Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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

The lights are all blinking red.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

All hail the time of the bunny!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Not all heroes wear capes.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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  2. 2.

    asiangrrlMN

    OK. My edit button disappeared, so I will have to add a new comment. A bleg: Anyone not otherwise affiliated, please root for the Twins to win their game today against the Tigers so they can be swept by the Yankees in the first round of the playoffs.

    kthxbai.

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    Violet

    I just voted! Can we book Bitsy on Colbert?

    Yesterday I saw something on one of Bitsy’s ads on the left column that says she’s in the Top 30 dogs. What’s that about? I didn’t see a link for Top 30 dogs on the website.

  4. 4.

    General Winfield Stuck

    BTW. Dylan Ratigan is dismantling former NY L. Governor and uber wingnut anti health reformer Betsy McCaughey this morning. That lady is some piece of work.

  5. 5.

    Warren Terra

    Technically this isn’t off topic, because this is an Open Thread:

    The SadlyNauts (specifically D. Aristophanes) have an epic post, a fisking of a column that begins:

    Here’s Paul A. Ibbetson, ‘lecturer on the Patriot Act’:

    A return to the Planet of the Apes
    By Paul A. Ibbetson
    … Before I begin to share why I believe this country is going to the apes (self-deserved destruction), which I am sure will make the fur fly among many who would falsely infer my assessment is focused somehow on race, instead of policy, and accuse me of crossing into the forbidden zone, let’s look at the overall message that the Planet of the Apes movies tried to convey.

    Yes, let’s, Mr. Ibbetson. Lest our ape fur fly at the silly suggestion that your column comparing Barack Obama’s America to the Planet of the Apes might somehow be about race.

  8. 8.

    Violet

    @asiangrrlMN:
    I haven’t followed baseball at all, but I’ll cheer for the Twins. I’ve got family in the Twin Cities area. The Twins are always my second favorite team. Go Twins!

  10. 10.

    Common Sense

    @Warren Terra:

    Paul A. Ibbetson is a published author and lecturer on the Patriot Act. He is a former Chief of Police of Cherryvale, Kansas, and member of the Montgomery County Drug Task Force.

    Jesus. I am staying the fuck away from Cherryvale Kansas during cross country trips.

    Actually, what am I worried about? I’m white. Better leave any non-lily hued friends at home though.

  14. 14.

    Laura W

    @Violet:

    Yesterday I saw something on one of Bitsy’s ads on the left column that says she’s in the Top 30 dogs. What’s that about? I didn’t see a link for Top 30 dogs on the website.

    It’s a tricky site to navigate, for sure. But here is the link to the Top 30. You go in via Cutest Gallery tab.

    Here are the results of Week 9 Competition via Evelyn Bridges’ email last night. Evelyn is the lady who rescued her and is founding her own non-profit – Animal Rescuer Extraordinaire. Bitsy was 4th last week, which is tremendous, but in any given week it takes 3,000-4,000 to win lately. However, with Mozart and Colbert pooch out of the mix now, it clears the way for Bitsy to take it with perhaps less than 4800. Or so I hope?

    Mozart won with 4,802 votes

    Lucy, Super Pound Puppy was 2nd with 2,802 votes

    Glory was 3rd with 2,263 votes

    And Little Bitsy was 4th with 2,060 votes.

  15. 15.

    Ash Can

    @geg6: My initial reaction is that this is a relatively common and easily treatable form of cancer, so unless, God forbid, there are complications, I doubt this will be much of an issue.

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    Cat Lady

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Dylan Ratigan has been a big pleasant surprise most mornings since he’s been sprung from CNBC. He’s made Scarborough squirm a couple of times talking about who the real culprits are in this economy. He won’t do the “everyone is to blame for their bad choices” false equivalency, which makes Mika sad.

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    Brick Oven Bill

    RE: The Planet of the Apes and Missile Death

    Here is a monkey who throws rocks at tourists. There are times when I can emphasize with this monkey. This is a primitive form of missile death.

    This monkey, whose ancestors learned this skill, and survived competition with monkeys who probably could not throw rocks, or who could throw rocks with less accuracy or strength than this monkey’s ancestors. This is something called ‘Evolution’.

    I kind of like this monkey and if we could have a beer together, perhaps he would stop throwing rocks at tourists. In Any Which Way but Loose, Clint Eastwood’s monkey drank beer and they got along great.

    Jefferson writes in this remarkable letter to Adams about how gunpowder changed the nature of the evolution of man. I would argue that metal also changed the nature of evolution in men, admittedly to a lesser extent, as strength would still be a big factor in generating missile death with a spear, or an arrow.

    In the case of gunpowder, muscle force is replaced by chemicals, expanding the importance of the brain, and reducing the importance of muscles.

    Thus Jefferson’s conclusion that gunpowder removed Bodily Strength and established Talent and Virtue as the determinates of those who will sit upon the top of the Natural Aristocracy of Man.

  24. 24.

    Svensker

    @geg6:

    This will make wingnut heads explode:

    No! It is just more proof that Obama is a soshulist appeaser bowing down to his great Commie and Moozlum overlords.

  25. 25.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    Thanks for the reminder John. I’m sorry to say I was so wrapped up in my own crap the last few days I’d forgotten to vote. Now that I once again have my priorities in order, I voted. Go Bitsy!

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    SiubhanDuinne

    Because this is an open thread, I just wanted to mention that Terry Gross’ guest today on Fresh Air will be former Senator Max Cleland. He’s written a new memoir (subtitle is something like “How I Survived Vietnam, Walter Reed, and Karl Rove”). I know some of my fellow Georgians (talking about YOU, Demo Woman and A Mom Anon) admire Cleland and loathe the guy who frauded him out of his Senate seat in 2002, and thought you might want to make a point of listening. (Max was also on Morning Edition today. It’s funny to hear him talk about Saxby Chambliss in pretty scathing terms without once mentioning his name.)

  28. 28.

    MysticalChick

    @BoB

    It’s EMPATHIZE. The word you want is empathize. Although not sure you know how to do that. Most wingers don’t.

    Good try, though.

    Oh! And go Bitsy! I appreciate the daily reminder on here.

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    @geg6:

    This will make wingnut heads explode:

    Nah. They’ll argue that it’s just because Obambi is an appeaser who sucks up to the rest of the world. Real men don’t give a damn what those effete foreigners think about us, except for the foreign evil doers who we should gratuitously piss off whenever possible. That’s the way Conservatards think.

  30. 30.

    Roger Moore

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Anyone not otherwise affiliated, please root for the Twins to win their game today against the Tigers so they can

    be swept by

    sweep the Yankees in the first round of the playoffs.

    I can always dream, can’t I?

  31. 31.

    freelancer

    Apparently the new Conservabible is going to be illustrated.

    This is the most concentrated amalgum of wingnut philosophy that I’ve ever seen.

    DougJ, are you paying attention?

    EDIT: and the “College Student” in the painting is holding a copy of “The Five Thousand Year Leap”. Genius!

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @freelancer: Oh, this is splendid. It’s hard to choose a favourite mouseover, but I think mine might be the “look of shock” on the “immigrant’s” face as he sees “Christ holding the Constitution.” But the politician on his cell phone and the kindly old family doctor are pretty cool too.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @freelancer: The lower right (right? WTF?) corner with “Liberal News Reporter,” “Professor,” “Lawyer” (counting his $100 bills) and Others of Their Ilk is a wonderful assortment.

    Also too, George Washington apparently reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Or listening to the Star-Spangled Banner. Or something. (Well, he has his hand over his heart, what else could . . . . oh wait, angina?)

  36. 36.

    geg6

    @freelancer:

    Did you notice that “Hollywood” looks an awful lot like Todd Palin? And the school teacher has a bit the Sarah Serendipity about her?

  37. 37.

    freelancer

    @geg6:

    I did note that the school teacher resembled Palin, but this game could go on a while.

    The College Student looks like the nerdy gun nut who brought the AR-15 to the Obama rally.

    Dolly Madison looks like Ally Sheedy.

    Seriously, this painting is hilarious.

    I also love how the two people without descriptions are “Business Woman” and “Satan”. I guess the nature of those two abominations to American Culture speak for themselves.

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @freelancer: @geg6: Geez, I could play this game all day! Okay, did you read about the Fifty Stars and that they stand for the fifty states? And “some stars shine brighter than others”? I’m going out on a big limb here but I’m just going to guess those “brighter stars” stand for the “red states” where “real Americans” live.

    Also, check out the litter loose sheets of paper at the foot of the distraught Supreme Court Justice. Each of them stands for a horrible S.C. decision (“Roe v Wade,” “Marbury v Madison,” etc.)

    Finally, note that both Congress and the Supreme Court are shown, but if the White House is in that painting, it’s too tiny for my old eyes to find.

  39. 39.

    freelancer

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Read the Interview above the top left of the painting. It pops up a new window, and this fucker of an artist won’t let you copy text or save an image, but he’s apparently too stupid to realize the “PrintScrn” key on every keyboard is a screencap to your clipboard. I’m at work right now, dammit, otherwise I’d be posting on this. Tonight for sure though.

  40. 40.

    jibeaux

    Okay, that picture is hilarious. I did not realize Jesus did not approve of Marbury v. Madison.

  41. 41.

    Penfold

    @Cat Lady:

    He won’t do the “everyone is to blame for their bad choices” false equivalency, which makes Mika sad.

    Trying to add single-digit integers makes Mika sad. You know, her dad wasn’t exactly the most distinguished person to serve in the US Cabinet, but Christ she’s…special.

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    @freelancer:
    @geg6:

    That’s definitely Palin.

    Who do we think that SCOTUS justice is? John Roberts?

    Also, you know, this artist should team up with [this has been bothering me immensely…anyone remember the crazy female blogger with the lizard people and the repressed sapphic tendecies?…damn]

  50. 50.

    The Other Steve

    Apparently to win this contest you have to get pimped by a lot of websites.

    Not actually be cute.

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