Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Everybody saw this coming.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Let there be snark.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

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Even the three big dumb white dudes bro’ing each other are gonna end up with nightmares, remembering this.


I am reminded of a friend who referred to ‘That childhood moment in the car when you realize Daddy cares more about his booze than he does about your safety… ‘

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  3. 3.

    Mary G

    One of my housemates is caregiving for an old Republican man who is outraged that some basketball team refused to visit the White House. “But they have some good boys on the football team.” Ugh.

  4. 4.

    ThresherK

    The NCAA allows 85 scholarships for D-1A football. I don’t think LSU has been docked any for violations lately.

    Add some walk-on players and it could be 90.

    Not a lot of takers at the ersatz Trump rally.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @joel hanes:

    “We’ll take pictures behind the Resolute Desk,” Trump said while wrapping up a ceremonial visit with the LSU football team, which on Monday won its first national title since 2007. “It’s been there a long time. A lot of presidents, some good, some not so good. But you’ve got a good one now, even though they’re trying to impeach the son of a bitch. Can you believe that? Can you believe that?”
    He turned to LSU’s Heisman-Trophy winning quarterback Joe Burrow, who smiled in the background.
    “Got the greatest economy we’ve ever had, Joe,” Trump said. “We got the greatest military. We rebuilt it. We took out those terrorists like your football team would have taken out those terrorists, right? But we’re doing good.”

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Omnes Omnibus: @sukabi: The real question is who at the National Archives was actually involved and who knew before this news reporting. Not arguing that there should be serious staff pushback, but I’m curious as to whether this was done at the political appointee level and the vast majority of the folks working there had no idea it had been done.

  17. 17.

    Kent

    @Adam L Silverman: Yeah.  Because those Louisiana boys never get to see fried chicken.   There are only about 400 Popeyes in every corner of Louisiana.

    Why do we even have a White House chef and culinary staff if they are just going to use GrubHub to McDonalds like a bunch of stoner frat boys?

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Kent: Wait!  You can have McDonald’s delivered?  Hot! dog!  (There’s one two blocks up the street, and I don’t remember the last time I ate that trash.)

    ETA – Also, Popeyes new chicken sandwich – good spice but meh.

  21. 21.

    John Revolta

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: @chris: The doublespeak, it burns:

    “As a non-partisan, non-political federal agency, we blurred references to the President’s name on some posters, so as not to engage in current political controversy,” Archives spokeswoman Miriam Kleiman said in a statement to The Washington Post.

    “Our mission is to safeguard and provide access to the nation’s most important federal records, and our exhibits are one way in which we connect the American people to those records. Modifying the image was an attempt on our part to keep the focus on the records.”

  22. 22.

    Kent

    @mrmoshpotato: I don’t think McDonalds has actual delivery.  There are just these uber-type delivery services now that will basically deliver anything you want for a charge.

    In Trump’s case he probably sends someone like Mulvaney or Pompeo on the chow runs to McDonalds personally just because it would be a macho dick move.  He actually did that with Chris Christie during the 2016 campaign.  For real.  I’m not making it up:  https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-chris-christie-manservant-mcdonalds

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    Darkrose

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 

    I am so angry right now.

    One of my favorite classes in library school was Archives and Manuscripts, in part because in addition to the practical projects we did on creating finding aids and working with documents, the professor had us do case studies each week, where he gave us an archiving-related scenario, usually one that raised an ethical issue, and asked us to think and write about how we’d handle it. Most of the answers were found in the Society of American Archivists Code of Ethics.

    Said code states that “Archivists may not willfully alter, manipulate, or destroy data or records to conceal facts or distort evidence.” The Women’s March was an explicitly political protest about Trump and his misogyny; blurring the signs strips the march of its political context at the same time thate they’re trying to use it to promote the Suffragette exhibit–also an explicitly political moment.

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    ThresherK

    @Kent: I have yet to GrubHub, but the idea of paying a (small) cost to have McDonald’s delivered is like paying a corking fee to bring your own Natty Light* to a restaurant.

    (*Per it’s reputaiton; I’ve never tried it.)

  29. 29.

    Chris Johnson

    @Darkrose: It’s the boiling-a-frog problem. They keep that sort of thing going and people will ask ‘gosh golly gee, at some point that could become some totalitarian shit’ without properly registering that it already BECAME some totalitarian shit many years ago and is only accelerating.

    My only consolation there is, it’s accelerating because they’re like a shark or the Third Reich: they have to keep doubling down or die, and desperation sets in. The most bonkers shit goes down as the regime is falling.

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