Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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

He really is that stupid.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Let’s finish the job.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

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  1. 1.

    Major Major Major Major

    Reposting from below, you guys would like this.

    My friend got interviewed in New York Magazine!

    In Trump’s America, Even Puppy Twitter Is Getting Political
    By Madison Malone Kircher

    Twitter’s @EmergencyPuppy has more than half a million followers. The account, as you might have guessed from its name, is devoted to all things cute and canine, with the occasional guest appearance from a particularly tiny kitten or fuzzy ducklings. At least, that was its intention[…] back in 2011[…]

    […]

    The responses to @EmergencyPuppy’s new brand of tweets have been “overwhelmingly positive.” “Add @EmergencyPuppy to the list of freedom fighters with @TeenVogue and rogue scientists,” wrote one Twitter user, describing several other unexpected groups that have risen to become the face of the resistance. Still, Truebe says he’s also experienced some flak. “The extremely negative responses seem to come from privilege — almost exclusively white men — who feel as if I have violated some contract by switching the content up,” he said. “As if they were entitled to cute puppies and only cute puppies and that it is their right to complain about a free service I’m providing.” Truebe says for these users, his response is often to just tweet back using one particular picture of a dog with its tongue out, “it’s a good dog.”

  4. 4.

    ? Martin

    In my daily effort to find the nugget of gold in this mountain of shit, consider how many GOP careers Trump is setting on fire right now. It’s obvious to the overwhelming majority of the country that our president is mentally unfit for office, yet the GOP cannot stop lining up behind him. Sean Spicer will never get a publicly facing job ever again. I don’t think Fox News can even reform him at this point.

  5. 5.

    mai naem mobile

    My BFFs are KellyAnne Conway,Laura Ingraham and Anne Coulter. I am also a blonde attention whore bimbo.

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    North Carolina Juicers Alert

    Please RT: NC Senator Burr on fence about Devos nomination and instructing interns to count constituent responses. Call 202-224-3154.— Pamela Alexander (@jeditigger) January 26, 2017

  7. 7.

    mai naem mobile

    @? Martin: Awww, c’mon Ari Fleischer got a PR gig in some bigly pro sports and Dick Cheney can show his face in public. Sean Spiceboy ain’t anywhere as bad as those two at this point.

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne

    Math people, help me out — if you divide $15 billion by $50 million, is the answer 300, or did I screw up?

  9. 9.

    Brachiator

    @? Martin:

    It’s obvious to the overwhelming majority of the country that our president is mentally unfit for office, yet the GOP cannot stop lining up behind him.

    Sadly, not quite. And according to some recent polls, the vast majority of Trump supporters not only believe in the voter fraud nonsense, they also believe that a vast left wing conspiracy and the liberal media are trying to tear their president down.

    The Ideological Civil War has only just begun.

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    Since this is an Open Thread, my mom’s heart surgery is today, so happy thoughts and well wishes are welcomed.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne: All best wishes to her for a fully successful surgery, and a speedy and comfortable recovery. Are you with her? If so (or for that matter, even if not) best wishes to you, too!

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I am not — she’s in Illinois and I’m in California. But my brother and aunt (her younger sister) are with her, so she’s in good hands.

  17. 17.

    Mnemosyne

    @Spanky:

    Phew! I was pointing out on Facebook that if we withhold our $50 million of annual aid to Mexico to pay for the Wall, we’ll break even in 300 years, but I was nervous about my math skillz.

  18. 18.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Brachiator: Team Penis is going to need something like U6 at 40%, or a shooting war bigger than the last three combined, or both, before it breaks with Orangemandias.

  22. 22.

    Mike J

    @Mnemosyne: Good thoughts being sent your way. My mom’s been in and out of the hospital 4 or 5 times since her valve replacement in early November. The good news is that she seems much better after the last time. Her rehab exercise program was supposed to start at the beginning of December, she’s finally going to be in good enough health to start in February.

  23. 23.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    Since this is an Open Thread, my mom’s heart surgery is today, so happy thoughts and well wishes are welcomed.

    What type of surgery is she having? Hope everything goes well. Good thoughts.

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    Trump’s Basis For Voter Fraud Paranoia? ‘Look At What Is Registering’

    ByTIERNEY SNEED
    Published JANUARY 26, 2017, 2:24 PM EDT

    PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump, in remarks to a GOP retreat in Philadelphia Thursday, hinted at his administration’s plans for a major investigation into voter fraud.

    “We also need to keep the ballot box safe from illegal voting,” Trump said. “Believe me, you take look at what is registering, folks — they like to say,
    Oh, Trump Trump Trump… take a look at what is registering.'”

    It is unclear exactly what Trump meant by “what is registering,” but his White House Press Secretary said Wednesday that the investigation will focus on “urban areas.”

    “I think in terms of registration … you’ve got folks on rolls that have been deceased or have moved or are registered in two counties,” he said. “This isn’t just about the 2016 election — this is about the integrity of our voting system.”

    Ironically, at least four people close to Trump have been found to be registered to vote in more than one state.

  25. 25.

    oklahomo

    @Mnemosyne: It is correct. You can paste the sentence “divide $15 billion by $50 million” into the google search window and it will give you the answer.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    @Sad_Dem:

    Is that in between pestering you for sex all the time? How do you find time to oversee your vast multi-national empire? And comment here?

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    John Tabin ‏@ johntabin 34m34 minutes ago
    As dumb as this is, I wonder if it becomes a real problem that President Trump loves calling him Mad Dog and Mattis is clearly annoyed by it
    Andrew deGrandpre @ adegrandpre
    SECDEF Mattis dropped in on the Pentagon press corps a few minutes ago. Told us he likes to be called Jim. Enough of this Mad Dog business.

    I saw Kellyanne Conway calling him “Mad Dog” yesterday, with a stupid grin and a cheerleading “ISn’t this great!” tone, and I remembered what Adam S said, hates that nickname which is probably half the reason Trump picked him.

  32. 32.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Yes, but who is gas lighting who here? I mean one and only one person in this political landscape is treating a mob of women in silly hats as a sign of the apocalypse. The latest scandal of the day is torture, which is to distract us from Trump’s hissy over crowd sizes, which is to distract us from Trump pissing the CIA off, which is to distract us from Trump fighting with SNL, which is to distract us from Trump’s Russian water sports, and so on and that only the last fourteen days I don’t think it’s my sanity that’s in question here.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    and I remembered what Adam S said, hates that nickname which is probably half the reason Trump picked him.

    I think I saw somewhere that Mattis is also known as the Warrior Monk. Everything about his career suggests that he is much more than the simplistic cartoon that Trump seems to have in mind. But as usual, Trump can’t let it loose and is obsessively stuck with the stereotype rattling around in his orange head.

  34. 34.

    Sad_Dem

    @Steeplejack: I do what I can, and yes, she wanders around the house naked because she says I’m not having sex with her enough. Put something on, I say.

  35. 35.

    Immanentize

    Y’know, with Trump’s “look what is registering” comment, I think we may get to Ni-CLANG before February!

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I actually did Google it, but using numbers, and I always get nervous that I’m not using the right number of zeroes.

    Thank you for the good wishes, everyone! She is having a scheduled bypass with the best surgeon on the North Shore, so odds are good that it will go well. Still nerve-wracking to wait, though.

  40. 40.

    gene108

    @? Martin:

    In my daily effort to find the nugget of gold in this mountain of shit, consider how many GOP careers Trump is setting on fire right now. It’s obvious to the overwhelming majority of the country that our president is mentally unfit for office, yet the GOP cannot stop lining up behind him.

    The majority of this country is not evenly distributed.

    Sure most of CA thinks he’s nuts, but that doesn’t help in swinging Erie, PA back to the Democrats.

    And Republicans will find a way to bounce back from Trump. They have the money and the media in their corner.

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    @oklahomo:

    You can paste the sentence “divide $15 billion by $50 million” into the google search window and it will give you the answer.

    Neat Trick. I did not know that. google entry:

    15 billion / 50 million =
    three hundred

  43. 43.

    oklahomo

    @Brachiator: As a programmer it delighted me that it worked; but I’ve used it a lot to converter metric to USA and back so I suspected it would. But to have it do “divide $15 billion by $50 million” correctly was neato.

    ETA: The downside are computers that call you on your cell phone and try to sell you shit and act like they are a real person.

  45. 45.

    gene108

    @Mnemosyne:

    Since this is an Open Thread, my mom’s heart surgery is today, so happy thoughts and well wishes are welcomed.

    All the best on a successful surgery and speedy recovery.

  46. 46.

    OGLiberal

    Q-pac’s first post-inauguration poll has Trump with 36% approval.

    Rasmussen? 59%.

    Ahh, good old Rasmussen….

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    @oklahomo:

    As a programmer it delighted me that it worked; but I’ve used it a lot to converter metric to USA and back so I suspected it would. But to have it do “divide $15 billion by $50 million” correctly was neato.

    I do metric conversions also, but somehow disconnected that from do math (division or multiplication).

    ETA: The downside are computers that call you on your cell phone and try to sell you shit and act like they are a real person.

    One day, your smartphone will say, “I took the liberty of ordering X for you, because I knew you really wanted it.”

  48. 48.

    oklahomo

    @Brachiator: I’m starting to wonder if part of the untold backstory of the “Terminator” movies is that the Trump presidency was what prompted Skynet to destroy human civilization. Our smartphones might inform us that “Sorry, you all suck and must be destroyed.”

  49. 49.

    hovercraft

    @Mnemosyne:
    I hope your Mom’s surgery goes smoothly, and that her recovery is swift. Best wishes to you and your entire family. Virtual hugs and kisses.

  50. 50.

    drdavechemist

    @Brachiator: The first time that my smartphone, unbidden and without any information about location on my calendar informed me “With current traffic it will take you 21 minutes to drive to [location of regular Tuesday night choir practice]” I was more than a little freaked. Now I’m just used to it. Brave new world that has such contraptions in’t…

  52. 52.

    Roger Moore

    @oklahomo:

    ETA: The downside are computers that call you on your cell phone and try to sell you shit and act like they are a real person.

    On the up side, my phone will now flag calls as suspected spam if they come from a number others have reported.

  54. 54.

    Roger Moore

    @drdavechemist:
    I was quite surprised the first time I landed at an airport and without prompting my phone gave me travel times to places I had previously stayed while in the area. Interestingly, it didn’t flag them as my relatives’ houses; it just gave the street addresses.

  55. 55.

    Roger Moore

    @oklahomo:
    I expect the next step will be for the callers to start spoofing the phone numbers of important businesses and/or government entities that callers are less likely to ignore. IMO, designing the system so callers could lie about their phone number was a terrible mistake.

  56. 56.

    ChrisB

    And here’s another alternate fact from this afternoon: Trump claiming that the cancellation of his meeting with the Mexican president was mutual.

    I hate when I’m tempted to root for a foreign leader instead of our own.

  57. 57.

    oklahomo

    @Roger Moore: Some already do — the caller ID descriptions are vague and misleading on a lot of these. And a lot of it is aimed at the elderly, of course.

  58. 58.

    Quinerly

    I am a famous White singer named Beyoncé. I am 26 and was born in 1961. I live in my 2 bedroom Ford Escape down by the river.

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    So, good news on the mom front so far — she’s on her way to the recovery room and will be spending the night in the ICU before getting moved to a regular room tomorrow. Phew!

  64. 64.

    Gravenstone

    @oklahomo:

    “Sorry, you all suck and must be destroyed.”

    Quit horning in on Ultron’s schtick (frankly, it’s all an ancient trope of AI run amok by over-interpreting their instructions).

  65. 65.

    p.a.

    @ChrisB:

    I hate when I’m tempted to root for a foreign leader instead of our own.

    I hate when I’m tempted to root for the invaders from space. Or the meteor.

  69. 69.

    Kathleen

    @Mnemosyne: If you used Wilmer Math you’re fine. Also, too, I have PhD in Alt-Math from Trump University so I can confirm your answer is kerrect.

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    I always get nervous that I’m not using the right number of zeroes.

    Zeroes and decimal points are the devil’s own work.

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