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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Monday Morning Open Thread: Fierce Women (Goddess Bless Them)

Monday Morning Open Thread: Fierce Women (Goddess Bless Them)

by Anne Laurie|  March 15, 20217:19 am| 126 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

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More and more it appears that Democrats consider the current crisis as having begun in 1981 https://t.co/1MZL8fr29N

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 14, 2021


As families across our country are struggling from the impact of the pandemic, *every Republican in Congress* said “NO” to meeting their needs.

Democrats said “YES” to crushing the virus; “YES” to money in the pockets of people; and “YES” to a return to normalcy on the horizon. pic.twitter.com/3zLmtb36WL

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) March 12, 2021

One year ago today, our former President said, "I take no responsibility at all."

My how times have (thankfully) changed.

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) March 13, 2021

Somebody has to pay to make this country run. Somebody has to pay for roads and bridges and scientific research. But the top 0.1% pay a lower share of their wealth in taxes than the bottom 99%. We need a #WealthTax to keep the rich from freeloading off America’s middle class.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) March 13, 2021


Class traitors at the Bloomberg terminals!

Higher Taxes Don’t Scare Millionaires Into Fleeing Their Homes After All – Bloomberg https://t.co/lonsmxWQOY

— Michael Kink (@mkink) March 14, 2021

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

With the American Rescue Plan passed and signed, Democrats are now working to make some of its benefits permanent — banking on the belief that certain aspects will be so popular that letting them expire would be a political nightmare.

My latest: https://t.co/NOrpuDUW7l

— Megan Cassella (@mmcassella) March 14, 2021

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 7:22 am

    Good Morning, Everyone ???

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2021 at 7:22 am

    Happy Ides! Couple of pieces of arty news for Women’s History Month.

    1) A Newly Discovered Ancient Grave Site in Spain Suggests That Women May Have Been Bronze Age Political Rulers

    2) New York City Unveils a Permanent Statue of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Her Native Brooklyn

  3. 3.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:25 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:27 am

    More and more it appears that Democrats consider the current crisis as having begun in 1981

    I think most Dems understood that.  They just finally in a position to do something about it.

  5. 5.

    Delk

    March 15, 2021 at 7:28 am

    Good Morning and Beware!

  6. 6.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 15, 2021 at 7:30 am

    The current crisis began the morning after the 1964 presidential election, when the Republicans asked themselves what they were going to do about it.

  7. 7.

    Matt McIrvin

    March 15, 2021 at 7:32 am

    (“The current crisis began in 1619” would also be a valid answer.)

  8. 8.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:32 am

    Republicans dominated the Roaring 20s.  Hopefully, Dems can dominate Roaring 20s Part 2.

  9. 9.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 7:37 am

    The Rise of the Biden Republicans: The pollster who identified 'Reagan Democrats' in the 1980s sees the emergence of a mirror image voting bloc. And it spells trouble for a GOP dominated by Trump. https://t.co/kfYUlR4z2R

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 14, 2021

  10. 10.

    debbie

    March 15, 2021 at 7:38 am

    Absolutely stunning sunrise today. Amazing what can be missed if you don’t look up.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:38 am

    @debbie:

    Unless you’re Donald Trump, don’t stare at the sun.

  12. 12.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 7:40 am

    **Husband & wife sit down at the kitchen table**

    H: "So we just got $2,800."
    W: "And we got a vaccine faster than expected."
    H: "Right, and our kids' school just got money to reopen faster."
    W: "But I can't shake the feeling that Biden isn't holding enough press conferences."

    — Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) March 14, 2021

  13. 13.

    MagdaInBlack

    March 15, 2021 at 7:41 am

    @debbie: Its turning a vivid pink here too.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:42 am

    @germy:

    You jest, but the GOP has held onto power because of many a conversation just like that one.

  15. 15.

    debbie

    March 15, 2021 at 7:42 am

    @Baud:

    Thanks for the reminder.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2021 at 7:44 am

    @Baud

    Can’t resist linking.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:45 am

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is working with her counterparts around the world to forge an agreement over a global minimum tax on multinational corporations, as the White House looks for revenue to help pay for President Biden’s domestic agenda.

  18. 18.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 7:45 am

    @rikyrah:
    Good morning All!
    Sunny! But back to the teens this morning — about 14 at my house. After high sixties last week. March is in full toddler mood.

  19. 19.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 7:46 am

    @NotMax: Those are the smallest glasses I ever saw on RBG.

  20. 20.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 7:48 am

    If we were re-enacting Julius Caesar, who would be Brutus to Trump’s Caesar?

  21. 21.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:49 am

    NYT

    Transit Got $30 Billion in Stimulus Aid. What Does That Mean for Riders?

    President Biden’s sweeping stimulus package includes the largest single infusion of federal aid that public transportation has ever received, allowing agencies to scrap plans for draconian cuts.

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 7:51 am

    More and more it appears that Democrats consider the current crisis as having begun in 1981

    Can you hear Reagan crying in Hell?

  23. 23.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    March 15, 2021 at 7:52 am

    It’s very dark this 6:50am.

    But my building is gradually opening up. I’m going to the gym this morning and then claiming a small game room in which to write this afternoon. We’re all still masked, but being vaccinated is awesome.

  24. 24.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 7:53 am

    @Baud:
    However, in Charlie Baker’s Massachusetts, those draconian cuts just started today. Even in the face of billions in aid. They are trying to kill public transportation.

  25. 25.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    March 15, 2021 at 7:54 am

    @Immanentize: The hangers-on must be panicking. Try though they will, none of them is as talented at grifting as old Dad.

  26. 26.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 7:55 am

    Best review I’ve seen of the Grammys:

    female rappers are out here with synchronized choreography while male rappers walk around the stage like they lost their mom at the grocery store

    — Randall Otis (@RandallOtisTV) September 2, 2020

  27. 27.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 7:55 am

    @Immanentize:

    Perils of living in a red state.

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 7:57 am

    One year ago today, our former President a traitorous, orange, Soviet shitpile mobster conman  said, “I take no responsibility at all.” My how times have (thankfully) changed we have an actual President now who’s looking out for the American people.

    Edited for accuracy.  And fuck Tucker Carlson.

  29. 29.

    Spanky

    March 15, 2021 at 7:58 am

    @Immanentize: Michael Cohen

  30. 30.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 8:01 am

    Like Nancy Pelosi said. “Vote no, then take the dough.” Then take credit for the dough:

    Shameful. She voted against the bill like every other House and Senate Republican. You’ll see more of this in the coming days and weeks… https://t.co/O7bZ6dedTN

    — Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 14, 2021

  31. 31.

    Delk

    March 15, 2021 at 8:02 am

    @Immanentize: my pillow guy.

  32. 32.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 8:02 am

    @Spanky: I think Brutus would have to be Ivanka.  Maximum betrayal and the funeral oration would be LIT!

  33. 33.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 8:03 am

    @debbie:

    Absolutely stunning sunrise today. Amazing what can be missed if you don’t look up. 

    Sunrise.  Meh.  Happens every morning. ?

  34. 34.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 8:07 am

    At this point in office, Trump had given five news conferences. Obama had given two, George W. Bush three and Clinton five. Biden so far has given zero. @farhip https://t.co/h4HVeyd8kx
    — Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 13, 2021

    If it would make them happy, I'd be perfectly willing to regularly shout dishonest abuse at the gathered DC press corps

    — Thers (@Thers) March 14, 2021

  35. 35.

    lowtechcyclist

    March 15, 2021 at 8:09 am

    @Matt McIrvin:

    The current crisis began the morning after the 1964 presidential election, when the Republicans asked themselves what they were going to do about it.

    I’d argue that the current crisis began the following January, when LBJ ‘escalated’ the war in Vietnam.

    The division between the generation that protested the Vietnam War, and the WWII/Korea generation who said, “we fought when it was our turn, now it’s yours, wtf is wrong with you hippies?” was a problem on the Democratic side only, because the GOP side had the occasional Pete McCloskey, but was otherwise pretty much unified on the war.

    There was a fair amount of quite literal hippie-bashing practiced by the trade union men, which resulted in a great deal of anti-union sentiment within the New Left.  The result of that was a generation of Dems who viewed the way things were going south for unions as Somebody Else’s Problem, and the lack of pro-union unity on the left made it a lot easier for the GOP to undermine unions.

    Took decades for that division to finally fade away, and now we’re basically at the point of needing to rebuild the union movement from scratch.

  36. 36.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 8:10 am

    We should eliminate the university degree requirement from the officer corps. It’s dumb to make people get a BA before becoming officers anyway, and it may just make the military leadership less woke.

    — J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) March 13, 2021

    Super weird how the right is whining about a “woke U.S. military” the moment there’s a black defense secretary and a long-overdue review of white supremacists in uniform.

    — REMOTE SCHOOL PROCTOR (@attackerman) March 14, 2021

  37. 37.

    debbie

    March 15, 2021 at 8:12 am

    @germy:

    Less of a need. Psaki’s briefings have been crammed with facts, whereas Blond Noodlehead’s were filled with lies and non-truths.

  38. 38.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 8:16 am

    @Delk: I definitely would give him a knife.

  39. 39.

    Geminid

    March 15, 2021 at 8:16 am

    @Immanentize: Maybe Mike Pence, when he refused to throw out Biden Electors. Mitch McConnell would be Cassius.

  40. 40.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:16 am

    @germy: 
    ????

  41. 41.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 8:17 am

    @debbie:

    whereas Blond Noodlehead’s were filled with lies and non-truths. 

    Now now.  Let’s not forget about the non-blonde or non-female lying trash.

  42. 42.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:18 am

    @Baud:

    Amen ??

  43. 43.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 8:18 am

    @Geminid: Those are good suggestions.  McConnell as Cassius particularly.

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:18 am

    @Immanentize:

    I know, Imma. We’re getting ❄️❄️❄️❄️ today ?

  45. 45.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:19 am

    @Immanentize:

    Jared???

  46. 46.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 8:19 am

    @debbie:

    They seem to want Biden to be his own press secretary.

  47. 47.

    danielx

    March 15, 2021 at 8:19 am

    True to character.

    “For any normal politician, it would look like he’s trying to have it both ways but really he’s trying to have it his way,” said a former Trump White House official. “He only cares about maintaining his power and his stranglehold over the Republican Party and it doesn’t matter to him how any of the moves he makes affect the long-term success of institutions or individuals other than himself.”

  48. 48.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:20 am

    @Baud:  what it means to riders is that there won’t be severe route cuts.

    What it means is that they won’t see massive layoffs of those people making those solid middle class incomes.

  49. 49.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:20 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    The gym????

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 8:21 am

    @rikyrah: ?Have yourself a merry little Ides of March?

    33 degrees outside. Wha?

  51. 51.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:22 am

    @germy:

    Folks have lit him up in the replies ???

  52. 52.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2021 at 8:23 am

    @germy:

    I know that’s right ??

  53. 53.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    March 15, 2021 at 8:28 am

    @rikyrah: It’s here in the building where 290 of 300 residents are vaccinated. Unfortunately, the teacher is not because she’s pregnant, but not surprisingly she enforces the mask rule. And the classes still have only three or four people in them. People seem to have to return to normal very gradually. It’s like we’ve forgotten how.

  54. 54.

    Geminid

    March 15, 2021 at 8:30 am

    @Immanentize: McConnell has Cassius’ crafty shrewdness. Pence has Brutus’ stiff moralism.

  55. 55.

    Immanentize

    March 15, 2021 at 8:33 am

    @Geminid: I think the Trump as Julius Caesar reboot would pretty much have to be called, Orange Julius, no?

  56. 56.

    Ocotillo

    March 15, 2021 at 8:33 am

    Back in the Paris Climate Accords

    American Rescue Act passed and signed

    Rush Limbaugh is dead

    Terrific start to the Biden presidency.

  57. 57.

    Soprano2

    March 15, 2021 at 8:34 am

    Good morning, everyone. If you need me I’ll be in my office, entering the 30(!) calls our crews got this weekend because of the rain. I’m hoping some of those are duplicates of the “I called 15 minutes ago why aren’t you here yet?” variety. “M’am/Sir, I’ve got 4 calls before you, I’ll be there as fast as I can” is the correct reply, and what’s really bad is that the sewer is probably backing up in their basement because we got 3″ of rain, and there’s really nothing we can do about that. No sunrise to see here, it’s still cloudy and damp. It’s supposed to clear off later, which is good, because the ground is super soggy. It still hadn’t dried out from the snow we got in February and the rain we got earlier this month.

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2021 at 8:38 am

    Doozy of an entry for closed caption funnies viewed just minutes ago.

    Dialogue: A chorus of ladies singing the line “When it’s springtime in the Rockies”

    CC interpolates the singing voices as “In the spring my ribs are rocking”

  59. 59.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2021 at 8:38 am

    To those American media people griping about Biden not giving formal press conferences: Is Biden’s administration hiding information from the public, or making it hard to find? No; indeed, quite the opposite. Has it been lying or spinning or covering up anything? No. In fact, the Biden administration has generally been making the media’s job easier, not harder. So what are you really complaining about, beyond that you miss having press conferences?

    In other news, I’ve noticed my waistline is growing a bit, and my shirts are getting tighter. I think my next online purchase may need to be a moderately priced exercise bike. Maybe a 10kg set of dumbells too. (I was considering a 20kg set, but a man’s got to know his limitations.​)

  60. 60.

    Geminid

    March 15, 2021 at 8:42 am

    @Immanentize: The analogy does break down when you compare trump to Caesar. The man assassinated on the Ides of March was an industrious, intelligent man of vision. But trump is kind of a cartoon Caesar, and Orange Julius would be an apt name.

  61. 61.

    thruppence

    March 15, 2021 at 8:44 am

    Here in the Denver area AAA stopped sending out tow trucks last night because their trucks were getting stuck. Spent the night in the store where I work. Now I’ll be among the throngs trying to get help this morning. Good times.

  62. 62.

    Geminid

    March 15, 2021 at 8:46 am

    @Amir Khalid: I get good use out of a set of 12lb dumbells. More reps are not a bad thing.

  63. 63.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2021 at 8:46 am

    @Soprano2

    Rain? You wanna talk rain? Take a gander of some the the eye popping numbers within. And those reflect totals for the past week only up through noon on Saturday.

  64. 64.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 8:46 am

    President Joe Biden is planning the first major federal tax hike since 1993 to help pay for the long-term economic program designed as a follow-up to his pandemic-relief bill, according to people familiar with the matter.

  65. 65.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2021 at 8:47 am

    @Geminid:

    To me the name Orange Julius will always be associated with an American fast-food franchise that in Malaysia was badly run and folded rather quickly. So it suits Former Guy quite well.

  66. 66.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 8:48 am

    @Amir Khalid: Can you get adjustable dumbbells at a reasonable price?

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2021 at 8:49 am

    @Amir Khalid

    Who knows? There may now be a bull market for cast iron guitars.

    ;)

  68. 68.

    narya

    March 15, 2021 at 8:49 am

    @debbie: Yeah, I caught it as I went out for a (cold & windy, at least near the lake) run, just before the sun came above the horizon; the whole sky was bright orange and red. The lake was churning and blowing up onto the path, too; at least it’s just warm enough so that won’t freeze.

  69. 69.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2021 at 8:50 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    That’s not a problem at all here.

  70. 70.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2021 at 8:53 am

    @Amir Khalid: The Orange Julius was the official drink of the 1964 World’s Fair. I’m sure NotMax will recall this.

  71. 71.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    March 15, 2021 at 8:54 am

    @rikyrah: Also in the comments. “There is only one reason for no new conference no SOTU. Biden cannot sound coherent.”

    Are they still flogging that one? Isn’t it kind of negated by all the many speeches we can find from Biden since taking office?

  72. 72.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 8:55 am

    @NotMax: RIP backs, shoulders and fret hands.

  73. 73.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 8:55 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Reality means nothing to them.

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2021 at 8:57 am

    @Gin & Tonic

    Only very vaguely, that. The Belgian waffles were far and away the most prominent star among food offerings there.

    (Orange Julius was, in my book, Nedick’s with pretensions of grandeur.)

  75. 75.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 8:57 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Wankers and assclowns all the way down.

  76. 76.

    SFAW

    March 15, 2021 at 9:00 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    and my shirts are getting tighter.

    My response was to wash them in cold water and dry them on low heat.

  77. 77.

    Geminid

    March 15, 2021 at 9:00 am

    @NotMax: Voice-to-text mishaps can be funny also. Once I tarped a leaky chimney top before an oncoming rain storm. I sent the owner (who was at work) a picture to allay her fears. She was very grateful, and asked me to send her my invoice as soon as possible. But she used voice-to-text, and message came out, “Please send me your ass ASAP.”

    I replied that I had to keep my ass with me. But the emergency tarping would be added to the cost of the planned chimney repair.

  78. 78.

    Ocotillo

    March 15, 2021 at 9:00 am

    “A boomtown feel”

    Axios is telling us that Ron Desanits is owed an apology from all you bed wetters.

  79. 79.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 9:02 am

    The framing of stimulus checks is all wrong.

    This is not $1,400 dollars being given to you by your generous government.

    This is money that you and your fellow countrymen already paid into the system.

    — Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) March 12, 2021

    Weird that she voted against giving you back your hard-earned money. https://t.co/WuBJ3cAqWm

    — Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) March 13, 2021

  80. 80.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2021 at 9:03 am

    @NotMax: Ah, yes, Nedick’s, erstwhile sponsor of the Knickerbockers basketball club.

  81. 81.

    Baud

    March 15, 2021 at 9:05 am

    @germy:

    Also interesting that the GOP doesn’t think emphasizing the “moochers” is the way to go now.

  82. 82.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 9:05 am

    It’s the Ides of March bitches ? pic.twitter.com/FXfsPStvf6

    — Emrys/Kallian | they/he/xe (@mysticalenbyart) March 15, 2021

  83. 83.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 9:06 am

    @Ocotillo: JFC.

  84. 84.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 15, 2021 at 9:07 am

    @NotMax: ​Notice how they identified that this ruler was a woman by the other items in her grave. Modern archaeology/history is written off the work of centuries of dig sites where archaeologists ‘knew’ who was a man by finding male things in the grave, and who was a woman by finding female things – since it’s actually incredibly difficult and unreliable to sex ID skeletons. Do you see the circular logic building? Men are warriors and rulers because we found weapons and crowns only in men’s graves, which we knew were men’s graves because we found weapons and crowns in them…
    There’s also a whole lot of “This document says the culture was super sexist” when the document was written by enemies of the culture.

    EDIT – @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Isn’t it kind of negated by all the many speeches we can find from Biden since taking office?

    They find a 10 second clip when Biden stutters or pauses once and that’s it, nothing else is relevant, the speech was undeniable proof Biden was barely conscious and so deep in dementia he barely could give the speech at all.  Seriously, I’ve watched them do this.​​​​

  85. 85.

    O. Felix Culpa

    March 15, 2021 at 9:08 am

    @NotMax: OMG I remember the Belgian waffles at the NY World’s Fair! I went with my Brownie troop and it was a day of marvels, not least of which were those exotic yummy waffles.

    P.S. What was the name of that French detective series with a female cop wearing Frances McDormand’s earflap hat from Fargo? I lost my bookmark and am too lazy to go through the BJ archives to find your recommendation. Thanks!

  86. 86.

    Ken

    March 15, 2021 at 9:10 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: People seem to have to return to normal very gradually. It’s like we’ve forgotten how.

    Gives me new empathy with feral cats and rescue dogs.

  87. 87.

    Cameron

    March 15, 2021 at 9:10 am

    @Ocotillo: Part of the reason for the low unemployment rate is that Florida makes it very difficult to apply for UI benefits.  And that’s intentional.

  88. 88.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 9:11 am

    @Gin & Tonic: Bully!

  89. 89.

    germy

    March 15, 2021 at 9:12 am

    The Ides of March, 44 BC. Julius Caesar is assassinated by Roman nobles led by Brutus. Two years later, Brutus issues a coin to celebrate his act of treason and murder. Another fine example of history being written by the victors. pic.twitter.com/LuDBU2kuy7

    — C. A. Smyth MS ³³º¹ ????? (@BluesRoyals) March 15, 2021

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2021 at 9:12 am

    @O. Felix Culpa

    Captain Marleau.

    Recommended it to Mom, who after she watched the first episode immediately called to thank me.

  91. 91.

    Ken

    March 15, 2021 at 9:13 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Can you hear Reagan crying in Hell?

    If he was sent to the Ninth Circle (traitors and betrayers of various sorts), no.  They are embedded in a plain of subzero ice, and cannot cry.

  92. 92.

    Betty Cracker

    March 15, 2021 at 9:15 am

    @lowtechcyclist: Interesting point about the conflict between union members and anti-war protesters in the Vietnam era.

  93. 93.

    burnspbesq

    March 15, 2021 at 9:20 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    You could use a Les Paul for weight training.

  94. 94.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 9:22 am

    @Ken: Then I assume he’s very very sad at the government actually helping people and not telling them to go fuck themselves in their time of need for not being rich.

  95. 95.

    PaulB

    March 15, 2021 at 9:23 am

    Left unsaid in that whole “But Biden hasn’t given a press conference!!!” fake outrage is what, precisely, they expect to gain from such an event. What will they learn that they do not already know? What information does Biden have that he’s not already sharing via press releases, daily press briefings, and social media?

  96. 96.

    Ken

    March 15, 2021 at 9:23 am

    @germy:And it spells trouble for a GOP dominated by Trump. — Kyle Griffin

    I’m sure at least a few people in the Republican’s reptilian brain trust are coming up with ways to, ah, solve that little problem.  They may even have started, it could explain those pictures of Former Guy in the late-night thread.

  97. 97.

    Cheryl Rofer

    March 15, 2021 at 9:25 am

    @Betty Cracker: I’ll agree with lowtechcyclist but locate the breach at LBJ’s signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He knew it was coming, but he did the right thing. Unions were pretty racist at the time, and the Vietnam war demonstrations were a last straw.

    Johnson said “We have lost the South for a generation.” It’s more than a generation now. Time to turn things around.

  98. 98.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 9:26 am

    @PaulB: Nothing.  It’s their default setting to scream about bullshit during Democratic administrations.

  99. 99.

    VA in SC

    March 15, 2021 at 9:27 am

    Forensics use bones,particularly the skull and jaw usually is larger is male. A larger pelvis is female.

  100. 100.

    Kathleen

    March 15, 2021 at 9:28 am

    @germy: Maybe a special screening of Triumph of the Will will help media get all back in their good feels. Poor babies flailing without their beloved Rethuglican Bully Daddy to punish them.

  101. 101.

    Betty Cracker

    March 15, 2021 at 9:29 am

    @Cameron: Excellent point that should be reiterated every time Politico and Axios fluff DeSantis. There’s also the fact that the state cooks the books on the infection rate, coming up with stats that are wildly different from Johns Hopkins’ data, for example.

    Florida also has a disproportionately large elderly population that is retired and does not have to go to work every day, and most of them were smart enough to take basic safety measures to protect themselves regardless of the governor’s anti-mask antics.

    There’s also the fact that Florida has a climate that fortunately allowed the population to open windows and engage in outdoor activities during the worst of the surges, with our surge hitting during the summer when people were indoors because of the heat. None of these factors are hidden, but they’re rarely mentioned by DeSantis fluffers.

    Managing a pandemic is a complex business, especially when there’s zero leadership at the federal level. I’m sure Democratic Party governors made mistakes too. But this DeSantis boomlet is infuriating — such bullshit. If we’re handing out kudos to state governors, let’s talk about Jay Inslee, not Ron DeSantis.

  102. 102.

    O. Felix Culpa

    March 15, 2021 at 9:32 am

    @NotMax:  Merci beaucoup!

  103. 103.

    O. Felix Culpa

    March 15, 2021 at 9:34 am

    @PaulB:

    Left unsaid in that whole “But Biden hasn’t given a press conference!!!” fake outrage is what, precisely, they expect to gain from such an event.

    It’s about gaining control over Biden, not knowledge from him.

  104. 104.

    Kathleen

    March 15, 2021 at 9:35 am

    @debbie: How dare she! Sounds like a new “scandal” is percolating. “Jen Psaki says please and thank you while  challenging sources for our accusations against Biden. Is this passive aggressive behavior Biden’s Katrina? Also, look for Grandkidgate to come to a tweet near you.

  105. 105.

    Tata

    March 15, 2021 at 9:38 am

    @PaulB: It’s not about information at all. They miss drama and attention to themselves. They are all about creating a moment for themselves that goes viral. They want to trip him up and bathe in that vicious light.

  106. 106.

    different-church-lady

    March 15, 2021 at 9:42 am

    @danielx: They’re figuring this out just now?

  107. 107.

    catclub

    March 15, 2021 at 9:43 am

    @Immanentize: But back to the teens this morning — about 14 at my house.

     

    Thats a lot of kids in the house! I hope they don’t eat you out of house and home. ;)

  108. 108.

    Kathleen

    March 15, 2021 at 9:44 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: I agree Cheryl.

  109. 109.

    Geminid

    March 15, 2021 at 9:45 am

    @Tata: The dumbass leading questions the WH reporters ask shows their agenda: garnering attention for themselves and impressing their peers and viewers. This drives me crazy, and I am grateful that the President has not engaged in these celebrations of journalistic ego.

  110. 110.

    different-church-lady

    March 15, 2021 at 9:47 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Zombies aren’t quitters.

  111. 111.

    bluefoot

    March 15, 2021 at 9:55 am

    @Immanentize: ​
      I can’t wait until I have the chance to vote Charlie Baker out of office. What the hell is with the cuts to the MBTA? The pandemic is almost over (I hope…) so transit needs are going to explode. Already some of the cuts over the last year have made it ridiculously difficult and time consuming to get around without a car.

  112. 112.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 9:57 am

    @different-church-lady:

    They’re figuring this out just now? 

    Giving them too much credit.  And much you wanna bet that that quote is from Kellyanne Conjob?

  113. 113.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    March 15, 2021 at 10:00 am

    @Immanentize: Brutus would have be to Mike Pence.

  114. 114.

    different-church-lady

    March 15, 2021 at 10:01 am

    @Geminid: I’m driving to a gig and I’m running behind. I usually don’t text while driving, but I need to let the supervisor know I’ll be late. So at a stop light I grab the phone, hit the voice recognition button and dictate a text. But just before I can hit send the light goes green and I put the phone down.

    On the next block someone cuts me off and I express my displeasure. I pick the phone back up at the next red, and I’m just about to hit send when I’m fortunate enough to notice that the text now reads, “I’ll be a bit late you stupid sack of shit.”

  115. 115.

    Ken

    March 15, 2021 at 10:09 am

    @catclub: “And for our fun activity, I thought we’d try the Hunger Games.”

    “We’ve all seen that movie.”

    “It’s a movie?”

  116. 116.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    March 15, 2021 at 10:09 am

    @Amir Khalid:  Resistance bands can be good too and a little harder to injure yourself with. They also cost less to ship. I got this set of long bands a month ago to supplement my weights and really like them.

    Jeff Cavaliere at AthleanX on YouTube has a good set of exercise videos on using bands which are well designed for everyone, whether you are old like me and just want some more strength and flexibility or young and want to get super ripped.  He is a physical therapist as well as a trainer and his shoulder exercises have helped me eliminate all of the problems I had because of my old rotator cuff injuries in both shoulders I started with a 2 pound plate (1 Kg) about  2 years ago and now do it with 18 pounds (8 Kg).

    Also building a little muscle helps lose weight because even at rest muscle cells burn more calories than fat cells.

  117. 117.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    March 15, 2021 at 10:19 am

    @germy: It’s even better than that; these are the same Roman Nobles who got together, had the ancient world equivalent of a World War with Caesar, lost, badly, and were only alive because Caesar decided to be merciful and figured that these serial luzers would have to be utter idiots to try and kill him now, because the guys who would replace Caesar would be outright thugs like Octavius and Mark Anthony. And in due course the Nobles screamed FREEDOM!, did killed Caesar anyway, after which Octavius and Mark Anthony cut their throats.

  118. 118.

    Cameron

    March 15, 2021 at 10:22 am

    @Betty Cracker: It also doesn’t help that a state with some very vulnerable groups not only refused the Medicaid expansion but also repeatedly cut funding for public health.

  119. 119.

    evodevo

    March 15, 2021 at 10:37 am

    @Betty Cracker: ​
      I remember it quite well…local construction trades HATED “long-haired hippie” types who were protesting the war in Lexington and Louisville, AND black workers – the Repub Southern Strategy, and the addition of culture wars in the ’80’s pretty well dampened Dem/union recruitment in this state for the last 40 years…Repubs are STILL gaining ground in my county…

  120. 120.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 15, 2021 at 10:38 am

    @Cameron: Is that “Letting the leopard eat your face to own the libs”?

  121. 121.

    Cameron

    March 15, 2021 at 11:44 am

    @mrmoshpotato: I wish I knew.  It makes no sense at all to me, just like the folks who get on the bus with their masks covering their lower jaws but neither nose nor mouth.  Either a fashion statement or they’re afraid of chinfluenza.

  122. 122.

    VOR

    March 15, 2021 at 12:13 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:  You assume the existence of observable reality will change GQP rhetoric? How often did TFG administration ask you to believe them over your own lying eyes?

  123. 123.

    Bill Arnold

    March 15, 2021 at 12:52 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: ​

    Are they still flogging that one?

    It means that they are underestimating Biden and are trying to figure out who is running the administration. Biden is, to a large extent, so the Republicans are weakened by their willful lack of focus and searches for proofs of their alternative realities.
    This is good.

  124. 124.

    Kathleen

    March 15, 2021 at 12:54 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Yup.

  125. 125.

    Kathleen

    March 15, 2021 at 12:56 pm

    @Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): Do they have handles? I’ve been looking for those.

  126. 126.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    March 15, 2021 at 1:13 pm

    @Kathleen:  Yes they make a different model Vieck resistance bands with handles

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