An advent calendar of wins https://t.co/dZBvnPDPpK
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) December 14, 2020
Joe Biden is much too generous a person (and too canny a politician) to embrace this trope. But I’m not!
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the U.S. presidential election after weeks of holding out. The Kremlin maintained Putin was holding off on doing so until the election results were officially confirmed. https://t.co/8Uke5RWyem
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 15, 2020
Senate Majority Whip John Thune said that Joe Biden is president-elect once he crosses 270 electoral votes and says efforts to challenge the results in Congress is “not going anywhere.” He said “it’s time for everybody to move on” after today.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 14, 2020
Ya ever stop to think that maybe the reason is so insistent Biden must have cheated is because Trump actually *did* cheat and can’t believe he still lost?
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) December 14, 2020
I'd say Biden's approach of keeping his cool while Trump's bullshit machine accrued failure after failure and then reprimanding him after the Electoral College voted was a pretty good call. pic.twitter.com/grahvKQXnM
— Seth Masket (@smotus) December 15, 2020
‘In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed’: Biden called on Americans to ‘turn the page’ on the Trump era in a prime-time speech, hours after prevailing over the president in the state-by-state Electoral College vote https://t.co/vv3KTuemJ6 pic.twitter.com/jvB4PSSCyT
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 15, 2020
Jesus, I pulled a muscle just *reading* this. https://t.co/8NhVQxGcaU
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) December 14, 2020
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Baud
We all have our roles to play.
debbie
I hope someone with better Google fu than I can find and link to today’s New York Daily News cover, which I can only find on Facebook. Suffice it to state the caption: “It’s Over, Even if Fat Man Won’t Sing.”
p.a.
Well that went smoothly, but now the hard work begins… ???
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
Warning: Politico playing games trying to make Biden’s visit to GA sound controversial.
debbie
Can’t find a link to the statement, but Weasel Portman squeezed out a weasel-y statement yesterday, something to the effect that voter fraud wasn’t widespread enough to show that Trump had won, so Biden’s the president-elect. Asshole.
MazeDancer
Let’s help give Mr. Biden the Senate he needs: Win Georgia.
This week and next are prime time for sending PostCards to GA Voters to support the Senate runoffs.
Get addresses, download free PostCard designs, and get ideas on what to say at PostCardPatriots.com
(And, yes, during PostCard Prime Time, the threads may be lightly spammed.)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Amir Khalid
Imagine poor Donald, locking himself in the bathroom for a good cry: “How could you, Vlad?”
Cheryl Rofer
@debbie:
jayjaybear
Will 2020 ever end? Husband went to the ER at 4AM this morning with labored breathing, extreme nausea, and abdominal pain. He’s been feeling ill for a couple of days; nausea, sweats, chills. He went by ambulance, so I’m not there (my car is at the mechanic’s so I can’t get to the hospital right now), but they called and told me he had a ventricular tachycardia and pneumonia. He’s in cath lab right now, and will be going to ICU after. I hope to be able to pick up the car and see him later today.
Die, 2020! Die!
Baud
@jayjaybear: Best wishes. That really stinks.
Jeffro
@Cheryl Rofer: yeowch!!
I mean, it’s not even close to what he deserves, but still.
Remind me to drop a few pounds before I make my big move in 2032 (or whenever Baud’s two terms are up). =)
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Thanks!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
That Putin is a real pisser
Mary G
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I’m convinced Twitler dictated that resignation letter himself. It sounds like the report from the crazy doctor in the campaign.
debbie
@jayjaybear: Fingers crossed for his recovery. ?
debbie
Ick to what’s being done to the English language. From an email from a poetry website, “Because poems companion us.” ?
Baud
@debbie:
You don’t like to poem?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@jayjaybear: sending you good vibes.
Amir Khalid
@jayjaybear:
I hope he gets better soon. Yes, this has been a horrible year.
raven
I’ll tell you what, I’m going to vote for our candidates but this GOTV is out of FUCKING control.
Cameron
@debbie: And who can forget the graceful arc of “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV?”
RandomMonster
@jayjaybear Best wishes on a full and speedy recovery.
mrmoshpotato
@jayjaybear: I’m sorry. Hope he recovers well.
p.a.
@jayjaybear: Sending positive vibes, fingers crossed!
SiubhanDuinne
@jayjaybear:
How worrying for you! I’m glad he’s in good medical hands. My very best wishes to you and your husband at this stressful time.
(Agree with your sentiments re: 2020. This year just keeps on giving and giving.…)
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: You obviously have never had a poem companion the hell out of you.
So companion. So poem. Great googly moogly!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@raven: In what way – are they knocking on your door or are you just being inundated with mailers and emails?
mrmoshpotato
@raven: Are canvassers banging on all doors around the clock?
“WTF? How’d you get in my bathroom?!”
debbie
@Baud:
?
Delk
@jayjaybear: ugh! I hope he recovers quickly.
Betty Cracker
@jayjaybear: How awful! Here’s hoping for a full and speedy recovery.
OzarkHillbilly
@jayjaybear: Fingers crossed.
eclare
@jayjaybear: Best wishes to you and your husband.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@debbie: Companioning embiggens us all.
arrieve
On a completely unrelated note, can I just share that I turned in my last paper and I have now survived my first semester of grad school? (Master’s program in teaching English as a second language.) Being back in school after decades away was a challenge but having a schedule (and homework!) has kept me sane these past few months.
Now I have winter break! I think I’ll hop on a plane and go somewhere warm and go craaaazy….oh wait.
Geminid
@raven: My Virginia 5th Congressional race was hotly contested, and I got a little irritated by the volume of GOTV texts. Some were duplicates from different Democratic entities, and some were from national groups using the race to build their own brand. I told one of the latter outfits off, and they said they’d remove me from their contact list. But I imagine you are getting double or triple the attention. January 6 probably seems a long time away.
arrieve
@jayjaybear: And I’m so sorry — hope your husband recovers quickly and completely.
Betty Cracker
We made it home in plenty of time to watch the speech last night and thought it was really good. I’ve been hoping for a more forceful denunciation of the outrageous and fascistic Trumpublican efforts to overturn the election, and Biden expressed that last night in the serious terms the issue merits.
The coughing worried me though. Could be nothing, but at this moment, in this diseased country, with a president-elect who is no spring chicken, it’s a concern.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@mrmoshpotato: That has the makings of an SNL skit. Or a pretty good GOTV ad.
”Well as long as you’re here, hand me that shampoo.”
raven
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I don’t care about the mailings or even the door knockers. It’s the texts that just keep coming even when they say “stop” if you want to.
raven
@Geminid: ex-fucking-zactly!
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
It’s allergies. He needs to use his rescue inhaler before going on stage.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Biden says he has a cold.
Wag
@jayjaybear: Terrible news. But if sounds like the hospital is doing all the right things for him. Fingers crossed.
raven
@arrieve: Ever see Cheech Marin teach ESL?
Waas Sappening
MazeDancer
@raven: Now that Early Voting has started, text back “Have Voted. STOP”
Maybe it will help.
hueyplong
@jayjaybear: Echoing wag, very glad to know he’s in a hospital and that it has beds available for non-COVID patients.
Hope the news improves as the hours go by.
Kristine
@jayjaybear: 2020 definitely deserves a stake through whatever passes for its heart.
Healing thoughts for your husband and for you.
mrmoshpotato
@MazeDancer: “What’s that? You want hourly texts?”
raven
@MazeDancer: Yea, 7 or 8 times a day.
rikyrah
???
rikyrah
I miss Kay☹️
Karen S.
@jayjaybear: My best wishes to you. Yes, this has been, on the whole, a tiring, terrible and tiresome year. I can’t wait for its conclusion.
zhena gogolia
Okay, I got up too early. I read this comment from last night:
As
zhena gogolia
@jayjaybear:
Oh, I hope he gets good care and feels better soon.
SFAW
If you click through on the Kruse/Bobic tweet, and read the weaselly/moronic statement from the Dishonorable Senator Kevin Cramer, the last line says “it looks like the big race is really between the inaugural committee and the Justice Department at this point so we’ll see how the emails turn out.”
WTF? Emails? Justice Department? WT Actual F?
SFAW
@jayjaybear:
Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery for your husband. [And best wishes for you, of course.]
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: I imagine both could be true.
debbie
@rikyrah:
Oh, boy, can’t wait for all the outrage from the progressives in 3, 2, ….
oldgold
@Betty Cracker:
When making extended remarks, it is always good to have a water source close at hand, with the exception of Marco Rubio.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@zhena gogolia: LED = Light Emitting Dildo?
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: So Steve stormed back into his podcast?
Starfish
@raven: I guess that is a “no” to giving us all your phone so we can canvas you. We have a delightful emoji game. ??
Dorothy A. Winsor
@jayjaybear: He’s in the right place. They’ll make him feel better.
What a pain about your car though. Talk about bad timing. 2020 thinks of itself as a jokester
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Both could be true.
Geminid
Dorothy A. Winsor
@arrieve: Excellent! Nothing feels as good as a break after a long semester.
I once celebrated Spring Break a little too joyously and friend who was working told me I was no longer allowed to mention it. She was a Tolkien fan, so she said I had to call it Sackville Baggins.
gbbalto
@jayjaybear: Hoping for the best!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@SFAW: It’s like a replay of 2016 hit songs.
sab
@rikyrah: I wish he would go start his own party. I want us (Democrats) to have standards beyond just accept Constitution and the rule of law. That is about the only position he agrees with us on.
Geminid
mrmoshpotato
@Starfish: Being Georgia, we could probably tell the story of the Peaches music video in emojis.
LOOK OUT!
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
No kidding. About the only thing that has come close to surprising me during this campaign has been that the Murderer-in-Chief did not seem to scream/whine about Hillary as much as I thought he would. [So I guess the Dishonorable Sen Cramer had to pick up the slack.]
Amir Khalid
@SFAW:
Maybe he’s holding out hope that the Trump DoJ might indict Hunter Biden before Joe Biden is inaugurated, perhaps on the basis of emails that look incriminating if you hold them upside down and squint just so.
Apparently, the FBI has been looking hard for months and months and not yet found anything hinky about Hunter’s dealings in Ukraine. If there were something that looked bad, Trump would be shouting it from the roofops. So I’m rather sceptical that there really is anything to be found.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: He’s referring to Hunter. As if that has any bearing.
Nicole
@Betty Cracker: If it makes you feel better, I heard the cough, too, and it made me think of…. me. I’ve been prone to coughing fits when my throat dries since I was a kid, and it always strikes/struck at really inconvenient times- orchestra practice, during a play (both in audience and onstage). My guess is the air of the room he was making the speech in was dry. I don’t think it’s cause for concern.
mrmoshpotato
@Geminid: 2. Off
SFAW
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Must .. fight .. urge .. to .. make obvious jokes.
Quiltingfool
@rikyrah: I miss Kay too. I hope she comes back soon.
MattF
Also, Moderna vaccine is effective. Soon, two effective vaccines.
OzarkHillbilly
@sab: But the DEM party is the only place for someone who accepts the Constitution and the rule of law.
I’m OK with it. We are free to disagree with any and all policies he might put forth.
Princess
The project of insisting that Barr didn’t really right that resignation letter is the project of rehabilitating Barr (“He knows Trump is awful and never would have said all those nice things about Trump unless forced.”). Think hard about whether you want to support that project. Besides, I think Barr thinks Trump’s presidency has been great. Barr believes all those things. Remember, Barr is a guy whose idea of fun in high school was to beat up Jews.
Baud
@Princess: Agree.
tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)
@jayjaybear: That must be stressful and frightening. On this side of the Pacific, sending your husband wishes for a smooth, swift and healthy recovery. Take care of yourself, as well, in these times.
@arrieve: Yeah you! I’ve taught EFL for more than 20 years. Like any profession, there are moments of frustration, but the joy of teaching, of helping students achieve their dreams, of realizing that they can reach that bit higher, makes it so worthwhile. I wish you every success!
Edited for clarity.
@rikyrah: Me too! Kay is one of my favorite commenters. Sometimes, I skim so quickly, but as soon as I read the comment, I know it’s hers. I hope she’ll return soon.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: Agreed, but I don’t think such a large tent is sustainable long term. A country where only one of the two major parties is committed to democracy isn’t sustainable long term either. I’m hoping Trump thoroughly blows up the Republican Party so that something more resembling sanity can arise from its ashes.
Quiltingfool
@zhena gogolia: This reminds me of a teaching moment! I was teaching an Environmental Science class to 7th and 8th graders; and the lesson was on extinct species. I had asked the class to tell me what species (they knew) were extinct, and I would list those on the board. One little 7th grader excitedly volunteered, “The Dildo Bird!” Thank God I had my back to the class — gave me a few seconds to compose my face. I turned around and very gently said, “Oh, the DODO bird, yes.” Meanwhile, several older boys in the class clapped their hands over their mouths to keep from laughing. I was so glad there was no further talk! Anyway, I knew the kid really didn’t know what a dildo was, his demeanor was of true innocence.
His mother was one of our lunch ladies, and I told her about it. She was horrified, but relieved when I told her I didn’t think her boy knew what the word meant, he was just eager to contribute and the word came out wrong. That incident happened well over 20 years ago, and it still makes me laugh. Ah, kids — the best part of teaching — never a dull moment!
Eunicecycle
@Quiltingfool: I have a friend who was a kindergarten teacher. She said it was difficult to look some parents in the eye after what her little students told her about them!
WereBear
@jayjaybear: I’m so sorry. Hope you both get through this!
MattF
@Princess: @Baud:
Bear in mind that the various commentators who welcomed Barr’s appointment were absolutely wrong. Barr has mastered the art of appearing normal and competent, but he is neither. He thrived in the crazy-as-fuckall Trump White House.
Booger
@Baud: I for one are not feeling poemish these days.
Amir Khalid
An appeal to the hive mind: can anyone recommend a free open-source productivity suite (word-processing, spreadsheet rtc.) that I can download to mny Win10 laptop?
Booger
@zhena gogolia: Well, that too I suppose.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Open Office?
mrmoshpotato
@Booger: To poem or not to poem! That is the poemtion!
germy
Ken
Or see the words “GOP Sen.” and realize there’s no point, and ignoring it may help your blood pressure.
zhena gogolia
@Princess:
He signed it, he wrote it. That’s the rule for executives, as far as I’m concerned. He doesn’t personally write anything — but if he signs it, he wrote it.
Ken
@mrmoshpotato: I use Open Office. It can open most MS Office documents, which is handy.
zhena gogolia
@Quiltingfool:
So sweet.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
I’m looking at a relative of Open Office called LibreOffice. I’d like to hear from anyone who has used it.
OzarkHillbilly
It isn’t, but never trump republicans aren’t going to take over the DEM party. He’ll move on. I see this move as more of performance art on Schmidt’s behalf than anything else.
mrmoshpotato
@germy: After “falling” out a window?
Ken
@debbie: @mrmoshpotato: Nero Wolfe would pfui that repeatedly. (Also my use of “pfui” as a verb.)
That aside, the poem that companioned me is W. S. Gilbert’s “The Yarn of the Nancy Bell.” My grandfather read it to me when I was young, and it became our “tell me a story” choice.
germy
@mrmoshpotato:
Interesting how so many of them who deal with the Russians fail to grasp the gravity of the situation.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: I see what you did there.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: I use it and it satisfies my needs.
LurkerNoLonger
@OzarkHillbilly: These people are supposed to be senators and yet they act like online right wing trolls. Pathetic.
Starfish
@mrmoshpotato: I really like that song.
The Republicans are showing “evidence” that Warnock is terrible because he is comparing people who want to defund CHP to Herod, and lefty Twitter is all in the comments loving the sermon.
different-church-lady
@debbie: “Verbing weirds language.“
Delk
Hah. The lgbt owner of the shop that made the kilts some proud boys were wearing has pulled the stock. He saw they bought $750.00 worth of kilts and he was so disgusted that he donated $1000.00 to NAACP.
TomatoQueen
@Amir Khalid: I use it on my Lenovo ThinkPad refurb, after being annoyed and hounded by Office 365 and also after a Win10 update crashed the refurb’s already-installed Micro$ Office beyond all hope of repair.
Libre doesn’t use the same file extensions, but in action this makes no difference, as you can tell what that funny Libre extension means in Micro$ talk. It is otherwise just as functional and over-filled with things you don’t need, and works just as well. And it’s free. And it’s open source.
mali muso
So I have read several stories recently about small towns in places like Kansas or South Dakota where people are dying in droves but the rock-ribbed conservative residents are still “debating” whether or not to impose a mask mandate. Maybe my basic humanity has been extinguished by the dumpster fire of the last four years and by 2020 in particular, but I find myself caring not at all. These idiots chose this fate, and I feel nothing but contempt. They are literally killing themselves to own the libs.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: True, and Schmidt is hardly the worst of that lot to join us! IIRC, Bill Kristol registered as a Democrat this year! If you’d made that prediction in my presence in 2015, I’d have assumed you were tripping…
MattF
@MattF: And here’s some choice commentating from Mona Charen on the subject of Bill Barr.
J R in WV
@jayjaybear:
Oh, no! Such scary conditions…
They have great expertise in cardiac treatment now, I hope he does well. Best wishes for both of you!!
2020 really does suck… I think we are all agreed on that!
mrmoshpotato
@Delk: Can we take a minute to acknowledge that the Proud Trash hate group is really, really strange? I haven’t been able to see a driving ideology, though I haven’t given it much thought.
So many things they do just strike me as weird.
sab
@germy: How terribly sad in comparison to everything else this year.
//
sab
@mrmoshpotato: Do you pronounce “poem” po-em or poim?
lowtechcyclist
I dunno, I found it impressive in its twisted way. Somewhere in whatever aprés vie he’s stuck in, the ghost of Nixon press secretary Ron Zeigler must be gaping in admiration.
mrmoshpotato
@mali muso:
Sometimes you gotta go, “Fuck it. Kill yourselves off.” It’s particularly stupid that this is about wearing a piece of fabric over your mouth and nose.
mrmoshpotato
@sab: Po-e-m :)
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
In the bathtub clutching a poisoned umbrella tip?
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
Have you ever caught Kristol on Ari Melber’s show when he has him on with the rappers he always books on Fridays? It’s hilarious. But Kristol seems to love it. Maybe those segments have introduced Bloody Bill to a bit of America he’s never known and now he likes it. I have to say I was gobsmacked to see him register Dem.
OzarkHillbilly
I’m not sure how you missed “Beating up ni**ers, ni**er lovers, and fags is fun.”
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: I mean what’s the point of the anti-masturbation belief, kilts, etc?
Amir Khalid
@TomatoQueen:
Thanks. I think LibreOffice is indeed what I’m looking for.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ken:
One of my own favourites as a child! I already knew several Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, and was enchanted to find that both men created wonderful stuff on their own as well.
https://youtu.be/F2NrZtDJ9RI
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: I am not sure you want to do this Peaches video in emojis. (NSFW)
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
LibreOffice suite. At libreoffice.org
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: I know it’s easy for the non-specialist to miss this, but it’s not *in* the bathtub, it’s *under* the bathtub – you see, the bathtub falls on you while you are trying to hoist it up to your balcony. OTOH, you can die *in* the sauna (which, in Russian, is known by a word you might confuse with “bathtub”) while relaxing there with your mistress.
Gin & Tonic
@mrmoshpotato: But a kilt is typically … hold on, this isn’t Balloon-Juice After Dark (except for Amir.)
J R in WV
I’ve used it both for writing and editing and the spreadsheet tool as well. Haven’t ever tried the drawing tool. It will remind you of the MS office tools, but it is different enough that the help available from Google will be helpful.
OzarkHillbilly
Rape. As to the kilts, it’s a whole lot easier to run away from the scene of the crime if your pants aren’t down around your ankles.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic:
Did someone say balcony baths? Hopefully no meteorites bust up your bath while you’re soaking in Sun.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
Ah, thank you very much. I now grasp the magnitude of my linguistic error, and shall endeavour to use these idioms correctly in future.
(Narrator: “If there is a future.”)
WereBear
I used it for years with no issues.
Amir Khalid
@J R in WV:
Downloading it right now.
rikyrah
????
badgetoon
@Amir Khalid:
LibreOffice I use the spreadsheet app all the time and it’s fine, I”m not a serious spreadsheet user so that’s not an adult endorsement
rikyrah
They thought that he would share his slush fund?
??????
Phuck outta here
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
Could we please, for the love of god, stop talking about dildos!?
Gin & Tonic
@mrmoshpotato: No, you don’t install it on the balcony, you just hoist the tub up there to get it in your flat, because your building doesn’t have a lift. The balcony is where you step out for a smoke, slip, and fall five stories to your death if you managed to survive the bathtub installation.
rikyrah
@jayjaybear:
??????????
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@jayjaybear: We’re with you. Best wishes for your husband’s speedy recovery, and death to 2020.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Let’s not kink shame.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: The con-artist party got out-conned.
Too bad. So sad. Fuck ’em.
Frankensteinbeck
@mrmoshpotato:
Their driving ideology is the same as all Republicans: That straight white evangelical Christian men are the definition of ‘normal’ and ‘America’ and should be allowed to hurt anyone else as much as they want. Anyone closer to that combination should be allowed to hurt anyone farther as much as they want. One side effect of this philosophy is that since who hurts who is what’s important, helping anyone ever is suspicious.
The Proud Boys in particular are focused on the ‘men’, ‘America’, and ‘hurt’ parts of that philosophy.
Frankensteinbeck
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yep. It’s just a twisted logical chain based on “Women owe me sex.”
geg6
@rikyrah:
Jesus. The fuckers have seen that asshole over the last four years, same as we have. If they didn’t see that coming a mile away, tough shit. Serves them exactly right.
@jayjaybear:
Sending all my good thoughts to you and your husband. 2020 truly sucks.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic:
And the occasional meteorite shockwave busting up everything.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: I read this chain bottom to top, and the punchline is much funnier when you don’t know what the first comment is.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@jayjaybear: I’m so sorry; thats a terrible way to start the day.
different-church-lady
@geg6: There’s a sucker re-born every minute.
rikyrah
@mali muso:
I gotta be worried about people who took it seriously.
caring & sensitive
@Amir Khalid: FreeOffice works great
zhena gogolia
@geg6:
I finished Mary Trump’s book. It is a clear-eyed vision of this horrible man’s life. She doesn’t pretend to be close to him, but somehow her keen glimpses of him at various family “celebrations” and for the brief time he “employed” her as a writer of his memoir are more telling and convincing than many a memoir by a close relative or friend.
Quiltingfool
@Eunicecycle: This. Didn’t happen to me, but to one of my teacher friends. She taught a gifted class, and they were studying the Exxon Valdez wreck. One student said he had taped a documentary on it, and volunteered to bring the tapes for the class to watch. Well, my friend did not preview the tapes…and while the whole class was watching the documentary, the documentary stopped and they were then watching a home video of the contributing student’s parents having adult “fun time” (knocking boots, lol).
Every. Teacher’s. Nightmare. Therapist windfall (that poor student!).
Shalimar
I think I am done with the internet for at least a few days after coming across the ultimate Florida story: “Man emasculated after failed attempt to rape pit bull”
No date, so it has to be satire.
geg6
So, Moscow Mitch has finally conceded that Biden and Harris have won.
Gawd, I despise him so much. Maybe even more than I despise Mango Mussolini.
germy
But what did they expect? I mean, if there’s money… he’s going to pocket it. That’s what he does, that’s what he’s always done.
germy
@geg6:
catclub
Well put.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@mrmoshpotato:
Speaking of masturbation, as always, conservatives ruin everything.
I ran across a weird item about Laura Ingraham and some crusade against PrOnhub where she accomplished something. I did a little, uh, research on it.
There are several facets of the aggregation of material there, and there’s a lot of it. On one hand, there’s professionally produced material that has shitty plots and identification checks on performers – that is heavily monetized. On the other, there’s material submitted by amateurs, the sort of folks who enjoy filming themselves getting down to business and putting on a show. The amateur stuff has been swarming prOnworld for a while and put a heavy dent in the produced material, affecting profits.
Ingraham alleged that there was a lot of material involving sexual assaults as well as minors, so PrOnhub’s response was to flag all of the amateur stuff for verification, even if it was clear that the people doing the banging were adults.
Now, this was a huge gift to the monetized portions of the industry, because one doubts that the amateurs follow their own stuff that well or they may be shy about verification.
I put it down to one of a couple of things – some obsessively wanking asshole who has briefly found Jesus, or somebody in the paid side paying her off for the pressure campaign. There are similar sites out there, but none with that volume of material.
catclub
@germy: Yet another person who does not realize McConnell is the AGENT of his caucus, and that he cannot force them to do things they do not want to do.
They ALL want to block everything Obama wanted.
They ALL wanted to stop Merrick Garland.
There is NO GOP whistleblower.
It may be politically easier to focus on McConnell, but he is just at the front of the GOP Senate Caucus.
dnfree
@Quiltingfool:
@Eunicecycle: it is legendary in my husband’s family that in the 1950s the nuns asked his older brother’s first-grade class what they did to help around the house. His brother proudly shared that every night before bedtime he emptied the ashtrays and picked up the beer bottles. The nuns of course had a good laugh when they shared the story with his mom.
Quiltingfool
@dnfree: I think a sense of humor is vital to the well being of both nuns and teachers!
ballerat
What is best in life?
Oh that made me laugh! Because I did indeed hear it in the voice of that warlord from Conan the Barbarian.
I’ve been reading the Coping MAGA twitter threads to hear da lamentations of da wimmen.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Trump’s mind is in an even darker place than usual this morning. He may try some extralegal, extrajudicial thing with some of those DHS paramilitary mercs in a few days.
WaterGirl
@raven: The texts are probably coming from dozens of different organizations. Are you texting STOP in response to each one, so you can get them all?
And if you donate again. like to the concert, you get back on them and have to type STOP all over again.
MattF
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: My guess is that he’s already tried to get military approval for martial law.
Geminid
@catclub: I also think that McDonnell’s power over his caucus is over-rated. Occasional exceptions like Murkowski voting against Kavanaugh, or Romney voting to convict trump after impeachment, tend to prove the rule that republican Senators stick together on important votes. But their power is independent of their caucus leader, and their allegiance is voluntary.
germy
@catclub:
So it’s turtles all the way down.
The Thin Black Duke
@MattF: The military already let Trump know they weren’t going to be his hired guns when he teargassed churchgoers for that ridiculous photo op.
Miss Bianca
@Amir Khalid: I use LibreOffice on my Mac laptop, works great. Since it can open Microsoft Office documents of all stripes, I am guessing it is Windows-compatible.
germy
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@MattF:
He won’t get that from most of the current structure, but there are probably some other flag officers scattered about who have the same sorts of goofy ideas as McInerney and Flynn that could stir up some problems.
As for even a wingnut-led DOJ, the people at the level that would have to carry out orders have enough institutional knowledge and connection to know that if they try it, they’d go to jail.
If it comes, it’s via DHS and it’s merc contractors – they’re thugs in the truest sense of the word, and so stupid that they likely don’t believe that their lives would be forfeit for attempting it.
Faithful Lurker
@WaterGirl: I finally had to turn off my phone and haven’t turned it back on yet. I was getting 5 texts a minute
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
I’m guessing that this one is going to play out like a speech from a belligerent Soviet autocrat in an Allen Drury novel.
For the modern equivalent, see Baghdad Bob’s work – of course, Baghdad Bob was kind of lovable and humorous.
Haroldo
@jayjaybear:
Good heavens! And good luck.
2020 Delenda Est.
Bill Arnold
That HoarseWhisperer thread will be a part in the launch of a counter narrative, that Trump rigged the election, just not quite enough to counter the unexpectedly large number of mailed-in paper ballots and Biden/anti-Trump voting in general. Ooops! It was close; maybe 50K votes in battleground states would have swung it to Trump.
To flesh out a possible counter-narrative (Note: not saying it’s true, or even definitely a good idea), GA probably wasn’t rigged because they went with traditional voter suppression and their machines print a ballot that voters can look at (true?) so they were safe that an investigation of Georgia wouldn’t uncover any election machine rigging.
Continuing the scenario/narrative, certain states, with voting machines and not enough audit trail, were rigged and they can be spotted by examining “polling error” especially relative to polling error in neighboring states. Etc. Details adjusted to fit the actual facts of voting machinery, polling, turnout, etc, and Benford’s Law analysis of all reported numbers. (The loony techy right has been doing the Benford’s Law examination already and spotted what they think are anomalies. Hasn’t occurred to them (that I’ve seen) that they might be due to Republican vote rigging. :-)
Benford’s law
ballerat
@rikyrah: Yeah I figure he thinks his prospects as a republican don’t look so good for quite a while to come.
It’d be touching if he’s doing this out of a change of heart and personal conviction and…. Ha-ha-ha-ha! Oh that’s rich.
Looks like we’re going to have an infestation of blue dog democrats. Just in time to thwart the shit we really need to do. Fuckem.
ballerat
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: He can’t even take a bath without 3 or 4 canvassers jumping in with him!
Betty Cracker
@geg6: I’ve never seen that! I find Melber irritating (in part because of the rappers), so I rarely see his show, but that sounds weird enough to be worthwhile! ;-)
Bill Arnold
@Amir Khalid:
I use LibreOffice on both Linux and Windows (and MacOS in 2019). It’s pretty stable. You can import and export from/to various Microsoft formats (and a some others). Fancy users might see some minor format translation issues.
Bill Arnold
@germy:
“Heart attack” with blunt head trauma “from the fall”? One presumes.
germy
@Bill Arnold:
His heart attacked him and then the floor finished the job.
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
Good god. Reality has just bent out of shape!
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
You’ve got to catch it one of these days. It’s really funny. Kristol always looks completely confused but having fun while doing it. It’s a whole other side to him that has never been evident in anything I’ve ever seen him do.
Chief Oshkosh
@Gin & Tonic:
Wait, which thread is this? The one about Open Office or the one about light-emitting dildos?
ballerat
@mrmoshpotato: The emblems and props of overt macho. The camo and black armor and hirsute sameness that’s just as much a costume as anything the village people wore. They’re all hairy and rolypoly as, well, bears. Hmm.
I’m thinking black people voting ain’t the only thing they’re trying to suppress.
leeleeFL
@jayjaybear: Hope good news comes quickly and you can get him out of the hospital soon!
Chief Oshkosh
@MattF: Eh, fuck Mona with a rusty pitchfork. If you notice, she’s basically taking the opportunity to continue the Hunter Biden bullshit, basically dropping in passing that there’s incriminating evidence against him, stating it as though it’s known by all.
After several months, maybe more, of investigation and there’s been absolutely no indictment? No overt side to the investigation? No, there have not been, Mona. What a hack. She’s cut-rate Jenghazi.
The Moar You Know
@Amir Khalid: Bloated and shitty. Just like OpenOffice. Does it need to be specifically open-source? If not, I’m going to recommend Google Suite.
The Moar You Know
@germy: I see we’ve gotten to the “cleaning up the evidence” stage for the Russians here. If I were Cohen or Trump or Guiliani or…damn, way too many to list – I’d be pretty concerned.
Layer8Problem
@Amir Khalid: Way, way late on the LibreOffice endorsements, but I run it under Linux and my partner runs it under FTF-MS Windows 10 because free; it does what we want. I can export documents (resumes/CVs and so forth) to various MS formats as well as PDF and I’ve never seen a problem looking at the results in my company’s paid-up Word. I use the spreadsheet without issue for finances and such.
Ksmiami
@rikyrah: me too. Is she despondent about Ohio rt now? She really puts so much effort into keeping her state sane but the morlocks outnumber good ppl
Geminid
@ballerat: Actually, there was an outflow of Blue Dog Caucus members this past election cycle. The caucus numbered 25 members in 2019, but freshmen Kendra Horn (OK-5), Xochtl Torres-Small (NM-5), Joe Cunningham (SC-1), Ben McAdams (UT), and Max Rose (NY-11), and veteran Colin Peterson (MN-7) lost to Republicans last month. Ted Lipinski (IL) lost to Marie Newman in a primary, but she held that safe seat. Blue Dog Anthony Brindisi (NY-22) is in a recount after finishing 12 votes down. Remaining Blue Dogs include Charlie Crist and Stephanie Murphy of Florida, Mikie Sherrill (NJ), Jared Golden (ME), Jason Crow (CO) and Lou Correa (CA-46). But if enough Blue Dogs lose in 2022 the Democrats may get the more ideologically compact congressional caucus some would like to see. Although Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) might be Speaker.
Gravenstone
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I saw the reports about the more suspect content, and then this morning about PH’s response. But I had no idea Ingraham was behind the original complaint. IIRC, doesn’t she have some questionable photos and perhaps videos from her past circulating around?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@The Moar You Know:
I got a feeling Carter Page is about to “accidentally” walk into a jet engine.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@ballerat: That doesn’t sound so bad, those Georgia girls are real pretty.
frosty
@Amir Khalid: Really dead thread: LibreOffice. Or if you’re feeling wealthy you can buy MS Office Home / Student for $149. There may still be a sale on for $100.
Another Scott
@Amir Khalid: Even deader thread, but I too use LO. I find the compatibility with much of MS Office to be generally excellent.
PowerPoint compatibility can sometimes be problematic (e.g. differences in text formatting), but PPT is such a horrible program that’s not surprising. I find Impress much easier to use and more flexible (half of my time with PPT is spent fixing the wrong formatting it puts on whatever I’m doing (even working with a template)).
Draw also works very well.
It’s well maintained, works well, and one really couldn’t go wrong using it (as long as you don’t have to exchange complex documents with others – of course Mac MS Office users have issues whenever they have to work on PC MS Office documents – it’s the nature of the beast).
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.