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Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

People are complicated. Love is not.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

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

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

No one could have predicted…

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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

I really should read my own blog.

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

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  2. 2.

    j

    But that Bears QB Cutler is a whiney baby who complains about fan noise. Even at home.

    I think the cheeseheads will yell their lungs out.

  3. 3.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    How awesome would it be if Rodgers could travel down the field into the future and knock the smirk off his own face? I’d watch that.

  4. 4.

    Thoroughly Pizzled

    The Packers must suffer, but the Bears mustn’t be too good. Rooting for an ugly, embarrassing game.

  6. 6.

    Turgidson

    Go Bears.

    Also, go Rodgers (on my fantasy team). This is confusing.

    But, first and foremost. Go Bears. I can recover from a ffb loss, it’s early yet.

  13. 13.

    Suffern ACE

    We will not follow a 15 win season with three straight losses. Our defense is improved. Honest it is.

  14. 14.

    geg6

    Meh. Don’t really have a dog in that hunt. Don’t really love or hate either team.

    I will be watching young David Broder Ezra filling in for Ed Schultz and then Project Runway! Yay!

  17. 17.

    Gravenstone

    Fuck the fucking Bears.

    But seriously, how badly can these fucking tools with the NFL Network suck? Just shut your useless holes and get on with the fucking game.

  21. 21.

    raven

    Bear down, Chicago Bears, make every play clear the way to victory.
    Bear down, Chicago Bears, put up a fight with a might so fearlessly.
    We’ll never forget the way you thrilled the nation with your T formation.
    Bear down, Chicago Bears, and let them know why you’re wearing the crown.
    You’re the pride and joy of Illinois, Chicago Bears, Bear down.[

  23. 23.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You are making me feel better about being stuck with the computer and the radio.

    When Michael Irvin is the only one of the five to NOT look like a cokehead, you know ya got a problem.

  24. 24.

    JWL

    The Niners already shook Rodgers steely-eyed confidence, just last Sunday. It can be fairly said that if Rodgers wore one, they wiped the smirk off his face, as well as the dream in his heart borne of the notion that the Pack were on their way to another 13-3 season.

  26. 26.

    Ron

    Meh, I am over the superbowl. Go Pack! (Of course, I’m biased by being married to a cheesehead. which means that I had a serious sad after that superbowl)

  27. 27.

    IrishCC

    Now, now JC, my brother is at least as crazy a Stillers fan as you, and I am a Packer fanatic. We watched SBXLV together and had a great game. You needn’t go bitter on Rodgers. You’re bigger than that!

  30. 30.

    Dexter's new approach

    Got the Ziti in the oven, some cheap USA water beer to start with Belgiums on the ready. Should be a fun game to watch. Too bad NFL Network blows.

    Bears!

  32. 32.

    JWL

    If I were inclined to risk money on a football game*, I’d bet the Bears tonight.

    *Think hung-over field goal kickers.

  35. 35.

    Or something like that.Suffern Ace

    @raven: That’s the kind of raunchy sentiment that should be banned in polite company. Although there is porn for that.

  37. 37.

    JWL

    Should have said: Rodgers was disabused of any notion of going 15-1, or 14-2, or whatever record it was the 2011 Pack compiled.

    The Niners look- check that, are- pretty solid, but they won’t be sneaking up on anyone this year (which, of course, made last Sunday’s win particularly sweet). I’ll be shocked if they approach winning 13 games this year.

  42. 42.

    Gravenstone

    @efgoldman: The actual broadcast crew doesn’t seem terrible. I was bitching about the ex-jock tools they had on the bit of pre-game show I saw. Everyone trying to be louder and more obnoxious than the others. And I think Rich Eisen spent too much time in the Boomer Berman school of “Broadcasting”.

  46. 46.

    Yutsano

    @geg6: In situations like these I go with cuter/less douchebaggy QB. Therefore Go Pack.

    Side note: when I was home for Labour Day my father described Rodgers as a good country boy. I giggled, seeing as he’s from Southern California.

  60. 60.

    dollared

    @Omnes Omnibus: It was. It was right across from the Adler Brau brewery until they tore the brewery down and built the new cop shop back in the ’70s. Bleier’s was the Wisconsin tavern formula: Liguor in the front, Roman Catholic household in the rear. For many years, the best Friday Fish Fry in Appleton.

  65. 65.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @raven: I liked him as a returner last year, but now he seems to be a guy who can make things happen whenever he gets the ball in his hands.

  66. 66.

    techno

    How can anyone hate the Packers? Community owned. The best fans on planet earth. A brilliant coach that plays a seriously fun scheme to watch.

    Living in Minnesota, I find being a Packer’s fan is not so hard—plenty of them around here. Now the Vikings, there’s a team to hate. This is a team that has thoroughly embarrassed their fans (0-4 in Superbowls, too many men in the huddle, anyone?) Then they extort millions from a state with massive money problems.

    Of course, the reason so many people in Minnesota loathe the Vikings is that they are named for some of the most successful people of history—MY tribe (Viking democracy since 936 a.d., most successful democracies on earth in 2012, etc.) We are not bumbling, incompetent, unimaginative losers. Just recently, three men sailed a 36 y.o. Swedish-built 31′ sloop through the Northwest Passage—the first sailboat in recorded history to have accomplished this feat. Now THIS is Viking behavior!

    I have a LOT of sympathy for the native americans who are pissed off by the very existence of the Washington “Redskins.”

  67. 67.

    zombie rotten mcdonald

    Doesn’t seem to be going Cole’s way.

    Well, all else being equal, who would conceivably think Jay Cutler is working at the same level as Aaron Rodgers? One off week against a really good Niners team is not the end of an era.

  70. 70.

    zombie rotten mcdonald

    It’s smashmouth football.

    But seriously, NFL, I am going to take a shovel to that bearded doofus in the blue suit. Just stop. It’s not ‘edgy’. It’s not ‘quirky’. It’s the guy who drives the windowless van.

  79. 79.

    Shinobi

    I’m really surprised these announcers manage to talk so much with Aaron Roger’s dick in their mouths. Just stop.

    ugh. Interception.

  85. 85.

    Gravenstone

    @Shinobi: Anytime you get one of the premier QBs in a game, the announcers seem to turn into hero worshiping tools. Doesn’t matter which broadcasters or what team – exception being when two headlining QBs square off. Then it seems to swing by the possession.

  89. 89.

    Shinobi

    @Gravenstone: It isn’t just the QBs, sometimes it is a certain receiver or defense man. They are always just so impressed with such and so, he’s so athletic, and just really a great all around football player who overcomes all his shortcomings and looks good with his clothes off.

    It’s particularly annoying when it is Aaron Rogers but even when it is Matt Forte I am over it. No one wants to hear someone talk about their new crush. Zzzzzz

  97. 97.

    Triassic Sands

    Go Packers. Or Bears. Or Packers and Bears. Knock that yawn off my face.

    Having a favorite professional sports team is like having a favorite oil company.

    Paraphrasing Hunter Thompson’s response to a question about who he was rooting for in the World Series (if anyone).

    Go Exxon-Mobile!!!

  106. 106.

    SmallAxe

    Looking forward to more of Cutler’s “Peyton Manning Face” you can never get enough of the sour puss.

    Also too, $Ka-Ching$. Bet against a 2 pt+, weekly line move in the NFL seems to pay more often than not.

  108. 108.

    Svensker

    Go Bears. Knock that smirk of Rodgers’ face.

    Your QB throws like this and our QB throws like this.

    Not a good night for the Bears offense.

  113. 113.

    dollared

    This is awesome. Not only are the Packers winning, but JC has decided to take his frustration out on the NeoLiberal JornoList Army, all of whom deserve to have their ivy league diplomas rolled up, lit on fire and shoved….

  117. 117.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Donut: It was nice to see 100+ yards rushing without Rodgers name being in the mix. And the D? 5 sacks and 4 INTs? Nice night.

  118. 118.

    Donut

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    True, just hoping Benson will be as consistent now as he was the last three years. He had great night, tonight, though, and the run game overall was clicking.

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