Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Consistently wrong since 2002

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

No one could have predicted…

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

You cannot shame the shameless.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Second rate reporter says what?

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

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

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We Have A WINNER: Twilight of the Elites

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Three hundred seventy-two entries (someone who couldn’t post a comment emailed me), and the winner is…

#173: Beeb.

Congratulations, Beeb — email me at AnneLaurie (at) verizon.net (click on my name in the far right column) and I’ll mail your prize later this week.

Thanks to all who participated, and better luck next time!

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29Comments

  1. 1.

    PsiFighter37

    I’m upset, no one told me there was a competition for a book going on. You probably posted it when I was drinking, didn’t you?

    PF37 +2 days of temporary freedom from the booze

  8. 8.

    Ruckus

    As Murphy is my constant companion I didn’t expect to win. But it would have been nice.
    Another bit of hope crushed.

  11. 11.

    SFAW

    @NickT:

    I blame the illegal immigrants for bribing the random number generator with 75 pound sacks of weed Obama

    Fixed

    ETA: Just like this “contest.” “Random number generator”? Right.

    (Whaddaya mean, I’m a “sore loser”?)

  12. 12.

    Beeb

    Thanks, MomSense. The last time I won a contest I was 11 years old, and that was a very, very, very long time ago.

    Thanks to Anne Laurie for doing this and to the random number generator gods for breaking my losing streak.

    Woot!

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    I’ve entered several of these things and never won a book. It’s just not FAAAAAIIIR!!

  16. 16.

    NickT

    @gbear:

    I prefer co-equal second placers who did not participate in a culture of corruption. (Mostly because we didn’t think of it in time.)

  17. 17.

    dance around in your bones

    @Beeb:

    Thanks, MomSense. The last time I won a contest I was 11 years old, and that was a very, very, very long time ago.

    Haha! Congrats, Beeb. The last thing I ever won was at about the same age, a ‘Funny Face’ drink stand won from a coloring contest. I was thrilled! Here’s a commercial from that era – guess what I was known as in my family? Loud Mouth Lime. Still am sometimes, oddly enough.

    I remember setting up my cardboard drink stand and waiting hopefully (and fruitlessly) for customers.

  20. 20.

    dance around in your bones

    @Ruckus: Darlin’, I don’t think there ever WAS any fruit in those drink mixes, let alone sugar (and I come from the era where we mixed two cups of sugar into our Koolaid pitcher). Come to think of it, I have no idea what they used for a sugar substitute back in the early 60’s. Most likely highly toxic.

  21. 21.

    I am not a kook

    @NickT: OK, where can one find those messicans with their 75 lb bags of weed? A friend would like to know.

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    @dance around in your bones:
    As I hit post I remembered a customer we used to have 20 yrs ago that made that cheap colored, somewhat flavored water that used to come in I think 6oz bottles for little kids. The customer called it sugar water. And not in a flattering way. But it cost only a few cents to put in a store cooler so there you go.

  25. 25.

    dance around in your bones

    @Ruckus: Well, heck – what is Coca Cola? Or any of the other bazillion iterations of it? Fizzy water with sugar and flavorings and color.

    Hell, at least when Coca Cola was first invented it had at least one really interesting ingredient :)

  26. 26.

    Ruckus

    @dance around in your bones:
    I didn’t state my case properly.
    This was far cheaper and far less healthy than even Coke. And it was presented as a kids drink that adults wouldn’t even like. And were they right about that. Kids liked it because their parents wouldn’t drink it unless held down and poured down their throats. Because it was far cheaper to make than Coke. And at the time the can, delivery to the store and shelf space costs were far higher for soft drinks than what was in the can. And I’m pretty sure that hasn’t changed.

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