Caturday

A store cat.

Because We, As a Country, Have No Guts

Bolsonaro began serving a prison sentence for trying to overturn the results of a presidential election by sending his supporters to storm the capitol.

But we didn't have the guts to do the same.

Trump Celebrates Thanksgiving With His Usual Racist Screed

He was in fine form, spinning his favorite racist fiction, and blaming immigrants for everything.

Maybe we should have stopped poor women from Scotland from immigrating a century ago, or Bavarian draft dodgers 120 years ago. But those were white folk (and his ancestors) and that passes muster for those racist pricks.

Orange Piggy Pivots on a Pinhead, DC Shooting Ed. (plus)

First, they were foaming at the mouth about immigrants when the news came out that the shooter was an Afghan immigrant.

Then, when it came out that the shooter had been vetted and granted asylum by the Trump Administration..

If that's the current official line, Pee-Wee German is going to be sitting in the dark in his office, drinking straight bourbon, eating mayo with a spoon straight from the jar and moaning at the loss of yet another opportunity to ramp up his promotion o racism and xenophobia.

And this:

Because It's Friday

Some night steam.

Murdering These Down, Here

Happy Thanksgiving

On a number of radio stations back in the day, playing the entire song was a Thanksgiving tradition. Some of them were commercial stations-- almost nineteen minutes of no commercials. And some of them played it twice, at noon and 3 PM.

The judge was really blind, he had a Seeing-Eye dog. He played himself in the movie (as did Officer Obie).

I hope that if you're in America, you and yours have a good Thanksgiving. Try not to punch out your racist uncle or your commie nephew.

And please, enjoy the day without resorting to rampant consumerism.

Or burning down your hostess's house.

And you can maintain peace at the table by dividing up the attendees.

(Yes, the above is almost a complete repeat from earlier years. So sue me.)

And a bonus meme or two, plus a classic clip:

Right-Wing Terrorism

The unofficial brownshirts of the Right are trying to work their intimidation campaign on Indiana Republican legislators.

I spoke with a Republican member of Indiana’s legislature who opposes President Donald Trump’s push for the state to redraw its congressional map to gain two GOP seats and help the party hold its House majority in next year’s midterm elections. Trump, with support from Indiana’s Republican governor, Mike Braun, has vowed to back primary challengers against members of the GOP who are, for now, blocking the redistricting plan. The lawmaker I spoke with asked that I not publish his name. He isn’t worried about Trump’s political wrath; he doesn’t plan to run for reelection. His fear of speaking out is much more personal: “I’d rather my house not get firebombed,” he told me by phone.

Such a worry is not as far-fetched as it might sound—not in an America that has seen an eruption of political violence over the past few years, and not in Indiana over the past few weeks. Republicans in the state have faced a wave of “swatting” incidents, in which a false call to emergency services draws a police response, for not endorsing the redistricting plan. (Braun said he and his family have also received threats.)

Indiana lawmakers have reported other apparent attempts at intimidation, including at least one bomb threat, as well as subtler forms of harassment. Not all of them have been made public. Earlier this month, the Republican I interviewed was returning home from an evening walk and saw a Domino’s Pizza car parked out front. The delivery was under his name, with his home address, but he had not ordered it. The phone number that was given to the delivery driver was not his. The confirmation that no one in his family ordered it came when he asked the driver what was on the pizza: sausage and pepperoni. “We don’t eat meat,” he told me with a laugh, “so none of us ordered that pizza.” When the lawmaker later called the number affiliated with the order, it went to the state police in Indianapolis. Hoax pizza deliveries have been a favored tactic of MAGA supporters who have tried to enforce loyalty to Trump and his agenda. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia reported a similar incident before she abruptly announced her resignation from Congress. “The whole idea is, We know who you are. We know where you live,” the Indiana lawmaker said. “They’re trying to intimidate us.”

That's the thuggish Right at work, a movement that has barely graduated from bombing churches and burning crosses on people's front lawns. And it does work, witness the fact that Trump wasn't convicted at his second impeachment because the GOP senators were too cowardly to so vote.

Dear Mike: Just Fucking Quit

Even in a softball interview, Mike Johnson can't help but go all "woe is me" about being the Speaker/Puppet of the House.

And seriously? Stephen Miller is so white that all he eats is mayonnaise?? I thought that was satire, but as we've been finding out, the line between satire and the Orange Piggy Administration is almost invisible.

DC Shooting

I don’t know what the outcome of the DC shooting investigation will be.

But I’m confident that the Trump Administration will respond with the maximum possible levels of racism, bigotry, xenophobia, and overall hatred.

Because that's who they are, a pack of small-minded nasty bigots, a veritable shitstain on the nation.

Which should not surprise you that one of them would use ICE to resolve a custody dispute.