Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

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

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

We still have time to mess this up!

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

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

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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but the suspense is killing me.

I’ve been googling, but have not yet managed to find any reports of a five tonne cat going rogue and eating six people and a fat Jack Russell somewhere in West Virginia. I’ll keep looking.

ETA: I always imagine John transporting Tunch to the vet as looking something like this:

EATA: @John Cole

I’m saddened.

Much less exciting than expected, because I could never find Tunch andTunch hid behind a large lorry and the tranquilizer gun wasn’t working so I had to reschedule him.

FTFY

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  2. 2.

    merrinc

    So much awesome in one brief post. I’m having a shitty day so thanks for the laugh.

  6. 6.

    JGabriel

    Scott:

    I just don’t like the idea of comparing Tunch to Chris Christie.

    Now that’s just mean. There’s no need to insult … uh, actually, I’m not sure who’s the loser in that comparison.

    I guess that makes it valid.

    .

  13. 13.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    @Scott:

    I was going to post one of those videos of people transporting whole buildings on the back of trucks. I suspect that would be a more accurate metaphor, but the rhino was cuter than a building.

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yutsano:
    @Comrade Mary:

    I don’t see it passing again. Recalls are under way against senators and Walker will face one as soon as his grace period is up. I think they got one bite at this particular apple and it did not work for them.

  18. 18.

    4jkb4ia

    Whoa! Caroline Garcia, 17-year-old French kid, one set and two breaks up on Sharapova! sluggahjells called it. sluggahjells is also correct that you never count Sharapova out.

    And what Ellaesther said.

    ETA: See, she got one of those breaks back.

    ETA 2: Jeebus, Andujar actually got a break up on Nadal. What is going on today?

  20. 20.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Comrade Mary: I myself still don’t get why they haven’t passed it again already. The judge made clear earlier that this whole thing could be rendered moot if they just did that.

  21. 21.

    Suffern ACE

    @The Republic of Stupidity: I read about that this morning. The version I read had a rather unfortunate joke in it about how the Nazis should have put the scientists behind it in concentration camps (that one never gets old…ha ha.) Anyway, what I found interesting is that the scientists were claiming that they were actually making progress by telling a series of ridiculous stories. They probably weren’t actually scientists, though; probably more like a modern think tank with a very compliant press corps.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Sentient Puddle: I don’t think that they can. I think that they less insane GOP folk won’t go along again. Also too, the senators who are facing recall would have no hope of surviving it if they do this again.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    Tunch knew you had a fully charged camera. You are so getting smothered in your sleep tonight.

  24. 24.

    shortstop

    Wait, did Yutsano just predict what jeffreyw was making for lunch? I may need more coffee.

  25. 25.

    4jkb4ia

    As of today, I have been married 9 years. Not that that was important or anything.

    (Second break gotten back)

  26. 26.

    Jay in Oregon

    @shortstop:

    My guess is, he went back and edited his post after jeffreyw’s post. It can be kinda fun to mess with people’s heads that way…

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @4jkb4ia:

    Congratulations! I think you’re competing pretty closely with Newt Gingrich and other Hollywood personalities on longevity…

  28. 28.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well true, right now they’d be shooting themselves in the foot. But I don’t see why they didn’t do it the moment the initial injunction was handed down. The recall effort hadn’t really hit its stride at that point.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Sentient Puddle: The theory here in Madison is that they would have been forced to admit that they had fucked up. Being who they are, they just can’t do that.

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tom Levenson: It is very upsetting. It could tear apart marriages. Then again, the state survived the haddock vs walleye Friday fish fry wars of the 1970s and 80s; hopefully, we will survive this.

  34. 34.

    Poopyman

    @Tom Levenson: Damn! I shouldn’t have read that right before lunch, ’cause what I brought ain’t nothin’ like what I just read about. Sigh.

  39. 39.

    Origuy

    The PBS show History Detectives did a segment about a U.S. Army program during WWII that was trying to train dogs to sniff out Japanese. Some crackpot Swiss refugee named William Prestre claimed that dogs could distinguish between people of Japanese ancestry and those of European ancestry. The Army set up a program on Cat Island, Mississippi, and used Japanese-Americans as bait to train the dogs. Prestre wanted them to train thousands of dogs as the first wave of an invasion. It failed, of course, and the Army soon gave up the idea. Transcript.

  40. 40.

    cckids

    @Origuy:

    Some crackpot Swiss refugee named William Prestre claimed that dogs could distinguish between people of Japanese ancestry and those of European ancestry. The Army set up a program on Cat Island, Mississippi, and used Japanese-Americans as bait to train the dogs.

    Jesus. Your tax dollars at work. It has ever been so.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Origuy: Cat Island was clearly the wrong place to do any kind of dog training. Too many distractions.

  43. 43.

    HRA

    @shortstop:

    Am I ever glad you mentioned Yutsano predicting Jeffrey’s food. I was going to keep quiet and make an appointment with my doctor.

  44. 44.

    Yes, Matress

    BOOOOORRRRRNNNN FREEEEEEEEEE, as free as the horn blows, as free as the something, something…

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