Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

“woke” is the new caravan.

When we show up, we win.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

He really is that stupid.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

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  1. 1.

    Shana

    Going to the campaign kickoff for my state senator. I know I’ll see lots of folks I know and it’s in the historic Fairfax town hall. Go Chap!

  2. 2.

    Tenar Darell

    Was on my way to hear Simon Winchester, the author, and had to cancel because my driver’s side window got stuck just as I pulled into the garage on the Red line. Now at fave local Italian restaurant after taping it up and re-scheduling tomorrow. /old fashions are good

  3. 3.

    Xboxershorts

    Working late also….I love Juniper Networks, but sometimes I really hate Juniper Networks

  4. 4.

    gene108

    Cleaning. Mom’s coming over Thursday. I don’t want her to run screaming, because I got really bad about cleaning during the winter.

    On a different note, 12 years ago today I tried killing myself. I’m usually not quite right today, like my body/brain recalls how crappy that day was, but for some reason I just don’t feel as off as I normally do. It just seems like another day.

    I guess that’s progress.

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

    @Shana: You have more civic spirit than I do. Great to hear.

    Warming up some chicken and rice leftovers and sipping a gently priced Cab Sauv.

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I got two very nice things in the mail today.

    Back last summer, the minute I heard about the installation, I ordered two ceramic poppies from the Tower of London display “Blood-Swept Land and Seas of Red.” The poppies were on display from the first day of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I through November 11, Armistice Day. There was one poppy for each British or Empire soldier killed in the Great War, and all proceeds go to British and Commonwealth veterans’ groups.

    Anyhow, the first of my two poppies arrived today, and the second should be delivery tomorrow. Really gorgeous, and beautifully presented. I’ve waited a long time for these — thought for several weeks they had lost my order — but they are well worth the wait. I’m thrilled.

    Also, as you may know, I’m an opera fan (especially Wagner), and a FB group I belong to, Met Opera Live in HD Fans, recently decided to offer t-shirts with the slogan LIVE LIKE A VALKYRIE. HOJOTOHO! So of course I orderd one (in bright red!) and it also arrived today.

    Sure makes a nice change of pace from utility bills and advertising flyers.

  10. 10.

    raven

    Just took a bunch of pics of the flowers and trees. The boss won’t let me near the flower beds with the weed eater so she’s out there on the case.

  11. 11.

    Phylllis

    Enjoying a lovely breeze through the windows and reveling in
    the fact that Spring break is only two work days away.

  12. 12.

    shell

    @gene108: Aww, gene, I’m sorry. But better is always better.
    ****************
    Doing tonight? I see the movie ‘Wild’ is finally up for rental in OnDemand. (For weeks it was ‘buy’ only. I bet they lose a lot of money that way.)
    Anybody seen it? I’m a big Witherspoon fan.

  13. 13.

    David Koch

    “I don’t think I’ve ever used the word gay rights, because I don’t really believe in rights based on your behavior.” ~ Rand Paul

    Remember how Cole and his fellow DudeBros fell in love with Baby Doc.

    Good times.

  15. 15.

    BGinCHI

    @David Koch: I love that quote.

    The next question to him should be: “Now, how can you conceive of a “free market” without basing it on behavior?”

    These guys are so fucking stupid.

  19. 19.

    22over7

    You people are the only ones who understand the dark underbelly of pet ownership. My long-hared tortie, Mugsy, has a huge mat of fur right under her poop hole. She would rather be boiled in hot wax than let me touch it (did I mention that she’s a biter too)? She now stinks to high heaven and is sprinkling noxious dribbles everywhere.

    So I called the vet and will have to shell out some hundreds of dollars to have her sedated, bathed, and shaved. And as soon as I bring out the cat carrier, she’ll run under the bed. Sigh.

  20. 20.

    BGinCHI

    What’s the over/under until Mike Pence announces his run for President in 2016 and goes immediately into the lead amongst Republicans?

  21. 21.

    David Koch

    Geez. It’s get worse by the hour. Baby Doc doubles down saying Teh ghay will trigger Armageddon.

    He suggested during the event that the debate about legalizing same-sex marriage is the result of a “moral crisis” in the country: “Don’t always look to Washington to solve anything. In fact, the moral crisis we have in our country, there is a role for us trying to figure out things like marriage, there’s also a moral crisis that allows people to think that there would be some sort of other marriage.”

    “We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, ‘reform or see what’s going to happen if we don’t reform.’”

    Dudebros, how’s that Paul is the Messiah working out for ya

  24. 24.

    different-church-lady

    PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: We are no longer “progressives”. We are now “populists“. Please adjust your internet rantings accordingly.

  25. 25.

    Tree With Water

    Here’s a San Francisco Chronicle headline you too might enjoy:

    “Jeb Bush defends Indiana law as he seeks Bay Area funds”.

  27. 27.

    boatboy_srq

    Just logging out of my work desktop and heading home – to either leftover roast and loaded baked potatoes or fish’n’chips. Kudos to Shana and all going out to the campaigning.

  29. 29.

    David Koch

    @BGinCHI: No joke. I was looking at the front pages on Newseum’s web site yesterday, and most of them were favorable and in support of him (the noted except being the Indy Star).

    He’s been playing to the fundies throughout. While his performance on sunday was disastrous to average votes, it played to great applause with fundies who already suffer from a percussion complex. I saw a clip today of Fixxed News and they were portraying him as a victim of the media and teh ghey agenda.

    This won’t help him now, but it will make him a frontrunner with Cruz for the nomination in 2020.

  30. 30.

    srv

    With Warren benched, 538 tells O’Malley to Serpentine Right:

    Martin O’Malley is a star in Democratic primary polls. But that’s not a good thing. Pollsters give candidates a “*” symbol when they get less than 1 percent support. So just how is O’Malley going to fight all the way back against Hillary Clinton? Reportedly by offering a more progressive vision and running to Clinton’s left. There’s one main problem with this strategy: It makes no sense.

    I’ve already noted that Clinton is polling strongly among liberal voters. She’s also received a number of endorsements from elected officials in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, something that she didn’t have eight years ago which is highly predictive of primary success. But let’s add one more important element: Clinton is more liberal than O’Malley.

    You liberals are so screwed.

  32. 32.

    Tree With Water

    @different-church-lady: I actually much prefer that term, as terms go. Just like the Republicans should have adopted the moniker, the Free Soil Party. I wonder if the other connotation of the word ‘soil’ had anything to do with that?

  33. 33.

    Mike J

    Wal-mart’s CEO asks Arkansas governor to veto religious freedom law, says it undermines the ‘spirit of inclusion’

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    @David Koch: Okay, it’s comments like this that help me understand how Anne Laurie feels about you. Don’t go over to the dark side!

  41. 41.

    Jane2

    Resting my poor overworked feet for more punishment on London’s streets tomorrow. Time to figure out the buses…the air quality in the Tube is making my asthma flare up.

    And I can’t wait to see King Johns tooth at the Magna Carta exhibit…those crazy Brits.

  43. 43.

    David Koch

    Serious question: if economic populism is such an awesome mighty political weapon why did John Edwards only get a measly 17% of the vote in New Hampshire and only 17% of the vote in his native state of South Carolina?

  45. 45.

    danielx

    There’s a quote (possibly apocryphal) I’ve been trying to work into a RFRA diatribe, but can’t quite make it work:

    WW I French general: This hill is worth ten thousand men!

    One of his battalion commanders: Generous bastard, isn’t he?

  48. 48.

    Jane2

    @gene108: Congrats on progress…sometimes it moves so slowly that you don’t realize something’s changed. But it sounds like it has for you.

  52. 52.

    Pogonip

    @geg6: Congrats! Are you taking Thurston too, or is Cole keeping him?

    Once you get her please submit pupdates!

  53. 53.

    Gin & Tonic

    I’m thinking that the guy in Maryland who had his wife’s car stolen by the two cross-dressing guys who tried to crash the gate at NSA HQ, and whom he’d spent the night with at a motel, might be in a bit of an awkward spot today.

  62. 62.

    David Koch

    @WaterGirl: economic populism is good policy. But when you read blogs, they make it sound like it’s the Ark of the Covenant and anyone who uses it will be invincible and derive great power of a biblical scale, yet there is no data to support that..

  64. 64.

    Tree With Water

    @Gin & Tonic: It’s like the Gary Larson cartoon, in which the husband bear is standing on his porch at 3AM with tranquilizer darts hanging all over him, with his wife in her bear nightgown standing in the open doorway saying, “This better be good”.

  67. 67.

    Calouste

    @David Koch: You just know that one of the Klowns is going to run on a Constitutional Amendment to ban same-sex marriage, specially after the Supremes hand down a pro same-sex marriage decision, and that the other Klowns will follow immediately. And the Democrats should hammer them on that, and make them say that they will disband existing same-sex marriages, considering 60% of the US population, and increasing rapidly, supports same-sex marriage. By November 2016, the bigots will probably be down to 27%.

  69. 69.

    Cervantes

    @gene108:

    On a different note, 12 years ago today I tried killing myself. I’m usually not quite right today, like my body/brain recalls how crappy that day was, but for some reason I just don’t feel as off as I normally do. It just seems like another day.

    It’s not just another day, though. It’s another 4,383 days so far — and I wish you many, many more, as happy and fulfilling as humanly possible.

    I enjoy your insights and appreciate your presence. Thank you for … being here.

  71. 71.

    Cliff in NH

    @raven:

    I see from the timestamp on my DVR that you were watching hardball, I agree with your assessment totally.

  72. 72.

    scuffletuffle

    @22over7: Bring out the carrier now, open it and set it someplace out of the way. Ignore it. Pay loving attention to her until just before vet time. Start a treat/petting session, scoop her up, put her in carrier and off you go.

  73. 73.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I’m not trying to be coy, but I can’t say anything yet (don’t know much, and it’s not very public anyhow), but I am just reeling because just learned the teenaged son of an acquaintance/friend has been killed in a drug-related shootout. So awful. I am heartsick for the family. (I don’t know the family well, but they are close friends with people who are close friends of mine.)

  74. 74.

    burnspbesq

    @BGinCHI:

    What’s the over/under until Mike Pence announces his run for President in 2016 and goes immediately into the lead amongst Republicans?

    He’s going to announce the same day that the Rolling Stones cancel their scheduled July 4 show at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in order to achieve Maximum Martyrdom.

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