Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Giving up is unforgivable.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

T R E 4 5 O N

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Let there be snark.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

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I’m Going To Bigfoot M4 Again, Who Bigfooted Cole, But I Have a Good Reason: PSA Regarding Comment Moderation

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A number of you, from what I can tell mostly long time commenters, keep getting trapped in comment moderation. It appears someone or something turned it up to 111 at some point earlier today. I’ve let Cole and WG know. I’m fishing you all out as fast as I can, but I’m going to be heading out to run an errand in a bit, so if you get trapped, you know what you did!

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    I also got some kind of SSL error after I clicked on the “refresh” button, so presumably something could be wrong at the server end.

  23. 23.

    laura

    *testing* Burn the patriarchy to the motherfucking ground *testing*

    If my comment suggests burning the patriarchy to the ground I have no complaints about the blog or it’s posts. If my comments are unclear or blocked or bollixed by the blog, my intent was to convey my desire; with every fiber of my being; to burn the fucking patriarchy to the fucking ground until the end of my days.

    Let me know if there are any questions I can clear up.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @laura: One is somewhat unclear as to your point about the patriarchy.  Can you just say if you are in favor of it or not with so much equivocation?

  27. 27.

    raven

    @laura:
    Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has decided to make us fret about something he considers to be a crucial issue of our time: the decline of masculinity. American men, he says, are being attacked as part of a concerted leftist project.
    “The left want to define traditional masculinity as toxic,” he said in a speech at the National Conservatism Conference on November 1. “They want to define the traditional masculine virtues — things like courage and independence and assertiveness — as a danger to society.”

  28. 28.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @raven:

    They want to define the traditional masculine virtues — things like courage and independence and assertiveness —

    The courage, independence and assertiveness it takes to curl up in Donald Trump’s lap like a pekinese and sit quietly for four years.

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: The courage, independence and assertiveness it takes to curl up in Donald Trump’s lap like a pekinese St. Charles Cavalier Spaniel and sit quietly for four years.

    Fixteth. With all apologies to those who have owned such wonderful lapdogs. Vizslas are a close second here.

  43. 43.

    NotMax

    Ducked out for a few minutes to do some banking. Passed by a roadside protest* displaying a sheet draped over 4 by 8 panel of something, painted with a message to “Stop The Masking. Recall The Mayor.”

    *2 – count ’em, 2 – people.

    Pathetic moronismo.

  47. 47.

    The Dangerman

    I have a Big Bird RIGHT HERE, for you, Ted.

    ETA: Whew!

    ETA2: Eli Manning Special for you, Ted.

  49. 49.

    raven

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Wolf ultimately returned to Oxford, completing her Doctor of Philosophy degree in English literature in 2015…Since around 2014 Wolf has been described as being a conspiracy theorist.[a] She has received criticism for promoting misinformation on several topics, such as beheadings carried out by ISIS, the Western African Ebola virus epidemic, and Edward Snowden.[10][11][12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wolf has objected to the lockdowns,[13] and is a vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccines.[14] In June 2021, her Twitteraccount was suspended for posting anti-vaccine misinformation.[15]

  50. 50.

    Scout211

    There are some wild rumors in California about the sudden withdrawal from the public by Governor Newsom the day after his live appearance getting his COVID booster shot on October 27th.  The media is getting restless and there are starting to be rumors about why. Most have guessed that he or one of his kids caught COVID. But tonight, supposedly there is a leak from a hospital that he had a serious reaction to the booster, the Guillain-Barré like one. Yikes. I hope this is not true. The conservatives are already all over this and we really don’t know anything. yet.

  52. 52.

    Dan B

    I got booted off the blog after making the first comment on John Cole’s post on the five boorish nutso sins of his day.  505 error message or somthing like that.  Lasted about 45 minutes.

  58. 58.

    mvr

    @Rob: ​
     

    Test comment: WPRB is New Jerseys *only* radio station, or so they (https://twitter.com/wprb) say. It’s a darn good freeform station.

    Used to have a housemate who was one of the WPRB Jazz DJs. What he played around the house got me to understand Jazz well enough to really like and appreciate it. Also used to listen to their indy/college radio shows at night while dropping off to sleep when I first moved from Oregon to NJ 35+ years ago. It was in fact a damn good station.

  60. 60.

    Rob

    @mvr: ​
    Excellent! I’m down here in Maryland listening to it streaming. Right now the dj is doing a special program of all Japanese psych rock.

  61. 61.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender
    Trump goes after Chris Christie, who as recently as a year ago was helping Trump with debate prep:

    It is an awkward situation. Christie would probably be dead of his own loyalty to trump (and his own stupidity) if trump hadn’t dramatically (and if it wasn’t illegal it should have been) intervened to get CC the same then-experimental monoclonal antibodies that had a few weeks earlier saved trump from dying of his own stupidity

  62. 62.

    James E Powell

    @Scout211:

    The California press really hates him for not only beating the recall, but beating it so soundly that it was clear it was all bullshit.

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Kellyanne Conway:

    Acyn @Acyn
    “I worked in that White House for four years. We never even heard of a such of a thing. There was no supply chain crisis”

    Ventilators, masks, TPP in general, ICU beds, space in mortuaries….

    Toilet paper, paper towels, hand sanitizer, chicken, beef

    those are off the top of my head

    ETA: and of course, in that White House: Shame, souls, compassion, human decency….

  65. 65.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    Speaking of assholes, fuck Aaron Rodgers’ goddamn feelings:

    Aaron Rodgers isn’t happy with the way his decision not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been received… The source says that Rodgers “feels like he just shared his point of view, and now he’s being crucified for it.” “He knew some people would disagree with him, but he didn’t know that it would become the s—storm it became… “Aaron feels like he’s an athlete, he knows about his body more than most people, and he made a choice for himself,” the source says.

    h/t https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/aaron-rodgers-didnt-expect-negative-000753529.html

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Wyatt Salamanca:

    The source says that Rodgers “feels like he just shared his point of view, and now he’s being crucified for it.” “He knew some people would disagree with him, but he didn’t know that it would become the s—storm it became

    paraphrasing the multi-millionaire cry baby: “I know the woke mob will come for me, but I’m like MLK so fuck them”

  70. 70.

    NotMax

    @Wyatt Salamanca

    Ooh, both WFMU and WLIR were a hoot to tune into back during the 70s. Hadn’t realized Upsala College (the former’s original stomping ground) had shut down until I went to look up current info on WFMU.

  74. 74.

    Dan B

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Rogers is a hero to many boys and men, and admired by many women as well.  Public figures have a responsibility to be careful what they share in public.  He has claimed that Joe Rogan is a better expert on health than 98% of doctors.

    A big part of the problem is he grew up after polio and other dread diseases.  He has no visceral response to deadly disease.

  76. 76.

    Tony Gerace

    My wife of 35 years often reminds me that ALL of my comments need to be moderated.  I can’t disagree with her on that point.

  79. 79.

    E.

    Jesus FC. I just got back from my School Board meeting where the board voted to defy the State Mask Mandate for public schools. They adopted a resolution allowing students to attend school without a mask. Amid a wildly cheering crowd. Pray for me.

  82. 82.

    Another Scott

    ObOpenThread:

    The Kyiv Post has been killed.

    Our entire team was fired today by the owner, Odesa real estate developer Adnan Kivan.

    The notice came amid the ongoing attacks on the paper’s independence. @KyivPost has been Ukraine’s Global Voice for 26 years.

    Our statement: pic.twitter.com/q10dLamWoK

    — Anastasiia Lapatina (@lapatina_) November 8, 2021

    I didn’t read it often, but it seemed to be a good paper. And an accessible source for non-Ukranian speakers. :-(

    (via CherylRofer)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  83. 83.

    AlaskaReader

    The MAGA hats here are protesting at our one over-capacity local hospital demanding the hospital begin prescribing and dispensing ivermectin.

     

    Edited to note straight to moderation.

  85. 85.

    Tony Jay

    I got that 505 error message last night but just assumed it was down to me using up my bi-annual word count.

  86. 86.

    Miss Bianca

    @raven: Isn’t this the same dude who whined that being held to actual expectations of humanity was FORCING men to become porn and gaming addicts? Yeah, right, Josh.

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