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Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

This really is a full service blog.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

No one could have predicted…

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

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson: the bland and smiling face of evil.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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  1. 1.

    Arm The Homeless

    It’s not snark or hyperbole when I say that it’s more difficult to buy fireworks off the side of the road, than to buy a gun from a “private seller” in Floriduh.

  2. 2.

    hellslittlestangel

    I love Holly Golightly. Can’t understand how’s she’s maintained such a low profile for 25 years.

  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    Just checking in. Was it mentioned that Admiral Feelgood, Dr. Ronny Jackson, will not be returning as Trump’s physician? He’s still attached to the White House medical unit, but stay tuned there, too. WaPost story.

    Quelle surprise.

  4. 4.

    Timurid

    When Mueller finally issues his report and says out loud what everyone knows, the national media is going to treat him the same way it treated Wolf.
    This weekend proved beyond any doubt that they’re all in for Trump.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Flashpoint?

    Former Israeli intelligence chief: Iran will likely seek payback for the latest strikes in Syria
    [snip]
    Yadlin, a retired army general, said the intensity of the blasts at military bases near Hama and Aleppo — so big they caused what felt like a minor earthquake— indicated they were likely not carried out by Syrian rebels, who are under attack by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and its partner forces.

    “Either the United States augmented the attack it led about two weeks ago, and if it wasn’t the United States, that leaves one possibility that I can’t confirm,” Yadlin told Israeli Army radio.
    [snip]
    Sunday’s strikes came a few hours after what appears to have been a friendly meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and newly installed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Source

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    It just ticked past midnight here, and it’s now May 1, Labour Day everywhere on Earth but America. Happy Labour Day to one and and all, and may your labours be justly rewarded.

  10. 10.

    Kay

    Ashley Nicole Black Panther
    ‏Verified account
    @ashleyn1cole
    Apr 28
    More
    I’m going to start a subreddit for women who can’t get laid. We’ll probably just talk about hobbies, and tv shows we like, and then not kill anyone.

  11. 11.

    delk

    Got the initial pathologist report on my dog Gav’s liver biopsy. He has copper accumulation. The results were sent to a second pathologist to run further tests to determine the amount of copper in his system and what his treatment will be. For now, the money pit is on some pricey prescription food.

    He is finally off of the antibiotics and pain medication so he seems like his old self.

  12. 12.

    MattF

    @Timurid: Hugh Hewitt was outraged (I think):

    There wasn’t a decent person in the room who wasn’t at least often offended by the diatribe delivered in a near-scream, part of Wolf’s act.

    A lot of near-misses in that one sentence.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:
    Anti-fake news laws are a bad idea, obviously. They allow the Home Ministry to treat reporting and editorial mistakes as crimes, which can and probably will have a chilling effect on journalism. I don’t care for fake news, but this way of dealing with it is as dangerous to a free press and democracy as the problem itself.

  15. 15.

    Barbara

    @MattF: I suspect Hewitt’s idea of what counts as “decency” is different from mine. It’s so funny to see the tables turned on people like Hewitt who complain endlessly about all those special snowflakes demanding political correctness. And here he is, histrionic, completely in pieces after finding out that people don’t really respect him even if he is being paid umpty million dollars.

  16. 16.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    Went to Trader Joe’s last week and remembered to pick up some of that spicy brown mustard you mentioned. I’ve had it only once, on a roast beef sandwich, but I liked it. Would buy again, as the saying goes.

    But first I have to work through a five-jar sampler of Braswell mustards that I got at least partly because they came in “collectable European drinkware.” Nice bistro glasses.

  17. 17.

    Nicole

    The podcast I write for, Uncanny County, just released my latest episode, “Our Better Angels,” in which I (allegorically) work out a lot of my rage about 2016. I wrote the main story, and then a newscast that plays in the background of the action, because I was also really mad at the media, especially CNN and MSNBC who should have known better. Needless to say, I thought Michelle Wolf’s skewering of the media this weekend was excellent. ;)

    Shameless self-promotion (but hey, it’s only 31 minutes long and it’s free!). And the actors all do really good work. Todd Faulkner, the lead (and co-creator of Uncanny County), has a recurring role on The Americans, as one of the FBI agents, so some of you have seen him on TV, probably:

    Uncanny County- Our Better Angels

    You can also find Uncanny County on iTunes (also free there).

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    @Steeplejack: Great marketing strategy by that condiment purveyor. I would totally go for that twofer deal, even though I’ve already got more glasses than shelf space.

  20. 20.

    Tokyokie

    Kay, In a similar vein, I have a Spoonflower fabric design based on posters for the Joseph H. Lewis noir classic Gun Crazy (aka Deadly Is the Female), which blacklisted commie symp Dalton Trumbo wrote. Sadly, it’s mostly been purchased by right-wing women with no sense of irony.

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    @Elizabelle:

    But, but—Admiral Jackson is a great man and a great doctor! The best, according to Trump. How can he not continue as Trump’s personal physician? It beggars belief.

  22. 22.

    Mandalay

    @Amir Khalid:

    They allow the Home Ministry to treat reporting and editorial mistakes as crimes…

    Cool. In that case LOCK HER UP!!!….

    Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable. I have experienced insults about my appearance from the president. All women have a duty to unite when these attacks happen and the WHCA owes Sarah an apology.

    Someone called her on that twaddle on her show this morning, and pointed out that Huckabee had never been attacked for her appearance. Brzezinski back pedaled at the speed of light, and now claims that the attack on Huckabee’s appearance was “veiled”.

    Utterly shameless.

  23. 23.

    delk

    @eclare: They are not sure yet. Could be genetic, hepatitis, or cirrhosis. His liver enzymes have been out of whack since he ate rat poison a couple years ago. Not sure if that had anything to do with it, or if the enzymes were always off and that was the first time they were checked.

  24. 24.

    efgoldman

    @Arm The Homeless:

    it’s more difficult to buy fireworks off the side of the road, than to buy a gun from a “private seller” in Floriduh.

    Not in RI. The fireworks stands sprout like crabgrass around the beginning of June Also available in a Walmart or CVS near you. A lot of the buyers are from MA which bans sales. Firearms not so much.

  25. 25.

    West of the Rockies

    @Kay:

    LOL… I was not Mr. Popularity in high school or college. Never once had violent impulses. I tried to figure out how I might improve myself while occasionally voicing irritation that so many girls/women dug rude bad boys and found gentleman to be fit only for the friend zone.

  27. 27.

    brendancalling

    My old band played several shows with Holly Golightly around 1999-2000. Good times.

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack

    @Betty Cracker:

    Inorite. I have a glassware “problem” myself, and I have finally schooled myself just to buy one or two, not a whole set. If only a set is available, I can usually lay off the extras on glassware-deficient acquaintances, e.g., hapless graduate students. Throw in some mustard or honey (they have a sampler of those, too) and I can’t resist.

  31. 31.

    Mandalay

    @MattF:

    There wasn’t a decent person in the room…

    Well I thought Michelle Wolf was fine, but apart from that Hewitt was bang on the money.

  32. 32.

    Elmo

    @efgoldman:@Arm The Homeless:
    So it was in Tennessee when we moved there. In fact, not long after, a guy we had hired to do some tractor work around the property said, “You two women are living all by yourselves out here in the middle of nowhere. Y’all have guns to protect yourselves, right?”
    We allowed that we did not, having just relocated from California.
    So he came back a couple of weeks later, bearing with him a .38 revolver, a .22 rifle, and a 12-gauge shotgun. “Here you go,” he said. “Take these for as long as you want. If you want to keep them, let me know and I’ll take a fair price for ’em.”
    We ended up buying the shotgun, which I still have to this day – and which longtime readers may remember was instrumental in protecting my property against a couple of yahoos who came visiting in the wee hours.
    We called him the “Gun Fairy.”

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack

    @delk:

    That’s good news about him being back to his old self.

    How does a dog pick up toxic levels of copper?

  34. 34.

    delk

    @West of the Rockies: All dog food, except two prescription foods have copper– either copper sulfate (bad) or copper proteinate (better). It’s not so much his digesting the copper, it is his liver not removing it.

  38. 38.

    J R in WV

    @Elmo:

    Awww. That’s kind of cute. Yahoos who come around at 3 am never want to hear a 12-gauge pumped. Never. I have a 20-ga bird gun, which makes a good enough sound when pumped. Was a birthday present from wife, long, long ago.

  40. 40.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:

    Ashley Nicole Black Panther
    ‏Verified account
    @ashleyn1cole
    Apr 28
    More
    I’m going to start a subreddit for women who can’t get laid. We’ll probably just talk about hobbies, and tv shows we like, and then not kill anyone.

    It’s the sense of ENTITLEMENT that I can’t get past. These guys believe that they are ENTITLED to women. That women don’t have the RIGHT to decide who they choose to spend their time with…
    These guys are in the 3-6 range and believe that they are ENTITLED to 8-10 range women.
    But, it’s so interesting to see how many of them flip from the sexism and go alt-right.
    Come for the sexism..stay for the racism…

  42. 42.

    sukabi

    @MattF: Breaking News: Mr. White Pride is offended by a woman talking.

    I watched most of it..Wolf didn’t scream, at all. She has a grating voice, that she acknowledged, and made fun of. She told the truth.

  43. 43.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mandalay:
    The Malaysian Home Ministry is not about to have Mika Brzezinzki arrested on a criminal charge of spreading fake news. There is an issue of jurisdiction, for one thing. Besides, do you really support the idea of such laws, even after I explained why they’re a bad thing? If so, then I’m sorry but we can’t be friends.

  44. 44.

    scav

    @Betty Cracker: & @Steeplejack: There was quite a selection on offer back when I spent a year in France. A couple different mustards for various standard glasses, some cornichons had a rather nice set of “cut” (pressed) highball glasses and then still a few jelly glasses with cartoons I was generally unfamilar with. I’d probably go all nostalgic if I could find one specific mustard glass to drink my post-dinner coffee in,

  45. 45.

    Spanky

    @rikyrah:

    These guys are in the 3-6 range

    You’re an awfully, uhhh, “liberal” grader. Three sounds utterly too high.

  46. 46.

    geg6

    @Mandalay:

    I think it was Nick Confessore who called her on it. Even Joe kept saying that Wolf was only doing her job and that job doesn’t include being nice and polite to power. The pearl clutching over this by all the Village idiots media is fucking hilarious and I hope the Possum Queen tortures them all the more for looking like such wimps and lickspittles.

  48. 48.

    Elmo

    @J R in WV: Heh. They didn’t get out of the car, so I couldn’t rely on the sound. Instead I turned on the porch light, and went outside to stand under it, holding the shotgun at port arms and staring at the car. They sprayed gravel backing out.

    For those who don’t know the backstory: my property at the time was very isolated, at the very end of a quarter mile of single-track gravel road and driveway. My then-partner, now-wife and I were living in a Tennessee county where another lesbian couple had been burned out, and just north of a county (Rhea County – google it) that had just formally passed a law banning gay people. Yes, really. So we were alert for yahoos wanting to prove a point. This car pulled into my driveway at one in the morning, and the two men in the car sat there looking at the house for about 10-15 minutes before I decided to take down the shotgun and let them know I was awake.

  49. 49.

    afanasia

    @rikyrah: Well, it just demonstrates that they’re willing to include a wide variety of people in the category of “subhumans who must obey me”.

  50. 50.

    sukabi

    @Mandalay: Mika’s not upset about the Sanders bit. She’s butthurt over the jab at her & Joe’s relationship being the result of a #MeToo moment ‘success story’…it’s just easier, and less trouble to go with the narrative the other snowflakes have gone with.

  51. 51.

    TenguPhule

    Trump’s jabs on trade roil ag industry supporters

    Montana rancher Fred Wacker had thousands of head of cattle fattening up along the Yellowstone River for export to China when Donald Trump picked a trade fight with the Asian nation.

    The dispute threatens a $200 million deal that Wacker helped secure last year to ship Montana beef to China, yet the potential setback to his business plans hasn’t diminished his stalwart support for Trump.

    “I’m not going to follow him over the cliff, but I’ll take a pretty good jump,” Wacker said as a small team of cowboys on his Cross Four Ranch herded hundreds of cattle onto trucks headed for summer pasture.

    Fuck em.

  53. 53.

    TenguPhule

    @Timurid:

    When Mueller finally issues his report and says out loud what everyone knows, the national media is going to treat him the same way it treated Wolf.
    This weekend proved beyond any doubt that they’re all in for Trump.

    I believe Village has the solution to that problem.

  55. 55.

    germy

    He’s up to no good. I think he’s considering running for 2020 president and testing the “populist” waters:

    Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) voted in favor of the Republican Party’s massive tax cut late last year — but now he says that there’s little evidence that handing out big breaks to corporations has significantly trickled down to American workers.

    Talking with The Economist, Rubio criticizes his party for believing that large corporate tax cuts will inevitably produce windfalls for workers in the United States — and he says that so far, we haven’t seen very many corporations using their additional money to invest in their employees.

    “There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers,” Rubio tells the publication. “In fact they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there’s no evidence whatsoever that the money’s been massively poured back into the American worker.”

  57. 57.

    rikyrah

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    Rep. Chris Collins is resigning from the board of a biotech company after sponsoring legislation in Congress that could help the company. He’s under investigation by the Ethics Committee. https://t.co/0sDCPlPhoj

    — Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 30, 2018

  58. 58.

    Mandalay

    @sukabi:

    She’s butthurt over the jab at her & Joe’s relationship

    Ah, I’d missed that – you may be onto something.

  59. 59.

    Steeplejack

    @scav:

    I had a friend who was a Delta flight attendant, a regular on the Atlanta-Paris route. She used to bring me back Maille mustard in the cool European jars. One example here; there were several different models, I remember.

    Cartoon jars similar to what you mentioned.

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    @germy:

    He’s up to no good. I think he’s considering running for 2020 president and testing the “populist” waters

    Hmmph

    By 2020, the harm of the tax cuts will be very obvious, and that vote will be hung around his thirsty neck.

  61. 61.

    rikyrah

    As a wise man likes to say, Everything Trump Touches Dies.
    The WHCA came to Trump’s defense. In a matter of hours the Correspondents’ Dinner as an institution was destroyed. It will never be held in this format again.

    I wonder what or who is next.
    https://t.co/m62ISnnkGt

    — Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) April 30, 2018

  62. 62.

    bemused

    @Mandalay:

    When I first heard, half listening, Wolf’s clip when she said “burn facts”, it sounded like she said, “burn fat”. I thought that can’t be right and listened again. I would not be surprised if some people thought Wolf said fat and not can’t/won’t admit they were wrong Wolf was making jokes about Sarah’s appearance.

  64. 64.

    Eural Joiner

    Poor Disney – “Avengers: Infinity War” just cleared over $600 million worldwide in one weekend of release. Wow.

  67. 67.

    TenguPhule

    @rikyrah:

    By 2020, the harm of the tax cuts will be very obvious

    Unfortunately, Trump’s base couldn’t find obvious with both hands, a map, a compass and a hunting dog.

  69. 69.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Timurid:

    This weekend proved beyond any doubt that they’re all in for Trump.

    I don’t think that’s right. This weekend proved they are a pack of shallow, twittering courtiers, who don’t give the slightest damn about the truth or anything else outside their social circle’s prestige games. I am open to the argument that there’s no practical difference between that and being all in for Trump.

    Note the interesting variations: Bush and Trump both insulted the press, and Trump has been loudly hostile (with debatable sincerity) to them, and they eat it up and love it. They were still treated as important. Obama and Hillary treated them with mild contempt, as unavoidable leeches, and it drove them ballistic. Of course, that deck was already stacked, because they were going to insult Obama and Hillary anyway – but they expected to be rewarded as The Popular Kids You Need To Please. Trump gives them plenty of that.

    @rikyrah:

    Come for the sexism..stay for the racism…

    Hate is a cancer. Beware of it, even if you have very good reason to hate. These men did not have a good reason, so it quickly devoured them.

  70. 70.

    trollhattan

    @sukabi:
    It was a pretty carefully crafted piece of political theater and some of the jokes worked on several levels. You know, impossible for Republicans to understand.

    Anybody who watched her standup special earlier this year knew what to expect. As my kid describes her: “savage.” In fact, yesterday morning she kept saying “Oooh, burn!” watching YouTube excerpts. When a 16YO is watching a political event like that, you know something’s up.

  71. 71.

    germy

    @trollhattan: I wonder who they’ll invite next year.

    They invited Rich Little (who did Reagan and Johnny Carson impressions and sang to the audience) after Colbert pissed everybody off.

    Who next year? Dennis Miller? Imus? Maybe Tim Allen…

  75. 75.

    TenguPhule

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Obama and Hillary treated them with mild contempt, as unavoidable leeches, and it drove them ballistic.

    They gave the press all the politeness they had earned.

    But the media expected a John McCain catering to their every desire.

    This story doesn’t end well for the 4th pillar, which has been found to be rotten and hollow.

  76. 76.

    bemused

    @rikyrah:

    She goes on to say there were already “women want to get laid” groups but they keep getting shut down by incel trolls. Loser white males.

  79. 79.

    Steeplejack

    @Amir Khalid:

    Yes, and other syndromes besides, including Guitar Acquisition Syndrome—currently in remission because I have been rigorous in avoiding temptation. I still pine for my gorgeous blond ’74 Telecaster Thinline, lost in the terrible (personal) collapse of ’02.

  81. 81.

    OldDave

    @J R in WV:

    never want to hear a 12-gauge pumped

    I have a theory that the sound of a pump shotgun being cycled is wired into our DNA – even if you can’t identify the sound, you know it’s not a good thing.

  82. 82.

    TenguPhule

    A few weeks ago, it felt as if a trade war pitting the United States against allies like Australia, Canada and the European Union was over before it even began. The Trump administration dispensed so many temporary exemptions to steel and aluminum tariffs that many countries figured the threats were just political theater.

    But with only days left before the exemptions expire and punitive tariffs take effect, it’s dawning on foreign leaders that decades of warm relations with the United States carry little weight with a president dismissive of diplomatic norms and hostile toward the ground rules of international trade.

    What began as a way to protect American steel and aluminum jobs has since become a cudgel that the Trump administration is using to extract concessions in other areas, including car exports to Europe or negotiations to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada.

    As a May 1 deadline looms, the decision on whether to grant permanent exemptions to the steel and aluminum tariffs, and to whom, appears likely to come down to the whims of Trump, who has seesawed between scrapping and rejoining global trade deals.

    Via the FTFNYT.

    Tariffs kicking in tomorrow.

  83. 83.

    Citizen Alan

    @Eural Joiner:

    Yeah. I enjoyed the movie, but it is astounding that one of the most expensive movies ever made started turning a profit in the first three days.

  84. 84.

    TenguPhule

    Staking an assertive negotiating stance, China says it will refuse to discuss Trump’s two toughest trade demands when American officials arrive in Beijing this week, potentially derailing the high-level talks.

    The Chinese government is publicly calling for flexibility on both sides. But senior Beijing officials do not plan to discuss the two biggest requests that the Trump administration has made over the past several months, according to people involved in Chinese policymaking. Those include a mandatory $100 billion cut in America’s $375 billion annual trade deficit with China and curbs on Beijing’s $300 billion plan to bankroll the country’s industrial upgrade into advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electric cars and commercial aircraft.

    The reason: Beijing feels its economy has become big enough and resilient enough to stand up to the United States.

    A half-dozen senior Chinese officials and two dozen influential advisers laid out the Chinese government’s position in detail during a three-day seminar that ended here late Monday morning. The officials and most of the advisers at the seminar gave an overview of China’s economic policies, including an in-depth review of the country’s trade policy, to make sure China’s stance would be known overseas. All of the officials and most of the advisers at the seminar insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.

    Via the FTFNYT.

    What could possibly go wrong go wrong?

  85. 85.

    different-church-lady

    @germy: I wonder what Colbert’s doing nowadays. He really self-immolated his career with that WHCD trainwreck.

  86. 86.

    TenguPhule

    EU says it is ready to wage trade war with US

    The EU has warned that it will not “shoot from the hip” but is fully prepared for a trade war with the US amid heightened concerns that the bloc’s last minute crisis talks are doomed to fail.

    With tariffs on steel and aluminium on European exports to the US due to come into force on Tuesday, Cecilia Malmström, the European commissioner for trade, made a final diplomatic push in call with the US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross.

    A European commission spokesman declined to comment on the success of the talks, with Brussels seemingly still in the dark over Donald Trump’s mindset.

    But he conceded that officials were likely to need to work through the 1 May Labour Day bank holiday in Belgium on Tuesday when the US president’s decision is expected to be made public.

    “We are patient but we are also prepared,” the spokesman said. “Labour Day will be full of labour for us”.

    Let’s get ready to tumble!

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    @geg6:

    I was surprised by how measured and sane the reaction to Michelle Wolf was on Morning Joe. I was expecting butt-hurt DEFCON 1, but Nick Confessore led off with a strong dose of reality, and Scarborough made the analogy that if it’s the Kennedy administration and you book Lenny Bruce you can’t expect him to show up and not be Lenny Bruce. Ditto for Dave Chapelle in the Dubya years (although Joe mistakenly said the Clinton years). And even Mika was more reasonable than I had been led to believe from reports of her tweets. She did say that Jethrene had been ill-used, but not because of her appearance.

    Scarborough also got in a great dig at the couple (GOP tools Matt and Mercedes Schlapp) who ostentatiously left the dinner “in protest” just before the end, chatted with friends on the way out and then blithely showed up at the after-parties later. That’s a principled stand!

    And Scarborough also pointed out that nobody defended him or called to commiserate when Trump was saying vile stuff about him.

  89. 89.

    different-church-lady

    @rikyrah: The men who do this do not process their thoughts in normal ways, so I don’t know why we keep trying to understand them as though they do.

  90. 90.

    Barbara

    @rikyrah: They are pathologically insecure and their basic complaint is that THEY, people with their cluster of traits, are not respected and not deemed worthy. Women factor into this resentment because they are the social currency that men like to trade in — that is, value as determined by the number of women willing to sleep with them. In this case, blaming women is like blaming the U.S. Mint because they don’t have money. They need the archaic patriarchal hierarchy because that’s the only society in which a woman could be involuntarily appended to a man without leaving as soon as it becomes apparent that his only talent is blaming others for his own inadequacy.

  91. 91.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @TenguPhule:

    “I’m not going to follow him over the cliff, but I’ll take a pretty good jump,”

    How is one different from the other?

  92. 92.

    delk

    @Elmo: I’m sorry for the confusion but I just meant bad for dogs with copper storage issues. Copper proteinate is easier for the liver to absorb. If Gav ever gets to move from no copper food, he will have to go on copper proteinate.

  95. 95.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @TenguPhule:

    The reason: Beijing feels its economy has become big enough and resilient enough to stand up to the United States.

    Is that true? I read that China’s economy is cooling down and slowing.

  96. 96.

    sukabi

    @Citizen Alan: 1) reality is so depressing now everyone needs a temporary escape. 2) lacking ‘heros’ in real life the need for good guys and heros to prevail even in a fantasy world is cathartic.

  99. 99.

    Amir Khalid

    @germy:
    The evidence that trickle-down eonomics doesn’t work was already around when Marco was a kindergartner. But none are so blind as those who profit by refusing to see.

  100. 100.

    Ruckus

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    but they expected to be rewarded as The Popular Kids You Need To Please.

    Don’t know if this is the actual reason but it sure could be. They act like it. They acted like it after the WHCD for sure.
    They seem to not, as some have stated here, give a shit about doing their jobs, which is to be journalists. I just wonder if they are doing the job as their bosses/owners want. We define what we think they should be doing, the money defines what they will do. Think those getting paid rather substantial amounts to be willing kneelers and suckers…… Not a pretty picture but enough money can buy just about anything.

  102. 102.

    different-church-lady

    I continue to be amazed how much people care about what TV personalities say.

  107. 107.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @TenguPhule:
    Of course they do. They’re pampered white Americans who have never had to face real hardship in their lives. They
    delusionally think that the simple fact that they’re “patriotic” Americans will protect them from reality.

    I’m pissed that all of the work of generations of Americans is being pissed away and it’s the fault of people like that idiot. Trump supporters don’t deserve to live here.

  110. 110.

    Ruckus

    @OldDave:
    If you and your buddies are out at 3am, stopping anywhere and casing the place, you will know exactly what a 12 ga being pumped sounds like. It sounds like, Run Away!

  111. 111.

    ruemara

    “So, when you say print on demand, are you trying to sell a digital version of your document or are you selling a physical copy?”

    Ye, GODS, Amazon has incredibly shitty customer service. And, yes, that is verbatim. 2 months of runaround, waiting, failing to return inquiries and I literally have to pull teeth for them to say I need to setup an additional Createspace account. Never switch to Amazon Business accounts.

  112. 112.

    TenguPhule

    @different-church-lady:

    I continue to be amazed how much people care about what TV personalities say.

    I understand most of them are old and wear onions on their belts.

    I expect the fad will die off in time.

  113. 113.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @different-church-lady:

    I continue to be amazed how much people care about what TV people say.

    #notallpeople

    (Seriously, though – there’s an insular bubble in which this stuff is a big deal, and it’s not a big one.)

  115. 115.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @TenguPhule:
    I doubt the PRC is going to last into the 22nd century; they have huge societal problems such as widespread corruption in the highest echelons of the CPPRC. Also too, they have gender ratio imbalance.

  116. 116.

    WaterGirl

    @Elizabelle: Trump better start that diet now, because I predict he won’t weigh 239 at the next doctor’s visit. I wonder if the new doc that is assigned does his/her own medical assessment at the outset. That’s what I would want to do if I were the new doc. Not that I’d take that gig.

  124. 124.

    Gin & Tonic

    @WaterGirl: He won’t hire a doc that’ll give him an honest assessment. And if somehow he is forced to take one, the results will never be released.

  125. 125.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:
    I’ve been told by conservatives that it is difficult to see with one’s head up their own ass. Also that everything smells and tastes funny. So it wouldn’t amaze me that they might have a difficult time being able to assertion reality as the rest of humanity sees it.

  129. 129.

    NorthLeft12

    elebenty billion videos of butt-hurt gun-humpers ranting about being prevented from purchasing firearms. I don’t think they were literally crying, though.

    Betty, I wonder if they sounded anything like the sniveling lickspittles complaining about the absolute lack of decorum and respect shown by Ms. Wolf for her betters, err I mean the media and political elite at the WHCD.

  132. 132.

    Ian G.

    @West of the Rockies:

    Same here. I just tried to relax about it, got better at saying the right thing in casual conversations with women that interested me, and things got easier. I even had a fling with the type of woman who would have been a cool girl in high school who never would have spoken to me as a teen (it ended in tragicomic fashion, but at least I can laugh at it). Now I’m happily married with a baby daughter.

    Yeah, speaking as a high school dork, the Incel types are creepy and terrifying beyond words.

  135. 135.

    Elmo

    @Gin & Tonic: Don’t be ridiculous. There are no “big cities” south of the Rio Grande, just favelas and mud huts and adobe. Brown people can’t build actual cities. Don’t you know anything?

  136. 136.

    Aleta

    @Amir Khalid: I like Hario glasses (or the cheaper French ones) for drinking hot tea in a glass. The Hario have a thin rim which I like for drinking anything.

  137. 137.

    WaterGirl

    @Gin & Tonic: I wouldn’t have thought Trump would just get to “pick” his doctor – I assumed someone would be assigned to him and then he could trade in for someone else if he rejected her/him.

    But I should acknowledge that everything I know about how these things are handled I learned from The West Wing.

  138. 138.

    jeffreyw

    Yay! Got my internets back, and I also got my mower back operational with a new battery. The internet outage was an oopsie on their part, got a call from them today asking me to undo the settings they had me change yesterday.

  142. 142.

    WaterGirl

    Does anyone know what time Lily’s vet appointment is? I am getting kind of antsy waiting to hear.

  145. 145.

    stinger

    @West of the Rockies: @West of the Rockies:

    “…irritation that so many girls/women dug rude bad boys and found gentleman to be fit only for the friend zone.”

    And how many boys ignored the cheerleaders and girls who were known/suspected of being, uh, a good time, and instead dug the bookish, glasses-wearing, oboe-playing “nice girls”?

  149. 149.

    The Moar You Know

    That’s weird… How did he consume so much copper?

    @delk:
    @West of the Rockies:

    Hope someone involved with the poor dog reads this and gets the info to the owner: treated lumber. A lot of dogs chew on it, mine included. And the “old school” stuff (banned only within the last several years) was chock full of it. The new stuff has it too, but not as much. It’s something to watch for.

  150. 150.

    Brachiator

    @Elizabelle:

    Michelle Wolf is going to do Fresh Air with Terry Gross tomorrow. That should be good.

    Thanks for the tip. I will be looking forward to it.

  151. 151.

    ruemara

    @stinger: ZERO. And even at 40, still ZERO. Just emotional support labor mules aka “friend I whine to about my failures with hot narcissist women who play to my aggrieved sensibilities.”

    @Jay: This seems like one of those alien planet raiders stories, but less intergalactic.

  153. 153.

    The Moar You Know

    And how many boys ignored the cheerleaders and girls who were known/suspected of being, uh, a good time, and instead dug the bookish, glasses-wearing, oboe-playing “nice girls”?

    @stinger: (raises hand)

    I fucking love women with brains and glasses. I finally decided to settle down and marry one.

    I’ll never get these “incel” clods. If I could get laid by 17, literally anyone could. You’ve gotta be working hard at NOT getting laid – and I suspect most of these pathetic whiners are working hard to, well, not get laid. Most of them obviously hate and fear women, can’t understand why they even think having a relationship with one is a big deal since what they seem to want is not a woman but a fuckbot.

  158. 158.

    Jay

    @ruemara:

    Funny thing is, all the Ag groups from the UN to the USDA say we have, due to industrial farming practices, maybe 50-60 years of topsoil left, and yet, several US States allow the mining of farmland for topsoil and allow it’s export.

  160. 160.

    The Moar You Know

    We knew that when we learned Trump had offspring.

    @TenguPhule: EXACTLY MY POINT. Someone met that asshole and thought not only copulating with him would be a good idea, but bearing his kids would be. If you can’t get laid in a world where Donald Trump and I can, you need to take a hard look at your life and start making a list of the ways in which you are failing. It will be a very long list.

  161. 161.

    Julia Grey

    @OldDave:

    I have a theory that the sound of a pump shotgun being cycled is wired into our DNA – even if you can’t identify the sound, you know it’s not a good thing.

    We’ve all certainly heard it enough at the movies…

  162. 162.

    Barbara

    @The Moar You Know:

    The ego creates an enemy in order to insulate itself from culpability.

    Of course it’s their own damned fault. And if we went back to some pre-enlightenment version of patriarchy, they STILL wouldn’t find a mate because outside of wealthy families trying to protect property rights even then women were given some choice in deciding who to marry. In that kind of society, these are the people who would have been groomed for a monastery.

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