As the Darkness Lifts: Bruce Hornsby, “Country Doctor”
Music video by Bruce Hornsby performing Country Doctor (Live - Bonnaroo Virtual ROO-ality). (C) 2020 Zappo Productions marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
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Music video by Bruce Hornsby performing Country Doctor (Live - Bonnaroo Virtual ROO-ality). (C) 2020 Zappo Productions marketed and distributed by Thirty Tigers
http://vevo.ly/CdHvlG
First time I haven’t spent a good part of the day in tears in too many days now.
Thank God.
re: #399 jaunte
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You know how, in some films, you’ll have the one guy who clearly is too incompetent for the job he holds, is such a screw-up that nobody expects anything of him, and yet never gets fired no matter how fucked things are?
That’s Jared, the guy whose entire job qualification was “Regularly rails the girl the boss wishes he could be railing.”
re: #1 Decatur Deb
Got Out That Vote
Just remember, the mission is not accomplished. We won the battle. Now commences the long fight to de-Trumpify America.
One thing remains true, though: FUCK TRUMP. And Fuck the GOP.
Deep down in the south county
Over where the paper mill runs
Lived a man, a young country doctor
With the perfect wife and sons
Well he worked his days
And Sundays he’d pray
And nobody knew
Why the wife slowly withered away
I saw the country doctor, to ask him what
was wrong with me
He was caught unaware, accidental and devil may care
Behind the curtain I see, two shadows in front of me
Oh nobody know the trouble I’ve seen
My guess, there was another woman
And with the kids and the money there was a lot to lose
He said she had an rare affliction
And he was doing all he could do
And we all believed him
Felt so sorry and then
I thought once he was a fine man
Now I don’t remember when
I saw the country doctor, to ask him what
was wrong with me
He was caught unaware, accidental and devil may care
Behind the curtain I see, bottles unmarked in front of me
Whoa nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen
I saw the country doctor, in a place he didn’t see me
Way out in the middle of the night where he thought
no one could see
Over there in the parlor room, making eyes,
hands roaming free
Someone soon must know, the trouble I’ve seen
Did you think about the young ones
One day they’ll know it was you
And if they let you off one day
Who then will you turn to
And my wife remembers one thing
She said I remember kind of strangely
At a friends wedding one time
It was a look that he gave me
“Brand New Day”
al kooper
or
sting
totally different songs, same title
they both work
take your pick
(no not like pineapple pizza, just…you know)
re: #8 🌹UOJB!
I sing to these guys ALL the time.
I love this.
Make America great again.
by @edelstudio
/ @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris pic.twitter.com/VFKIAwOEco— DER SPIEGEL (@derspiegel) November 7, 2020
Danke, Deutschland.
gee…so different from his Walter Reed drive by.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Sucks to be him https://t.co/7Zn6jE6tLy— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) November 7, 2020
Awwww.
It’s nice that Trump lost the election
AND it’s even nicer that @jack is slapping alerts on his Tweets!
they slap the disclaimer on his tweets automatically now 😭 I’m screaming https://t.co/8IUJ4seMpl
— If Beale Street Could Twerk (@camerouninema) November 7, 2020
Is the Twitter ban coming from @jack????
re: #2 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
First time I haven’t spent a good part of the day in tears in too many days now.
Thank God.
It’s still a dream, but beating Trump was an essential step toward “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 7, 2020
re: #12 makeitstop
I love this.
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Danke, Deutschland.
Check the artist’s twitter page image.
Loving that I can share our joy with people around the world today.
That Trump didn’t have this reaction to Jared’s Covid response is all you need to know about his priorities. https://t.co/751xwwbbAg
— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 7, 2020
they’re trying to throw a hail mary
except the game is chess
and it’s over
re: #19 dangerman
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I’m struggling to think of a single task that Jared was connected to that wasn’t a total disaster for Trump. Everything the man touches turns to shit.
We all gonna do our part to help Ossoff and Warnock with their Georgia run offs right?
I sent $100. Who’s with me?
yummity. slab of lasagna, and this time I cooked the butternut squash with the cut side down for an hour, which worked beautifully. Two glasses of wine and a nap. I was tempted to go out in the middle of the road because the asphalt is still warm this time of year and I thought that would aid digestion, but it turns out the wine aids digestion as well.
re: #25 VegasGolfer
We all gonna do our part to help Ossoff and Warnock with their Georgia run offs right?
I sent $100. Who’s with me?
They, and Abram’s group will get a bunch of money from me. Thursday.
re: #25 VegasGolfer
We all gonna do our part to help Ossoff and Warnock with their Georgia run offs right?
I sent $100. Who’s with me?
Son2 and I have an ongoing GA project. We’ll match you.
Somebody give that old coot a juice box and a Xanax and send him to bed.
Crazy stuff from Fox Business host Lou Dobbs who says media, which includes his employer, “overstepped” by calling election, that there is “no way” Biden hit more “legal votes” than Trump, floats PA State legislature ignoring results and appointing Trump electors. pic.twitter.com/H28oqD4LC9
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) November 7, 2020
A tale of two @derspiegel covers pic.twitter.com/9plLVRWzVT
— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) November 7, 2020
re: #19 dangerman
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Jared sure ran up an incredible track record!
Revised his security clearance form 20+ times?
Destroyed the Middle East Peace Process
Destroyed the Iran Nuclear Deal
Fucked up Trump’s Kill Obamacare Bill
Fucked up Wall Construction
Fucked up Infrastructure plans
Fucked up budget talks
Fucked up Civil Service purges
Fucked up Housing assistance
Fucked up relations with allies
Fucked up PPE production
Fucked up the Covid Response
But there is one thing he did right!
Fucked up Trump’s re-election!
re: #286 🌹UOJB!
LOOOOOLLLLLLL
Qanon was a democratic strategy to keep many conservatives complacent in “trusting the plan” while the left continued their evil corruption.
— Aubrey Huff (@aubrey_huff) November 7, 2020
re: #14 🌹UOJB!
Awwww.
It’s nice that Trump lost the election
AND it’s even nicer that @jack is slapping alerts on his Tweets!
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Is the Twitter ban coming from @jack????
you know they don’t separate the ballots before they’re counted right?
how is it yours are valid but the other ones aren’t?
and ps. no one was required to send back a mail right? they received. and there’s a check so no one votes by mail and in person. you know that, right?
they slap the disclaimer on his tweets automatically now 😭 I’m screaming https://t.co/8IUJ4seMpl
— If Beale Street Could Twerk (@camerouninema) November 7, 2020
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOOOOOLLLLLLL
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Did Aubrey take a fastball to the head while he was playing?
re: #25 VegasGolfer
We all gonna do our part to help Ossoff and Warnock with their Georgia run offs right?
I sent $100. Who’s with me?
I’m gonna borrow on the Master Card!
re: #24 Targetpractice
I’m struggling to think of a single task that Jared was connected to that wasn’t a total disaster for Trump. Everything the man touches turns to shit.
don’t hurt yourself trying
re: #27 steve_davis
yummity. slab of lasagna, and this time I cooked the butternut squash with the cut side down for an hour, which worked beautifully. Two glasses of wine and a nap. I was tempted to go out in the middle of the road because the asphalt is still warm this time of year and I thought that would aid digestion, but it turns out the wine aids digestion as well.
so does schadenfreude
re: #31 makeitstop
Somebody give that old coot a juice box and a Xanax and send him to bed.
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This is the downside to the counting taking so long. Yeah, it kept Trump in excruciating suspense, but it’s also set the stage for 4 years of “THEY COUNTED ILLEGAL VOTES!!!”
re: #15 EPR-radar
It’s still a dream, but beating Trump was an essential step toward “Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”
Today is the first time I’ve logged onto the internet since Tuesday night. I blocked all notifications for the days. I was stressing every back and forth and was close to breaking. Hubs kept me (barely, by my request) updated. He saw how fragile I was, too.
When he got the notification today that Biden won today I cried a whole different kind of tears.
re: #42 Belafon
What a beautiful little creature. <3
re: #31 makeitstop
Somebody give that old coot a juice box and a Xanax and send him to bed.
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no lou. they can’t
and won’t
they’ve already said so.
don’t you read the news?
re: #42 Belafon
Saw this gecko. He was probably five inches long. Check out the markings and the back feet:
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re: #5 PhillyPretzel
We need to lock down all the presidential holes that jellyfish got through.
re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Today is the first time I’ve logged onto the internet since Tuesday night. I blocked all notifications for the days. I was stressing every back and forth and was close to breaking. Hubs kept me (barely, by my request) updated. He saw how fragile I was, too.
When he got the notification today that Biden won today I cried a whole different kind of tears.
Imagine how pathetic the people are who love Donald fucking Trump so much that they shed a tear for him.
re: #44 Targetpractice
This is the downside to the counting taking so long. Yeah, it kept Trump in excruciating suspense, but it’s also set the stage for 4 years of “THEY COUNTED ILLEGAL VOTES!!!”
They would have said it if Biden had won on Tuesday.
Now he’s officially a garbage human.
Just saw the clip — Van Jones crying on CNN was so fake, lol
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 7, 2020
re: #14 🌹UOJB!
Awwww.
It’s nice that Trump lost the election
AND it’s even nicer that @jack is slapping alerts on his Tweets!
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Is the Twitter ban coming from @jack????
@jack is trying to save his and Twitter’s asses from getting keelhauled in DC come January, especially if the Dems have effective control of the Senate.
re: #48 Decatur Deb
Wife loves the Rhine varieties.
personally were opening a nice rioja tempranillo this evening.
we already did the champagne breakfast yesterday. couldn’t wait for the AP.
re: #52 Belafon
They would have said it if Biden had won on Tuesday.
Oh, I’m not disputing that. But the whole “PA VIOLATED THE COURT ORDER!” business will probably get a bit more play than it would had the call been made days ago.
re: #53 Nyet
Now he’s officially a garbage human.
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Hey now, Mike can’t help it. He’s just never been the same since Maxine Waters stove his head in with that lead pipe.
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re: #52 Belafon
They would have said it if Biden had won on Tuesday.
trump
was
saying
it
before
tuesday
re: #57 dangerman
personally were opening a nice rioja tempranillo this evening.
we already did the champagne breakfast yesterday. couldn’t wait for the AP.
I made my family scrambled eggs and sausage gravy this morning. That was before the official announcement; maybe it was anticipatory.
re: #57 dangerman
personally were opening a nice rioja tempranillo this evening.
we already did the champagne breakfast yesterday. couldn’t wait for the AP.
We had a saved bottle of Italian at lunch (shrimp po’ boys). The word had just come through.
re: #35 dangerman
Well, one thing is accurate enough about Trump’s unhinged tweet:
The NEVER HAPPENED part seems credible …
re: #61 Targetpractice
Hey now, Mike can’t help it. He’s just never been the same since Maxine Waters stove his head in with that lead pipe.
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This will never, ever get old.
re: #53 Nyet
Now he’s officially a garbage human.
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Did we expect anything else from Tracey?
Nope.
It will be pretty great to have a president who doesn’t bond with people like Kim Jong Un and Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin.
Or, closer to home, Jack Posobiec and Sean Hannity and Jim Hoft.
He attracted and was attracted to nothing but garbage humans.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 7, 2020
re: #64 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
I made my family scrambled eggs and sausage gravy this morning. That was before the official announcement; maybe it was anticipatory.
we knew what was coming
we all knew
Joe pesci, my cousin Vinny
go-ahead. you can say it. they all know…
Hmmmm…wonder if Slumlord Sean Insanity is going to face charges for his naughty landlord practices?
re: #70 Charles Johnson
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Not having a president* who retweets Q bullshit at odd hours of the night will be a breath of fresh air.
So, trump and his team are preparing to go to the Courts to challenge the election. I suppose well see “The Plan” in a couple of weeks?
re: #73 Targetpractice
Not having a president* who retweets Q bullshit at odd hours of the night will be a breath of fresh air.
Not having a president* will be a breath of fresh air. This one was legitimately elected, fair and square.
re: #73 Targetpractice
Not having a president* who retweets
Qbullshit at odd hours of the night will be a breath of fresh air.
Edited for accuracy.
re: #74 Cheechako
So, trump and his team are preparing to go to the Courts to challenge the election. I suppose well see “The Plan” in a couple of weeks?
The Storm is imminent.
I feel like we didn’t focus enough on the fact that someone in the Trump campaign meant to schedule the “four seasons hotel” but definitely accidentally scheduled this “four seasons landscaping” store and they had to follow through with it. Veep was not this good. pic.twitter.com/DTJIQGsKHG
— Alex Sexton (@SlexAxton) November 7, 2020
This. Is. Brutal.
So, if you’re worried: Just spoke with a nice Secret Service agent about January 20th. “Don’t worry. We know how to deal with squatters.”
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 7, 2020
re: #74 Cheechako
So, trump and his team are preparing to go to the Courts to challenge the election. I suppose well see “The Plan” in a couple of weeks?
I wonder if a social media troll could trick these fuckwits into naming their great plan “Operation Sealion”.
re: #81 Charles Johnson
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Presser in front of a landscaping company, right next door to a smut shop, due either to incompetence or bankruptcy.
Or, for those taking notes at home, the greatest metaphor for the Trump admin ever.
re: #74 Cheechako
So, trump and his team are preparing to go to the Courts to challenge the election. I suppose well see “The Plan” in a couple of weeks?
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re: #83 makeitstop
This. Is. Brutal.
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I’m wondering if there has ever been an incident of a President or family member refusing to leave the White House.
re: #81 Charles Johnson
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an we wonder why they dont hav a crack legal team and strategy in place?
I feel like we didn’t focus enough on the fact that someone in the Trump campaign meant to schedule the “four seasons hotel” but definitely accidentally scheduled this “four seasons landscaping” store and they had to follow through with it. Veep was not this good. pic.twitter.com/DTJIQGsKHG
— Alex Sexton (@SlexAxton) November 7, 2020
re: #82 BigPapa
The Storm is Impotent
Maybe they’re talking about Tropical Storm Eta.
Tropical Storm Eta Advisory Number 30
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL292020
400 PM EST Sat Nov 07 2020…ETA MOVING AWAY FROM THE CAYMAN ISLANDS AND TOWARD THE COAST OF
CENTRAL CUBA…
…HURRICANE AND STORM SURGE WATCHES ISSUED FOR SOUTH FLORIDA AND
THE FLORIDA KEYS…SUMMARY OF 400 PM EST…2100 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…20.4N 80.7W
ABOUT 85 MI…135 KM NNE OF GRAND CAYMAN
ABOUT 195 MI…310 KM WSW OF CAMAGUEY CUBA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…60 MPH…95 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NE OR 50 DEGREES AT 16 MPH…26 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…994 MB…29.36 INCHES
The storm track seems to clip the southern tip of Florida, then later curl back toward Tampa.
re: #83 makeitstop
Q: How you do make a group of secret service agents act like a group of kids just set loose in Disneyland?
A: Ask for volunteers for the forcible eviction of Trump from the White House.
re: #42 Belafon
Saw this gecko. He was probably five inches long. Check out the markings and the back feet:
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This felt very close to a haiku to me for some reason.
Just saw this gecko
Maybe was five inches long
Check out those markings.
He shouldn’t go anyway, the place is lousy with coronavirus. It will have to be extensively sanitized when President Plague Rat finally exits. https://t.co/cqKs3320Vz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 7, 2020
re: #85 Targetpractice
Presser in front of a landscaping company, right next door to a smut shop, due either to incompetence or bankruptcy.
Or, for those taking notes at home, the greatest metaphor for the Trump admin ever.
It didn’t get the attention because of the call timing. Note that there is an NFPA hazardous materials placard on the wall behind the speaker’s head. I don’t know their nomenclature for bullshit.
re: #83 makeitstop
This. Is. Brutal.
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“Yes, but do they know what to do when Trump unleashes his Skwattenpuppin to protect him?”
re: #81 Charles Johnson
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i saw patton oswalt tweet something about htis earlier today
i thought i was a joke
i mean it was when he did it but….holy cow
I feel like we didn’t focus enough on the fact that someone in the Trump campaign meant to schedule the “four seasons hotel” but definitely accidentally scheduled this “four seasons landscaping” store and they had to follow through with it. Veep was not this good. pic.twitter.com/DTJIQGsKHG
— Alex Sexton (@SlexAxton) November 7, 2020
re: #93 Charles Johnson
Besides Joe can get more information from Obama than DT.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
There’s no point in any of the usual transfer of power rituals. Anything Biden really needs to know he can get from Obama.
God knows Trump is clueless about anything related to a real presidency. On the other hand, if Biden wanted advice on LARPing his way through a presidency, Trump would be the expert on that.
I thought there was a presser at 6:30 EST today but maybe I’m mixing them up. I actually want to watch Trump. First time ever, maybe the last time.
re: #96 dangerman
i saw patton oswalt tweet something about htis earlier today
i thought i was a joke
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Wait, it gets better…
The whole story is one for the ages, but this one sentence alone — I mean, how is this real life?https://t.co/12zUNmwEfR pic.twitter.com/VWcx5X6fFS
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) November 7, 2020
A pr0n shop and a crematorium. Fuck me dead, so to speak.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe they’re talking about Tropical Storm Eta.
The storm track seems to clip the southern tip of Florida, then later curl back toward Tampa.
Eta is here.
dumping lots of water
not so much wind…yet
we managed to dart in and out between the bands and actually get some pond work done today.
Our Long National Nightmare Can Get F*cked (Wonkette)
Wonkette calls the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Caution for coarse language.
re: #96 dangerman
i saw patton oswalt tweet something about htis earlier today
i thought i was a joke
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Hey, they did campaign on Lawn and Order.
I heard someone say Biden took the military vote as well, or is at least winning the military vote. I am definitely interested to see where that lands.
Donald may be starting to get the impression people don’t like him. https://t.co/OeaSPqjCNf
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 7, 2020
re: #73 Targetpractice
Not having a president* who retweets Q bullshit at odd hours of the night will be a breath of fresh air.
And that his tweets may not have immunity in the future. They never should have been afforded the latitude they had. It did actual harm. Time for Donald to get a big dose of STFU.
This is very personal for me.
The asshole who slaughtered innocent people at the Tree Of Life synagogue said he did it to put HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) out of business.
Link to a video and statement from HIAS on the election results.
re: #100 makeitstop
Wait, it gets better…
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A pr0n shop and a crematorium. Fuck me dead, so to speak.
“Trump and the Republicans want to fuck over both the living and the dead” is one way (of many) to mock this.
re: #106 Skandal
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Re-upping this video because it is a treasure
Madame Vice-President (soon) @KamalaHarris’s Indian uncle talking about the debate
It will put a smile on your face https://t.co/F7cojMANy5— Ashish K. Jha (@ashishkjha) November 7, 2020
re: #104 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I heard someone say Biden took the military vote as well, or is at least winning the military vote. I am definitely interested to see where that lands.
My college roommate’s dad, a veteran in Ohio, did this after the race was called for @JoeBiden #patriotism #UnitedStatesofAmerica pic.twitter.com/5zv0c9vmQ6
— Brittany Wallman (@BrittanyWallman) November 7, 2020
re: #108 🌹UOJB!
This is very personal for me.
The asshole who slaughtered innocent people at the Tree Of Life synagogue said he did it to put HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) out of business.
Link to a video and statement from HIAS on the election results.
HIAS is on our donation list despite tending not to donate to religiously affiliated groups. Putting it “out of business” is a really bad idea, IMHO
re: #98 EPR-radar
But he knows it anyway having been VP with Obama. He needs to stay away from Corona King.
re: #100 makeitstop
Wait, it gets better…
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A pr0n shop and a crematorium. Fuck me dead, so to speak.
Jared set it up, right?
i have no words.
there are no….
i am…
hysterical.
if i was more limber i’d be literally down there rolling on the floor
this is brilliant
On my way to a celebration in the parking lot of Ritz-Carlton Pest Control.
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) November 7, 2020
Biden shouldn’t trust a damn thing that comes from the White House during the transition.
This is only the second time I have ever requested a retweet. If you agree that President Biden should restore the rank and rightful benefits for Col. Vindman, or appoint him with equivalent civilian rank, pass this along. https://t.co/CxDG9zV6yH
— John M. Talmadge, MD (@JohnMTalmadgeMD) October 30, 2020
re: #70 Charles Johnson
Speaking of garbage human beings, I wonder if there is a way to rescind the Medal of Freedom tarnished by Limbaugh?
re: #95 Barefoot Grin
“Yes, but do they know what to do when Trump unleashes his Skwattenpuppin to protect him?”
According to one prominent crazy person, Paula White I think, Gawd is sending angels from Africa or Peru or maybe the Oklahoma panhandle to guard Trump and keep him from being removed.
re: #111 BigPapa
tears. yes, tears.
And I hope they put flowers back in the WH rose garden. FFS, Melania’s vision had all the warmth and charm of a Siberian winter, with the practicality of a 1944-era Berlin bunker parking lot. In other words: It was very much her.
Not liked. Won’t be missed.
Not loving the “and now we must seek to listen to and understand these people” think-splats that are being dripped onto media.
It’s almost like there’s a pseudointellectual class that simply wants to be comfortable, and continuously outputs canards and shoddy reasoning that we should never acknowledge that the terrible, cruel things done by people with power have a long term effect.
re: #104 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I heard someone say Biden took the military vote as well, or is at least winning the military vote. I am definitely interested to see where that lands.
Who knew the military wouldn’t like a draft dodger who calls them suckers and losers. I’ll admit. I’ve been a bit worried about the military vote. But not so much anymore. Everyone I know currently serving hates the f’er. But that’s less than 10 people.
re: #117 Ace Rothstein
Biden shouldn’t trust a damn thing that comes from the White House during the transition.
or that they find after
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I wouldn’t trust Paula White if she only gave directions to the 7-11 at the next corner, within eyesight. She’s a shameless fucking liar and prosperity prophet, like the rest of them.
re: #112 calochortus
HIAS is on our donation list despite tending not to donate to religiously affiliated groups. Putting it “out of business” is a really bad idea, IMHO
I cannot thank you enough because I worshipped at Tree Of Life when I was at Pitt.
re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
Not loving the “and now we must seek to listen to and understand these people” think-splats that are being dripped onto media.
It’s almost like there’s a pseudointellectual class that simply wants to be comfortable, and continuously outputs canards and shoddy reasoning that we should never acknowledge that the terrible, cruel things done by people with power have a long term effect.
All both siderism is axiomatically dishonest.
re: #44 Targetpractice
This is the downside to the counting taking so long. Yeah, it kept Trump in excruciating suspense, but it’s also set the stage for 4 years of “THEY COUNTED ILLEGAL VOTES!!!”
it kept us in suspense too
I wish I were in a celebratory mood, but I am not.
Trump was always horrible, will be so till the day he dies.
But what was revealed in this election is that roughly half of your fellow Americans really would be fine with instituting a fascist leader.
In the name of Je$u$ for many of them.
So no, we are not in a good place.
Notice that the Dems lost House seats. It is possible though not likely that the Dems could pick up a Senate seat.
So no, I’m not jumping with joy.
What lay ahead for Biden is difficulty after difficulty. A government that has been plundered, a pandemic the end of which has yet to be put under control (and just wait until one of the vast number of mutations make reinfection more likely), a world community where right wing authoritarianism is ascendant….
Just call me Eeyore.
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
According to one prominent crazy person, Paula White I think, Gawd is sending angels from Africa or Peru or maybe the Oklahoma panhandle to guard Trump and keep him from being removed.
Great! I’d suggest Trump supporters rely on prayer and those angels to solve their problem. No need to have demonstrations. The Almighty will take care of it.
re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
It’s making nice with your rapist, and being forced to carry their child so you won’t hurt their feelings. Really, it’s that simple.
Nope.
Folks, let’s take a second to recognize a major tragedy that today’s events have led us to: We’ll never see Trump’s healthcare plan now.
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re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
“Sure you just dumped your boyfriend who hit you and told you you were worthless…
…but if you don’t stop to consider HIS feelings, aren’t you just as bad?”
There’s actually a term for this in abuse survivor communities: flying monkeys.
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOOOOOLLLLLLL
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EVIL CORRUPTION
Not just *any* corruption, but EVIL corruption
re: #128 🌹UOJB!
I cannot thank you enough because I worshipped at Tree Of Life when I was at Pitt.
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re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Change takes time and persistence. It’s a step in the correct direction.
re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wish I were in a celebratory mood, but I am not.
Trump was always horrible, will be so till the day he dies.
But what was revealed in this election is that roughly half of your fellow Americans really would be fine with instituting a fascist leader.
In the name of Je$u$ for many of them.
So no, we are not in a good place.
Notice that the Dems lost House seats. It is possible though not likely that the Dems could pick up a Senate seat.
So no, I’m not jumping with joy.
What lay ahead for Biden is difficulty after difficulty. A government that has been plundered, a pandemic the end of which has yet to be put under control (and just wait until one of the vast number of mutations make reinfection more likely), a world community where right wing authoritarianism is ascendant….
Just call me Eeyore.
We may not be in a good place, this is true.
But we are in a better place than we would be had Trump won.
re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea
Not loving the “and now we must seek to listen to and understand these people” think-splats that are being dripped onto media.
It’s almost like there’s a pseudointellectual class that simply wants to be comfortable, and continuously outputs canards and shoddy reasoning that we should never acknowledge that the terrible, cruel things done by people with power have a long term effect.
I stick with the opinion I expressed downstairs: A lot of these assholes sound like somebody who is “asking for a friend.” They voted for Trump, they know eventually it’s going to come out to their circle of friends, so they’re trying to push the “Can’t we just get along?” bit in order to set the stage for their own confessions.
re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I got lots of dry powder and smoke for the next battle and all the ones after that.
Today I’m going to focus on victory achieved. And we have a woman vice President, a glass ceiling shattered.
re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Trump winning would have been an unmitigated catastrophe. So averting that is a big fucking deal.
I see this win as analogous to early allied victories in WWII — “the end of the beginning.”
re: #112 calochortus
HIAS is on our donation list despite tending not to donate to religiously affiliated groups. Putting it “out of business” is a really bad idea, IMHO
Good for them. For some reason I can’t recall at the moment, I somehow ended up having HIAS on one of my credit cards for a regular monthly donation. I was thinking of canceling, but thought better of it.
re: #142 EPR-radar
Trump winning would have been an unmitigated catastrophe. So averting that is a big fucking deal.
I see this win an analogous to early allied victories in WWII — “the end of the beginning.”
Yep, we just won a battle, not the war. The next battle is the Georgia Senate runoffs.
Too many of these folks who are now suggesting we give Trump voters a break…are the same crowd that opened 2017 with whines about how mean liberals were for calling Trump voters racist.
re: #142 EPR-radar
Trump winning would have been an unmitigated catastrophe. So averting that is a big fucking deal.
I see this win an analogous to early allied victories in WWII — “the end of the beginning.”
This was Bastogne - they threw a haymaker, we took it and turned it around and beat them back. Now we need to press the offensive.
re: #118 jaunte
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Also remember that Col. Vindman’s brother was ALSO fired by President Shithead. He needs to be reinstated, too!
re: #145 Targetpractice
Too many of these folks who are now suggesting we give Trump voters a break…are the same crowd that opened 2017 with whines about how mean liberals were for calling Trump voters racist.
Yeah, I’m way past done with all the both sides bullshit. There is good (Democrats) and evil (Republicans) in US politics, and it really is that fucking simple.
re: #133 PrairieQueen
It’s making nice with your rapist, and being forced to carry their child so you won’t hurt their feelings. Really, it’s that simple.
Nope.
When people talk about civilty, or not overreacting, usually what they mean is that they will feel uncomfortable if it’s acknowledged that their social circle, in which they feel safe and comfortable, in fact provides no protection against monsters and users; but also that their affection and admiration has no quality of moral discernment…liking someone does not make them incapable of terrible, even unforgivable things.
And communities are absolutely willing to crush a person who’s been hurt to protect the community’s enclosed self-understanding.
re: #144 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yep, we just won a battle, not the war. The next battle is the Georgia Senate runoffs.
Marching through Georgia…has a nice ring to it.
//
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
According to one prominent crazy person, Paula White I think, Gawd is sending angels from Africa or Peru or maybe the Oklahoma panhandle to guard Trump and keep him from being removed.
Pulpit Pimp Paula said she was sending thousands of angels to defend Trump.
She forgot that they were hungry and decided to chow down at Waffle House.
re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wish I were in a celebratory mood, but I am not.
Trump was always horrible, will be so till the day he dies.
But what was revealed in this election is that roughly half of your fellow Americans really would be fine with instituting a fascist leader.
In the name of Je$u$ for many of them.
So no, we are not in a good place.
Notice that the Dems lost House seats. It is possible though not likely that the Dems could pick up a Senate seat.
So no, I’m not jumping with joy.
What lay ahead for Biden is difficulty after difficulty. A government that has been plundered, a pandemic the end of which has yet to be put under control (and just wait until one of the vast number of mutations make reinfection more likely), a world community where right wing authoritarianism is ascendant….
Just call me Eeyore.
you are not wrong
however one of todays’ responses at electoral-vote.com to a similar sentiment bears posting:
…we would caution you against concluding that 70+ million Americans voted for authoritarianism, per se. Our general impression, from the reading we do for this site and the feedback we get, is that Republican voters are much more inclined toward compartmentalization in their voting. By that we mean, first of all, that they tend to vote based on one or two or three issues, like abortion, or the economy, or tax policy. We also mean, however, that they tend to be more comfortable than Democrats, on the whole, when it comes to deal-breakers. Many of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) supporters would have deserted him if he turned out to be a behind-the-scenes racist or pu**y grabber, or even if he committed some lesser sin, like taking a bunch of money from the petroleum industry. Joe Biden would have been in deep trouble if he turned out to have a secret Chinese bank account, or if he was revealed to be a tax cheat. Indeed, Biden was almost done in by allegations of sexual misconduct far less serious than those lodged against Donald Trump. He was largely saved by the fact that Tara Reade turned out to be roughly as credible as, well, Rudy Giuliani.
By contrast, Republicans in general, and Trump supporters in particular, seem to be generally comfortable with the formulation, “I really don’t approve of X, but the GOP candidate is right on Y issue, and that’s what I really care about.” How many times have we heard things like, “I don’t like the tweets, but the economy is good,” or “Yes, he lies, but he appoints anti-abortion judges”? So, it is probable that a lot of his voters either excused the authoritarian behavior, or are low-information folks who didn’t even recognize the general pattern.
re: #146 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
This was Bastogne - they threw a haymaker, we took it and turned it around and beat them back. Now we need to press the offensive.
“End of the beginning” is from Churchill after the battle of El Alamein.
“Nuts” is from the battle of the bulge.
Both eloquent, in their respective ways
re: #134 Targetpractice
Folks, let’s take a second to recognize a major tragedy that today’s events have led us to: We’ll never see Trump’s healthcare plan now.
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Unfortunately we might when the new SCOTUS gets their hands on the existing healthcare plan.
re: #94 Decatur Deb
It didn’t get the attention because of the call timing. Note that there is an NFPA hazardous materials placard on the wall behind the speaker’s head. I don’t know their nomenclature for bullshit.
Blue square: Health Hazard
2: Hazardous
Red Square: Fire Hazard (flash point)
4: Below 73°F
Yellow Square: Reactivity
3: Shock and heat may detonate
OX: Oxidizer
Since one of the places is a crematorium, that may be associated with them due to the use of dangerous chemicals and intense fuels.
re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wish I were in a celebratory mood, but I am not.
Trump was always horrible, will be so till the day he dies.
But what was revealed in this election is that roughly half of your fellow Americans really would be fine with instituting a fascist leader.
In the name of Je$u$ for many of them.
So no, we are not in a good place.
Notice that the Dems lost House seats. It is possible though not likely that the Dems could pick up a Senate seat.
So no, I’m not jumping with joy.
What lay ahead for Biden is difficulty after difficulty. A government that has been plundered, a pandemic the end of which has yet to be put under control (and just wait until one of the vast number of mutations make reinfection more likely), a world community where right wing authoritarianism is ascendant….
Just call me Eeyore.
This has been the reason for most of my tears. Lying isn’t being rejected, it’s being rewarded. Too many fellow Americans are Stone. Cold. Assholes.
There’s no joy here. It’s better because Biden won. But the rest of time will be that everything is temporary. The US no longer has its word to go on. Because promises are only good until the next Republican is elected.
And the world knows this.
https://t.co/GpYEIBDhVu pic.twitter.com/VGbEF6AsMM
— Phillip M Jackson (@Jolly_Jack) November 7, 2020
I was not expected to see so many videos of people celebrating in the city streets, because I was told all the cities had been burned to the ground.
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) November 7, 2020
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
Also remember that Col. Vindman’s brother was ALSO fired by President Shithead. He needs to be reinstated, too!
As well a Naval Capt.Crozier. tRump ruined him as well for standing up for his crew.
re: #152 dangerman
you are not wrong
however one of todays’ responses at electoral-vote.com to a similar sentiment bears posting:
That whole blurb consists of distinctions without differences, though.
Firstly, the premise is bullshit, because any of those people who say they only care about this particular issue don’t actually care about that issue. They only use it as a magic word. If a Democrat adopted exactly the same position as them on that issue they would simply find another justification or magic word.
Secondly, it doesn’t make it okay to care about a particular pet issue and be willing to ignore fascism, kleptocracy, criminal behaviour, and Nazism over that issue. Saying that people didn’t vote for fascism, but were willing to ignore fascism so that they got something, is still a vote for fascism. It’s an excuse that means nothing. If you see 10 people talking to a Nazi, you see 11 Nazis.
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Blue square: Health Hazard
2: HazardousRed Square: Fire Hazard (flash point)
4: Below 73°FYellow Square: Reactivity
3: Shock and heat may detonateOX: Oxidizer
Since one of the places is a crematorium, that may be associated with them due to the use of dangerous chemicals and intense fuels.
What’s the color for Bullshit? (The garden shop would have a good load of oxidizers and
organophosphates.)
Report from Brooklyn,
It was 70 degrees today Nov. 7 so people were out and about.
Lots of honking/pots and pans/cow bells (and I did yell “More Cowbell” as they passed by). In prospect park people will drinking/having a good time. Known trump supporters are keeping their mouths shut. Some firecrackers. Some pics below.
re: #152 dangerman
“Compartmentalization” though was the problem in what happened in the middle of the 20th century.
Citizens of German, Italy, Spain, etc. could all think that international disputes were just like always, and just went along with their lives pretending the horrors of fascism were not part of their lives.
re: #163 I Would Prefer Not To
The air horns, car honking, and cheering woke up the younger son.
A few years ago someone related a little known story about Ben Franklin. It was late and Franklin was walking out of a meeting between him and a few others who drafting the constitution. A passerby asked him what he was doing so late in the evening. Franklin’s answer was creating a republic if you can keep it. For now it looks like we will keep it.
My regional newspaper just called the election with the headline:
Joe Biden Passes 270, Declared Winner, but Trump Is Not Conceding.
a) Good job on finally getting with the programme.
b) We don’t care if he concedes or not.
Already 0 for 9 in court, Trump campaign files lawsuit no. 10 in Arizona, a rehash of the sharpie claims that went nowhere. Trump is desperate to cast doubt on the outcome of an election he lost. The truth is, Americans have spoken & made their choice. https://t.co/3EsDYjPteq
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 7, 2020
re: #169 jaunte
I see we are going for 0-10.
The only good news is that we’ve had over three tenths of an inch of rain, and more tomorrow.
So the loquats will be in full bloom soon.
re: #171 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
When can we label him a vexatious litigant?
It should have been done years ago. Trump should only be allowed in court as a plaintiff in situations where his case has been reviewed by a neutral party and found to be worth bringing to court.
Folks REMEMBER
Dr. Al Gross still needs help in Alaska! He still has a shot to win!
re: #170 PhillyPretzel
I see we are going for 0-10.
Maybe he can match the Detroit Lions and go 0-16.
/
re: #170 PhillyPretzel
I see we are going for 0-10.
At this rate, SCOTUS will never have to make a decision about the election. Works for me.
re: #104 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I heard someone say Biden took the military vote as well, or is at least winning the military vote. I am definitely interested to see where that lands.
Federal ballots have to be counted by hand. Every state uses different tabulation machinery, and the federal government does not try to create ballots for fifty states, DC, and territories.
So by their nature, federal ballots are often the last tabulated.
After four years of calling Gold Star Families terrorism supporters, dragging the widows of war dead, pardoning a convicted war criminal, calling veterans and active duty suckers and losers, abandoning our allies to die on the battlefield, abandoning our allied nations around the world, taking money from military construction programmes schools and housing to build his wall (line his pockets) of racism, there isn’t a whole lot of love for either Trump nor the GOP.
re: #131 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I wish I were in a celebratory mood, but I am not.
Trump was always horrible, will be so till the day he dies.
But what was revealed in this election is that roughly half of your fellow Americans really would be fine with instituting a fascist leader.
In the name of Je$u$ for many of them.
So no, we are not in a good place.
Notice that the Dems lost House seats. It is possible though not likely that the Dems could pick up a Senate seat.
So no, I’m not jumping with joy.
What lay ahead for Biden is difficulty after difficulty. A government that has been plundered, a pandemic the end of which has yet to be put under control (and just wait until one of the vast number of mutations make reinfection more likely), a world community where right wing authoritarianism is ascendant….
Just call me Eeyore.
I’m jumping with joy, but I absolutely agee with you. As I said earlier, people saw Trump openly admit to lying about what he knew about the pandemic’s danger and still voted for him. They voted for him despite the fact he’s set up child concentration camps, that to my knowledge, are still in operation. They voted for him despite openly fraternizing with some of the world’s worst dictators.Which leads me to this…
re: #152 dangerman
you are not wrong
however one of todays’ responses at electoral-vote.com to a similar sentiment bears posting:
By contrast, Republicans in general, and Trump supporters in particular, seem to be generally comfortable with the formulation, “I really don’t approve of X, but the GOP candidate is right on Y issue, and that’s what I really care about.” How many times have we heard things like, “I don’t like the tweets, but the economy is good,” or “Yes, he lies, but he appoints anti-abortion judges”? So, it is probable that a lot of his voters either excused the authoritarian behavior, or are low-information folks who didn’t even recognize the general pattern.
Fuck. This. Excuse.
Swear to fucking Christ, it’s a cousin to the “He made the trains run on time” argument.
Sure, these people may not have been voting for a dictatorship by rationalizing it five ways to Sunday, but they fucking did it any way. And if given the chance, will do it again.
Accidentally putting a dictator in power, because you liked some of his policies and didn’t think he’d follow through on the awful stuff, is still putting a dictator in power.
And if Trump is still alive and not in prison by 2023, we’re dealing with this horseshit all over again.
So I’m definitely not in a forgiving mood. Not for a long while.
Let’s hope Donald isn’t sitting alone in a darkened room, staring vacantly at the nuclear suitcase.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 7, 2020
re: #163 I Would Prefer Not To
Report from Brooklyn,
It was 70 degrees today Nov. 7 so people were out and about.
Lots of honking/pots and pans/cow bells (and I did yell “More Cowbell” as they passed by). In prospect park people will drinking/having a good time. Known trump supporters are keeping their mouths shut. Some firecrackers. Some pics below.
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I thought Spider-man was from Queens.
re: #180 Mattand
I thought Spider-man was from Queens.
He goes where he is needed most. Not all heroes wear capes.
re: #140 Targetpractice
I stick with the opinion I expressed downstairs: A lot of these assholes sound like somebody who is “asking for a friend.” They voted for Trump, they know eventually it’s going to come out to their circle of friends, so they’re trying to push the “Can’t we just get along?” bit in order to set the stage for their own confessions.
Within the hot take industry, I think there’s a more basic bad drive where performative hot takery requires there to always be a Hegelian synthesis…not because it’s sound reasoning, but it’s the least dangerous take that keeps people reading article after article while proposing nothing and taking no stance that could alienate an advertiser or “access” to a public figure.
But there’s also the flying monkeys whose “reasonable” politics are just polished turd conservatism—David Brooks being the prime example—where this sudden demand for understanding and nuance is just another form of working the ref. “You have to understand these people, you have to forgive now and move on” is just a form of damage control—the ideology failed (again), so now we put time and effort into concealing its failure and acknowledging our participation in how it failed. To extent there’s confession, it’s only a performance of contrition in an attempt to extract reciprocal contrition and care from the wronged parties: relying on their genuine mercifulness and kindness with the full knowledge that, granted power, they’re going to once again be awful.
It’s why I keep comparing all this to an abusive marriage. Conservatives over and over use the good faith of liberals against them, but get insanely vicious if anyone points out the pattern of bad faith contrition. And it works…lots of people who think of themselves as conscientious and reasonable still view individuals and groups that point out that this is a cycle where each iteration the conservatives do more harm and get away with are viewed as the unreasonable people who don’t understand the relationship between the governing parties.
And it’s not as simple as a lefist/liberal split. When Sanders says that Trumpists are disappointed working class voters…he factually wrong, but also creating a compassionate reading of people that should be treated with wariness and distance. But when someone like Biden says (paraphrasing) “Republicans are my colleagues, they’ll find their way back to normalcy” or “we need to not treat fellow Americans as our enemies”…it’s exactly the same problem. Both attempt to locate good faith motives for bad faith actors.
Right now, we need to set distance and boundaries, declare bad faith to be bad faith, and see if any of these people are willing to re-establish a working relationship in good faith. Forgiveness will not work; compassion unleavened by self protection will not work…but to powerful people who do not want things to be better, but do want things to be “normal” enough that they profit (often by making things more desperate for the rest of us) the emphasis is going to be on forgetting the concrete bad things that happened and moving on…restarting the cycle of abuse.
And if that sounds batshit…it’s what we did with W and his goons and all the cultural damage they did, and the outcome was just them rebooting into the Tea Party and doing the same shit.
re: #170 PhillyPretzel
I see we are going for 0-10.
As a life long Eagles fan yourself, I’m sure you can agree that we are not phased by things going 0-10, LOL.
Another day of 134,000 new cases of covid-19. Wish someone would ask any of the trump surrogates about this. Perhaps on the Sunday talk shows.
re: #181 I Would Prefer Not To
He goes where he is needed most. Not all heroes wear capes.
Yeah, in this case, he’s wearing a sensible wind breaker.
Reminder that many of Trump’s supporters are in shock and in grief, as is Trump himself. They can’t accept the outcome. Denial is widely regarded as the first stage of grief.
Anger comes next, so be ready, America.— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) November 7, 2020
re: #111 BigPapa
Who started cutting onions? I’m tearing up.
Here’s my hot take of what Republican President elect Biden should offer a job to.
Cindy McCain. She stepped up big time and may have helped with the Senate. Offer her a cool ambassadorship. France or something similar. She would be good at the post. I can’t think of any republicans who deserve anything.
re: #182 The Ghost of a Flea
But when someone like Biden says (paraphrasing) “Republicans are my colleagues, they’ll find their way back to normalcy” or “we need to not treat fellow Americans as our enemies”…it’s exactly the same problem. Both attempt to locate good faith motives for bad faith actors.
If Biden make concessions along these lines, his presidency will be a failure.
That’s why I take such a hard line vs. even minor concessions like having a Republican in the cabinet.
IMO the Democrats need to confront GOP bad faith and both-sides bad faith from the media head-on in the next two years.
I drew this thinking of Georgia and Arizona. #Election2020 #TrumpIsLosing #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/5zBKjyDHwk
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) November 7, 2020
Here is some of the take from WHYY:
whyy.org
re: #182 The Ghost of a Flea
Right now, we need to set distance and boundaries, declare bad faith to be what bad faith, and see if any of these people are willing to re-establish a working relationship in good faith. …
…And if that sounds batshit…it’s what we did with W and his goons and all the cultural damage they did, and the outcome was just them rebooting into the Tea Party and doing the same shit.
You can only feign ignorance for so long, repeat the same mistake, before it’s unforgivable. Currently, the GOP supports a fascist dictatorship, and has done everything in its power to create and maintain one. They’ve lied, cheated, stolen, and fucked 99% of the American people.
America cannot be a fascist dictatorship. We can not and should not accept anything other than reform-or-be-gone from the GOP. They can scream all they want for a Happy Meal, but this car is not pulling into a McDonald’s to make them stop misbehaving.
I really hoped for an extinction level event for the GOP, not some spineless goddamned mediator mentality that goes tit-for-tat. Their ideas sucked, America rejected them, now let’s get this show on the road in a forward direction.
Donald Trump built his real estate empire evicting people of color.
Today, people of color evicted Donald Trump.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 7, 2020
re: #190 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
McCain is somewhere else. //
Before anybody starts up with the ‘don’t be like them’ wargarble, let’s be clear: we won’t.
We’re for health care (especially mental health services), fighting COVID, fairness, and the rule of law.
We are not for extra judicial punishment, dictators and their sycophants living under a different set up rules for them, conspiracy theories, disinformation, and generally toxic hate.
For a true reconciliation and to ensure we all trust the legal system any wrongdoing needs to be investigated to the fullest extent of the law. Going soft or blowing off lawbreaking erodes our legal system. Laws matter. Much wrongdoing is probably not illegal but that’s for our legal system to figure out and our legislative system to solve for the future (Russia, if you’re listening).
The taint and stain of Trumpism should follow anybody around who committed to it. There needs to be consequences for it. I won’t forget. Any mea culpas should include the complete rejection of the cult: conspiracy theories, paranoid delusions of your political opponents, willigness to subvert law: all those need to be addressed.
I don’t have my hopes up. But that’s the rules.
re: #193 Skandal
That is another way of putting it. :)
re: #182 The Ghost of a Flea
Oh yeah, one other thing:
The fact that conservatism in general will not admit that it’s policies have not and do not produce the positive outcomes they claim they will is the biggest stumbling block to good faith interaction. The grossness and cultish-ness are foul and frightening, respectively, but the core problem is that unreality.
And…I know this is going to make people groan, but I’m serious…a big part of this problem is neoliberal principles that some Democrats also support. And I don’t mean “neoliberal” is an amorphous sense, I mean the actual policy concepts that are summarized on Wikipedia. This shit is directly what is fucking us up as a country and keeping all the other countries so fucked up they can cheaply make stuff for us to buy on our undervalued salaries.
re: #184 I Would Prefer Not To
Another day of 134,000 new cases of covid-19. Wish someone would ask any of the trump surrogates about this. Perhaps on the Sunday talk shows.
I wonder what Republicans will appear tomorrow. I guess their message will be “we want all the legal votes counted” and “the election isn’t over until the results are certified.”
#SDNY he’s all yours. https://t.co/WMcWXdnxcX
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) November 7, 2020
NEW: Trump will hate this- Joe Biden’s lead in Georgia just went up from 7,500 to 9,160 votes.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) November 7, 2020
*touches earpiece* Hours later, we can confirm, hoes remain mad. Back to you in the studio https://t.co/O0Dc3na5RM
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) November 8, 2020
re: #201 Dopefish: Ever hopeful.
I hope they nail his slippery hide to the wall.
re: #184 I Would Prefer Not To
Another day of 134,000 new cases of covid-19. Wish someone would ask any of the trump surrogates about this. Perhaps on the Sunday talk shows.
Not a chance. They will have Republicans on to explain the Republican’s losses.
re: #205 Sir John Barron
Under enough pressure diamonds can shatter and silk can fray.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Today is a good day. A great one.
Trump got his ass handed to him officially as President Elect Biden was called by all the media outlets because there’s no way Trump can get to 270 EC votes.
Biden has the most votes of any president in history. His was a resounding win, and the EC margin equals that of Trump. Trump is a 2x loser of the popular vote. Trump’s only in the WH because of the EC.
And now the EC has ejected him from the place he was never qualified to inhabit. Trump was never qualified. He never had the character or the judgment. We’ve seen this endlessly over the past 4 years. Endlessly.
And now we have the recriminations starting in the WH of why Trump lost.
Start with the motherfucking Trump and his corrupt crime syndicate family. Sycophantic suckups one and all. All the people he brought in to tell him what he wanted to hear instead of what he needed to hear. People are ready to throw Jared under the bus?
Fine, let’s prosecute Jared for the felony conduct of lying on multiple security clearance forms. Let’s prosecute Ivanka for same. Prosecute them for self dealing and emoluments and wire/mail fraud and tax fraud.
Then NY has at them for the same and more.
We go after Trump. There’s no holding off on prosecuting these fuckers. None. His indictments need to come - he delayed the inevitable, but that last gasp desperate attempt to stave off prosecution ended when Trump lost by historic margins.
GOPers aren’t off the hook for any of this. They are going to try their pretzel pivot away from Trump, all while knowing that they are the party of Trump. The GOP is the misogynist and racist party we’ve been saying all along. Trump said aloud what GOPers have been saying all along in hushed tones. Now, we have GOPers espousing QAnon and straight up Nazi language. And the GOP is fine with all of it.
Delusion is a real thing.
Trump is a con-man. He works his marks.
His marks, OTOH, are deluded. Some are just cynically evil, but a lot of them are deluded.
Parler is the #3 downloaded app behind TikTok and YouTube.
Ahead of Instagram, Facebook, and Snap. pic.twitter.com/lYLfJATdhN— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 8, 2020
re: #204 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Biden could give a post to Michael Steele.
He’s been great with Lincoln Project, but NO!
re: #207 PhillyPretzel
Under enough pressure diamonds can shatter and silk can fray.
When you cheat to win, then you didn’t win!
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) November 7, 2020
re: #211 stpaulbear
I doubt Steele would accept any post offered by Biden, as Biden at most would offer up some obscure ambassadorship.
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Had a very unusual visitor to the backyard today. It was a Stoat. Aka known as a short-tail weasel or ermine. It was snow white with black tipped tail and about a foot in length. It hung round the backyard for about 15 minutes.
Reviewing the Wikipedia posting above, I discovered there is a sub-species named Junean stout native to the Juneau area. I suppose this could be one of them.
Lived in this house for 20 years and this is the stoat I’ve seen.
Unable to get any photos.
re: #204 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Biden could give a post to Michael Steele.
Nope. He was the guy who built up the Republican takeover of the House and Senate.
The only reason he’s a Never-Trumper now is after his term expired, Republicans started asking “Why did we appoint a black guy?” as they underbused him.
No Republicans in the cabinet. None. They must admit their wrongdoing first.
re: #197 The Ghost of a Flea
Oh yeah, one other thing:
The fact that conservatism in general will not admit that it’s policies have not and do not produce the positive outcomes they claim they will is the biggest stumbling block to good faith interaction. The grossness and cultish-ness are foul and frightening, respectively, but the core problem is that unreality.
And…I know this is going to make people groan, but I’m serious…a big part of this problem is neoliberal principles that some Democrats also support. And I don’t mean “neoliberal” is an amorphous sense, I mean the actual policy concepts that are summarized on Wikipedia. This shit is directly what is fucking us up as a country and keeping all the other countries so fucked up they can cheaply make stuff for us to buy on our undervalued salaries.
Top @JoeBiden GOP surrogate @JohnKasich: “Now is the time for Democrats … to begin to listen to what the other half of the country has to say.”
— Hanna Trudo (@HCTrudo) November 7, 2020
…and I say this because we already have people like John Kasich trying to make the case that progressives like AOC are the problem, and “real America” has a center that includes the center right (that isn’t near the fucking center) and that the goal is reasonable incremental changes.
Which is horseshit because we’ve watched “reasonable” proposals be shouted down or legislatively gutted by the purported “reasonable” center right…the ACA being the prime example. Incrementalism is another word that no longer has meaning because of how often it’s used in bad faith, to demand EVEN MORE concessions to conservative interests…only to have conservatives in the majority gut the core functionality of those policies so that they achieve no increments, nothing…which, again, is what happened with the ACA.
God apparently was tuned to another channel when the jazz hands and trances for Jesus were going down.
Women just arrived at the Clark County election department. They tell me they’re praying justice will be done and that righteousness prevails. pic.twitter.com/xi0Q9hOS51
— alyssa estrada (@anenews) November 6, 2020
re: #220 PrairieQueen
God apparently was tuned to another channel when the jazz hands and trances for Jesus were going down.
Hey Ladies, by the rationalisations put out by so many Christians to give God a loophole out of the New Testament, sometimes the answer is “No.”
re: #213 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I doubt Steele would accept any post offered by Biden, as Biden at most would offer up some obscure ambassadorship.
I know y’all don’t like it, but Biden is old school. He will appoint a Republican to a Cabinet position if he can, because that’s the way its always been done.
re: #220 PrairieQueen
God apparently was tuned to another channel when the jazz hands and trances for Jesus were going down.
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Who are you kidding? God was inside the Philadelphia Convention Center helping count ballots.
Sources close to President Trump told FOX News he plans to graciously concede and commit to a peaceful transfer of power, if the campaign’s legal challenges fail to open up a path for a second term. https://t.co/OrMcSwDocF #FoxNews
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) November 8, 2020
re: #212 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Hey Zirconia and Burlap, get ready to kiss your sad pathetic grift farewell… #ByeDon2020 pic.twitter.com/zsFPwcyUgJ
— Arch (@Arch_LGF) November 8, 2020
re: #224 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
How many dozen legal challenges have to fail before he realizes there’s nothing there?
re: #222 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I know y’all don’t like it, but Biden is old school. He will appoint a Republican to a Cabinet position if he can, because that’s the way its always been done.
That’s what the White House comment telephone line is for; so Democratic voters across the land can tell him “no.”
re: #226 jaunte
How many dozen legal challenges have to fail before he realizes there’s nothing there?
The point of the challenges is not to win them (though he would certainly take them), it’s to continue casting doubt on the election in the minds of Republican voters and delegitimise Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s election.
*taps finger to earpiece* I’m hearing that hoes mad
— 😱 Endless Zoom Meeting 😱 (@AdamSerwer) November 7, 2020
Huh. Rainbow in L.A. Don’t see that every day. pic.twitter.com/DLOfb7EHkk
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) November 8, 2020
re: #226 jaunte
How many dozen legal challenges have to fail before he realizes there’s nothing there?
As many as it takes for “his” Justices to make it clear to Trump that they are not going to anoint him President.
re: #228 John Hughes
It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
(Sorry for being a downer).
That’s what I used to tell myself back in middle school before our times were taken for the 100-yard-dash. //
re: #210 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Parler downloads are thing. But actually checking out the content on that sleazefest just once will turn off most people and good luck getting any mainstream adverts on it.
re: #224 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Then it will be the first time he’s ever done anything graciously in his misbegotten life.
re: #233 NO SMOCKING GUN!
As many as it takes for “his” Justices to make it clear to Trump that they are not going to anoint him President.
There is no path to a second term.
re: #226 jaunte
How many dozen legal challenges have to fail before he realizes there’s nothing there?
How many times did the GOP vote to repeal Obamacare? I’d wager that many…
re: #188 I Would Prefer Not To
Here’s my hot take of what Republican President elect Biden should offer a job to.
Cindy McCain. She stepped up big time and may have helped with the Senate. Offer her a cool ambassadorship. France or something similar. She would be good at the post. I can’t think of any republicans who deserve anything.
Vatican will be open soon.
I found the answer. https://t.co/EacbhG1WHU pic.twitter.com/FUCCtJeMaY
— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) November 8, 2020
re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The point of the challenges is not to win them (though he would certainly take them), it’s to continue casting doubt on the election in the minds of Republican voters and delegitimise Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s election.
I think Trump is delusional enough to think his Justices owe him the Presidency, because that’s the way he thinks.
Give conservatives a seat at the table and they’ll bend every altruistic goal around their priority of giving money only to their base and claiming that anyone else getting assistance is a thief and less-than-American, while calling this “meritocracy.”
And when they’re at the head of the table there will be no space for liberals and they will go out of their way to dismember the things they did with liberal help, because their priority is still allocating government resources according to caste.
Sources close to President Trump told FOX News he plans to graciously concede and commit to a peaceful transfer of power, if the campaign’s legal challenges fail to open up a path for a second term. https://t.co/OrMcSwDocF #FoxNews
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) November 8, 2020
I will fucking believe it when I see it.
What happened to Dan Bongino?
Did they finally unskew the algorithm? https://t.co/OSaxyoDZ8l— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) November 8, 2020
re: #224 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Don’t believe it for a moment.
This “gracious concession” will be the equivalent of a hostage video where he’s reading it from the teleprompter in a disembodied monotone.
He’s not gracious. He’s not empathetic.
Trump is who he’s always been: a deranged sociopath.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 8, 2020
re: #242 The Ghost of a Flea
Wait til the Kamala-mala memes and racist emails start flowing, reminiscent of Michelle Obama. The GOP can’t help but continue to show what they are to their red meat base. My guess is VP Harris isn’t having it, and fuck turning the other cheek to bad actors. She’s not Michelle Obama, she’s the gd VP. In this election, I think her position may be transformative.
re: #246 Dave In Austin
I’ll get you for that.
This was an unfortunately missed opportunity for the people in the car to reach out and show some empathy to Trump supporters, who are hurting today. https://t.co/NZrXTOl61f
— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) November 8, 2020
re: #249 PrairieQueen
My nephew…… I’ll have words with him
A tale of two hats today pic.twitter.com/rYc0vyKsYi
— Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) November 7, 2020
re: #220 PrairieQueen
God apparently was tuned to another channel when the jazz hands and trances for Jesus were going down.
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God said “I did.”
re: #224 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Which will be contradicted by Trump.
Apparently we have our decadal tornado watch here…
I don’t need to reach out and try to understand conservatives. I understand their evil movement quite well enough. What we need is to press the advantage until we consign American conservatism to the dustbin of history
re: #256 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Apparently we have our decadal tornado watch here…
Stay safe. We call that “business as usual”.
re: #188 I Would Prefer Not To
Here’s my hot take of what Republican President elect Biden should offer a job to.
Cindy McCain. She stepped up big time and may have helped with the Senate. Offer her a cool ambassadorship. France or something similar. She would be good at the post. I can’t think of any republicans who deserve anything.
Oh, I still think offering Concerned Collins a really nice ambassadorship is good - not because she deserves it but we deserve to get her out of the senate!
re: #246 Dave In Austin
I just hit WHYY with Pence in the search field and something from July came up. Nothing more recent than that.
Republicans are absolutely trying to balance a respectable distance from Trump while not ruling or repelling his base. The truth is that they’ll fail on both counts and the perpetual support of Trumpism is a standing, ringing indictment of the entire party.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) November 8, 2020
Julian Castro announces relaunch of “Adios Trump!” shirts to raise money for young migrants https://t.co/RpvISbCQfV pic.twitter.com/99OktNdN0i
— The Hill (@thehill) November 8, 2020
That Susan Collins was reelected tells me that things really haven’t changed much.
The Dems did flip CO and AZ, but in both cases the Republicans in those races had a lot of baggage and their Dem opponents are very likable.
Change comes slow to America.
re: #220 PrairieQueen
God apparently was tuned to another channel when the jazz hands and trances for Jesus were going down.
If I heard one of them, I’d cross myself and loudly say “Thank God it did!”
re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’m dying of laughter!! 😂
re: #263 Patricia Kayden
Jared for President 2024!!
Here’s who could be the Republican presidential candidate in 2024 https://t.co/pnKkYXDynN pic.twitter.com/dgqALZaZrc
— New York Post (@nypost) November 8, 2020
re: #247 Decatur Deb
He belongs in Fiddler’s Green.
Yeah, he’s not Cav but he earned a stay the hard way.
I can’t even…
There was a reason.
Now, if Arizona or PA gets recalled— Biden/Harris supporters will be emotionally manipulated to the point of rage.
They will prepared to take the election by force.
This is how the bourgeoisie turn the proletariat into their street soldiers.
Socialism 101 https://t.co/gh9n2ayEgY— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) November 7, 2020
re: #251 jaunte
That car should have run them over in self defense. Yes I said it.
re: #194 Nyet
McCain is somewhere else. //
Nyet, Nyet. He rates a couple of thousand years in Purgatory for picking Palin but I think he could get a furlough for this event.
re: #264 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That Susan Collins was reelected tells me that things really haven’t changed much.
The Dems did flip CO and AZ, but in both cases the Republicans in those races had a lot of baggage and their Dem opponents are very likable.
Change comes slow to America.
There were enough GOP voters who were sick of Trump, but not sick enough to punish the GOP for aiding and abetting him. And you can extrapolate out a lot of fundamental problems (ie racism) from that which must be fixed before we can truly move forward.
Trump is gone…but the Republican Party is now forged in his image. Let that sink in.
— Eric Benét (@ebenet) November 7, 2020
re: #273 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Nyet, Nyet. He rates a couple of thousand years in Purgatory for picking Palin but I think he could get a furlough for this event.
The actions and prayers of the righteous on behalf of the dead can help with time off from Purgatory. Cindy’s work qualifies, I’d say.
re: #257 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I don’t need to reach out and try to understand conservatives. I understand their evil movement quite well enough. What we need is to press the advantage until we consign American conservatism to the dustbin of history
This. They’ve been engaged in a culture war for 3 decades. Of course, to marshal troops, they say the left has been waging one. We need to accept that and act accordingly.
Today I started reading the new Carl Hiaasen novel, “Squeeze Me” his latest book since “Razor Girl.”
FFVCS is a major character but due to the literary convention that no sitting American President can be mentioned by name in a work of fiction during his tenure, he is referred to as “Mastodon.”
re: #271 makeitstop
10 lawsuits ago.
I think that was 20 years ago. Trump is the poster child of all the excesses on filing frivolous lawsuits that GOPers love to claim are the reason for tort reform and limiting judgments.
Trump sued his contractors, got sued by contracts who failed to get paid, and otherwise gets all worked up to maximize his profits by denying everyone else their contractual obligations.
Fuck the other half of the country. In the neck. #PresidentElectJoe https://t.co/UnCgMiGsNs
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) November 8, 2020
Biden said he would hit the ground running and he will.
washingtonpost.com
re: #275 steve_davis
FINISH HIM ! ! !
re: #281 PrairieQueen
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And before “snowflakes and stupid libs” it was dirty fucking hippies. This has been going on longer than 5 years. JFC, the media bends over backwards to appease the right in fear of being accused as having a liberal bias.
Sounds like wishful thinking, or maybe hoping to plant it at Fox so Trump will hear it and obey. https://t.co/Of7H7Bzvps
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2020
But also, who knows? It’s also possible that Trump, being the ultimate chickenshit posing as a tough guy, may just fold and go quietly. Especially if he sees his con game isn’t working any more.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2020
I’m waiting to watch the victory speech on MSNBC.
Good chance Charles starts a new thread for it.
LGF NEW THREAD WATCH: ENGAGE
I think Cyndi McCain would be a good choice at the Vatican. She has the manners and graces for it. It is a prestigious, high profile post and would provide some conciliatory vibes for Biden. At the same time, it has almost no power and she could cause only limited trouble if she does revert to fill blown GOPerism.
The inmates at the Vatican will certainly be glad to see the waxen she-devil Gingrich go. They have to live in the world and recognition is not endorsement, but an ambassador from Hell must seem a bit much.
re: #274 thecommodore
There were enough GOP voters who were sick of Trump, but not sick enough to punish the GOP for aiding and abetting him. And you can extrapolate out a lot of fundamental problems (ie racism) from that which must be fixed before we can truly move forward.
mmm…
I’m actually waiting to see what the breakdown of who voters were.
Because this year there were a lot of votes, and will be interesting to see the demography of who flipped, but also who voted for the first time.
And I’m wary of giving credit to Republicans at this moment, honestly, because the minute this was called they are all over social media thirsty for reciprocity.
re: #288 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Whatever can be stuck in the Gingrich craw is good.
re: #284 Teddy’s Person ✌
And before “snowflakes and stupid libs” it was dirty fucking hippies. This has been going on longer than 5 years. JFC, the media bends over backwards to appease the right in fear of being accused as having a liberal bias.
I have listened to people in my circle crow about libs and welfare and welfare queens in Cadillacs and how much libs hate America and “Rush is right” and how Godless babykillers are gonna take away all the gunz for years, not to mention the sketchy racist emails, because my politics don’t align with theirs. Years. I’m the minority. In groups, they act as though this is all scripture, and a given. You’re expected to either agree or endure it.
Never agreed. Endured it. Shoe’s on the other foot now and no, I haven’t forgotten.
re: #259 William Lewis
Oh, I still think offering Concerned Collins a really nice ambassadorship is good - not because she deserves it but we deserve to get her out of the senate!
Only if it’s to Russia, or somewhere equally desirable.
re: #220 PrairieQueen
God apparently was tuned to another channel when the jazz hands and trances for Jesus were going down.
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re: #259 William Lewis
Oh, I still think offering Concerned Collins a really nice ambassadorship is good - not because she deserves it but we deserve to get her out of the senate!
they’re not giving her france. that’s a professional diplomat gig. give her lichtenstein.