his fuckstick Senator and tell him to stop preventing women from serving in Biden’s cabinet? My patience with Manchin has really run low and I’m ready to fly to WV and find a young smart person to primary him…

    I must admit that his questioning of all the PoC women is annoying and unhelpful. There is nothing wrong with Deb for Interior. I have no idea what his problem is. Also punishing someone for mean tweets is a dumb take.

    I dont’ know whta game he is playing with his constituents or what he is seeing internally to act like this.. but he’s going to get more shrill as more EOs start coming out of the White House.

  54. 54.

    J R in WV

    @Raven:

    they sent me a text offering it at the local clinic.

    That’s where we got ours, local Primary Care Clinic for our tiny rural county. The county seat was completely shut down Friday as we drove across town to the clinic, power was out for the vast majority of the county that day, Friday.

    When we got home around 6 in the evening it was getting dark, and we could see a light inside the house. When I opened the car door, no noise from the generator, blissful silence!

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