A friend from college sent me this, and while it hurts too much to be all the way funny, I have to confess, dear reader…
I laughed:
I’ve got a longer post cooking about the fact that the GOP is the New Shimmer of politics: both the party of treason, and one that ideologically and intellectually can’t actually do government in the 21st. c. world. But that’ll have to wait until I get my syllabi done and/or another front-pager does it sooner, briefer and better than I would.
In the meantime, this is the thread in which to let the full Jackaltariat gift for snark, mean humor, pitiless ridicule and everything else delicious, rain down on the enemies of the Republic.
Yutsano
It’s Friday.
Way too much fucking history is happening at once.
Anyone else want to just cocoon until they get their vaccine?
CROAKER
This set is lacking. Deeply disappointed.
Wolf-viking-man is missing his animal hide jacket.
Besides legos are for kids. We need 4″ black collector series figures replete with stat cards.
Nicole
That Lego set is hilarious. How did Angry Black Lady describe the guy with the horns? “Shirtless Jugaloo Daniel Boone” I think? I’ve been giggling ever since.
cain
For those who want a good Nancy SMASH meme – I give you this:
https://twitter.com/BLMIrishMan/status/1347670525800308738
HinTN
@Yutsano: Yes, but na ga happen.
cain
I’m hoping for a good Adam thread on the security issues and all the bits happening with the military. Maybe one from Cheryl as well!
Baud
@cain: Heh.
Elizabelle
Missing flags! Where is the Confederate (“You’re not the boss of me!”) flag? Where is Blue Lives Matter?
But, clever.
Ken
I can’t work under this kind of pressure.
Urza
@cain: Gonna bet Adam is rather busy right now.
Martin
I question the integrity of the clinical trials that produced that age rating in such a short period of time. Did they really give that set to a fully representative panel of 5 year olds demonstrating that they achieved no better results than a control group? Since Wednesday? I don’t buy it. Stop rushing the process for political aims! Trust the science!
Ken
The second kit has it, and also the body of the dead cop.
dmsilev
@cain: I saw that earlier today. Bravo to whoever made it.
Sad news: Ben ‘homoerotic Trump fantasies’ Garrison has been banned from Twitter. No word yet about Jon McNaughton.
sab
I have Scottish ancestry and I saw the Braveheart posters and I said ” I am not seeing that movie.” William Wallace died in 1305. Woad facepaint was around the Roman invasion, circa 300. Kilts weren’t until th 1590s.
Nothing about that movie was historically accurate except his name and the dates. Mel Gibson’s accent is the least of their problems.
Martin
@Ken: Yeah, I just met with my boss and had to explain “look, this is my first revolution, my anxiety is crippling and I’m having trouble focusing”
dr. bloor
@CROAKER:
I can assure you that my Apollo 13 scale model complete with LEM is not for children, nor is the language or alcohol consumption associated with its assembly.
realbtl
Roman Hruska, prophet of the Republican party, 1970 Re: Carswell nomination.
“So what if he is mediocre? There are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they? We can’t have all Brandeises, Cardozos, and Frankfurters and stuff like that there.”
Roger Moore
I want the deluxe set that includes a woman with a Gadsden flag and footprints on her back.
Elizabelle
@cain: That’s great.
And so is ABL’s “Shirtless Jugaloo Daniel Boone.” Y’All Qaeda. Vanilla ISIS.
We have better disses. All they can scream is “Socialism!” and “Nancy Pelosi.”
Roger Moore
@Yutsano:
I’m getting my first dose Sunday. I’d like to cocoon until at least 2 weeks after my second dose.
debbie
I admit to laughing.
Mary G
I read this as the consensus coming around to mythologize their new savior for 2024, but Pence has the personality of a tape dispenser, and all his Democratic opponent would have to do is show a clip of Twitler saying something stupid like the bleach and UV in the body followed by a clip of Pence talking about “his great leadership,”
Martin
@Ken: How about the guy who died tazing himself in the balls while stealing a painting?
dmsilev
@Martin: If my niece and nephew are at all typical, brand-new LEGO sets will get torn into in a matter of minutes. I think there was adequate time for studies. My question though is how did anyone manage to convince an IRB to sign off on potential child abuse.
Mary G
@CROAKER: Funko Pop!
Shana
“Shimmer” always appreciate an old school SNL reference.
dr. bloor
@Roger Moore:
This is the content we’re here for.
CROAKER
The next edition of Games Workshop’s game of terrifying, chaotic despair and sudden violence will be set in Washington DC just after one of the President’s speeches, the company has confirmed.
The game, which features pitched battles between bizarre agents of chaos and authoritarian bully-boys is a ‘perfect fit’ for the setting
“Regular players needn’t worry too much about the changes,” a Games Workshop spokesman told us.
https://newsthump.com/2021/01/07/new-edition-of-warhammer-to-be-set-in-washington-dc/
Geminid
@realbtl: Mediocre people are always at their best.
gwangung
Hokay….toy related item. A casual friend of mine co-wrote a Disney movie, and apparently they are going to have their own Funko Pops line.
debbie
@Yutsano:
I want to rip faces off. I am angrier than I am scared.
bluefoot
I got a nice reply from Senator Markey’s office in response to my email of yesterday re accountability and impeachment. The reply said, amongst other things,
“The insurrection that took place on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 was an assault on our democracy. President Trump fomented and promoted it with lies and conspiracy theories about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. He bears responsibility for the attempted coup and defiling of the Capitol. President Trump should be removed from office immediately, whether by impeachment that can also bar him from holding office again, or through the process for removal by the Vice President and Cabinet under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
I am deeply saddened and outraged by this attack on our democracy and the culmination of four years of disregard for our Constitution and its principles. There must be accountability and justice. Those who committed these acts of sedition and domestic terrorism must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must also investigate the failures of law enforcement that allowed this attack to happen and take the steps necessary to ensure that it is never repeated.”
I am happy and proud to have supported Senator Markey both in the recent primary and in the general election.
Roger Moore
@dr. bloor:
My set of Lego mass spectrometers agrees with you. They were a huge hit when one of the manufacturers gave them away at a conference, and the Lego artist making a life-sized Lego mass spec was, if anything, even more popular. Apparently it was the engineers who insisted that a Lego theme would be popular over the objections of the marketing people. Score one for the engineers.
Cheryl Rofer
Ken
Ah, I was wondering how the mob was getting its marching orders. So obvious in retrospect.
Ruff the Dog
Them’s some good articles o’ impeachmentism, though. The GOP could get them on a speak and spell and still get it through committee in an hour.
Martin
@dmsilev: I’m assuming the Danes have different IRB standards. I mean, they have that cartoon about the guy with the really long penis.
Cheryl Rofer
From the man who knows
debbie
@Mary G:
I just love that Biden said publicly that Trump was not welcome at the Inauguration. ❤️
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer:
A new tweet, or the old ones?
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Almost???
Mary G
“You can’t fire me! I’m quitting to help Q in the quest”
Cheryl Rofer
Meanwhile,
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
I’ve been drowning at work. I heard they gave him back his account. Did he start up again with his b.s.?
Ken
@Cheryl Rofer: O the humanity.
I assume they archived all his tweets? IIRC there was a legal ruling a couple of years ago on them, and they are official government communications. Also they might be needed as evidence.
Martin
@debbie: I’m furious as well. If I were Biden, I’d give a national address, promise a pardon to the first person who can shoot Trump in the head since our system of checks and balances has completely failed, and then after signing that on 1/20, resign and hand the keys to Kamala.
JCJ
My daughter just sent me a joke:
Q: What is the difference between the US Capitol and Mordor?
A: One does not simply walk into Mordor.
Cheryl Rofer
@Baud: Just happened. Twitter has been clearing out a lot of Q accounts today, and I guess they got to the point where it seemed ridiculous not to clear that one out too.
SiubhanDuinne
Twitter has permanently banned Trump!
Comrade Colette
@Mary G:
FTFY.
debbie
@Mary G:
But she was just storming the Capitol!!!
Just Some Fuckhead
I’m prolly gonna weep the first time Kamala Harris casts the tie-breaking vote in the Senate.
dmsilev
@Cheryl Rofer: Should have happened years ago, but better late than never I guess.
MisterForkbeard
@Cheryl Rofer: Amazing that they didn’t do this review 5 years ago. Or any time inbetween.
It’s not like it’s gotten demonstrably worse.
Roger Moore
@Cheryl Rofer:
A dayFive years late anda dollarseveral trillion dollars short.Ken
I have to assume he wasn’t using a fake name. And, um…. does the timestamp count?
Gin & Tonic
@dr. bloor: The Apollo LEM wasn’t that bad. Try building the transmission on the Bugatti Chiron.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Martin: So much this.
debbie
@Martin:
I’d be happy with Leticia James showing up on his doorway (wherever he is) on 1/20. Other than Russia, Brazil, and maybe a couple other countries (shitholes, actually), we’d be able to extradite him.
CROAKER
Stop Talking about The TWEETER we need to focus on nerd stuff like playing with Legos, Action Figures, Wargames, etc
Martin
@debbie: Not exactly. He threw out I believe one tweet that was ranting about how great he is.
Baud
@Martin:
The biggest lie of all.
Ken
Oooh… Think we could persuade Billy Crystal and Carol Kane to re-record that scene? Actually all we need is Billy saying “Have fun storming the capitol,” the rest of the lines work and there’d be no problem syncing the new audio with the video.
Just Some Fuckhead
@SiubhanDuinne: Woulda liked to have seen an apology for letting the bull have four years in the china shop.
Lacuna Synechdoche
@Cheryl Rofer:
Thereby proving that even Twitter has more respect for the rule of law than Congressional Republicans.
Gravenstone
Have you priced some large Lego sets lately?
Anya
@Cheryl Rofer: This will kill him. It signifies his loss of power. NO one is scarred of him anymore. He is nothing. And he has lost his platform. Let’s hope reporters don’t follow him into righwing twitter.
cain
@SiubhanDuinne:
At last!!!!
Tom Levenson
@Cheryl Rofer: @Cheryl Rofer: So Trump can move to Parler just as it starts its death spiral?
I’m good with that.
debbie
@Mary G:
I’m listening to NYT’s podcast The Daily (it’s on my NPR station), and they’re reporting that the terrorists were specifically trying to hunt down Pence. Good god.
That would explain the Republicans’ post-riot anger.
Martin
@Cheryl Rofer: What’s the point? Nobody can implement a moderation plan in 24 hours. Just kick them.
Luciamia
@Mary G: I always see him as depicted I Tom Tomorrow’s cartoons. (“Must keep smiling”)
Tom Levenson
@Martin: Process. Which I actually think is the right way to do this.
Cheryl Rofer
Gin & Tonic
@Mary G: I’m actually feeling almost sorry for this poor, deluded woman, throwing her life away for something that started as a joke.
cain
@Anya:
The thing is.. will Facebook also follow? Parler will be his only refuge for attention.
Baud
I’m not ashamed that I’ve developed a bit of a mancrush for Michael Beschloss.
Martin
@Tom Levenson: One of Apple’s charms is that they normally just cut to the chase. But yeah, maybe this token move is prudent.
Roger Moore
@debbie:
Twitter apparently interpreted a series of tweets as targeting the inauguration for another coup attempt.
Martin
@Baud: Same. He’s pretty good at subtweeting on Twitter.
mali muso
@Nicole: One of my favorite nicknames for fur coat guy is coined by John Scalzi.
Naziroquai
lamh36
I know I’m harping on it, but oh well, but a whole lotta folks owe Kamala Harris
SEPTEMBER 2019!!!! #KamalaWasRight
Imagine the lives that could have been saved if he azz didn’t have such easy access to spew his shit. Yes he just woulda went to Fox News, but he also would have video footage of EVERYTHING that came out his mouth and not be able to hide behind an aide tweeting for him.
So it’s off Twitter, FB and Instagram.
oooh… Per CNN…Apple threatening to take Parler from it’s App store!!!!
Lacuna Synechdoche
@Martin:
Most of the north and central European countries have far more relaxed media standards with respect to depictions of, and references to, sexuality than we do. Conversely, they also tend to be stricter about depictions of violence.
That’s probably true for the rest of Europe too, but I’m not as familiar with those countries, so can’t say for sure.
Mary G
Twitter is a business who knows the Democrats have been itching to regulate them, so they piss off Republicans to want to join in. The resulting acrimony and squabbling over details of how to do it will let them continue on their merry way unmolested.
NotMax
“…And may all your pissed masses be white.”
//³
CROAKER
@Gravenstone: No but I did receive a baby yoda that needs to be assembled.
Baud
Without twitter, Trump won’t be able to fire anyone in his cabinet.
Ken
@Baud: They’re all resigning anyway.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Baud: Right? I saw him on tv yesterday and he just piled on Trump, calling him an incredible series of derogatory names.
DropKicker1
@Cheryl Rofer:
Obvious 1st Amendment problems here. Donlad should call J Hawley immediately. I’m sure he’ll add it to his Simon/Shuster pending suit immediately, pro bono
Gravenstone
@debbie: In less than 24 hours of his hostage tape he was back to full delusional tweeting. Nothing learned, as if that were even possible.
Baud
Will Trump switch to @POTUS?
dr. bloor
@Gin & Tonic: I might be capable of figuring out where to put the wheels on that thing.
Alison Rose
@Mary G:
LOL these people still don’t realize Trump is a sociopath who literally does not even understand how or why to care about another human being? Barron could have been in the Capitol that day and Trump wouldn’t have given a single damn.
Lacuna Synechdoche
@JCJ:
THAT is a GREAT joke. Thanks, needed the laugh.
CROAKER
NotMax
@Baud
Rest easier, scribblers. The run on exclamation points has now ended and they are once again available in any quantity.
:)
dr. bloor
@Tom Levenson: Yep. Parler’s entire business model is “no moderation.” Apple can slow walk this one.
debbie
@Roger Moore:
Good god.
zhena gogolia
@MisterForkbeard:
They had to wait until people literally got killed.
Mary G
Twitter jail may hurt worse than real jail.
Mary G
Benw
Fuck it, I LOLed at the Lego set. Thanks, Tom
Lacuna Synechdoche
@CROAKER:
We are multi-taskers. We can mock and stew chum at same time.
Comrade Colette
@lamh36:
No lie told, and also, I wonder how long before Twitter has to suspend Scavino, Jr., and all the other traitor tots.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G:
First time I saw the Stanford band’s halftime show, the theme was “Salute to Office Supplies”. Yes, they did form a tape dispenser.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@gwangung: Sweet! How very cool.
matt the semi-reasonable
That’s about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Well done.
Ascap_scab
Apple store yanking Parlor App.
https://www.imore.com/apple-may-pull-parlor-conservative-social-app-app-store
NotMax
Gee, maybe one of Dolt 45’s lawyers will file suit for copyfarright infringement.
//
Gravenstone
@Baud: I wonder if he even knows he has that account for the time being?
Alison Rose
@CROAKER: I just got and immediately assembled the Baby Yoda and Mandalorian ones, and they are wonderful. I am an admitted Fake Geek Girl™ who doesn’t give a shit about Star Wars, only ever saw the first three movies (chronologically, I mean) one time each, only liked them for the Ewoks and Princess Leia’s cinnamon-bun hair………..and I have like ten Baby Yoda items. I HAVE NO SHAME.
I’ve also watch this video more times than I could count.
catatonia
Joy R: Twitter perma-barring Trump is “taking away his Precious.”
That’s a keeper
Cheryl Rofer
This may be erroneous. I am seeing his account (later edit)
scav
So, now they’re suddenly objecting when their holy potus guns down people in the street? Pence and four of his biggest fans are the bright line? Aren’t there about 365K (and counting) former people that might just want to have a word or two with these moralists?
zhena gogolia
Feathers
@sab: I worked at a video store when Braveheart came out. We had to put a big sticker on it and worn customers about it. Too many people just thought Oscar winning period film and didn’t realize how violent and bloody it was going to be. My spiel was that the battle scenes had more gore than a lot of horror movies. Mel Gibson is one sick fuck.
Calouste
@cain: The shitgibbon is suspended from Facebook indefinitely, but at least until after the inauguration. I.e. they might review in two weeks if they’re going to let him in, but not guaranteed at all that he will be allowed back.
Noskilz
The lego thing is very amusing, but it’s very understandable a certain too-sooness also hangs in the background.
This comedy video is also fairly amusing: “I can’t believe my grandma stormed the capitol”
matt the semi-reasonable
@JCJ: good joke!
JanieM
@Cheryl Rofer: This tweet and the link inside it say I have to log into Twitter to see it. Care to give a headline to those of us to don’t have a Twitter account?
Martin
@Mary G: I think we’re about to run that test for real.
Feathers
Someone captioned the picture of the cosplay warriors as the shittiest production of Les Miz ever.
Also: https://twitter.com/andizeisler/status/1347370353790631938?s=20
scav
Quick! Tell him the latest software update means tweeting now requires the cutting edge technologies of a “sharpie” and “yellow stickie”!
Quinerly
@Baud: I have a crush on his den/library.
Ken
He does keep accumulating firsts, doesn’t he? It’s looking very much like he’ll be the first President (first anything, really) to be impeached twice, and may become the first President to be removed from office by impeachment – though I doubt it, if only because of the tight schedule. Has anyone ever been barred from public office for life?
Kent
Pence chose to hitch his wagon to Trump in 2016. He knew exactly what he was doing. His only “mistake” was in thinking that he could steer the beast.
Fuck all of them
RSA
@Mary G: The follow-on article on the Fox News site is even more insane. Quotes pulled from different places in the article:
“Hey, my name is Innocenzi!”
Kent
That’s only one of her NINE homes.
Ken
@JanieM: Donald Trump Jr. has also been suspended.
Oddly, when Cheryl’s post first appeared, I could see the embedded tweet; now it’s just the text. Maybe their servers are overloaded?
debbie
@Quinerly:
Leslie Jones sure doesn’t!
RSA
@JCJ: Excellent.
Danielx
@Cheryl Rofer:
Not a nanosecond too soon either.
He really is shrinking by the minute, and with a royal fuck-you from Jack Dorsey to see him off. That’s going to sting worse than losing an election.
debbie
I just listened to an interview with Michelle Fortenoy (sp?) who said she’s more worried about Trump screwing with secret information than with anything nuclear football related.
Just Some Fuckhead
@zhena gogolia: lol
CROAKER
@Alison Rose: so I can consult you during this multi-part assembly !?! :-)
I am sorry I have to Block You Now.
“We had an outline and George changed everything in it,” Kurtz said. “Instead of bittersweet and poignant he wanted a euphoric ending with everybody happy. The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”
The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.
Kurtz said that ending would have been a more emotionally nuanced finale to an epic adventure than the forest celebration of the Ewoks that essentially ended the trilogy with a teddy bear luau.
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Already deleted!
tom
@cain: Facebook banned him for the remainder of his presidency, at least. https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/07/954453630/facebook-bans-president-trump-from-posting-for-the-rest-of-his-presidency
JanieM
@Ken: Thanks!
Jeffro
@cain: omg I just saw that on Twitter as well and LOL
Hey, wonder how Parler is working for trumpov right about now, hmm? speaking of LOLOLOLOL
NotMax
@Ken
While technically not impeachment, Roy Moore was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court.
CROAKER
@tom: Don’t people pretty much now self ban from wastebook?
I mean who wants to see pictures and Trump stuff. :-)
p.a.
Welp, whoever was responsible for the grammatical, correctly-spelled* tweets is now unemployed.😲😂
* “spelled” is correct US usage, “spelled” or “spelt” in UK** (looked it up) because I know this crowd😁
** Unsure if this is affected by Brexit😉
CaseyL
@JCJ: Perfect!
I’ve had problems accessing my Snark-O-Meter these past couple of days.
But more unalloyed Great Fucking News like the arrests, the Twitter banning, the House Articles of Impeachment, Forbes saying it’s done with GOPsters who tell insurrection-inciting lies, Hawley being strafed by his hometown newspaper and Senatorial mentor, and I may have missed a couple updates because things are happening really fast…. and I may get it back.
Old School
Why 10621 pieces? What is the reference?
VeniceRiley
I got the Moderna jab last night. Brighter days ahead starting 1/20 at noon!
Biden is going to release the vaccines held in reserve and use the defense production act to make the 2nd dose manufacturing happen on time.
By the way, did anyone else bother to go to the IRS website and check the status of stimulus check? Mine is split in 2. half now half April 15.
NotMax
@Old School
4588 too on the nose?
:)
Calouste
So what stops the shitgibbon from getting a burner phone and firing up a new Twitter account? I guess they’ll catch it, but it can be around for enough time to do damage. Or people can just create accounts and pretend to be him.
pacem appellant
Should I get a WaPo subscription? How’s its editorial board compare with the NYT? (NYT delenda sunt).
Repatriated
@Old School: The date.
Jan 6th, ’21
CROAKER
@Calouste: Yepper he could create an account Pres-Depens-Trump
Alison Rose
@CROAKER: Look, I was 3 years old when Return of the Jedi was released, what do you expect?
p.a.
@VeniceRiley: GF got the first Moderna yesterday. Was not feeling great by p.m., but better today.
RandomMonster
Trump perma-banned from Twitter made my day.
David 🎅🎄Merry Christmas🎄🎅 Koch
The rise and fall of
the Third ReichTwitlerGin & Tonic
@p.a.: My dear wife got her second dose of the Pfizer Wednesday morning. Some soreness of the arm, but thinks that might have just been bad technique. Otherwise no issues.
Old School
@Repatriated: That’s it! I knew there had to be a reason.
Yutsano
@pacem appellant: I got tired of running into their paywall so I relented. Their editorial board is right down the middle skewing right, which is leagues ahead of where the FTFNYT is from what I understand. If you find yourself reading it a lot, I’d say go for it.
If nothing else. you’d be supporting Alexandra Petri. And who wouldn’t want to support such a national treasure?
Just Some Fuckhead
I’m seriously thinking about divorcing my fake tv wife Joyce Vance and fake marrying Joy Reid.
japa21
Since this is repite-ish, I wanted to share some feelings, thoughts, etc. that I have been having that are not really politics related. If you aren’t interested in someone’s inner musings, move on. I won’t mind.
As most of you know, the Wednesday before New Year’s, I went to a special clinic run by the health system I go to specifically to be evaluated for Covid due to a cough, shortness of breath and a couple other minor symptoms. I was given the rapid test and informed I was positive and should go to the ER to be admitted as my O2 level dropped when I was ambulatory. It was not until 5 days later that I found out my sample had been also evaluated or tested or whatever they call it (lamh, where are you) and found out that it was, in all likelihood, a false positive and two days later confirmed that I was, indeed negative.
Nonetheless, for 5 days, from a psychological point of view, I was positive. Keep in mind, I am 73+ years old and for 53+ of those years I was a smoker, stopping just shy of two years ago. I was, and am, a high risk person. I have spent the last couple days looking back at those days and looking at my reactions to what I was dealing with and the consequences.
Without a doubt, the hardest, most painful part of it was not when I received the positive result but 30 minutes later as Mrs. Japa dropped me off at the ER. We realized she wouldn’t be allowed in with me so she was going to drive on home. We arrived at the ER and sat there a second, looking at each other. We couldn’t hug or kiss. I could barely talk. We bumped elbows, I got out of the car and started walking away. After two steps, I turned, we looked at each other, blew a kiss to each other, then she started driving away and I walked in. At that moment, we could not be sure we would ever see each other again.
As most of you know, I was not admitted as my O2 level was not low enough. So I spent the next several days, primarily in bed. Taking O2 level readings, monitoring how I felt and if I could take deep breaths, etc. My symptoms had begun on Monday and I knew the 7 days mark would be critical as that is when many people start to crash.
Somewhat to my surprise, even knowing that if I had Covid I was very high risk, I was never afraid of dying. Not that I was sure I wouldn’t die, but that I wasn’t afraid of the prospect. I used my time mentally writing letters to my 2 sons, to each of my 6 grandchildren and, of course, Mrs. Japa.
I spent a lot of time here, though not commenting for the most part. This place has always been a humbling place for me. I consider myself relatively intelligent but the wisdom, knowledge and intelligence on display here awes me. I found myself hoping I would make it to Biden’s inauguration to have something to celebrate before I go. It was weird.
And then, I no longer had Covid hanging over me, just a nasty case of pneumonia. Relief, yes, but the experience had clarified my thining on some things, a few of which the fellow jackals will regret.
First of all, I am still going to write those letters, and the recipients will receive them now. Originally I was going to have them delivered after I do die (I am, after all, not immortal, I don’t think). But I have decided they should know my feelings now. We are not a highly verbally expressive family, though hardly cold to each other. But I remember how, when my FIL died less than 2 years after we were married, I wrote a letter to my father expressing feelings we had not shared in person. When he died only 6 months later my mother expressed to me that that letter meant a lot to him.
Secondly, I am probably going to express my thoughts and opinions here more often. I am not an expert in anything but I ain’t no dummy either. So get used to it.
I am still going through this period of self assessment, but I have to say I realize that if someone had asked me how I would respond to being diagnosed with Covid before hand, I am not sure I would have been accurate in my response.
CROAKER
@Alison Rose: :-)
VeniceRiley
@p.a.: My side fx = site arm soreness (but not as bad as this year’s flu shot) and, about 5 hours in, some overnight fatigue. Was able to shake it off this morning.
SiubhanDuinne
@Martin:
Stealing a painting of Tip.
While sacking the Capitol.
(Both pointed out separately in earlier threads; I am merely the aggregator.)
david
We’re about to see how many people prefer a technocracy to a democracy. These moves tonight are Dorsey, Zuck, Cook, etc currying favor with a new incoming administration. And if they can keep the regulatory goons off their rears and be allowed to continue running the world, all the better.
Chetan Murthy
@Calouste:
He’s gotta get people to follow him, and to do that he has to advertise is presence, and bim-bam-bop, that allows Twitter to find out he’s baaaack.
Anya
@cain: I think Facebook is more imbedded with the rightwing world than Twitter. Mark Zuckerberg has made serious effort to cultivate right-wingers so unless his new friends convince him to turn on Trump, I think Facebook will still court the lunatics.
Chetan Murthy
@david: Nothing Cook, Zuck, and Jack have done, should allow anyone to think that they’re trustworthy. The latter two for sure: Zuck is an out-and-out fascist, and Jack …. well, “it took you this long, fucker? Really?” They’re in it for the money, and nothing else. We the people need to curb them.
Baud
@japa21:
Well, then it was all worth it.
debbie
@VeniceRiley:
“Not available.” Harrumph.
Dan B
@Cheryl Rofer: Apple has given Parler 24 hours to moderate its platform or be removed from the App store. The CEO is defiant. Rumor has it the comments have gotten more specific about killing cops and media, plus other forms of violence.
Leto
Michael Flynn and Sydney Powell’s twitter accounts have been suspended. Jr is on the twitter box crying.
lamh36
They were there for Mike Pence as well. Dude is still stupidly standing by Chump instead of invoking the 25th ammendment
They literally were saying: “Find Pence…Hang Pence”
SMH…he must know he will NEVER be safe even when Chump leaves office. But he standing by his man til the bitter end…dumb azz
https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/1347703010399408128
Gin & Tonic
@Chetan Murthy:
There’s an easy way to do that.
dmsilev
Look, I’m sure there’s a Usenet group Trump can post to.
VeniceRiley
@debbie: All my healthcare coworkers looked damn excited. I’m here at the clinic and even the janitorial staff were excited to get theirs yesterday. We had to drive out pretty far to another location where the specialty freezer is.
MisterForkbeard
@CaseyL: I missed the Forbes thing. Where was that?
Ken
Well at least they aren’t talking about defunding the police.
IsraelTopshelf
Here’s the scene that box captures, unfortunately for them very close to how they really are: Four-year-olds playing a first-person shooter game in their sugar-addled brains, exclaiming look mommy I can poop on the congressman’s chair! Randomly switching through other stunted-development drag-soldier personas as they rush through doors/floors, amazed how much they must look like big boys/girls/whatevers who snuck onto an IQ-restricted amusement park ride. Snapping selfies and vids in amazed wonder at how easily they have conquered the world! Bwa ha ha! Trogdor, the burninator returns! Thundercats, ho!
Steeplejack (phone)
Anya
@Ken: Jr.’s twitter is still active. I just checked.
Ken
@dmsilev: talk.trump? rec.arts.sf.fantasy.elections? alt.sedition?
(Why yes, it was once something of a habit…)
Cheryl Rofer
@JanieM: It says that Don Jr.’s account is suspended, but I am now doubtful about that.
Benw
@Just Some Fuckhead: you got to live your fake life man, it wasn’t fake working out with her anyway
daize
@lamh36: Preach.
dmsilev
@Chetan Murthy: Cook’s incentives are more towards ‘sell more widgets’ rather than ‘sell more advertising’, so while Apple and their decisions most definitely bear watching, they’re less likely to be a vector for webs of disinformation in the name of the holy ‘user engagement’ like Facebook and Twitter.
debbie
No One of Consequence
@japa21: Well said. With no hint of sarcasm: Thank you for sharing.
I too comment rarely-ish, because so many here are typically so far more eloquent or snarkier than my meagre skills will ever be.
That said, these are Strange Times indeed. A case can be made for an entirety of a Nation with PTSD. I am glad you are well. I am glad you had the chance to experience what you did, even the bad, scary parts, if the result was learning. By that, I mean specifically learning again, or perhaps a quick refresher course, on what really matters to you.
My advice, show the people you love that you love them. Tell them too, and let them know how much they matter to you. We could all do with more of that, receiving and the giving. Start with the giving.
You’re a good person. Among good company.
Peace,
NOoC
Ken
@Anya: Probably explains why the other tweet (the one Cheryl embedded) was deleted, it was spreading false information. Which doesn’t explain why Jr’s account is still active…
I wonder if Twitter has a statement prepared, in which they blame all the suspensions on an unspecified algorithm. “It’s not really our decision, the algorithm detected too high a percentage of lies, threats, and attempts to incite violence and shut off the account.”
Spanky
@japa21: Hey. Thanks.
Stick around.
Chetan Murthy
Can I just say, that you guys talking about getting vaccines makes my heart glad. The more of you that get it, the better I’ll feel about the rollout.
lamh36
welp…
dmsilev
@Ken: alt.white.fascism.trump.trump.trump
(also spent too much time on Usenet throughput the nineties)
lamh36
@lamh36: Google’s statement
https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1347705731793842176?s=20
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
His feed is filled with others’ tweets. This is interesting:
sab
Dinner tonight. Spouse sneers at leeks because “brit” but braised leeks with rice and tilapia make an excellent meal.
Actually, braised leeks in any setting are quite edibly delicious.
CaseyL
@MisterForkbeard: It was on Twitter, and apparently their website has a full-screen announcement to the effect that they will not hire, interview, or otherwise engage with anyone who lied on Trump’s behalf.
Read it here.
lamh36
Charlie Sykes called Lindsey Graham’s Chumps “fluffer for 4 years”…bwhahahah
lamh36
Wow…she literally died for nothing. They already calling ole girl, the AF vet, a plant who died trying to mess up their movement
https://twitter.com/StrangeAlienSky/status/1347615755173466112?s=20
Baud
@lamh36:
Oh my.
debbie
@sab:
I’m making leek and potato soup with shrimp tomorrow. I love leeks!
Kent
Someone caught him posting in the Amazon reviews for a pair of black dress socks. The whack-a-mole process is going to be a full-time job.
Just Some Fuckhead
@debbie: Wow, that sounds disgusting. Is the shrimp in the soup or is it a side dish?
debbie
@lamh36:
I won’t share it, but a first responder’s photo of her being worked on while in the ambulance is circulating around Twitter.
Ken
@lamh36: I’m not a major app user, so enlighten me. When Google or Apple pulls an app from the store, do they also delete it from all devices that got it from the store? I’ve heard they do that when copyrighted material is illegally distributed.
debbie
@Just Some Fuckhead:
How rude.
dmsilev
Unintended Consequences:
Leto
@japa21: hey, I’m glad you’re still around here and hope to see you around for a while longer :)
Ken
Seriously? Trump’s spamming review sites? What next, nearly-top-10000 blog comments?
(Jeez, Cole would explode so loudly that we’d all be able to hear it, no need for the blog.)
Just Some Fuckhead
@debbie: Potato and leek soup is amazing. I’m just trying to figure out where the shrimp is.
Benw
@debbie: @sab don’t fuck with leeks!
I made fennel, leek and potato soup for dinner tonight. So simple and flavorful!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Kent: lol
These dress socks are the best sock one can wear to overturn the election I was cheated out of..
Kattails
Apparently there would be more benefits (to us) of impeachment which I hadn’t heard of–Trump would lose his $200K/year pension, his million dollar a year travel allowance, his secret service detail. (As well as the ability to run for office again, which has been mentioned here.) Cool.
VeniceRiley
I like insurrectionists that don’t get killed, okay? What a loser./s
Benw
@Ken: I would pay good rubles for Trump to show up in the BJ comments in a verifiable way
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Just Some Fuckhead: me too, grill them or poach them and drop them on top? I’m trying for the nth time in the last ten years to train myself to use meat as a condiment. Soup/stews and winter make it easier, but it’s still an effort for me
ETA: Now I want grilled shrimp
OGLiberal
@Just Some Fuckhead: Some opining that Murkowski – as an indie – may become 51. Fuck her and all that but will take the assist.
Kent
Anyone know how to get video of Facebook and post it here? This is apparently the celebration in the White House Fuhrer Bunker on Wednesday as the insurrection was happening. Came into my FB feed moments ago
https://www.facebook.com/presly.thompson1/videos/3720902774636593
not_a_cylon
Oh hey, they finally suspended his twitter account. After, like, what? A decade?
That’s a bit of good news today.
Just Some Fuckhead
@OGLiberal: Never happen.
Ken
@Kent: I wonder if they could attach that to the articles of impeachment? Probably not, since it can’t be written on parchment with a quill pen.
(It just occurred to me, John Roberts is going to love having to go through this twice in a twelve month period. Especially the renewed calls for his death.)
Ascap_scab
Lehigh University voids Trump’s 1988 honorary degree!
https://6abc.com/lehigh-university-revokes-trump-degree-capitol-riot-honorary-president-donald/9468298/
Bex
@catatonia: She also called bullshit, literally, on Trump. No bleep.
Gravenstone
@Kent: Um, I thought that was someone just snarking here. The Amazon thing was real?
Ken
@Ascap_scab: What next, Time Magazine revoking his “Man of the Year” status? The King of Sweden taking back his Noble Prize?
Leto
@Kent: yeah, it was shared here on BJ yesterday. I think WaterGirl did it.
Martin
@Ken: Generally no. Though this might become an exception.
I know Apple, and I believe Google, can remotely delete apps that are malicious. Apple has done this a couple of times for apps that are clearly malware.
So normally, if you have the app the app will stay on your phone, but if you delete it you can’t reinstall it. Apple/Google will need to determine if the existence of the app is itself of sufficient danger to remotely delete it.
Kent
No, I was joking…!
Scout211
@Kent:
it was posted on one of the many threads yesterday.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZQDgBSSYjI
There’s you tube version.
hueyplong
@Roger Moore: “I want the deluxe set that includes a woman with a Gadsden flag and footprints on her back.”
The spouse thought this went too far.
I’m some kind of extra jealous.
patrick II
Trump’slast three tweets :
Calouste
@CaseyL: The money quote from Forbes:
Kattails
@debbie: Yum! I just used the last of my garden leeks in a chicken stew and a thick barley & lentil soup. Figured all I was doing was checking back and forth online to obsessively watch developments, creative thinking was pretty much going nowhere. Also have had a rich chicken stock simmering since 3 PM. The local coop sells the bones from one of the free-range producers. It’s like 20º on the porch, good night to cool it off fast. The freezer will be well stocked for awhile.
Dan B
@japa21: That’s quite the saga. During AIDS I had several scares. Seeing so many people die young in a country where the majority of the population didn’t care or were actively hostile seems like history rhyming. It forced many people out of the closet so many people saw how ordinary most gay men were. I wish that many people will be moved to share their experience of COVID and their anger with the deniers. There are too many people who have to have their prejudices confronted directly and firmly. It must be done or we keep repeating the pattern.
Kent
@Scout211:
Guess I have a real life and can’t keep up with all of this. It’s just moving all too fast.
Roger Moore
@Calouste:
Nothing. But the key is that Twitter has decided to stop ignoring their rules when it comes to his account. Without that immunity to the rules, he can’t post the way he’s been posting without getting banned.
Comrade Colette
@debbie: That sounds intriguing. Tell me more!
CarolPW
@debbie: And I’m making leek, sweet potato and halibut chowder.
Dan B
@Ken: Defunding the police is Socialism. Killing cops is patriotism.
Parler tells me so.
Also Parler’s CEO says that planning violence is Freedom!
zhena gogolia
@Kent:
I think that is from before the insurrection started.
Chetan Murthy
@Roger Moore: Oh hm, I’d think that if someone is perma-banned, then if they pop up with a different handle, once they have posted enough to be identified as that perma-banned person, the new handle gets locked, until the owner can prove (haha) they’re not that person. I mean, otherwise, Shitler creates two new accounts: “Shitler” and “Shitler-pointer”. “Shitler-pointer” tweets regularly, telling you what Shitler’s current Twitter handle is. That current twitter handle tweets all the treason; when it gets blocked, Shitler just creates a new handle and voila, business-as-usual.
Or at least, I’d think.
David 🎅🎄Merry Christmas🎄🎅 Koch
AlaskaReader
@sab: Whoa. Do you know where those tilapia have been?
Steeplejack (phone)
Ken
@hueyplong: Hmm, you’re prompting me to self-examine my reactions to the deaths. I am genuinely saddened by them, especially the policeman; and also enraged at the men who incited this, then retreated to their TV room to whoop and cheer.
But when I think of the guy who, it seems, tasered himself to death through the balls while stealing a picture of Tip O’Neill – well, Mary Tyler Moore got there first.
AlaskaReader
@Just Some Fuckhead: …or was.
Dan B
@Chetan Murthy: I may be getting my first vaccine in February. My partner, brother, and most friends might not until April or May. They’re just a few years younger. I’m not sure about grocery workers either. It feels unfair.
Feathers
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Shrimp and grits is wonderful. Make grits with a bunch of cheddar cheese grated in. Marinate the shrimp with Cajun seasoning (I used the Penzey’s blend). When the grits are cooked, nestle the shrimp on top and cover. Let cook for a few minutes. When pink – eat up! I don’t stock grits at home, so I’ll usually make it for the family when visiting. My mother, before they moved to assisted living, kept a pantry that invariably had some fancy gourmet grits nestled in the back.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mary G:
“What did James Madison do to get banned from Twitter?”
“Sent oil paintings of his junk to women.”
Ken
@David 🎅🎄Merry Christmas🎄🎅 Koch: Sounds like Hawley really should have run his ideas past Rick Santorum first.
AlaskaReader
@OGLiberal: Murkowski is just another closet fascist who hides behind a mask.
Chetan Murthy
@Dan B:
Please don’t feel that way. Think of yourself as reporting back to us from La Terre Promise, eh? The more of you who get it, the more convinced we’ll be, that eventually we’ll also get it. Seriously. Seriously. And I fully expect that it’ll be Apr/May before I get it, if I’m lucky. I’m planning on freedom around July 4.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Benw:
Of course not, they’ll leak.
Feathers
@Feathers: Replying to myself to add that I may pick up some shrimp next shopping trip. Especially if cooking for one or two, they are great. Defrost in a marinade, sauté quickly, and you have a simple, tasty protein to go with a salad or pasta/rice.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@japa21: Thank you for sharing this with us, japa.
Dan B
@debbie: I remember making Vichysoisse for the first time in cooking school. It’s just potato leek soup chilled and pureed with plain whipped cream folded in. The textures and subtle flavors were a revelation. I’m lactose / cow’s milk protein intolerant now so it’s just a memory.
not_a_cylon
@Roger Moore: He’d have to spend a long time to rebuild with his following… only for Twitter to catch on and ban him again.
topclimber
@japa21: On behalf of the small fry, up the input! Glad to hear you dodged the bullet and learned from it.
NotMax
@japa21
(searches for the spare, finds same)
Three thumbs up.
@CarolPW
Recipe courtesy of Wikileeks?
:)
Mike in NC
@debbie: Where are all the leeks coming from, Fat Bastard demanded to know?
debbie
@Comrade Colette:
@CarolPW:
It’s got a very delicate flavor, I think. The shrimp do not overpower the leeks at all (but then I am a fan of shrimp 🍤). You can make it with any kind of milk or cream, too.
planetjanet
@japa21: That is an amazing story. So glad you are writing the letters. Looking forward to more comments from you here. Take care.
Kattails
@japa21: that’s lovely–not your tribulations, but the thoughts expressed. All very true. Do go for it.
I have been wanting to correspond with people more; I mean literally, hand written, even if just short notes or buying nice cards. Recently, while cleaning out some files, I found a bunch of hand written notes thanking me for custom calligraphy pieces I had done for people years ago. Those people had been kind enough to enclose a little note with their checks even if just on a piece of scrap paper. Twenty years later there was proof that I’d done something meaningful to someone; it was a sweet find. So I will use your comment as an extra motivator to go do this.
debbie
@Dan B:
I make my soup with skim milk, so I would bet even Lactaid would work.
debbie
@Mike in NC:
😂
Kattails
@Dan B: I have it on a Frenchwoman’s authority that leek soup, which can be made without dairy, is a diuretic & thus a good starter to a diet. Now ask me why I might be considering a diet…
Benw
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: LOL
Steeplejack (phone)
@JanieM:
It says at the top, “This tweet is unavailable.” That means it has been deleted. That’s why you can’t see it, not because you don’t have a Twitter account.
dr. luba
@Elizabelle: Unfair to Jugaloos to compare them this QAnon waste fo space.
Jugaloos may be weird, but they are woke.
Kattails
@Mike in NC: Fat Bastard– who dat? Grocery store or very easy to grow, nothing bothers them, can sit in the ground until super late in the season. I’ve poured hot water over them to dig them up. Cut them in half lengthwise though, cut of most of the green tops, and fan & rise the layers as dirt can get in there.
frosty
@Kent: Comments in the previous thread said that this was prior to the rally and not during the insurrection.
cain
@Anya:
I agree with you. Strangely, it is also where a lot of black folks show up too. I could get my ex-gf to leave FB… even though it was full of white supremacists.
FlyingToaster
I polled ChezToaster, and the phrase “I’d buy the fuck out of that Lego set” was uttered. Along with “Get 3, because nobody will share.”
I’d buy a dozen and give the extras as gifts.
Just One More Canuck
@Ken: god that was funny – watching her trying to hold it together at the funeral was priceless
Uncle Cosmo
@Lacuna Synechdoche: Two Republicans in a car were T-boned by an out-of-control Hummer and died in the crash. Their souls ascended to Heaven and stood before St. Peter.
“Before I tell you where you’ll spend eternity,” Peter said, “is there anything you’d like to ask me?”
The first Republican said, “How did the Democrats steal the 2020 Presidential election?”
Peter replied, “There was no theft. Biden won fair & square.”
The second Republican turned to the first & whispered, “Wow, the conspiracy goes a lot higher than we thought!”
Peter said, “I heard that – and you’re both going to Hell.”
Ruckus
@JanieM:
I have a twitter account and it says that the tweet doesn’t exist.
They are doing a lot of clearing out, cleaning up.
Ruckus
@lamh36:
His own state didn’t nickname him Mike Dense for no reason.
WaterGirl
@japa21: Thank you for sharing this with us. When you said we might not like what you were going to say, I feared for a minute that you were saying goodbye to us and wouldn’t be posting any more.
So happy to see the opposite! Welcome back to the land of the living, Japa. We are happy that you are here.
brantl
@Feathers: If I eat shrimp, it gives new meaning to the phrase “Olympic hurling”. And NO, I didn’t spell that incorrectly.
Mary G
It’s really happening! Yay!
Mary G
@OGLiberal: The thought of Murkowski, Bernie, and Angus King being the Independent Three cracks me up.
Tehanu
@sab: Totally agree with you about the woad and the kilts.
@Feathers: We watched about 20 minutes of it and gave up when the blood and gore got to be too much. I’ve never watched any of Gibson’s movies since.
Otherguy
@Martin:
Otherguy
Is this on? Iam old can’t type and laugh in synchrony?
No One You Know
@CROAKER: This is too fucking inappropriate for words.
Olympus damn near close to fallen and still might. And these fuckers already have a way to profit from it by encouraging fantasies.