Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

It’s possible to be a liberal firebrand without crapping on the party.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

So very ready.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

So many bastards, so little time.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Bark louder, little dog.

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Saturday Night Music Thread

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I was inspired this morning by kalakal who posted a couple of songs related to Thursday’s verdict in the NY election interference trial.

So how about an old-fashioned trial / verdict / getting what’s coming to him themed music thread to celebrate this week’s events in NY?

I Can See Clearly Now

The Bigger Harder They Come, the Harder They Fall

 

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War for Ukraine Day 829: Ukrainian Air Defense Did Yeoman’s Work, But the Butcher’s Bill Is Still Steep

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Quick housekeeping note. The girls are fine. Rosie starts her next round of chemo on Monday. So not much to report. Thank you all for the well wishes, good thoughts, prayers, and donations.

Here’s the butcher’s bill from Russia’s attacks on Ukraine early this morning:

35 missiles and 46 drones were shot down during tonight’s Russian big missile attack on Ukraine. Air-, sea-, and land-based missiles, as well as “Shahed” were used by Russians.

In total, the Russians launched 53 missiles of various types and 47 attack UAVs:
– 35 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 MS (launch area – Saratov Region, Caspian Sea);
– 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles (from Crimea);
– 1 “Iskander-K” cruise missile (from Crimea);
– 10 Kalibr cruise missiles (from the northeastern part of the Black Sea);
– 3 Kh-59/Kh-69 guided air missiles (from the Zaporizhzhia region);
– 47″Shahed-131/136″ (Prymorsko-Akhtarsk launch area).

81 air targets were shot down:
– 30 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles;
– 4 Kalibr cruise missiles;
– 1 “Iskander-K” cruise missile;
– 46 “Shahed-131/136”.

The second image shows a map of today’s Russian attack on Ukraine. Once again, Stryi, where Ukraine’s largest underground gas storage facility is located, becomes the primary target of the attack.

https://t.me/monitorwarr/21378
https://t.me/ComAFUA/301

Last night, Russia launched another attack on Ukraine with more than 50 missiles of various types and about 50 Shahed drones. They targeted the south, center and west of Ukraine. Two thermal power plants are seriously damaged.

This was the sixth massive attack on Ukrainian thermal power plants in 2.5 months – DTEK energy company.

▪️ An attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facility was reported in the morning by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration.

▪️ Russians also hit one of the energy infrastructure facilities in Zaporizhzhia. According to the head of the regional military administration, there is destruction at the site of the hit.

President Zelenskyy is still traveling, so no daily address has been posted for yesterday or today. The official YouTube channel of the President of Ukraine has posted the video of his interview with The Guardian that I quoted from on Thursday night. It is below.

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Bacon Grease & Whiny Jerks (Open Thread)

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I saw this ad in one of my fancy gourmet magazines and was taken aback:

Bacon grease productMy Granny always kept a coffee can of bacon grease next to her stove and used it to cook just about everything. She started life as a Georgia farm girl during the Great Depression, so she had a “waste not, want not” outlook.

I picked up most of my early cooking skills (such as they were) from Granny since my mom and her mom viewed cooking as a distraction to be endured as seldom as possible. Though I’ve expanded my repertoire considerably over the years, thanks mostly to cooking programs on TV and the internet, the effects of Granny’s tutelage remain. They earned me my internet handle from Bill.

I still believe in bacon grease, so much so that my kiddo once gave me a t-shirt that said “Praise the Lard” for Christmas. That said, I was delighted to discover as an adult that vegetables don’t have to be cooked to bacon-flavored mush in a sauce pan. These days, my go-to method is to toss veggies in salt, pepper and olive oil and roast them on a sheet pan.

But it’s good to see Granny and the entire universe of country cooks get their due in the glossy pages of Bon Appétit!

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I like this campaign advice from Josh Marshall at TPM on how Dems can keep Trump’s felony convictions front and center from now to November:

The way to constantly inject Trump’s felony conviction into the campaign, other than remembering that “convicted felon” is now his first name, is to simply make his pathetic whining, excuses and demands for never-ending life mulligans the center of the campaign against him. He’s a disgrace but more than that an embarrassment. It won’t be hard because he’ll be making this claim non-stop through November, just a constant cue up for the same lethal mockery. It is the heart of his politics to always be jacking the conversation up to higher and higher levels of drama, even when the drama is his own menace, indeed especially when the drama is his own menace. That’s his power. What cuts him down is to zero in on the pathetic excuse-making and whining, a trait all of us associate with the most odious and pitiful people we’ve ever known. And let that pull the disgrace of his many crimes and prosecutions along with it.

Yes! It won’t matter to the cultists, but they aren’t the target audience here. Normal people tend to find whiny jerks off-putting. Let’s use that!

Open thread!

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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Cold Open Thread

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h/t for the photo Subaru Dianne

I’m sure Hillary Clinton grieves for our country and the terrible turn it took in 2015, and for the road we have been on since.  How could she not?  At the same time, she is tough enough and strong enough to have embodied the expression that living well is the best revenge.

So I’d say that a little bit of gloating is now in order!

I can’t typically look at photos of the Dumpster, and you have probably noticed that I tend to not post photos of the disgusting creature, but this one doesn’t bother me!  Hope you feel the same.

He is the monster who stalked her on the debate stage, so it brings me great pleasure to see him depicted as the monster he is.  Hoping he will literally be powerless soon.  He is melting like the wicked witch, I think, just more slowly.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Bright, Sunshiny Day

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Respect to our own DougJ!


(Where former theatre critic Frank Bruni frets about Trump’s ahmazing command of The Optics… )

Warning — earworm!

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Late Night Open Thread: A Canticle for Lies-the-Bitch*

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I think the chance that the RNC rather than the DNC is the insane violent convention just went up kind of a lot

— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) May 30, 2024 at 5:29 PM

A man in Fresno finds an image of Trump in the an oil slick that leaked out of his 1984 Dodge Dart. Jim Bakker visits the oil spill and says it’s been touched by the hand of God. He offers onlookers survival buckets of Mac and cheese at a significant discount.

Visitors leave stones at the oil slick. By 2030 those stones are used to build a small chapel. Don Jr is buried there when he passes from cocaine induced cardiac arrest that same year. Followers, now wearing orange face paint, insist he was secretly vaccinated.

Eric attempts to claim the throne as the true successor to to his father, but followers stone him to death when he accidentally implies black people have souls at an event in Council Bluffs. They parade his corpse through the streets before dumping it in a YMCA pool.

By 2040 referring to him by his full name is seen as a sin. They whisper “the Donald” in hushed, reverent tones. A splinter group believes he must only be referred to as The Once and Future President, Son of Fred, Child of God. The groups routinely battle in Walmart Parking lots.

By 2050 many his followers have walked away from society. On the Day of Shrugging, they all put down tools and remotes and wander into the wilderness. Within 5 days 70% of them have died of exposure or animal attacks.

Those who remained in the cities spend the rest of their days walking the path of reverence, visiting the Trump holy sites: Mar-a-Lago, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Atlantic City, and for some reason Shoji Tabuchi’s former theater in Branson, Missouri.

By 2100 the countryside is littered with MAGA chapels created to service the pilgrims. Each chapel has a Trump relic and most have repurposed Rockafire Explosion robots that just repeat CROOKED HILLARY over and over until they die.

(*Not really relevant, but I couldn’t resist)

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