Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The willow is too close to the house.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The words do not have to be perfect.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

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

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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‘All our best and brightest young people are moving away to the Godless cities’ has been a village complaint ever since there have been cities, but the GOP Death Cultists and their Media Village Idiot enablers have done an amazing job at marketing the resentment for their own toxic ends…

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  1. 1.

    206inKY

    Things are even uglier than during the Trump years. A neighbor casually referred to masks as child abuse while standing a few feet away from my masked child and pretending to be talking in the abstract about other people.

  2. 2.

    Damien

    I wonder what the framing will be when some liberal in fear for their life ends up blowing what passes for brains out of a MAGAt terrorist.

    Not that I’m looking forward to that day, but I’m not exactly holding my breath for everything to calm back down.

  4. 4.

    Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan

    @Damien:

    Not that I’m looking forward to that day, but I’m not exactly holding my breath for everything to calm back down.

    Wise decision. This has been a LONG time coming.

    I remember telling ABL and Elon James White a million years ago during a TWIB podcast that this is who they are, this is who they have ALWAYS been, and that everyone was going to eventually have to make a choice. I will admit that I didn’t see things accelerating to this degree this quickly, but we were always going to wind up here.

    Either white supremacy dies, or the republic does. It is really that simple.

  5. 5.

    Jay

    Fuck em,

    I have “corporate” approval to not rent to the maskholes.

    Pointed out to store mgmt that if they can’t master basic safety gear like a mask ( properly worn) in a pandemic, I can’t rent them a wood chipper, because they will try to sue our asses off when they lose a child or an arm.

    Mgmt took it to Corporate, Corporate took it to the lawyers, lawyers said Yurp.

    €uck off Maskholes is the Corporate standard now.

  7. 7.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Moreover, it’s yet another fucking story featuring ….. [checks notes]….  rural diners and bars.

  11. 11.

    Jay

    @Steeplejack:

    completely €ucken fed up with these ass holes.

    had one today, like every €ucken day.

    told him ( always a white male, so far),

    Told him to get the €uck out,

    wa, wa wa, wa, wa wa, bullshit whining,

    Told him, I started wearing a mask to keep you from dying, now I wear a mask to keep me and my family from dying, now, I don’’t care how you die, then dropped a 5lb sledge hammer on the counter.

    he r-u-n-n-o-f-t’d as fast as he could.

    SWIMBO was in Safeway today, some shithead, maskhole, ‘masks are “required”, unmasked wearing a “ do not comply” hoodie, staked out an aisle and blocked it.

    I could not be there for her.

    €ucken terrorists.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    how rural white republicans are literally terrorizing their neighbors,

    My experience has been different.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m considering mods for Cherry and Olympia: a roller bridge for Cherry, roller saddles and string tree for Olympia. Roller saddles and string tree on a Strat help with tuning stability, I have found. A roller saddle for a Gibson-style guitar is more of a comfort issue: I hate how the sharp knife-edged saddles on the stock Tune-o-Matic bridge dig into my hand.

  17. 17.

    satby

    Well, I wasn’t terrorized living in a rural area but then I moved just before the election that brought us TFG and escalated the general antipathy to outright hate. But I don’t miss much about living in a place where one of my neighbors, who had been there 30 years, was still referred to as “that guy from Chicago”.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    FUI. (Flowing under the influence.)

    Liquor distributor slapped with fine for dumping expired drinks into Oahu stream
    [snip]
    Hawaii News Now also tested a sample of the water with an independent laboratory ― FQ Labs ― which found that as much as 1.2% of the water was alcohol. The water also contained sugar ― about .04% of its content. Source

  24. 24.

    Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    for my Mom, music was important.

    She had ‘78 rpm “race records” in her day, smuggled into Canada, her Dad had a band, back in the day, a couple of swing records,

    me, I could, (can, sort of) play by ear, got as far as  7th, thanks to it, wait for it,………

     

     

     

    my piano teacher,……..

     

     

     

    Ester B. ( Beatrice) Sharp.

     

     

     

    That’s about me for playing.

  25. 25.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: well, it didn’t bother me either exactly. It’s just the easiest example of how insular and resistant to anything new most of them were. I’m pretty content on my own too, luckily, because I was a stranger in a strange land for the entire 12 years I lived there.

  27. 27.

    satby

    @satby:  Example from Twitter just last night:

    Dana Nessel @dananessel 11h

    All 3 Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Jay: My son in law, who teaches piano at a conservatory, refers to Neighborhood Piano Teacher Syndrome. All the stuff people have to  un-learn.

  30. 30.

    NotMax

    @Gin & Tonic

    All I can conjure up about my short childhood stint with a piano teacher is a stout woman (her hair in the requisite bun) who apparently bathed in perfume from the five and ten.

  32. 32.

    Stevie

    They drove me out for being a n-word lover back in the late 70s. I have no interest in living in any red state or county. I don’t associate with any true conservatives. I can’t take the callous cruelty and I don’t want it in my life.

  34. 34.

    lowtechcyclist

    Does anyone else get Liz Phair’s “Polyester Bride” as an earworm when “Hemry, Local Bartender ” gets quoted here?

    That’s not a complaint, mind you, I like the song.
    I asked Hemry, my bartending friend…

    (It’s actually ‘Henry’ in the song, but close enough)

  35. 35.

    Shalimar

    @Damien:  Just look at the freaked-out policeman the other day when he discovered the black woman he stopped had a permit to carry a gun. They do not deal well with the idea that non white supremacists are allowed to shoot back.

  37. 37.

    satby

    @Baud: Not an idle threat though, since that’s the case that enumerated the right to privacy that later was cited for Roe, gay rights and trans rights. Overturning that is huge on the Federalist Society’s bucket list.

  39. 39.

    trnc

    NPR had a piece about political sorting. A socal conservative moved outside Dallas because she disliked masks and covid protocols. A liberal from outside Indianapolis moved to Austin because someone put glass in her mailbox.

    I heard that NPR piece. It was right after the piece that set up Biden to take the blame for Putin’s actions if he invades and avoid giving him any credit if Putin retreats. It also more or less said that we have to wait until the whole thing plays out to determine whether Biden is showing leadership in the US response.

    These are the types of framing that make me decide not to donate. Guessing they’ll be ok since Koch is a large contributor.

  40. 40.

    trnc

    @206inKY: A neighbor casually referred to masks as child abuse while standing a few feet away from my masked child and pretending to be talking in the abstract about other people.

    Did you ask him or her if they were getting ready to call social services on you?

  41. 41.

    Kalakal

    @Amir Khalid: I can certainly relate to tuneomatic bridges and hand pain when palm muting. Be interested to hear how they help with tuning on the strat. Do you have the bridge floating or locked down?

  42. 42.

    trnc

    @Damien: ​
     

    I wonder what the framing will be when some liberal in fear for their life ends up blowing what passes for brains out of a MAGAt terrorist.

    Many liberals have already died at the hands of those terrorists, some of whom work at large right wing media outlets. This will not be taken into consideration for even a nano second if your scenario comes to pass.

  43. 43.

    trnc

    Comment section comment (which I assume most have experienced) – sometimes I can use the visual box and sometimes I have to use the text box. Today both of those have been true in this thread during the same session. 2 comments required Text, 2 comments allowed me to use Visual. I think that’s a first for me.

  45. 45.

    Another Scott

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Excellent.  I’ve got an S20+ which was quite an upgrade from my previous LG V35.

    You might want to play with OpenCamera.  The tuning is different from the stock camera app.  I don’t use it by default, but it’s interesting to see how the software matters.

    Good luck!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  47. 47.

    trnc

    @Amir Khalid: I hate how the sharp knife-edged saddles on the stock Tune-o-Matic bridge dig into my hand.

    That’s interesting. I never had a problem like that with my right hand until I bought a PRS. My hand hits the pickup ring corner, and I’ve never had that problem on other guitars with the same type of pickup rings. I’ve modified my hand position a bit, but I’m thinking about filing down that corner to round it out (carefully, of course).

    ETA: The reason it only happens on the PRS is that the ring is taller. Not something I had ever thought about or been looking out for before. I’m apparently alone in this because I posted a message on one of the gear boards and most didn’t understand what I was talking about.

  48. 48.

    debbie

    @NotMax:

    I had piano lessons for one year with a Hungarian teacher. She suddenly took up and left for Argentina. No idea why, but it can’t have been good. I wonder if she realized she was coming into a Jewish household every week.

  50. 50.

    Balconesfault

    @Stevie: “They drove me out for being a n-word lover back in the late 70s.”

    Took me a few secs to realize you meant “someone who loves n***ers” … and not “someone who loves using the n-word”.

  51. 51.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Jay: This brightened my morning. Thanks! It’d be great if healthcare insurers got on board with this approach wrt vaccinations.

  58. 58.

    Another Scott

    @Citizen Alan: I like to think Brown will be very hard for them – 9:0.  But in a sensible world, Roe would be very hard at 7:2, also too.

    :-(

    My guess is that there’s 5 SCOTUS votes for overturning Griswold right now
    — Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) February 19, 2022

    (via LOLGOP)
    Fight for 15!
    Grr…,
    Scott.

  59. 59.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Shalimar: ​
     

    Thanks. Lord, that’s appalling.

    Starting to think that we need to completely start over with law enforcement in this country. Increasingly find it hard to believe that existing police departments can be reformed.

  60. 60.

    206inKY

    @trnc: No, but I couldn’t help kind of panicking about that. A threat wrapped in a smile. I’m a solo dad most of the year (partner works in different state) so there’s already a bit of a cloud of “kids need their mom.”

  62. 62.

    J R in WV

    I would doubt those RWNJs running for AG will have a chance once their position on contraception is made public via constant ads on TV and the Web. That’s a really extreme minority perverted position that no one who enjoys sex will agree with. I would hope! Been wrong before when it comes to wacko religious people.

  63. 63.

    Dopey-o

    @Amir Khalid: I’m considering mods for Cherry and Olympia: a roller bridge for Cherry, roller saddles and string tree for Olympia. Roller saddles and string tree on a Strat help with tuning stability, I have found. A roller saddle for a Gibson-style guitar is more of a comfort issue: I hate how the sharp knife-edged saddles on the stock Tune-o-Matic bridge dig into my hand.

    IIRC, Robbie Robertson preferred a Telecaster because the lack of vibrato meant the guitar stayed in tune. I always put a small block of wood between the big metal vibrato extension and the wood body of my strats to lock it. Never could find a “hard tail” strat…..

    Strat vibrato can’t be locked, contra a commentator trnc. Fender Jazzmaster / Jaguar can be locked, but those mechanisms are just trash, IMHO. Cooooooonstant re-tuning.

  64. 64.

    Tom Q

    @J R in WV: You’re right it’s an extreme minority position, but the problem, since Trump’s emergence especially, is the Good Germans among the Republican faithful — those who don’t want any of that crazy stuff, but have convinced themselves that 1) it’ll never come to that, and 2) anyway, Democrats are somehow worse.

    If the Republic goes down, it won’t be solely the fault of the right-wing fanatics; it’ll be largely down to those who chose to believe they could pick and choose the few things they wanted from the GOP and not suffer the  consequences of the inferno that the party enabled .

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