Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

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

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

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Here’s one for the “Let Them Fight” file:

Weird that a Trump sycophant would taunt one of the boss’s rivals by criticizing his weight, hair, intelligence, honesty and sartorial choices, but as has long been clear, wingnuts just don’t hear themselves.

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    HinTN

    I know where he was when he was missing…

    Cue scary music

    ETA – Popcorn futures going through the roof!

  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    Shorter Roger Stone: “Desantis won’t hire me as a consultant, the fucker.”

    They deserve each other, at the very least.

  6. 6.

    Yarrow

    Never heard of Emerald Robinson. Googled her and she’s a former OAN WH correspondent. Without clicking through to any articles to confirm, from the short summaries it looks like they fired her for Covid conspiracy claims and she’s been hired by Mike Lindell. Yuck.

  8. 8.

    JPL

    @dmsilev: Ordering took seconds, and I expect Tucker will explain to us why that’s bad.   Maybe why only four tests?  Is he discriminating against large families?

  9. 9.

    debbie

    I’ve lost track of which thread mentioned young voters, but this seems like good news:

    JUST IN: New polling suggest 60% of individuals under the age of 29 are voting Democrat.

    We are going to build the largest coalition of young voters this country has ever seen and make sure Kevin McCarthy NEVER becomes Speaker this year.
    — Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) January 18, 2022

    ICYMI: https://t.co/EngoODuNm8
    — Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) January 18, 2022

  14. 14.

    sdhays

    @Yarrow: I saw yesterday that AT&T’s DirectTV isn’t going to renew their contract with OAN, which would effectively put OAN out of business since DirectTV represents over 90% of their revenue.

    So sad. //

  16. 16.

    Yarrow

    @debbie:  But they gotta show up and historically they don’t. Reposting from downstairs, this is my new tactic in talking with young people about voting:

    My new tactic in talking with young people about voting is to tell them their vote has way more potential impact than mine because no one expects them to vote. They don’t show up in polling. If they can get five or ten of their similarly aged friends to vote and those people do the same (and so on) they can shake up races like no one could see coming.

    My most recent use of this tactic resulted in lots of wide-eyes and “Really?!” responses. I then had to walk them through how it works and they got kind of excited about it. Young people may not understand their power.

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    @JPL:

    Sent link to my kid on account of her having multiple roommates in just one apartment. If she gets them she’ll have to share, of course, even though two roomies are filthy furriners.

  23. 23.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Yarrow: Went down the twitter rabbit hole. She’s another “Exploretalent.com”  model/actor.  Seem to be a lot of those sprinkled about the rt wing crazy-land.

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Yarrow:

    My new tactic in talking with young people about voting is to tell them their vote has way more potential impact than mine because no one expects them to vote. They don’t show up in polling. If they can get five or ten of their similarly aged friends to vote and those people do the same (and so on) they can shake up races like no one could see coming.

    My most recent use of this tactic resulted in lots of wide-eyes and “Really?!” responses. I then had to walk them through how it works and they got kind of excited about it. Young people may not understand their power.

    Is even a basic civics overview no longer taught in this country?  Hell, we had civics as part of history class in 8th grade. Maybe the kiddos should have an understanding of the government that they’ll be voting for in 5 years.

  39. 39.

    mrmoshpotato

    @trollhattan:

    of course, even though two roomies are filthy furriners. 

    With their disgusting universal healthcare back in their home countries no doubt!

    Chinchilla!  Disgusting!

  40. 40.

    sdhays

    @trollhattan: Wait, I have a First Amendment guarantee to a multi-million dollar contract with a cable company for whatever content I want to produce, regardless of demand or reputation?

    Glenn, why are you only telling me this now?? //

  41. 41.

    The Moar You Know

    ol’ Roger could have benefited from some remedial English. That’s just short of completely incoherent.

    Gives a lot of weight to Adam’s argument that he’s got a ‘roid problem.

  49. 49.

    Kent

    @sdhays: I have 8 hours of family videos from our last vacation and Fox News won’t let me run it during Prime Time.  My 1st Amendment Rights are being violated!

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    @JPL

    Four per person per month.

    Expect the Duggars will be hawking any they order on whatever nutball site is currently in vogue in 3… 2… 1&#8230.

  57. 57.

    mrmoshpotato

    @The Moar You Know: ‘Roid problem?  Could be that Stone is just a massive pile of shit.

    You might know his history, but the documentary about him on Netflix is stomach-turning nonetheless.

  58. 58.

    dexwood

    @NotMax: Nope.

    Residential households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from USPS.com. Here’s what you need to know about your order:

    • Limit of one order per residential address
    • One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests
  60. 60.

    NotMax

    @Kent

    Informing them it includes footage of a burning Christmas tree will get it plucked from the slush pile lickety-split.

    //

  62. 62.

    Scout211

    @NotMax:

    The first order is 4 only per residential address, not per person

    People are already complaining that the site won’t send to different apartments in the same building that have the same street  address and to apartments within commercial buildings.

    There are a few bugs to work out.

  63. 63.

    nevsky42

    @dmsilev: Thanks for the heads-up!  Got an order in for my parents.

    When I did it for my address, I got a “this address has already placed an order” notification.

    [yelling into the other room] “Hon, you order COVID tests?”
    “Yep.”
    “K.”

  64. 64.

    GoBlueInOak

    @debbie: Unfortunately, Gallup is showing an overall shift in party ID from Democrats to GOP, mostly driven by independent voters.   Biggest swing towards GOP since 1995.  I haven’t had time to dig around to see if race/age/gender cross-tabs available.

    https://www.axios.com/gop-surge-biden-slump-gallup-poll-ebcfbb3e-57b5-43c8-9d99-f280cb581385.html

    Good news is things are still volatile.  Bad news is time is running out for Democrats to fix the looming mid-term disaster.

  66. 66.

    Brachiator

    @mrmoshpotato:

    RE: Young people may not understand their power.

    Is even a basic civics overview no longer taught in this country?  Hell, we had civics as part of history class in 8th grade. Maybe the kiddos should have an understanding of the government that they’ll be voting for in 5 years

    I grew up in a political household, but still 90 percent of my brain was consumed with school, trivial crap and anxiety that I might never have a girlfriend.

    The future was what I might be having for lunch.

    Yoots are supposed to be young and stupid. It is a necessary part of growing up.

    ETA. Still found a way to register to vote and voted. But I understand those who didn’t.

  67. 67.

    topclimber

    @Brachiator: Maybe it is just me, but I find DeSantis wins the sartorial contest hands down against Trump. Against Baud 20XX, in a suit sans culottes, nolo contendere!
    This is one reason I fear him so(so) as a Presidential candidate.​
    ETA fear DeSantis as a candidate, not Baud.

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

     

    @The Moar You Know:

    Speaking of Adam, I really hope he is okay — off on a sooper-seekrit assignment or something. The last time he posted was shortly before Christmas. Unless I totally missed an update.

  71. 71.

    Yarrow

    @mrmoshpotato:  Yeah, maybe they should. Maybe we should reinstate those government and civics classes that have been removed from schools in the past 30 years or so.

    But even if they do have an understanding of how it works, maybe they don’t understand that young people don’t vote and if they do decide to vote in numbers then they’ll have an unexpected impact on races. That’s not taught much in civics classes.

  72. 72.

    NotMax

    @dexwood

    That is a change from the original reporting, then.

    Related:

    At points Tuesday more than 750,000 people were accessing the website at the same time, according to public government tracking data, but it was not immediately known how many orders were placed.

    She added that the administration was anticipating a “bug or two,” but had IT experts from across the government working to get the site ready.
    [snip]
    The White House said “tests will typically ship within 7- 12 days of ordering” through USPS, which reports shipping times of 1-3 days[*] for its first-class package service in the continental United States.
    [snip]
    “I don’t recall the last time the federal government sent something like this to everyone that wasn’t a tax document,” he said.[**} Source

    *Not in DeJoyland.
    **There’s this thing called the census, dunderhead.
    .

  73. 73.

    HeleninEire

    Ugh. My boss and her whole family has COVID!! She can do some work from home but I’ll need to pick up the slack so it’ll be a busy rest of the month. Luckily she hasn’t been in the office since before Christmas so I haven’t been exposed.

  74. 74.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @nevsky42:

    I live in a 100+ unit residential hotel at the moment, and when I tried to order early this afternoon, I got the same message. Even though I entered my apt number, apparently they just go by street address and consider this entire massive building “one household.” So I’m SOL on the free Biden tests.

  75. 75.

    Old School

    @NotMax:

    **There’s this thing called the census, dunderhead.

    And there’s been a few stimulus checks over the last few years as well.

  76. 76.

    topclimber

    @Yarrow: The key is to have those young voters produce lots of offspring, stat. As JD Vance instructs us, that is the only way they will care enough to vote./s?

  83. 83.

    japa21

    OT, I see thatNick Sabin and other sports figures from WV, sent a letter to Manchin urging him to do something to get the voting rights bills passed. Doubt it will matter, but interesting.

  87. 87.

    karen marie

    @dmsilev:   I ordered some earlier today as well.  I got a confirmation email but I did not see a possible time window.  I included my email to get an alert when it ships because I often go weeks without checking my mailbox.

  89. 89.

    NotMax

    @dexwood

    Yeah, I posted a link to an article about the initial announcement (December?) which specifically included within the example of a family of 8 being able to get 32 test kits.

    BTW, thanks for the correction.

  90. 90.

    Kent

    @Baud: Sabin is no fool.  He knows his job depends more on attracting superstar black athletes to a bumfuck southern backwater town than it does massaging MAGA feelings.

    I actually visited Tuscaloosa on a college visit road trip with my daughter about 6 years ago.  Backwater is being generous.  It was the least attractive college town of the maybe 20 schools that we visited.  Worse than Lubbock TX or Norman OK.

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    @FelonyGovt: That is too awesome.  I have seen attorneys with way less style and less impressive delivery, and of course with less command of their audience!  (present company on BJ excluded)

    “He has to go to the naughty center and apologize.”

  94. 94.

    Scout211

    @NotMax:

    The original plan will still happen *eventually* but they announced they would only send 4 kits per residence for the first mailing because the demand would be so high.

    Translation: we don’t have enough right now to send 8 kits per person per household.

  96. 96.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Gbbalto:

    iirc, Adam said he has used human growth hormone, which can distort the head.

    Before I clicked up, I assumed the subject was Rogan….

  99. 99.

    Old School

    Ron DeSantis might be having an affair with Mrs. Robinson?

    The writers are getting predictable at this part.  We need fresh ideas!

  100. 100.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Almost Retired:

    I’m pretty sure Boris Johnson has a key and the secret password to the Naughty Centre, and hangs out there most weekends.

    Prince Andrew gave it to him

  101. 101.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Sooooo…after driving home from a really great trip to Mammoth, my wife and I are both not feeling great.  Mostly just very fatigued with a little runny nose.  Could just be the change in altitude, weather,  exhaustion from so much activity/driving or even seasonal allergies.  But of course, could be the C-word.  Made appointment for PCR tests tomorrow and my boss and am taking off work tonight and tomorrow in case either of us tests +.  We were only inside around others really briefly over the course of the trip.  Always wore N-95 masks and social distanced but some places (Like Mammoth Brewery, when placing our order) had several people without masks so given how crazy contagious Omicron is, wouldn’t be totally surprised.  We are both fully boosted.  Fingers crossed, but too worried knowing how well the vaccines work.  Main thing is finding out my status since I work with kids.  All in all a great trip but it would be hella ironic if we went to Texas and back just fine then caught the ‘Rona in Mammoth.

  105. 105.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    (OT-venting.)

    So, last night I’m bringing a flat cart into the store, guy in front of the cash registers stops me. There’s no cashier at the register, he tells me that he’s making a corporate purchase and can’t use self checkout. I tell him to ask the associate by the self checkout to assist him. He complains that I have to ask a fellow associate to assist him. I inform this moron that I’m NOT A CASHIER.

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: We really are on the same wavelength today!

    I talked to Cole earlier and asked if Adam is okay.  Cole had no idea that Adam hadn’t posted since Dec 20 or so, but Cole says he talks to Adam frequently and that Adam is fine.

    If John’s not worried, I’m not worried.

  107. 107.

    catclub

    @debbie: JUST IN: New polling suggest 60% of individuals under the age of 29 are voting Democrat.

     

    Important and earth shattering if true.  Maybe 60% of registered voters under 29 who actually vote.  My guesses: 75% of eligible are registered.

    80% of registered vote. so 0.8* 0.75 * 0.60 =36% of individuals under 29.

  108. 108.

    sdhays

    @The Moar You Know: The story I saw claimed it would put them out of business. Remember – OAN is the one that sprang into existence because AT&T wanted more conservative news options since everything “not Fox” was classified by AT&T executives as “liberal”. Who knows if they’ll survive or not without AT&T’s support, but they’re at least claiming they won’t, and if they don’t have a major cable provider broadcasting their shit and paying them for it, I think it’s reasonable to accept that they’ll go under. There’s plenty of competition out there for conservative shit programming.

    @The Moar You Know: I’ve also always remained wary of any particular diagnoses, but it seems clear to me that Dump has brain rot, whether it’s just accelerating stupidity + age or something else. Of course that doesn’t make him less dangerous; he’s the leader of a nihilistic death cult. He’d be dangerous even if he was dead.

  114. 114.

    catclub

    @Baud: Man, I don’t want to like Nick Sabin. I hate Manchin even more now.

     

    Even though he cured Polio?  Nick Saban Coaches football.

  115. 115.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    I was messing around on the intertubes last night checking up on one of my lawyer friends from the US that I actually liked.  He is still practicing criminal law at the age of nearly 80 I think.  Anyway during my searching discovered my mysoginist, racist, son of a bitch former boss is dead.   (insert all sorts of cheers and whoops here), the obituary said “after a short battle with dementia” which I think is a polite way of saying that he drank himself to death with an assist of heavy drug use.   He was 70.  Sad part is that his house sold for less than he paid for it 40 years ago.  Imagine working (sort of) your entire life and having nothing to show for it.   Not sorry to say I danced a little jig.

  116. 116.

    japa21

    @Baud:  Let’s just say my feelings toward Saban went from intensely negative to moderately negative.  Long way to go before it heads into positive territory.

  117. 117.

    Yarrow

    Time for some popcorn!

    Some of tomorrow’s front pages truly abysmal reading for PM
    Star: “Pinocchio: I am not a liar.”
    Metro: “Nobody Told Me”
    Indy: “No one warned me Party was against rules, says man who set the rules.”
    Times: “Red wall Tory MPs team up to topple Johnson.” pic.twitter.com/Nw8N3AOsvp

    — Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) January 18, 2022

  118. 118.

    NotMax

    @Yarrow

    “This hallowed chamber must dutifully wait until after Parliament Ninjas performs a forensic audit of the vote.”

    //

  119. 119.

    Bill Arnold

    @Brachiator:

    Wow, those tests are easy to order. Took about a minute, and I had to only enable 3 scripts in my script blocker.  That’s a lot better than almost all e-commerce sites.

  123. 123.

    catclub

    @Kent: ​
     The depressing part is that when Biden won with 81M and Trump had 76M votes, that means less than half the population voted. Slightly more than half of the adult voter age population?]

  130. 130.

    germy

    Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.

    Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed.

    Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

    A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.

  132. 132.

    smith

    @Kent: In the 2020 presidential vote 60% or more of 29 and unders voted for Biden, exact numbers depending on the poll, so it’s not new. The thing is, can we get them to come out to vote for Dems, even when there’s not a presidential race?

    In terms of a brighter future, note that the only age group that gave TFG a majority, and a small one at that, was the 65+ age group. I’ve seen other polls that showed a slight majority for him among a slightly younger cohort as well, but the overall trend in all the polls was that only the olds really favored TFG.

  133. 133.

    Kathleen

    @HeleninEire: Ha! Earlier today WaPoo assured us that after extensive interviews with “people who know” there was no indication that DOJ had any intention of taking the investigation to Trump and his circle.

    My latest WaPoo alert tells me Rudy and co are in the crosshairs.

    I’m hooked on NCIS franchise and I’m thinking of creating my own rules a la Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Rule #1: The Mainstream Media Are Usually Wrong About Everything.

  135. 135.

    geg6

    @The Moar You Know:

    Of course he’s dangerous, perhaps even more so if he has some sort of brain disease.  And yes, he’s very, very stupid.  But he’s cunning.  None of that precludes him having Altzheimers.  I believe the old man had Altzheimers or some sort of dementia.  He was still an asshole to the end.

  136. 136.

    germy

    Breaking: The Jan. 6 Committee has issued subpoenas to members of Trump's outside legal team — Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Boris Epshteyn — for testimony and documents related to the panel's investigation.

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 18, 2022

  137. 137.

    UncleEbeneezer

    The Select Committee issued subpoenas to Rudolph Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Boris Epshteyn. The four individuals advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn election results, or were in direct contact with the former President.

  138. 138.

    Kay

    Patrick Wilson
    @patrickmwilson
    Parents from Chesapeake sue Youngkin, saying his school mask order conflicts with state law

    Conservatives love public school parents, so I’m sure they’ll welcome their input into this vital issue.

    I knew it was only a matter of time before the other parents showed up :)

    Youngkin is going to end up regretting appointing himself principal of all the public schools. It’s hard to balance all the interests. How many public schools does Virginia have? I imagine a lot.

  139. 139.

    germy

    @Kathleen:

    Chairman Thompson: The four individuals we've subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes." https://t.co/evqVEbqCfS

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 18, 2022

  140. 140.

    germy

    Not that any of four new subpoena recipients are likely to testify, much less truthfully.

    But I'd love if @January6thCmte asked Sidney Powell & Jenna Ellis why they were chatting about the Mike Flynn case in September 2020, when altered documents were used in a debate attack.

    — emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 18, 2022

  141. 141.

    Kay

    “We are here to say we support our school divisions doing what they need to do to keep our children and adults in the school buildings safe. We will not let the governor overstep his authority and bully our school systems.”

    The problem with planting your flag on “parents rights” in public schools is all the parents have rights.

  145. 145.

    Kathleen

    @Kay: Interesting phenomenon about schools and red states. Remember when Kasich sponsored SB5 I think it was right after he got elected – the bill that was going to destroy public employee unions? All the sides came together to oppose that bill. The cities and the suburbs were united. It was glorious.

    Same thing in Kentucky when Bevin got teachers up in arms. Here is link to Time magazine article with the details:

    https://time.com/5719885/matt-bevin-republican-kentucky-teacher-protests/

    An excerpt:

    Paula Setser-Kissick was a registered Republican until August 2017, when she asked a question about teachers’ retirement eligibility during a Facebook Live Q&A with Bevin, who lashed out, saying, “If you happen to be a teacher who would walk out on your classroom in order to serve what’s in your own personal best interest at the expense of your children, you probably should retire.”

    In response, Setser-Kissick — a digital learning coach for Fayette County Public Schools — registered as a Democrat, ran (unsuccessfully) for a state senate seat on an education-focused platform, and spent the last four months door-knocking for Beshear in Fayette County, where he ultimately won 65% of the vote.

    “A lot of people really just see Gov. Bevin as being very abrasive in his style,” says Thomas Matijasic, a history professor at Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Prestonsburg, Ky., and an expert in Kentucky politics. “He really, really insulted a lot of teachers. That might not seem to be a big deal in another state, but I think in Kentucky, where a far lower percentage of people have college degrees, teachers kind of form the core of the middle class, especially in rural areas, and I think there was a really negative impact. Even a lot of teachers who were registered Republicans disliked him.”

  146. 146.

    WaterGirl

    @karen marie: I believe there is different timing for the first batch of tests because they aren’t going to start shipping those until late January. After that, the info in the second image applies.

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  150. 150.

    Mary G

    Thanks for.the heads-up. I’m not sure how much good four tests among three people will be, but every little bit helps.

    Had a long-awaited pulmonologist appointment yesterday. He found a crack in my CPAP machine hose and scolded me for not changing the filthy filter. Housemate took custody of it and by the time a new hose and other fittings arrive it will be immaculate. He also gave me a couple of prescriptions and a bigger set of upper body exercises to do.

    Then just now today I have had my closest Covid contact yet. Her patient got into a favorite food and tried to cram down a couple of handfuls while housemate went potty. Poor housemate came back to patient slumped down on the sofa with black foam coming out of her mouth. She called 911 and the patient’s daughter. Then she grabbed a paper towel to swipe out the patient’s mouth, which cleared the airway and got her breathing again, yay!

    Unfortunately housemate was just putting mask and gloves back on as she came back, and dropped the mask and one glove to run to help. It didn’t seem too bad as the patient has had Covid twice already, one alpha, one delta and due to good genes and full vaccinations spent a week in hospital the first time and three days the second.

    So housemate had the rest of the day off and came home where I was sitting at the dining room table looking for inspiration for the replacement of my front porch the plumbers jackhammered and we spent an enjoyable two or three hours handing phones back and forth across the corner of the table and making fun of people’s tastes.

    Then the phone rings and the daughter said the ER cleared the rest of the food out, patient is fine and will be released around 5 p.m. today. However, two tests found her positive for a third round of COVID. She has been fully aware and boosted and has no symptoms. At 97 years old.

    So housemate is horrified that she had her hand in the patient’s mouth and has caught or transmitted Omicron to me or any other oldster patients who will want her to work. I feel fairly fatalistic- we were sitting by the wide open back door and had a couple of windows cracked. Housemate has washed her hands many times, including right when she got home.

    Nevertheless we have returned to our original strict protocol where we wear masks inside again and stay in our assigned quadrants of the house texting from room to room. Blech.

  151. 151.

    Kay

    @Kathleen:

    I was really involved with SB5. It was nice because labor people ran it and they were really disciplined- they wouldn’t let anyone hijack it. The only exception they made is we passed petitions on a voting rights referendum with their referendum. Everyone I asked signed both:

    COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio lawmakers on Tuesday repealed a controversial election bill that was supposed to go before voters on Nov. 6 — the first known case in Ohio history in which legislators repealed a bill up for referendum.

    They were a pleasure to work with.

  152. 152.

    West of the Rockies

    @sdhays:

    Have you seen Gosar speak lately?  I am not a doctor, but he clearly seems to be suffering from some neurological impairment.

  154. 154.

    Bill Arnold

    @sdhays:

    Stone’s ‘roid problem, it’s a wonder they can communicate at all.

    Human growth hormone. It also is said to have the side effect of reducing heart disease risk/probability. Since he interacts with Russians (and others) who sometimes assassinate loose ends and other undesirables with “heart attacks”, making this known is one of his workarounds.
    (Am I serious? I am not saying. :-)

  160. 160.

    Jean

    @debbie: And you can’t erase that section (Apt.A/Ste 5/#2).  I just typed in n/a, which allowed me to overwrite what was there.  Otherwise, what?  It looks like you’re in Apt. A to me.

  161. 161.

    Ken

    @Kent: That is what your skull looks like if you are born pre-lobotomized.

    Also if you’ve been taken aboard a Zeta Reticuli saucer and had a control slug implanted under the skull.

  163. 163.

    debbie

    @Jean:

    I skipped that because I don’t have an apartment number, but I’m thinking you shouldn’t add a period after “Apt” or “Ste”, etc

    ETA: I just tried again. I typed over that grayed-out stuff without a problem.

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    Kathleen

    @Kay: What I remember was a rally I attended on Fountain Square and there was a very diverse crowd. City and Suburbs came together. It was nice.

    It’s easy to dismiss unions these days because of outsourcing, etc but unions play a huge role in Hamilton County also. One of the first things our Dem County Chair did was have a session with Unions, local activists and other Party stakeholders. They did breakout sessions on goals, etc. Good to see.

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    WaterGirl

    @Kathleen: I do!

    But I also really like Gary Cole.  I did not think their could ever be an NCIS without Gibbs, but I think they have done it successfully.

    I think he slid right in, really well.  What do you think?  Do you hate the show with Leroy Jethro Gibbs?

    I go to sleep at night with my iPad playing older episodes of NCIS, so I still get my fill of Gibbs.

  166. 166.

    Jean

    @debbie: What did you type?  I had nothing to type except “does not apply” as in n/a, which is what I did.  You can type Over the sample, but you can’t erase it.

  168. 168.

    Kathleen

    @debbie: Yes! I remember how all the Mainslime Media Pundit Rattis apologized to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and I trust apology tweets to Garland will be every bit as satisfying. NOT.

    What I find so unsettling (oh hell everything is unsettling) is that people are pronouncing failure and calling Garland names based on perceived disappointments that they’re anticipating. It’s bizarre.

  169. 169.

    Kathleen

    @WaterGirl: TBH I only watch the reruns so I’ve not seen post Gibbs. It took me awhile to warm up to the characters on NCIS Original Recipe. I also love the characters in NCIS LA & NO and watched both of those shows a long time before I tuned into NCIS. But I hate change. The NCIS franchise mixes characters up too frequently for me.

  170. 170.

    Geminid

    @Gbbalto: There is video from a deposition that Roger Stone gave in February 2020 that is very striking. He looks odd, with protruding brows. And Stone definitely acts like he’s on some kind of stimulant, gnashing his teeth and raging. The other party in the lawsuit was attorney Larry Klayman, and he was doing the questioning. The deposition ended when Stone snarled “fu*k you” and walked away. It makes for some very creepy YouTube video.

    Stones recent belittling of DeSantis seems like an attempt to suck up to Trump. He may want financial assistance. Stone and his wife have over $1.5 million in IRS tax judgements against them, and last week’s Oathkeepers indictments may mean criminal legal trouble for Stone.

  173. 173.

    Ruckus

    @The Moar You Know:

    He is stupid and I believe that he knows what motivates him. It just so happens it’s the same racist crap rolling around in the waste of protoplasm that is the inside of that waste of humanity that passes for conservative leadership.

  174. 174.

    RaflW

    @mrmoshpotato: My niece’s 9th grade social studies teacher didn’t know that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

    Not only are we not teaching civics to kids, we sometimes fail to teach it to teachers.

  175. 175.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @The Moar You Know: ol’ Roger could have benefited from some remedial English. That’s just short of completely incoherent.

    Whacha speck from a cranial cavity that holds a harder vacuum than the Webb is ambling through right now?

    On a lighter note, rooting for serious injuries, I am considering starting a GoFundMe GoFuckThem to purchase matching chainsaws, rusty but operable, for Dodgy Stoned and Preying deMantis to use on one another at a distance of 30″ or so. (NB if we can’t afford them we’ll cop a couple of rusty pitchforks.) Who’s with me? :^D

  176. 176.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Baud: ​@japa21:Man, I don’t want to like Nick Sabin. I hate Manchin even more now.

    How the F do you think this lifelong Baltimore sports fan feels? If anything I have even less interest in “liking” Paul Tagliabue. The Tagliaboob worked tirelessly for years to deny our city a replacement franchise after the Baltimore Colts slunk out of town toward Indianapolis under cover of dorkness [sic] so his buddy, Washington Ethnic Slurs’ owner Jack Kent Crook [sic], could claim us as part of his fan catchment area and force us to watch Slurs’ games on local TV.**

    ** After one episode when he maneuvered to reject a superior Baltimore bid for an expansion franchise, Small Paul suggested we take the $$$ raised to build an NFL stadium and spend them on a museum instead – IOW, we weren’t ever getting a franchise. Leaving only the option to steal someone else’s.

    Perceptive Browns fans understand that it was the Tagliaboob plus a Mayor and city fatheads [sic] too clever for their own good that lost them [temporarily] their franchise, not the good citizens of Charm City. Unfortunately there seem to be no more than a few dozen of those perceptive folks around.​
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  177. 177.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Ken: ​Also if you’ve been taken aboard a Zeta Reticuli saucer and had a control slug implanted under the skull.

    Or spent a few years with your skull up the Shitgibbon’s lower GI tract squeezed by his cramping colon.

  178. 178.

    Munira

    @SiubhanDuinne: I live in an apartment building and at first I got an error message, but when I clicked on the verify my address button, I found my address with the apartment number directly after the street address and not in the apartment number field so I put it that way and it worked. Then I remembered that I had to do that when I put a hold on my mail when I was out of town and it did work. My mail was held so you might try it that way.

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