Hope everyone is having a good weekend. We are getting tons of snow here in Ohio – it’s very pretty and they plow the roads pretty quickly so it hasn’t been too hard to get around.
Handy explainer:
What to know about sudden rebel gains in Syria’s 13-year war and why it matters
https://apnews.com/article/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22
File under “no shit, Sherlock”
Food, gas and cars could quickly get pricier under Trump’s tariff plan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/29/tariffs-inflation-consumers-gas-food-car-prices
Yeah because Canada doesn’t allow felons in
Trump having dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/29/politics/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-dinner/index.html
Wowza. That’s impressive.
A restored Notre Dame cathedral is unveiled days before its official reopening
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/29/nx-s1-5210589/restored-notre-dame-cathedral-unveiled
That’s all I’ve got for now…Have a great weekend!
The Lake Effect! We’ve been hearing about nothing but snowfall even though we’re hundreds of miles from the nearest snowflake. Five feet of snow in Watertown! Krazy Kat has declared a state of emergency in 11 counties! How will we survive? I foolishly used up the last of the egg salad over T’giving and while we don’t have bread we have plenty of crackers and some of that disgusting 0% milk. 10-day forecast: Cold, no snow. But I’m sure people are panic buying.
Is your rental cozy and snug? Are the cats enjoying it? Does Lake Erie freeze over very often? Lake Michigan rarely does and almost never completely (just like the Hudson River) but when it does the way the water and the ice form against the land is really an impressive sight.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/lake-michigan-chicago-polar-vortex-temperature-us-weather-cold-frozen-a8755721.html
Polar vortex! That’s a term I haven’t heard in a while.
This week in anti-Semitism:
To that, I will respond with the Shekel Shuffle (notice it’s all male):
The small interesting bit in that article was the note that Adams got elected because the press fell over itself chasing Yang’s idiocy until there was no coverage left for serious candidates, and when Yang collapsed Adams snuck through.
They see the same thing happening with Cuomo being the distractor from any serious candidate, and it’s basically Politico promising they’ll fan the flames that lets another Adams sneak through in NYC.
So the choice for people who claim don’t want another Adams is going to be do they keep promoting the dumb gossip? Or do they actually want another Adams and all the complaining is just posturing?
Wrapped around each other
Trying not to punch his arm
That next cold dinner together
Sitting within reach of arms
Listening to his dumb old stories
Wanting to leave so desperately
He says “I’m always the hero”
“So I kept away the flirting lady”
We ate it all
Stuff like McDs and Taco Bell
Starring in our own late, late show
Dining away in Mar-A Largo
Here’s lookin’ at you skids
Gonna tariff all the things I did
A trade war once again, I know
Dining away in Mar-A Largo
This is what all Trump’s guests got for Thanksgiving. I mean, besides tax breaks. Guess they’re lucky it wasn’t hamberders from McDonalds.
jeez….id be embarrassed to serve that even on a low effort day
It looks like a menu designed by AI.
definitely checkboxes….a meat…(you know…if you can call what looks like a chicken schnitzel that.. 3 different veg…tho the pile of corn is offputting to me..and gravy
there..done…jobs a good un
that bread thing better not be cake tho…coz who in the fuck puts cake on the dinner plate with the gravy
dont test me like this america just when ive decided to drop the anti america shit….
…I…think maybe that’s a piece of cornbread cut from a big sheet-pan?
…&…maybe the anaemic looking corn is actually good…I’ve had tasty corn that wasn’t bright yellow so I know it’s at least possible…but…the plate is trying to say one thing about whose table you’re at & the serving of turkey is saying the exact reverse…it looks like a little chef meal…in the sense of what you’d get at a budget motorway services in a time before gastropubs were a thing?
…I’ve been to enough thanksgiving dinners to be pretty sure that’s basically an insult on a plate if it shows up on a lot of tables…& I don’t have the right birth certificate to be president so…fuck…maybe the wetherspoons guy could give him some pointers if he wants to play it cheap & act the big man?
huh come to think of…..far as checkboxes go…. wheres the fucking spuds?
far as the corn goes…thats just personal bias…i dont like the stuff much
im told theres good corn out there…ive not had it yet..ill eat it if its in stuff…but on its own…nope..no sirree…well…maybe if i was starving and the nutritional value of the table cloth doesnt cut it
…I always kind of liked corn…on the cob or at least in whole pieces…but thought creamed corn was invented by someone who hated humanity & wanted them to be miserable
…then I got served good humitas in an argentian steak joint & I realized it’s like the thing where in the britain of my youth vegetables that could be quite tasty if stir-fried were boiled several inches past death & maybe it wasn’t really that I didn’t like the thing so much as I’d only had it explained by people who’d never tried the sort that didn’t suck & weren’t aware it was an option
…oddly I have found a similar pattern to hold true with a wide variety of booze…but I try not to base my diet on a foundation of things-that-hold-true-for-liquor…so I imagine it won’t do any harm to stick to your guns on the corn thing…leaves more for…uhh…the people who turn that into booze, maybe?
lol…is why im not outright saying corn is bad
if somebody not in this country tells me its good where they are…i will withhold judgement until ive atleast tried it there…if i ever get there
i dont have high hopes for it being good….but me being wrong isnt a rare thing either
so you know…*shrugs*
im told theres good corn out there
showed the missus the pic….and she made the lack of spuds make sense…
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-legendary-mashed-potato-story
does trump holding a grudge against potatos for that make sense to anyone else?
dont count fries…he probably doesnt know what they are made of
Corn is definitely something you have to get fresh from the farm. We have great corn here but only for about a month out of the year. Kahuku corn on Oahu is amazing, super sweet!
Definitely sheet-pan cornbread!!!
And the thing that’ making the corn look so anemic, is that it’s overcooked bicolor corn!
It’s white *and* yellow kernels together, lookin’ kinda like it was probably boiled on the cob, then cut off by knife (judging by how unevenly those kernels have been hacked up!)…
It was overcooked to begin with–the white kernels *should* still be mostly white/cream-colored, not yellowy…
Buuuut I don’t expect anyone Trump can afford to work in his kitchen would actually *know* how to cook a decent sweet corn, anyway.
Hell, they could’ve gotten better-looking corn frozen, from off the Sysco truck, at *this* time of year–because at least Sysco’s frozen corn was picked when it was perfectly ripe in early/mid summer!
The “sell-by”-dated ready made “Sliced Turkey Dinner” i got at Whole Foods in my pickup bag looked better than that, and I accidentally flipped the box upside down in my bag, carrying it home last night!🫠🫠🫠
Wow. Same as farscythe… embarrassing if you’ve got guests.
Back when I was in grad school and had no family in the state, one of my friends called me on Thanksgiving day and said “put a bra and pants on, we’re picking you up in 30 minutes and you’re going to dinner with us at Cracker Barrel.”
It was crowded as fuck, the wait staff hurriedly asked you “ham, dark meat, or white meat? mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes?” and that was all you could pick aside from your drink.
It was a significantly better meal than what is pictured above.
Here’s an interesting, gossipy story about the Democrats trying to refresh their gerontocracy. Unfortunately, it is being led by “Speaker Emerita” Nancy Borgia, 84.
Another shiv in the back in the prison yard, same as Grandpa Joe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/us/politics/democrats-nadler-raskin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d04.ic0_.Mnh5TfZ3n-Da&smid=url-share
Again, Times article out from the paywall. You should be able to access it.
Trump will just pardon himself and his enablers at right wing SCOTUS will nod solemnly.
I have no doubt that he’ll try. He can’t pardon his felony convictions in New York. SCOTUS can’t overturn those unless they find that Constitutional law or federal law was violated, which would be tough.
Is it impossible? No. SCOTUS has shown they have no problem just making shit up and there’s nobody to stop them from doing that. So they’d have to find a law (Trump claims that the prosecutor and judge were ‘biased’ against him, so they might start there) and stretch it to fit this circumstance. Which they totally love to do!
Basically, we get to watch whatever fictional rationale they concoct unfold.
It’s a definite problem for Trump, though. There’s 37 countries that ban convicted felons from crossing their borders.
…it’s a soft 37, though…look at france & bibi
…would be really something if, say, his secretary of defense ended up hiding in the ecuadorian embassy for longer than his boss was in office because shit hit the fan while he was visiting london
…call it a wikileaks love-in & claim it prevented nuclear winter by making it impossible for anyone but ecuador to declare war on the US is probably the sort of well-thought out & totally sense-making lipstick they’d apply to the pig they’re busy wrestling…without its consent, probably?
Shit, it’s cold.
Yuuuuuup!!!
We finally got winter, here in MN–air temp is 13°F, at 4:45pm–gonna get eve colder once the sun goes down.
I’ve been wearing my “full winter coat” (Columbia outer jacket with a north face fleece under it), and my regular hoodie for the last couple weeks… I did finally break out the Sorels today, though!