Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Cole is on a roll !

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

This really is a full service blog.

This blog will pay for itself.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Republicans in disarray!

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Bark louder, little dog.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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  1. 1.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    Microscopes are a Satanic plot to wheedle money from taxpayers, and funnel it toward the shiftless atheists who have invented “micro-organisms” in order to line their pockets at our expense.

    True science only thrives when piously extracted from the mother lode of Knowledge, the Holy Bible.

  2. 2.

    Martin

    I agree with Scruffy. I don’t trust this science mumbo-jumbo.

    Sputnik is also interesting because 13 of its 21 encoded proteins are “ORFans.” ORFs are “Open Reading Frames” meaning that those regions of the genome probably encode a gene product of some sort, so ORFans are genes that have no detectable homologues in the current sequence databases, meaning that we cannot even guess their function based on their similarity to other genes that we’ve already identified and studied.

    I can guess their function! They’re trying to give me a homo-log! My log isn’t going near any homos! Are we clear on that?

    They shouldn’t have admitted they’re from France. That’s a dead give away to their plans… I’m gonna go pray now while watching porn. Maybe some good girl-girl stuff to reaffirm my non-gayness.

  3. 3.

    jake

    An apt description of the GOP as well.

    But their surprises did not stop there because they also saw a lot of tiny icosahedral viral particles, a mere 50nm in size, attached to the giant mamavirus

    Sorry, I just like seeing a virus described as “giant.”

  4. 4.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    I can guess their function! They’re trying to give me a homo-log! My log isn’t going near any homos! Are we clear on that?

    Excellent point, Martin. I should point out that this line was obviously written by a homosexual:

    Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em,

    If fleas really are Sodomites, as he implies, doubtless it’s because they’re in league with the Devil.

  8. 8.

    MNPundit

    Oh. My. God. We have beaten the Virus on this day.

    Humanity takes the first step in triumphing over it’s second oldest and second most implacable foe.

    The only foe greater than the virus?

    Old Age

  9. 9.

    RSA

    DeMorgan was just riffing on Swift:

    So, naturalists observe, a flea
    Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
    And these have smaller still to bite ’em;
    And so proceed ad infinitum.

    At least he still has a theorem to fall back on for his fame. :-)

  10. 10.

    Scruffy McSnufflepuss

    Its turtles all the way down.

    Just as long as those turtles aren’t homosexual, I’m okay with that.

  12. 12.

    RSA

    I always assumed it was Ogden Nash

    The first time I ran into this, me too. Who know that Nash had such deep literary (and mathematical) influences?

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