Baby, it’s cold outside. It snowed last night. My guest is headed home today. I mean, comrade in arms as we wage yet another battle in the War on Christmas in the Pittsburgh theatre. We’ve sipped latte from our desecrated Starbuck’s cups and said “Happy Solstice” to the Walmart greeter.
On a cold, snowy winter day like today, we comfort ourselves with thoughts of how the folks back home are struggling valiantly against deprivation with Clancy’s milk chocolate popcorn and cups of hot tea. Show your national pride and don’t be careless about your tea making. Fortunately, we have the instructions for making mass quantities for our war canteen. Get out your muslin bags:
Ahhhhhh, that hit the spot in our darkest hour.
Lovely.
Note: Do not under any circumstances pour hot boiling water into your graduated cylinder while you are holding it at eye level. Place the cylinder on the lab bench, wear protective eyewear and gloves. Pour the boiling water into a beaker first. Then carefully pour into the cylinder until the water level touches the bottom of the meniscus on the desired milliliters. Consider a shake flask with a tight fitting stop cock.
Have a little London Fog:
London Fog
Earl Grey tea
Steamed milk
Vanilla honey
Make a strong pot of earl grey tea. Pour 6 oz into a large cup. Add 4 oz of hot steamed milk. Finish with a teaspoon of vanilla honey.
Enjoy with mashed lemony avocado on garlic toast, a roaring fire and a good book.
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The Confluence 
Is this a tea party?
Are you EVER gonna hit the road, Felicia?
Sometimes, a tea bag is just A TEA BAG.
You may want to consider other sites if you want angry white people with no sense.
I’d be happy to suggest one.
I sometimes wonder if these deplorables have children (and of course, many do). If I had a child, I would be scared out of my wits leaving the country behind in the current shape and a downward decline for her.
There has to be many reforms starting with a true checks and balance on presidential power. But how to cure deplorables’ stupidity? They all seem like one big trough of Russian trolls.
Getting the corruption out of the media corporations and politicians, will be a good start. There is a lot riding on 2018. Drain the swamp!
Seen this article by Charles Pierce? He has been making consistently good points since 2016 and he has the perspective of having seen it all, unlike the 30 year olds running the media shit show everywhere.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a14516912/donald-trump-new-york-times-michael-schmidt/
IMO the best check we could hope for (and it is unlikely) would be president elected by popular vote, not EC.
Oh, I rather suspect he already came from one of those, even maybe one we are particularly familiar with…
London Fog sounds delicious. Can I slip a little Maker’s Mark in for toddy goodness? Well, I can’t until done with the Flagyl.
Help yourself to some Bulleit or Jameson’s. Sooooo good.
Speaking of media corruption, apparently trump PACs are pouring money in ADs on CNN, MSNBC which have people thanking the El Douche in them. Is this what he meant when he said the media would be begging him to run again in 2020 so they could profit off of this shit show?
In case y’all haven’t seen this article yet, it describes life in the “precariat” which RD often mentions.
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/12/linda_tirado_on_the_realities_of_living_in_bootstrap_america_daily_annoyances.html
Happy New Year, everybody. May love and kindness (and science) prevail.
Happy New Year!
I don’t know for sure that this is a New Year’s party, but they’re keeping warm and two of them are wearing traditional garb, so that’s my guess.
This becomes a BIG picture if you click on it.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, RD and everyone! This is going to be a year of reckoning for America.
This tweet is the first one I have seen of its substance. I repeated something similar on another blog soon after the election, in my own mind trying to explain why or how trump happened. I called it the honor code and that the American system depends on that honor code on the part of the candidates, that is, that a bad candidate would be afraid to run in the first place for fear of consequences. trump had no such compunctions from the beginning and there were no consequences — the journalists (esp. TV and major print) who needed to act on behalf of the people, the country, and the electoral integrity completely failed to inform the public what a colossal mistake this was going to be. And there were others like Sanders who interfered for no reason other than their own ego, let the country go to hell. And with the new FBI revelations on when the investigation of trump campaign started, we can blame Obama and Comey also. Harry Reid was there and Hillary was there warning us.
The McDucks’ hired brains have manged to bamboozle a critical mass, perhaps a majority, of non-elite white USAmericans into defining class differences by level of formal education and “sophistication”, rather than level of income and wealth.
They have managed to make the booboisie resent the “eggheads”, rather than the McDucks.