It’s a tired day here in the CatBox, but I did stomach the last three meals with minimal pain. Tonight is a WWWendy night. Happy Hump Day to all.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:43 (average 5:25). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Yesterday was soup and crackers. This is the chili and rice.
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: At the last debate, Bernie Sanders defended his supporters while also condemning anyone who exhibited the culture of bullying that many who claim to support him display online. Earlier tonight, reporter Scott Bixby of The Daily Beast reported that one of Bernie Sanders staffers was using a private Twitter account to trash the other Democratic candidates.
Using the account @perma_ben, Ben Mora, a regional field director for Sanders’ campaign based in Michigan, has attacked other Democrats in the field—as well as their family members, surrogates, journalists, and politically active celebrities—in deeply personal terms, mocking their physical appearance, gender, and sexuality, among other things.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mora has tweeted, “looks like her name: pained, chunky, [and] confused origin/purpose.” Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg “is what happens when the therapist botches the conversion,” and his husband, Chasten, Mora predicts, will be “busted for running a meth racket” in 10 years. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a frequent subject of Mora’s private account, is called a “dumb Okie,” “an adult diaper fetishist” who “looks like shit” and who lied about having Native American ancestry “to get into Harvard.”
The thing is, this is a thing. This is exactly what other candidates were complaining about. It’s what many of us experienced online in 2016, and it’s an acknowledged problem by the Sanders campaign despite his disavowal of the attitudes and sentiments expressed by these guys.
So it was encouraging — very encouraging — to hear that Mora had been fired. Unfortunately, that’s not the end of the story. Since Mora was fired, the reporter has been doxed and is being harassed.
Kudos to Bernie for canning the SOB. I think Bernie supporters are great, but some Bernie Bros are just stinking Republicans! RESIST!!
From The Borowitz Report: Asserting that his personal interests put him in direct conflict with the interests of the United States of America, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has demanded that Donald Trump recuse himself from all decisions involving the future of the U.S.
Speaking from her office at the Supreme Court, Ginsburg said that Trump’s oft-stated allegiance to himself makes it impossible for him to render unbiased decisions on issues affecting people other than himself.
“Since the United States is populated by three hundred and thirty-one million people who are not him, any decision regarding their fates would, by definition, ensnare Trump in an insoluble conflict of interest,” she said.
Ginsburg enumerated a list of issues about which Trump should immediately recuse himself, including immigration, trade, taxes, the social safety net, women’s reproductive rights, health care, the economy, the military, the environment, “and any other issues related to domestic or foreign policy not listed above.”
Amen Andy! What else is there to say? RESIST!!
From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Super Tuesday Smorgasboard [sic]
As usual, Trae is funny as hell, but realistically, only two choices are best for America: Liz or Bernie! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Turtles – Happy together (video/audio edited & remastered) HQ
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue!!
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6:07 I shouldn’t be, but I’m surprised how much having hiccups affects eye-hand coordination.
Hi to WWWendy WW. Hope you get rested.
Robert Reich on Barr and the DOJ.
Cartoon – Yup.
C&L – Yes, I was glad about the firing. Sorry to hear about the doxing – yes, that is purely Republican (or Russian – not that there’s much difference, if any.) I would bet money that none, or close to none, of them have ever actually voted for Bernie, then or now.
TBR – What a brilliant legal mind!
Trae – It’s not easy to construct an extended analogy that works – he did a beautiful job. I may have to transcribe that.
Past – one of the feel-good songs the sixties were so good at, while still turning out resistance songs as well.
Cartoon: Of course!
C&L: Glad that he was fired. No place for this on the stage or elsewhere.
TBR: How wonderful she is. Wish we could clone her.
Trae: Hadn’t seen him in awhile, I really enjoy his videos.
BFTP: Good one, for today!
Hi, WWWendy! Well, that’s good news that you’re keeping food(s) down. Hope it continues, and that you start feeling better. I lied TC…ico my personal email to you. Here I am.
They (the dentist) and staff had to extract the tooth that was bothering me and causing pain. Kind of a bummer, imho. My friend who works there, stuck her head in and said…”ya gotta wear your big girl pants when you get older to put up with this..(pain).” I agree. lol
*This just in: “What should dt do regarding the Coronavirus? Ask Putin.” ~ Bill K. ~
2. “The biggest threat to our elections is a potus who welcomes foreign help. Our biggest danger to our democracy is a potus who lies constantly. I don’t discuss classified briefings, but you don’t need a clearance to see how dt endangers everything we hold dear.” ~ Adam Schiff ~
3. Stunning list of dt’s key staff turnover. 450 people quit of fired in dt’s first 900 days.” ~ J. A. ~
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qw7uAkCag7FPX6qI9pBAAzi1a4sgyD3k5xvleIOwL-s/edit?fbclid=IwAR0SCGZtLyRFU5NC4akzM-i95UarlA19LwEHOgV1LTLnqfhT6eedKLzxSYo#gid=0
‘Toon: That’s what McTurtle has claimed he is banking on: the short memory of many, if not all, Americans.
Chili looks good.
C&L: This Mora guy, was he a plant, a mole? They all have to go.
Borowitz: I did not know Andy could read minds.
Trae: I’ll have the Liz, or Bernie special, whilst shoving hamburgers down Dumpy’s throat!
BFTP: LOVE me some Turtles!
Robert Reich: The opening sentence says it all! POS!
Cartoon: Yeah, right.
Soup and crackers are easy on the stomach. Your chili and rice looks good. Hope not too spicy.
C&L: Glad to see that this creep was fired. We certainly don’t need this type of crap.
TBR: She is so right. Wish we had many more with her type of thinking.
Trae: Like his video.
BFTP: Sweet loving tune.
Glad you were able to keep you meals done. Pray it continues.
Hope you were able to get some rest too.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
I wouldn’t worry about spicy. This is making me (us) rethink everything I (we) ever knew about heartburn, because we think of heartburn as the stomach rejecting things. But in this case, the stomach isn’t the problem – it-s a physical barrier. So apparently anything he can get past that barrier (which means anything liquid enough to slide past), he can keep down, even if it would normally be (metaphorically) lethal for a heartburn sufferer. Boggles my mind, too.
3:43 Ugh, I don’t think anyone could stomach those spikes.
Cartoon: Really? Their voters share their hatred and anyone else knows they don’t love anyone but themselves, so why bother? So that’s why most Republicans stopped pretending.
Blender: My first thought was Mulligatawny soup, but when it wasn’t I looked up an easy recipe for you for a little variation. My idea is that a lot of full-meal soups retail their original taste when blended as all ingredients were cooked together to start with, cooking a meal soup now and again may keep your palate happy too. This particular recipe has an unblended picture, but most Mulligatawnies are in fact blended. Be careful though, soup blending is best done with an immersion blender to avoid burning yourself with hot soup.
C&L: It is well known that in many countries parties or campaign teams are infiltrated by people from the opposition to do as much damage as possible from within. With Russians, and perhaps even Chinese and goodness knows who else wanting to interfere in the American elections, candidates need to be very careful indeed who they take on board. Unless you’re Trump; then you just deny ever having met that person.
TNY: Spot on, Andy! Trump IS a conflict of interests.
TC: Hilarious and really getting his point across. If you stay at home, you get the food your mum and dad chose for you and “You don’t want your food to actively hate you”, do you?
BFTP: A tune that is able to lift my spirits at any time.
Exactly. Blended Mulligatawnies sound about perfect.
Glad that you have managed to eat something, without to much ado Tom Cat.♥️