Washington Post: TRUMP IMPEACHED pic.twitter.com/5KjWG6vREw
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 19, 2019
Donald J. Trump got the highest number of impeachment votes in history.
— Armando (@ArmandoNDK) December 19, 2019
One of our most precious rights as Americans is the right to determine who our leaders are.
The president abused his powers to cheat in the next election and rob us of that right. Then he obstructed Congress to cover it up.
Impeachment is the only remedy. #DefendOurDemocracy
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) December 18, 2019
It is important to remember that today's historic vote in the House is born out of patriotism and love of country. It is about having the courage to speak truth and pursue justice.
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) December 18, 2019
Donald Trump has abused our diplomatic relationships and undermined our national security for his own personal, political gain. By voting to impeach him, the House has taken an important step to hold him accountable. I'm ready to fulfill my constitutional duty in the Senate.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) December 19, 2019
Steny Hoyer shouts out the 65m who voted for HRC.
FINALLY.
— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (@ECMcLaughlin) December 19, 2019
The look Nancy Pelosi gave her caucus when some Dems started to applaud after she announced the first article of impeachment passed is a look I know well as a fellow mom of five. pic.twitter.com/PWLT5aXqPQ
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 19, 2019
OK. They just did. https://t.co/OBoQw9BJtn
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) December 19, 2019
I’m case you’re we’re wondering what Trump was saying at the exact moment they reached 216 votes for impeachment, it was another insane story about how he thinks stealth fighters are actually invisible. pic.twitter.com/IPlRHinz2m
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) December 19, 2019
I hope Trump never fires whoever wrote this statement. https://t.co/YT53WC79HM
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 19, 2019
Lavocat
Please explain to me how Tulsi Gabbard can continue her campaign to run as the Democratic nominee for president when she can’t bring herself to actually vote on the most important issue of her political lifetime: she voted “present” for both Articles of Impeachment. She has GOT to go. NOW.
Patricia Kayden
Trump impeached himself. He’s finally gotten what he deserves. His name will forever be linked with impeachment and corruption.
Patricia Kayden
Trump got exactly what he deserved. He impeached himself with his corrupt conduct.
Kayla Rudbek
YES! FINALLY! (insert gif of a fist punch)
Baud
Good on Hoyer. Still waiting for one of our current presidential candidates to mention Hillary in a favorable way.
Jerzy Russian
I announced the news to a few 20 something people, and they cheered. I had to explain that there are a few more steps before he is removed, but one step at a time.
Elizabelle
Lara Trump. Lara, Lara, Lara.
Someone needs to redo that graphic, with cows waving at us from all the red areas. Cuz neither cows nor acreage vote.
cain
We finally got to the impeachment part.. but what happens next will be interesting. It is a sad day in our history that we have to impeach this motherfucker. I would have been more pleased if we fucked over McConnell.
dmsilev
TPM: BREAKING: Pelosi Demands Fair Senate Trial, Won’t Appoint Impeachment Managers Yet
(no story up yet, just the headline). So, I guess now we wait for The Turtle to respond.
Yarrow
YES! So glad to hear him do this. The majority of people who voted did NOT vote for Trump.
Jerzy Russian
This occasion calls for a few factorial functions:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Several people on twitter noting trump went extra heavy on the make up tonight
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Elizabelle: just call her Dollar Store Ivanka
dmsilev
@Lavocat: You’re assuming that she’s a serious candidate for the job. I don’t think that really is warranted.
Yarrow
@Lavocat: Because she’s a Russian asset and her job is to disrupt the Democratic primary, peel off votes and generally cause chaos. She’s doing middling well at all that.
dmsilev
Is anyone else getting Newsmax “should Trump be impeached?” ads? There’s part of me that’s tempted to click through and see what sort of push-poll they’re running and to regretfully inform them that the ship has sailed, but …no.
Yarrow
@Baud: Hoyer was the best speaker I saw. Statesmanlike. Measured. Full of good comments like the one above. Very good.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Here’s a poignant editorial cartoon (photo)
Elizabelle
Breathless headlines from the WaPost:
She’s got this.
Butter Emails
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’ll give Trump some credit for this. He worked hard for it and really put in the effort. If he’d invested half this level of effort in his children or his casinos they probably wouldn’t be morally and financially bankrupt today.
mad citizen
Yes, the next step is to phuck over Moscow Mitch, and Nancy is just the person to do it. Hold on the cards, Nancy. Keep investigating.
Still waiting to blow my airhorns until the moment this historical atrocity is gone.
Elizabelle
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
For poignant, I was hoping it was Elijah Cummings, looking down and smiling softly.
Roger Moore
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
The blue dress is a nice touch.
opiejeanne
@Elizabelle: Nor do trees and rocks vote.
Patricia Kayden
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He must of been crying.
Yarrow
Heh. This Trump rally sounds insane:
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Home town front page (photo)
Ken
@dmsilev: @Patricia Kayden: Any thoughts on how would one go about planting an idea among the RWNJs? I want to get them demanding that the Senate allow witnesses to testify so that Trump can defend himself. If we can also get people saying that McConnell is stabbing Trump in the back by not allowing additional testimony, all the better.
Elizabelle
Andy Borowitz, satire in The New Yorker.
dmsilev
@Yarrow: From the Post:
He’s fractally disgusting.
Karen
@cain: What happens next? When the Senate kills it, what’s the next step?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Yarrow:
even some the Deplorables are taken aback
dmsilev
@Ken: Trump supposedly wants witnesses so he can defend himself properly. So, could happen I suppose.
MomSense
@Butter Emails:
He finally achieved something Obama didn’t accomplish.
Bill Arnold
Maybe already linked, but funny:
Fifth response to a realDonaldTrump ALL-CAPS tweet today. Image is a captcha, “Select all squares with An Impeached President”:
Bnad
Let’s make some contributions to Dem house candidates.
Captain C
@Lavocat: She’s a stooge.
Patricia Kayden
WaterGirl
IMPEACHMENT is now in the Category Bar at the top of the site.
Impeachment seems timely (Go Nancy Smash!) so Anne Laurie and I talked yesterday and agreed to move GARDEN CHATS over to Featuring. I will move Garden Chats back to the category bar in the spring.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Bnad: I impulse contributed $50 to three ‘front line’ yes votes the other night. I’d scrape up another hundred for an ActBlue for the rest
Patricia Kayden
@Ken: McConnell will call witnesses if either Trump wants them or at least four Republican Senators demand them. McConnell won’t do that on his own. He’s spineless.
Geoduck
@Yarrow: And some brave protesters managed to get in and unfurl a “You’re fired” banner.
Roger Moore
@Karen:
Use that against the Republican senators in November. That’s really the only thing left to do.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: Why are Open Threads on the top category bar? Open Threads are so completely random and have nothing to do with each other. In fact, most threads get the Open Thread tag. Is that the point? So you can find threads quickly? Seems like something else could go up there.
kindness
I have a digital subscription to the WaPo and boy have I been filling up my Ignore User file with the trolls. They’ve really been out in force. It does make the comments so much easier to read when you wipe away the noise.
BC in Illinois
It’s true.
Andrew Johnson, 126-47
Bill Clinton, 228-206, 221-212
Donald Trump, 230-197, 229-198
Another Scott
@Elizabelle: A little more from RollCall:
Interesting.
I like that Nancy and Schiff and Nadler aren’t just going to let Moscow Mitch hold all the cards going forward.
Cheers,
Scott.
Yarrow
@Patricia Kayden: If Pelosi holds sending the Articles to the Senate it’s going to make Trump lose his mind even more than he already is. He’ll be demanding the chance to testify to clear his name.
Patricia Kayden
@Lavocat:
Ignore her. Tulsi is a DINO. She has zero chances of being our nominee and will probably run as a third party candidate. I don’t see her being harmful to Democrats though. Which Democrats would vote for her?
WaterGirl
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I love that it’s brown. My first thought was “shitstain”.
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: That makes my day.
WaterGirl
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: That would imply that he has a heart, and is not entirely without a soul. I find that seriously hard to believe. But I am evil enough to hope he was crying.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Bnad: Good idea. Now is the time. I was about to send some money to a couple of presidential candidates, but they can wait till next month.
I’m going with:
Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)
Abigail Spanberger (Va.)
Here’s a list of 29 people who voted for Impeachment from a Dump district (list)
dmsilev
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I’ve given money to Spanberger, but not to Slotkin; probably should remedy the latter.
Maybe DougJ or someone could front-page an ActBlue list?
Mike in NC
Will head to the nearest newsstand in a couple of days to buy newspaper and magazine cover souvenirs.
WaterGirl
@Bill Arnold: That is so awesome.
cain
@Karen:
I don’t think it is going to be that simple. The next is thing to do is figure out how to fuck over McConnell. That motherfucker is who I’m gunning for next. The most anti-american, sleeper agent of our life time.
Another Scott
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I’m hoping DougJ! sets up a thermometer for these folks so that we can pool our donations and move up from being an almost top 10,000 blog.
Cheers,
Scott.
mad citizen
@dmsilev: This is a total lie. I don’t know if she called Trump to ask, but according the Arcitect of the Capitol, this is how it works and who grants permission to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda:
“The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol has been considered the most suitable place for the nation to pay final tribute to its most eminent citizens by having their remains lay in state (in the case of government officials and military officers) or in honor (in the case of private citizens). Since 1865, most services have used the catafalque constructed for the coffin of Abraham Lincoln.
These occasions are either authorized by a congressional resolution or approved by the congressional leadership, when permission is granted by survivors. When the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is notified that a ceremony will occur, teams are coordinated across the Capitol campus and a commitment to excellence ensures that no detail is overlooked.”
https://www.aoc.gov/nations-stage/lying-state-honor
The man is deranged, he thinks EVERYTHING revolves around him.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Another Scott: and then the big shots can tweet about it on twitter dot com to spread the word
?BillinGlendaleCA
Trump finally got more votes than a Clinton tonight.
WaterGirl
@Bnad: I thought that was Baud. Are you someone else, or is that a typo?
mad citizen
@mad citizen: And of course I’m not saying “dmsilev” is lying; but that the Trump story from his rally tonight about Debbie Dingell calling him is (a) not how it works; and/or (b) a complete lie by trumpov.
chopper
i just love how right when the vote got over 216 in the house on the first count trump was at a rally literally swearing out loud that coke and pepsi were the same thing.
cain
@Yarrow:
What needs to happen is to start dangling all of that in front of Trump. All comms should be targeted to Trump, ignore everything else. Make him react.. the more unhinged the better. Get him to start making the Republicans uncomfortable.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: Open Threads is a quick and easy way to get to threads that aren’t just one particular thing.
We’ve also got View by Topic, so people have easy access to all the top level categories. So it’s kind of like a puzzle, and there’s plenty of room to move stuff around so that different things are prominent at different times.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: There’s a heart nebula and a soul nebula and they’re right next to each other.
Jeffro
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That is an excellent take and I’ll be passing that along for the next oh several months/as long as necessary – thanks!
Patricia Kayden
Elizabelle
@Another Scott:
Thank you. Good article. The House leaders have thought this out well.
A lot of the Senate Republicans’ premature victory laps are just braying.
Calouste
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Are there any Republicans left who represent a district that voted for Clinton? Or did they all get turfed out last year?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jeffro: Happy to help make holiday family gatherings more festive. ?
Aleta
@WaterGirl: @Al
I Iike that. Garden Chats stands out nicely over there.
(Graceful design feature, this flexibility in form.)
mdblanche
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
This calls for a little crying clown music.
Kattails
@cain: More than happy to entertain any ideas you come up with.
I am in awe of Nancy Pelosi and the Dems who held it all together to move everything to this point, to the whistleblower who handed over the ammunition, to those who testified under oath and kept their cool when faced with the most disgusting, cowardly, schoolyard bullying tactics of the likes of Gaetz, Jordan et al.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: Okay. It just seems kind of odd that Open Threads are at the top. Seems like almost every thread is in the Open Threads category so I’m not sure how that is very distinctive. Maybe people find it useful.
mad citizen
I just read all of Daniel Dale’s rally tweets–what a service he provides. You can read all the crazy, and it is really crazy, a few minutes instead of putting in two hours. I can’t believe there so many just plain stupid people in this nation.
The Dangerman
@WaterGirl:
The Shart Of The Deal
Kay
@Lavocat:
Because it’s not now and never was a real campaign to run for President?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Calouste: good question. I haven’t seen any analysis.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@dmsilev:
Patricia Kayden
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: No they’re not. Trump has said vulgar, cruel things before including telling a grieving, pregnant widow that her military husband knew what he was signing up for. Please!
Bill Arnold
@Kayla Rudbek:
Sorry, no gif, but here’s a female professional tennis player (Mihaela Buzărnescu) doing a real fist pump[1]:
Mihaela Buzarnescu fist pump. That fist is a credible threat.
Here’s POTUS DJT doing a double fake fist pump, such that if he hit anything hard with those hands, they’d break. They flag the person as having near zero h2h fighting skills. (The POTUS does have the Secret Service protecting him.)
[1] PSA: proper fist
WaterGirl
@Aleta: Thanks, I think so, too.
The only rule about what goes where is that we won’t ever move anything that’s associated with a particular person to a less visible spot without communicating first.
But the goal is to feature everything over time and feature prominently whatever is most relevant at any given time. I’ve written to DougJ to see if he thinks it’s a good time for Political Fundraising to hang out in Featuring for awhile. We’ll see what he thinks.
Mike in NC
Jennifer Rubin in tonight’s WaPo: “Trump is impeached and joins the ‘losers’ of presidential history”
Because there is nothing worse in Trumpville than being cast as a ‘loser’. Sad!
Yarrow
@Patricia Kayden: Trump is nothing but projection.
Patricia Kayden
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And he achieved something that President Obama never achieved: a nice impeachment prize that will forever stain his legacy.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: That’s an interesting take. That’s one nice thing about this project – it’s a good reminder of how different we all are, and I think that’s a good thing.
frosty
@Patricia Kayden: Toomey seems to want witnesses. Any other jackals from PA — get on the phone tomorrow!
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: She shows far more dignity and class than he ever could.
WaterGirl
@Patricia Kayden: I LOVE the “click all the presidents who have been impeached” graphic that someone linked to above. I hope Trump sees that.
P.S. There is an awfully nice photo of Obama in there. Someone put some serious thought into which photos to include for each of them.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
bully cower or, to borrow a line from Tony Soprano, he’s getting so senile he forgot who he hates. Dale said he talked about 2016 a lot more than usual
?BillinGlendaleCA
Trump is the first Republican President to be impeached(though a few others deserved it).
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: Next time there’s something to put up there and I feel like there’s nothing we can take out, I may just have to give Open Threads a look, and see if there is an uproar.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: Can you explain the difference between the Category Bar and Featuring? My take is that the Category bar is supposed to be sort of a “quick links” to find categories like Adam’s posts on security or David’s on Healthcare or that kind of thing. Featuring could be seasonal topics and topics that become important for some reason. Am I even close to your intent?
Ilieitz
@dmsilev: what has John Robert’s have to say about the Senate trial. I’m sure h re doesn’t want to oversee a sham trial
cain
@Kattails:
I’m very interested in pitting myself against these assholes Republicans.
BBA
@Ilieitz: Why not? He already oversees a sham court.
Bnad
@WaterGirl: No relation.
Yarrow
MAGA Haberman was on CNN and said if Dems delay sending the Articles to the Senate that it’ll look bad for them. That Dems were all “we have to impeach him quickly because he’s a national emergency” but they worked with him on the trade deal so how bad can he be? And now if they drag their feet sending the articles voters are too stupid to understand what’s going on and it’ll backfire on Dems.
So that’s your preview of her column and the Republican talking points from the concern troll perspective.
Mr. Kite
Pelosi laying out a marker is significant. She just raised the pressure on Moscow Mitch and Impeached-1. Put the spotlight on Senate Republicans, they really hate it when they can’t control it.
This was a pleasant surprise.
Dadadadadadada
@Karen: Nothing prevents the House from re-impeaching him for any of the other numerous crimes he’s committed.
Bruce K
Woke up crazy early to catch an airplane, saw the news. I feel like a grieving parent learning that the man who killed my beloved child has finally been arrested.
PJ
@Ilieitz: What Roberts will do will be interesting. I can’t imagine that he gives a shit about Trump or even the GOP in its current state. So there is little downside to him for pressing back against McConnell and allowing, or even requiring (with a subpoena) Pompeo et al. to testify, and doing whatever is in his power to make it seem like a fair trial. Particularly when there’s no chance that Republicans actually vote to remove Trump. There is, of course, downside to the Republican Senators whose seats are up next year, when their vote in the trial will be hung around their necks as Trump continues to melt down, but I don’t know how much Roberts will care about that, if at all.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow:
Kind of. The category bar is intended to give quick and easy access to those things and also give people (who might be new) a quick view into who we are.
Featuring is a way of shining a spotlight on things we talk about here that you might not know about if you haven’t happened upon, say, an artist’s chatting post on a sunday afternoon.
It’s also for things that are timely. So David Anderson is in there during ACA enrollment and when he may have just published a paper. The rest of the time you can find him under view by Topic.
Silverman on security may be in Featuring when things are especially tricky in world affairs, and when he’s not in Featuring then he can be found in View by Topic.
But after something being in Featuring, you’ll know about it and if you have an interest, you can find it elsewhere.
Also, category bar items are always one of the 32 top-level categories for the whole site, and Featuring can have a subcategory of a subcategory of a subcategory, if we want. Like duck blogging, which is not a top-level category but which can go in Featuring.
I don’t know if that helps or not, but I hope so!
frosty
@WaterGirl:
I read every word on this blog (FSM help me!) so change it up however you want, it won’t have any effect.
(Is there a 12-step BJ program?)
PS Comments it text box, not visual box, first time for me.
WaterGirl
@frosty: Yeah, I got that today, too. I have asked for a phone call with the developers either on Thursday or on Friday so we can go over the remaining issues and come up with a game plan.
I really hope to get the remaining issues resolved soon. We rolled out 5 weeks ago today!
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: Sent you an e-mail. On the Road is borked.
WaterGirl
@Bnad: My eyes keep moving the a over and turning the n upside down to make it Baud! You may get a lot of that, so if people seem overly familiar with you, you’ll know why. :-)
frosty
@WaterGirl:
The remaining issues are but a trifle compared to what you, the other Jackals, and the developers have fixed with this rollout. Kudos to all and thanks for being the face of the update for us all.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: Dems should do whatever is best strategically, and if they won’t move forward until the Turtle is wiling to have an actual trial with, you, witnesses, then Trump can stew about it or insist on witness who will defend him.
Fuck the media and anyone who wants to pretend this is a “both sides” thing. That’s the good part about “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” – that’s when you have the luxury of doing whatever you think is right.
WaterGirl
@frosty: Thank you so much for that!
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Rut roh! off to check email.
chris
A moment of levity, nothing to do with the momentous events of the day. I’m still thinking about those.
mrmoshpotato
@Butter Emails: And if Dump’s father invested half the effort in him, he might not be a Soviet shitpile mobster conman carnival barker.
Haha, I kid, Fred was a mob-owned pile of shit too.
Bill Arnold
@Yarrow
Oh my. [checks notes. reasons.]
Is there audio or a video yet of the crowd shouting “TOILETS!”?
Repatriated
@frosty:
Yes. It’s under the “Open Thread” category. :)
(Actually, it isn’t.)
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: Yes, that’s helpful. Thank you. There are a lot of new features on the blog now that I don’t even look at. Like the View By Topic link. Vaguely knew it was there but had forgotten all about it.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: I added your problem with the On the Road form to the To Do list for the developers. I’ll follow up in the morning.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Bill Arnold:
My God.
Do they listen to him? I just… My God
(Brian Williams just referred to the Republican speeches today as “talking points translated from the original Russian”)
Yarrow
@Bill Arnold: I don’t know but that would be hilarious.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: I know! I was so excited about the good stuff in the sidebar and it seems like no one pays any attention to it. I figure maybe with time…
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: Thanks.
cain
@Yarrow:
We can safely ignore her. The primarliy supporter of the disastrous Iraq war.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: I trust Nancy Pelosi to make the best possible decision and think strategically and wisely about what’s best for the country and the Democrats (same thing at this point).
dmsilev
@Bill Arnold: So he’s literally full of shit?
NotMax
Would like to take the occasion to apologize (once again) on behalf of the HI 2nd district for Tulsi Gabbard. Mugwump is much too kind a word for her today.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: Me, too!
Yarrow
@frosty: @WaterGirl: Yes, WaterGirl you are unfailingly patient, polite and helpful with people as they struggle with issues with the new site. I appreciate your efforts in remaking the blog and your ongoing willingness to be the face of the developer team so we have someone to ask questions of. You make every effort to answer our questions and address our issues and it’s much appreciated.
mrmoshpotato
@Patricia Kayden: It’s not the spinelessness; it’s that McConnell is a turtle-faced, fascist sack of shit who doesn’t believe in the United States Constitution.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t think they listen. His supporters are like a mob that turns into a lynch mob. They truly are deplorable.
Repatriated
@NotMax:
There’s a good word that doesn’t get enough use. Haven’t heard anyone say “mugwump” in decades!
NotMax
@Yarrow
Yuppers. Free floating attempts at getting ahead of Speaker Pelosi are (especially at this point) really bad fan fiction.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato:
You should nominate that as a rotating tag. Seriously. Soon, I’ll be sending John a list of the tags that have been nominated so far. I can’t believe there have only been 17 nominated so far.
Joseph A Miller
@Patricia Kayden: He’s not spineless. He’s evil, down to the subatomic level.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mrmoshpotato:
totally ruthless and totally self-interested
I’m not saying it will happen, I’d bet it almost certainly won’t, but if trump were to put McConnell’s place as Majority Leader in jeopardy McConnell will turn on trump in the blink of an eye. trump will never lose the 27%ers, but if McConnell were to let Susan Collins and a couple other pretend to grow a spine and make demands, and MM pretends to have no choice, the Turtle could make like very difficult for trump.
Bill Arnold
@Ken:
Low end, make an alt gmail email account (2fa at least, because if you’re good it will get attacked) and sign up with a nym on rwnj web sites with comment sections and have a go. You’ll have to decide whether you want to be you or a fake persona or just lightly disguised. It’s important to thoroughly understand their memetic landscape, without going insane.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@NotMax: I saw something on twitter the other day that Tim Ryan has admitted he was wrong about Pelosi. He should’ve asked me, I could’ve told him.
Yarrow
@WaterGirl: I really like having Recent Comments back. They do seem to be very lagging from time to time. Still, it’s a nice way to see what threads are active. I have gone hunting for the Amazon link since it’s gift shopping season, so I’ve used that. And I’ve kept an eye on John’s Twitter feed.
As for the new sections, I like Posts section and having the three options for viewing posts. I used the Author one a week or so ago to find something. The Featuring one kind of baffles me. I don’t remember to go there and when I do I’m a little unsure of the category. The Calling All Jackals makes more sense to me because it’s sort of activities around being a regular or contributing commenter: meetups, photo submissions, nominating a rotating tag, etc.
I’d guess the right column gets used more than you think. Maybe just not in exactly the ways you envisioned.
frosty
@WaterGirl:
Buncha slacker jackals. This was my favorite part of the rollout. Although I think you’ve only got one from me. :-)
PS and visual is back!
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: I would’ve gone with “Soviet shitpile” but you know me. ?
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I think of the front page posts as the front door to the site and think of most everything else as windows into the various rooms and cubbyholes.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: found it
WaterGirl
@frosty: The “thank you for submitting your tag” on-screen message was one of my favorite things, and not a single person has noticed it. Or maybe they did notice it and didn’t find it worth mentioning. :-)
That’s okay. I enjoyed all the little details like that, and the 404 error page, and finding fun images for the pie filter. And of course, CatCake, whom I adore.
Heading for bed, see you guys on the other side. What a relief to have this day behind us.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: At least he finally got there. Most of us got there a decade ago.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: How many characters can a rotating tag be?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Yarrow:
I hate though that the edit button disappears everytime I navigate away from the webpage. But that still doesn’t outweigh having nym and email saved
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: There’s not an absolute limit, and that one is kind of long, but I think it could work – it’s all about the space, and if they are too long they don’t look good in the header.
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Well, hopefully that’s not an either/or thing. The bugs we are seeing should be fixable.
‘Night!
sdhays
@Mr. Kite: I love how she framed it as needing to see what the process is going to be in the Senate before appointing impeachment managers. That way it’s not that she’s withholding anything, she’s just waiting for the Senate to set the terms of the next steps so that she can make an informed decision.
She’s in her element. No wonder Dump fears her.
Yarrow
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The Edit bar is a mystery. Sometimes it’s there; sometimes it’s not. Sometimes a refresh will magically make it appear. Other times refreshing does nothing to make it show up.
The commenting tabs appear and disappear as well. I prefer typing in the Text tab but it’s an extra click and I forget so I just start typing before I realize I’m in Visual. Today the tabs were gone and Text was the default option. Fine with me since I prefer it. However, I went to post a tweet and didn’t realize the tabs were back since they’d been gone all day. I was in Visual and it posted the code instead of making the tweet look normal. Ugh. Fortunately the Edit bar was available but that kind of thing catches me out every time.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
My esteemed Representative. Gag.
I’m not sure where that map that Laura Trump posted on Twitter came from, but assuming it’s from 2016, I can make out my county and it was blue, if only barely.
Of course, that doesn’t matter since the majority of the country lives in those blue areas. And even if she was trying for an EC argument, only it would take is the right amount of Dem votes in the right places to win
Yarrow
@sdhays: Agree. It makes her look sensible and smart. She’s owning this whole process to the very best of her ability. She’s amazing.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Nominated. (Feels wrong to nominate myself. ?)
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well no Real Man would use a dishwasher. Duh.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m starting to wonder why Daniel Dale subjects himself to this.
This. Shit. Is. Bonkers! (and that’s giving it the Dump grading curve!)
phdesmond
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
i’m stealing it too — thanks!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Well, that sounds like it’s going well. He sometimes sounds like a schizophrenic. And I suppose his brain dead cultists just nod along
SiubhanDuinne
Hahahahaha! Colbert just showed a particularly droopy photo of Mitch McConnell and said he looks like a “clinically-depressed scrotum.” That is Betty Cracker levels of perfection.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@WaterGirl:
That’s good to hear. Thanks for all of your work on the site rebuild.
@Yarrow:
Yeah, it’s weird that it sometimes switches to the text tags and then the visual. I don’t mind either one myself
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh that’s going to be fun to watch tomorrow morning.
SiubhanDuinne
@mrmoshpotato:
I love his monologues. They’re consistently funny and clever. High-quality writing and exquisite comic timing.
mrmoshpotato
Why did Yoda just pop into my head?
“Motherfucker impeached we did!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
jonas
Even as we impeach Trump’s ass for his attempted extortion of Ukraine, let’s not lose sight of more ongoing criming: corrupt AF Ukrainian oligarchs seeking to weasel out of legal jeopardy in US courts are openly bribing Trump (via his consigliere Giuliani) with baseless accusations against Biden to get themselves off the hook. This is fucking unreal. And what’s doubly hilarious/ironic is that people who for the past two years have been scolding everyone who would listen about how totally illegitimate and unfair it was to pay any attention to the “totally unverified” Steele dossier are now running around with a sheet completely debunked accusations about the Bidens supplied by sketchy eastern European sources saying this is ironclad proof Joe Biden was actually running a vast global criminal empire by night while pretending to be VP by day.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: W. T. A. F?
TS (the original)
Only just caught up with the press conference – via the late Rachel show. Speaker Pelosi didn’t let the talking heads yelling questions get away with putting words in her mouth – no way which way. She is good. She is very good & so very very close to excellent.
Amir Khalid
@frosty:
I’ve been commenting here for a decade or thereabouts, and I’ve only just nominated one myself.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
There is. Always. A tweet. Failson edition.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Win!
Bill Arnold
@mrmoshpotato:
Do a serenity meditation and then read the thread. Somehow Daniel Dale watches these without taking sanity damage.
Mary G
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hate to be cynical, but all I can think of is that he probably got an internal poll in showing that bitching about Nancy makes him very vulnerable to a primary. Still, always nice when a man admits error. Good for him.
Calouste
@sdhays: It also forces McConnell to do something, something constructive. That’s not where his natural talents lie (the man is a nihilist), so he’ll probably screw it up to a certain extent.
Mary G
If you refuse to give Rick Wilson a click, the image is a picture of John McCain with the caption “I like guys who weren’t impeached.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Bill Arnold:
We don’t know that. It could take years for the damage to manifest.
sab
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It’s not schizophrenia (I had a schizophrenic sister-in-law.) She was a lovely girl despite the madness.
Trump is narcissistic personality disorder ( NOTHING is lovely about them) combined with senile dementia.
Not all mental illness is the same.
Yarrow
@Calouste: I also liked that the newspundits were all like, “Wow, we didn’t really expect that” when Nancy wouldn’t commit to sending the articles to the Senate right away. It was kind of funny to see them caught off guard. One minute they were all, “So the articles will go to the Senate now” and the next they were all, “Uhhh…”
Ilefttxwhenannlost
@BC in Illinois: so bigly
rikyrah
Thank you, Democrats???
rikyrah
@Patricia Kayden:
truth ??
Yarrow
So, we know the Republicans are corrupt. Wouldn’t this be a good time for some juicy dirt on high level Republicans or the GOP in general to drop. You know, just after the House Dems have entered their full support for Trump and his crimes into the Congressional record but before the articles get to the Senate.
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: That clip has been uploaded on Colbert’s channel. Moscow Mitch is a scrotal sack.
rikyrah
They fired the NEW Ambassador to Ukraine??
mrmoshpotato
@Bill Arnold: And I don’t know how he does it. Back to my horror movie documentary.
Yarrow
@rikyrah: Yep.
rikyrah
The Impeachment Theme Song?????
https://youtu.be/9G8c2jO_oT0
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@rikyrah:
@Yarrow:
Acting Ambassador Bill Taylor, right? This is transparent retaliation and shouldn’t be allowed. Taylor was acting in good faith and should be protected.
Being the third president to be impeached must be eating Trump alive
Mary G
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: After Charlottesville:
Misterpuff
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Its a metaphor.
sab
@sab: Narcississts are B cluster. They do not have or understand empathy. This is who they are. They do not care about anyone but themselves, and themselves is not an actual person. It is just a quivering pile of insecurities. These are horrible people.
B cluster borderline are difficult to deal with but actual people with promise. The rest of B cluster should be shot like raabid dogs. They are that toxic.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@sab:
I remember reading while taking my psych nursing course this fall that in antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy), at least, symptoms tend to subside after age 40
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@sab:
I don’t think that all mental illness is the same. It’s just that his speech patterns are sometimes disordered and remind me of how some people with schizophrenia speak. I didn’t mean any offense
Jay
It’s late, but if you are bored, the MAGATs and Trolls are out in force making death threats, a few clicks can get them banned.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
It never ceases to amaze me that losers like that will make public death threats that can be traced to them. The Secret Service is going to be working overtime I’m sure
Jay
Night all, it was a great day.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jay:
Good night!
Sister Golden Bear
I’ve been enjoying a nice bottle of champagne and a celebratory edible. Because California.
smike
@SiubhanDuinne:
clicked.
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): In Kathy Griffin’s A Hell of a Story, she recounts people sending her death threats with their real return addresses.
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
Yes. yes he is.
Absolutely so full of shit that he breaks all the shit-O-meters within 100 miles of his presence.
Aleta
He’s got a dark conspiracy theory/campaign theme up on his twitter. Is this kind of thing what Bannon does?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@mrmoshpotato:
Fucking lol, that I didn’t know. A envelope doesn’t even need a return address!
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Yup. FBI agents loved those threats.
joel hanes
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
The Secret Service is going to be working overtime I’m sure
I’ve sometimes wondered what it must have been like to buffer the Obamas from the right wing. I don’t remember seeing anything about any threats and attempted assaults, but I’m kinda thinking there must have been …
a few
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
@joel hanes there was actually quite a lot of news about threats against the Obamas. In fact secret service reported that threats against President Obama were up something like 400% from previous presidents.
prostratedragon
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Is that ever too much information!
prostratedragon
@rikyrah:
Needs more verses!
(Of course, since this was two years ago he might have written a whole operatic cycle by now.)
Amir Khalid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I don’t quite understand the dig at Tom Cruise. Did Cruise say something lately to disturb the serenity of His Orangeness?
Martin
Pelosi’s ‘knock it off’ move was wonderful. John Bercow has nothing on her.
Martin
@Amir Khalid: I think Trump believes that Tom Cruise is so ugly that he makes the plane visible in the Top Gun trailer.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: Wait, Tom Cruise was on my street New Years Day 2018?
J R in WV
I read Daniel Dale’s report of Trump’s Rally in Battle Creek, MI last evening. More deranged than usual, it appeared. Maybe totally deranged. Maybe something is bothering Trump? What could it be>?
Zinsky
@kindness:
I’m sure the Russian trolls are working overtime at the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, concocting fairy tales about how Trump was “railroaded” and impeachment is a “coup” (actually Mike Pence would become president) to help ensure the FoxNews and Breitbart minions continue to prop up this loathsome geriatric criminal.
WaterGirl
@Martin: I know! That gesture with her hand was a thing of beauty! Yutsano is right, her nana skills come in very handy in the House.
tam1MI
@J R in WV: The scads of demonstrators outside his little itty-bitty venue?