Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Go Senator Whitehouse!

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

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

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

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

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

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

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Bark louder, little dog.

“In the name of Zandar, I will fight the Stupid!”

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”

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  3. 3.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Oh Christ, are we gonna pretend now that pithy and witty never existed before Twitter??? Isn’t Twitter just the public bathroom wall made digital?

  7. 7.

    calipygian

    # “I don’t need more friends. You got friends and all they do is ask you to help them move. Fuck that. I’m old. I’m through moving shit.” 11:00 AM Nov 16th from web

    Shit My Dad Says is pretty sublime. Even if it is fake, which it may be.

  12. 12.

    LorenzoStDuBois

    FakeAPStylebook has been single-handedly making Twitter work for me for the last 3 weeks. It’s absolutely brilliant.

  18. 18.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @evinfuilt:

    I can remember watching the original back in the day, and being absolutely fascinated, and when someone would ask what was going on, I would just say I don’t know but it doesn’t matter.

  21. 21.

    Joshua Norton

    I’ve tried to watch the show but I keep falling asleep. 11 pm on a Sunday nite just is not a good time to try to figure out vague nuance.

  23. 23.

    Joshua Norton

    I think technically it’s “Tweet”

    That’s the verb. He’s right. The root of the proper noun is “twit”.

  25. 25.

    ellaesther

    @demkat620: @Annie: I’m fairly certain that it’s a Prisoner reference (my husband watches, and passing through the living room, I’ve picked up that the Prisoner is #6).

    BUT, before I realized that I was just loving it as a completely random thing to say. Six? The rules don’t apply to six. Six is a free man!

    But I’m a bit odd that way.

  26. 26.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    @demkat620:

    Catch some reruns of “The Prisoner” (original series; haven’t seen the remake, not sure I want to). It’s a pretty classic line.

  33. 33.

    Warren Terra

    The hash tag “#18thCenturyMovieLines” can be pretty funny; some examples:

    I’ll wager you are Pondering; did he Discharge ONE shot or NONE?
    —
    Good day. My name is Inigo Montoya. Thou hast slain my father. Prepare for thine mortal end.
    —
    Indeed sir, you have seized me, but my question remains, what keeps you aloft?!

    The similarly themed #18thCenturyPop tweets don’t work for me quite as well, maybe because I don’t listen to much music, but this one was cute:

    Tried to make me go to Bedlam but I said Nay, thrice nay

  34. 34.

    Zifnab

    @drillfork: I’m sorry, but I am full of incredulity. I mean, call me paranoid and all, but we kill innocent men down here in Texas for having a space heater light his house on fire.

    I wish this investigation had been done by the FBI rather than by Chuckles the Bumbleton Assistant Deputy coroner.

  35. 35.

    Warren Terra

    Good news:I successfully kept my separate lines within one blockquote. Bad news: in each case those three hyphens were meant to be, and when last I saw them were, on their own line, rather than being appended to the previous line.

    How’s that edit function coming along, anyway?

  36. 36.

    PaulW

    The remake sucked. Incoherent as hell. I got the feeling they filmed enough for 10 episodes and then edited the hell out of it down to 6. Too much overt mind-screwing, and yes I know that was the point of the original series as well, but it was better paced back then dammit.

  37. 37.

    geg6

    Tried The Prisoner for about 10 minutes. Jesus Guy continues to totally creep me out, not to mention his totally wooden acting. How does this guy get work? He’s an insane Catholic of the Gibson family variety and his “technique” is non-existent. He makes me shudder. Much as I adore Gandalf, that show is unwatchable if only because of Cavezel.

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    cmorenc

    @Joshua Norton

    He’s right. The root of the proper noun is “twit”.

    @r€nato

    I think the past particle, then, is ‘twat’.

    So, it would be proper useage to note that:
    “The TWIT TWATTED thusly yesterday…and set the blogsphere all aTWITTER with his inane comments.

    If Sarah Palin chimed into the discussion via Twitter, would it be proper to say “The twat twittered” or the “twat twattered”?

  40. 40.

    L. Ron Obama

    Re: twit and twat, congratulations, everybody. You’ve successfully discovered a play on the word Twitter. Please queue up with your 215,764 predecessors for your reward.

    God help us if you ever hear about the Wii.

  42. 42.

    gypsy howell

    I tried twice to watch the new AMC version. Couldn’t do it. Loved the oringal, so I had such high hopes for liking the remake (except for the Jesus guy- I was a little worried about that, rightfully so apparently.) Now that Mad Men’s over for 9 months, I was hoping #6 would take up the Don Draper slack. Guess I’ll just get more sleep on Sunday nights.

  46. 46.

    raptusregaliter

    The first two hours of the remake were tolerable. The rest of it sucked hard. Don’t waste your time.

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