Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Bark louder, little dog.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

This fight is for everything.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    I bet those big sad eyes guilt you into opening the door every time. (Well, you were probably going to anyway, but still …)

  5. 5.

    Eric U.

    our dog likes to sit outside, but he also has separation anxiety. So when he wants in, he barks once every 5 minutes. But he still watches the back yard for bunnies while waiting, vicious bunny killer that he is

  7. 7.

    Hill Dweller

    No politician will ever say it for fear of pearl clutching in the Beltway, but there is a legitimate case to be made Republicans and their policies pose a far greater threat to this country than terrorists.

    A day doesn’t go by that I don’t read about Republicans at the state and/or federal level trying to destroy an effective policy.

  8. 8.

    geg6

    You are the queen of mean, Betty. How could you look at those eyes, that face and not let him in?

    Meanwhile, I am reliably informed that Koda pooped out fuzz from her hippo toy that she loved yesterday but apparently ate today.

  12. 12.

    geg6

    @Eric U.:

    Koda does the sort of opposite. She barks to go outside on the deck, regardless of weather. And then she freaks out that I’m not sitting there in the rain or snow with her.

    Otis is too lazychilled to worry about stuff like that.

  13. 13.

    beltane

    @Roger Moore: Oftentimes when I’m doing the dishes, I’ll look up to see the cat stuck on the window screen giving me a crazy-eyed stare.

  14. 14.

    cleek

    our cat likes to shred the little rubber door jamb insulation stuff when we lock her out. always gets my attention.

  15. 15.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    WE’RE #26! GO USA!

    The latest UNICEF report on child well-being has the US of A placing 26th out of 29 rich countries.

    We can console ourselves with the fact that we can blow any of the 25 countries that finished ahead of us right off of the map. Let’s see how well those children are after Uncle Nuke pays them a visit, right?

  16. 16.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @beltane:

    My cats have a habit of staring at me from the skylights in the ceiling, or better yet chasing squirrels across them. It sounds like there is a herd of baby elephants up there sometimes.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    Mine quit going up into the ceiling a few years ago when a civet was nesting there. The civet is gone, I think. Too bad. If I’d caught the civet, I could have started feeding it coffee beans and got rich as a Kopi Luwak dealer.

  21. 21.

    David Koch

    Background Backlash Begins

    PPP: Kelly Ayotte drops 15 pts after voting against background checks.

    Just wait until Bloomberg’s pac starts hammering her.

  22. 22.

    Elizabelle

    @Amir Khalid:

    A civet was resting in your ceiling?

    You just one-upped Mr. Cole and his resident bats but good.

    (Although: he’s still got the bats, whereas the civet may be AWOL. Complicates the bragging rights.)

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    @Hill Dweller:

    there is a legitimate case to be made Republicans and their policies pose a far greater threat to this country than terrorists.

    A day doesn’t go by that I don’t read about Republicans at the state and/or federal level trying to destroy an effective policy.

    But.

    Boston Marathon Bombers.

    Swarthy ones. With weird names.

    Shiny, shiny.

  24. 24.

    CA Fan

    Cat Blending Problem:
    I’m about to adopt a wedding present 2 yr. old cat. (The adoption is a present to my newly married niece.)
    I have 16 yr. old Silver, a cat who has been alone since his brother died a couple of years ago.
    There’s only one room here, my bedroom, in which to isolate one cat for an introductory period. The room’s best feature, from a cat’s point of view, is a window outside of which are two bird feeders -six inches from the glass and a cat perch in front of that glass.
    Should Silver, who’s used to constant attention, be shut up with the bird-viewing window? Or should it be Lucky, the new little friend who will need to get used to me?
    Wish I could rename her Zsa Zsa, but she may not be elegant enough.

  25. 25.

    gene108

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    At least we have freedom and don’t live in socialist hellhole where the nanny state wants your papers and guns.

    Also, too another reason to get us out of the U.N., those latte sipping fag surrender monkeys hate us for our freedom and make us look bad with facts that lack the truthiness about America being the greatest country God ever created or will create.

  26. 26.

    lamh35

    This Is What It’s Like to Be a Muslim in Boston Right Now

    When Anum Hussain heard about the Boston Marathon bombing, she immediately panicked, worried that the culprits would be like her. The 22-year-old Muslim was in the offices of Hubspot, the Cambridge marketing-software company she works for. As her coworkers frantically rushed to call loved ones who’d been out watching the marathon that day, she was glued to the TV, fearing what she might learn about potential suspects. “My heart was beating fast, just praying that this person didn’t turn out to be Muslim,” she recalled. “I knew that if they were, all hell was going to break loose.”

    Her concern was warranted. That same afternoon, on the Boston subway, a second-year Muslim student at Northeastern University who wears a headscarf phoned her parents to report her safety; as she spoke to them in Arabic, a stranger pushed her so hard she fell to the ground. Later, one of Anum’s male acquaintances, someone with brown skin, was riding the MBTA when he realized that he was weirdly alone—all the other passengers on his car had moved away from him, as if he was a threat…

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    @Elizabelle:
    Nesting, which is not that unusual here in the tropics. One time I saw a baby civet peeking at me. I called Bandaraya — City Hall — and they said to leave it alone.

  29. 29.

    The Moar You Know

    My dog, at age 15 and a half, has figured out how to open the sliding glass doors. She’s got a bit of an attitude about her new-found ability.

    Old dog, new tricks? Yeah, it can totally happen. I didn’t even teach her. She figured it out on her own.

    Just wait until Bloomberg’s pac starts hammering her.

    @David Koch: I utterly loathe that slimy fucker but on gun control his head is in the right place.

    He’s got way more money than the NRA and he has already shown he’s more than willing to bury them under a pile of dollars, if needed, to break their stranglehold on the electoral process.

    There’s a fair number of GOP politicians outside of the Deep South, like Ms. Ayotte, who would be very vulnerable to a well-funded challenger who is willing to toe Bloomberg’s line on gun control.

  30. 30.

    Betty Cracker

    @Amir Khalid: Wow, a civet in the ceiling! I agree that beats Cole’s old bats to hell. And we only have boring old squirrels and the occasional opossum.

  32. 32.

    The Other Bob

    I see the pro-gun brigade is now sarcastically calling for tight restrictions on pressure cooker bombs.

    Interestingly, an AR-15 would have likley killed more people in Boston than the bombs.

  34. 34.

    Chris

    @Hill Dweller:

    there is a legitimate case to be made Republicans and their policies pose a far greater threat to this country than terrorists.

    Substitute “conservatives” for “Republicans” and by my count they’ve come close to completely destroying the country at least three times. Once by violent revolution (the Civil War), once by disastrous economic management leading to borderline revolutionary conditions (the Great Depression), and once with fifteen years of Red Scare hysteria nearly culminating in nuclear war (Cuban missile crisis).

  36. 36.

    Roger Moore

    @Hill Dweller:

    No politician will ever say it for fear of pearl clutching in the Beltway, but there is a legitimate case to be made it is obvious that Republicans and their policies pose a far greater threat to this country than terrorists.

    FTFY.

  40. 40.

    Roger Moore

    @Betty Cracker:

    And we only have boring old squirrels and the occasional opossum.

    Malaysians might not agree with you about which is more exotic. When I was visiting Singapore, people treated monkeys (crab eating macaques) as cute but basically boring, but I saw them go bonkers when they saw a squirrel. It’s all in what’s familiar.

  41. 41.

    WereBear

    The banner ad up top is selling the “Titanic Experience” in Orlando, Florida. The next step in disaster theme parkery?

    I’m assuming people sign up for the filet mignon, champagne, and ushering into lifeboats experience, not the locked in steerage to drown in ice cold water experience… but perhaps that’s the difference between E ticket rides and the lesser ones.

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    @Roger Moore:
    That’s Singaporeans for you. We Malaysians, on the other hand, see squirrels all the damn time; and the many of us who keep a fruit tree are, to put it mildly, not that fond of them.

  44. 44.

    gelfling545

    @Roger Moore:One of my cats, now residing among the morning stars, liked to sneak out at night & then get all freaked out because he coundl’t get back in. He would climb the screen, get his claws stuck & yowl like a demon until I got the step ladder (usually around 2 am) & got him loose. Then, being offended at the indignity, he would frequently take off again & the whole thing would start over.

  45. 45.

    Josie

    Duncan thinks he wants to go outside until he realizes that I am not going with him and wants back in immediately. His hearing is very acute and he stays right close to the door. Every time I look out he is levitating high in air. We call it the bouncing Corgi effect. He can go on like that for a very long time.

  46. 46.

    Gin & Tonic

    One of my cats likes to signal her desire to come in by “picking at” the rubber weatherstripping around the door with her claws. This has the obvious effects. Serious question – does anyone have any clue how to deter this behavior? Her sister is content to sit and wait, knowing that eventually someone will open the door and let her in, and she can yowl her displeasure at the indignity of sitting outside.

  48. 48.

    Patricia Kayden

    My Boxer barks when he needs to get in and makes such a ruckus that Hubby and I break our neck to open the patio door. You have a well behaved doggy.

  49. 49.

    WereBear

    @Gin & Tonic: One of my cats likes to signal her desire to come in by “picking at” the rubber weatherstripping around the door with her claws. This has the obvious effects. Serious question – does anyone have any clue how to deter this behavior?

    Essentially, you have trained the cat to do this, haven’t you?

    I call it:

    The Thing You Can’t Ignore

    You have to be retrained. Instructions at the link.

  51. 51.

    JR in WV

    I had the honor of receiving a phone call from Wayne LaPierre just this afternoon. First a young woman asked me to hold for Mr. LaPierre, and I said alright.

    Then Mr. LaPierre (Executive Vice-President of the National Rifle Assiciation) came on the phone to tell me in his recording how much danger gun owners and their Second Amendment rights are in from the liberal urban leftists who want to take both our rights and our guns away.

    Then a nice, well-spoken young man came on and asked if I could hear Mr. LaPierre alright, and I said, yes, I could.

    Then he asked if I agreed about the danger to my Second Amendment rights and how the commie liberals wanted to take my guns, and I said “No!”….

    There was a moment of silence, and the nice young man said, OK, Thanks a lot, Goodbye” and he hung up.

    Now, I’ve got guns, many in my family have guns. But I don’t see how real background checks will stop honest law-abiding people from owning guns.

    In fact, opposing limits on gun ownership by criminals and the mentally unbalanced is itself insane, and everyone knows that but the NRA management!

    I hope this leads to a loss of power by the NRA and other right-wing organizations, as people see them pushing insane positions in the political arena. That may be the only silver lining in this whole tragic disaster.

  52. 52.

    Morzer

    @Gin & Tonic:

    You’ve tried the electric shock approach? The pit filled with acid-tipped spikes? Forced listening to recordings of David Brooks singing in the shower?

  53. 53.

    muddy

    @WereBear: I dunno. Mine are relentless. They have picked and picked at the weatherstrip so that now there is daylight. They do it when I’m not around to notice, or sleeping, I find the mess later. They have done the same to the magnet screen when the door is shut(ish), over at the side where they want to enter, instead of going to the middle where it opens! I had to reinforce that, and then whenever I close the door I pin up the 2 sides with clothespins, like Cinderella’s dress..

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