Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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  1. 1.

    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.

  2. 2.

    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.

  3. 3.

    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.

  5. 5.

    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……

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    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.

  7. 7.

    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.)

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    @Jay

    Vo, who says he’s living off savings he’d put away after successful cryptocurrency investments,

    Wanna bet none of which was declared for taxation purposes?

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    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?

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

  23. 23.

    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.

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    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  35. 35.

    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.

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    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!

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    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.

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