Nothing to see here, just a reindeer eating a carrot. ???????? pic.twitter.com/Vw6ltJIQ99
— Fred Schultz (@fred035schultz) December 19, 2021
Wiley ol’ President Joe knows how to get the media’s attention…
. @MichaelLaRosa46 confirms CNN's scoop of whether there is a new puppy at the White House: "Yes," he says, "there is." https://t.co/eg14xF1EHS
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) December 20, 2021
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) December 20, 2021
A source tells me the puppy's name is
'COMMANDER' and that he was a gift from the Biden family to @POTUS https://t.co/so7vSycxMT— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) December 20, 2021
BOOM. https://t.co/zuDuU8EMHU
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) December 20, 2021
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.
SiubhanDuinne
OMG, those ears! EEEAAAARRZZZ!!!
Baud
Now that’s what I’m talking about.
Also, FTA
pat
A dog, dressed as a reindeer, sitting up in bed, eating a carrot…
Words fail…..
eclare
Yay! Puppy!
NotMax
@guachi
What, no Space Force?
;)
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.
Mary G
@SiubhanDuinne: I know! I need to pet those soft fuzzy appendages NAOW.
Spanky
WERE’S THE DAMN CAT??!?!?
zhena gogolia
Nice.
dmsilev
Definitely cuter than TFG’s pets. Lindsey Graham definitely lacking in that department.
Frederick Stibbert
@SiubhanDuinne:
Ears Alert !
Ears Alert !
Don K
Dog probably took one look at the grounds and said, “Oh hell yeah! I can get used to this!”
HeleninEire
@pat: I KNOW….How great is that??? ?
TaMara (HFG)
OMG, those ears. I love German Shepards…
dexwood
@dmsilev: Yeah, but I’d bet Lindsey liked the collar and leash.
TaMara (HFG)
Speaking of puppies – Trixie is 11 weeks tomorrow…look at those feet
Mike in NC
If the Biden’s try to adopt a cat, will Joe Manchin object?
Mr. Kite
LOL “Commie” to his friends.
Betty Cracker
Without reading comments, all I’ll say is, the cat people are going to be PISSED.
eclare
@TaMara (HFG): Awww…thanks for the update!
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.
zhena gogolia
@TaMara (HFG): HaHa I thought from the post title it was going to be about Trixie! She is gorgeous.
Jerzy Russian
@Betty Cracker: You know what they say: cats rule, dogs drool!
dmsilev
@Betty Cracker: Will they act like annoyed cats and piss all over the White House furniture?
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?
Spanky
I see cancer survivor Guv Hogan has more Covid news for us: (WaPo)
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…
cain
@TaMara (HFG): so cuuuute!!
Also, happy to see a puppy in the white house but yes, where is that darn cat??!
NotMax
@Don K
Song the pup shall never hear: “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.”
;)
SiubhanDuinne
@TaMara (HFG):
Very fetching in her red bow!
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
I beg your pardon?
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.
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.
eclare
@VOR: Yep. I call it got a tiger by the tail, but the same meaning.
NotMax
Open Thread?
WTF? Home, home on the strange.
Chief Oshkosh
@VOR: Hell, there’s an update: They booed Trump a day or so ago when he told them he got the booster shot.
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.
Poe Larity
@Mo MacArbie:
No, but he could try to ban hugging like the Irish did.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mr. Kite:
Ha! Tonight’s Tucker commentary this afternoon
SiubhanDuinne
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Not-completely-implausible scenario.
Baud
@Poe Larity:
I would love to be a member of the Hug Police.
rikyrah
Where is the WH cat?
Baud
Did no one read my comment at #3?
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I did.
Tom Levenson
@Baud: I never read comment number three. Nothing good ever comes out of the three slot.
japa21
@Baud:
@zhena gogolia:
So did I. Always amazed how many people don’t read comments before commenting themselves. But then we would never get a 300 comment thread.
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.
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
I keep forgetting to mention this: I don’t know what kind of cast or bandage you have on your elbow, but something like the shower sleeve I got after my arm surgery might be useful to you. Many variations available.
Spanky
@Baud: That was from April. Give me some new data.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan:
Hahaha, hard to believe she’s just 11 weeks old, but then you remember she’s a Great Dane.
jeffreyw
@Baud:
I thought that was Hung Police at first read.
I could do that job, but not well.
eclare
@Baud: I did
Patricia Kayden
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Great. This will be the first cat since Clinton’s.
Ken
@Baud: I read your comment, but instantly forgot because it didn’t mention me. — Signed, A Cat
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.
mrmoshpotato
@raven:
These people are idiots – soon-to-be-dead idiots.
Edmund Dantes
@Baud: I mean they need to get moving on it. It shouldn’t take that long to figure it out how to get the cat ready for the White House.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone): Thanks. Mine is way bigger than that right now, but I hope to graduate soon.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I read it and felt a quiet joy. Emphasis on quiet.
Steeplejack (phone)
Alexandra Petri: Joe Manchin visited by the ghosts of Christmas.
WaterGirl
Thank you for that reindeer eating the carrot, Anne Laurie. So awesome.
eclare
@Steeplejack (phone): Brilliant as always
Old School
@Baud: I looked at comment #3, but like most folks, all I saw was pie.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack (phone):
One of her most brilliant columns yet! Brava!
germy
SiubhanDuinne
@Patricia Kayden:
Scott Perry…Rick Perry…Rick Scott…
delk
Portillo’s night. That is all.
cain
@Tom Levenson:
#2 is always the most important post on a thread.
mrmoshpotato
@delk: Flaco’s Tacos.
MagdaInBlack
@delk: That was lunch ?
germy
eclare
@germy: QFT
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Why are so many dead polar explorers MAGAs?
delk
@MagdaInBlack: there is one by my husband’s office but as of tomorrow he will be working from home so probably won’t have another for a while.
Ken
John Whorfin, John Bigbooté, John Ya Ya…
Omnes Omnibus
@delk: Good idea.
germy
delk
@mrmoshpotato: I used to go to the one in Printer’s Row.
Miss Bianca
@Butter Emails!:
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.
MagdaInBlack
@delk: One of our vendors gave us gift cards so off I went for bacon cheeseburger.
MikefromArlington
They should train it to rip Manchins ball off for the laugh.
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!!
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
Seems to be a birb involved, too.
Ryan
Is commander Joe Manchin? Is he trying to lure his cooperation?
eclare
@germy: That could be…interesting
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!
WaterGirl
@Patricia Kayden: In case no one has said it yet, yippee!
For all the people who refuse to come before the committee, I think we should use this phrase in every story.
debbie
@Spanky:
Attacked, as in hacked?
Spanky
@Ken: It’s BigBOOTAY!
debbie
@Butter Emails!:
If only there had been a shout or two of “Traitor”!
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): I think that’s her best ever. Absolutely perfect.
Spanky
@debbie: Oh yes! Ransomware, as I understand. But I also see that it’s now back!
Mostly.
ETA: I removed a couple of hyperlinks in there, so if someone wants more info they should go to coronavirus.maryland.gov
Dan B
@TaMara (HFG): Paws bigger than TFG’s mits.
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
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG): I was thinking that they want plenty of time for Major, the new pup and the new kitty to all be fast friends before they introduce the stress of the white house.
HumboldtBlue
The Oval Pawwffice
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack (phone): I used garbage bags and duct tape.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: Duct tape sounds painful
dexwood
@zhena gogolia: So useful, though. I’ve always loved the it ain’t broke, it just lacks duct tape philosophy.
eclare
@zhena gogolia: When I broke my leg decades ago that was all I had for a cast up to mid-thigh. You just keep the duct tape on the bag, no skin.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: I’m just doing sponge baths ? sucks but I’m supposed to get a smaller thing one of these days
MagdaInBlack
@TaMara (HFG): As many puppies as I’ve raised, I’m still amazed at how fast they grow. What a sweetie she is.
eclare
@zhena gogolia: To each his own! Plus there are all the wipes now. Thinking back, I think I also took baths sometimes, with my cast hanging out of the tub.
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??”
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.
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.
hedgehog mobile
Puppy!! Also, calendar arrived today.
zhena gogolia
@Sure Lurkalot: thanks
Poe Larity
Ever since Socks used his catcopter to get to Jeffrey Epstein, the WH has been nervous about cats.
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!
debbie
@Spanky:
Jesus.
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!
delk
@Sure Lurkalot: I had an external fixator for my wrist fracture. Nothing like having a chunk of metal screwed into your arm during winter in Chicago.
Jay
@zhena gogolia:
electrical tape, not duct tape, comes off easier, holds just as well. Easier to apply one handed.
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.
Gin & Tonic
I’m so old I can remember when Putin said Russia would never use gas supplies as a weapon.
raven
@Sure Lurkalot: I spent 9 months in a full body cast after I broke my back in 1975. Note the fishin rods since you can’t see the rods they put on my spine.
raven
@eclare: Oh yeah, I fell out of a tree after football practice (showing off for girls) and spent 6 months in a full leg cast too!
18 bone fragments and it didn’t keep me out of the Army!
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Is it SWIFT time yet?
Feathers
@debbie: Apparently the new President of Chile is a Swiftie : https://twitter.com/TSwiftNZ/status/1473013780221100033
Leto
@raven: 1930s raven is best raven. :P
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!
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.
eclare
@Feathers: That’s great!
debbie
@Feathers:
And he will never, ever, EVER get over her!
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.
raven
@Baud: That never meant anything but Fuck the Army!!
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.
raven
@Sure Lurkalot: I consider myself to be very lucky.
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?
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.
NotMax
FYI.
NHL suspending all operations league-wide over Christmas weekend to slow spread of COVID
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@NotMax: in other news, don’t ask, don’t test
eclare
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That is crazy but $$$$.
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.
eclare
@Stuart Frasier: What happened?
Stuart Frasier
@eclare: Motorcycle crash. Hit by a car that had been hit by another car. Not great, but nothing permanent. Consider myself lucky.
eclare
@Stuart Frasier: Oh gosh, I’m so sorry! But yeah, all things considered, you are right, you are lucky. I hope the healing goes smoothly.
Steeplejack
@Stuart Frasier:
Yikes! Hope you have a speedy recovery.
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.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Feathers:
Look what she made him do
raven
@eclare: That was your problem, you needed to use your hand and not your pits.