Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

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

The National Guard is not Batman.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

No one could have predicted…

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

So many bastards, so little time.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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Per NYMag:

… America’s spry great-uncle was in his element at his annual picnic for members of the media and their families. On this first day of summer, reporters brought their children over to Biden’s residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory for live music, an inflatable obstacle course, and a water-gun fight with the vice president, who just returned from a fun-looking trip to Rio…

(There’s video at the link of Biden congratulating the U.S. soccer team, in his best Uncle Joe mode.)
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What’s on the agenda as we wrap up the weekend?

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  3. 3.

    HelloRochester

    Why does Her Royal Inevitable Majesty have to eff our chances of having that handsome kind well intended salt of the earth sonofagun as our next President?

  5. 5.

    Betty Cracker

    Drinking a fine claret on the porch and watching the mister compost the remnants of Garden I 2014 in preparation for the planting of Garden II. There’s something so relaxing about indolently watching someone else’s toil from a shady spot.

  6. 6.

    Violet

    Love Joe Biden. Can he be President next, please?

    Which of those kids in the pictures is the next nepotism hire by our Village media betters?

  9. 9.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “Stupid people are ruining America”

    I agree. The stupid people are voting for shitstains like Herman Cain, and are teabaggers.

  10. 10.

    James E. Powell

    Let’s say it breaks like this. Hillary says “no” – for health reasons or something else not political. Joe Biden steps up and says, “I’m your man.”

    A) What are the downsides?
    B) Does he win the nomination in a walk or face a hotly contested primary season?
    C) Who is on the ticket with him? (Names or descriptions)

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    @Violet:

    Did you figure out something nice to make him for dinner?

    Dinner? Sounds nice, but there’s one surefire way to lift his spirits.

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    @Violet: Yes, I am aware. Steak Diane is nice, and all. But it’s a poor second to what would really make him happy/lift spirits.

  15. 15.

    gene108

    @HelloRochester:

    Why does Her Royal Inevitable Majesty have to eff our chances of having that handsome kind well intended salt of the earth sonofagun as our next President?

    Joe “I did everything in my power to make Anita Hill look bad” Biden, when he was chair of the Senate Judiciary committee during the Clarence Thomas nomination process?

    Joe “Senator MBNA” Biden, who overhauled the bankruptcy rules making discharging debts in personal bankruptcy harder?

    I’m sorry, but he’s a lot less pure than he appears to be as Vice President. He’s probably a nice guy, but he does have as much or more baggage, with regards to liberal purity as Hillary.

    EDIT: Biden also voted for going to war in Iraq, in the fall of 2002, along with Hillary and most Congressional Democrats.

    @tybee:

    he appears to be thoroughly enjoying his role as VP.

    Who wouldn’t like to be Vice President?

    You have one job: break ties in the Senate.

    Otherwise you get a swank residence, nice pay check and technically you do not have to do diddly squat.

    All you have to do is keep tabs on the President being young and healthy enough to complete the term, the Secret Service is on the ball and Air Force One gets the necessary maintenance.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    Posted a link sometime earlier and nary a peep about it then.

    But as still fuming with revulsion from reading about this grim harbinger of first-generation corporate airborne repression, will mention it again.

    The veneer of anonymity currently afforded by reference to an “international mining company” cannot – must not – be given leeway to continue hiding the extensive rot beneath.

  19. 19.

    YellowJournalism

    So POTUS is having the EPA do a study on the bee population decline. And wingnuts are freaking out (of course). I just don’t see Hillary doing these types of things in office.

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    mai naem

    I like Biden and would be perfectly happy to vote for him. I do think the GOP will have a field day with his verbal flubs but they’re going to pull crap on anybody the Dems run so whatever.
    I’ve been watching HGTV a little too much and I swear to god I will smack somebody up the head if I hear “open concept” room again. Also too, these people buying/fixing their places up are seriously idiotic. Ooooh, the granite is dated – the perfectly good cabinets are dated – stainless steel appliances are dated – a buyer is just not “feeling” it with a massive pool. WTF is wrong with you? And who puts small mosaic tiles on the damn backsplash? Are you serious? Whose idea is to put mosaic tile on a shower wall? Does anybody care about how you keep this stuff clean? Dumbasses.

  21. 21.

    catclub

    @Violet: There was just a post I read somewhere about Obama doing lots of good things for Transgender folks. I did not know they had a candidate, yet.

  22. 22.

    mai naem

    @YellowJournalism: I heard that and I have to say why has this not already been done? The bee stuff has been going on for several years. Even the rural farmer teabaggers actually truly would understand that bees are essential for a lot of their work.

  28. 28.

    Schlemizel

    @NotMax:
    Sigh – I missed your earlier post I guess this is the first I heard of this. Its too depressing to contemplate. The folks behind it need to be identified and exposed for what they are. My guess is worse is yet to come.

  31. 31.

    YellowJournalism

    @mai naem: I hate-watch a lot of HGTV shows like House Hunters or that new flipping show with the vapid couple who have terrible taste and overdo their renos for the neighborhood. When I heard that marble tiles in a bathroom is now dated, so they put in travertine, I rolled my eyes so hard it hurt!

    I used to love Property Virgins when the realtor Sandy was on because she would get to a point of subtly letting buyers they were full of shit and unrealistic in their expectations.

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    WereBear

    @YellowJournalism: My mother (who has lots of real estate experience) and I used to watch some show about preparing the house for sale. Which was always “move out half the furniture and paint everything beige.”

    My mother concurred, saying that most people have zero visual imagination. They can’t mentally put their furniture in the new space, or “see” it in a different color, without considerable help.

    Which astonishes me.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @WereBear:

    As a knitter, I can tell you that there are a fair number of people who can’t “see” a pattern in a different color than the one the sample was knitted in, so they’ll skip past a sweater pattern because they don’t like yellow or whatever.

    I don’t get it either, but it’s pretty common.

  36. 36.

    WereBear

    It blows my mind because my own mind does that sort of thing automatically. But it does point up how some people have sort of sub-par imaginations, and I believe this is a learned behavior, because I’ve raised teens, and the common phrase, “What were you thinking!?!” points up that they don’t know how yet.

    And some of them never learn.

  37. 37.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @NotMax:

    This is just a use of technology that’s been around for a while. It will be interesting to see if the Parliament of South Africa will have the stones to endanger the flow of income from South Africa’s mines by forbidding this kind of remote-control strikebreaking. My guess is that after the outraged speeches the drones will fly on.

  39. 39.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @tybee:
    Perhaps a better question to ask is why the post-apartheid government of South Africa hasn’t already intervened and settled the issues of wages and conditions. That South Africa’s notorious and innovative arms companies are seeing an opportunity here is telling.

  40. 40.

    lol

    @gene108:

    Not most Congressional Democrats, most Democratic Senators. Vast majority of House dems opposed, to their credit.

  42. 42.

    Anne Laurie

    @Violet:

    Love Joe Biden. Can he be President next, please?

    Heck, he can just volunteer to keep his current job, enjoy all the VP perks & avoid the whinging about too old! not progressive enough! from all points of the compass. President Obama is forbidden a third term, but I don’t think the rules say anything about three-peating as Vice!

    If HRC’s at the head of the ticket, this way there are no Dems in disarray! stories for the media villagers to invent. And if our candidate is Kirsten Gillibrand or Martin O’Malley or one of the other “young” Dems, he can be the “experienced in foreign policy, has eaten dinner with each & every head of state” guy for them

  43. 43.

    Ben Cisco

    Wrapping up weekend one of having LittleMan and TinyDancer down for a fortnight while their mom works some double shifts. Every NeoConfederate that bitches about single mothers needs to get kicked in the nuts repeatedly because REASONS.

    So, the toilet in the master bath goes kablooey. Enter one brand new American Standard high-riser, low-volume model complete with slow-lowering lid. All the GOTea-ers who bitched about this can also line up for a kick in the nuts.

    Come to think of it, if I ruled the world, every GOPer would be BY DEFAULT be lined up for a kick in the junk. And a tumbrel ride.

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