Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Books are my comfort food!

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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  3. 3.

    Divf

    No, it’s like having two presiding clergy at a mixed marriage – one representing Cole’s faith, the other the car’s.

  5. 5.

    Mike in NC

    I suspect when Trump meets Pope Francis there will be a lot of exorcism jokes in cyberspace.

  6. 6.

    zhena gogolia

    So in the background there’s a sign in Russian for “Shoes.” Which is the kind of sign you’d have in the USSR. Is this an old picture? The cars don’t look that old.

  12. 12.

    zhena gogolia

    @Corner Stone:

    It’s giving me cognitive dissonance because it has Soviet and post-Soviet elements to it. The “Jeep” sign is definitely post-Soviet. But I don’t think they have stores that are just called “Shoes” any more.

  13. 13.

    Another Scott

    @zhena gogolia: Good catch.

    TinEye has references to that picture going back to 2007.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (Who used TinEye quite frequently with e-mail forwards from my dad in the Obama years. ;-)

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    This is something that’s fairly common for Catholics to do, too, though it’s usually an annual event/car show and not roadside assistance. ?

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Roger Moore:

    I was thinking “I need an old priest and a young priest”.

    I need Tom and Ray Magliozzi. Damn, I miss Car Talk.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    I am still sick. Mild fever of 99 degrees, but very slowly starting to feel better. Sore throat doesn’t feel as much like I’m being stabbed. Sab will be relieved to know that I took her advice and did not inflict myself on the general public today.

    G is going to pick up a few groceries on the way home in exchange for me trying a new microwave risotto recipe.

  24. 24.

    germy

    When I saw the above photo I thought it was Gorka and Ryan checking for listening devices.

  25. 25.

    Keith P.

    Holy shit, I finally heard someone (on Smerchonish) point out that the various Trump conversations that are being leaked are necessarily classified (at least not all of them). Trump really wants his NDAs enforced by prison time is what’s going on.

  27. 27.

    germy

    Have any of the redhat drumpf rally attendees seen the footage of drumpf bowing and curtsying for his medal from the House of Oil?

  28. 28.

    Nicole

    Watching the Preakness Stakes to see if Always Dreaming will make it a chance for 2 Triple Crowns in 3 years. I can’t go to the Belmont this year (my first absence since 2005!) so it’ll be bittersweet for me if I have to miss it.

    The Washington Post has an article up today about Trump’s one alleged foray into horse racing. Some inaccuracies in the telling, I suspect, but I don’t doubt for one bit the part about Trump getting out of actually paying for the horse.

  30. 30.

    James E Powell

    There was a strange noise coming from the engine. It sounded like: Merrin . . . Merrin.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    O/T, just saw (at Digby’s place) a photo of Mrs. Kushner clutching her hubby’s hand for dear life, and dressed in what appears to be a bolt of upholstery material she got at Hancock Fabrics for 75% off.

  35. 35.

    Frank Wilhoit

    There is a wonderful old George Booth cartoon from the New Yorker (1970s) with mechanics telling a customer that they have brought an exorcist into consultation about his car. Google, alas, findeth it not.

  38. 38.

    JGabriel

    @germy:

    Have any of the redhat drumpf rally attendees seen the footage of drumpf bowing and curtsying for his medal from the House of Oil?

    Yes.

    Given all the right-wing criticism of Obama “bowing”, the wingnuts are trying to deny Trump bowed by saying he “curtsied”.

    Yeah, right. “Curtsied” sounds so much more masculine, tough guy.

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    @Another Scott:

    Thanks! The really frustrating part is that my carpal tunnels have been acting up lately (too much typing on mobile devices ?) so it’s been hard to get comfortable enough to sleep properly.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Nicole:

    I’m in a pool, blind draw. Got Multiplier, at 25-1.

    Come on, Multiplier. Come on, Multiplier! Come ON, Multiplier, move yer bloomin’ arse!!

  42. 42.

    chris

    @Shell: I saw an “EATS” sign on the road between Bangor and Calais in Maine last week. There was one car. The very definition of unprepossessing.

  45. 45.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    As we all saw with Ann Romney, an excess of money not only doesn’t lead to good taste, it usually leads to the opposite as people wear extremely expensive but ugly clothes to signal that they have money.

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @JGabriel: Given all the right-wing criticism of Obama “bowing”, the wingnuts are trying to deny Trump bowed by saying he “curtsied”.

    maybe they think “curtsy” is the verb form of “courtesy” and trump was being very polite

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JGabriel:

    Given all the right-wing criticism of Obama “bowing”, the wingnuts are trying to deny Trump bowed by saying he “curtsied”.

    I’m enjoying this a lot more than is seemly.

  50. 50.

    Adam L Silverman

    @JGabriel: Actually if you watch the clip he did both. He bowed to receive the Order of Abdul Azziz and then he curtsied before he stood back up.

  51. 51.

    Nicole

    @SiubhanDuinne: Multiplier. Huh. Well, it’s horse racing. Anything can happen.

    I’m very, very torn. On the one hand, one of Always Dreaming’s main owners was Trump’s first pick for Army secretary (he declined due to not being able to disengage from his business interests enough to satisfy the Pentagon), and I hate anything Trump-related. On the other hand, Tom Durkin, the greatest race caller of all time, is a minority owner, and I feel like it would be some kind of karmic justice if the guy who never got to call a Triple Crown winner (he retired the year before American Pharoah) would get to be an owner of one.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    maybe they think “curtsy” is the verb form of “courtesy”

    Actually, it is, or was originally. But in the intervening centuries, the word has taken on a decidedly, uh, skirted sense.

  54. 54.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Frank Wilhoit:

    I actually remember that cartoon! And I’m pretty sure I own a George Booth coffee-table book of all his greatest New Yorker contributions, so it’s almost certainly in there.

  55. 55.

    Mnemosyne

    @JGabriel:

    Yeah, right. “Curtsied” sounds so much more masculine, tough guy.

    It’s almost enough to tempt me to re-open the box of worms labeled “Princess Manbaby.”

    Not quite, but almost.

  57. 57.

    opiejeanne

    @SiubhanDuinne: That dress is wearing her. The pattern is too big and spread too far apart for this to be used in this fashion. I can see it working on a dress with a full skirt, more like this: dress

  58. 58.

    geg6

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    OMG, that is one hideous dress! And she’s supposed to be a fashion icon? That thing is even uglier than the orange vinyl (that’s what it looked like anyway) pencil skirt Melania wore to board the plane.

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Har har. ? But with the way they’ve been hurting, it’s more suitable for me to write a Stephen King-like horror novel. I may have to switch to Dragon Dictation sooner than I wanted if I can’t break the mobile device habit.

    I blame Trump, naturally.

  62. 62.

    Currants

    Wait, is that a YUGO??? I used to own (and drive) one of those! Had to get rid of it when the youngster’s knees in my back while driving were too impossible (when she was 12).

  63. 63.

    Currants

    @SiubhanDuinne: *grin* yeah. I saw Ray at a retirement dinner for a mutual friend recently (last time I saw him was at that same friend’s 40th birthday). He is just as damn funny in person–great storyteller. Last night’s best was something about a dentist and the Good News Garage….

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    @germy:

    I just read the bits that someone had excerpted about the Supreme Court giving some kind of warning and even non-lawyer me was yelling, “That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!”

    That’s what you get for relying on sensational news from people who have a tenuous grasp of how the US Constitution works.

  66. 66.

    germy

    @Mnemosyne: In my more paranoid moments, I suspect Louise is up to something other than being stupid. She was a conservative MP, now this? Something doesn’t add up.

  68. 68.

    Roger Moore

    @germy:

    In my more paranoid moments, I suspect Louise is up to something other than being stupid.

    There aren’t a lot of choices. Either she’s deliberately spreading nonsense for some nefarious reason, or she’s the unwitting tool of somebody else spreading nonsense.

  71. 71.

    Nicole

    @Tenar Arha: I believe Multiplier is still running the race. ;)

    (Seriously, though, he finished out of the money. As did Always Dreaming. The superfecta returned over $8,000 on a $1.00 wager, thanks to Cloud Computing, at 13-1 odds, winning the race at the wire.)

    I cannot find it in myself to be disappointed, thanks to the Trump connection, see above.

  73. 73.

    Singing Truth to Power

    @SiubhanDuinne: They are still on public radio in Wisconsin. I know that one of them is dead, but they live forever on radio, and are as funny as ever.

  74. 74.

    efgoldman

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    dressed in what appears to be a bolt of upholstery material she got at Hancock Fabrics for 75% off.

    :::Meeow!!:::
    [Not that she doesn’t deserve it]

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack

    @JGabriel:

    I don’t see the “curtsy” thing coming from the wingnuts. Jennifer Hayden, in the link you posted, seems to be anti-Trump, based on her Twitter history.

  76. 76.

    JGabriel

    Adam L Silverman:

    Actually if you watch the clip he did both. He bowed to receive the Order of Abdul Azziz and then he curtsied before he stood back up

    And it looks like Trump’s trying to be furtive about it too, as if he’s thinking “The internet’s gonna crucify me for this.” It’s half-hearted to the point of rudeness – if I were the Sauds, I’d be insulted.

  77. 77.

    JGabriel

    @Steeplejack:

    I don’t see the “curtsy” thing coming from the wingnuts. Jennifer Hayden, in the link you posted, seems to be anti-Trump, based on her Twitter history.

    I think Hayden is characterizing actual right-wing and/or Trumpite defenses – but it’s possible I’m reading too much into her response.

  81. 81.

    Steeplejack

    @JGabriel:

    If you look at her time line, she’s the one propagating the meme, along with a few others. I can’t find any right-wingers doing it.

  83. 83.

    Adria McDowell (formerly Lurker Extraordinaire

    @geg6:

    And she’s supposed to be a fashion icon?

    Stevie Wonder wouldn’t let her dress him.

  84. 84.

    SgrAstar

    @geg6:

    OMG, that is one hideous dress! And she’s supposed to be a fashion icon? That thing is even uglier than the orange vinyl (that’s what it looked like anyway) pencil skirt Melania wore to board the plane.

    Aieee, philistines on deck! That plastic-looking thing was *Hermes*!!!!!!! Haha. What do they say about money not being able to buy….and yeah, that thing cost thousands. Unfortunate. ?

  86. 86.

    Shantanu Saha

    Let me tell you all about the time when a rock hit the oil filter on my Dodge Omni, which then sprayed the alternator, causing my car to lose power. While I had the hood up figuring out what happened, a carload of Jehovahs Witnesses stopped by. They couldn’t actually give me any help like going to call for a tow (this was before cell phones were ubiquitous) or give me a ride to a payphone, but they could stand around talking about the glories of their faith. For. A. Solid. Hour.

  88. 88.

    laura

    @Mnemosyne: for proper sleep try the following combo (I got this from my gyn, so “official”):
    Advil & benadryl. The advil negates the hip pain and the benadryl helps with the sleep, without a morning ‘hangover.’
    Hells yes, it works!

  90. 90.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: Okay, that made me laugh out loud, so all is forgiven. I googled for Digby and found a photo way down on the page that fits your description rather accurately. Ugh. Those sunglasses and the whole look. Yikes. She has every bit of Sarah Palin’s class and style.

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    @laura:

    That’s what I ended up doing last night. Tonight I should probably try to take a dose of Advil about 4 hours before bed and then a second one at bedtime. It’s not excruciating pain, but it’s that low-grade nagging pain that makes it hard to get comfortable, even with the Benadryl booster.

    I probably need to do a full neti of my sinuses as well just to get all of the gunk out. I have distilled water on hand, so I won’t have to do too much prep.

  94. 94.

    Origuy

    @zhena gogolia: Looks to me like the sign that says “Shoes” is part of a larger sign that is covered by a bus. The color is the same and what I see of the lettering looks like the same Cyrillic type face.

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