Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Second rate reporter says what?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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  1. 1.

    Gozer

    I am at once highly amused, deeply depressed, and experiencing panic attacks apparently.

    It’s as if we’re all living in the skewed 1985 timeline in Back to the Future 2.

    EDIT: Gonna have an egg roll and attempt to battle insomnia.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Trivia: There’s a mini-chain of kosher Chinese restaurants (mostly) in some Orthodox Jewish areas in and near the NYC region, names of each slightly different but all beginning with Cho-Sen.

    (Food, BTW, mediocre at best, like ‘Chinese food’ circa 1959.)

  4. 4.

    hells littlest angel

    I expected the American remake of Downfall to be not as good as the original, but I really didn’t expect it to be a comedy.

  7. 7.

    montanareddog

    It believes it is the Chosen One because every time it looks in a mirror, it sees a hunkier Keanu Reeves staring back.

  9. 9.

    Patricia Kayden

    Trump is a dangerous, bullying con artist. It’s amazing that not one Republican has denounced him for calling the Danish Prime Minister “nasty”. He has never used critical language against authoritarian leaders like Putin, Kim or MBS. Democrats need to impeach his bigoted behind.

  10. 10.

    Tony Jay

    @montanareddog:

    It believes it is the Chosen One because every time it looks in a mirror, it sees a hunkier Keanu Reeves staring back.

    It’s a window, and that Secret Service guy has already put in three discreet pleas to HR for a transfer.

  14. 14.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @Gozer: It’s not “as if”. The writers of the film have confirmed that Biff Tannen was literally, not figuratively, based on Dump. We are genuinely living in the bad future from the second film, except without most of the cool technology.

    Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.

  15. 15.

    prostratedragon

    Things I don’t recall hearing on Jan. 20, 2017, no.1:

    “Zadok the Priest”

    (What’s with this insomnia thing? I’ve been having a lot more lately also, of the racing mind variety. And I do know some calming techniques.)

  17. 17.

    Ohio Mom

    @NotMax: My standard remark about black hat restaurants: people see a Chinese restaurant full of Asians and say, It must be good, the same for an Indian restaurant and so forth. But no one looks at any type of restaurant filled with Orthodox Jews and makes that same comment. Not even of a deli.

  20. 20.

    Searcher

    @hells littlest angel:
    Technically more of a farce.

    Farce is a lighthearted comedy typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.

    Comedy is a dramatic work that is light and often humorous and that usually contains a happy ending.

    I’d disagree with “light-hearted”, and I’m trying to stay optimistic about a happy ending, but “crude characterization” and “ludicrously impossible situations” seems spot on.

  22. 22.

    Cowboy Diva

    Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
    I thought Harry Potter was the Chosen One! Have I been misled by some POHMy redcoat with an axe to grind?

  23. 23.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @William Moakler: Biff isn’t president in 1985 though, so I don’t know if this works as the bad alternate present. It’s in some ways an even worse alternate future, since we’re lacking Mr Fusion and the other cool amenities.

    Disclaimer: I haven’t seen the films in many years.

    @Victor Matheson: It would be more eloquent than anything the actual Dump will come up with, not to mention that he wouldn’t think to make a coherent policy goal into a central plank of his campaign. Once again, fictional villains prove to have more character than the occupant of the White House. (It seems almost quaint these days to point out that Lex Luthor divested himself of his business holdings upon becoming president.)

    Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.

  24. 24.

    Just One More Canuck

    There was a suggestion in the Queen of Greenland’s twitter feed that Trump should be referred to from here on as “Florida Man”, as in “Florida Man tries to buy Greenland”

    That makes so much sense.

  25. 25.

    (((CassandraLeo)))

    @Just One More Canuck: This strikes me as monstrously unfair to Florida Man. When was the last time you heard of Dump doing something this entertaining? If he’d been involved in this story, it probably would’ve been newsworthy because of him assaulting one of the guests, which would’ve made it a lot less funny.

    But yeah, it does work for the weirder and less overtly malevolent stories about him, I guess.

    Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.

  26. 26.

    artem1s

    He’s been praying with Dense and Mother for too long. Dumbass thinks the anti-Christ is the chosen one.

  28. 28.

    jc

    It seems like acting president Trump says and does stupid shit [“I am the Chosen One”] just to make sure that everyone is talking about him, again. He doesn’t give a damn about reality or how stupid he sounds — as long as everyone is talking about him. It’s like the whole country is enslaved to the most warped mentality ever to dominate the national airways. It’s all just an idiotic game to him, and tomorrow he’ll spew some new asshole garbage, and on and on it goes.

    Words mean nothing to Trump, he’ll shift his words to whatever will give him the advantage, and his Dem. opponents are at a disadvantage because they take words seriously, they keep thinking that words mean something. Trump is unburdened by such limited thinking. It’s like we’re up against a cartoon villain, where our own norms and laws are used against us.

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