Psaki responds to McConnell saying "100% of my focus" is on "standing up" to Biden administration: "The contrast for people to consider is 100% of our focus is on delivering relief to the American people, and getting the pandemic under control, and putting people back to work" pic.twitter.com/wmUlUPYzLF
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 5, 2021
Biden dismisses McConnell’s pledge that he’s ‘100 percent’ focused on stopping the administration Via @Eugene_Scott https://t.co/uo9bJeqIIW
— DonnaCassata (@DonnaCassata) May 5, 2021
REPORTER: Mr. President, do you have any comments on efforts to oust Liz Cheney from the House Reublican leadership post?
BIDEN: I don't understand the Republicans.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 5, 2021
bipartisanship is talking to people who tell you to go die https://t.co/wgmrv5Yu6m
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) May 5, 2021
President Joe Biden talks about the Republican drive to oust Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney from the House of Representatives pic.twitter.com/1Bf4yHV5y7
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 6, 2021
I like the Democratic message!
Shots in arms, money in pockets, people in jobs. https://t.co/qVq5FLazs4
— Senator Alex Padilla (@SenAlexPadilla) May 5, 2021
Baud
Liar! He knows who they are.
germy
Reporters from “conservative” outlets keep trying to stump the band:
debbie
Mitch is the perfect heir to Dick Cheney’s “It (power) is our due.” Screwem.
Baud
Some “moderate” black woman Republican who voted for Biden said that the “sane” Republicans will make some big announcement next month that she couldn’t reveal right now.
MattF
The question is whether they should push back harder, e.g., ‘We haven’t caused a half-million American deaths’.
debbie
@germy:
Stupid reporter. She wants the CDC to come up with guidelines with no input from anyone. Experts should proceed inexpertly?
MattF
And, speaking of monkeys.
Spanky
Matt McIrvin
@Spanky:
All propaganda tends toward tractors, товарищ!
NotMax
Seems apropos.
“Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty — so, obviously, thinking must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom.”
- Adlai Stevenson
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Baud
@NotMax:
Perceptive guy, but it’s not hard to see why he lost to Ike.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It takes more than just being smart and articulate to win the WH.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Don’t I know it!
Betty Cracker
Chickenshits.
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
It’s his/her colleagues who aren’t turning the page!
raven
Happy Birthday Say Hey Kid!
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
The GOP will still occasionally flog Bill Clinton supposedly not allowing Bob Casey to speak at the 1992 convention because he was anti-choice, as demonstrating Dem intolerance.
The page will stay right where it’s at until we are finished reading it.
Baud
@debbie:
Another good way to look at it.
Spanky
@Betty Cracker: Amen.
Not “heralding” when you insist on not having your name in the article, chickenshit.
Kay
Anonymous At Work
Anyone got a quote from Manchin or Sinema about McConnell’s quote?
Baud
@Kay:
The peasants are revolting!
Betty Cracker
IIRC, last time House Republicans held a leadership vote, it was a secret vote and Cheney retained her seat by a wider margin than you’d expect given all the public groveling before the orange crybaby. That was before Trump told McCarthy to get rid of Cheney or else. So, will House GOP members have to record their next leadership vote in public? Awkward!
randy khan
Jen Psaki is awfully good, not just because I like her snark, but because she’s really focused on getting the Administration’s message out. The Trump Administration did itself no favors by having a series of press secretaries who thought their job was to not tell anyone anything.
raven
@Baud:
Two bits
Four Bits
Six Bits
a Peso
All for Zorro, standup and say so!
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: While certainly not a prerequisite, being good looking doesn’t hurt.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: It almost seems like a movement afoot. I’m loving the stories about whiny store/restaurant owners who can’t find staff. Pay them more! Isn’t that what we’re told when anyone questions obscene payouts to CEOs? That they have to shovel millions of dollars at these geniuses or they’ll go elsewhere? Okay then, same principle applies! You want servers? Pay what the market demands or STFU!
germy
@debbie:
Reporter: “Why do you do this thing?”
Psaki: “Here are the reasons. Also, these things are standard. They’ve always been done.”
Reporter: “Pfft.”
Kay
@Baud:
I wonder if it’s the Ivanaka/Goldman Sachs plan women borrow from their future Social Security benefits to pay for child care.
They have another one for college costs on the Right, where people also borrow from future Social Security benefits.
In a generation we could have parents who spent their future Social Security benefits on child care, but their children can’t because those children already spent theirs on college.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I knew there was a reason for my fondness of 5/6. I mean a reason other than the fact that Cinco de Mayo was over.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
Shalimar
@Betty Cracker: If they want her out, and McCarthy seems to have decided they do, the vote will be public. I think she still wins a secret vote.
rikyrah
Enjoy that 46 brought up that Moscow Mitch said the same thing about 44.
Remind those tricks in the MSM that we know you are shilling for Moscow Mitch and that bipartisan bullshyt is just that….so, your dumb azzes need to stop.asking about it ??
debbie
@Kay:
“Why can’t these Americans act more like the undocumented aliens I used to reign over?”
rikyrah
@Kay:
??????????
rikyrah
@Kay:
Nail them, Kay.
Nail them ??
rikyrah
@Anonymous At Work:
Manchin said that Moscow Mitch didn’t really mean it????
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: It sounds like Cheney knows she’ll be replaced as Conference Chairman, and is not putting much energy into trying to keep the post. Next year’s Wyoming Congressional primary will be a different story, I think. That will be a real fight, and I would not count Cheney out.
Kay
@debbie:
They left a note on the door (because the store is closed) and “disrespectful” was their second complaint after “low wages”.
artem1s
@debbie:
worked for TFG, surely input from Jared is all the expertise anyone needs. /s
Just One More Canuck
@Baud: they certainly are
Kay
@rikyrah:
Conservatives are up at night, fretting over the fact that lower income people haven’t burned through their Social Security benefits yet. It’s money just sitting there that Right wingers could spend!
Anyone who allows even the slightest CHINK in the wall that protects Social Security should be immediately driven from office. They will spend every fucking penny if they get their greedy mitts on it.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven:
Ben Cisco
@rikyrah: PREACH!
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker:
Oh, the terrorist fist bump! Not a form of greeting that we’ve all had to adopt since TFG bungled the pandemic response!
Kay
@rikyrah:
When people used to get paper social security benefit statements in the mail, sometimes they would bring it in the office and ask me if the projected benefit was real- always low income older people.
So anxious, because they know it is all they will have. Thank goodness they didn’t spend it on child care, right?
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: It’s invested in US treasury bonds. What the GOP objects to is that nobody is able to
stealuse it to make more money.zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah!
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) tweeted at 5:41 AM on Thu, May 06, 2021:
But there is no “turning the page” here.
Cheney isn’t being disqualified just because she’s denouncing Trump and the Big Lie.
Her more significant heresy is demanding the GOP commit to democracy *going forward.* And Republicans don’t want to do this:
https://t.co/0b62rR0IiH
(https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1390255295142764547?s=03)
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, I agree. It makes them absolutely furious that there is a giant pile of money out there that no one is skimming.
People made fun of Al Gore for the “lockbox” but he was dead on. It has to to be sequestered, behind a moat, with dragons.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: But think of the returns we could get if the Social Security Trust Fund were invested in Bitcoin! Or gold, I just saw a commercial about how gold is always a good investment.
rikyrah
@Kay:
But, it’s Good that little Marco is pushing this ridiculous bullshyt.
Like the GOP.option is a.viable one.
Phuck that trick ?
rikyrah
@Ken:
What’s the new scam that Elon Musk has come up with now?
Soprano2
@Spanky: Not surprised to see Bass Pro Shops on that list, they’re Republicans from way back. They made a big deal out of George W. shopping there once when he was in town for some event. My husband worked there, and he hates that place with the hot hatred of a 1,000 blue suns. I think if I ever shopped there he’d divorce me!
Nicole
@Baud:
Oh come on, they’re not that bad.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
leeleeFL
@Betty Cracker: As a server, I can tell you it isn’t just about money….though that’s a big thing. Many of my fellow servers and bartenders did not get called back in one month, like I did. I was scared crapless, but i was there every shift because i wasn’t giving anyone an excuse to ley me go. after 7-8 years of building a career there, fuck that noise. Many of my fellows went back to school, learned real estate or insurance, work in offices, or groceries or drug stores. They get weekends off quite often, do not have to work holidays, pay for day care AND some are happy to know what their kids look like, or see a spouse more often than passing each other in the doorway. Lady COVID-19, has changed the landscape dramatically.
Soprano2
@Betty Cracker: So, turning the page on Trump – by sucking up to him and refusing to call out his obvious lies. Ok then……
Baud
@Kay:
Neither a lender not a borrower be (especially to yourself).
Betty Cracker
@leeleeFL: Those are all great points. If this country wasn’t weighed down by a plurality of religious fanatics and oppositional defiant disordered kooks who are reflexively hostile to change, this would be a great time to rethink how we do the service industry in this country. But we are where we are, so it’s heartening to see the free market slapping some of the biggest assholes in the face.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: Excellent point. Their ultimate goal seems to be to memory-hole Trump and the insurrection but use the Big Lie to dismantle the institutions that ensure election integrity. I’m not sure they won’t get away with it either.
Ken
Is that a rhetorical question, or is he really pushing something? “It’s like bitcoin, but the servers are on Mars!”
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: Yep, they want all that money in the stock market so they can gamble with it. There’s nothing wrong with the stock market, but people’s SS benefits shouldn’t be there.
leeleeFL
@Betty Cracker: Yes, but… there’s always a but….I am working overtime, getting bitched at by bosses for the ridiculous crime of thinking and SAYING we are too understaffed to allow the number of people who come in to eat, and listening to my fellow employees who haven’t left, bitch about me thinking we have to feed the people (having checked with one of said bosses) cause they want to go home!!! I NEED to win the Bleeding Lottery!
Soprano2
@leeleeFL: Good to see a personal report that tracks with what I believe, which is that the extra unemployment is only a small part of the reason for the current shortage of people to work in the service industry. Every time the topic comes up in conversation, the other person immediately says “It’s that extra unemployment, no one wants to work anymore”. I always push back on that, saying it’s only a small part of the issue. I had one person who actually hadn’t even thought of the problem with daycares either being closed or operating at 50%! Like, hey, that’s a big problem for working women with children, who do you think works at these jobs? I’m not sure what the total solution is going to be for the hospitality industry, but I know part of it will involve paying more money.
The Thin Black Duke
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, but the sheep who will believe the GOP’s revisionist history want to believe it, so what does it matter? Facts never meant anything to them anyway.
leeleeFL
@Soprano2: Agreed, and damn quickly I’d think, but….it won’t bring them back in droves.
Soprano2
That’s probably actually what caused them to quit. We have a server whose husband fell down the stairs and got a concussion, so she had to miss her shift Saturday night. Our manager told her do what you need to do, we’ll cover it, and it was covered just fine. The next time I saw her, she thanked me profusely for letting her do that, and my thought was “what kind of monsters have you worked for in the past?”. I mean really, treat people with dignity, tell them you appreciate what they do for you. My biggest worry right now is that our manager is having to work so much because of the worker shortage. When our employees tell us how much they appreciate us, we tell them we appreciate them more because without them we’d have nothing. It’s the truth! Oh, and the people at the Dollar Store quitting can’t be the high unemployment, because they probably won’t be able to draw any!
Frankensteinbeck
@Betty Cracker:
Yep. Like I said, very few of them worship Trump, even publicly. McCarthy does, the nutcase, which is amplifying a tiny trend. But they can’t repudiate Trump. That’s disloyalty, not to Trump, but to total war against evil Democrats. In particular it’s unacceptable to claim that Democrats didn’t cheat to win, because blacks only being able to win by cheating has been a core Republican principle since Nixon.So what the vast majority of elected Republicans want is for everyone to shut the fuck up about Trump and let him fade into the past while they concentrate on what’s important: voter suppression.
@Betty Cracker:
And like I said, McCarthy specifically is the one who bends the knee to Trump, but he was chosen to be point man for assholery, which is just the kind of person who would cling to and worship the orange toad.
@rikyrah:
Bingo. Trump’s claim that Democrats cheated is everything Republicans are and have been, he only made it the issue of the day. And what have white supremacists done every single time blacks outvoted them for the first time in a state they thought was a white refuge? Pissed themselves in terror, gone apeshit with fury, and thrown Democracy aside to stop blacks from being able to vote, with a governmental overthrow if necessary.
RSA
@Soprano2: From the Social Security Administration:
One would think that’s a problem easy enough for even a Republican in Congress to understand.
Skepticat
I am completely awed by Jen Psaki.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Betty Cracker:
This is kind of doom and gloomy. I don’t think it’s that bad
Soprano2
@leeleeFL: I know, I’m not sure what’s going to happen, because you can’t automate serving people at their tables. I think in the fast food part of the industry there will be more and more automation. I also wonder how many of those places will close their dining rooms and go to drive-thru only locations, because you can operate a drive thru with fewer employees. I’ve noticed that around here even though they could be at 100% capacity right now some fast food places haven’t opened their dining rooms yet. I also think one issue in hospitality is that the huge immigration crackdown that’s happened the past 4 years is finally coming home to roost. I saw “All Things Considered” did a story about how the lack of a certain type of visa employee is really hurting the industry in some areas. That could actually be an issue in Branson, which is hurting a lot more for employees than Springfield is right now. I’ll also tell you that I’ve made it clear to all of my employees that they are not to put up with customers treating them disrespectfully, or harassing them. We had a customer we had to ban because he kept trying to show the women “dick pics” – and he was over 60, so to me even more shocking than normal! How gross! No one should have to put up with that.
Betty Cracker
@The Thin Black Duke: That’s true. Maybe the best strategy is to drive a wedge between the Trumpenproletariat, who don’t comprise a majority of voters, and unaffiliated voters who aren’t onboard for disenfranchisement efforts that affect them, like what’s happening in Florida and Georgia. It would take sustained and disciplined messaging, so who knows…
debbie
@Kay:
I clicked over to see the photo. One picture is worth a billion words!
Betty Cracker
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The governor of my state just signed a bill restricting ballot access (after bragging for months about how the 2020 election was a “model for the nation”), so I’m not feeling particularly optimistic today. Feel free to pie me if you find my uncertainty about the ultimate outcome disturbing.
Uncle Cosmo
The interesting thing is that the correlation between corporate performance and CEO compensation is negative. (CEOs are routinely compensated this year for last year’s “great job” – which they had fook-all to do with, merely having been in the right seats at the right time – and when the stars don’t align in the same propitious way, things go south.) Whereas when the folks who actually do the work get paid better (and are treated more respectfully) they generally respond by doing a good job.
leeleeFL
@Soprano2: Thank God I don’t have that kind of thing to deal with…though the disrespectful stuff does happen. I am old enough to give them the Mom/Grandma stare of disapproval and that is the end of that. One older guy(my age) who’s noted for being inappropriate pulled something on Saturday. I stared at him like a bacteria and he apologized. Gotta have a line they cannot cross.
Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly: at least those assholes died off and we finally had a unanimous vote recently. It was so fucking stupid. I hope to see more.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Betty Cracker:
I’m sure that law will be challenged and more than likely ruled unconstitutional. The SCOTUS knows that if they go too far, Dems will do court reform
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2:
@leeleeFL:
@Betty Cracker:
It is GOD’S natural order that we have our indentured servants!
Frankensteinbeck
I must add that in Arizona it was the Native American vote that organized and turned the tide against the white supremacists, but the history of how white supremacists respond is all demonstrated with the black vote.
germy
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m recalling former PGH/BOS/PHA first baseman Dick Stuart, whose fielding was so atrocious he was called “Dr. Strangeglove” – not for that nickname, but a more obscure one: “The Ancient Mariner” – because, just like the guy in the poem, “he stoppeth one of three”…
Chief Oshkosh
@debbie: What he meant was that they have turned the page on Trump as being a viable 2024 candidate. He’s just a box to be ticked so that the GOP can keep the base happy and engaged — which really means — enraged. Liz is ruining that for the GOP by reminding everyone that Trump is, well, Trump and that ticking the Trump box (bending the knee to him) means that the GOP is full-on racist, insurrectionist, and nihilist. Pretty much exactly what Republican voters want, apparently.
Baud
@germy:
So that’s where Jared ended up.
Soprano2
@leeleeFL: We just banned that dude, because even though he told my husband he’d stop doing it he didn’t stop. We also banned another guy who was routinely rude to the servers. We hated to do that, because we really like his girfriend, but he was too much to put up with. The beauty of owning your own place is that you don’t have to put up with things if you don’t want to.
evodevo
@Soprano2: Had a customer on my mail route who would do that, only NOT with a phone lol – he sat in his front yard and exposed himself if you were a younger blond female. He was elderly and a stroke victim, and this stuff didn’t start till after the CVA, so I concluded it was stroke damage. I would just wave at him and drive on by, but the younger carriers were all freaked out…he never approached the car or got out of his lawn chair…..
I would probably have said to your customer, “Oh, it’s SO tiny! No wonder your wife left!” Works every time…
Ruckus
@Baud:
Knowing who they are and understanding why are two entirely different things.
Ken
My takeaway is that sportswriters used to be a lot more well-read.
Soprano2
@evodevo: ROFLMAO!!! That’s a great response.
Ksmiami
@Betty Cracker: oh things will come to a head. Theirs- on pikes. We can’t go on as a nation with the GOP.
zhena gogolia
@Soprano2:
Cancel culture!
OzarkHillbilly
I once left a guy paddling a canoe in the dark miles from his takeout because just the thought of his *bitchy GF* in my camp was just too much. Looked at my sons and said, “Remember this boys when you start dating.”
**We heard her long before they paused in front of our camp. “Long suffering” didn’t begin to describe what that poor guy was putting up with.
Betty Cracker
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I hope you’re right. On the bright side, that law could have been a lot worse. FL Republicans saw what happened in GA (corps speaking out, games moved to other states) and chickened out on the worst provisions. Still, it’s plenty bad enough, and legal analysts don’t seem overwhelmingly confident that it’ll be overturned. We’ll see. DeSantis signed it in front of a Trump fan club (literally) in West Palm and banned all media except Fox News. I hope in-your-face shit like that hurts him politically, but he seems to think it won’t. Again, we’ll see.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: Excellent opening scene. Does the guy come rushing into your camp at two in the morning, yelling “There’s been a terrible accident! I think my girlfriend’s dead!”
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
BTW, what happened to Omnes? I haven’t seen his nym lately, though admittedly I haven’t been as active myself
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker:
before twitter went cattywampus on me, I saw that he had banned media from the signing ceremony because he had granted Fox News “an exclusive”
OzarkHillbilly
Headline on an opinion piece at the Guardian: To understand why Joe Biden has shifted left, look at the people working for him
I can’t bring myself to *read it* (or even link it), I am just amazed at the blinders one must wear to not notice who it was who put those people in those positions?
**it is in fact possible the author does address Joe’s picking his people, headlines are usually written by others after all.
Barbara
@Betty Cracker: It’s depressing, but I will say that Virginia used this gambit to try to forestall the blue-ification of the state, along with harsh gerrymandering and very limited absentee voting, and it was, to say the least, only temporarily successful. I think the wild card in Florida has always been the disproportionately large population of seniors (in a state that is growing economically, the proportion of seniors tends to go down, not up) along with in-migration of Latino groups that are highly suspicious of anything that smacks of socialism. The senior factor matters because of the significant demographic and voting differences by age cohort at this point in time.
Steve in the ATL
@OzarkHillbilly:
@Baud:
Sadly—and totally unfairly—it also requires pants.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@OzarkHillbilly: that’s a common theme in the tubes: Biden has co-opted the policies of [person I preferred during the primaries and whose major policy initiatives Biden has not, in fact, adopted but it gives me some weird I-told-you-do vibe to pretend my candidate somehow really won]!
Betty
@Anonymous At Work: He still won’t budge. What a bozo.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
FYI
Anonymous At Work
@Betty: To quote Samuel L Jackson, “What’s the weather like on [his] planet?!”
Oddly, that line did not have any words redacted.
Another Scott
@Barbara: +1
People seem to forget that Claude Pepper was able to stay in Congress for decades and keep Social Security sacrosanct by riling up seniors – “Keep your foul hands off Social Security!”. Even with the Teabaggers Disease, that still has to be a powerful message there, if Democrats would run with it (or a modernized version of it).
Atrios’ 2013 USAToday column still applies.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
It’s annoying, but “Biden has co-opted someone I like” is better than “Hillary is totally against someone I like” was.
In an ideal world, people would have the courage to admit that they had the wrong impression all along, but we live in the world of the privileged.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: If I was the writer, it would be a very short movie: “They paddled off into the darkness, never to be heard from again.”
I couldn’t say “seen again” because it was a moonless night. Could barely make out their canoe by the light of our fire. I suppose I could have said, “You can come up into our camp, but only if you push your boat out into the current with her in it.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud:
You said it! They stink on ice!
OzarkHillbilly
@Steve in the ATL: That is sexist as all hell. What about dresses??? I light the night on fire when I wear red!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Glenn is like a sub’s sub. He must love being dunked on – he’s replying to himself.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker:
So glad the DoJ isn’t just moving on from tracking down and arresting insurrectionist trash.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Ken
I think Mr. Jackson’s signature phrase is because he’s a very good actor and enjoys the in-joke, versus that’s the limit of his acting chops.
mrmoshpotato
@randy khan:
They were all lying shitstains too, who would lie about stupid, verifiable things.
Barbara
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Can he really make a living doing this? I found out from a neighbor that a “nice young man” bought the house across the street from them and he has a Youtube gaming site that has attracted enough sponsorship for him to make a living at it. They had to ask their kids what that meant and they absolutely cannot explain it to their bemused friends. That’s how I feel about Greenwald. Who the fuck cares what Glenn Greenwald thinks enough for him to loll around on a beach in Brazil for the rest of his life? Well, obviously, Putin or his flunkies, I guess. But still.
Jeffro
@Kay: channeling your inner George Carlin today, Kay…and rightfully so!
??????????????
Jim, Foolish Literalist
public service announcement for DC peeps
The Moar You Know
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): “court reform”. “Court packing”. That was literally the hill that FDRs presidency died on and I don’t think Biden is dumb enough to repeat that mistake.
Barbara
@The Moar You Know: But it didn’t. He didn’t succeed at it, but his presidency didn’t “die” as a result. That’s going too far.
OzarkHillbilly
An interesting read: ‘We go after them like pitbulls’ – the art detective who hunts stolen Picassos and lost Matisses
Gin & Tonic
@Ken:
Yes, indeed. Red Smith, for instance, was a brilliant writer.
Geminid
@Frankensteinbeck: the efforts to turn out Native American voters in Arizona last November has gotten much deserved attention. In it’s November 1, 2020 article titled “Inside the Machine to Turn Out Arizona Latino- and Flip the State Blue,” Politico reported on an effort that may have been as consequential, maybe even more. The article describes the “union members and a coalition of grassroots Latino groups that make up an expansive field operation, the likes of which the state has never seen until now.” By the time the article was written, these people were well on their way to their goal of knocking on 800,000 doors. Along with other methods, the organizers felt this in-person contact was especially effective in reaching Latino voters.
RaflW
@rikyrah: I appreciate Adam Jentleson pointing out that Manchin is siding with slavery-plantation advocate John C Calhoun.
I don’t advocate throwing Manchin out of the caucus. But he and Sinema point out how essential it is to win a couple of more Senate seats in ’24 (not an easy task!!). Yes, whoever the next-most-marginal Dem will be the prima donna, but they should be to the left of these clowns (Manchin’s clutch votes noted).
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s a pretty good piece, written by a former Obama admin staffer. One point he makes is that the younger Democrats working in the admin don’t have a memory of a Republican Party that’s worth negotiating with and that staffers who put together the briefing books and policy papers are more diverse than any crew in history, so they have a different perspective.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
this, every day on the front page and on all the twitter accounts
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@rikyrah:
@Ken:
Heard about Dogecoin yet?
Dogecoin price surges after tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban
It literally started out as a joke.
Tax the rich until they’re humble.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: also, the states in play are states where Biden, or trump, won by less than a percentage point, not NY, CA or MA
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: I bet you look stunning in red. Pants didn’t help Hillary at all.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
I love art theft stories – those collectors are deeply pathological. When it comes to the thefts themselves, my attitude is like Dennis Leary’s in the Thomas Crowne Affair.
CaseyL
@RaflW:
…2022 first, then 2024.
Yes indeedy. But which ones? The states are so polarized, and in the Swing States the GQP is quickly passing voter suppression laws.
I took a quick look at the states with Senate elections coming up in 2022. Of them all, only Pennsylvania (where Pat Toomey is retiring) look like a possibility to switch to a Democratic Senator.
And then there is the specter of losing Democratic seats. Mark Kelly is up in Arizona, as he won a Special Election; what does the landscape look like for him? Ditto Ralph Warnock in Georgia, who also won a Special Election and is up again in 2022. Both AZ and GA are states with GQP-controlled state government, and both have lost no time in passing voter suppression laws. So far as I know, only the GA law is being challenged in court.
So… where can we flip from Rep to Dem in 2022?
L85NJGT
So… Trump’s immigration policies, COVID, and demographics, changed the equilibrium points in various US labor markets?
You don’t say……
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Omnes sometimes comments that he tires of the negativity on Balloon Juice. At times there is so much “we’re totally screwed” and “what if this terrible thing happens?” talk on the site that it can get tiresome to the people who are more inclined to work for what they believe in than dwell on the worst that could happen.
I don’t know whether that’s the case for Omnes in this instance or not, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it is.
Old School
@CaseyL:
You mentioned Toomey retiring.
Burr is also retiring, so the North Carolina race will be open.
Portman is also retiring in Ohio, but Ohio might be a tougher lift.
And hopefully Wisconsin will finally replace Ron Johnson.
Kay
I got a clematis yesterday. “Polish Spirit”. Isn’t that a great name? They should have made it “Polish Spirit!”
It’s a big purple flower. Will be. Right now it’s a skinny twig with 6 leaves.
JAFD
@Baud: For some unknown reason, the senior Casey had a deep antipathy for Bill Clinton, and kept a ‘draft (the senior) Cuomo’ movement going past the time when Clinton had a delegate majority upsewn.
So when time to arrange speaking schedule came, the Clintonites weren’t going to do Gov Casey any favors…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@CaseyL:
One of Obama’s pollsters said that North Carolina is the one that, demographically, looks the most like Georgia. Ben Wikler said on the O’Bros podcast a couple of weeks ago that the reason Ron Johnson hasn’t announced yet is that, crazy and stupid as he may be, he knows he needed unusual circumstances to win– the Tea Party wave in 2010, trump bringing out those irregular voters in 2016. Florida… fuckin’ Florida….
Other states where Ds might be vulnerable: Maggie Hassan in NW– the Sununu spawn governor is apparently quite popular and may run for the seat, and a few weeks ago, people were worried about Catherine Cortez Masto in NV, but I haven’t seen that in a while
And a lot of people here don’t want to hear it, but we have to decide if we want candidates and platforms that give left twitter the feelie-feels, or the kind who can win in swing states.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Any sense of what’s going on in PA?
L85NJGT
@Betty Cracker:
Eight years of Obama helped to build institutional experience and knowledge. Clinton had trouble staffing up – it had been twelve years from Carter, and Hamilton Jordan remains exhibit A in how not to run a White House.
different-church-lady
@Soprano2:
Strictly speaking, I don’t think that’s true.
Doc Sardonic
@The Moar You Know: Wouldn’t call getting elected to 3 terms a dying Presidency.
Amir Khalid
A question for the Jackaltariat:
I have just acquired a pair of Red Wing boots for a bargain price. Red Wing says the leather type (9013) should be maintained with leather conditioner and shoe cream, but what I have is conditioner and mink oil. Will that do instead, or do I really need shoe cream?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: I saw a couple of weeks ago that Conor Lamb and Chrissy Houlahan– moderate vets from opposite sides of the T– are both thinking of getting in to the primary. Malcolm Kenyatta and John Fetterman– also from opposite sides of the T– seem to be competing for the more left votes. The K-Hive, at least, has no love for Fetterman, and will not let people forget that time he chased a black jogger with a shot gun.
Baud
@Doc Sardonic:
Well, it did kill him in the end.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Has Sununu come down one way or the other on the great sedition controversy?
Baud
@L85NJGT:
A deeper political and administrative bench is one of the lesser appreciated aspects of winning elections.
L85NJGT
@Baud:
Progressives got clocked in 1938.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I kind of wish incumbent House members in swingy districts would stay put. We can’t afford to lose any seats
ETA: Tired: Bernie Bros vs. Wired: K-Hive
different-church-lady
Today’s xkcd is getting to me.
Baud
@L85NJGT:
Probably more because of the austerity produced recession than court packing attempt.
CaseyL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I, personally, could not care less about Left Twitter fees-fees. It’s a tiny bit of a tiny pool, and one that gives RWNJs a run for the money for pure solipsistic nihilism.
I want candidates who will win.
I applauded Psaki’s response to the question about McConnell’s vow of pure obstructionism; that President Biden is 100% committed to making life better for Americans. I wonder if that message would resonate in state-wide Senate and House campaigns.
Highlight the contradictions, indeed.
BruceFromOhio
@Baud:
Benghazi!
WhatsMyNym
@Barbara:
It means he works his ass off, unless he can afford a production team (unlikely). He probably streams on Twitch as well. So, long days even if you enjoy it.
Matt McIrvin
@Chief Oshkosh: It’s a lie, anyway–Trump is the obvious 2024 frontrunner and they’re kidding themselves if they think they can be rid of him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@CaseyL:
I couldn’t agree more, but they’re a (slightly) larger pool in primaries, and they seek, and get, an outsize amount of media attention.
Ken
@BruceFromOhio: Mornington Crescent!
Matt McIrvin
@Barbara: Conservatives in North Carolina, on the other hand, have used these tactics more or less successfully. Remember that NC looked like it was following Virginia into blue-state territory in 2008-09, but after the 2010 wave, Republicans shut that shit down. The Democratic majority there did manage to elect another governor in 2017, but the anti-majoritarian cabal that runs things there immediately moved to take away most of his power.
L85NJGT
@Baud:
Sure, but the revolution can’t run afoul of real world factors, it can only be failed.
MattF
OT. Derek Lowe goes into detail on the question of whether waiving pharma IP and patents will speed up distribution of COVID vaccines.
Brachiator
I love this about Biden. I think this helped him during the presidential campaign, and I think he does this better than any of the other 2020 presidential aspirants.
His brief dismissal is more eloquent than any long winded, or even nuanced explanation.
During the campaign, Trump could not deal with this. He was used to opponents being stung by some bullshit attack and attempting to counterpunch.
I also love that Biden’s press secretary is on the same page as her president.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
have some mid-day schadenfreude :
still the small man in search of a balcony
Gravenstone
Republicans can’t do this if they hope to remain in a position to steal control of the government. Untainted elections mean the Republicans are driven into the electoral wilderness in most of the country.
Baud
@Brachiator:
I agree.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Knowing Rudy, one of the people in his smaller entourage is Borat.
citizen dave
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “$7,000 on fountain pens”
This will stick in my head for a while. Very funny.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Wow, next you know Rudy will be telling us he has a “license to kill.”
Has he located a new cousin to marry?
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I, personally, could not care less about Left Twitter fees-fees. It’s a tiny bit of a tiny pool, and one that gives RWNJs a run for the money for pure solipsistic nihilism.
Good point that Left Twitter may be a larger pool in primaries, but this varies and does not always meaningfully affect results.
They may also get an “outsize amount” of media attention, but again this does not mean that their impact is significant. Mainly they just seem to irritate blog commenters.
Miss Bianca
@Amir Khalid: I use mink oil on my Red Wings (two pairs!)
Old School
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Well, he wasn’t spending it on himself.
Amir Khalid
@citizen dave:
What kind of fountain pens cost seven grand, and why does Rudy need more than one? Does he keep losing them?
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Notice the information on his spending habits comes from “a lawyer for Giuliani’s wife”. Seems like there’s some subtext there. If it were “ex-wife”, I’d assume he’s not been keeping up with the alimony payments.
Brachiator
@CaseyL:
This is why Biden is smart to get as much as he can now, and ignore Left Twitter as necessary.
Right now, McConnell can’t do much of anything to prevent Biden from getting a good chunk of his agenda done.
If he is later in a position where he can do more obstruction, he still will not be unable to undo any of Biden’s gains.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: K-Hive is sometimes used as shorthand for the many Black twitter polemicists pushing back on left wing critics of Democratic politicians. @SashaBeauloux and @ LobsterRagnarock are two of these. Beauloux points out that the lefties often whine about being attacked by those mean KHive people whenever any Black person pushes back at them. A leftie version of, “They all look alike.”
Amir Khalid
@Miss Bianca:
Thanks. That helps.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady:
It’s good.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Pens can be collector’s items, like watches, etc. It’s not that you need more than one; you like them and you like having more than one. Like Jerry Seinfeld and his 80 Porsches. ? You have to be able to afford them, which seems to be where Rudy is running into problems.
ETA: Who needs more than one guitar? ?
Baud
@Brachiator:
That’s my job!
Baud
@Steeplejack: Harsh.
Baud
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
I’ve recently been told that I’m the kind of uncultured oik who doesn’t grok the best things in life, e.g. crazy-expensive Japanese jeans made from high-end artisanal denim or collections of fancy wristwatches. Or all the cars in Jay Leno’s huge garage, or in Seinfeld’s.
SFAW
@Baud:
Was her name “Joan Barron”? Did “she” say “Maybe I’ll tell you, maybe I won’t, but I bet YOU know what I mean.”
Brachiator
@different-church-lady:
Too subtle for me.
SFAW
@Amir Khalid:
Amazing that we still let your nekulturny self hang around here, wot wif all the “high culture” we got goin’ here. Like naked mopping, driving Subarus into ditches, FAXing credenzas to persons, things like that.
Kathleen
@Ken: Anyone who has HBO should watch Avenue 5, a send up about a space voyage in a space ship owned by a young rich and totally incompetent megalomaniac and “flown” by a fake pilot and StarTrekesque fake flight deck manned by telegenic “crew”. At times it’s uneven but other times I laughed harder than I had in years. It was created by Armando Iannucci.
Baud
@SFAW: Heh. For clarification, the quote marks do not indicate quotations from that person, but my skepticism as to the appropriate terms to use to describe Republicans who don’t lie about democratic outcomes.
Brachiator
@Baud:
How many “sane” Republicans are there? Two? Three?
SFAW
@Brachiator:
I think Munroe was trying to say he’s been in a holding pattern for over a year, but what do I know?
Mo Salad
I wonder if the IP waiver could have a sunset provision, say 5 years. Then that 5 years would get tacked onto the end of the patent. This would be enough of a window to get additional production facilities set up, with the understanding that at the end of five years, license fees will need to be paid if they wish to continue operation. The increased demand for mRNA technology in the future would still make the investment worth the risk. With more than one mRNA vaccine out there, it could put a damper on monopolistic license fee demands.
SFAW
@Baud:
Fixed
Mo Salad
@Brachiator:
He’s saying that he has felt like his life has been put on pause for the last 14 months.
ETA – What SFAW said.
Brachiator
@SFAW:
I thought the “March 2020” was quite effective, even though I almost flew past it initially. But it really captured the mood just right.
But “May 2021” is ambiguous. Progress? Back to a holding pattern again?
Barbara
@MattF: I doubt if it would speed it up greatly, but it would create more infrastructure in the long run for countries to be in a position to manufacture their own vaccines or drugs, even after the IP waivers expire. AL linked to a blistering article this morning that was highly critical of India’s response to Covid precisely because India has taken on the role of being a key distributor of drugs and vaccines to the developing world — and how at this point India is ignoring signed commitments to other countries that it had made last year to provide them with vaccines. The point being, India is already manufacturing a lot of Covid vaccines and definitely does not need any IP waivers to ramp up manufacturing. It’s other countries, like South Africa, that might be helped. The relative ignorance of so many people about the Indian pharmaceutical manufacturing prowess is truly astonishing to me. Many seem to think that India is still just an agricultural economy with a few backroom software support companies.
WaterGirl
With this new McConnell “we are 100% against anything Biden wants and don’t give a shit about what the people need” announcement, it seems pretty clear that Biden and the Dems will go through the dance of bullshit with the Rs and then will have to pass the Jobs bill through reconciliation.
Agree? Disagree? Does anyone think this outright declaration of war doesn’t change the path forward?
Ken
@Brachiator: Try http://www.explainxkcd.com. Especially useful when Randall is making horrible multi-disciplinary puns about basketball and Y-combinators.
Brachiator
@Amir Khalid:
Sigh. Some things never change about humanity. Years ago I knew a guy who had an ultra-expensive audiophile’s dream music system. But he had absolutely horrible taste in music, and enjoyed listening to sound effects snippets that demonstrated how awesome his sound system was more than he enjoyed listening to actual music.
I also remember reading years ago that Julia Child enjoyed the taste of McDonald’s french fries. She seemed to know that ultimately it is about enjoying the food you eat, not being dazzled by the cost or exotic nature of the ingredients.
Soprano2
@different-church-lady: There’s nothing wrong with investing in the stock market, but SS funds don’t belong in there.
Barbara
@Brachiator: Yeah, and Julia probably would have been pissed when she learned that they stopped frying them in beef tallow. Why ever did they do that?!!! Although tbh, I think at times Julia leaned a little too much on just throwing more butter in as a substitute for subtler ways of adding flavor. I still use her basics cookbook more than any other.
JPL
@WaterGirl: Manchin already stated that he’s working with republicans to get a deal through. What a putz..
Mike in NC
Just the party of the working stiff, right Rudy?
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
We’ve been at war with the conservative side for 50+ years.
And conservatives have been against what the people want and need since well before that. Conservatives have been against “those people” and anything that takes a dime out of their possession, no matter if they earned or stole their way into possession of it for a lot longer than that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl:
I wish I had an answer other than: “Ask Manchin”
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Manchin needs to have a “lightbulb” moment. Surely at some point he will realize that a deal with the republicans is an illusion
edit: Hopefully before he costs us the midterms.
Ksmiami
@JPL: he’s such an idiot. Time to just cut him off- if he bolts he bolts…
Doc Sardonic
@Steeplejack: Who needs more than one guitar? Every guitar player needs more than 1 guitar. Some of us have a terminal case of G.A.S the only thing in my case that keeps it in check is the ever present threat of my wife matching my guitar buying with equal amounts of crafting supplies.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Has Manchin not watched McConnell obstruct for the last 10 years?
Soprano2
I think it clarifies things for Biden and the Democrats in Congress. If they want to make any progress, they’ll have to do it without Republicans, which most of us already knew.
Ruckus
@Barbara:
The stunning lack of knowledge about absolutely anything outside some/many people’s immediate and tiny lives will always stun most people, especially people who think they are worldly, because they watch TV or drive past a museum once in a while.
Soprano2
To make vegetarians and vegans happy. They don’t taste as good, I don’t care what anyone says, just like people who try that happy talk of “Once you start eating right cheeseburgers and fries don’t taste good at all”. Lord, don’t lie to me – cheeseburgers and fries taste awesome to most people, that’s what makes losing weight hard! Sugar tastes good, don’t gaslight me by saying otherwise.
Doc Sardonic
@Soprano2: Yeah……. I do my best to eat right and keep my questionably functioning heart working, but every now and then one wants, nay needs, that big greasy ass, cholesterol and triglyceride bomb cheeseburger and fries. At that point the safest place is not between me and the cheeseburger platter, and the accompanying cold beer.
Brachiator
@Ken:
Wow! The “explanation” explains too much without being helpful. But it helped me appreciate the brevity of the cartoon more.
I didn’t have any issue with getting the point of the main series of panels. It’s funny how people want to focus on this, when I think it is the most easily comprehensible part of the satire.
Also, I like how the last three panels contrast with the first panels. This is very witty, but again, you have to think about it a bit. After a while you get accustomed to political and satirical cartoons that are more obvious in their meaning and point of view. So when you need to slow down and savor a cartoon, sometimes you just want to say “OK, OK. Get to the point.”
I suppose that the last panel is meant to be hopeful, but I think it still somewhat ambiguous. A rueful punch line. Maybe it’s just me and my own current mood.
ETA: I probably have gone on more about the damned cartoon than the long winded official “explanation.”
Bottom line: I liked it.
And people should get vaccinated.
Sure Lurkalot
@JPL: He’s not working with the Republicans but he sure is enabling them.
Since common sense and shame don’t appear to work, I’m ready for ridicule. For self-torture, I wonder what it would be like to wake up as, say, Kevin McCarthy. As in, how the hell did I become such a lick ass sycophant? Same with Manchin. Why do I cling to fantasy?
FFS, they’re grown ass men who have less awareness than babies.
Ken
Well, it is a wiki, crowdsource-edited by the kind of people who like editing wikis and like Randall Munroe. Which may be a single circle on a Venn diagram.
Cmorenc
@Kay:
The GOP has long been ambitious to create ways to undermine over time the financial viability and public support for social security, because they know a direct attack in it is political poison. But they will periodically try, because for ideological gop conservatives, the establishment of social security is the original sin of progressive government, diverting money that the “makers” in society could have obtained higher return if it wasnt being confiscated toward that end.
Brachiator
@Barbara:
As someone else has note, this was done to please vegans and vegetarians. The right thing to do, but it resulted in inferior french fries compared to the original.
Sometimes you just gotta go with the simple things that work time and again.
Yep, her cookbook is great.
ETA: A while back there was a great NPR story about a secret lab that worked to develop the best coating for french fries that helped them stay warm while you drove home after buying a burger and fries at the takeout window. Stuff like this is worth billions.
Also, the hamburger is one of the greatest human inventions in history. It’s up there with the wheel and the plow.
Steeplejack
@Barbara:
Child’s “basic” cookbook—would that be The Way to Cook? Will have to check it out.
Brachiator
@Ken:
The “explanation” explains too much without being helpful.
Looking back, I was a bit too harsh. I appreciate the link.
But it is a dry explanation, not an act of criticism, and so it doesn’t deal with the how artfully the satire is conveyed. I noted, for example, how the static repetition of the first panels is countered with the elegant movement and change in the last three panels.
The official explanation stumbles into counting months and misses the larger point entirely.
Anyway, again, thanks for the link. It was a good reference point.
Gravenstone
@Ksmiami: If he bolts, say hello to “Senate Majority Leader McConnell”. So yeah, no thanks for your brilliant insight.
Mo Salad
@Brachiator:
No. Just the beginning of something different, a New Normal, as it were. Mrs. Munroe is a cancer survivor and Randall knows his science, so they were most likely in a pretty hard-core lockdown.
Ksmiami
@Gravenstone: I don’t want that either but if Manchin ends up being the stumbling block to actually moving forward, better to actually fight the monsters head on than tiptoe around a unicorn called bipartisanship. In other words, either Manchin wises up, or we go to the mat against our real enemy- the GOP
Gloomyjim
@Gravenstone:
Maybe trade him strait across for Murkowski (sp?)? What with earmarks being back that might just work in our favor…
/s -just to be safe
Brachiator
@Steeplejack:
Have a dear friend who had Julia Child’s cookbook and The Joy Of Cooking. Seemed to be really useful, and produced some rocking meals.
Later gave her and my sister one of Jacques Pepin’s cookbooks. Again, some great meals came out of this.
rikyrah
@JPL:
What Republicans??
Ksmiami
@Gloomyjim: exactly and offer rmoney a strategic committee-
Ksmiami
@rikyrah: Manchin really doesn’t fucking get it- we are facing down fascism and he still operates like there’s some good faith.
WaterGirl
@Ksmiami: That seems like a very short-sighted view. With the majority, we get to decide whether and when to call a vote. Say, for judges. With a Republican majority, they can just not call a vote.
There’s no way we would have the cabinet we have now if Schumer wasn’t majority leader. There’s no way we would have the Rescue Plan in its current form. Even without 50 sure votes on the D side, we are 1000x better off with Schumer as majority leader. Why do you think they freaked out when we won Georgia?
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Maybe we need to get Jen Psaki to ask Manchin which republicans are negotiating with him?
evodevo
@Soprano2: Yep. I’m old enough to remember when the MickieD’s out on New Circle Rd. in Lexington ky still used fresh, just peeled potatoes and beef tallow in the fryer…oh, man, were those good. Luckily I was skinny as a rail then and didn’t care what I ate….not like today lol
Dan B
@Kay: ‘Polish Spirit’s is a very good Clematis. It was easy to find in the field at a wholesale grower. It was the one with almost no foliage visible, just purple flowers. There are more beautiful flowers but a wall-o-purple has its charms as in boggling the minds of your friends, neighbors, and guests.
It makes a great backdrop to tall willowy white perennials* like Filipendula, Cimicifuga, and Thalictrum.
*White flowered forms. Also Oriental Lilies and tall oriental hybrids.
rikyrah
@Doc Sardonic:
??????
Dan B
@Amir Khalid: I had a pair of Red Wing boots I used for work in wet muddy PNW – landscape construction sites. They got treated once or twice a year, otherwise they were hosed off and left to slowly dry. In the tropics you need shoe cream to protect from mold. Oil may soften the leather but, being absorbed, provide better mold protection. My Red Wings are still around, cracked but not cracked through, after 35 years! They got whatever was in my shoe mntc. kit at least once a year.
TomatoQueen
@Brachiator:
If you’re trying Julia for the first time, you might find it more practical to begin with The French Chef cookbook, which is the companion volume to the early TV show. It has shorter recipes written with the goal of getting dinner on the table tonight, not next week, while still following her fundamental method of learn a way to prepare something and then you’ll know how to do all the variations. The receipt for the broiled deviled chicken is worth the price of the book. Which I’ve just discovered can be over $100 if the volume is in perfect condition, with perfect dust jacket. The Way to Cook is modernized, updated, and it is still the fundamental method. I have two copies of it somehow, and what I learned from it was a way of making a rice-based gruel that will stop a child’s diarrhea in two hours, which was not at all her intention of course. It is a beautiful book with beautiful design and not something you want to cook from. The thing to do though is to watch her original shows (PBS runs them late at strange times), and then get Mastering the Art vols 1 and 2–for the French bread recipe alone of course, but more to grasp how she thinks about cooking, for American cooks, using professional techniques modified for what is likely to be in American kitchens in the way of equipment especially (and you see this in the early shows also–my mother had those basic tools and so did yours, and so do I today). In fact if you’ve no time for more than one episode of the original show, the Onion Soup episode contains multitudes.
Ksmiami
@WaterGirl: I guess I don’t understand Manchin’s play here- as a hockey fan, team cohesion is essential- not in every minute but Manchin isn’t doing anyone any favors and setting up for losses in 2022 and beyond.
J R in WV
@Brachiator:
We had a fairly sane R next door for years, but after Jan 6th he changed his voter registration to Libertarian. Still not vaccinated, tho… so how sane is now questionable…
Brian
@Doc Sardonic: Roosevelt was elected to four terms; he only served a little over three of them.
Ruckus
@Ksmiami:
It’s likely that he thinks the only way he can keep his seat is to make nice with republicans. I’m not sure he’s wrong in his state.
WaterGirl
@Ksmiami: I agree that Manchin is hurting the Dems here, but we would be 1000x worse off if the Rs had the majority in the senate.
Ksmiami
@Ruckus: I think his constituents would like the infrastructure etc not sure his stance gets him points with anyone but his own head
Steeplejack (phone)
@Brachiator:
Which Child cookbook?
I like Jacques Pépin. He does great things with a handful of ingredients and not much fuss.
TomatoQueen
@Steeplejack (phone):
I’m worried about Jacques. Gloria died some weeks ago, and while he seems to be carrying on mostly as usual with his daughter’s help, last night there was a notice in my Fb feed that he’d posted something regarding SPAM. I did not look & hope it disappears.
Steeplejack (phone)
@TomatoQueen:
Yikes, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the heads-up.
SWMBO
@evodevo:
A friend of mine working the desk at the library had a guy come in and open his coat. She took one look and said in a LOUD voice, “OH LOOK!! ANY BIGGER AND IT WOULD LOOK LIKE A REAL PENIS!!” He never came back in again.
Another friend was getting on a plane when the guy in front of her exposed himself to the flight attendant. “I’M SORRY SIR, YOU’LL HAVE TO SHOW ME YOUR TICKET, NOT YOUR STUB!”