Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Trump should be leading, not lying.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Giving up is unforgivable.

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

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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Happy May Day, everybody. I marked the occasion by starting this year’s Great Yard Clean-Up, and no sooner than time, so now I’m tired, allergy-sniffly *and* discouraged…
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Apart from [facepalm]-ing, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

THANKS, REPUBLICANS! Also Media Village Idiots of the Punditariat…

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  2. 2.

    EBT

    Insomnia sucks, but the accompanying mania is nice for my project. Now the combat prose feeds off to it’s own window that only pops up during combat. Thinking hard about feeding the rolls and math to a combat log the player can see as well.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    Baud!Fest! is coming along nicely. Already booked musical headliner — Vanilli!

    (Apparently Milli has “standards.”)

  4. 4.

    lamh36

    I know this is not likely the thing for some BJers…but forget the fashion for a minute.

    Check out Carolyn Kennedy on the Met Gala red carpet…

    Was saying this on twitter, but

    Wait…hole up…is that her son? Is it just me or does he look like John Jr? I thought I was seeing things…had to do a double take. This is the first time I’ve seen her son “all growed up”…

    https://twitter.com/Jehwauhn/status/859194487389683713

  5. 5.

    Ian G.

    Honestly, the Trump presidency has gone just about how my best case scenario pictured it: any authoritarian impulse overwhelmed by the man’s bottomless stupidity, laziness, and incompetence. After the election, I told the more spooked people around me that he had neither the brains nor balls to be Pinochet, Putin, Erdogan, or Chavez. So far, it looks like I’m right. Here’s hoping it continues that way.

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    Since it’s a open thread, and I wanted to respond to Major^4 & Sab in the last thread, I Googled about ants only showing up when it gets hot. It went over 80 degrees this weekend and I said to the housemates “Now we’ll get overrun by ants again.” And we were.

    Turns out

    While ants and bears might not appear to have much in common, they both spend their winters hibernating. Like bears, ants eat large amounts of food in the fall and live off of the stored fat while they slumber away the winter months. And when spring arrives, both ants and bears wake up hungry. While you probably don’t have to worry about bears invading your kitchen when it gets warm, the same can’t be said about ants.

  8. 8.

    Major Major Major Major

    My week?

    I’m finally over my jet lag, so I’ll have evenings after work to do anything requiring brains. Probably writing, reading, cat petting. Bit of an ebb in duties at work right now so I’m getting to do some background research and learning too, which is always a blast.

    My birthday is coming up, and my big from-everyone present is a Wacom drawing tablet with comic software, inspired by EBT here mentioning tablets–it arrives Thursday.

    Week is looking up!

  14. 14.

    Mike J

    Omnes was asking in the previous thread about the new Trump ad. What wasn’t brought up was that they had to pull it and recut it today as they had McMaster in uniform, a violation of federal law.

  24. 24.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Has Mark Halperin given Trump’s first hundred days a B+ yet?

    Last Wednesday on the NBC nightly news, Halperin said Trump passed a repeal of ACA in the House in his 100 days and it is a “big political win”

    He said that even though no vote had been held, let alone one that passed.

    I’m not kidding. Here’s the clip — it’s at 6:00 minute mark (video)

  38. 38.

    Stephen E. Sherman

    David McKinley, the Rep. for WV-1, is listed as undecided on AHCA. I just want to emphasize (beg?) all of you in the district to call, write, fax, and pester this dude. Thanks.

  44. 44.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Mike J: Odd that I don’t recall ads touting President Obama’s actual accomplishments after his first 100 days way back in 2009. Trump is such a special snowflake. He acts like a child who has to be praised or he’ll throw a temper tantrum.

  46. 46.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Mary G:

    you probably don’t have to worry about bears invading your kitchen when it gets warm

    It’s more of a twink problem where I live, but YMMV

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @satby: it seems ridiculous to congratulate you for getting the day off that you were supposed to get off anyhow — but given what you were up against, BIG congratulations!! Hope the day is beyond wonderful for you!

  48. 48.

    tobie

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    Last Wednesday on the NBC nightly news, Halperin said Trump passed a repeal of ACA in the House in his 100 days and it is a “big political win”

    Can’t this guy be fired for making up shit? I’m sure there’s a job waiting for him on FOX or Breitbart News or Infowars but NBC still prides itself on being mainstream and having some standards, however minimal they may be. Does Halperin have links to Russia? Just asking given that he was and continues to be Trump’s biggest cheerleader on NBC.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mary G:

    While you probably don’t have to worry about bears invading your kitchen

    Didn’t Betsy DeVos warn us about this?

  52. 52.

    Sab

    @Mary G: Are my cats safe if I take my laissez faire approach?The boys are huge, but the girls are smallish. Will ants carry them away?

  54. 54.

    p.a.

    Not complaining, but I don’t get the dearth of appointees. The movement is grifters all the way down; they must have the manpower slithering around Heritage, AEI, Family Values etc. Hard to believe their incompetence extends to not seeding every opening with incompetents.

  59. 59.

    Betty Cracker

    Jesus take the wheel…

    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

    President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!
    8:55 PM · May 1, 2017

  61. 61.

    Shalimar

    @lamh36: He looks more like JFK, Jr. than she looks like I remember Carolyn looking. I haven’t seen a picture of her in at least a decade. If you hadn’t told me, I would assume it was an old picture of JFK, Jr. with someone I didn’t recognize.

  64. 64.

    lamh36

    Betty beat me too it…so Cheeto is doubling down on his Andrew Jackson Civil War comment…smh

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mike J:

    they had to pull it and recut it today as they had McMaster in uniform, a violation of federal law.

    Fuc. King. Hilarious.

  67. 67.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    Is the Rogue White House Twitter feed still a thing? I haven’t encountered any quotes or stories of late.

    His supporters don’t have the intelligence or decency to be ashamed.

  69. 69.

    mdblanche

    @Baud: Their leader seems to be a dud.

    @Mike J: Clearly the wingnut welfare safety net has become a hammock that saps its occupants of the will to go out and get a real dishonest job.

  70. 70.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Betty Cracker:

    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

    President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!
    8:55 PM · May 1, 2017

    And he was mad. OOH, he was mad!

  77. 77.

    Spanky

    @amk: And ticks. Just pulled one out that was lodged about 4 inches west of my asshole.

    Thanks Global Warming, for the mild winter!

  80. 80.

    pk

    @Betty Cracker:

    President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen

    If Donald Trump had been alive during the civil war the North would have surrendered to the south before a single shot had been fired.

  81. 81.

    Major Major Major Major

    ICYMI

    Steve Bannon’s rap musical has been found, and it is some unhinged nonsense

    Steve Bannon’s past continues to be fascinating, for the seeming contradictions represented by his onetime progressivism, for the crude appeal of discovering how he transformed into a festering mound of liver spots and in-grown neck hairs, and for the overwhelming artistic ambitions he once harbored. These delusions of genius are perhaps best encapsulated by the story of his attempt to remake Shakespeare’s Coriolanus as a rap musical about the Los Angeles riots entitled The Thing I Am. While we’ve eagerly gobbled up pull quotes from it for months, the entire manuscript has now been discovered by NowThis. Seizing upon the moment, they have organized a full table read of the document, and it is really something to behold.

    …At one point, actress Nyima Funk says, “Bitch, please! It becomes a man. Breasts nursing look no lovelier than when a forehead spits forth blood,” then, breaking character, adds, “Sorry, this is the first time I’ve ever said anything like this. We should talk like this more often.”

  83. 83.

    Sab

    Worrying about my cats as I squashed ants in my kitchen tonight, but I still felt incredibly guilty tonight as a woman and as a sort of feminist. What was that ant novel a few years back: “Anthill” by Edward O Wilson : paraphrase: Humans send their young men to war, ants send their old women. So there I am squashing old women foraging ants to protect my self-involved young cats. I suppose species loyalty is important.But not really since I am protecting cats. Anti-communism? Even housework can be political, sigh.

  84. 84.

    Major Major Major Major

    @pk: “…and I ended that war without losing a single American life. You know who tried to fix this conflict, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, they helped create it. Some people are saying that, I dunno. But I got rid of that all, brought in some new thinking, and solved the slavery argument once and for all. Fastest civil war ever.”

  85. 85.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Lapassionara: RUMINT is that Rebekah Mercer, who is on the Heritage board, is trying to replace him with Bannon as a landing pad. No way to know if that is any more than rumor at this point.

  90. 90.

    Another Scott

    RollCall:

    House Chief Deputy Whip Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina said Monday evening that Republicans are “very close” to winning the support needed to pass their health care overhaul. One place he might want to look: his own whip team. At least seven members said Monday they remain undecided.

    That list includes Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik of New York, David Valadao of California, Kevin Yoder of Kansas, Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Erik Paulsen of Minnesota and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.

    Some of those members, a fraction of the roughly 100-person whip team, said they would have supported the version Republicans had planned to vote on in March before leaders canceled the vote because it lacked the support to pass. A recent amendment, which Rules Committee Republicans have yet to officially add to the bill, won over the majority of conservatives but hardened moderate opposition and even created some uncertainty among lawmakers who had backed the bill.

    According to a CQ Roll Call count, 20 lawmakers are opposed to the legislation, which means leaders need to convince the vast majority of the undecided members to support the bill if they want it to pass. Republicans can lose just 22 votes on the package, assuming full attendance, and still pass it.

    […]

    The members CQ Roll Call has confirmed as opposed are: Reps. Mark Amodei of Nevada, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Ryan A. Costello of Pennsylvania, Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania, Jeff Denham of California, Dan Donovan of New York, John Katko of New York, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, Walter B. Jones of North Carolina, Leonard Lance of New Jersey, Frank A. Lobiondo of New Jersey, Christopher H. Smith of New Jersey, Billy Long of Missouri, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, Daniel Webster of Florida and David Young of Iowa.

    While Webster and Denham are among the “no” votes, both suggested they could get to “yes” with additional changes that would address specific needs in their states.

    Despite the growing list of “no” and “undecided” members at the Capitol, White House officials, including National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, told CBS earlier Monday the vote would happen this week.

    I’m optimistic, but we can’t let up until they finally give up on using Reconciliation this year.

    Keep fighting!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  92. 92.

    lollipopguild

    @amk: The pox news implosion was a long time coming-it took Carlson being willing to go the distance in order to bell the cat(ailes). Ailes is actually more Pig than cat.

  93. 93.

    SFAW

    @lamh36:

    Trump administration position on Supreme Court case suggests Melania Trump could be deported

    What’s the over/under on how long it takes Jared to be indicted after Melania gets deported?

  94. 94.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @Betty Cracker: It’s just maddening. He’s so fact free and crazed, that you don’t even know where to start refuting what he says. And yet he’s the POTUS, not your retired uncle, so the world can’t ignore it.

  95. 95.

    TenguPhule

    @pk: Naw. But the term fragging would have been invented over a hundred years earlier.

  98. 98.

    Sab

    @Adam L Silverman: Isn’t this Yikes, or maybe nobody will take them seriously anymore? I hope John Roberts and crew are proud of their contribution to our Founders’ vision.

  100. 100.

    Marcopolo

    @Betty Cracker: let me finish that thought off for Trump, “And that guy Lincoln was the lowest energy losingest loser ever cause he let the war happen! Sad!”

  106. 106.

    trollhattan

    @Mary G: @Major Major Major Major:
    Are y’all talking eensy-weensy ants that get in via basically invisible spaces? Perhaps members of the invading Argentine Ant Supercolony. We get them here during any extreme weather: bigly hot, bigly wet, bigly cold. I hate the fvckers as they’re great at farming yard pests like aphids and scale and have killed off any and all native ants that may have been here previously.

    Thanks for nuthin’ Evita!

  107. 107.

    Brachiator

    @Stephen E. Sherman:

    .David McKinley, the Rep. for WV-1, is listed as undecided on AHCA.

    And for your conservative FaceBook buddies, get them mobilized too. Or at least irritated.

    Where are the promised improvements​ to health insurance? Everything in the Republican plan would reduce premiums and deductibles by stripping benefits and letting insurance companies drop people who get sick. How is that better?
    .

  108. 108.

    SFAW

    @TenguPhule:

    Uh, you’re missing the point.

    I’m talking about the Malevolent Leprechaun’s minions indicting Kushner for felony jaywalking, at the specific request of the Moron-In-Chief. As in: clearing the field.
    Or do I need to spell it out even more?

  111. 111.

    TenguPhule

    I’m not sure what’s worse, Trump doubling down on Jackson or Trump sounding his admiration for Kim Jong.

    Its like we’re on the crazy train and Trump decided he wants to go to Ludicrious Speed….NOW.

  113. 113.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Sab: @TenguPhule: As I wrote in response to several folks, including a few commenters from here, shortly after the election: “Things are going to be bad for a while. And people who don’t deserve it are going to be hurt, so we all have to pull together. But the one advantage here is that the President-elect and his people are not very good at what they are doing. They are mean and cruel and crafty, but not smart. And they don’t operate smartly. They are loud, they are noisy, they are clumsy, and they telegraph everything. They will trip themselves up a lot and that provides room to maneuver.”

    I have yet to see anything to disabuse me of this.

  114. 114.

    laura

    @satby:
    As well you should! I hope you mark the occasion well, and I’ve been fretting about the office manager conundrum. It’s hard to tell if she’s incapable of leading humans.
    Some are natural born. Some can grow into the job -and it ain’t easy to direct workers all the time.
    Some people should never be in charge of, or have power over other people.
    From what you’ve written, it sounds like the doctor continues to have respect for her, and that may be history and habit, and the doctor may be unsuited to managing staff or its an avoidable burden.
    But you’ve mentioned diminished health, and that may be a huge factor in defending her sense of self, prior capabilities and the inevitable realization that aging and inability to work, make a living, or life after working years isn’t what she planned for.
    That you and your coworkers are the anvil upon which she is working the issues out on, IS something the doctor must adjudicate or mediate because the status quo is unacceptable and will impact the bottom line.
    I wish you well in threading this needle.

    I can’t get greennotGreen off my mind and heart.
    Sending waves of love and grace your way.

  119. 119.

    Mike J

    @MomSense:

    Aaron was only six years old when Andrew Jackson purchased him in 1791. Hannah was less than twelve years old when she was acquired by Jackson. As was common practice, Aaron and Hannah were most likely named by their original owner and not provided with surnames. They took the surname “Jackson” following emancipation.

  123. 123.

    Marcopolo

    @Another Scott: Losing Rep Long (I’m from MO) is kind of fascinating–Trump won his district by 40!!! points. Long says it is due to the new language allowing states to request pre-existing condition waivers (i.e. Loss of coverage for pre-existing condition is now back). He campaigned on the trail w/ Trump last year, but said he would not switch his vote even after Trump called him earlier tonight (& I am guessing said this would get fixed somewhere down the road). Which means Trump is well on his way to having lost all his credibility w/ R congress-critters. They apparently don’t trust his assurances anymore.

    I think we can win this!

  125. 125.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @TenguPhule: Braxton Bragg’s troops tried to kill him during the Mexican War by rolling an explosive shell into his tent at night. They cut the fuse improperly and Bragg was able to put it out. He was so enraged by his troops’ technical incompetence that he woke up everyone in his battery and made them spend the rest of the night practicing fuse cutting.

  128. 128.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    Had a great time at LA’s May Day March today (though it was hot as hell.) I marched mostly with a bunch of ACLU people and it was great. Sadly it was only 15,000 people, well shy of the 100K organizers had hoped for. I know it’s a week day and people are rightfully freaked out by the threat of ICE but I still come away with sadness at the fact that our country is more enthusiastic about legalizing weed (something I totally favor) than it is about granting amnesty and protection to these wonderful people. :(

  129. 129.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @laura:

    I can’t get greennotGreen off my mind and heart.
    Sending waves of love and grace your way.

    You are not alone. I hope gnG is aware of all the love coming her way.

    The word “grace” is such a lovely word. Thank you for using it, laura.

  130. 130.

    lamh36

    “If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live”

    Trump’s casino business went bankrupt, and then a lawyer representing investors told police he got a menacing call from a man who said “we’re going to your house for your wife and kids” if he didn’t stop “fucking with Mr. Trump.” The FBI determined the call came from a phone booth across the street from the theater where Trump was appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman…

  131. 131.

    mdblanche

    @Another Scott: 100 person whip team? That’s almost half the caucus. If they need one half of the caucus to keep an eye on the other half, and they still can’t count on the first half, it’s no wonder they can’t seem to get anything done.

  132. 132.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Sab: He had alopecia areata, but appears to have had it episodically – not the severe every hair falls out and never grows back case. His real hair color was sort of a dark brown from what I can tell.

  133. 133.

    Mike J

    @Adam L Silverman: If he were removed in an extralegal fashion, I’d be afraid the Republicans would go buck wild and pass every damn thing they could think of “as a tribute to him”, knowing they could force through anything during the power vacuum.

    And in general I prefer legal solutions to the extralegal.

  135. 135.

    Sab

    @Adam L Silverman: I am actually more afraid of the courts, because those guys do know what they are doing. Trump’s executive branch couldn’t run a Toastmasters meeting, but the Court guys could and do run their branch of govt.

  136. 136.

    Adam L Silverman

    @lamh36: Saw that earlier today. I would put money on the caller being his bodyguard/chief of personal security Schiller. That guy is a piece of work.

  138. 138.

    Brachiator

    Twitter is having fun reacting to The Donald’s latest Twitter ramble:

    Trump has a golf foursome next weekend with Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglas & Pavarotti, they’re going to discuss tax reform.

    Pearl Harbor was a tremendous woman who helped Frederick Douglass cultivate pineapple in Hawaii during the 1940’s. #TrumpTeachesHistory.

    People don’t realize Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass and Luciano Pavarotti tried to stop the Civil War. It’s being known more and more.

    today we’ll learn about fredrick douglas’s wife, harriet tubman, who so bravely sat on that bus all those years ago. #TrumpTeachesHistory

  139. 139.

    kindness

    I’m missing Charles Pierce. He isn’t a volume guy but what he puts up is a distilled product. Yea, I know, he’s sick. Let us all just take a moment and wish him well, eh? (in our best zen fashion of course)

  141. 141.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mike J: I don’t see anything but either a legal solution or him resigning ahead of the final, legal hammer being dropped. We have to wait and see what the CI investigation, the other FBI criminal investigations, and AG Schneiderman’s NY state investigations produce.

  147. 147.

    lamh36

    Ohio quadruplets accepted to Ivies will attend college together

    They’re going to Yale!

    The Wade quadruplets, all of whom got into Harvard and Yale, and who had offers from a combined 59 colleges, will attend university together in the fall, they revealed exclusively to NBC News.

    Yale offered all four brothers from Liberty Township, Ohio, an “extraordinary” financial aid package, which no other college could beat…

  150. 150.

    MomSense

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Christopher Reeve was very kind to me when I was a teenager. He called and wrote to me when I was in the hospita. Helped me through a very difficult time. Just a warm, wonderful human being. All these years later and I still can’t believe he is gone. I agree that Joe III looks like him. First time I saw him on tv, the likeness floored me.

  153. 153.

    lamh36

    Shooting of black teen in Dallas suburb did not meet ‘our core values,’ police chief says

    Police have retracted earlier accounts that a vehicle was reversing toward officers in an “aggressive manner” when one of the officers opened fire, striking and killing 15-year-old Jordan Edwards in a Dallas-area suburb Saturday night.

    In a news conference Monday, Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber said that he initially “misspoke” and that the vehicle had begun to drive away at the time the officer opened fire. He questioned whether the shooting was necessary.

    “I unintentionally (was) incorrect when I said the vehicle was backing down the road … in fact I can tell you that I do have questions in relation to my observation (of) the video,” Haber said. “After reviewing the video, I don’t believe that (the shooting) met our core values.”

    Haber, who declined to release the video footage of the shooting as well as the name of the officer involved, said that evidence will be presented to a grand jury…

  156. 156.

    lamh36

    @ZekeJMiller
    Joaquin Castro emails supporters that he’s not running for the Senate

  157. 157.

    Brachiator

    @trollhattan:

    Was it over when the Japanese bombed Pearl Bailey?.

    It wasn’t over until Pearl’s husband Bill Bailey came home. The Japanese knew they done him wrong.

  160. 160.

    Adam L Silverman

    @MomSense: Hopefully all is well now. And that’s a great story. As for Congressman Kennedy – I think it is the jaw and the spit curl.

    Fun Superman fact: According to DC comics continuity the Kryptonian glyph that is the “S” symbol on Superman’s costume, which is the El family crest and is pronounced “el” is the Kryptonian word for hope.

  163. 163.

    Brachiator

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    .So like a man to overlook Susan B. Anthony. Have you ever heard of Susan B. Anthony?

    Susan B Anthony had that email problem.

  164. 164.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @kindness:

    Last time he posted was a week ago today. I’ve been thinking about him and wishing him well ever since.

    I think I saw recently that Charlie had moved to Rhode Island. He used to live in Watertown, MA, and Watertown friends of mine would occasionally see him in the shops, or at a pub, or on the street. Not to know him, exactly, but familiar faces. Even when I disagree with CPP’s conclusions, I’m an admirer, and I hope he’s back among us very soon.

  165. 165.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Brachiator:

    Susan B Anthony had that email problem.

    Ah yes, the one that cast a shadow over her efforts to get votes for women.

  171. 171.

    lamh36

    @Adam L Silverman: right..do we buy the police chief’s “mistakenly” using the “aggressive backing up” language?

    Cause I don’t…it sure did take em some time to correct “innocent” mistake…smh

  172. 172.

    danielx

    @tobie:

    Can’t this guy be fired for making up shit?

    No. And judging by past performances, nobody cares about him making shit up. He’s a Villager in good standing, and they don’t get fired for making up shit or for much of anything else.

  174. 174.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36:

    Yeah :-(

    They’re also cutting back on (or doing away with) school lunch nutritional guidelines.

    Just bracing for when they dig up Michelle’s WH garden to turn it into a putting green.

  178. 178.

    lamh36

    @Adam L Silverman: yep, I saw that…smh.

    It’s classic misinformation/misdirection…put the misleading shit out there…then let it marinate before coming back and “amending” it…smh

  179. 179.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Adam L Silverman:

    He started tweeting again yesterday.

    Good to know, thanks. I don’t do the Twitterz, so would have missed that. Hope he’s back at Esquire soon.

  180. 180.

    efgoldman

    @chopper:

    this dumbshit doesn’t even know that jackson was a goddamned slaveowner.

    He knows. He doesn’t care, and/or doesn’t know why that was bad.

  181. 181.

    lamh36

    So KKKLannity is supposedly thinking of exiting Faux news by Friday

    So all it took to bring down Faux News…is Cheeto Prez in the white house…

    why do the faux news watchers need to watch Faux News, when they can just follow Cheeto Prez on twitter instead…smh

    I will never NOT be happy to be rid of Fox News…

  184. 184.

    efgoldman

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    They’re also cutting back on (or doing away with) school lunch nutritional guidelines.

    Time for a Greatest Hits recap: ketchup is a vegetable.

  194. 194.

    efgoldman

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Costco stopped carrying Grey Puopon,

    We didn’t have room in the fridge for a gallon jar anyway, plus it would take thru our granddaughter’s lifetime to use that much.

  198. 198.

    J R in WV

    @Spanky:

    We have a whole new species of tick lately, the Lone Star Tick, so called for a single white speck, the lone star, on a medium-small black tick body. And there’s one that’s so small it’s hard to get a grip on, the size of a semicolon ; smaller, actually. A tad bigger than a comma.

    And of course each new breed of tick carries a new list of tropical diseases… yuck!

    ETA: John, wonderful backyard garden, nice sky view of rainbow, thanks so much. Glad ABC is around, too. Hang in there.

  200. 200.

    prob50

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!

    He would have stayed alive to prevent the War, but his personal adviser’s told him that type of move would probably keep him off the $20 bill.

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    @Brachiator:

    Pearl Harbor was a tremendous woman who helped Frederick Douglass cultivate pineapple in Hawaii during the 1940’s.

    And to this day Andrew Jackson still maintains she stole the pineapple idea from him. It’s another more and more known fact every day now.

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