Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

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

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

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

When I was faster i was always behind.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Everybody saw this coming.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Giving up is unforgivable.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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

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

Stay strong, because they are weak.

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  5. 5.

    greenergood

    xxx to just the handsomest boy – Steve – and then the other two: Tikka and Gabe – the three Handsome-istas (Champ is a candidate but too young at this point). Do not let my Cassie-cat know – she’d be really pissed off …

  8. 8.

    CaseyL

    @Roger Moore: That is the fate of any creature that comes to live with John.  He’s like a Jewish Mother that way:  everyone gets fed, a lot, and becomes fat chonky and happy.

  10. 10.

    Old School

    Why is the heater out?  Or is it in the process of being put away?

    (Steve looks great.)

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    I am doing Spring cleaning/ de-cluttering.

    It’s not as painful as I thought it would be.

    I have got so much STUFF??

  15. 15.

    JanieM

    @rikyrah:

    I have got so much STUFF??

    Tell me about it.

    Just when I think I’m making progress on getting rid of some of it, “attic season” ends and there’s my excuse to procrastinate some more. (“Attic season” being a few weeks in spring and fall when it’s neither too warm nor too cold to be up there.)

  16. 16.

    citizen dave

    Though I haven’t had a long-haired cat among the 6 I’ve had as a cat person lo these last 20 years, I’ve never been in favor of the annual shaving of Steve.  There must be a better way.

  17. 17.

    Raven

    The wind has been blowing 15mph + for three days so what little fishing I have done has been futile. On the good side (one 60lb wahoo a trip can make) Bohdi has done as well as we could hope. I took him to the “Truman Dock” where they filmed the night scene in the movie. I knew it would kill me to take him where we used to play ball off the dock and it did. When we were here in October I didn’t think he’d make it again so who knows?

  21. 21.

    Another Scott

    Reuters:

    Kids in the United States will likely be able to get COVID-19 vaccinations by the end of this year or the first quarter of 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said at an event on Wednesday.

    The United States earlier this month cleared the way for the use of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and partner BioNTech SE in adolescents aged 12 and above. read more

    Fauci also noted the need for a COVID-19 booster shot within a year or so after getting the primary shot.

    “I think we will almost certainly require a booster sometime within a year or so after getting the primary because the durability protection against coronavirus is generally not lifelong similar to measles,” he said.

    It’s good there’s a timeline planned for youngsters. Everyone (possible) needs to get vaccinated. It’s good he’s talking about boosters, also too. People have to know that this isn’t going away in July…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  24. 24.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Another Scott: I keep thinking about that Frank Luntz panel where the vaccine-hesitant people demanded that nobody show them Dr. Fauci and nobody mention boosters.

    I can actually see the point about Fauci just because through no fault of his own, he got turned into a political symbol by the Orange Menace and now a lot of people just automatically hate him–it does seem to be possible to make any message more palatable to them just by having a different person deliver it.

    But this “don’t talk about boosters” just seems like a willful avoidance of reality. Shouldn’t whether people talk about boosters depend on whether boosters are actually needed?

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    @rikyrah

    Got a bee in my bonnet earlier this month and did an extensive emptying of, culling and rearranging of goods in the pantry. Incentive came from picking up some freestanding shelves to put inside, which run about half the length of the existing built-in shelves, increasing ability to segregate and display groceries therein.

    Weird space, 69 inches high, 11 inches wide × 25 inches deep, the door on the narrow side. Next project will be to add some small rechargeable lights in order to better be able to see what’s lurking in the stygian depths.

  27. 27.

    gvg

    @citizen dave: Probably not. It’s not like John enjoys this. Long haired cats are not all alike. some of them have a lot of undercoat, which tangles and collects…stuff.  I have had a few, and some need constant grooming and others didn’t. It depends on the coat.  If they have alot of undercoat and it tangles, the tangles gradually get tighter and bigger until they are right up against the skin, and then they start to hurt plus sores can form underneath the mats that are like bedsores and can get infected. My parents last dog, a show bred sheltie was like that and he was always getting skin infections under the mats. He had the thickest coat I have ever seen, even living in Florida. My childhood sheltie had a much more real life coat.

  28. 28.

    Barbara

    @Matt McIrvin: I’d like to know how we got to a place where one of the most amazing achievements in the history of the human race became a political football.  At some level I do care whether other people get vaccinated, mostly for those people who will be immunocompromised with or without a vaccine.   But at the level of trying to persuade someone who embraces idiocy to make a point or own the libs or whatever, forget it, I won’t do it.  Risk dying from Covid  or not, but I am not going to care if you get sick.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    @citizen dave: I bet Steve loves it.  Maybe not the shaving part, but the skin being able to breathe part.  My cocker spaniel had to be shaved one year after she got into an impossible number of burrs, and oh my god she LOVED having her hair short like that.

    Loved it.  She was more snuggly and asked for more petting.  I bet Steve is the same way.

  31. 31.

    Ken

    @citizen dave: Maybe daily shaving, so less needs to be taken off? And who knows, maybe Steve will learn to like it — though personally my money’s on the horse learning to sing first.

  34. 34.

    Calouste

    @Barbara: Galileo Galilei would like a word. For reactionaries, which is what modern day conservatives are but don’t want to call themselves, the best was in the past and they want to get back to that, so any suggestion that things could be better in the future by not being like they were in the past is heresy.

  37. 37.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Barbara: It’s so weird that with the vaccines it wasn’t even really ideological–Trump wanted people to get the vaccines, they were his magic bullet, right? It was supposed to be the Trump vaccine!

    But Pfizer pissed him off by not playing to his election schedule or giving him credit he didn’t deserve, and Fauci pissed him off by attracting attention away from Trump, and even though he’s never directly said anything against COVID vaccination, just because of associations Trump doesn’t like, Trump fans have to be antivax now.

  38. 38.

    Barbara

    @Calouste: Your answer is — not to be insulting — superficial.  The same people who are anti-vaxxers accept the fruits of modern technology all the time.  They are not clamoring to travel via horse and buggy or smashing their tv sets and computers.

  39. 39.

    TomatoQueen

    Hello Handsome Steve, if you see your friend Merlin, will you tell him his mommy wants him home? Thank you.

  44. 44.

    James E Powell

    @Barbara:

    I’d like to know how we got to a place where one of the most amazing achievements in the history of the human race became a political football.

    I wonder this all the time. My generation (second half boomer) grew up idolizing astronauts and believing we could boldly go where no man has gone before. But then a lot of them turned into right-wing, fundamentalists who don’t believe in evolution, insist the Bible is inerrant and infallible, and claim Jesus preached about low taxes for the rich.

    The only explanation I’ve heard is “people fear the future” and I think, fuckin’ A, me too, I fear that in the future, these atavistic a holes will be in charge.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @Fair Economist: The one with the circles!  Yes, someone posted it, but only in the comments, and it definitely deserves a wider audience.

  50. 50.

    JoyceH

    Argh. I had the pest guy here to spray the carpenter bees and spray the lawn for ticks. (Ticks are BAD this year!) And he showed me some evidence of termite damage! Eeek!

    He can’t even give me an estimate on a termite treatment because he had to be able to access the crawl space, which is contingent on my lawn guy clearing out the brush that has grown up in front of the crawl space door.

    So I’m going to have some expenses soon…

  52. 52.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @Matt McIrvin: ​
      Also too, Dump and the propaganda outfits insisted from day one that it was a hoax and no worse then the flu.

  55. 55.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Handsome guy there! I’ve got the back of our van in pieces to install some USB charging ports and one of the cats discovered that there was a vertical square in the side panel sitting upright in the garage. Naturally he just had to get behind it and center himself in the opening. I came out into the garage and had to laugh when saw him sitting there, quite happy with himself. The cutout in the panel is for the subwoofer that is mounted in the body.

  57. 57.

    Kelly

    We’ve had this new Tidy Cats Breeze cat box for a week and are very pleased. We have two cats. Our girl cat Phoebe was always fairly tidy when we used clumping litter. She has short hair. Our boy cat Martin has long hair. Clumping litter stuck to his feet and butt scattering mess all over the laundry room and beyond. We often had to capture and clean him, trim his hindquarter fur. We’ve gone thru several cat litters. The wood based ones seemed to worked OK for Martin but the new system uses zeolite pellets and a disposable diaper looking pee pad. Only a few pellets escape the box. No

    chewy.com/tidy-cats-breeze-xl-all-in-one-cat/dp/232585

  59. 59.

    Jeffro

    Hey if y’all get a chance, go check out Tim Ryan GOING. OFF. on ReQublicans (clips available on Twitter)

    More of this, all day every day, Dems!

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: One of my roommates was a carpenter-builder.  She came home from work one day and hopped in the shower.  Frantic call from the homeowner whose kitchen she had just finished.

    The cat had apparently found some little cubbyhole in the kitchen, and when they put the cabinets up, the cat was trapped inside the wall.

    It’s a funny memory now, but was very stressful then!  I was afraid that’s where your story was going and was relieved when it turned out to be a cat in a box story.  :-)

  62. 62.

    frosty

    @rikyrah: I started retirement decluttering last year. No kidding, we have a lot of stuff!

    Sadly, there’s a lot that I don’t want to get rid of.

  63. 63.

    James E Powell

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I was only speaking to the change that happened with people around my age. What happened to them? Back in 2016, a guy I knew from high school & I were talking about how the majority of people we knew from back then were ardent Trumpsters. We wondered what was odder, that they were like that or that we were not.

    And it’s not just the politics, but what Barbara was talking about, the rejection of science. What brought that on? And what the hell is wrong with RFK Jr?

  64. 64.

    Jeffro

    @WaterGirl: I’ve seen it in a gazillion places on Twitter, and it’s on the Post’s “Politics: Live” rolling update thingy (which has all the stories of the day), but I don’t see a URL just specifically for the Ryan speech. Sorry!  =(

  67. 67.

    Jeffro

    @rikyrah: we seem to move every 4-5 years, so we’ve gotten (relatively) light over time.

    Says the guy with 7 bookcases… ;)

    Good luck, though!

  69. 69.

    Ruckus

    @gvg:

    My cocker Bud was a hair growing maniac. And yes if it got too long it would start to knot up. And he hated that almost as much as having it cut. Almost. I’ve had long haired dogs before, but not one who could grow hair faster than mine can thin out. And yes, that’s fast.

  81. 81.

    NotMax

    WaPo link.

    “I’m a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre,” Viola Fletcher, 107, told members of a House Judiciary subcommittee Wednesday. “Two weeks ago, I celebrated my 107th birthday. Today, I’m visiting Washington, D.C., for the first time in my life. I’m here seeking justice and asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921.”
    [snip]
    “The night of the massacre, I was awakened by my family. My parents and five siblings were there. I was told we had to leave and that was it. I will never forget the violence of the White mob when we left our home,” she said, “I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams.

    “I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot. I will not. And other survivors do not. And our descendants do not.” Source

  82. 82.

    Citizen Alan

    @Wyatt Salamanca: Has anyone even asked if Idaho wants them? I assume they’re the poorest and least educated parts of Oregon. Why would Idaho want to absorb a sizeable population of shitty worthless people?

  83. 83.

    Matt McIrvin

    @James E Powell: He got duped by Andrew Wakefield’s stuff about vaccines causing autism way back when, and years back wrote an article about the use of thiomersal in vaccines that sounded plausible enough to get published in Rolling Stone, which got him a lot of attention. And when people figured out it was bullshit, he doubled down… and doubled down… and doubled down until he was firmly in conspiracy bizarro land.

  85. 85.

    Mel

    @rikyrah: I hear that! I need to go through the boxes of old stuff stored in attic and closets.

    Yesterday, I was cleaning out one of the attic storage boxes and found an unfinished scarf that I started crocheting on my 26th birthday.

    I’m 53…

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