Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Bark louder, little dog.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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  9. 9.

    ellaesther

    אז רגע, אפשר לדבר בשפה כלשהיא? אחלה! – אלה אסתר

    Now here’s my question: Will the Hebrew sentence I just typed appear once I hit “submit”? Oh how I wish there were a preview button!

    (No worries, by the way. All I wrote was “So hold on, we can talk in any language? Awesome! – ella esther” )

    (Or WAS that all I wrote…. mwAH-HAHAHAHA ha *cough* HA!)

  14. 14.

    JK

    @ellaesther:

    That’s very cool. Can you type anything in other languages using non-Roman alphabets such as Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, or Russian?

  15. 15.

    kipkrao

    日本語でもいけるかな？
    If the message above appears, it means we can also type in Japanese. It’s not gonna help communication though.

  19. 19.

    ellaesther

    @MikeJ: Ok, it’s really late where I am and I am a bit giddy with tiredness, but I’m sure that has nothing to do with the guttural LOL that emerged from the back of my throat when reading this comment! Oh, I do love an LOL!

  26. 26.

    CaseyL

    And now, in keeping with this thread’s theme, a lovely little song en faux Francais:

    Friar jerker,
    Friar jerker,
    Dormer view?
    Dormer view?

    Sonny lay martini
    Sonny lay martini
    Drink, drank, drunk.
    Drink, drank, drunk.

    Bonne nuit, y’all.

  27. 27.

    ellaesther

    @JK: Apparently (given kipkrao’s success) one can type these things, but not I — for I only have Hebrew and English on my keyboard.

    I know, that’s not what you meant. Did I mention how tired I am?

    I believe I really must go to sleep, for the short people will be up and demanding to go to school (or – worse yet, I will have to get them up and demand that they go to school) in six hours. So:

    ! לילה טוב לכל הבלון-ג’וסניקים

    “Lila tov l’kol ha’balloon juice-nikim!”

    Good night to all the balloon juicers!

  36. 36.

    burnspbesq

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Renaud-de-fer. C’est normalement le bombe. Aujourd’hui, c’est le suck. Pourquoi? Je ne sais pas. Les sites ne finiront pas de charger.

  37. 37.

    OriGuy

    It is possible to type in Russian. However, I don’t have the patience to figure out where the letters are on the keyboard. Why Windows doesn’t have a nice little app that shows that, I don’t know.
    I’m using Firefox. I saw the Hebrew, Japanese, and Arabic.

  38. 38.

    asiangrrlMN

    @JK: Both. Four years in high school and one semester in college. Needless to say, it didn’t stick very well. My comprehension is better than my speaking/typing.

  41. 41.

    asiangrrlMN

    @burnspbesq: Ok. I understand everything but your first sentence, and it’s driving me nuts. Firelake? That’s not what you’re saying. Something of fire. Normally, it’s the bomb, but today it sucks. You don’t know why. The sites never change.

    @OriGuy: I can see the Arabic and the Hebrew, but not the Japanese. Damn.

  46. 46.

    JK

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I assume you get the gist of the following

    Rien de dormier cette nuit
    Je veux de toi
    Jusque’a` ce que je sois sec
    Mais nos corps sont tout mouille’s
    Comple’tement couvert de sueur
    Nous nous noyons dans la mare’e
    Je n’ai aucun de’sir
    Tu as ravage’ mon coeur
    Et mois j’ai bu ton sang

    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi
    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi

    Tout le monde est a` moi
    Je l’ai gagne’ dans un jeu de cartes
    Et maintenant je m’en fous
    C’e’tait gagne’ trop facilement
    Ca y est alors ma belle trai^tresse
    Il faut que je bru^le de jalousie
    Tu as ravage’ mon coeur
    Et moi j’ai bu ton sang

    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi
    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi

    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi
    Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
    J’aurais toujours faim de toi

    h/t http://lyrics.rockmagic.net/lyrics/police/ghost_in_the_machine_1981.html

  48. 48.

    robertdsc

    @JK:

    Yes, it’s Arabic.

    ّف؛س تعسف فاث ذاشقشذفثقس، رخف فاث شذفعشم مشرلعشلث، وهري غخع.
    It’s just the characters, mind you. Not the language.

    TunchTunchTunch!

  52. 52.

    asiangrrlMN

    @JK: Mon tete! Ah, mon bon ami!

    That was very fucking hard for me to translate, even with the aid of Babelfish.

    Alack, Monsieur Parnell would be very disappointed in me.

  54. 54.

    robertdsc

    خمم. آرابيص ين ڤّغزثظ. ىنتعرعستينغ.
    Hmm. Arabic in QWERTY. Interesting.

    Пчонетиц Руссиан. Phonetic Russian.

    Γρεεκ ψηαραψτερσ. Greek characters.

    Ｃ鳥木魚一 Chinese Dayri.

    Behold the power of MacOS X Tiger!

  55. 55.

    eco2geek

    Voyons si ça marche…

    Alicante

    Une orange sur la table
    Ta robe sur le tapis
    Et toi dans mon lit
    Doux présent du présent
    Fraîcheur de la nuit
    Chaleur de ma vie.

    – Jacques Prévert, Paroles

  56. 56.

    Sebastien

    ARG ! je me connecte à Balloon Juice (“Extrait de Ballon” ou Carburant à Ballon” ?) et je lis en français. Le moins que l’on puisse dire est que çà surprend.

    Anyway, glad you enjoyed your stay in France, and that the local wildlife (we who are called the French) didn’t spoil it. As we happen to say when we have a smidgen of humility (rare, I know), “God did such a wonderful job creating France that he was afraid other countries would not measure up. So, to compensate, he created the French.”

  57. 57.

    MikeJ

    De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots
    de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et
    non pour les dames d’honneur d’user: je ne voudrais
    prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France
    pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!
    Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon
    ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de
    elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.

  58. 58.

    Ecks

    Les chansons complet en francais est trop de devoir pour moi. L’heure est petit ici, et je suis fatigue

    Gawds is my french every horrible. Though funnily enough my wife’s is technically better, but I usually get further, because I’m more willing to hack together atrotiously ungrammatic sentences that usually convey enough meaning (when combined with violent gesturing and an interlocutor who speaks a bit of English).

  61. 61.

    Fulcanelli

    Il était meilleur dans l’Allemand original, M. Buchanan.

    When I try to speak a foreign language I don’t know or understand to a visitor from another country, it always helps when I speak really loud. No, really.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @MikeJ: Ha! My favourite scene from Hank Cinq. I was reading that just a couple of days ago. Always makes me smile. Merci.

  67. 67.

    SGEW

    @asiangrrlMN:

    My body just decided it was time for me to get the fuck up.

    I seem to have delegated decisions for my wake-up time to my cat.

    Cuter than an alarm clock, but has no snooze function.

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