Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Come on, man.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The willow is too close to the house.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

Peak wingnut was a lie.

I was promised a recession.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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Long weeks and longer hours at every newsroom these days — the occupants get a little punch-drunk…

And then there’s this dude…

Per The A.V. Club:

… Given that Stone was also hit by a car this week, it says something about what a piece of work he is that we don’t feel all that terrible about the days-long lampooning his Inauguration Day duds have been getting of late. Dig your way past assertions that he was in contact with Russian hackers during the election, and you still run into decades worth of racist comments, Nixon adoration, Alex Jones-guesting, and general sack-of-shittery that tempers our normally storied empathy, especially when the jokes are this good. While multiple Twitter users took their shots at Stone’s top-hat-and-goggles ensemble, it was writer @SpookPerson—a.k.a. “Goth Ms. Frizzle”—who took him on as a comedy muse, putting together 70 or so legitimately sick burns over the course of a couple of hours…


The mean tweets replying to Stone’s original are pretty good, too…

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  6. 6.

    Yarrow

    If you were going to make up a cartoon villain, you couldn’t go too wrong making him look just like Stone in that picture. And what’s his wife wearing? A majorette costume? One of them seems really under or over dressed. They don’t look like they coordinated their outfits at all.

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne

    Last night at Disneyworld. It’s been fun, but it’s time to go home. My knee held up fairly well — and I rested it whenever I had a chance — but I’m pretty sure I caught my niece’s cold and will probably have no voice at all by tomorrow. Oh well!

  9. 9.

    SarahT

    Add a few Snidely Whiplash mustaches – and access to the man with the codes to the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal – et voila !

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yarrow: It is badly done morning dress – which no one wears at inaugurations anymore. It exists for English weddings – see Four Weddings and a Funeral.

    ETA: When you rent it, choose the black not the gray coat. It looks less rented.

  17. 17.

    Yarrow

    @Omnes Omnibus: I know what he’s supposed to be wearing. But what is she wearing? They look really odd together–like they’re just two friends who ran into each other on the mall, not a pain who showed up to an event together.

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    Gotta share something gross because why should I suffer alone? One of my dogs has a terrible case of gas, and at high pressure from the sound of it. Every now and then, there’s a noise like someone letting the air out of a tire, and then a nostril hair-singeing, eye-stinging stench fills the room.I want to kick her out of the house, but that seems mean.

  20. 20.

    Jeffro

    @Yarrow: Shouldn’t “wife” be in quotes? Roger is quite the rake.

    I do feel lighter, having read that string of Goth Ms. Frizzle tweets. Might have to consider tweet-punching like that as therapy someday soon!

  23. 23.

    Goku

    @Mnemosyne: I haven’t been to Disney World since I was six. Fond memories, mostly, aside from tossing my chicken finger lunch in a sink during the parade; it was a very hot Florida day, suffice it to say. Last August I visited LA for a week and went to Disneyland for a day. Best ride, bar none was the Hollywood Tower of Terror. The one at Disney World was torn down I believe. Los Angeles was a really cool place and I’d love to live there someday.

    The best day of my vacation was visiting Catalina Island. Took a Hummer ride around the island. Got to glimpse buffalo that had been taken there over a 100 years ago. Avalon is extremely small and extremely beautiful.

    Also, sorry about your knee.

  24. 24.

    ruemara

    No, Betty, this is gross. Having your friend clean out your extra deep belly button because you’re too squeamish to do it. Also, our bodies are wondrous & majestic & utterly disgusting. Yuck.

  26. 26.

    Yarrow

    @Jeffro: I’m not sure “rake” is the correct term either. Isn’t he a known swinger? Ugh. Gross.

    @Omnes Omnibus: He’s in formal wear and she’s in what appears to be leggings and a majorette jacket. It’s an odd combination. Given the rumors about their marriage, perhaps they did just kind of run into each other on the mall.

    @Betty Cracker: Oh, dear. Did your dog eat something unknown while she was outside? Perhaps a little yogurt for the probiotics might help her digestion?

  27. 27.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Jay Noble: Actually testosterone and human growth hormone supplementation. Stone was a notorious bodybuilder when younger and prided himself on his physique and maintaining it as he aged. You can tell the HGH supplementation by looking how his jawline changed as he aged – a classic tell.

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yarrow: I understand and have seen what she was wearing. I am saying that I do not have sufficient knowledge of contemporary female fashion to say whether it was cool or not.

  29. 29.

    Aleta

    These two months have turned US news into a reality horror show. And it’s like a spigot that’s always on. Every time I come back in the room it’s still flowing and the tub is always full of hot water.

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    @Yarrow: We’re not really splitting hairs over calling Stone a wacko rake/swinger/libertine here, are we? Unfortunately probably all of it applies to ol’ Roger, somehow, dear god. He must have ‘a great personality’…or something…eck…

    I just want the guy in irons – platonically and judicially speaking. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

  37. 37.

    Anne Laurie

    @SiubhanDuinne: Trump does seem to bring out the ‘high school Gilbert & Sullivan production palace guard costume’ fashion revamps in his female followers, doesn’t he?

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Omnes Omnibus: I like to think of it as a Woody Woodpecker cosplay outfit without the head.

    Apparently that outfit was first designed for British Airlines stewardesses.

  39. 39.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: According to reporting they’re swingers and have quite the open marriage. Some of the reporting has dug up ads where he’s trying to recruit young black men for her and indicating he likes to watch. Apparently he’s the prototypical cuckservative.

  42. 42.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Mike J: In the body of that article is a testament to the brilliance of our “free traitor” chief executive who seems to think the Germans hoodwinked the US on bilateral trade agreements that do not exist.

  45. 45.

    Mike J

    Some day, some where, I’m going to run into an attorney who is going to have Trump under oath. I just want to convince them that their first and only question to him should be, “Can you recite the Lord’s Prayer forwards?”

  51. 51.

    Adam L Silverman

    @ruemara: According to reporting I’ve read. I can’t find the link right now, but I saw someone refer back to one of these ads a couple of weeks ago.

  55. 55.

    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman: Whatever they want to do in their marriage–or out of it–is just fine, so long as they aren’t hurting people. But he’s just so gross. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to associate with him for any reason whatsoever.

  56. 56.

    JWR

    @Yarrow:

    They look really odd together–like they’re just two friends who ran into each other on the mall, not a pain who showed up to an event together.

    Oh, they’re a pain alright. ;-)

  57. 57.

    Adam L Silverman

    @amk: She’s part of the America First PAC independent organization intended to bring outside pressure on behalf of the President’s agenda.

  58. 58.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: It’s the bespoke typos that keep you all coming back here.

    So she got the outfit on clearance when they were selling off the spare costumes for the life size Paddington Bear.

  59. 59.

    Yarrow

    @JWR: LOL. I saw that typo after the editing window closed. Wondered if anyone would see it. Supposed to be “pair” but I kind of liked it as “pain.”

  63. 63.

    ihop

    it’s not so much or at all his outfit, i’d like to think my fat-ass self could rock those tails…..

    (well, i did at my prom)

    but for fuck sake, it seems he wants us to fear his fangs…

    or maybe it’s a i-just-pooped-my-pants grimace.

  65. 65.

    efgoldman

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I do not have sufficient knowledge of contemporary female fashion to say whether it was cool or not.

    She’s a Republiklown and probably a RWNJ, right? Whatever she wears, it can’t be “cool” by definition.
    See also Kelly Anne’s George Washington cosplay at the inaugural ball.

  67. 67.

    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman: Just looking at him makes my skin crawl. I really can’t imagine having anything to do with him whatsoever.

    Adam, when this Russia stuff really starts going down, do you think Stone will roll on the rest of the Trump crew?

    @Villago Delenda Est: I’d heard that. Again…gross.

  75. 75.

    Thru the Looking Glass...

    @Aleta:

    Every time I come back in the room it’s still flowing and the tub is always full of hot water shit.

    There… isn’t what you were really after?

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Not to throw a wet blanket on the proceedings and have no clue how much interaction you may have with Marines, but imagine the upper echelons of the military are getting frantic at how this is expanding.

    At least 20 victims have now come forward to complain that explicit photos of them are being shared online by active duty and retired members of the Marine Corps and others, a leading Navy investigator said Friday.
    [snip]
    … That Facebook page has been taken down, but officials say the photos may have simply migrated to another private site.

    Evans said the investigation has expanded into many more sites online. Officials said that earlier this week at least 17 new sites were being reviewed and that as many as 30,000 images were catalogued on the sites, although many were duplicates. A majority of the photos, officials said, were selfies and did not appear to have been taken surreptitiously, although it’s not clear under what conditions they were shared.
    [snip]
    There have been about 1,200 screen names identified on the Facebook site, and of those, 725 were active duty Marines, 150 were in the Marine Reserves, 15 were in the active duty Navy and the rest were unidentifiable.… Source

  78. 78.

    tomtofa

    Lydia was pissed when she got to the store and found out KelleyAnne had gotten the last really good outfit.

  79. 79.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: I don’t know. I have a feeling that one of the reasons he always skates is he goes in early, rats out those he’s working with, and gets an agreement to keep his name out of it. Again, just a feeling. I honestly do not know what is going to happen with the Russia stuff. I think there are multiple plausible tracks.

    Manafort, Stone, Page, Flynn, Cohen, and maybe several others, including the kids, and Cambridge Analytica being tied back to different Russian governmental, intelligence, and organized crime (often those categories have a lot of overlap) is going to be one track.

    The President and his business being tied to Russian and other former Soviet business, government – specifically government run business, and organized crime (again a lot of overlap there) is another. And this one is likely to be that at the time that the business was being conducted the President needed buyers for his properties and funds for his operations. The investors had money. It was green. It wasn’t counterfeit. Therefore they were good to go. This is pretty much how real estate deals in NY get done. And my guess is this is where the kompromat really is. The Russian side knows every jot and tittle of these transactions, which tranches of funds were clean and which got cleaned by doing business with the Trump Organization. And that the President, being an old time NY real estate developer has no idea any of this is problematic – its just how business gets done. And had he stayed a businessman in NY no one would really care, nor would it potentially be an issue of national security.

    The emoluments stuff is another. Including the self enrichment by going to Mar-a-Lago every weekend and keeping the First Lady and his son in NY at least till this Summer (and I suspect they’re actually going to stay in NY if they think they can brazen out the bad publicity). The alleged investigation Bharara was running into Secretary Price’s stock deals just as he was asked to resign and then fired is going to be another.

    How it all comes together, I have no idea. I do know that within 48 hours he pissed off our closest ally and then, after oil was poured on the water, pissed them off again while pissing off Germany. So not only is he now at war with the US IC, but also Britain’s. And the Germans have no reason not to have their IC leak like a seive about the Russia stuff either. This is going to keep getting worse because he is who he is. And the people around him are who they are. And each of them seems to have their own baggage and scandals a brewing too.

  81. 81.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: HGH, aside from helping to promote lean muscle mass and retard the accumulation of body fat, also causes bone growth to restart in adults. If you ever see male or female bodybuilders that look as if their facial structure is too large for even their physiques it is a good bet they’re on HGH. Especially foreheads and chins.

    As is the case with testosterone supplementation, there are legitimate medical reasons to prescribe HGH. But it is something that is used because of its positive effects by some bodybuilders to help them remain lean and promote muscle growth.

  82. 82.

    NotMax

    Dreadful. Bad, bad, bad.

    The boat packed with dozens of Somali refugees was more than 30 miles off war-torn Yemen’s coast when a military vessel and a helicopter gunship swooped in, opening fire in the dead of night Friday, killing at least 42 people. The attack, which Yemen’s Shiite rebels blamed on a Saudi-led coalition, highlighted the perils of a heavily used migration route running from the Horn of Africa to the oil-rich Gulf, right through Yemen’s civil war.
    [snip]
    Al-Hassan Ghaleb Mohammed told The Associated Press the boat left from Ras Arra, along the southern coastline in Yemen’s Hodeida province, and was 30 miles (50 kilometres) off the coast, near the Bab al-Mandab strait, when the military vessel open fire, followed by the helicopter gunship.

    He described a scene of panic in which the terrified refugees waved flashlights, apparently to show they were not combatants. He said the helicopter then stopped firing, but only after dozens had been killed. Mohammed was unharmed in the attack.

    Video of the aftermath showed dozens of slain migrants, along with others who suffered gunshot wounds, lost limbs, or had broken arms and legs.
    [snip]
    A top official with the U.N.’s migration agency said 42 bodies were recovered from the attack, which took place around 3 a.m. Friday.… Source

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Speaking (sort of) of espionage, dug out a barely remembered quote from the excellent British mini-series Private Schulz.

    “Patience is everything in espionage. The night you don’t listen in on one of those bedrooms is the very night some copulating clown lets fall some vital information.”

    Even managed to find a clip.

  85. 85.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: I’m following it. I had the honor and privilege to serve on teams with several Marines while assigned to USAWC and have discussed it with one who I’m still in touch with. Its a mess. The USMC leadership is clearly unhappy with it, embarrassed by it, and trying to figure out how to put a stop to it. This is a toxic problem that has the potential to consume significant parts of the Corps. This is, as Robert Batemen wrote at Esquire a couple of years ago, a real and terrible insider threat. A type of fratricide where Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and/or Marine preys on their fellow Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines.

    There is a larger problem here that the Marines and the other Services can only solve a problem of. While indoctrination and acculturation into the US military is a powerful process, especially for the Marines based on what they do and how they do it, the simple fact of the matter is that Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and/or Marines spend at least their first 18 years immersed not in their Service’s culture and norms, but in American culture and norms. Specifically their regional and religious sub-cultures and norms. This problem isn’t going to be solved by the Services, nor can it be, unless or until the larger American social and religious norms that contribute to it are addressed and resolved. This isn’t happening in a vacuum. It isn’t going to be solved in a vacuum.

  92. 92.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Adam L Silverman:

    This problem isn’t going to be solved by the Services, nor can it be, unless or until the larger American social and religious norms that contribute to it are addressed and resolved. This isn’t happening in a vacuum. It isn’t going to be solved in a vacuum.

    “Boys will be boys” is still a very serious problem in this country. There are scandals taking place on nearly a daily basis in high schools all over the country, with how it’s perfectly OK for males to prey on females sexually, particularly if they have enhanced social status, such as star athletes.

  93. 93.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    What you allude to goes hand in glove with the Dubya administration’s relaxing of enlistment policy to permit entry to confirmed members of violent gangs in order to grab warm bodies for Iraq and Afghanistan.

    I’m responsible for calling attention to and expressing my anger and disgust about a site stumbled upon completely accidentally to a veteran friend who knew which calls to make, signals to send and authority to marshal to have it very quickly shut down some years ago. Said site granted free passwords to porn for service members in exchange for their sending for posting grisly photos of dead or maimed enemies in both wars. Sick, sick, sick.

  99. 99.

    Suzanne

    Ack. Work is kicking my ass. Spawn the Younger is at her first sleepover. I made a bunch of bottles at the ceramic studio tonight. Trying to decide how to do them up.

  100. 100.

    SgrAstar

    @Yarrow: KAC’s dress/coat was very expensive Gucci from their latest line. We need no further evidence that money cannot buy taste…or good sense.

  101. 101.

    TheMightyTrowel

    ARGH. I just got a crock pot (finally) and put a call out on fb for good recipes. Now I’m being deluged with messages from one friend’s husband (who I honestly don’t like very much, but unfortunately he’s a near colleague of mine so I have to be civil) telling me I’m crazy for looking for recipes, that i should just throw stuff together and if it’s inedible go to the pub, that if i worry about wasting this inedible food I should just feed it to my cats. OMG i want to reach thru the internet to Sweden and smack him. GRRRR

  102. 102.

    ThresherK

    @NotMax: You and Mnemosyne were two of the first commenters on a post featuring a nod to old-school filmmaking, this time German Expressionism.

    It’s almost uncanny how that happens.

    I’m trying to work up a good metaphor, comparing the current regime and, Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse.

  103. 103.

    Anne Laurie

    @TheMightyTrowel: Believe it or not, the ‘Crock Pot Craziness’ category here got started when Cole got his first crock pot. If you can filter the search for oldest-entries-first, I seem to recall some very useful recipes & tips…

  105. 105.

    Fred

    With Kelly Ann’s costume and these two it feels like high school proms back in the 60s 70s when the hippy crowd(me and my friends) would troll the event wearing some mockery of formal wear just for laughs. I think the Trump gang is one big troll. Lie and do everything in the most outrageous way and nobody will be able to figure out when you stole the silverware. They hope. I don’t believe they are half as cleaver as they seem to think.
    As for the getup I’m thinking “Around the World in Eighty Days”.

  107. 107.

    Just One More Canuck

    “and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids”

  108. 108.

    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman: Apologies for not responding last night. I fell asleep! Thanks for your take on this. My general understanding and best guesses are similar. At some point Congress is going to decide he’s not worth the risk. I don’t think that time is that far away.

    @Adam L Silverman: Thanks for the info. I didn’t know any of that except I knew that HGH was used by bodybuilders. I guess that partly explains why Stone looks so odd these days. Along with one of the worst hairpieces I can recall seeing.

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