Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

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

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

And so it is for the politically and morally bankrupt Kevin McCarthy.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Cole is on a roll !

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

House Speaker candidate unfamiliar with how to win non-gerrymandered election.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

… looking like a winsome Bee Gee who has stumbled into teaching geography

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

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Searching for the Heart of a Saturday Night

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Since my post yesterday about Real American car adornment sparked a good-natured exchange, here’s another one. This is aftermath of a Saturday night. Speaking of Saturday night, here’s a joke from one of my family members:

Individual Mandate? Sounds like something a guy does alone on a Saturday night.

Relax, he’s a more rabid Democrat than most of you. Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Napoleon

    Mo Rocca used that joke (may be he came up with it) on this weeks Wait, Wait (which I actually got to go to the taping of Thursday night).

  2. 2.

    General Stuck

    After completing today’s duties for saving mankind by blogging, think I’ll take a break

  3. 3.

    Hunter Gathers

    I don’t know what’s more disturbing – that some one could actually drink that much Bud Light or that they they still had enough room for that can of Coke.

  4. 4.

    Jager

    The lonely coke can on the Siverado’s bumper? I’d hope it was half filled with whiskey or rum at one point in the evening. That’s a decent start on pissing a campfire out.

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    @Hunter Gathers:
    Two points:

    1) There’s no obvious reason to assume that this was the work of just one person.

    2) Bud Lite is only one step removed from water, so it shouldn’t be surprising that somebody could drink that much of it, especially if they stop to relieve themselves regularly during the process.

  6. 6.

    chopper

    daaaang, heat index of 136!

    hoping y’all in the hothouse of the US are making it through this, especially those without power.

  10. 10.

    lamh35

    CPAC’s boy wonder swings left

    Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009’s Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party…

    Now 17, Krohn — who went on to write a book, “Defining Conservatism,” that was blurbed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett — still watches that speech from time to time, but it mostly makes him cringe because, well, he’s not a conservative anymore…

    But a quick rundown of his current political stances suggests a serious pendulum swing away from the right.
    Gay marriage? In favor. Obamacare? “It’s a good idea.” Who would he vote for (if he could) in November? “Probably Barack Obama.” His favorite TV shows? “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” His favorite magazine? The New Yorker. And, perhaps telling of all, Krohn is enrolling this fall at a college not exactly known for its conservatism: New York University…

  11. 11.

    quannlace

    Speaking of Real Americans–what’s with all the coverage of the Romney family ‘Olympics.’ Details abound, such as how it’s mandatory, no excuses for not attending. How Romney ‘expanded’ the variety of games when he started losing. And how they coordinate their wardrobe.
    Good God, they even vacation weird.

  14. 14.

    rlrr

    After the 2004 election, Googling “Bush Mandate” would display a gay dating site as the first result…

  17. 17.

    WereBear

    Many lovely commentors wanted to know when I launched a Way of Cats fund drive. It’s NOW.

    Let’s keep the Way of Cats blog Blooming

    Ironically, the blog’s growth is why I need contributions. I don’t have enough ad, cat toy, or book revenue to cover bandwidth, security, and all the etceteras that come with popularity. I’m apparently not that popular yet.

    If you are so moved… Help the Cause?

    Increase cat understanding and acceptance. And let’s empty those shelters!

  19. 19.

    Gin & Tonic

    sparked a good-natured exchange

    I bailed early on that thread, but wasn’t it mostly hatin’ on fat people?

  23. 23.

    Ed in NJ

    @rlrr:

    but isn’t that what Bud is for?

    And yes, I heard Mo Rocca use that joke on WWDTM this weekend.

  24. 24.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    The aftermath of a Saturday night is Sunday morning

  25. 25.

    chopper

    @rlrr:

    bud light is for people who feel terribly guilty about drinking and wish to make it as painful as possible.

  27. 27.

    Hypatia's Momma

    @Gin & Tonic:
    There was also the “women are the ‘n—— of the world’ bit (and also, I guess, students going through voluntary tertiary education which they are free to drop at any time) from people one would think were better than that. Apparently it’s ok to “reclaim” the word if it’s never been used to attack you and everyone like you because… some white man from England sang this song.

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    @lamh35: Water is still wet too Mr. Vanderbilt. But at least he didn’t live off Mummy’s money.

    Slept like a wreck last night. Think I’m gonna call out. Not sure yet.

  32. 32.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    @rlrr:

    Bud/Miller Light are for the guys who want to get smashed on the cheap without turning into a parade balloon. They’re not drinking it ’cause they like the taste. They’re drinking it strictly because it gets them drunk (eventually).

    At least that’s how it was explained to me by one guy I worked with, who would regularly order pitchers Miller Light when the rest of us were going with a bottle of something that had a flavor.

    I could comfortably go the rest of my life without ever hearing Mo Rocca again.

  34. 34.

    ericblair

    @quannlace:

    Speaking of Real Americans—what’s with all the coverage of the Romney family ‘Olympics.’ Details abound, such as how it’s mandatory, no excuses for not attending. How Romney ‘expanded’ the variety of games when he started losing. And how they coordinate their wardrobe.

    This sounds like all the British upper class moronic obsession over competition and sport that Monty Python used to make fun of. Oh no, these people can’t chill, crack a beer and watch the ball game or read a book down by the lake. They have to make it into some Kid’s Birthday Party From Hell with organized teams beating the crap out of each other in stupid games and scorecards and yelling from the grownups, lorded over by the Grinning Idiot himself. I’m sure this will endear him to the masses even more.

  37. 37.

    NonyNony

    @Grumpy Code Monkey:

    Bud/Miller Light are for the guys who want to get smashed on the cheap without turning into a parade balloon. They’re not drinking it ‘cause they like the taste. They’re drinking it strictly because it gets them drunk (eventually).

    This really doesn’t make sense if you give it just a few minutes thought. That “eventually” part is the tell – in my limited experience I had to drink about twice as many Bud Lights as any good beer to even get “buzzed”. I can’t imagine how many I’d have to drink to get drunk – a whole case? (Full disclosure – I’m a mean drunk with a family history of alcoholism, so I don’t tend to drink to get drunk).

    If you want to drink to get drunk without ballooning up like a parade balloon you skip beer altogether and go straight for the vodka or the whiskey or something else with a high alcohol content. Bud Light is generally for people who really don’t actually like the taste of beer but want to be social, or for people who want to drink something cold, don’t want sugar, and hate ice water and iced tea. Or for people who hate the taste of beer but feel like they need to drink some kind of beer or their masculinity would be called into question.

  38. 38.

    redshirt

    @Roger Moore: You could. But what about those all day/night parties? A cube of Bud Lite (or, if so inclined, Miller Lite) is just the ticket.

    Was there not a super lite beer folks used to drink way back in the day instead of water? Like that.

  42. 42.

    FlipYrWhig

    I thought Bud and Miller and Coors were chosen by people whose mentalities were so shaped by mass market advertising that it essentially never occurred to them to try anything else. Just like you don’t order Domino’s because you’re on a careful quest for the perfect pizza, you order it because you saw it on TV. They’re not considering a universe of options, they’re picking the last thing they remember hearing about, something that won’t taste “weird” or make them physically sick. This is also why people go to chain restaurants. It’s also, frankly, how I pick something like toothpaste. I think, Crest, Colgate, whatever, I’m sure it’s fine, it won’t be all weird and gritty like the baking soda brands at my crunchy in-laws’ house.

  43. 43.

    Fezzik

    It’s great having a nice, fat wife: warmth in the winter, shaaaade in the summer. ;)

    Also, Bud Light is only tolerable with ample infusions of tobasco sauce.

  44. 44.

    Hawes

    The guy drank all those Bud Lights, then thought, “I better sober up to drive home!”

    And so he drank the Coke.

    Amurica!

  45. 45.

    Water balloon

    No, people drink it because it’s cheap and perfect for binging on in college. You’re not playing beer pong with some microbrew. Then they develop a taste for it.

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