Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

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

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

“woke” is the new caravan.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

“They all knew.”

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

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

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    JCT

    That pic is for the ages.

    And holy crap, that rabbit would give a clown a run for its money on the scary scale.

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    gogol's wife

    Yes, that rabbit is dangerously close to being a clown. I’ve always been terrified of them.

    Happy Easter — we just had a great party, but I will regret it during my morning class. Oh well.

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    Tree With Water

    I sincerely mean no offense today of all days, but that little kid is surely asking whomever it was that abandoned him to The Monster, “Why has thou forsaken me?”.

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    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    I’d be crying too if that rabbit touched me, much less held me. In the even of such an occurrence, of course, I’d deck the rabbit.

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    mainmata

    @NotMax: it is instructive that the Madison ordinance has a long list of protected people because the right wing, hate-filled mind must always find the “other” to persecute. What an exhausting useless life they live.

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    varmintito

    I have a picture of my daughter at about the same age on Santa’s lap, screaming so hard you can see her uvula, just like in the cartoons. Santa doesn’t look too plussed either.

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    Violet

    The carrot on the right side of the picture really makes it for me. Looks like it’s handy for the rabbit to whack kids over the head. No wonder the kid is crying.

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    Anne Laurie

    @varmintito: Somewhere I have a photo, hand to goddess, of my first dog & my friend’s Irish Setter ‘meeting Santa’. (It was for a dog-related charity, and we were foreign guests — at a Canadian obedience trial.) Fifteen-pound Galley, sitting in Santa’s lap, wears the ‘Do I cry, scream, or wet myself first?’ look, while Roo cuddles next to Santa, one paw on his hand, giving him her most winsome expression. You could imagine her reading off a summary, complete with Toys’R’Us catalog numbers, of her very long wish list…

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    grishaxxx

    Why adults (who design them, after all) find these figures charming, when kids find them appalling and frightening is beyond me. Big, exaggerated effigies, clowns of whatever design, just freaked me out when I was very young – I wanted to run screaming. Did, in fact.
    Killer rabbit, indeed!

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    jl

    @grishaxxx: Why do you wage war on Easter, our Christian nation, and the baby Easter Jesus?

    However, people like you do keep Fox News producers busy.

    You want to know where your doubting leads? I’ll tell you. I couldn’t find any malted milk candy Easter eggs this year. I promised to bring them to an Easter party. Had to settle for Whoppers. Put in a bowl and called them Easter Bunny Dumps. The Endtimes are nigh.

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    AdamK

    “That’s my brother’s god daughter and his sister.” Your brother’s sister? Looks like a little girl and a little boy to me, not two little girls. But it might be. But then it refers to the “…smug ass look on her face as he screams…” I don’t know why I bother.

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    Bart

    Sorry, but “my brother’s god daughter and his sister” just doesn’t make sense to me. Do you mean “my brother’s godson and his sister”? (Yes, it’s “godson”, one word, just like “godfather” or “godchild” etc.)

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    Snarkworth

    I don’t get the appeal of the screaming kid on bunny’s/Santa’s lap. Imagine being that kid, and your parents think it’s hilarious and take pictures, instead of rescuing you.

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    Patricia Kayden

    I’m dying with laughter at that photo and John’s write- up. That is one scary looking rabbit, which is unusual because real rabbits are cute.

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    varmintito

    @Anne Laurie:

    That’s the stuff. My daughter was solo so it didn’t have the complete effect of the picture at the top of this post — the angelic sibling, whose expression confirms that she know that this could not be working out any better if she had scripted it.

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