Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

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Friday Evening Open Thread: Our (President) Joe Meets BoJo

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After all the ‘two bros together’ japery between Johnson & TFG over the last few years, it might’ve been considered unseemly for him to scramble like this…

But maybe (I’m told the British upper classes are sensitive about some things) he was just embarrassed he’d undercalculated on the traditional goodwill gift exchange:


Not quite Wikipedia-printout bad, apparently, but hardly in the same category as a custom bike…

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  1. 1.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    You know TFG is stewing in impotent rage over what BoJo said about Biden and I’m totally here for it.

  5. 5.

    Catherine D.

    Haha, BoJo was outclassed by an Irish American Catlick. My ancestors are pleased.

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    Heh, let’s revel in BoJo trying to have it boff ways. Even I can see through it and I didn’t go to sodding Eaton.

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    Speaking of old men, my dad did that adorable old person thing of writing his entire email to me in the subject line. Thankfully it was only a few sentences. Made me laugh a little…..

    Oh and BoJo is still a douche.

  9. 9.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    That’s pretty damned cute.

    On a nice Friday note, my guitar lessons are yielding fruit. My strumming snow include Midnight Rider (Allman Bros.), Long Haired Country Boy (Charlie Daniels – I know, but love the older tunes), Pink Houses (Mellencamp), Night Moves (Seger).

    I’m guessing I’m about two months from springing for an electric, for fun.

  12. 12.

    Tony Jay

    @Chetan Murthy: 

    Surrounded by actual politicians with allies and influence who don’t give a single, solitary fuckoid what the mighty muses of the British Media say about them, the Bumbling Bunter of Bullingdon South does what he always (All – fucking – Ways) does when in a ‘situation’. He lies. He blathers. He spaffs out meaningless soundbites and he looks for the nearest camera with which to immortalise his moment of ‘getting away with it’.

    He’ll say whatever the person he’s talking to wants to hear. Then he’ll forget he said it, and if it’s ever brought up again he’ll claim he never said it and/or he actually said whatever the person he’s currently talking to wants to hear.

    Only works if your national media goes along with the narrative. Doesn’t apply when in violation of binding international treaties.

    Witness! Witness the virile leader! Look at him dance.

    I hate these fucking people.

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses! Just unreal. So much worse than Watergate. Nixon was a piker compared to the Trump crime family. https://t.co/WiVck0MVkx— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 11, 2021

    “Happy New Year’s Eve 2121! More crimes uncovered from over 100 years ago! That Soviet shitpile mobster crime family with the orange-faced, fascist traitor was busy fucking this country!”

  18. 18.

    Roger Moore

    @Alison Rose:

    I’m glad my parents aren’t like that.  My dad worked in tech and has been using computers since the days of punch cards. He bought my family a home computer back in the days when they came from companies like Commodore and Radio Shack.  My parents have both been using email since the days of text only, so they know old-fashioned etiquette, like interspersing quoted and and replying text so you can see what they’re responding to.

  19. 19.

    Minstrel Michael

    @StringOnAStick: That’s probably because the electric (for the same price as the acoustic) has lighter gauge strings. Put an .009 high E set on your acoustic and that’ll be easier too, but quieter.

    Not valid on classical guitars with nylon strings!

  20. 20.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tony Jay: Needless to add:  If/when you can stand to write about this New! Atlantic! Compact!… I’ll be very happy to front-page your comments.

    (You have my email.)

  21. 21.

    RandomMonster

    I was going to ask What does Tony Jay have to say about this?! Huh?! EH?! But then I see he said it, soooo…never mind.

  25. 25.

    VeniceRiley

    @Tony Jay: He’s going to magically deflate the minute they’re all off – when he has to announce the lockdown is extended a month because he wanted to play big cheese for Modi.

  28. 28.

    Ken

    @Anne Laurie: this New! Atlantic! Compact!

    JOHNSON: So, about my idea for a New Atlantic Compact —

    BIDEN: How are the Good Friday Accords holding up?

  33. 33.

    Tony Jay

    @VeniceRiley:

    But that’s bad news, and something he said he’d never, ever do.

    He’ll get Health Secretary Hancock to do it. That seeping gut-wound with legs is getting dumped at the next Cabinet reshuffle anyway.

  34. 34.

    Tony Jay

    @Roger Moore:

    Give me enough craft ale and I can explain anything. A case of Bishop’s Finger and I can satisfactorily explain the strategy being employed by Manchin*.

     

    * Not Sinema, though. That takes crack/meth cocktail level famous last words booly-sheet.

  35. 35.

    NotMax

    @Tony Jay

    “I once tried drowning my sorrows, till I found out they could swim.”
    – Peter De Vries, The Vale of Laughter
    ;)

  36. 36.

    Skepticat

    @NotMax: I hadn’t heard that, and I have a number of friends who live in London. What an incredible tragedy. If only borders could stop hate …

    I’m more concerned about what BoJo has to say than about the pro forma gifts. So far it’s good, and I hope it stays.

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Roger Moore: RFC822 for the win! None of this fancy HTML stuff.

    And now I grind my teeth when somebody says “text me a picture of that.”

  40. 40.

    Just Chuck

    @Roger Moore:

    My parents have both been using email since the days of text only, so they know old-fashioned etiquette, like interspersing quoted and and replying text so you can see what they’re responding to.

    I remember that style, used to use it, but not anymore.  Personally I can’t stand that style when it’s applied to individual sentences or otherwise that “point for point” style.  It looks and feels exactly like interruption, and I prefer thoughts that are composed of whole paragraphs on each speaker’s part.  This might also explain my antipathy toward Twitter.

  41. 41.

    Amir Khalid

    @Minstrel Michael:

    Actually, StringOnAStick was talking about the action: how far the strings sit above the fretboard. Electric guitars typically have a much lower action than acoustics — it’s less work to push the strings down to the fretboard. That and the typically lighter-gauge electric-guitar strings can make electrics easier and more fun to play.

  45. 45.

    Searcher

    @Major Major Major Major: You can only like 80% ignore the existence of other players in Fallout 76.

    So if that’s ignoring-enough or if you actually like interacting with randos on the internet it’s as good as any other Fallout.

  47. 47.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Searcher: You’d be forgiven for thinking I hate all strangers on the internet if you only know me from this blog :P
    Actually it looks like it’s free to play this weekend on Steam. What an interesting promotion. No time like the present to give it a shot!​ Looks like the fixed the most awful bits.

  48. 48.

    sab

    Our new cat adopted from my granddaughter is scary. He is only two weeks here, so I suppose we can give him time. He is okay with the two dogs (mutual caution.) He seems to be getting along okay with the other five cats. He just hates amd fears humans.

    Nighttime is wildly active, with all the cats awake and interacting. He has a weird trilling yowl, kind of like the maine coon cat does, but at siamese volume.

    I tried to get friendly a week ago. He was willing to sniff my hand. He let me scratch his head for a second, then I jumped back when the claws came out, so he missed that then bit me on the ankle on my way up the basement stairs. My husband was less lucky. Cats usually love him, so husband was counting on his cat charisma. The cat got a full five claw slash to the bone in on husband’s hand.

    Cat comes to the basement stairs and looks up at us winsomely. He is so cute and so small, with big round eyes.

    My favorite cat (who beat up rottweilers) sleeps on the bedroom chair now so he can keep an eye on the stairs and new guy at night.

    I cannot believe I am being protected in my sleep by a fifteen pound cat.

    I am back to calling the meankitty Shadow. She was an amateur at meankittiness. She is quite friendly now. Busy protecting the husband, so no time to be jealous of me

    ETA: Shadow loves the new pitbull. She was desolated when the rottmix died. She shows signs of being as close to the pitbull as she was to the rottmix. They rub noses a lot. Very cute.

  52. 52.

    Lyrebird

    @Another Scott: ​
     

    Good line! But they didn’t need an altered photograph. I’m a lousy judge of fashion, but if you look at some of the photos of the leaders, , there’s only one wearing a suit that doesn’t fit.

    Sad! Esp because I bet there are some pretty excellent tailors in London. Anyhow, I agree with Joy Reid , people at G7 look happy and relaxed, like “whew, we get to do this without that dangerous b–tard here!”

  55. 55.

    Matt

    we are closely watching the persecution of people involved in storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021

    If he’s so worried about ’em, he can HAVE ’em. Seize all their assets, cancel their passports, and dump them on the tarmac in Moscow.

  56. 56.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    @Matt: lavrov is wirried about the roi for russian intelligence.

    who do you think paid for jake angeli’s pre-insurrection all natural foods diet?

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