Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

This fight is for everything.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Consistently wrong since 2002

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Let there be snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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Marching Orders Have Gone Out To The Useful Idiots

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I’m no expert on war, but I do know a thing or two about timing, and it seems like the “only America has agency” ‘left’ is pivoting en masse to blaming Putin’s aggression on, you guessed it, Democrats.

I’m sure Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald are furiously masturbating drafting newsletters on this as we speak.

It’s all very predictable, but that doesn’t make it less galling. I thought I was over these people but their Russia takes are just so deranged that they always get a rise out of me.

Open thread, happy Friday!

Update: in what I’m sure is a staggering coincidence…

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The Woke Mob Stole Aaron Rodgers’ Bike

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Aaron Rodgers is the latest person for me to go from “Hrmm don’t know much about him” to “What a fucking tool” in lightning speed. For those of you who have not been following along, Rodgers plays Sportsball and throws said ball for a team in the Wisconsin region, and is apparently quite good at throwing that sportsball. This spring, when the NFL stated that all players need to be vaccinated, Rodgers went to his primary care physician to receive the vaccine, and as he was about to receive the injection, the woke mob burst into the office, slapped the needle out of the nurse’s hand, and destroyed the entire stock of vaccine, preventing him from following the NFL mandate and getting the protection from COVID that he deserved.

Oh. Nevermind. That’s not what happened at all:

After “talking to a lot of medical individuals and professionals,” Rodgers said, he “found an immunization protocol that he could go through to best protect myself” that didn’t involve getting one of the three available vaccines. He said later that he also had consulted with podcaster Joe Rogan, his “now good friend” who said he treated his own covid bout with ivermectin, an anti-parasitic that the Food and Drug Administration has said is not an effective treatment for the disease. Rodgers said he also had taken ivermectin, which can only be obtained with a prescription.

“I’m thankful for people like Joe stepping up and using his voice,” Rodgers said.

Aaron Rodgers said he did the research on covid vaccines. Here’s how he was wrong, according to experts

Rodgers said he petitioned the Packers and the NFL during the preseason to accept this alternate protocol — he “gathered over 500 pages of research on the efficacy of immunizations,” he said — but said he realized he would not win his argument when one of the NFL’s doctors told him “it was impossible for a vaccinated person to get covid or spread covid … which we know now that that information is totally false.” Rodgers later decried that the league did not offer any opportunity to consider “alternative medicines.”

In short, a guy who receives blows to the head as his primary source of income did his own “research” which included rigorous discussion with his MMA friend/podcaster/least talented member of the News Radio cast (a cast that included Andy Dick), and decided to not get vaccinated. He then lied to the NFL and everyone about his status. Now he has contracted covid, fucked over his team, and is in a position where he has to reckon with the consequences of his own actions, has done the mature thing and admitted he fucked up lashed out at everyone and taken absolutely zero responsibility for the mess he is in.

I say again, there is NOTHING ON THE PLANET that rich white dudes fear and loathe more than the consequences of their own actions. Asshole.

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I Don’t Understand the OnlyFans Thing

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I really don’t understand what they are trying to do. They have their niche market, it is profitable, and they are going to ditch that to get into something that is already dominated by youtube and patreon and whatever else and it makes zero sense to me. Who wants to get in on the ground floor on an IPO of a company that is banning the only thing they do that makes money. Like getting in on the ground floor at McDonalds when the chain decides to stop selling gut bomb burgers and switch to selling 9-tracks and vinyl. It makes NO SENSE.

On top of that is the hypocrisy of it all, because you know it’s about banksters not wanting to associate with titties. Banks and money processors will fall all over themselves to launder drug money and there isn’t a despot from here to Hitler they won’t deal with, but some redhead from Poughkeepsie named Miss Juggs wants to sell a video of her pegging her boyfriend and they lose their shit. It’s the equivalent of our establishment banning Marcy Wheeler for saying blowjob on MSNBC but inviting the entire Bush admin on to promote carpetbombing brown people and advocate for torture.

Not to mention, unlike other porn/sex worker sites, Onlyfans is a place where the sex workers are in charge. It’s not folks posting underage kids or revenge porn, it’s content creators posting only shit they want to post. It’s the least exploitative sex industry market there is, and it’s the safest. And unlike pornhub and other places, it’s harder for kids to access.

Fucking puritanism will kill us all.

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Acceptance Level: Unlocked

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Well, here it is:

Acceptance Level Unlocked

I edited out all the whiny lies. (You’re welcome.) But this is progress of a sort — the only concession this repulsive crybaby is ever likely to make. For the next 65 days, this egomaniacal wretch will do everything in his power to foment division and delegitimize the incoming administration.

There’s no way Trump sticks around the White House on January 20th to greet his successor and attend the inauguration as honor compels real presidents to do, no matter how hard fought the race. He’ll probably demand that all the toadies boycott the inauguration too.

In a way, good riddance — who wants those puling babies around stinking up the event with their loaded diapers? But Trump is playing a dangerous game with the country, and for no other reason than malice and spite. Fuck that guy.

Now, I’m off to continue binge-watching the latest season of The Crown.

Open thread!

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Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death!

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We’re really the dumbest fucking country:

During the early days of the pandemic, the public’s attention was fixed on various models, each showing a steep upswing, with cases steadily increasing each day, followed by the tail-end of the curve as cases fade away.

Americans saw, with increasing dread, the predicted upswing in the national numbers. Then, over the last couple of weeks, it stopped.

And yet, forecasters are projecting even more deaths on the horizon. A leaked document obtained by The New York Times projected more than 3,000 people could die each day by the end of May. Another historically conservative model, favored by the Trump administration, just doubled its projected death toll, too.

The tail-end of the national epidemic is not materializing.

“If you just look at the total number of cases, you’re going to miss what’s underneath it,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “It’s not a leveling-off. It’s a painful handoff.”

America’s current “plateau” isn’t good news, he said. Infections from the earliest-hit metropolitan areas are now spawning outbreaks of their own across the country.

If you take NY out of the equation, which is lowering the national numbers, the entire nation is on a steady incline. Yet we have this:

Republican elected officials are rushing to express support for a Texas salon owner sentenced to a week in jail and a fine for reopening her business in violation of a stay-at-home order issued by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Members of the self-described party of “law and order” attacked a judge who enforced the order.

Dallas County State District Judge Eric Moyé sentenced salon owner Shelley Luther to seven days in jail and a fine of $7,000 for violating the stay-at-home order as well as Moyé’s temporary restraining order and a cease-and-desist order from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

On a personal note, I had to go to the store today for produce and allergy meds, and did my usual overalls with full length sleeves, masks, gloves, and carrying lysol wipes, because I am not a fucking sociopath, and noticed that there has been a MARKED increase in the number of people out and about and a MARKED decrease in the number of people wearing masks. Apparently moving from the Governor’s “Stay at home” order to the current “safer at home” order has been interpreted by many as “fuck it, YOLO.”

Personally, I am expecting the entire nation to get hammered in about three weeks to a month, and last week I had a stern talk with my parents that NOTHING has changed, in fact things are getting worse, and they are still grounded for at least another couple months. They were fine with it, because they don’t want to die, either. I’m keeping my shit locked down and don’t intend to change anything. I am expecting at least a half million deaths.

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I Am Over These Fucking People

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Joining Betty in afternoon rage..

I posted this information on Facebook:

I have friends and family in Iowa. No provisions for someone who might be vulnerable, no provisions for someone who might live with someone who is vulnerable. Just get your lazy ass back to work.

First, someone that I do business with (as a customer no less) decided to spew Republican talking points at me about it and that people will take advantage. I was waiting for her to come at me with “strong bucks and t-bone steaks.”  I let her know I wasn’t buying it about these hypothetical deadbeats and wanted to know when we were going to talk about the businesses taking advantage of workers by putting profit over their safety. Her reply was, “Oh, wow” like I’d said something drastic like “So pro-life only means in the womb, right?” She then deleted all her comments.

Then, my cousin, who is a retired minister came at me with the same BS. My response: “Who would Jesus kill for profit, amirite?”

I think I’m banned from future family reunions (not really, my godmother is a retired minister who is totally liberal…or as she likes to call it, “a follower of the teachings of Christ”).  ETA: He just came back at me with “we can agree to disagree and still be family, right” I’ll think about it.

Anyway, I’ve had it with these fuckers and they all need to be called on the carpet and then crushed under my heel. You want to preach the economy over lives, then the next woman who says, “this unexpected pregnancy is going to wreak havoc on my personal economy,” better be first in line for an abortion without any protest from these frauds.  Because as we know, profits are all that matter.

If we and our Democratic leaders do not make them own each and every one of these comments from now until no one remembers what a Republican was, except to compare them to Nazis, we are fools. And worse, dishonoring all those who died because of this outrage.

And yes, having had this stupid virus, I am taking all of this personally. And I’m worried beyond words for those around me who may succumb to it.

BTW, I’m fine, thanks for asking ? ’cause I know you’re gonna. I’m on day 3 of feeling pretty darn good. But I will tell you the fatigue is impressive. And there were a few days/nights that were very hairy, but those passed and the rest was pretty mild.

Okay, back to my rant. I am mad as hell and really am not going to take it anymore. Come at me with bullshit and I’m going to fight back – friends, family, business, I. Do. Not. Care.

I feel better now.

/rant

I will try and have something respite-like later. No promises though, I may need a nap after this.

 

 

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Captain Courageous (Largely Outsourced To Mr. Pierce)

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Charles Pierce said it all about what Trump and his acting (of course) Navy Secretary did to the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

The Roosevelt, you’ll recall is the aircraft carrier that suffered a coronavirus outbreak while on deployment. It is essentially impossible able to isolate infectious patients on naval vessel.  US carriers are huge–the Roosevelt is 335 meters long (inevitably: more than three football fields), but it’s full of stuff, and there’s not actually that much space to put people, especially folks who need to be kept well away from everyone else.

Its captain, Brett Crozier, asked, then begged his superiors for permission to get the sick sailors off his ship, and to quarantine the carrier for the time necessary to ensure that the infection would not sweep through his whole crew, inevitably killing some of them.

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Pierce quotes the letter Crozier wrote to command:

This will require a political solution but it is the right thing to do. We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors…Removing the majority of personnel from a deployed U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier and isolating them for two weeks may seem like an extraordinary measure…This is a necessary risk. Keeping over 4,000 young men and women on board the TR is an unnecessary risk and breaks faith with those Sailors entrusted to our care.

Nothing happened until Crozier’s letter leaked to The San Francisco Chronicle. (It’s not now and may never be known who leaked it; possibly Crozier himself.) Once that letter became public, two things followed. As Pierce writes,

Almost immediately, acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly acted like any acting secretary of anything in this administration* can be expected to act. He initially refused Crozier’s request and then, when the public heat came down, he allowed the afflicted member of the crew to be brought ashore. Then, on Thursday, he relieved Crozier of his command.

Modly’s explanation is a masterpiece of Trumpian malign weaselry:

Captain Crozier had allowed the complexity of his challenge with COVID breakout on the ship to overwhelm his ability to act professionally…(Pierce’s emphasis.)

There’s not much to add. Adam and others on this blob more closely connected to the military than me can chime in, but I’m quite sure that there is no way Crozier didn’t understand what would follow from his decision to protect his crew.  A career on the fast track to flag rank is now dead.

Crozier is the kind of leader I would want if  I or anyone I cared about had to go into harm’s way.  His subordinates agree.

Donald Trump does not:

A Navy commander’s written alarms about a coronavirus outbreak aboard his aircraft carrier “looked terrible,” President Donald Trump said Saturday, as he praised military leaders who removed the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s top officer from his post.

A) I hope that military voters take note.  And B):  That Trump and his criminal, and criminally incompetent administration have made a ritual sacrifice of Captain Crozier is not just an act of petty and petulant vengeance.  It measurably weakens US national defense.

We cannot rid ourselves of these malignancies a moment too soon.

Image: J. W. M. Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838.

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