Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans in disarray!

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

This blog will pay for itself.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

“But what about the lurkers?”

White supremacy is terrorism.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

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  1. 1.

    cain

    Jeezus, what a fucked up episode. That said, weaponizing the “Me Too” movement against us could be a clear and present danger and we all need to be on guard. But that was one dumb stunt. I hope the kid gets some amount of jail time out of it as a lesson.

  4. 4.

    Schlemazel

    @cain:
    Be prepared. In 2020 there will be a long list of Dem candidates accused of sexual assault. The GOP see this as a huge win for them. 1) It drives down support from liberals and women. 2) In inoculated shitbags like Kavanaugh so that they can name Ted Bundy to the USSC. 3) It empowers men, particularly white men at the cost of women, whom they still feel don’t know their place. 4) it causes more hurt and anger that they live on

    MIB: Edgar: War? Good. That means more food for my family. All 78 million of them.

  6. 6.

    pk

    I remember Jack Burkman from a Bill Maher show a long time ago. He said he was looking forward to the “balmy weather” that global warming will bring. He’s a complete moron. I’ve no idea why Maher invites these idiots on his show. They contribute nothing to any conversation.

  9. 9.

    A Ghost To Most

    Snow is falling here after several gorgeous days (77 yesterday). Snow always takes the edges off our American shitshow.

  10. 10.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Another Scott: That’s great, Rob should get Dick Van Dyke and Mel Brooks to do those, too.

    The Alan Brady episodes were always my favorites of the old DVD show. He could bust me up with a “Shut up, Mel!” Even the third or fourth.

  11. 11.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    Thank God these assclowns are such assclowns. God only knows how far down the road to full fascism we’d be if Trump and his cast of fuckleheads were remotely competent. It’s true, incompetent clowns can do an awful lot of harm through their sheer incompetence; but I think we’d be worse off if they knew what the fuck they were doing.

  15. 15.

    guachi

    Your link has a stray http at the end of it if you can still edit it.

    EDIT: Thanks for fixing.

    I’ve been laughing (on the inside because it would make no sense to my wife) at Jacob and SMOTI, The Gateway Pundit, at this ham-handed smear job.

    Get used to a torrent of this crap regarding the Democrats’ 2020 nominees.

  16. 16.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    As Mary G noted below Jacob Wohl is the first replying tweet on Twitlers tweets, without fail, consistently with MAGA! etc., I usually scroll down past his twenty or so replies to get to the serious replies from people saying “fuck you Trump” etc. People who post links to refute whatever bullshit he is posting. Jacob is as reliable as the morning sun when it comes to Trump tweets. How anyone would take him seriously is beyond me.

  19. 19.

    Barbara

    @MazeDancer: How awful. My daughter adopted a 9 year old dog, a mix, after someone in the family developed allergies. She is so sweet I couldn’t imagine how they could give her up, but at least they had a reasonable excuse. The dog is still traumatized when she is left alone, especially in an unfamiliar location.

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    @Miss Bianca:

    what does being “rate-limited” meanwhen you are trying to click a Twitter link? I have never seen that before.

    When my phone does that, it means that I’ve used up all my ‘free’ streaming time for the month, and the Twitter link won’t download fast enough not to get cut off.

    If you can’t switch devices (or find a not-wireless connection), you’ll probably be cut off till Thursday.

  23. 23.

    Honus

    So I just found out Whitey Bulger got it in Morgantown, West Virginia. That’s bizarre. Used to visit some of my friends in there on drug raps.

  24. 24.

    MazeDancer

    @A Ghost To Most:

    The site is reporting a ‘firm hold’ on Socks. So there’s that.

    No. Alas, the “firm hold” was from the Foster Home. Which was affiliated with Senior Pets United

    Sock has been relocated to a Foster Home. But needs a forever home. Poor kitty must be so freaked out from all the moving around. And abandonment.

  25. 25.

    Platonailedit

    Sticky nyms.
    Standard site loading times.
    Freedom from fucking stackpathcdn garbage.
    Is it all too much ask from bj?

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’ve never been to Pittsburgh but I think I like Pittsburgers

    WATCH: Trump’s motorcade forced to turn around after thousands of protesters flood Pittsburgh streets

  27. 27.

    randy khan

    Rachel Maddow is having a very good time with the fake Mueller scandal story. She’s extremely amused.

  29. 29.

    Ohio Mom

    Just read a bit about Trump’s visit to Tree of Life. Just outside on the street, someone put up a row of eleven white Stars of Davids on short stands, each inscribed with a victim’s name. It looks like they are made of wood, and they are a reminiscent of the white crosses people around here sometimes put up on the sides of the highway where there have been fatal crashes. I have never seen anything like it in front of a synagogue but then again, this is new territory.

    Melania laid a white rose on each one — No! We Jews do not do flowers at funerals or on graves; apparently the two of them also bought stones from the White House, which they also laid on the top of the stars.

    That is a real Jewish tradition, to leave stones on a graveside monument to show you have visited. Though monuments are not generally not erected until a full year has passed.

    I found it a rather odd ceremony. A take-off on Jewish traditions at an ersatz graveyard. Well, it kept them away from the mourners, and that is good.

  32. 32.

    Baud

    ABC News
    @ABC
    NEW: Nancy Pelosi: “President Trump’s new claim he can unilaterally end the Constitution’s guarantee of citizenship shows Republicans’ spiraling desperation to distract from their assault on Medicare, Medicaid and people with pre-existing conditions.”

    When are we getting rid of her again?

  35. 35.

    FlyingToaster

    @Miss Bianca: 3rd Party Twitter readers have a rate limit; 15 ops (and I haven’t a clue as to what that means) per 15 minutes.

    Generally, it means come back in 15 minutes, because Twitter is trying to bork your reader for not letting it place corporate spooge advertising on your screen.

  36. 36.

    Ian G.

    Speaking of the Pens game, how about those Islanders, eh Cole? I know, I know, they’re going to make me care and then lose like 12 in a row in January because they’re the Islanders. They’re still less of a shitshow than the Mets or Giants.

  38. 38.

    trollhattan

    @Baud:
    I {heart} Nancy SMASH! I’d move to her district and vote for her if I could afford it, which I cannot so will continue to applaud her from eighty miles away. Laff at the haters.

    Although, that mister Ryan fellow is very impressive, no?

  39. 39.

    Major Major Major Major

    @FlyingToaster: I’ve gotten the rate-limit message while using the twitter app to re-open a tweet in a browser. (This is the only way I know of to get the embed code on an iPhone). So whatever they’re doing, it can affect people who aren’t using third-party software.

  40. 40.

    Raven

    I’m pissed. I bought a vacuum sealer to preserve my fish and the damn thing stopped vacuuming after the first two fish! I caught a big ass flounder and really want to take it home and serve it up later!

  43. 43.

    Platonailedit

    This quote from Trump is a huge lie. Other outlets have been debunking it all day. But not the NYT. They print and tweet Trump's lies as fact — over and over again.

    Unsubscribe from NYT. Propaganda should not be supported, and there's nothing else to call this but propaganda.

    pic.twitter.com/wSGhb3Y5s4— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 30, 2018

  45. 45.

    Kattails

    @Another Scott: That’s just wonderful, thanks for the link. I wish I could send it to my 89-year-old, Trump-voting mother. Sigh. Carl still has every last one of his marbles.
    It was a bit of a distraction from writing out my last postcards for Antonio Delgado, because of course I had to keep scrolling down and watch the clips, because self-control… but it gave my hand a rest. It’s late but I’m close enough that mailing tomorrow should get there in time. Keep on keeping on.

  46. 46.

    Ohio Mom

    @Platonailedit: The Times got a lot of um, immediate feedback, and have amended the tweet. I think it serves a purpose that people can see that they were called out and had to correct themselves — it’s direct evidence that they are screwing up.

  47. 47.

    Aleta

    @MazeDancer: In mid-winter an elderly guy on our street tossed out a little cat who his neighbor said was over 20 at the least. She would run out across the ice to us from under his house whenever we walked by, so I took her inside and went to talk to him. He said she’d stopped using the litter and he couldn’t get down to clean up any more. He was fighting to stay on in his house himself. It turned out her failing kidneys were the problem. The KD food and one course of fluids were enough and she settled in on a bathroom shelf for the next 3 years with us and the other cats. They gave her her space because she just took it.

    She was a great, great cat. Tough and tiny and fragile-looking as a bird. Every day around noon she walked to the door and out to sit for 30 min on the door stoop in the sun, and then back in again. She had a huge aura. Eventually she had a stroke, then carried on exactly the same at a tilt, for another year and a half. I cried hard when she was gone and buried her in her sun spot.

  48. 48.

    Mandarama

    Open thread? My kid, Thing1, submitted his application to MIT today.?

    Snowball, Hell, etc. But damn, I am proud of him.

    Then again, he hasn’t registered any fake intelligence companies to my phone number, so the bar for motherly pride is apparently pretty low.

  49. 49.

    LuciaMia

    Six more days? Ugh, its always like this, coming down to the wire on an election. It becomes a kind of torture. Feel like a kid trapped in the back seat of an interminable car ride- “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?”

    Worst Twilight Zone episode ever.

  50. 50.

    MazeDancer

    @Kattails:

    Mailing tomorrow is fine. Will probably get there Sat. Worse case Monday, And NY Polls close at 9 PM on Tuesday. Who lnows – you could motivate someone who comes home on Tuesday, sees your card, and heads back out to vote.

  51. 51.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Schlemazel: I don’t think Republicans can pull it off. Wohl’s antics aren’t going to be forgotten and if Conservatives try to weaponize the #MeToo movement against Democrats, they’re going to have to come correct.

  53. 53.

    Patricia Kayden

    @LuciaMia: If the House turns blue as expected, it will be all good. Trump’s recent boorish behavior isn’t going to help Republicans keep the House or governorships.

  55. 55.

    Gravenstone

    @Raven: Check to make sure it hasn’t drawn liquid into the sensors leading to the pump. Should be a safety mechanism to protect the pump. If there is liquid, things should work again once they’re cleared and dry.

  56. 56.

    Schlemazel

    I got a scam today but it really pales to the wold con. Still I hope it gives you all a chuckle like it did me.
    The email starts by saying in a few days I will be getting a VCR tape in the mail. Then it informs me my account has been deactivated
    “Your PC has been caught by the corrupting file” which the email claims he loaded a virus on a porno site. “You hit this link and urgently installed the malicious soft to your gadget.”
    “That malware make your front-facing camera capturing video” OH GAWD NO! I have images of my enraged visage filling the screen
    “I own the videotape with you dash your doodle.” Oh, is that all
    “I capture all your contact files and movie with you choke a chicken.”
    “During the next 4 hours this badware received all the contact information.”
    “In a case if you have a desire me to destroy all the data make payment 599 U.S. dollars in BTC crypto-currency. If not I will deport the videotape to all your contacts.”

    I apologize to any jackal on my contact list that gets a copy of a video captured from my taped over camera

  58. 58.

    Avalune

    I spent a good 6 hours driving back and forth (and I’m an anxious driver so my nerves are shot) but Leto filled out his ballot today! And ate real food! And did some PT!

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Twitter can be brutal. Thank god

    Jacob Wohl’s Mom @wohl_mom
    What a monumental f*cking disappointment you’ve turned out to be Jacob.
    6:59 PM – 30 Oct 2018

    Check out the profile pics….. /extremely Halloween voice/ if… you… dare!

  65. 65.

    tobie

    @trollhattan: I heart Nancy too and have been in mourning since I learned via khead that the local House candidate I’ve been canvassing for has a grotesque ad up showing him and his wife at target practice while rhetorically targeting Pelosi to appease the voters in this ruby red district. Yuck. Why do so many of the newbies hate Pelosi?

  75. 75.

    Ohio Mom

    @Avalune: Very good to hear!

    Is the hospital that far from you or did you go several times today? I also tend to be a nervous driver, I feel for you.

  78. 78.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    @MazeDancer: You have to be fucking kidding me.

    I found one of my cats dead this morning. There is no way in hell I would ever take his brother to the shelter.

  82. 82.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    @Ohio Mom: Thank you. It certainly was. He was in his “I’m lying on the floor looking at you with my paws in the air and I am so adorable” position and I actually stepped over him once before I realized he wasn’t moving.

  83. 83.

    frosty

    @tobie: I saw your comment on a dead thread yesterday. Is that the guy running against Harris in MD-1? Yuck!. Sounds like he wouldn’t be much of an improvement

    Come on up to South Pennsyltucky. George Scott in PA10 has a 1 in 3 chance* of beating the odious Scott Perry. It’s a Swing Left district. My district, PA11, newly attached to Lancaster has a great long shot* candidate, Jess King. We need canvassers!

    * 538

  85. 85.

    Amir Khalid

    @Platonailedit:
    Why the supermarket-style amounts? $599, $799 … Are they offering you a discount? Is there some reporting threshold they’re trying not to trigger?

  89. 89.

    tobie

    @frosty: Will try. I’m coming from the Eastern Shore, so York county is a bit of a hike. I agree, though, that victories in PA-10 and PA-11 would be great.

  90. 90.

    Schlemazel

    @Amir Khalid:
    I think they are just trying to sound specific, as if they would not take 1 penny less. My guy wanted bitcoin so stating it as 599 US is just stupid, that would be 0.095599090292 of a bitcoin today. It would sound more informed to say 0.1 bitcoin which would be ~626.50US

  91. 91.

    Mandarama

    @NotMax: Ha! Unfortunately, I have to live on Planet Reality, where I teach poetry. No miraculous solutions for climate change forthcoming from me! Unless you want me to quote “The Second Coming” at you.

  93. 93.

    Mandarama

    @rikyrah: Thank you so much! It’s a good worry to have, but all I can think is that he’s going to move far away next summer. ?

  94. 94.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    @Schlemazel: I gotta agree with that. There are definitely worse ways to go.

    And thanks everyone for your condolences. His brother is nuzzling my foot, so I think it’s time for bed.

  96. 96.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Obvious Russian Troll: oh lord, so sorry to hear.

    @tomtofa: currently between homes, but we have a sublet all queued up in TriBeCa (thanks autocorrect) in mid-November. The reason it’s complicated is we have to attend sequential weddings in Hawaii and New York, and the flight leaves from SFO—so we’re just taking that vacation and ditching the return flight. Samwise went on ahead of us to a friend’s.

  100. 100.

    dww44

    @LuciaMia: I’m with you there. I’m too old to be wishing any more of my life away, but I so so wish it were a week from tomorrow, the results were satisfactory, and we could all look forward to a relaxing weekend for a change.

  101. 101.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @tobie: No real understanding of how the House works? Of what makes an effective Speaker? Doesn’t know her recent history as dem leader in the House? Stupid??

  103. 103.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Ladyraxterinok: Probably under the delusion that since blue voters got nowhere else to go he might shake free enough of the KDMBs (knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers) in that blood-red CD to win. Dream on – if it nets him more than 30 votes I’d be the most surprised person in MD. The Abominable Anesthesiologist Andy Harris will probably wipe the floor with him – par for the course when you shove so many KDMBs into one CD like that. I just feel bad that tobie wasted so much time & energy (& probably not a little $$$) on this sumbidge’s campaign.

  106. 106.

    Dan B

    @Avalune: Wonderful news about Leto. Now to go dry off my eyes. His big grin is in my mind. Glad he’s got you to give him another reason to pull through.

  107. 107.

    Dan B

    @Obvious Russian Troll: Kitteh nuzzles, so important.
    We’ve put so many in the ground since my partner cares for a colony on a big greenbelt acriss the street from his rental house. They get spayed and food but it’s still a short life. Those left after one dies react in many ways but they each show signs of some sort.

  109. 109.

    Avalune

    Omgosh sorry to hear about the kitty ?

    @Ohio Mom: The hospital is 1.25 hours from apartment but I’ve been driving the dog to my sons hotel room because it’s closer to the hospital for taking her out. The court house made me go back to the hospital and each way for that was 45 mins 4x. A buttload of driving much of it in an area I didn’t really know. Hopefully I just go the once more to deliver ballot.

    Next week the kid goes back to Hawaii so I’ll have to drive from the apartment every day and go back early enough to get the dog.

    As aggravating as the in-laws can be it will be good to know they are close or there to keep an eye on things when I can’t be. ?

  110. 110.

    A Ghost To Most

    @MazeDancer:

    Sorry for the confusion. If Socks still needs a home, and can tolerate two other crotchety cats, I will take him/her. A relay from Chicago to Denver would be preferable to a full road trip, but not a show stopper.

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