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  2. 2.

    Splitting Image

    Elon Musk did something insanely stupid and damaging to Twitter, plus lowering Tesla’s share price.

    Honestly, I don’t know, but it seemed like a good guess.

  3. 3.

    Roger Moore

    You didn’t miss anything important. We like to pretend the stuff that happens every day is of momentous importance, but this is a lie told us by the 24 hour news cycle.
    It’s the reason the media loves Trump so much. He provides endless content that makes us want to stay glued to the news cycle, but the vast majority of it is bullshit we could safely ignore. Of course Trump takes full advantage of this, using the endless churn of the news cycle to hide the much more significant and sinister stuff he’s doing in the background.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    You could have been wealthy beyond your wildest imaginings if only you had been around to invest in SuperTFG NFTs. Or SuperNFT TFGs. Something unique and valuable, anyhow. Shame you missed the window of opportunity.

  5. 5.

    Sure Lurkalot

    You missed that there’s even more justification for taxing wealth than yesterday but probably not as tomorrow.

  8. 8.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Elongated Muskrat set up one of his stupid Twitter polls when Twitter should unsuspend the accounts reporting the locations of private/corporate jets and other air traffic and he lost both times to “now” lol

  10. 10.

    Scout211

    @Alison Rose: No, FB changed that a few years ago. Even public pages can’t be accessed unless you are logged into FB. It’s been really frustrating for those of us who don’t have a FB account.

    Note: If anyone has a trick to view public FB pages without logging into FB, I would really appreciate it. 

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @Delk:

    TFG is backing McCarthy for speaker. Stay clear of exploding heads.

    Wow, will that help his chances or hurt his chances?  It seems to be to guarantee that no matter who is speaker, people will be pissed.

  22. 22.

    Dangerman

    It’s almost the Anniversary of the day I gave my heart away, only to have it regifted the very next day. Can you believe that shit? I should write a song.

  24. 24.

    JanieM

    @Scout211: I can see it without a facebook account as well, and without going into incognito mode. I don’t know what the “trick” is but I’m using Chrome on a PC with ABP (ad blocker plus). That’s about it, except for most of my security settings being as tight as I can make them and still use sites I need/want.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    @Dangerman:

    only to have it regifted the very next day

    I’m not sure what that means.  It could be a romantic way of saying the person you gave your heart to gave theirs to you.  Or it could mean that you gave your heart to someone and they gave theirs to someone else.  Hopefully it’s the first?

  27. 27.

    Mike in NC

    It was amusing to read where somebody noted that “Trump spent more time in Stormy Daniels than he did in church”.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Dangerman: The google tells me that is Lionel Ritchie, not George Michael.  I am 2/3 of the way through the song and I still haven’t heard those words.  Maybe it’s a different song?

    edit:  Google fail.  I added “George Michael” to the search phrase and it came up with the song you mentioned.  Listening now.

  34. 34.

    Scout211

    I get a “you must be logged into Facebook” message every time I try to view a Facebook public page. On my phone, iPad and Mac with both Safari and Chrome.

    I just did a google search and it happens to other people, too. I am not a techie so I don’t know what the problem is. No one else seemed to know either on those sites. Very strange. I guess I am just (un)special. ☹️

  36. 36.

    Jeffro

    Dana Milbank’s piece in the WaPo today, “Is Kevin McCarthy ok?” is pretty nifty, mostly just by quoting McCarthy verbatim

    In 2014, I wrote that “his words come out as if they have been translated by Google from a foreign language.” Revisiting his “valiant but often unsuccessful struggles with the English language” a year later, I concluded: “The speaker-apparent apparently still can’t speak.”

    Now he’s making another lunge for the top job, and words continue to bedevil him. “We’re Christmas season,” he announced this week. We are? He continued: “A talk of the majority right now who wants to put a small continuing resolution to bump all the members up two days before Christmas, to try to vote on a package they cannot read, written by two individuals who will not be here, on spending for the entire government.”

    Do not even attempt to diagram that sentence. Nor these:

    “Did they learn nothing in the last month election? Did they learn nothing with the American public being harmed? And to walk through to pass the largest bill that we passed throughout the year in the last days before Christmas, where they won’t even tell you what the baseline is now, the two people who will not be here are held accountable to their constituents, that they’re going to determine this?”

  37. 37.

    Jeffro

    @Jeffro: with a nice wrap-up!

    We also learned this week that, 11 days after the insurrection, and three days before Biden’s inauguration, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) was still trying to get President Donald Trump to declare martial law. His only problem was he didn’t know how to spell it. In a text to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows just published by Talking Points Memo, Norman wrote: “Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!!”

    If this weren’t evidence enough that McCarthy’s incoming majority has gone to the dogs, Politico’s Daniel Lippman reports that incoming Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) hired as his chief of staff one Brandon Phillips, who was arrested last month on a charge of animal cruelty for allegedly kicking a dog and cutting its belly. The would-be staffer had resigned as Trump’s Georgia director in 2016 after his prior criminal history came out.

    Congressman, please: Let go Brandon.

  41. 41.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jeffro: I somehow missed this episode

    The “O.K.” buttons may have been the biggest messaging misfire since McCarthy, called a “moron” by Speaker Nancy Pelosi over his resistance to pandemic safety measures, removed all doubt about the charge by selling T-shirts with large letters proudly announcing: “Moron.”

    gotta say, Milbank has come a long way since Bitch Beer with Chris Cillizza

  45. 45.

    Qrop Non Sequitur

    @Jeffro: I’m still sharper than Kevin McQ!

    Naw, you just gotta get on his level, bruh. That isn’t nonsense, that’s genius beyond the ken of mere mortals.

  47. 47.

    Mike in NC

    Empty Greene needs to be GQP speaker for two years of nothing being done. Then bury them in 2024.

  52. 52.

    Dan B

    There was an insurrectionist in Tennessee who got the names of the FBI agents in Knoxville who were bringing the charges.  He hatched a plot with a friend to kill all 37 of them.  Got caught.  Buh bye…

  55. 55.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @Alison Rose: I saw it on my Instagram feed. One more strong argument for not doing with puppies or kittens anything you don’t want the grown dog or cat to do.

    I made this mistake with a kitten.  Started putting him on the back of my neck because my lap was full of a grown cat.  soon enough Nick was grown and my neck said OUCH.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    @HinTN: I wasn’t suggesting that all the unhinged folks are living in a particular place.  No offense intended toward TN in particular!

    There seem to be a whole lot of people who are off their rockers, wherever they happen to live.

  60. 60.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Alison Rose: So damn prevalent that there’s actually an annual online game Whammegadon. The rules are simple:

    – Gather a pool of friends
    – Game starts Dec. 1
    – If you hear the Wham version of “Last Christmas” you’re out (cover versions don’t count)
    – Game ends Dec. 25 (or sooner if everyone is out)
    – Remaining survivors are declared the winners.

    but it’s surprisingly difficult to win.

  63. 63.

    rikyrah

    @WaterGirl:

    What gets me is what standing do they have. Because, he never got a Pell Grant, he sued?

     

    And, the other selfish right-wing shrew who got $55k in PPP loans is mad?

    They are right out of right-wing casting

  65. 65.

    Miss Bianca

    @Alison Rose: I’m pretty sure that’s a Siberian Husky, not a Malamute (the looks and build, plus it’s such a Husky thing to do), but whatever, yon was great!

  66. 66.

    J R in WV

    I just wonder how that guy thinks he can teach the dog NOT to tackle him if guy get hurt, say hit by a car, or a fall on the ice, etc.

    All fun and games while guy is in good shape, but if guy gets hurt… oops!

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