Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He really is that stupid.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

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

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Republicans don’t trust women.

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

Let there be snark.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

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  1. 1.

    the fugitive uterus

    I do not want an echidna on my pants!

    good morning!

    also, I do not approve of the exploitation of monotremes in general! where will it end??

  4. 4.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @NotMax: 2 weeks after moving down under I watched a huntsman car surf at 80km/h for 25 minutes. In the end the driver pulled over and used a stick to chivvy it off the window. impressive feat. also, ICK.

  5. 5.

    the fugitive uterus

    Mitt says, “what if the federal gov’t was the sole supplier of cell phones?” blah, blah, blah – Apps Czar – blah, blah, blah

  6. 6.

    MikeJ

    BBC is showing Pat Robertson’s BFF testifying at Den Haag right now. Charles Taylor says that since he apologized to the Liberian people they should let bygones be bygones.

  8. 8.

    Schlemizel

    echidna because eh like na
    .
    I realize its early so translation for those foolish enough to read BJ before coffee
    I kid na because I like na

  9. 9.

    the fugitive uterus

    Great news from Kristine on another thread! Those angels, Thymzone and Rome Again, will be taking IrishGirl’s kitty!

    YAAAAAAAAY! happy times!

    everyone tell them how effing awesome they are!

  10. 10.

    the fugitive uterus

    really, is that all republicans can do is whine, cry, masturbate, complain and lie?

    to quote Patsy Stone. “Oh for God’s sake, just go ahead and die!”

  13. 13.

    Joseph Nobles

    Just found out Tim Minchin is going to be playing Judas in the new London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    IT’Z A BEBEH ECHIDNA!!

    I think the platypus has better marketers is what it is hon.

    And FYWP, I wasn’t done with my comment yet.

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yutsano: Shouldn’t you be surgerizing?

    Also too, venomous and duck-billed > ant-eating and toothless. Just saying.

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @the fugitive uterus:

    For one thing, we’d have one standard that would allow people to switch networks without changing hardware, much to the disgust of the CEOs of the various wireless services, as it would cut into their hookers and booze slush funds.

  23. 23.

    Linda Featheringill

    For those who have old people they care about:

    I found a medical description of dementia.

    If you forget something, even if you have difficulty findings words, but remember it a few minutes later, you’re forgetful. Your brain failed to find the desired item on its first search.

    The brain of someone with dementia might also fail to find the target on the first try. But the demented brain doesn’t conduct repeated searches, doesn’t continue looking. It just drops the whole search and goes off to think about something else. Tra-la-la.

    You’re welcome.

    Your forgetful commenter. :-)

  24. 24.

    Suffern ACE

    @the fugitive uterus: I’d assume that the rules would be written such that only heterosexual phone calls would count as in-network and every call by an inner-city black youth would somehow be a roaming call.

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    Oh my.

    “Dreams From My Real Father,” a 97-minute film narrated by an Obama impersonator, weaves the narrative that Obama’s grandfather wasn’t a furniture salesman but an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his teenage daughter to hide the fact that she was impregnated by a 55-year-old communist named Frank Marshall Davis.

    (via)

  27. 27.

    Linda Featheringill

    @dmsilev:

    “Dreams . . . ”

    That is just too funny.

    Aside from the sheer fantasy of it all, why do they care who his daddy was? Political opinions are not genetically encoded, are they?

    But of course you don’t care about genetics if you think that all science is suspect.

  29. 29.

    handsmile

    @MattF: (#20)

    Oh my, Krgthulu brutally shaves the Moustache in that post; thanks for the link! It’s so good as to be un-excerptable: each and every sentence is lethal.

    He seems to take an especial delight in defenestrating his fellow NYT op-ed columnists. Chunky BoBo must be grateful that he is simply beneath Krugman’s pitiless gaze.

    The wingnut hive has quickly infested the comments section there. General Stuck appears as well however to fight the good fight.

    As long as Krugman continues to write such pieces, he refutes Yeats’ in “The Second Coming” that “the best lack all conviction.” He battles valiantly against the “rough beast.”

  31. 31.

    canuckistani

    You can’t call them forgotten when they get a mention in the They Might be Giants song “Mammal”.

  33. 33.

    Nutella

    I don’t remember seeing this about Sully when it happened in 2009. Nice to have friends in high places.

    I like how indignant the federal prosecutor got when the judge called out their corruption. The nerve of that judge to even mention equality before the law!

    via @nignog63

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @dmsilev:

    I’m not sure the birthers have thought this through since right now, the only halfway viable claim they have is that the problem with the president’s citizenship is that his father was not an American citizen. If they’re now saying that his real father was an American citizen, then he’s 100% American and they just wasted 4 years screaming about his birth certificate.

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