Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

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

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

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    I just don’t have the intestinal fortitude anymore. If our country is done let’s just pull the plug and move on.

  2. 2.

    hitchhiker

    I heard that clip, but hadn’t realized the conversation was in the same time frame as her death. DT didn’t mention any reason why he thought she’d be willing — I guess a lot of women have said yes to him?

    Now there’s a thought to gag you.

  3. 3.

    ThresherK (tablet)

    Okay, this is just to make us look back be benignly at GWB’s unwanted neck rub of Angela Merkel,isn’t it?

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    Perfect antidote to Dolt 45, saw Lucinda Williams tonight. As in her lyrics, she leaves her guts on stage. Phenomenal three-piece band.

    Also, too, fuck Trump.

  8. 8.

    Debbie(aussie)

    Money most certainly does not provide class. I think it is Suzanne that talks about trailer trash being a state of being rather than a socio-economic class. Trump has the money and none of the class.

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    @Debbie(aussie):
    Yes, money helps magnify what they already were. Money’s main benefit is eliminating the grinding stress of poverty. At some point beyond than that it becomes an end to itself (e.g., multi-millionaires jealous of billionaires).

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    @Major Major Major Major:
    Could be one of those goofy Ascot hats they’re so fond of. Weird to think Diana died long before the dawn of digital photography; so much easier to graft on yuge handshats today.

  13. 13.

    Kat

    @Major Major Major Major:

    A bunch of firecrackers just went off right outside my window. The good news is that just means it’s lunar new year.

    Lucky you! A couple of night’s ago, I called 911 about the 12 gunshots, in rapid succession, that were fired by two people about a hundred yards in front of the window where I was sitting at my computer. But, hey, it’s only a once-or-twice-a-week thing. Though, come to think of it, Denver did install one of those newfangled gunshot-identifier things at my 30-unit apartment complex last year.

    Re: Di’s hat… Have you seen a photo of Tony Blair’s wife in her head-to-toe purple outfit from two or three years ago? You’d swear it came straight out of Gene Wilders’ Willy Wonka, or maybe Alice in Wonderland.

  15. 15.

    Kat

    @Major Major Major Major:

    About two blocks East of Sheridan, on W. 8th Ave.

    It only took my neighbor and I calling about gunfire twice a week, every week, for 5 years for Denver’s finest to finally bust the drug house on the corner of Sheridan and 8th. She and I cooked spaghetti and watched Downton Abbey to celebrate. The peace and quiet lasted about a year and a half, then started up again about six months ago (though not at the same house).

  17. 17.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @hitchhiker:

    I guess a lot of women have said yes to him?

    it’s just propaganda.

    remember the tape recording of him posing as a public relations agent, “John Miller”. Among the slew of lies he told in the 1990 tape was that Madonna was stalking him but he turned her down.

    All these lies are a product of a pathological disorder

    Why even the conservative Politico said:

    The sheer frequency, spontaneity and seeming irrelevance of his lies have no precedent. Nixon, Reagan and Clinton were protecting their reputations; Trump seems to lie for the pure joy of it. A whopping 70 percent of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked during the campaign were false, while only 4 percent were completely true, and 11 percent mostly true. (Compare that to the politician Trump dubbed “crooked,” Hillary Clinton: Just 26 percent of her statements were deemed false.)

    Those who have followed Trump’s career say his lying isn’t just a tactic, but an ingrained habit. New York tabloid writers who covered Trump as a mogul on the rise in the 1980s and ’90s found him categorically different from the other self-promoting celebrities in just how often, and pointlessly, he would lie to them. In his own autobiography, Trump used the phrase “truthful hyperbole,” a term coined by his ghostwriter referring to the flagrant truth-stretching that Trump employed, over and over, to help close sales. Trump apparently loved the wording, and went on to adopt it as his own.

    I mean, what’s next – lying about his crowd size?

  18. 18.

    Mel

    @Kat: @Major Major Major Major: I’m always slightly puzzled by the Fascinators that the youngsters in the royal family seem to favor. Too big to be an awkwardly decorated barrette, too small to serve any actual hat function, and usually fairly hideous. There was a spectacularly bizarre one that one of the princesses wore a few years back – it looked like a giant flesh-toned set of fallopian tubes perched on her forehead. Definite crime against the art of haberdashery.

  19. 19.

    Kat

    @Major Major Major Major: I used to live down in God’s country — unincorporated Littleton near Quincy and Wadsworth — about 12 years ago, when there were still big banner signs that said ‘We’re Hiring!‘, strung across the front of every business down there, and there were still thriving anchor stores at Southwest Plaza Mall.

  20. 20.

    Kat

    @Mel:

    it looked like a giant flesh-toned set of fallopian tubes perched on her forehead

    Not fair, Mel. I can’t type when laughing so hard I’m gasping for air, my diaphragm is spazzing up and down, my tears are rolling, and all the cats start jumping on me, asking what’s wrong. Ah, hell, I just read it again, and now somebody’s biting my toe. heeheeeeeeee eee ee.

    I’ve never known a female ex-pat Brit here in the States — probably because they won’t move here because our shops don’t stock their oddly fascinating preferences.

  23. 23.

    Unknown known

    This is exactly how the Guardian”s cartoonist depicted the “special relationship” (image N really SFW, despite being a carton in a mass publication paper. I declaim all responsibility if you need mind bleach after viewing).

    BTW, the fascinator hat thing is for the aristos. Normal baits don’t dress like that. And if you want to start stacking up the dumb ways America’s super rich show off to their friiends, vs. The Brits… I mean, we can go there…

  24. 24.

    Sloane Ranger

    Yes God’s! And the Dump is coming on a State visit later this year. If his comments get wide coverage over here the Queen needs to make sure that Prince Harry has been safely packed off on a tour of Australia or New Zealand. Diplomatic issues tend to occur when a member of a Royal Family cleans the clock of the Head of State of another country:)

  26. 26.

    Zinsky

    How much you wanna bet Trump hit on Theresa May in private? By the way, what happened to those 17 women who alleged that Trump groped them? Do they not matter now that this dipshit is President of the United States?

  29. 29.

    Paul in KY

    @Mel: They are probably very expensive & completely unusable in any other situation. That’s why they like them, IMO. It shows off how they can spend oodles of money on a giant set of fallopian tubes.

  30. 30.

    NeenerNeener

    @Kat: I just googled that to see if there are pictures of that hat…and there are! I especially like the photoshopped ones with the Eye of Sauron and a Stargate superimposed over that round thing in the middle, and one with textbook drawing of a uterus over the whole hat.

  31. 31.

    leeleeFL

    @Unknown known: I absolutely cannot breathe! That cartoon is delicious! I thought the fallopian tube fascinator was funny as hell! But this made my entire morning!

  32. 32.

    XTPD

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: POLITICO has become significantly better since Grunwald became assistant editor – and looks to become even better with Allen & VandeHei’s decamping – but Jack Shafer & Rich Lowry are still literally the worst. (BTW, POLITICO has never been conservative so much as nihilistic, and Jack Shafer – being a glibertarian – embodies both of these traits perfectly).

  34. 34.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    How long is it before Trump appears at a press conference without any pants on?

  36. 36.

    Another Scott

    I didn’t mention this earlier, on the thread with the cartoon about the shoes, but what struck me was that in the old original the woman was on her back, but in the new homage Theresa was on her stomach.

    I really wasn’t the only one who noticed that, was I? ;-p

    Donnie obviously thinks that women only exist for his pleasure. Of course he would say that about Diana.

    (sigh)

    https://twitter.com/sciencemarchdc can’t come too quickly for my taste.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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