Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Let’s finish the job.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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  4. 4.

    Baud

    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.

  6. 6.

    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.

  8. 8.

    Baud

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

  12. 12.

    germy

    **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

  18. 18.

    Immanentize

    @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.

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    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

    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

    @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.

  26. 26.

    germy

    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

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    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.

  30. 30.

    germy

    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

  33. 33.

    mrmoshpotato

    @debbie:

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

    Sunrise.  Meh.  Happens every morning. ?

  34. 34.

    germy

    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

    @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

    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

    @germy:

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

  41. 41.

    mrmoshpotato

    @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.

  48. 48.

    rikyrah

    @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.

  53. 53.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @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.

  56. 56.

    Ocotillo

    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

    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

    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

    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

    @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

    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.

  65. 65.

    Amir Khalid

    @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.

  68. 68.

    narya

    @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.

  71. 71.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @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?

  74. 74.

    NotMax

    @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.)

  77. 77.

    Geminid

    @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.

  79. 79.

    germy

    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

  84. 84.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @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

    @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!

  87. 87.

    Cameron

    @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.

  89. 89.

    germy

    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

  91. 91.

    Ken

    @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.

  94. 94.

    mrmoshpotato

    @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

    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

    @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

    @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.

  99. 99.

    VA in SC

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

  100. 100.

    Kathleen

    @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

    @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.

  103. 103.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  107. 107.

    catclub

    @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. ;)

  109. 109.

    Geminid

    @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.

  111. 111.

    bluefoot

    @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.

  114. 114.

    different-church-lady

    @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

    @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!)

    @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

    @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

    @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

    @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…

  121. 121.

    Cameron

    @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.

  123. 123.

    Bill Arnold

    @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.

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