Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

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

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

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

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  9. 9.

    MikeJ

    Bartertown sounds like a place where you can pay a doctor with a chicken. Las Vegas? Wasn’t Sue Lowdon in NV?

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    Schlemizel

    Hodor sounds like a potential prize on some Skinamax version of Lets Make A Deal.

    “I’ll take whats behind the ho door Monty”

  14. 14.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Are you ummm well endowed as Hodor? I thought you were more of a Maester Pycelle myself.

  15. 15.

    Heliopause

    I’m not interested in Game of Thrones and If this is truly an “Open Thread” I can talk about anything. Yet this is a Game of Thrones open thread. The head, it spins.

  16. 16.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Heliopause: It’s the Anne Laurie style of open thread. There’s a topic, but you don’t have to follow it.

    So, Duke loses!! hahahahaha!

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    Ham, scalloped potatoes and asparagus for dinner — pretty much the only way either of us celebrates Easter these days.

    I asked G to wait until after dinner to watch GoT. I remember last season.

  22. 22.

    MazeDancer

    @jon:

    The big guy in the picture is named Hodor. He has a one word vocabulary: Hodor. No matter the instance, the circumstance, or the occasion all he says is “Hodor”. Thought there was a chance the entire thread might be nothing but Hodor responses. To which you nicely contributed.

    @Redshirt: Hodorily hodored!

  24. 24.

    max

    I fancy my fantasy self to be like the faceless man, but more than likely, I’m this guy:

    Yeah, but I bet Hodor knows where his mustard is.

    So an episode that more finishes off the last season, than rolls into a new one. But Stannis needs to get his head out of his ass.

    And I’d rather like Tywin if he wasn’t so damn much like his grandson.

    max
    [‘Of course his grandson had none of Tywin’s redeeming qualities.’]

  25. 25.

    MikeJ

    @MazeDancer:

    Thought there was a chance the entire thread might be nothing but Hodor responses.

    I was disappointed nobody noticed my interrobang.

  29. 29.

    PsiFighter37

    I can’t wait until next week for next episode. Also, they’ve run out of Iron Throne beer in NYC. Should’ve bought more when I had the chance.

  30. 30.

    Walker

    Just finished watching on delay. I was wondering how they were going to handle the disguised Selmy. The decision to do away with Arstan Whitebeard and reveal him at the beginning right away definitely works. But that creates other spoilerishy problems that I am not sure how they are going to resolve.

  31. 31.

    srv

    @Punchy:

    What the hell is Game of Thrones and why should I care?

    Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

    – G’Kar on Star Trek

  36. 36.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    That’s KING Hodor, rightful heir to the Iron throne. Or so I’m betting George Martin will reveal…

  39. 39.

    sherparick

    @Punchy: From a similar fantasy and revenge tragedy, an explanation, such as it is:

    “Is it not monstrous that this player here,
    But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
    Could force his soul so to his own conceit
    That from her working all his visage wann’d,
    Tears in his eyes, distraction in’s aspect,
    A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
    With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
    For Hecuba!
    What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
    That he should weep for her? What would he do,…”

    From Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, the “Hecuba Soliloquy,” whic ends of course with “…the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”

    GoT is not Shakespeare, but it is very good in creating vivid characters and having those characters play out their lives with the themes of power, abuse of power, pride, ambition, sex, sexual violence, and sexual repression in a setting not very different than Elsinore Castle.

  40. 40.

    mapaghimagsik

    Meet the actor at a con. Congratulated him on getting to lug a kid on his back for *mumble* books.

    Really nice guy. Seemed pleased as punch to be there.

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