Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

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

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Books are my comfort food!

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

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Even though we didn’t get much snow and it had melted off the roads by four pm, last night until about 10 am this morning and then again all night tonight, my internet has been down. I’m wondering if this guy had anything to do with it:

He looks like he has been up to something, doesn’t he?

I swear, I get up to go to the bathroom and one of the animals takes my seat every time.

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  1. 1.

    Yarrow

    He’s so pretty! Of course they take your seat. You’ve got the best seat in the house and it’s warm.

  5. 5.

    seaboogie

    How they show their love, John – keeping your seat warm. Also – that is a great photo!

    My cat used to be obsessed with the bathroom, and jump up onto my lap while I was on the toilet and just settle right in, and I was all like “Yeah, you get that we’re not spending the evening here, right?”

  6. 6.

    Mnemosyne

    I finally got a chance to see Hidden Figures. It is, indeed, all that, with a bonus bag of chips. Like every great NASA movie, they get you to worry that a mission that you know perfectly well turned out fine is going to kill John Glenn. You know, the guy who only just died in his 90s.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    @Yarrow:

    Our middle cat Annie will lure G out of his desk chair by pretending she wants a belly rub, and then jump up and settle in when he gets up. Cats know what they want.

    @seaboogie:

    Charlotte (youngest cat) likes to do that, too, despite my grumbling. But she mostly wants to be petted until she gets overstimulated and bites, which is when she gets (gently) pushed off.

  10. 10.

    Major Major Major Major

    Did y’all see this?

    Fox News host: at least Steve Bannon isn’t ISIS

    This is an actual chart that Fox News host Tucker Carlson put up on air, repeatedly, on the Wednesday night episode of his highly-rated show:

    [WHO DID IT?……………….BANNON……………….BAGHDADI
    beheaded journalists…………..x……………………..✅
    used chemical weapons
    on kurds……………………………x……………………..✅
    employs child soldiers………..x……………………..✅
    mass executions
    of christians………………………x……………………..✅
    declared a caliphate…………..x……………………..✅
    ]

    Steve Bannon: At least he’s not ISIS!

    The context doesn’t make it much better…

  12. 12.

    ? Martin

    @Major Major Major Major: I looked at the photos of the Oroville spillway and they have a really serious problem with head cutting. The point where the concrete has failed is marching rapidly toward the top of the dam. They’re not going to be able to run water through that spillway for very long before it undermines the top of the spillway and starts to affect the integrity of the dam itself. I think they have no choice but to use the emergency overflow.

    I didn’t see evidence of that in the pictures from last night, but it’s really, really clear now that it’s happening.

  17. 17.

    hovercraft

    @Major Major Major Major:
    These people are insane, seriously off their rockers. How does one even begin to argue with someone who thinks like that. I know I shouldn’t be surprised, after all
    their leader has been saying for months that ISIS beheads people so anything we do is okay. Stalin wasn’t Hitler, does that make him a good guy? The logic it hurts my brain.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    Is it creaky? Yes. Is it clunky? Yup. Is it stilted? Uh-huh. Is it trite? Indubitably. Is it dated? You betcha.

    Nevertheless, an exemplar of the learning curve of Hollywood while transitioning from silents to sound films. Rising above the middling material, every moment he is on screen 62-year-old George Arliss is mesmerizingly modern (he received an Oscar nomination for best actor, his second consecutive best actor nomination) and obviously enjoying himself no end. Worth watching just to marvel at his skill.

    TCM, Saturday, 7 a.m. – The Green Goddess (1930)

  26. 26.

    rikyrah

    that is the least scary pic of Steve that you have taken. I had to LOL at the expression on his face. He’s like…you STILL don’t get it – that it’s my house.

  28. 28.

    efgoldman

    @Mart:

    It could be a good thing. Killing “Mountain Stage” could turn the state blue.

    And all the kiddies can grow up illiterate and unsocialized. Not that anyone would notice.

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    @Davebo:

    I’m not speaking to you after that link. I have three cats.

    ETA: So others are not tempted, it has dead cats being dissected.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    @hovercraft

    Dolt 45 never seems to mention Saudi Arabia. Snippets from Wikipedia.

    In 2015, the number of beheadings reached a two decade high of “at least” 157 and 47 were executed on 2 January 2016.

    The 345 reported executions between 2007 and 2010 were all carried out by public beheading. The last reported execution for sorcery took place in August 2014

    Crucifixion of the beheaded body is sometimes ordered. For example, in 2009, the Saudi Gazette reported that “An Abha court has sentenced the leader of an armed gang to death and three-day crucifixion (public displaying of the beheaded body) and six other gang members to beheading for their role in jewelry store robberies in Asir.”

    A public beheading will typically take place around 9am. The convicted person is walked into the square and kneels in front of the executioner. The executioner uses a sword known as a sulthan to remove the condemned person’s head from his or her body at the neck. Sometimes it may take several strikes before victim is decapitated. After the convicted person is pronounced dead, a loudspeaker announces the crimes committed by the beheaded alleged criminal and the process is complete. This is the most common method of execution in Saudi Arabia because it is specifically called for by Sharia Law. Professional executioners behead as many as ten people in a single day. The severed head is usually sewn back on.

  34. 34.

    efgoldman

    @Mnemosyne:

    Typical abuser’s rationalization.

    More and more, that’s every single goddamned thing that comes out of their idiot faces, isn’t it? I mean, I’ve never been in an abusive relationship, but I know people who have, and I read a bit about common characteristics and reactions, and every fucking penis-equipped asshole with (R) after his name sounds the same way.
    The FP post earlier today about “who becomes a Nazi” is salient.

  36. 36.

    Couldn't Stand the Weather

    I figure Steve and the dogs have gotten to like their new house. I wonder if the animals can still catch a scent of Walter in there.

    Anyway, the month long nightmare that is the Trumpenstein administration continues. I know the last meteor missed us by a decent margin. Anyone want to maybe reignite Mount St. Helens? Or possibly have Hollywood green light another Carrot Top HBO special?

  38. 38.

    efgoldman

    @Mnemosyne:

    Republicans always insist that we can’t complain about them because they aren’t as bad as the current worst people in the whole fucking world.

    As far as we know, they’re not cannibals.

    As far as we know….

  43. 43.

    TheMightyTrowel

    We’re having a horrendous heat wave down here – it’s 41 C where I live today, expected to be the same tomorrow – and with no Air Con (because it usually tops out at 34 C here) the cats are really not happy. We’re all on the floor in the dark with the ceiling fans on and lots of water.

    That said, at least there’s no wind or everything would be on fire.

  48. 48.

    Davebo

    @Mnemosyne:

    Skinned really. I admit it was in horrible taste and I really only looked at the first paragraph.

    If you love squirrels or deer you’d really hate me. I can live with that.

  50. 50.

    Mike J

    Hey Omnes, if you;’re still around, good thoughts for your mom. Missed you earlier.

    As for Cole’s snow worries, all the passes over the Cascades are closed. So that’s a bit annoying. Not that I had any plans to go to Spokane or Yakima, but it’s weird knowing that normally I could hop on I-90 and not stop for 3000 miles and right now it’s down to 30.

  53. 53.

    seaboogie

    @NotMax:

    Professional executioners behead as many as ten people in a single day. The severed head is usually sewn back on.

    Quaint, as traditions often are.

  55. 55.

    J R in WV

    @efgoldman:

    Well, Jim Justice is a billionaire, and he didn’t get that way by wasting his money on the public! I wrote this note to him about WV Public Broadcasting, which we contributed quite a bit to this past year:

    Dear Governor Justice:

    I understand that in your State of the State address you proposed to save $300,000 by eliminating State support to WV Public Broadcasting. I believe this is the classic example of penny wise, and pound foolish, an old English saying about watching every penny you spend, but foolishly wasting millions of dollars at the same time.

    West Virginia Public Broadcasting provides literally millions of dollars in advertising our state every year. Millions of people in the 5 surrounding states receive TV and FM Radio shows from and about West Virginia every day. People all over the nation and the world can hear Mountain Stage, a priceless showcase of musical talent from WV to the world, with shows originating in Charleston, Ashland KY, the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, and other famous venues all over this great nation.

    World famous performers got their first national exposure on Mountain Stage, and many of them return to the show every year or two to maintain that friendly relationship. It would cost West Virginia hundreds of millions of dollars to buy such exposure, which draws at least thousands of visitors to the state to see firsthand what they have heard about over Voice of America, or National Public Radio. They visit places like the New River Gorge National River, Tamarack arts and crafts center in Beckley, and perhaps even the Greenbrier Resort, which you have certainly heard of.

    Ask your marketing staff how much it would cost your business to purchase the exposure West Virginia receives from West Virginia Public Broadcasting! Then make a contribution to WV Public Broadcasting to help maintain that existing exposure and hear your business being mentioned as a supporter of the many shows that originate from our fine state.

    Don’t be penny wise and pound foolish with the life of West Virginia Public Broadcasting. It is far too valuable to the state and it’s people for that kind of shortsighted attitude.

    Thanks for your time,

    J R in WV [not my real name]

    Since Justice is a DINO, maybe he really believes the world will be better off without Mountain Stage and WV Public Broadcasting. Maybe he is as stupid as the billionaire in the White House. Justice’s Old White is probably 50 times as big as Trump’s White House, and nearly as historic.

    Seems like the best things in life die first!

  56. 56.

    opiejeanne

    @Davebo: What the fuck is wrong with you? Jesus!
    I mean, God damn it, there’s a cat being skinned on that site you sick fucker.

  59. 59.

    Larkspur

    @Mnemosyne: Wait, what? It’s still upcoming? I thought the trip was done and all participants had survived and thrived. Are you telling me I still have to worry about you and ‘gators?

  60. 60.

    Larkspur

    @? Martin: I am remembering the night class in geology I took some years back in an effort to seem edumacated. You cut the head and you load the foot, right? And Oroville is going turvy-topsy. And the articles say there’s no danger to people on account of it will flow into the Feather River. But it still seems like I need to be concerned. Guess I’m not as edumacated as I thought. I do remember this definition of gravitational transfer: the downslope movement of unconsolidated regolith, primarily due to the effect of water.

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