So I guess this happened today:
Biden: “No one fucks with a Biden.” pic.twitter.com/3W3iIONNrq
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) October 5, 2022
That is such a solid translation. Totally get that. Super appreciative of it, too. In many ways.
— Stephanie Turner (@stephtu0123) October 5, 2022
And once again, the harder the party of “grab ’em by the p***y” tries to make this sound awful, the cooler the President looks.
This is an open thread, ’cause I know you are all being really good about keeping the other post kind. Have at it here!
rikyrah
President Joey B cracks me up😂😂😂
Suzanne
Dark Brandon is the shit. I hope the GOP dies mad about it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Why we can’t have nice things, part the whateverth
Yes that’s the same Max Baucus who as committee chair in the Senate let Grassley hold up the drafting of Obamacare for a year, while Grassley was stumbling around Iowa babbling about death panels and “pulling the plug on grandma”, because he had such a good relationship with his friend the ranking member; and yes that’s the same Grassley who twice voted to acquit trump and is believed to have been at least open to various schemes to overturn the election
ETA: Not that I think anyone in Iowa not named Grassley will give flying fuck, just a reminder of who, and what, Obama had to deal with
TaMara
Ooops, stomped on the Ukraine post. Sorry about that, everyone.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@TaMara: there’s room for both
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Damn. That’s awful.
sempronia
Who’s the guy Biden is talking to?
WaterGirl
@TaMara: These are totally different kinds of posts – I don’t think there’s any competition between them. Totally not a problem from my perspective.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Raise your hand if you didn’t know that Max Baucus wasn’t really on our side.
Bueller? Bueller?
zhena gogolia
@sempronia: That’s what I was wondering.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
This might be the weirdest connection for my brain to make, but when I heard him say “No one fucks with a Biden” I immediately thought “Don’t fuck with the babysitter!”
Betty Cracker
@sempronia: The mayor of Ft. Myers Beach.
HumboldtBlue
@sempronia:
I believe a local business owner.What Betty said.
Halteclere
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: i remember when Joe Lieberman stabbing us in the back was a sign of Dems in Disarray. Good riddance all these terrible old farts.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Putting collegiality over country.
Have the impression Grassley is toast this time and his purported strategy of winning and then shortly thereafter resigning in order to have his progeny appointed to the seat will never reach fruition.
Scout211
Here in the Socialist Republic of California, the Governor signed many new bills into law in the past week. You can get a lot done and help a lot of people when you have a Democratic supermajority.
Here are just a few of the new laws that help women: Link
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Dare we hope?
MazeDancer
Surprised this hasn’t been posted:
The woman to whom Herschel Walker sent the abortion money is the mother of one of his kids. She spoke out today.
Twitter in melt down.
Imagine the debate will be cancelled.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Scout211: It’s nice living here.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MazeDancer: good god, what a mess. I wonder if Walker ever thought of a political career before trump put the idea in his head?
I can’t even get snarky about him because he seems like, for whatever reason, a train-wreck of a human being.
HumboldtBlue
Huh, from Carol Leonnig.
bbleh
Gotta say, in that pic with Joe and Dr Jill and DeSantis, the Bidens looked trim and cool, and DeSantis looked like a sweaty slob. I know it won’t hurt him with the a**hole demographic, but I’d like to think at least some of the country-clubbers are doing a lot of eye-rolling about their candidates these days.
Delk
I had surgery last week and today I got all the stitches out and it sure does feel good.
HumboldtBlue
Fox News is in high dudgeon because Dr. Jill wore heels to a hurricane scene and when Melania did it the media roasted her!
kindness
I absolutely love President Uncle Joe. He speaks plain truth.
SiubhanDuinne
@bbleh:
Sorry, where are you seeing that picture?
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
Aaah shit. That’s terrible. I hope MVP is unscathed.
SiubhanDuinne
@Delk:
Speedy recovery to you!
Jackie
@MazeDancer: I just read that! So is Herschel going to be on Hannity tonight to claim he has no idea who this woman is?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-had-an-abortion-with-herschel-walker-she-also-had-a-child-with-him?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@HumboldtBlue: JFC
danielx
@Delk:
I had periodontal surgery on Monday, the stitches aren’t out and it doesn’t feel good at all. Two separate sections of stitches, upper jaw and palate, and as experiences go I can’t recommend it.
prostratedragon
“Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”
kindness
@Scout211: That’s the People’s Republic of California. And if the Supreme Court keeps throwing the Opus Dei slop at us it may end up being Washington/Oregon/California Democratic Republic. Let the State of Jefferson supporters move to northern Idaho if that’s what they want to live like.
NotMax
Underer than under the radar yet nonetheless a positive outcome. A vote of 139 – 25 is indisputably definitive.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Thwarting Its International Internet Ambitions
Martin
@WaterGirl: I didn’t realize Max was still alive, tbh.
jonas
So what is it? Biden is a foul-mouthed mofo who tells it like it is and doesn’t care who gets the vapors from it? Or a doddering Alzheimers patient who doesn’t know what time it is or what country he’s in? It’s kind of hard to be both.
Martin
@Jackie: Probably true. Surprised he even knows what state he’s running for Senate from.
jonas
@kindness: No matter how many guns they stockpile or how many trans kids they shit on, it’s still not going to make more water for their cows. *Sad trombone
schrodingers_cat
For those who missed it on the last thread.
My attempt at coloring a 2 page panel from Johanna Basford’s Enchanted Forest.
Watercolor pencils and water based markers.
C Stars
@danielx: Ouch. Hope everything mends up well.
@Delk: You too.
I managed to stay off Twitter and the Washington Post website for all of today and feel much better for it. I prefer to get my news filtered through the jackaltariat (that’s a word here right?)
Delk
@danielx: ugh, I hope you get them out soon. I had two incisions. One on my chest and one under my chin. The one under my chin was driving me crazy. It kept rubbing on my shirt collar when I turned my head.
Martin
@jonas: Ah, part of the authoritarian playbook.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Beautiful! Wonderful colors.
stinger
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The number of Iowans familiar with the name Max Baucus is in the single digits. This will carry no weight in the election.
WaterGirl
@Martin: I am officially biting my tongue now.
WaterGirl
@jonas: Isn’t this the famous prayer?
“Lord, please make my enemies ridiculous.”
phdesmond
as long as this thread is squishable, i wanted to submit a nomination for the “rotating tags” bin on our front page. thinking of this. soliciting comments.
We fly many flags
at the House of Rotating Tags.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@stinger: Yup
stinger
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And yet another indicator of just how politically adept Obama was: Send this nominal “Democrat” to China and get him out of the Senate, and let the Dem governor of Montana appoint a Dem to replace him.
Ruckus
@MazeDancer:
Do you think Walker is smart enough to cancel?
Or do you think his staff could even talk him into it?
Cause I’m not seeing it. And I doubt that this will change a lot of conservative minds. Their racism might, but this?
Ruckus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
“a train-wreck of a human being”
Being hit repeatedly in the head hasn’t done much positive for Herschel.
zhena gogolia
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ruckus: Some marginal Rs might be persuaded to stay home, or vote libertarian, or write-in somebody, or even give a second look to the calm and measured pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist
trollhattan
Can I get an “oh fuck”? I knew I could.
East Area Rapist vibe.
phdesmond
@schrodingers_cat: you go, schro!
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@HumboldtBlue:
I don’t really care, do you?
James E Powell
@danielx:
I’m in a similar situation. Two implants installed on the upper left. Mac n Cheese for dinner, probably for lunch tomorrow too,
matt
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Grassley is 89. What the fuck.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: yeah, I remember the coat, I have no recollection of any mention of Melanie’s shoes
lollipopguild
@Martin:While president trump was the most powerful person on the planet but he constantly cried and complained how everyone was picking on him.
lollipopguild
HumboldtBlue
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
Ba-dum-tssh!
Jackie
@matt: Biden’s a spring chicken by contrast!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
all I can think about Melanie’s shoes is, weren’t they terribly uncomfortable? I mean, she changed into a Homer Simpson mumu on the flight to Florida on Inauguration Day
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That was a traditional Slovenian divorce caftan!
brantl
@prostratedragon: Kim’s Convenience?
brantl
@Ruckus: In all likelihood, it hasn’t changed him all that much either, no personality differences, just dumber. He wasn’t much of a human being before football.
Paul in KY
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What a quisling Baucus is.
Paul in KY
@Jackie: Just some rando woman I evidently have a child with…ole whatshername.
Paul in KY
@stinger: They might think it was some kind of farm depreciation term: “Yeah, I took the max baucus this year. Reduced my taxes by $4,000.”
Miss Bianca
@Suzanne: “Die mad about it” has become my go-to retort to the right-wing meltdowns I see going on all around me.