Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

Bark louder, little dog.

No one could have predicted…

I really should read my own blog.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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  1. 1.

    West of the Rockies

    Ah, yes, the man whose name is the sound of an uncooked pork chop falling on a tiled floor.

  4. 4.

    HumboldtBlue

    I prefer a bolero.

    I guess I stand with the Marxists.

    If it’s Matt Schlapp and the Marxists let’s get some Florentines on our side.

  6. 6.

    patroclus

    In a way, I kind of agree with Shlapp.  Marxist governments really don’t exist any more, but their descendants do.  In Putin’s Russia, it is crystal clear that they prefer Trump to win re-election because he follows their dictates and advances their interests around the world.  And in China, where the ruling party is still called a communist party (although they pursue quite capitalist policies), it is also fairly clear that they prefer Trump; primarily because he is incompetent, weak and feckless and is the primary cause of America’s decline in world affairs.  If the Marxist progenies get their way and see Trump triumphant, it would be a continuation of the precipitous decline in the U.S.’s world standing.

  15. 15.

    jl

    Use everybody the way you want to how you want to, and then throw them away. US citizens, your own supporters who you tell to suck it up and die already, protesters you claim to support in Hong Kong. Who cares? Use ’em and lose ’em. Eff it, you and everybody. Screw it. Sucks to be not me, huh?

    Yes, monsters.

  16. 16.

    hitchhiker

    There’s a moment in that dumb speech where trump tries to say “Thomas Jefferson,” and has a little spasm. If you watch his left upper arm and his left hand on the podium you can clearly see it.

    Because mr hitchhiker has a spinal cord injury, I’ve seen this involuntary muscle stuff a lot more than my share. It’s usually his leg — just goes stiff and awkward for a second, and then relaxes. On bad nights, especially when he was first injured, this would go on for hours while he was trying to sleep. His whole leg would just like clench so hard that I could feel it on my side of the bed. Wretched condition!

    Whatever’s happening to trump there, it’s neurological.

    https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1279251099430653954

  20. 20.

    Achrachno

    I am not a Marxist, but if I had to choose between them and the Trumpist Republicans I’d be forced to sing The Internationale.

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    Yup.

    I know it’s hard but please remember to be kind to people unless they’re not wearing a mask— Sarah Beattie (@nachosarah) July 3, 2020

  30. 30.

    VeniceRiley

    Just had a friend say her fam is neglecting social distancing and going out, etc. They thing she’s the a-hole for saying that worries her. I just told her to call herself Designated Survivor. *sign

  31. 31.

    jl

    @mrmoshpotato: Knew he was saying it wrong and couldn’t help it first time, tried to find a way to not do it again, then did the exact same thing again a few seconds later.

    I have no clue what causes that.

    Forget this stuff about not diagnosing people from a distance. Hell with that. He wasn’t forced to take the job. He can’t do it for a dozen reasons, and we need to marshal all the evidence that he is unfit. I’d like to hear what a neurologist has to say.

    I think the Lincoln Project ad that said his health is shot and we need to know why was just fine, needed, and appropriate.

  35. 35.

    Mary G

    Turnout in Georgia’s 6/9 primary (final):

    1,283,836 Democratic votes

    1,033,308 Republican votes

    Georgia has changed.

    Democrats are energized.

    Republicans are running scared.#gapol

    — Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) July 3, 2020

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    I imagine that most of you live east of me, as I’m about 25 miles from the Pacific.

    So you’ve probably heard all the fireworks, explosions, etc. I’m getting a ton here and as someone who’s heard military weapons, also up close and personal, it seems less attractive now.

    I was never in combat but have heard plenty of large bore military weapon firing. And have been shot at 4 times, one of which someone was actually someone firing at me. The others were hunting incidents. I didn’t call them accidents because they missed. One of those missed my head with a 357 magnum hollow point by about an inch, which was fired from about 6-8 feet away. That was when I decided that the modern world really, really doesn’t need fucking guns. That was over 50 yrs ago. In the navy one time I had to sit near one of the 5 in guns with a charged fire hose during firing practice. I was 30-40 feet away, outside, my duty was to cool down the barrel if there was a misfire. Sat there for over an hour, single bursts, rapid fire, an hour of large bore gunfire, a shell weighed 75 lbs. But tonight I’ve had louder explosions really, really near my apt. I’m not enjoying this.

  38. 38.

    opiejeanne

    @Mary G: So he referenced Sinatra, how tough Ford F150 trucks are, and manifest destiny all in one spectacularly stupid speech? Awesome.

    I can’t see that tweet  because I’m in a Twitter time-out for (I think) using the word Negro, when I was talking about the wonderful Negro League Baseball Museum in KC.

    I have protested and am waiting for them to actually read my tweet that upset someone.

  39. 39.

    opiejeanne

    @Ruckus: I’m sorry that people there are being stupid.

    It’s been unusually quiet here this week, just a few really large booms that alarmed the cats. Usually the guy with what sounds like a small cannon would be practicing by now, getting warmed up for tomorrow, but maybe he’s not here any more, moved away or something. A lot of older people in the neighborhood, and too many of them are Trump idiots.

  40. 40.

    lgerard

    If the orange fatass wanted to celebrate America on the 4th trump-style he should have entered Nathan’s hot dog eating contest instead.

  41. 41.

    Ruckus

    @opiejeanne:

    Fireworks are not allowed in my city but the one next door sells them openly. So there is a stand about 3/4 of mile from me. It sounds like they had a good year selling noise.

  43. 43.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @hitchhiker:

    I loved this reply:

    Kevin Plate of Shrimp Conod
    @kdconod

    This is moment that Jefferson’s face should have sheared off the mountain, rolled down into the valley and crushed him.

  44. 44.

    opiejeanne

    @Ruckus: We lived in Riverside for 23 years, most of it in the downtown area. Fireworks were illegal except for one year, and after that one experiment everyone remembered why they were illegal in Riverside.

    Every year there was a fireworks display launched from the top of Mount Rubidoux and every year it set fire to the whole hilltop, and sometimes endangered the houses below it, which was a tradition. One year something went wrong and everything went up all at once, mostly at ground level.  It was a short show but spectacular, as was the blaze that followed. The city always had a fire crew parked on the hill, just in case.

  46. 46.

    oclib

    @Ruckus:

    I live in Los Alamitos next to the Armed forces base and fireworks have been going off for a few weeks in and around the neighborhood and it just doesn’t bother me.  I grew up in Oregon where my Dad, siblings and other relatives were into hunting and fishing.  I just enjoyed fishing.  Never fired a gun.  In the Navy (`70-`74), I never fired a gun and never next to one that fired a gun.  As an OT (Ocean Systems Tech) I was land based my whole four years….last year and a half in Coronado.  I don’t like guns and I don’t own one….still, the Armed forces base is still scheduled to fire off their fireworks at 9pm tomorrow and I’ll be out in my yard watching…..so in essence, I can understand, but not relate….

  47. 47.

    JoyceH

    @opiejeanne: I didn’t see the whole speech, but man, the makeup job was weird tonight! Like a rotisserie chicken wrapped in Saran wrap, all shiny!

    And as for the Sinatra mention, Mia Farrow tweeted, “Frank Sinatra would have loathed Donald Trump.” To which Nancy Sinatra replied, “He actually did loathe him.”

  48. 48.

    prostratedragon

    @Mary G:
    Thought that Mr. Sinatra knew (of) him. Of course both ladies have already been vocally opposed themselves.

  50. 50.

    opiejeanne

    @JoyceH: Ha! Those are perfect responses from Mia and Nancy. Thanks for sharing that with me. How odd, re: the makeup. I think I’ve seen something like that once before.

    Stray thought: I wonder if Biden wears makeup. If so, it hasn’t been apparent to me.

    I didn’t see the speech but now I’m curious. I won’t watch him unless it’s part of Rachel Maddow’s or Lawrence O’Donnell’s show. Shows?If they place a clip to illustrate their point, I’ll watch. While gritting my teeth.

  51. 51.

    Bruce K

    Y’know, if you think about it, Schlapp’s tweet is only three letters in that fifth word off from being accurate: it starts with an “F”, not an “M”, and the “rx” should be an “sc”.

  52. 52.

    opiejeanne

    @prostratedragon: Yep. I wonder how long this will take. They wanted me to delete my tweet, which would be less work for them, but dammit, that’s a real place and the name is the Negro League Baseball Museum.  I told them that.

    There’s a brief moment in “A League of Their Own” where a black lady throws a ball back to Geena Davis from the “colored section”. Someone I follow suggested that as a jumping off point to make a movie about the three women who played in the Negro Leagues, and I agreed that it would be great, that I had seen their biographies at the museum, etc. That got a lot of likes for a couple of days, then twitter jail.

  54. 54.

    Ruckus

    @oclib:

    Had a HS friend who was drafted, did army boot camp, they sent him to army language school in CO. Liked him well enough to keep him there to teach others. This was 67/68. Another enlisted in the navy, boot camp, ended up 4 months after he enlisted as forward machine gunner on a river boat in Vietnam. I enlisted in the navy 2 months before the draft lottery. My number was 15. I’ve never counted on luck, especially good luck. My buddy was 315. That’s the guy that almost shot me with the 357. I never had to shoot a weapon in the navy, other than qualifying with one. But I carried one on in port watch. 2 yrs, every 3 rd day in port, strap on a loaded 45 and patrol the ship. Anyone trying to board the ship to  take over the ship, orders were shoot to kill. Never had to take it out of the holster. Best buddy joined the marines, he ended up at Da Nang, landed on the night of the Tet offensive. Carried a loaded M16 everywhere on base, never fired it, they made him a clerk. Had a friend who wanted to be a helicopter pilot, joined the army in the late 70s they made him a warrant officer and a pilot. He died in a crash about a year or so after joining. Never left the states.

    Point is that one never really knew what was going to happen, drafted or enlisted.

  55. 55.

    oclib

    @Ruckus:

    The only reason I went into the Navy was because my birthday lottery number was 3 in 1970 and my dad (a 20 yr boatswain’s mate) said you’ll be drafted on Jan 2, 1971….so join now and see where the cards fall….I got very lucky.  He got out in `63 because his Captain told him to get out now (you’re the father of five), you’re next assignment maybe Nam.

  56. 56.

    Central Planning

    @Ruckus: My dad was a Navy medic in Vietnam. He said he was terrified for his life every day he was over there.

    He also said the book Catch-22 was like a documentary :D

  57. 57.

    debbie

    @Ruckus:

    It was reported here that fireworks wouldn’t last much longer because retailers had run out of stock long before they had expected to. I’m sure next year will suck because they’ll have ordered even more, but I hope this year’s racket ends soon for you.

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