Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I was promised a recession.

“woke” is the new caravan.

No one could have predicted…

The willow is too close to the house.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Republicans in disarray!

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

This fight is for everything.

After roe, women are no longer free.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

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  3. 3.

    Demo Woman

    John Cole once again proves that misery loves company….. TeeHeeHee!
    So what are the chances that Mr. Tunch will be photo shopped with a hoodie?

  5. 5.

    Bill H

    Raiders over the Bengals, Chiefs overs the Steelers, Cowboys beat the Redskins by 7-6… How pathetic is it that the Ravens make seven, count them, seven trips in the red zone and can manage nothing better than five freaking field goals?

    Meanwhile, The Chargers are 7-3 and lead the AFC West.

  6. 6.

    Ryan Cunningham

    Jesus Christ that was awful. At least KC looked impressive this weekend. Their offense made some spectacular plays.

    The Bengals loss was just embarrassing. No excuses.

  9. 9.

    Comrade Mary

    So Jen, if you need ideas, try this.

    (Sorry. The temporary humiliation of pets, followed by their well-deserved revenge as they shit in your shoes, just warms the cockles of my heart.)

  12. 12.

    JenJen

    OK, seriously, all chest-thumping and blustering and smack-talking aside… Did my Bengals really just lose to the Raiders? Really?

    So this is what it feels like, John. This.
    I think I understand now.

  14. 14.

    jl

    @calipygian: Thanks. I bookmarked that one.

    But, the Raiduhs won? What.. how… where.. but.. I… WTF…

    And Kansas City beat the Stillers?

    That’s it. The NFL is fixed. They’re going WWE

    And then I see this on Yahoo sports:

    Iraqi detainees taunt Wisconsin soldiers about Brett Favre
    Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:01 pm EST
    http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Iraqi-detainees-taunt-Wisconsin-soldiers-about-B?urn=nfl,203985

    The post should have the ‘We are all Mayans now’ tag.

  15. 15.

    khead

    At least they had the decency to lose outright. If they are going to lose my $$$ by not covering the spread (-9), they should be as miserable about it as I am. The fumble @ about 12 min left in the 4th was a killer.

  16. 16.

    jl

    I used to be a Raiduhs fan. But now, it is just beyond me to care much.

    I think it happened when they were in LA. I went to a few games. The fan base was stark raving mad.

    I remember a section that wore shithead hats: nice peaked piles of brown shit, with flies above jiggling around on little wires.

    And SF lost to Greenbay.

  17. 17.

    cj

    Dang! What is all this hatred towards the Raiders?

    Don’t hate the nation, babe.

    Also……RAIDERS~,RAIDERS~. ;p

  18. 18.

    jl

    @cj: I don’t exacly hate my crazy old uncle and his family with various abuse and severe codependency problems. I just don’t to talk about them very much, and try to stay out of pictures with them. That’s all.

  19. 19.

    Max

    Raider fans are the worst. And I live in Oakland and can see the stadium from my upstairs, so I have a frame of reference.

    The Black Hole is a frightening place.

  22. 22.

    woody

    All’s I can say is:

    Laissez l’bon Temps roulez!

    10-0? And they’ve got a pretty soft sked til the playoffs’ with likely a bye to the second round?

    Amazing Aints!!!

  23. 23.

    Comrade Jake

    Arguably the strangest thing that happened today was Brady Quinn throwing 4 TDs. Browns still lost, but wtf?

  25. 25.

    demkat620

    @woody: Yeah the Saints could run the table.

    How high a scoring SB could that be? Manning vs Brees?

    Two undefeated teams?

  30. 30.

    D-Chance.

    I miss the old-school NFL films, when you could catch that and other “official” themes every week as Sabol intoned the commentary for the half-hour program recapping the prior week’s highlights, or featured the Game of the Week.

  34. 34.

    paradox

    Gradkowski went to Toledo. Just as a fokkin’ fyi, I don’t know where it is, either.

    There’s one in Ohio, but it could be a Toledo anywhere, seriously.

    Go Raiders. Go Al. Oh yeah.

  38. 38.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Comrade Jake:

    Arguably the strangest thing that happened today was Brady Quinn throwing 4 TDs. Browns still lost, but wtf?

    Many would say that’s business as usual for the Cleveland Browns.

  39. 39.

    demkat620

    Well, I think we may all be able to agree that this Desean Jackson kid can play a little.

    Kid’s quick.

  40. 40.

    Cain

    Can we have an open thread please? I want to talk about this raw story about bumper stickers saying “Pray for Obama:Psalm 109:8”. Money quote:

    “The situation that I find genuinely frightening right now,” Schaeffer explained, “is that you have a ramping up of biblical language … and what it’s coalescing into is branding Obama … as ‘not us.’ … Now he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel … who should be slaughtered, if not by God then by just men.”

    If you look it up, the quote is fucked up. Jeez.. everyone of those people should be investigated if they have that bumper sticker. Link is here

    cain

  44. 44.

    International Playboy

    As you all by now are aware, the Dallas Cowboys won yet another NFL game, with an impressive victory over a tough Redskins team.

    The Pittsburgh Steelers, however, disgraced themselves with an embassing loss to the woeful Chiefs. It is past time to acknowledge that the Steelers are in need of an intervention. They are clearly horrible, but many of their fans actually believe the Steelers to be a quality organization, citing Super Bowl wins as evidence to support this dubious claim. This is delusional.

    One criticism of the tournament method of determining champions is that you don’t always get the best teams in the final. Upsets can only mediocre teams like the Seahawks or the Cardinals to sneak in, giving a team like the Steelers a layup win in a game that is supposed to be a true test of greatness. Of course the Steelers actually came close to losing against those cupcakes, but that’s another story. The fact is they should never have gotten such pushover opponents in the first place. The BCS has been rightly criticised for it’s undemocratic nature, and it probably isn’t a good fit for college football. So many teams competing for a single prize requires a tournament to give each team a fair chance. But the NFL would possibly benefit from such a system. Certainly, we would avoid any more atrocities such as Super Bowl XL.

    At any rate, I would say the jury is in on Ben Rothlisgoober. He blows goats. He should be selling cars. He’d be good at it, no one would suspect that anyone that goofy would be capable of ripping them off.

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

  45. 45.

    International Playboy

    @demkat620: Yes, absolutely. The Eagles have a few talented athletes, in fact.

    Which is why it is so disturbing that they would see it necessary to sign a psychopath who gets off on torturing puupies.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    I empathize because I fucking hate the Raiders. Like no other team in the NFL.

    Amen. Ever since they made my mama cry because of the cheap-shot way they beat up Joe Willie Namath.

  47. 47.

    Karen

    With the exception of the Colts, the games today all sucked. The RAIDERS won????

    Denver isn’t any better off than before Shanahan was fired. He could produce the same stinking results that McDaniels is gettingnow. Their loss today was totally expected. It’s what they’ve done for the past 3 or 4 years.

  49. 49.

    Zoogz

    Watching the local Detroit news…. and the Lions victory — taking them from 1-8 to 2-8 — leads the broadcast.

    What’s it like to root for a good team? One that doesn’t go 2-24 through the last two seasons?

  54. 54.

    Steeplejack

    Bob Costas made a good point during halftime of the night game about overtime rules. Namely, that the range and consistency of kickers has increased dramatically since the sudden-death rule was instituted. During the game, a field goal is a partial victory for the defense because the offense was denied a touchdown, but in sudden death it’s game over–and sometimes season over for the losing team.

    Among several possibilities, Costas mentioned the one I like: each team gets one possession in OT, then it’s sudden death. This would give the team losing the coin toss a chance to answer the other team gingerly inching down the field and then kicking a long three.

  55. 55.

    Svensker

    That’s a real creative Raiders’ video. I used to like me some raiders when I lived in L.A. — those were the Lyle Alzado (sp?) days. Huddle!

    Now I got the Jets. Poop.

    OT — but has anyone seen Gen. W. Stuck? I don’t think he’s been around since he got all riled up the other day and a few of us got into an ear pullin’ contest. I miss him. Er, well, meant to say, where the heck is that gol durned varmint?

  60. 60.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I don’t like that alternative because it limits strategy. Maybe a coach thinks a field goal is all his weak offense can muster (e.g., star quarterback got knocked out in the fourth quarter) but he believes his defense can hold the opponent on their drive.

    Simplest is best: You won the coin toss. Do whatever you want. But the other guys get one drive to answer.

    P.S. And I don’t want to hear the argument about “Ooh, the game will run on too long!” That a 60-minute game typically takes over three hours is not the fault of overtime. It’s commercial breaks and the generally glacial pace of the game as currently run (by teams and officials). But we’re suddenly going to get all time-conscious in overtime?! Fuggedaboudit.

  63. 63.

    Corner Stone

    I’m not sure WTF Cole is laughing about. The Bengals = Bungals, right? Yet they beat the Stillers twice, then the Stillers went on to lose gloriously to the Chiefs.
    The defending Superbowl Champs lost twice to the Bungals, then the G-D Chiefs.
    And anything Cinci does is hahahaha worthy how?

  65. 65.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Corner Stone: Hey, if I was getting paid that kinda money, I would be a hell of a lot less of a diva. Plus, I just can’t stand the way the announcers kiss his ass no matter what he does. Retiring, unretiring, blah blah blah.

  66. 66.

    Paul

    Yeah. I don’t care for Favre (too much of a diva),

    That reminds me of something a co-worker said when I reminded him that there is no “I” in team: “No, but there’s a ME…and an AT…as in look AT ME!”

  68. 68.

    burnspbesq

    And now for something completely different.

    Galaxy loses the MLS final to Real Godforsaken Salt Lake, on PKs.

    And as if that doesn’t hurt enough, the futbol gods decide to really twist the knife.

    RSL is coached by a former Duke player, Jason Kreis.

    The winning goal is scored by a former Duke player, Robbie Russell.

    Fuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

  69. 69.

    Paul

    In all fairness, and all cognitive dissonance aside, Favre rocks…and I say this as a die-hard Packer fan. Although I have no doubt that the Vikings will implode at some point. White Whales and shit.

  71. 71.

    ppcli

    Eight years of living in Pittsburgh leaves a trace…

    When I heard the Raiders – Bengals score, in my mind’s ear I could just hear Myron Cope saying “Hmm..Hah! Back to the old Cinci Bungles. Oi!

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