…to make us appreciate technology again. First, an alteration of a classic tweeted by @h1illary4prez:
You just know that motherfucker would interject like that.
Next, a sweet, innocent dog gets Trumped — passed along by @freeyourmindkid:
Made me laugh, anyway. Open thread!
Wag
so much win in those images. Thanks, Betty!
Jeffro
poor doggie…Internet famous, for all the wrong reasons…
cmorenc
I love the quote from Rev. William Barber’s speech at the DNC in July about many right-wing “evangelicals” selective religious morality::
Jeffro
Erma gerd, Jennifer Rubin has me nodding my head so hard, I’m getting a cramp…
…truly, this has been one strange election cycle.
geg6
Awww, poor puppeh! He reminds me of my dear departed Henry dog.
trollhattan
@Jeffro:
Whoa, Jen-Jen has had enough of this Trump fellow. Of course she’d happily dial back the calendar four years to her beloved Willard, even knowing the dude’s an empty suit. But I’ll gladly accept this refudiation.
jl
Is that Trumped dog a lady dog, who can really and truly move in like a…
Fred
Yeah but where he sticks his nose? You know what I’m talking about.
Mary G
John pulled the voting post? I guess so. Spoiler: he’s with her.@Jeffro: Jen is making a lot of sense this election. I never knew she could write.
Terry chay
My gf, who was homeschooled as a christian conservative, shared with me the second one. To the first she shared something similar except it was in response to #blacklivesmatter and instead of Trump, it has a Christian conservative saying “Blessed are ALL people, Jesus”
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Jeffro:
All Rubin’s doing is engaging in what driftglass calls Republican Detachment Disorder. Charlie Pierce noted:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a49871/republican-party-future/
She’s just starting the combined GOP water carrier campaign to “take back the party” or some equivalent. It’s no different than the blatherings from the likes of George Fucking Will or David Fucking Brooks. Somebody here referred to this as
We need to hang Trump around her neck now and for always. Of course her Villager masters will let her get away with it, lifetime corporate media sinecures and all that.
Of course a Trump presidency would result in public executions of many elite national press members. Too bad I didn’t think of that before I cast my absentee ballot on Monday. :)
prob50
The “Blessed are the poor…” one is totally on. Somehow it took me two looks to get the puppy one. Neat stuff.
Jeffro
@Mary G:
Righteousness clarifies things…it’s liberating. Conservatives really ought to try standing on principle sometime, just for the novelty of it.
Jeffro
@Terry chay: She’s reprimanding…Jesus…for sending his blessings directly to the poor?
Is there a tenth circle of Hell? I think she’s eventually gonna find out…
piratedan
@trollhattan: can understand the sentiment… if the GOP leadership refuses to draw their own line in the sand and cowardly “accept” that racism and bigotry and sexism are acceptable, then perhaps those folks that actually do believe in some form of “sane” conservatism should start their own gig. Naturally, building something takes time and effort, but if they care, it can be done (do not use the Libertarians and Greens as a template).
Anoniminous
@Jeffro:
Complete fantasy. Talking magic flying purple unicorns pooping gold bars and peeing sparkly pixie dust fantasy. The GOP primary voters will not allow fresh anything.
Mnemosyne
@Jeffro:
I think — if I’m interpreting Terry right — that his girlfriend was mocking the people who respond to “Black lives matter” by saying “all lives matter.”
Terry chay
@Jeffro: Yes. I think it was a guy, not a girl in the cartoon. My gf and others are the disaffected outcasts of that world. They share thinks like that making fun of the world they came from. Needless to say, half of their friends on facebook rail against them. Exposing their hypocrisy for what it is touches nerves.
Jeffro
@Mnemosyne: whew…good if that turns out to be the case. I was picturing someone saying that sincerely and wondering how anyone could do that. Then I think about evangelical support for Trump and, well, it didn’t seem out of the realm of possibility, unfortunately.
catclub
@Mnemosyne: Wouldn’t “Blessed be the peacemakers who matter” work better?
with a picture of a cop holding a 45?
Villago Delenda Est
@Jeffro: When their principle is basically “blah people should be chattel” they should think about ditching the principle and never coming out into the light of day again as atonement for said “principle”.
Villago Delenda Est
@Terry chay: The one thing that REALLY hacked Jesus off was hypocrisy. Just sayin’.
Droppy
@Villago Delenda Est:
Also too, he wasn’t crazy about people who were overly concerned about money.
p.a.
Here’s a visitor to help you save on birdseed.
Trinity
Thank you Betty! Needed that giggle.
Jeffro
@Anoniminous:
GOP primary voters – whether we’re talking about the majority of whom did not vote for Trump or the majority that eventually fell in line behind him – can’t stop Rubin & Co from forming their own party and making their own case in future elections. I think Rubin is especially disheartened that the latter group even exists (and that it was essentially enabled by her heartthrob Paul Ryan) and now wants no part of what she sees as a majority-pro-Trump party. To that, I say, more power to her.
les
@Jeffro:
All 7 of them? And Jen won’t be one, she’ll be at the same old stand, explaining how Dems in general and Hillary in particular are the devil.
shortribs
@Jeffro: If that new party is just hushed, rather than overt, racism and sexism then they’ll have learned nothing, which is what I suspect.
celticdragonchick
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage:
To be fair, no, that isn’t what Rubin has been arguing.
She declared the GOP is deaddeaddead and it is time to leave it to the alt right nuts and go do something else.
She deserves a hit, however, for this line that I shortened from up above:
Uh…yeah…the GOP has always been hostile to women, minorities, GLBT people and the poor. What took you so long to figure this out, Jen?
This paragraph seems more reasonable:
*emphasis mine.
Of course, you have good ol’ Douthat on the same page moaning about “sexual individualism”, so there is that.
germy
B&W version of Mad Max: Fury Road
Mnemosyne
@catclub:
Don’t look at me, I suck at Photoshop.
celticdragonchick
@germy:
Shiny and chrome…. :)
germy
Washington Post headline:
House Republicans are preparing for years of investigations of Clinton
gvg
Her sane republican description sounded just like the democratic party and she didn’t even notice. Can’t see us.
The problem with walking out of the established party is it concedes to the nuts the easy path to ballot status due to the past and the bank accounts and voter lists. Those are things worth fighting for and I would prefer they didn’t end up controlled by the RWNJs but it may happen. Really i thought the tipping point was 2006 when a combination of several republican corruption scandals and Iraq going bad, resulted in a lot of GOP voters voting Dem. It seemed to leave just the fanatics left who got really silly which resulted in a lot of the temporary Dem voters staying Dem plus some more left and they got worse each election. Stupider. They don’t have anyone really smart left IMO. If they had cleaned up the corruption and acted smarter, they could have recovered…..it seemed to me it started when they were trying to build up the permanent majority (since Gingrich I guess) and they welcomed anyone who would vote party line no matter how corrupt or stupid. They covered up instead of taking an occasional hit for a crook and getting rid of them and after awhile they were all bad and mostly stupid. they don’t have a way back that I see.
celticdragonchick
@gvg:
I noticed that as well. Baby steps, though…
gvg
@celticdragonchick:
Always? The GOP was Lincoln’s party originally. In my lifetime it’s been anti minority, but once it was not so much. Sometimes history is weird.
celticdragonchick
@gvg:
Point taken. The GOP within the last, oh, 50 years or so.
Lizzee
Since we’re sharing from the internet…
Brachiator
I swear I read that as “Two Furries From the Twitter.”
Steeplejack
@Jeffro:
You are a one-man wrecking crew of bad hyperlinks! Fixed: “Sane Republicans Should Pack Their Bags and Flee the GOP.”
See this brief tutorial. Worst case, just leave off any
http/https
prefix and start with thewww.
FYWP can handle that.J R in WV
@celticdragonchick: Well, they did work frantically to repeal the new deal, especially in the courts. So more like 85 years, at least, of right wing nuts.
And in the late 1930s, many were authentic fascists, with scarlet banners, symbols, etc, and giant rallies at the original Madison Square Garden! Which would make good commercial material in my opinion.
Suffragete City elftx
I intend to ‘borrow’ these. Much Thanks ..chuckle chuckle