Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

We still have time to mess this up!

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

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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  1. 1.

    zhena gogolia

    I’m so glad you guys have turned me on to Paul Bronks, my new substitute for the lamented Cute Overload.

    I can’t refuse Lin-Manuel anything.

  2. 2.

    Jerry Russian

    What sounds do zebras make? One way to tell which species it is would be to ask it a few questions. If it answers “woof”, then it is most likely a dog. If it answers with whatever sounds zebras make, then it is most likely a zebra.

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    I finally got everything I wanted to find for my niece’s graduation, and now I need to wrap everything and put it into the reusable shopping bag that is part of the gift for our family dinner tonight. Short version, I got her the academic version of the planner I like (Passion Planner) and a bunch of planner accessories, plus a couple of themed adult coloring books, plus a Target gift card.

  6. 6.

    Jeffro

    Heading out in just a bit to see Dave Matthews Band…Mrs. Jeffro can scratch that one off her bucket list now!

    (I’m a little jaded…I saw them ‘back in the day’ at smaller venues in the Valley…saw Boyd Tinsley back when he had his own trio going)

    Translation: I’m old.

  8. 8.

    HumboldtBlue

    Just in case youse didn’t know, today is Worldwide Knit In Public day. I just ran into a large group of folks camped out in a downtown plaza busily knitting away.

    Came away with a beautiful hand painted silk scarf and left a donation for the breast health project.

    Knit on! You mighty knitters!

  9. 9.

    A Ghost To Most

    As if my nightmares about being bitten by dogs needed a new hellhound.

    No cat would put up with that indignity without drawing blood.

  10. 10.

    Another Scott

    Our doggie barely holds still to put her collar on most of the time. I can just imagine what she’d be like if I came at her with a paintbrush and a can of paint. After shaving her…

    Entertaining clip though!

    Donated++ Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  11. 11.

    Mnemosyne

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I am sad that my carpal tunnels made me give up knitting for now. ? I should probably learn to dictate my novels so I can knit again, but I can’t both type and knit, unfortunately.

  13. 13.

    The Dangerman

    A zebra is a horse, of course, of course,
    And no one can talk to a zebra of course
    That is, of course, unless the zebra is the famous Mr. Ed

  14. 14.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Jeffro:

    Don’t ever tell anyone you have Dave Matthews tickets or they’ll think you have DMT or so a person I knew in school told me. Apparently DMT is a drug that slows down perception of time. The same person took this drug

  15. 15.

    Nicole

    @raven: I am out here at beautiful Belmont Park. It’s a gorgeous day. My seven-year-old is my date to the race. Thankfully, Belmont has a playground in the back so he’s getting to run off a little bit of energy before we go up to our nose bleed seats.

  18. 18.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    I’ve watched the rerun of Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes hundreds of times and it still gets to me. Let’s go Justify!

  19. 19.

    zhena gogolia

    Okay, I dissed “Lady Bird” last night but I tried watching it again today and it’s not so bad. Saoirse Ronan is amazing (not sure I spelled it right), as is Laurie Metcalf (whose name I’ve been misspelling all my life). The plot is a little predictable so far but maybe the last 20 minutes will surprise me.

  20. 20.

    sukabi

    What a tangled web…brexit, banks, farage, Russian gold mines, bannon, Cambridge analytical & Drumpf…

    From November 2015, the ambassador, Alexander Yakovenko, courted Banks and Wigmore, inviting them to multiple events and meetings in the run-up to the European referendum, many of which, the documents suggest, they attended.

    On 16 November, the documents suggest, Yakovenko invited them to an evening meeting at the Russian embassy. It is not clear if they attended but the next day, 17 November, Leave.EU held its launch event – with Brittany Kaiser of Cambridge Analytica. And on 18 November, Banks and Wigmore again visited the embassy. On this occasion, the Russian ambassador introduced them to a Russian businessman with extensive business interests in Russian goldmines, according to documents seen by the Observer.

    It is understood they were presented with a business opportunity in which they were offered a chance to invest in a plan to buy six Russian gold firms and merge them into a single entity, potentially netting a profit of several billion dollars.

    Documents seen by the Observer suggest further meetings and discussions took place between the businessman and Banks and Wigmore, including a trip to Moscow in February 2016 during which Banks was scheduled to meet high-level officials from the state-owned bank.

    The deal to buy the goldmines with funding from the bank was announced on 5 July 2016, 12 days after the referendum. It is not clear if Banks invested, although he tweeted on 17 July 2016 : “I am buying gold at the moment & big mining stocks.” There is no public record of Banks being an investor in it.

    According to the documents seen by the Observer, the hospitality extended both ways with Banks and Wigmore inviting the ambassador and a senior Russian diplomat to attend an evening with business contacts in a pub, and even to watch the results of the referendum at Leave.EU headquarters in Millbank, although the ambassador said he had to decline because of commitments in Moscow.

    The invitations continued after the referendum during the time in which Banks, Wigmore and Farage began travelling regularly to America to support Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency, according to the documents.

    Ambassador Yakovenko met Wigmore and Banks on 19 August, the day Steve Bannon became Trump’s campaign manager. It was days before they travelled to Mississippi with Nigel Farage for a rally on 25 August at which Donald Trump introduced him to the crowds as “Mr Brexit”. He said a Trump presidency would be “Brexit plus”.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Justify: only the 13th Triple Crown winner ever, and only the second unbeaten TC winner.

    In my TOTALLY ABOVEBOARD and ABSOLUTELY LEGAL friendly sweepstakes, I — as usual — pulled the horse with the longest odds, Abandon All Restore Hope.

  27. 27.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Mel: That upset my kittehs. The most paranoid of them is still looking for the invader.

  30. 30.

    eemom

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’m sure you’ve considered this already, but I just wanted to mention that I had carpal tunnel surgery in both hands and it worked perfectly. Also it is a very minimal surgery….the worst part is the EMG.

  32. 32.

    Mel

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I have two rescued oriental shorthairs, and a rescued tabby.

    The oriental shorthair girls both make that same noise themselves, so they sleep right through it. My tabby girl leaps up and smacks the screen with a look of total horror and disdain on her face – pretty much the same look she gets when her buddies shriek like that for Da Bird!

    Funny video for humans, but the feline jury is still out!

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @eemom:

    The last time I had it tested, I wasn’t a candidate for sugery because I didn’t have an actual blockage, just pain. I should probably get that checked again since it was over 15 years ago and the standards may have changed.

  36. 36.

    Ruckus

    @germy:
    Is there a way to contribute a flaming bag of dog shit?

    If you want to read a disgusting bit of bullshit, read the entire thing. Include the comments.
    The last one is in Russian. Here’s the translation.
    Continue a good job, comrade. Together we will crush these capitalistic pigs and raise Mr. Donald to the supreme leader.

  37. 37.

    Another Scott

    In other news, on Twitter, Donnie just blew up the unanimous communique from the G7 summit because Trudeau said that Canada’s tariffs would still go ahead. As reported by BBC News.

    Least surprising action, ever.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    It can be hard to say with her — she’s on the autism spectrum* so she has very definite opinions about what she does and does not like that can’t be moved, so either she’ll love it or she’ll just be puzzled.

    * As you may already know, a decade ago they would have said she has Asperger’s, but they’ve now realized that Asperger’s is just the highest-functioning type of autism.

    I’ve gotten the same gift pack for my Florida niece, tailored to her preferences, so I need to send that off next week. She’s actually starting her first semester of college on 6/23 because she needs to get out of the Devil Woman’s house ASAP for her own sanity.

  40. 40.

    Ruckus

    @eemom:
    EMGs are fun! Fun I tell you! And if anyone believes that I’ve got titles to several bridges that I’ll let you have cheap.
    I noticed that they placed the pickups at the end of your extremities. To check that the signals were going the other direction, to your brain correctly, they wait for the patient to exclaim “MotherFucker!” which is a totally appropriate response. It isn’t the response that’s important, it’s the delay between them pressing the button and your utterance. You will utter something.

  43. 43.

    debbie

    @Another Scott:

    What exactly did he think they would do? Quake in fear of him? This must be something else he’s been preparing for all his life.

  44. 44.

    Shell

    @Ruckus: Ive had them it wasnt as bad as I thought itd be. The worst was how long I put it off cause I dreaded it so.

  47. 47.

    Mike in NC

    Apparently Trump suggested if the G-7 didn’t meet all of his absurd fairness demands, “we’ll stop trading with them”. Like the petulant man-baby that he is, he’ll just pick up his toys and go home.

  53. 53.

    chris

    I know a little about the Canadian dairy business but I did not know that in the US Big Milk is just another welfare bum. Government subsidies account for 73% (!) of producer’s returns. Trump, of course, wouldn’t know anything about that.

  54. 54.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    @chris: Those dairy tariffs he’s bitching about were taken care of in the TPP. And, yes, the government supports dairy in much the same way it supports corn and other agricultural products with subsidy checks.

  61. 61.

    sukabi

    @Dorothy Winsor: That’s the problem, he doesn’t think, he bullies. It’s worked for him for several decades, he “feels” it will continue to work.

  62. 62.

    Juju

    @zhena gogolia: If you haven’t yet, watch the movie “Brooklyn”. I think it’s Saoirse Ronan’s best movie so far, although she has been very impressive in everything I’ve seen her in so far.

  63. 63.

    Shana

    @Mnemosyne: My younger daughter’s heading to Dallas for a year-long internship. Older daughter and I are thinking of sending her hair rollers, a bump-it and a can of hair spray. Cuz Texas. Good idea?

  65. 65.

    sukabi

    Drumpf is rage tweeting about Trudeau…and is blowing up the deal they all agreed on.

    He is now raging on Twitter about a statement given by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following Trump’s early exit.

    Trudeau said he would not cave to Trump’s trade demands, even if it meant a full-blown trade war.

    “I have made it very clear to the President that it is not something we relish doing, but it is something that we absolutely will do,” Trudeau said. “As Canadians, we are polite, we’re reasonable, but also we will not be pushed around.”

    Trump is aboard Air Force One en route to Singapore, and is rage-tweeting as he prepares to chat with a brutal and wily dictator.

    Trump says he will not sign the accords being drawn up at the G7 meeting out of protest.

    Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2018

    PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, “US Tariffs were kind of insulting” and he “will not be pushed around.” Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2018

  69. 69.

    Nicole

    Goddamn Gronkowski blew up all my tickets.

    Still, it was really cool. I was here for American Pharoah in 2015, and this one is every bit as sweet. Third Eye Blind is now playing on the racetrack. Not a bad way to end the night.

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