Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

How stupid are these people?

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

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

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

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

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Everybody saw this coming.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

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Late Night Clown Car Open Thread: The Grievance Brothers on D-Day

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And, of course, Hucksterbee is just a cornpone, low-rent version of the GOP’s Grievance-Grifter-in-Chief… pampered, fleshy men working their public resentments and private terrors that they will never measure up...



[Spoiler: They won’t!]

Sad-trombone coda, from top-shelf Next-Gen ‘Conservative Intellectual’:

The 1940s are not coming back, dudes — and that’s a blessing, even for you. Be grateful, if you can’t be useful, and stand the hell out of the way.

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  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Laura Ingraham is like Ann Coulter, in that both of them regret they were born a half century too late to be the Bitch of Buchenwald.

    Donald Trump desecrated Normandy with his fascist presence.

  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Huckabee obviously knows as much about World War II as he knows about the Origins of the American Civil War. That is, jack shit.

  4. 4.

    Jerzy Russian

    Also too, I updated my iPhone tonight. When I load this page with Chrome on the phone, the titles to the posts are in huge fonts. That was not the case before the iOS upgrade.

  5. 5.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Jerzy Russian: I took it to mean that 10yr ago, they put a soldier on-screen to talk about the sacrifices of so many soldiers. Today, it’s Ilsa, She-Wolf of the North, butcher-of-buchenwald manque’.

  6. 6.

    sukabi

    @Jerzy Russian: 10 years ago she was the Sgt. giving commentary in the American cemetery, 10 years later Laura Ingrahm and drumpf are making a mockery out of the occasion.

  8. 8.

    Plato

    Twitter pushback against fuckabee is awesome. These thugs flourish while billions starve shows there is no fucking god or goddess.

  9. 9.

    burnspbesq

    A long-ago, long-forgotten movie (Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassssss Song, maybe?) provided the perfect discription of Huckabee and his ilk:

    “Honky-tonk, corn-pone, jive-ass peckerwood.”

  10. 10.

    JoyceH

    O.M.G. The Ingraham interview was heinous enough, but that they DELAYED the Normandy ceremony for it?! There were DDay vets pushing one hundred years old sitting around waiting to be honored, while Trump whined to Laura Ingraham?!

  11. 11.

    Emerald

    Whoever decided to delay the ceremony to wait for Drumpf ought to ‘splain him/herself.

    If the shitgibbon wants to desecrate the anniversary he will, but the rest of the participants should not be forced to participate in that.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @Jerzy Russian: Someone else reported a similar issue with huge titles earlier this week, though I don’t recall any mention of a recent upgrade, and for him it was on a desktop computer, I believe. It appears to be something new that has popped up since the pron weirdness last week.

    John wrote this on a post a couple of days ago.

    At any rate, in the least surprising news ever, the website is doing weird shit. Honestly, I’m just done having people worry about it on the back end. We’re just going to limp this listing, smoking hulk into drydock and hopefully nobody torpedoes us before we have the new one in the water and combat ready. In other words everything is fucked and we’re out of duct tape and shits to give so we’re just trying to hang on with as few casualties as possible until the new ship is ready. Basically, a metaphor for our current political situation.

  14. 14.

    Ivan X

    Yes. The huge iPhone fonts arose after the fixing of the pron issue. I can’t wait until
    John posts a FUCK ALL OF YOU that will be like a big banner on my phone when I’m in public.

  15. 15.

    Barbara

    What should be awkward is Huckabee’s profound ignorance about a major U.S. ally. Hint: Merkel was born after the war ended.

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @oatler.: I saw him and Doc Watson together in the mid nineties or so. 2 more disparate styles I can’t imagine and yet they melded together with absolute perfection. RIP indeed.

  18. 18.

    montanareddog

    @Ivan X: I guess you are right that it is related to the Pr0n fix. I have the same large fonts in Chrome on Android phone, DuckDuckGo on Android and Chrome on Windows PC

  20. 20.

    Joy in FL

    I have a the giant font on Safari on iPhone 10 since I installed the new iOS yesterday. The font is normal on the macbook I’m typing on now.

    When I saw Huckabee’s tweet the other day, my mind was confused about his logic, but I couldn’t articulate what the dissonance was. The tweets at the top of this post articulate what I couldn’t at the time. How can anyone be so willingly obtuse and so willingly saturate his environment with that poison? For years, I went to church with people who honored him as a man of god. I bet most of them still do. I never did, and I left that church environment 15 years ago. One of the things that made leaving necessary was that I was finally seeing the inherent cruelty that is an essential part of that brand of Christianity.

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    BobS

    @OzarkHillbilly: Perfect pairing- the two doctors. Dr. John was one of the few performers I made a point of seeing whenever he came around. Like you wrote, he had the ability to meld with just about any style (he played on Zappa’s Freak Out, as well as a million other records) – through the years, his own music changed while remaining distinctively his own.
    The first time I saw him (a long, long time ago) Mac Rebennak had recently developed the ‘Dr.John the Night Tripper’ persona, performing in a Mardis Gras Indian headdress with somewhat elaborate staging (it was as much theater as music- by the way, the same show included the Bonzo Dog Band)- I just read an obituary quote by Harold Battiste where he said the whole thing started as somewhat of a spoof.

  22. 22.

    Shrillhouse

    Huckabee is just an awful, sad person.

    You forget about him for a while, then he goes on twitter to say something shockingly repulsive and ignorant, and you remember what makes him so disgusting…

  23. 23.

    karen marie

    @Jerzy Russian: I don’t think it’s your upgrade. Same thing has been happening here for a couple days anyway, I think, with my Android tablet. Certainly yesterday, maybe the day before.

    When I wake up in the morning, two things compel me to get up – my dog wanting to go outside to make a poop and me hoping something happened while I slept and Trump has permanently left the WH.

  24. 24.

    karen marie

    @JoyceH: I did not look for corroboration but I saw it floated on twitter that Macron didn’t arrive until after Trump and Ingraham had finished dancing on the graves.

    That fat fuck is such a continual, rolling disaster that truly terrible stuff is forgotten – Alexander Acosta is still Secretary of Labor. It was February when the WH was going to “look into” Acosta arranging an illegal deal for well-connected child diddler Jeffrey Epstein.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    @Shrillhouse:

    Huckabee is just an awful, sad person.

    He is yet another example of proof that there is no such thing as A Just God. If there were, he would have been a grease-spot a looooong time ago.

  26. 26.

    J R in WV

    @SFAW:

    He is yet another example of proof that there is no such thing as A Just God. If there were, he would have been a grease-spot a looooong time ago.

    Actually, I think Huckabee is and has been a walking grease spot most of his life… look at his kids for an example of his work.

  27. 27.

    BigJimSlade

    @BobS: I saw him at the House of Blues in Boston something like 15 years ago. I was amazed he was alive then – he looked like a wax figure. The music was great, though :-) . Apparently he had the same smack secret that worked for Keith Richards – you can only get high, not higher, so no death by overdose. RIP good doc.

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