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DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

We still have time to mess this up!

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Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

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Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

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Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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Friday Evening Open Thread: BIDEN BUCKS!

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… #BidenBucks is trending on twitter, and President Joe didn’t even have to make a big display of slapping his name on those checks!

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    Isn’t it about time for Ted Cruz to head back out on spring break?

    Anyway, it’s great both to see the relief act passed and to see Democrats not being at all reluctant to celebrate that fact.

  2. 2.

    namekarB

    Stimulus???? Why is my news reader sending me stories about a “stimulus” check or a “stimulus” bill when Democrats repeatedly call the American Rescue Plan Act payments as “Recovery” checks and the bill as a “Rescue” bill? WTF is wrong with media?

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    judging from the way they leaked texts to embarrass him, I don’t think Ted has to worry about his barbecues being overcrowded with neighbors and attracting black helicopters

  4. 4.

    West of the Rockies

    What dim, dumb point is Cruz trying to make?  Are Democrats now coming for our beef in addition to our guns and bibles? Oh, dears!!!

  5. 5.

    Cameron

    Y’know, it’s only Ted Cruz who would proudly celebrate the 4th of July…in Cancun.

  7. 7.

    debbie

    Finally! It’s said out loud: Trickle down is bullshit and has always been bullshit. Thanks, Joe!

  9. 9.

    germy

    Please never allow any Republican to run unopposed. That is how we got Marjorie Taylor Greene.

    — Carol McCarthy #retiremarcorubio (@carol_33410) March 11, 2021

  12. 12.

    debbie

    @West of the Rockies:

    For the minute I listened to Glenn Beck this morning, RWNJs are outraged that Joe is acting like a king in telling people when they can have gatherings.

    ETA: Ted’s graphic would seem to equate grills with guns.

  13. 13.

    West of the Rockies

    @germy:

    Ted is going to have to bribe his own daughters to attend.  He has no friends.  His party will be sparsely attended even without C19 restrictions.

  16. 16.

    germy

    Every time I see/hear Dems doing something good (Biden's speech, legislation, Garland coming to work) I think, "The rest of my lifetime *might* be enough to repair the biggest damage."

    — Michael Gerber (@mgerber937) March 12, 2021

  17. 17.

    MisterForkbeard

    @debbie: Yes. This tyrannical despot has… suggested that you have small bbqs this year. Oh, and there won’t be any penalties from the feds if you decide to be a reckless asshole and do it anyway.

    Such horror. We’ve lost so much “freedom” or something.

  19. 19.

    germy

    @debbie:

    Remember when he cooked bacon on his gun?  It was a video.  First target practice, then he sizzled bacon on his weapon.

    I’m not kidding, although it sounds like it.

  21. 21.

    Mag

    Biden bucks will cause the Biden boom regardless of how much McConnell and the rest of the GQP gaslights.

  22. 22.

    debbie

    @MisterForkbeard:

    As I was clicking off, he angrily insisted only God could bestow rights, not kings. I wasn’t at all in the mood for drama or I’d have kept listening.

  23. 23.

    germy

    Sen. Patty Murray, the chair of the Senate's health committee, is reintroducing the Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act — a bill to steer billions to public health departments. She says saying the pandemic has laid bare the need to fund local officials' work.

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 12, 2021

  24. 24.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @germy: ​
      repubs won her district by 53% in 2018, a landslide year for Dems. The district is R+31. For perspective, AOC’s South Bronx district is D+29. We shouldn’t blame Dems without good reason.

  28. 28.

    Chetan Murthy

    @germy: You probably already know, but just in case: she had a Dem opponent who was …. basically run out of town and the -state-.  Got a writeup at the time.  It was clear that he received death threats.  Absent law enforcement taking a vigorous interest, I don’t see how that gets fixed.  Well, or redrawing the district to split up the traitorous death-cultists, I guess.

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: can you buy crab legs with Biden Bucks? Crab legs are a real trigger for the rightiest of the righties.

    Personally, I love the meat but they’re a PITA to make at home.

  32. 32.

    Mary G

    My Medicare Part B supplement policy’s premium dropped from $535.03/month to $270.47 this month. Thanks, Joe Biden!*

    *No idea if the Biden admin had anything to do with it; I was on Medicare because I had Social Security Disability, which makes supplements hella expensive. When I first shopped pricing in 2006, the average monthly premium quote was about $650. I lucked into an insurance agent, who despite being a total loon and MAGAT, knew his business and got me a $309/month premium. It went up every year, but at least it started lower. When I turned 65 in December, all the disability stuff stopped and I became just a regular old American, whose supplemental policies are all the same, based on age, whether healthy as a horse or me.

    I’m writing the insurance company asking for a $529.12 refund for the January and February difference, with a cc to whoever Biden has in charge of Medicare at the moment.

  33. 33.

    Bruuuuce

    @Baud: I remember. I just figure he’d want to show his patriotism and true loyalty (that is, none, or negative) to the United States.

  34. 34.

    Pete Mack

    Corticosteroids are only a possible risk factor for non-maintenance doses. Ie: Addison’s disease remains no big deal. Indeed, I got COVID despite full precaution–from my plumber. It stayed entirely in my nose, with a 3 day fever and 5 day swolen lymph nodes and general weakness. Plus 2 months and counting of greatly reduced sense of smell…

  35. 35.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Ngl, I had to a double take when I saw the title and had to check what website I was on. I thought it said “Biden Sucks!” lol

  37. 37.

    Geoboy

    @Cameron: Whereas quite a number of Republican members of Congress celebrated the Fourth of July in Moscow a couple of years ago.

  38. 38.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Chetan Murthy: I think a veteran has already announced they’re going to challenge her as a Democrat. It is going to be a lot harder to pull the same crap on that kind of candidate as it was on the well intended, but naive guy that dropped out last year after having his entire life destroyed.

  41. 41.

    Emerald

    Got my $1,400, pending in my checking account. I understand it might hold fire until the 17th, but I’m good with that.

    Fast work!

  43. 43.

    chopper

    so where’s the “paycheck joe” talk on rose twitter, you’d figure they’d be all HAHAHAHA I’M FUCKING KIDDING

  46. 46.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Kinda hoping Biden gets in legal trouble so my crush Joyce Vance gets more tv time.

  47. 47.

    CaseyL

    Don’t have mine yet (*pouts*).

    If Biden can usher out the age of Trickle Down/Supply Side economics, that alone will make him the best President for domestic programs since LBJ, if not FDR.

  48. 48.

    Brachiator

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:

    Has anyone received their ? Biden Bucks?  yet?

    A couple of people I work with noted that their checking accounts had been credited with the payments.

    Biden Bucks seems to be the official informal name. My niece just emailed my sister, saying that she had received her Biden Bucks.

  50. 50.

    Brachiator

    So, Trump made a big deal about the first stimulus. Held up payments until they could come up with his goofy signature on the checks. The Republican leaders all lined up and kissed the Orange Beast’s ass, telling him what a wonderful thing he had done for the ‘Murrican peeples.

    President Joe gets the money out the door faster than a sports car motoring down the highway. The Republicans grumble resentfully about how these payments don’t mean shit.

    Americans spontaneously dub the payments “Biden Bucks.”

    So much winning.

    I love it.

  51. 51.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Brachiator:

    The Republicans grumble resentfully about how these payments don’t mean shit.

    Don’t forget whining about the REAL issues affecting Americans: racist Dr. Seuss books not being published anymore at the request of the rights holders

  52. 52.

    Geoduck

    @Brachiator: To be precise, the Shiatgibbon just had his name slapped on the checks, not his actual signature. And evidently that was enough for a measurable percentage of people to vote for him.

  53. 53.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Geoduck: 

    To be precise, the Shiatgibbon just had his name slapped on the checks, not his actual signature. And evidently that was enough for a measurable percentage of people to vote for him.

    I’d loved to meet somebody who did this, just so I could tell them what a humongous piece of shit they are

  54. 54.

    VeniceRiley

    No Biden Bucks yet, but I just did deposit the last $600 stimulus today. And got my regular paycheck today. Feeling flush. My Biden Bucks will go a long way to wedding and emigration expenses though.

  56. 56.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    My $1400 stimulus check was just posted to my bank account Direct deposit. Our President means business he is not wasting any time— Cheryl Ann Burgess (@sherry56Ann) March 12, 2021

  58. 58.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    Hee. This tweet quote:

    I am laughing so hard at this. republicans convinced themselves he was a senile old potted plant who had no idea what to do and how to shut down their talking points machine

    … reminds me of a line from a book. The villain asks himself “could the rumors about (the other guy’s) mental health be true? No! Impossible! I started those rumors myself!”

    Methinks they’re really going to regret lowering the bar for Joe Biden with all the talk of senility.

  59. 59.

    Geminid

    My repulsive 5th Virginia District Congressman is Eeyoreing about the burdens the ARP is putting on “our grandchildren.” It may be news to him, but grandchildren and their parents are getting help now, when it really counts. And they will inherit a stronger economy for that.

  62. 62.

    Jeffro

    so Ted Cruz is sort of a Bowie + BBQ fan?  Weird combination but hey, who knew we had things in common…

  63. 63.

    Jeffro

    @debbie:RWNJs are outraged that Joe is acting like a king in telling people when they can have gatherings.

    Tucker Carlson took that one out for a test drive last night: “DON’T YOU TELL ME I CAN GATHER WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY ON THE 4TH YOU SOSHULIST MONSTER!!!1!!”

    What a party of putzes

  64. 64.

    Jeffro

    @Mag:Biden bucks will cause the Biden boom regardless of how much McConnell and the rest of the GQP gaslights.

    True but here’s an easy side bet: with additional bucks kicked into the system…the gas companies are going to jack gas prices way, way up this spring and summer for extra uber-capitalist profiteering…

    …and the GQP will claim that Biden did it, look at those gas prices, you Demonrat bastards…etc etc.

  66. 66.

    Jeffro

    @Geminid: ugh…guess he hasn’t figured out, if the pandemic response and economic stimulus don’t happen, his blessed grandkids’ life is going to SUCK that much more…

  72. 72.

    Mike Dixon

    I never got my 600 Previousguybucks.  It wasn’t a bfd to me financially,  and apparently enough people also didn’t get the check that the IRS has a tax form for it.  Curious why there hasn’t been more made of this.

  74. 74.

    jonas

    @debbie: ​
     

    I agree — wingnuts should all stay inside, shut up and do nothing on 7/4. You know, to totally pwn the libs.

  75. 75.

    Ken

    @Mary G: I thought I read earlier today that Cuomo was going to have a news conference in the afternoon.  Or was that someone else (Schumer?) having a conference about Cuomo?

  76. 76.

    jonas

    @Geminid: ​
      My repulsive 5th Virginia District Congressman is Eeyoreing about the burdens the ARP is putting on “our grandchildren.”

    Lemme guess: he was far more sanguine about the effects on “our grandchildren” of Trump’s deficit-busting tax cuts in 2017. Funny that.

  77. 77.

    jonas

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ​
      Don’t forget whining about the REAL issues affecting Americans: racist Dr. Seuss books not being published anymore at the request of the rights holders

    Wait, I’m confused. I thought we were supposed to ban Dr. Suess books because he was a left wing Jew who larded his books up with all sorts of subliminal socialist and environmentalist propaganda to turn innocent kids into hippy-dippy liberals or something. It’s hard to keep up with this right wing cancel culture stuff.

  78. 78.

    Ken

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Don’t forget whining about the REAL issues affecting Americans: racist Dr. Seuss books not being published anymore at the request of the rights holders

    And the plastic toys. I need Barbara Billingsley to translate that from wingnut for me.

    Mind you, there are some real issues involving copyright, and especially the ability of corporations to squat on IP forever.

  79. 79.

    Ken

    @debbie: RWNJs are outraged that Joe is acting like a king in telling people when they can have gatherings.

    Bit of a reversal from last year, when the RW was loudly in favor of the government preventing people from gathering in Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, …

  80. 80.

    Ohio Mom

    Jonas:

    Dr. Suess was not Jewish. Learning that was a surprise to me because so many of his made-up words remind me of Yiddish.

  81. 81.

    Ken

    @PaulWartenberg: I prefer calling it a #Stimmy is that a problem?

    Maybe, but I’ve stopped checking the Urban Dictionary. There are things you cannot unsee, and words you cannot unread.

  84. 84.

    different-church-lady

    I’m not doing direct deposit, and I haven’t gotten the PreviousGuyBucks yet. Am I doing something wrong? Need to look into this…

  85. 85.

    Brachiator

    @different-church-lady:

    If you were due a second stimulus payment and did not get it, you should be able to use the Recovery Rebate Worksheet when you file your 2020 tax return. The amount will show on Form 1040 Line 30.

  86. 86.

    Another Scott

    I’m glad the money is already going out, and hope everyone eligible gets it soon.

    In other news, Jane Mayer at the NewYorker:

    On February 22nd, in an office in White Plains, two lawyers handed over a hard drive to a Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, who, along with two investigators, had driven up from New York City in a heavy snowstorm. Although the exchange didn’t look momentous, it set in motion the next phase of one of the most significant legal showdowns in American history. Hours earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered former President Donald Trump to comply with a subpoena for nearly a decade’s worth of private financial records, including his tax returns. The subpoena had been issued by Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan District Attorney, who is leading the first, and larger, of two known probes into potential criminal misconduct by Trump. The second was opened, last month, by a county prosecutor in Georgia, who is investigating Trump’s efforts to undermine that state’s election results.

    (I knew that they didn’t dump a few semi-trailers full of paper on his office.)

    The investigative phase of the Trump case will likely be complete before Vance’s term ends, leaving to him the crucial decision of whether to bring criminal charges. But any trial would almost surely rest in the hands of his successor. Daniel R. Alonso, Vance’s former top deputy, who is now a lawyer at Buckley, L.L.P., predicts that if Trump is indicted “it will be nuclear war.”

    […]

    Vance’s next move in the case against Trump is less clear. Although his office is credited with numerous convictions during his tenure—such as that of Pedro Hernandez, the murderer of Etan Patz, a six-year-old boy, in a case that had gone unsolved since 1979—critics assert that he has frequently retreated when faced with rich and powerful criminal targets. Notably, in 2012, he dropped a case involving two of Trump’s children, which centered on their management of the Trump SoHo hotel-condominium, in lower Manhattan. The tabloids have referred to Vance as Soft Cy, portraying him as a well-meaning Boy Scout who lacks the killer instinct necessary for nailing the biggest white-collar villains in New York. Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, told me, “I think he’s taken a lot of undue criticism. It’s hard. The track record is not perfect. Maybe he’s been a little bit gun-shy. But he’s upright and full of integrity.”

    […]

    An interesting story, as always, from Mayer.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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