Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

People are complicated. Love is not.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Come on, man.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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This week is driving me to potentially toxic levels of Can’t-Be-Arsed… think I’ll go do other stuff for a few hours.


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  4. 4.

    mali muso

    I don’t think it’s meant to be intentionally funny but there is a cemetery nearby that has a sign out front stating “spaces available “.  Seems very on brand for 2020

  7. 7.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Pet rats like the one in the video can be so cute. And have a ton of personality. It’s too bad they have such short lives. They usually only live 1.5-2 years. Sometimes 3 if you’re lucky

    On top of that they have to have companions, and need to have their cages cleaned out frequently

  12. 12.

    PsiFighter37

    It’d be nice to have an actual respite when you weren’t on Day 150 (or whatever it is) of having to constantly watch a kid, including work weeks. My daughter’s daycare will be opening around Labor Day, and I think it will take an enormous mental weight off my mind to have her there (not to mention that it will be very, very good for her to be around other infants, even if there’s a lot of tears at first).

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    Since we’re talking respite: I know this is political, but Kim Reynolds did a good. 40,000 potential new voters isn’t anything to sneeze at, plus eliminating a vestige of Jim Crow law will always be a good no matter who does it. Of course this affected her personally but who cares.

  24. 24.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    I forgot to close my side gate after mowing the lawn today.  I put my dog outside and a short time later saw him running around with a sneaker (neighbor’s).  I went out to get it by shaking a bowl of food before going back inside.  Detective fail.  90 minutes later I heard wife and spawn coming back from around the block. They were squealing.  The dog was sitting out front and ran to meet them.   I went out and was all WTF, did you let out dog?  Duh!  Went to close gate, brought dog inside, looked out back and saw 2 sneakers this time (not matching).  I brought them over to the neighbors (he’s pulled this trick before with one of the sneakers), apologized profusely, and offered to buy the mom a new pair.  One sneaker was partially chewed so she said to toss it.  She took the other sneaker back because it was not chewed.  My old dog would have been 10 miles away if the same thing happened.  Thank Dog for Labs.  /scene

  29. 29.

    Major Major Major Major

    @WaterGirl: he was super hot. Turned out a bit square-jawed for my tastes though, not that that could’ve had anything to do with anything when we were twenty.

    #12 at the moment. Actually I channeled us for the dysfunctional gay couple in one of the stories.

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    @Benw: Clearly the next Medium Cool or Sunday night culture thread should be a group collaboration of some sort.  Maybe a short story, or something like this.

  32. 32.

    Jeffro

    So I guess trumpov announced from Bedminister, after playing a round, that he’s going to make sure no one with pre-existing conditions loses their health coverage?

    Isn’t that called Obamacare, already?

  37. 37.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Benw: Porpoise!  Porpoise!  Porpoise!

    Seriously, Caitlin’s channel has a lot of very interesting videos.  I highly recommend browsing.

  41. 41.

    Benw

    @WaterGirl: my kids play a road-trip game where they take turns telling a story where each person gets 3 words per turn. Could make a thread for people who are interested and give everyone 3 sentences?

  44. 44.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Martin:

    Rats are challenging pets though – they’re extremely smart and staying ahead of them is not easy.

    I follow an artist on Tumblr who has always has a couple pet rats (names them after types of cheese) and they definitely are a lot of work to take care of

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    I wasn’t clear. I meant it was a good thing there were no clownfish in this thread.

    (Up until that point, anyhow.)

  51. 51.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    Those baby otters are so cute they should be illegal.

  57. 57.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Benw:

    Heh. More like make some pithy remark about how stupid we are. But in a nice way that shows he has a heart of gold

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Didn’t OO mention he hates clowns once?

  59. 59.

    Ken

    @Benw: It could work, but wouldn’t we need….

    (checks carefully to see if Cole is reading)

    …threaded comments?

  60. 60.

    CarolDuhart2

    @mali muso: Wouldn’t be surprised to see a few “closed” ones opening up again at least for those related to those already buried there.  I’ve been seeing a lot of funeral home advertising lately and they are in fairly heavy rotation.  They must be doing a lot of business these days.

  62. 62.

    Ken

    By the way, although I have no objection to wasting his campaign’s money, the front page keeps showing an ad to become a member of Trump’s “Executive Team”.

    I assume it’s just a way to get my email address and some money, though I suppose there’s an outside chance they’re recruiting for the White House staff.

  63. 63.

    raven

    Haotong Li is a Chinese golfer leading the PGA. He finished his round 5 hours ago and is still out practicing!

  65. 65.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Hey, did anybody have “Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate gets bit by a rabid bat” on their 2020 Bingo card?

  75. 75.

    jl

    That cat looked like it damn well knew what it was doing. It was taunting us stupid humans and our silly ways.

  76. 76.

    geg6

    Okay, I know this is a respite thread, but what stunt did the Shitgibbon pull tonight?  I keep seeing mentions of something but missed the whole thing.  Media sound not happy or completely bumfuzzled.  Or both.

  77. 77.

    Baud

    @geg6:

    This?

    President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering executive action that would “defer student loan payments and forgive interest until further notice.”

  78. 78.

    Morzer

    @geg6: Trump held some sort of self-pleasuring substitute for a campaign rally at his golf club in Bedminster and, when asked by a reporter why no-one in the room was wearing a mask, described the event as a peaceful protest and did his best to whip up a mob against the questioner.

  79. 79.

    Baud

    Apparently, Whitmer met with Biden about Veep.

    Also, too, Trump is going to ban preexisting conditions in health insurance.

  82. 82.

    Morzer

    @NotMax: Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom did commentary on the whole babbling deranged exhibition on Twitter and this was his take:

    Those of you who thought he shouldn’t be on television right now should eat your words, because this is like an ongoing Joe Biden ad in real time

  83. 83.

    geg6

    @Morzer:

    Sonehow I got the impression he had called a presidential address or something and the media felt trolled.  But, admittedly, I was opening wine and only listening with half an ear.

  84. 84.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Origuy:

    “The bat followed up the bite by writing a 50 page treatise on the virtue of being a self-absorbed bucket of shit, and then fluttered off in search of its homeland in Galt’s Gulch in order to hang out with other bloodsucking parasites.”

  86. 86.

    trollhattan

    @Rob:

    Make it a waffle and I’m in.

    I pray to god that’s a pet rat and not a rat rat caught on surveillance.

  87. 87.

    Morzer

    @geg6:

    Trump rambled incoherently from one topic to another in front of a room of obese white buffoons who had chosen not to wear masks because, after all, it’s only a pandemic that’s killed 160,000+ people in the US so far. It might charitably be described as an “address”, but there was nothing presidential about it. Just another episode in the Shortfingers Shitshow.

  89. 89.

    pat

    @Morzer: 

    I saw this developing on Chris Hayes, I think it was, and there was a guy in a suit passing out masks.
    Until then, there were only two or three masks in the room.

  93. 93.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Baud:

    Methinks that might be too long. Perhaps, “Trump rambled incoherently from one topic to another”?

  98. 98.

    trollhattan

    Even fundys have limits, i.e., they sense a threat to their income stream.

    The president of one of the world’s largest evangelical Christian colleges has agreed to step aside after posting a photo of himself, trousers unzipped.

    Jerry Falwell, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, said he would take an indefinite leave of absence from Liberty University in Virginia. The college board did not provide a reason for the move.

    Mr Falwell had conceded the Instagram photo was “weird”, but defended it as “all in good fun”.

    The university said in a statement on Friday: “The Executive Committee of Liberty University’s Board of Trustees, acting on behalf of the full Board, met today and requested that Jerry Falwell, Jr take an indefinite leave of absence from his roles as President and Chancellor of Liberty University, to which he has agreed, effective immediately.”

    The college has a strict code of conduct for how students must behave at the university, including barring premarital sex and the consumption of media either on or off campus “that is offensive to Liberty’s standards and traditions”, such as lewd lyrics, anti-Christian messages, sexual content and nudity. Hairstyles and fashions are to “avoid extremes” and students are to dress modestly at all times.

    The photo showed Mr Falwell with his arm around a woman who was not his wife. Her shorts also appeared to be unbuttoned. His other hand was holding a glass of dark-coloured liquid.

    Somebody’s in the market for a new pool boy.

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