Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

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

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

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

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

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

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

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

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Cooking With Kamala

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Thank you lamh36 for sending this my way.

I, of course, am terribly excited about this video. Come for the cooking lesson, but stay for the poignant story of caucusing for Obama in 2007.

https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1186794865931247616?s=20

I was a bit teary at the end.

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  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    @gene108:

    Maybe that’s next. Though it’s pretty common for wives of that era to cook what their husbands preferred. That’s why my German-Irish grandmother had to learn to cook Italian food.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    Bacon – yuck-o. Bacon grease – now that’s a horse of a different color.

    /another voice from the peanut gallery

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    If they made an attractive tee-shirt with

    BACON IS A SPICE!

    emblazoned across the front, I’d buy it and wear it with pride.

  17. 17.

    BlueDWarrior

    So apparently the dudes that were roaming around with Giuliani that got indicted were tied to Firtash (the Ukraining oil/gas guy that was linked to Putin’s inner circle).

    The flames just keep growing higher, I think we can legitimately call this an inferno now.

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    Err mah gurrd, the kid was just asked to volunteer at a CA Dem fundraiser next month and meet The Queen–Nancy SMASH!

    She’s chuffed, also the gov should be there and that’s nice.

  24. 24.

    Mary G

    @trollhattan: Getting them young ❤??

    @chris: Sorry, that was actually fake news:

    I suck at Twitter and Jim Swift @JimSwiftDC made this photoshop as a joke, NOT the White House.I will go hang my head in shame in the corner for posting fake news.t.co/dx4U5BcWrl— Strictly ? ? (@christoq) October 23, 2019

    We should have known that nobody in the WH is literate in Photoshop, and if Putin had done it, it wouldn’t be so crappy.

  27. 27.

    different-church-lady

    So is Fox superimposing fake ads over every single inch of the field again this year?

  29. 29.

    opiejeanne

    @trollhattan: Haha! She will have some great memories of this event, and possibly more in the future.

    My youngest was in HS and was one of the featured performers at the Dec 2000 New Year’s Eve party on the Hornet. The band was Les Brown, she performed in a group of swing dancers, all teens, and as a solo tap dancer. During the rehearsal Les Brown was there to watch, and his son led the band.
    We came in a little early, ok a lot early, to pick her up at the end and got to see a lot of the dance party. She has some really super memories of performing with various Big Bands, or their remnants. There was a 40s style party every quarter on the Hornet and everyone came in period clothing or their uniforms. The guy at the door was a marine with one eye, a cane, and more fruit salad on his chest than I’ve seen on anyone other than Idi Amin. I seem to remember the Glenn Miller Band playing at one of the parties.

    This is a photo that ran in the SF Chronicle in 2000. She was 17:

    Katie on the Hornet

  32. 32.

    Mary G

    @chris: I tried to respond and was put in moderation twice, so I won’t try to embed it, but this is rea actual fake news:

    I suck at Twitter and Jim Swift @JimSwiftDC made this photoshop as a joke, NOT the White House.I will go hang my head in shame in the corner for posting fake news.t.co/dx4U5BcWrl— Strictly ? ? (@christoq) October 23, 2019

    She or he seems to have deleted both tweets now.

  35. 35.

    Mary G

    Can somebody get my one of my comments replying to @chris: out of moderation. The picture where Bolton was photoshopped out and Barr photoshopped in is fake news, done as a joke.

  36. 36.

    FlyingToaster

    My daughter wears a T-Shirt (courtesy of HerrDoktor) that reads “Data is the new Bacon”.

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    I just got an email from Tom Perez under the DNC auspices asking for money for Bernie Sanders. The old fart is unable to ask for money? Yeah I don’t believe that.

  39. 39.

    dmsilev

    It’s been a heck of a week, and it’s only Tuesday. Sunday, the elevator in my building goes out. “Hey dmsilev, you speak fluent Electrician, can you deal with this?”. Sigh. Call elevator company, talk with tech. He thinks it’s the motor. Monday, two elevator techs arrive w/ replacement motor. Additional tests are made; motor is fine. It’s the power coming in, and that’s the city’s problem (municipal power). Call city, explain to operator that while the single-phase transformer providing power for most of the building is fine, the three-phase running the elevator has one bad phase. Power tech comes out. Verifies that yes, one leg drops way down in voltage as soon as any load is put on it. Calls for “underground” crew to look at transformer. Two more trucks arrive, manhole is opened. “We’ll have to pump out that standing water, and do it now before the transformer explodes”. One more truck, with pump, shows up. It is now Monday evening. “We’ve gotten the water out; looks like there’s corrosion and we need to replace the transformer. That means cutting off power to the whole block, including the traffic light, so we’ll wait until tomorrow.”

    Today: Transformer swapped. No explosions rocked the neighborhood. Tomorrow, elevator guys come back out to check that the stupid thing still works, and then, finally, my neighbors with the limited mobility can, you know, actually get out and about.

    Is it Friday yet? Can I just jump straight to Friday?

  41. 41.

    trollhattan

    @opiejeanne:
    Aww, just look at her! What great memories. Mine will be 18 in Dec. and ready to cast her first ballot in March. Nothing like being on history’s front lines to grab your attention. (I was among the first group of 18YO voters, more than happy to say “nein!” to Nixon.)

  45. 45.

    lgerard

    @opiejeanne:

    Everybody pays

    I’m assuming that they realized the impropriety of a president profiting from his business while in office and they were completely oblivious to the irony of profiting from a tragedy that trump foolishly caused,

    But then, I’m gullible

    Also, the protests out front

  46. 46.

    TS (the original)

    @dmsilev: You do speak electrician & also city speak. That sure sounds like an amazingly short time to get it all sorted. You’ve earned the rest of the week off.

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    @TS (the original): Unfortunately I have real work to do. I basically finished what needs doing today, but there’s a big list of stuff that just keeps stacking up. One set of deadlines on Friday, another one in a couple of weeks, etc..

    At least the local market had ice cream on sale this week so I have a plentiful supply of junk food on hand.

  49. 49.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    And yes—bacon is a spice.

    For the first time, I feel moved to donate to a primary candidate…

  50. 50.

    Ken

    @dmsilev:

    “We’ll have to pump out that standing water, and do it now before the transformer explodes”.

    Possibly an urban legend, but a NYC crew was once called out for a transformer fault, to find that a restaurant had been emptying its used grease and oil into what looked like a sewer drain. The transformer was nearly submerged in rancid fat.

  51. 51.

    Ruckus

    @mrmoshpotato:
    Among other things.
    I wasn’t nice.
    I wasn’t pleasant.
    I used some language that some, mostly older generation, would find not fit for high tea. Whatever the fuck that is.
    I’m actually pissed off that we are months away from the primaries and Tom Fucking Perez is picking and backing a candidate in the name of the DNC.
    Fucking wanker.

  53. 53.

    Aleta

    @Ruckus: Momentarily shocked to hear that. Wasn’t Sanders criticizing him heavily a year or so ago? Then they had some bonding event? But he’s not working for Sanders, he’s still DNC chair right? But Sanders … is not really actually … committed to the Party. Only to his supporters.

  54. 54.

    schrodingers_cat

    @NotMax: Bhakts=devotees of PM Modi. Indian version of MAGA hat wearers. In addition to the PM they promote his saffron RW agenda, which includes militant vegetarianism, Sanskritization and is misogynist and anti-Muslim and anti-Christian.

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