"Democracy has prevailed"
In his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden said it was a "day of history and hope"https://t.co/qE9s2zYjqO pic.twitter.com/rQHyIMLInC
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 20, 2021
As Lady Gaga sang the national anthem, the sky opened up and sunlight reflected off of the Capitol, illuminating the flag.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 20, 2021
The Bidens share a moment right before they entered the White House after the #InaugurationDay ceremony https://t.co/iIbwhzEsVk pic.twitter.com/ertv4K78XE
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 21, 2021
It's an honor to be your Vice President. pic.twitter.com/iM3BxJzz6E
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 20, 2021
Eugene Goodman, a Capitol Police officer who was hailed as a hero for facing down members of the mob that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, is serving as an escort to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as she is sworn into the U.S.’s second-highest office. https://t.co/yuPtZTtEZj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 20, 2021
??: In a sign of the covid times — a fist bump between Joe Biden and his former boss, Barack Obama #InaugurationDay https://t.co/1j6ZJcRBZT pic.twitter.com/WSq9ya4s3x
— Bloomberg (@business) January 20, 2021
Harris swears in Sens. Warnock, Ossoff and Padilla as Democrats take control of the Senate, cementing party’s power in Washington https://t.co/mpVnhSOJOb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 20, 2021
Thanks to American voters, we are back in the #ParisAgreement. America is once again poised to lead the world on climate action, working with our allies to build a better future for us all. Time to get back to work!
— Al Gore (@algore) January 20, 2021
Now the real work begins, folks. Follow along at @POTUS as we build back better. pic.twitter.com/fHViqSqwp2
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 20, 2021
Spotted at the White House: Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, sporting a unity mask. It’s the message of the day. pic.twitter.com/n1r3DPCGW5
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 20, 2021
and I mean like hundreds of people all bringing their a-game all the time, for joe. these things don’t just happen. it’s window dressing but it indicates the stuff that matters will get the same treatment.
— kilgore trout, brad r’s brother (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 21, 2021
The inauguration security barriers will start coming down on Wednesday night, and take 36 hours to be completely removed. https://t.co/OoqFXbjLa9 pic.twitter.com/4NgLJJS9PM
— DCist (@DCist) January 21, 2021
Asian stocks jumped to record highs as investors bet the new U.S. administration under President Joe Biden could mean bigger stimulus spending https://t.co/mHHVL9IQBf pic.twitter.com/HeYh9FMqSH
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 21, 2021
NotMax
Let’s meet right back here in four years and do it again, okay?
;)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Goya spokesperson Ivanka crying as Dump fled the capitol (photo)
Of course she’s only crying because she will never be invited to another Met Gala
OzarkHillbilly
Joe just can’t help himself, has to run over to a few folks and give them special attention. Social distancing? Good luck Jill.
(mind you, highly unlikely he put himself in any danger during those brief encounters)
OzarkHillbilly
Oh and fuck that duplicitous SOB Roy Blunt who is standing behind Kamala as she gets sworn in.
Mary G
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: The Ivanka “didn’t look in the mirror to make sure I brushed the back of my hair, because nothing matters” pictures gave me so much pleasure.
You know she knows it’s over when she’s too cheap to pay a professional. Suffer more, please.
Mary G
@NotMax: Yes! Then in eight years for Pres. Harris.
NotMax
@David Merry Christmas Koch
Pay no attention to the letter opener stamped “property of White House” Jared is poking her with behind her back.
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Raven
My dear friend and her Australian wife had to move back to Sydney even though they were legally married in NYC. She wrote a wonderful note on Facebook this morning and she noted that she mentored at Write Girl in LA and that Amanda Gorman was part of that program (after my friend taught there)
https://www.writegirl.org/
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Another reason why Ivanka is crying: with simplicity and authenticity, Ella (photo) stole everyone’s heart, while the plastic Ivanka was instantly revealed to be crook and a fraud.
Baud
I actually had a morbid thought this morning that I’m glad Jimmy Carter lasted long enough to have a decent president speak at his funeral. Just one of the many ways the country is in a better place today.
Cermet
First, thrilled the orange stain is gone; extremely happy that not just the White House is under Dem control, but the Senate as well, now. That is beyond amazing (thank you so much Stacy Abrams for helping to save “Democracy” … at least for now.)
In that later regards, having a consititution based upon and heavily written for Slavery and with almost half the electorate being so racist that even that stain upon our national fabric was worth voting for, I seriously doubt our “democracy” really did prevail. Rather, it staggered onward with its racist and hateful parts fully functioning and dooming our republic unless and until racical chages are made – i.e. we actually make our country a democracy where coprporations aren’t given control of our government and voting becomes not just a right but a required civic duty for all on proper national holidays (both to allow people offf from work to vote and celibrate a true democrarcy.)
Raven
@Cermet: you are such a drag
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Biden returns honor and decency to the Oval Office:
Princess
Did anyone else have a terrible time sleeping last night? I was okay but I think my husband didn’t sleep a wink. I think it was the unpeeling for four years of quiet anxiety and terror that could finally be released all at once.
Cermet
@Raven: Sorry; today should be one of happiness; you are 100% correct – being a downer is inappropriate today.
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
Glad to see you, OH. Hope things went well.
Thought of you yesterday and hoped you were able to take in at least some of the pleasure of the day.
NotMax
@Raven
Heads up for you that The Great Santini shows up on TCM this Saturday at 12:15 a.m.
OzarkHillbilly
@SiubhanDuinne: Much ado about nothing, like I said, minor procedure.
Betty Cracker
Did anyone watch Jen Psaki’s press briefing? No servile and desperate brown-nosing to impress “an audience of one.” No belligerent insistence that up is down and black is white. The press sec displayed a command of policy and the ability to discuss it coherently. It was remarkable in its ordinariness, like watching a human being wash a sink full of dishes after watching screeching monkeys fling plates for four years straight.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
The agony of defeat (photo)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Even the deplorables can’t stand his loser stink
MJS
Effective today, I am going to do my best to not let Republicans run my life. I’ve spent the last 4 years obsessing and despairing over the latest shit Trump pulled, or how Republicans enabled that shit. No more. I’m going try to pay no attention to the antics of Cruz, Hawley, McConnell, et al. I will pay attention to investigations of Republican assistance to the insurrectionists and, of course Trump’s Senate trial, but other than that, Republicans are losers, and they deserve all the attention a last place team gets during the playoffs – zero.
Phylllis
@NotMax: Must see (along with The BIg Chill) for scenes of a seedier, less gentrified i.e. cooler Beaufort SC, if nothing else.
Ramalama
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
She reminded me of a real life Hermione Granger, less of a fashion icon. But then again, when I meet people who are considered to be beautiful, they all look like horses to me.
MJS
@Betty Cracker: I saw it, and she was great, even taking, and destroying, a Fox News talking point (poorly) disguised as a question about the “divisiveness” of an impeachment trial.
Baud
I hope today is the start of greater productivity for me. I have a lot of things to catch up on.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Wait until the first cabinet meeting.
Betty Cracker
Night and day:
Baud
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: You are not alone. From the Guardian:
Jen Psaki’s first White House press briefing heralds return to normality
p.a.
Fixt
Bluegirlfromwyo
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: They thought he was going to ride in and defend them. Fools.
debbie
Nothing beats that entrance by Barak and Michelle yesterday. Hand in hand, confidently striding in unison down the hall together through to the stairway. They are The Power Couple!
Raven
@Cermet: My only thought is that everyone here is keenly aware of the challenges we face. Maybe that’s a positive in all this.
TS (the original)
Actually had a laugh from Mica this morning. Reading from the released daily Presidential schedule
The President and the vice president receive the President’s Daily Briefing
(interjection – and they will read it)
debbie
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Kimberly had a bit of an ugly cry too, but I can’t find the photo now.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
debbie
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Jackasses assumed they’d get pardons. Ha!
rikyrah
@Princess:
Me. Had a bad time.
Betsy
I’m very happy about everything
but I’m having a really hard time with feelings of anger rage and bitterness. It seems like I’m so used to feeling this way that I’ve lost or forgotten how to feel something else.
I’m still afraid and hard inside
I feel like something has changed inside me over the last so many years.
Raven
@NotMax: I’ve posted here that I once wrote Conroy and he wrote me back! I attended an online presentation about him conducted by the director of the Conroy Center in Beaufort, SC. That got me even more interested and I came across this book. I’m not shocked but it’s a bit of a bummer.
Betty Cracker
@p.a.: Yeah, but then my dishwashing simile wouldn’t work, so…
debbie
I took down my FB profile pic of a weeping Statue of Liberty yesterday. Unsure whether Republicans will grow the fuck up and work together for the country, I replaced it with a photo of my RBG dissent pin. Just in case they act up.
Raven
@Betsy: Don’t look. Back, they might be gainin on ya!
Satchel Page,
Raven
@debbie: when
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
Some old guy pushing his dog on a park ride…
After the last 4 years, that calm pretty well sums up my feelings today.
TS (the original)
@Betty Cracker:
Just showed this one on MJ
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Haha. That’s great.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Very soothing, like quietly petting the Woofmeister’s head in my lap while reading or watching a movie.
debbie
@Raven:
I was trying to be optimistic!
Geminid
Sorry, too early for bad puns.
JWR
(I think) I’m all caught up on recent threads, but has anyone mentioned this, from the last day of T***p’s DOJ?
Anyone know if there’s any way for the new DOJ to review this?
MazeDancer
It’s true, you do not have flawless, gorgeous TV production by accident.
Hire the best, pay them what the’re worth, let them do their job.
Expecting the best and supporting it bodes well for the future.
Also, decency matters. It doesn’t go away.
Baud
RedDirtGirl
I cannot imagine having to sleep in the same bed that Trump sullied. They must replace the mattress, right?
OzarkHillbilly
eclare
@RedDirtGirl: I read that they do replace the mattresses.
Baud
Phylllis
@JWR: Dunno about that, but our investment guy told us that Perdue & Loeffler’s trades really weren’t eyebrow-raising, but that Burr’s actions were blatant insider trading.
debbie
@RedDirtGirl:
Yes, and the box spring too.
debbie
@debbie:
Although I read last night that the presidential bedroom was Melania’s, and Trump slept in what used to be the den.
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: That irritated me too, but Mr. LP explained that Blunt was chair of the Senate committee in charge of the inauguration. Still, grrrrrr.
OzarkHillbilly
Yes there is.
OzarkHillbilly
@Lapassionara: How many times did he tell trump to STFU? Did he ever just slap the piss out of our junior senator? He’s not quite as useless as tits on a boar, but that ain’t saying much.
Betsy
@Princess: yes, but in my case it’s that I don’t know how to feel relief any more
What’s passing for genuine happiness and hope is like this smiling anger and relish for everyone in the Trump administration to be horribly punished
satby
Good morning!!! And it really is, isn’t it?
Sen Ron Johnson was unhappy that the Milwaukee Sentinal put out an op-ed saying he should resign and demanded the chance to respond. He didn’t count on the paper foot noting and explaining every lie he told in his rebuttal ?
OzarkHillbilly
This is a real tear jerker.
Seriously, I can’t tell if it’s parody or real.
Baud
@satby:
Today is Mayor Pete’s day in Congress!
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Happy to hear it was “much ado about nothing” and to see you back.
different-church-lady
Today is going to be a great day, because I’ve realized that for the first time in four years I can look at the news to find out what the president did to try to fix things instead of what he did to try to break everything.
Matt McIrvin
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I think that’s the first time I’ve ever seen her express an emotion.
Baud
@satby:
Those footnotes were awesome.
different-church-lady
@debbie: She does things that aren’t ugly?
Geminid
@JWR: The new DOJ may also decide Burr’s actions were legal, no matter how unethical. Burr intends to retire after 2022, so North Carolina voters will not weigh in. Georgia voters had their say, though, regarding Loeffler’s and Perdue’s insider trading. Hard to say if that made a difference, but it was a close election and the Democrats pounded the issue hard. Elizabeth Warren has bill that would prohibit lawmakers from playing the market. Legislators should vote for this, if only to save them from themselves.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m not sure there’s a difference anymore.
kirbster
I believe Americans’ collective blood pressure and anxiety levels have dropped considerably since early yesterday afternoon. The man who was the very embodiment of Christianity’s Seven Deadly Sins is no longer POTUS. Not that I plan to forgive, forget, or trust anyone who put him in power ever again…
Betsy
@rikyrah: me too. I can’t let go of something. I feel shellshocked
Kristine
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: and her eyebrows. The young woman has a sense of humor as well.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Maybe our media has learned something these past 4 years after all. Ah, the sweet smell of accountability.
Ben Cisco
Holy shit you guys. This National Review (yeah, I know) op-ed – I’ve never smoked and even I’m looking for a heater right now:
I beg you, please go see this. You’re welcome.
Baud
@Ben Cisco:
The guy is on MJ right now. Mika just read his column.
satby
@Baud: I know! And he’ll be great.
RedDirtGirl
@debbie: thank fuck for that.
JPL
@RedDirtGirl: Even though they didn’t share the same bed, I agree. Pence and his mother’s mattress needs to be switched out also.
Quinerly
@Ben Cisco: read it yesterday. I also liked the part where he called Trump “Paris Hilton.”
Baud
@Ben Cisco:
As his appearance on MJ reminds us, the guy is still a hard right conservative.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: You have a point.
Kristine
@OzarkHillbilly: that’s so sweet.
satby
@Baud: Actual reporting! I’ve missed it, and am glad it’s back.
Quinerly
@Baud: guess you heard the entire interview. Williamson (Nat Review op ed author) is no real friend where Biden is concerned. Called him “fundamentally dishonest.”
JWR
@Phylllis:
Sure looked that way to me. Either they really did, or didn’t find anything wrong, and were holding the investigation over his head in the event he spoke out about all that “Stop The Steal” BS.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Excellent. Thank you!
Baud
@Quinerly:
Yep. He also likened Biden’s agenda to North Korea’s statist control.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I took the old guy out this pre-dawn morning. I got to shootin the shit with a neighbor and Bohdi started to pull so I let him go. He can barely walk so I don’t worry about him running off very far. I thought he was on the porch but he wasn’t. I didn’t really panic because I knew he couldn’t have gotten far and if I stayed inn the street he wouldn’t get run down. After searching for about 10 minutes another neighbor came buy and started to help. Quickly he said “I can hear him rustling down in the bushes. Whew, I guess I need to start wearing my hearing aids again.
satby
@Ben Cisco: DAMN! When the worm turns, it turns into a snake.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: A hard right conservative who once recommended execution for women who seek abortions. But yeah, glad he’s trying to pry NR readers off the MAGA train. Good luck with that.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
Here’s what scares me, though. After eight years of Obama, a sizeable enough number of American voters figured they’d had enough normality and competence for the time being, and put in the Oval Office a fellow Deplorable unfit for the job in every conceivable way. I have a lingering fear that they might do the same in four or eight years, no matter how well Biden and Harris perform.
Matt McIrvin
@Princess: I had the opposite reaction–I had been on edge, not sleeping well and not able to concentrate on anything since January 6, but I slept like a log last night.
But now I’m thinking about all the work I have to do and sometimes scary personal stuff coming up that I was not spending mental energy on while totalitarians and seditionists were in control of the country, and, wow, it’s a lot. It will have to get proper attention.
RedDirtGirl
@Ben Cisco: That was lovely. As were the RWNJ snowflake tears in the comments. Thanks Ben.
ETA: Re: the next comment. Good to know that Betty C. Great column, but fuck that asshat, all the same.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Makes me think he’s more upset hat Trump is a loser rather than that Trump is immoral and anti-democratic.
Immanentize
@Ben Cisco: Kevin Williamson has strong Jackal Foo. The uses many Betty Cracker phrases as well (e.g. Third Lady), which although are not unique — still….
JML
@Baud: yes indeed. as much as williamson has contempt for Trump and those who supported him…he’s still a right-wing loon who will lie about democrats at the drop of a hat.
the enemy of my enemy is not really my friend.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: Did not know that — is this just a demonstration that Frankensteinbeck will be right? That Trump will be like a false memory in a month?
Immanentize
@Quinerly: So, this guy Williamson is basically Rose Twitter without a Bernie?
germy
Baud
@Immanentize:
I assume he’s an old fashioned conservative whose Bernie is Ronald Reagan.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I smiled at her tears. What the hell ever qualified her to work in the WH to begin with?
Quinerly
@Immanentize: you nailed it. He didn’t call Joe a pedophile, though. So there’s that.
JoJo and I are off on a short day trip. Gotta talk to a man about a Burro. ?
Immanentize
@Baud: I’m wondering if they have calculated the only way to get on TV and “own the libs — live on Not Fox!” is to first trash Trump? It’s not a bad strategy. Give the people want they want. Then what they don’t.
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: I go thru the same thing with Woof every morning. I let him out and close the door. I know he won’t go up to the highway and he won’t go very far in any direction and he certainly isn’t going to accompany Percy on his early AM rambles. But if when I come back 5 mins later he isn’t at the door waiting to be let back in, I step out on the porch and start looking for him. If I don’t see him, I start to feel a little bit of panic because…
“What if he went/ fell down into one of the hollers following a scent?”
There are only a few spots where his arthritic hips and knees could manage the scramble back up and I doubt my back could handle carrying him back up. So I start calling him and invariably he comes out from behind the garden shed or a vehicle or the garage or…
And gives me a look of, “What?”
Baud
@Quinerly:
Civility!
satby
Oh, absolutely, that’s why they’ll all decide they really hated him (Trump) all along. Hence my snake comment. But I will savor the right wing internal bloodletting.
edited for clarity.
Spanky
@Immanentize: A month? Gaslighting is a habit that will be hard to break. Starting yesterday, a question about anyone named Trump will be met with a “who?”.
Immanentize
@Quinerly: are you planning on burroing into DOJ too?
Quinerly
@Baud: I was toasting my bagel at that time. Missed that part. Got back to it at the end. Joe and Mika gave him a lot of air time. Hmmmm….
Anya
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Talk about ugly crying. Of course she’s crying for herself and not the kids her dad put in cages, and the parents they stole from or that thousands and thousands of Americans who died of COVID because of her administration’s negligence and her dad’s awfulness. Fuck her and her incompetent husband.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: Guaranteed. If 400,000 dead Americans couldn’t dissuade them from voting for 4 more years of the same, there is little Biden and Harris can do to persuade them, especially when FOX and OAN and Alex Jones etc are telling them what a socialist hell hole America is becoming.
Other than GOTV, I have no answers and there is no guarantee that will be enough.
Soprano2
I watched part of it, and was amazed at the night and day difference. I’d forgotten what a normal press conference looks like. I did find myself wishing that she would say something like “We don’t negotiate bills with Congress through the press” when she got questions about the size of Biden’s COVID relief package, and what they were willing to give up. She handled those questions better than I would have, that’s how you tell she’s the professional and I’m not.
Quinerly
@Immanentize: vintage fiberglass mold 13ft camper. Needs a lot of work. I need a project. If I go for it, I’ll want to ask Jackals if anyone has any experience with them. A MN Co “Cloud made them too. Kinda like a “Scamp. ” JoJo very excited to sniff it. It’s been in a field 20 years.
Gin & Tonic
@satby: Ron’s having a sad because all his good buddies have been sanctioned by OFAC.
germy
Drain the swamp.
Ben Cisco
@JML: “
UltronTrump has another enemy. That is NOT the same thing.”And yes, he’s an asshole. That takedown is still glorious though.
SiubhanDuinne
@RedDirtGirl:
Well, the Trumps plural didn’t sully anything. According to an article I read yesterday (would link if I remembered where), Melania took the suite that’s normally used by First Couples, and Donald had a converted study as his bedroom.
But yes, to your immediate concern, the article said the mattresses were always changed out during a Presidential switch. So no worries about POTUS Joe or FLOTUS Dr. Jill picking up any icky Trump cooties.
Immanentize
We really need a simple word for “completely upsetting and shocking but not surprising.”
Maybe just “fuck!”
Soprano2
Right there with you, I had no idea I could hate so much. I thought I hated Trump as much as was possible, then 1/6/21 happened, and I hated him even more! It’s going to take some time to quit being affected by that, and we still have impeachment, so we still have to think about him for awhile.
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: From The Times, April 2018:
I’m not sure if we’re headed for collective amnesia regarding Trump, and I don’t know if that really matters. A frighteningly large number of our fellow citizens believe the attempted coup at the Capitol was justified because the election was illegitimate. That’s a problem whether Trump remains an idolized figure or not.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: My nerve conduction test showed both Meralgia Paresthetica and l-4-5 radiculopathy and the doc said “how do you feel about surgery? I said “not as long as Bohdi is alive, I have to be able to carry him.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@satby: Whoa. Love that! Good for the Sentinel!
Anya
@Betty Cracker: All this and more. I watched all of it. Unfortunately, I was disappointed by the press. The questions were just meh. WTF cares about Trump’s note. How many questions were about Trump, and nothing about COVID. Not a single question. Jen Psaki is awesome but our press will continue to be terrible, chasing after trivial things…
PPCLI
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
True, though she will always get a standing ovation at the Yakov Smirnoff theatre in Branson Missouri.
I wonder if she thinks it is a good trade.
germy
OzarkHillbilly
Ooooo, You mean it’s been the happy hunting grounds of weasel’s and snakes in search of nesting mice and rats for 20 years. Be very careful, things generally don’t fare well being neglected for that long.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: keeping an eye out for the return of such folks — we need those generational priests and priestesses that SF tells us guard nuclear waste dumps for millenia.
Soprano2
@Anya: They asked about the new color scheme for Air Force 1! I hope Joe nixes it, but there are so many more important things they could ask about.
germy
Always Be Closing
rikyrah
I want this on a T-shirt
https://twitter.com/___illwill/status/1351938093901881350
Joey Maloney
@Betty Cracker: I’m going to be calling her “CJ Cregg” until further notice.
Cameron
Somebody down this way chose a different method of celebrating the inauguration – a bomb threat was called in to the Capitol in Tallahassee last night. Saw a little while ago that FBI is investigating.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Yeah. Biden’s an ordinary lying politician. Maybe you can trust him for a short time, but sooner or later he’ll deceive you.
I was about to get interested in reading his book and some of his columns, but after that? Hard nope.
raven
@Quinerly: This is pretty good
Erin and Ben Napier Tackled an Airstream Makeover on ‘Home Town’ and It’s Absolutely Gorgeous
Dorothy A. Winsor
@raven: I googled the unpleasant sounding medical terms. You’re a good dog companion.
rikyrah
: 7 Of The Blackest Moments From The Biden-Harris Inauguration
https://blavity.com/7-of-the-blackest-moments-from-the-biden-harris-inauguration
OzarkHillbilly
That ain’t no good. I’ve been dealing with a similar issue in my forearms for about 15 years because of bone spurs on my cervical vertebrate, but it is nowhere near bad enough to make me consider surgery on my neck.
Anya
@Ben Cisco:
Good article full of truth bombs. Is our wingnut learning?
Of course they have to scaremonger with the black lady running the senate nonsense:
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy: Damn you! You know posting that means we’ll get ads for it now.
In other random news, we get our cable from a building wide source. That is, we don’t have an individual choice. The building is switching from Dish to Comcast. Our unit’s installation is today. Shall I be happy or sad?
Quinerly
@raven: Google a YouTube on a makeover on a Burro. The “Wonky Donkey” one is really good. There’s also a cute one with a guy named “Chief One Lung” who was traveling all over with his. Living in it. These little fiberglass mold campers have an interesting history. Lightweight. 800-1200 lbs depending on the year. Originally made in Iowa. Made in 2 pieces. Seam down the middle. OK, we are off! Thanks for your interest.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m expecting the worse. We’ll see.
OzarkHillbilly
More and more, when it comes to these 2, I can either lie or STFU.
Steeplejack (phone)
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: My old man had that cervical laminectomy and it did help. The go in through the from now instead of the back like they did when I had the spinal fusion in 74. Much less intrusive I guess.
Patricia Kayden
@Betty Cracker: Yes I watched the whole thing and teared up as I saw a truthful, competent, warm spokesperson do her job without malice or drama. This is normal. I won’t be watching her again unless something exciting happens because under President Biden I expect us to get back to normal, boring politics.
Geminid
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Those advertising algorithms lead to some strange results on this forum. I checked out a post a few weeks ago, and the header ad showed a large metal livestock building, with a headshot of a happy looking hog. The post was about outreach to white working class voters, titled, “Teaching Pigs to Sing.”
Patricia Kayden
@OzarkHillbilly: Cruz and Hawley need to be booted from the Senate for supporting sedition. They are trash.
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yea, I’ve gotten to where I can walk just over a mile and then the foot gives out. I got the first covid vaccine 10 days ago so I’m going to start back swimming today. I’ve also been looking at this deep water running with a belt and that sounds promising since the Y has a diving well without a board!
Punchy
I no longer have to awake each morning wondering if/when our Admin has started a war with another country, or if he’s successfully traded my state for Greenland or Hudson Bay. That lowers the stress a bit.
Patricia Kayden
Baud
@Punchy:
In all honesty, you’d probably be better off as a citizen of Denmark.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Raven:
What was the “terrible favor” that Conroy asked?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Patricia Kayden: After a while, I got numb to how much spite and resentment marked every single encounter with a Trump representative. The contrast is almost unreal
OzarkHillbilly
It has a picture of bald headed Bernie sitting all by himself. Well done dear lady, well done.
Ken
But will they attend many meetings and make many phone calls?
raven
Man Shoveling Snow on a Unicycle Dressed as Darth Vader While Playing Flaming Bagpipes
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack (phone):
Punchy
@Baud: As a Denmarkian, I’d probably catch the krone-avirus.
Chief Oshkosh
Statement from every elected Democrat:
“Elected Republicans completely failed to manage the pandemic, resulting in the deaths of over 400,000 Americans; elected Republicans idly watched the economy crater and unemployment skyrocket; elected Republicans utterly botched trade relations with China and most of the rest of the world; elected Republicans trebled the national debt; elected Republicans incited and encouraged a violent, deadly insurrection against the American government.
After all of this, I call on each and every elected Republican to provide a detailed plan for how he or she will unite with the President and elected Democrats to clean up the mess that elected Republicans created, and for some, profited from. Be specific in your responses, most of which should start with the phrase: ‘Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris won their elections fair and square.’ ”
This should be repeated by Democrats on every talk show, at the beginning of every interview, and at the start of all official statements for at least the first 100 days of the new presidency.
After the first 100 days, and assuming not a single Republican understands what “unite” means when you’re on the losing side, Democrats on every talk show and at the beginning of every interview should start their talking points with “as we know, elected Republicans, other than getting in the way, are irrelevant at this point.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
Yay! Swords and Sorcery Magazine just accepted a short story. It will be free online. I’ll tell you when it’s out, which should be pretty quick.
sab
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: She looked like she was having so much fun.
Chief Oshkosh
@Baud: Here’s an opinion piece on President Carter that gives a solid background and perspective, IMO. I enjoy reading every once and while.
Steeplejack (phone)
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well, then why?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Congratulations!
raven
@Steeplejack (phone): “Their friendship lasted from 1981 to 1994, when Conroy asked Mewshaw to inform his second wife Lenore that he wanted a divorce. Mewshaw complied, but afterward, the two never saw each other again because Conroy accused Mewshaw of siding with Lenore. “
raven
@Steeplejack (phone): More
Steeplejack (phone)
@raven:
Thank you!
rikyrah
@satby:
BWA HA HA HA HA HA AH AHA
WaterGirl
@RedDirtGirl: they should replace the mattress if for no other reason that different people require different kinds of mattresses, hard, soft, etc in order to sleep well.
catatonia
https://twitter.com/i/status/1351955494978646018
I will never get sick of that clip. She just seemed so genuinely happy and proud. It’s something you watch when you’re depressed, and then you feel a bit better afterwards, for a lot of reasons.
And to realize that wonderful, kind, and, yeah, attractive woman is the same steely-eyed person who took apart Kavanaugh. We’re lucky to have her.
Edited to say we deserve to have her, after the past four years.
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack (phone): The answer to that question is in the book:
ETA: and in Raven’s replies. ;-)
brantl
@Ben Cisco: The funny thing is that they still think that there are a set of “brilliant Republicans” who are going to turn this all around, instead of what there is, a bunch of knee-jerkers that aren’t researching whether any of their policies ever work (they don’t) and whether they even are remotely capable of solving any problems (once again, they DON’T), and don’t propose any reasonable solutions to ANY problems. These guys have elevated cheap and stupid and greedy to an art form.
Miss Bianca
@Ramalama: Hey, I know some *beautiful* horses!
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh, yeah! Some news organ finally uses the word “normality” instead of that verbal abortion “normalcy”! Figures it would be a British paper, not an American one.
Being a jackal means *I* get to be a pedant *too*!//
J R in WV
@Quinerly:
We had a newer 27′ trailer as a bunkhouse while building our little ranch in Cochise county AZ. As a do it myself person, with a crew of other similar semi-pros, we found RV builders frequently used a wide variety of non-standard sized fittings for every sort of plumbing, water supply, power circuits, black water/gray water, door knobs, window cranks, everything odd sizes…
So we had trouble keeping things repaired. Oh, also, the non-standard stuff was such to save weight, so more fragile than regular household material, and very prone to breaking off in your hand when tightening, opening or closing a valve, etc.
I was so glad to have gotten it into good shape and sold after the third winter of construction, after which I could live up in the mountains instead of driving from cousin’s place in the valley every day.
J R in WV
@raven:
Good friend had that some time back at Duke U Hospital. Said when the documents you sign have total quadriplegia as a potential side effect it really focuses your attention. Was a total success, though. Much improved.
I have numbness/pain in my hands and arms off and on, with PT exercises that so far help a lot. At my age, not sure I’m up for adventuresome surgery past std joint replacements…
raven
@J R in WV: Yea, I had a thoracic spinal fusion in 74 so I’m familiar with being an eyelash away from being a quad.On the other hand I’m not ready to give up on fitness and I may have to resort to surgery after I exhaust every other course. I just came from my first deep water running with an aqua belt and I liked it. I have the same weakness in my foot/ankle when I stopped but I was able to get the heart up way further than walking. The other bonus is that the diving well is not used much and I won’t have to wait for a lane!
'Niques
@Immanentize: trumped
There go two miscreants
@Quinerly: Not sure how the inside of that is put together, but if you find that a lot of pop-rivet work is needed, these gizmos are very handy:
https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/topages/sheetholder.php