It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. I predict that it will not be a busy day on the third day after they nail the lid on. TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:45 (average 5:11). To do it click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Trey Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – The God Damn Wall
Trey still understands Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Why We Must Get Big Money Out of Politics
The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, represents the 0.01%. The Republican Reich does NOT represent YOU! RESIST!!
From TPM: Hours after being sworn in as a new congresswoman on Thursday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) dropped a bomb on an issue around which most Democrats have been walking on eggshells.
“‘Look, Mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,’” Tlaib quoted her son to the crowd at a MoveOn reception. “And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker.”
The crowd erupted.
I think I’m going to love Rashida Tlaib! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
May the second time be better than the first.
9 Responses to “Open Thread – 1/4/2018”
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4:31 It might be edible … but it also might have come from (southern) Russia. I’d lay off.
You may not have missed this when Rachel first pointed it out … but I did … and we do not want to miss it now when it is growing.
Trae – Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” leaps to mind. As do medieval fortifications – which helped some, but never worked for long. Trae’s idea is indeed a tough sell. But maybe if Obama AND Hillary stood up for it, it might work.
RR – It is definitely a prerequisite. Stopping all the loopholes is going to be like playing Twister on a dam with only 20 digits (plus maybe a nose?) It’s going to take more than one of us.
TPM – My immediate thought was “truth of the libel.” Yes, I realize she spoke it, so slander is more likely, but it’s the same principle. Incidentally, DFA has a “card” to her and other new progressives which ne can sign, HERE.
Cartoon – Amen
If tRump really did think Mexico was going to pay even one centavo for his damn wall, he was utterly delusional. Now he says us taxpayers have to foot the bill, when our bridges are unsafe, our roads are crumbling, our national parks are overflowing with garbage and poo, and veterans are eating out of dumpsters. Let us hope that his holding our government hostage over his infantile desire for a 21st century Maginot Line destroys what is left of his credibility (as if he had any to start with!) and turns all but his most brainlessly dedicated supporters against him. Let us hope that, one fine day in November of 2020, we will wake up to a solid blue map recapping the Presidential election.
TCC: He does “get” Pres. Grifter. His comment about Grifter loving nothing but hard things with his name on them, is in synch with Al Sharpton’s recent comment that Dumphy has been craving validation all his life; has been seen as incompetent to do virtually anything, which is why he was never near the center of the New York Realm Estate community. Image is all he cares about; responded to Pelosi’s “No wall, No way,” with threats that included “the shut-down might last a long time.”
Reich is always spot on!
TPM: She really blew it, already!!! She’s given the trolls on the right yet more reason to complain that those Muslims do not belong in this country! I have to agree with the descriptor she used, but I do not go around proclaiming it in public.
‘Toon: I still have mixed feelings about Ms. “Carte blanche,” who has, apparently, vetoed the “New Green Deal,” already!!!!
TCC: Excellent idea and so true, Trey!! Excellent!!! 😉
RR: Spot on, Mr. Reich!
TPM: While I think the same remark she said (every day), I don’t proclaim it openly, not around here. At least, we know where she’s at on this issue. lol
Cartoon: Whew! What a relief she is!!!
Hope that you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
TCC: Sure seems to know the idiots behavior about the wall so well.
RR: Right on as usual.
TPM: Wow…I like Rep. Rashida Tlaib strong message. Very powerful.
Cartoon: Wishing her the best.
YES, YES Liberal Red-Neck’s got it!!
Get Prez Obama to come out & endorse the gawd-damn-wall, trumpit will drop it like it’s……… !!!
like it’s a subpoena.
If anyone were thinking “like s**t” – he wouldn’t drop that – he wallows in it.
4:15 (average 5:11) Rather see the yellow flowers.
TC: Excellent analysis of Drumpf’s motives for this wall, Trey. And excellent solution too. Now if we only could get Obama to embrace the wall with conviction…
Robert Reich: I’m sure Elizabeth Warren can look forward to Robert’s support if she decides to run for president. Those two great minds have fallen in the same ditch and it seems Robert and Liz have been coordinating on a plan these past two years and it’s now being rolled out. I’m sure we’ll hear a lot more of this well-thought-out campaign in the coming year.
TPM: Yes, it was straight from the heart, and understandable in a way, but it also gave in to the rock-bottom standards to which Drumpf has lowered the discourse in politics. Saying it like it is the Drumpf way takes away from the message, Ms. Tlaib. People now will discuss your expletive instead of your message and you will be remembered for it for a long time. Such a pity.
CArtoon: I hope to be convinced by her actions that she’s the right PERSON for the job. At a time of crisis gender shouldn’t matter.
Thanks, pooped hugs, and Amen.