Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

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

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

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

Second rate reporter says what?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

No one could have predicted…

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

T R E 4 5 O N

Everybody saw this coming.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

Let there be snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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  1. 1.

    trollhattan

    “A documentary. This time with real dragons.”
    Moron.

    From the who could’a guessed? files.

    Roseville school officials announced on Wednesday that they will pause on-campus learning at Roseville High School and return to distance learning beginning Jan. 14 through Jan. 22.

    The decision came as more staff began to test positive for COVID-19, causing numerous staff quarantines, according to an email from the district.

    Currently, 18 teachers, two support staff, seven custodians, two paraeducators and one wellness intern are quarantined due to exposure.

    “Given these circumstances, we are not able to provide appropriate supervision and instruction for all students in an on-campus environment,” read the email from interim Superintendent Jess Borjon and Roseville High Principal Nicholas Richter. “We fully understood from the onset that our school year would face starts and stops as the virus continues to impact our communities.”

    School officials added that they believed distance learning for the next six instructional days would help the school bring students and staff back to campus safely.
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article248489130.html#storylink=cpy

    Roseville is one of California’s larger school districts.

    Also, too, Tyrion kinda did kill, you know, dad.

  2. 2.

    The Moar You Know

    Bannon: “I don’t mind being shut down for my craziness. I’m not gonna be shut down for yours.”

    Bannon is self-aware. That’s an interesting development.

  4. 4.

    The Moar You Know

    POTUS asked q’s about it,but ultimately said it was a nonstarter, in part b/c he doesn’t trust Pence to pardon him, sources tell me

    Maybe Donnie should have thought of that before trying to get Pence murdered by a mob.

  5. 5.

    Raoul Paste

    It really is a snake pit    With any luck they will keep each other busy until they all have to leave the White House

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    in part b/c he doesn’t trust Pence to pardon him, sources tell me

    Probably the most realistic appraisal he’s made all year.

  8. 8.

    arrieve

    I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere (apologies if I missed it) but I’m very amused by the report that Tom Hanks is going to host the Inaugural celebration. In Cloud-QQ-land, he is of course the ringleader of the Hollywood pedophiles and they’re always reporting that he’s been arrested, he’s about to be arrested, he’s been executed, or he’s fleeing to Greece where he apparently has citizenship.

    I can’t believe Biden’s team isn’t aware of this and enjoying the thought of all those exploding heads.

  9. 9.

    ByRookorbyCrook

    How crazy do you have to be to have Steve Bannon not just shut down your wild-eyed fantasies but label them as crazy? Hoocoodanode ‘America’s Mayor’ was an amoral fantasist with delusions of grandeur? I mean other than all of NYC.

  10. 10.

    dm

    @arrieve: Did Tom Hanks get Q-notoriety before being an early, prominent, victim of COVID?  Or did he become persona-non-Qrata by trying to lend credence to the COVID hoax?

  11. 11.

    germy

    Rudy replies: “I’m really very frustrated. I’m not crazy.”

    Bannon: “I know.” They continue talking, and Rudy comes back to his earlier point.

    Rudy: “And I don’t say crazy things.”

    Bannon: “I know. I’m just teasing you.”

    — Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) January 14, 2021

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    Trump has instructed aides not to pay Giuliani’s legal fees and the president did not appreciate a demand from Giuliani for $20,000 a day in fees

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!

    Wait.

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!

    Nobody saw this coming.

  13. 13.

    Mike in NC

    If New York City ever names anything for Rudy Giuliani, I hope it’s a new building on Rikers Island.

  14. 14.

    Fleeting Expletive

    I missed the Pompeo thread, but it should be noted that included in the European tour bust, the Pope denied him an audience. I’d think that would hurt, but he may be among the most brainwashed of the cultists.

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Jason Miller @JasonMillerinDC 9h
    Just spoke with President Trump, and he told me that @RudyGiuliani is a great guy and a Patriot who devoted his services to the country! We all love America’s Mayor!

    Run through truth translator we get…
    “Fuck, if that fucking wet-brained lush flips on me I’m fucked! Tweet something to keep him from going rat””

  19. 19.

    debbie

    Talk about delusional! You basically call your ravening dogs to execute your vice president, and then express disappointment when you can’t count on him to pardon you? Oy.

  20. 20.

    Wag

    Giuliani just called Trump a defenseless midget who can’t defend himself!   You can’t make this shit up!

  23. 23.

    arrieve

    @dm: I do not claim to be a Q expert — I value my sanity too much — but I believe the story is that he never really had Covid. He was actually under arrest in Australia for sex trafficking.

    It is interesting that they latched onto Hanks — along with Oprah and Ellen and apparently the entire cast of Friends — since he doesn’t really resemble my idea of a pedophile. Maybe that’s how they tell if you’ve really drunk the KoolAid — if you’ll buy that Tom Hanks has been in league with Jeffrey Epstein to drink the blood of children you will obviously believe anything.

  25. 25.

    Just Chuck

    Car of Endless Clowns: a rare artifact appearing as a normal subcompact car that is actually a portal into the Material Plane of Clowns.

    (for all you D&D geeks)

  33. 33.

    JaneE

    Gee, if Trump were rational he might have considered that having a mob target Pence for hanging might not improve the odds of a pardon.  Sort of like burning your bridges before you cross them.

  34. 34.

    HumboldtBlue

    I was talking about this with a friend. The more details come out about this assault on our country the angrier I get and the intransigence of the GOP is now clearly traitorous.

  35. 35.

    jl

    Giuliani does seem to understand that the GoT ‘documentary’ covered fictitious events.

    So I think the post is a little unfair to Rudy, but I need to some time to figure what he thinks it means.

    For example, does Rudy think England ever had flying fire-breathing dragons that could be trained like an attack dog?  Wow, figuring out what he was talking about will take some time and effort; huge elements of sheer speculation will be required. Probably not worth it.

  36. 36.

    gene108

    I can’t wait for time to get back to normal on the 20th. The decades that have passed, since Trump took office four years ago are beyond my ability to describe

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    @germy: I wonder what podcast that’s taken from?

     

    And another thing …

    Ana Cabrera  @AnaCabrera  NEW: The DC attorney general’s office has notified Donald Trump Jr. that it would like to interview him as part of its investigation into misuse of President Trump’s inaugural funds, a spokesperson with the office tells at CNN.

    Wonder if this is happening now as the normal pace of this investigation, or did someone recently offer some new evidence on DJTJR now that T-power is receding.

  40. 40.

    Damned_at_Random

    Where would one go about buyuing a “Camp Auschwitz”T-shirt anyhow? I’ve been to Breitbart and Free Republic on occasion and seen nothing like it. Maybe Stormfront? Gateway Pundit? 4chan?

  41. 41.

    germy

    A loyal friend, hounded without mercy by Democrats intent on destroying him from Day 1. Then he lost the election. It made him crazy or revealed a dysfunction I had refused to see. He then unleashed a mob to make war on their own government. 5 to their doom. @LizCheney is right

    — Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) January 13, 2021

    Imagine discovering Trump as a complicated three act play while the rest of us saw the blatant racism and incompetence in the first sound bite. Gerry, Chekhov’s racism was introduced with the Central Park 5. https://t.co/SEfhgxmstq

    — Jordan Klepper (@jordanklepper) January 13, 2021

  42. 42.

    germy

    This story about the Jan 5th tours isn’t going away.

    Rep. Abigail Spanberger on CBS: “In the lead up to January 6th, what I witnessed was members of the public, people who had no business being in the Capitol during the shutdowns that we have because of the pandemic, milling about in the office buildings.”

    — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 14, 2021

  43. 43.

    jl

    I have a feeling I am about to ‘go through some things’, though I hope it is an inconvenience and doesn’t devolve into disaster.

    I have no clue how it could have happened, but I got onto some GOP chump list that has my work and personal email, and cell phone number. So far I have an invite from Gosar for some kind of zoom rally, Graham wants to know how much I approve of him, McCarthy wants money for some damn thing, some more I deleted without looking past the name. My only  response is to delete them, so not sure about the details of what the F it is they want.

    Lord God, why did You do this to me? How did this happen? I’ll go read Job and think about what to do.

    Keep close tabs on my financial accounts, that’s for sure.

  44. 44.

    Gvg

    @gene108: Don’t count on it exactly. I think we are finally at Trumps watergate…..hearings. The outrageous info is going to drip drip drip out for the next 9 months while some of us are stuck at home in various lockdowns to get COVID under control and the vaccinated elderly go on trips. I expect to be dog sitting while this all goes on and parents traveling…it’s going to be strange.

  48. 48.

    The Moar You Know

    New excuse:  That mean ol’ Trump made me do it

    Expect so much more of this shit.  These people should all be in prison

    AKA:  “I was just following Herr Hitler’s orders.”  It’s obvious that Nuremburg was a one-off historic anomaly but it still was a damn fine idea.

  50. 50.

    jl

    @The Moar You Know:  Maybe we can all use that excuse. ‘Trump Tantrum’ has fewer syllables that the old standards we use now.

    ‘The dog ate my homework’ has 6 syllables, which is more than 3.

    Edit: Trump going apeshit yelly on your ass is clearly worse than summary execution or being thrown into a prison camp for disobeying orders. Everyone knows that.

  51. 51.

    Spanky

    @Wag:

    Giuliani just called Trump a defenseless midget who can’t defend himself!

    You’re redundantly saying things twice here, you know.

  52. 52.

    Martin

    @hueyplong: Yes, a fair bit before. The housing discrimination case was ’73. Central park 5 was ’89. Trump was pretty famous by ’89. Taj Mahal opened in ’90.

  53. 53.

    Damned_at_Random

    @jl:  Could be completely innocent. a friend asked me to help her research her mother’s old doll and we tried dolls.com on my laptop. NEVER go to dolls.com, I got sex doll ads for months after that

  55. 55.

    debbie

    @germy:

    His loyal friend hounded his predecessor from Day 1 for 8 years. Fuck his loyal friend and fuck him. He’s well overdue for his trip to obscurity.

  56. 56.

    HumboldtBlue

    @germy:

    We’re seeing a lot of this “we didn’t think it would be this bad” bullshit from assholes like Rivera.

    This has been a disastrous four years and I wonder if this nation will ever truly recover.

  57. 57.

    MisterForkbeard

    @germy: Nice to see he’s blaming Trump’s blatant narcissism and insanity on Democrats. What a fucking blowhard.

  58. 58.

    kindness

    Rudi would use GOT as a reference point.  It does mimic his life.  Like the incest.  Well some would say marrying your 1st cousin isn’t incest per say but for this post it’s close enough for me.

  61. 61.

    trnc

    @Damned_at_Random: Where would one go about buyuing a “Camp Auschwitz”T-shirt anyhow? I’ve been to Breitbart and Free Republic on occasion and seen nothing like it. Maybe Stormfront? Gateway Pundit? 4chan?

    Probably any store in Montana or South Dakota.

  62. 62.

    jl

    @Damned_at_Random: “I got sex doll ads for months after that”

    That’s slightly more tolerable than Gosar, Graham and McCarthy. Other people have all the luck. I’m going to go to my  room to mope and eat worms for a while.

  63. 63.

    germy

    Ladies and gentlemen, if you’re using dating apps to try to identify people who were at the insurrection on the Capitol last week, pls tell me about it. DMs are open or email me: [email protected].— Lisa Bonos (@lisabonos) January 14, 2021

    I didn’t know about this. Some liberal women have opened up accounts on dating sites identifying as “Conservative” to attract lonely MAGATs, who then boast and share photos of themselves at the Capitol riot. These women then forward the info to the authorities.

  68. 68.

    jl

    @germy: They could really micro-target their ads.

    “Tall guy vegetarians with hairy bellies dressed in Chewbacca pants and fantasy shaman hats who invade national capitols really turn me on!”

    “Smokin’ hot young babe looking for grizzled pot-bellied geezer insurrectionist in Auschwitz T , but only if in it for the Trump crusade”

  70. 70.

    zhena gogolia

    @jl:

    I’ve been getting Trump crap in the snail mail. I have no idea who played this prank on me. Luckily no e-mails or phone calls. I hope you can get it straightened out.

  76. 76.

    MomSense

    @arrieve:

    Didn’t they think that JFKjr was still alive?

    I have to confess that when I’m not yelling at my radio or television, I’ve been rolling my eyes hard at all the people, especially pundits and journalists, who are so surprised by the conspiracists turned rioters.  Did they miss Agenda 21 and sovereign citizens?  Did they forget about the snack force that violated the Malheur national refuge?  Did they forget all the reports by workers for the Dept of  the Interior about the threats and the vandalizing of indigenous sites? Some of the most egregious and cruel behavior was directed at the families of the Sandy Hook victims.

    These people have been doing this shit for years and what passes for press are acting like this just ducking happened.  Ignoring it doesn’t work. Letting the media personalities who promote these conspiracies off the hook for the lies and bullshit they spread doesn’t work. The audience for this crap believe increasingly fantastical things and are radicalized and more willing to act violently.
    We need accountability and consequences for this abhorrent behavior and that includes the media personalities.

  80. 80.

    Robert Sneddon

    @jl: For example, does Rudy think England ever had flying fire-breathing dragons that could be trained like an attack dog?

    Oddly enough, sort-of. The Game of Thrones is inspired by the Wars of the Roses, the battle for the throne of England and bits of northern France between the Tudors and Plantagenets. One of the factors in the fighting were siege guns that could crack the hitherto-impregnable castles the Normans had dotted around the countryside three hundred years before. They were big, expensive and dangerous at both ends but “fire-breathing” was what they did.

     

    We’d sit with George in the con bars at three in the morning rabbiting on about this sort of shit, rationalising and theorising what he had written and how to make it work. Fuck COVID-19, I’ve not been to a con for eighteen months now…

  81. 81.

    arrieve

    @MomSense: Yes, I think JFK Jr was going to replace Pence in the second term that is mercifully not to be. That’s about as credible as the rest of the unbelievable shit they believe.

  86. 86.

    lamh36

    It’s official…Biden chooses Jaime Harrision to lead the DNC.

     

    @harrisonjaime

    ·
    11m

    I’m humbled and excited that
    @JoeBiden
    has chosen me to lead
    @TheDemocrats
    . Together, we’ll organize everywhere, invest in state parties, expand the map, and elect Democrats who will be champions for the working people of this country.
    https://twitter.com/harrisonjaime/status/1349865795975835648?s=20

    Very cool.  I really wanted Stacey or Jaime, but with Stacey like doing a re-match for Ga GOV…I was def hoping for Jaime!

  88. 88.

    Punchy

    Surely late to the party on this, but the AZ GOP is censuring a McCain!   I thought McCains were to AZ what Kennedys were to MA, but apparently Kelli’s Kool-Aid is some new flavor of hate and bigotry.

  90. 90.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Biden is scheduled to give a major speech on COVID and the economy at 7:30 pm EST. Is one of our front-pagers planning to put up a new thread for it? TIA.

  92. 92.

    Chetan Murthy

    @lamh36: I know I’m late to this party, but … I saw Stacey Abrams talkin’ on the teevee a few months ago, and thought: “she’s a serious wonk”.  I’d heard of her ability as a people person, but had forgotten about it.  Now that I’m reminded of it, I can’t help wondering: when’s the last time we had a serious wonk who was also a people person, a “persuader” ?  I know of only two people who come to mind: Obama and Bill Clinton.  Both phenomenal political talents.

    Maybe 47 will be President Abrams.

  93. 93.

    Ruckus

    @trollhattan:

    Look at the person making that decision. He thinks he’s a genius. Now compared to shitforbrains he actually does have some capacity. So he quite likely does consider himself a genius. At least in comparison….

  94. 94.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @jl:

    You might alert your bank just as a precaution. Ask them to block any activity on your account from these names.

  95. 95.

    Alison Rose

    @Robert Sneddon: Fuck COVID indeed, though I’d grasped onto a smidgen of hope that nigh on a year’s worth of quarantine might mean we would FINALLY GET THE NEXT FUCKING BOOK except LOL no we will never ever ever get that book, let alone both remaining books.

  97. 97.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh36:

    Today is #GodbabyMaddie’s 10th birthday!

    No. No, that cannot possibly be. I refuse to believe it.

    (Happy birthday, Maddie! Ten years old is a wonderful age!)

  100. 100.

    MisterForkbeard

    @lamh36: And yet I don’t think there’s anybody there that the BroLeft will really object to, either.

    Well, okay. I should know better than to say that. We’re going to discover that they’re all “neoliberals” any moment now.

  101. 101.

    Barbara

    @Damned_at_Random: My daughter was working on a Roman history project when she started yelling for me. Never, ever use “vestal virgin” as a search term.  A porn site hijacked my homepage and began showing pictures of the available merchandise.  I did figure out how to remove it eventually, but Gah!

  107. 107.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Clown car never empties?!  Okay, now I am down with the doomsayers!  We are all going to die.

  110. 110.

    CROAKER

    @Just Chuck:  Mmmm Lower plane if you are in second gear the car takes you to Pandemonium.

    Inside the apparatus, the user finds levers that perform various functions, including: tweeting, retracting legal agreements, committing fraud, grifting, covering one’s tracks, and sedition.

    It is known that uncovering the mirrors, moving the apparatus, turning its wheel, opening and closing its magically-lit “eyes”,  and opening or closing the doors can cause mass insanity. Many human-sized characters can fit inside the apparatus, and the device can function only in confined spaces. It holds enough air for only one to survive on twitter.

  111. 111.

    mrmoshpotato

    @germy:

    Get in girls. We’re going hunting. 

    Saw that earlier.  Hilarious.  I hope they get a bunch of names and incriminating video.

  114. 114.

    Bill Arnold

    This week, top aides met w/ Trump to discuss options going forward.Among them-what a potential resignation would look like.POTUS asked q’s about it,but ultimately said it was a nonstarter, in part b/c he doesn’t trust Pence to pardon him, sources tell me,

    That may have been Trump’s cunning autocoup plan. Have the mob kill Pence, Pelosi, Grassley, then Trump kills anyone else who would stop him from doing unconstitutional things, like the SCOTUS, then Trump “resigns”, then Pompeo pardons him, then Pompeo declares Trump VP on an emergency basis not requiring approval of Congress because they’re dead, then Pompeo resigns and Trump becomes President For Life, and decrees that the clocks be set back to January 19th and stay there for the rest of Trump’s unnatural life, to make his perpetual presidency constitutional. All it requires is trust in Pompeo.
    The MAGA constitutional scholars would love it.

  116. 116.

    different-church-lady

    @Bill Arnold: Right, so: (a) resign and there’s at least a chance Pence pardons you, or (b) stick it out and it’s guaranteed nobody pardons you.

    I’m beginning to think this man is just not very smart.

  117. 117.

    Skepticat

    @germy: Joanne Rogers, wife of the late Fred Rogers, has passed away at 92.

    That makes me sad. A dear friend of mine who recently died after a long siege with Alzheimer’s was very close to them. She was a artist/illustrator who did much of his artwork (and the art for the Cabbage Patch Kids!), and she and the Rogers were very much alike. I hope they’re all together now. Sigh.

  119. 119.

    jl

    @Robert Sneddon: “One of the factors in the fighting were siege guns that could crack the hitherto-impregnable castles ”

    No fire, no scales, couldn’t fly. So, I’m not biting.

  120. 120.

    jl

    @SiubhanDuinne: “You might alert your bank just as a precaution.”

    That’s one of the reasons I never ever even clicked on any Trump or GOP pitch, just deleted it, or let it pass by. Too much fraud and grift in their pitches to take the risk. Which is why I  wonder how I  got on the GOP chump list.

  121. 121.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @arrieve: Rita Wilson, Tom’s wife, is of Greek parentage. Saw one of those genealogy TV shows where she went back to the original village.

  122. 122.

    catclub

    @different-church-lady:

    Right, so: (a) resign and there’s at least a chance Pence pardons you, or (b) stick it out and it’s guaranteed nobody pardons you.

    I’m beginning to think this man is just not very smart.

     

    I would not be surprised to learn that Trump thinks he will retain HIS pardon powers after jan 20. After all, the still call  Bill Clinton president Clinton.

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