Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Bark louder, little dog.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

People are complicated. Love is not.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

I was promised a recession.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

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  3. 3.

    Yarrow

    That Onion post is awesome. Gotta love the Puppy Bowl.

    Just saw a commercial for a new miniseries “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Looks terrifying. Timely.

  5. 5.

    tofubo

    The Pats should be wearing the big red ties, they’d be able to say they won, regardless of the score.

  6. 6.

    Yarrow

    @Morzer:

    We are all Falcons now!

    #MakeTheSuperbowlLegitimateAgain

    Yes! Every time the Falcons score I start screaming “Fuck you, Tom Brady!” and “Fuck you, Bill Belichick!” at the TV.

  7. 7.

    Suzanne

    @Yarrow: I was wondering how many Trump voters would watch the show and think, “That’s awesome. That’s the society we need.”

  14. 14.

    JPL

    This is from the Washington Post

    A huge smile broke out on Falcons Coach Dan Quinn’s face after the “and sisterhood” line. Patriots Coach Bill Belichick didn’t appear to be as moved by the performance, but Belichick has never smiled about anything in his life, so the Schuyler Sisters shouldn’t take it personally.

  27. 27.

    Morzer

    I’m no Josh McDaniels, but I suspect that running straight at the defender every time isn’t really the way to establish the running game.

    And, Robert Alford, since I know you are reading this inbetween crushing the Trumpriots, I love you in a pure and manly way!

  33. 33.

    PaulW

    PICK SIX. Falcons up 21-0.

    Rule of thumb in football: when your team pulls off a Pick-6 Turnover, you usually win the game. In the Super Bowl, it’s ALWAYS BEEN A WIN.

    Falcons are not playing like they are going to choke this. Game over.

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Never thought I’d say this, but it’s remotely possible I might turn into a football fan.

  39. 39.

    Morzer

    @PaulW:

    No team has ever come back from a deficit greater than 10 points.

    Can the Trumpriots come back from 21 points down?

    I THINK NOT!!!

  40. 40.

    Suzanne

    I really hate Tom Brady. I hope they lose, and something more than lose. Like loses all his money and has to live in a cardboard box.

  43. 43.

    HeleninEire

    SO in the pub tonight that boy said um, the Atlanta Braves. And I said against who? He said Brady. And I said HOT Tom Brady? Yeah he said. And I said No Atlanta is the Falcons. Even I know that.

    Looks like Hot Tom Brady is gonna lose. To the Atlanta Braves. I mean Flacons.

  49. 49.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Suzanne:

    I really hate Tom Brady. I hope they lose, and something more than lose. Like loses all his money and has to live in a cardboard box…

    …under an overpass with No Curtain Rod to cook his sparrow on.

  54. 54.

    Yarrow

    @efgoldman: Don’t care. It makes everyone in my household happy and we all join in.

    John Malkovich. Love. That Wendy’s commercial made me laugh. “Cold as ice.”

  57. 57.

    Larkspur

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, that happened to me umpteen years ago when I wondered why the neighbors would go crazy at the tv in the autumn and winter. It was a thing, football! I had to learn everything. Like I wondered how someone could get a first down when five other guys fell down first. And why was there a college thing called the Theisman Trophy. I mean, it was a horrible injury, but a trophy for it? I learned everything I know from John Madden’s children’s First Book of Football. (“The guys with the messy lockers are the defense players. Neat locker guys are offense.”)

  69. 69.

    Morzer

    @MobiusKlein:

    Eh, some people are just ungrateful! I’ll take the Trumpriots getting their asses kicked bigly and never worry about their one pitiful FG.

  76. 76.

    JPL

    @Tom Levenson: You know that’s not true. As a long time Pats fan, gotta say I like this game. It’s not often that I have the chance to cheer for the Falcons in the Super Bowl.

  77. 77.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: Hopefully its better than the movie. The problem has always been that the story itself is set as a recollection within the mind of the protagonist. So a lot of the nuance of the novel was lost in the movie. The hope is that a TV series version will have time to capture what wasn’t in the movie.

  80. 80.

    max

    @Tom Levenson: :Only 18 down! #ItsOver

    Not quite. The biggest Superbowl comeback is 10 points. The biggest comeback ever is 27. If Atlanta had scored one more TD. But they did not. And San Francisco did score 30 points in the second half of SB XXI. So. It is possible for the Pats to come back, but all Atlanta really needs to do here is score 2 more TDs in the rest of the game and they win.

    max
    [‘Almost over.’]

  86. 86.

    Morzer

    @max:

    Bear in mind that at their current rate of progress the Patriots will need 6 more scoring drives just to reach parity. Given they’ve had one scoring drive in an entire half, they would need to play another 3 Superb Owls while holding Atlanta scoreless to do so.

  92. 92.

    Bonnie

    Aren’t those Falcons looking good! The only half time I have ever watched was one done by the Rolling Stones. I had planned to watch the Kitten Bowl; but, found Turner Classic Movies running Casablanca–best movie ever made. I will just have to remember to return to the Super Bowl.

  96. 96.

    Suzanne

    @Larkspur: She’s very talented. I like her when she’s causing the bourgeoisie to get their hate on. Art is better when it scares boring people.

  97. 97.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: Unlimited streaming on Amazon Prime if you’ve got that. It had an excellent cast and was very well acted, but, as I said, and as I’m sure you remember, a lot of the story in the novel is recollection, which is hard to capture in the movie.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale_(film)

    In the same vein, now USAF Lt Gen (ret) Dunlap’s article in Parameters from Winter 1992-1993:
    http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/1992/1992%20dunlap.pdf

  98. 98.

    Skepticat

    I’m so petty. I’m a lifelong New Englander (okay, apart from living in the Bahamas most of the time for the last decade), but I am so rooting for Atlanta, strictly for the political optics. Also too, I like football in general, but I can’t stand Brady.

  102. 102.

    Morzer

    The candle thingummies that the crowd around the stage are holding up have been very popular in the massive protests here against the Korean version of corrupt idiot conservative president, namely Park Geun-hye, and her pet soothsayer/charlatan/cult-leader’s daughter Choi Soon-sil. There have been some counter-protests, which were recently revealed to have been substantially inflated by paying the homeless/jobless rather good wages for a day’s work chanting “Don’t cry, Park Geun-hye!”

  103. 103.

    Mike J

    @Suzanne: Cool lighting tech. I didn’t really care for Madonna the first time around, nor Gaga this time, but that’s just me. I try to enjoy the spectacle even if the music does nothing for me. 17 year old me would really hate my lack of fucks given. He would want more active hatred rather than just indifference.

    Disappointed in the lack of shark costumes though. Not that I’m a KP fan either, but I preferred her show.

  107. 107.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    84 Lumber’s dedicated site for their commercial is overrun.

  108. 108.

    Yarrow

    Wait, that was it? Seems a little short. I was expecting a few “special guests” or something. A little sad there was no Left Shark.

  109. 109.

    Petorado

    Disappointed in halftime show. Alex Jones said Lady Gaga was going to do a satanic ritual. It’s merely entertaining. Want Beelzebub to call his favored servant Trump home.

  110. 110.

    Pete Mack

    How the hell do they do the light show on the field? The massed synchronized flash lights is an incredible effect.

  111. 111.

    Elizabelle

    I like that Lady Gaga does not take herself too seriously. Unlike Madonna.

    Gaga is in on the joke.

  113. 113.

    SRW1

    Hm, Patriots are suffering. Can’t Trump, like, sign an EO to block the Falcons from having access to the pitch in the second half?

  116. 116.

    Mike J

    @MobiusKlein: And Prince was one of the few performers from my youth that were trotted out later that I actually liked at the time. 80s era Prince is still one of the the best concerts concerts I ever went to. Funky, sexy, with an actual band playing, The only arena show in my top 10 list.

  118. 118.

    Suzanne

    @Mike J: I like Gaga much more than Perry. Gaga is a superior vocalist and has better aesthetic, IMHO.

    I pretty much only watch this game for the halftime show.

  120. 120.

    Yarrow

    @MobiusKlein: Prince is my favorite Super Bowl halftime show. Others were good, like Bruno Mars, but I love Prince’s show the best.

    I think I preferred the craziness of Katy Perry’s show over this one by Gaga. I was expecting it to be a little more out there.

    Love Beyonce last year.

  124. 124.

    Tenar Arha (same Tenar, more Nameless Ones)

    I’m not watching the game. Finished Kubo & the two strings and now listening to the commentary track because that’s how I roll ;-)

  125. 125.

    Morzer

    Belichick tells reporter that the Patriots need to stop the Atlanta offense!

    REVELATION!!! SCOOP!!!

  126. 126.

    PaulW

    Being a Springsteen fan, I loved his show.

    I think Gaga gave an energetic, enthusiastic show. Which is what you want from a halftime show

  129. 129.

    japa21

    Atlanta’s making a mistake. Looks like they just want to use up time and have slowed it down.

  133. 133.

    Yarrow

    @japa21: Yeah! We have commercials supporting diversity and inclusion and now one for equality for women. Suck it, Trumpists.

  135. 135.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Yarrow: Was about to say the same thing.

    Like the Snickers. Was waiting to hear “I’m working for Mel Brooks!”

  136. 136.

    hovercraft

    @Morzer:

    Belichick tells reporter that the Patriots need to stop the Atlanta offense!

    REVELATION!!! SCOOP!!!

    It’s like the stoopid is contagious with Twitler fans, stating the obvious like it’s a revelation.

  137. 137.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    @Tenar Arha (same Tenar, more Nameless Ones): Loved Kubo!

    Pet peeve — is it me, or do people complain more about female Super Bowl performers than males? And they’re always lumped in with other female Super Bowl performers. Just got off a FB thread full of people bitching about Lady Gaga, and of course people brought up Janet Jackson (but not Justin Timberlake for some reason), Madonna and Beyonce. I guess men have never put on a bad or controversial show.

  138. 138.

    debbie

    @Suzanne:

    I’d be happy to see him cry.

    I followed the Patriots from their beginning years when they couldn’t play worth shit. I remember OJ gaining 200 yards on them in the snow just in the first half. But they became insufferable about 10 years ago and I am now looking forward to their inevitable decline.

  139. 139.

    mainmata

    Well as someone raised in Pittsburgh, I am a lifelong Steeler fan though living in ‘Skins land so I am also inclined to AFL but Brady being a Trump fanboy (cheaters like cheaters), I hope Falcons win.

  144. 144.

    hovercraft

    @Yarrow:
    It’s like the artistic artistic and creative people are giving someone and his fans a giant fuck you. Shocking, I know.

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @Morzer:

    I know it’s a thing there and elsewhere (e.g., Samoa?), but why are they trying to make it a thing here?

    ETA: Maybe it’s all we’ll be able to afford in Trumpworld.

  156. 156.

    Morzer

    So, at the current rate of progress, the Trumpriots are now going to need more than 4 Superb Owls to catch up with America’s Falcons.

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