Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Republicans in disarray!

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

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Infrastructure week. at last.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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Back when kree8iv baby names were still a celebrity novelty, the joke was that a kid named ‘Chastity’ or ‘Purity’ was gonna end up on a stripper pole. Possibly the elder Winners should’ve picked a less Trickster-God-tempting name for their little girl…

Sure, he’ll always have the Jacobin broflakes to defend him, but when Ted Rall gives Greenwald the hairy eyeball… truly, these are apocalyptic times.

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Never much cared for his writing but he’s now shot way up on the reputation chart for me.

    Horror author Stephen King says his frequent criticism of President Donald Trump has gotten him blocked on Twitter.

    The author of “Firestarter” and “It” tweeted Tuesday the Republican president has blocked him on the social media website. He says, “I may have to kill myself.”

    …He called Trump “an impulsive, bad-tempered idiot.” Source

    (Repeated from below.)

  2. 2.

    Aleta

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    I’m worried that people are just exhausted of all this.

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    @PeterSullivan4 reports tonight that *20,000* comments were submitted! But will Sen. Hatch make them public???
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  3. 3.

    Calouste

    Terry Pratchett uses the joke about a girl called Chastity becoming a, as he calls it, lady of negotiable affections, in one of his books. She also has a few sisters with similar virtuous names and less than virtuous lives, and some brothers on the straight and narrow with names like Cruelty and Bestiality.

  9. 9.

    EBT

    Well, four days of writing yielded 2500 words, and a nice screenshot of the flow for it.

  11. 11.

    SC54HI

    @Morzer:
    Probably not that many. GG says that people who don’t buy this “explanation” are too dumb to comprehend it.

  13. 13.

    opiejeanne

    Is it somehow surprising that Ted Rall is dissing GG? I don’t know that much about him.

  15. 15.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @opiejeanne:

    Isn’t that Neuschwanstein?

    Yup, I said obscure in my most snarky voice. ?

    I think it is old Mad King Ludwig’s digs.

    Yes, again; one of his many palaces. He built quite a few.

    ETA: He was a builder, much like the descendant of one of his subjects claims to be.

  16. 16.

    Boussinesque

    @opiejeanne: A quick look at the linked website turned up this gem of a quote:

    Then there’s the DNC emails posted by WikiLeaks. As I’ve noted before, WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange said he didn’t get them from Russia. Also at WikiLeaks, Craig Murray says they were handed to him by a pro-Bernie DNC staffer. So it was a leak, not a hack. Anyway, even if Russia gave them to WikiLeaks — which looks doubtful — we should thank Team Putin for revealing just how venal and corrupt the DNC was when they decided to cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination.

    Telling the truth about lying DNC scoundrels who belong in prison is “meddling”?

    If so, I’ll take more meddling, please.

    So yeah, unreconstructed “Dems are the worst EVAH! And Julian Assange is totally worth taking at his word!” douchecanoe.

  17. 17.

    Morzer

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Oddly enough, Madame Morzer has just finished a jigsaw puzzle of that mighty edifice. Lots of white and blue and apparently undoable – and yet, three hours later she emerges triumphant. Complex and subtle critters, those wimmins, and far too clever for simple souls like me. I occasionally think about agitating for democracy in our household, but, after all, an efficient and relatively gentle tyranny has something to be said for it.

  18. 18.

    Boussinesque

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Nice picture!
    Unfortunately, the closest I’ve ever gotten to anything similar was playing “The Castles of Mad King Ludwig” board game…

  20. 20.

    Betty Cracker

    I utterly despise Rall, but it is almost worth being reminded of his existence to learn that he’s attacking Greenwald as a tool of the Deep State.

  22. 22.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Boussinesque: Thanks, lets just say that I did some work on that picture. The sky was blown out on the slide so I darkened it and applied a blue filter. We got to see two of his palaces: Neuschwanstein, obviously, and Herrenchiemsee southeast of Munich.

  25. 25.

    different-church-lady

    @Morzer: I’m not rooting for injuries in this case. I’m rooting for the failure of the league.

  26. 26.

    Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.

    “Back when kree8iv baby names were still a celebrity novelty…”

    Lest you think Apple Martin* has it bad, at our kids’ daycare they put up a sign welcoming new kids on their first day. One morning ~2 years ago, we walk up and see:

    “Welcome
    ISIS”

    Top that, celebrities!

    * (a mere one letter from “Apple Martini”. Yikes.)

  28. 28.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Somewhat surprised you didn’t make it to Hohenschwangau, which is MKL’s only halfway-sane edifice; it’s not far from Neuschwanstein & tours out of Muenchen usually include both. Na ja, mir ist’s egal.

  32. 32.

    workworkwork

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: His dad’s place across the road looks like a split-level townhouse by comparison.

    (We went there as part of a school trip back in high school.)

  34. 34.

    J R in WV

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Is that one of Mad King Ludwig’s palaces? Looks more palace than war-like castle, the only castle I’ve ever toured was all arrow-slits with a cannonball embedded in the stone wall.

    @Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.:

    But remember Isis was a famous goddess in mythology before ISIS was the nym for a terroristic rape and murder club.

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