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Afternoon Open Thread: This Seems Bad…

by TaMara|  March 20, 20244:28 pm| 104 Comments

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…for Republicans

I’m not sure what it going on. I’m on hospice watch for Zander – he has liver cancer and we can discuss what that means later, when I’m not sleep deprived.

But to distract myself, I popped in the Xewer to see what’s-what:

Oh Lindsey! https://t.co/dDl9cJGqS5

— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) March 20, 2024

COMER: You made a mistake and said that Parnas is a Republican witness. He is very much your witness.

PARNAS: I was a Republican for Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/cMdZACWhMn

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024

Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn on impeachment: “I think people are maybe becoming a bit tired of all of this.” pic.twitter.com/bqZBw1moIM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024

My favorite:

“Let’s just do it” — Moskowitz dares Comer to impeach Biden right now

“It’s all fake,” Moskowitz adds. “It’s not gonna happen.” pic.twitter.com/pYEex8YXLd

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024

And I know Crockett is a favorite here and she does not disappoint.

Crockett introduces evidence showing that Bobulinski has gotten paid by Donald Trump’s PAC. When he tries to interrupt her, she shuts him down by saying, “I’m talking.” pic.twitter.com/rJqOlb8JEN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024

 

There seems to be a LOT going on in these hearings and going so badly FOX is not caring them live today and if I had more brain cells functioning I’d dig up more stuff. But I’m sure someone in the comments will provide a good, concise location to see the Hindenburg that is this hearing today.

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    1. 1.

      Baud

      March 20, 2024 at 4:34 pm

      I’m sorry about Zander.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      TaMara

      March 20, 2024 at 4:35 pm

      If you have Twitter here’s Aaron’s complete thread:

      https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1770453622825844814

      Reply
    3. 3.

      TaMara

      March 20, 2024 at 4:36 pm

      @Baud: Thanks. It sucks, but he’s been healthy and happy until about 4 weeks ago and it’s been super fast, so I guess I can be grateful for that. Still sucks.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 4:41 pm

      @TaMara:

      Oh TaMara, at least you know now, which makes decisions easier.  But so hard in every other way.  More tears for you and Zander.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 4:43 pm

      I have been posting some of the video tweets of the hearings, but I hadn’t seen those.

      Holy fuck-ski!  That first tweet, Trump and Lindsay!   I haven’t seen the Crockett one yet, that should be a treat!

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Ohio Mom

      March 20, 2024 at 4:45 pm

      @TaMara: I’m sorry too. I hope Zander has an easy transition.

      Years from now, someone is going to write a play about Lindsey Graham and it will be a tragedy. He knew better. I’m not sure if some of the others can think straight enough to have any perspective, they are so personality-disordered.

      Not that I have any personal sympathy for any of them. Traitors, every last one of them.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      Manyakitty

      March 20, 2024 at 4:45 pm

      So sorry about Zander. We lost Heisenberg around a month ago and are still bereft. Much like so many other things, he experienced a slow decline, and then it all hit at once over his last two weeks. Sending all the love and strength.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 4:47 pm

      Ginni Thomas!  Harlan Crowe!

      Reply
    9. 9.

      zhena gogolia

      March 20, 2024 at 4:49 pm

      I’m so sorry about Zander. Such a sweet kitty.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      lowtechcyclist

      March 20, 2024 at 4:49 pm

      What impresses me about that second tweet is, here is yet one more Democratic Congressperson that I’d never heard of before, who is quite intelligent and has put in the work.  We just absolutely have the best House Democratic Caucus of my lifetime.  These people are amazing.  Our side keeps getting better and better people elected, and their side’s people keep getting dumber and more gullible and more dependent on Fox News to feed them their lines, hell, their entire agendas.

      Absofuckinglutely proud to be a Democrat.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      mrmoshpotato

      March 20, 2024 at 4:50 pm

      Afternoon Open Thread: This Seems Bad…

      Oh crap!

      …for Republicans

      Haha!  Oh goody!

       

      Echoing comments about Zander.  Sorry you’re going through this.

      Reply
    12. 12.

      Jackie

      March 20, 2024 at 4:51 pm

      {TaMara}, I’m sooo sad for you. Sending you lots of hugs. Give Zander some pets from me.

      Reply
    13. 13.

      lowtechcyclist

      March 20, 2024 at 4:54 pm

      You’re in my thoughts and prayers, TaMara.  Give Zander some skritches for me.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Tony Jay

      March 20, 2024 at 4:55 pm

      +++ JACKAL NEWS UPDATE +++

       DID JOE BIDEN PAY RUSSIAN AGENT TO HIDE EVIDENCE OF HUNTER CORRUPTION? NEUTRALS SAY ‘YES’

      Cornered by expert GOP questioning, Democrat stooge Lev ‘The Worm’ Parnas today admitted that he pushed Russian Hoax disinformation for money, leaving open the possibility that ‘treasure troves of irrefutable evidence’ may have been among the secret files removed from Hunter Biden’s laptop and hidden in former Vice-President Biden’s mysterious Delaware safe-house.

      “It’s not unlikely,” said House Impeachment Leader Comer, fresh from his brutal cross-investigation of the Russian mole, “Possibilities are real things with roots and doors onto other worlds where America learns the truth about Biden Family racketeering. We won’t rest until integrity flowers in the White House dirt again.”

      With their star witness exposed as a conduit for anti-Trump lies, the salient question of today’s hearing is undeniably how long can House Democrats continue to shield Hunter’s corrupt Kiev connections from justice’s steely finger?

      +++ JACKAL NEWS UPDATE +++

      +++ WE DISTORT – TO DERIDE +++

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    15. 15.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 4:56 pm

      @lowtechcyclist: I was wondering who the hell she is.  Impressive!

      Reply
    16. 16.

      TaMara

      March 20, 2024 at 4:57 pm

      @WaterGirl: Thanks. Yeah, it is good to know so now I’m not second guessing myself any more. I meant to email you an update, but like I said, sleep deprived.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 4:57 pm

      @Tony Jay: That made me happy.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      Tony Jay

      March 20, 2024 at 4:58 pm

      @WaterGirl: You ask, you get. Circle of Blog-Life.

      Reply
    19. 19.

      Butch

      March 20, 2024 at 5:00 pm

      We need more Crocketts and Moskowitz-es and far fewer Dick Durbins.

      I lost our kitty Moorea (the island where we found him and brought him home) to the same thing.  I’m so sorry.  They’re with you forever and then suddenly it seems like such a short time.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      Quadrillipede

      March 20, 2024 at 5:01 pm

      Wow, Republicans are just not good at any of this any more, are they? I’m starting to wander if the House majority is gonna last all the way to November…

      Reply
    21. 21.

      JPL

      March 20, 2024 at 5:04 pm

      Thank you for all the clips and we have some pretty good people.   A week ago, I thought maybe let two or three ask questions but I was wrong.  They are all good.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      MattF

      March 20, 2024 at 5:06 pm

      The one lesson that Rs have learned from TFG is ‘Never Back Down’. Never, never, never. So, now, they are stuck in quicksand and continue to sink.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      japa21

      March 20, 2024 at 5:06 pm

      First and most important, TaMara, thinking of you and Zander. There’s a reason Mrs. Japa and I decided no more pets but it is amazing how often we think, well, maybe.

      Secondly, I am surprised the GOP hasn’t figured out a way to prevent any Dems from being in these hearings. There isn’t a Dem in the House, I think, that can’t destroy any of the GOP gambits. Senate, there may be a couple who can’t.

      Reply
    24. 24.

      CaseyL

      March 20, 2024 at 5:07 pm

      Oh, no.  I am so very and incredibly sorry to hear about Zander.   Sending you and him much love. (I lost a kitty to cancer in November 2022: from diagnosis to euthanasia was about 2 months.)

      While there is some entertainment value in seeing the GOP continue debasing itself right through the gutter and into Stygian depths previously unplumbed by US politicians, they are dragging the government and the country down with them, which makes the entertainment rather less enjoyable. A more toxic, useless collection of human-shaped parasites is hard to imagine.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      Mike in NC

      March 20, 2024 at 5:09 pm

      Great to hear from Rudy’s stooge Lev Parnas again. He named his company Fraud Guarantee so you just know he’s on Team MAGA.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      trollhattan

      March 20, 2024 at 5:11 pm

      Good on Crockett!

      Imagine if Tubbs were there, too.

      Reply
    27. 27.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 5:11 pm

      Parnas: “I believe Bill Barr should be investigated for the coverup and trying to silence me to get the truth out of what really happened in Ukraine.”

      I would like to second that.

      Reply
    28. 28.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 5:12 pm

      @Tony Jay: Thank you!

      Reply
    29. 29.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 20, 2024 at 5:13 pm

      Bill Barr needs to feel some heat for his traitorous actions as well.

      Reply
    30. 30.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 20, 2024 at 5:17 pm

      @trollhattan: ​ 

      Damn it!

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Doc Sardonic

      March 20, 2024 at 5:17 pm

      @Mike in NC: you left the d off Guaranteed 😁

      Reply
    32. 32.

      West of the Rockies

      March 20, 2024 at 5:18 pm

      I don’t know how the pasty, dreary Comer keeps himself from stepping into traffic. What a stooge.  To be so fucking dumb and so damned sure of oneself.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      dnfree

      March 20, 2024 at 5:20 pm

      @lowtechcyclist: Raja is my representative.  We had Sean Casten and now have Raja because of the 2020 Illinois redistricting.  Both are excellent, and Lauren Underwood is excellent, and Eric Sorensen is excellent.  We are surrounded by excellence.

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Doc Sardonic

      March 20, 2024 at 5:21 pm

      So sorry to hear about Zander

      Reply
    35. 35.

      SiubhanDuinne

      March 20, 2024 at 5:22 pm

      I’m on hospice watch for Zander – he has liver cancer

      Oh, I’m so very sorry. Gentle scritches for Zander as he approaches the RB, and hugs to you during this tough time.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 20, 2024 at 5:26 pm

      Raskin: “What was the role Jared Kushner played in covering up the assassination and dismemberment of Khashoggi?”

      Comer isn’t thrilled about this line of inquiry.

      Reply
    37. 37.

      Old School

      March 20, 2024 at 5:27 pm

      Condolences about Zander.

      Reply
    38. 38.

      dexwood

      March 20, 2024 at 5:29 pm

      Ms. Stansbury is my rep and the daughter of an old friend of ours going back to our Ice Age college days. She has always impressed us even as a child.

      Reply
    39. 39.

      SiubhanDuinne

      March 20, 2024 at 5:31 pm

      @lowtechcyclist:

      She took that left turn at Albuquerque!

      ETA: This is the “Political Positions” section of Rep. Stansbury’s Wikipedia entry:

      In a questionnaire created by the Adelante Progressive Caucus, Stansbury pledged support for Medicare for All legislation, a federal assault weapons ban, the D.C. statehood movement, canceling student loan debt, federal marijuana legalization, and several other progressive policies. She was endorsed by abortion rights group Voteprochoice.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      March 20, 2024 at 5:31 pm

      Big scritches for Zander and always remember, he doesn’t fear death, he just fears the pain of today.  Spare him as much of that pain as you can bear.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      Baud

      March 20, 2024 at 5:32 pm

      @lowtechcyclist:

      👍

      Reply
    42. 42.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 20, 2024 at 5:32 pm

      AOC isn’t having Bobulinski’s bullshit either.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      Darkrose

      March 20, 2024 at 5:36 pm

      Scritches and love to Zander, and hugs to you.

      Reply
    44. 44.

      Ksmiami

      March 20, 2024 at 5:40 pm

      @CaseyL: they are all garbage people: terrible for America, terrible for the world.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      HumboldtBlue

      March 20, 2024 at 5:46 pm

      Swalwell: Did you ever observed the Chinese government grant 22 patents to any of Joe Biden’s Children while Joe Biden was in office? Bobulinski: I did not

      Reply
    46. 46.

      Quadrillipede

      March 20, 2024 at 5:48 pm

      @West of the Rockies: I don’t know how the pasty, dreary Comer keeps himself from stepping into traffic.

      You could argue that white supremacy harms white people — by teaching them to be unreflective self-entitled bigots whith no capacity for self-improvement (in addition to the harms it inflicts more overtly on BIPOC).

      Reply
    47. 47.

      zhena gogolia

      March 20, 2024 at 5:48 pm

      Who is Bobulinski? I guess I have to google him and learn yet another name.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      zhena gogolia

      March 20, 2024 at 5:50 pm

      Hmm, when I google (or Bing) him, I get a bunch of Republican talking points.

      Reply
    49. 49.

      Ken

      March 20, 2024 at 5:51 pm

      @zhena gogolia: Well, that tells you something, doesn’t it?

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Baud

      March 20, 2024 at 5:54 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      Their next witness will be a pre-programmed AI.

      ChatFSB.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      Leto

      March 20, 2024 at 5:55 pm

      Rep Crockett to Bobulinski: bitch, did I stutter? Shut your damn mouth!

      She brought out the mom voice. Woe be to anyone when she does that. Lordy.

      TaMara: so sorry about Zander.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      TBone

      March 20, 2024 at 5:56 pm

      This is for all of our shining stars, who make me wanna wiggle ’cause my tail feathers shake!  🎶

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu9a29UR2dU

      Reply
    53. 53.

      Mike in NC

      March 20, 2024 at 5:57 pm

      @Quadrillipede: Comer always comes across as a dimwitted Kentucky redneck.

      Reply
    54. 54.

      Leto

      March 20, 2024 at 5:57 pm

      @zhena gogolia: Here’s a Forbes article on Bobo.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      Jay C

      March 20, 2024 at 5:58 pm

      @Tony Jay:

      I chortled out loud at this, then realized that a very similar version of your satire probably will appear on some RW “news” outlet, likely by tonight, and be taken *seriously* by its slack-jawed viewership…

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Quadrillipede

      March 20, 2024 at 6:01 pm

      @Mike in NC: He’s doing a fantastic job with this impeachment farce…

      Reply
    57. 57.

      White & Gold Purgatorian

      March 20, 2024 at 6:01 pm

      Condolences and wishes for comfort to you and Zander. Liver ailments just suck.

      I just read that a group of House Republicans are proposing to raise the Social Security retirement age and reduce SS benefits for high earners. That is going to be soooo popular … amongst people who tend to vote for Republicans. Is the info bubble so strong they believe voters will reward their crazy ideas?

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Jeffro

      March 20, 2024 at 6:01 pm

      The dam is definitely breaking, thank goodness

      Next up: evidence of which republican members of Congress got paid.  In rubles, that is.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      zhena gogolia

      March 20, 2024 at 6:02 pm

      @Leto: Thanks.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      Geminid

      March 20, 2024 at 6:03 pm

      @Jeffro: Or paid in gold bars, like Menendez.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      CaseyL

      March 20, 2024 at 6:07 pm

      @White & Gold Purgatorian: Maybe the GOP is giving up on everyone but “Whites Who Couldn’t Get into College and Can’t Get Laid and Resent Those Who Did and Do” and “Oligarchs of No Particular Nationality.”

      The former to vote for them, and the latter to finance them.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      UncleEbeneezer

      March 20, 2024 at 6:07 pm

      @Quadrillipede: Indeed, this is the central theme of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

      by Heather McGhee:

      Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?

      McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.

      But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Kristine

      March 20, 2024 at 6:08 pm

      So very sorry about Zander. Peace and comfort for the little guy and his people.

      Reply
    64. 64.

      Citizen Alan

      March 20, 2024 at 6:08 pm

      @Ohio Mom: In the sense that MacBeth was a tragedy in that every single bad thing that happened to him was a result of his own mendacious and self-serving choices.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      Jeffro

      March 20, 2024 at 6:08 pm

      @trollhattan: imagine if Tubbs were there, too

      WIN

      Reply
    66. 66.

      Quadrillipede

      March 20, 2024 at 6:08 pm

      I think perhaps the most notable difference between today’s Republicans and ten-years-ago Republicans, is that the old ones were pretending to believe ridiculous things.

      Reality will hit you in the face if you try to ignore it for too long…

      Reply
    67. 67.

      trollhattan

      March 20, 2024 at 6:10 pm

      @Jeffro:

      Whew, was hoping someone here spoke Obscurian. :-)

      Reply
    68. 68.

      Baud

      March 20, 2024 at 6:13 pm

      @Geminid:

      Mad respect to the man for saying no to Bitcoin.

      Reply
    69. 69.

      azlib

      March 20, 2024 at 6:18 pm

      TaMara,

      Sorry to hear about your cat. We have 3 cats right now plus one foster. We have gone through quite a few cats at end of life. It is a hard thing to go through. They really are family. We have also fostered 318 cats since 2010 for a local pet rescue outfit. Cats are a joy, but it is hard to watch them cross the rainbow bridge.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      Chief Oshkosh

      March 20, 2024 at 6:20 pm

      @HumboldtBlue: who the fuck is this Bobulinski mook? What a fuck up.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      Joy in FL

      March 20, 2024 at 6:21 pm

      So sorry about Zander. May he experience a smooth transition and love along the way. And you as well, as his human.

      Reply
    72. 72.

      Hoppie

      March 20, 2024 at 6:26 pm

      @Mike in NC: When someone shows you who they are, believe them….

      Reply
    73. 73.

      CaseyL

      March 20, 2024 at 6:27 pm

      @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

      he doesn’t fear death, he just fears the pain of today.  Spare him as much of that pain as you can bear.

      This made me cry.  It’s true and heartbreaking.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      Tony Jay

      March 20, 2024 at 6:28 pm

      @Jay C:

      Just think of the stupidest, most contra-factual take on any GOP failure, dip it into an extra sugary pot of hot stupidity, then run it through an Enstupiding Engine and imagine a fulminating prick saying it out loud.

      My job is easy.

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Mousebumples

      March 20, 2024 at 6:32 pm

      Best wishes to you, Tamara, and Zander and your other well loved pets. Such a difficult time for you all.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Baud

      March 20, 2024 at 6:32 pm

      @Tony Jay:

      Enstupiding Engine

       
      Is that available on Amazon?

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Quadrillipede

      March 20, 2024 at 6:34 pm

      By the way, I might be trying to make Fetch Happen here, but I think this needs to go viral:

      • https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/donald-trump-called-a-psycho-for-praising-north-korea-dictator-in-hot-mic-moment/ar-BB1k747V
      Reply
    78. 78.

      Tony Jay

      March 20, 2024 at 6:41 pm

      @Baud:

      Temu. I think. You can get a version on Etsy but only with lingerie.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      Mousebumples

      March 20, 2024 at 6:43 pm

      Keeping TFG stuff out of the respite thread…

       

      https://bsky.app/profile/kilgoretrout.bsky.social/post/3ko5mvik3lt2i

      I keep saying this but trump has been in the public eye so long we don’t notice it anymore – this is the most cash poor motherfucker you’ve ever seen. just look how he goes about his life like a disheveled slob caroming from free event to free event. cut off his credit & he’s eating ketchup packets

      he doesn’t do any of the other shit billionaires who aren’t sweating it do. no wacky sports cars, no $10K shoes, no cristal fountains, no flings on yachts gobbling cavier & foie gras off supermodels. just a rumpled ass suit from 1997 and some golf clubs on a glorified muni in his yard

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      TaMara

      March 20, 2024 at 6:44 pm

      Thanks for all the thoughts on Zander. He’s doing well right now, he’ll let me know when he’s not. ❤️

      Reply
    81. 81.

      Percysowner

      March 20, 2024 at 6:53 pm

       

      @TaMara:

       I’m so sorry about Zander. I’m glad that he was happy and healthy until now. That was how my second to last cat was when he died. He was his normal self, right up until he literally fell over on the floor. I rushed him to the vet and was told he had lung cancer and that it was time to say goodby. Later I read that cats are often like that with cancer, showing no symptoms until it is far too late.

      Hugs and love to you.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      hueyplong

      March 20, 2024 at 6:57 pm

      Zander is fortunate to have a good owner to show him across to conclude a loving relationship.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      WaterGirl

      March 20, 2024 at 7:00 pm

      @Leto: Did you hear the indignant and incredulous “Excuse me?” from him after she told him to hush because she was speaking and hadn’t asked him a question?

      The tone of his “Excuse me????” said it all:

      Uppity bitch, who the hell are you to talk to me that way?  You can’t talk to me that way.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      Ohio Mom

      March 20, 2024 at 7:13 pm

      @Citizen Alan: Yes, exactly. If this was good enough for Shakespeare, it will be good enough for some future playwright.

      Reply
    85. 85.

      Betty

      March 20, 2024 at 7:14 pm

      @japa21: This seems to be a case where the younger House members are willing to be more aggressive than some of the old time Democrats in the Senate. Whitehouse and Warren are certainly two exceptions.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      Jackie

      March 20, 2024 at 7:15 pm

      I’m sure Ken Buck is crying into his beer… He has two days before he does a zippatidooda zippity day ala Boehner…

      The House Freedom Caucus voted to remove Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) from the group Tuesday night, a dismissal that comes days before he is set to retire from Congress, The Hill reports.

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Bill Arnold

      March 20, 2024 at 7:26 pm

      @White & Gold Purgatorian:

      reduce SS benefits for high earners.

      The intent of this part is to try to taint Social Security as “Welfare for Old People” among the rest of the voting population; a wedge tactic. Have the Republicans forgotten this, or do they believe that they can propagandize around it among those of Social Security age? Have they heard of filial responsibility laws[1], and are they ready for their parents to move in with them?
      [1] Also the Fifth Commandment: “Honor your father and your mother, in order that your days be lengthened on the land that the Lord, your God, is giving you.”

      Reply
    88. 88.

      Bex

      March 20, 2024 at 7:37 pm

      Zander has known love because of you.  He is a very lucky kitty and knows that in his own way.

      Reply
    89. 89.

      Mel

      March 20, 2024 at 7:43 pm

      @TaMara: I am so very sorry about your sweet little guy. We are holding you both in our hearts.

      Reply
    90. 90.

      Odie Hugh Manatee

      March 20, 2024 at 7:46 pm

      @TaMara:

      My thoughts are with you and your Zander. It’s tough to spend years of joy with your furry kids and then too quickly they are gone. A day in our lives is a week in theirs.

      It’s worth every bit of it to know that you gave them a good home, security and lots of love.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      Ruckus

      March 20, 2024 at 7:52 pm

      @West of the Rockies:

      He doesn’t know any better……

      Reply
    92. 92.

      Ruckus

      March 20, 2024 at 7:53 pm

      @Mike in NC:

      That does make sense, I mean one should always be true to one’s self……

      Reply
    93. 93.

      Westyny

      March 20, 2024 at 7:54 pm

      Love the links, TaMara, and very sorry to hear about Zandar.  You certainly have given him his best life.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      Ruckus

      March 20, 2024 at 8:01 pm

      @West of the Rockies:

      It’s easy to be sure of yourself when you don’t know any better.

      Reply
    95. 95.

      Gvg

      March 20, 2024 at 8:02 pm

      @Quadrillipede: Reminds me that I think slavery was bad for the owners too. Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

      I also think the old fashioned concept that wife’s must always be submissive to the husband, was corrupting too.

      Both made people worse morally. This does not mean anyone has an excuse to turn the subject into comparing who had it worse.

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    96. 96.

      TBone

      March 20, 2024 at 8:05 pm

      @TaMara: the kindness required to the right thing is a gift. It seems to me you’ve got it in spades. Even though it felt awful every time we went through it, we know our loved ones deserve the best we can give: the strength of kindness.  I send my best hopes for extra strength for you and yours.

      Reply
    97. 97.

      Kathleen

      March 20, 2024 at 8:11 pm

      @TaMara: I’m so sorry, TaMara. Blessings and love to you and Zander.

      Reply
    98. 98.

      brantl

      March 20, 2024 at 8:24 pm

      @Mike in NC: He always plays his long suit.

      Reply
    99. 99.

      Quadrillipede

      March 20, 2024 at 8:25 pm

      @Gvg: Both made people worse morally. This does not mean anyone has an excuse to turn the subject into comparing who had it worse.

      I think you can also make a case for the extreme isolation and paranoia that having too much wealth can cause, and the diminished mental health that results. (Not sure examples are necessary.)

      Divide et impera is a concept old enough to have a Latin name. Maybe some kind of grassroots, bottom-up movement to expose people to ideas from civics and game theory (etc) might help on the margins with reachable folks. It’s a tough problem to solve though, history seems to indicate…

      Reply
    100. 100.

      BellyCat

      March 20, 2024 at 8:36 pm

      @TaMara: Strength to you both. ❤️

      Reply
    101. 101.

      Juju

      March 20, 2024 at 9:11 pm

      @West of the Rockies:

      To be so fucking dumb and so damned sure of oneself.

      That is very much a white mediocre male privilege.

      Reply
    102. 102.

      West of the Rockies

      March 20, 2024 at 9:41 pm

      @Juju:

      Winner, Winner, chicken dinner!

      Reply
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      Ann Marie

      March 20, 2024 at 11:24 pm

      I’m so sorry about Zander.  I’ve lost three cats to various cancers and it really sucks.  A cat doesn’t understand that a lot of people he’s never met are thinking about him, but we are.

      Reply
    104. 104.

      rikyrah

      March 21, 2024 at 1:27 am

      So sorry about Zander😢😢

      Reply

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