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Robert Wallis's avatar

Mezcal is a game changer for many drinks. In addition to the old fashion, if you like palomas, try one with mezcal.

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Greg Engelsman's avatar

If you ever make it to Austin, try the La Sancha at La Holly bar. It’s a frozen mezcal lime hibiscus drink that is delicious!

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Kris Jackson's avatar

I don’t think I’ve ever laughcried as hard at a column. *sad trombone*

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lyz's avatar

My editor said I’ve gotten funnier as the world has gotten worse

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DB's avatar

Well, there’s more material. You’re a funny gal, so how could you not get funnier as it gets darker? I just got a pay cut thanks to the drop in the value of the dollar. Swedes are looking around and asking what we did wrong. Meanwhile, Volvo is moving more of its operations to the US from Sweden and saying, yes, sir on the anti-DEI bullshit. I don’t drink, but I’m feeling kind of wistful about that at the moment. Glad that you still have delightful concoctions to enjoy.

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Kris Jackson's avatar

Yay?

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Karen's avatar

The neurochemical responsible for humor in the human brain is also the one that animals secrete when something bites them and they need to dull pain and escape. This proves that you are more likely to evade the hungry predators!

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Shawna's avatar

You definitely have! 😂 Entertainment at its finest

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Avraham Bronstein's avatar

What is so stunning about *waves hands* is how unnecessary it all is. There is no problem they are actually trying to fix.

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greta's avatar

you have that exactly right! everything they're doing to destroy our country is based on lies.

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

But there is something they're trying to fix as Jamie Raskin explains at 2:49: if Vladimir Putin himself had invaded America and come up with a plan to destroy our economy and wreck the cohesion of our society, he could not have done better than Donald Trump has done with the help of Elon Musk. https://youtu.be/nWJYBA3cKBM?si=1z5jx9nwKRqwP8rc&t=168

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

If Putin Designed a Plan to Collapse America, What Would It Look Like?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-putin-designed-a-plan-to-collapse-2ce

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Feral Midwest's avatar

Honestly here for giving Climate Crisis (CC?) her Goodbye Earl moment, as a treat. She’s earned it.

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lyz's avatar

Go ham, Climate Crisis. Girl, you earned it.

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Stephanie Jennings's avatar

The Heard Island penguins are going to retaliate for the tariffs already, so they might as well retaliate for melting ice shelves.

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DB's avatar

”While you won’t be able to buy groceries, these guys will continue to be very rich and still become richer to go on TV and say things like, “Do babies really need food?” And ’If we send children to the mines at the age of 5, we can solve the childcare crisis.’ ” I saw a report that people are coloring potatoes instead of eggs because eggs are so expensive. I can still afford eggs here in Sweden, but I expect I will have to give up my almonds from California. I still remember when Lyz talked about how many people she knew were suffering and struggling in what was supposed to be a good economy. And I guess it was a good economy in comparison to Americans are about to experience. This is all so unnecessary and it makes me so angry. Anyway, thanks for the truth-telling. We need it.

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Theresa Nelson's avatar

I saw that too! Read it to my grandkids. Eggs though, I just bought 2 dozen for $8.99 at Costco compared to $8.99 or more per dozen at Whole Foods or Safeway.

Getting the feeling we are have a gouging situation here to some degree.

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DB's avatar

Absolutely. Food prices were already rising in Sweden, and a commenter pointed out that the prices never go down after whatever crisis sparked the rise. The growth in prices slows for a bit.

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I’ve Really Seen Enough's avatar

So after WWII many generations of American passed in relative peace, prosperity and health until they (mostly men) come to eventually spend their money on pumped up plastic American pickup trucks that match their egos and fantasies of riding rough shod over a wild, untamable land, and their idle hours listening to immoral hacks who tell them lies about how they should be angry at all of it because something, something, she won't put out on demand, and so they elect a felon real estate mobster who peddles in the misogyny and racism that matches their pickups and Andrew Tate feeds and here we are. Econ 101 never entered into the equation and when it's over, these morons will know absolutely no more economics than when this all started just like RFK Jr's future victims of health neglect and denial will be no more willing to acknowledge science and vaccines on their deathbeds than they are today.

You can't fix hate that clings to stubborn ignorance, because challenging the ignorance with evidence is disrespecting their culture. The rubes would rather perish proudly. That was the billion dollar brilliance of Rupert Murdoch. And on that hill we will all suffer and many will die.

I have been challenged to my face several time that telling people they are fatally ignorant will not change any minds. And I respond that absolutely nothing will change their minds, so I will tell a cautionary tale of what happened to us, that's all.

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greta's avatar

my sense is that the vast majority of americans are naive and have no clue just how bad this is going to get. they'll be shocked! surprised! aghast! perhaps they should talk to people who grew up in central and south america under right wing dictatorships. they might learn a thing or two.

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

The people, robbed of their history, had nothing to learn from.

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

This: so they elect a felon real estate mobster who peddles in the misogyny and racism that matches their pickups

And this: You can't fix hate that clings to stubborn ignorance, because challenging the ignorance with evidence is disrespecting their culture.

Yep

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John Lovie's avatar

I needed this!

This is the best thing I've read all week, and it includes the second, Climate Crisis killing capitalism.

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CharleyCarp's avatar

Well, at least we're finally fighting back against those damn penguins.

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Lori's avatar

The penguin memes are what's saving me this week. 🐧😂

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CharleyCarp's avatar

This seems to be the explanation for the penguin thing: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revealed-how-trump-tariffs-slugged-norfolk-island-and-uninhabited-heard-and-mcdonald-islands

How is ChatGPT supposed to know that the database has typos?

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Sarah S's avatar

Love this quote from that article!

A spokesperson for Timberland shoes said: “We are in a quiet period and have no comment.”

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/anne...'s avatar

And this is why I am against AI use to diagnose patients. A human would look at that - okay, maybe none of the idiots currently running the US, but most normal humans - and wonder why so many goods are coming from somewhere they'd never heard of (apart from Australians).

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Stephanie Jennings's avatar

Preaching to the choir, but this is the point of having humans do model sanity checks. 🙃🙃🙃

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CharleyCarp's avatar

Also, could Brad Delong be right that the actual tariffs themselves were designed, incoherently, by ChatGPT? https://braddelong.substack.com/p/tariffs-by-chatbot-trumps-trade-policy

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Karen's avatar

I think CNBC’s intro music today will be “Night on Bald Mountain,” or perhaps just “Welcome to My Nightmare.”

Yesterday — and I have a screenshot to prove it — Newsmax’s lead story was how their CEO rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Finally, because I am the Designated Matt Taibbi Specialist, I have to note that Mr. Free Speech is suing the Congresswoman who called him a serial sexual harasser for $10 million. Apparently free speech is only for wealthy white male Nazis. Who else is not surprised?

Seeing Taibbi get insulted in a Congressional hearing was my Good Thing for this week. Another better and more personal thing, my younger son made the Dean’s List at the University of North Texas for the fall semester and got a travel coffee mug and an enamel pin for it! I was on the Dean’s List for all my time at the University of Texas in the early 1980’s and all I got for it was a certificate for my dorm door and one invitation for coffee with 2,000 of my closest friends. (I didn’t go, by the way.)

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lyz's avatar

I literally was catching up on the Taibbi news this morning and was like “omg where is Karen!?”

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Karen's avatar

This makes me so happy!

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Truckeeman's avatar

Your "vow of silence" on your personal life is about as strong as my commitment to intermittent fasting.

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Sheeby's avatar

An acquaintance was VERY excited about #47 and all the changes he was going to make to "make America great again"! He said tariffs would be another great thing for America.

He owns a small business that sells imported goods. He was whining yesterday on social media that the tariffs would ruin his business because the prices would be too high for people to buy the goods. FOUR different people posted screen shots of his previous "#47 is going to be great for the country!" posts and said "Is this you?"

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Beau!'s avatar

This is the specific kind of FAFO story that doesn't make me feel bad. Because there are a lot of people who voted based on lies they believed or wanted to believe (and they should have known better) who are being harmed right now and I do not revel in that.

But this small business owner guy? Dingus!

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Melanie's avatar

Honestly I laughed out loud when NPR told me about the tariffs on the islands in the Arctic that only has penguins. Zero humans actually live there. I mean WTF?! How is this real life? Also I am so here for any Jimothy reference. It's my favorite demeaning nickname.

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/anne...'s avatar

They're in the Southern Ocean, but I still think that insisting that Norfolk Island could produce $600,000 worth of shoes when I suspect there isn't a single person on the island who knows how to make shoes, and they don't even have a tannery or enough cows is funnier 😂

The Falkland Islands is in the southern Atlantic; it has also been hit with tariffs, and they have sheep, penguins and a handful of farmers. Clearly those mean farmers need to be taught a lesson!

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Melanie's avatar

Ha! Thank you! I didn't remember the details correctly nor is geography my strong suit.

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/anne...'s avatar

I have the advantage of being an Australian; I suspect that most people in the northern hemisphere have never even heard of the Southern Ocean! It's why Melbourne's weather can veer between hot and "can I hear icebergs?", depending on the wind direction.

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

Sailors have heard of the Southern Ocean though

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/anne...'s avatar

True!

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Leslie Ann Kent's avatar

I have a world map shower curtain. It helps a lot!

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Elizabeth Heydary's avatar

I have been reading r/NiceGirls too much- I am fascinated by how all the people text their thoughts I would never send but I know other people don’t rewrite their texts 10 times.

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Jeff Goldenstein's avatar

The Quirke novels are great, but really, really dark. The alcohol is the least of it. Magdalene laundries, orphanages run by priests, and Quike's biological parentage are bad enough, but the fate of unmarried pregnant women is stomach-churning. I read them partly so I can say "Well, at least its not that bad here (yet).

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Matthew Lantz's avatar

This was really funny.

As Jason Matheson of the Jason Show says, "Where's the asteroid?"

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Giuliana Amidala's avatar

asteroid 2024 YR4 has only a one-in-twenty five thousand chance of hitting earth in 2032 but a one percent chance of hitting the moon and that should be enough

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