Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

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

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

The willow is too close to the house.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

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They could have blamed it on jet lag (or TBH on having to behave like some approximation of a grown-up for a whole three days in a row), but that would’ve implied their Dear Leader was susceptible to the weaknesses of mere mortals…

… At a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council last week, William H. Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said that it was unlikely that appropriators in Congress would agree to provide all the money needed for a 2024 moon landing, and that the agency would likely have to cut the budgets for other areas of the space agency.

Hours after the tweet was sent, a White House official attempted to clarify Mr. Trump’s meaning, saying that the administration’s space goals were unchanged. The official added that by seeking additional resources for a journey to the moon within the next five years, the Trump administration intended to accelerate a crewed American visit to Mars…

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    I read Trump’s tweet to one of my students and he responded with “He can’t be that stupid. Can’t he?”. I don’t know. I just don’t know.

    (I’m probably going to get in trouble for exposing graduate students to Trump tweets without first clearing it with the IRB)

  5. 5.

    dmsilev

    @NotMax: Well it wasn’t punishment, it’s not like the student did anything bad. This was purely a research experiment. For Science!

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    @dmsilev:

    This was purely a research experiment. For Science!

    When did science become a cruel prankster?

    Science: Would you look up one of Dump’s dumbass tweets for me?

    Has the US bombed the Moon yet – for freedom?

  9. 9.

    Keith P.

    What other inanimate objects, like the moon, have suffered Trump’s whims and fallen out of favor for no apparent fault of their own?

    Electromagnetic aircraft catapults
    Modern passenger jets

  11. 11.

    Immanentize

    When Trump is finally out of office, who will be the first member of his administration to admit publicly that he had gone insane by August, 2017?

  13. 13.

    Waynski

    Wouldn’t it take years to get to Mars? President Bonespurs should lead the mission and stay there. He’d be completely at home. There’s nothing of value on Mars that’s economically extractable. Red planet meets Orange Fart Cloud.

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Immanentize: August 2017? Are you trying to make a funny? Did you see his campaign announcement or any of his behavior over the past 40 years?

    There’s a reason he lost his home state.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Immanentize: You have the generosity of a saint.

    Sean Spicer: Dump had the bigliest, most tremendlious inauguration crowd EVER! PERIOD!

    SNL cast member playing a reporter: Sean, we can see the photos…

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    @VOR: For absurd proposed uses of nuclear bombs, the prize still goes to the Orion Drive. Make a spaceship that consists of a big thick plate of something very strong, a really really good set of shock absorbers, and the actual ship. Drop a small nuclear bomb from the ship through a hole in the center of the plate, and detonate it. Explosion pushes ship forward. Repeat every few seconds.

  27. 27.

    Major Major Major Major

    @dmsilev: at least that makes sense if you remember that space travel is fucking insane.

    For my money Project Rulison is the most face-slappingly stupid: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rulison

    The peaceful aim of Project Rulison was to determine if natural gas could be easily liberated from underground regions. This site remains under active monitoring by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management.

    The test succeeded in liberating large quantities of natural gas; however the resulting radioactivity left the gas contaminated

    You don’t say.

  28. 28.

    Aleta

    @Immanentize: Involuntary mind-movie of Pence making a pious statement to the press once he’s secured within Indiana safe house. Undisclosed location.

  29. 29.

    scav

    I continue to crack up at the final paragraph from the Guard:

    The White House did not immediately respond to a Guardian question about whether Trump’s statement should be considered official guidance. In ancient times the moon was worshipped as a god, while more recently some children’s stories have speculated that it is made of cheese.

  31. 31.

    Mohagan

    OT, but the thread about the Russian ship cutting off the USS Chancellorsville is dead I think, and I have a question that is driving me crazy: when did we start naming United States Navy ships after Confederate victories ??!!?? USS Gettysburg, sure, and maybe even USS Antietam, but Chancellorsville?

  32. 32.

    SRW1

    Twitter brainfarts are the intertube analogue of somebody stinking up a room in realiter.

  33. 33.

    patrick II

    I think he is more inarticulate here than so stupid he thinks the moon is part of mars. I think if we say what he meant it would be something like: “going to the moon is part of the process of going to mars.” Although having a president who constantly needs people to explain what they think he really meant is stupid enough.

  35. 35.

    bjacques

    @Major Major Major Major: National Lampoon did a parody of the “Atoms For Peace” program of the 1950s (1960s) that proved to be only a slight exaggeration of reality. My favorites: Project 1776 (light off a 200 Megaton bomb) and Project Hole (blow a big hole in the ground). It sounded like kids needing to set off the rest of their fireworks before bedtime.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    Just finished watching Michael Mann’s Collateral (2004) on HBO. Holds up pretty well, despite the fact that as their careers go on I like Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx less and less, which then affects my feelings about their previous work. Something about their real-life personae bleeding into their characters.

    Anyway, pretty good movie, and I had forgotten that Javier Bardem has a small but great part as a cartel kingpin.

  37. 37.

    Mohagan

    @Steeplejack: Thanks for the link about the Army posts, but as I understand it, the posts were all named a good while ago, whereas the ship was commissioned in the 1980s. I’m still stunned. Confederate influence must still !! be much stronger in the armed forces than I realized.

  40. 40.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Steeplejack: It’s a good flick. Cruise really nailed it in that one and as a general rule I don’t like most of the stuff Cruise does. For the most part I like Jamie Foxx’s work.

  42. 42.

    David Evans

    @dmsilev: Orion was more fully worked out than you make it sound. I think a rational society would test the idea in orbit, and then keep one or two ready to go in case we discover an asteroid about to hit us in the near future. Orion might be the only way to deflect it in time.

  43. 43.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Steeplejack:

    Fort Bragg? Fort Hood? Fort Benning? Fort Rucker? Confederates all.

    Except for Lee and maybe Hill, they were all pretty useless Confederate generals, so maybe it’s a backhanded way of celebrating their contributions to the Union victory.

    After all, Hood probably killed more Confederate soldiers than Sherman.

  44. 44.

    J R in WV

    @Mohagan:

    OT, but the thread about the Russian ship cutting off the USS Chancellorsville is dead I think, and I have a question that is driving me crazy: when did we start naming United States Navy ships after Confederate victories ??!!?? USS Gettysburg, sure, and maybe even USS Antietam, but Chancellorsville?

    They named those cruisers after battles in which gallantry stood out, not won or lost… for example, there is a ship named the USS Pearl Harbor, named for a battle decisively won by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

    So in naming those cruisers, which side won the battle was probably completely irrelevant. So long as we won the war, overall…

  46. 46.

    sukabi

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Isn’t balloon juice the moisture / saliva that enters a balloon through repeated attempts to blow up the balloon? Just try to blow up a balloon after your kid has tried and tried and tried to blow up a balloon and then hands it off to you with a smile and “pleeeeease”.

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