Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

When I was faster i was always behind.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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  1. 1.

    Tommy

    Rewatching West Wing on Netflix and my gosh I kind of forgot how good of a show this was. I think it is even better on the second viewing. I know it isn’t reality and Sorkin can rub some people the wrong way, but the show at least to me is as “fresh” today as it was years ago.

  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    I know we have a bunch of North Carolinians who hang out here who may have heard of this local controversy gone viral:

    Statue of a Homeless Jesus Startles a Wealthy Community

    There are apparently quite a few “Christians” who don’t like to think about the verse I remember singing in our Catholic church: “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.”

  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    @Tommy: I never saw the West Wing during its run on network TV, though I’d heard of it, of course. I discovered it fairly recently, when it came out on Netflix. I thought it was pretty good.

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    @Mnemosyne:
    There are lots of religious people of all stripes who are more than happy to ignore the inconvenient parts of their religions. The thing I’d be most worried about is that the statue that shocks people today will gradually turn into part of the background and be ignored in a distressingly short time. The message won’t sink in with the people who need it most because they’ll turn a blind eye to it, just as they skim over those parts of the Bible that contain the same message.

  7. 7.

    Tommy

    @Betty Cracker: Some of the overarching stories I am not a huge fan of. But single shows, like Indians in the Lobby that are “one off” are just amazing. In that show, two Native American Indians show up in the lobby on Thanksgiving and refuse to leave. They want a ruling on their land. They are told the Federal government is huge, and things take time. The Indians say they have been waiting 18 years. CJ then goes to bat for them.

    There is a conversation where the Indians say they were relocated. Promised this and that. It never happened. Much of the land they were promised was later taken away. Oh and you introduced our people to alcohol, we really thank you for that.

    I don’t know, maybe the hippie liberal I am, but I can watch TV like that all day.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    @Roger Moore:

    It’s always hard to say. Some people will ignore it, others will be spurred to think about it. There will be some people who leave the church in high dudgeon because of the “blasphemy” and others who join because of the statue.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @Betty Cracker:
    The West Wing was the show I was waiting for, one night after coming home from work, when TV3 (the station that showed it in Malaysia) suddenly cut to live video of the World Trade Center towers coming down.

  12. 12.

    Tommy

    @Roger Moore: I was raised a Methodist in a small town founded by German immigrants more than 200 years ago. I am an Atheist but I do respect the church I went to as a child. I recall in like 1984 when the first African American couple started to attend the place stood up to cheer to welcome them. We wanted diversity. When I did work for the church during Confirmation it was not to protest to get mad at people, but to help those less fortunate then me. I was taught that was what Jesus preached in Sunday school!

    I wish I would have taken a picture of the sign outside the church. But when gay marriage was up in the Illinois legislature the sign said something like “we welcome all, including the LGBT community with open arms.”

  13. 13.

    Suffern ACE

    @Penus: Yep. Although what are you going to do? If I were a rancher, I’d stop paying BLM fees immediately. There’s no reason to do so until someone gets hurt.

  14. 14.

    Aardvark Cheeselog

    How A Medical Marijuana Measure Could Boost Florida Democrats (warning Puff Ho post)

    “I wish that it didn’t take medical marijuana on the ballot to motivate our young voters to go and vote because there’s far too much at stake for them and their children,” said Ana Cruz, former executive director of the Florida Democratic Party. “But listen, we’ll take it any way we can get it.”

    Well, I wish Democratic officials from dogcatcher on up would be engaging in a ceaseless screaming chorus of “F*ck the deficit, young people got no jobs and no money,” but since they won’t I’ll take medpot instead.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Tommy:

    I own the entirety of The West Wing on DVD, and treat myself to a marathon viewing about once a year. It had a few not-so-good moments, but overall it remains one of my favourite series ever.

  17. 17.

    Penus

    @Suffern ACE: Seriously. Why pay them at all? They issued a permanent injunction against having his cattle on those lands in 1998. The fact that they’ve accommodated him for this long is a slap in the face to the rule of law. The BLM’s collection mechanism is clearly, demonstrably toothless.

    He’s no different from people who just decide not to pay taxes.

  18. 18.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Penus: They’ve accommodated him as his appeals of assorted cases have made their way through the legal system. It’s sort of like letting the process of law work. The BLM folks were in no fashion equipped to deal with armed resistance; that’s not past of their charter. Leaving before an escalation in which bloodshed occurred was an exercise in good judgment, IMHO. There are agencies (e.g., FBI, federal marshals) with staff who are prepared by training and tools to enforce orders in which an armed response to enforcement action is a possibility.

  21. 21.

    Penus

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    That’s a fair point. The guy reminds me of the Patriot movement from the 1990s, when people would declare themselves sovereign citizens and drive around with homemade license plates. I’m a former newspaper employee, and the movement was great for newspapers, because they submitted LONG secession notices to classifieds sections.

    A major difference between now and then: fairly conservative (or at least non-liberal) local governments and PDs looked at those people as annoying pains in the ass. Now they’re the base.

  22. 22.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Especially given the anniversary that’s coming up. Back off, let things cool for a couple of weeks, see if the mob can stay put for that long. Prepare to file liens against his cattle and his property. Start the process to garnish any farm bill payments he gets.

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