Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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

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

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Bark louder, little dog.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

After roe, women are no longer free.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

Come on, man.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    Win on the second cartoon. Like, big win.

    Nature is a horror show; dating, only slightly less so

  14. 14.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    Why did the male preying mantis not want to go home at closing time?
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    He knew the missus would bit his head off when he got home

  17. 17.

    Mike J

    @redshirt:

    I’ve got quite a few beaver stories if anyone is interested.

    My friends and I spent an afternoon hanging out in Balmer’s inner harbor once many years ago. You can’t imagine how disappointed we were with the Imax spectacular, Beavers. Imagine one of those, 60 feet tall!

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    Sub-head probably should have read legs instead of arms.

    Octopuses have 8 tentacles, two of which are used as arms (which 2 can vary from octopus to octopus), the other 6 serve as legs.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    There was an attempt to start a mini-chain of fast food places here called Tako Taco. Kind of a niche market for that.

  27. 27.

    srv

    If liberals and Obama are the cause of the huge rise in white suicides, the least they could do is eat them.

    Imagine what a Hillary presidency would do to the suicide rate. Black widow potus.

  33. 33.

    Mike J

    @NotMax: If you can’t sing harmony with yourself you have real problems.

    Watching Meet me in St Louis on TCM. Not once do they go to Dressel’s in U City for house made potato chips. and beer.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mike J:

    Not once do they go to Dressel’s in U City for house made potato chips. and beer.

    I assume this matters to the plot. Or is it a failure to properly set the scene? I have been in the Airport and driven through it on my way to/from Memphis and/or NOLA.

  39. 39.

    Kropadope

    @efgoldman: Oh, you must mean like the dozens and dozens of unprovoked attacks that show up in every election thread which are mostly unsourced, repeatedly disproven, or way overstated in the rare instances where the poster has an actual point.

  40. 40.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus: Have you ever seen a beaver trail? They build trails from the water into the forest. Real trails, well maintained. I’ve seen beaver harbors, deep channels dug out so as to float the logs up to the dam site. I’ve seen 100 foot long dams, 15 feet high.

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @redshirt: Prove it. And then read “The Wind in the Willows.” Christ, I really need to quit assuming that people read books when they were kids.

  47. 47.

    NotMax

    @Mike J

    Okay, how about this one then? Modern video editing is a wonderment. (That Buster Keaton was able to accomplish essentially the same thing on film in the 1920s using primitive hand-cranked cameras remains beyond astonishing.)

  50. 50.

    Mike J

    @NotMax: The first line of vocals (1:20ish) sound like Jeff Buckley. Not really after that, but there was a quality there that sounded familiar.

  51. 51.

    NotMax

    @Mike J

    Have a problem with that movie. Find Margaret O’Brien’s character too obnoxious and bratty; spoils it for me.

  52. 52.

    Cacti

    Well, it looks like operation Panderfex Maximus was a dud.

    Fly to the other side of the world, give the same stump speech you’ve been giving for the past year to people who can’t vote for you…

    And not even get a photo op with Frank the first.

    Sounds like a Tad Devine masterpiece.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @redshirt: And? 1. I know that. 2. Why does this matter to a conversation that means you have never read “The Wind in the Willows.”

  56. 56.

    Cacti

    @redshirt:

    Remember when Barack went to Berlin in 2008? So epic.

    Both of the current D campaigns are amateur hour compared to the Obama team.

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    So glad it’s not a political thread.

    Was getting to the point that had to keep checking the masthead to make sure I hadn’t accidentally wandered onto panties-in-a-wad.com.

    :)

  62. 62.

    Kropadope

    @Cacti:

    Well, it looks like operation Panderfex Maximus was a dud.

    Cuz, you know, it’s not at all possible that he went to the Vatican City out of personal interest?

    Not everything he does has to be about the campaign. He’s asking his supporters to direct some of the money intended him to Congressional candidates too. Maybe these are the first couple signs of his impending concession.

    But of course not, because everything Bernie does is inherently evil. It will be declared so prior to a full, or sometimes even partial, accounting of the facts. Why it’s evil can be determined later. It’s pretty much the same way Republicans behave toward Obama.

  65. 65.

    ruemara

    Don’t really date. I just sorta wound up in relationships. Thinkng about stepping into the dating pool but I think it just drives my demons to the surface. Been a hell of a week, no, month.

  67. 67.

    Suzanne

    God DAMN, I voted for Bernie (though I also am okay with HRC winning), and Sanders supporters have got to be the most irritation people on the face of the earth.

  69. 69.

    Kropadope

    @efgoldman: So, he’s not allowed to take a little time off from a campaign he pretty much already lost?

    Oh, of course not, because he’s always wrong, the reason why to be determined later.

  70. 70.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: It took me three hours in line, because my polling place was tiny, to boot—only had eight booths. The line was almost half a mile long.

  71. 71.

    Kropadope

    @efgoldman:

    I’m not a politician, not even a simple country doctor. If he’s still in it, and thinks so, yeah it’s bad strategery and not a good look.

    It’s just silly shit for people who are determined to mock Bernie for basically everything to do what comes naturally to them,.

  72. 72.

    Anne Laurie

    @Cacti:

    Sounds like a Tad Devine masterpiece.

    Tad’s blaming it all on Jeff Weaver, who seems eager to take all credit.

    Cynics on twitter are wondering whether this indicates a war between Sanders’ two top advisors. If so, which one jumps ship? And is the one who does so first the “winner” or the “loser”?

    I considered posting about this, again, but it’s getting very little attention in the lamestream media. Maybe they’re saving all the good stories for Sunday…

  74. 74.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Cannibalism is hugely common in nature. Preventing cannibalism is the overwhelming director of spider mating behavior evolution. I have watched red-knee tarantulas mate (as part of a repopulation program!) and it’s hysterical how slowly and cautiously he moves through the whole process, then runs like his ass is on fire the moment it’s over. Jumping spiders, including the gorgeous peacock spiders, have evolved a really cool dance ‘language’ so they can communicate species and gender and mate safely. Some male crab spiders tie down their mate so they’ll have time to get away. The golden silk orb weaver male is so tiny compared to the female that he climbs her leg and mates by stealth. Since female preying mantises just would not stop eating the males, the males evolved a behavior where if they die, it turns off a lot of restraints and they mate extra-vigorously to ensure that they’re the one who fertilizers all her eggs. It’s a fun topic.

  75. 75.

    cbear

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Some male crab spiders tie down their mate so they’ll have time to get away.

    Sadly, North Carolinians are blocked from viewing videos depicting this act by XHamster.com due to their ridiculous religious freedom laws. Take that, you bastards!

  76. 76.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Cacti: It was an invitation he couldn’t refuse. Whether it was an invitation he ever received has not yet been determined.

  79. 79.

    amk

    Those using Firefox mobile browser, install the add-on smarter scrolling 0.2.1.1. With just one flick, you can go to the top or bottom of the thread.

  80. 80.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Bernie’s not the only one NOT IN NEW YORK, HRC is here in LA for fundraisers(it sounded like on the news, one for her and one for the party). Of course, there is an upcoming primary in CA.

  82. 82.

    different-church-lady

    @Kropadope:

    Cuz, you know, it’s not at all possible that he went to the Vatican City out of personal interest?

    He’s Catholic curious?

  83. 83.

    different-church-lady

    @Kropadope:

    It’s just silly shit for people who are determined to mock Bernie for basically everything to do what comes naturally to them

    Has it occurred to you they’re not actually interested in mocking Bernie so much as getting under your paper-thin skin?

  86. 86.

    NCSteve

    Cephalopod intelligence is the best model for thinking about how very different E.T.’s might be from us available to us. Evolved on a totally separate track, though possibly as the result of something very like the feedback loop that started as we evolved greater manual dexterity.

  88. 88.

    M.C. Simon Milligan

    @sm*t cl*de: Mantid is a synonym for mantis and is an English word derived from the taxonomical family mantidae, which is a back-formed neologism from mantis. Its plural is mantids. Plural of mantis is mantises or mantes. The word is borrowed from the Greek word for a seer or prophet which would have the plural manteis.

    Just use mantises.

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