Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He really is that stupid.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

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

Republicans in disarray!

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The willow is too close to the house.

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

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

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

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  1. 1.

    c u n d gulag

    This obviously was back when gas cost 15 cents a gallon.

    Now, he’d want “5 MILLION DOLLARS!!!”

  5. 5.

    satby

    So thanks to all of you I’ve become completely OCD about milkweed for the monarchs. In addition to ordering the seeds from LiveMonarch.com I just spent an hour harvesting and spreading milkweed in the wetland near my house. Anyone want some seeds?

  14. 14.

    PhoenixRising

    Dear gawd, the next time I knock on a door only to be told that the registered Dem(s) behind it can’t be bothered to vote because the candidate isn’t pure enough, do I have permission from you all to literally choke that person with hundred dollar bills until they faint and then whisper in my evil voice, “Without your vote, money is the only thing making policy, you dumbass”?

    The only thing is, for health reasons I’d need to stock up on hundreds and some of the neighborhoods I canvass…not so sure that I wouldn’t also need a gun.

    Cuz if you give this mouse a cookie, she’s going to drunk-dial a shift of GOTV.

  18. 18.

    kindness

    Where did you find Paul Ryan’s childhood comix?

    OMG that must be worth what ever the Randian Market will bare.

    I’m wondering btw….were any of the pages stuck together?

  20. 20.

    Bob In Portland

    I’m trying to figure out what the US expects to get from its sanctions against Russia. Crimea? No way. Russian troops withdrawn from Russia (which has been the recent complaint, that Russian troops are near the Russian border with Ukraine)? Don’t think so.

    Does anyone here think that they’ll give up Crimea now? Does anyone think that Germany and France will give up on Russian gas, much less China and Japan?

    Since Russia is about to sign a trade agreement with Iran, I guess no one really wanted that one to work either. Wonder if anti-aircraft surface-to-air missiles are going to be part of the deal.

    I see that the Ukrainian government is attempting to disarm the fascist gangs in order to clean up its image, and that’s a start, but does anyone see Ukraine’s economy doing anything besides collapsing and contracting over the next few years?

    Does anyone see the inevitability of a loose federation for Ukraine? How else is this mess going to be solved?

    Just asking.

  21. 21.

    MikeJ

    I can’t really say that the idea of making the oil industry pay their own way for once upsets me. The actual American way is to cut food stamps because the government had to shell out so much money propping up extraction industries.

  22. 22.

    IowaOldLady

    @PhoenixRising: My blood pressure goes up just thinking about childish people holding out for some imaginary perfect candidate.

    John Lewis says voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have at our disposal. And given his history, he out to know.

  24. 24.

    satby

    @raven: Sorry raven, but you had already ordered them before I saw it here if I remember correctly. In fact, I think you and Ozark had exchanged comments and that’s how I found out.

  25. 25.

    Chyron HR

    @satby:

    So thanks to all of you I’ve become completely OCD about milkweed for the monarchs.

    I only liked their first album, before they sold out.

  27. 27.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @J.Ty:
    In the 60s, the comics code very tightly restricted what comic companies felt safe to print. As a result, you got these bizarre, sitcom-like comics where Superman and Batman play pranks on Robin, or Superman uses his Super Counting skill to guess how many jellybeans are in a jar. It was called the Silver Age, for no reason I clearly understand!

  30. 30.

    J.Ty

    @Frankensteinbeck: Ahha.

    Totally off-topic, but after years of my friends bugging me to read William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition, it was the only English-language book at the book store I felt like buying the other day, so I’m finally reading it. My friends should have bugged me harder, it’s turning out quite nicely I must say.

  31. 31.

    John Revolta

    Look at that knowing look in Supe’s eye.

    I’ve got a feeling he’s Up to Something.

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    @J.Ty:

    You gotta watch out for that site — it will suck you in and you’ll suddenly realize it’s 3 a.m. and you have to go to work in the morning.

    Just a word of warning.

    Also, Silver Age Batman and Robin were totally gay. In fact, I suspect the writers gayed them up even more after the whole Seduction of the Innocent debacle just to stick it to The Man.

  33. 33.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    It’s not the American Way.

    That was then, this is now. Pay up, sucker.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    @dmsilev:
    If Obama called it a stinkburger in public, it can only be exactly that. In any case, a stinkburger of a budget proposal is more or less what one would expect from Paul Ryan and his cargo-cult approximation of economic wonkery.

  38. 38.

    Betty Cracker

    Obama Called Their Budget A “Stinkburger”

    That makes me happy. Pulpit, bullied.

  40. 40.

    Hal

    What an irritating day all around. I’ve gotten into a Facebook argument with two people I don’t even know over Hobby Lobby. These two are making the argument that Hobby Lobby is exercising it’s religious freedom, to which I replied that Hobby Lobby is an inanimate corporation. “It” doesn’t care if people are using contraception. The owners do.

    Since when did so many people in this country start to see corps as individuals with their own thoughts and feelings? Another Facebook friend of mine feels sorry for all the taxes the oil companies pay (No, I’m not joking) and bitches about how unfair it is that people who win the HGTV dream house have to pay taxes on their prize. Good, freedom loving people who are more than willing to turn over their country to Adelson and the Koch Brothers. I just do not get it.

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    Auntie Nelda

    @Bob In Portland: Mitt Romney will buy up the portions of Ukraine that don’t want to become part of Russia. Several Balloon Juice commenters who worship the Ayn Rand lifestyle will move there to create a Galtian Paradise. One Nation Under Bain.

  42. 42.

    Davis X. Machina

    Since when did so many people in this country start to see corps as individuals with their own thoughts and feelings?

    You got to worship something. Yahweh’s day has come and gone, I’m afraid.

  43. 43.

    Hill Dweller

    @Baud: PO also called their budget a ‘mean-wich’. But I agree, shit sandwich would be better.

  45. 45.

    Bill Arnold

    @Hill Dweller:

    But I agree, shit sandwich would be better.

    But it would not be Presidential, so we have to accept (happily!) “stinkburger” and “meanwich”.

  48. 48.

    RSA

    @JGabriel:

    I’m pretty sure Buzzfeed got all of those covers from the Superman Is A Dick page.

    They did, and put a tiny link at the bottom.

    One of my favorite pages on the superdickery site is actually about Batman… and his boner. It’s juvenile humor, but still pretty funny to me.

  50. 50.

    Gene108

    @Hal:

    At some point in the last 45 years advocating for fixing potholes, limiting corporations from looting and plundering, etc got linked to politicians who will grab all your guns, gay marry you to a turtle, etc, therefore if you want to keep your guns, marry you girlfriend in a Christian church, etc you need to support the 0.01%’s economic agenda and whatever else makes business owners happy.

  55. 55.

    maya

    To regard a corporation as possessing personhood isn’t necessarily a bad idea since most corporations do consist of a human population. (The exception would be fake offshore corporate entities created by Halliburton under Liz’s daddy where no humans existed, e.g..) The problem, like the HL situation, is that the corporation (as person) is limiting that definition to apply only to the humanity of it’s owners/ board of directors. Managers, supes, all the little people on the HL payroll are NOT considered in the concept of corporate personhood. Why? These non-persons would be the same ones who would be denied contraceptives or even health care if it offends the religious beliefs of it’s, much smaller in size, governing board. If (s)he has a corporate ID then (s)he is part of the corporation. Yet, they are deliberately excluded. Apparently, democracy has no place in the modern American corporation a la conservative legal thought.

  57. 57.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @dmsilev:

    Republicans Aren’t Happy Obama Called Their Budget A ‘Stinkburger’.

    Too fuckin’ bad, asswipes.

    Here, let me cue up the world’s tiniest violin for you shitstains, howzat?

  75. 75.

    Pogonip

    @satby: Good luck! I hardly ever see a monarch these days. I remember one evening one of my parents’ trees was just covered with migrating monarchs, shimmering in the sunset. Alas, the pictures (this was decades before Photoshop) didn’t do it justice and my mom, the keeper of the photos, can’t find them. If she ever does we’ll have them enhanced.

  76. 76.

    Pogonip

    @Bob In Portland: I think our politicians, only now realizing they tossed our power away in their quest for Free Markets, are just lashing out in impotent rage. This country can no longer win a conventional war, economic or otherwise, against anybody big enough to fight back, and no one’s going to break out the nukes over Ukraine. And if I can figure all that out, Vladimir Putin certainly can.

  77. 77.

    A Humble Lurker

    @Pogonip:

    This country can no longer win a conventional war, economic or otherwise, against anybody big enough to fight back, and no one’s going to break out the nukes over Ukraine.

    Which is why it’s a good thing the US ain’t alone in the economic sanctions game. For the love of God, sanctions brought IRAN back to the table. I don’t think Russia’s got much of a chance if enough people pile on for long enough.

  78. 78.

    Bob In Portland

    @A Humble Lurker:Except that Russia has a deal in place with Iran, taking some of Iran’s oil in exchange for Russian commodities. And Europe is not going to sacrifice itself to satisfy the US’s spite here. France just signed a big oil shale deal with Russia.

    The problem for the US is precisely that their sanctions aren’t going to hurt Russia because Europe and Asia won’t go along with them. The saber-rattling isn’t going to scare Russia. And now that the fate of Ukraine is in America’s hands, don’t expect Congress to come up with 35 billion to keep Kiev afloat until November.

    Also, if the US keeps trying to piss off Putin our astronauts may have to hitch their way back to earth.

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