Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

All hail the time of the bunny!

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

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

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

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM

always so funny to see trump on the world stage because he is big nuts mcgee with his band of sycophants and cheering blonde nazi moms but he shrinks into a little boy when he has to meet with grownups
the most mentally fucked up president in history. he makes nixon look like eisenhower.

— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM

get trump in a room with four guys that played baseball and one guy would walk in and say who is this fat old bitch and another guy would say hey nice tie, does it go all the way to floor and a third guy would say incredible hair, you buy that at joanne’s fabrics and he would kill himself.

— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM

i give donald trump credit, he rolled into *europe* and said i’m going to be the pettiest bitch here. and then he met the french guy shorter than napoleon and got served ten whole bags of frenchness. on camera.

— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM

This is my take on the whole Trump third term bullshit, we're less than 100 days in and he's like.. visibly falling apart. The presidency, even when you do the absolute minimum like Trump, is REALLY REALLY STRESSFUL

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM

There's going to be an interview with Biden in like a month or so and he's going to sound much better than he did.
Why? Because the presidency and the campaign trail are fucking brutal, they turn healthy 50 somethings into zombies, much less a man in his 80's.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) April 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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  1. 1.

    Jackie

    That last Bluesky post says it all.

    This is the America voters chose. Good job, America! 👏🏻👏🏻  👏🏻👏🏻  👏🏻👏🏻

  7. 7.

    Jay

    Sorry, I called her his “wife”. She’s Agent Krasnov’s Slovenian Time Share and Handler.

  8. 8.

    divF

    @sukabi: Seconded. AL it is great to see you back on the job. Not only because in portends your recovery, but also you are so good at it.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jay:

    I’m all for the snark and the schadenfreude, but on a completely serious note, I’m incredibly horrified and sad about the loss to Canada and especially Vancouver. Is the Filipino community there a fairly sizeable population? I can hardly imagine the pain they must be in.

    Cars increasingly seem to be weapons of choice for mass murderers.

    Okay, don’t want to derail the thread, and I need to go to bed anyhow. Back to the FFOTUSian snark and schadenfreude.

  10. 10.

    prostratedragon

    Today’s new word is subdeal:

    RADDATZ: Trump said he’s made 200 deals on tariffs. 200 deals? Who has he made deals with? Is there actually any deal at this point?

    BESSENT: I believe that he is referring to subdeals within the negotiations we are doing.

    Josh Marshall really pegged the dignity wraith concept.

  12. 12.

    Jay

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    They are our 3rd largest visible minority, and so many, are health care workers, teachers and other care workers. Philippine communities all over Canada are in shock, we all are. It was just a completely senseless crime.

  16. 16.

    eclare

    @Jay:

    I didn’t realize that they were Canada’s third biggest minority.  What a horrible, horrible crime.  Aren’t you somewhere near Vancouver?

  18. 18.

    Jay

    @eclare:

    They are BC’s 3rd largest visible minority. Every Province is different. In Quebec, it’s Africans from the former French Colonies and Haiti. In Ontario, it’s Caribbean Africans.

  19. 19.

    JWR

    Right now, Grit TV is running “The Great Locomotive Chase”, which story was discussed here some time ago. It stars Fess Parker. I don’t know how closely it follows the truth, but according to New Georgia Encyclopedia:

    The Great Locomotive Chase, directed by Francis D. Lyon, is a fairly accurate depiction of William Pittenger’s various accounts of the raid; in fact, the film includes a shot of Pittenger’s book cover, but not of the raid itself.

    Hey, it’s a Disney film, and I know they’d never stretch the truth. ;)

  21. 21.

    BellyCat

    @Jay: On the bright side, that’s the first time DJTdiot has slept with his wife in 3 years.

    Today’s internet winner! (Even though the timeframe is likely off by a decade or more)

  22. 22.

    Medicine Man

    @SiubhanDuinne: My sister-in-law (my Ate) was there with her friends 10 minutes earlier. Avoided being a casualty by sheer luck. Event happened pretty close to where I grew up.

  23. 23.

    Doug

    i give donald trump credit, he rolled into *europe* and said i’m going to be the pettiest bitch here. and then he met the french guy shorter than napoleon and got served ten whole bags of frenchness. on camera.
    The art of the cut direct lives on in France.​

  24. 24.

    Jay

    @Medicine Man:

    I am glad that your Ate was not there at the time. I hope she and who ever were there with her, are doing okay.

    The sad thing, is this is how we “get along” in Vancouver.

    Richmond night market.

    We go to each others festivals, we share each others food at work, we go to weddings, and bit by bit, we, us white people, get “better”.

    5 year old kid, I cry

    And this was just stupid and anger.

  26. 26.

    JoyceH

    Someone once said, and now I can’t NOT see it – Trump sits on every chair like he’s sitting on a toilet.

  27. 27.

    satby

    That trip was a fiasco for the felon, and I’m sure even his ginormous ego knew it. Waiting for him to threaten to nuke Paris.

  31. 31.

    Baud

    Correctly taking about “Republicans”

    Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.” Pritzker says, calling for “mass protests” “mobilization” and “disruption.”

  32. 32.

    JoyceH

    @eclare: I’m sure when the insider memoirs are written we’ll learn about the dreadful tantrums his team had to endure to get him to go to the funeral. “Don’t want to.” “Sir, you have to.”  “But I don’t WANT to!” Etc etc. After all, the funeral was on the weekend! So unreasonable. He missed his golf!

  33. 33.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    I hope when Macron snubbed him he said “at least Zelensky knows to wear black to funeral dumbass!”

  34. 34.

    ron

    Yeah, everyone here pays attention to the pope funeral and the rest, but everyone else was watching the draft or enjoying the spring weather. It doesn’t matter at all how bad Trump looks, acts, or is diminished by Macron. Most people are oblivious.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    @ron:

    By that reasoning, it doesn’t matter how bad we look either, so people should stop worrying about it.

  36. 36.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Also this pisses me off… several years back I bought a linen suit in a lighter blue – a shade or two lighter than navy. It’s for summer and more casual so a somewhat less conventional color is fine but it’s basically the same blue that seems to have become “MAGA blue” that all these guys are wearing. So now I got to retire that suit.

  40. 40.

    Princess

    @Baud: Apparently there has been a rise in mad cow disease in the US. Some seems associated with eating game but not all.

  41. 41.

    eclare

    @JoyceH:

    I’m sure.  I remember in his first term when he refused to go to a WWII battle commemoration.  It was raining.

    I bet there will be VE commemorations next month, eighty years.  My money is on him not going out of spite, which will be a relief for everyone there.

  42. 42.

    eclare

    @Princess:

    That is very scary.  I was living in London in 1996 during the mad cow scare.  Last I checked, I still can’t donate blood.

  43. 43.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @Baud: I’m a federal worker (economist with a regulatory agency)…my idea is for everyone in our office to send resumes to industry stakeholders because ethics rules mandate we be recused for working on projects related to any interested party so their entire deregulatory rulemaking agenda would come to a screeching halt.

    Might give us some bargaining power and would definitely cause the appointees to get yelled at for lack of progress but what are supposed to do? For all we know we could be RIFed tomorrow and they’ve been encouraging feds to find “higher value” jobs in the private sector so we’d just be doing what they’ve been telling us to do for the past three months. But it would also sort of put us on strike without actually being on strike.

  47. 47.

    AM in NC

    @eclare:  I couldn’t donate for decades because I lived in London in the early 1990s. BUT last time I checked, it looked like they FINALLY lifted that ban!!!!   So definitely worth double-checking that.

  49. 49.

    p.a.

    @eclare: My goddaughter was a young child during the mad cow scare.  Young, but old enough to remember the news broadcasts.  Don’t think she’s ever eaten beef, and she’s not a vegetarian, pescatarian etc

  52. 52.

    lowtechcyclist

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: ​
     

    Might give us some bargaining power and would definitely cause the appointees to get yelled at for lack of progress but what are supposed to do? For all we know we could be RIFed tomorrow and they’ve been encouraging feds to find “higher value” jobs in the private sector so we’d just be doing what they’ve been telling us to do for the past three months. But it would also sort of put us on strike without actually being on strike.

    Brilliant!!!

  54. 54.

    Librettist

    …but Joe had foot palsy.

    6’3″ 245

    The Royal Court stenographers are politely ignoring the swelling around the eyes, exophthalmos, drooping right eyelid and inability of both eyes to have the same focal point.

    He looks like the Grim Reaper is only a couple of steps behind him now.

    I didn’t know Hyperthyroidism comes with dementia if left untreated. I bet the old git can’t be bothered to take him meds on the regular.

  55. 55.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Suzanne: ​
     

    Yeesh.

    In February, he described the group chats to the podcaster Lex Fridman as “the equivalent of samizdat” — the self-published Soviet underground press — in a “soft authoritarian” age of social media shaming and censorship.

    Sure, “the equivalent of samizdat,” only a samizdat of rich and powerful elites, rather than the powerless. Uhhuh.

    These are the days of lasers in the jungle
    Lasers in the jungle somewhere
    Staccato signals of constant information
    A loose affiliation of millionaires
    And billionaires and baby

    Paul Simon, decades ahead of his time.

  58. 58.

    Suzanne

    @lowtechcyclist: This is concerning:

    Torenberg launched Chatham House the summer of 2024, naming it after a British think tank that formalized the insight that trusted conversations require a degree of privacy. Two of its conservative participants said they see the group as a way to shift centrist Trump-curious figures to the Republican side, but its founder said he’d begun it to have “a left-right exchange where we could have real conversations because of filter bubble group chats.”

    Chatham House includes high-profile figures like the economist Larry Summers and the historian Niall Ferguson, and more partisan figures like Shapiro and the Democratic analyst David Shor. Andreessen lurks. But several participants described it to me as something like a gladiatorial arena with Cuban most often in the center, sparring with conservatives.

    (“no idea what you are talking about :)” Cuban emailed in response to an inquiry about his arguments on Chatham House.)

  59. 59.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Baud:

    U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sent a warning to Mexico this weekend, saying she’ll cut off beef imports from Mexico if the country doesn’t step up efforts to stop the spread of a flesh-eating parasite

    Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump

    I believe that’s called outsourcing under duress.

    @Baud: I wonder if this would be a national story if some Democratic dogcatcher in East Bumfuck had said these things.

    Or, worse, a campus activist…😱😱😱

  62. 62.

    Another Scott

    @Librettist: Most of the press is pretty much ignoring all kinds of stuff about 47 and his hangers-on and enablers.

    E.g. from HCR’s April 27 letter:

    In the Trump administration, the connections between the government and business include the president’s family members.

    Zach Everson of Forbes has been following the story of the Trump family’s involvement in artificial intelligence company Dominari Holdings, Inc. In February, Everson reported that just weeks after Trump announced the administration’s push to loosen regulations and expand infrastructure for AI, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric invested in Dominari and joined its brand new advisory board, for which they received 750,000 shares each in the company although they had no official duties. The company then launched another company, American Data Center, Inc., in which the Trumps also invested. That company focused on the “high-performance computing infrastructure” to support AI, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency.

    According to Amber Jackson of the U.K.’s Data Centre Magazine, Dominari stock leaped more than 1,000% after the Trump sons joined the advisory board. On Friday, Everson reported on a Securities and Exchange Commission filing revealing that Dominari has applied for conditions that would enable the shareholders, including Don and Eric Trump, to sell their stocks earlier than a normal timeline would allow. Each Trump brother now controls 1.2 million shares of Dominari, each holding now worth $5.8 million.

    On Wednesday, Trump made the pay-to-play nature of his administration explicit when he announced that the top 220 holders of his $TRUMP cryptocurrency token would be invited to a dinner with Trump at his private club and that they would be offered a “VIP White House Tour” the next day. MacKenzie Sigalos and Kevin Collier of CNBC reported the meme coin jumped more than 50% on the news, netting Trump and his allies nearly $900,000 in trading fees.

    And they’re going to keep doing it – and much worse – until they’re stopped.

    Grr…

    We have to vote the monsters out.

    I really, really like this image – 10 lessons for stronger movements – “Imperfect allies aren’t enemies”, etc.

    (via mastodon.social/explore )

    Have a good week, everyone.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  65. 65.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Baud: right on right religious wars.

    My God I appropriated and abused for political purposes is greater than your God you appropriated and abused for political purposes.

  66. 66.

    Baud

    @satby:

    I like him, but if he’s the 2028 nominee, the story 24/7 will be about his wealth.

    Not that any other potential nominee won’t have something they’ll focus on to distract voters.

  68. 68.

    Betty Cracker

    @Suzanne: Good lord. I think my brain broke when I read the part about how Richard Hanania, who admitted he posted white supremacist garbage under a pseudonym for years, is now considered too woke by the people who are not so secretly running the country right now and using our tax dollars to set up a panopticon to police our thoughts. Yikes doesn’t begin to cover it.

  69. 69.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @lowtechcyclist:  Thanks for the earworm, now I get to go play that album multiple times.

    These are the days of miracle and wonder so don’t cry, baby don’t cry, don’t cry…

  70. 70.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @ron: Tan suit on line 1 for Ron…

    People are only oblivious to what the oligarchs want them to not know about.

    ETA: Or rather, they know about what the oligarchs want them to know about.

  71. 71.

    satby

    @Baud: well, I haven’t thought about 2028 at all yet, honestly. Let’s see what happens in 2026.

    FYI: Demonstrations everywhere this Thursday, May Day. I’m going to a local one here, and 50501 has links to where others are.

  73. 73.

    karen gail

    After I read an article about Trump’s ‘clown shows” during visit to Vatican I read the comments section. (I was wondering just how Trump’s worshippers saw the whole mess.) Seems that Trump worshippers can’t tell difference between Trump and Biden; they accused Biden of “texting, laughing, taking selfies, then falling asleep during service, he wore the wrong color suit and was total disgrace.” While they saw Trump as a shining example of decorum, grace and reverence towards everyone he met and while center stage during funeral set an example of proper behavior for a man. Guess it makes “sense” since they see him as example of masculinity with the body of Superman and the Brains of Iron Man.

  76. 76.

    Geminid

    @satby: Governor Pritzker inspired one of the funnier satire accounts around: “Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker.” The header picture shows a smiling Jay Pritzker in Mongol armor, with a fierce hawk on his forearm. There’s a lot of bombast about tbe Great Khan Pritzker and his loyal warriors, plus some more serious stuff. The creator is in the advertising business and lives in Champagne, Illinois, and the account is on BlueSky now.

  77. 77.

    Ohio Mom

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: I had a lovely bright red wool winter hat I had to retire for the same reason. It wasn’t a baseball cap, it was shaped like Robin Hood’s hunter cap but still, too close.

    I am wincing at your suit though. Suits are expensive. Maybe there is a way to use the pieces separately?

  78. 78.

    stinger

    @Baud: It is my twice-dashed dream of having a woman in the White House, but both Pritzker and Walz would make good presidents and are “electable” in this racist sexist country.

  79. 79.

    stinger

    @eclare: Sadly, the 250th anniversary of the U.S. will occur during his term. I can only hope for rain during every planned outdoor event.

  80. 80.

    mrmoshpotato

    I bet Putin’s orange bitch is dreaming of his daddy Vladdy’s penis

    Would’ve been better if the pile of shit hadn’t wasted taxpayer money to be flown to Europe.

  81. 81.

    Jackie

    The very classy FFOTUS administration:

    “Trump administration officials late Sunday began placing dozens of posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants along the White House driveway,” Axios reports.

    “It’s a provocative, sure-to-be-controversial move aimed at highlighting President Trump’s immigration crackdown as his 100th day in office approaches.”

    “Driving the news: The posters — which read ‘ARRESTED’ — specify various crimes linked to the pictured immigrants and have the White House’s official logo at the bottom.”

    Would be awesome if a brave soul planted FFOTUS’ mug shot with “34 felony convictions and convicted sexual assaulter” amongst the others.

  85. 85.

    Suzanne

    @Betty Cracker: I read the Semafor piece and basically every paragraph contained something that triggered the OH FFS alert.

    I give Cuban an iota of credit for trying.

  88. 88.

    different-church-lady

    @stinger: ​

    the 250th anniversary of the U.S. will occur during his term.

    The way things are going, I’m not so sure.

  89. 89.

    Suzanne

    Absolute OH FFS moment:

      But the center didn’t hold. The Harper’s types were surprised to find what one described an “illiberal worldview” among tech figures more concerned with power than speech. The conservatives found the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.

    The breaking point came on July 5, 2021, when Foster and Williams, along with the never-Trump conservative David French and the liberal academic Jason Stanley, wrote a New York Times op-ed criticizing new laws against teaching “critical race theory.”

    “Even if this censorship is legal in the narrow context of public primary and secondary education, it is antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression,” they wrote.

    I have to tell my kids upwards of 300 times to pick up your stuff or the dog might chew on it. I have the same feeling when I say that these people simply do not care about hypocrisy, they have no values, they only have will-to-power. My kids have the excuses of being kids, and also the consequences of a chewed-up toy are much different than a destroyed country.

  91. 91.

    different-church-lady

    @Suzanne:

    …the liberal intellectuals tiresome, committed to what Rufo described to me as “infinite discourse” over action.

    I would say we do, as a group, suffer from a horrible instinct where we can’t do anything unless we do the perfect thing.

  92. 92.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Suzanne: I’m always struck by how thin-skinned they are. It comes across in every interview with Elon Musk too. These are the most powerful people in the world and they still act like a persecuted class being bullied by the people.

  93. 93.

    Suzanne

    @different-church-lady: I actually agree with that. I think liberals very much have a tendency to analysis paralysis, to making the perfect the enemy of the good, and belief that reason and evidence should be more persuasive than feelings.

    Now, those things are true because we’re generally nice people. But they prevent us from being as effective in the world as we sometimes need to be.

  97. 97.

    Scout211

    Another legal resident of the US taken into custody and imprisoned by ICE in Washington State.

    An Irish woman who has been living legallyin the United States for decades has been taken into detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a trip to Ireland to visit her sick father.

    Cliona Ward (54), who went to the US in her early teens and is the sole carer for a son with special needs, is in an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington state, according to the enforcement agency’s website.

    Her sister, Orla Holladay, who also lives in the US, said Ward travelled back to Ireland recently with their stepmother to visit their father, who has dementia.

    On her return to the US, Ward, who has been living in Santa Cruz, California, for more than 30 years, was questioned about drug possession convictions from more than a decade ago that have reportedly been “expunged” under state but not under federal law.

    . . .

    US Representative Jimmy Panetta, a Democrat from California, said in a statement it was “unimaginable that a reportedly expunged, decades-old crime could be used as justification for deporting a legal permanent resident who is a productive member of our community.”

    “Unimaginable,” Congressman Panetta? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

  98. 98.

    Soprano2

    @Suzanne: That piece has strong “we want to be nasty and say bad, nasty things without anyone telling us it’s wrong” energy.

  99. 99.

    Geminid

    @stinger: I was looking up Illinois 9th CD Congresswoman Jan Schakowski and found that Jay Pritzker ran for Congress in 1998. He came in second to Schakowski in the primary for the open seat. I expect that even if Pritzker had won he’d have evntually been Governor; he seems like a good executive who enjoys the work.

    Rep. Schakowsky is expected to announce her retirement on May 5th. One candidate has already announced for the IL09 Democratic primary. That would be “social media influencer” Kat Abughazaleh, who was subject of a post here a few weeks ago. And an Evanston media site reports that Skokie school board member Bushra Amivela says she’s interest in succeeding Schakowski, whom she describes as a “friend and mentor.”

    Ms. Amivela is 27 years-old and Ms. Abughazaleh is 26. At age 47, Evanston Mayor Daniel Bliss could be the old guy on the race. Bliss was an Illinois State Senator when he ran for Governor in 2018; he finished second, with 26% of the vote to Jay Pritzker’s 46%.

    Like Amivela, Bliss is waiting for Schakowski to announce her plans at her yearly “Women’s Power Lunch” on May 5th to throw his hat in the ring. He’s considered a likely candidate by local media, as is State Senator Laura Fine.

  100. 100.

    Soprano2

    @Suzanne: It’s been obvious for a long time that the only censorship they actually object to is that which inhibits anything they want to say. Bill Maher is the poster child for this, because he actually said once he didn’t care about censorship in school libraries! The alleged huge “free speech warrior” doesn’t think censoring school libraries is something to worry about. What the student council at Oberlin might do, however is extremely important. *rolleyes

  101. 101.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @different-church-lady: True, but we also hash things out such that we will not follow any leader over the cliff.

    Our tendency to be paralyzed by analysis is balanced by the ways that analysis keeps us from being the stupid, mind-controlled fucking sheep who follow that marigold motherfucker.

  102. 102.

    Suzanne

    @Soprano2:

    What the student council at Oberlin might do, however is extremely important. *rolleyes 

    You are correct, and you get at something important….. which is that, I think, a lot of people choose their political orientation by identifying who bothers them the most out in the world and then picking the other side. I bring up “your annoying niece with the nose ring who goes to Oberlin” as a type…. but it’s because this kind of person, like, deeply upsets these assholes. One could even say they’re triggered.

  104. 104.

    Ksmiami06

    @Suzanne: too many of our reps and ideological “leaders” I say that loosely, never played team sports. At some point you just gotta get the ball down the field.

  108. 108.

    Betty Cracker

    @Professor Bigfoot: Truth, and it will be self interest that motivates a change. Right now, my shitty 2nd-gen R nepo-rep is on the Trump train because he wants to keep his seat, and Trump won his district. The minute events on the ground indicate his presence on the Trump train is a threat to his seat, he’ll jump off. There are true believers, but I think the vast majority of elected Repubs are motivated purely by self interest.

  110. 110.

    Betty Cracker

    @Geminid: The primary to replace Schakowsky will be fascinating. I’m glad she’s bowing out. As far as I can tell from a distance, she’s been great, but she is 80 years old, and while I support letting a new generation of leaders come on board, it would be a pity for someone who’s been a good rep chased onto the ice floe. She did the right thing. (Or will do.)

  111. 111.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @Geminid: LOL

    I ain’t mad at it— I’ll just wait to see how they get along with the KHive.

    KHive and Pete’s Crew got on like a house afire.

  113. 113.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Professor Bigfoot: ​
     

    Thanks for the earworm, now I get to go play that album multiple times.

    You’re welcome! It’s one of my all-time favorites.

    And my traveling companions are ghosts and empty sockets…

  114. 114.

    Suzanne

    @Ksmiami06:

    too many of our reps and ideological “leaders” I say that loosely, never played team sports. At some point you just gotta get the ball down the field. 

    Agree. Too many of our fellow citizens, too.

    I was having a discussion with Mr. Suzanne a couple of weeks ago. I asserted that we could never build the interstate highway system today. He agreed with me.

  116. 116.

    Harrison Wesley

    @Betty Cracker: Isn’t it remarkable how the Republican legislators here started showing glimmers of independence when it dawned on them that Prince Puddinghands was a lame duck?

  119. 119.

    Steve LaBonne

    I just want to lie down and cry when I think about the progress our country could and should be making right now and how it has sustained massive damage in only three months instead. (I don’t stay depressed, most of the time I’m really fucking furious.)

  121. 121.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @frosty: ​
      I’ve thought about that. The fact that everyone, fastest to slowest, goes through the same training and run the same damned race does create a degree of comradery and the team scoring says yes. OTOH, everyone runs their own race. You may encourage the runners on your own team, but you are still trying to beat them as well as everyone else. *

    In conclusion, cross country is a land of contrasts.

    *I ran X-C in high school and played rugby in college.

  122. 122.

    Geminid

    @Betty Cracker: I think there will be a lot of older Democrstic Reps retiring this cycle, including Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer. The open-seat primaries will be interesting, and so will the primary challenges to incumbents. There’s a lot of talk about what “the Base” wants and these primaries ought to give us some data points in that regard.

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    Elizabelle

    The Felon wore a blue suit to Pope Francis’s funeral.  He couldn’t put on black, or charcoal, or grey.  The blue stands out sharply against Melania’s black.  (She hopes to be in widow’s weeds, ASAP.)

    Of course, it is the least of his offenses.  Fuck him.

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    Soprano2

    @Matt McIrvin: They believe that only people with the same perceived status as them should be able to criticize them. How dare anyone in the “great unwashed masses” criticize them! That’s what I get from them.

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    Soprano2

    @Omnes Omnibus: I sing in a choir and played in band. It’s the same concept – you have to work together toward a common goal, and eventually you just have to do it – no more practicing!

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    Medicine Man

    @Jay: Thanks Jay.

    But hey, another way things get better is my Caucasian brother and Filipino sister-in-law have given me a niece and a nephew who are both growing into better people than I am. I’m happy to see that even as I worry about leaving them enough of a world to live in.

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    JustRuss

    I’ll give Trump the tiniest slice of sympathy here.  I saw Hamilton a couple weeks ago, and pretty much dozed through the first half.  Sometimes men of a certain age just really need a nap.

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    dnfree

    @frosty: Cross-country truly is a team sport.  Generally they add up the order in which people on a team finished.  You could have the fastest runner, and if the other team members are in the middle of the pack, your team will lose to the team that had more members toward the front of the pack, like maybe third, fourth, sixth.  In high schraces when out daughter ran cross-country, the top five finishers from each team generally counted.

    So kids did encourage each other, and at the end were trying hard to pass other teams’  participants.

    What I especially liked, in the 1990s when she raced, was that the boys and girls practiced together and went to races together and cheered each other on.  It was a unisex sport in a way.

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    Kayla Rudbek

    @Baud: she’s just reverting back to type on this (and it truly irritates me as having been raised Catholic that the RWNJ Catholics can’t recognize or remember that the Evangelicals are the enemy, not their friends)

  135. 135.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @Ohio Mom: yeah, I wound up with some cheap Illuminite reflective baseball caps that are red, and I am very reluctant to wear them or my red fleece hat/scarf/gloves set

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    Ruckus

    the most mentally fucked up president in history. he makes nixon look like eisenhower.

    I don’t think he’s actually human. He was made from leftover parts of a Yugo that had 300,000 miles on it. Nothing worked correctly on it, it burnt a quart of oil every 300 miles, and still would if you could get it started. The wheels go in 4 different directions, not one of which is the correct one, it has one working brake left, which is not too much of a problem as it can only coast down a steep incline and if you manage to get it going down that hill most of it will fall off before you need to turn or stop anyway. And the owner had put a picture of a brand new Mercedes on the dash, to hopefully convince the car that it was better than any reality.

    Even that Yugo was not convinced. But then it was smarter than shitforbrains.

  137. 137.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @Librettist: Pritzker to me looks like he could walk into a Notre Dame tailgate or a Connemara pub and fit in with the rest of the Irish, despite the fact that he’s Jewish.

  138. 138.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @O. Felix Culpa: to me, he looks like he can fit right in with the Irish guys in Chicago (drop him down at a Notre Dame tailgate and I think he would fit right in)

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