Watkins is the second Q. We'll never find out who the original is.

"Bars pretty much never shut down here in WV Hagbard..."

That explains the state's stupidity, but doesn't really address the decision to go along with it.

"We're very good friends. I don't think he meant it the way some people thought," Feinstein said when asked about the governor's comments. The senator added, "You're making a mountain out of a molehill."

"Aye... And in the redneck bars of Virginia and West Virginia."

Why are you going to bars during a pandemic?

"Sickos"

Yeah, taking other peoples' experiences into consideration when you speak in mixed company is intolerable and disgusting in 'murricah. We need less of that, not more, in this country. Parents should remove their children from this school in protest. Trying to teach people to be conscientious and respectful of one another. Can you believe it? Not in this country!

"That seems high....I know a lot of men who are as republican as can be and they are excited to get vaccinated." #2 | POSTED BY EBERLY

I'm going to credit that to the fact that you probably associate with the saner half of what makes up the GOP these days. Or that the crazier half can smell the centrism on you and keep their distance intentionally.

I'm not suggesting either should be a bad thing from your perspective.

"Girl you thought he was a man
But he was a muffin
He hung around till you found
That he didn't know nuthin'"

More Songs that don't hit the way they used to:

Songs that don't hit the way they used to:

"It means if you hear anybody in DC chanting Trump slogans you treat them the same way you would an Arab in DC chanting Allah Akbar."

How is that, exactly?

" There is a shortage of... policemen."

Are there though?

" According to what I've seen on NYC local news, his ambitions were higher than a Cabinet position."

Dude sees the Presidency as his destiny. Legacy politicians tend toward the grandiose.

" It's the finest that government employees deserve. Battery cars with air conditioning. It's a massive, but pricey, upgrade for brave civil servants."

I know your angle here is that this is just wasteful virtue signaling but you have to grant that there are a lot of good reasons to upgrade the fleet. Ways that are both virtuous in the generally accepted moral sense, as well as in the economic sense, that it both, directly and/or indirectly, makes and/or saves money. In the proper context.

Am I the only one who still reads "MTG" as Magic: The Gathering, having not yet adjusted to it commonly meaning Marjorie Taylor Green lately?

A lot of stories read better using the former so I'm not persuaded to correct the habit.

Plus people are using it as a cheap conservative knock-off of AOC. Half the brains, half the style, and 1% of the class.

I'm just going to use Madge for a while. For my own entertainment purposes.

" I can't believe a Cheney is probably the person with the most integrity in the GOP."

She's just trying to protect the family brand from going down with a sinking ship. Perhaps doing the right thing but for entirely selfish reasons.

" Our society is too selfish for that."

While that may be true it's not even the biggest part of our problem. Our representatives on both sides of the aisle never had the political will to make it possible for most people to stay home. We could have done things must faster and at a significantly lower price tag if we had done the right thing at the very beginning. I can think of only one or two politicians who were suggesting taking the appropriate measure at the time, but as popular as they are nationally, Washington hates them so their ideas were non starters.

Here's another example of how looking like I was 16 at 26 is finally paying off. That dude is a year younger than me and looks at least 10 years older. Thanks, dad.

"There's a retread back on the nooner as well."

There's at least four making an appearance today. It's either one sad, sad poster using multiple alts or a coordinated effort. Not sure which is more pathetic.

A lot of sock puppets are out this morning.

"You're making an obstinate choice to not believe the obvious truth."

It's a tough pill to swallow to admit to yourself that you supported people and policies that led to the deaths of half a million Americans in a single year. If he weren't such a bell end 99% of the time you could almost have sympathy for the predicament in which he finds himself now.

"Chow-dah! CHOW-DAH! Say it right, Frenchy!"

Chow-DAIR!

"Trump is done, steam cleaned and pressed."

Nonsense. Even if he doesn't run again he's still sitting on a half billion dollars that he'll dangle in front of every Republican. He doesn't even have to spend it all in one election cycle, he can dole it out over two or three. And he'll continue to raise money, making him relevant even longer. Trump is the leader of the Republican party until the day he dies.

You built that.

"Heshe"

Are you 12 years old or something? Grow up.

"The hero doesn't always wear a white hat and cowboy boots. Sometimes she wears makeup and high heels."

You'd think Republicans would love how when Texas faced a crisis politicians were able to organize without the machinery of government and did wellness checks on hundreds of thousands of people and raised millions of dollars in assistance while people were without heat, food, and water. That's the kind of self reliance they like, right? The kind of self reliance they believe is what truly makes this country great, right? Wrong. They prefer the politicians who were unable to do anything because they couldn't bark orders into a telephone. Politicians who blamed their constituents. Politicians who make up straw men that had absolutely no bearing on their current problems. Politicians who fled the country rather than stay and do whatever they could to help people. Politicians who believe regulating utilities hurts business. Politicians who simply gave up and shrugged off their responsibilities, responsibilities they swore to take on by accepting elected office. The politicians who did nothing? Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz. The politicians who actually did something to help and whom Republicans can't stand? Beto O'Rourke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. AOC doesn't even live in the state and she made it her job to do whatever she could to help people who can't stand her. Republicans really need to stop smelling their own farts and calling it ambrosia.