Maybe the GOP’s social media intern is experiencing a temporal anomaly, and that’s why he or she is denigrating Biden, who has been president for about 35 and 1/2 days, for not fulfilling a first 100 days campaign promise:
Occam’s Razor compels me to go with plain old stupid here.
We (or at least I) tend to perceive Republicans as preternaturally powerful foes, and that’s not entirely unjustified since they so often manage to advance an unpopular and/or reactionary policy agenda despite representing a vastly smaller number of people in a so-called democracy. But we may be underestimating just how on the ropes the fuckers are right now.
Cases in point: the above intern time-traveling to scold Biden. Fox News running a segment that claims Joe and Jill Biden’s 44-year marriage is a PR stunt. Newsmax age-shaming the Bidens’ senior dog as “unpresidential.” It’s almost a cry for help, that level of petty bullshit.
Also, imagine if Democrats did this:
Q: Do you believe former President Trump should speaking at CPAC?
McCarthy: "Yes he should."
Cheney: "That's up to CPAC….I don't believe that he should be playing a role in the future of the party or the country."
McCarthy: "On that high note, thank you very much." pic.twitter.com/U8JS8A8MVk
— Poli Alert (@polialertcom) February 24, 2021
The Beltway press would be ripping into that party’s corpse like a flock of vultures on ripe roadkill. Even now, He Who Shall Not Be Named is “vetting” potential 2022 endorsees by sorting them into piles according to their level of enthusiasm for the stolen election lie. That practically guarantees a crop of nutter GOP candidates who will make it harder for Republicans to claw back Congressional power.
Let me hasten to add that I am not counting chickens here! The past several years demonstrated to me that the country is more stupid and broken than I suspected, and I’ll never trust us again. But I can’t help noticing that Republicans keep doubling down on injecting bleach. Open thread!
worn
#1?
rikyrah
They don’t have anything. Period.
rikyrah
When they messed with the dog, you knew for certain that they didn’t have shyt.
and when did 46 promise to open up schools in the first 100 days?
that’s a damn lie.
worn
Note to Watergirl: after testing Firefox a couple of days ago & finding no issues with the commenting system, I posted the comment above and experienced the some of the same wonky behaviors as other commenters has previously commented upon a few days ago. It’s always something, isn’t it?
Cervantes
Flag lapel pins, fist bumps, dijon mustard, improper saluting, and tan suits have always been their stock in trade. It seems to work well enough.
Steeplejack (phone)
That grants him too much power. I want to make “the Former Guy” a thing.
Cheryl Rofer
@rikyrah: Here’s what he promised:
As usual, the Republicans leave out the qualifications.
debbie
Math, how does it work?
Old School
@rikyrah:
Here’s what he said:
Biden, Dec. 29: Another 100-day challenge is opening most of our K-8 schools by the end of the first 100 days in the spring. Look, we can only do that if Congress provides the necessary funding, so we get the schools, districts, communities, and states the resources they need for those so many things that aren’t there already in a tight budget. They need funding for testing to help reopen schools, more funding for transportation so students can maintain social distances on buses, they need it for school building for additional cleaning service, protective equipment, ventilation systems. This is going to require an additional tens of billions of dollars to get this done.
A Ghost to Most
They got nuthin’, and they don’t care. Pointing out their hypocrisy doesn’t mean a thing to them, other than taking up space in your head, which is “owning the libs”. You can’t shame fascists.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah:
Damnation where damnation is due – they do have “Tax cuts for the rich, and fuck everyone else!” They’ve had that for 40+ years, and it’s something. ?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Steeplejack (phone): I agree, that even after being left noseless from being POWned by a preteen, Voldermort was vastly more competent that Donald Drumf, but what’s wrong with “That Useless Daughter Fucking Son of Douche”?
Roger Moore
Occam’s Razor compels me to go with plain old stupid here.
dmsilev
Now that’s a long con that we can all admire. Not quite at the level of Barack Obama faking the evidence of his own birth, but getting close.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
I have a mild fantasy that at some GQP shitshow, a disgruntled sound man waits until the keynote speaker is whipping the rubes into a lather, and splices in the end of a Hitler speech, complete with the “Sieg, Heil” chants. Part of me wonders if some in the audience would join in. It would be irresponsible not to speculate on this.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Well if that’s true, you gotta admire their commitment to the long game. What’s the longest amount of time T**** ever committed to a stunt? [*]
The dog thing was jaw-dropping. I hope that shaved off at least a few MAGAts who said, “make fun of his wife or his marriage, sure, but making fun of the dog’s looks? Man, that’s just too far…”
[*] T’s game is more like announcing “I’m giving ONE MILLION DOLLARS to…” and the stunt lasts until the sentence is over, never to be mentioned again.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Roger Moore: What he says. These are the same people who are claiming the Texas black out didn’t happen because snowballs burn and Space Jews caused last Fall’s California wildfires with their Space Lasers*. Fox News views just want wallow in bullshit like a bunch of pigs.
* Which I assume go “Jew-Jew-Jewhh!” when fired.
trollhattan
Republican math: 1 month = 100 days. Bookmark that, hippie!
ETA When did we adopt the metric calendar?
Benw
Go lick a boot, McCarthy
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev:
LOL!
Baud
Nothing preternatural about the power of hate and fear.
Baud
@dmsilev:
The Prestige 2.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan:
I have never felt so owned. I’ll be sobbing liberal tears in the corner if anyone needs me.
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
I believe the metric calendar was adopted in 22 September 1792. Excuse me, 01 Vendémiaire I.
mrmoshpotato
@Benw:
And then shove it, Kevin.
germy
Jen Psaki was on The View this morning, and she was grilled by Queen McCain.
Here’s an actual visual (no kidding):
Psaki was prepared for the appearance, like she’s always prepared.
It’s nice seeing a competent administration again.
Baud
@germy:
I haven’t seen Meghan in a while. She has a real Tammy Faye Baker vibe going.
Benw
@trollhattan: 1 metric year = 10 months = 1000 days = 1 kiloday
jonas
What Biden *does* seem on track to do in his first 35 days in office is unfuck much of what Trump did over four years to our economy, our international reputation, our immigration system, and the climate. Not bad!
West of the Rockies
I confess that I now regard most Republicans (the Trumpers anyway) as subhuman, as Middle Earth orcs: dull, brutish, violent, and cannibalistic as necessary. Can a relative handful be redeemed? Is it worth the effort?
leeleeFL
If they were reachable by shaming, most would have slunk off to oblivion by now.
The fact that the preponderance of evidence shows they have no shame is a feature, not a bug. It never ceases to amaze me that even those elected officials I am in contact with repeat the same Fox, OAN, Alex Jones BS to each other in casual conversations I have been privy to, makes me wonder if any of them are salvageable as honest citizens. I doubt it. It makes me kinda nauseous.
ETA: contact is job related. Can’t avoid some overhearing. It’s is not contagious. I am proof?
West of the Rockies
@Steeplejack (phone):
How about The Former Fat Ass?
Geminid
The Virginia state Republican party is flailing. Their Central Commitee is terrified that pistol packin’ state senator Amanda Chase might win the governor’s primary by a plurality. So Republican nominees for Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General will be chosen by a ranked choice, drive-in convention. Delegates will be selected at caucuses, or possibly by county committees. The venue for the convention? Liberty Universty, of course. A small tent, big parking lot strategy.
leeleeFL
@West of the Rockies: I prefer former Fascist Resident. True, and doesn’t mention weight or looks.
trollhattan
@mrmoshpotato: @Roger Moore:
[Checks Republican calendar] Hey folks, it’s February 25, only two shopping months left ’til Christmas.
p.a.
Well of course wouldn’t the anti-science party also be the anti-counting party?
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies:
Where’s your evidence that he’s lost any weight?
Baud
@p.a.: Math is a liberal plot.
trollhattan
@Baud:
I could see her in a Vogue makeup ad for Krylon.
Redshift
@A Ghost to Most:
It’s pretty well proven that hypocrisy doesn’t move votes, but pointing and laughing when their attacks are so ridiculously empty does serve a purpose.
In Frankfurt’s On Bullshit, he points out that one of the reasons bullshit is more dangerous than lying is that while both take effort to refute, consciously telling a lie requires effort to make it plausible, and BS requires almost none, if one bit is refuted, just spout another.
But if the BS attack is so stupid that just pointing and laughing knocks it down, then that advantage is gone.
HumboldtBlue
@rikyrah:
And yet the media keep treating them as if they are a viable opposition party to the Dems when all they are is white grievance and tax cuts for the rich
LuciaMia
That times two.
mrmoshpotato
@leeleeFL: Fascist former Resident
germy
It just feels like a hundred days to the social media intern.
It must be painful to have to justify and spin the modern GOP.
Barbara
@Geminid: Is it final? The last thing I read they couldn’t get enough support for a convention to prevent motions to reconsider conducting a primary, so they were not able to finalize anything.
trollhattan
@Benw:
Wish I had learned Latin so I could come up with the correct names for the months of Reagvember and Trumptember.
Ocotillo
@leeleeFL: I get the sentiment but we do need to find a way to offset the non-stop propaganda cesspool they immerse themselves in. There is success for that side, the 27% dead enders has grown to nearly 40% and doing more of the same is not going to stop it.
The slavery compromises that were built into the constitution gives them a built in advantage in the electoral process.
Baud
MattF
Also funny (not) how no one mentions that Republican self-identification is in the low 30’s. and Biden approval is around 60. I understand that personalities matter but there are a limited number of persuadable voters, and preaching to the choir isn’t going to change that.
Gravenstone
@Cheryl Rofer: Less a matter of leaving them out as actively undercutting them. They’re working hard to stack the deck against Biden. Either to ensure he can’t fulfill the “100 days” promise, or to ensure the attempt fails for lack of adequate resources.
Redshift
@Geminid:
And for an extra bit of hilarity, the Virginia GOP didn’t sign a contract with Liberty before announcing the convention there, or figure out how much parking lot space they’ll need. So they’ll have to pay whatever rental fee is asked. Have I mentioned that they have about $1,500 in the bank?
Oh, also, they don’t know for sure if the multi-parking lot plan is too spread out to fit their own rules for what constitutes an assembled convention, lol.
Baud
BruceFromOhio
This misses the mark, IMO, and Democrats should be watching carefully. The GQP constituency demands nutter GQP candidates, and will turn out in droves for them. Coupled with the state-level GQP fascists burning the OT to restrict voting access, it’s going to be a tooth and nail quest for votes for every seat in districts that aren’t solid red or blue. The ones that are solid red will be vetting the “who’s Trumpier?!?” in every primary – the Ohio fascists running for the retiring Portman’s seat are already playing it.
It will not surprise me in the least that we get more Boebert’s and Greene’s and Johnson’s, not fewer. Should Pelosi or Schumer lose majority leader status, everything, and I do mean absolutely everything, will grind to a fucking halt in an endless shower of GQP shit, with flies to boot.
The trip to 2022 is already started, and 2024 is right behind it. Whether we enjoy a functioning democracy beyond these dates is horrifyingly in the balance, and may once again tip on a few thousand voters in a tiny handful of Districts.
pacem appellant
Also, too, a campaign trial is very different from the campaign trail.
Roger Moore
@West of the Rockies:
I think the answers are yes and yes. One of the things the Trump years have taught me is that you can’t predict who will reach their breaking point and reject Trumpism or what that breaking point will be. But it continues to be worth it to try, both out of a moral desire to rescue people from that cult and a practical desire to strengthen our numbers and reduce theirs.
pacem appellant
@Geminid: Except, they forgot to ask Liberty University for the use of their facilities. LU is balking.
Baud
Punchy
So what happens to the Qanon hard-asses on the dawn of March 5th, when Biden awakens from the WH and does WH things? What’ll be the new date for “Trump becomes President NOW!”?
/checks WiQipedia…..sees nothing….
Redshift
@Barbara:
Yeah, they hit the deadline when they were required by state law to decide, so this seems to be final. There may be more lawsuits draining their coffers, but I don’t know if that can change anything.
Geminid
@Barbara: I heard that the decision was made a couple days ago. I will check Bearing Drift. They cover Republican party matters closely. On Sunday, correspondent Lynn Mitchell covered the Commitee’s announcement of the meeting. She wrote, “And here is the agenda they’ve provided us:” Followed by a large blank space.
Baud
MattF
@pacem appellant: Bearing in mind that Falwell Jr. is no longer in charge. The current LU administration might not want to host a Republican political convention. Tax exemption, and all that…
CaseyL
I think we need to open up a few of their skulls and see what their brains look like. I would not be at all surprised if the results looked a lot like long-time football players, or alcoholics: severe and extensive brain damage, retrograde amnesia, and a complete loss of cognitive ability, replaced by simple tropist response to stimuli.
Gravenstone
@West of the Rockies: Nothing “former” about it. His Ass will remain Fat until it has assumed ambient temperature and begun feeding the worms.
Brachiator
Goddam, this is some pathetic nonsense!
They cannot attack Biden on his decency or even effectiveness, so they just try to keep the GOP base angry with irrelevant garbage. This is necessary since there are a lot of ordinary people happy with Biden’s policies.
NotMax
@Baud
Awaiting video of Manchin cutting his membership card in twain.
//
Benw
@trollhattan: LOLOL
Not enough Trump! Trumpuary, Febutrump, Trumpch, Apritrump, Trumpay….
Betty Cracker
In the Before Times, Republicans lost some statewide elections — even in deep red states — when they nominated an embarrassing nutbag and /or pervert, e.g., that dumb goon McCaskill beat, the Alabama mall cruiser, etc. About 75% of Republicans say they want to see Turnip continue to play a major role in the party. I bet it’s upwards of 90% of reliable primary voters, but there are fewer Republicans overall now. Maybe that’s an opportunity.
pacem appellant
@MattF: I think it has less to do with ousting the pervy JF Jr. and more to do with that the VA GOP can’t pay for it. Though I guess Falwell would have let them use the lot for free, the current board is cash up front.
BruceFromOhio
@Punchy: It will just turn the page to some new date and some equally arcane justification. The top Christianista-in-law badgered the family endlessly for years that “the world is ending on mm/dd/yyyy so you BETTER REPENT NOW FILTHY SINNER!!1!1!!” and every time the date came and went, C-i-l just did find-replace with a new date. The Q’pers are following a format that is eerily reminiscent.
WaterGirl
@Baud: She’s female but she’s white, so she had a better chance of getting through.
MattF
@BruceFromOhio: Well-known cognitive dissonance behavior. It happens a lot.
Just One More Canuck
@trollhattan: Lousy Smarch weather
BruceFromOhio
@leeleeFL:
I am very concerned the answer is “beyond salvage.”
geg6
@Baud:
I never watch that shit, but I read somewhere that she was wearing rhinestones in the part of her hair and some kind of crazy eye makeup earlier this week. Apparently, she’s been getting dragged all over the internet for her fashion choices and her inching closer to Trumpist stances all week. She just had a baby and I’m seriously a little worried about her mental health. From what I’ve read online and in social media, she’s really been crazy this week, even compared to how loony I think she normally is.
NotMax
@Punchy
The Great Disappointment 2.0.
;)
Baud
LuciaMia
I just try to keep saying to myself, “A lot can happen in two years (let alone four.)”
Jeffro
We need a news-ish website called “Same Standards” that runs nothing but the previous day’s or week’s stories with the parties reversed, in order to highlight the double standards that both the GQP and DC snooze media excel in.
So to use Betty’s examples, SameStandards would currently be running stories on:
And so on. I mean, it’d be the easiest thing in the world, content-generation-wise. Just grab a story, flip the parties, and off we go.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@trollhattan: I can’t help with the first one, but you might try out “Trump-over”
karensky
@rikyrah: They haven’t had anything since Eisenhower.
Jeffro
They are beclowning themselves more and more by the day. Let us savor.
I’m surprised one or more of their rich donors hasn’t spoken out publicly about the need to get it in gear, but then again, their rich RWNJs are just as NJ as the rest of them.
Ruckus
@Cervantes:
When the electorate is as dumb as the politicians, stupidity is likely an easier sell.
Ken
@trollhattan: The “-ber” months are the ones that still have the numeric names. You want July and August, which are named after the deified emperors Julius and Augustus.
Ken
@Punchy: Last time this came up, I suggested checking the room prices at Trump’s DC hotel. They’ve been jacked up for March 5th and 6th, so look for a similar spike in a month or two.
Jeffro
@Baud: Silly question but…how did 35 GQP Senators manage to summon the strength to say (essentially): “Jennifer Granholm is unqualified and/or radical/soshulist/Lenin-worshipping that I couldn’t possibly support her nomination”?
She was an AG. She was a governor. She’s been a potential candidate for SCOTUS and even for Dept of Energy previously.
I can actually see them saying, completely straight-faced, “We’d rather see someone like Steven Chu – thumbs down here.”
Unreal. No one is qualified to serve in President Biden’s cabinet, apparently. And yet, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, etc etc etc.
WhatsMyNym
With regards to a national $15 min. wage;
Costco just announced they are raising their starting wage to $16 starting next week.
citizen dave
I sometimes write here or on my fake name twitter account that the R’s have become the party of Stupid. I really think for some Dem candidates (depending on their opponent and the situation) and some areas of the nation, that basic intelligence/the dangers of a STUPID nation need to be discussed. The press may go apeshit at first, but the stupiding of the nation is a huge threat.
Just the other night after some stupid story I said to my wife, I didn’t think that the world of Idiocracy would happen so fast. My said “I did–I thought it would when I was watching the movie”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I think I saw Omnes doing a happy dance.
Geminid
@Jeffro: The Chamber of Commerce types who used to call the shots in the Virginia party knew they had a numbers problem after 2008, so they welcomed in the tea party cranks and religious zealots. Now they can’t win a state-wide race with these nuts, but they can’t win one without them either. I feel their pain.
citizen dave
@Jeffro: She’s a known Canadian…
Or as Gym Jordan might say, an “admitted Canadian”
Seriously how does the whole “dual citizenship” thing work. Have courts weighed in on it? Can’t think of where it might matter other than maybe holding office, cabinet, etc. Probably lots of others–I’m just a single citizen ‘merican.
Ruckus
@Gravenstone:
What is the ambient temperature in hell?
I’m under the impression that it’s on the high side of warm.
Just Chuck
All @LOLGOP has to do is retweet @GOP now. Poe’s law writes the comedy itself.
cain
@Baud:
Having seen her in surreal life tv show – I have a lot of sympathy for her. She’s had to put up with some amount of shit in her life. Fuck her husband with poison oak.
ETA – but yeah – that’s some makeup going on – perhaps she wants a chance at America’s Top Model (or Top something else)
trollhattan
@Ken:
See, I just knew there would be rules! :-)
Guessing Rumptober is right out.
leeleeFL
@BruceFromOhio: Me too
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
I’d like a moment to say more nice things about Al Franken, please. Thank you.
Just Chuck
@citizen dave: The US doesn’t recognize dual citizenship. However, you’re not obliged to give up any other citizenships when becoming a naturalized citizen, and there’s no obstacles to other countries recognizing dual-citizenship.
...now I try to be amused
@germy:
Megan McCain’s hair looks like a Rorschach test.
Alison Rose
LOL they tried to fix it:
Ksmiami
@Jeffro: we are going to have to allow Republicans to feel the consequences for their own stupidity and let them die off from it. Seriously it’s us or them.
Jeffro
@citizen dave: I think the only office she’s prohibited from holding – and that’s a ‘maybe’ at that* – is President
*GQP SCOTUS would say that sure, a GQP dual-citizen can hold the office, a Dem cannot. Nickel bet ;)
Jeffro
@Geminid: Verily, I feel their pain as well.
LOL
Maybe they could come up with conservative solutions to the issues of the day? I dunno, call me crazy…
NotMax
@Ruckus
It’s measured in degrees Satangrade.
:)
Jeffro
I am 110% on board with this in the abstract; I just don’t know how to put them on their own rapidly warming, Russia-controlled, comically hyper-religious planet.
NotMax
@Ken
And, as holdovers, incorrect when it comes to placement.
Sept = 7
Oct = 8
Nov = 9
Dec = 10
:)
WhatsMyNym
@Just Chuck:
Does any country “recognize” dual citizenship? Most seem to just to tolerate it while it’s convenient for the state.
James E Powell
Maybe not preternaturally (I always have to look up what that means) but certainly very powerful. Their base is insanely loyal and, apparently, so is their donor class. We’ve seen some large corporations saying, for now, no contributions, but no signs of any mass exodus of their billionaires. I think keeping Cheney at #3 might have been the price of their loyalty.
The key to their power is their hold over the press/media. Not just FOX, but the rest of them who continue to provide platforms for those who want to destroy our democracy.
There appears to be no solution to this.
Martin
@West of the Rockies: Oh, certainly.
Look, fascism (of various stripes) operates by lying the the public to gain enough support to grab power, and then turning on the people that provided that support.
The 1930s German populace weren’t all evil – they were lied to at a time when they were vulnerable to believing those lies. Should they have seen through those lies? Maybe, but none of us are perfect that way. We’re just as susceptible to the problem – it just takes a different set of lies to hook us, and we may need a different kind of vulnerability.
Trump turned the GOP into a hardcore white christian nationalist party. Most republicans are unaware of this because they’ve embraced the process of white supremacy without realizing the goal of that process because it’s not bluntly stated (though its starting to be).
Most elected Republicans are aware of this, which is why Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are saying it out loud and warning the party off of staying on this path, and why McCarthy and Hawley and Cruz are doubling down because they either see near-term benefits of staying on the path, or because they’re down with the goal. But most republican voters don’t pay that close of attention to things.
Plus, the leadership’s job is to keep the voters on board and will frame things and lie and all that to to keep them there. So if the GOP is a full white christian nationalist party, and that’s offensive to half of GOP voters, well, they’re not going to say that out loud – they’ll describe things to keep the coalition intact, which requires disavowing the Jan 6 folks who were VERY clear on their goals as not being part of the movement (antifa, dontchaknow).
I think a lot of Republican voters are like Cole. Once he could see through the facade, he steadily went all hippy granola liberal. That doesn’t apply to elected officials, though. They know what’s up.
That’s why I’ve been saying that the real crime here was the big lie that the election was stolen, and everyone who supported that lie or gave it room to grow. The biggest fault for some of these people is that they believed the President and their elected officials, which we are supposed to do. We’re supposed to be able to believe them.
Geminid
@Jeffro: The people who put out Bearing Drift have an interesting take on Virginia politics. Self-described conservatives, they are like Eisenhower Republicans. Although D.J. McGuire gave up on the party, calls himself a Democrat now. A good example of their thinking is M.D. Russ’s indictment of the Republican party of today, titled “Trump is the Republican President.”
Just Chuck
@WhatsMyNym: I don’t know of any that specifically treat multiple citizenships as opposed to ignoring other citizenships, but there’s still a handful of countries like Japan that do make their citizenship exclusive with others.
There are international treaty conventions that address multiple citizenship, mostly the one that prevents you from being drafted in a country you don’t actually live in. That’s all I know of.
Uncle Cosmo
@leeleeFL: Former Failing Fascist Fool: 4F – in honor of his bone spurious.
Uncle Cosmo
It’s fershur the Party of No-Counts!
Just Some Fuckhead
I’m gonna stop you right there. We are in the mess we’re in right now precisely because Republican voters are WORSE than their representatives. Over half would follow Trump to a new party. The other half would happily reelect Donald Trump on the Republican party ticket. They’ve been radicalized by forty years of hate radio and television propaganda. THEY are the issue, not their representatives.
Bill Arnold
@Punchy:
It’s possible that the mainstream QAnon narrative will be that Trump was indeed sworn in on March 5, in a hidden ceremony. If Trump encourages it in any way, e.g. with any vague statement, it could gain traction amongst the anointed. From that might flow things like Patriotic Americans not paying taxes, and/or not obeying Federal laws, etc.
I am waiting in related anticipation – the house at the entry to my development is still flying a Trump2020 flag on a 30 foot flagpole, below an American flag that it is desecrating.
Here’s a pic from Jan 20 2020 17:10 EST – Trump2020Flag_2021-01-20-17:10.jpg
Ajabu
@NotMax:
I know the thread is dead but I want to speak to this anyway:
Both Caesars, Julius and Augustus, wanted to be named for warm months so they simply moved the last four back and inserted theirs into mid summer.
MisterForkbeard
@Bill Arnold: They’re already claiming that Trump is still secretly president ANYWAY, so of course they’re still going to claim this starting March 5th as well.
Sworn in twice maybe, because he’s twice as presidential.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Ajabu: Fun fact: both of them were fine with having the Caesar Salad named after them until the Cobb guy got a salad named after him, then they insisted on getting a full month each.
Mary Ellen Sandahl
@NotMax:
The Roman New Year began not in January but when Spring started to show itself, namely March. So January and February were the last 2 months of the old year. March (named for the battle god Mars) was also the beginning of the war-campaigning season. And that’s all I know about that!
brantl
@Steeplejack (phone): How about Goldemort?
brantl
@West of the Rockies: That would imply we have a present Fat Ass.