Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

You cannot shame the shameless.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

The willow is too close to the house.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    Enjoy your TikTok now! Tomorrow it goes poof along with WeChat. And Dolt45 loses the Chinese immigrant vote.

  8. 8.

    Benw

    Did you know that the main lick on AC/DC’s Whole Lotta Rosie is a palindrome?

    ‘A’ string: 0 3 0 5 0 3 0 !!

  11. 11.

    Sab

    That border collie made my week. THANK GOD DOGS CAN’T TALK.

    @Yutsano: And the Chinese American vote, and their American relatives,  and the Sarah Cooper fans.

  13. 13.

    J R in WV

    These three links are all great. I couldn’t pick one, although the dog story is awfully good, it’s also a slow build. The black cat with the interesting white blaze on his face is instantly funny.

    Raccoons are always funny. He did a good job of scurrying away on his hind feet with a handful of kibble. I like them all.

  14. 14.

    Sab

    @Tom Levenson: I have your book but I am lost in historical fiction at the moment (escapism.) Should I read your book now? I don’t want to be uninformed for the thread when it comes.

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    @Sab:  And da yoots. The ones who use it anyway. Not sure it’s a thing for country boys.

    @guachi: I have zero issue with its banning either. I tried it once and found it impossible to do what I wanted so I dropped it. But there’s a shit ton of people who have zero issue giving their information to the Chinese Communist Party voluntarily, so I expect problems tomorrow. Losing WeChat will be much more devastating for Chinese and Indian families, as that’s not only a source of communication but of remittances home as well.

  17. 17.

    guachi

    @Sab: TikTok is a national security threat. I’ll take national security over seeing a Sarah Cooper video any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

  18. 18.

    Sab

    @Yutsano: I am an old old luddite. I never did facebook. I never did myspace. My phone is a flip-phone.  I very much hate the president banning stuff by executive order.

  19. 19.

    Sab

    @guachi: Prove it. (Not disagreeing.) Just don’t want it banned by executive order. We have three branches of government. The executive branch is currently ailing.

  21. 21.

    Sab

    @Yutsano: Da yoots are stuck at home these days. They need creative outlets. Otherwise they will all run around infecting each other. Do you want that?

  23. 23.

    Sab

    @LuciaMia: The new models really suck. Trying to be smartphones (if I had wanted one I’d have bought one) and not good at either. Really complicated. Levels and levels and levels to just find out if I got a message.

  25. 25.

    Cheryl Rofer

    The TikTok thing was another shakedown. Apparently it’s been resolved.

  30. 30.

    prostratedragon

    @Yutsano:  And the GOP loses present-day kids for at least a generation, if I understand correctly that it was kids on TikTok who helped submarine His Pestilency’s Rushmore rally.

     

    Edit: Or would have done if we didn’t have an extortionist in the White House, according to Cheryl Rofer’s comment.

  31. 31.

    Sab

    That was my GSDs approach to life. ” I love my mom beyond belief, but I myslf am spectacular” And she was. Huge Fierce. Friendly.

  34. 34.

    Sab

    @debbie: That could have been my dog. I love my dogmbut what a jerk she was.

    We still have my uncle’s cocker. Named Prince. We want to rename him Prince Philip Underfoot, but he is not having it. So he still answers to Prince and he is still always underfoot.

    Also too, shockimg mistype that I deleted. Shocking. What is wrong with me?

  38. 38.

    Lacuna Synechdoche

    via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    Paul Bronks

    @SlenderSherbet

    “wait, WHO THE FUCK IS THAT GUY?”


    : Reddit user StygianUnknown

  40. 40.

    bjacques

    Repeated from dead thread below. Sorta respite…?

    O Mighty Balloon Juice Legal Oracle:

    There’s an idea I haven’t seen yet (busy weekend, skipped the Thread Of Doom), but a couple of commenters have come close to it.

    It depends on retaking the Senate (and keeping the House) and would thus be entirely out of President Biden’s hands, so he wouldn’t be obliged to comment on it.

    Kavanaugh almost certainly perjured himself in his nomination hearing and behavior that comes to light in a proper investigation may show evidence of bad character, so why not simply impeach and remove him in January? Likewise, Trump’s nominee will almost certainly lie or omit evidence of wrongdoing in his or her hastily conducted hearing, so pick them off too? 6-3 GOP majority becomes 4-3. If Biden wins, he gets two nominees and, vee-ola, get a 5-4 Democratic majority, and Senator Minority Leader or Private Citizen McConnell can lump it. If Trump wins, revisit the hearings testimonies of Roberts, Alito, Thomas, even Gorsuch, though he seems to have taken the job seriously despite getting Garland’s seat, maybe pick off one or two more. We’re down to a 3-3 deadlock or 3-2 Democratic majority, and a non-negotiable demand for quality, honorable and at least impartial nominees to refill the bench. One of them has to be Garland, if he still wants the job.

    No court-packing necessary.

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