Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Come on, man.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Bark louder, little dog.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

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

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

In my day, never was longer.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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From commentor ET:

This is my nut Bean. Back in 2013 I adopted him from a rescue group in D. C. but he was born in West Virginia. He has been a total (wonderful) nut with an obsession for the cat TVs (aka windows). Not much of a talker my Snowshoe Siamese, but he is a champion cuddler.

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I always have a soft spot for meezers, since I probably wouldn’t be here without one (my dad convinced my mom to marry him by offering her a purebred Siamese — still rare in the mid-1950s — instead of an engagement ring).

What’s on the agenda as we (well, many of us) start another work week?

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  1. 1.

    RedDirtGirl

    Good morning, all. Let me just be the first to say, that is one fine looking feline!

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    2:19 AM:

    “Do you have your wand, Tom?”
    “What?”
    “DO you have your wand?”
    “Yes Honey, I have my wand.”
    “”Good, because you just never know.”
    “Well, with He Who Must Not Be Named on the loose…”
    snoring
    Me, wide awake.

    I’d like to say a nap was on the agenda, but it’s not.

  3. 3.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Sanders also said his campaign would talk to the superdelegates in states where he had won “landslide victories” and tell them to, “Do what the people in your state want. They voted for Bernie Sanders, you as the superdelegates should follow their wishes.”

    The Vermont senator went on to say that he would also talk with the superdelegates who sided with Clinton before the primary votes were cast.

    ***

    [Chuck] Todd told Sanders he was contradicting himself.

    “You’re saying you want them to respect the vote in their state, then at the same time, you say, ‘But oh, by the way, for those of you that are a superdelegate in a state that Clinton won, why don’t you think about the general election?’ It’s a little bit hypocritical to be on both sides of those issues,” Todd said.

    “No, no, no, that’s not what I’m saying,” Sanders responded.

    Good Times.

  4. 4.

    p.a.

    Amtraking it home from Phil to Prov to unpack, repack for a week in GrandLakeStream Me. Philly 90 deg. 90% humidity, will need a polarfleece for Maine mornings and will probanly have to fire up the wood stove 2 nights.

    $60 (approx) Amtrak local for the trip, Acela 2-3x, both bargains instead of driving the corridor, despite what Rethugs have done to Amtrak’s budget and tech needs.

  5. 5.

    Schlemazel Khan

    Is anyone else getting a large text box covering most of the first picture? A large, mostly empty text box? I have never seen anything like this happen before.

    My very first cat was a blue point & she was a tiny, delicate little thing. I was on my own for the first time & she was wonderful company. I love Siamese despite their reputation & the one in the pictures looks beautiful.

  6. 6.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Trump camp concedes it’s low on money

    Donald Trump’s campaign has alerted Senate Republicans that he won’t have much money to spend fending off attacks from Hillary Clinton over the next couple months.

    The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump’s senior advisor, met with a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff for lunch last week, sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Examiner. The admission suggests that Trump will be far more dependent on the GOP brass for money than he has led voters to believe, but it’s consistent with his reliance on the Republican National

    “They know that they’re not going to have enough money to be on TV in June and probably most of July, until they actually accept the nomination and get RNC funds.

    Con man says he’s worth 10 billion yet he doesn’t have a dime for the campaign.

    The best part, by bleeding the RNC dry they won’t have funds to save the Senate.

    He’s in ur base killin ur d00dz

  7. 7.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    Is anyone else getting a large text box covering most of the first picture? A large, mostly empty text box? I have never seen anything like this happen before.

    Yes.

    ETA: Chrome on Win10.

  21. 21.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: I believe that’s better described as nightmares. Speaking of nightmares, the Morning Joe crowd is talking about a 3rd candidate(maybe Willard) and HRC calling on Bernie to be the VP.

  26. 26.

    debbie

    No box (Chrome/Mac), but the tags are squished on the left side of the second photo.

  31. 31.

    Punchy

    A cat born in West Vag? So the litterbox has no plumbing and his tooth is in serviceable condition?

  38. 38.

    Mustang Bobby

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    What is wrong with the Morning Joe people?

    Your dollars could have prevented this senseless tragedy. Won’t you please call the number on the screen and give so that others won’t suffer needlessly?

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @The Thin Black Duke: Maybe, but I was referring to if Bernie has any ambition to influence the economic direction our country goes in, he’ll stay where he is and push for an influential committee chair in the new Democratically controlled Senate as opposed to becoming the traveling ambassador to countries Americans couldn’t give a rat’s ass about.

  40. 40.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    HRC calling on Bernie to be the VP.

    Of which country?

    I don’t think Castro would name Sanders VP. Too risky.

  44. 44.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @OzarkHillbilly: Maybe, but being a cynical bastard, I think that when Bernie finally gives up and goes back to Vermont, he’s going to look like Bilbo Baggins after the poor tortured hobbit gave up the Ring.

  45. 45.

    Face

    Are people seriously floating Sanders as the VP? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in hours. She’s going with a minority male from a swing-ish state, not an old, white, mouthy crank from VanillaTown USA. Bet the farm on that.

  46. 46.

    gene108

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    What is wrong with the Morning Joe people?

    The idle rich. What happens when millionaires get together, with nothing better to do than blurt out the first thing on their minds.

  48. 48.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    My money is on Trump naming Ivanka VP.

    He is truly that stupid, given his recklessness in taunting the Trump University judge.

  50. 50.

    sherparick

    I will need to send in pictures of Gizmo, for whom I serve as principal human companion, since Maine Coon/European short hair tabbies need equal time.

  52. 52.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @NotMax: Except I don’t think that Hillary would have damaged Obama as much as Bernie would damage Hillary.

  53. 53.

    Betty Cracker

    I’m doing a bit of bird watching on my vacation. Hoping to see a Magnificent Frigatebird (that’s the actual name — these birds must have a great publicist!), Lesser Yellowlegs (not such a good PR team), Reddish Egret and Green Heron.

  54. 54.

    Patricia Kayden

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: What need does Trump have for ads when he’s on television pontificating all the dang time? He has gotten millions of dollars worth of free publicity via the media.

    @OzarkHillbilly: Shhhh!! Don’t tell Clinton detractors that she was doing exactly what her predecessors did. Somehow what she did with her emails was eleventy-millionty times worse.

  55. 55.

    Baud

    @Face:

    She’s going with a minority male from a swing-ish state,

    Or perhaps a virtual candidate to appeal to people who use the internet.

  57. 57.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Sanders: “California is the big enchilada”

    And then he went to buy tacos (no, really)

    Danny Freeman ‏@DannyEFreeman May 29

    [email protected] waits on line to get tacos in Fresno

    Oy vey. What’s wrong with these people.

  59. 59.

    Weaselone

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    I always took the media line to be they were aghast that Hillary used her own private server. Somehow that’s worse than using an AOL account. They toss in the word exclusively to suggest she was using it to send classified materials not to differentiate her actions from her predecessors.

  60. 60.

    Baud

    @BillinGlendaleCA: A Veep needs to be able to advocate for the president’s policies. Clinton could have done that for Obama. Sanders cannot do that for Clinton.

  63. 63.

    Patricia Kayden

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Do they remember that the American people rejected Willard “The Robot” Romney in 2012? Would be nice for him to run again and lose to the first woman President though.

  64. 64.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: Uncle Joe’s also been useful for PBO to talk to Congress, I’m not sure Bernie could do that since apparently no one there really likes him.

  67. 67.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Patricia Kayden: They’ve figuring that he could get enough states to though the election to the House and then their wet dream of President Ryan.

  70. 70.

    Patricia Kayden

    @NotMax: My only question is why was a kangaroo close enough to her breasts to do them any damage. Stop teasing wild animals, folks.

  72. 72.

    Patricia Kayden

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Is that how the electoral college system works? Doesn’t sound like a sensible plan but who knows? I’m surprised that the folks at Morning Joe have lost their love for Trump since for most of his campaign, they’ve had their collective tongues up his behind.

  74. 74.

    Weaselone

    @BillinGlendaleCA:
    They need someone who would capture votes from Democrats and democratic leaning independents for that plan to work. If it’s just the Republican vote being split, the net impact would be Hillary picking up additional States like Georgia, Indiana and Missouri.

    Running Romney would be a strategy to shore up the down ticket races by making sure all the not Trumps still show up on election day.

  79. 79.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Patricia Kayden: Trump midly mocked Joe on twitter and Joe is possibly the only other person who’s a bigger prima donna than Trump.

  81. 81.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Baud: Baud. had you only run your campaign with more gusto, I wouldn’t have to be using this kind of raw language to discuss other candidates! I’m putting all the blame for my behavior on you — just like a good Republican would do.

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: That’s interesting. Such sensitive guys, our Joe and Donald.

  82. 82.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @BillinGlendaleCA: it’s pretty stunning, isn’t it. he’s spent 26 years in washington and has no friends. The polar opposite of successful legislators like Lyndon Johnson and Ted Kennedy.

  83. 83.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Baud: You ever see the time Maddow mildly rebutted his arrogance, making him so infuriated he stormed off stage on national tee vee (Video – you can hear him rip the microphone off and the panel laugh at him beginning at the 2:46 mark)

  84. 84.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @efgoldman: I think I can go to Santa Monica for $6 round trip, I promised Baud that I’d go down there and take some pics with my IR camera. The nurse told me to not get too much sun until my wound heals, about a week she said.

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    Refreshing candor from an astronaut who spent nearly a year on the space station.

    “When I got out of the Soyuz … I didn’t really look too bad,” Kelly told a packed auditorium at Nasa headquarters in Washington. “But that was only because I’m a very good actor. I think I should be nominated for an Academy Award.”
    [snip]
    In fact, as his Russian Soyuz capsule approached the orbiting outpost in March 2015, Kelly said to himself, “Man, this is probably a really dumb idea to be spending a year on the space station.” His previous station stay, five years earlier, had lasted barely five months.

    “This flight was twice as long and I felt twice as bad,” he said. Source

  92. 92.

    Benw

    That’s a cute cat!

    Tacos and enchiladas are delicious.

    Benw, dropping truth bombs!

    In the morning.

  93. 93.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    Lovely kittie!
    Screen displays fine on Explorer in Win 7.
    I’m at work. Don’t judge.

  94. 94.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @rikyrah: high dollar donors personally don’t like Trump. Hillary on the other hand has massed a tidy war chest.

  95. 95.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @efgoldman: Hey! No fair citing the actual Constitution during an internet debate. (imaginary constitutions however are acceptable)

  97. 97.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    high dollar donors personally don’t like Trump. Hillary on the other hand has massed a tidy war chest.

    I wonder how effective spending on advertising will be against Trump. By the time you decide to make an ad, he’s swerved away from what you’re attacking. If you can buy GOTV, that might be her best option.
    Trump will be relying on the MSM covering his antics for free.

  98. 98.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:

    By the time you decide to make an ad, he’s swerved away from what you’re attacking.

    I already have a couple of ads written in my head.

    “What is Trumps position on (name an issue)?”
    “Well, today is Tuesday, so… Who the fuck knows?”

  99. 99.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    @Baud:

    Say it because you know you want to: President Gohmert…

  101. 101.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @OzarkHillbilly: “What is Trumps position on (name an issue)?”
    “Well, today is Tuesday, so… Who the fuck knows?”

    I think that could make a good, mocking ad, and I’m hoping they’re rehearsing some lines like this for the debate

  105. 105.

    brad

    He is quite similar to my own snowshoe, who so many of you have been so generous to. Binkley is very vocal, tho. But then I always speak back to him.
    Thanks, everyone who helped. He may yet need another enema, but otherwise he’s very much recovered.

  108. 108.

    Tokyokie

    I grew up with a succession of meezers, so I’ve always had a soft spot for them. My lilac-point, Marvin, often makes me crazy, but hey, that’s what meezers are supposed to do. And although he talks a lot, he doesn’t have the loud voice one expects from a meezer, although Keyser, the elderly and itty-bitty Balinese (who’s like half-Siamese) fills that gap in the household. I’d really like to get a couple of seal-point males from the same litter so Marvin would have somebody to annoy him as much as he annoys everybody else, but were I to get them, the spousal unit would banish me and the cats to the back yard.

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