Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

White supremacy is terrorism.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

This fight is for everything.

The willow is too close to the house.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

Everybody saw this coming.

Bark louder, little dog.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

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Late Night Just Desserts Open Thread: How Are the Mighty Fallen

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    Sad! One might have pity on these people, but since they are such assholes, fuck them and the horses they rode in on.

  4. 4.

    HumboldtBlue

    “Come on over to our farm and get your Jesus freak on!”

    “I’ll be watching from the closet!”

  10. 10.

    Redshift

    living life like an animatronic chuck e. cheese character, this rules

    Based on the experience of Madame Tussauds, I think the chuck e. cheese character would get punched more, but I suppose this is still pretty good.

  14. 14.

    Dan B

    I hope these people are nothing more than pathetic remnants of the heartless manipulators who will be exposed more rapidly and relentlessly for decades to come.

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    This belongs here.

    Via @Green_Footballs

    A Senate committee has approved Biden’s THREE nominees to the USPS board. DeJoy’s will find himself out of a job and soon.— Nick Walden Poublon (@NWPinPDX) April 30, 2021

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    Actual conversation that I had today in a shoe store:

    Me: Do you sell shoelaces here?
    Sales clerk #1: (Goes to fetch sales clerk #2.)
    Me: Do you sell shoelaces here?
    Sales clerk #2: Shoelaces?
    Me: Yes, shoelaces.
    Sales clerk #2: (Lightbulb goes on.) Oh, shoelaces! (Thinks hard.) No.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Red Wing Beckmans come with flat waxed laces, which I don’t like. But my only spare bootlaces are bright yellow/brown, and they make my new dark brown boots look clownish. I needed black laces.

    Lord, why me? All I wanted was a pair of black bootlaces.

  25. 25.

    Dan B

    @mrmoshpotato: I got a pair of lace up sneakers a couple weeks ago.  I liked them so much I bought another pair.  The laces are built in so they’re slip on sneakers.  Who knew?

    I bought a pair for my partner who needs arch support.  He wears them a lot.

    Interesting note:  My father had patents for the first soft rubber heels and soles back when they didn’t last long and were only on cheap sneakers.  They lasted longer than leather, which was considered the only durable choice.  He developed chemistries for making heels and soles in many different colors plus transparent.

  26. 26.

    Procopius

    I must have missed something. Who are “… all these Republican pedophiles” the Frances Langum account is asking about?

  28. 28.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Have I mentioned that Trump is a has-been?  He’s getting the table scraps of the Republican Party now, despite McCarthy and Gaetz worshipping him.

  31. 31.

    Frankensteinbeck

    My god, the Republicans really are eating their own.  Tucker went after Frank Luntz and Twitter is swarming with hate for Luntz because Luntz thinks vaccination is good, and doesn’t think that the real crime of 1/6 is that rioter getting shot.

  33. 33.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: ​
    Oh, I find that entirely likely. He doesn’t have what Trump had, though. He can bring in the white supremacists and the truly insane hate freaks, but he doesn’t inspire the misogynists or the Your Racist Uncle block. He’s not stupid or petty enough. The misogynists in particular were a vastly important few percentage points that normally don’t vote Republican and Trump added. The hardcore white supremacists aren’t primary voters, either.

  37. 37.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Sure, but again, Tucker’s core are the extreme racists and loons who don’t get involved in the party.  The ones who think the Republican establishment isn’t conservative enough.  That’s not where you want your support in the primaries.  Also, like TFG relied on Twitter, Carlson relies on his show.  Campaigning will take him off of it.  Too many of his supporters don’t tune in for speeches, they watch TV.  He’s the Republican Sanders, but even more so.  His supporters froth at the mouth, but they’re too busy screaming to do the work of electing him.

  38. 38.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Frankensteinbeck: TFG was the total package, Tucker’s maybe 2/3’s, but don’t count him out.  A lot of folk counted out TFG, how’d that work out?

    Also, keep in mind, TFG wasn’t the party’s pick early on, that was probably Jeb!.

  39. 39.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I don’t know about the others, but I knew the evangelical base would adore Trump.  They love stupidity, pettiness, and corruption.  Now, they also like screaming Hitler hate, but like you said, Carlson is 2/3rds Trump, and that isn’t enough.  And everyone who hated Trump will be just as horrified when they see Carlson up close.  I don’t think he can pull it off, and I think the impossibility of doing his show and campaigning will in particular be a giant anchor sinking his main strength.  But, it is very, very early.  We’ll just have to see.  I do agree he’s trying to snap up the Trump base, presumably for political ambitions.

  41. 41.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Frankensteinbeck: One thing, and not just the TFG base, wants in someone running for office is no political experience.  They see that as corrupting, they want a man of the people.  I’ve seen it here in California, that’s why we have term limits.  Citizen politicians!

    You’d think that the sucess Biden has had so far would dispel that Idea, or here in California with Chairman Jerry, but nope.

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    Chris Johnson

    It’s eerie to see how TFG is just the same as he ever was. Maybe a little more deflated, maybe not even that. It was never about that guy, it was about him being used as a puppet.
    Which means keep an eye out for other puppets, but it’s also real interesting to see how weak and helpless the guy really is. You’d think there would at least be crowds of Proud Boys or something. I see that he’s still useful to Putin as he’d be very easy to hurt in his current scenario: maybe this IS him being hurt, but I think it’s more complicated than that.

  44. 44.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Dan B:

     

    Interesting note: My father had patents for the first soft rubber heels and soles back when they didn’t last long and were only on cheap sneakers. They lasted longer than leather, which was considered the only durable choice. He developed chemistries for making heels and soles in many different colors plus transparent.

    Well, if we’re doing parental related footwear boasts, my father was a member of a team that designed and made individually fitted boots for an elephant. They were for a 1960s expedition to retrace Hannibal’ crossing of the Alps. One of the boots he clicked is in our local museum.

  45. 45.

    Dan B

    @Sloane Ranger: Uncle, I scream Uncle!  Yours definitely is the topper!

    Did he get to go over the Alps with the hefalumph?  Asking for a friend.

    BTW Awake from a long involved dream(s?) with a magic filled quest by a young guy to answer questions not revealed in his epic dream about the moon and other things revealing where he was to move to succeed at something like running for president.  Turned ugly when I was identified as the whirlwind by a wide plastic bowl mysteriously spinning and lifting into the windless air.  Then our orange cat began to bite me painlessly but viciously.  Got ugly quick.  Time to roam the web and distract from the creepy feeling.  Reading about Covid Variants in India should distract.  /s

     

     

    BTW No company believed that soft heels and soles would be durable or marketable.  They were introduced after the patents expired.  Now hard leather soles are rare.

    I hope there was better success with elephant shoes.

  48. 48.

    Barry

    @Procopius: ​
     

    “I must have missed something. Who are “… all these Republican pedophiles” the Frances Langum account is asking about?”

    All of them, judging by the way that he’s going.

  49. 49.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s that whole Abram’s Mystery Box thing; the voters can imagine what they want on an outsider.  The Political Outsider is the Floor Wax and Desert Topping at the same time!

  50. 50.

    JAFD

    @2liberal: There was a young lady – a few decades ago –  to whom I said

    “I’d like to be macarooned with you on a dessert island …”

  51. 51.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Dan B:

     

    Did he get to go over the Alps with the hefalumph? Asking for a friend.

    Sorry for the delay in responding. I posted and then went and did something else.

    Unfortunately no, he didn’t go along, but he did have to meet his clients so he could take measurements of their hoof sizes!

  52. 52.

    Sloane Ranger

    @cope: Apologies to you too for the delay in responding. Yes, that’s the one. I’d forgotten about the kneepads!

    Funny, I could have sworn Dad told me it happened in the 1960s, still 1959 is pretty close. I  remember being taken to see the boot in the museum when I was 6 or 7 and can still see the look of pride on Dad’s face.

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