Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Second rate reporter says what?

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

No one could have predicted…

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

T R E 4 5 O N

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

I really should read my own blog.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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  3. 3.

    Miss Bianca

    Well, Steve couldn’t have looked more miserable after his bath yesterday, so YAY for Happy Steve!

  6. 6.

    zhena gogolia

    I hope you all realize he just stumbled on “follow,” and said “can fo– can follow”

  7. 7.

    Nancy

    Gotta get our attention sometimes. You guv appears to know what works.

     

     

    I say fuck every other word so it gets little to no attention from those who know me.

  9. 9.

    Barbara

    Every time I see a sign for Husqvarna all I can say is that my Husqvarna sewing machine is the best damned consumer product I have ever purchased.  Although it doesn’t get as much use as it used to, that thing has been going strong for 30 years.

    And yes, good for your plumber.  I don’t think many business owners are really excited or even indifferent about putting themselves and their employees in harm’s way.

  10. 10.

    Zinsky

    What a knucklehead!  Your governor looks like an alcoholic used car salesman.  A real class act.

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I am happy that Steve is happy.  Now.  He didn’t look very happy last night.  He looked decidedly un-Steve, that’s how he looked.

  12. 12.

    Ralphie

    An aide to VP Pence has tested positive for the virus..

    Stay healthy Madam Speaker…

  13. 13.

    JPL

    Just as we knew they would, Justice Roberts put a hold on Mueller’s grand jury notes.   fkffkfkfkfk

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    It’s a sad day when the Governor can say “fuck” on TV. It means the word is no longer taboo. It has been stripped of its magic, and when you say it no one will be shocked anymore. Alas! A lack-a-day!

  15. 15.

    senyorDave

    @Ralphie:An aide to VP Pence has tested positive for the virus..

    So if Trump and Pence both got it and died Pelosi would be president?  That would probably tens of thousands of lives.

  17. 17.

    donnah

    @Barbara: Amen to the Husqvarna sewing machines! I bought mine years ago to sew quilts and it was amazing. I had put it away as I pursued rug hooking, but brought it out recently so my sister could use it to make masks. After all that time unused, it fired right up and she made dozens of masks without a bit of trouble.

    Ohio’s governor has returned to his Conservative roots, unfortunately and is planning budget cuts to Medicare and education. He had done a good job with stay at home rules. It’s frustrating to see the cuts coming when people here need the funding the most.

  18. 18.

    HeleninEire

    Cuomo CRUSHING Trump on his bullshit “I banned flights from China.” Cuomo proving that the NY cases (and the ones they spread) came from EUROPE, which was closed 2 months after China. He’s not using the name Trump but he is clearly saying between the lines “SHUT THE FUCK UP” to T.

  19. 19.

    MisterForkbeard

    @JPL: Man, it’s almost like all of these Republican judges and appointees are exactly as corrupt and partisan as Democrats said they were!

    Jesus H Christ. I really hope future Dem administrations can find a way to fix the courts on top of fixing the DOJ, because hooooly shit are we far down the road to fascism.

  21. 21.

    Brachiator

    @Amir Khalid: 

    It’s a sad day when the Governor can say “fuck” on TV. It means the word is no longer taboo. It has been stripped of its magic, and when you say it no one will be shocked anymore. Alas! A lack-a-day!

    So now it’s “George Carlin’s 6 Words You Can’t Say on Television.”

  22. 22.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Amir Khalid: He both apologized and explained it was an audio screwup within about 20 minutes due to outrage/panic. The magic is still there! :)

  24. 24.

    MomSense

    @Nancy:

    My iPhone auto capitalizes it now I write it so often.

    By the way, Mike Dense was caught on a hot mic fake delivering an empty box of PPE to a hospital.  Fuck Fucking Republicans.

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Man, it’s almost like all of these Republican judges and appointees are exactly as corrupt and partisan as Democrats said they were!

    From a quick Google search:

    There is currently 1 vacancy on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 73 vacancies on the U.S. District Courts, 2 vacancies on the U.S. Court of International Trade, and 4 announced federal judicial vacancies that will occur before the end of Trump’s first term (1 for the Courts of Appeals and 3 for District Courts).

    And Trump and McConnell are filling them as fast as they can.

  31. 31.

    HeleninEire

    @JPL: Mostly just lurking. Working a lot on getting my Dad moved here to Queens. The first house deal fell through but now he has another one. Crossing our fingers for beginning of June. But I’m fine, thanks for asking.

  33. 33.

    stinger

    Glad Steve is happy!

    Since it’s an Open thread, I want to say that I attended a town hall last night for one of the Democratic candidates for Joni Ernst’s seat. The DNC has already made its choice, for reasons I’ve never actually seen spelled out (replace a woman with a woman, perhaps?), but Iowa Democrats haven’t, and I strongly support retired Admiral Mike Franken. If you have a little cash to throw toward defeating Ernst, it might be better to give to a specific individual than to the DNC/DSCC pool, at least until after the Iowa primary on June 2.

  34. 34.

    Suzanne

    @MomSense: Another incredible detail about that: the box was empty, and he still struggled to lift it. So he set it down, blocking the operation of the sliding door. You know, the door that keeps hot air out.

    The FSM is straight-up trolling us right now.

  35. 35.

    waspuppet

    @CaseyL: If he had any brains he’d say “Fck yeah it was no accident,” even if it was.

    BTW- STEVE IS SO HAPPY.

    He knows a lot more English than I thought!

  37. 37.

    Eljai

    I work for a large firm with offices around the country.  One of the higher-ups asked if anyone had first responders and front-line workers in their family, so we could thank them.  Just read an email highlighting some of the stories. One employee has a cousin who is an emergency medical tech who performs intubations on Covid-19 patients.  The employee makes cloth masks to fit over and extend the life of her cousin’s n-95s.  Another employee has a sister who works at a VA Hospital in the Midwest.  Because PPE is scarce, the sister wears a face mask to work made by their mom. The sacrifice made by these people is not lost on me, but Jesus H. why are we still relying on good-hearted people’s craft projects to protect our medical personnel this many months into the pandemic?  Oh, nevermind.  America, fuckin’ A.

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Barbara:  Every time I see that logo I think of chain saws, and on this pic I was wondering why a plumber needs a chain saw. Then I remembered it was West Virginia.

    BTW, my Husqvarna chain saw gave up the ghost, so I’m not all that happy.

  39. 39.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Suzanne: To be fair, maybe he was pretending to have problems lifting it so that it’d look like he was lifting a full box? Haven’t watched it, but… Sigh.

    Why am I trying to find a reasonable explanation? They’re just this bad. I should accept it.

  45. 45.

    Ohio Mom

    [email protected]: DeWine is cutting MediCAID not MediCARE. Medicare is the program for people over 65, Medicaid is for people in poverty, people with disability, and for people covered by the ACA expansion.

    But you are right that DeWine is being needlessly cruel — he could dip into the state’s rainy day fund to cover the shortfall.

    I hate Republicans more every day.

  47. 47.

    Ohio Mom

    HeleninErie: I was just thinking g about you the other day. Glad to hear you’re doing as well as anyone can.

  48. 48.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    SNL had a funny bit years ago about store called “Sofa King.”

  50. 50.

    trnc

    @Ralphie: An aide to VP Pence has tested positive for the virus..

    I wonder if he just happened to come down with it 3-5 days after Pence got back from the Mayo Clinic.

  51. 51.

    MomSense

    Oh and they removed some staffers from Air Force One who had contact with the Pence aide who tested positive.  These Fucking Fuckers can do daily testing and contact tracing.  They want us to die.

  52. 52.

    Feathers

    @Brachiator: One of the things that the new administration needs to do is to go through the resumes, security clearance forms, etc. of all these new judges and kick out anybody who lies. Which, because Republicans, will probably be fairly high.

    Rule of law, baby, rule of law.

  54. 54.

    Doug R

    As a 22 year veteran of Purolator which is a nationwide overnight courier here in Canada, that dolly should have been set on 2 wheel, much easier to maneuver. You only block the door with a box if you have more than one dolly’s full of boxes-not at all if it’s an auto door with a sensor.

    Of course dense Pence lifts with his back-that man hasn’t done manual labor for decades, obviously.

  56. 56.

    trnc

    @MomSense: By the way, Mike Dense was caught on a hot mic fake delivering an empty box of PPE to a hospital.

    Believe me, I hate to say it, but it turns out that Pence made a crack about empty boxes but didn’t actually take them out of the truck.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-mike-pence-carrying-empty-boxes-video-2020-5

    I’ll give him a pass on the stupid joke. He has a lot more to answer for about the covid 19 response than a wisecrack. For example, a photo op of carrying one box of masks while his administration fails to get more masks delivered or outright steals masks while being delivered.

  57. 57.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud:

    I try to be fair to everybody! I watched it and that’s what happened.

    But then, whoever it was didn’t say “keep fucking that chicken,” either.

  61. 61.

    Elizabelle

    Trump has just stepped in it again.  Just listened to the NPR hourly recap.  Trump has seen the video of Ahmaud Arbury’s shooting. He says justice must be done.  And then added, per reporter — there could be something on the tape people did not see.

    As in — AA was in some way a threat to these brave southern white males?  He deserved what he got?

    That one will get us even more votes.  Cannot vote this sociopath out soon enough. Fucking bastard.

  63. 63.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:

    You haven’t been the US in a while have you? I believe that I hear the word fuck more than the word the. 8 to 80 it is rather common usage. Especially discussing anything in US politics the word fuck is often said more than once in the same fucking sentence.

  64. 64.

    Rich Webb

    As an old, I’m surprised — in a good way — to see fuck and shit actually showing up in print in respectable publications like (pretty sure; have to dig through the stack to find actual instances) The Guardian, New Yorker, and The Atlantic. Most often (nearly always) in a quoted conversation. It seems much more honest than “That tornado scared the **** out of me!” or “Neighbor’s house burned down. Such a ****ing shame.” Everybody knows what’s left out — be honest and print what people say the way they say it.

  65. 65.

    JPL

    Aaron Rupar’s twitter feed sent me into an absolute  meltdown.   He believes that trump will bring Obama and his administration up on charges.

    I am sick

  66. 66.

    Ruckus

    @middlelee:

    Same here. I believe that this is the one place that apple is decades behind the times, the iPhone spelling gizmo. It always tries to autocorrect my swearing. Every other damn word. Now it doesn’t do that on the iMac.

  67. 67.

    trollhattan

    @Ruckus:

    Peak fuck might have been when somebody yelled at my friend, who was taking too much time walking his son to the car in a mall parking lot: “Fuck you, you fucking fuck.” Verb, adjective, noun–the trifecta.

  70. 70.

    JPL

    @trollhattan: Grinell has been going through documents cherry picking items to make it look as though the Russian investigation was a hoax.

  71. 71.

    Ruckus

    @Eljai:

    Simple explanation. Few or no wealthy profit skimmers are involved in PPE because it’s such a common and low margin product which costs their healthcare investments money. They import most of it from China because it’s even cheaper. That’s how shitforbrains knows who to call to find out when shipments are coming in to steal.

  76. 76.

    MattF

    @JPL: Hmm. Bringing charges against Obama has the additional feature of simultaneously ratfucking Biden. Could happen.

  79. 79.

    Baud

    @JPL: They didn’t get Hillary, they couldn’t even indict the DOJ lead guy that they fired (name escaping me), there’s no way they can get Obama.  Maybe they’ll try with some DOJ underling, but no one important.

    Twitter wants attention. Best not to give it.

  85. 85.

    germy

    I used 6,000 N95 masks to spell out "THANK U HEROES!!!!!" on the beach then lit them on fire so nurses all over the world could see ♥️

    — Megan Amram (@meganamram) May 7, 2020

  86. 86.

    Nelle

    @stinger: Where are you?  I’m in Urbandale and strongly in favor of Franken.  The Des Moines Register endorsed him last night. If you are in the area, we have an extra sign for Franken, if you would like it.  The scuttlebutt that I heard was that the DNC promised  Greenfield support for this election if she would go quietly when there was a problem in her run for the House two years ago.  It’s frustrating as hell, because they endorsed her immediately and didn’t let the primary play out.  Then they funneled immense amounts of money to her, thereby choosing to ramp up name recognition for Greenfield.  So, in essence, they’ve cut the Iowa voters out of the game.  With the pandemic, Franken has been hobbled while she runs the same ads over and over in prime news time.  Since when is being a widow a qualification for Senate?  And I guess being a senator is a starter job in politics, just like being a president is.

  88. 88.

    Ruckus

    @MomSense:

    They want us to die.

    Yes. Yes they do.

    They think it will strengthen their bottom line. Plus they are fucking assholes.

  94. 94.

    Mohagan

    @trollhattan: what about the legendary 5-minute scene in The Wire where “fuck” was the only word of dialogue, repeated many times, as Bunk and McNulty investigate a murder scene.  Season 1, Episode 4.

  96. 96.

    zhena gogolia

    @Mohagan:

    Dostoevsky wrote something similar in the Diary of a Writer for 1873. He overheard drunken workmen carrying on a conversation and realized that “it was possible to express all thoughts, sensations, and even entire, profound propositions using only this one word which, besides, has very few syllables.” He was talking about the Russian word khui, which has something of the status of our f-word.

  97. 97.

    Amir Khalid

    @Ruckus:

    This was in 2000, after that business with Ms Lewinsky. But I think he still had an obligation to keep Hillary happy in every possible way, if you know what I mean.

  100. 100.

    trollhattan

    @Ruckus:

    Sadly, no. One imagines it happening to Walker and Texas Ranger, the sons on “Talladega Nights.” They’d have some responses.

  101. 101.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Gin & Tonic: I was wondering why a plumber needs a chain saw.

    Our previous house was built in the 40s and had all kinds of crazy do-it-yourself stuff done to it, so I had complete confidence in undergoing major projects, secure in the knowledge that I couldn’t make things worse.

    One of those involved cutting a leaky cast iron drain pipe behind the kitchen sink. That was my introduction to the magic tool called the “Sawz-All”. Not a chain saw, but close.

    Our current house was built in 1890 and has been treated for the most part pretty well, so I’m kind of afraid to do much with it and rely a lot more on pros.

  106. 106.

    Another Scott

    @Brachiator: Remember the joy in the newscasters’ eyes when they reported that Jimmy Carter said that if Kennedy got in the race that Jimmy would “beat his ass!”.

    They lived for that stuff, back in the Before Times.

    Grrr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  108. 108.

    2liberal

    @Feathers:One of the things that the new administration needs to do is to go through the resumes, security clearance forms, etc. of all these new judges and kick out anybody who lies. Which, because Republicans, will probably be fairly high.

     

    doesn’t that have to be done by impeachment, thru the senate?

  109. 109.

    Another Scott

    @Gin & Tonic: In what way did your chain saw give up the ghost, if I may ask?

    I have an old string-trimmer that I used for a few years, then it quit working.  Gave me an excuse not to worry about the edging any more!  But then things got out of hand…

    It turned out there was a little metal flake bridging the gap in the spark plug.  Cleaned that up, put the spark plug back, fired up good as new!  Yay!  Now I can do the edging again!  :-/  Mumble-grumble.

    Maybe your chainsaw has a similar issue and a similarly easy fix?

    Good luck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  110. 110.

    Another Scott

    @JPL: Rule #1 – It’s always projection.

    Rule #2 – See Rule #1.

    Rule #3 – Krugman is generally right.

    Rule #4 – If you think Krugman is wrong, see Rule #3.

    HTH!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  111. 111.

    Another Scott

    @germy: Genius.

    Thanks.

    [eta:] The “I can’t eat applause” poster (in the comments) was excellent as well.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  112. 112.

    frosty

    @trollhattan: Try tjis: Fuck! Fuck the fucking fuckers or they’ll fucking fuck us all!!

    Interjection, verb, adjective, noun, adverb, verb (again).

    5 of the 8 parts of speech  Can’t make it work as pronoun, conjunction, or preposition

  113. 113.

    frosty

    @Robert Sneddon: Better than mine. Add the interjection, delete “the”:

    Fuck! Fucking fucker’s fucking fucked! 5 of 8, 100%.

  114. 114.

    Pappenheimer

    There’s a lovely rhythm to Constable Peter Grant’s exclamation in one of the Rivers of London novels – “Fuckity Fuck Fuck Fuck!”. Said hero is not enjoying life at the time

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