Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

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  1. 1.

    West of the Rockies

    Anyone else unable to really and truly express your contempt for Trump?   Orange (why the fuck is her orange?!?), bloated, vile, loathsome, repulsive…

    At some point it’s just unsatisfying and frustrating.  His follows followers cannot fathom the absolute and utter disgust the majority holds for the man (and his sycophants).  I’m not a cruel or violent man, but I’d love a genuine tar and feathering and termination by ants.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Get a grin where and when you can. Before attemping to rest the old orbs gonna reiterate from this a.m. how much it felt like being inside a New Yorker cartoon to see a line of people spaced six apart waiting to be allowed to enter the bank yesterday with so many of them having bandanas concealing their faces.

    “Leave some for me, okay?”

    :)

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    I think I know what to do about my Tele that keeps breaking the high E string. Both times, the string broke at the saddle. I suspect a sharp edge on the saddle, which would not be kind to a 0.009″ diameter metal wire.  Replacing the stock saddles with roller saddles should fix that.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    We are enjoying the fact that California has loosened their liquor laws so you can get takeout cocktails if you order food from a restaurant that has a liquor license. We were able to have margaritas with our Mexican food, and they were yum.

  10. 10.

    RobertB

    Those snakes will pee on you when you catch them.

    One time my babysitter was leaving out the garage door, then came right back.  “I know this is chicken of me, but you have to get that snake.”  I go out the door and there was a 6-inch long garter snake.  Scary!  I manned up, caught it, and tossed it in the weeds.

  12. 12.

    ziggy

    Awww, that’s a cute little snake! Glad you were able to get it out without too much trauma.

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    There are transactions an ATM doesn’t handle. Can’t speak for the others but I was there because that bank processes utility payments and I wanted to pay the electric bill as Maui Electric’s office in town is closed for the duration and I’m unsure how constant their pickup of mailed in payments is at this point.

    Before you say it, no, I do not do anything online involving banking. I want that paper receipt passed in person to my hot, waiting hand.

  22. 22.

    Achrachno

    @BruceFromOhio: Snakes are fine, even rattlers are benign compared to Trumpians.  I wish I had more snakes around here and less of those other, useless, things.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    @HumboldtBlue:

    The major scale has seven modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (natural minor scale), and Locrian. I have already learned about these. For funsies, I am learning the modes of the harmonic minor and minor scales, and the harmonic major scale. That is, if I can persuade Bianca to yield her new favourite napping spot right in front of Big Mo, my amp.

    ETA: Wait, why am I telling you this? You play the guitar, you know it already.

  28. 28.

    James E Powell

    @Amir Khalid:

    What are you playing these days, song or artist wise?

    I recently watched the Tom Petty documentary, Runnin’ Down a Dream. I’ve been playing every Petty song I know and learning a few I don’t. The only bad thing is that my sister is working from home and I cannot play as loud as I would like to – no – as loud as I need to.

  29. 29.

    mrmoshpotato

    @NotMax: Haha!  I didn’t even think to add mustard!

    Just 12-grain bread, American cheese and some Polish ham.  Going well with a bottle of Hofbräu Dunkel.

    (I think the mustard story and naked mopping was before my time here.)

  30. 30.

    Mart

    My wife’s friends from Chicago and Kansas City are in town and I am mowing the lawn when I see a 7 foot black snake by the door. I run to the garage and grab a ho. Proceed to hack the snake to death while it hissed at me. Very upsetting.

    So I Googled and the Missouri Black Snake is protected and it  is against the law to kill it unless you feel your safety is compromised by the snake.

    The snake size freaked me out, plus when it hissed it’s head look triangular to this wimp. Never would have guessed  that killing that snake would result in return of moles that had plauged our yard for years. That the moles are now back makes me sad.W

  31. 31.

    MomSense

    I had a feral cat who used to bring me live snakes, frogs, chipmunks, squirrels, and other creatures.  She was so disgusted with me when I shrieked and then failed to kill them.  I can laugh now about trying to trap a bullfrog in a lunchbox to take him outdoors, but at the time it wasn’t so funny.

     

    @West of the Rockies:

    I don’t know that I have ever been so full of rage and hatred.

  37. 37.

    Fair Economist

    @Mart: I learned the four venomous snakes of North America when I was quite young: rattlesnake, water moccasin, copperhead, and coral snake. They’re all patterned so with that you know a black snake isn’t a problem.

  39. 39.

    Xenos

    You should think about getting some pets who could deal with this sort of thing.  Maybe a large-ish dog or two.

  40. 40.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Fair Economist: Water moccasin snakes can have a very faint to nonexistent pattern in some locales and/or ages. I’ve seen little spindly one footers to big 4 footers with dinner plate heads that were a dark ash gray with just a hint of pattern in our Ozark creeks. Fortunately, they are easily identifiable by their 2nd popular name, Cottonmouth. Hard not to see that super white mouth as their head darts toward your exposed calf.

    I once engaged in a staring contest with a 2 footer that had swam up to about a foot from my bone and the stones while skinny dipping. Fortunately for me he decided I wasn’t worth the trouble.

  41. 41.

    Martin

    @West of the Rockies: Anyone else unable to really and truly express your contempt for Trump?

    Yes. I’ve never known an individual whose very state of being alive was offensive to me. Even Bin Laden never rose to that level  because I have some confidence that if he walked out in front of the White House press corps, someone would have tackled him or at least called for his arrest rather than asking him if he’s considering pardoning Tiger King.

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