I found a chair!!!! I went to goodwill and st. vincent de paul, and I found a chair for 75 dollars and it is super comfy and came with a big ottoman! So that was exciting.
Also, here is a picture of Maxwell surveying his kingdom from the credenza:
And yes, I am aware that I need to steam the curtains.
Surveying the political landscape in our Idiocracy, I see that Dr. Oz has been put in charge of medicare and the crazy lady from the WWE has been put in charge of the Department of Education. That should be fun.
I think we have two real things going for us- the first is that these people are fucking idiots and in no time at all they will be in court defending the stupid, illegal, and unconstitutional shit they are going to try. Now given our Supreme Court, that might not mean a whole hell of a lot in the long run, but in the short term, it might slow down shit long enough to get us to the midterm. Or maybe Trump will drop dead.
The other thing is every single one of these idiots so far is the classic example of the loudmouth in class who wants to lead the discussion but did not do the readings. They are not smart, they don’t actually care about the things they are being given control over, and they will get bored quite quickly and move on. None of these things are anything they are passionate about. The only one I have seen that I think is actually passionate about something is RFK, and we can let big pharma and big ag handle that fucker.
None of that makes this any better, but I suspect the incompetence and indifference from his appointees could make it less worse.
I am also getting a tattoo. I have always wanted one, but my mother hates them and I was waiting for her to die before I did it, but since she is going to probably outlive all of us and no longer reads the blog, I have picked an artist and we are working on a design. I did make one oversight, though, but we sorted that out over text:
The only say I really have any more is where I spend money, and I am not giving one fucking dime to Trump voters if I can avoid it. I recommend you do as well.
A reminder- people are rattled and freaked out and angry. We’ve been on edge since Biden dropped out, and people have short fuses. There’s no reason to be a dick to someone for disagreeing with you. We’ve been through a lot together, and every time there is something cataclysmic like this election, we have people leave, we have new people come, and we rebuild and renew the community here. That’s not to say at all that I want people to leave, I am saying it is inevitable. Hopefully they will come back. But it takes time for wounds to heal and things said in haste can leave a mark, so try to be considerate. Remember, being kind is free.
And another thing- don’t listen to the fucking idiots screaming about the Democrats not doing anything. Trump isn’t even President yet, and our Democratic reps are just as fucking frayed and rattled as we are. And unlike Trump appointees, most of them care about what they do. So ignore the loud mouths who want token shows of resistance and other performative bullshit. Eventually they, like us, will find their footing.
War for Ukraine Day 1,000: ATACMS Unleashed!!
Baud
You’re silencing the right with your dollars. Shame.
MattF
Via Daring Fireball, recollection of a Dr. Oz experience.
Trivia Man
Cant be worse than betsy fucking deVos… right?
mrmoshpotato
Steam the curtains?
Trivia Man
Pro Tip: if you own a company or have a job in purchasing… not one dime to Uline. I know they ate ubiquitous and it takes effort to avoid them. But it can be done. Unless you ate commanded to single source 100% of the spend, or get explicit instructions to use only them, look for alternates.
RSA
In Baltimore, the owner of a stationary food truck posted a gloating pro-Trump tweet after the election. The brewpub hosting the spot was not pleased; neither were regular pub visitors. After maybe a week of wrangling the food truck is closing down. (All this is more or less, leaving out details.)
People do care.
Helmut Monotreme
If I make it through this presidency, it will be because of the help I get for “not completely losing my shit” that I get from this website. (and to a lesser extent LGM, but you all stick to message better).
caphilldcne
Just came back from an event to celebrate Barbara Lee’s remarkable tenure in Congress. It’s coincided pretty closely with my time in Washington. She is a valiant soul and I wish her many good things. She has walked the walk and I am grateful to her.
zhena gogolia
This is the first post that has cheered me up.
I love Maxwell!
I also need to copy that message to the tattoo artist for use with all people I plan to do business with now.
mrmoshpotato
Will Senator Fetterman have the chance to grill the shit out of Dr. Supplemental Fraud?
Will we now need guns in the schools to protect against potential grizzlies and potential education?
citizen dave
Didn’t you find a nice leather chair last year in AZ? Office chair? (So hard to keep up–we need a “previously on Balloon Juice” video.)
Love that lampshade, and of course the black cat. Ours just came in for the night
Spouse watching the Leonardo doc on PBS and I’m listening. They intentionally have left the Mona Lisa for the last hour climax. As appropriate.
SiubhanDuinne
I hope your tattoo is going to be the Tunch: OBEY design across your back.
Xantar
@RSA: wait I live in Baltimore. Who was it? What was the pub? I want to patronize them if I can.
Quinerly
@mrmoshpotato:
Re Fetterman
https://www.notus.org/congress/john-fetterman-open-to-supporting-dr-oz-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid
Old Dan and Little Ann
So many tattoo jokes, so little time.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
Nice shot of Maxwell! He’s such a handsome house panther 🥰
mrmoshpotato
Why not both?!
Oh the pissing on this shitstain’s grave will be EPIC!
rikyrah
Happy about your chair 🪑, Cole 😊
Steve in the ATL
Fellow lawyers: this doesn’t apply to us, right?
Ohio Mom
For reasons I can’t articulate, I am disappointed to hear Mom Cole stopped reading the blog.
I am sure the clowns Trump is appointing will provide late night hosts with lots of material but I think I’m probably past laughing at that kind of stuff.
Tomorrow morning Ohio Dad and I are helping our cognitively-impaired friend’s sister clean out friend’s apartment since friend has moved to a skilled nursing facility. The prospect of sorting through someone else’s life is what is putting me in this sour mood.
FelonyGovt
I’m old and really need to retire, but I’m counting on my Social Security and Medicare (which is wonderful) to survive. I’m terrified that these idiots are going to cut them or fuck the whole system up.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL:
It does, but we can be assholes instead. That counts, right?
Ohio Mom
@Quinerly: From your link:
“I’m going to be very, very clear: If Dr Oz agrees to protect and preserve Medicaid and Medicare, I’m absolutely gonna vote for the dude,” Fetterman said outside his office on Tuesday.”
Whelp. Fetterman can’t possibly believe any of this, can he?
Suzanne
I’m telling you…. In the PHX area, if you are looking for great used stuff, go to WHITE DOVE. It’s the thrift store from Hospice of the Valley, and they are the best.
Betty
@mrmoshpotato: Fetterman is reportedly (via X) prepared to approve his nomination. Shameful. He of all people knows what a big phony Oz is and how ugly Oz’s campaign against him was.
Quinerly
Possible beginning of the end for MSNBC?
“Comcast is expected to announce a plan Wednesday to spin off its cable networks into a separate company, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The split would cleave off some of NBCUniversal’s best-known brands, including MSNBC, E!, Syfy, Golf Channel, USA, CNBC and Oxygen, which now face the same cord-cutting challenges as many other major cable channels.”
https://ssnews.page.link/1CTCb32SEWkLLtzB8
Suzanne
@Betty: Fetterman has been a big disappointment and I’ll probably consider a vote for his primary challenger.
Sure Lurkalot
Maxwell is regal AF. I hope he’s enjoying year #2 at his winter palace.
John S.
@Ohio Mom:
It’s because Fetterman is Jewish and Dr. Oz is Turkish… it’s all one big Semitic conspiracy!
And of course, there are lots of people (most of whom support Trump) who actually believe that shit.
Quinerly
@Suzanne: I had high hopes for him. Came to the conclusion awhile ago that I don’t care for him.
Aziz, light!
@Betty: I think he’s trying to bind Oz to a pledge to support Medicare so Oz can later be dissed for abrogating it.
sentient ai from the future
@Helmut Monotreme: foot parkinsons. that is all.
NaijaGal
Well, Democrats are still confirming judges.
Quinerly
Lutnick at Commerce.
Politico reporting
Warren Senders
Starting around November 2023 I put my creative work (a long-form musical project) on hold and went into doing a couple of hours of election work almost every day. And while I know the world is totally full of suck everywhere, I’m really glad that all my files are where I left them a year ago, my ideas appear to be coming back, and the piece is — I think — blossoming.
Quinerly
@caphilldcne: 💜💜💜
Tehanu
@FelonyGovt: You and me both.
Manyakitty
@Ohio Mom: ugh. That sounds rough. Good of you to help.
Trivia Man
@Aziz, light!: And… so what? It is clear as day that lying at a confirmation hearing is expected and has zero future consequences besides 🤷🏽♀️
Dorothy A. Winsor
Can we have a picture of the chair too?
Manyakitty
@NaijaGal: at least that’s productive. Keep it going!
John S.
@NaijaGal:
From your link:
For which Democrats will be rewarded… one day… ah, who am I kidding.
Trollhattan
From the Pacific west can report no capitulation to Trump 2.0 and our cyclone has yet to bomb.
narya
@Ohio Mom: can you start with things like kitchen stuff if that’s less “personal”? Also, that’s so nice of you to do that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dorothy A. Winsor: You just haven’t earned it yet, baby.
Manyakitty
@Omnes Omnibus: excellent. Haven’t heard that in ages.
Aziz, light!
@Trivia Man: I mean after he is confirmed, as they likely all will be. These absurd picks are a loyalty test by Trump to reveal which senators to punish.
Melancholy Jaques
@Steve in the ATL:
I like to say I’m not like this because I’m a lawyer. I’m a lawyer because I’m like this.
nickdag
I’ve recommended this video in the past, and with the election it’s more relevant than ever. It’s one of the most touching and beautiful video essays I’ve ever seen.
The author is Carlos Maza from 2021, and he talks about Covid and Trump using Camus’ book The Plague as a framework. There is talk of sadness, avoidance, grief, rage, and of course hope. But importantly, there’s also talk of decency.
“Our ability to confront our own smallness, and even there, in the face of our grief, to still want to help. To make things better for people.”
Don’t be put off by the title. I left feeling a sense of purpose after watching it. As @soonergrunt wrote recently, the fight never ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJaE_BvLK6U
Steve in the ATL
@Melancholy Jaques: I think that’s very true of most of us! We should aspire to be seriffed, however.
Ohio Mom
@narya: Actually, we are rooting out and collecting the personal stuff because later in the week, Junk King is hauling everything else out. They’ll sort through it, and sell, donate and trash it.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Omnes Omnibus: Hey, he teased us about the chair and then posted a pic of the cat!
Starfish (she/her)
@John S.: In the same way that the Democrats should not be rewarded for electing the first woman President, they should not be rewarded for just getting life time tenure for the third Muslim ever.
They should be embarrassed that it has not already been done.
Jackie
@mrmoshpotato:
I LOLed; back in the day when we had fancy custom made drapes, steaming was a thing. But, I haven’t seen or heard that treatment used for curtains in DECADES!
SpaceUnit
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I bet it’s ugly. I bet you it’s a really, really ugly chair.
(And yes, I’m trying to bait John into posting a pic of it!)
narya
@Ohio Mom: oof; that’s a Good Deed if ever there was one. Good luck.
ewrunning
Re Dr. Oz running Medicare and Medicaid. Apparently Drs. Phibes and Demento weren’t available.
Melancholy Jaques
@Steve in the ATL:
As long as it’s not courier.
moonbat
” So ignore the loud mouths who want token shows of resistance and other performative bullshit. Eventually they, like us, will find their footing.”
Well said, JC. I think that because many of us are feeling so rattled, impotent, and betrayed by the voting public we want our reps to act out our anger. But strategy is always best.
mrmoshpotato
@RSA:
The food truck people ate their own faces. Fuck ’em
Oh, and does the brewpub not serve food?
Lily
About the GOP threats to medicaid and medicare, feel free to correct me:
I keep thinking, Wouldn’t this go against the interests of the (in RK terms!) ‘Big Corporate Industrial’ Hospital Health Care systems?
Despite the claim that Drs lose $ on medicaid/medicare patients, wouldn’t reduction or loss of patient coverage result in fewer billed services and patients? Reduction in the flow of funds through corporate healthcare systems would clash with the lobbying of hospitals and their investors. (Not to mention the nursing home chains owned by investment companies.)
How would the GOP’s low intelligence, slash/burn blitzkrieg propagandists fix that? Maybe they already have a plan, but seems like it won’t be fast or simple.
Shakti
I love the reminders to call my representatives but all of them are Republican. ALL of them. I’m not sure how to generally approach talking to their offices because it seems like an exercise in futility.
My reps are:
Marco Rubio
-Rick Scott
-Some lady who may or may not have nazis in her family, voted against aid for FEMA in the budget and then sent out a bunch of texts saying fema money went to undocumented migrants after she had to evacuate for Milton. She ranked as the us house rep that got the least amount of money for her district and is BFF with MTG.
-a mammography business owner that voted to relax child labor laws
-a dude who was sued by his family business for embezzling money from a trash company
Jay
Most Brew Pubs serve North American Pub Food, burgers, fries, au jus beef dips, etc.
There is a Brew Pub in Port Moody that has 3 food trucks parked in it’s lot. One serves wood fired pizza, one is Mexican, one is Indian,
and yes, you can buy from the trucks, enter the Brew Pub, take a table as long as you order beer or cider, and drink and eat
As the road is a feeder route to a high density mini village, people often hit the food trucks, pick up a 6 pack and head home.
Jay
@Lily:
They have a concept of a plan,…………………..
Procopius
I’m glad to see a positive outlook. Really. It’s only been two weeks since the election and all I see is doom-crying. We can’t foretell the future. You’ve got the right attitude. Trump has lots of enemies, including in the Republican Party. Lots of the nominees he’s announced already aren’t going to be confirmed, so it’s pointless to worry about the things they might do.
Poe Larity
Maybe it’s time for the BJ PUMA Clemency Act of 2024?
Jackie
A crack happening in TCFG’s Defense Sec candidate?
🤞🏻… but these same accusations also apply to Gaetz. Plus sex trafficking of minors.
patrick II
I don’t read comics anymore. but there once was a planet called “Opposite World”where everything is the opposite of what it should be. Trump’s appointments make me think I am living there. He has put a guy in charge of Health and Human Service who doesn’t believe in vaccines, a person in charge of the EPA who doesn’t believe in protecting the environment and a person in charge of the education department who doesn’t believe in public education, etc.
Also, since Trump is so driven by revenge, perhaps he is doing this to the whole country as revenge for rejecting him in the 2020 election.
Jay
@Jackie:
And apparently, part of the Gaetz Ethics Committee testimony has been hacked,……………………….
jayne
This is why you’re still my very favorite person named John.
Martin
@Quinerly: MSNBC was always a lost cause. Corporations don’t have ideologies, only balance sheets. They are always the first to cave. These networks are being spun out because their profit margins are pulling down the rest of the enterprise.
I don’t know how Democrats stop feeding the economic engine that will sell them out at every opportunity. Avoiding the trump tattoo guy feels good, but that’s about it. I’d do the same thing.
Martin
@Jackie: Trump did that multiple times! In what way is this disqualifying?
Aziz, light!
I am binge watching both seasons of “The Diplomat” and trying to imagine the performance of Lil Marco’s people in the same highly nuanced roles.
My imagination is not up to the task.
Jackie
And this: The GQP Senators aren’t happy that Sen. Vance and Sen. Rubio are AWOL from their day job responsibilities:
They got theirs, and don’t give a damn about the senate anymore. Bigger fish to fry and such.
dww44
@Procopius: the question right now is if they will even get a hearing as Trump wants to bypass the advise and consent clause via recess appointments for all of them. And he expects the Senate to cave and recess themselves.
So the task in front of us now is to pressure those Senators not to cave as they seem to be willing to do. The most effective thing is for us to get their voters to exert that pressure.
Jackie
@Jay: I saw that and LOLed. The hackers – AFAIK – haven’t released their goodies – YET…!
Tony G
I’ve been telling myself that this will be more like Mussolini than Hitler. Incompetent, corrupt fuck-ups rather than efficient, ruthless killers. It will be exciting to see whether I’m right!
Jackie
@Martin: Their initials aren’t DJT.
The return of Mo Salad
Doug J has rebranded the Pitchbot at BlueSky and is no longer DougJBalloon.
I blame Baud.
dww44
@Tony G: I’m hoping that you are right …in spades.
narya
@The return of Mo Salad: leave Baud alooooooone!
;-)
Spanky
Has Tony Jay been seen since the election?
mrmoshpotato
@Ohio Mom: I don’t believe that supplemental snake oil salesman would protect either program.
Lily
statuesque see Maxwell
mrmoshpotato
@Betty:
Hopefully a bunch of Pennsylvanians light up Fetterman’s phones.
mrmoshpotato
@Quinerly: Oh no! Morning Blow and Meatpuppet Mika might be going away!
BeautifulPlumage
OT but hunkered down with a ‘bomb cyclone’ event in PNW. Power went out with a couple of big booms like transformers exploding. Yay. Currently lots of wind and rain.
The satellite images at NOAA show a circular storm; most of our windstorms are straight N/S or E/W winds
mrmoshpotato
@SpaceUnit:
LMAO!
mrmoshpotato
@ewrunning: What about Dr. Moreau?
zeecube
@Warren Senders: that sounds great.
mrmoshpotato
@Jackie:
And that toe-headed pile of shit having sex with minors, ie. Gaetz being a statutory rapist.
mrmoshpotato
@BeautifulPlumage: Bummer! I love a crazy thunderstorm, but not with power outages or flooding.
Steve LaBonne
Just because, I’m going to brag on the community orchestra I play in. Here we are in the Sibelius 6th Symphony. I’m the old dude with white hair and beard in the 2nd violin section. https://youtu.be/umaPzNcIN68?si=GsKCdSGRyvcRzmJe
Jackie
@BeautifulPlumage: I’m east of the Mountains; we’re expecting to get clobbered with high winds/rain tomorrow. Hope you get power back SOON! Hopefully you’re not in a flood path!🤞🏻
mrmoshpotato
@Steve LaBonne: The lings on the strings
Jay
@BeautifulPlumage:
Yeah, it’s weird, south side of the building, mild winds, north side of the building, winds strong enough to knock you down.
BeautifulPlumage
@Jackie:
no, not in a flood path! And I expected to lose power.
There are a bunch of isolated outages in the region, so it will take PSE a while to get to them. Shout-out to all the folks working in this crap right now to restore power!!!!!
Kelly
Our big success of the day was securing homeowners insurance for Mom’s house. Mom died in July at the age of 88. The company she’d insured the place with for 34 years is shutting down after losses from the 2020 Beachie fire. We were notified Nov 1 that coverage would end Dec 1 so a bit of a scramble. New policy is similar costs and coverage. We know several folks that were happy with our new company’s coverage after the Beachie Fire. Handy thing about a fire that burned down over 850 homes around here, local reviews of insurance companies are reliable.
RSA
@Xantar:
@mrmoshpotato:
This is the Peabody Heights Brewery. They have other visiting food trucks (and music!). It has a good vibe, I think. The Baltimore Banner has been covering the story.
YY_Sima Qian
The Trump transition and administration will be such juicy targets for foreign intelligence, be they adversaries, competitors, neutrals, partners or allies:
M31
@Xantar: it was the Peabody Heights Brewery, and the burger truck was called Fuzzies
https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/1gv4gb9/peabody_to_end_partnership_with_fuzzies/
https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/1gs7iyh/avoid_fuzzies_burgers/
way2blue
I like the wrinkles in your curtains. Looks atmospheric in a literary sort of way. Especially with Maxwell’s regal pose. And the trumpeting elephant!
tam1MI
What goes around comes around…
“Pressure is now growing for Pelosi to step aside and let younger leaders take a more prominent role in shaping the party’s future.”
mrmoshpotato
@M31: I hope the leopards enjoy all of his face.
YY_Sima Qian
@tam1MI: Pelosi should stop running for Congress. She is in a safe seat.
pieceofpeace
@Warren Senders: All good!
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Luckily there’s a substitute so the face-eating wombats won’t starve (16:30 – 16:45).
:)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I will note that a big part of Putin hold on power in Russia is he makes sure the government pensions are delivered.
Also that these programs are a big part of why Rural America can exist.
I am wondering if part of the reason the Clown Car Cabinet is it’s sort of the only thing stopping them from running amok is Trump, so he can present himself as the Strong Man defending Social Security to the MAGA hats, and can count on the MAGA hats coming out in any attempt to 25th amendment him.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Not going to watch, but thanks for the continuing random YouTube you post. :)
Gretchen
Betsy de Vos really cared about destroying public schools. I doubt that the wrestling lady has given it a moment’s. Thought. Give her a nice office and some meetings to go to and she might not do much damage.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Trivia Man: I refused to use ULINE at work after I found their personal statements in their catalogs. In particular, if one is shipping framed artworks or treasured photographs, go to Airfloat. Their “Strongboxes” and boxes for shipping unframed items are great, well made, last forever, I used them while at the Smithsonian, and your patronage will help a small business dedicated to the arts in Mississippi.
Gloria DryGarden
@NaijaGal: thank you for commenting w some positive news and current effective actions. That’s all I want to read about, some times.
It’s so needed
Bugboy
Unless they are wrong, bigoted and ignorant in their disagreements, which pretty much standard with the MAGA crowd. I had to pile drive a supervisor the other day for leading staff down the rabbit hole of conflating transvestite with transgender, and inferring transgender people are mentally ill. They MUST know some gay folks, right? How do they not know that in the 50’s and 60’s gay folks went through precisely what transgender folks are going through, right now?
Manyakitty
@Cheryl from Maryland: useful information. Thanks!
prostratedragon
@Steve LaBonne: Well just brag on: gorgeous performance! Don’t think I’d ever heard the 6th before but it’s very interesting.
Chris Johnson
@Lily: About those threats we perceive and the amount of money and power in the healthcare system: I think it’s fairly simple, really.
All the bomb-throwers in the Trump admin are pretty much literally that. They’re not working for this country. They got into position making big promises of how great everything would be, but they have just one chance to wreck all our shit, and this is them trying to position themselves for that one chance.
Performative outrage about this doesn’t help. I’m inclined to just weary acknowledgement, in aid of helping other people who might be wavering, to wrap their brains around that simple fact.
Pretty much, you can be mad at ‘woke’, but if you don’t wake up you’re about to be shivved in your sleep. The call’s coming from inside the house. Those of us trying not to let the enemy in, failed. We’re sorry. Wake up, ya screwed up and it’s now your ass.
This most certainly applies to American healthcare. There’s a lot of wealth and power that is due to be reduced to sub-Soviet status, simply because that’s the only real point. It’s war by other means. Not what you would call bloodless, though.
I will be very, very interested to see if American wealth and power structures, who’ve played along with fascism when they thought they could control it, will snap back when the plan is to ruin them personally. Most of these rich people are marked to be ruined. A truly giant mess is planned and they’re not exempted, not at all.
Chief Oshkosh
I disagree. I hold my elected representatives to AT LEAST the standard you’re asking of/setting for The Jackalariot. They should be resisting within the bounds of their offices and as private citizens. Unless all this talk about don’t obey in advance, don’t send your dollars to Republican voters, etc. is just all “…token shows of resistance and other performative bullshit.”
So, what would this resistance be? Pushing through Biden judge nominees is high on the “To Do” list. Not going out of your way to find a reporter to explain how you can reach across the aisle to help the pig fuckers fuck us over is high on the “Not to be done” list. Remember, we were told that Trump is an existential threat to Democracy (and I agree). Behave accordingly.
Chris Johnson
@YY_Sima Qian: I disagree with the term ‘target’. When the words ‘hostile takeover’ are used, they ain’t kidding. Even Senate Republicans have figured that part out and are taking action (like Thune instead of Scott) to try and defend their gains against the planned bust-out. Trump’s people are not ‘targets’, except for American intelligence services: everyone actively taking positions in his admin or making statements like MTG’s are 100% foreign agents and can be expected to act as such in every way.
cmorenc
Gaetz has been credibly accused of things (sex with a minor) that would ordinarily be grounds for disbarment (or denial of a license to a bar applicant). And this is who Trump wants as AG, when there is an ample supply of prominent RW lawyers who are viciously malevolent sociopaths in tune with his agenda, who haven’t yet committed any acts that would land them before a bar disciplinary committee considering grounds for their disbarment? John Woo might be available…
Layer8Problem
@cmorenc: Yoo. Unless you meant the filmaker.
Hoodie
@cmorenc: Trump’s agenda consists of whatever Trump wants at a given time. He wants Gaetz precisely because he will do whatever Trump wants, not have some separate ideological agenda that might cause problems for Trump. Trump wants another Roy Cohn and thinks Gaetz is the closest thing to that profile.
Steve LaBonne
@prostratedragon: Thank you! The 6th tends to be neglected but I love it.
Niques
@patrick II: ” . . . he is doing this to the whole country as revenge for rejecting him in the 2020 election.”
ABSOLUTELY!
wenchacha
@patrick II: When my kid brother and I did dishes together, we’d make up songs. We did a parody of a Woody song, called “The Little Pebble Real Food Valley.”
All these years later, it must have stuck somewhere in my brother’s head when he wrote this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gG9xxcnoQKI&pp=ygUPRGF2eSBzdHVydGV2YW50
Radio Dave
@FelonyGovt: As a two-year retiree, I completely share in your terror. Adding to my angst, I am a military (enlisted) retiree AND a civil service retiree. Looking at (its) cabinet appointees, I nervously envision a total loss of income, which makes the future even more terrifying….
The Unmitigated Gaul
@Ohio Mom: I was about to suggest that! When St Vincent de Paul helped my brothers and I clear out our mother’s house, they took everything, down to old clothing (to be cut up Into cleaning rags), and the opened containers in her kitchen cupboards. We would have unthinkingly binned them – StVdP said, “We’ll box these and give them to people for whom spices and condiments are a treat.” It was an eye-opener – and it felt good, because it was the sort of thing she would have done.
Mark von Wisco
Senate Dems are working hard to confirm as many judges as possible before the new Congress is seated on January 3rd.
OT: I really like that lamp!