Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Tick tock motherfuckers!

In after Baud. Damn.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Republicans don’t trust women.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

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This is totally an open thread, but to get the conversation started, I offer these gems, just a few of the Amazon reviews of Marge’s new book.  My personal favorite, hands-down, is the one titled OMG MTG!

After reading the reviews, I went back and clicked “Helpful” for each one.  The reviews really were helpful, lifting my mood immensely.

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  1. 1.

    laura

    I’m off topic because I could give shit not one for this vile usurper to the queen of the high school girl’s bathroom on the same day Shane McGowan and John Nichols shrugged off this mortal coil.

  2. 2.

    piratedan

    number one, believing that her audience would read a book, that her audience would read a book by a woman and number two….. lots and lots of number two.

  3. 3.

    Old School

    Nov 30 (Reuters) – Tesla’s (TSLA.O) long-delayed Cybertruck will be priced starting at $60,990, over 50% more than what CEO Elon Musk had touted in 2019 and a cost analysts have said will draw select, affluent buyers.

  10. 10.

    JaySinWA

    HT Adam Silverman @ Bluesky.

     

    San Antonio Express-News [Twitter feed]

    @ExpressNews

    Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

    From the linked article

    Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced a bill that would limit the use of preferred names by trans people.

    The irony, critics point out? The senator, whose legal name is Rafael Edward Cruz, uses a preferred name himself: Ted.

    https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/ted-cruz-preferred-name-pronouns-trans-bill-18525846.php

  11. 11.

    Scout211

    The long national nightmare of George Santos (if that’s his real name) will be over soon. His expulsion vote is scheduled for tomorrow and suddenly, the House has found bipartisanship again. It’s a miracle.

  13. 13.

    bbleh

    I think we all owe MTG a debt of gratitude for providing SO much entertainment to SO many people who didn’t even have to buy or read her book-thingy!

    ★☆☆☆☆ I thought $27.00 was a great price for a whole pound of MTG, but when I was making dinner and wanted to sprinkle some in, I opened it and it was full of PAPER!  What a ripoff!  Very disappointed!

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    Meh.  In important news, Henry Kissinger is STILL DEAD.

    ETA – also, also more important, sauerkraut overpowers mushrooms in pierogies.

  16. 16.

    Scout211

    MTG’s book has one positive review:

    I love MTG. Bet this book is great. Too bad I can’t read.

    🤣

  21. 21.

    Sure Lurkalot

    In my wildest delusions, some of which in my youth might have been drug or alcohol fueled, I was never ever ever this high on my own supply. You have to have an epic shit load of self-unawareness to be this unfunny joke of a human being.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: Who was the fellow who died, who had been screaming “stop raping people!” shortly before he shuffled off?   As I recall, he got similar treatment, with people for weeks adding comments “XX is still dead”.  How could I have forgotten his name?

  25. 25.

    Harrison Wesley

    What a ripoff.  I was told there would be Jewish space lasers.  I want my Jewish space lasers!

  33. 33.

    Rose Weiss

    Thanks to all for the great laughs! I’d contribute a review but I wouldn’t touch that book with a 10 foot pole!

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    @Old School

    That flavor not until 2025, if then. Price subject to change (upward) in the interim

    The company also provided updated details about the pricing, range, and features for the truck, much of which has changed significantly from the originally announced numbers. The rear-wheel drive version of the electric truck will start at $60,990 — up from the original price of $39,900 in 2019 — and will get 250 miles of range on a full charge. That version won’t be available until 2025.

    Coming sooner — 2024, Tesla’s order page states optimistically — will be the dual-motor and tri-motor “Cyberbeast” versions. The AWD Cybertruck will start at $79,990, get 340 miles, hit 0-60mph in 4.1 seconds, and do a top speed of 112 mph. And the tri-motor trim will run you $99,990, produce a ridiculous 845 horsepower with 10,296 lb-ft of torque, and get around 320 miles of range. Source

  36. 36.

    Alison Rose

    @JaySinWA: The pronouns bit is one thing (still rude and stupid and mean) but names??? Tons and tons of exceedingly cis/het people use a different name than what is on their birth certificate. Whether nicknames like Ted or a middle name or whatever else. I presume he’s trying to go after someone for using a name that isn’t typically associated with the gender they were assigned at birth, but like…that feels so thin. So many names now are pretty gender neutral, and names are just made up anyway. Why is Mary typically a “female” name and Mark is typically “male”? Because people just decided that.

    Christ, the right wing are a bunch of wimpy scared little bigot-babies.

  37. 37.

    dmsilev

    @Old School: Apparently their “Cybertruck is now on sale” event needs to come with a big asterisk of “only 12 trucks were actually delivered, bo a set of very carefully selected customers and everyone else eager to spend $80k on this …thing will have to wait until some nebulous time next year”. So, basically a small set of undoubtedly tweaked and adjusted models delivered to a small set of Tesla superfans, meaning that any vaguely reasonable assessment of the things will have to wait until that nebulous “next year”.

  39. 39.

    RaflW

    @NotMax: I don’t really give a shit, because the product is just ridiculous, but how many kW is a charge for a vehicle that heavy and over-torqued to also get (allegedly) 320 miles of range?

    We were just in a rental Pacifical plug-in hybrid for a week for Tgiving. It was a decent vehicle! We only had a 120v plug, so charging was slow, but also I didn’t feel like we were ripping off the VRBO host since we were adding like 15-18 miles of range while parked for multiple hours. Couldn’t have been that many kW.

    But the mega-maxa-loookit-me-Im-pathetic-Truck? $$$ per charge, I assume.

  40. 40.

    RaflW

    @dmsilev: Saw some stills of the Cyber‘s 35mph direct impact (ie, not the ofset) crash test. The rear, steerable wheels look like they crumple on their axle by the third published frame.

    At 35mph.

    It’s gonna be a total p.o.s. But we know that already. Also the hood may double as a guillotine in vehicle-pedestrian crashes, per some critics on Bsky.

  41. 41.

    Martin

    So, IPCC, getting a little shrill noting that we’re actually losing ground toward the Paris targets/date says, reading between the lines, that if we just took out the top 1% of earners globally, we’d be fine – they’re the ones doing all the damage. Like, knock this list down as many pegs as necessary, and nobody else needs to do anything more than just hold station on emissions.

    Wondering if this idea takes hold.

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    @RaflW

    Unless intending to tow something or carry full loads. Estimated range then reputed to be in the neighborhood of 150 miles.

  43. 43.

    Martin

    @RaflW: 123kWh. Tesla has a pretty efficient drivetrain, I’ll give them that, but then the vehicle will on average probably only carry as much stuff as my bike, and it only needs a 750Wh battery for 45 miles.

  44. 44.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @dmsilev:

    only 12 trucks were actually delivered

    I wondered what the disaster would be on the rollout, what was being covered up.  If they were only able to release 12, and picked the recipients, it must be awful.  This is a truly Muskian display of “pretend the product exists.”

    @NotMax:

    produce a ridiculous 845 horsepower with 10,296 lb-ft of torque, and get around 320 miles of range.

    Amazing how the really powerful one is the one that isn’t available yet.  Jam tomorrow, the check is in the mail, and the fish that got away.

    Actually, amazing how the crappy base version isn’t available yet.  12 trucks?  Really?

  47. 47.

    noncarborundum

    @HumboldtBlue: Cro Magnons don’t deserve to be slimed either.  They were fully modern human beings physically, produced art, and had brains slightly larger on average than modern populations do. Little of that can be said of MTG.

  52. 52.

    Soprano2

    @JaySinWA: So he wants to force the government to deadname people. What a jackass! What does he care what people call themselves? Good grief…..

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