Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

In my day, never was longer.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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What is it with Republicans and sex abuse scandals involving wrestling coaches?

Rep. Jim Jordan, the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio, is being accused by former wrestlers he coached more than two decades ago at Ohio State University of failing to stop the team doctor from molesting them and other students.

The university announced in April that it was investigating accusations that Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, abused team members when he was the team doctor from the mid-1970s to late 1990s

Reader LJ writes:

Jim Jordan (OH-4) is a world class Freedumb Caucus asshole who just tried (and failed) to pants Rod Rosenstein in the House Intelligence Committee meeting late last week.

He has an opponent, Janet Garrett, who has run in 2014 and in 2016. This will be her third try to unseat him. She’s trying to run a “country-before-party” kind of race in a very Republican and gerrymandered district that actually looks like a duck. Lots and lots of miles to cover, and she’s trying to cover them all. Here’s her website.

Mostly I would adore seeing Jordan lose his seat, since he in no way represents me or most of my community– and have I mentioned he’s an asshole? Now Janet has a campaign video focusing on opioids, which should be a very salient issue in this district in the fall.

You know what to do.

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  1. 1.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    Jim Jordan is one of the few Republicans I think I loathe more than I loathe Donald Tяump. Everything about him is 67 kinds of awful.

    The other thing I don’t get here is why this shitstain ever thought he could climb his way up to being speaker of the House—which it seems he does—with something like this lurking in the background of his life.

    He’s such a creep. One thing that has always inordinately pissed me off about him is his “I’m too much of a hard working go-getter to shave! Look at me! Look how my coat is off and my sleeves are rolled up” thing he has going. Anybody who works harder at looking like he’s working hard than he does at his job is guaranteed to be a raging asswipe.

  2. 2.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    I mean at least Donald Tяump doesn’t do that. I guess it’s one of the few benefits of his obsession with appearances. At least he shaves.

  5. 5.

    nonynony

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    The other thing I don’t get here is why this shitstain ever thought he could climb his way up to being speaker of the House—which it seems he does—with something like this lurking in the background of his life.

    Because he didn’t think he did anything wrong. Probably until the investigation started in April and he started getting asked about it, it probably never entered his mind that he should have been doing something to stop it instead of cover it up.

    You don’t get to be someone like Jim Jordan without both a total lack of self-awareness and no conscience.

  6. 6.

    Ladyraxterinok

    His opponent is not a polished speaker. She is rather soft spoken and listens instead of trying to dominate the conversation. She doesn’t fit the modern style of politician who talks over opponents.

    If she can make it through the horrific minefield of today’s campaign situation, she will most likely be a good advocate for the people she’s workingt o represent.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Dev Null: “F—- Jordan. F—- Chaffetz. They’re both a———-,” he said of Jordan and Chaffetz, a Utah Republican.
    Click here if you want to read the full story with all of its colorful language.
    Jordan founded the House Freedom Caucus — a perennial thorn in Boehner’s side that some credit for him stepping down as speaker.
    Boehner’s Politico interview revealed the ex-speaker’s deep feelings about Jordan, who he called “A terrorist. A legislative terrorist.”

    (that “click here to solve the mystery of the missing naughty letters!” cracks me up– we are a weird country. Happy Fourth. That said:)
    Fuck Boehner for getting honest about his own caucus after he let them drive him out. If he really had wanted to fuck Jordan and Chaffetz and all the rest, he could have brought the Senate immigration reform bill to the House floor before he broke into the opening notes of Zippity-Doo-Dah. That was as adorable as Chuck and Cokie said it was, but I think we would have been spared a lot of the current ugliness if he had been willing to make like difficult for the people he claims to have hated. And he was by all accounts from the Chamber-of-Commerce pro-immigration wing.

  10. 10.

    WereBear

    This is who they are.

    We are hiding from the heat and binge-watching Deadwood with the kitties. Ian McShane is all “I’m surrounded by incompetence” but that is how it is with minions, is it not? If you can bribe someone to do heinous things, they are fools and/or knaves and also unreliable.

    When Republicans decided to team up with the Toxic Fundamentalist Christians and the Russian agents, what did they expect to scoop up in that net?

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    He’s currently going with The ‘I know nothing’ defense, but I imagine that given the scope and numbers involved with the abuse, there will be more victims coming forward to say that he turned a blind eye towards their attempts to report what was going on.

  13. 13.

    L85NJGT

    I remember reading a post on a sports site a while back, stating that most top tier athletes\all-pros had been raped (by someone abusing a position of authority) along the way, and thinking it was a bit hyperbolic, but anymore…..idk. It’s all too depressingly familiar; like the Penn State morons STILL defending JoPa.

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @WereBear: Ian McShane is all “I’m surrounded by incompetence” but that is how it is with minions, is it not?

    “Dan, loan E.B. your knife!”, after he looks from his newspaper with barely restrained contempt at Farnum’s ranting, is a line that stays with me. McShane is so fucking good. You can really see how, and why, they reshaped the show around him.

    You may have just altered my non-plans for this, my least favorite holiday.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    The other thing I don’t get here is why this shitstain ever thought he could climb his way up to being speaker of the House—which it seems he does—with something like this lurking in the background of his life.

    He thought he could get away with it because he had been getting away with it. This is something that happened 20+ years ago. If the scandal hadn’t come out in 20 years, it wasn’t that unreasonable to think it would stay buried for long enough for him to become Speaker.

  24. 24.

    J R in WV

    In the article quoted about this horrible situation:

    …Dr. Richard Strauss, who died Committed Suicide in 2005…

    Fixed that for ya! Why do these articles not mention the suicide of the Dr. Strauss pervert who molested these athletes? Isn’t that information highly relevant to this discussion?

    How many trainers/coaches/sports docs/hangers-on are out there because they’re totally hooked on perving on their patients/students/athletes???

    More than just a few, fer shure.

    In all my life I never showered with a teacher/coach/ older leader of any sort. Never! Who were those other adults who showered with the wrestling team back then? Who allowed that kind of behavior at OSU for dawg’s sake???!

  26. 26.

    Dev Null

    @Baud: @debbie:

    It has a simple directness andgut-punch clarity

    Come to think of it, why not pull out all the stops?

    We won’t rape your kids

    Rude Pundit posted a bracing essay a few days ago calling for a take-no-prisoners burn-to-the-ground war on the GOP leveraging Republican proclivities towards sex crimes and sexual hypocrisies.

    Rumors are that Donald Trump paid for at least one abortion for one of his fuckmates. And you know that not only is he responsible for at least a handful of abortions, but that a shit-ton of righteous Christians in the GOP have paid for abortions, had an abortion, or have family who have, and all are relieved it was safe and legal. Statistically, it’s just fucking likely. So it’s time for the media (not Democratic politicians) to call them out, as many as you can find, all the fetus-loving saints who want abortion on demand when they demand it and then want to deny it for others.

    This is the really big hypocrisy. You think that Tim Murphy, who resigned over telling his mistress to get an abortion, is an outlier? Fuck no. Is it really beyond the pale to out people like this? Well, it’s also beyond the pale to want to get rid of abortion rights for a large number of women in this country. It’s also beyond the pale to support a president who has no problem taking children from their parents or naming people enemies of the state. Lots of shit we thought was beyond the pale is now part of the pale. This is the country we have. You play on the field you’ve got.

    You might say that this could backfire, that it could lead to other invasions of privacy. Yeah. And? I said this was dirty. Republicans want to invade the most intimate aspects of our existence and fuck them up. You think that anti-choice nutzoids don’t want to get to a point where they’re publishing lists of women who’ve had abortions? Because, motherfuckers, they’re already trying to do that. We’re a hop, skip, and fruit-blessed jump from Gilead.

    Look, I’m not an idiot. None of this is likely to work. It’s something of a thought experiment, maybe even a fantasy. But it’s a set-up for the next and potentially the biggest battle, the midterms.

    Yeah, there’d be gasps and tutt-tutting from Our Failed Press Corpse, but srsly, the evidence of the 2016 election is that they’re no longer information outlets, they’re infotainment outlets.

  27. 27.

    sdhays

    @J R in WV: He definitely knew about the dirty old pervert professors and administrators who would “just happen” to show up when the team went to the showers.

  28. 28.

    Dev Null

    Adam made the point in comments elsewhere that his schools separated student showers from faculty / other showers.

    Surprising that so many major unis don’t employ fail-safe mechanisms of this sort … avoiding single points of failure is a fundamental well-known principle for safe workplaces.

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    @J R in WV:

    In all my life I never showered with a teacher/coach/ older leader of any sort. Never! Who were those other adults who showered with the wrestling team back then? Who allowed that kind of behavior at OSU for dawg’s sake???!

    That might be something they could get away with because of the way athletic facilities were set up. At my alma mater (admittedly not an athletic powerhouse) the teams used the same facilities, including locker rooms, as everyone else. If a faculty member had wanted to ogle the athletes in the shower, they would only have had to come to the athletic center at the same time practice ended.

  30. 30.

    cynthia ackerman

    WWJGD?*

    *What would Jesus’s General do?

    Why, challenge the Mook to wrestle in the manner of the Spartans, of course.

    I know someone is tweeting in the name of patriotboy, but jeez I miss the guy’s blog.

  31. 31.

    Dev Null

    @Roger Moore:

    … the way athletic facilities were set up…

    An expensive kinda way to avoid the cost of setting up a separate locker room, no?

    Even for a non-powerhouse school. And for a powerhouse school which rakes in revenue and alumni donations during winning seasons …

  32. 32.

    Haroldo

    @Dev Null: Vererate Woody’s woody, but perish the thought of a bushy-bushy blond hair-do and (particularly) the huarachi sandals. Surfin’ OSU.

  33. 33.

    Dev Null

    @Baud: @debbie:

    We won’t rape your kids

    Legend has it that LBJ, in one of his early congressional campaigns, told one of his aides to spread the story that Johnson’s opponent fucked pigs. The aide responded “Christ, Lyndon, we can’t call the guy a pigfucker. It isn’t true.” To which LBJ supposedly replied “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”

    From here.

    Make them deny that they molest kids … and then haul out the long sorry list of kid molesters in GOP ranks.

    It’ll horrify the high-minded, but as Adlai Stevenson (is supposed to have) said in response to:

    Governor, you have the vote of every thinking person!

    That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!

  34. 34.

    Dev Null

    @Haroldo:

    Vererate Woody’s woody, but perish the thought of a bushy-bushy blond hair-do and (particularly) the huarachi sandals. Surfin’ OSU.

    In the immortal words of Alexander Hergensheimer,

    he appeared to be talking English.

  35. 35.

    Haroldo

    @Dev Null: Given your seeming age and love of the absurd, I thought this would be crystal clear. Alas.

    Heinlein was never my cup o’ tea. (I had to use Google to find out who the immortal worder was/is.)

    P.S. The LBJ pig fucking story is one of my favorites.

  37. 37.

    Dev Null

    @Haroldo: Well, “love of the absurd”, yes … but sadly, I am not 19, I am at an age when the bits are rotten.

    Let’s see…

    “Venerate Woody’s woody”

    – assume you meant venerate not vererate; “Woody” is presumably Woody Hayes; and “woody” is, uh, clear from the context of the post.

    “Bushy-bushy blond hair-do (particularly) the huarachi sandals.”

    I have no fsckin’ idea. I’m a nerd personality type, which might explain my ignorance.

    “Surfin’ OSU”

    … not a clue. The Google hits (eg, eg) aren’t especially enlightening.

    Here’s the full quote from Job: A Comedy of Justice” (courtesy archive.org):

    … as the heavens opened with the most brilliant light imaginable, outshining day, and I was gripped by sudden grief, knowing that I failed to lead my beloved back to grace.

    […]

    I WAITED for the Shout.

    My feelings were mixed. Did I want the Rapture? Was I ready to be snatched up into the loving arms of Jesus? Yes, dear Lord. Yes! Without Margrethe? No, no! Then you choose to be cast down into the Pit? Yes – no, but Make up your mind!

    Mr Farnsworth looked up. ,See that baby go!’

    I looked up through the roof of the car. There was a second sun directly overhead. It seemed to shrink and lose brilliance as I watched it.

    Our host went on, .Right on time! Yesterday we had a hold, missed the window, and had to reslot. When you’re sitting on the pad, and single-H is boiling away, even a hold for one orbit can kill your profit margin. And yesterday wasn’t even a glitch; it was a totally worthless re-check ordered by a Nasa fatbottom. Figures.’

    He seemed to be talking English.

    “Make up your mind” is stereotypical Heinlein. ~amused~

    I enjoyed Heinlein more when I was young. And his last novel or two were incomprehensible. He needed an editor. Or a better editor.

    Anyway, “he seemed to be talking English” is one of my fave quotes. Thank you for the opportunity to deploy it. ~snark~

    PS: pig story: one of mine too.

  40. 40.

    Haroldo

    @Dev Null: You are welcome for the opportunity – it is a wonderful quote.

    Well, anyway, a woody could also get you to the beach, and then….

    If everybody had an ocean
    Across the U. S. A.
    Then everybody’d be surfin’
    Like Californi-a
    You’d seem ’em wearing their baggies
    Huarachi sandals too
    A bushy bushy blonde hairdo
    Surfin’ U. S. A.

    And, for Merle Haggard (of that period, since we’re there):

    We don’t let our hair grow long and shaggy,

    Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear;
    Beads and Roman sandals won’t be seen.
    Football’s still the roughest thing on campus,

    However, Merle grew out of that antiquated world view; Woody, OSU, and Jordan did not.

  41. 41.

    cmorenc

    @LJ

    have I mentioned he’s an asshole (Rep. Jordan)?

    Yeah, I think you forgot to mention what a colossal asshole he is.
    :=)

  42. 42.

    Dev Null

    @JCJ:

    In honor of raven: Fuck LBJ!

    Heh. Do tell. :-)

    Or perhaps raven will drop in.

    I was persuaded maybe 5 years ago that LBJ wasn’t as bad as I thought. Sadly, I remember neither the book nor the author that persuaded me, so I can’t pimp either. Bit rot, I’m afraid.

    I do like that story.

    The pig story, you mean? Or Heinlein’s novel …

  43. 43.

    Dev Null

    @Haroldo: Ah, The Beach Boys. I thought I knew “Surfin’ USA”, but I don’t recognize any of the lyrics. Found it at YouTube, and yeah, I know the tune and I recognize “surfin’ USA”, but the rest?

    It’s all gone, if I ever knew any of it. :-)

    Chances are I didn’t. I was one of those nerdy guys who listened to classical music; what pop I picked up was strictly by osmosis. :-)

    Sounds like “woody” doesn’t mean what I thought it meant. What’s the meaning?

    And thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!

  44. 44.

    rekoob

    @Dev Null:

    There are those of us car fans who would make an important distinction between a “woodie”, a station wagon with wood-paneled/wood-formed structures, and a “woody”, which reminds us of a certain bird’s/cartoon character’s final syllable. The Beach Boys were singing about the former.

  45. 45.

    Haroldo

    @Dev Null: It is both an erection and a wood-sided station wagon much loved by ’60s surfers.

    To once again visit Brian Wilson and the lads:

    Let’s go surfin’ now
    Everybody’s learning how
    Come on and safari with me
    (Come on and safari with)
    Early in the morning we’ll be startin’ out
    Some honeys will be coming along
    We’re loading up our woody
    With our boards inside
    And headin’ out singing our song

    I’m afraid the culture gradient/membrane went the other way for me. Pretty much classical via osmosis; pop, blues, and jazz the full immersion route.

  46. 46.

    Dev Null

    @Haroldo@rekoob: : Ah, thought that might be it. Never heard woodie/woody used that way, though.

    My parents had a wood-sided station wagon way back when. A long-deceased auto company… Kaiser is the name that comes to mind, but who knows?

    That would have been early 50s.

    Music: yeah, I was a snooty asshole back then.

    Admittedly, most people would say “so, and what’s changed?”

    (To repurpose a scene from Blazing Saddles, “I call myself an asshole, but most people call me … an asshole”.)

    To all those haters and losers, well … my tastes in music have broadened considerably since then to include folk, Celtic, and jazz. And I’m a lot older.

    Other than that, not much has changed.

  48. 48.

    Dev Null

    @rekoob:

    … which reminds us of a certain bird’s/cartoon character’s final syllable.

    Excellent. I’d never appreciated the point. Tx to Haroldo for ‘splainin’.

  50. 50.

    B.B.A.

    Jordan needs to apologize, resign, and kill himself. Preferably in the course of a single press conference, a la Budd Dwyer.

    Sorry to be uncivil.

  52. 52.

    frosty

    @J R in WV:

    I never showered with a teacher/coach/ older leader of any sort.

    Absolutely right. Thinking back on it, as a cross-country runner, the worst would have been showering at the same time as football team. Assholes, some of them, but just normal high school assholes.

  53. 53.

    James E Powell

    @WereBear:

    When Republicans decided to team up with the Toxic Fundamentalist Christians and the Russian agents, what did they expect to scoop up in that net?

    They did it for the tax cuts. All the rest is to keep the RW rabble fired up.

  54. 54.

    Dev Null

    @Mike J: It’s always about projection with these guys.

    Or put differently, “projection” is the easiest way to understand their pathologies.

  55. 55.

    Dev Null

    @B.B.A.:

    Jordan needs to apologize, resign, and kill himself. Preferably in the course of a single press conference, a la Budd Dwyer.

    Let’s not get carried away: if Трамп says that Jordan is innocent, and the wrestlers on the team are lying – and indeed, he says that – is it not our duty to believe?

    After all, who knows more about sexual abuse than Donald Трамп?!?

    Eh? EH?!?

    P0wn3d, lib-tards!

    (er, ~snark~, for anyone reading this who might be wondering.)

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