Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

In after Baud. Damn.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Come on, man.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

“Squeaker” McCarthy

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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  3. 3.

    mr. whipple

    Thank you x 10.

    I never could see how that ad was even effective. All it did for me was make me angry.

  9. 9.

    Jake

    AMBER COME BACK………..We didn’t mean it…We were just joking……………

    kvetching.

    Hmmm…It seems that John’s jewish followers are having an impact…

  10. 10.

    HumboldtBlue

    I have no idea what settings I have on my Firefox, but I never heard any damn ads, so I didn’t kvetch, complain or bug you in any way other than commenting on your blog.

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I never saw or heard the annoying ads, so I never complained. And presumably I won’t notice the difference.

    But *THANKS ANYHOW!*

  13. 13.

    BombIranForChrist

    I went home to visit my folks in South Georgia a couple weeks ago, and even they hate Wal-mart. They are both pretty right wing — my Dad bought a street legal AK47 and a ton of ammunition right after Obama was elected — but they do hate the Walmart. It’s one of the few beliefs we share.

  16. 16.

    jenniebee

    OK, so what you’re telling me is that there isn’t a secret message spoken by a woman’s voice hidden deep in Coulton’s “Mandelbrot Set” that I only suddenly started hearing today but wasn’t able to track down no matter how many times I replayed it? Because that pretty much sums up my day, thus far.

    That, and lambasting my landlord over teh intertubez. Fan Apartments, bitch. They’ve taken away my dreams of home ownership and parenthood for a second year. Living well is the best revenge; since that is no longer an option, google bombing will have to do. Links appreciated.

  18. 18.

    Xenos

    What happened to all the kinky webcomix? Adolescent and not-so-post adolescent boys are feeling left out now.

  21. 21.

    RedKitten

    Did you watch Chuck tonight?

    I think it’s going in a good direction — the Ring is starting to actually be frightening, which they really weren’t before. The new Ellie plotline is going to be interesting.

  22. 22.

    Brian J

    That’s nice, but you still owe me a $1000 Walmart gift card. Pay up, John Cole.

  23. 23.

    beltane

    Today was the first time I heard the talking ad. I am so glad I was able to experience it before it is gone forever.

  24. 24.

    Morbo

    Now there’s just an IRA ad warning that April 15th is approaching fast. Still a marked improvement.

  26. 26.

    jibeaux

    jenniebee, contact your state attorney general’s office, they should have a consumer division that might be able to take your complaint, and a call to Legal Aid wouldn’t hurt either. They have financial requirements, but do a lot of landlord-tenant. If you don’t qualifty, maybe they could refer you to someone affordable.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @RedKitten: Moar Samuel, plz. Can’t believe he’s out of onesies already! Next thing you know he’ll be graduating from university. Then he’ll make you a grandmother.

  29. 29.

    Corner Stone

    I hate it that there are no more talking ads! WTF is wrong with you Cole?

  31. 31.

    RedKitten

    @SiubhanDuinne: He was only out of onesies for that one set of pyjamas. For the most part, he’s still in his footie jammies. Tonight he’s wearing green ones with a froggie on them.

    Poor little guy got bitten on Friday by one of the other kids at daycare. The other kid is not quite a year old, and he crawled over and kissed Sam. Then he went in again for what the sitter thought would be another kiss, and CHOMP, right on the face. The skin wasn’t broken, but his face just looked awful all Friday, poor little mite. Sam only cried for about 20 seconds, and then was smiling again. He’s such an absurdly happy baby.

  32. 32.

    Mumphrey

    ¡Muchisimas gracias!

    I can’t tell how many times that screaming guy scared the shit out of me; my chair was getting to be quite a mess. It’s weird. Seems like some people never heard it, but I swear, the guy screamed (scrome?) at me about every other time I came here or wrote something here or refreshed the page. I’d have guessed that these here intertubes have a way to tell who buys lots of badly made Chinese crap at walmart and who doesn’t; but then that doesn’t make any sense, since I won’t go there. Then again, maybe they track the people who don’t go there and play the ad to punish them for not filling walmart’s coffers.

    As an aside, I saw that Ann Coulter said today or yesterday that American liberals were big fans of Hitler until he got on their bad side when he overran the American liberals’ “beloved” USSR. As Olbermann said, that must mean that Roosevelt, who tried to get around the Neutrality Act to help Britain fight the nazis before Pearl Harbor, was a Republican. Do these assholes even care that most of the shit they spew doesn’t make any sense? Is there even any point in me asking this?

  33. 33.

    Joseph Nobles

    I got a Jack in the Box ad talking to me there at the end. Also the creepy talking dog was getting on my nerves. My mom isn’t that bad.

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    @jenniebee: Jesus, that’s horrible. If the maintenance is still that bad, start calling the city building inspectors.

    Another option to consider is simply breaking the lease. Check with a local lawyer first, but in a lot of places, the worst that happens is that you forfeit your security deposit. Annoying, but a hell of a lot better than spending an additional year or two in some place that you really really want to leave.

    dms

  37. 37.

    mai naem

    Well, sheet, I thought I was gonna get rich off WallyMart. Another one of my dreams extinguished.

  38. 38.

    nadezhda

    Attention BJ readers. The Clown Show is featured by Tom Toles today.

    “Quasi-post-boomer Obama acts suspiciously adult-like. Probably explains the widespread feeling he must have come from somewhere else.”

    His sketchpad “outtake” today is also pretty good.

  39. 39.

    mai naem

    @jenniebee: Jenniebee, call the 1/fire dept/fire marshall. 2/Call the building safety place in your city/county(maybe part of zoning/building permits) 3/Yes, call the AG/County Attorney/ Even the City Attorney. Basically turn into the one tenant who they don’t want around. Also too, there are attorneys that will take the case on contingency(i.e. sue them for the mold etc. ) Oh, and make sure you video the whole place before you leave just in case they decide to sue you. You can also sue them in small claims. Just become a pain in the ass so that they want to get rid of you.

  40. 40.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    It isn’t just that Fan Apartments padlocks the fire escape shut. It isn’t just that there isn’t a single window in the apartment that both isn’t painted shut and which has a screen.

    These are two MAJOR safety violations right here. Have you tried calling the fire chief?

    That and a non-functioning toilet might be more than enough to give you grounds to claim constructive eviction.

    See Article 4 (pg 25) but as dmsilev says, consult a lawyer. There’s a list of contacts & legal aid organizations starting on pg. 4.

  41. 41.

    OriGuy

    @jenniebee:
    I searched for “richmond virginia tenant” and found this site. I only know about California tenant law, and not much at that; not surprising that Virginia favors the landlord more. You do have some options, though.

  43. 43.

    asiangrrlMN

    Thank you, Cole. You are a prince among men. Now, all I ask for is a video of Tunchie, and I can die a happy woman.

    @RedKitten: Aw, poor baby! Expecting some loving and getting the bite instead. Glad he took it like a chomp champ.

    @jenniebee: Holy crap. Is that even legal?

  44. 44.

    D-Chance.

    Couldn’t that sleeping guy have just woken up, reached down, and slapped the Walmart ad silent?

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mumphrey:

    As an aside, I saw that Ann Coulter said today or yesterday that American liberals were big fans of Hitler until he got on their bad side when he overran the American liberals’ “beloved” USSR.

    Guh? Yes, that’s why the lefties in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade fought against Hitler’s friend and ally Francisco Franco — because they loved Hitler so very much.

    This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if media conservatives suffered some kind of head injury, because their “theories” make no fucking sense at all.

  47. 47.

    Mnemosyne

    @jenniebee:

    Wait, in Virginia your lease automatically renews for another year unless you affirmatively cancel it? WTF? In California, your lease doesn’t renew unless you affirmatively renew it by signing a new one. If you don’t sign one and you don’t notify the landlord that you’re leaving, your lease automatically goes to a month-to-month that either you or the landlord can give 30 days notice on at any time.

  48. 48.

    Mumphrey

    @Mnemosyne:

    I kind of think that by this time, there are 2 kinds of right-wing blatherers (both politicians and television, radio yammerers and columnists): the dumb or ignorant kind, like Sean Hannity, Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin, who, maybe just don’t know any better, and don’t care enough to learn; and the cynical ones, the liars, like Coulter or Limbaugh or Gingrich, who know that the people they’re appealling to are to dumb or ignorant to know any better, so there’s no need to worry about whether what they say is true or not.

  49. 49.

    jenniebee

    @jibeaux: thanks, will contact the state, but given that my state is VA, I suspect the Commonwealth’s Atty’s office has more “important” things on their agenda. Like, you know, teh gayz & creeping Obamasoshulizm.

    I tried Legal Aid. A very nice woman sounded really pained when she explained to me that if I don’t meet the income req’s she can’t even give me a referral.

  50. 50.

    jenniebee

    In answer to everybody: in VA apparently the landlord has quite a bit of latitude. I read the landlord/tenant statute today, and I did track down an attorney who would at least talk to me, but even that’s hard to come by, apparently.

    Tomorrow is calling the fire marshall, building inspector and anybody else I can think of, but what this is really most likely to come down to is that we just leave at the end of July and then vigilantly revisit to check for court papers taped to the door (apparently, they aren’t required to mess with that icky change of address stuff), hire a lawyer, and defend ourselves in court. There, it all comes down to whether or not the judge believes whether we mailed the letter on time. If he believes we did, that would satisfy the definition of “notice.” If he doesn’t, our liability would be substantial, potentially around $15,000, plus our lawyer’s fees.

    Otherwise, it looks like our best bet is to contact the fire marshal and complain about the padlocked fire exit. They’ve come out before while we’ve been here and fined the landlord for padlocking it. The lock was off for a week or so, then right back on. I strongly suspect that removing the lock and chain for a week and then putting it right back on doesn’t count as “remedying a tenant safety issue.”

    The other best thing I can think of to do is to put pressure on them by making it difficult for them to rent out apartments. They have a lot of empty inventory, and they rely heavily on their eyesore of a website. So any links are very, very appreciated. Sorry for blogwhoring, it’s not for the attention.

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    @jenniebee:

    Totally wacky suggestion: do any of your local TV stations have one of those consumer affairs reporters who goes around to crappy businesses and embarrasses them? If so, it might be worth sending a tape and still photos to them and see if you can get your slumlord on the air.

  52. 52.

    AngusJackBootedThugOfMeat

    I proudly bitch about everything, and I have never heard a talking ad on this site. If I had, and it had caused me grief, I would bitch about it for weeks, maybe months.

    So this improvement does nothing for me, therefore, I intend to bitch about that.

  55. 55.

    jibeaux

    @jenniebee:

    Oh, sorry. It really does sound awful. The Virginia State Bar may have a lawyer referral service 800 number they can give you, or if you have any friends who practice any sort of law, ask them if they can put you in touch with the right person.

  56. 56.

    LanceThruster

    But those were the only friends I had! Better imaginary friends than no friends at all. I’ll just be here curled up in the corner in the fetal position if you need me.

  58. 58.

    merl

    thanks a fucking lot!! I told my wife I would get her her fucking walmart card today.

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