Looks like we could use a new one. Steelers did not disappoint, it turns out the nfl is trying really hard to injure more players by extending league play to 17 games.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Consistently wrong since 2002
I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.
Let me file that under fuck it.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.
People are complicated. Love is not.
The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.
The choice is between normal and crazy.
Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!
Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.
Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.
Democrats are back in array!
The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.
Bark louder, little dog.
No one could have predicted…
He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.
Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
War for Ukraine Day 1,046: Sumy!
SiubhanDuinne
I’m going to bed, but it pains my heart to see a commentless thread, so I’ll prime the pump. Sleep well, all.
VFX Lurker
Went to Trader Joe’s tonight. Almost all of the holiday feasting foods have vanished from their shelves, though they still had a few items left, like Christmas Sprinkles from Spain and Oat Nog.
I paid more attention to the back of the packages this time. Product of Spain. Product of France. Product of Vietnam. Product of Thailand. Product of Korea.
Wondering how much more they’ll cost when the idiot implements tariffs this year.
Gretchen
@VFX Lurker: We are having an ice storm now in the Midwest. My husband sent me a picture of the local Trader Joe’s from yesterday, and it was nearly cleaned out, including the entire meat section. Who runs out and buys all the meat right before ice is threatening to take all the power lines down? What’s the thought process here?
It doesn’t seem to be as bad as predicted so far, but it’s a skating rink out there and a challenge to get the dog out to pee.
Jay
@VFX Lurker:
20% minimum. 15% tariff at minimum + 5% store margin.
Gretchen
My grandsons are really into team logos and songs right now for some reason. The Steelers theme song is by far the catchiest, and now it will be stuck in my head for the rest of the night. Heeeeere we go, bop, bop a de bop……
hitchhiker
Last night I spent some time thinking about the fact that the Vichy regime in France lasted almost exactly four years — from the summer of 1940 to the summer of 1944. There was early, uneasy support from the public in what the Vichy leaders did — let the Nazis push them around, tax them, harass their Jewish friends, occupy their cities and so on in exchange for not bombing the fuck out of Paris.
And I realized that this is an analogue to what is about to happen here. A foreign government (which is what 45 represents) is going to openly take control of our institutions with nobody to stop them. We have a version of the Vichy authorities in Republicans who know better and Democrats who think it makes sense to play along.
Who is our version of DeGaulle? Who is the leader who walks away from the whole mess and calls it what it is? DeGaulle spent the Vichy years in London trying to help Churchill win.
Redshift
We have two legislative special elections going on in (relatively) nearby districts in VA, one for a state senate seat whose previous incumbent got elected to Congress, and one for a House of Delegates seat whose incumbent is running for the state senate seat. We need to keep both of these Democratic to maintain Dem majorities in both houses, so the stakes are higher than most specials.
I went out door-knocking in 18 degree wind chill today, so I feel entitled to brag about Doing the Work. (And I’m seeing reports of strong Dem turnout in both of these and in the Republican district downstate, so that’s good.)
John Revolta
@VFX Lurker: There aren’t gonna necessarily be tariffs on all imports across the board. It’ll likely be based on individual countries, and maybe various products as well.
Jay
@John Revolta:
It will be based on whom, (Country or Company) gives Dolt 47 a bribe and which Domestic sectors buy him off.
NotMax
@John Revolta
No tariffs on tomatoes.
That’s where ketchup comes from, don’tcha know.
//
Jay
@NotMax:
Does Dolt 47 know that ketchup is made with tomatoes?
Clear, unclear, or is there a concept of a plan?
Jay
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/fugitive-u-s-rioter-seeks-asylum-in-whistler-amid-warnings-of-more-to-come-1.7164635
ascap_scab
Joni Ernst sucks. 2026 starts early.
https://youtu.be/YwWsUBnRg9U
NotMax
@Jay
Wanna bet none of which was declared for taxation purposes?
eclare
@Jay:
Yep. It’s mob boss and RICO (it’s an official act, so legal!) all the way down.
Gretchen
@ascap_scab: that guy sounds like he sucks just as much as Joni.
Gretchen
@NotMax: after breaking into the Capitol he wasn’t violent so it’s fine? If he broke into a bank but didn’t hurt the tellers there shouldn’t be any consequences?
NotMax
@Gretchen
Want to make it clear that’s the miscreant’s argument, and not mine.
BlueGuitarist
@Redshift:
Awesome!
thank you!
Gretchen
@NotMax: yes, agreed that it’s his stupid argument, and that it’s likely that he never thought of taxes on his crypto profits so doesn’t realize how dumb it is to draw attention to them
MagdaInBlack
@Gretchen: Good morning. Where are you in the greater midwest getting this storm? I’m nw Chicago suburbs and we seem (fingers crossed) to be north of all of it. Best wishes weathering the storm.
Gretchen
@MagdaInBlack: Kansas City. They were predicting a lot of ice bringing trees and power lines down, but fingers crossed it’s more of a glazing. Still predicting a lot of snow but I suspect that they go with the most dramatic predictions to keep us clicking on the weather. Don’t seem to be any power outages yet. I live in a neighborhood with big trees and overhead power lines so that’s always a worry with ice.There were a lot of accidents and even fire trucks sliding around so officials are begging people to stay home.
eclare
@Gretchen:
I think I read all of Missouri is supposed to be hit hard. I also live in a neighborhood with a lot of big, old trees. I understand your concern.
I hope you don’t get ice. Here in Memphis it’s just supposed to be very cold, I can live with that. I took a nap earlier to find one of my kitties graciously keeping my neck warm.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Gretchen: what’s the thought process? Didn’t these places vote for Trump? What evidence is there that there are any thought processes?
Barbara
@Gretchen: If it stays cold you can pack them in a cooler and leave them outside?
eclare
@Barbara:
Plus if you have a gas stove/oven it doesn’t matter. Thank dog I have one.
satby
@Gretchen: but up heah in the frozen north, we can use the great outdoors as our natural freezer. I have a pot of soup frozen on my porch and other stuff in the car, also frozen, from my trip to the grocery store yesterday.
If the power goes out, the problem is how to cook it.
Jay
@satby:
Fire, fire good,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubVvNx8giw
NotMax
@Jay
You betcha.
;)
NotMax
Bad linky. Fix.
@Jay
You betcha.
;)
NotMax
Vog rolled in from a volcanic hot spot on the Big Island on Saturday. Forecast to block enough sun to keep daytime temps at the normally warmest areas of the island to under 70 for the next few days until the winds shift.
Princess
@hitchhiker: The difference is the French surrendered under threat of bombing. The Americans just rolled over — voted for the invasion or stayed home and watched TV. And now even those who voted or spoke against it are going to the other side or quietly complying — Fetterman, Sanders, Khanna, Morning Joe and the rest of the news media.
Baud
@Princess:
Fetterman and Sanders are chasing white working class voters. It’s the whole Republican lite thing.
Professor Bigfoot
@Baud: You’d think they would notice that it simply doesn’t work… that voters will always prefer REAL conservatives over “conservative lite.”
Americans* appear to prefer Confederates over the party led by women and Black people.
Baud
@Professor Bigfoot:
If you don’t kowtow to those voters, you effectively have to fight them. And not many have the courage to do that. Much safer to spend your time talking about how the Dems are doing it wrong.
Quiltingfool
@Gretchen: I live in the Lake of the Ozarks area. Two phrases that strike fear in our hearts are “ice storm” or “freezing rain” after the horrible ice storm of 2007.
This is a baby storm compared to that year. I remember a hard freezing rain that lasted a long time; this storm has been drizzle since last night. There is ice, but the predicted quarter to half inch of ice is not great, but it beats 3” of ice (what we got in the big storm!)
My husband works for the county road department and this is his first experience with winter weather and running salt trucks and snow blading. Thursday and Friday they got their trucks ready, and he had to go to work Saturday at noon. They don’t go home until the storm is over. Comp time will be lit, lol!
Quiltingfool
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: They did vote for Trump, but after the ice storm of 2007, people around here are terrified when they hear “freezing rain.” There was so much ice that electric poles snapped in half. No power for weeks. Generator sales went through the roof.
Folks go a little crazy at the store, they want to be prepared just in case. I didn’t go to the store simply to avoid the crazy. But, I’m a weather junky, so I read NWS forecasts and figured it wasn’t a repeat of 2007. We were lucky in that we never lost power in 2007 (I had survivor guilt!). If we lose power, though, we don’t have water, since we have a well. That would really irritate me.
eclare
@NotMax:
I thought the fog came in on cat feet….
Chris T.
@eclare:
Yes, but vog isn’t fog. It comes in on big stompy Godzilla feet.