Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How stupid are these people?

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Giving up is unforgivable.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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

Come on, man.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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  1. 1.

    germy

    The electoral college is full of good and wise electors?

    Trump has won 290 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232, with Michigan undecided, but Clinton is on pace to win the popular vote by at least 1 million ballots. Trump’s opponents are motivated by the outcome of the popular vote and by their contention that the businessman and reality TV star is unfit to serve as commander in chief.

    Just one elector so far has wavered publicly on supporting Trump.

    Texas Republican Art Sisneros says he has reservations about the president-elect, but not because of the national popular vote. He told The Associated Press he won’t vote for Clinton under any circumstance.

    “As a Christian, I came to the conclusion that Mr. Trump is not biblically qualified for that office,” he said.

    He said he has heard from ecstatic Clinton supporters and even supportive Republicans, but also from outraged Trump backers writing “threatening and vile things.”

    Sisneros signed a state party pledge to support the GOP’s standard-bearer, but that was before Trump was the official nominee. He said one of his options is to resign, allowing the state party to choose another elector.

    Electors are chosen by party officials and are typically the party’s most loyal members. Presidential electors are not required to vote for a particular candidate under the Constitution. Even so, the National Archives says more than 99 percent of electors have voted as pledged throughout the nation’s history.

    Some state laws call for fines against “faithless electors,” while others open them to possible felony charges, although the National Archives says no elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged. In North Carolina, a faithless elector’s vote is canceled, and he or she must immediately resign and be replaced.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Steve is a magnificent beast. Looks to me as though you might want to introduce him to the Furminator. Or at least give him a good currying. Winter is coming and that thick coat is going to mat.

  3. 3.

    Larkspur

    I’m sorry, I can’t think about football until I hear an update about Betty Cracker’s spidey bite. I’ve been looking in comments but haven’t found anything yet. Are you doing okay, BC?

  6. 6.

    Larkspur

    @Amir Khalid: OMG. I just finished my tea and have nothing to splatter on my keyboard. Betty, come down! You should be able to type even faster than before, on, like, four keyboards.

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    @Larkspur: Aw, I’m fine! Looks like I won’t develop any Spidey senses or superhuman abilities, alas.

    Just settling in to watch the Gators get trounced by LSU. Maybe we’ll pull off an upset. We’re still in the hunt for SEC East, and someone has to win the right to get crushed by ‘Bama…

  12. 12.

    opiejeanne

    @John Cole: Steve’s a really big boy.

    The rolling around after being brushed sounds about right. Our Maine Coon Tommy did the same, after begging to be brushed.
    Tommy

  13. 13.

    Larkspur

    @Betty Cracker: Oh, thanks! I truly was worried.

    I have friends whose son is a sophomore at ‘Bama and yes he is happy. They visited him last weekend for parents’ weekend and had a great day at the game. It sure is a bunch of airline stops to get from NoCal to his campus.

  16. 16.

    The Dangerman

    @Betty Cracker:

    ….Gators get trounced by LSU. Maybe we’ll pull off an upset.

    Bruin here; I’ve never been less interested in a SC/UCLA game. This has the potential to be seriously ugly.

  21. 21.

    MoxieM

    He’s like a cat version of my Newfie. People say, “do you brush her?” Um, d’oh, if I didn’t she would have dreadlocks, I promise. (She has some anyway.) Rasta dog.

    Beautiful animal. Man, would I love to have one residing here.

  22. 22.

    LM Alcott

    OT, but relating to the pic at the top of the post.

    Long time lurker, first time posting. Hi, everyone!

    The picture above persuaded me to delurk, as well as that event that occurred about 10 days ago. This community has been a lifeline for me for years. First when I was unemployed and looking for work from 2011 to 2013 and then after I got a good job with the state, and was finally able to buy a small house (thanks Obama!)

    In the middle of this campaign my family and I lost our miniature schnauzer to cancer. We went through two chemo treatments but finally had to let her go. We were very clear that we could not have any more companion animals — my hubbie and I are getting along in years and we plan to now be grandparents to our grown kids’ pets in the future.

    As part of the counseling she received to deal with the death of her beloved pet (sweetie was really my daughter’s dog) the counselor suggested we try fostering a pet. It was going to be a way of learning to deal with the loss of a beloved animal and moving on to the next one. I knew nothing of fostering except from this blog. This is where I first heard the term “foster fail.”

    So you can guess what happened. On our third foster cat we met Nikolai, a probably Russian Blue, absolutely gorgeous, and just the sweetest cat. A rescue from the streets and we were nursing him back to health. We were told this week that when he is completely healthy we can keep him. His presence has really helped the whole family get through this debacle we experienced on that Tuesday night. So thank you all for (unconsciously) preparing me to have a foster pet. This cat is a gift from God.

  23. 23.

    James Powell

    Spartans and My Beloved Buckeyes tied at the half. Even in a down year, Dantonio gives Meyer fits.

    There’s a light snow. Trying to remember the last time I saw a bona fide snow game.

  24. 24.

    phoebes from highland park

    Cole, don’t you dis that magnificent animal!!!! YOU should look half as good. By the way, your house is looking quite beautiful. You and your Dad are doing an excellent job. Just don’t dis the cat…

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    Speaking of football, there’s been a lot of draws at the top of the English Premier league this weekend. Tottenham Hotspur are behind 0-1 to West Ham United, from a goal scored against the run of play. If this holds and Chelsea don’t win tomorrow, Liverpool will be level on points and goal difference with Manchester City but still ahead on head-to head result (and alphabetical order, too).

  27. 27.

    Arclite

    It would be awesome if the EC didn’t vote for Trump. Then both Dems and Repubs would be motivated to do away with it.

  28. 28.

    gogol's wife

    I’ve been enjoying this song one of my students brought to my attention, “Re: Your Brains.” I’m sure I’m way behind the curve on it, but it’s been giving me some chuckles.

  30. 30.

    J R in WV

    @opiejeanne:

    Really sweet pic of Tommy.

    Going to watch Big-12 football. Go “Eers!

    Some years ago we watched WVU beat Oklahoma soundly, while we were still in the Big East, before the big realignments that led WVU to the Big-12. I wasn’t particularly happy, but it look like it’s working out OK. I miss those Pitt games every year.

    So glad Penn State isn’t ever on our schedule, hoping to never play them in a bowl game either.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    @LM Alcott:

    Congratulations on the new cat! They are a blessing.

    And welcome to the wrecking crew! Don’t expect them (us) to cut you any slack just because you’re a beginner! Just don’t take any of it too seriously.

  32. 32.

    laura

    Big KiKi is Big!
    Havahd just lost to Yale, and the Big Game today will be Cal Stanford. Go Cal Band!
    LM Alcott, sometimes the worst of times and made bearable by the decision to cave into a critter. I got a naughty, sliggtly used weiniedog from the City Shelter when my mother’s dementia crashed our world. The insistant cheerfulness of NOW, always now kept me from profound despair and kicked my ass into the routine of caregiving in ways never before demanded.
    It’s a gift, this creature companionship.

  34. 34.

    TomatoQueen

    BULLDOGS! After nine straight defeats, and a 2-7 season, Yale finds a way to win, and away too, which never never happens. A beautifully played game made an old man, my dad, happy. And tomorrow, Newcastle United faces Leeds, and commemorates our beloved mutual player, Gary Speed. HOWAY THE LADS! That is one gorgeous cat.

  35. 35.

    J R in WV

    @laura: You’re crazy – – – the big game is Oklahoma at West Virginia, starting in about 10 or 12 minutes.

    And you’re quite right about the dogs and cats… they save us from ourselves, don’t they! There are dog shows on TV this time of year, you get to see all the ridiculous looking dogs that people have bred for. Quite fun in its strange way, for those who like that kind of thing.

    We prefer rescue dogs.

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