Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Infrastructure week. at last.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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Some happy notes to end the day:

Clooney getting ready to bitch-slap Gym J into another profession.

 

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  3. 3.

    JoyceH

    One of the things I’ve learned recently that I find absurdly satisfying is that the fireplace in the Oval Office is a working fireplace, and that Biden uses it. Aaaaaah! An office with a fireplace!

  6. 6.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Excellent! I received my first shot of the Moderna vaccine today at work which was a welcome surprise. Like I said on the “I Got the Shot!” thread, it’s a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. It seemed, beginning with older employees, that the pharmacy was vaccinating everyone who worked at the store, along with customers. I guess they needed to get rid of some doses that were going to expire?

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Obama and Springsteen…. I should be all over it, but all I can think of is, ‘when would I listen to another freakin’ podcast.

    Also:

    b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
    someone put a crying jordan onto chris christie

    done

  15. 15.

    Kristine

    @Yutsano:

    Major looks awesome and majestic. Fuck his haters. I hope he gets a chance to bite ’em.

    Pissing on their leg works, too.

    Still can’t get over that jerk picking on that beautiful old dog.

  16. 16.

    TS (the original)

    I would have been happy if facebook had left Australia never to return – could have taken Murdoch with them – no such luck, we still have both.

    Facebook agreed to restore news pages on its site in Australia after it said it had reached a favorable deal with the government there late Monday. The deal, which came after 11th-hour negotiations and intense backlash against the company, would enable Facebook to run news without having to go through a government run arbitration process, said Facebook Vice President Campbell Brown in a statement.

    From the Washington Post. I read the whole article and have no idea if anyone lost or gained from whatever they decided.

  21. 21.

    Comrade Colette

    Monday? It was a gorgeous sunny spring day here in San Francisco, so I ditched the chilly, dark home office and went for a long walk and a pleasant catch-up phone call with an old friend. Lots of ornamental fruit trees are in unusually early bloom. It was unproductive for paid work but productive for mental health

    ETA: Congrats, Goku! That’s terrific.

  22. 22.

    Auntie Anne

    I got my 89 year-old father an appointment for his second shot.  He gets it Saturday, and I get to stop being so anxious about him.

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    It’s 39 degrees outside, and sloppy as hell in places.  Shovel your sidewalk so it can drain when the snow starts to melt.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    Oh man. Mmmmmmmm

    Also: Lindell lawsuit is devastating. I thought naming My Pillow itself might be too far but nope. After reading, absolutely legitimate defendant along with Lindell. Company's over. And it finances Fox, Newsmax with its commercials. So this is conservative propaganda armageddon. https://t.co/vNDxSpQ7eW— Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) February 22, 2021

  29. 29.

    PhoenixRising

    Today I was able to link another jackal to a policy project I’m working on, with the likely impact of a second state getting a path to automatically enrolling the uninsured! Obamacare will really work if we can get everyone covered, and as a result of a longstanding connection from this site, it’s more likely now than last week. No one tell Cole he’s built a community that is fixing this country; it’ll give him angina.

  32. 32.

    TS (the original)

    @NotMax:

    That’s a good description of what I read. I’ll check out some oz information but given that RW politicians were involved I probably won’t understand their explanation either.

  33. 33.

    Poe Larity

    Not happy after watching NHK special on covid crossing the blood-brain barrier and attacking neurons.

    Effectively, those states fighting to reach herd immunity first will maximize their losses in cognitive abilities, so now we all have to live with them literally being impaired by more than ideology.

  34. 34.

    Brachiator

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Also: Lindell lawsuit is devastating. I thought naming My Pillow itself might be too far but nope.

    What amazes me is that all these right wing captains of industry believed that they were safely in some bubble which allowed them to spew bullshit without consequences.

    Of course some of these same fools believed that they had immunity from Covid-19 simply because the Great Orange Pimple said so.

  35. 35.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    It was a beautiful day, and then a neighbor texted me about a covid shot clinic for 70 yo this year and over and I got an appointment and then got 2 friends signed up also, so I’m very excited. The first shot is on Wed 2/24 and the 2nd is March 17. Blessings!

  37. 37.

    JWR

    @mrmoshpotato:

    After reading, absolutely legitimate defendant along with Lindell. Company’s over.

    Oh good! After the insurrection, I was able to watch late night TV in relative peace, but now, just two weeks later, he’s back at it, hawking his shitty MyFascistPillow’s again. I maybe feel for his employees, (depends on their allegiances), but I hope both he and his company go down, and hard.

  38. 38.

    JoyceH

    @SiubhanDuinne: 

    Doggos in the Oval just make my heart sing.

    In that first picture, doesn’t it seem like Biden is subtly holding onto Major’s collar or on a short leash? I suspect Major doesn’t yet get ‘sit still and don’t run over and slurp the cameraman.’

  39. 39.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I know this is all cosmetic but I love the dogs in the Oval Office. They just fit. I like that our POTUS wears a nice properly fitting suit. I am glad to not to be seeing Melania’s  stupid armless coats and sweaters.   I like that Joe and Jill get along and they occasionally(!) show some affection. And I freaking love it that I don’t have to see Twitter go crazy over something that Orange Dbag said.  I watched a  House Hunters episode tonight. I am not sure I watched a House Hunters during Orange Dbag’s time.

  40. 40.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    I know he’s getting the rescue package passed, but the patience of the cat wing of the party is starting to run thin.   And we’re the ones who put him in there.
    No pussy, no peace. ?

  41. 41.

    cckids

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Good for you!! I’m jealous; my store, union, and state don’t consider us “essential” enough to bump us up higher in the priority list. I’m 58, with minor co-morbidities, and have no clue when I’ll be eligible to get shot.

    Some employees got the “use it or lose it” last doses by pure luck; sadly, now our store is out of vaccine and they have no idea how they’ll get a second dose. WA is not covering itself in glory here.

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    When I did tech support for the University vet school, I LOVED that I would see dogs and cats and horses and cows every day through the normal course of my workday.  It’s hard for me to describe how wonderful and grounding that was.  Best job ever, I think.

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