Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

Everybody saw this coming.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

He really is that stupid.

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Bark louder, little dog.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

White supremacy is terrorism.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

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I just wanted to say that I thought Biden was fucking excellent last night. He was clear, coherent, concise, straightforward, and called the Republicans out on their bullshit. And in return, the Republicans looked like a bunch of assholes. If they had any shame or if the American electorate was not composed of mouthbreathing idiots, the Republicans would have like eight members in the House and none in the Senate. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

This was 30 years ago, by the way:

By the way, I am doing well.

Next weekend I head to the East Coast to pick up the new kitty and I am very excited!

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  4. 4.

    Mary

    What kitty?!  Did we miss something?  You’re a good man, John. We’re happy you’re doing well. And we want pictures of the kitty.

  5. 5.

    dww44

    Yes we’re all agog to hear about this new kitty.  Thanks for weighing in on last night’s SOTU. I was hoping you would.

  8. 8.

    mvr

    Glad John Cole is doing well! (Somehow it feels odd using the second person when we know he doesn’t stick around the comments.)

  10. 10.

    cain

    oooohhhh… a new pet in the cole family! Rockin!

    If it is the cute black cat – then awesome! Looks like you have time to add them to the calendar! :) Can’t believe it’s 2nd week of Feb and they still don’t have paper stock – they must be losing a ton of money.

    ETA #10!!!

  11. 11.

    danielx

    If they had any shame or if the American electorate was not composed of mouthbreathing idiots

    Please – give at least the jackal voters some credit.​ eta: yes, i too am convinced there are voters who should be checked for a pulse before they are allowed to push the button.​

  12. 12.

    CaseyL

    You did mention looking at another kitty, but IIRC that was, like, 2 months ago.  Seems a long time to wait.

    OTOH, the last two months have been pretty damn brutal for you, so no wonder you wanted to wait until you were in a better place physically and emotionally.

    Looking forward to hearing how Steve reacts to meeting the new family member!

  19. 19.

    grammypat

    John,  Last month I emailed you to see if you would be interested in a young, female Maine Coon stray who decided that I was the easiest mark in the neighborhood. Since you didn’t respond, I assumed that you were not interested.  Now I know why.

    Little Girl is healthy, spayed, vaxxed, gorgeous, dainty, well behaved, self-confident, growing into her huge feet, and has a irresistible personality.  Oh well, your loss.  I’ll try to place her with a rescue group locally.

    I hope the east coast cat works out well for you.

  20. 20.

    TaMara

    @grammypat: Send her photo and deets to Anne Laurie or Watergirl and they can probably do an adoption post. We’ve had good luck with those. And Maine Coon, she’ll get snapped up fast, I’m sure.

  23. 23.

    different-church-lady

    @grammypat:

    My original thought was that John would be interested in an mini-Steve(ette).

    Shouldn’t we ask Steve how he feels about it?

  31. 31.

    TaMara

    @grammypat: Anne or Watergirl. I’d love to, but I don’t have the bandwidth these days to do the followup.

    ETA: I should be in bed now…or finishing up my to-do list, but couldn’t resist a Cole kitteh post.

  35. 35.

    Origuy

    Hopefully this turns out to be nothing.

    NEW: @JohnFetterman office says he was taken to George Washington University Hospital after feeling lightheaded during Senate Dem retreat. “Initial tests did not show evidence of a new stroke, but doctors are running more tests and John is remaining overnight for observation.“
    — Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) February 9, 2023

  40. 40.

    Tim Ellis

    @Origuy: If I were a recent stroke victim, you’d better believe I’d be masking up in crowds like we saw last night. Poor guy, but he’s extra vulnerable to COVID now and it’s damn near everywhere. And like, not that I don’t love John – I definitely do – but he’s also not just John Fetterman, he’s also our Senate majority. Can’t be taking chances!

  42. 42.

    BellyCat

    Where to stream Bob Roberts? Amazon Prime, the main returned result from Google, says “This video is currently unavailable”.

    Too Soon or Cancel Culture?!?! It would be wrong not to speculate, right?

  43. 43.

    Amir Khalid

    Be sure to post plenty of pix of the new kitty. As for me, it’s been two years and change since my own kitty soulmate Bianca passed on. Maybe the Bloglord’s pictures of his new feline master/mistress will inspire me to get off my ass and get to an animal shelter.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    @BellyCat

    Not streaming at the moment. That’s not to say it won’t pop up again here or there. Came out over 30 years ago and wasn’t exactly a box office champ so likely not high on the priority list for programmers. Than again, could be an issue with the tangled web of rights attached to popular culture fare.

    BTW, to check on where stuff is streaming bypass Google and bookmark JustWatch. Kept practically up to the minute current so far as where and cost (if any).

  45. 45.

    BellyCat

    @NotMax: Thanks for ‘Just Watch’ tip. (Not yet sure what I’ll do with the hours saved previously spent endlessly hunting for things.)

    As for things ‘not currently streaming’ this seems like hokum. If something is digital, do they just unhook the wires? Ok, sure, BR might not be digital given 1993, but AMERICA NEEDS THIS PRESCIENT FILM NOW!

  47. 47.

    Aussie Sheila

    @Poptartacus: Yes indeed. He’s old enough to know what his job is and the electorate he must appeal to. A truly excellent lesson in the value of political experience married to decency and a good heart.

    It is to be hoped that the younger up and comers are encouraged, and that it no longer takes a septuagenarian to teach wannabe politicos the hard lesson. Good politics, plus toiling away in the sausage making machine makes effective leaders. There is no magic bullet. Politics is a vocation. It can be more or less honourable, but it is a set of skills, and when married to clear ethics/ideological commitments can pay off big time.

    Biden (and the inimitable Ron Klain) teach a very important lesson.

    Less magic pixie unbeatable charisma, and more hard graft in the place where appealing to actual normal people counts.

    Also too, personnel is politics.

  48. 48.

    NotMax

    @HumboldtBlue

    Besides the obvious example of prescience of Network (1976), both Ace in the Hole (1951) and A Face in the Crowd (1957), also too.

    Traversing further back, for a more comedic take, The Dark Horse (1932).

  55. 55.

    J R in WV

    @grammypat:

    We are in the market for a new kat! We’re down to one, who is a tortie snd very affectionate, and a big cat would be ideal for our wooded hillsides.

    Where are you?

    Cole — so glad you are doing well  !

    I’m awake for a medical procedure involving my bladder, to look and see if the first one took care of the tiny cancer.

  57. 57.

    Nukular Biskits

    A frequent BJ reader, occasional commenter here.

    I can’t remember the last time I saw John actually participate in a conversation in the comments on his own blog.   LOL!

    In any case, godspeed to both Mr. Cole & new kitty and I hope its intro to the other denizens of Casa Cole go well.

  59. 59.

    Jesse

    @Origuy: News bits like these are what I was afraid of. I hope he’s well and recovers. I hope it doesn’t come down to him being forced to retire. If he does, we’ll have another hard fight on our hands.

  60. 60.

    Geminid

    Both President Biden and Vice President Harris will be on the move today. Biden will fly to Tampa, Florida later this morning and at 1:30pm will hold an event on protecting Social Security and Medicare and lowering health care costs, at the University of Tampa.

    VP Harris will fly to St. Cloud, Minnesota. Unionized workers will lead her on a tour of the New Flyer electric bus plant, and afterwards Harris will deliver remarks on the administration’s investments in electric vehicles.

    From Politico Playbook. 

  61. 61.

    Ken

    @NotMax: Also Elmer Gantry (1960), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and Seven Days in May (1964).

    I was going to add Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, but I see my memory was faulty — it has not been made into a movie, though according to wikipedia it was indirectly (very indirectly) the source for the alien-invasion miniseries V.

  62. 62.

    Matt McIrvin

    Isn’t Tim Robbins a Naderite/Green type himself? He’s apparently not an item with Susan Sarandon any more.

    It seems like these people who make ahead-of-their-time political art often end up being overtaken by events anyway. Roger Waters is caping for Putin now.

  63. 63.

    Baud

    @Matt McIrvin:

    It seems like these people who make ahead-of-their-time political art often end up being overtaken by events anyway

     
    Those types of people are perennially better at identifying problems than solving them.

  66. 66.

    Geminid

    @Matt McIrvin: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has really polarized the western “Left” political world that Roger Waters inhabited. I think the larger part has rallied behind Ukraine and NATO, but some like Waters are looking past Russia’s war crimes and calling NATO the greater threat. Many in this group also support Iran’s repressive and murderous regime in the name of “Anti-Hegemonism.”

    I follow Democratic Socialists of America politics some. Iran doesn’t seem to be a big internal issue with them, but the war in Ukraine definitely is. One of several controversies is a resolution proposed by the Seattle chapter to withdraw support from elected officials who voted for military aid to Ukraine. These would be the 3 or 4 DSA members who won election to the House as Democrats in 2018 and 2020.. The resolution has opposition and it’s not clear whether it will pass.

    The DSA will hold its biennial convention this summer, and the organization may be at an inflection point. It grew to 55,000 members after the 2016 election and was approaching 100,000 members last year. Now membership appears to be falling, perhaps because the Democratic party is where the action is, and it is not perceived to be so hostile to “progressive” causes as it once was. Also, the gravity of the threat from this country’s radical Right is great, and people have to choose between picking a side or standing off and criticizing.

  67. 67.

    zmulls

    And let us not forget Robert Redford in THE CANDIDATE.    He doesn’t start out as an ambitious phony, but by the end he is on his way.

  68. 68.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: I realize that the DSA does more than stand off and criticize the Democratic party. I am speaking to the choice people on the left face in deciding which party to align with. Some align with bothor more exactly, align with democratic socialist values as well as with the Democratic Party.

  75. 75.

    grammypat

    @J R in WV:  @caring & sensitive:  Central Texas.  She’s exiled to the outdoors now and it’s breaking my heart.  I can’t imagine her having to live outside further north.  I’m hoping for her to be in an indoor only home.

    @Nukular Biskits: Yeah, but conversing on his own blog and YELLING at commenters are two very different things.

  76. 76.

    Tim Ellis

    @Geminid: You’re right; I’m firmly in the socialist camp and quite a few of my peers have drunk the kool-aid of Russian propaganda. But it’s been very clarifying for the rest of us and I think what’s happened is it’s begun to isolate out the bad-faith folks as most of the rest of us are firmly with Ukraine.

    And I also agree that DSA may have peaked a bit, not because socialism is less popular – if anything it’s even more popular these days – but because the Democratic party under Biden has done a good job of incorporating our key priorities and welcoming us into the fold. I like the way you put it – the party is where the action is.

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