Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Let’s finish the job.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Second rate reporter says what?

This fight is for everything.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

I really should read my own blog.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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  2. 2.

    Pogonip

    Was the person who had the dog with the torn pad able to get in to the vet today? If so, what did he say?

    Also, can any of you chef types figure out what happened to my egg?

  3. 3.

    Baud

    I think I might try to hang out more with politicians. For all of their faults, they don’t go around saying how we’re doomed all the time.

  9. 9.

    HeleninEire

    @Pogonip: LOL Saw your egg thing. It was that the shell WOULD NOT FUCKING COME OFF right? As a non cook I can say that has happened to me. I blamed the egg and moved on.

  11. 11.

    zhena gogolia

    Why does Samantha Bee have to say that Conway is a lovely person? That simply cannot be true. She is the spawn of Satan.

  12. 12.

    hovercraft

    @Pogonip:

    LAO says:
    January 19, 2017 at 4:53 pm
    Maggie and I are back from the vet and I’d like to thank everyone who encouraged me (ok, yelled at me) to take her. She actually managed to hop her way there with great enthusiasm. Lol. We got a lot of strange looks. But she’s good, the wound needed to be irrigated, which she handled like a pro. Unfortunately for her, she’s back in the cone of shame. We’ll head back next week for a check.

    Thanks again!

  14. 14.

    zhena gogolia

    Боже мой, что с нами будет? Господи, помилуй, Господи, помилуй, Господи, помилуй. Спаси нашу бедную родину.

  15. 15.

    LAO

    @Pogonip: I did. All went well, the vet irrigated the wound, prescribed some medication and sent us on our way with a new cone of shame and an appointment for next week.

    ETA: I see hovercraft beat me to it. This is why I love the community.

  18. 18.

    LAO

    @Baud: it went horrible. Some District Judge from Alabama was less then impressed with my argument. His accent was so thick, I could barely understand him. No decision yet, but I’m not optimistic.

  19. 19.

    Brachiator

    Actor Mel Ferrer has died at age 61. He appeared most recently on NCIS:Los Angeles

    I knew that his father was actor José Ferrer, but I had forgot that his mother was Rosemary Clooney, and his cousin was George Clooney.

  22. 22.

    hovercraft

    @zhena gogolia:
    I think the same way people say the shitgibbon is personable in person, apart from lying to your face constantly, they are pleasant while you are in front of them. Personally I find the fact that you are a polite piece of shit does not mitigate your terribleness. Katy Tur kept saying all through the campaign how nice he was in person, even though he repeatedly called her out by name in front of his rabid fans, causing the secret service to have to escort her out on more than one occasion. But hey he’s personable !!

  26. 26.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud:

    I think he means Miguel. Good actor.

    I loved Mel — he played Prince Andrei in King Vidor’s War and Peace, and was married to Audrey Hepburn. He wasn’t related to Jose.

  27. 27.

    LAO

    @raven: some strange liquid antiseptic. And pain pills. And the requirement I tape a plastic bag over her paw when she goes outside. This will not end well for me.

  31. 31.

    Hungry Joe

    I offer here, to all Juicers, my official summation of the Presidency of Barack Obama:

    He rode a blazing saddle
    He wore a shining star
    His job to offer battle
    To bad men near and far
    He conquered fear and he conquered hate
    He turned our night into day
    He made his blazing saddle
    A torch to light the way.

  33. 33.

    kindness

    I was not pleased with that segment. Yea Samantha slammed her but only kinda. Samantha was nicer to her than I think was prudent or reasonable. Jon Stewart redux.

  34. 34.

    hovercraft

    @Petorado:
    “Hollywood” really, really doesn’t like the shitgibbon :-(
    Nancy Sinatra.
    Donald Trump is reportedly using the classic Frank Sinatra theme song, “My Way” as his dance number during the Inauguration Ball — with his wife. Not “our way,” or any other romantic song that didn’t point to him, he chose “ my way.” The man continues to put us into disbelief, disgust and embarrassment multiple times a day.

    Nancy Sinatra – Verified account ‏@NancySinatra

    Just remember the first line of the song. https://twitter.com/massiliz/status/821916877278605313 …

    “And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.”
    7:24 PM – 18 Jan 2017
    3,628 RETWEETS 6,260 LIKES

  36. 36.

    Shell

    Let the hyperbole continue. Toby Keith introduced at the inauguration concert as “one of the most popular musicians in history!” Now thats a big thing to fill.

  38. 38.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @rikyrah:

    Absolutely. I get the doom and gloom. It’s going to be a pitched battle these next four years, but more “let’s do this” attitude is needed.

  39. 39.

    hovercraft

    @Hungry Joe:
    I just watched Mel Brooks stand-up retrospective on HBO over the weekend, it was funny. Blazing Saddles is one of my favorites.

  41. 41.

    SenyorDave

    Judge a person by their actions, not whether they can make pleasant small talk. KAC is in large part responsible for inflicting pain on millions of Americans. If she fucking DIAF tomorrow, and the world would be better off. And Cuomo in the Sam Bee segment is truly a disgusting suck-up. Any journalist integrity he might of had ended with that exchange.

  45. 45.

    Brachiator

    @zhena gogolia:

    Okay, you must be talking about Miguel Ferrer. Mel Ferrer died ages ago and is no relation to Jose.

    Yep. Sorry for the dumb error. I knew it was Miguel, but typed Mel. Fingers were on auto pilot.

    Solid character actor.

  47. 47.

    Mike in NC

    I don’t do much with Facebook, but my wife’s gotten a lot of posts lately from friends linking to Trump parody videos created by people all over the world. Some are really hilarious. Maybe we can all die laughing.

  49. 49.

    hovercraft

    I just realized that the “celebration” has officially begun, the shitgibbon was supposed to address his supporters at 5.30 to kick off his pre-inauguration concert. Is anyone watching? I no longer watch political coverage, perhaps there’s been a report of locusts or frogs?

    @Shell, did he speak yet?

  54. 54.

    PPCLI

    @zhena gogolia: Our fatal pick-up truck dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all of America for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course. And if other nations stand aside from that pick-up that may be, not from respect, as the poet would fain believe, but simply from horror. From horror, perhaps from disgust. And well it is that they stand aside, but maybe they will cease one day to do so and will form a firm wall confronting the hurrying apparition and will check the frenzied rush of our lawlessness, for the sake of their own safety, enlightenment and civilisation. Already we have heard voices of alarm from Europe, they already begin to sound.

  55. 55.

    Mike in NC

    @Brachiator: Well, Trump has promised to rid us of all those pesky Miguels and Joses anyway.

    Will the Sons of Confederate Veterans have a float in the parade tomorrow?

  57. 57.

    Sloane Ranger

    Just come back from a pub quiz. One of the questions was, “Who was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2016?” When the quizmaster came to give the answer, she asked people not to boo. She was ignored and the boos rang long and loud!

    And this was from a random group of people at a non political event in a safe Tory seat!

  58. 58.

    JPL

    @LAO: It might not be good for you, but it sounds as though the pup will heal and be okay.

    Help.. The local news just put on Trump.

  60. 60.

    cosima

    I love Samantha Bee. I did not like this. Normalising! It was 7 nightmarish minutes highlighting the complete ineptitude of the MSM juxtaposed with complete fucking evil. Not helping my attempts to rise out of the depths of despair.

    Tonight I decided that if anyone here (in the UK) refers to the shitgibbon as my president (in conversation with me) I will say that he is not. That I don’t have a president. And I will not until that horrible man and the swamp scum he’s dragged into the WH are all gone. Most will know better than to argue with me about that.

  62. 62.

    Brachiator

    @p.a.:

    Will this affect Twin Peaks reboot?

    Good question. What has been said so far:

    Ferrer also will be seen in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks revival, which is set to premiere May 21 on Showtime. Ferrer was among the first actors signed for the new series, on which he is reprising his role as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield from the groundbreaking original drama, which aired on ABC.

  63. 63.

    JPL

    @Sloane Ranger: The local Atlanta news broke to Trump speaking, and Trump mentioned that the world was talking about him. He’s correct, but maybe not in the way he wants.

  64. 64.

    hovercraft

    Rev. Luis León, rector of St. John’s Episcopal, told CNN about the plan to have Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist and a fervent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, deliver a sermon in the private service. Another unnamed source involved in the service told the network that Jeffress was scheduled to take part in it.

    Jeffress has built a reputation for attacking other religions over the years, especially in his capacity as a commentator on Fox News.

    In 2010, Jeffress said Islam promoted pedophilia, violence and the oppression of women, claims he has often repeated. The worst thing about Islam, he said at the time, “is that it is a deception that leads people from the true God.”

    He has also called Mormonism a “cult”, including during the 2012 presidential campaign. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), a Mormon, was the Republican Party’s nominee for president that year.

    In anticipation of the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide, Jeffress compared gay relationships to incest. Later that summer, he claimed that Christians in America “are being marginalized the way Jews in Germany were.”………….

    “Pastor Jeffress is a unifying figure representing a diverse spectrum of Americans,” the person said. “Any attempt to vilify this religious leader is deeply disappointing and misplaced.”

    Who wants to bet that the last sentence didn’t come from the Spokes-Cobra ?

  67. 67.

    LAO

    @? Martin:

    Well, perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove! Were these magic grits? I mean, did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans!?

  69. 69.

    p.a.

    @Mike in NC: Remember W was on his way to being a one-term pres until bin Laden saved him. tRump is in worse condition. I predict he’ll need to gin up a war (if he* doesn’t cause one just from base incompetence anyway) just as a roll of the dice to try to maintain some modest support.

    *by ‘he’ I mean him, his handlers, his admin, Pence, whoever ends up running things ’cause Donnie just sits in his tub playing with rubber duckies mumbling ‘lock her up’ all day.

  70. 70.

    hovercraft

    Why is this in moderatin?

    Let’s try this again.

    Anti-Gay, Anti-Muslim Pastor To Deliver Inauguration Day Sermon To Trump

    Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist and a fervent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, deliver a sermon in the private service. Another unnamed source involved in the service told the network that Jeffress was scheduled to take part in it.

    Jeffress has built a reputation for attacking other religions over the years, especially in his capacity as a commentator on Fox News.

    In 2010, Jeffress said Islam promoted pedophilia, violence and the oppression of women, claims he has often repeated. The worst thing about Islam, he said at the time, “is that it is a deception that leads people from the true God.”

    He has also called Mormonism a “cult”, including during the 2012 presidential campaign. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), a Mormon, was the Republican Party’s nominee for president that year.

    In anticipation of the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide, Jeffress compared gay relationships to incest. Later that summer, he claimed that Christians in America “are being marginalized the way Jews in Germany were.”………..

    “Pastor Jeffress is a unifying figure representing a diverse spectrum of Americans,” the person said. “Any attempt to vilify this religious leader is deeply disappointing and misplaced.”

    Who wants to bet that the last sentence didn’t come from the Spokes-Cobra ?

    I asked them to delete this, if it ever sees the light of day. I’m Sorry ;-(

  73. 73.

    Archon

    @p.a.: I honestly don’t even think a war or major terrorist attack would consolidate Trumps support. This only things at this point that I could see turning this around for Trump is a major technological breakthrough happening on his watch that the country and world benefits mightily from.

    Doesn’t mean he can’t be re-elected since we painfully found out elections are a binary choice but short of internet squared being invented or cancer being cured I don’t see what Trump could do to make himself and his administration popular, he’s gone too far down the rabbit hole with his antics.

  74. 74.

    MisterForkbeard

    This is more open thread material, but I just hauled off on a longtime friend on facebook for posting anti-Hillary/pro-Bernie propaganda. He’s trying to start shit NOW. Like, on the eve of the inauguration.

    I honestly do not know what is with these fuckers. I like Bernie and I like his positions, though I have some significant problems with his campaign’s behavior. I even supported him for a long while before switching to Hillary. But oh my god, I cannot and could never stand his self-righteous idiot supporters that have no idea what they’re talking about.

    Sorry, I’m just so wound up over all this. How does anything think starting an intra-left fight is a good idea right now? Not to mention just being an asshole move (and his propaganda didn’t even make any logical sense, either).

  75. 75.

    JPL

    @Baud: It was less that twenty seconds, and I survived. After Trump mentioned the world is talking about him, they said well let’s go back to traffic.

    John Lewis is speaking at the March in Atlanta on Saturday. Wahoo!

  76. 76.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    NPR did a thing this afternoon comparing oratorical habits of Obama and Mango Mussolini. Their conclusion was that the latter followed the style of a stand-up comedian. I wasn’t laughing.

  79. 79.

    MazeDancer

    If you are marching any where on Saturday, please consider a sign honoring Hillary and/or her 2.8 million vote victory. And spare not the Comey intervention, either.

    Linda Sansour, one of the organizers of the DC march, is a big Bernista. She has refused to put Hillary on the list of Revolutionary Women for whom the march is said to be honoring. Women who are marching are just finding out how much Sansour hates Hillary and are furious. FaceBook is apparently abroil.

    Here is Sansour’s explanation why No Hillary:

    It is too close to the election. This is not about women being upset Hillary didn’t win. It is about a crazy man who is about to roll back all our rights. Why let her be the story and erase millions of women who will be impacted?

    Bernie still determined to destroy the Democratic Party it seems.

  80. 80.

    Sloane Ranger

    @trollhattan: @JPL: @Baud: It gave me a nice tingly feeling. Actually I’m amazed at how widespread the Trump hate is here in the UK. Even my Brexit supporting uncle despises him!

  81. 81.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Baud: That seems to be the case, though I live in a pretty liberal area. With the exception of his diehard racist/sexist/dominionist supporters, everyone seems to hate him and everything he stands for.

  83. 83.

    LAO

    @Baud:

    Hey, Stan. You’re in Ala-fuckin-bama. You come from New York. You killed a good old boy. There is NO WAY this is not going to trial.

    PS I could do this all night. I love that movie.

    @Baud: yup

  86. 86.

    Patricia Kayden

    @hovercraft:

    Is anyone watching?

    I hope no one here is torturing his/herself like that. Won’t be watching anything featuring Trump. His departure from the WH can’t come fast enough.

  87. 87.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @MazeDancer: Not directed at you, but the quote.

    It is too close to the election.

    No, it really isn’t.

    This is not about women being upset Hillary didn’t win. It is about a crazy man who is about to roll back all our rights.

    It was a binary choice, Hillary or the shitgibbon.

    Why let her be the story and erase millions of women who will be impacted?

    She was the first woman to head a major party ticket, kind of important isn’t it?

  88. 88.

    Baud

    @MazeDancer: Jesus. I hope the speakers don’t start with anti-Hillary crap at he march and ruin the whole thing.

    Did Sansour even vote for Hillary?

  89. 89.

    geg6

    I hated The Daily Show (well, really just Jon Stewart) so I almost never watched it and I’ve never seen her new show (don’t even know what network she’s on), but if this is some sort of big takedown, I’m not impressed. It wasn’t very funny and it didn’t have very sharp claws. When you go out of your way to say how nice she is, any other point you make is moot. She can’t be that bad if she’s so nice, right? Fuck that shit. She isn’t nice. She’s a disgusting, lying piece of shit who is happy to see millions suffer and die for her own profit and power. She is the worst sort of person and it shows in her face. She’s much younger than me and looks a decade older. Evil shows as we age. You can’t hide it with youth and beauty anymore.

  90. 90.

    MisterForkbeard

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve seen that too.

    In this case, it’s particularly galling because I spent 8 months walking this idiot back from the Hillary hate and being very gentle about it. Even in this case, I pulled punches by attacking the author of the image rather than my friend directly. I’m just so sick of being nice to people who do their level best to undercut themselves and everything they’re working for.

    Note: This guy did vote for Hillary. And he was okay with her prior to the election, though he spent a huge amount of time publicly mourning Bernie and attacking Hillary for things that never quite added up. But he’s not a total idiot.

  92. 92.

    Yoda Dog

    Im slowly coming past the despair, I think. We’re gunna beat these fuckers in the end. The moral arc, demographics, yada yada yada, fuck them we’re going to take our country back from the interminably stupid. In the meantime, hell no, I’m not watching a bunch of goddamn werewolves come out and hump each other butt naked in public, howling like the foul creatures they always knew they wanted to be. That’s exactly what they looked like to me right after 11/8. Fuck no, I’m better than them.

    We didn’t go out and buy “conservative tear mugs” and act like assholes when Obama won, did we? Nope. We were too busy rejoicing in bettering our lives and seeing our country move forward. They’re small, petty people. I’d rather lose with you all than win with their ilk, every single time.

    ETA: Sam Bee is a marvel and one of the only things I’m still watching. I really enjoyed the interview at the end with the lessons from Russia on how to deal with this shit. The last point being to “stay mad”. My new motto.

  93. 93.

    Steeplejack

    @Brachiator:

    Hmm, I was noticing late last year that he looked sort of gaunt—his ears were suddenly a lot more prominent—and I think there was a stretch where he wasn’t in any episodes. I was wondering if he was, or had been, sick.

    Gone too soon.

  96. 96.

    hovercraft

    @MazeDancer:
    She like Nina Turner will not let it go. Remember how the GOP was full of Never Trumpers, funny how they all just melted away when he won, whereas the Never Hillary contingent is as vitriolic as ever.

  104. 104.

    cosima

    @Sloane Ranger: Keep giving me hope! As you & I have discussed on other threads, there seems to be an idea in the US that May could lean Putin/Shitgibbon in these trying Brexit times, but I’m not seeing it. Bush is *still* vilified here in Scotland to a much larger degree than he was in the US when last we lived there (4 yrs ago) — May will get no love or support if she even inches in that direction, at least from those up here. Hope that England will watch her like a hawk. Keep us posted…

  106. 106.

    MazeDancer

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    She was the first woman to head a major party ticket, kind of important isn’t it?

    No kidding. Also, that she won. The only person not named Barack Obama to get that many popular votes in the entirety of American history. Worth honoring.

    @Baud:

    Did Sansour even vote for Hillary?

    Unknown. Also unknown how a Muslim activist can be so full of hate she won’t honor one of the most important women in American political history. It’s like – Sexism? What is that?

    @hovercraft:

    whereas the Never Hillary contingent is as vitriolic as ever.

    Yes. Their fav attack is how we can’t resent Bernie for dissing Hillary and Dems for weeks after he could mathematically win the nom. Because now we must all work together. For what? Erasing the Democratic Party?

    Continually looking forward to hearing an explanation for why Bernie accomplished nothing in his 30 years in Congress or where are his tax returns.

  108. 108.

    schrodingers_cat

    OT food related:
    I did a grocery run this evening. I can has mussels, shrimp and cod. Last week I made clam xacuti. Nailed it! Still have the stew, so will add mussels to it tomorrow.

  111. 111.

    Archon

    @MazeDancer: I didn’t think at the time it would matter because know way would this country would elect Trump but I wholeheartedly believe then as I do know that Bernie dropping out three weeks later then he should have did a tremendous amount of damage to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.

  112. 112.

    Mnemosyne

    @hovercraft:

    Remember how the GOP was full of Never Trumpers, funny how they all just melted away when he won, whereas the Never Hillary contingent is as vitriolic as ever.

    Yep. And Hillary supporters aren’t allowed to mention it, because then we’re being mean and divisive and why can’t we just admit who the superior candidate was?

  113. 113.

    hovercraft

    @Baud:
    I think if she tries to dis Hillary she will be in for a big surprise, they may be honoring “women”, but the impetus for many of the women travelling to DC is the historic Hillary campaign, and the way she was treated. She will be booed and shouted down.

  116. 116.

    Mnemosyne

    @schrodingers_cat:

    I’m going to try and wear my Uniqlo Heat Tech leggings to Disneyland this weekend. Will report back about how they do in wet, rainy weather in the mid-50s.

  120. 120.

    Elizabelle

    @LAO: Glad to hear that Miss Maggie will be on the mend. And part beagle too. Love them.

    Would she do well with a little beagle boot over that plastic bag? For her excursions outside.

  123. 123.

    Yoda Dog

    @Archon:

    I didn’t think at the time it would matter because know way would this country would elect Trump but I wholeheartedly believe then as I do know that Bernie dropping out three weeks later then he should have did a tremendous amount of damage to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.

    Nor I at the time, I completely brushed it off but it definitely helped do the enemies’ work for them in retrospect. I voted for Bernie in what feels like a million years ago and I deeply regret it. Their behavior has been horrifying throughout right up through this March.

  125. 125.

    Yoda Dog

    @Baud:

    All the faithless electors were on the Dem side.

    And given the two candidates we had, that is unacceptable. Stunning. I’m still reeling whenever I get back to this point.

  126. 126.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Baud: We have a lot of divas on our side. A whoooole lot of people who are more concerned with feeling self righteous than actually getting stuff done.

  128. 128.

    Baud

    @Yoda Dog: It’s unacceptable with any two candidates. It’s a position of significant trust for the party. I hope people are looking into preventing this in the future.

  129. 129.

    Archon

    @Yoda Dog:

    I don’t think Bernie is a bad person, I just think him and his advisors got too close to the ring of power which damaged their judgment. I also think it’s a lesson in letting people run for office that have no institutional loyalty to the party that they are running in. A person who truly cared about the Democratic Party wouldn’t have behaved as he did, especially at the end of the primary.

  130. 130.

    Mnemosyne

    @MazeDancer:

    Oh, FFS. Goddamned free riders trying to hijack what other people built. Again.

    And, yes, I’m assuming she will get her ass handed to her if she attempts that shit at the March. Women who worked and voted for Hillary are pretty pissed at the various displays of white privilege and misogyny that we were forced to watch up close from our own side.

  131. 131.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    IIRC, he ended up with Audrey Hepburn as his stepmom, and always said she was a lovely person and a good stepmother.

    Sorry, my bad. That whole Mel Ferrer vs Jose Ferrer confusion again!

  132. 132.

    gene108

    @Elizabelle:

    What a classless, ungracious ass to even open that front.

    And clueless.

    Bernie supporters cannnot get their heads wrapped around the notion millions of more people voted for Hillary than any other candidate in this election, in both the primary and general.

    Hillary is very popular with a lot of people. She just was not popular enough with people in three key states.

  133. 133.

    Elizabelle

    @Mnemosyne: Yes! Saw that on a friend’s Facebook. Hilarious. Was gonna go hunt for the link, but you have provided.

    We want to see LAO’s Maggie in booties.

  134. 134.

    MomSense

    @LAO:

    Glad to hear the appointment went well. I was worried for you and the pup.

    @LAO:

    Sorry to hear your argument wasn’t well received. I am proud to know there are good people like you, dog rearing people, who are fighting the good fight.

    Half of the house is in my living room/kitchen/dining area. It’s like the worst part of moving except nothing exciting and new at the end.

    Next week is the hallway and laundry room. Never have a flood inside your house.

    Anyway, I’m drinking a beer, blasting music, and trying to put my house back together.

  136. 136.

    Yoda Dog

    @Archon: I don’t want to believe he’s a bad guy but I don’t know what the hell to believe anymore. Who is Ted Levine and what does he have to do with Manafort and Ukrainian autocrats? Why can’t I see the man’s tax returns? Everyone that runs for president should expect to automatically turn those over. I don’t know how that’s not an amendment to the Constitution yet… See also; shitface-elect.

  137. 137.

    LAO

    @Elizabelle: Well, I just spent 20 minutes chasing her around my apartment and failed to get a plastic bag on her paw. You may be waiting for a long while. Who knew a three legged puppy could be so agile? Pee pads, it is tonight!

  138. 138.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @Elizabelle: Yet we have to try to work together with as many as are willing. The goal of the hacking and rat fornication was, and remains, to divide us. Let’s not let them succeed!

  141. 141.

    Sloane Ranger

    @cosima: Will do.As I’ve said before I think May has to be publicly nice to Trump because his apparent affection for the UK is about the only leverage she has in Brexit negotiations but I don’t think that MI6 would be so active in supporting the US Intelligence Community over the Russian hacking thing without getting an OK at Cabinet level.

    Also we are a lot nearer Russia than the US is and proximity tends to concentrate the mind.

  144. 144.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Elizabelle: The main problem I have now is that I’ve gotten accused of starting shit when pointing out that someone ELSE is being divisive and hurting their own cause. It’s infuriating when it happens.

    It’s the same old “the left must tolerate our intolerance or they’re being hypocrites!” argument.

  145. 145.

    Elizabelle

    @MisterForkbeard: actually, i thought that commenter was afraid you’d bring the trolls down on us. We have been trying not to say the gentleman’s name, because we suspect they set an alert.

    Am on iPad and can’t search well, but will look again …

  147. 147.

    Steve in the ATL

    @MisterForkbeard: the Wilmer sis/never Hillary/Jill Stein voter in my life has been focused on making pussy hats for the marches rather than Wilmer sissing. I consider that progress.

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    SWMBO

    When Sam Bee was talking about KAC and her 4 kids, why didn’t she point out that these were the survivors? That KAC ate the rest of them?

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    dww44

    @Iowa Old Lady: Wonder if she’ll notice that charm when he votes along with all the other GOP’ers to privatize PBS, as is apparently at the top of the agenda for the Trump administration.

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