Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

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

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Republicans in disarray!

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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I’ve just been in a seething rage the past 48 hours. This tax bill may have pushed me over the edge. Oh, and shitheads like Mike Murphy, who looks like a conehead with pubic hair for a combover:

His response was to block me. Lying ass prick.

Penguins look like shit. At least SNL is new with Kevin Hart and the Foo Fighters.

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    Mike Murphy is just like all the rest of the Never Trumpers. They refuse to own up to what they have done for the last 20+ years and given the fucking slightest opportunity will either “both sides” something negative or flat out blame one of the Clintons.

  7. 7.

    Schlemazel

    The really horrific part is that this is not the worst thing they will have done to the nation.

  11. 11.

    MomSense

    Right there with you, Cole. My friend is staying with me while she recovers so I am on a news break mostly because I cannot stop myself from talking back to the tv.

    Here’s a nice story for all of us but especially Schrodinger’s Cat about a stray calico who made a friend at the zoo. calico and lynx

  20. 20.

    Ruckus

    @germy:
    Honestly we either trim very close or shave so that we don’t end up being mistaken for a moronic asshole who can’t admit the truth. Or scare children.

  21. 21.

    T S

    @Cacti: Because you’re not a kid. I hated TFA, because I dont want my kuds exposed to writing THAT lazy, but every SW movie is at least a little crappy, even Empire.

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    @Lee Hartmann:
    Let’s not give them any incentive to try to be worse than they already are. Either that or so decimate them that they stay down forever. I like the second choice.

  27. 27.

    germy

    @Ruckus:

    Honestly we either trim very close or shave so that we don’t end up being mistaken for a moronic asshole who can’t admit the truth.

    I’m gradually thinning and lately I’ve been telling the barber to just buzz it close. I admit the truth.

  29. 29.

    Just One More Canuck

    Christ, that’s a real person? Looks like the love child of Christopher Walken and Peter Boyle

  30. 30.

    Cacti

    @T S:

    Because you’re not a kid. I hated TFA, because I dont want my kuds exposed to writing THAT lazy, but every SW movie is at least a little crappy, even Empire.

    I did prefer it to TFA. But with JJ Abrams now directing the third installment, I imagine the quality will take a step backward.

  31. 31.

    Feebog

    Ha, I read the twitter thread earlier today. It’s almost like Cole was in the army once and picked up all the grade A swear words.

  33. 33.

    rikyrah

    Peanut is getting a Kindle Fire for Christmas. I am going to set it up under my Amazon account. But, I already have my own Kindle Fire under my account. Does anyone know if I can have two from the same Amazon account?

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @germy:
    Buzz mine every week, I only shave every 3-4 weeks because I hate shaving, so I’m not shaving my head. Besides, like I said I don’t like to unnecessarily scare children.

  35. 35.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    @T S: As a SW fan I have to say you’re not wrong. The prequels are terrible, the first three are OK with some great moments but… TFA was just A New Hope. I actually liked Rogue One the most of any SW movie. Haven’t see the new one. Also, how the hell did the world’s most bumbling bounty hunter get to be such a thing?

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    @rikyrah: Try these and see if they help:
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_5-42?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201910370&qid=1513477589&sr=5-42
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_5-46?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201945470&qid=1513477589&sr=5-46
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_6-55?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200875610&qid=1513477604&sr=6-55
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help_search_7-61?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201829990&qid=1513477625&sr=7-61

  45. 45.

    Brachiator

    @rikyrah:

    Does anyone know if I can have two from the same Amazon account?

    I have 2 Kindle Fires. Both work fine. I’ve never set one up for use by a family member. There should be something in Help for that. Or contact customer service. This has got to be common.

  46. 46.

    germy

    Cornel West talked about “We Were Eight Years In Power” and hilarity ensued.

    https://www.theroot.com/did-cornel-west-come-for-ta-nehisi-coates-1821019747

    A few days ago, in an interview with the New York Times, West brought up—seemingly without prompting—Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, We Were Eight Years in Power.

    “Fitting in, in a neoliberal world, is to be well-adjusted to injustice,” West explained. “I’ll give you an example: Dear brother Ta-Nehisi Coates has just come out with a new book.”

    Audie Cornish, the interviewer, said: “Yes. We Were Eight Years in Power.” West responded:

    Who’s the “we”? When’s the last time he’s been through the ghetto, in the hoods, to the schools and indecent housing and mass unemployment? We were in power for eight years? My God. Maybe he and some of his friends might have been in power, but not poor working people.

    Coates responded:

    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    ✔

    come on, g. it’s literally on the first page.

    like grapes of wrath ain’t a novel about carnivorous fruit…and Moby Dick ain’t a work of erotic fiction…
    and Black Reconstruction ain’t a Afrocentric home repair manual… https://twitter.com/africasacountry/status/937781478443880448 …

  51. 51.

    Felanius Kootea

    @germy: Actually, it is. Moore just needs some donations from gullible evangelicals before the Alabama Secretary of State certifies Jones as the winner. Total scam artist that Moore.

  52. 52.

    SFAW

    I think it’s the “I’m gonna let my hair (where I have it) grow really long so I look like a kewl kid or hippie” look that, under the best of circumstances, is not a good look. And he’s about 50 pounds past “the best of circumstances.”

    I guess the alternative would be for him to put it into a chonmage, but he’s about 70 pounds and a million clues away from that.

    But, as Shakespeare or someone else said: What a fucking dork.

  53. 53.

    Feathers

    @rikyrah: Yes you can. I have multiple Kindles, my iPhone and iPad all on the same account. I know a family who has one account designated for the Kindles. Everyone buys their ebooks on that account, so everyone can share. It runs off somebody’s credit card and the others buy gift cards to cover their purchases. There used to be a limit of five, but I don’t think they do that any more.

  55. 55.

    germy

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Amazing what happens when you review a book without reading it!

    He could have avoided that mistake by simply reading the briefest of reviews. Rather than assuming it was a book about the eight year reign of the neoliberal Obummer.

  58. 58.

    germy

    @Felanius Kootea:

    Moore just needs some donations from gullible evangelicals before the Alabama Secretary of State certifies Jones as the winner.

    Moore probably asked his wife “Did Jill Stein have to give the money back for her recount?”

  60. 60.

    Corner Stone

    @SFAW: There was no click collusion! No clicks. I never even made a website. Even the Democrats admit there was no clicking, even after all the millions spent trying to find some clicks. A total hoax of a click site.

  62. 62.

    Corner Stone

    But what I am *really* interested in is this Balloon Sinusitis treatment that ads on this site keep telling me about. That sounds like something I can use!

  65. 65.

    SFAW

    Ya know how sometimes a guy is called a “dickhead”? It dawned on me that Murphy it the first actual example of one, that I can recall

  68. 68.

    jl

    Regarding the new bogus scandal over Mueller obtaining Trump transition team emails: apparently it is total BS. Just dust thrown up by Trump lawyers.

    @NatashaBertrand
    ‘ @chrisgeidner spoke to a senior GSA lawyer, who said of the Trump transition team: “In using our devices,” transition team members were informed that materials “would not be held back in any law enforcement” actions.
    “Therefore, no expectation of privacy can be assumed.” ‘
    https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/942223716074835968

    Edit: Bertrand tweet found via Josh Marshall twitter feed.

    Edit2: And my IANAL BS detector was right this time, when in one story, the Trump lawyers said that it was currently illegal and Congress needs to pass a law to make it illegal. The Trump people are so desperate or dumb, they can’t put out BS and lies that pass the laugh test. That kind of nonsense is fish in a barrel even for US TV news actors, if they feel like putting in any effort at all.

  70. 70.

    Amaranthine RBG

    Up where the mountains meet the heavens above
    Out where the lightning splits the sea
    I could swear there is someone, somewhere
    Watching me
    Through the wind, and the chill, and the rain
    And the storm, and the flood
    I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood

  72. 72.

    Adam L Silverman

    @germy: Yep.

    I get asked every once in a while to review a book for an academic journal. I once did one where the book was just bad. Huge factual errors and significant stylistic problems. We’re talking putting Steeplejack into a coma significant stylistic problems! I actually asked the book review editor if they wanted me to write it up given my take and what I could document as problematic. The response was yes. So I did, trying to keep it polite and professional, but accurate. The book’s author was pissed. Wrote the journal and me demanding a retraction and apology or there would be consequences. The journal told him they’d print a short letter of rebuttal from him. Then they asked me to do one to address his letter, which had basically not addressed anything in my review. Basically my response was: yes, I read your book, twice. And it didn’t get any better the second time.

  73. 73.

    oatler.

    If the Tribalism thing is as heavy as we perceive it, when do we meet in battle to slaughter The Other? On a night when there’s no good TV? “Damn, there’s always something good on TV!”

  74. 74.

    jl

    Re ‘illegal’ transfer of Trump transition emails to Mueller, it may get even better: apparently written and signed agreements between GSA and Trumpsters that when they used GSA devices and equipment, they should have no expectation of any privacy rights. I think what we are seeing is bad news, in that by now clear that groundwork is being laid to fire Mueller, probably they want to see if any of their BS, lies, and smears sways public opinion enough to risk it. Good news is that they are complete fools.

    The Trump Campaign Claims A Federal Office Illegally Turned Over Transition Emails To The Special Counsel
    Chris Geidner, Buzzfeed News
    [GSA counsel] ‘ Loewentritt read to BuzzFeed News a series of agreements that anyone had to agree to when using GSA materials during the transition, including that there could be monitoring and auditing of devices and that, “Therefore, no expectation of privacy can be assumed.” ‘
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/the-trump-campaign-claims-a-federal-office-illegally-turned?utm_term=.bd7D5rx1x#.axOwprNnN

  75. 75.

    Tilda Swintons Bald Cap

    Just saw this on twitter

    New from the Daily Caller: “An MSNBC spokesman confirmed Saturday the company made a separation-related payment to one of Chris Matthews employees after the woman complained about sexual harassment.”

    :

  77. 77.

    jl

    @Tilda Swintons Bald Cap: Matthews has made several public confessions of things that could be considered harassment, but said he left it all behind after he got into his current marriage. So… we’ll see.

    @Adam L Silverman: I am astonished. I read more than one interview where Matthews talked about slipping his hand up fetching legs seated next to him at dinner and drink parties, but said he saw the error of his ways and reformed. He’s on TV and therefore always tells the truth.

  78. 78.

    Ohio Mom

    @jl: My neighborhood Indivisible group started planning months ago what to do if Mueller gets fired: we are all to take our signs to the intersection in front of the Mall, since there is always a lot of traffic there (it is otherwise hard to find a guaranteed audience here in suburbia).

    I hate standing out in the cold. Another reason to hate Trump.

  79. 79.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Cataphract:

    Mr. Nancy from American Gods: “Anger is good. Anger gets sh-t done.”

    And if you don’t get shit done and just scream at the internet, that adrenaline in your blood turns to poison and you end up a wreck like Steve Bannon.

    John, get real, your angry for 48 go to the damn gym and get it out that before you do a Brenbart and stroke out.

  80. 80.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    There is no such thing as a Never Trumper. The existence of a unicorn is more likely than a real Never Trumper. I’ve been reading plenty of so-called Never Trumpers and every single one of them like it when Trump does something they wanted. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. If they think their mouthing the words “Never Trump” and applying it to themselves absolves them of the disaster that their party and Trump are wreaking on America, they can take that thought and just shove it up their ass.

    Then pull it out and chew on it for a while. Fuck them.

  84. 84.

    jl

    @Ohio Mom: That is good to hear. I live in SF Bay Area, so probably just have to go outside and see where the neighborhood demonstration is.

    But, seriously, I need to take my own advice and look up what is planned for my area, since I think chances are rising fast that they will attempt it.

  88. 88.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @jl: It is the Capitol here in Madison, but there is a location set up in Rhinelander, WI – it is prime Trumpland; rural, poor, not fond of the “elites” who come up from the South (Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, and, hell, even Wausau) and act all fancy with their cabins and non-rusty vehicles. Second Amendment types who have never met a person of color or a Jew (that they know of).

  90. 90.

    smintheus

    How did we get to Trump, indeed? Do these Republican putzes remember when Bush ordered the CIA and the military to torture prisoners? You can’t go too much lower than that, and it’s far from clear that Trump’s traitorous activities are any worse than those of the Torturer in Chief.

  91. 91.

    jl

    @Omnes Omnibus: I guess the BJ community is ahead of me in terms of planning. I posted that comment to Cole as a suggestion for how to do something constructive,instead of stewing away and stroking out.

    If Trump starts trying to fire Mueller, I’ll be out in the streets, like I was before the Iraq invasion. But suddenly I realize I gotta find out right now where to go. Quick search on the internet already shows several places in SF, I just have to decide which group i like best and which is quickest to get to now.

  92. 92.

    Patricia Kayden

    @germy: Why is Professor Cornell West fronting like he’s part of the poorer classes of Black folk. He’s not. I assume he misinterpreted the title as referring to President Obama’s time in the White House. We all know how much he hated Obama (jealous as hell).

  94. 94.

    jl

    @smintheus: Power to mess with our elections is just as bad, IMHO. Trump and, at least the GOP House, derelict in that department. No efforts to safeguard US from foreign meddling with state election systems, and their voter suppression efforts continue, though not as strong or as fast as I had feared, since they are incompetent at everything.

  100. 100.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thanks, but no welcome needed since I never left. I just don’t care to comment much online any more.

    It’s better for the blood pressure. :)

    @WaterGirl: Thanks! How is your health holding up (if I remember correctly, you have RA too)? Stiff but still moving here… :)

  102. 102.

    SFAW

    @jk:

    After Donald Trump, Mike Murphy and Trent Franks are the 2 most physically repulsive Republicans.

    Normally, as a response, I would link to the infamous picture of Blake Farenthold in his pajamas, but even I am not that cruel nor that much of an asshole.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    @Ruckus: I just googled the name, followed by “photos” so I didn’t get to read about him. I am appreciating my blissful ignorance.

  106. 106.

    ZyklonBeaArthur

    @SFAW:

    It looks like Trent Franks’ face is sliding off his skull. Shall we blame the pull of gravity or are his facial features fleeing for a less evil host?

    His heinous visage reminds me of the melting Nazis from the first Indiana Jones installment; so apropos!

  107. 107.

    TenguPhule

    @Cacti:

    Saw The Last Jedi.

    Grade: B-

    Saw it today. Walked out of the theater wanting to punch the director.

    Fuck it all, my childhood has been defiled forever. It can all burn down now.

    /Peak Depression

  109. 109.

    George

    Holy shit. Stop making fun of people’s appearances. How old are you, eight or nine?

    Honestly, there is enough to ridicule the GOP/rightwing with based on their beliefs and behaviors. Making fun of people’s genetics or birth defects is juvenile.

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