Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

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

Bark louder, little dog.

Fight them, without becoming them!

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

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

“But what about the lurkers?”

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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

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  5. 5.

    Kent

    OT…is this an open thread?

    My “woke” LGBT daughter (and maybe wannabe filmmaker) and I had a conversation about toxic masculinity last night while walking the dog.  She shared with me her concept for her first reality TV show.

    The concept.  Get a houseful of gay men, nine of whom are gay and one of whom is secretly straight.  Every week they have to vote, Survival style, to try to pick the one straight guy and vote him off the island so to speak.  The last one standing wins the $1 million.  Or maybe the audience votes.  Either way.

    The secret kicker?    None of them are actually gay but they don’t know that.

    She says that she and her friends would be all over a show like that.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @Kent:  I was with you until this part.

    None of them are actually gay but they don’t know that.

    None of the 10 men are guy, but who doesn’t know that?  The men have to know whether they are gay or not, right?

    edit: is it the audience that doesn’t know that none of them are gay?

  11. 11.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Kent: I think I’ve heard this pitch (or similar) before, but I’ll be damned if I don’t really like it.

    I don’t watch reality TV though, so my opinion isn’t worth much. I also think they’d probably get some fights and so on in, and you can only do this show ONCE or the secret’s out. Unless you film several seasons concurrently.

  14. 14.

    debbie

    @Miss Bianca:

    Watching that, I realized I’d only seen tiny snippets of him and so hadn’t realized just how much he does wave his hands around. I don’t even understand how that became a gesture.

  15. 15.

    Kent

    @WaterGirl:None of the 10 men are guy, but who doesn’t know that?  The men have to know whether they are gay or not, right?

    They all think they are the only straight guy living in a house full of gay men and have to blend to fit in to earn the $1 million.  None of them know that no one in the house is actually gay.

    My daughter is just tired of straight men ruining the world and wants to laugh at them get conflicted over their straight macho masculinity or something

    The audience is in on the joke.  Only the participants don’t know.

  25. 25.

    japa21

    @WaterGirl: He was moving. He would walk into a room, walk around the room and back into the hallway, then into another room, etc. He did the same walk several times. The ceiling vent is the clue.

  26. 26.

    Mike in Oly

    I love Andrew! His videos are sooo funny. Seriously, go watch them all. He’s on Youtube as well.

  31. 31.

    Aleta

    Here’s one:  Each week a member or two of the TrumpPence administration defect and tell stories of the dysfunction and lies they’ve witnessed, sitting around a ridiculously fake boardroom table with previous defectors who contribute ridicule and outrage.    Ongoing audience voting until Nov. 4 determines who gets witness protection, who gets to dance on TV the night the election is over,  who gets to sit behind plexiglass on a float in one of the parades, etc.

  32. 32.

    Citizen Alan

    @Kent:

    Get a houseful of gay men, nine of whom are gay and one of whom is secretly straight.  Every week they have to vote, Survival style, to try to pick the one straight guy and vote him off the island so to speak.  The last one standing wins the $1 million.

    Believe it or not, but they actually had that show. I can’t remember the name, but it was presented as a rip-off of The Bachelor with a gay guy who was trying to find a “love connection” or whatever by dating from a pool of 12 gay competitors. He was not informed until halfway thru that half of the “gays” were straight and would win a large prize if they could act gay enough for the gaychelor to pick him. It was kind of horrible.

  34. 34.

    SWMBO

    @Tamara  You can smoke that cigarette but not in public.
    He’s done lots of videos where he starts out with an opening and then puts it in terms of today’s news. He’s a talented writer and he’s almost always walking through his apartment. I think to emphasize that he’s still in lockdown for everyone’s sake. He lives in Texass where he’s definitely in a minority. I find it easier to listen to him than watch (at least at first).

  37. 37.

    Jess

    @Aleta: This could be made into a Reality TV version of the Prisoners Dilemma. Each is told that the others are confessing all and blaming everyone else, and that to get a deal from the DA, they need to spill the beans on someone above them, and top whatever damaging info the others are offering. Tick tock, MoFos.

  38. 38.

    Jess

    We need to start comparing going maskless to drunk driving. I think that would get through to more people.

  39. 39.

    catclub

    @WaterGirl: 

    I was with you until this part.

    The way you sell it to the actors is you tell each of them ( separately) that they are the secretly straight one.

    Of course, that means you actually know what they are.
    and actually, actors can… act like things they are not.

  40. 40.

    A Ghost to Most

    Meh, the air quality is not that bad today; I can see the first foothills from ~2 miles off. When it’s really bad, it’s hard to see the mesa ~250 yards away.

  45. 45.

    Richard

    @Chief Oshkosh:  Hell yes that was funny. And true , too. I’m a big fan of his rants. Also he does it in “dialect ” which makes it even better , funnier and truer. I hope he makes more of these. Beep beep motherf***ers.

  49. 49.

    Chetan Murthy

    I hate to be the one to say it, but ….. I guess I understand people using FB and IG …. no, I don’t actually.  FB promotes Fascism, and I DGAF how many nice recipes or community whatevers people get out of it, it’s a malign force that is destroying democracy in our country and everywhere on the Earth, promoting genocide everywhere on Earth.

    It’s not the same as Twitter or Youtube in this regard.

    Concretely, I wish people would refrain from posting FB/IG links.

  50. 50.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Kent: I’ve toyed with a similar idea. Put a bunch of TERFs in a house together and tell them one of them is secretly a trans woman. Each week they try to identify and kick out the trans woman. The kicker: all of them are actually cisgender.

    Given all the inevitable paranoia, backbiting and gender policing, I’d watch the fuck out of that.

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