Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

How stupid are these people?

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

When we show up, we win.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Republicans do not trust women.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

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  1. 1.

    Gold Star for Robot Boy

    As a talk show host, he was before my time.
    But as a producer, his contributions couldn’t be missed.

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    Dulcie

    I grew up watching Merv in the seventies. Every day after school, I’d rush home to see who his musical guest would be, or watch him interviewing celebrities of the day. He was the godfather of the modern celebrity interview. He helped to create and refine America’s 20th century obsession with entertainment news. His contribution to the game show genre is second to none with Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. His death marks the end of an era, and it makes me feel old!

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    Hyperion

    i grew up watching The Merv Griffin Show in the mid to late 60s. in tampa he was on every weekday from 4:30 to 6 pm. so an after-school treat..with no parents around to perturb the experience. he had some very interesting guests on like Gore Vidal, David Suskind, Mort Sahl, David Frost, Tony Hendra, a very young Richard Pryor…all people that were NEVER on TV in florida in the 60s. Plus all these broadway folks i had no clue about. And Treacher was the best. Whenever the conversation got a bit too rude for him, he would get up and silently move to the end of the couch, oozing contempt.

    that show gave me a glimpse of a world quite different from the one i inhabited. (the only similar TV experience for me was Jack Paar. but that was on only on fridays very late.) i remember hearing a photographer on merv griffin recounting a story about his meeting the queen and her saying “i have a brother-in-law who is a photographer”, referring to Lord Snowden. “that’s funny because i have brother-in-law who is a queen.” at the time (i was 14 maybe) i thought “hmm, queen must be another word for queer.” so…educational TV.

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