Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Not all heroes wear capes.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

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

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

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  2. 2.

    Trentrunner

    Good for Jamison Foser. I’m sick of the Douthat/Frum/Will “serious” wing of the GOP clutching their fuckin’ pearls in 2016.

    This bigoted shit has been going on for decades, and they just NOW see it? Fuck them.

  3. 3.

    Mike J

    “My computer’s not working!”
    What did you change?
    “Nothing! I didn’t change anything!”
    Are you sure?
    “I never changed anything!”
    Nothing?
    “I installed this software, but that shouldn’t break it!”

    Press 1 to sigh, 2 to pound head on desk.
    Even worse when it is family tech support.

  5. 5.

    ruemara

    Hey, San Diego & SD adjacent Juicers! Meet-up at Karl Strauss Mira Mesa this Friday approx 7pm. Shoot me emails at my nym @ gmail.com.

    Also, John Dingell is a Twitter treasure.

  6. 6.

    Josie

    Good news for Texans. Just saw this on TPM:

    A majority of the full U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the heavily litigated and controversial Texas voter ID law does have the effect of discriminating against minority voters, and ordered the state to devise a remedy to that problem before the November elections.

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    That Hodor Lives! twitter guy is pretty good; maybe he should start a blog somewhere.

  10. 10.

    Chat Noir

    I have a perpetual headache from all of the bullshit emanating from anyone with an “R” affiliation.

  11. 11.

    Emma

    I am wallowing in great music today. Right now I am listening to the fabled First Night of the Proms. They opened with the Marseillaise in memory of the French attacks. First there was Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’. That will be followed by Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor (one of my favorites pieces ever), and will end with Prokofiev’s Cantata ‘Alexander Nevsky.’

    This morning it was Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.

    Thank you, BBC Radio 3!

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    Reminder (reposting from deep in the last thread): Sometime this afternoon or evening, we should get the FEC June report from the Trump campaign. We’ll get the un-obfuscated fundraising numbers, cash-on-hand, find out whether he actual did write off all those loans, etc.

  18. 18.

    Chyron HR

    @Roger Moore:

    That seems really unfair to Rainbow Dash. What did she do to deserve this calumny?

    Obviously the convention is a Merriwether Williams episode.

  20. 20.

    Emma

    @dmsilev: I have seen the movie but never heard the cantata in a concert setting. Which reminds me, I am planning a nothing but movies during the Christmas holidays. I think that one goes to the top of the list.

  21. 21.

    Jeffro

    1) R campaign advisor calling for the assassination of the D candidate
    2) R candidate now known to have no interest in actually running/deciding anything or any policy decisions other than ‘Making America Great Again’
    3) members of R “deep bench” whipped up crowd with witch-hunt/Satan-follwer talk about D candidate last night and public barely notices

    meanwhile, Temple of the Dog is actually touring…just not coming to DC…

    Only a Ted Cruz ‘the hell with Trump’ mic drop tonight could make this a good day!

  22. 22.

    hovercraft

    @Trentrunner:
    While I agree that they’ve been willfully blind for far too long, I still welcome them finally opening their eyes. Many of the stuff we bitch about is finally becoming apparent to some on the other side, so while I say took you long enough, I still say welcome aboard. Leon Wolf of RedState is one of the newly awakened.

  23. 23.

    dmsilev

    @Emma: One of the best propaganda films ever made. If you’ve not seen it, _Battleship Potemkin_ is also worth hunting down.

  25. 25.

    hovercraft

    Adam called this:

    Trump Veterans Advisor and New Hampshire state representative Al Baldasaro would today issue a second call (see 22:22 in broadcast) for the execution of presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is hardly a surprise given that he had already called for her execution on Tuesday.

    What’s surprising is the venue on which Baldasaro made his second call for Clinton to be executed by a firing squad, for alleged treason : a white nationalist radio show that is currently broadcasting from inside the Republican National Convention.

  26. 26.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    99% of the GOP convention has been negative hate speech directed at Hillary Clinton, and the 1% that was supposed to be a positive message about Trump as a man and a candidate was actually about Barack and Michelle Obama’s familys.

    It’s going to be a long hot summer.

  29. 29.

    Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap

    @hovercraft: Never forget these same sentiments were distributed on flyers in Texas in 1963. JFK’s picture was on the flyer. Just one time, one motherfucking time, I would like to see one of these “people” arrested for this shit. Just once goddamn it.

  33. 33.

    rikyrah

    @hovercraft:

    What’s surprising is the venue on which Baldasaro made his second call for Clinton to be executed by a firing squad, for alleged treason : a white nationalist radio show that is currently broadcasting from inside the Republican National Convention.

    Uh huh
    Uh huh

    Why surprising?

  34. 34.

    Captain C

    @Mike J:

    “I installed this software, but that shouldn’t break it!”

    “You mean the one with the dot R U address with ‘All your finances are belong to us’ written in Cyrillic?”

  38. 38.

    Calming Influence

    The set of computer-unfriendly actions included in “nothing” done by computer users is close to infinite.

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