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“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

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And this morning, for 85 minutes, Vice-President Harris became the first woman to assume presidential powers (while President Biden underwent a colonoscopy).

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  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    He (McCarthy) cosplays Tienanmen Square? Is he tank dude? Does this make me objectively pro-tank?

    Love that Nancy SMASH uses the sunglasses gif on her own damn Twitter page.

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    zhena gogolia

    I love Jen, Nancy, and Kamala.

    ETA: Women are really good. Why does this country hate us so much?

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    I was hoping there would be a clip of Jen’s response to the McCarthy question.  It was so good.  Now I’m going to watch the clip even though I watched the press conference.  She made McCarthy look like the fool he is – at least to anyone who is connected with reality.

  5. 5.

    zhena gogolia

    Anne Laurie and WaterGirl are keeping me sane.

    ETA: If baud were here, he would be involved as well.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I never ever ever tire of seeing the gif with Nancy Smash striding along and putting on her shades LIKE A BOSS.

  7. 7.

    germy

    We are hearing rumors that the front row of GOP hostages behind Kevin McCarthy are asking whether they can just be censured instead.

    — Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) November 19, 2021

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    germy

    If you took the worst orator in the world

    Gave him the worst speech in the world

    And made him read it for the longest time in the world

    That would be a lot like listening to Kevin McCarthy tonight.

    Except, probably better.

    — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) November 19, 2021

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: We really are a full-service blog!  Some people on BJ make you crazy, some people keep you sane.

    The fun thing about that is that depending on the commenter, different front-pagers and commenters probably fill those two roles. :-)

    edit: Always Baud!

  12. 12.

    West of the Rockies

    I think the Dems should more emphatically explain why funding universal pre-K is important.  Yeah, such funding is playing the long game, but still, a lot of people just say, “So what’s so great about universal pre-K?”

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie:  You are probably right.

    I hope to god that in the end, T**** will be the anchor that sinks the republican ship, that by all rights should have been sunk multiple years ago.

  17. 17.

    Anyway

    Love the cheering, gleeful, jumping-in-joy Dem reps reacting to Madam Speaker’s gavel SMASH.

    may have to watch Rachel tonight – I usually don’t…

  18. 18.

    zhena gogolia

    @germy:

    This one was my favorite:

    Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was 275 words and less than three minutes long. Two hours and seven minutes into McCarthy’s rant, it is clear the world will little note nor long remember what he says here.— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) November 19, 2021

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    SpaceUnit

    Yeah, I’m not having any of the ‘Dems are doomed and demoralized’ nonsense.  This is winning.  After fours years of TFG our media thinks ‘winning’ is calling people names and breaking shit.  Bozos.

  22. 22.

    germy

    It is a feat of epic proportions to speak for four hours straight and not produce a single memorable phrase, original insight or even a joke.

    McCarthy thinks he is a wit but so far he has proved he is only half right.

    — Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) November 19, 2021

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    Brachiator

    @debbie:

    Or like a guy with marching orders from TFG. He must have had input for the speech.

    I read some pundit piece suggesting that the guy wanted to prove that he was a good Trumpkin.

    Unfortunately, Trump’s vile influence is going to continue for a while.

  24. 24.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    “Abraham Lincoln was not assassinated”

    Does this mean Abe faked his own death like JFK and JFK Jr.?

  25. 25.

    Spanky

    Rep. Jamie Raskin

    @RepRaskin

    I must admit Kevin McCarthy has accomplished one thing. America is no longer woke.

  30. 30.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @germy: The shade of Marcus Junius Brutus looks at Rep. Raskin’s Twitter feed and thinks, daaaaaaamn, now that is brutal.

  31. 31.

    Ken

    @debbie: Or like a guy with marching orders from TFG. He must have had input for the speech.

    Too muchly grammaring and sensicality for one of TFG’s speechifications.

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    Cameron

    I can almost envision John Boehner staying up all night to watch this shitshow, laughing his ass off and making snide remarks to the bottle of scotch he’s holding.

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    RaflW

    I gotta say, “Elon is one of my best friends” is one of the saddest/funniest things to come out of last night’s gooberthon.

    And yes, yes: Congrats to Madam Pelosi and the Democratic crew. She sounded a very flexible and open note to a few (unnamed!) folks at the other end of the building in terms of the bill potentially going to conference.

    So, let’s roll, Democrats! The sooner we get this nailed down, to faster we get to election protection and voting rights.

  44. 44.

    Ruckus

    @zhena gogolia:

    Why does this country hate us so much?

    Because you so often show up the other half of the country, without even seeming to try. Of course it often isn’t even a difficult task. And it’s not the country although it is an unreasonable segment of the population. The ones who are afraid that everyone is going to show them up. And they’re one’s who get shown up often. And earn it.

  45. 45.

    Chetan Murthy

    I’m glad for this community, on a day like today.  Glad that there people here who try to look on the bright side.  I’m not one of those people, but I can still appreciate it in others.  So thank you, and I’ll keep my Eeyore in the barn, at least for today.

  46. 46.

    Ken

    @debbie: The “Q” cult already thinks JFK Jr. and Michael Jackson are still alive, and holds monthly rallies expecting them to announce themselves. Can you imagine what will happen after TFG kicks off?

  47. 47.

    Benw

    @Omnes Omnibus: I feel like we’ve been over this a million time but once more: Baud isn’t the monster, he’s the one who lost control over his own creation, which is itself a metaphor for inhumanity. Everyone gets this wrong!

  48. 48.

    Redshift

    @zhena gogolia: Don Beyer, my rep, tweeted out a series of “this is now longer than,” starting with the Beatles’ “Help,” and including, among others, the combined extended edition of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

  50. 50.

    dr. bloor

    @Brachiator: ​

    Unfortunately, Trump’s vile influence is going to continue for a while.

    “Endemic” is the word you’re looking for. Trump is the Delta version of Ronald Reagan, and it’s already been in the body politic for forty years.​
      (Sixty if you count Goldwater, who even I am too young to remember).

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    @Ken:

    The “Q” cult already thinks JFK Jr. and Michael Jackson are still alive, and holds monthly rallies expecting them to announce themselves. Can you imagine what will happen after TFG kicks off?

    Long lines of people waiting to piss on his grave.

  56. 56.

    dr. bloor

    @Ruckus: Media have had their thumbs on the scales in some way and to some extent forever, but turning news divisions into for-profit enterprises (Thanks, Roone!) along with the demise of the fairness doctrine was like shooting an 8 ball into their veins.

  58. 58.

    Brachiator

    @dr. bloor:

    RE: Unfortunately, Trump’s vile influence is going to continue for a while.

    “Endemic” is the word you’re looking for. Trump is the Delta version of Ronald Reagan, and it’s already been in the body politic for forty years.

    I think that Trump and Trumpism represents something far worse.

    It is going to be an interesting fight.

  59. 59.

    Redshift

    @RaflW:

    I gotta say, “Elon is one of my best friends” is one of the saddest/funniest things to come out of last night’s gooberthon. 

    And “I can’t afford to test drive a Tesla,” WTF? The owner of the company is a billionaire, not the customers (though maybe that’s the anti-EV propaganda they’re feeding the base.)

  62. 62.

    debbie

    A sense of honor used to mean something. From a FB group Historia Obscurum:

    This is British Army Captain Robert Campbell, who was captured in 1914 a few weeks after the First World War started and was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany.

    Campbell was there two years until, in December of 1916, he received word from home that his mother was dying. On a long-shot, Campbell wrote directly to Kaiser Wilhelm II asking for leave to go home to see her one last time.

    Not only did the Kaiser say yes, but he granted Campbell two weeks leave at home, plus two travel days each way, as long as Campbell promised to return.

    And like an honorable gentleman, he did.

    When Campbell’s allotted leave time was up, he crossed back across the front lines once more, and returned to the prisoner of war camp, where he remained until liberated at the end of the war in 1918.

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    Old Man Shadow

    @Brachiator: Illiberalism has been with us since Europeans landed here.

    Seems like for every positive America does, there’s at least one horror a lot of people would like to sweep under the bed.

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    SpaceUnit

    @Ruckus:

    No.  You’re right – it didn’t all start with President Chump.  But what’s really disappointing is that at some point over the last five years it seemed as though a number of our media figures began to realize that things weren’t normal, that we’d passed a truly dangerous threshold.  The events of January 6th should have been the ultimate epiphany.

    But nope.  We’re right back to goalpost drills and both-side narratives.

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    prostratedragon

    Wow, on the POW and the Kaiser. My father was very grateful when the US Army gave him a week’s leave when his own father died in 1945, just as Dad’s unit was regearing to go East, having just been in Europe. But this is remarkable.

     

    Headed out to hear Quinteto Astor Piazzolla at Orchestra Hall.

  76. 76.

    Skepticat

    @zhena gogolia:

    I love Jen, Nancy, and Kamala.

    ETA: Women are really good. Why does this country hate us so much?

    Some women—especially those you mentioned—indeed are good. (I hope we are too.) I always thought it would be good to get more women into Congress. But then we got Lauren Boobert (not, it’s not a typo; I’m channeling Chump), Virginia Foxx, Marjorie Greene, Elise Stefanik, Joni Ernst, my-sorta-own Susan Collins, and assorted other mental cases. I’m grateful they’re currently outliers—and bold liars—and I hope we’ll see the end of them soon.

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    Skepticat

    @Cameron: ​
     

    I can almost envision John Boehner staying up all night to watch this shitshow, laughing his ass off and making snide remarks to the bottle of scotch he’s holding.

    It’s terrifying that I’m almost nostalgic for him—and even for Nixon. Everything is relative.

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    Mike in NC

    It took us 240 years to get a (fabulous) woman VP. Will it take another 240 years to get a woman president?

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    Ken

    @debbie: I believe I heard they’re also expecting JFK now, not just his son?

    Well why not, he’d only be 104. Probably show up with the 95-year-old Marilyn Monroe.

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