Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

When we show up, we win.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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

It’s a doggy dog world.

Cole, when it comes to calico cats, restraint is overrated.

Everybody saw this coming.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

“But what about the lurkers?”

ha ha ha! Nice try weird people.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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I’m not going to pick a team today because, as yesterday showed, I’m clearly a jinx.

Turned on the TV to hear the pre-game and landed on CNN, where Jake Tapper was interviewing Trump. I’m not a fan of Tapper, who is a sanctimonious sumbitch. He made a fool of himself over PBO’s alleged fall from the non-smoking bandwagon, IMO.

Well, it looks like the incident where Trump mocked the NYT reporter who has a disability is Tapper’s current hobbyhorse, and after taking Trump’s campaign flak on over it a few weeks ago, he grilled Trump about it today.(Obviously Trump’s appalling behavior is a legit target of Tapper’s ire, unlike PBO’s ciggies.)

Trump made up a laughably obvious lie, insisting that he was mimicking a person “groveling” rather than doing what he was clearly doing. Just a big, fat whopper.

Anyway, fuck that lying sack of shit. It’s football time!

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  2. 2.

    raven

    Get to watch for and hour and forty five minutes, go do the silly “Frozen Gnome” jump in the outdoor pool and run back home.

  10. 10.

    Heliopause

    I’m clearly a jinx.

    Must be why you plastered an enormous Seahawks logo up there.

    I have a feeling this is the end of the line for them. They’ve shown flashes of their old selves this season but no consistency, and nothing but a completely clean effort will work today, and they’re already in a huge hole.

  13. 13.

    debit

    The season ended for me when the Vikings shit the bed, but I will admit happiness at hearing the Packers lost. Sorry, Betty.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    @Betty Cracker:

    In this case, flack, not flak.

    Lines for today’s games: Carolina is favored by 2½ over Seattle; Denver is favored by 7 over Pittsburgh.

  16. 16.

    Corner Stone

    I think CAR has been mostly over-achieving against a pretty soft schedule and is not as good as a one loss team should probably be. However, I have no faith in the SEA offense at this point of the season. Their D is still aggressive but don’t think they can overcome a very poor showing by the SEA O.

  17. 17.

    raven

    How do you have to wait until after the game has started to figure out you have the wrong cleats? You don’t cut in warm-ups?

  18. 18.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Oh Shit! Call the FD, Seahawk fans’ hair is just ready to go in flames! Darrell Bevel get your goat horns!

  20. 20.

    Betty Cracker

    @Heliopause: Just so no one will think a) you’re hallucinating, or b) I’m a frontrunner fan, I’ll note that I DID have a logo image in the post, but thanks to the vagaries of TurdPress, it wasn’t displaying correctly, so I deleted it. You’re probably right about the Seachickens — it’s not looking good for them so far. But I hope they come back and beat the Panthers.

  22. 22.

    Betty Cracker

    Well, at least the kids in the end zone section are collecting some footballs. Le sigh…

  23. 23.

    Anoniminous

    Finished with chores and thought I’d take a look at the score before seeing if the game is being streamed.

    Quarter the Second: 21 – 0

    Guess I won’t bother.

  25. 25.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: I never used to have a problem with images, but lately, it’s a hassle. Sometimes it swaps out the one I designated for some random file in the media library. Sometimes it uploads things sideways.

    ETA: Oh, Christ on a beanbag, picked off again!

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    It was hilarious foreshadowing how Aikman had *just* finished saying how normally this early you can’t say a drive is so important but this one certainly is.

  29. 29.

    Heliopause

    Getting beat physically and blowing coverages. Can’t survive both.

    I’ll just throw it out right now that blown coverages have been a big problem for the Seahawks this season. Not sure if it’s the new defensive coordinator doing something wrong or other teams finally noticing something to exploit or just coincidence, but simple blown coverage cost them at least two games. Today it’s already cost them but mostly they’re just flat and Carolina is bringing everything they’ve got.

  34. 34.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Thank goodness tomorrow is MLK day! A good number won’t be around on the train. Then there is UW Basketball.. er…Mariner(or is it Tacoma Rainiers diguised as Mariners) baseball..er..Seattle Storm!

  37. 37.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: Yeah, that happens to me too. I suspect it’s a glitch related to the interface between TurdPress and Twitter. It’s super annoying when you go to click something and the embedded images pick that nanosecond to appear, then you get shuttled involuntarily to Twitter. I’ll usually do a screen grab of a tweet instead of embedding it to escape that annoyance.

  40. 40.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Heliopause: If they can build an arena, and that has turned into a fiasco. But wait how can I forget the Sounders, Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maximum Culpa!

  43. 43.

    Davebo

    I had high hopes for this game. I suppose being able to buy a doobie in Seattle may ease the pain to my friends there.

    Newton is incredible!

  45. 45.

    Heliopause

    @Mr Stagger Lee:

    I don’t think there is any huge offseason change needed, I think they’re just pooped from the long season, the cross-country travel, shooting all those TV commercials, and so on. It’s very difficult to maintain that level of intensity game after game, year after year, this is Carolina’s year.

  46. 46.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Heliopause:I agree and many teams have caught up to the Seahawks, plus injuries have not helped. Take nothing away from Carolina, they have played their hearts out and not have gotten respect. The Panthers are making many a pundit eat their words.

  47. 47.

    Davebo

    @efgoldman:

    I watched that game with my late wife’s family and made the mistake of screaming “there’s no way we can lose now!” just after the half.

    Still haven’t lived that down.

  52. 52.

    raven

    “Oh, I couldn’t make the Frozen Gnome Plunge because the game was too interesting”. So much for that excuse. . .

  67. 67.

    Mike J

    Seahawks finally got the odds they wanted, got the bets down over the half, and will now start to play.

  69. 69.

    p.a.

    Is Carolina playing it safe or has Seattle shored up the O-line?

    Also too, weak division or not, you don’t go 15-1 in the NFL by accident.

  74. 74.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Coach Riveria drop the Mike McCarthy playbook or you will have a game on your hands and you may lose control.

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    Jeebus, Russ. How many more of those shots do you think you’re going to get in this game?

  90. 90.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Touchdown but goddamn it, you can’t piss away time, if you are the ‘Hawks. Attack Attack ATTACK!!!!

  91. 91.

    Mike J

    Take out the first 3 , minutes, Seahawks lead. Hawks have to learn to play at least 60 minutes.

  94. 94.

    p.a.

    Could’ve used that 2nd first down on that drive. Interested to see Panther d with game on line.

  100. 100.

    J R in WV

    You gotta give the Seahawks credit for the second half defense, if they had squeezed one more possession out in the second half they would have won that game. Amazing come back to watch, even if no one expected them to make it.

  101. 101.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: Damn! In my home town, there’s a spring that’s 72 degrees year-round. You ought to hear us crying when we jump in!

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