Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let there be snark.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

White supremacy is terrorism.

No one could have predicted…

We still have time to mess this up!

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

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  2. 2.

    General Winfield Stuck

    I don’t know why but I love this song.

    Why does Superman need a cape?

    Where have all the flowers gone?

    Why does it never rain in southern Californy?

    All lies

  3. 3.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Does anyone else using firefox, when you refresh a comment page you just made a comment, briefly get an edit function that disappears when the page fully loads.. Messin’ with my head, it is.

  4. 4.

    SpotWeld

    Simple… Rove’s right wing insanity got so dense that information itself could not escape. His twitter account simply collapse in on itself

  6. 6.

    jl

    Rove got behind on his toxic twatic twit tweets twitter tax?

    Which is a special surcharge levied by mysterious totalitarian social engineering overlords after the percentage of tweets consisting of pure garbage exceeds a critical threshold, explained last week by Beck. Or maybe it is part of the twitter terms of use, in which case, FREEDOM OF CONTRACT!

    And Rove finally paid up? TPM blog says it is up again.

  8. 8.

    ninerdave

    I don’t know why but I love this song.

    God that’s fucking horrid. In fact that’s everything wrong with the 70s in 3.5 minutes.

  9. 9.

    denverjenpeninpdx

    Sarahgeddon is inspired, but my fav is “apocalypse, also”. It is just beautific perfection. so bj, so snarktacular. Hello cruel world!!!!! I have been lurking for well over a year now (since those damned primaries) and had to register my preference on this one. You are a formidable bunch and I would love to become a regular around here! I am not sure I can keep up but, hey- I think I can survive the challenge.

  10. 10.

    DougJ

    God that fucking horrid. In fact that’s everything wrong with the 70s in 3.5 minutes.

    I guess I couldn’t expect someone who calls himself “ninerdave” to like anything to do with southern California.

  11. 11.

    Loneoak

    Maybe the Sarahgeddon has happened and Rove got raptured up. We have all been, thankfully, left behind.

  14. 14.

    Something Fabulous

    Wow, that’s totally one of those aural wallpaper songs! I don’t remember ever not knowing it, but I had no clue who sang it. If I had to guess, I’d have said 3 Dog Night, or something. Love how he is winking and nodding at folks in the audience while singing about what a wreck California has made of his life…

    [Posted from LA.]

  15. 15.

    Bender

    I don’t know why but I love this song.

    And Hammond’s son, as Doug prolly knows, is a key member of the most influential band of the ’00s, the Strokes. Albert Hammond, Jr.’s solo records are also unstoppably awesome.

    A couple favorites to compare (favorably) to the dad.

  17. 17.

    shecky

    Fabulous song. The way it uses the cheery melody to sucker the listener into the hard luck lyrics is simply brilliant songwriting. It’s no wonder the tune has been aural wallpaper since it came out.

  18. 18.

    jl

    This is off topic, but I have been thinking about one part of the purported Conservative Bible Wiki (which I think must be an elaborate hoax). The principle of ‘Accept the Logic of Hell’ sticks in my mind. Some one needs to think up a meaning for that so it can placed in the Lexicon.

    Maybe that is cheating, but what the heck, we are all comunofascIslamutotalitarians here.

    The healthcare debate suggests this definition:
    Accept the Logic of Hell: Conservative status quo bias.

  19. 19.

    Chad N Freude

    As a member of the My God That Song Is Awful conspiracy, would it be rude of me to point out that for the past few years it has not rained in southern California enough to prevent some truly horrendous wildfires? I suppose it would, this being nostalgia night for bell bottoms and all.

  21. 21.

    dfd

    God that fucking horrid. In fact that’s everything wrong with the 70s in 3.5 minutes.

    Bell bottoms…check. Perm…check. Lame ass pop song…double check.

  22. 22.

    jl

    About the song: the announcer says the song is ‘It neffer rainss in Sussen Califonia’ but the refrain is ‘It never rains in California’.

    What gives with that?

    I figure it is another sign that the Matrix needs a serious upgrade. Things aren’t making any sense anymore. Damn machines. We should have designed them better before they took over.

  24. 24.

    jwb

    @General Winfield Stuck: I now have edit function on FF. It’s appearance seemed to coincide with allowing BJ full access to scripts, so if you are using an ad blocker or something that might be interfering.

  27. 27.

    Chad N Freude

    @jwb: Opening up the script blocker did give me an opportunity to find a Christian Filipina friend, so I guess it wasn’t a complete failure.

  31. 31.

    wasabi gasp

    I get an edit function on FF for my first BJ post, then nothing until I restart FF again.

    Edit: Currently using Windows XP/Firefox 3.5

  37. 37.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Chad N Freude: I said that ages ago. Chrome is awesome! Now, if only all websites were compatible with it, I would never touch IE again.

    I would much rather discuss the edit function than talk about Rove and the twitterati.

  39. 39.

    Chad N Freude

    @asiangrrlMN: So now I’ll use Chrome for posting and FF for the stuff that it allows me to do that Chrome doesn’t (yet?). I only use IE when forced to by my evil grinder of the faces of the poor employer.

    And I just edited the above to correct a typo.

  41. 41.

    wasabi gasp

    I use an addon that tosses most of my cookies when starting FF. This comment was made without restarting FF, but after manually tossing a cookie.

  47. 47.

    wasabi gasp

    No edit function. Wacky.
    Before restarting FF for the last comment I protected a couple of BJ cookies.

    I just tossed all of them test.

  49. 49.

    wasabi gasp

    I give up.

    Edit: Restarting FF after unprotecting all BJ cookies gave me the edit function.

    Edit 2: I’m gonna try once more.

    Edit 3: I forgot what I was gonna say here.

    Edit 4: Oh yeah, it still doesn’t redirect me back to the thread.

  51. 51.

    wasabi gasp

    I got no edit function on that second post.

    Edit: but this post was made after restarting FF with all BJ cookies unprotected. (They were tossed on restart.)

    Edit: I believe the only other cookies that got tossed along with BJ’s is one youtube and one sitemeter cookie.

  52. 52.

    wasabi gasp

    I have no idea if any of that was relevant to anything. But restarting FF while allowing all BJ cookies to get tossed seems to get me one editable comment.

  53. 53.

    wasabi gasp

    I had to try once more after a FF restart, else it would haunt me.

    Edit: I promise I’ll stop now.

  54. 54.

    hamletta

    @General Winfield Stuck: Billy, don’t be a hero.

    And there was no sound at all, but the clock upon the wall.

    Daddy, please don’t! It wasn’t his fault! He means so much to me.

    Daddy, don’t you walk so fast.

    Cherokee Nation! Cherokee Pride!

    Brandy lives in a silent town, and loves a man who’s not around.

    She was black as the night. Louie was whiter than white.

    You’re havin’ my baby.

    Boring browser quirks are boring.

  58. 58.

    freelancer (itouch)

    @jl:
    infinite torture for finite transgressions against an all-powerful, all-loving creator/father. It’s like, the most logical thing ever!

  59. 59.

    Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)

    @DougJ:

    I’m a born and bred Hoosier from southwestern Indiana, and yet *I* love that song.

    Then again, I’m an admitted ABBA addict and think that Rufus w/Chaka Khan’s Tell Me Something Good is a classic.

    Though I have sworn off the adolescent crush I had for Olivia Newton John back in the late 70’s-early 80’s.

    I must have seen Xanadu 20 times at the local dollar theater.

  60. 60.

    Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)

    @hamletta:

    It’s not a one liner, but these lyrics from ABBA’s On & On & On are somewhat appropriate even today.

    I was at a party and this fella said to me
    Something bad is happening, Im sure you do agree
    People care for nothing, no respect for human rights
    Evil times are coming, we are in for darker nights
    I said, who are you to talk about impending doom?
    He got kinda wary as he looked around the room
    He said, Im a minister, a big shot in the state
    I said, I just cant believe it, boy I think its great
    Brother can you tell me what is right and what is wrong?
    He said, keep on rocking baby, til the night is gone

  61. 61.

    bago

    Please understand that your browsers all have local file caches, so if you’re no explicitly trying to pull a uri that is in the file cache, the cached version will be used. Given that all external scripts are referenced by URI, and that edit functionality would be enabled by a script you need to force a cache refresh. CTRL+F5 tends to do this in most browsers. If not, go to your options and clear your cache.

  63. 63.

    Skepticat

    @jwb: How has FF edit worked for you? I’m in D.O. (dumb operator) mode.

    Perhaps Mr. Rove’s account had an irony or b.s. meter, which exploded into many, many, many pieces and put his account out of commission. Were that he would follow.

  65. 65.

    MysticalChick

    I have always loved this song, too. Not sure why but it’s very catchy. (Must go back and read about how you all probably hate it. At least it’s not Justin Fucking Timberlake!)

  66. 66.

    MysticalChick

    Damn, too late to edit:

    See? I knew you all would hate that song. They don’t call me Mystical Chick for nuttin! Now, if only I could find my crystal ball to divine the reason for Turdboy’s Twitter difficulties!

    And yes, I heard my momma cry the night Chicago died (and that tells me that momma wasn’t a winger, doesn’t it?).

  68. 68.

    Shell

    My most hated ’70’s song? “I’m not in love” by 10cc.
    By the time it gets to the breathy chorus ‘big boys don’t cry……big boys don’t cry….” I’m ready to punch the radio.

  70. 70.

    Svensker

    @ninerdave:

    God that’s fucking horrid. In fact that’s everything wrong with the 70s in 3.5 minutes.

    Yes. Thank you for watching so I don’t have to.

  71. 71.

    Svensker

    Although it would be great if guys would start wearing fitted shirts open to the waist again, with gold chains and manly chest hair aplenty. I think John and DougJ should go first. With lotsa photos.

  78. 78.

    DougJ

    think that Rufus w/Chaka Khan’s Tell Me Something Good is a classic.

    How could anyone not think it is a classic? It’s the very definition of a classic.

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