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President Biden’s already sending much-needed aid to Kentucky, despite Senator Rand “Got a fist full of gimme, got a mouth full of much obliged ‘someone else’s money’” Paul:

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    In the interests of fostering bipartisan comity, I suggest we pay for any aid to Kentucky by selling tickets to a Rand Paul dunk tank feature.

    If you donate at the VIP level, you get to choose the liquid in the tank.

  3. 3.

    Ruckus

    I’m going to ask a question, but because of the reason for the question I can’t figure out out to say it without using 4 letter words.

     

    Are there any conservative politicians who are not fucking shit bags?

  9. 9.

    lollipopguild

    @Ruckus: Sen. Phil Graham from texas(R) (remember him?) would vote against every single spending bill (knowing the bill was going to pass) and then he would run home to Texas and tell everyone about all of the goodies for Texas that were in the bill he just voted against.

  10. 10.

    Kent

    @Ruckus: Are there any conservative politicians who are not fucking shit bags?

    There was at one time. They were all primaried out of office long ago by the MAGA filth and the pre-MAGA “tea party” filth

    Or, alternatively they represented blue trending states who eventually decided to go with the real thing.  Like here in the Pacific Northwest where we used to have moderate GOP Senators and Governors at one time

    I voted for GOP Senator Mark Hatfield in OR when I turned 18 because he filibustered Carter’s draft registration bill and I had no interest sitting in a tank in the Fulda Gap at age 19 to face incoming Soviet mechanized armies.

  13. 13.

    Kent

    Someone should tell Tucker that Christmas trees are of pagan origin.  Just like the majority of Christmas traditions from caroling to gift giving to feasting.  Basically every last bit of the fun and joyful stuff.

  14. 14.

    sdhays

    Ok, so Rand is good with letting Kentucky deal with devastating tornadoes the next time they show up, because now Mother Nature has given them warning.

    Also, I thought the DPRK News service got shut down because it didn’t state that it was parody which the owner of the account thought was defeating the point. Did someone bend?

  15. 15.

    Ruckus

    @Kent:

    I’ve reviewed my 72 yrs on this rock using the concept that those old conservatives actually thought they could be decent humans and I’ve thought of one. My representative back in 73. A member of the John Burch Society. Political party affiliation, republican. And he still understood the actual concept of being an elected representative of the people who voted for him. I’d bet there might have been one or two others who weren’t complete fucks. One. Or. Two.

  17. 17.

    VOR

    @Ruckus:  Are there any conservative politicians who are not fucking shit bags?

    Once upon a time, but they are nearly an extinct species. Today they are the party of Gomert, Gaetz, Gym Jordan, Boebert, and MTG. Newt Gingrich would be proud.

    US Conservatives are really radicals who seek societal change. They aren’t conserving anything. It was abundantly clear they abandoned fiscal prudence during GW Bush’s administration but TFG’s regime removed any doubt.

  18. 18.

    Ruckus

    @Kent:

    I just had to enlist in the navy to avoid having a target painted upon my chest, my back, my face, anywhere really. The risk factor was a bit smaller than voting for a republican. And the location was different than yours but the sentiment was the same.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    @Ruckus

    No longer in office but Lowell Weicker is still tickin’.

    Defeated in ’88 by none other than Joe Lieberman, who cast the Republican Weicker as “too liberal” for Connecticut.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    “hypocricy”?

    Anyway, I’m surprised at Tucker Carlson. He must know that fir trees don’t grow in the Middle East; Christians in Europe adopted many elements of pre-Christian winter solstice celebrations for Christmas. The date itself of Jesus’ official birthday was shifted to late December for a marketing reason: to compete with those very pre-Christian winter solstice celebrations.

  24. 24.

    Jess

    @Kent: 
    Yes! and someone should tell Rand Paul that the “other people’s money” he was talking about was from the Blue states, so he can just shut the fuck up unless he’s saying thank you to the Blue state libs bailing out his constituents once again.

  27. 27.

    Ohio Mom

    Yes there have always been tornados in Kentucky. Maybe not as frequently as some other states but they happen.

    Not that the rest of Rand Paul’s argument makes any sense.

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ruckus:

    Are there any conservative politicians who are not fucking shit bags? 

    Historically speaking, yes – but we have to go back a few generations.

    Currently?  No.  They’re all shit bags.

  29. 29.

    Kent

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    @Kent: speaking of the joyful stuff, I tried out a vegan gingerbread recipe tonight: https://www.cookwithmanali.com/vegan-gingerbread-cake/ and it was good enough that about half of the loaf is already gone…

    Speaking of vegan.  The new Rivian electric trucks are being advertised as having “vegan leather” upholstery.   I can’t decide if that is a new fancy euphemism for “vinyl” or if they are killing and skinning vegans.  Or maybe “vegan cows”.  Heh.

  31. 31.

    Jerzy Russian

    Does Fucker Carlson know that almost everyone calls him “Fucker”?  The ones that don’t call him “Fucker” call him “Mother”.

  33. 33.

    Kalakal

    @Ruckus: No. The odd one will occasionally make a statement that makes me think they may have a vestige of humanity but without exception when it comes to actions they’re shitbags

  35. 35.

    Major Major Major Major

    So the internet has been in a bit of a tizzy this weekend. There’s a new and very widespread zero-day exploit, called log4shell, that (hopefully almost) everybody has been racing to patch on their systems. It’s… bad. Hopefully won’t foul things up too much. Glad I’m not an ops person…

    Might blow up in the next couple days, we will see.

  37. 37.

    SFAW

    @dmsilev:

    In the interests of fostering bipartisan comity, I suggest we pay for any aid to Kentucky by selling tickets to a Rand Paul dunk tank feature rocket into the sun.

    To make it more palatable to Sen. Ferret-Headed Shitbag, someone can tell him it will only land on the sun after sunset, when it’s cooler.

  42. 42.

    SFAW

    @VeniceRiley:

    In an alternate universe, he chose the career of Danny Kaye impersonator and is adored by all.

    No, he’d still be hated. And pissed on, were the opportunity to present itself.

  44. 44.

    Anne Laurie

    @Kent: “Vegan leather” has been a standard descriptor in the shoes-and-handbag catalogs for some years now.   Sounds so much more upscale & boutique-y than vinyl…

  46. 46.

    Winston

    Was in a tornado once in SW Missouri when I lived on the Ozark Plateau. This was back in 96. We weren’t under a watch or even a warning. I looked out the window and saw a debris field extending upward from the SW side of our property coming right at us. We had just moved out of a trailer and into our earth sheltered home.  Yelling at my wife we retreated into the bathroom as it swept past us, with branches and dirt and debris crashing against our glass wall. Fortunately none of the glass was broken. The chicken coup was flipped over on it’s back and the hens were milling around like WTF? We weren’t able to get the dogs inside and they were looking at us like WTF? The tornado lifted the roof of the mobile home we had been living in and uprooted broccoli, tomato and other plants from the garden and smashed them against the side of the trailer. The roof ended up in the field to the east. The downpour which followed destroyed all the books, photo albums and bibles we had left in the mobile home.  This was the most harrowing experience of my life since the world series earth quake. Why does this shit follow us around?

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    @Jackie: Since you’re around: I was driving home from work (I think it was anyway) and heard an actual ad from that shitbird Newhouse. I was actually chuckling as I was listening to him list his conservative bona fides. The fucker is scared. Good. I might even be a bit hopeful he loses the jungle primary now. And whoever wins is such a dog’s breakfast that the Democrats might just have a chance. I guess we’ll see what happens now.

  52. 52.

    Alison Rose

    @Kent: I bought a microfiber couch once that the sales associate referred to as “vegan suede” since I’d specifically asked for something with man-made materials, being veggie myself. I thought it was clever :)

  53. 53.

    The Dangerman

    @Ruckus: Well said, although I would have opted for a 12 letter choice personally.

    I haven’t read the story completely but we likely owe Pence a debt of gratitude for 1 days work. You know the one. I think we were really close to Trump pulling a rabbit out of his ass and “winning” the election. I can’t even fathom the shitstorm that would have happened.

  55. 55.

    Soprano2

    @Winston: It was the trailer. Tornadoes seem to target them with pinpoint accuracy. I don’t remember anything about a tornado in the Ozarks  in 1996, but that was a long time ago. It has to be spectacular or close for me to to remember it.

  57. 57.

    Soprano2

    @Alison Rose: Microfiber *shudder* That’s what our couch is covered in, which is why it always has a cover on it. Our dogs lick their paws, which leaves water stains on the couch if we don’t cover it. Never again…….

  58. 58.

    Rusty

    @NotMax: I’ll challenge that as a native of the Nutmeg State.  Weicker got a lot of milage for supporting the disabled, but he had a disabled daughter of course.  If you were poor, a person of color or anything else, he was a solid right wing hack.  His empathy extended just as far as his own family.  Lieberman was terrible in his own ways, but was an improvement over Lowell.

  60. 60.

    NotMax

    @Rusty

    Okey-dokey. Most of my memories of Weicker stem from the Watergate years, and he was adamantly in the right about that. The part about Joe L. dubbing him too liberal is not a hallucination on my part, though.

  61. 61.

    Winston

    @Soprano2: It has to be spectacular or close for me to to remember it.

    I know what you mean. I sometimes think I was either the lucky one or unfortunate one. Cincinnati in 1977 when the Ohio River froze over and you could walk from downtown to Newport Ky. So we left there and went to Tempe Az. for the 500 year flood of the Salt River. Then to San Jose, Ca. and the Loma Prieto earth quake of 1989. Moved to Ukiah to brave the fires in 1994, then to Missouri for the tornado (it might have been 1997). So eventually arriving in Florida in 2017 for my first Hurricane (Irma). Still alive. But I don’t know anyone else who has experienced this many weather events. They seem to follow me. LOL.

  62. 62.

    Yutsano

    @Jackie: Fortunately Republic isn’t in the 4th. But if he knocks out McMorris-Rodgers in the primary there’s a chance there. We’ll have to see what happens after our lines are re-drawn I guess.

  63. 63.

    sab

    Ponyo my newish dog is not only a very good doorbell, she is also a good barometer. She was shivering and whining during the passing storms. Weather service didn’t warn us because storms were in western Ohio and we are in eastern Ohio. But Ponyo knew something was up.

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    @sab

    Jokey line at #64 works better spoken aloud.   :)

    Yeah, drenchies go bye-bye. Still pockets without power and or potable water.

  69. 69.

    sab

    @NotMax:  Twenty years ago my Jewish ex wanted custody of our German shepherd because we jokingly said her last name was Wolf (and everyone adored her and wanted her.)  So I claimed custody of his golden retrievers,  with the joking last names of MacPeen  (my folks were Scottish highlanders and Swiss.)  We worked it out and he got the retrievers and I got the GSD.

  71. 71.

    Origuy

    @Major Major Major Major: One of my products uses log4j. I did a scan on Friday to see if the problem code was being used; I couldn’t find it in any of the log4j libraries being linked. I wish I had know that the bug was introduced in version 2 of log4j; it would have save me some trouble. My product was still on version 1.something. Which has its own problems, but not this one.

  72. 72.

    opiejeanne

    @Yutsano: Are you in Republic now? That’s a long way from nowhere. We were not far from you last month, on a trip to check out a couple of ghost towns. We stayed in Winthrop, and the closest we came to Republic was Tonasket, on the way up to Oroville and Molson.

  74. 74.

    Ruckus

    @Winston:

    Why does this shit follow us around?

    Because it can…. And it’s not following you, it’s looking for you, or at least it’s looking for someone to fuck with. Why? I repeat, because it can……

  75. 75.

    Geminid

    I was interested to read that the late Michael Nesmith wrote Linda Rondstadt’s first hit, “Different Drum.” The producers of the Monkees kept tight control over the band’s output, and used songs by established writers. They rejected Nesmith’s song, so he passed in on to Linda Ronstadt who recorded it under the name, Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies.

  76. 76.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @matt the somewhat reasonable: I never understood this Republican idea that entire populations should relocate because of hurricanes, etc., as Rand Paul seems to be spouting. Are all of Puerto Rico, coastal Florida, and New Orleans supposed to move to western Kentucky?

  78. 78.

    Betty

    @Kent: John Heinz was a good guy, supported union workers and women’s reproductive rights. It was tragic when he was killed.  He was old school wealthy and didn’t need donors.

  80. 80.

    Ken

    @sdhays: I thought the DPRK News service got shut down because it didn’t state that it was parody

    I got to the last word “province” of the DPRK tweet above before going “huh” and checking the author.  I can’t decide if that means it’s not parody, or that it’s damn good parody.

  81. 81.

    Geminid

    @opiejeanne: Ah, the Stone Poneys. I’m guessing this was just a name covering some studio musicians. That was a big break for Ronstadt, who then proved many times over that she was not a one hit wonder.

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