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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 11/21/25, 8:17 am

I was at the coffee shop and the barista casually said “happy Friday.” And I realized I had to be at work shortly but I haven’t written anything. So here you are and thanks to her.

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  1. Dumbfuck LOVES Enten or did spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 10:08 am

    Stole the joke. Can’t find the original bluesky user.

    Enten on CNN “This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious … when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it’s truly bad and it’s as bad as 26 points underwater … -43 with independents! They despise him.

    Homer Simpson, “The worst day…so far.”

  2. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 10:58 am

    Rumor has it Kristi Noem may be on the chopping block, and nobody jeopardizes Trump’s polls worse, or deserves it more.

  3. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 11:09 am

    People suffering from severe paranoia obviously shouldn’t have guns, but Republicans put guns in their hands anyway, endangering anyone who comes to their door, and even potentially the police officers who respond to the shooting of an innocent person.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-man-granted-bail-charged-fatal-shooting-cleaner-came-wrong-hom-rcna245124

    Republicans, and their callous attitude toward innocent life, suck.

  4. Trump spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 11:10 am

    2 – Noem and Gabbard are the only two worth having.

    It’s the NeoCon Globalists that are worthless.

  5. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 11:54 am

    Conservatives argue against equal opportunity or outcomes, but insist on equal treatment of disadvantaged people, which of course guarantees unequal outcomes.

    In this case, they think nonresident students in California public colleges have a legally enforceable right to pay the same tuition as resident noncitizens.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-sues-california-financial-aid-undocumented_n_69205648e4b0448495244596?origin=home-whats-happening-unit

    Of course, these days you don’t see nonresidents flocking to Florida’s universities indoctrination campuses.

  6. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 12:02 pm

    Speaking of schools, voters are evicting conservatives from school boards at a record-breaking pace, including in red states.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/culture-war-democrats-school-boards-00663699

  7. Pepperidge Farm Remembers spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 12:04 pm

    Wow.

    It turns out that Vicious Troll really is a soulless, cowardly piece of shit.

    Who knew?

  8. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 12:08 pm

    It’s not enough to dismiss the charges against James Comey, assuming that will happen, which seems a pretty safe bet right now.

    The court should also hold DOJ and Halligan in contempt, and order them to pay all of Comey’s legal expenses related to the case.

  9. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 12:09 pm

    @7 I think we all knew.

  10. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 1:15 pm

    8,
    He would have to sue for damages. He just might under these circumstances.

    Discovery would be a blast.

  11. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 1:27 pm

    8)Would this be under the Virginia Bar for disciplinary action, or have they been stripped of jurisdiction?

  12. New York spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 2:33 pm

    Elise…he’s handsome like bubba. He’s not into you.

    Good luck running for Governor.

    Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a ‘jihadist.’ Do you think you’re standing next to a jihadist right now?

    TRUMP: No, I don’t. I met with a man who’s a very rational person

  13. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 2:48 pm

    11,
    Halligan is licensed in Florida.

    Based on the pleadings and motions filed and responses given by Comey’s counsel in these proceedings I’m of the opinion that Comey is seeking to produce a record that will support litigation once his indictment has been dismissed, however that comes to pass. Certainly a finding of vindictive prosecution would be highly advantageous to such litigation. And would then both target Halligan and explore specifically her relationship with the Attorney General (presumably her boss) and the president, apparently the one calling the shots.

    It’s possible that Halligan would be forthcoming about how this train wreck of a prosecution ever reached this deplorable stage and burdened the court, the DOJ, and the defendant with such disgraceful conduct. But if she chooses not to, as I assume she will, then Mr. Comey would be not only justified in bringing a formal complaint to the Florida bar, he would be wise to do so.

    If she stands behind this travesty to protect the fat authoritarian-in-chief she deserves that fate and whatever comes with it. Besides, her future will certainly not require a law license. She’ll either be running for office in Florida or going on tee vee to be a performer of some kind. But unsuspecting clients should be protected from her, nonetheless.

  14. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 3:11 pm

    Fang Fang’s boyfriend announced for the CA guv race.

    Bonchie
    @bonchieredstate

    40 million people, and the two most likely individuals to become governor of California are a dude who fell for a Chinese honeypot and a woman who poured scalding mashed potatoes on her husband’s head.

    Cooked. Absolutely cooked.

    7:42 AM · Nov 21, 2025
    ·

  15. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 3:14 pm

    12,
    It’s been more than 20 years since the last time a Republican won a statewide race in New York. And he was a pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ rights, pro-environment moderate Republican who supported the Affordable Care Act, and expanding low income access to health insurance. Stefanik would need a time machine to win a statewide election in New York. The Actual Pedophile Fucktard claims to have one. Maybe they can work something out.

  16. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 3:15 pm

    14,
    Sure, pedophile.

  17. lmao spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 3:23 pm

    a dude who fell for a Chinese honeypot

    Oh my.. what’s next? flying on a government private jet to catch honeypot’s public event and granting her her own security detail?

    Sure, pedo.

  18. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 3:32 pm

    Mamdani upon landing back at JFK tonight: “Dude. Smell my fingers!”

    Fat Hitler is going to hate himself in the morning.

  19. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 3:42 pm

    The DNC has $18M COH. To get there it had to borrow $15M.

    Oh. The GOP has $91M COH.

  20. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 4:02 pm

    The GOP has $91M COH.

    $90 million of which is earmarked for just three events at Mar a Lago and for attorneys to defend the criminal charges of child rape.

  21. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 4:14 pm

    Alito gave plaintiffs and intervenors until 5pm Monday to respond to Texas’ application for emergency stay of the Western District of Texas panel order tossing their racial gerrymander.

  22. RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 4:26 pm

    A lot of small doners have closed their wallets until Schumer , the appeasement democrats and the “corporate” political consultants are gone. The norms are tired of the establishment democrats not fighting the fascists.

  23. RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 4:48 pm

    US grocery prices hit record high for family of four in 2025
    Voting republican caused inflation worst than Biden.

  24. Grand Old Pedophiles spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 6:11 pm

    You could probably find a random Twatter with a different take

    John Fugelsang
    @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

    Hey MAGA pals-

    How does it feel to suddenly love Zohran Mamdani & hate Marjorie Taylor Greene?

    That’s what you believe now!
    Go forth in blind obedience, like you do.

  25. California spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 6:14 pm

    $91m could buy you a point or two in races that used to be safe.

  26. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 6:22 pm

    Speaking of Marjorie Taylor Greene, she just announced she’s resigning from Congress effective January 1 because the love between her and Trump has gone. In light of her recent feuding with Trump, she should consider moving to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S. Either way, good riddance.

  27. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 6:27 pm

    A D.C. federal judge didn’t exactly laugh at the government lawyers who asked for summary judgment against plaintiffs objecting to the IRS sharing taxpayer information with ICE, but the plaintiffs got their stay against the new IRS “data sharing policy” that started with releasing your tax returns to DOGE. In this case, ICE asked for — and isn’t getting — the addresses of millions of immigrants.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519/gov.uscourts.dcd.277519.54.0.pdf

  28. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 7:09 pm

    @ 21

    Alito gave plaintiffs and intervenors until 5pm Monday to respond …

    Alito also blocked the ruling that stopped the newly redistricted map from being used next year. You left out that part.

  29. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 7:11 pm

    @ 26

    Speaking of Marjorie Taylor Greene, she just announced she’s resigning from Congress effective January 1 …

    January 5.

    Is there anything you get right?

  30. FKA Hops spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 7:39 pm

    The Economist really doing the Lord’s Work on the ‘bothsideism’

    Unfortunately for New York, in their different ways Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump are likely to compound the city’s problems. This matters not just for New Yorkers, but for America itself

  31. FKA Hops spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 7:45 pm

    @29

    Well not cheerleading the fascist party is getting something right. Not being loud wrong about ICE shooting people for having the vehicular right of way is another.

    House Majority Leader Scalise released the 2026 house calendar. First session….January 6th.

    Could you have a more assholey nitpick?

  32. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 9:20 pm

    A bachelor’s degree has become a $100,000 high school diploma.

  33. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 9:21 pm

    @31 He goes for trivia because he’s wrong on all the issues that matter.

  34. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 9:22 pm

    The Seattle Torrent is a joke.

    They’d lose by 3 goals to a decent Canadian Mighty Mite team.

  35. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 9:24 pm

    @31 She’s a rat climbing off a sinking ship because she knows what will happen to her party in the midterms.

  36. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 9:29 pm

    @28 If Texas redistricting goes ahead, California redistricting will go ahead. Of course, Alito and his fellow legal gangsters could play favorites, and only allow red states to redistrict, but that would shred whatever little remaining legitimacy the court has, and greatly bolster the Democrats’ case for term limits and/or packing the court “to restore its balance.”

  37. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 11/21/25 at 9:38 pm

    Alito also blocked the ruling…

    Incorrectly stated. Alito is the assigned justice for the 5th Circuit. It is his responsibility to read emergency applications and assign them to the interim docket, initially at his discretion.

    Only the full court can render a merits decision.

    Is there anything you get right?

  38. lmao spews:

    Saturday, 11/22/25 at 9:45 am

    A bachelor’s degree has become a $100,000 high school diploma.

    An old joke.. The computer scientist Alan Kay attended a dinner party in the UK and everyone at the table was chatting about education.

    Kay was curious what the other diners thought about high school education in the United States.

    One diner piped up, “The United States has the best high school education in the world. Too bad you have to go to College to get it.”

    My two sons have bachelor degrees and no undergraduate debt. The youngest will have a debt to pay after finishing post-grad studies. His professional earnings most probably will cover it.

  39. lmao spews:

    Saturday, 11/22/25 at 10:02 am

    MTG, a distraction. The Mamdani / pants shitter love fest – a distraction. The repuke flip flop on Epstein – a distraction.

    All a distraction from the evil that fascists do.

    A navy veteran of Desert Storm calls himself an idiot for voting for orange pants shitter after his wife, a green card holder and mother of an active duty Marine was detained. Why? She wrote a couple bad checks when funds went dry, decades ago, and had made complete restitution and still got her green card.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLULOlKqOAw

    Detainees spend months in the ICE/CBP gulags separated from their families by hundreds of miles. This is deliberate to wear families down and force detainees to submit to deportation.

    “he was supposed to go after the worst of the worst.” Every time I hear this I facepalm. Everyone with a brain knew from 2016 that orange pants shitter considers everyone with brown or too dark skin or a funny last name to be an “illegal” and should be deported. 11.5 million undocumented is only the start to these racists assholes.

    Btw, life still gets harder for ordinary American Citizens. “Easier” for billionaires who can afford to take a hit to their net worth when the music stops. More and more are claiming that has happened already.

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