Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

In my day, never was longer.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

“woke” is the new caravan.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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Bring on the Ancient Curse(s)!

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  3. 3.

    Jay

    Lead was a fairly common lining for coffins, ( soft, easily shaped, easily sealed with solder), often used for burials of suspected disease carriers.

    Given that 2020, 2021, 2022 was scripted by Steven King,

    Cinematography by Quentin Terentino,

    Sound track by Yoko Ono,……………….

    DO NOT OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. 7.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Since this an open thread. now the pandemic is easing more and more of the staff that were working at home are coming back and now I have problem with female cowokers with whom I am apparently the first single adult male who isn’t a blood relative they’ve been in the same room with in two years.  In general it’s awkward in a “this isn’t professional” kind of way, but the real killer is at lest one them forgot how to act like a civilized human and can only express her interest in me with various passive aggressive attacks, like sabotaging the coffee machine right before I use it.

  8. 8.

    Jesse

    Nothing says “respect for family” like posing with your little kids in front of a giant sign saying “F??k Biden”. I bet one of the kids even asked “what does that say?”.

  9. 9.

    Jay

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    get a “work” Bodium, stash the good coffee in your desk, then just use the hot water feature or the microwave.

    sucks to be you, “Last Man on Earth”,……

    (Being flippant, worked all through Covid face to face, but we have a whole new crew, ( 121 so far) who didn’t work retail through covid that we are trying hard to help out.

  11. 11.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @Jay: I could have sworn someone said on Twitter that 2022 was a Tom Clancy novel as written by Terry Pratchett.

  15. 15.

    sab

    @sab: Ate the rest of my comment.

    Republican Senate race continues to be the usual clown car crab bucket. Only halfway normal person is Matt Dolan. Everyone else was scrabbling for Trump endorsement. JD Vance won that, either because Faux News loves him or because Peter Thiel bought the endorsement. My guess is Faux.

    Voting this month. I will be trotting out as usual, partly because I always do and mostly because I like Tim Ryan and Morgan Harper horrifies me.

    Cleveland NPR had Shontel Brown on their usual Friday Cleveland City Club. What a breathe of fresh air she is. Not my district but she does represent a big chunk of my city. Go Shontel Brown

    ETA I think she is up against Nina Turner again. Weird thing is AOC crowd likes Nina Turner more, but Shontel Brown is way more progressive, and also gets along with people.

  18. 18.

    Tony Jay

    “Visitors to ‘Vince McMahon’s America‘ are greeted on arrival with a display of the traditional Fukku Fillinz wardance, followed by a live-action reenactment of the Revolution of January Sixth performed by the children of their sponsor family and expendable prisoners from the local State Reeducation Compound.”

     

    Also, yeah, don’t open that coffin. Vampire Jacques de Molay can stay exactly where he is.

  24. 24.

    Geminid

    @sab: Did you see that the House Progressive Caucus endorsed Shontel Brown last week? It was big and bad news for some parts of the left. There were calls to “primary Pramila.” Marianne Williamson took it especially hard, said that people should be “shouting” about this.

    A number of Progessive Caucus members endorsed Turner in last year’s special election primary. They got a lot of criticism here. But Raskin, Porter, Jayapal and the others may have been relieved when Brown won. Turner tried to come across as a kinder, gentler person for that primary, but once her big lead crumbled Turner went down snarling.

    I was very relieved. Nina Turner is bad news for the Democratic Party. If she’d made it to the House, Turner have been worth ten Boeberts to the Republicans.

  25. 25.

    matt

    One day in the future, if they’re lucky,  some of those little girls will be the strippers at an event like this.

  28. 28.

    satby

    @Baud: probably. Left a comment for you just now in the Friday Odds and Ends thread, which I would link to, but my Kindle is truncating it.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    @satby:

    You expect me to navigate there without a link!!!

    Just kidding.  Thanks for your comment.  It is quite an ugly decline.  I didn’t appreciate what was happening as a child.  I just hope it isn’t hereditary.

  30. 30.

    satby

    @Baud: I was out of town helping his wife arrange hospice at home for him, and physically had to stand between them to stop the screaming at each other. It’s horrible, and everyone spirals. What an ordeal for a child!

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Amir Khalid:

    I have a hunch the person in the lead sarcophagus is Quasimodo.

    Can’t believe I’m the first to have seen what you did there!!

  33. 33.

    prostratedragon

    @Bostondreams:
    Been looking for examples of banned books or offending material. Haven’t found any yet (interesting in itself), but have found suggestions:
    the bi-nomial theorem
    Arabic numerals
    the transitive property
    the equal sign

  35. 35.

    prostratedragon

    @Baud:  Forgot about all the homo- this that and the other, though I guess those don’t come into K-5 math much.

    Homo-geneous  linear equations, polynomials, …
    It’s a minefield!!!

  36. 36.

    trnc

    @eclare: ​
     

    I know it’s silly, I’m kind of wary for scientists to open that sarcophagus.

    I think someone must have found a matching sarcophagus in 2016.

  38. 38.

    debbie

    @sab:

    Did you hear Morgan Harper showed up at a high school demonstration and the school’s filed a police report?

    The Hilliard City School District filed a complaint against a Democratic candidate running for Ohio’s U.S. Senate seat.

    In an email to parents, the district said the candidate showed up to Thursday’s student walkout without permission. The candidate was identified as Morgan Harper, according to her campaign team.

    Harper is one of three Democratic candidates vying for the open U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Rob Portman.

    Harper’s campaign said she was there for about 15 minutes, spoke to students and left.

    Students walked out of Hilliard Darby High School Thursday to protest House Bill 616, which is considered by some as the equivalent to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

    The bill would restrict both instruction and materials about sexual orientation and gender identity until fourth grade in all public and most private schools. It would also ban critical race theory.

    Harper’s campaign said she was invited by student organizers who told the campaign that they had notified school administrators she would be attending.

    “Without the consent of appropriate district personnel, an authorized person — a candidate for political office – entered school property without permission to do so. School administrators were not participating in the event, rather were supervising at a distance within view of students. Darby and district leaders were not notified of her intent to attend or her presence on school property, in clear violation of our visitor policies,” the district letter stated.

    The district notified Harper through their attorney that she is prohibited from being on school property. The district also plans on filing a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission.

    A police report was filed with the Hilliard Division of Police, but it is not available yet.

    Nice intro to one of the more conservative communities in Columbus.  ?

  39. 39.

    Elizabelle

    WRT the awful, awful people in the top photo:  pointing and laughing is also giving their actions attention.  I do not know why people retweet shit like that.

    That photo did nothing but bring me down.  I feel sorry for the children.

  41. 41.

    docNC

    What a disrespectful douchebag that guy is; and way to go training your kids to be redneck assholes.  My Dad would have broken both my middle fingers if there was a picture of me doing that.  Geez what a dickhead.

  42. 42.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @docNC: I don’t know about disrespectful. I guess. To me there’s some sort of psychopathology going on here.

    Separately, can you imagine a liberal family staging something like this? I can’t. But I can sure imagine the press response.

  45. 45.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    If the standard is “causing student anxiety”, then yes, the math textbooks are all going to get banned.

     

    Can’t recruit for The Stoopid Partei without bringing The Stoopid.

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