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Open Thread January 31 2025

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:02 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jan 302025

As Nameless pointed out, I was raised by cats. Well, Katie Porter was raised by basset hounds. I know that because I’m on her mailing list and on Monday, she sent me puppy pix of Poppy, her (and her kids’) new basset hound. Sorry, you can’t see them unless I forward the email. And yesterday – y’all know that Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because Bezes would not print her cartoon of all the CEOS handing money bags to The Mango Mandarin. If he thought that was bad … I wonder what he would say to the new one at the bottom of this post (It’s very tall – scroll all the way down.)

Wonkette follows up on the Friday night purge (attempted) of Inspectors General. The letter is a pleasure to read.

This from Robert Hubbell aims to calm and to motivate at the same time. To do so, he quotes two experts with slightly different takes on what to do and where we go from where we are. No reason a person couldn’t pick and choose from both. (After these, he also has some news which may be old news now.) His “daily dose of perspective” photo is IMO the most beautiful one yet. But that may be just me.

Herschel Walker: MORE Than JUST a Bogus Badge

Posted by SoINeedAName at 3:18 pm Politics

Oct 222022

Less than a week ago during the only debate for the Senate seat in Georgia, Herschel Walker violated the rules and improperly pulled out a prop, flashing a bogus badge:

Since then, Walker has repeatedly tried to claim that the badge is “legit”. That only begs the question: Exactly which police force would even consider giving Walker a legitimate badge?

Fortunately, MTG Greene has the answer:

[Even if you don’t have a hearing deficit and are not schooled in speech reading (the preferred term in the deaf community) – I think it’s pretty easy to make out what she’s saying]

But if you thought the Internet was going to let this pass without comment, you’d be wrong. Someone even created a white-out template of Walker so folks could get have some fun getting creative:

Let’s enjoy some of their results:

Of course, it’s really not surprising that Walker would lie about the badge – he’s long had difficulty telling the truth …

Then again, whenever Walker speaks, it’s always been difficult to understand anything he says:

Since Walker honestly appears to be this stupid, I say we go with “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah’s suggestion: Just give him an “Honorary Senator” certificate instead of actually electing him to the Senate.

“He won’t know the difference!”

Bottom Line: That the race is even close is just mind-boggling!

Video Thread 2/2/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:53 pm Open Thread, Politics

Feb 022021

DCCC getting into the act. There’s also this – same ad, different district) and probably many more.

Really American – BBA

The Lincoln Project

Meidas Touch

Well, this is something you don’t see every day…

Beau on the Rochester (NY) PD

BIG Mouth Awards

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