Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Democrats are back in array!

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

This really is a full service blog.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

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  3. 3.

    NotMax

    and have no idea what is going on in the world

    Maybe doing a quick scroll through a blog or two would help with some of that.

    Just sayin’.          ;)

  7. 7.

    Cheryl Rofer

    Progress report on leash-training Ric and Zooey

    We are going out every morning now. The cats have adjusted to the vests, although they still do not like them. I took both cats out together for two days, but they go in different directions, and carrying 25+ pounds of squirming cat back to the house when it’s time to go in is a bit much.

    We go out for about 20 minutes each. They are able to pounce on flies, and Zooey made a heroic leap toward the bird feeder in response to two chickadees who were teasing him. He failed to bring one down, however. Both cats have had a scare at the street, so hopefully they will prefer the yard. They have not been bothered by the drizzle of the past two days.

    They are very excited about going out in the morning. Unfortunately, tomorrow I have to take the car for servicing and will not be able to take them out. Maybe later in the day.

    All in all, reasonably successful so far.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    @Baud: Nothing “breaking” as is, but it sounds like lots of people are starting to wake up and say WTF re: Kush and Ivanka’s personal email usage. I think someone is getting ready to bus that dude.

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    I hate Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Lawrence O’Donnell is running some clips of her from the press briefing today. She’s like a little Mini-Me monster version of Trump.

    Oh, great! Joy Reid is on the panel, and she’s getting ready to tee off on the Possum Queen.

    (I am running behind on the DVR.)

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    @Adam L Silverman: You guys missed this on another thread. No spoilers.
    “That was a good segment on MSNBC’s LO’D. Joy Reid got righteous and Tim O’Brien picked it up and put it down.”

  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Corner Stone: I saw the tweets about it, so I’m looking forward to getting there. But first I have to get through the MSNBC Stream of Consciousness Hour The Rachel Maddow Show.

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Corner Stone: I try not to make fun of people’s looks, but it is like each half of her face (left side/right side) are each doing their own thing at the same time. Its like an animatronic Picasso or something.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    As long as we are talking crocodiles, may I offer some crocodile tears for the Bears’ performance so far tonight?

    ETA: Romo is doing well as a color guy.

  26. 26.

    Laura

    Enjoy Homecoming Weekend with your pals Mr. Cole. But of you find the time to post a pic or two of some dogs, KIki,house,condiments, pals, vehicles, vases, sportsball, that would be nice.

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    @dmsilev: Batboy appointed some 20 something former campaign staffer with no emergency management or disaster response experience to be the Interim Director of the Florida Department of Emergency Management. The kid’s work experience is Chief of Staff to the guy who just resigned, Batboy’s campaign, helping with a course at a bar exam prep company, some legal work at UF where he got his law degree, and a mattress store in Gainesville.

    We are so screwed!

  34. 34.

    joel hanes

    She’s like a little Mini-Me monster version of Trump.

    She conceives of this as her job, and aspires to do it as “professionally” as she can.

  45. 45.

    Olivia

    The reason that fucking fuckabee harpy’s face looks like it is at war with itself is because it is at war with itself. It is demonstrating opposing values in her brain. One is what she knows in her heart is right and the other is what she lives and shows to the world and what makes her money. I would just like to know which side of her face is demonstrating which value.

  47. 47.

    J R in WV

    John:

    I thought you went to WVU? HS class? Doesn’t matter.

    Have a nice weekend!! Enjoy the old friends, and don’t give anyone too much static for being a RWNJ. Just ask them if they’re satisfied with the clean honesty of Trump’s appointments.

  49. 49.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    While on the subject of invasive species –

    Tsunami drives species ‘army’ across Pacific to US coast
    [snip]
    The research team has detected 289 different species so far. Mussels were the most common, but there were also crabs, clams, sea anemones and star fish.

    So common were findings that new species were still being discovered even as the study drew to a close in 2017, six years after the tsunami.

    The scientists say that many other species have likely made the journey and so far escaped detection. No colonies of invaders have so far been established but the research team believes that this is likely to happen.
    [snip]
    “For aeons if a plant or animal was to raft across the oceans, their boat was literally dissolving underneath them. What we have done now is provide these species with rather permanent rafts; we have changed the nature of their boats.”

    Moving much more slowly than ships, the plastic or fibre glass rafts gave the species time to gradually adjust to their new environment, making it easier for them to reproduce and their larvae attach to the debris.

    The researchers are concerned that with so much plastic in our oceans, and with climate change making cyclones and storms more intense, the threat of invasive marine species has never been greater. The tsunami research shows just how much of an impact this route can have.

    “There’s nothing comparable in the scale of what we’ve seen before in the history of marine science,” said Prof Carlton. Source

  56. 56.

    Adam L Silverman

    @trollhattan: I think they find anything and everything delicious.

    I saw a dead baby gator on the side of the road yesterday. Couldn’t have been more than two feet long. Most likely it got clipped trying to cross while it was dark out.

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    @Adam L Silverman: I recently read an article on dogs and their ability to read their humans, etc. Apparently they are able to read our faces quite well, and the article said they focus on the left hand side of our faces first because that is where we display our emotions first. I wonder if her face always has the mismatch or if that’s her lying that’s coming through and making her face look so weird.

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    Just for fun –

    Can’t give a recommendation to the whole series (it stays stuck undecided on what it is trying to be), but the one episode of the Ricky Gervais sitcom Extras with guest star Patrick Stewart is a hoot (and he must have had a ball doing it). Here’s the money clip. All the more funny because he plays it so very straight.

  64. 64.

    Betty Cracker

    One of my Trumpster uncles got kinda butt hurt about a joke I made in response to a meme he sent, and I wonder if I’m missing something. Maybe y’all can help me figure it out.

    He sent a picture of Forrest Gump with the caption: “And just like that, 63 million Americans said, ‘Fuck the NFL.'”

    I replied, “Who could have foreseen that when conservative and liberal America divorced, the libtards would get custody of the NFL?”

    And then he got all huffy and said he was merely sharing a little HUMOR, not trying to start a political debate. Gosh!

    Is there any way this is not a political issue — the NFL “boycott”? Since the orange fart cloud my uncle stupidly voted for started the whole kerfluffle and has flogged it relentlessly for a week, it’s hard to separate the issue from politics, isn’t it?

  66. 66.

    Betty Cracker

    @NotMax: This particular uncle was crowing about Trump for the first few months after the election but hasn’t had much to say lately. I think even he knows Trump is a giant fuckup. He’ll never admit it, but he sure does avoid the subject now. That might be behind the defensiveness.

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    @Betty Cracker: That does seem to be an odd response from someone who raise the issue himself!

    His response reminds me of the friend I’ve talked politics with since the beginning of time: during the primaries he said he hated Trump but he hated Hillary and then followed it with “what to do what to do …” when I came back with a question of how he could possibly not know what to do between the two of those people he came back with “I don’t want to talk about politics”. After years of talking politics! It’s the cowardly response to an indefensible position, I think.

  68. 68.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Betty Cracker:

    I think you’re right about the defensiveness. And, hell, yes, the “joke” he sent was political. Your response was mild. It probably triggered his awareness of “losing”—horrors!—even though the idea of losing the NFL was implicit in his original joke.

  69. 69.

    Betty Cracker

    @Steeplejack (phone): I kinda hope the Gators players take a knee this Saturday. This uncle lives for college football. He’ll bust a ‘rhoid!

    See, here’s an example of how Trump ruins everything! I find myself so driven by SPITE! I’m afraid I’ll become reverse-Cleek’s Law.

  70. 70.

    Gvg

    @Betty Cracker: a part of Trumps appeal was anti polititian, anti establishment. There have always been some voters who really hated the conventional process of politics. We know the liberal jerks but the other side was really prominent this time. It’s not a realist position but it’s always been around. Trump won’t get that support next time, he will be tainted by having become a polititian.
    Anyway your uncle may not see the original politics. I think he may see his view as the “natural” position and bringing up liberals is spoiling it by mentioning politics. He’s deluded as a Stein voter. Total guess though. Could be wrong.

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