Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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

He really is that stupid.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Republicans don’t trust women.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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  5. 5.

    PsiFighter37

    I went back to read that thread from last night. Goddamn, that was a special post. I think this should grace the next BJ calendar’s cover.

  6. 6.

    Maude

    Betty, it’s a bit too neat for John eating pizza. I think it was a lot worse than that.
    Take the heat and humidity away from NJ. It belongs to you.

  7. 7.

    c u n d gulag

    Given the perspective, it looks like that pizza was so heavily laden with goodies, that it broke his elbows.

    But yet, he gorges dines on!!!

    Also, the cheeks need to be puffed-out more.
    And where’s the booze? There’s gotta be booze!

    I’d call this form of art – ExpressiDadaPizzaSurrealism.

    Me likey!

  11. 11.

    aimai

    I agree with Bill E. Pilgrim–too many clothes on John, not enough vicious grinning from Tunch. Rosie should have been down a well, phoning for help.

  17. 17.

    Betty Cracker

    @quannlace: The craptacular MS Paint — Redshirt nailed it above. I’m a better doodler on paper, but I pretty much suck at drawing no matter what.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Jake

    Do we have confirmation that he was wearing pants? That’s the only part of the piece that doesn’t ring true to me.

    ETA: good to see I’m not the only one.

  24. 24.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m okay with the illustration as it is. A fat white dude with bits of pizza topping on his T-shirt is just shy of the boundary between okay and gross for me; a fat white dude in his underpants etc. would be just over the line. I’m finicky like that.

  25. 25.

    red dog

    Oh Betty you may have erred by omission. Not a beverage in site nor any residue of such like beer cans on the floor so you must be from the “impressionist” school of art.

  26. 26.

    NickT

    In his haste to devour the pizza, Cole seems to have chewed his own hands off, which is a nice, authenticating touch.

  31. 31.

    PsiFighter37

    I’m at a movie theater, drinking Monk in the Trunk and awaiting the beginning of a 10am showing of Monsters University. What’s wrong with this picture?

    PF37 +1

  33. 33.

    YellowJournalism

    The animals are done perfectly. Rosie tugging on the sock, demanding attention. Tunch perched with superiority and ready to pounce I necessary. And poor Lily looking mournfully at John with a mixture of pity and “pet me.” It’s like she knows he’s hit rock bottom.

  35. 35.

    Keith

    @rikyrah: Aren’t there already two channels essentially devoted to that trial (well, in CNN’s case, it’s really just breaking the monotony of their commercials)? How much more Zimmerman does the world need at this point?

  37. 37.

    lamh36

    Good morning BJ.

    Spend most of 4th of July morning at work but spent the majority of the evening with the fam in NOLA. Of course dancing and spades and eating and laughing were had by all…lol.

    No real pics this this time around, but I did manage to take a pic of my twin uncles (they are 1 of 3 sets of twins among my mom’s 10 siblings, but the only same sex twins) and of course the the spades game table.

    Keith & Kevin

    The Card Table

    no Internet, no tv, no blogs. It was a good day.

  40. 40.

    gbear

    @c u n d gulag: @Betty Cracker: Reminds me of a Peanuts cartoon where someone was analysing the insecurities shown by Linus’ always drawing people with their hands behind their back, to which Linus confessed that people always had their hand behind their back in his drawings because he couldn’t draw hands.

    I had a friend who used to send me really twisted drawings in his letters from Las Vegas (where he was playing guitar in a lounge band). They were deranged but well done and funny. Betty’s drawing reminds me of those drawings. I got a smile out of it.

  44. 44.

    Richard Fox

    “Despite the violent interplay of colors and emotions on display in the foreground, the pale blue background patterning is soothing, almost bucolic. I envision a whole series, with different color background patterns, ranging the spectrum from rose to emerald green. This will alter the foreground ethos slowly, imperceptibly, till like the Cheshire cat– only a grin remains.”

    –Clement Greenberg, who can only dream he wrote this, but now he can’t since he’s dead

  45. 45.

    Eric U.

    @rikyrah: I was waiting for her to say something like, “if my grandfather was a woman, she’d be my grandmother,” but I guess, “I don’t understand the question, I heard my son screaming” was good enough.

  48. 48.

    Just One More Canuck

    @Soonergrunt: Good point. This probably fall into the category of “never ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to”

  49. 49.

    Botsplainer

    I think the image would be far more troubling if he were portrayed nekkid, which I suspect was the case.

  54. 54.

    Ben Cisco

    @Keith: At least save some space for this.

    John Oliver has given me cause to watch TDS again. Comedy Central would do well to consider pulling out the big chair for him, because he has been en fuego.

  55. 55.

    Spike

    I’m a bit puzzled by the three-fifths scale depiction of Tunch, but it’s epic and wonderful in spite of that.

  57. 57.

    Comrade Mary

    @ronin122: Weird. I totally thought it looked as if he was ready to fly, using that tail as a rudder.

    Utterly charming, Betty. I am charmed.

  58. 58.

    A Ghost To Most

    @gnomedad:

    I’m getting an ad for a Fluke thermography camera; useful for checking the temp of the cheese on the pizza.

  60. 60.

    MaryRC

    How did Tunch get all the way up there, when he won’t even climb to the first floor of his cat tower?

    Otherwise, genius.

  61. 61.

    SRW1

    @Amir Khalid:

    I’m not Catholic, so I can’t answer your question, but this thing was fast-tracked from day one Ratzi took over. I can’t believe any Catholic would be surprised.

  65. 65.

    Elie

    Great drawing Betty — good grins all around… only thing you missed was some heat radiation waves from the hot pizza burning his mouth…

  66. 66.

    scav

    @SRW1: They have been churning out saints at the speed, volume and quality of Happy Meals for a while now. Over One Billion Served.

  67. 67.

    NickT

    @scav:

    These days the only requirements for sainthood are that you haven’t played a role on the Borgias and you can wear Prada without looking totes ridiculous.

  70. 70.

    Smiling Mortician

    @Ben Cisco: That was awesome, thanks. John Oliver is really settling into the gig nicely, to the point that, yes, I’d rather watch him than Stewart.

  71. 71.

    rikyrah

    A Tale of Two Best Friends

    Aura Bogado on July 3, 2013 – 11:45 AM ET

    The media berated Rachel Jeantel last week throughout her testimony during George Zimmerman’s trial for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. So much so that other media took to defending Jeantel—who spent much of her day on the phone with Martin, whom she had first met in second grade, the day he was killed. That kind vitriol and subsequent support were absent, however, during yesterday’s testimony, when Zimmerman’s best friend, Mark Osterman, took the stand. That distinction speaks to the way that race remains a central theme in this murder
    trial.[….]

    No one denies that Jeantel does, in fact, have a drawl—one that could easily be confused with Paula Deen’s or even Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour’s drawls, which never drew public condemnation. In fact, in the mouths of white people, those southern accents are charming, and can even help fuel careers. Zimmerman defense attorney Don West (whose daughter, let’s not forget, posted a despicable photo on Instagram) repeatedly questioned Jeantel’s literacy on the stand. Despite the fact that Jeantel is trilingual, the court and the public—which is largely, and sadly, monolingual—displayed an obsession with determining the degree to which Jeantel can read cursive. Jeantel is indeed literate—but the question has nothing to do with her credibility as a witness in the first place. The attacks against Jeantel reflect an almost subconscious appetite for black destruction.

    …………………….

    [….] One courtroom and one public have treated Martin and Zimmerman’s friends quite differently. And while the trial is clearly about the killing of Trayvon Martin, it is also profoundly about race, and about the way the public affords some privileges to some people, at the cost of detriment to others.

    http://www.thenation.com/blog/175097/tale-two-best-friends#axzz2YBMCJaPX

  72. 72.

    SRW1

    @scav:

    Again, I’m not Catholic, so I might be wrong, but my impression was that the production had slowed down quite a bit in recent years because of the two wonders requirement.

    However, JP II obviously was a must. After all, he beat them commies.

  73. 73.

    Chickamin Slam

    That’s totally what happened Betty. You have the scene drawn to a T. Afterwards John fumbled around trying to find the remote that shifted positions and went under the cushion. This forced him to watch some really annoying ads when he could have easily skipped them.

  76. 76.

    Ramalama

    @rikyrah: Thanks for the link to the live blogging. I followed along during the Scooter Libby trial, and am glad to see the Zimmerman trial this way too rather than CNN. I’ve had it Up-To-Here with purportedly objective news coverage, because I simply don’t believe it exists. I’d rather follow from someone’s up front perspective. Also, a really different experience from these three writers for the blog. Nice.

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @Mnemosyne:

    Man, that Wikipedia entry has been massaged into a real apologia for Pius. One of the more slanted entries I’ve seen. “Alleged silence,” indeed.

  78. 78.

    Paul in KY

    @rikyrah: I hope Mr. Zimmerman hangs, but when you admit on the stand that you cannot read cursive writing or don’t want to try (either or), you are going to get comments that are not going to be supportive.

  81. 81.

    Citizen_X

    @Paul in KY: Why? How often does one need to read cursive?

    Honestly, I encounter more Chinese characters–hell, even Arabic writing–than cursive English in my day-to-day life. It would be more useful to me to be able to read those.

  84. 84.

    different-church-lady

    @Steeplejack: Kids shouldn’t be forced to learn anything they don’t want to learn! Civil liberties! Shredding the Constitution!!! [Guy Fawkes mask here]

    My cursive is exquisite. It ain’t knowledge these people are lacking, it’s aesthetics.

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack

    @Citizen_X:

    I was going to add in my previous comment that I wrote a couple of checks last week for the first time in months and was appalled at my own ability to write longhand any more.

  86. 86.

    maya

    So…..so……SO, what happened to that diet Cole was going to go on? For real this time. Honest. Scouts honor.
    Whahappened?

  87. 87.

    dr. bloor

    That drawing needs to be on the side of a coffee cup or a t-shirt.

    Captioned, of course, with “FEED.”

  88. 88.

    Paul in KY

    @Steeplejack: Assumed it had been taught at some point. Hindsight 20/20 & all that, but if she had never been taught, wish she had mentioned that.

  90. 90.

    Paul in KY

    @ruemara: I never said or implied that not reading it meant you were ‘illiterate’. IMO, if taught, it might imply you screwed off in class while it was being taught.

  92. 92.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Outstanding artwork, Ms. Cracker. Thank you very much and I’m quite glad you blog here.

  94. 94.

    rikyrah

    How the Koch brothers screwed over the climate even more than you know

    [….] In its multi-part report, “The Koch Club,” written by Lewis, Eric Holmberg, Alexia Campbell, and Lydia Beyoud, the Workshop found that between 2007 and 2011 the Kochs donated $41.2 million to ninety tax-exempt organizations promoting the ultra-libertarian policies that the brothers favor—policies that are often highly advantageous to their corporate interests. In addition, during this same period they gave $30.5 million to two hundred and twenty-one colleges and universities, often to fund academic programs
    advocating their worldview. Among the positions embraced by the Kochs are fewer government regulations on business, lower taxes, and skepticism about the causes and impact of climate change.

    The study recounts that the Kochs have influenced the congressional climate-change debate in other ways, too, which include funding an array of nonprofit groups whose experts have testified in Congress questioning the cause, the severity, and the necessity of, acting on climate change.[….]

    http://grist.org/news/how-the-koch-brothers-screwed-over-the-climate-even-more-than-you-know/

  95. 95.

    Loneoak

    I would have driven the shame cycle home by showing him masturbating with one of his hands.

  96. 96.

    RosiesDad

    That’s outstanding work, Betty. Enjoyed it almost as much as the rant that inspired it (which could be the makings of a John Waters film.)

  99. 99.

    jayjaybear

    @Mnemosyne: Really bad stuff like spearheading the cover-up of pedophilia, ferociously assassinating the characters of the victims and approving the hiding of assets so said victims couldn’t get restitution?

  102. 102.

    SRW1

    @scav:

    Maybe the RCC could compensate GOPers by making St Ronnie a real St. On the other hand some talibangelicals might object.

  103. 103.

    trollhattan

    Just got down the page to this post and am laughing like a mental patient. Which I may be but that’s too much existential bench-pressing for a Friday.

    Betty Bravo is my new nym for ya.

  104. 104.

    Lavocat

    You really need to sexualize it more. Food as gastronomic orgasm if you will.

  105. 105.

    Barry

    Late to the party, as usual, but I just laughed when I saw this. Ms. Cracker, you’re awesome. Thanks!

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