Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

We still have time to mess this up!

In my day, never was longer.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Come on, man.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

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FREEDUMB!:

… Police were called to the store just before 2 p.m. Wednesday after an employee was attacked by the suspect with a piece of lumber. The suspect left, and was soon spotted by an officer in the parking lot of a nearby Walmart.

The suspect led the officer on a slow-speed chase that ended near the Hutchinson Mall off Highway 15 and Freemont Avenue Southwest. The officer approached the car, then became stuck in the driver’s side window. The suspect sped off with the officer hanging on, and then struck him on the head with a hammer.

The officer is in stable condition at an area hospital…

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  1. 1.

    patrick II

    In the last few days Republican giants Jim Jordan and Rand Paul have been chastising Dr. Fauci for not curing Covid yet (he’s had over a year!) and taking their freedumb away by the necessity of mask-wearing. Dumb guys like this fool have party leaders who keep them stupid. The guy is a spoiled five-year-old in a 61-year-old body, but it might help the leaders of the party he is loyal to would level with him.

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    JFC! These fucking brats. I hope they throw the damn book at him.

    Makes you wonder how these assholes still have licenses, because why not go the wrong way down a one-way street instead of around the block, or blow that stop sign, or just barrel through that red light hoping you don’t t-bone someone or kill a pedestrian?  Isn’t every rule getting in the way of these bratty assholes’ FREEDUMB?

  4. 4.

    jonas

    Dr. Fauci: “Continue wearing a mask, practice social distancing, and get a vaccination as soon as possible so we can get back to our normal lives…”

    Republicans: “OMG!!1! Paging Dr. Mengele!!”

  5. 5.

    montanareddog

    Well, this lunatics spree ended as it should – with him in custody. It would be a dog bites man story anywhere else than the state where driving in a nice-smelling car while black or allegedly passing a dodgy bill while black are capital offenses

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Now, if the suspect had been a 13 year old blah man, with his hands up, by all means, shoot to kill.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Surveillance footage from a different angle shows Toledo appearing to toss something behind a fence before he turns to fully face the officer. But on the bodycam, even going frame by frame, it’s hard to see that he’s throwing anything. Just, there’s a gun and then no gun. https://t.co/PaWUM0Jwya— Megan Crepeau (@crepeau) April 15, 2021

    Also

    838 milliseconds.The literal definition of a split second.Yet, according to the infallible hindsight judgment of Twitter experts nation-wide who, from the comfort of their armchairs, were able to slow the video down, frame by frame, this was a murder & an “assassination”. pic.twitter.com/NoHSuDApWX— Cook County ASA (@cookcountyasa) April 16, 2021

  13. 13.

    ghost cat

    The hits just keep on coming . . . .
    FedEx mass shooting, just a few minutes ago, IMPD Public Information Officer Genae Cook reported 8 died of gunshot wounds on scene, and 1 shooter died from self-inflicted gunshot; 4 transported to local hospitals, 1 critical; a few treated at scene; unknown number with gunshot or other injuries self-transported to local hospitals.

  18. 18.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Newsweek is reporting 60 wounded (link)

    “I saw a man with a sub-machine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open. I immediately ducked down and got scared,” he told the AFP news agency.

  20. 20.

    ghost cat

    @Steeplejack: ​See this is why I lurk. I listened to the media briefing, so I’m the secondary source relating info from the primary source—IMPD PIO Genae Cook–based on what she said immediately before I posted here. She’s the IMPD point person for this incident. i.e., the best source of accurate information at that time. Unlike other sources on twitter citing info from unofficial and possibly inaccurate sources. Example.​ This person reported 60 injured which isn’t quite correct, as shown in his updated tweet–60 people were evaluated for injuries. Before this, his initial not-quite-correct report from an unofficial source at IMPD of 60 injured was then reported by Newsweek.
    I simply relayed verbal content straight from the best source with info that now other official journalists have since reported and can now be linked to.​​​​​

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    @ghost cat:

    FedEx mass shooting, just a few minutes ago, IMPD Public Information Officer Genae Cook reported 8 died of gunshot wounds on scene, and 1 shooter died from self-inflicted gunshot 

    I think the confusion is with this badly written sentence.  Thanks for posting the update. :)

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    @rikyrah: Hehe.  “Shut your mouth”

    I wonder if Gym Jordan knows how ridiculous he looks without a suit coat.  Hell, even disgusting Shithead Ted wears a suit coat.

  25. 25.

    ghost cat

    @Steeplejack: Ohhh that’s funny—since when is perfect sentence structure a requirement for posting here? :)​

  26. 26.

    ghost cat

    @Steeplejack (phone): ​
     
    I understand–like various sources on twitter reporting 60 people shot? Yeah. That’s why I listed the source of my info:
    IMPD Public Information Officer Genae Cook reported . . . .
    It’s all good. :)

  32. 32.

    mrmoshpotato

    @prostratedragon:

    Self-described as a prosecutor, but who knows what that means? 

    I mean I have no way of confirming if that person is really a Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney.

  33. 33.

    prostratedragon

    @mrmoshpotato:  Oh, that was exactly my point. There are so many sovereign citizens about these days, and frankly I’d hope that anyone from that office, even if they’re not on this case, would keep the commentary to a minimum, so I’m not sure this person’s bona fides are too sound.

  35. 35.

    sab

    @JWR: As an Ohioan, Gym Jordan does make me worry about the rural parts of my state. Why do they keep reelecting these men?

    He isn’t unique. The guy in Ted Strickland’s seat is nearly as bad. He doesn’t have the condoning college sexual harrassment baggage, but otherwise as awful.

    Why do they keep electing blatantly vile men? I don’t know, but they do.

  37. 37.

    lowtechcyclist

    These guys who planned the Whitmer kidnapping are free from custody pending trial.

    Michael and William Null, 38, were allegedly a part of the kidnapping scheme involving Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and were being held on house arrest. But on Wednesday, a judge lifted the brother’s curfew and house arrest restrictions, per People.

    And of course, Kyle Rittenhouse is still on the loose.

    Even after factoring in the huge role that race plays in justice in this country, this is fucking crazy. I don’t get it.

  38. 38.

    JWR

    @sab: “Why do they keep electing blatantly vile men?”

    I think they’re brains have been marinating in Fox for so long that sending overbearing, loud mouths to Congress seems a clever way to troll the libs. It’s all just so damn stupid, this performance BS.

  39. 39.

    SFAW

    @JWR:

    Also, Goddamn the 2A.

    Coming soon from the NRA and its shills: “The Second Amendment doesn’t shoot people — people shoot people.”

  40. 40.

    Warblewarble

    Republicans “protecting the FREEDUMB of mass shooters,making it easier to shoot multiples than to cast a single ballot”.

  41. 41.

    Geminid

    @sab: Gerrymandering plays a role. The deep red, safe Republican districts encourage a race to the bottom for right wing politicians.

    Not that you can’t get assholes in more purple districts, like my 5th Virginia District Congressman. He won by only 5 points, though, so unlike Jim Jordan, there is a good chance Bob Good will be a one-termer.

  43. 43.

    Geminid

    @sab: I have not followed Ohio’s new redistricting law. It’s supposed to inhibit gerrymandering. When I looked at state media coverage of proposed permitless concealed carry legislation, I noticed that one of the law’s sponsors said that this session might be their last chance to push this law through, that next year’s redistricting would reduce the Republican majority in Columbus.

  45. 45.

    Geminid

    @sab: The Census data should be delivered in time for Ohio’s redistricting to be in place for next year. Republicans could try to slow walk things, though, to get another cycle out of the old districts.

    In Virginia, on the other hand, this year’s legislative elections will be held on the old map. Although 11 of 100 House of Delegates districts were redrawn under a federal cout order in 2018, the map mostly is as drawn by Republicans in 2011. The next map will drawn by a new independent redistricting commission. Or maybe I should say semi-independent, as General Assembly Republicans and Democrats are on the commission.

  47. 47.

    artem1s

    @sab: 

    Why do they keep electing blatantly vile men? I don’t know, but they do.

    Feetball culture. these are the guys who claim ‘it’s all just normal locker room activity’. of course they create the toxic masculine environment and then indoctrinate their kids into the cult. After sportsball comes golf and yucking it up in the club house (or yacht club, gun club, militia, whatever) after hitting the 19th hole.
    Voting against the guy daddy hates on is just part of growing up in rural ‘Murica now. Even if the kid gets out and gets an education, they end up right back in the locker room when their own kids are indoctrinated into the cult. Circle of fucking life man.

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