Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

In after Baud. Damn.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

He really is that stupid.

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

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

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

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

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  1. 1.

    efgoldman

    AL, you have more class in one molecule of your pinky fingernail than all of the alleged “president”.

    I share your good wishes.

    Someone in an earlier thread noted that this is the first time in DECADES that the WH has not taken note. Inclusive and classy, as always.
    Fuckers

  2. 2.

    JPL

    Anne, thank you. That was a beautiful sentiment. I pass on my best wishes too.

    @efgoldman: I read earlier that you are ailing, though I’m glad you are able to get treatment at home.
    I’m so sorry.

  4. 4.

    ArchTeryx

    If I knew I had some Muslims in my neighborhood, I’d probably offer some rice pudding, Baklava or even an Umm Ali (which is entirely Egyptian, but is REALLY tasty).

    ETA: Also Tamir. Date treats used to be a staple in my household because of my allergies to milk. Coconut filling or goat cheese with a little honey. DAMN they’re good.

  5. 5.

    Major Major Major Major

    Heya Juicers,

    Apologies for self-promotion, but I wanted to let y’all know that I’m officially launching my new webcomic this weekend. There are three posts up so far, and it updates on Mondays. Against Stupidity – the Webcomic. Feel free to give it a look-see!

    Meet Jesse Grunwald. He just finished two years at community college in Santa Fe. In a fortuitous coincidence, earlier this year, he got offered a four-year scholarship at a Denver university and inherited his grandmother’s estate–a vintage victorian right by the lake in south Denver. Now it’s fall, and he’s moving in. He’s prepared to balance the quadruple demands of keeping up his GPA, holding down a job, making new friends, and keeping repairs up on the undoubtedly shitty car he’s about to buy. Unbeknownst to him, he’ll have to add two more demands–taking care of grandma’s pets, and holding up his magical karmic duties as the only grandchild of the powerful witch Clarita Grunwald.

  6. 6.

    geg6

    I echo the sentiment.

    So we just got back from driving to Anna Maria Island, FL and back, a 2,000 mile trip. We took the dogs. It was interesting. Koda lov s a car ride and was a champ. Lovey hates car rides but became a champ. Both were bothered by the strangeness and heat but were pretty much the best dogs ever. The only exception was when Lovey pooped in John’s deck shoes. Which we all felt badly about but excused due to stress. The new granddaughter is moving out of preemie weight and now weighs in at 7 lbs. (she was 4.5 at birth). She’s a very good baby and we have decided we love her dad, who we also met for the first time. Mom is fine. Dad is a charter fishing captain with his own business. We are looking forward to regular shipments of fresh fish. Happy news all around.

  13. 13.

    satby

    An early Eid Mubarak to Amir and others! And best of luck to Major^4.
    I’m on the verge of crashing, been up since 4am.

  19. 19.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @efgoldman: Well, they also “All Lives Matter”ed the Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Is anyone really surprised at this point?

    I second what JPL said, and also reiterate the good wishes in the OP. And also, good luck to Major^4.

  20. 20.

    eclare

    @efgoldman: Saw on the overnight threads that you have some medical issues to confront…I’m so sorry, and I want you to dance. Pulling for you.”
    ETA: fuckem

  21. 21.

    lamh36

    Welp, I’m watching Inside Out again. I’m no realizing that I never had seen the very beginning of the movie. Somehow I always managed to catch it after the first 30min…don’t know why.

    Anyway, How great was the vocal casting for #InsideOut

    Phyllis Smith as Sadness and Lewis Black as Anger…PERFECT…lol

  22. 22.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Great job! Congrats!! So much fun to watch the denizens here push their projects to completion, like Mustang Bobby’s plays and TissueThinPseudonym’s Phoebe book. Inspirational!

  23. 23.

    joel hanes

    @geg6:

    geg, I remember when your life was the pits, and I’m glad that you’re currently in a happy chapter.
    May it continue so.

  25. 25.

    efgoldman

    @(((CassandraLeo))):

    Well, they also “All Lives Matter”ed the Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Is anyone really surprised at this point?

    No, nothing they do, by omission or commission, surprises me. Scorpions gotta’ be scorpions.
    I’m not even surprised any more by how absolutely stupid they are, individually and collectively.
    I guess Apricot Asshole always made himself better and feel successful because he kept the really stupid people closest.
    Not that I think there was ever anything we’d recognize as a thought process involved.

  27. 27.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    Can I just say that Man Bun Ken memes are the best thing on the internet? They’re literally like Kryptonite to alt-left dudebroism.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: Not too much actually, until yesterday when I received 1,400.00 of the 1,550.00 I was still owed by the nonprofit. Distressing that she was playing games with my money, so I wasn’t feeling all that free. I had sent a message on Wednesday outlining in detail the dates and times she had promised me I would be paid and then she kept changing the rules. She hadn’t responded to my messages, but on Friday I received the pay in the mail.

    It’s a lot less distressing now that I’m just waiting for the 150.00 in reimbursements i am owed. It’s never fun when someone is screwing with you. :-) Feeling much better today, thanks for asking!

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    The Incredibles is still my favorite, but I loved Inside Out. A testament to the skill of the animators and voice actor is that you know based on the animation and his voice what Bing Bong has decided to do only a few seconds before he does it.

    (Trying not to spoil things, just in case.)

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    @lamh36: At first I thought you meant In & Out, which was a fun movie. Had never heard of Inside Out until now.

  32. 32.

    lamh36

    @Major Major Major Major: I just can’t chose, but Inside Out is def top tier…

    I love when Pixar movies have a message along with fun and laughs….Inside Out is one of the BEST…but man…there’s Up, and Toy Story…and Finding Nemo…

  34. 34.

    JPL

    @Major Major Major Major: Definitely, the best pixar that I’ve seen. I saw it all the theater, and had no idea crocodile tears were falling from my eyes. I bought the dvd for watching after the Thanksgiving feast that year, and my adult son left the room at the ending. It affected young and old alike.

  35. 35.

    lamh36

    @WaterGirl: OMG…. you have GOT to watch Inside Out….it is soo good

    do yourself a favor and def check that one out

    Oh and I love me some In & Out…what’s not to love Kevin Kline, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Cusack…I could have done without the mustache-less Tom Selleck…ugh…but even still LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it

  36. 36.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: You should watch it, if you can. It’s about a girl moving to a new location, because her father had a new job. My sons did that, because my ex worked for IBM. At the end there are cats and dogs, so don’t miss that.

  37. 37.

    Suzanne

    Eid Mubarak, to all who celebrate.

    Went to the water park today. Man, I hate people.

  38. 38.

    satby

    @WaterGirl: Really busy! I did pretty well, but had to be at the door to register for the drawing at 6am.
    Didn’t get done until 3, got home at 3:45 to a few gift deposits from the herd because that’s too long of a day for them if they haven’t gone out 2x in the morning. They have a routine I messed with, dammit!I
    Hell, I’m only staying up now so that we can all go out one more time tonight before bed. Talk about creatures of habit.

  39. 39.

    lamh36

    @JPL: OMG yes…it’s funny, if you’d ask Godbaby Maddie if she like Inside Out, she’d probably be like “meh”…she like it enough.

    But to a person, any adult I’ve talked to who has seen it, has had the same reaction…LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

  45. 45.

    satby

    I know the excellent and erudite Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station has a lot of fans here. His latest long post The Right Question is worth reading and sharing far and wide. He’s having a fundraiser, so chip in if you can.

    Multiple edits: damn you autocorrect!

  48. 48.

    schrodingers_cat

    Id Mubarak to AK and everyone who celebrates.
    Allah hi Reham (Allah is mercy) from My name is Khan, sung by the great Rashid Khan, set to music by Shankar*-Ehsay-Loy and penned by Niranjan Iyengar*.

    * Shankar and Niranjan are both Tamil Hindus. Tamil and Hindi are about as related as say Russian and English are.

  49. 49.

    Kjsbrooklyn

    At Sunny’s bar in Brooklyn with Red Dirt Girl. I know her in real life from this bluegrass/folk jam, which is always hopping
    Come on down!

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @geg6:

    Good news on the trip! I’m glad Lovey rose to the occasion. Did you have to use the drugs much?

  56. 56.

    spudgun

    Ok, so – I can never remember my parents’ zip code, so I googled their address and as I scrolled down I started finding all these people-search websites with their names, address, phone number – one even had my mother’s birthday!!! W?T?F?!?!? Now, these are senior citizens who don’t have any social media presence (my mother, in particular, is a complete technophobe) and hardly use the internet for anything.

    Has this happened to anyone else? Have you googled yourself and found your personal info online for all to see? If so, what did you do about it?? I’m furious at the invasion of privacy, but all my google research tells me that it’s almost impossible to opt-out of all these websites…

  60. 60.

    scav

    Eid Mubarak! and Eid Saeed! as well, the latter which amuses me as I sooooo hope it would be legal in Scrabble.

  64. 64.

    schrodingers_cat

    @MomSense: Thanks!
    From the movie. Its about the struggles of an autistic Muslim man married to a Hindu woman in the immediate aftermath of September 11.
    Shahrukh Khan plays the Rizwan Khan, a man with Asperger’s and Kajol plays his wife. Here is the link to the trailer.
    Its on my list of movies to watch.

  65. 65.

    spudgun

    @Iowa Old Lady: May I ask, did you try to remove your info from any of these sites? I know some of them have outrageous opt-out procedures, like you can only fax your opt-out and you have to fax them a copy of your ID to prove who you are, crazy stuff like that…

    I’m afraid to tell my parents what I found because I know they will freak out, but I don’t want their info out there either.

  66. 66.

    Another Scott

    @spudgun: There’s lots of stuff that’s public records that you can’t do much about. E.g. real estate records. It’s always been out there, it’s just much easier to find with some keystrokes now. It’s probably best not to get too riled up about it – I don’t think there’s much of anything you can do, and we’re all in the same boat. Unless you want to change your name to James Smith or something (and try to blend in with the crowd)…

    You can request that Google remove personal information, but that won’t apply to other private companies that have “scraped” public sites – you’d have to request that they delete the stuff too.

    I figure I’m a boring needle in a haystack and don’t worry about it (but I’m not on FB and try to be careful about what I post).

    Hang in there.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Who figures that all his info is already on a server in Shanghai or Moscow or Baku or Pyongyang already…”)

  71. 71.

    spudgun

    @Another Scott: Thanks Scott – I think this is the best answer, but it still really bothers me.

    @debbie: Nope – but surely they don’t display that kind of info unless you have an account…?

    Ugh, it’s a bit distressing (I’m kind of a worry-wort).

  74. 74.

    debbie

    @spudgun:

    No. It’s all public records. LDS also has a site that’s totally open, but I’ve forgotten the name of it.

  82. 82.

    rikyrah

    @lamh36:
    Has Maddie seen it.
    Peanut did, when it came out, and it upset her a great deal. She was 7 at the time, and it upset her a lot. I don’t think that she could process the themes.

  83. 83.

    Another Scott

    @rikyrah: Ditto. :-) I hope it’s a good one for all of the Ummah and all of their friends around this world we all share.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  84. 84.

    zhena gogolia

    OT, so wow is Tina Fey a better “Essentials” partner for Alec Baldwin than Letterman was.

  89. 89.

    OldDave

    We’re talking animation? Allow me to random, stream-of-unconsciousness blather…

    On The Incredibles: Brad Bird for the win. I’ve loved his work since The Family Dog short on Amazing Stories. I still have an Iron Giant doll around here someplace.

    Pixar: The first 8..10 minutes of Up (the Carl and Ellie story) is nothing less than magic.

    Pixar: The shorts. Oh, lord, the shorts. I saw at least one of them at a SigGraph conference in the 80s. “Red’s Dream” is perhaps my favorite.

    Looney Tunes – back when I was a kid one of our neighbors had a relative who worked at Termite Terrace … and had a drawer full of cells. :::sigh::: I’d love to go back in time and look at them again.

    That’s enough. Carry on.

  94. 94.

    Amir Khalid

    Thanks to everyone for the good wishes. I’ll be spending the day with family, and hopefully not bringing any adverse effects on my gastrointestinal system with all that rich food.

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