Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

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

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

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

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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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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