Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

When we show up, we win.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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Wiley ol’ President Joe knows how to get the media’s attention…

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  1. 1.

    guachi

    Is Major still there? At least Biden had the smarts to go with an O5 in the Navy instead of an O4 in the Army. Navy is just better.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    Now that’s what I’m talking about.

    Also, FTA

    In April, Jill Biden said in an interview that a female cat is “waiting in the wings.” Two people familiar with the Biden’s cat situation have told CNN the cat is being fostered with acquaintances until the best time for it to make the move into the White House and that date has not yet been set, but “it is expected to be in the very near future.”

  7. 7.

    eclare

    @guachi:   The article said Major stays mainly in Wlmington.  Joe goes there most weekends, and I’m sure the house has staff, so I’m confident he’s taken care of.

  22. 22.

    trollhattan

    Get a load of those ears! Fetching 101 clearly in progress, if not already mastered.

    Our first Dalmatian loved carrots; never occurred to us to costume him while doing so.

  26. 26.

    trollhattan

    @TaMara (HFG):

    You are dealing with a LOT of future dog. That face slays me.

    Our Rocco has a new walkies buddy, a rescued Dobie who’s probably twice his size, and Rocco isn’t exactly small. Friendly lug of a Dobie who evidently has some separation anxiety issues, maybe because of the adoption affair?

  27. 27.

    Spanky

    I see cancer survivor Guv Hogan has more Covid news for us: (WaPo)

    Gov. Larry Hogan, who is fully vaccinated and received a booster, has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced Monday.

    Hogan said he received a positive rapid test on Monday as part of his regular testing routine. He said he was “feeling fine at the moment.”

    “As the Omicron variant becomes dominant, I want to urge you to get vaccinated or get your booster as soon as possible,” Hogan tweeted.

    Hogan’s positive test comes as hospitalizations are surging and as the state remains in the dark over its case count. More than two weeks ago the state health department was attacked. The state has not provided any information on when the cases rates and positivity rates, which indicate the spread of the virus, will be available.

    Covid-19 hospitalizations have jumped to 1,345, the highest since early February. Last week most hospitals in the state were near capacity levels, which triggered emergency measures to take effect, including the cancellation of elective surgeries.

  28. 28.

    cain

    @Spanky: The only time the GOP will start advocating for vaccine is when a number of folks holding national office dies off. Lose a few senators and then suddenly there will be change of heart.

    But it will be too late by then…

  33. 33.

    VOR

    @cain:  But the GOP leadership isn’t in control anymore. They are riding on the tiger’s back, hoping to not get thrown off. They empowered the crazies, encouraged conspiracy theories, and now the lunatics are running the asylum. They booed Trump for encouraging people to get the vaccine.

  34. 34.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Spanky:

    Knocking shit off the counter and destroying the woodwork by using it as a scratching post, like all other cats.

  38. 38.

    Mo MacArbie

    OK, hear me out: if Omicron breaks the medical system, can Biden use that as a pretext to just nationalize it all? If that’s a bit much, can we at least use the threat of such a move to encourage vaccination as the lesser evil to, dun dun DUUUUNNNN!, socialized medicine?

    Maybe that’s the secret plan, and I’ve said too much. Never mind. Ixnay on the ocializedsay edicinemay.

  48. 48.

    raven

    CNN)Former President Donald Trump was booed by a portion of an audience in Dallas on Sunday when he said he had received a Covid-19 booster shot, according to video of the closed press event that was shared on social media.

    The comments by Trump — who, despite championing his administration’s efforts to develop Covid vaccines, rarely discusses his own vaccination and has largely declined to encourage others to get it — came during a stop of his tour with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly.

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    @trollhattan:

    You are dealing with a LOT of future dog. That face slays me. 

    Hahaha, hard to believe she’s just 11 weeks old, but then you remember she’s a Great Dane.

  54. 54.

    Patricia Kayden

    Breaking: Jan. 6 committee requests information from GOP member Scott Perry about his encrypted texts on Signal with Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about installing Jeffrey Clark as AG— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) December 20, 2021

  57. 57.

    Butter Emails!

    @raven:

    It’s amazing that as big a piece of crap as Trump is, he’s not as big a piece of crap as many of his supporters.

  58. 58.

    mrmoshpotato

    @raven:

    was booed by a portion of an audience in Dallas on Sunday when he said he had received a Covid-19 booster shot 

    These people are idiots – soon-to-be-dead idiots.

  67. 67.

    germy

    Omicron sweeps across nation, now 73% of US COVID-19 cases

    NEW YORK (AP) – Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron’s share of infections in only one week.

  81. 81.

    Miss Bianca

    @Butter Emails!:

    It’s amazing that as big a piece of crap as Trump is, he’s not as big a piece of crap as many of his supporters.

    I would dispute that characterization, personally. A piece of crap idiot who knows everything told his fellow piece of crap idiots who know nothing to “do as I say, not as I do” on vaccines? Is, in fact, just as big a piece of crap as his followers, regardless of whether he’s finally done the right thing or not. JMHO, of course.

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I can’t post links to tweets, but if you click over to the tweet Patricia Kayden shared and scroll down a little bit, you will see a tweet from Mary “The Only Good” Trump. She has a new kitten, she posted the kitten’s picture (little black fuzz ball), and it is adorable!!

  88. 88.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @germy:

    The Bidens have a new puppy, Jon Ossoff has a new baby, and Mary Trump has a new kitten. Pretty nice Weekend Before Christmas!

  94. 94.

    Spanky

    @debbie: Oh yes! Ransomware, as I understand. But I also see that it’s now back!

    Mostly.

    12/20/2021: MDH is experiencing a server outage as the result of a network security incident. As of 12/20/2021, 90 percent of state-level surveillance data for confirmed cases, persons tested negative, testing volume and positivity rate are restored. Using today’s published numbers as a baseline, 24-hour changes will resume tomorrow, 12/21/21. MDH continues to work to reinstate the full COVID-19 dataset and will resume reporting more surveillance information—including deaths and numbers by jurisdiction—as soon as possible. Vaccine data and hospitalizations remain current as of 12/20/2021.

    MDH will pause COVID-19 reporting on Nov. 25 and 26; Dec. 24 and 25; and Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 in observance of the holidays. When reporting resumes, updates will include both the days encompassed in the pause and the standard 24-hour changes in metrics

    ETA: I removed a couple of hyperlinks in there, so if someone wants more info they should go to coronavirus.maryland.gov

  96. 96.

    TaMara (HFG)

    I wonder (have read Baud’s comment at #3) if maybe the foster folks fell in love and said no backsies.

    Otherwise, if it’s a young kitten, I can imagine waiting until it’s past the zoomies/climbing the curtains stage before allowing it in the WH

  106. 106.

    Don K

    @Betty Cracker:

    Not this cat person. I choose cats for my house, but I really love puppies too!!

    I recognize a cat would look at the White House and grounds and say, “Hmphh! Just barely adequate for my majestic presence”, while a puppy looks at same and says, “Wow! All for me??”

  107. 107.

    Hellbastard

    SHould have named the dog Brandon, if you ask me. Make every moron out there in LGB gear look like a supporter of the White House pet.

  108. 108.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @zhena gogolia: I had a hand to armpit plaster cast after surgery for a broken WRIST. It was miserable. I was as happy as a lark when a week later it was exchanged for a short fiberglass model in shocking pink and I could shower again. Not a bath person.

    Best wishes for speedy healing and good therapy.

  111. 111.

    Poe Larity

    Ever since Socks used his catcopter to get to Jeffrey Epstein, the WH has been nervous about cats.

  112. 112.

    JoyceCB

    Late to the party as usual – a good friend had a GSD with the biggest ears and the longest, coldest snootie there ever was.  Nothing like being wakened up for some early morning bird watching by that ice-cold nose!  She was a chewer, she was dumb as a bag of rocks, as GSDs go, but she had such a loyal loving heart.  Even when she was trying to get into my overnight bag to chew my underwear – such a dope, but God I loved that dog!

  114. 114.

    Dan B

    My calenders arrived yesterday.  The mail carrier stuffed it into the narrow slot of the locking mailbox.  It took five minutes of struggle to get it out cause it was like an origami version of the Chinese Finger Puzzle.  This evening a throw pillow arrived and I feared the same struggle in much colder (for Seattle) weather.  No problem, phew!

  117. 117.

    Dan B

    @delk: Ouch!  I remember getting off work at a coffeehouse at 4AM.  Forty below.  Every place where the gloves and three layers of sleeves were not perfectly overlapping felt like knives.

  118. 118.

    Gin & Tonic

    I’m so old I can remember when Putin said Russia would never use gas supplies as a weapon.

    Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom slashed its gas supplies to Europe over the weekend, sending prices surging as the continent prepares for a week of sub-zero temperatures https://t.co/7uAT1UheTn
    — The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) December 21, 2021

  124. 124.

    eclare

    @raven:   I can’t imagine that and the full body cast!  I had my plaster leg cast for six weeks then a walkable fiberglass one to my knee.  I remember looking down at my leg after they sawed the plaster cast off and being amazed by the muscle atrophy!

    But that was offset by my great guns from getting around on crutches!

  125. 125.

    persistentillusion

    @germy: If you listen to The New Abnormal with Molly Jong Fast’s interview with Mary, the bird is also talky in addition to beautiful

    Between Molly’s dogs and Mary’s bird, kinda noisy interview.

  128. 128.

    raven

    @eclare: Oh hell yes. I used the “trees” from model cars  

    to scratch my leg and some pieces broke off and were actually embedded in the bone. I wonder now if some of my motor issues might be related to that injury?

    I got really good on the crutches once the calluses built up on my palms

     

    The leg was in about 1960 and the back was 75.

  130. 130.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @raven: My DH has a friend like you…plane crashes, wild animal tramplings and more. All these injuries do haunt us in older age but the resilience..

    OT, I saw the pictures of your rental the other day and it’s so lovely. Lucky tenant.

  132. 132.

    eclare

    @raven:   My palms were ok, my underarms were what suffered from crutches.

    You got me thinking.  I broke my leg when I was eight, and I was diagnosed with scoliosis five or six years later.  Wonder if any relation?

  133. 133.

    sab

    @eclare: UK NHS has different crutches.  Not the underarmpit ones. They think they are unsafe.

    ETA Their crutches you lean on your hands, with mid-forearm rings to support also

    I had a professor who’d had polio and he used the UK version.

  137. 137.

    Stuart Frasier

    @delk: I’ve currently got a broken arm/wrist.  It’s all put together with titanium screws and plates, luckily nothing external.  Getting use of my hand back, but I’ve got a lot of PT ahead of me to get back ROM in the wrist.  I’ve got a badly broken pelvis as well.  Much more painful, but much faster recovery.

  139. 139.

    Stuart Frasier

    @eclare: Motorcycle crash.  Hit by a car that had been hit by another car.  Not great, but nothing permanent.  Consider myself lucky.

  142. 142.

    jonas

    @Gin & Tonic: A bunch of German (and other) business people and pols were like “well, if we’re Russia’s biggest energy customer, they’ll need us more than we need them and they won’t mess around because, you know, profits and stability and such…”

    Russia: “No care profits and stability. Fuck with EU.”

    Watching a bunch of Republicans, namely Ted Cruz, who spent four years saying nothing while Trump eagerly gargled Putin’s balls using custom, Texas-made leather knee pads, now get all up in high dudgeon over this is additionally infuriating.

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