Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

So very ready.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Republicans in disarray!

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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  3. 3.

    Manyakitty

    And it’s exhausting. Been running on fumes for weeks around here and those are almost gone, too. Oof.

  4. 4.

    Subsole

    More seriously, yes. Ever since that asswipe slouched down the escalator it has been either one damned thing after another, or the same damned thing over and over again.

    Often both

    Having this place has often been the only thing keeping me somewhat sane.

    Thanks for building such a wonderful place full of interesting people.

  8. 8.

    Hildebrand

    @Gin & Tonic: I don’t think it was just Obama – where was the outcry from the rest of Europe, the Senate, the House?

    Seems that the world has changed since then.  But, what the heck, blame Obama, because no one else had agency.

  11. 11.

    West of the Rockies

    It’s been insane since a about ’16 (though Palin was sort of a preview).

    Climate change, Trump, unmitigated racism and bigotry, massive fires, Covid, insurrectionists… it just never stops.

  13. 13.

    HumboldtBlue

    And the non-stop drumbeat of mass shootings, the appalling loss of life and the callous disregard of so many in this country is dishearteningly wearisome.

  14. 14.

    Martin

    We need a betting pool on how much coke Don Jr snorts before his testimony tomorrow. I’m putting 100 quatloos on ‘all of it’.

  15. 15.

    Gvg

    The response this time is different partly because the last time obviously only made Russia bolder, but I would also say that like pre WWII, the west started waking up and getting ready. Some countries more than others. Some of the former Easter Europe now NATO countries started to drag the others into getting ready.
    They didn’t totally succeed, but I think they had plans and discussions that were not even thought of before. The mindset evolved. By the time this invasion happened, we had different possible choices we could make. Thank God we got Trump out before. Also lucky that Boris Johnson wasn’t as stupid. Also, we had shed the Afghanistan war finally. We were out of Iraq too. That probably helped. Wonder if this was a factor in Biden being so determined to get out. Being stuck in a useless war would always be a problem if a real emergency came up.

  16. 16.

    Gvg

    I remember thinking during the Obama years how nice it was to not have to panic about the news all the time because Bush was a disaster too. If he hadn’t been followed by Trump so soon, we would still be analyzing how bad he was. Obama was calm, smart and trustworthy. I had time to think about other things.

    Now I know Trump is just a pimple on a party of killer zombies. There are a bunch of nasty dangerous reactionaries who are worse than I could have imagined outside a book.

  17. 17.

    geg6

    My whole life seems like this right now.  My new boss is turning out to be an ineffective supervisor who is obsessed with things that aren’t really his problem, isn’t willing to delegate what he should, ignores my entire area of our enrollment team and, when some issues are nicely pointed out to him, argues instead of listening to the concerns.  My co-workers, with one exception who is retiring in December, are allowed to work from home most days and, when they aren’t, are flitting around campus socializing most of the day.  My partner John seems to be developing dementia. We had a major plumbing issue that has cost us about $3k so far and we aren’t sure if it’s been fixed.  I’m hating my life right now and then, when I can relax a bit at home, it’s nothing but crazy all around me when it comes to politics, the law and world events.

    I am not a happy camper, no matter how I look at it.  I need something to turn around or at least ease up a little or I’m seriously going to lose it.

  20. 20.

    cain

    @Gin & Tonic: there was a lot of stuff where Obama should have done something especially in his second term. That should have been his no fucks to give them. But he played careful the entire time

  21. 21.

    geg6

    @Manyakitty:

    I am my campus’ financial aid officer and VA certifying official.  Our department is admissions and financial aid, or as they call it recently, enrollment management.

  22. 22.

    Manyakitty

    @geg6: hmmm. Think those skills could transfer over to medical provider enrollment? It’s remote with decent pay and I know my friend is looking for someone.

  24. 24.

    Mike in NC

    The media quickly became addicted to Fat Bastard’s constant chaos and mayhem. That’s why they need him back. They suck!

  25. 25.

    CaseyL

    Obama’s term in office also saw marriage equality become the law of the land by SCOTUS.

    I think the combination of a Black President, and Marriage Equality, simply broke what was left of some peoples’ minds.

    It makes me think of mitosis, when a whole cell splits into two.  Or those old iron-filings-and-magnet toys, where you use the magnets to separate out the filings into a design.  Or crystals precipitating out of saturated solution.

    The whole country became like that.  Something, more than one something, catalyzed people: they either rolled with the changes, or flipped out and wanted to revive the Spanish inquisition.  And the two sides stopped having anything in common, including an agreed-upon reality.

  27. 27.

    Ohio Mom

    @geg6: That’s a lot. May I suggest ignoring world events for a while? It’s stress you can avoid. You’re entitled to just concentrating on shoring up your life for now.

    I gave to say, the bad new boss story triggered a bunch of bad old memories. From my working years and Ohio Dad’s. Shuddering.

  28. 28.

    Narya

    @geg6: oh, that sounds so hard; sending hugs if you want ‘em. If I knew you in meatspace, I’d offer you a beverage of your choice. I’ve had to reduce my news consumption pretty dramatically when I’m overwhelmed, and focus my reading on non-grim fiction. Keep coming here…

  30. 30.

    Honus

    @Hildebrand: I remember 2014 and I can just imagine the groundswell of support and how the entire country would have united behind any war effort initiated by President Obama.

  31. 31.

    danielx

    If I recall correctly, the unofficial motto of the Obama administration was “don’t do stupid shit”.

    Those were the days.

  33. 33.

    mvr

    @geg6: That’s a bunch of stuff to deal with at once. I hope your partner turns out to be OK. That’s a load of worries by itself.

  34. 34.

    Jay

    Home from AZ.

    Had a nice time.

    Political news, SWMBO’s friends voted for TIFG in 2016.

    He has major health problems, (Vietnam Vet).

    They need major mods to the house and the VA was stonewalling, (they think that he will die in a year or two, have for the past decade, so everything from medical, dental, disability mods), just go into the round file. She had to take a job at In and Out Burger to make ends meet. She wrote the White House during the TIFG’s Admin, nothing. She wrote the Biden White House, and everything is now fast tracked. She’s now his “Primary Caregiver” and get’s paid more than a living wage to care for him.

    They are now Biden Voters.

    We watched a lot of TV while we were there, and about 50% of the ads on their local channels are two fold. Infrastructure for green energy, (thank’s Biden, and yes, it’s there, from the local utilities and Dem ads) pointing out it will create jobs and lower energy costs for consumers significantly.

    The other’s are jobs, jobs, jobs, paying well. Almost every place we went to has “We’re Hiring” signs up.

    Plus we got to spend some time in the desert seeing new birbs, pictographs, cactus, lizards, sun, (it was wet and gray for two weeks before we left, like lights on in the apt from when we got up until bedtime), and play 7’s.

  35. 35.

    BellyCat

    @geg6: Sadly, there is no repairing the ethos of your employer. Your new manager’s Central goal is to meet your employer’s expectations.

    The only work-solution is a new job for another employer or retirement if you are able. Wishing you strength and fortitude with the other personal challenges

  37. 37.

    Richard

    Remember when he wore a tan suit? So disrespectful.  And the mustard thing? I can’t even remember if it was Dijon or some other satanic radical leftist mustard.

    He was an OK President. You wouldn’t find Barak Obama groping and vaping in a music hall.

    I’m not saying he was the best. But he was better than these Republicans.  I could probably still vote for a moderate Republican who has principles and is educated. Oh well, I guess that means I won’t be voting for a republican anytime soon.

  44. 44.

    Ruckus

    @Gvg:

    They have a fucked up view of the world, which says that the only valuable humans on the planet is their party in this country. And then of course they prove every damn time that the reality is that every time they see crappy humans – it’s in a mirror.

  45. 45.

    geg6

    @Manyakitty:

    I appreciate your thoughts, but I don’t think so right now.  I just celebrated my 25th work anniversary there and am only waiting another couple of years until I hit full SS eligibility and then I’m retiring.  Will probably try to find something part-time at that point just to get out of the house.  I am my least productive when working from home, sadly.

  48. 48.

    terraformer

    Gawd, the generalized *anxiety* created by T***p and all his minions and the Leonard Leos and all their ilk

    will be the topic of many a thesis and dissertation in psychology and psychiatry – for decades

  49. 49.

    BellaPea

    I was just thinking the same thing the other day–remember how relatively quiet the Obama years were? I told my husband that I will have had to worry about the Orange Fat Menace for 5 elections in 2024. It’s terrible what he has done to this country.

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