Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

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

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

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  4. 4.

    MattF

    I wonder, though, what’s the connection between the image and the tweet? I don’t see any toads or wax penises there.

  5. 5.

    Spanky

    Toad venom? So he’s been reading old Newton plague cures too, eh?

    (Must be Toad Day here on BJ.)

  6. 6.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    I had two thoughts reading that tweet.

    1. Wow, that’s a lot of unexpected twists and turns to pack into one sentence.

    2. What scent exactly do those aromatic phalli have?

  9. 9.

    kindness

    Venom?  I thought that the psychedelic stuff from toads was succreted out of glands in their skin.  I always associated venom to be related to a biting thing.

  10. 10.

    Calouste

    @MattF: Random police car to indicate it is a crime story. Fairly common in Europe if there aren’t any suitable pictures related to the actual crime available, and publishing pictures of suspects is not common. Sometimes there might be other pictures, an article about fraud might get a picture of a stack of money for example.

  11. 11.

    Tom Levenson

    I saw that story, thought about posting it, and quailed.

    David is made of sterner stuff.

  13. 13.

    CaseyL

    That tweet should be shown, discussed, and celebrated in Journalism Schools everywhere as the absolute best Who/What/When/Where/Why ever.  Tells you everything you need to know in one sentence, while also leaves you wanting to know more.  (In this case, “WTAF???”)

  14. 14.

    PenAndKey

    @CaseyL: Tells you everything you need to know in one sentence, while also leaves you wanting to know more.

    Informative, but no… I’m okay not finding out more.

  17. 17.

    Another Scott

    Let’s see “neopreno” sounds like a kind of rubber…

    rofl.  :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  18. 18.

    p.a.

    President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama today advised never to inhale psychedelic toad venom.

    donald trump and assorted magats: hold this diet coke.

  19. 19.

    West of the Cascades

    Headlines like the one on this post make me deeply, deeply sorry I am aware of all internet traditions.

  20. 20.

    Benw

    @Tom Levenson: Apparently quails used to be native here on Long Island and kept the tick and bug population in check. We wiped out their habitat and now we’re stuck with shitloads of ticks and lyme disease. The moral of this story is: fuck Donald Trump.

  22. 22.

    CaseyL

    @PenAndKey:

    Really?  You would have missed out on knowing Vidal’s “25-centimetre aromatic candles of the male genitalia, [are] available in black, white or cerise.”

    Now, that is some hard-hitting reportage!

  25. 25.

    Anomalous Cowherd

    The Sonoran Desert toad, Bufo alvarius, has parotid glands and skin liberally laced with DMT – a potent but short-acting hallucinogen. People have been known to scrape the flattened toads off the asphalt to take home and smoke the dried skin.

    However, if one is taking a MAOi the combination may well be fatal.

  34. 34.

    Josie

    This thread is exactly why I like to visit BJ several times a day.  The things you learn on a full service blog.

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    Look, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with psychedelic toad venom is a good guy with psychedelic toad venom.

  43. 43.

    cmorenc

    Spanish porn star Nacho Vidal, who likes to advertise his aromatic candles shaped like male genitalia on Twitter, has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a man’s death during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom

    Wonder how much she (actually he) charged the man for that party.  Hope Nacho got paid up front, doesn’t look like much chance of collecting an any outstanding balance.

  44. 44.

    zhena gogolia

    Oh, great. There’s a guy servicing our A/C and he has Rush Limbaugh blasting from his radio in the driveway. “You dare to disrespect a policeman?”
    Vomit.
    We used to have a nice local oil company with friendly service people. They got bought out by a big impersonal company. This guy has NY license plates (we’re in CT). I guess it’s time to switch.

  46. 46.

    Patricia Kayden

    PELOSI: "Soldiers on steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Bureau of Prisons officers in Lafayette Square. The National Parks Service hassling peaceful protesters… who's in charge? What's chain of command & by what authority do these National Guard people come in from other states?" pic.twitter.com/mGp8sjREZk— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 4, 2020

  47. 47.

    mrmoshpotato

    (Clicks on Next button from downstairs)

    Well, ummmmmm, this is unexpected.

  49. 49.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Porn industry is considering shutting down because of Covid and tapping into their Strategic Reserve of Lisa Ann videos.

  50. 50.

    cmorenc

    When you come to a psychedelic toad in the road, which fork should you take?  The left one or the salad fork?

  51. 51.

    JaySinWA

    @p.a.:

    President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama today advised never to inhale psychedelic toad venom.

    “Inhaling psychedelic toad venom is not a useful preventative treatment for Covid-19”

  53. 53.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    Well, if anyone needed a reason to start drinking early, I’d say this is it.

  54. 54.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    @cmorenc:  Isn’t there a dedicated toad fork? My brother and I don’t get invited out to dinner often, so my knowledge of silverware is limited.

  55. 55.

    Eric NNY

    Nacho Vidal needs to become a category on this site reserved only for gems such as this.

  56. 56.

    Mary G

    Speaking of venomous toads, somebody else has been reading polls and decided maybe that ass doesn’t need kissing so much any more:

    Im placing holds on 2 Trump Admin noms until I get reasons 4firing 2 agency watchdogs as required by law Not 1st time ive raised alarm when admins flout IG protection law Obama did same& got same earfull from me All I want is a reason 4 firing these ppl CHECKS&BALANCES
    — ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) June 4, 2020

  57. 57.

    Kent

    @Argiope:Florida called, and they want their man AND their toad back.

    Seriously.  I thought that kind of extreme crazy involving animals only happened in Florida.

  60. 60.

    sdhays

    …during a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom…

    As one does….

  61. 61.

    Yutsano

    @Aleta: The Colour Purple.

    All The Colour Purple. It just hit me how that film changed my perspective on AA lives.

  65. 65.

    NotMax

    a mystic ritual in which he inhaled psychedelic toad venom

    Why are there no 34th degree Masons, Alex?

  69. 69.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    There’s a televised memorial service for George Floyd on right now. Al Franken is speaking. It’s on NBC, CBS, and ABC. Interestingly enough, neither PBS or Fox (the entertainment channel) are carrying it

  72. 72.

    prostratedragon

    @zhena gogolia:
    Few of years ago I experienced a multi-day carpet-laying job by a fan of Rush or Jones or somebody. Reminded me then that there was a time when people working in the homes or offices of others kept things like that to themselves. I thought it both threat and harbinger. (Was in Michigan at the time)

  74. 74.

    prostratedragon

    @Eric NNY:
    Substitute for Florida Man? Subcategory thereof?

    My first reaction after an abbreviated Trudeau: … and we’re supposed to have something to say?

  78. 78.

    Martin

    @zhena gogolia: Kick him out and report him to his employer. “I don’t need your employees blasting their racist talk radio fetish into my house.” I’ve sent countless contractors and employees away for that shit, to the extent that my opinion of trades has gotten quite low. I have one white contractor that I like – and all the others are minorities, because I cannot deal with another old white fucker that looks like me deciding that I’m the right person to start complaining about the negros to.

    Small sample size, but roofers are the absolute worst.

  81. 81.

    Betty Cracker

    @zhena gogolia: Ugh, wingnut contractors! Pardon the redundancy. (Though technically, I am a contractor.) I believe I shared photos here of the MAGA-mobile that showed up to install our A/C last year.

    The MAGA choad left his Tupperware container of macaroni or whatever on the floor of the hallway when he interrupted his lunch break to take a call, and Daisy stuck her tongue ALL the way in it. I didn’t say a word! :)

  83. 83.

    Martin

    @prostratedragon: White privilege can be used as a force for good. I have no problem getting these people fired. I’ve even insisted on sending their employer a compliant in writing just to ensure that they had something to put in their file. cc to the CEO.

    But because these people tend to hide their behavior around minorities and surface it with me, it’s my responsibility to dox them to their employer and ensure that others don’t need to suffer from them.

    It has to be worth the hassle or else things won’t change. I learned this from my staff many years ago when I first became a supervisor. We were in a period where we were hiring temps to get through a difficult hiring period and one of my staff pulled me aside and asked that a temp be sent back for what I at the time considered fairly minor reasons. And in that conversation I realized that they were only minor to me, but they were major to the people that were having to more regularly deal with their shortcomings. After that I got a reputation for sending  temps back before lunch of their first day. I learned that it didn’t matter if it was a hassle for me if I was creating a hassle for a bunch of other people by not dealing with it. My reputation became such that the head of HR would regularly tell me ‘yeah, we have some temps in the pool, but you’ll send them all back, so can you wait a few days?’ I got much better temps after that, also in part because I’d hire the good ones on full time, which is what the head of HR wanted for the temps, so I became the pipeline for the best of the pool – and man, did I get some great employees after that.

    If you can in any way make the effort, do it. It’s less work than the alternative.

  84. 84.

    Elizabelle

    Just in, Richmond VA.  Not only protesters are roaming its streets.  From the Richmond Times Dispatch.

    Of course there’s a bear roaming the city. 

    Fuzzy Wuzzy, as the approximately 1-year-old black bear was named, was spotted and found around lunchtime Thursday afternoon behind a building at 500 E. Cary St. in downtown Richmond.

    He was “happy as a clam, just walking around, looking into windows, looking into buildings,” said Christie Peters, director at Richmond Animal Care & Control. RACC arrived on the scene and called the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, who tranquilized the bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy will be taken to another location in Virginia and released into the wild.

    … RACC received multiple calls Wednesday night from the city’s Windsor Farms [hyper expensive and old Richmond] neighborhood about bear sightings. It’s presumed to be the same animal, she said.

    … [Might be pandemic-related.] “It’s been really crazy lately – people are staying in so all the animals are coming out,” she said, including a baby fox, groundhogs, snakes and all sorts of injured birds, from a hawk to a great blue heron.

  85. 85.

    Barbara

    @zhena gogolia: I would make them turn it off not matter what it was.  If you can hear it it’s too loud.  Fixing your A/C isn’t a license to bother you with his preferred radio broadcast material.

  87. 87.

    Martin

    @raven: Yeah, I’m mystified as well. Would not be the least bit surprised if there was some organized effort to keep the minority roofers out.

    My favorite is our exterior painters. I do all the inside stuff, but I can’t really work fast enough to deal with the exterior, and I don’t want that a many different ladders. The owner of the biz is Korean and barely speaks any english, but he’s fluent in spanish because all of his workers are latino, and his crew bosses translate from english to spanish for him. It’s pretty hilarious, and his crew is great. The owner is a stickler – he’ll swing by and find something that even I didn’t see (and I’m a very good painter) and tell them to fix it.

  88. 88.

    Jager

    This is Nacho’s IMBD profile:

    Nacho Vidal, Actor: Back 2 Evil. Already one of the most popular and hard-working men on the hardcore scene, Nacho Vidal has only been in the business since 1998. He’s a Spanish-born super-stud whose swarthy good looks and wild-eyed approach to his work have kept him very busy over the past few years. Nacho has built a reputation as a Spanish Rocco Siffredi, a guy who is at his …

    He wrote his own profile

  89. 89.

    raven

    @Martin: Our painters are awesome. The owner is Mexican and most of his guys are Guatemalan. When I had a hernia operation the owner and his wife brought me pupusas! These folks work so damn hard and they deserve better than they get.

  92. 92.

    Punchy

    This is why I’m not a porn star.

    Also…could a porn star’s name be any cheesier than “Nacho”?

  94. 94.

    Martin

    @raven: I start with the call to the employer. If they’re not a tiny business, they’ll recall the contractor without involving you – the cable company or gas company have a zillion employees to send a replacement.  If they’re an independent contractor, I’ll tell them I need them to pack up their tools and stop the work. I’ve had a few go off in a huff but these folks usually rely too much on word of mouth to get business, so they usually go quietly. They’ll ask why, and I tell them we’ll talk about it at their truck after they’ve packed up – I do it on their territory, and without making a scene or embarrassing them in front of my family or whatever. I try to not be mean about it, but I am direct. I’ll tell them Rush is a racist, and I’m not going  to tolerate that on behalf of myself and my neighbors and society at large. If he wants to listen to it on his time, fine, but don’t bring it here. If they do good work, I’ll tell them that  too, that being skilled at their job isn’t enough to make up for that behavior.

    The tricky ones are the employees of small businesses –  the owners know who their employees are, and are usually on board with it. Those can get ugly, with me telling off the owner on the phone, usually in close enough proximity for the tradesperson to know something is up, and then me angrily shoving the trade off my property mostly because I’ve now got my irish up and lost all sight of diplomacy.

    In one of the weirder interactions, the trade was fine but the owner made comments when he stopped by to check on the work. The trade apologized to me on behalf of his boss, and I offered to hire him independently, which I later did when he got his own insurance and struck out on his own.

  96. 96.

    Martin

    @prostratedragon: Sorry, didn’t mean to infer you were. Just a reminder to everyone to use whatever privilege they happen to have. I talk to the room a lot without being clear that I’m talking to the room.

    Homeowners can do a lot more than renters. People with money can do more than people without money. Use those for good.

  100. 100.

    cckids

    @Martin: I cannot deal with another old white fucker that looks like me deciding that I’m the right person to start complaining about the negros to.

     

    I feel you. I’m a part-time cashier at a Kroger store in Bellevue WA, many of my co-workers are people of color, many of them immigrants (as is a huge part of our customer base). I’m older and so white; lots of the old white people seem to take that as license to come through my line to bitch and dunk on my crew-mates. They always seem shocked that I am not. here. for. that. shit.

    This is my second job, people, I need it, but don’t NEED it. Also, I’m old enough & have been through enough that I have given away all my f*cks. Don’t start racist talk with me.

  101. 101.

    Martin

    @cckids: I think people would be shocked at how common it is for older white guys to get together with complete strangers and decide to spontaneously do racism. Every time I just want to stab them in the heart.

  102. 102.

    evodevo

    @Martin: Nah…I just up and say “Oh, you’re one a them redneck racists, huh.”  They get all bent out of shape trying to say they aren’t, but then I say “Well, it sure sounded like it!”  And, since I am a small old white female, WNFLTG, they usually find they have something pressing to do elsewhere…

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