Trump gets a reminder:
Obey Putin or stay away from tall buildings.
Holy sh*t.
In a speech, Putin suggests Trump might not finish his term alive:
“Trump is not even safe now, but I hope he is a smart and cautious person,” — Putin
In Putin’s doublespeak, this could be a threat.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism.bsky.social) November 29, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Now that we’ve heard from the boss of the new boss:
Let’s look for wisdom from blogdom, beginning with painful memories and a Thanksgiving dedicated to America’s most persecuted minority
(Yeah, I don’t buy it either):
- It’s been 61 years. To those of us of a certain age, it seems like a thousand years ago, and it also seems like yesterday.
At The Moderate Voice Joe Gandelman remembers where he was when we lost John F. Kennedy.
I’m old enough to share similar memories.
- I suspect that if, from the beginning, President Biden had pounded the lectern until his hands bled, mad as all hell about price manipulation by near-monopolies, the inflation issue would have worked for Democrats. Price gouging is a clear product of price-fixing collusion.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara has a Thanksgiving message that departs a bit from tradition. We should all be bowing to business, especially those making the biggest profits.
Key empathy:
…business, especially the most successful, is the most persecuted minority in America today. - My own thought about this year’s Tragic Thanksgiving.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit gets irritated by one occasional MAGA claim and briefly reminds us that the Trump landslide never happened.
- Scotties Playtime finds a glimmer in the darkness as California Democrat Derek Tran reduces the already slim Republican House majority, flipping a previously Republican seat to Democratic.
Key snark:
Nancy Mace is going to go on another tear!!Two Tran’s in the House !!
- Long time political reporter Brian Beutler would like Democrats who hope for a constructive party future to first decide what they believe.
- Vixen Strangely watches a CNN interview, sees it as an example (it is) of a discouraging media practice: both‑sides journalism that legitimizes straight‑out lies as just another point of view.
- Trump gets a bit of praise for “ideological diversity” in his cabinet choices.
Julian Sanchez, on Blue Sky, explains why diversity was pretty much unavoidable:
It’s true, when you pick a gaggle of utter crackpots purely for their obsequious servility, they will probably be “ideologically diverse.”
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) November 23, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Julian adds what, in this case, the term has come to mean:
Mutually incompatible conspiracy theories.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) November 23, 2024 at 5:43 PM
- Dave Columbo goes venning (Is too a word!) to assist the incoming President in staffing up his staff:
- Just when YellowDog Granny gets out, we pull her back in > with illustrated entertainment on offensiveness, social media posts, but mostly the madcap incoming administration.
- Frances Langum has the very new way, beginning January 20, intelligence briefings will be prepared.
- In Ottawa news, The Beaverton reports on a warning from experts that Trump may be dangerously close to figuring out where Canada is.
Key hope:
“I don’t often say this as a medical professional, but we’ve really got dementia on our side here,” explains Dr. Arthur Anderson of the Calgary Alzheimers Research Alliance. - Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson anticipates the behavior of the incoming President:
Can we just impeach him now and avoid the rush?
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson.bsky.social) November 22, 2024 at 9:35 PM
- Tommy Christopher provides network video as Jen Psaki lists a few good things about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.
Then she does an on‑the‑other‑hand, there are those unfortunate details around that sexual assault allegation thing.
- Juliet at Decoding Fox News has prospective Defense Secretary nominee explaining how our military is no longer manly enough. We should stop wars like we did in Japan.
Key Hegseth televised quote:
We did that then because we had barrel-chested men saying ‘we are going to win this war.Key Juliet reminder:
The U.S. military dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan. - We’ve seen what has become an iconic photo.
The Onion provides the sequel as a sweating RFK Jr. performs self-surgery to extract that big mac from his stomach. - From The Borowitz Report:
The application for employment as assistant manager by poor Matt Gaetz has been rejected by Hooters.
- At Juanita Jean’s Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene promote a lawsuit against a couple of California cities and some private groups after the cities pulled away from allowing Big Lie MAGA events. The two manage, somehow, to generate more than half a million in legal costs that they themselves must now pay.
- In News Corpse, former top Trump aide HR McMaster wonders why so many Republicans parrot Vladimir Putin’s talking points.
Key quote:
But they’ve got to disabuse themselves of this strange affection for Vladimir Putin, who is not gonna stop in his efforts to restore Russia’s national greatest at our expense. That’s what he is obsessed with. He’s obsessed with reestablishing the Russian empire. - Infidel753 makes a compelling case that Putin’s nuclear capability is far weaker than generally recognized.
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson finds a good illustration of the difference between governing by policy vs governing by social media: Trump tariffs.
The same analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates in podcast. - PZ Myers and family are stocking up in anticipation of Trump tariff generated inflation.
He shows how those tariffs won’t accomplish much else for average Americans.
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil relies, as do many of us of an age, on Medicare or Medicaid. Biden brings us good news on prescription costs that seems destined to be turned into really bad news by TrumpFolk.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger makes a simple and compelling argument that supporters of reproductive rights have already won the national debate on abortion.
- driftglass starts out all Swiftian with his own Modest Proposal about Never Trumpers lecturing Dems on all the things they got wrong and the Archie Bunker types they insist we entice.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors puts together a thread from social media to show each of us that the answer to the depressing result is not hope and optimism, but instead: the right kind of hope and optimism.
- In the one‑is‑not‑like‑the‑other category:
North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz suggests that those of our Christian brethren who celebrate deportations might want to reconsider celebrating Christmas.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser former pastor, current atheist, Bruce examines the usually unmentioned part of the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah (the part anti-gay preachers mostly leave out). He looks at one left over question: Why did God kill Lot’s wife?
Bruce also considers one possible science‑consistent source in actual history for the ancient destruction of the city.
- @whiskeywhistle98 gets enticed into watching Target Santa:
- Clickbait satirist Reductress misses the good old days when an important part of so many Macy’s parades included accidental near death experiences.
- Nan’s Notebook posts four illustrations on immigration, Project 2025, working people, and dating twins.
That last is my favorite:
- Sarah Cooper shows how to look brilliant in meetings without having to pay attention:
- In Happiness Between Tails, da-AL guest hosts author and blogger Esther Chilton, whose cat has character, and whose adventures include convincing Esther’s cat sitting mother there has been a criminal break‑in.
- SilverAppleQueen has cats only temporarily at rest.
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