Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The lights are all blinking red.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

In my day, never was longer.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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  4. 4.

    Buck

    Toting up all the people who swore off football last year crawling back this year. It’s difficult to change lifetime habits.

  8. 8.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Meteor time. Sayonara, Belicheat & Marcia. Adios, Omar & Pig Ben…

    On a less improbable note, is it too much to ask that whatever the final score, Puss-In-Cleats lands in Masshole General’s ICU breathing through a tube inserted into his left ear?

  9. 9.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    When was Dick LeBeau canned? I did not know that until today. Praise realstreamunited.com via SkySports.

  11. 11.

    Wally Ballou

    Nah, you’re just another junkie.

    Now go ahead and roll your sleeve up while Roger pulls the shade down.

  12. 12.

    Joel

    Unprincipled because of:

    Roethlisberger’s rape accusations?
    The “fixer’ that the Steelers employed until their cover was blown last year?
    The huge toll that football exerts on the lives of its players?

    I’m drawing a blank here, someone help me.

    p.s. I’m a hypocrite too.

  14. 14.

    dr. bloor

    @Betty Cracker:

    Is the dog murderer getting any snaps?

    Nope. Look for the sex offender to go wire-to-wire.

    But the guy who didn’t have jack shit to do with the footballs. He’s the bad guy. Try to keep up.

  16. 16.

    dr. bloor

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    On a less improbable note, is it too much to ask that whatever the final score, Puss-In-Cleats lands in Masshole General’s ICU breathing through a tube inserted into his left ear?

    Well done. Because becoming what you purport to despise is always the moral, classy thing to do.

  17. 17.

    Myiq2xu

    Good times:

    Hillary Clinton, multi-millionaire, friend of Wal-Mart, Ivy League educated lawyer, serial liar, and dare I say- elitist?

    You Hillary supporters want friendly fire? You want to distort and lie about Obama? You want to become BFF with the McCain campaign, and the right-wing bloggers? I got your friendly fire, and I don’t need to lie. I just need to tell the truth about Hillary.

    There is a reason she feels the need to lie about Obama- she thinks you can’t handle the truth. And you know why? Because she can’t. Bring it on, Hillbots.

  19. 19.

    Cacti

    @dr. bloor:

    Nope. Look for the sex offender to go wire-to-wire.

    But the guy who didn’t have jack shit to do with the footballs. He’s the bad guy. Try to keep up.

    It’s just wrong the way unprincipled equipment managers would try to besmirch the good names of Brady, Belichick, and Kraft.

  22. 22.

    FlyingToaster

    @Uncle Cosmo: Okay, I give up.

    Which whiny player is “Puss in Cleats”?

    And BTW, most Massholes end up at St. Elizabeth’s or Carney or Boston Medical Center. MassGeneral and Brigham&Women’s are too damn expensive for the Masshole’s insurance.

    At least Youville is no longer operational.

  24. 24.

    Myiq2xu

    Screw Hillary

    Just saw her on Hardball calling Obama an elitist by latching on to some out of context quote from a fund-raising meeting.

    Screw Hillary. Screw her rabid and increasingly delusional supporters. Screw the people who will claim it is all good in politics. Screw the pro-Hillary bloggers who will claim I just have CDS for stating this. Fuck all of ’em, and go join the GOP if you want to campaign like Karl Rove and think it is all good. If Hillary, her campign, and her supporters want to act like the wingnut bloggers, I will react like I do when dealing with them. Go fuck yourself.

    How about them apples?

    To quote Bob Dylan, “The times, they are a-changin'”.

  25. 25.

    Morzer

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    When you root for that sort of injury, you are taking sport much too seriously. At the end of the day, football is a number of surprisingly agile obese men wrestling for possession of a fake pigskin while wearing ancient tribal totems dreamed up by ad men and clothing manufacturers with limited imaginations.

    Obviously, the Dolphins are the shining exception to this world of crass commercialism, but that’s where the good news ends.

  29. 29.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Damn we are not near the 2nd and already the Cheatriots are messing with the Stiller headsets.;-)

  30. 30.

    PurpleGirl

    Did everyone forget the post Cole put up about Michael VicK?

    He’s the damn bastard Cole has been complaining about.

    Yikes…

  31. 31.

    mark k

    Let me know how LB Anthony Chickillo does. His dad is one of my best friends. Great young man who is on cloud nine after making the final 53.

  32. 32.

    Morzer

    @Mr Stagger Lee:

    It’s probably a couple of rogue equipment men who have never met or spoken with Brady or Belichick and were absolutely amazed to wake up and find themselves in the basement at Foxborough messing with the audio system.

  34. 34.

    Seanly

    D’oh, hotel DirecTV on the fritz so I am having to watch on my laptop. Good news though is that at her Year One post-transplant, my wife is doing well – we’re in Nashville for the followups. Everything is looking good. She got her 8th bone marrow biopsy today, but indications are that everything is going well.

  38. 38.

    geg6

    @Morzer:

    Yup. Never bought into the whole Masshole thing until they went completely off the grid this year over the cheaters. Denial is apparently another name for the Charles.

  39. 39.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    I am watching the Steelers.

    I saw that one coming a while ago.

    @Seanly: That is good news, and I hope things continue to go well for both of you.

  48. 48.

    geg6

    @Morzer:

    I’m not taking it as a joke. Fucker is insinuating that either I molested kids or that I have condoned such behavior. IRL, that would literally get him punched in the neck.

  49. 49.

    Morzer

    I am not an obsessive analyst of the NFL, but I do think the Steelers should consider finding a secondary this season. One that could tackle might be a good idea.

  50. 50.

    JPL

    I just put the TV on and guess what, Brady throws a touch down. I needed that.

    I’ve been at City Hall for a meeting about possible rezoning. My area is zoned for one house on 30,000 ft. A developer wants to rezone 21 acres near me to allow 113 dwellings.
    The best comment of the night was from a person who just moved from Chicago, who said he felt like he was back in IL.

  51. 51.

    Morzer

    @geg6:

    I think joel is talking about the Penn State scandal and suggesting that the Patriots are not the last word in football evil. I don’t think it has any reference to you personally.

  54. 54.

    Eric S.

    I know tastes vary and I know I’m an outlier, an extreme outlier at that, but Dog I loathe football and I dread this time of year. It wouldn’t bother me all that much if every single fucking aspect of the sport wasn’t force fed all fucking goddamn year fucking long. If it was possible to ignore I wouldn’t care.

    Rant over.

    I’ll go check the St. Louis Cardinal’s score now and leave you all to your pleasure. Sorry to interrupt.

  56. 56.

    Morzer

    @Mike E:

    Any fucker scars the floor, he’s going home in a body bag as an assortment of organs. I will not tolerate such infringements of the bipartisan decorum!

  59. 59.

    different-church-lady

    @Morzer:

    When you root for that sort of injury, you are taking sport much too seriously. At the end of the day, football is a number of surprisingly agile obese men wrestling for possession of a fake pigskin while wearing ancient tribal totems dreamed up by ad men and clothing manufacturers with limited imaginations.

    The rest of you folks can continue playing out the string, but the competitive part of this thread is clearly over.

  60. 60.

    RareSanity

    Aw come one Cole, it’s not that bad…

    Look, I’m an Atlanta Falcons fan…I was doubly pissed off about Vick’s crimes. One because of what he was doing to those dogs, and second for what he did to the team.

    I have been casually following him since he re-entered the NFL (at first honestly hoping he would fail miserably), and he is not the same person he was when he was in Atlanta. He’s much more mature and thoughtful…he still doesn’t like studying playbooks, but that’s beside the point.

    Show a little mercy. He paid dearly for his actions, both in millions of dollars, and years of his life spent in jail. I’m not saying to go out and buy a #7 jersey, just consider that the entire situation may have changed him for the better.

    We’d want at least something positive to come out of it, right?

  67. 67.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Go sit in the corner, John. No, not the one from which you can still watch the game, dammit!

  68. 68.

    Morzer

    Have to say, the game is looking rather dull and predictable. The Steelers aren’t good enough to stop Brady dinking and dunking and Roethlisberger seems unable to get in synch with his receivers.

  69. 69.

    RareSanity

    @raven:

    That is high praise coming from you!

    I was able to go to the UGA/UL-M game last weekend. Me and my son had a ball…great seats!

  70. 70.

    Joel

    @RareSanity:

    I’m not saying to go out and buy a #7 jersey, just consider that the entire situation may have changed him for the better.

    Ironically, Roethlisberger’s number. I wouldn’t recommend buying that one, either.

    You want a good guy on the Steelers? William Gay. Might be one of the best guys in the league.

  72. 72.

    different-church-lady

    And that’s a good reminder of something gone under-appreciated about the end of the last Super Bowl: if it were the Patriots with second and goal from the 1, it would have been a quarterback sneak to win the game.

  75. 75.

    raven

    @RareSanity: Aw, I was sick as a dog but I dragged my sorry ass to the upper deck for the first half. I wish I had known ya’ll were there, I even had an extra ducket. We’re mulling our semi-annual trip to the flats when the Hokies roll in. It’s my 66th and it’s about as good a way to celebrate as any. Ion the off years the Cirque is over there so we go for that too.

  76. 76.

    RareSanity

    @Joel:

    Completely forgot about that…kinda creepy that both wear/wore #7, and their “situations” had ties to Georgia.

  79. 79.

    RareSanity

    @raven:

    I’m going to try and take my son to a GT game this year too. He’s 8 and is absolutely obsessed with football. We were lower level, row 14, about the south 20 yard line.

    He talked about Nick Chubb for two days after the game.

    Maybe I’ll try to target the VT game as well.

  80. 80.

    Davebo

    Stillers secondary couldn’t cover a fire hydrant. And since I loath the Pats it’s time for Netflix.

  82. 82.

    Joel

    Heath Miller is an incredible player. He gets lost in light of the Gronks, Gates’, and Gonzalezes of the world, but he’s been a very, very good player. Probably not a Hall of Famer, though.

  83. 83.

    Morzer

    It’s going to be funny seeing the media go on after the game about how the Patriots were inspired to victory by their desire for revenge, when in fact all they’ve done is be competent against a very mediocre Steelers team.

  84. 84.

    RK

    But the guy who didn’t have jack shit to do with the footballs. He’s the bad guy.

    Are you saying that equipment staff changed the pressure of balls without the premier QB in the league, one of the greats, knowing about it? If so, I have a bridge you’d love to buy. Reporter: Did you cheat Tom, break the rules? Brady: “I don’t believe so.” You don’t believe so? Really? So you’re not sure you did or didn’t? Reporter: Hey,Tom. Did you cheat on your wife? Brady: I don’t believe so.

  85. 85.

    different-church-lady

    @Morzer:

    It’s going to be funny seeing the media go on after the game about how the Patriots were inspired to victory by their desire for revenge, when in fact all they’ve done is be competent against a very mediocre Steelers team a headphone snafu.

  87. 87.

    RareSanity

    @raven:

    Holy crap…you were almost exactly right above us!

    I had to look up and over my left shoulder to see the bugler. Had a neighbor that couldn’t make it to the game so he gave us his tickets…parking pass for the green lot, the whole shebang. It was awesome playing “rich” UGA alum for a day. haha

  89. 89.

    Joel

    Honestly, if you’re the Steelers, how long on 4th down do you have to go before you consider a field goal attempt? I might go with 4th and 20, personally.

  90. 90.

    Morzer

    @different-church-lady:

    If ever a team made it easy for Cole to stand on moral principle and stop rooting for them, this Steelers team should be the one. They are just so turgidly mediocre.

    As for their decision to take Vick as a backup – it’s mindboggling stupid just in football terms. The guy has looked beyond washed-up in recent years. Why you decide to being him in and take the publicity hit as well is a mystery to me.

  91. 91.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @Morzer: Brady is 15 of 17 for 172 yards at the half. That’s merely “competent”? Let me know when you see your second football game.

  95. 95.

    RareSanity

    @Morzer:

    Honestly, he was still the most capable “emergency” QB that was available.

    Consider that the Falcons actually brought in Rex freaking Grossman for a tryout shows you where the QB free agent market is.

    He was there for three days before getting cut…

  99. 99.

    Cacti

    @dr. bloor:

    You haven’t read the report, have you?

    I mean, it’s not like Bob Kraft has ever had to stand up at the owners meeting and making a tearful apology to the other 31 for his team being cheating SoB’s.

    Wait, yes he has.

  100. 100.

    different-church-lady

    @RareSanity:

    Honestly, he was still the most capable “emergency” QB that was available.

    Did Tebow sign with someone while I wasn’t paying attention?

    Oh, wait… you said capable.

  101. 101.

    Morzer

    @RareSanity:

    I dunno, man. Vick couldn’t even keep the Jets’ backup QB spot – and I don’t know if there was ever a lower bar in football.

    (Except possibly better franchise owner than Dan Snyder).

  102. 102.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @Morzer: Ten yards per pass attempt isn’t dinking and dunking, my pussy little friend. Are you some sort of inbred, unwashed Jests fan?

  105. 105.

    Betty Cracker

    @RareSanity: Only a soulless sociopath would spend years and invest his copious excess income torturing and killing dogs. Fuck Vick, fuck his phony profit-driven redemption tour and fuck any team that hires the sorry bastard.

  106. 106.

    different-church-lady

    @Morzer:

    Obviously Thurston ate the kicker’s good shoe while Cole wasn’t looking.

    Better put Ted Wells on retainer, Brady must be generally aware of it.

  108. 108.

    Svensker

    Why hasn’t God struck Brady dead with mighty lightning? Why? I hate those f7ggers with the heat of a thousand bolts. Die, cheaters, die.

  111. 111.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @MoeLarryAndJesus: Should have been pussy, not pussy. Sheesh.

    Tony Romo led the league in yards per attempt with 8.5 last year. Anyone who thinks 10 yards per attempt is “dinking and dunking” stopped watching when Daryl Lamonica retired.

  112. 112.

    Morzer

    @Svensker:

    Why hasn’t God struck Brady dead with mighty lightning?

    I have a Mr Nietszche on line one. He wants to know whether you’d like the pine casket for God’s funeral.

  115. 115.

    Svensker

    It would have been great to have a big ol’ lightning bolt hit that bogus trophy. A girl can wait. And hope.

  117. 117.

    geg6

    @Morzer:

    I work for Penn State. And, at the time, had no patience for what happened and stated so here and pretty much everywhere, including at work. Didn’t support what happened, don’t support it now and don’t make excuses for anyone involved. Would have been happy to see the NCAA sanctions upheld. The only thing I ever said that could be construed as “support” was that faculty, staff and students did not deserve to be painted with the same brush as the administration, especially those of us who are at campuses other than what others call the main campus but we call University Park.

  129. 129.

    J R in WV

    I would be watching the game, but the antenna we depend on for NBC reception is askew, and so my signal is not sufficient to receive images/sounds from the game.

    I don’t like Ben, I don’t like Tom Brady, either. I don’t like either coach, either…

    But the game has some kind of athletic beauty.

    I’m doing physical therapy for my shoulder, now partly titanium alloy. I think their shop will become crowded as football players begin showing up to rehab from the strains, sprains, etc. There’s a small person who may have hurt his throwing arm already. He’s getting shoulder rehab, but all different from what I need.

    Couple more months to go for me. I can do light household stuff, laundry, cooking, grocery shopping. But I can’t change out implements on the tractor, or mount the backhoe on it. Or even change the oil… but soon.

  131. 131.

    J R in WV

    @Seanly:

    Good news!! So glad for you.

    My Dad got into a clinical trial, and the magic medicine 67987 worked for him! So medical magic sometimes comes true!

    congratulations!

  132. 132.

    J R in WV

    @geg6:

    Sorry you innocent staff folks had to even be around that noise. Joe was obviously way way past being in charge of anything, and his assistants weren’t watching out for anything that wasn’t directly team/football related.

    I don’t blame you for being a little hair trigger, either. I don’t think anyone would really make a remark that was intended to attach any blame on you or your co-workers, and any remarks you might hear are because everyone else doesn’t even know of your tenuous connection.

    Hang in there. PSU is still an institution of higher learning, and that is what is more important. All this football stuff is really just tribal play-acting. I’m nearly getting over it.

  135. 135.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    Brady is now 8-2 against the Steelers with 24 TDs and 3 interceptions. This is the sort of record that is referred to as “uninspiring” by vegan aesthetes who think hiking is a sport.

    Genuine football fans look at it and see a spectacular record against a premium franchise.

  139. 139.

    PaulW

    @Mr Stagger Lee:

    Damn we are not near the 2nd and already the Cheatriots are messing with the Stiller headsets.;-)

    I know. It’s as though the Patriots think people ignored the ESPN report about the amount of “questionable” BS they’ve pulled since 2000.

    To all other teams that have to play in Gilette Stadium this year: just don’t f-cking go, do not put your team on the field until the NFL installs at Kraft’s expense a working headset system that can’t be tampered with.

  140. 140.

    PaulW

    @MoeLarryAndJesus:

    Genuine football fans look at it and see a spectacular record against a premium franchise.

    Unless those genuine football fans read the ESPN reports about the excessive stunts the Patriots have attempted since 2000 – including the FAULTY HEADSET shtick – and see a horrific record of cheating.

  144. 144.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @PaulW: You have to be either drastically brain damaged or totally uninformed to think the headset whine amounts to anything.

    Even the dopes currently running the Steelers have decided not to file a complaint, because pursuing it would make them look like vindictive, ignorant, gutless pukes.

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