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The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

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

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The revolution will be supervised.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

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

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Republicans in disarray!

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The girl filling in for the other girl has all the ‘tude!  Great performances all around!

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    Lead singer nails Emo Steve Perry. That was an impressive amount of work for all those shots.

    I hate to say it, but it’s not just the wingers getting restless in the quarantine here. My housemates’ family wanted to have a “just close family” (8-10 people) birthday party for the housemate’s younger sister, their mom forbade it and there was a lot of unrest.

    The town is pouring truckloads of sand on the skateboard park and the teens are sneaking in and shoveling and sweeping it off almost as fast. The household teen hasn’t participated in the insurrection, but spent dinner tonight reading us posts off Instagram or whatever they’re into this week complaining about their lives are being wasted because the olds don’t want to die. Phrasing straight off Fox News. He’s been remarkably compliant, but he has gone to see his girlfriend a couple of times this week. The weather is glorious and even I want to go somewhere.

    I heard the sounds of spring and summer – a fire truck going to the beach to pick up somebody from out of town who had to be pulled out of a riptide twice yesterday.

  12. 12.

    Meyerman

    @Another Scott: But…but…President Trump fixed all that when he made that huge deal on April 14th. Oil can’t be still dropping. FAKE NEWS!

  13. 13.

    cain

    haha, Twitter is laughing its ass off, apparently a recent Michael Jordan ESPN documentary Last Dance, Obama was interviewed by the chyron had him as “Former Chicago resident” instead of you know the President, former senator or whatever..

    The responses are hilarious, nobody is pissed, it’s just fucking funny –

    https://twitter.com/patcheschance/status/1252053766540582913

    Too funny.. I’m still laughing – the POTUS is such a shitty position that Obama is like “yeah, I think I’m just a former Chicago resident now.” :D

  15. 15.

    divF

    @Another Scott: By 1986, the oil market had collapsed to where WTI was below $15 / barrel. That is still more than double the current price in inflation-adjusted dollars.

    I remember that because a number of organizations (including mine) were able to recruit some A-list talent from the oil company research labs, as they were handing out very attractive severance packages for people who volunteered to leave. Those severance packages made up for the fact that the residential real estate market in places like Houston had gone into the tank.

  22. 22.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I watched this an hour ago, laughed, and went about my business.

     

    I’ve had an ear worm of this song ever since.

  24. 24.

    joel hanes

    @smike:

    So:  Is the guy in the pink tutu in the video I linked the same guy in the left frame of the split-screen that Cole posted ?

    Maybe he lost weight?

    Probably not, but there’s a resemblance, which is why I remembered the video.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Too much of that ilk of 1980s music always smelled of the shrink-wrap plastic it came in. But take it in small doses and not too seriously, and it’s not that bad.

  30. 30.

    JPL

    Something spooked the mutt and he’s calmed down and back in bed, but not me.   He was convince someone was at the front door, so I did leave the outside lights on so whatever it was had better visibility .

  31. 31.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    I turned off the news tonight when they started reporting on the “open the country up” local protest.  While they did point out they weren’t social distancing, they don’t seem to notice that all the signs seem to be they same and ask why.

  35. 35.

    opiejeanne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: There was an idiotic protest/Trump/Nazi/2nd Amendment rally in Olympia on Sunday, and one news group reported it to be a group of about a hundred, then another said it was hundreds, another said a thousand, and finally the Seattle Times said it was over 2,000 people. The funny thing is that there was never a photo of a crowd even close to that large, maybe 200 or a little more.

    It didn’t rain on them, we had a gorgeous day today, but they were protesting at the Capitol building on a Sunday when it is normally closed, and it’s REALLY closed now due to COVID-19. I’m pretty sure Jay Inslee isn’t hanging out at the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia right now; I think he has a house in Seattle. He does a daily press conference and I think Seattle would be the easier place to do so.

  37. 37.

    low-tech cyclist

    This is amazing:

    You bastard!  On account of you, I almost listened to Journey!

  38. 38.

    waynel140

    I have to admit, that was awesome. Compared to the vast majority of 80’s acts, Journey was not that bad. And there were a lot of bands in the 60’s who were terrible. The Archies? 1910 Fruit Gum Company? Herman’s Hermits? I’ll take Journey. (Plus: Steve Perry is an awesome guy!)

  39. 39.

    HeartlandLiberal

    If any of you have not seen, I cannot recommend this documentary, “Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey”. I saw it when NetFlix was streaming it, I just checked and apparently not available now to stream, just by DVD. It tells the musical saga of Arnel Pineda, a young man from the Phillipines, who goes from singing in Manila nightclubs to fronting the legendary rock band Journey. Discovered online by Journey, they flew him to USA, interviewed him, let him try out, and he joined the band. A real Cinderella story, and at the end, left me with a whole lot of the respect from the older band members.

  40. 40.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @waynel140: Herman’s Hermits don’t belong with those other two trainwrecks – Peter Noone & the boys actually did some decent stuff.

    I am annoyingly fond of trolling those of my (de)generation[1] (and younger) with the thought that the reason the music of their “misspent yoot”[2] always seems better than current offerings is that contemporary music, of any contempo, obeys Sturgeon’s Law, but the only stuff over 10 years old that’s ever replayed is the non-crap residue. I tell them that if you could lock a non-deaf boomlay-boomlay-boomlay-Boomer still able to lift his arms in a room with a baseball bat and a boom-box locked on ON blasting out the playlist of a local rock&roll station[3] for any random day in (say) 1966, brute berserk ballistic force would have reduced the device to electronic junk within the first half-hour.[4]

     

    [1] “T-t-t-talkin’ ’bout my de-de-de-degeneration…”

    [2] Never misspent enough – after all, they survived!

    [3] WCAO-AM 600 in Bawlmer Murlin, hon…

    [4] Why yes, I am a curmudgeon. WTF’s it to ya? Also, GTF off my lawn!

  42. 42.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @waynel140: The Archies were utterly synthetic.  The Monkees wanted to actually be a band, in defiance of Don “Don” Kirschner.  So Kirschner took things to a new level: an animated band made up of session musicians that were utterly expendable.

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