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Republicans in disarray!

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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  1. 1.

    different-church-lady

    “WHO WILL FEEL FATE’S SHOVE?”

    Joe Buck actually said that during the introduction.

  2. 2.

    different-church-lady

    So, how the heck do you strike out six batters by the end of the second inning and still be behind a run?

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @different-church-lady:

    “WHO WILL FEEL FATE’S SHOVE?”

    Joe Buck actually said that during the introduction.

    Yeah, well, McCarver said “The team that goes to Boston with a 3-2 lead will have an advantage.”

    Also, too, the future lies ahead.

  15. 15.

    Schlemizel

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    My favorite of Captain Obvious stupidity came years ago during the Minnesota state hockey tournament. The game was tied after regulation and as overtime was starting the announced stated, “the next goal is going to be critical!”

    Oh really?!?

  17. 17.

    different-church-lady

    @efgoldman: Ah, the perfect segue into something that’s been building up over the past 4 days…

    D-C-L’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ANNOYING TECH COMMERCIALS ON THE 2013 WORLD SERIES

    1) VERIZON HALLOWEEN CANDY
    Why in hell does the girl say, “Seriously, even the dog!” It makes NO SENSE. And who the fuck plots their Halloween route? I know this is tongue in cheek, but it just comes off as irritating.

    2) APPLE 5S LIQUID METAL THINGY
    I’m a huge fan of Apple products, but I am in hate this new 1%/99% product line split they decided on for some insane reason, and the first time I saw this spot I thought it was a Lexus commercial or something. In the Steve Jobs “this is shit/this is amazingly great” dichotomy I’m sure it would have been the first when they ran it by him.

    3) T-MOBILE “JEREMY IN EUROPE” SERIES
    Stupid scenario, bad acting. ‘Nuf ced. (*And besides, JEREMY HAS A FUCKING PHONE! JUST CALL HIM!!! ARE YOU THE DUMBEST PARENTS IN THE WORLD?!?)

    4) EVERY SINGLE DOG-DAMNED GOOGLE AD
    They have more money than God and Oprah combined. Why did they hire some fly-by night ad agency with a couple of camcorders and a stock footage license? Hideous. Just… inexplicably amateurish. Reminds me of the internal corporate crap I used to do in the 80s. Plus it looks like they just bought some five year old white MacBooks, scraped the Apple logos off and then still expected everyone to fall in love with their third-way uniqueness or something.

    AND BONUS GRIPE: RON BURGANDY FOR DODGE
    Am I the only one who finds nearly everything Will Farrell does completely unfunny?

    *(OK, I guess not ‘nuf ced…)

  19. 19.

    Litlebritdiftrnt

    I haven’t slept for days, I am so under stress from the impending trip. I have payroll taxes to do, I have bills to pay (both office and personal) without enough money to pay them, I have motions to file, I have to figure out how we are going to pay for the kennels for the dogs. I have to figure out what I am going to pack(so I have an empty suitcase full of food to come home with). I have to tell the boss not to speak to any clients while I am gone because to be honest he doesn’t know who they are or what their cases are about (and that can get embarrassing, he once introduced himself to a pair of clients while walking through the courthouse, “who were those people” me “they are your clients boss”) I am so stressed out that one phone call is going to ruin my whole trip home that it is almost not worth the trouble. I have to get an adapter so I can charge my cellphone while at home and I have to figure out how to make sure that the cats are fed and watered while we are gone, at this point I am really hoping that my plane goes down in a ball of flames over the Atlantic. I am sure that once I am home things will be fine but right now I just wish it was over with.

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    Yeah, too bad there was no World Series game last Monday.

    We get that you don’t like baseball, but why do you feel the need to come in and shit on the rug? FIDO, as you like to say.

  27. 27.

    handsmile

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Not to clutter up this baseball thread (“Down in front!”), but there’s a comment for you re The Nose/William Kentridge at the unspooled end of the “I love you Suzanne” thread.

    You can read it during one of the many, many, many commercial breaks.

  29. 29.

    Yatsuno

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: Dear heart, BREATHE. Everything will be fine and whatever isn’t will take care of itself. You should be focusing on family and long departed friends and getting your hubby registered with the NHS and such.

  30. 30.

    different-church-lady

    OK, so David Ortiz is 10 for 13 so far in this series.

    If he gets another two at bats in this game, another four in each of game six and game seven, and doesn’t get another hit, he’s going to finish the series hitting .650 .500

    Gotta be #1 candidate for MVP as of this point.

    (Edited for math fail)

  33. 33.

    different-church-lady

    @efgoldman: Happens much more often in hockey (five times) because the MVP award is for the entire playoffs, not just the finals.

    Otherwise, near as I can tell, once in baseball, once in basketball, once in the Super Bowl.

    I don’t think he’ll get it if the Sox lose, unless it’s something like an extra-innings 7th game.

  34. 34.

    Mayim

    @efgoldman:

    A player for the losing team in the Stanley Cup finals has won the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoff MVP) several times, IIRC….Hextall did it for the Flyers in the late 1980s, and Glenn Hall for St. Louis back in the 1960s. Maybe Roger Crozier for Detroit, also in the ’60s? Think there may have another such case or two, as well.

    Conn Smythe award is supposed to account for the entire post-season, not just the finals ~ but I think all the players who have won it have played for a team that made the finals.

  36. 36.

    Darkrose

    @different-church-lady:

    1) VERIZON HALLOWEEN CANDY
    Why in hell does the girl say, “Seriously, even the dog!” It makes NO SENSE. And who the fuck plots their Halloween route? I know this is tongue in cheek, but it just comes off as irritating.

    I love this ad. The teenaged girl is complaining to her friend that her dorky parents insisted on the entire family dressing up, “even the dog”. But what makes the ad for me is that it’s showing a completely over-the-top geek family….who’s black. And that’s presented as no big deal. I can look at it and think that would totally be my family if I was a kid today, which is awesome.

  39. 39.

    Litlebritdiftrnt

    @Yatsuno: @different-church-lady: A friend of mine said today it is like moving, you will never be more stressed, but once the move is done you are fine. My main stress is that the boss will talk to a client while I am gone, that would be a complete disaster. I am sure that once wheel hits the ground in the UK I will be able to disengage my brain and my main focus will be where to get at meat and potato pie chips and peas, tea, bread and butter will completely overwhelm everything else.

  40. 40.

    different-church-lady

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: I usually start to relax about an hour into the flight, when suddenly there’s nothing I can do other than kill time for the first time in days.

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @different-church-lady:

    And who the fuck plots their Halloween route?

    Obviously, you didn’t keep track of who in your neighborhood gave out full-size candy bars and who gave out pennies year-to-year. Right around the age of 10 or so is when you start trying to get maximum candy for minimum (walking) effort.

  45. 45.

    different-church-lady

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): No. We just went down the block, took whatever was offered, said thank you no matter what it was, and didn’t act like little snots.

    And I’m so damn old I come from an era where the parents stayed home.

  58. 58.

    Rorgg

    @efgoldman:
    And undeniably, the Yankees played better over the course of the series:
    NYY 4 – 6 Pit
    NYY 16 – 3 Pit
    Pit 0 – 10 NYY
    Pit 3 – 2 NYY
    Pit 5 – 2 NYY
    NYY 12 – 0 Pit

    And then Pittsburgh wins 10-9 on a walkoff in game 7. I mean, they got outscored 55-27, that’s pretty overwhelming, You can understand the shock.

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