Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

In after Baud. Damn.

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“But what about the lurkers?”

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

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

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

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  3. 3.

    geg6

    @raven:

    I like the name Senator Pittypat better than Squeaky. There can be no doubt who it is, unlike Squeaky, which could be any number of wingnuts IMHO.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    @raven:
    Why exactly do those two travel the world together? And is this travel paid for by the US Government? Even now, when as I understand McCain is no longer on the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee?

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    Waldo

    I’ll take the Star Spangled Banner over Proud to Be An American any day. Unfortunately, I’ve already heard it once today.

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    Jerzy Russian

    @Southern Beale: I have accidentally dripped paint on the carpet, and have accidentally stubbed my toe, but I have never accidentally passed a piece of legislation.

    I think the problem with stupid people is that they too stupid to know that they are stupid. If you can convince them they are stupid, they are too stupid to change.

  14. 14.

    YellowJournalism

    Happy Fourth, BJers! And thanks to all those who gave well-wishes to my little guy.

  16. 16.

    Redshirt

    I’m kinda scared. There’s this bright light up in the sky that’s so bright you can’t even look at it! WTF is going on?!

  18. 18.

    muddy

    @Redshirt: I was thinking of your stream project this morning. I’ve got several stone walls that have collapsed due to the excessive rain. I don’t think I can even stand to think about fixing it until it cools down a lot.

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    Despicable Me 2 is already playing here. Is great. The minions are even funnier than the first time around. Don’t miss it. Bring the kids if you got’em.

  26. 26.

    Redshirt

    @Amir Khalid:

    That would be the sun. Calm down.

    I’ve heard legends of this thing you call “sun”. But only in legends, long forgotten tales of a time before the rains, before the darkness.

    I don’t believe it.

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    Redshirt

    @muddy: Yeah, I got washed out last year, so I rebuilt everything, adding about two feet of height and another foot of width. Thankfully, I’m sitting on a veritable rock quarry and have lots and lots of rocks. You may not be as “blessed”.

    But also: I wouldn’t do jack today. It’s America’s birfday!

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    Betty Cracker

    @Amir Khalid: I may see that tonight. A drive-in theater not too far away is showing it. Depends on whether or not it rains. Drive-ins suck when it rains.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Betty Cracker:
    In my visits to the US, all during the first Clinton presidency, I never got around to seeing a real live drive-in cinema. I thought they’d gone out of business when the multiplexes came up. Are there a lot of them left? Have they gone multiplex too?

  35. 35.

    Mike E

    I’m moving so I have to get rid of my hoard, including vhs tapes…I popped in Gettysburg last night and thoroughly enjoyed it, 20 years after I had taped it off of TNT. Ted Turner getting plugged in Pickett’s Charge, priceless.

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    Betty Cracker

    @Amir Khalid: There are fewer than there used to be, but the ones I know about are still the old-fashioned kind with only one screen. The one we go to has been around since my parents were children back in the 1950s.

    It has a grill with greasy, tasty food, cokes, candy, etc. — all at dirt cheap prices! When we go, we load a ratty old love-seat into the back of the truck for us to sit on as well as a blow-up mattress and blankets for when the kids fall asleep. It’s awesome.

  37. 37.

    Violet

    @Southern Beale: With Nelson Mandela being in the hospital and the Supreme Court decisions about DOMA and Prop 8, I heard someone on the radio say that Mandela supported gay marriage as far back as 1994.

  40. 40.

    Mnemosyne

    @AliceBlue:

    I accidentally left the DVD in my car and wrecked it, so now G is cranky with me. We’re going to try and stream it instead.

    ETA: It was a burned DVD, so not a huge loss, just an annoying one. I paid the $2.99 to stream it through Amazon.

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    trollhattan

    Any discussion of drive-ins must include Joe Bob Briggs, who always gave Commie Alerts when yet another closure loomed. He lives on.

    http://joebobbriggs.com/

    We lost our sole drive-in church to suburban sprawl probably fifteen years ago.

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    Soonergrunt

    @Amir Khalid: We used to go when I was a teenager in Colorado. Cheap, tinny speaker hanging in the window, so you couldn’t hear the dialog but we were mainly making out anyway so what did it matter?
    The one here in OKC broadcasts the soundtrack on FM stereo radio. I was thinking about taking my wife to a kind of retro date night. I’m quite certain she wouldn’t entertain the idea of making out in the back seat, though.

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    trollhattan

    BTW, today’s Doodle is much fun. I’m certain K-Lo is upset it has no vacationing animal Jesus.

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    p.a.

    @Amir Khalid: there are some around. There is one near me that survived the 70’s and 80’s by showing pr0n. Curiously, while a pr0n venue, it was the last theater I know of that still played the national anthem before the show. It shows 1st and 2nd run movies now, and the snack bar offers food just slightly above the level of cafeteria tray scrapings.

  46. 46.

    eemom

    @trollhattan:

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Thank you for that most timely reminder. The husband and I used to watch his show years ago on some long-forgotten channel…..and his name came up recently during a discussion of horror movies…..except I couldn’t remember what his name was.

    The hubs didn’t remember him at all. He’s even olderer than dirt than I am.

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    p.a.

    @eemom: Joe Bob. Thanks for the reminder. It’s not just a blog, it’s a wayback machine! Didn’t JoeBob die of a heart attack in his 50’s? Sad.

  48. 48.

    p.a.

    Okay… just went to wikipedia and found out Joe Bloom is alive and kicking. Good.

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