i regret to inform all of you that greene is actually good at a certain kind of backstabbing politics
— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
i do not know or care if she’s sincere about this, but she fucking hates mike johnson and he’s given her a knife sized opening through which she can stick daggers in his back
— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Welp if you want to figure out how we get to D +10 or 11 here it is.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Tying a shutdown to blowing up Obama are is one of those galaxy brained plans only our current GOP could come up with.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Oh, so we're at this stage of GOP messaging
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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This is an oddly lucid and coherent interview from MTG that actually shows a good grasp of the politics.
I should probably go lay down.— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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lmao, oh man, amazing.
"WE WERE ALWAYS GOING TO GET TO THIS"— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
YOU CANNOT PRINT IN THE NEWSPAPER THAT I GOT MAD
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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This is what "The internal polls show us in absolute freefall" looks like.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Importantly, Johnson and Thune have now openly admitted that they have to do something about this.
Considering where they were a week ago, it's pretty clear who's winning the shutdown politics.— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I mean I think if you're the dems you go for the jugular here and move the goalposts to get the ACA subsidies and some other stuff too. Preferably "Vought has to spend this money"
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Thursday Late Morning Share the News Open Thread
Baud
Let us savor.
Old School
Those subsidies we got rid of? We were always going to bring them back, but we can’t do it right now.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Baud
MTG/Naked Hunter Biden 2028!
Old School
BritinChicago
Is Thune’s comment a joke? Does he not remember that trump in 2016 ran “repealing Obamacare and replacing it with something wonderful” and then found out (something no one else knew) that the subject was a really complicated one?
MattF
Wow. The Scalise clip is remarkable. Can anyone hear that and not think ‘Ummm… is this really what he intends to be saying?’
Jeffro
if Scalise is admitting that he/they are “suffering”, all I can say is, THANK YOU HOUSE AND SENATE DEMS!
(also MORE PLEASE)
Old School
Belafon
@Old School:
You’ll know it’s fake if she’s not scowling if she’s heading towards him and smiling when she’s going the other direction.
Jeffro
@Old School: I’ll watch, but only if the docuseries is about her life before marrying trump
(which is her business! I just want to watch the fundies squirm!!)
Baud
Melancholy Jaques
@Baud:
Let us exploit. Every R in every purple state and district needs to be hammered and blamed. Even the Rs in the maroon, burgundy, and wine districts.
We cannot rely on normies to get what’s happening unless we tell them what’s happening. Hoping for a big turnout at the
Fuck TrumpNo Kings demonstrations on October 18.cain
@Baud: Amen.
Jeffro
@Old School: they should go for the jugular and give him a stroke or three
“Siccing armed troops on your own people, completely absent any logical rationale whatsoever, is NOT how you earn a Nobel Peace Prize…deporting peaceful, law-abiding immigrants to countries they’ve never been, is NOT how you earn a Nobel Peace Price…destroying USAID and causing the needless deaths of millions is NOT how you earn a Nobel Peace Prize…
…nothing about Donald Trump is peaceful, so f*** that motherf***** “
cain
@Old School: Fuck Amazon for propping up this woman.
This is why Netflix is still better. Y’alls should see the series – Ba*ds of Bollywood. Super tongue and cheek making fun of bollywood movies. It’s super entertaining and holy shit they even made sure that the english subtitles had some laughs in it including changing the insults/cussing in Hindi to some GenX references to The Adams Family. lol. I laughed.
Baud
@Old School:
I hope every online review is “I don’t care, do u?”
cain
@Melancholy Jaques:
They might even listen this time because during election season they didn’t.
When their healthcare doubles every boomer/genx is going to freaking out. They will demand their reps do something, but as we all know – the GOP only has one solution to any problem and that is either cutting entitlement programs or giving the rich a tax cut. They don’t know how to actually solve problems.
Soprano2
@Old School: If he doesn’t get the Peace Prize, will he bomb Norway in reprisal? This is the dumbest timeline.
cain
@Soprano2: I think that is exactly what he will do. He will declare war because he didn’t get the peace prize. **snort
craigie
This. I have thought this from the beginning.
jonas
@Old School: I’ve bookmarked this in my viewing queue right behind a three hour-long, hi-def video of an operation to remove inflamed hemorrhoids from a guy’s ass.
SiubhanDuinne
@Old School:
I honestly cannot think of one film in the world that I’d less rather watch.
bbleh
I mean I think if you’re the dems you go for the jugular here and move the goalposts…
At the very least, demand language strictly prohibiting “recissions” or any other such nonsense and mandating full dispersal of appropriated funds according to a list of priorities.
Can’t hurt to say the WH staff — notably Vought — simply can’t be trusted.
mrmoshpotato
I hope there a mirror in front of Scalise.
trollhattan
Meanwhile, in the Caribbean. Sorry, the America Gulf next to the Gulf of America, we learn that Colombians are on those Colombian boats we’ve been blasting. And it’s NOT ABOUT OIL EVEN A LITTLE BIT, YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
I’d go to sports book and do a parlay on us seizing Venezuelan drilling platforms in “our gulf.”
Ramona
@cain: thanks for this recommendation. Started watching it now.
bbleh
@Old School: @Soprano2: he’ll do SOMETHING juvenile, especially given the “announced” agreement to the “first step” of a “plan” for the war in Gaza.
Tariffs? Those seem to be his go-to these days. Plus maybe a tongue-lashing for the ambassador.
President Cranky Toddler. Jayzus…
trollhattan
@Old School: “In cinemas”?
That will rake in tens of dollars on opening. OTOH a great place to take the kids during a measles outbreak. Bring the whole family.
Baud
@Soprano2:
The recipient this year has already been decided. It’ll be announced tomorrow. Any Peace Prize will have to wait until 2026.
mrmoshpotato
@Soprano2: Massive tariff on lumber from Norway.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: OMG
piratedan
@mrmoshpotato: yeah. sounds like he’s STILL trying to sell the idea that the Government shutdown was initiated by the Dems…
one of these days, maybe there will be a follow up when someone askes him, Steve, which party has the WH, the House and the Senate control right now with a majority of members? Seems like a real Man, Woman, Person, Camera, Television moment.
mappy!
So MTG just woke to what she voted to do to her son?
tam1MI
OT, But this is an emergency situation. I just found out that my neighbors in my apartment complex are being kicked out because they withheld rent in order to get the landlord to fix mold issues in their apartment. They are a young couple with a brand new baby and nowhere to go. Is there any organizations I can direct them to to try to get them some emergency shelter?
Old School
@tam1MI: Your local homeless shelter should be able to direct them to resources. Although I’m not certain on the shutdown’s effect on the Rapid Rehousing program.
frosty
We’ll be on a long-planned trip to Southern Spain so I’m going to miss it .. but wait! There’s going to be a demonstration in Seville when we’re there!
No Tiranos Sevilla
tam1MI
@Old School: I. Sent them phone numbers on all the area shelters I could find. I was just wondering if there were more resources available in case the shelters are full or whatever.
Castor Canadensis
@trollhattan: I’d bet a whole nickel on Venezuela using the Russian strategy from WWII: retreat from the Nazis, and leave nothing behind except scorched earth.
Belafon
@tam1MI: Put a sign out in front of your apartment (discretely) saying that the apartment owner won’t take care of the mold. Or, probably better, report it to a local news org.
Castor Canadensis
@mrmoshpotato: Naval blockade around Greenland
WTFGhost
Yeah, yeah, GOP in disarray, I’m going to go make everyone happy and go play in traffic.
trollhattan
@tam1MI:
If your metroplex has a housing rights or renter’s rights organization, or the metro housing department has an assistance hotline, they can reach out to them.
Renter’s rights are not codified and enforced everywhere. California is decent in that arena, still not perfect.
Melancholy Jaques
@frosty:
¡Viva la democracia!
iKropoclast
It’s always start to start a reform effort by intentionally besetting the thing you seek to reform with disaster.
Shakti
@Old School: I give Trump no credit, and he frankly hasn’t any residual goodwill for anyone to reward him for his good intentions and efforts at this point. Nobody has hopes for anything good from him except the nastiest meanest murderingist motherfuckers and money launderers.
It’s not like giving him a fucking Nobel, regardless of the merits, will mollify him or make him less volatile and the fact the Nobel Committee is saying this is the exact reason he’s very unlikely to get one.
Was unlimited funding to Israel in any of the budgets and CRs passed during this administration? Was any of that funding part of DOGE cuts or Russell Vought’s recissioning? Or Trump’s freezing of funds? Did Israel feel like it would risk starting another front on hot world war III with its nukes to stop Iran’s infinity timeline towards nukes because it had full throated US backing? Ok then.
@mrmoshpotato: Scalise after all of this is a man who voted against gun control. I don’t think these people care about polls, he’s doing some DARVO for fun and relaxation. If they wanted to pass a budget they could’ve done it ages ago. He could’ve gone after Vought or DOGE but isn’t. Because he likes that shit. Or is afraid. I don’t care at this point.
Does he realize his Democratic colleagues gave more of shit about him being shot than any Republicans or Trump gave about Horman, or Giffords, or any number of victims of violence. His administration is the one saying federal employees maybe shouldn’t get back pay?
Jeffg166
@Old School:
If we are lucky the felon not getting the peace prize will give him an aneurism and he will drop dead.
Castor Canadensis
@tam1MI: In parallel, see if a lawyer can get a court order blocking the expulsion. That will vary from state to state.
In Canada it’s called a “rent strike”, and there is at least legal commentary on it: canlii.org/en/commentary/doc/2022CanLIIDocs1377
mrmoshpotato
@Shakti:
Yup.
Melancholy Jaques
@cain:
We also need to talk to the normies because unless somebody
hits them over the headpatiently explains things to them, they think what’s happening is “the government” or “both sides” or “who knows? I just want Year 2005 prices of everything.”Old School
tam1MI
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I have passed them on and am keeping my fingers crossed for my neighbors.
mrmoshpotato
rikyrah
Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) posted at 7:19 PM on Wed, Oct 08, 2025:
I hate to beat a dead horse, but just imagine if this were Joe Biden making a surprise hospital visit after already having his routine physical earlier this year.
The media would be in full meltdown mode — panel after panel, “anonymous sources,” endless speculation.
But since it’s Trump, they just shrug and move on. The press isn’t even pretending to care anymore. Pathetic.
(x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1976080030250704896?t=4zzvKA3NNG9oYnJzxiRQkw&s=03)
rikyrah
Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) posted at 0:16 PM on Thu, Oct 09, 2025:
TAKE ACTION: Proponents of the anti-voter SAVE Act are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to require documents like a passport in order to register to vote — a move that could block millions of American citizens from voting. Tell the Commission: Don’t make it harder for Americans to cast a ballot. regulations.gov/document/EAC-2…
(x.com/BrennanCenter/status/1976335918228222445?t=Le933wn1UBoj959g4bAK8A&s=03)
Baud
@rikyrah:
That horse is now paste. But it will never penetrate the media’s consciousness.
Omnes Omnibus
@Castor Canadensis: While withholding rent because of unsafe/unlivable conditions is generally okay in the US, each state tends to have specific rules about the way to do it. It usually requires giving notice and putting the money in an escrow account. Failure to follow these rules and still withholding rent can be grounds for eviction. It is important to check what your state’s rules are before taking action.
p.a.
We’ve been waiting for teh stoopid we assume comes from their info bubble/dipshit worldview to really bite; 2020 was a one-off with covid/bad economy safe white Joe, but this! 😂😂😂😂(Obviously not happy about people hurting but “by any means necessary.”)
Jeffries: “Mr Johnson, are you covered in gasoline? Are you holding matches?”
“Mind your own business soy boy.”
“Alrighty then.”
FAN. TAS. TIC
The above is waaaayyyyy more important, but this, and human turd Bill Belichick also going up in flames in the same week is 🧑🍳😙🤌
Belafon
@Old School: Especially since Democrats are proposing to bill to pay the troops.
Deputinize America
@trollhattan:
The problem with California leasing is what I perceive as a coddling of squatters and inordinately long hearing dates to get rid of them.
p.a.
Working on the concept of a plan since 11/2016.
Deputinize America
@tam1MI:
The key to a rent strike is to actually save the funds that you withheld, which you can then pay into court in order to forestall equitable relief for the landlord.
This is what comes from (probably) relying on dodgy internet advice on Reddit and elsewhere.
Deputinize America
@Omnes Omnibus:
You said it better than I did, and are 100% correct.
rikyrah
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 3:09 PM on Wed, Oct 08, 2025:
Trump on Pritzker and Brandon Johnson: “I believe they’re scared. They are actually frightened for their lives.” t.co/TZcdyogrZf
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1976017188390613350?t=rQLxxBdRQGdh6naKkSM2sA&s=03)
Shakti
bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3m2rpylcj5c2t
A man with a mezcal worm in his brain, who does a shitton of cocaine and heroin and booze, who voluntarily gave himself mercury poisoning along with a man who speculated about the healing power of Clorox directly in the veins for covid-19 is telling everyone who is genetically unfit, should cold turkey off prescriptions, they should abjure aspirin and vaccines and insulin
But hey, the plurality of voters made this shit happen. Who needs healthcare when you can eat horse paste, inject bleach and chelate yourself?
Tax breaks and fuck them immigrants, ami right?
WaterGirl
@Old School: That makes me want to puke.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Before I saw the clip saying he is describing Democrats, I thought “oh my god, Scalise is chastising Republicans for what they are doing”.
Only to press play and discover the sky is read and that we don’t need air to breathe.
Deputinize America
@Shakti:
Grigori Rasputin was more coherent.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: LOL! No, Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are not frightened for their lives.
Wtfghost
Baud
@Wtfghost:
Why did you change your nym to lowercase?
Deputinize America
@Old School:
Kind of like Evita, but with less music, zero solidarity with the working class, no sense of style and gross faux rococco and baroque trimmings everywhere.
JMG
@rikyrah: If a passport was required to vote, Democrats would win every election in the country.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Two different devices, I imagine. One where he capitalized and one where he didn’t.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Baud: come sit by me !
Scout211
This has likely been mentioned in the comments already but I’ve been offline. It bears repeating, IMHO.
ICE Barbie can’t find a bathroom in Chicago or Portland? No worries, she’ll just use all those extra millions that Congress
griftedgifted ICE to buy buildings in both Portland and Chicago. Bathroom problem solved.mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Hahaha! And 1 star (if zero isn’t an option.)
cmorenc
@BritinChicago:
The GOP has had 8 years (since Trump took office in 1/20/17) to come up with any sort of viable replacement for Obamacare, let alone a better one, and they haven’t come up with anything better than what amounts to selling junk health insurance across state lines, governed by the laws of whichever state has the most lax laws and regulations covering insurance companies. They talk big about free-market private enterprise solutions as better, ignoring that the whole impetus for Obamacare in the first place was that outside of Medicare and Medicaid, health insurance pre-Obamacare was private enterrpise, free-market, in which there are only incentives to cover people who are healthiest and least likely to make expensive health insurance claims. And if you contracted a difficult condition, the insurers were incentivized to find grounds (e.g. preexisting condition, lifetime benefits, etc) to crop you like a hot rock the first nanosecond they could.
Old School
So it’s basically a piece of cake.
PatrickG
@WaterGirl: OT – just checking if you saw my email a couple days ago.
Baud
@Old School:
Smart politics. Need to get Trump to support Ukraine. Playing to his vanity is the best and only way to cleave him from Putin.
Ruviana
@Shakti: Look out for the babies in placentas!
iKropoclast
Well, good thing the Finnish President is not on the Nobel committee, because I would hope they’d consider going to war in one’s own cities and summarily executing boatloads of drug dealers to be disqualifying, especially when those drug dealers are actually fishermen
This is dead on, though.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: We have left the world with little choice by reinstalling him in office.
Professor Bigfoot
@JMG: Heh. A passport isn’t good enough ID to VOTE in Ohio.
Scout211
In case you are interested in the hearing today in Illinois, here is a summary from CBS News.
TL;DR:
Feds: Trump is King, no laws can stop him
State: Trump is not King.
The court will reconvene at 4:30 local time.
jonas
@BritinChicago: Thune understands that perfectly well. He also understands that most reporters won’t follow up or challenge him on it, because you know, he’s a Republican and follow-ups or suggestions that they’re not arguing in good faith are strictly verboten in the MSM, and also that the voters he hopes will hear that have the memories of lobotomized squirrels. He’s not necessarily wrong.
“Say anything, make shit up, and refuse to back down” is SOP for Republicans now.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Correct. And I see no point getting upset that people here and abroad have to find ways to deal with the aftermath of that decision.
mrmoshpotato
@Scout211: Thanks.
WaterGirl
@PatrickG: hmm, must have missed it, looking now.
Deputinize America
@Professor Bigfoot:
Wait, wut?
lowtechcyclist
@frosty:
An acquaintance of ours and his husband left on a trip to Spain just a couple days ago. So now I’ve got the Three Dog Night song going through my head, since (naturally) I’ve never been to Spain, but I kinda like the music.
Baud
@Deputinize America:
Passports don’t show home address, so they can never be sufficient by themselves.
Deputinize America
@Scout211:
The moment they said “courts need to be deferential to the executive” was the moment the judge should have shut that shit down and talked about sanctions for the government lawyers personally.
tam1MI
@Deputinize America: Yes, that is what I suspect happened.
Sure Lurkalot
@Old School: Can only imagine what the state of Trump’s brain will be next year. Could probably just give him the prize from a box of Cracker Jacks and he won’t know the difference.
Baud
If you can’t beat em, buy em.
mrmoshpotato
To the surprise of no one.
iKropoclast
@mrmoshpotato: When the Florida Tourism board wished on a cursed monkey paw that Trump would restore their tourism…
…this is exactly what they wanted, actually, no notes.
Timill
@mrmoshpotato: Except those who bought tickets…
danielx
@cain:
Dropping bombs on brown people is right up there as well.
iKropoclast
Really any mechanism for harm is ok…
Timill
@lowtechcyclist: But will the demo be close to the ramparts of Seville? And will there be gypsies and/or toreadors?
rikyrah
Acyn
@Acyn
Noem: I was in Portland on Tuesday, met the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police. They are all lying. Dishonest people
x.com/Acyn/status/1976326164315783210
Belafon
@Baud: Why, Dominion, why?
Belafon
@rikyrah: Anyone meeting with her in a city should only meet her in a cafe downtown with cameras.
Baud
@Belafon:
💰💲💵💸
frosty
@lowtechcyclist: Earworm. You bastid!!!
Baud
iKropoclast
She continued:
Opposite of what? What did they agree to do?
One of the long list of worst things about these people is that coherence takes a back seat to grievance.
iKropoclast
@Baud: When you click a link to learn that the one sentence excerpt was the entire article…
Baud
@iKropoclast:
cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/letitia-james-grand-jury-trump-indictment
iKropoclast
@Baud: Haha, thank you.
Baud
Future text books on the difference between correlation and causation will be dedicated to RFK Jr.
MazeDancer
@Baud: Just heard the facts. Which it appears the Grand Jury did not.
Letitia James was co-signing a mortgage to help her niece. Ms. James wrote in capital letters on the application “THIS IS NOT MY PRIMARY RESIDENCE”.
But, somehow, one box saying “primary residence” got checked.
Even Todd Blanche said there is no case.
But Trump just wants to torture her. So she gets indicted.
Scout211
Trump’s DOJ in disarray. In fairness, this encompasses many of their cases.
And since no prosecutors would file charges, they did find a grand jury to indict:
Baud got there first.
Baud
@MazeDancer:
Yeah, hopefully NY voters will back her in this.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Most of the clickbait headlines highlight MTG’s whining about health care costs but leave out she prefaced them by saying “It’s all the Democrats faults” and basically bitching against the Reps only because “they don’t have a response”.
marklar
@Baud: ““There’s two studies which show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, it’s highly likely, because they were given Tylenol,” Kennedy told President Trump during a Cabinet meeting.”
Oy. I just read one of those studies (with over 340,000 participants).
The authors clearly wrote “Unfortunately, we had no data available on analgesics or possible local anaesthetics used during ritual circumcisions in our cohort, so we were unable to address the paracetamol [i.e., Tylenol] hypothesis directly.”
Old School
@MazeDancer:
Time for a perp walk!
mrmoshpotato
@Timill: I doubt they’re surprised either. Definitely disappointed though.
Baud
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/1o2d2mg/never_thought_id_see_mtg_say_something_that_makes/
iKropoclast
The CNN article Baud linked to stated the box was unchecked, agreeing with the written statement.
iKropoclast
@Baud: If a “nuclear” option is repeatedly exercised and civilization stands, was it ever really that nuclear?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Baud: Context Note: MTG’s son uses ACA for his health insurance.
Ihop
“Nobel” PEACE “prize” through crimes against humanity?
Strength through impotence?
I smell a t-shirt!
iKropoclast
@Ihop: Peacemaker: I love peace, and I’ll kill as many people as I have to to get it.
TEL
@tam1MI: Depending on what state/city you live in, there may be slumlord laws that are being broken. Reporting the landlord for ignoring a major health issue that will impact not only that family but also others may also force the landlord to pay out for a new apartment for the family.
Omnes Omnibus
@iKropoclast: Tactical nukes are still nukes.
JaneE
So it has been about 15 years now at the ACA has been in effect. Or at least law. Since before it passed and was signed into law the Republicans have been saying we can do it better cheaper cover more people. Considering that Obamacare was really Romney care and patterned after the Republican version of a healthcare plan the statement that they can even do it better is kind of interesting. Like infrastructure week their better cheaper health Plan is always 2 weeks away. What they have are some talking points and the closest we got to detail was when Romney was running. After you analyzed what he said it was basically go back to what we had before anything was passed. Lord knows we have plenty of room to improve on what we’ve got – that is building on what we have not dumping it and trying to start from nothing again. Left to their own devices the Republicans would not even eliminate coverage caps or allow people with pre-existing conditions to get insurance again.
Seriously, the Republican position is that rich people should get health care and poor people should die. Those in the middle class will become poor trying to stay alive and then they can die. And they think that really isn’t obvious by now.
mrmoshpotato
Betty’s pooch picture
Doo, doo, doo, lookin’ out my back door?
iKropoclast
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s true in terms of actual nukes. But I still think that metaphor is past its sell-by date in terms of the filibuster.
Honestly, the filibuster in its modern form does more harm than good, at least by my estimation
ETA: it’s/its. Why my phone just doing shit?
The worst is on/in. It swaps them on me all the time, often aggressively against context.
mrmoshpotato
@iKropoclast: Dump: Tell me I’m tremendous bigly at the peace, or I’ll shoot you on Fifth Avenue!
Scout211
Kathleen
@Baud: Speaking of which, Max Burns at Dame offered this tidbit about the Virginia Gubernatorial race. Spoiler alert: I thought running porn web sites that specialized in Nazi fetish content was a required skill on any self respecting MAGAT candidate’s resume:
Kathleen
@SiubhanDuinne: Must Flee TV.
Kathleen
@zhena gogolia: Hey! There’s a “vibe” for that!
iKropoclast
I know it’s pretty normal for fetishes to focus on the taboo (personally I have a thing for male peacocking and aggression), and I try not to kink shame, but damn…
Well…this sounds like a person with complicated inner demons.
Old School
@iKropoclast:
Ed Krassenstein says it was a POA:
iKropoclast
The only thing Republicans managed to convince me of regarding Hunter Biden is that I probably would have loved being his friend ten or fifteen years ago and he’s still a really cool, smart guy.
MTG would be a fool not to capitalize on her messaging success.
Anonymous At Work
@Old School: Jose Andres would be, sincerely, my pick.
And the peace plan is only as strong as the locks on the electroshock collars attached to Bibi’s neck and the offshore bank servers where he hides his grift.
trollhattan
@Ihop:
Has anybody explained to him it’s not Piece Prize?
Interesting Name Goes Here
@Baud: …This might be the worst thing I’ve ever seen you do.
Who hurt you?
NeenerNeener
@Anonymous At Work: I thought I just read that Bibi has already fired on Gaza again today. Peace plan? What peace plan?
reddit.com/r/canadianpolitics101/comments/1o2f37z/israeli_tanks_shelling_gazan_civilians_live_on/?ut…
Scout211
He wasn’t nominated this year.
Here is the reported list of individuals and organizations this year.
Elon Musk!? seriously?
Ha Ha. I will venture a guess that he will not be selected.
Added: January 6th committee nominated. Huh.
iKropoclast
Sad if true, though not surprising.
Unfortunately I can not read the time and date or chyron on the linked video, so I will wait for additional sourcing before despairing.
George Kennan Was Right
If y’all are willing to tackle a podcast to learn about the things in the American economy that (a) drive you nuts and (b) you’d like to fix (like health care), please give “Optimist Economy” with Dr. Katherine Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi a close look. Their Substack is here optimisteconomy.substack.com/, and their podcast is on all the major distributors.
I promise no really I promise you won’t be disappointed.
dm
@Professor Bigfoot: I assume because it doesn’t have an address proving you live in the precinct, or even in the state?
Peale
@Kathleen: Honestly, I have to keep reminding myself that 86% of of LGBTQI+ voters voted for Harris. Its just that that remaining 12% is hardcore.
If you had told the 25 year old me that in 30 years, the Secretary of the Treasury would be a gay man, the head of one of the major broadcast network’s newsrooms would be a lesbian, even the GOP would be taking the advice from a gay billionaire on who should be VP, and instead of making a big show of returning the checks of the Log Cabin Republicans, the GOP would deploy them to heckle performances at Kennedy Center…I’d have said…nope. Dream on.
But its so damn dystopian now.
Aziz, light!
I’m in favor of Trump being awarded the prize posthumously.
Professor Bigfoot
@dm: Yes, but that gets settled when you register.
Once you prove who you are and it matches the name of the registered voter, it should be enough, but, you know.
Kirklin
If/when Trump doesn’t win the Nobel, is there an over/under on how soon we start hearing about taking Greenland again?
trollhattan
@NeenerNeener:
“We don’t have anywhere to keep this ammo. What should we do with it?”
“I have an idea.”
Kirklin
@Professor Bigfoot: In the state of Texas, a passport is insufficient to prove you are a citizen for the purpose of getting a drivers license. I had to go back with my birth certificate.
Interesting Name Goes Here
@Peale: Dystopia is trendy now.
I fear the inevitable wake-up call that will serve to be the stark reminder to these people (and others) that the games they play should never be played in the first place.
iKropoclast
The US federal government issues passports to non-citizens?
I ask suspecting I already know the answer…
Lyrebird
@WaterGirl:
One of my least favorite topics to teach is Freud.
The MAGA Repubs are doing their darnedest to make sure that everyone still has to study projection!
His words are exactly what Mike Johnson should contemplate. Right on, but yet so off…
iKropoclast
Would those be…Hunger Games?
Professor Bigfoot
@Kirklin: That’s insane.
But then, that’s Texas, isn’t it?
Kathleen
@Peale: I have yet to find a word or phrase that adequately describes the horrific yet cartoonish and cruel epoch we are enduring. Dystopian is a good start!
Kathleen
@Kirklin: To be fair there aren’t that many options for a Nobel reject.
Jackie
@Kirklin:
Will they accept a laminated wallet-sized BC? Curious, because if a BC is required for more and more legal ID reasons, a wallet-sized BC along with your enhanced DL may be something to consider.
Deputinize America
@Kathleen:
Note how quickly the Trumpist authoritarians have pulled the lever on the power they have. Were what, 60-90 days from the allegation’s first surfacing?
This is what came of New York and the USG giving free passes to Trump, Kusher and Trump’s slimy crotch fruit for decades.
It is also why my real name social media accounts are now dark as to my political commentary and content – I don’t want to lose my passport, precheck, global entry, cell phone on reentering this fascist shithole or to draw an audit.
There are three justice systems now – one for everyday schlubs that sort of works, one for people of great wealth and privilege (that always works for them), and one for political oppression.
Kirklin
@Jackie: I don’t know. I know of the passport from personal experience
eta – whoops, I do know. I’d used my small laminated copy the prior renewal. They’d made the copy their supposed to use for later records (ie, you allegedly only need it the ‘first’ time). They told me it was not acceptable this time.
The whole thing was very frustrating, actually.
Scout211
@Jackie: Don’t you typically have to show a certified birth certificate for identification ? Are wallet-sized ones certified?
Also, laminating government documents usually renders them not valid for official identification. I learned that with my Social Security card when I first applied for a REAL ID.
Jackie
@Scout211: Never needed to provide a BC in WA to renew my DL before. Needed it to get the Real ID, but not sure if I need to bring it next time for renewal. It’s a new world.
Scout211
Not here in CA either.
At least here in CA, once you have a REAL ID, you just renew it when you renew your license, no documents needed.
Ramona
@Kirklin: what if one is a naturalized citizen? Would they not accept Elon Musk’s passport?
Jackie
@Scout211:
That’ll probably be the same for WA, then. Hell of a difference between Blue and Red states! A GOOD difference.
Kirklin
@Ramona: Again sadly I do not know – no “oh yeah” to follow here. I was basing that on personal experience at the Texas Department of Public Safety. (i.e. TxDMV)