Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Let me file that under fuck it.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

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

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

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From the depths I return, clutching my love for you all to my breast …

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Hello kiddies…

It has been a while. I have no real explanation. Let’s put it down to ennui (a rationalisation laden with enough cheese-eating surrender-monkey bullshit that we can just pass on and get on with the motley).

When I last spoke to you, we had a Democrat-controlled Senate, we weren’t at war with anyone, the economy was on its way up, and the newspapers hadn’t carried reports of the murder and/or torture of black or brown people by white authority figures for at least a week.

So that’s all gone to shit, and I suspect I’ve built up enough anger to be entertaining again.

What’s your excuse?

Actually, fuck that. I don’t give a shit, because you lot have apparently managed to entirely fuck up the country in my absence.

Fuck you all, you namby-pamby lefty fuckers.

(Just to show I do still love you, a cheesecake photo of my doggy.)

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[Top image – Jean de Boulogne Valentin (1591-1632) – Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple]

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    The economy is still going up, FWIW.

    If I knew it would bring you back, I would have voted for the GOP. I guess I’m voting for Cruz in 2016 after all.

  10. 10.

    Soonergrunt

    Welcome back! The coke is in the bowl in the bathroom cupboard, and the liquor cabinet is unlocked.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    Doggie belly! Who could resist! Welcome back SP&T. If only you’d been here, maybe you could have kept leftier voters in line and hustled them out to the polls. See what happens when you don’t do your job!

  15. 15.

    MomSense

    When I last spoke to you, we had a Democrat-controlled Senate, we weren’t at war with anyone, the economy was on its way up…

    This is why you should never go away again.

    Quote seems to be borked.

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    Wassail, Sarah. Glad to see you back.

    Cute pup. I always took you for the Airedale or Italian greyhound type. But this one looks strong enough to tug you home by your Burberry, should you become incapacitated. (By snuff. Or what have you.)

    Good doggy.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    Now where’s Dengre? Perhaps staying away, because no photogenic pet?

    I care not if Dengre has only a stuffed squirrel to his name. Would be great to see him back.

    In this season of cheer. And reunion.

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    ruemara

    Welcome back. I have a partial flood in my apartment because the window seals failed. And the attempt to repair my windshield wiper arm so it wouldn’t skim most of the windshield has resulted in it missing all of the windshield. So I can’t drive, as I need to learn into the passenger side to see clearly. Tell me the truth, there are cameras recording all of this, right? Because I don’t want to get out of bed if yesterday’s track record continues. Of course, I should, because I need to wring out the towels that are keeping the ongoing leaks under control.

  22. 22.

    J R in WV

    It’s good to see that you’re still kicking around, and just as outrageous as ever!!

    I enjoy your good humor even when all about us are loosing their cool and becoming very unhappy.

    Keep on being outrageous and funny in the face of impending catastrophe, and stay in touch.

    Happy Holidays, too, also. !!

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So that’s all gone to shit, and I suspect I’ve built up enough anger to be entertaining again.

    What’s your excuse?

    Reading posts from people who live in a perpetual rage because the world isn’t on the good side of their duelist world viewing ranting about how their ideological opponents can’t see nuance.

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    Yatsuno

    IT’S A FESTIVUS MIRACLE!!! Hello darling. I have missed you terribly around these parts. Is your niece getting you a new set of Portuguese rentboys for Christmas?

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    CONGRATULATIONS!

    The coke is in the bowl in the bathroom cupboard

    @Soonergrunt: Um, yeah. About that. Erm, huh, how to say this. Something happened. At any rate, now is not the time to assign blame, and don’t shoot the messenger, OK? But it’s gone.

    All gone.

  31. 31.

    ruemara

    @raven: slap a tarp on the side of the wall for the duration of the season, I think. Oh, the arm. A marine friend with MacGyver skills is going to take off the arm and try to bend it to a correct arc.

  32. 32.

    Emma

    @ruemara: A (very geeky, like me) friend and I have taken to joking that if we find a working TARDIS we’re building a paradox machine and wipe out 2014. It’s been one-freaking-thing-after-another, and it’s the relatively little things that happen after the big disasters that send you off the rails.

    (edit)And nice to see you again, Sarah.

  35. 35.

    Petorado

    you lot have apparently managed to entirely fuck up the country in my absence

    What else can we say — mistakes were made.

    Now please post some more of the music you’ve been grooving to Sarah.

  37. 37.

    shortstop

    Oh, Sarah, how lovely to see you again. And on a week when I really needed it!

    @ruemara: I scanned this without having read the previous explanation and assumed for a sec that you were talking about your arm. Glad you weren’t, but sorry for the crappy experience.

  41. 41.

    satby

    @ruemara: I’m so sorry you’re going through all this trouble. May it get better soon!

    I feel we have parallel lives, I woke up to no heat and my checking account overdrawn, even though I have invoices for work in the process of getting paid (or I hope they sent the check they said they did anyway). The good news? It’ll be in the high 40s by Sunday and I have electricity, and space heaters. So it could be worse. Inconvenient, not catastrophe.

    Edited to add: Happy to see you back Sara!

  42. 42.

    BruceFromOhio

    Actually, fuck that. I don’t give a shit, because you lot have apparently managed to entirely fuck up the country in my absence.

    Fuck you all, you namby-pamby lefty fuckers.

    I was all like, “what’s got that nasty burr under Levenson’s saddle? Must be the kitchen project went into red status.” You had me going there for awhile, because of the prominent painting at the top of the post. Oopsie.

  43. 43.

    ruemara

    @Emma: If I get a TARDIS, I will be doing two things: Showing Obama how feckless Democrats will be the minute he wins; Inventing Facebook.

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    different-church-lady

    Crap — now we have to put up with a sense of humor around here again?

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  46. 46.

    Ecks

    You’re back, and just in time for this year’s war on Christmas! Hope you’re ready to load up for the mission to sneak trees, mistletoe, and other pagan iconism into the unsuspecting Christian’s homes again, as we once more attempt to befuddle them over the date of their Messiah’s birth. It ain’t easy to keep them shifting it all the way over to the midwinter festival year after year.

  48. 48.

    jayjaybear

    That is quite obviously a BOY goggie, therefore it would be a BEEFCAKE photo, would it not? Unless he’s actually part hyena, in which case I could be mistaken about the gender…

    ETA: Oh, and welcome back!

  49. 49.

    Anne Laurie

    Full frontal PEDRO! (and yet he discreetly hides his face, the minx)…

    Welcome back, Sarah. Your re-emergence doesn’t repair my mood, but it does mitigate it.

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