Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

T R E 4 5 O N

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

In my day, never was longer.

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

Second rate reporter says what?

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Republicans in disarray!

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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  3. 3.

    JPL

    John, It’s time to take a nap because I seem to remember that this blog has top tier talent, and now we have feet

  4. 4.

    jl

    ” a few people who could make an informed decision to pay out the ransom. ”
    We can check whether Cole’s pets have started eating him? Is that it?
    That would work like Cole holding the day’s newspaper?

  6. 6.

    West of the Rockies

    Dear God, please never, ever allow Trump’s feet to appear in public… Grubby-toed vulgarian.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: lots of people are saying that, many top people, people come to me, big guys with tears in their eyes, stevedores, longshoremen, lumberjacks, gladiators and sumo wrestlers, they come to me weeping and say, “Sir, that”

  8. 8.

    Martin

    I think the most likely answer here is that DougJ earned Cole’s trust, and gave the keys over to AL and Betty. The 3 buried Cole in a Florida swamp and what we’re really looking at in the pics are a pair of fake legs made out of old Subaru parts, wine wrapper foil, and yellowed, deteriorating comics. They care for the pets and take the occasional photo. Blurry is deliberate to hide the evidence. Rosie knows everything.

    David, Tom, Adam, Cheryl, M^4, etc. were all smart enough to figure out the ruse, and blackmailed Doug and co-conspirators into handing over the keys so they could get a part of the crown jewels which is the commentariat here. They’re in it with the aliens. I swear to god.

  11. 11.

    John Revolta

    “Picture of my feet.” You worry too much. Probably what they’d do is just cut off a couple of toes and send them. Of course you’ve always got those slippers on so it could be a problem. Just tell ’em to cut off the whole foot and we’ll take it from there.

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    if trump goes for the national emergency, and the inevitable lawsuit comes, would this be admissible (if that’s the word) as an admission that this has nothing to do with national security and is exclusively about Fear Of Mean Tweets from Ann Coulter?

    Sahil Kapur @ sahilkapur
    Lindsey Graham tells Republicans to get behind Trump on a national emergency declaration for the wall or they’ll be cut loose.

    “This is about more than a barrier. This is about us as a party.”

  21. 21.

    debbie

    @Raven:

    That’s happened to me with a piece of salt on a pretzel, a bite of bagel, and a Klondike bar. I’m thinking about baby food for the rest of my life.

  22. 22.

    raven

    @TaMara (HFG): Maybe but there was a piece of metal in the can (that I think got put in there by accident during superbowl party clean up). It’s a bug chunk but I seem to be able to eat by chewing on the other side.

  24. 24.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    More statesmannery from noted Very Serious Sidekick and Sunday Morning Wiseman Lindsey Graham

    Sam Stein @ samstein
    “He’s going to give Rocket Man a choice: death or condos”

    — Lindsey Graham on Trump’s North Korea policy.

  26. 26.

    Dan B

    @Martin: Could you somehow work in a plotline that involves us upper left coast cominterniats who are Snowbound in Seattle? We promise to be wternally grateful with minimal giggling.

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Raven: I once had a veneer pop off a front incisor when biting into an apple. I screamed at the Universe, “Even when I try to be healthy you fuck with me!”
    My dentist told me he always cuts into apples with a knife first.

  29. 29.

    BeautifulPlumage

    Not strep, but I tripped and fell on asphalt Wed and only this am was it determined from the second x-rays that there’s broken bones in my left hand. I also cracked a rib… : (

    Drove through the snow this morning to Seattle & finally have a decent splint and will see specialist next week.

    Feeling old and klutzy

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    First day in over a week without rain and this afternoon the cacophony of weed whackers and lawn equipment in the neighborhood is practically deafening. Inside, with doors and windows shut.

  38. 38.

    Emerald

    @debbie:

    “It will be like herding butterflies”

    As of tomorrow, there will be fewer butterflies to herd. The National Butterfly Center is going to be bulldozed for Twitler’s wall, using money already appropriated.

    It will destroy the habitat of not only the butterflies, but of about 400 bird species, ocelots, turtles, and many other animals in the area.

    From what I’ve read, and I fervently hope I’m wrong, they will use a Depression-era law that allows them to just take any land they want, with no legal recourse or compensation. And the SCOTUS has already allowed them to ignore 28 environmental laws that would have stopped them.

    The bulldozers showed up today and the butterfly personnel have been told that they are not allowed onto their own (private) land.

    Native Amerians are protesting, but I think that unless hundreds of people go there and lie down in front of the bulldozers, they will destroy the whole place tomorrow.

    I’m physically ill about it.

  39. 39.

    AnotherBruce

    “They’ll be cut loose”. Don’t mess with Lindsey. You wouldn’t want to know peak Lindsey. He will cut you loosely, you have been warned.

  42. 42.

    Duane

    @Emerald: Lindsey Graham admitted wall is now about saving the Trumpov Party. Remember Graham said Trump’s nomination would be a disaster for the party. He was right. Now they’re so desperate they have to continue down this foolish path Trump put them on.
    Shitmidas destroys everything, literally.

  44. 44.

    Kayla Rudbek

    Pissed off as hell at my supervisor again. The man doesn’t have the professional courtesy and/or understanding of logistics to realize that if I sent him work for his approval by Tuesday, he can get it back to me by Thursday or Friday for corrections so I can meet the Monday deadline. Instead he consistently waits until Monday morning to review and return and then doesn’t even have the professional courtesy to put his sign off on record by the deadline time on Monday afternoon when I _have_ made the required corrections and returned the work to him, which messes up my numbers for the pay period. This is the third time in a row which makes it a pattern. I’m about to the point where I want to go over his head and ask to be switched over to a different supervisor (which I think would be possible if somewhat difficult).

  47. 47.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Martin:

    The 3 buried Cole in a Florida swamp and what we’re really looking at in the pics are a pair of fake legs made out of old Subaru parts, wine wrapper foil, and yellowed, deteriorating comics.

    And mustard. Gotta remember the mustard.

  49. 49.

    Mnemosyne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I’ve warned my brother in law and his boyfriend that we will be going to Disneyland while they’re here, rain or shine. ☔️

    Though if we get another flash-flood level deluge predicted that day, I will probably relent. It looks okay for the moment.

  52. 52.

    Josie

    @Emerald:

    They are also targeting Bentsen State Park, another fragile ecological site, and La Lomita Mission, a Catholic chapel that is over one hundred years old. It is an abomination.

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    @Josie

    The entire thing is tragic beyond comprehension. Video of a church being bulldozed on Dolt 45’s order would be a powerful statement. Enough to shake some of the benighted awake?

  54. 54.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @sukabi: I can’t do that but the system has records of when I send my work to him for approval and then records if and when he sends it back. I am part of a union so this may be a good thing to bring to my union rep first before I go thermonuclear. They may still want me to try to resolve it with him, but right now I get so angry at him that I think I need a third party to run interference.

  55. 55.

    sukabi

    @Kayla Rudbek: yeah, definitely talk to your union rep, he’s either an inconsiderate sloppy supervisor or he’s delaying your signoffs and therefore affecting your pay for his / companies benefit …

  56. 56.

    J R in WV

    @Raven:

    I just popped a handful of peanuts and broke a tooth in half!

    Last November while in NYC we were eating potato chips, and I broke a molar into shards. Now it has a little metal cap while the new crown is fabricated.

    The rearmost molar, such that the dentist, a wonderful and compassionate guy, actually bruised my cheek while holding my mouth such that he could do his work. It didn’t hurt at the time as my whole face was somewhat numb, but the next day it was a little tender.

    A little sensitive to cold so ice cream needs to be dealt with carefully.

    ETA: Sorry about your broken tooth, I hope it doesn’t hurt badly before you can get it looked after! Sometimes they hurt horribly, other times not so bad… mine didn’t hurt as long as I kept the cold stuff on the other side.

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    I agree with sukabi— if you’re getting to the point where you’re going to blow up, I would talk to your union rep first. You’re going to want a witness in the room when you try to talk about it.

    Also, make sure to screenshot or print out all of the documentation showing when you sent the work and when he sent it back. You want to have hard facts on your side so he can’t play a “he said she said” game.

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne

    @J R in WV:

    Next time, ask your dentist if he has a bite blocker for you. It’s a rubber thingy that keeps your mouth open at the right angle so you don’t get a sore jaw and he doesn’t have to try and hold bits out of the way. My dentist has a basic one for stuff like fillings and a heavy-duty one that keeps all the things out of the way when he has to get way in the back.

  59. 59.

    raven

    @J R in WV: Yea, I have the big piece but it doesn’t hurt at all. Of course we made the brilliant decision to drop our dental plan so that it great!

  63. 63.

    dww44

    @donnah: I’m heartsick too. @Emerald: Are there links in the MSM to this story?. I just don’t see how any half way decent American would do this? When it comes to Trump’s wall, neither the means nor the ends are justified.

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