Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

Somebody needs to explain to DeSantis that nobody needs to do anything to make him look bad.

In after Baud. Damn.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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Donald J. Trump: Weakling

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Guess who still hasn’t cracked 60% of votes in a Republican primary?

South Carolina GOP primary result — Trump 59%, Haley 39% Trump “won” the Nevada caucus with a Saddam Hussein-like 99.1% result when his cult orchestrated a race with a god-bothering megachurch nobody named Ryan Binkley. But in every other contest so far, 40%-plus of the most engaged GOP voters expressed a preference for not-Trump.

Of course, Trump will win the nomination, barring an event like a ketchup-slathered chunk of overcooked gristle lodging in his windpipe. The snippets of savvy political analysis I’ve seen since yesterday in the major dailies are using the word “coronation.”

But it should be noted that Trump is a weakling despite being the de facto incumbent and leader of his shit-show party. So, duly noted!

I make no predictions, and I acknowledge that hope is not a strategy. That said, I believe we have an opportunity to beat the walking collection of untreated personality disorders known as Donald J. Trump like a rented mule.

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Random Thought Open Thread

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After seeing the comments a couple of weeks ago about the NYT reporting about the bigoted attacks coming out of the mouths of Republicans in the House and the Senate, I had a thought.

Could Sexism Work for Our Side For a Change?

I mean, whatever happened to “the gentle lady from wherever”?

Seriously, we should just nuke every “tradition” in the House and Senate that is based on the assumption of comity.  Every single tradition that isn’t actually a rule.  Gone.  And then when we control that chamber, we need to nuke all the rules that are based on the assumption of comity are gone, too.

But back to my original thought.  Since Marge appears to be the face of the new Republican ugliness, maybe sexism can work for our side for a change?  Men can be seen as strong or forceful, but all Marge represents is in your face lies, over the top anger and *ugliness, the worst kind of partisanship, and racism.  So I’m not sure that strong or forceful is what folks come away with from Marge.

A fair number of people still have conventional views about gender roles, and even though I am not a fan of traditional gender roles, she sure violates every traditional gender role for women that I can come up with.  There is an *ugliness about her that brings to mind gender-based insults.

I don’t see how it helps the Republican party to have Marge be the face of it.   Is it too much to hope that moderates will see that and be turned off?  That they will judge her behavior more harshly than they would judge the same behaviors coming from a man?

In any case, I hope that Marge being the face of the new republican party comes back to bite them in the end.

I know everyone doesn’t read every thread, so here’s the article:  On Capitol Hill, Republicans Use Bigoted Attacks Against Political Foes

*ugliness as in mean and nasty, not as in not pretty.

Open thread.

 

 

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: It’s Biden vs. Trump — Our Very Serious Media Will Have to Deal

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And it may just break a few of them, over the next eight months…

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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Fields of Glory

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From ace gardener and photographer Ozark Hillbilly:

Last year I was able to catch a number of my DiL’s 5K runs. Mostly I stand around waiting for her at the finish line (maybe even catch the beginning of the race!) and be a familiar face when she crosses the finish line (she only competes with herself).
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Then we sit and visit for 15 or 30 mins and she heads for home to her family and I wander the back roads to our place.

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The bonus is I get to see some places I would otherwise never go to. These pics are from a St Charles County park that is heavily invested in prairie restoration. (Sorry, I have forgotten which one and when I searched their website, nothing rang a bell — they have some really nice parks to visit!)

The grasses were glorious.

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What’s going on in your garden (planning / prep / memories), this weekend?

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Saturday Night Slap Fights Open Thread: Repubs in Disarray!

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Be a lot more fun if so many innocent peoples’ lives weren’t hanging on the results, but I’ll take some consolation in Preacher Johnson getting handbagged by his own team. Per CNN, “Speaker Mike Johnson once again stuck in the middle as funding deadline looms”:

… With just days until a partial government shutdown and lawmakers out on recess until next week, House Republicans are divided over the best path ahead with Speaker Mike Johnson yet to make a call and House and Senate appropriators still haggling over conservative policy riders deemed poison pills by Democrats.

It’s a messy and complicated situation that comes as Johnson is still grappling with how to lead his unruly and narrow majority and as patience is running thin for the inexperienced speaker who has already punted several funding deadlines since taking the gavel.

“Now, we are in a fully Johnson-run House, and he’s got to own all the decision making in the 12 appropriations bills. That’s probably not best for him. Probably not best for public policy either,” Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said. “It’s actually drug out what is sort of inevitable here, which is we will either perform to the (spending caps) or have a government shutdown.”

In January, Johnson announced a deal with the Senate to fund the government at $1.66 trillion much to the frustration of his right flank. But the fight over where that money goes and what programs get funded has dragged on for weeks now, with appropriators working around the clock to try and reach a deal before the next government funding deadline on March 1. Johnson is facing pressure from members of the House Freedom Caucus to include dozens of policy riders that would never pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Earlier this week, Johnson huddled with members of his leadership team in Florida, but sources present said that Johnson didn’t articulate or lay out a specific path to keeping the government funded, instead summarizing how the process worked and signaling he hoped a deal could come together next week that he could put on the floor…

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War for Ukraine Day 731: Year Three of Putin’s Three Day Genocidal Re-invasion of Ukraine Begins

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Painting by NEIVANMADE. A Ukrainian Soldier leads several Ukrainian civilians. He is holding the hand of one woman. They are painted in golden yello and are standing on the crest of a hill that has concertina wire and other anti-tank and anti-personnel obstacles on it. The hill and the obstacles are painted black. They are facing away and to the right where the sun is rising in the east and the sky is lightening from a light yellow to an orange. Below the Ukrainian Soldier and Ukrainian civilians, written in gold, is "TOGETHER YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD"

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The third year of Ukraine’s defense against Putin’s and Russia’s genocidal re-invasion has begun.

 

2 years ago, russia started a full-scale war against our people and state.

The enemy planned to destroy us in three days. But Ukrainian unity and bravery broke an aggressor’s plan.

In two years, we eliminated more than 400,000 thousands of russian personnel, destroyed almost 7,000 tanks and 10,000 artillery systems. We sank the cruiser Moskva and shot down two “no-analogue” A-50 planes. We liberated our cities.

We are grateful to every country, leader, and person who has stood—and continues to stand—with Ukraine.

We fight for our freedom.
Ukraine will win!

We should not forget that while the third year of the re-invasion begins today, this is actually the tenth year of Russia’s invasion and occupation of Donetsk and Luhansk and the illegal annexation of Crimea. I know the start dates for those events are normally recognized as being in the spring, but the medals that Putin awarded actually date to February of 2014. This most likely reflects the covert infiltration of the Little Green Men into Ukraine. It also reflects that Putin believes that the end of the EuroMaidan Movement protests and the beginning of the overthrow of Yanukovych’s corrupt regime as the beginning of his initial war on Ukraine.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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Saturday Evening Open Thread

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We’ll call this an afternoon open thread for my timezone and a early evening open thread for you east coast rabble. Joelle and I just returned from Cat Fest, which I will discuss later in detail, but I wanted to share something with you before then. When we got into the car to drive to Mesa, I told Joelle I didn’t want to take the 202 or any of the highways, it was a nice Saturday afternoon let’s just take University Ave down to North Mesa Drive and see what’s going on and see if we spot anything interesting.

We were about halfway there, and we came across a much earlier model of me, probably a 1952 prototype:

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I saw him first and my thought first thought was “so I guess that’s what I look like that’s not too scary.” It was pretty funny because Joelle looked at him, then looked at me and her eyes got really wide and then she looked back at him and looked back at me and was like “How are you two places at once?” We pulled up next to him and chatted him up at the stop light, and told him about my love of overalls and pursuit of an affordable trike. He laughed and posed for us:

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We are legion.

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