Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

So many bastards, so little time.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Republicans do not trust women.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

How stupid are these people?

This blog will pay for itself.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

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

In my day, never was longer.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    As I mentioned one of the previous thematic threads, 2012 is not a problem, I’ve been assured, because the numerology involved is not biblically based.

    It’s therefore bunk.

  5. 5.

    AxelFoley

    I can just see the thread title here when 2012 comes around: The Final Countdown.

    Along with the obligatory Europe YouTube vid.

  8. 8.

    West of the Cascades

    As a Christian, the imminent rapture makes me kind of nervous. For one thing, if there really is a rapture, heaven seems like it would be kind of boring if it’s filled with people like Sarah Palin (maybe “boring” isn’t the word so much as “essentially equivalent to eternal damnation but with fluffy clouds”). Also, it would really suck to learn that the socialist hippie Jesus I believe in actually IS the right-wing thug much of the GOP seems to believe in. Even worse to learn that while burning in a pit of hot molten lava being poked with pitchforks.

    This is another reason I hope I’m right that most of the Bible is metaphorical. On the other hand, getting raptured (or boiled in a pit) would save me from working the rest of the weekend for a Monday deadline. There’s always a silver lining.

  10. 10.

    Wag

    All I know for sure about the Rapture is that come Sunday morning, Ralph Reed is going to be pissed that Jimmy Carter got raptured and Ralph didn’t

    I wrote this on the last post, but it fits here too

  12. 12.

    joel hanes

    @West of the Cascades:

    If the Rapture actually comes, and if the words of Jesus can be trusted, there will be a great many fervent “Christians” enduring the tribulation — including all the famous “Christians”, the prominent “Christians”, the wealthy “Christians”, celebrity “Christians”, powerful “Christians” — and Heaven will be a delightful village populated by unassuming people that no one’s ever heard of — people who quietly loved the world and asked no more of life than to live and love and make it better.

  13. 13.

    Hunter Gathers

    I don’t worry ’bout no stupid rapture.
    Like most of America’s Cultural Elite, I worship Pan the Goat God.

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    @Hunter Gathers:

    Like most of America’s Cultural Elite, I worship Pan the Goat God.

    Is that what Mickey Kaus is calling it now? And are you sure that America’s elite doesn’t worship Mammon? It seems closer to their observed behavior.

  16. 16.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I can picture Quetzalocotl bitching out Jehovah as we speak: “No fair, you big meanie! You said I could destroy the world! You promised!“

  17. 17.

    RossInDetroit

    Remember when Y2K was going to be the end of civilization? Well, we won’t be able to code our way out of this one.

  18. 18.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Wag: Fan-fucking-tastic. Thanks for the link. I’m just going to play that continuously until the world ends, at least in New Zealand. I may take a break to make popcorn.

    No enough people are going to get raptured in my neighborhood (heavily ethnic in ways unlikely to be evangelical Christian) to make looting a real sport, so I need some entertainment. On the other hand, if Glen Tomkins in the previous thread is correct about the Rapture being a 12-tribes, Jews-only affair, I could be outta here (hey, somebody’s got to represent Ephraim and half of Manasseh).

  20. 20.

    RossInDetroit

    In my Jewish neighborhood the only change the Rapture would bring is the Witnesses with their Watchtower handouts missing from my doorstep on Sunday morning. Lovely people, and I’m sure deserving of a heavenly reward. But I like it here, thanks.

  21. 21.

    fasteddie9318

    @RossInDetroit:

    But I like it here, thanks.

    Oh yeah? See how much you’ll like it after all the fundamentalist Christian loudmouth busybodies are gone! Bet you’ll see things differently then, won’t you?

  23. 23.

    R-Jud

    20 minutes to 6 pm in Suva, Fiji (I believe the Rapture happens at 6 pm local time, wherever you are).

    What should I make for last breakfast, guys? Cornbread or cheese scones?

  25. 25.

    Barb (formerly Gex)

    @Wag: Awwwww. I would miss Jimmy. But he seems worthy.

    I’d almost rather the jerk Christians be right and get called up, and leave the heathens like me with Christians like Jimmy.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    @R-Jud:

    Cheese scones. You probably can’t do proper (Southern) cornbread. (If only because you probably can’t get Martha White cornmeal in England.)

  30. 30.

    Dream On

    I was promised a Rapture of a biblical nature. Why is humanity raining on my parade?

  33. 33.

    R-Jud

    @Steeplejack: Good point. We went with the cheese scones. Fabulous.

    @Roger Moore: Yeah, but who wants a rushed last supper? With the Rapture at 6, we wouldn’t have time to wash up before Jesus returns even if we sat down to dinner at 5 PM.

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