Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

We still have time to mess this up!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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Via Trojan Horseshoes the most bizarre military story I have heard in a long time:

A member of Ohio’s 5694th National Guard Unit in Mansfield legally changed his name to a Transformers toy.

Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.

“On Sunday, we were awarded as the best firefighting unit in the Army National Guard in the entire country,” said Prime. “That was a big moment for us.”

Prime took his name from the leader of the Autobots Transformers, which were popular toys and a children’s cartoon in the 1980s.

He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it’s on everything from his driver’s licence, to his military ID, to his uniform.

“They razzed me for three months to no end,” said Prime. “They really dug into me about it.”

“I got a letter from a general at the Pentagon when the name change went through and he says it was great to have the employ of the commander of the Autobots in the National Guard.”

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  1. 1.

    walter

    What is worse is that the General really thought a Transformer was in the Army National Guard.

  3. 3.

    RHJunior

    I dunno, I thought it was kinda geek-cool.
    Hell, if we can have Rip Torn, River Phoenix, and Moon Unit Zappa, gimme an Autobot!

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