Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Come on, man.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Republicans in disarray!

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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  1. 1.

    trollhattan

    Are there “Less dishonest disinformation campaigns”? How less dishonest do they need to be to become information campaigns?

  3. 3.

    debbie

    How long till Trump lashes out at Trey Gowdy for saying there’s no there there?

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    ‘Investigate and shut down the cookie jar manufacturers. It’s their fault I was caught with my hand in it!”

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    Remember, according to accepted Republican ‘wisdom’, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear from a police investigation.

  9. 9.

    Duane

    Brad Parscale? Everyday forces me to learn of another Trump jackass. Fuckem. (hi efg).

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Apparently Melania has tweeted that she is alive and well and living in the White House.

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    Love the “obama says ‘have I what now’ “ tweet

    It’s going to be such an exciting summer !

  12. 12.

    Jeffro

    @SiubhanDuinne: yup. And a single tweet would be totally sufficient proof for a democratic first lady 19 days after she disappeared as well.

    Um-hmmm

  13. 13.

    MJS

    @debbie: Trump conveniently skipped over that part of Gowdy’s comments, but latched onto the part criticizing Sessions.

  14. 14.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    These fucking people…

    They need to go down hard. Hard. Motherfucking, fucking hard. We can’t afford any “our long national nightmare is over,” or “let’s look forward, not back” shit after this is all over. If we don’t put these motherfuckers in jail when this is done, we don’t have any future.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Duane:

    Where is efg, anyhow?

    (No, stupid autocorrect, I mean efg, not egg. You should really know that after all this time.)

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    @VOR

    if you were maritally spliced to the ochre ogre, would you willingly show your face in public?

    ;)

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    I’m getting pre-annoyed at the Obama didn’t save us! crowd that will be showing up with this new book.

    Guys — since when have the police been able to foil every crime before it happens? Yes, it would have been great if Obama had been able to find in the course of 6 months all of this stuff that’s been discovered over the last 18 months, but he didn’t.

    So can we please blame the actual criminals for their criminal actions rather than blaming the authorities who failed to stop the crime ahead of time? There is only one person who is responsible for the crimes that Donald Trump has committed: Donald fucking Trump. Period.

    KTHXBAI.

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    @VOR:
    “The Simpsons” should totally work that into the title sequence as the power plant’s “days since…” sign.

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @VOR: If she comes out and sees her shadow, does that mean we only have six more weeks of Trump?

  24. 24.

    Quinerly

    @VOR: Have they bothered to give a count of dead Puerto Ricans or is that # too large for them?

    (I’ve been away from cable news for about a week)

  25. 25.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?

    @dmsilev:

    You joke, but I think that logic is perfectly fine applied to high-level elected and unelected officials. The Presidency has gotten too powerful. It’s sad that it’s taken Trump to make me see that.

  28. 28.

    ruemara

    @Mnemosyne: They’d rather not because an awful lot of that crowd spent years undermining Dems & pretending that both sides were the same and that elections didn’t matter and neither did actual organization & legislative work. Imagine taking back the very foundation of your fame and media presence. They’d starve because being a contrarian doesn’t pay as well outside of the media bubble.

  30. 30.

    Quinerly

    Roseanne now re tweeting that Michelle Obama got her fired.

    Says she might fight ABC re the series cancelation.

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    @rikyrah:

    Srsly. I thought it was pictures of Roger Ailes, but it must be something else, because it has outlasted him. Maybe Rupert Murdoch doing something unseemly with a marsupial.

  40. 40.

    Zinsky

    I’m so sick of this ignorant disgusting pervert complaining about how badly the media has treated him and now the pink-scalped pile of puke wants Bob Iger, who runs ABC, to apologize to him. When has the degenerate Trump ever apologized for anything? He should issue a written apology to the American people for siring Ivanka, Eric and that other worthless waste of oxygen and inflicting their stupidity and vulgarity on this poor planet! Name one other CEO who has had 17 separate women accuse them of sexual harassment and has kept their job? Impeachment is too good for this reptile….

  42. 42.

    debbie

    @VOR:

    It’s a fact of life: The older you get, the slower you heal. They should have calculated their cover story with that in mind.

  45. 45.

    Aleta

    Salaried managers and assistant managers at Lowes are being required to enter binding arbitration agreements under the threat of losing their valuable bonuses, according to a copy of the contract obtained by HuffPost.

    By signing the contract, managers agree they won’t take Lowe’s to court with any claims or join in class-action lawsuits against the company. Instead, any grievance they have must be taken individually and in private to an arbitrator ― an arrangement that could significantly cut back workers’ legal claims of unpaid work.

    The contract, dated March of this year, makes clear that declining to sign could come at a severe cost. “Your participation in the 2018 Manager Bonus Program” hinges on the signature, as well as “your continued employment at Lowe’s,” it reads. Internal emails reviewed by HuffPost show a human resources officer instructing a manager to submit the signed contract if the manager wants a bonus this year.

    Lowe’s did not respond to questions about why the company introduced the arbitration agreements and whether hourly employees must sign them as well.

    The bonuses for Lowe’s store managers are based in part on store performance and can be worth several thousand dollars apiece. As at other U.S. retailers, the bonuses are a key piece of manager-level compensation and one of the main reasons store managers put up with the long hours and lack of overtime pay that are common in the industry.

    From H Post

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    @rikyrah:

    Yes, they are. And the NRA, for laundering Russian money to Republican campaigns. ?

    But they are the ones who are guilty. It’s not Obama’s fault that they’re goddamned criminals.

    @ruemara:

    Also, this. The MSM has dedicated years to pretending that the GOP is a functional political party and not a collection of white supremacist lunatics. They can’t drop the pretense now or they blow the whole game.

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    @Quinerly:

    Says she might fight ABC re the series cancelation.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Disney’s lawyers are standing by, thinking, We wish a motherfucker would. I bet they would even send an all-Black team for every court appearance. ?

  50. 50.

    Ella in New Mexico

    My God Brad Parscale’s Twitter posts clearly are using the whole psy-op technology they paid so dearly for because every single one enrages me. And they’re clearly pretty much just free boiler plate talking points for the RWNJer’s to use–you’ll see/hear them coming from Trumpers all over.

    @Aleta:

    Salaried managers and assistant managers at Lowes are being required to enter binding arbitration agreements under the threat of losing their valuable bonuses, according to a copy of the contract obtained by HuffPost.

    Shit like this plus all the completely unnecessary “non-compete” clauses being put into employment contracts today–even for low level employees working in non-sensitive areas–are getting out of control. Until the Feds or the Judiciary outlaw them, states need to do it and soon.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Duane:

    Efg’s so old, he’s always been old.

    I know. And he’s three years younger than I am. And yet here I am.

  52. 52.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Aleta: Bank of America did the same thing about ten years ago. Right before bonuses were to be paid out.

  55. 55.

    Ken

    @rikyrah: @Steeplejack: My first thought was that Fox found out that something big, undeniable, and utterly heinous was about to come out, and was starting the pivot that will end with the “President Trump (D) arrested” chyron.

  56. 56.

    Miss Bianca

    @Quinerly: Oh, these FUCKING people like Roseanne fucking Barr and Donald fucking Trump. The most entitled whiny-ass bitches on this earth. So much for white supremacy – man, every time these people go down, they go down screaming about how black people – any black person, every black person – is to blame. If white people like them are as fucking superior as they claim to be, how is that even possible? “They MADE me be a racist asshole! By the sheer power of their blackity black blackness! It’s NOT FAIR!!”

  57. 57.

    wizened_guy

    @Jeffro: FWIW I saw Trump’s personal plane on the tarmac at La Guardia today. Wonder who it might have been carrying.

  58. 58.

    J R in WV

    @Zinsky:

    Impeachment is too good for this reptile….

    Now, now!! Reptiles are valuable creatures, who dispose of rodents as much as they can!!! Don’t be comparing them to Trump, who isn’t nearly as useful to the ecology!!!! That’s shameful, comparing a nice lizard or snake to president* Trump.

    *Not really, he stole it, that’s not a valid way to become leader of the free world, as he proves every day.

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