Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The willow is too close to the house.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

We still have time to mess this up!

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

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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  1. 1.

    debit

    It’s hard for me to decide who I hate more: the Cowboys or the Packers. Can’t they both lose tomorrow?

    Ok, if you put a Trump Urine Filled Squirt Gun (pat pend) against my head, I’d have to say I hate the Packers more.

  2. 2.

    bbleh

    Gah. Down with Texans, down with Cowboys.

    (All in the name of intellectual consistency, of course.)

  4. 4.

    JPL

    Betty It’s not over until it’s over, but the Falcons are looking good.
    During the regular season the third string qb for the Pats, beat the Texans.
    I would love to see a Pats/Falcons superbowl. I’d be in heaven, but the mutt would be confused. I’d be cheering for both teams.

  6. 6.

    JPL

    Since I’m on antenna, my feed is a tad quicker, and my son just reminded me of that on google chat.

  7. 7.

    p.a.

    @debit: What’s wrong w Pack? Community owned, fans noted to be friendly to oppo fans in for a game. Rogers seems a dick, but otherwise… You a fan of other Norris Division team?

  10. 10.

    opiejeanne

    Gah! May not return to watching the game. Just checked the score and it’s looking ugly for the Seahawks.

  12. 12.

    Donna K

    We are New Englanders living in Upstate NY, drowning in a sea of Giants and Bills fans (everybody hates the Jets), and after a few weeks of emotional turmoil dealing with Belichick’s idiotic letter to Drumpf, we decided to stay loyal to our home and not blame the rest of the team for the political stupidity and naivete of a coach and quarterback.

  14. 14.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Matt Ryan is a local boy from BC, so a Pats/Falcons SB would have a heavy Boston tilt – here’s Doug Flutie to discuss whether MattyIce is the new Tom Brady. Watching this game, it’s a valid question.

  16. 16.

    p.a.

    @Donna K: Belichick is just an asshole. Off the gridiron, don’t believe Brady could think his way out of a paper bag with a machete and written instructions. On it however… genius.

  18. 18.

    Schlemazel

    @p.a.:
    I love that “community owned” bullshit. How much of the teams profits are paid to their “owners”?
    They simply found a clever way to fleece the flock instead of the tried and true, stick it to the tax payers.

  20. 20.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @raven:

    You’re right – the next Tom Brady may not even have been born yet. Matt Ryan looks in control though – that’s hard to pull off if you’re not, but it is a team game and as Bill Belichick says, they’re playing well in all three phases of the game.

  25. 25.

    Steve in the ATL

    @p.a.: what’s wrong with Rogers? He’s s gay man who went to Cal–he’s got to be much closer to us than to the dark side like asshole Brady…and, I think, Matt Ryan too, sadly.

  33. 33.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @Betty Cracker:

    LOL. Maybe that’s why one of Trump’s first visitors to Mordor Trump Tower was Robert Kraft. Two diminutive men with Napoleon complexes vying over a ring that neither one really earned is one of those epic tales that gets told down through the ages, isn’t it?

  43. 43.

    Johnnybuck

    @JPL: Yep, there was a lot of grousing about young Mr. Sanu in this town when they signed him. He’s been a solid addition to the team.

  44. 44.

    skerry

    Newest Trump tweet

    Donald J. Trump Verified account
    ‏@realDonaldTrump

    Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!

    6:22 PM – 14 Jan 2017

    He just can’t stop himself.

  46. 46.

    Steve in the ATL

    @JPL: no way they are scoring two touchdowns and two two-point conversions in two minutes twenty-two seconds.

    Deuces are wild!

  54. 54.

    Betty Cracker

    @skerry: What a racist pile of shit. I’m going to be deeply ashamed to be an American every fucking second that fascist clown is POTUS. And will oppose him by every legal means.

  58. 58.

    SenyorDave

    @Mnemosyne: Because Black people only live in “crime-infested inner cities”?

    And all black people are responsible for any bad conditions in the inner cities. Nobody else has any responsibility. Because whites had nothing to do with any racist housing policies, especially not Fred and Donald Trump. They agreed to a consent decree in a discrimination housing case but obviously couldn’t have been guilty of having coded applications with “No. 9” and “C” to avoid renting to blacks. Trump is a stone cold racist, if he was in the south in the 50’s he would have been in a klan-lite group.

  60. 60.

    skerry

    @Baud: She should be fine. She’s a few blocks away. It’s a pretty big fire evidently. 3-alarm so far.

    Thanks for asking.

  64. 64.

    The Lodger

    @skerry: Hey, as long as there are black elected officials anywhere in the United States, fixing the inner cities is not Trump’s job. You read it right here.

  66. 66.

    Aleta

    Trump is convincing me the Russian stories are true and worse than reported. And, or, he’s trying to preempt attention from the newer (overdue) Chinese ones. And he wants to distract from the nominees. And fuck so much dirt everywhere it’s impossible to pick even three.

  70. 70.

    Steve in the ATL

    I’m confused–there is a black family in my neighborhood but we still have no crime. How is this possible?

  76. 76.

    Mary G

    Tech problem, can anyone help. PC running Win7 has no desktop icons after starting, just the wallpaper, opened Task Manager with C-ALT-DEL, unsuccessful opening any other programs through that, getting messages like “Can’t find a program or file called Microsoft Word, Google Chrome, desktop, and others.

    Finally tried Microsoft by itself and get a Windows Explorer page with two files named “Protect” last used 2008 & 2009 deep in the system. Chose not to mess with those. Found I can open programs thru desktop folder in Win Exp. Googled solutions. Right clicked desktop, no response. Closed explorer.exe in task manager and reopened no luck. Running Malwarebytes Pro scan with no red flags so far. Any suggestions for next move?

    ETA: Malwarebytes scan finished, no threats.

  78. 78.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Baud: mercifully no. But the right wingers in this area are more country clubber/tax hater/bible humper than straight racist.

    @JPL: you agree?

  83. 83.

    Corner Stone

    45-3 is fine. This is fine.
    .
    At least we won’t be blanked for a second playoffs in a row.

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    Oh, my. 3rd down and a 2 yard out pass short of the sticks? Who the fuck could have ever guessed?

  88. 88.

    Corner Stone

    YAY! Points! Thanks Bill O Brien play calling! Let’s see if we can get two more FG’s in this game and crack double digits!

  90. 90.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    NYT has a piece up, collecting the stories of women who voted for Trump. I think the most common issue mentioned is immigration. I guess I am out of touch, at least in that regard. I tend to avoid talking politics IRL with people I know are on the other side, cause they’re mostly family members, but the only person I’ve actually met who’s all hopped up about immigrants is a crazy old friend of my mother. Anyway, this woman voted.

    Voter: Tangie Wooden, 44. Learning facilitator for Blue Cross of Tennessee.
    Home: Ringgold, Ga.
    When Trump became my only choice, I felt he was the lesser of two evils. I had major issues with Hillary as far as ethics was concerned. It seems she feels that she is above the law and nothing ever seems to stick. I didn’t particularly like everything he was saying as far as building a wall, and doing this to immigrants. I looked at that more as bravado, his audience needed that to get the applause.
    But there are allegations about killing people who get in her way — Vince Foster, people like that. Someone who has a big bravado is not as concerning to me as someone who might kill people who get in her way.

    ETA Forgot the link.

  92. 92.

    Ruckus

    @Mnemosyne:
    Just got off the phone with a friend of a very old friend. My very long time friend is quite sick and she probably doesn’t have a long time left. She has sickle cell and has lived a number of years past the average life span but what has hurt her most was her asshole doc who did something so blindingly stupid that he should be horse whipped. Two yrs ago he took her off her blood thinning med, cold turkey. No one is normally taken off this cold turkey no matter what the reason for being on it in the first place, that is extremely dangerous for anyone. For her it was very, very close to fatal very, very fast. Other docs who treated her since have been astounded that anyone would do this, almost like it was intentional. Any way she is not doing so good right now and I’m thinking it’s getting close to the end. She and her partner just bought a house and I went there for Thanksgiving, I hope it’s not the last time I get to see her.

  94. 94.

    Another Scott

    @Mary G: As Schroedinger’s Cat says above, you might need to restore a previous version (saved automatically, sometimes, via a “restore point”). But before doing anything serious, try rebooting again (though I assume MS told you to do that already).

    To be on the safe side, shut the system down (4+ seconds on the power button, if necessary). Wait 10+ seconds, then restart the PC.

    If you don’t get a desktop on reboot, then see if the instructions here get you where you need to be. If you don’t have the desktop, then you may need to go through the Safe Mode instructions here.

    Note, I haven’t need to try these things myself. Be careful.

    If the stars are aligned, you won’t need them! Good luck!

    [fixed linky, I hope]

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  98. 98.

    Bobby D

    Love that Dali museum, though it brings back painful memories of a relationship gone bad (she lived in Tampa, we went there together many times).

    It surprised me that the canvases for some of the well known works like the Hallucinogenic Torreador and the Columbus Discovers America…they must be 10’x14′ or larger, just enormous. Another vivid memory is a plain still life “The basket of bread”…no surrealist stuff, it was essentially a demo to his mentors/teachers that he’d mastered the classical realist painting style, it’s a stunning painting.

    Football for me means soccer, I haven’t seen an NFL game since the 98/99 season superbowl…which coincidentally enough, included the Falcons (honestly, the only reason I watched even then, grew up in ATL and it was their first one…they got whooped)

  100. 100.

    Ruckus

    @Another Scott:
    I’ve had to do safe mode before but it’s been so long ago I don’t remember exactly why or what I did. But it did help at the time by allowing me to go back to a restore point and start over.

  102. 102.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Good fucking god. And to think that I have been to Ringgold twice this week (also, twice in my entire life). Lucky I didn’t catch a case of terminal stupidity.

    ETA: in the unlikely event that any poster here is unfamiliar with Ringgold, Georgia, it is in the northwest corner of the state and is basically a suburb of Chattanooga.

  103. 103.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: LOL.

    It’s a sad thing to read. Even though I subscribe to Josh Barro’s theory that people don’t have opinions about policy, they have feelings about issues, it’s depressing to read how shallow and meaningless people’s explanations for their votes are. Two of them say they trust trump because they like Ivanka. What the fucking fuck?

  105. 105.

    JPL

    The AJC has not been kind to Cheeto hair today, but one headline made my day..
    The high rise Donald Trump planned in John Lewis’ district never happened. Sad!
    When appropriate, I would love to see the word Sad, at the end of more headlines.

  107. 107.

    p.a.

    Glad I’m out enjoying music instead of watching a possible repeat of the 2010 Jets playoff game. Back to the show…

  108. 108.

    Bobby D

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I read that earlier today, and commented to a friend, “these dumb ass hillbillies are the exact reason I left GA for good”. Ringgold is up in the NW corner, near the TN border, maybe 10-15 mi south of Chattanooga right off I-75. Not much there, used to be a big carpet manufacturer there IIRC (Mohawk?). They did have quite a bit of mexican and central american immingrants move into the zone about 25mi south/east of there, to work the chicken houses, roofing during the housing bubble, and random farm labor or construction labor. The Gainesville area seems to be the epicenter, it’s gone from a declining redneck shithole when I was growing up in the 80s, to a growing and thriving town (my take, anyway) due to a large influx of immigrants combined with the continual push of moneyed people further and further out into the exurbs.

  109. 109.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    There were a lot of comments up in the AJC from people who live in the Fifth District saying how much they love living there.

    If I could afford it, I’d consider moving to midtown myself.

  110. 110.

    Ruckus

    @Betty Cracker:
    There is not a cure for this level of stupidity. There will be an end to any individual’s suffering from it, but a cure? None. Worse yet is that it is contagious, with many having an extremely low tolerance for fighting the infection.

  115. 115.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    the biggest names playing at trumps inauguration are Toby Keith (I don’t follow country– is he still big?) and 3 Doors Down*, who will be taking a break from what is apparently a tour of c*sinos in the Canadian Maritime provinces

    *if you’re thinking “Why do I know them?”, I think their one hit was “Kryptonite”, in 2000

  118. 118.

    Steve in the ATL

    @JPL: the Cox family has always been liberal. It’s a rare big city paper that is still reasonable (we will reserve complaints about the sports page for another time).

  119. 119.

    beth

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: All white women, right? Who would have guessed? I do love the nurse who’s complaining about the Iraqi immigrant who needs dialysis and will never be productive. She says we need to take care of our own first (not mentioning how we invaded and ruined their country). He is one of our own – he’s a fucking human being! I don’t know how you can reason with people who have absolutely no compassion for their fellow man. And she’s a nurse!

  124. 124.

    Julia

    I have a neighbor friend who is conservative Catholic, pretty much a single issue voter (abortion), but also offhandedly mentioned one day about the people that the Clintons had murdered (Vince Foster etc.). I was just gobsmacked. She is a nurse and her husband an oncologist. People believe this shit. Well-educated people!

  125. 125.

    RealityBites

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’ve met two people concerned about the “Clinton murders”. One said that there have been “so many – over 40” mysterious deaths around Clinton that there must be SOMETHING to it. This is a libertarian/Bernie type guy and not someone I would expect to buy into a conspiracy theory that is soooo far out. But he’s in his thirties, so he’s been exposured to this stuff constantly for all his adult life.

    I don’t think people like us (and HRC herself) who shrugged all this kind of stuff off as ridiculous BS have really, really grasped how pervasive the unrelenting attacks have been.

    I now think that there has to be push back. There is a higher bar for public figures, but accusations of murder and running a child slavery sex ring out of a pizza parlor cross the line. Clinton should have sued some of her worst attackers and taught them that they could only go so far publicly or it would cost them. Bullies will fold. And there should have been a way to bring the police in on the pizzagate nonsense as a risk to public safety. Some things, no matter how farfetched, cross a line. Maybe some people semi-believe this sh*t partly BECAUSE there is no pushback.
    We have to fight the propaganda. As a poster here would say, “the village must be destroyed”, or at least brought to heel.
    This so called “election” made me realize how dangerous relying on common sense can be.
    We must fight back on every level and call out every lie and find ways to educate the voting public without our failing media. Or push back enough to improve our media.

    Even if the shitstain get arrested before next Friday, our country will still be in a lot of trouble. Thanks to everyone here for helping keep me sane.

  126. 126.

    p.a.

    @burnspbesq: I was reveling at the Brown-Hop NCAA game, 17-8 Bruno and it wasn’t that close. Petro’s post game news conference is in utube. If you don’t like him it’s worth a look: shadenfreude.

  127. 127.

    lurker dean

    @Mary G: this thread is long dead, but i’ll repost in the next thread i see you in mary g. coincidentally, today i went to my mom’s house and turned on her computer, and all i saw was the wallpaper. no icons to click on, no icons in the taskbar, no icons when you hit the start button. a real puzzler. after poking around a bit, i figured out that someone had put the operating system into “tablet mode.” which is what got rid of all the icons. i ran a google search and found out how to get it out of tablet mode (it was easy, click on an icon on the bottom right corner) and all is back to normal.

    i’m not sure if this is your problem, but it may be. this was windows 10, but i believe windows 7 also had a tablet mode.

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