Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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

Republicans in disarray!

You cannot shame the shameless.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

In my day, never was longer.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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  7. 7.

    ? Martin

    And that sets the passing yard record for a Super Bowl – and one which may not be on the winning side.

  10. 10.

    ? Martin

    @PaulW: That is pretty much the story against NE. Teams routinely just fall apart in the last quarter or two. I don’t know if NE simply adapts their game after the half or what, but you see it almost every game.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    In fairness, New England is blue and Georgia is red, so I’ll take the political symbolism either way.

  21. 21.

    Kryptik

    So who’s going to “enjoy” the torrent of twitter assholes using this to relive Election Day and say how this proves how sainted Trump is because Brady and Bellicheck backed him?

  38. 38.

    Kryptik

    @Baud:

    Not sure if that matters, since I doubt the loudest celebrations tomorrow on twitter even care about football otherwise. Just idiots wanting to point to something as proof that god loves Trump supporters and only Trump supporters.

    I’m still bitter as hell about this even without politics inserted into this, since I’m just fucking sick of the Patriots period.

  42. 42.

    Jeffro

    @Yarrow:

    FUCK!!! Fuck Tom Brady and Fuck Bill Belichick! Fuck them all.

    And most especially, fuck them for making me give a shit about the fucking Atlanta Falcons and being invested even a tiny bit in this game and all of it…

    …we used to just root for whomever was playing the Patriots, now I’m rooting for injuries, plane crashes, tectonic fissures opening up underneath them, Y’ragadoth the Elder God coming back to Earth, starting in Foxborough…

    …AAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

  44. 44.

    japa21

    the reason Atlanta lost wasn’t really the defense. Their offense went dead in the second half with too many 3 and outs.

  45. 45.

    Ajabu

    I’ve never watched a football game before but watched this because I wanted Patriots to lose & it looked good.
    So, let me get this straight. In overtime, whoever scores first, wins? WTF is that? Essentially, whoever wins the coin toss is the winner? In the NBA, overtime is 5 minutes. You start out tied, play for 5 minutes & the team with the most points at the end of that time wins. Reasonable & Fair. American football is some truly stupid shit…

  47. 47.

    Cacti

    @japa21:

    Their offense went dead in the second half with too many 3 and outs.

    The moment the game turned decisively against them was when they were in easy field goal range with the chance to go back up to scores, then they got sacked and penalty-ed out of field goal range.

    Inexcusable.

  48. 48.

    BD of MN

    It was me, I did it… When the Falcons went up 28-3 I reposted a meme on facebook that said “I haven’t seen a massacre this bad since Bowling Green”

    I’m sorry…

  50. 50.

    Evan

    Sorry, folks, my bad. I’ve never cared about football in my life, but so many people I like were rooting for Atlanta, I decided to join in, and then the team immediately started losing. I did the same thing to the Giants in the world series in 2002.

  54. 54.

    Cacti

    @efgoldman:

    It wasn’t in the Supe, but there was the comeback when Frank Reich led the Bills back from 32 down against the Oilers in the ’93 playoffs.

    Yeah, I remember that game.

    But the magnitude of the choke goes up with the stakes of the game.

  56. 56.

    Hitless

    @Evan: As a White Sox fan, I can tell you that life is just like that and you need to let it go and move on. I believe Barack Obama would agree.

  57. 57.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @Ajabu:
    Yeah, the NFL overtime rule is bullshit. Each team should get a possession, then it’s sudden death. Sabremetric nerds have shown that the winner of the coin toss is more likely to win in OT.

  60. 60.

    SFBayAreaGal

    @Evan: That was you. Hells bells. Look at this way, the loss gave the Giants the World Series in 2010, 2012, and 2014.

  61. 61.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Baud:

    In fairness, New England is blue and Georgia is red, so I’ll take the political symbolism either way.

    The one redeeming thing about this awful game

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