Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Everybody saw this coming.

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So this happened today. I can’t tell you how annoying this woman is in her defense of the worst of Republican politicians. I thought this was hysterical. Trump has driven her to exotic pets. And that Kyle Clark did it all with a straight face was even better.
Kyle Clark:
Trump’s takeover of the GOP has caused our Republican political analyst to seek comfort from an emotional support animal. A wallaby. We talked about feelings today. 

 I had some good news today, I’m under contract. Still so many things could still go wrong, but fingers crossed. Consider this an open thread.

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  1. 1.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    That is so wrong to treat a wallaby like that…

    I’m so sick of people who think animals are just there to be used like toys or props or fashion accessories…

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    Usually the first rule of accepting a contract is not discussing it on the Internet. Now they can track back whatever wet work you’ve agreed to do right back to you.

  4. 4.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Anne Laurie: Knew that reminded me of a song…

    A new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose…

    from Do It Again by the Kinks.

  7. 7.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    Watching the condo building’s sprinkler system water the landscaping during a torrential downpour and can’t help but miss about these end times we live in. The Trumpocalypse is already here folks, and it is more than televised.

  8. 8.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: Perhaps, but announcing it in a post, even a post with a wallaby, doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

    ETA: If a celebrity chef goes missing or there’s a string of spatula related executions, everyone is going to know who did it…//

  13. 13.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @The Republic, Blah Blah Blah…: Agreed. There are a couple of people (I think both are in Nevada) who have Caybaras and do the whole instagram/youtube thing with them. Cute and all, but they are not meant to be house pets, no matter how much they look like hamsters on steroids.

    I love birds and have had budgies, but I won’t anymore. Once you see a Macaw in flight in the wild…how can you cage one?

  18. 18.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    @TaMara (HFG): In total agreement…

    I’m a serious bird person and would love to have some around but can’t bear the thought of keeping one in a cage…

    If I ever get into the right physical space and have the time, I could seriously see my way into the rescue parrot movement… I just need the space to keep them well…

  19. 19.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    @seaboogie: Good lord… is that roo on steroids?

    I have memories of idiots keeping kangaroos, like dancing bears, and putting them in the ring for boxing matches…

    I would LOVE to see some half-wit get into the ring w/ THAT kangaroo…

  26. 26.

    danielx

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Maybe it’s one of those hiding-in-plain-sight deals….

    Speaking of the end times, Here’s a quote from the local alternative paper regarding night-before-the race festivities at this weekend’s Indianapolis 500, among 500 other factoids…item 457:

    What happens in the Coke lot stays in the Coke lot.

    With the exceptions, of course, of criminal records and STDs. Seriously, the night before the race around Speedway’s Coca-Cola bottling plant makes Rome under Caligula look like a Mormon wedding reception. This is where civilization goes to die. You’ve been warned.

    All too true, gentle readers, and then some. Sorta like white trash Woodstock with cops (big mean-looking sonsofbitches) going around in groups of not less than six.

  28. 28.

    seaboogie

    @The Republic, Blah Blah Blah…: Read down on the story about Roger, The Buff Kangaroo. Was orphaned as a joey (pic there too, same sensitive eyes – he understands suffering…).

    Apparently he is not yet fully grown, and the larger males stand a better chance with the ladies. And I’m sort of “well yeah, no kidding…!”, but I’d prolly choose a more bookish roo with slender arms and glasses on those sweet big brown eyes….still I did learn the term “swole” from this article, and love it.

  31. 31.

    Adam L Silverman

    @danielx: I have heard stories. My Dad raced cars throughout undergrad and grad schools. Mostly bandits and midgets. Up and down the front range with the Unsers and AJ Foyt and a few others before they broke into the higher levels. So we used to go to races all the time. I wasn’t able, for some reason, to go with him the year he went to the Indy 500 – I may have had a sport thing that weekend, but that was the year the race got rained out and they had to run it a few days later. So we’ve got all this Indy 500 stuff with the wrong dates on it because of the rain out.

  34. 34.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    @seaboogie: I did read down a bit and saw that picture of the young’un…

    Running an orphanage for kangaroo babies sound like a worthwhile use of one’s life, i have to say…

  35. 35.

    danielx

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Yeah, they couldn’t get enough laps in to officially declare a winner. They finally got a break in the rain around Wednesday or something and announced they were restarting it, so naturally half the city dropped whatever they were doing (hair stylists leaving customers sitting in chairs etc) to go to the track on five minutes notice.

  37. 37.

    Adam L Silverman

    @danielx: Yep, my Dad and my little brother and the other folks they went with just extended their stay till the race could be run. My Dad went to see the Indy 500 and by someone’s Deity he was going to see the Indy 500!

    I was off at some sporting event or youth group thing, so my Mom was home by herself for like a week. I think she was the happiest one of us as a result!

  38. 38.

    Mike J

    @danielx: To be honest, even without either race that happens this weekend, I think I’d enjoy Monaco more than Indianapolis. I’m sure it’s lovely but it ain’t the Côte d’Azur.

  40. 40.

    danielx

    @Mike J:

    It has its high points, but I have to admit that ‘lovely’ is not an adjective that leaps to mind in connection with Indianapolis.

  41. 41.

    Adam L Silverman

    @divF: You’d be amazed. A sub group of anthropologists think I’m some sort of mercenary killer and a subset of uniformed personnel never believed me when I told them what my higher HQ was and why I was sent under operational or temporary control to assist them. They thought I was some kind of spy sent to observe them and then snitch on them.

    When my team went through our training rotation with our brigade at the Joint Mission Readiness Center, the head of the training cadre just couldn’t get it through his head that we were there as a small team of augmentees. He was convinced we were some sort of oversight group. It got really annoying because he kept yanking me out of the training scenario to be part of adjudicating disputes with the retired Marine wha was sent by the State Department to oversee the Provincial Reconstruction Team that was embedded for training. That guy was an asshole. He decided he wanted to both do the job he was sent and run that PRT because he didn’t think the PRT lead new what he was doing. So he decided to do both and kept blowing up the scenario. Not because he’d do his job, but because he kept coming up with reasons that the BCT commander couldn’t make a decision because the State Department was in charge of whatever the decision was about. It was a real pain in the patoot and the only real negative about that training rotation.

  44. 44.

    PurpleGirl

    @TaMara (HFG): My friends in Peekskill had two parrots among their menagerie. One was a blue and gold McCaw. Even inside he often spread his wings wide and began flapping them. Whoa, was that a breeze/wind.

  45. 45.

    seaboogie

    @PurpleGirl:

    One was a blue and gold McCaw.

    That would be one of those rare Scottish parrots, yes? Livelier than the Norwegian Blue, one hopes….

  46. 46.

    Cacti

    Our blog host’s very own Sen. Joe Manchin (Blue Dog-WV) unloaded on Bernie for his furious humping of Donald Trump’s leg:

    “Bullshit,” said Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. “That confirms what we’ve been saying. Why would you expect Bernie should be considerate or be nice or be working to bring everyone together? Why? He’s not a Democrat.”

    I didn’t know he had it in him.

  50. 50.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    I can’t sleep.
    Are there any trolls you need managed?
    I could use the exercise.

  52. 52.

    quakerinabasement

    This is the day when I realize I no longer understand today’s world. It makes no fucking sense anymore.

  53. 53.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @amk: That article doesn’t put Trump anywhere near the center of a tax scandal of any size. He was just a peripheral player, and it doesn’t look like he benefited from whatever fraud may have taken place. He wasn’t an investor with Bayrock or FL Group, and he didn’t have any role at either. He was a partner with Bayrock on several properties that were covered, but he had his own interests. That his approval was needed for the deal isn’t an indication that he was central to it; it just means that a part of the agreements on the properties said that he needed to sign off on any major changes in the structure of the other party (Bayrock).

    Reading the article, my guess is that it’s less clear that this transaction was illegal than the piece makes it sound. Those sorts of deals become ridiculously complex, and what constitutes “equity” and what constitutes a creditor having a claim on income streams until a loan is paid off get very murky. You can probably find a bunch of tax accountants and lawyers who would look at it and declare that it’s fishy, but ultimately legal. It’s interesting enough that I might send it to one of my old profs and see what he thinks.

    Regardless, in terms of the election, this is a complete nothingburger. It’s so complicated that 99% of voters will stop paying attention long before you get to the conclusion, and Trump can rightly say that it wasn’t up to him to determine whether those complex structures were legal.

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    As Anne Laurie is about to have major mouth excavation done, perhaps the Friday recipes can focus on foods drinkable through a straw.

  57. 57.

    ruemara

    @NotMax: Oddly enough, Lee Mars was my storyboarding and scriptwriting teacher. She introduced me to Trina Robbins, who is another undervalued female artist and very nice.

  58. 58.

    seaboogie

    @AnotherBruce: It’s been 15 years since I lived in Canadia (and much of that in to T.O. area), but I don’t remember Canadians hating Torontonians so much as they *resented* all of the power and media localized there. Back in my day, the Globe and Mail – whose motto was “Canada’s National Newspaper”, was referred to as “Toronto’s National Newspaper.”

    In Canada, it’s not hate – it’s resentment – which, in my experience is a peculiarly Canadian quality. Kind of like a long-running, super low-grade fever.

    If you are talking to a Canadian, especially the Ontarians outside of Toronto, there is sort of *clipped* manner of speaking that helps you to envision the chip that they carry on their shoulders.

  60. 60.

    Anne Laurie

    @Miss Bianca: I don’t know whether to bless or curse you. Your link inspired me to check & see if DC had ever gotten around to anthologizing my beloved funny-book contemporaries Sugar (Plumm) and Spike (Cecil Wilson)…

    … only to discover they’ve been rebooted, as young private detectives.

    And here I’d assumed I’d never buy another comic book, because I just don’t have the free time any more.

    (Even if this *does* put paid to my long-standing fantasy that Mike Doonesbury’s IT-genius friend Bernie was Sheldon Meyer’s Bernie grown up… and that would make Bernie’s girlfriend DiDi, well… )

  62. 62.

    A Ghost To Most

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Congratulations on prevailing on the house front!

    Kyle Clark is great; he is such a loose cannon sometimes, the rest of the folks there are often left with dumbstruck faces (especially Kim C.)

  63. 63.

    Miss Bianca

    @NotMax: Oh, Tank Girl, yes! I wasn’t a regular reader but the ones I saw I enjoyed immensely.

    @Anne Laurie: I never heard of Sugar and Spike! They look like more fun than the dreary little drips who accompanied the Superfriends.

  64. 64.

    Miss Bianca

    @ruemara: You know Trina Robbins? I used to see her stuff in Gay Comix. Great artist and underappreciated, I think.

  66. 66.

    Miss Bianca

    OK, I was finally able to watch the wallaby thing, and I have to admit I found it hysterically funny.

  69. 69.

    J R in WV

    @seaboogie:

    Blue and Gold are the colors of West Virginia University. The alma mater of John Cole and every other member of my family (but one cousin) – while I (and my cousin) attended Marshall University, aka the U of Southern WV, green and white.

    So like many other WV couples we would have to carry MU and WVU insignia on all the cars, if we did that kind of thing.

    Nothing wrong with the Warriors, either, though, but we’re not from there.

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