Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Republicans do not trust women.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

People are weird.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

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

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

… gradually, and then suddenly.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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  3. 3.

    dr. bloor

    Call me old-fashioned, but I miss the part of the Third Lady’s motif when Sissy Spacek comes down the chimney and starts bleeding out of every pore on her body.

  4. 4.

    debbie

    I’d love to see side-by-side photos of the decorated rooms, just to see how much better this year’s decorations are, especially that hallway.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Something upstairs ain’t right with the man.

    The omicron variant should lead to questions about transmissibility, severity, and vaccines. Ronny Jackson went in a very different direction.
    [snip]
    In a tweet published over the weekend, Jackson wrote, “Here comes the MEV – the Midterm Election Variant! They NEED a reason to push unsolicited nationwide mail-in ballots. Democrats will do anything to CHEAT during an election – but we’re not going to let them!” Source

  8. 8.

    JoyceH

    The Post has an article about the White House Christmas decorations and for the first time in four years I could read it without getting angry or depressed. It’s nice to be able to enjoy the White House fluff stories again – what the First Lady wore to the Kennedy Center, stuff like that.

  15. 15.

    mrmoshpotato

    @schrodingers_cat:

    What were those red trees supposed to signify anyway?

    The blood of children?

    The creepy hallway definitely represented the black holes where their souls should be.

  16. 16.

    Jay

    Got my booster shot today, so Moderna, Pfizer, Pfizer.

    same issue as the first shot.

    I get to jump the queue, because my Wife is Metis, and we live together.

    I had to pull up the MOH confirmation to jump through the hoops, because, despite being front facing, old, an expendable worker, I get to jump ahead by a month through a “loophole”.

    on the down side, the Vax sites still have a lot of people unaware of the nuances,

    on the bright side, apparently that means that a bunch, or enough, people are trying still, to get vaxxed, ahead of the queue.

  17. 17.

    debbie

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    The Washington Post pointed out that per the first lady’s office: “The choice of red is an extension of the pales, or stripes found in the presidential seal designed by our Founding Fathers. It is a symbol of valor and bravery.”

    Well, that’s a mighty ridiculous explanation.

  21. 21.

    Villago Delenda Est

    ZOMG, the White House looks like Christmas, not the set of some terrible Star Wars knockoff. The crassest FLOTUS in history, a mail-order trophy wife, is gone, replaced by a normal person.

  24. 24.

    Gin & Tonic

    My WaPo digital subscription was expiring (yes, I pay them money.) I got an e-mail to renew, for $150 for the next year. I decided to cancel and see what they offer, so I went into my profile, found the “cancel my subscription” link, clicked on it and got a selection of radio buttons about my reason for canceling. I chose “too expensive”, so then they said, well, how about $9.95 for the year, is that OK? I said sure.

  26. 26.

    Mike in NC

    This time of year I often wake up in a cold sweat thinking about the Slovenian whore’s ghastly Christmas decorations.

  27. 27.

    Ohio Mom

    @Gin & Tonic: Ohio Dad does that with the local paper. Every time our introductory rate is about to expire and the bill is about to go up, he calls and says he’s cancelling and voila, the introductory rate is extended.

  28. 28.

    Al Z.

    What’s scares me most is the simultaneous realization that the White House Christmas decor is all about appealing to kids and that Barron is a likely nominee in 25 years.

  29. 29.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Gin & Tonic: I got about the same WAPO renewal rate, $9.99. But I’m on the fence because the changes I’ve seen since Marty retired are not good. I have a few more days to decide to just cancel.

    I recall a comment from last week that the offer to not cancel was $40, so readership must be dropping like flies to cut that to $10. Will they change? Eight ball says not likely.

    PS I didn’t click “too expensive” as my reason…something more like I was dissatisfied with the content.

  31. 31.

    different-church-lady

    @Sure Lurkalot:

    …the changes I’ve seen since Marty retired are not good.

    So I’m not the only one with that sense? It’s like all click bait with a thin varnish of sobriety on it there now.

  32. 32.

    Ohio Mom

    @Al Z.: Oh, do not worry about Barron going into politics. He seems a shy guy to me and besides, by that time the Trump house of cards will have long collapsed.

    You will have forgotten he exists until you see him in a “What ever happened to…” article toward the back of a People Magazine.

  33. 33.

    Betty Cracker

    @Jay: Got my booster shot (Moderna x3) this evening, and my arm is already hurting. It seems like it didn’t hurt until the next day from the previous shots, which I got earlier in the day both times. I guess that’s a good sign?

  34. 34.

    jonas

    @debbie: ​
      It is a symbol of valor and bravery

    Which are precisely values one associates with the birth of our Lord, Major General Jesus Amurikah Goddamit Christ.

  36. 36.

    Suzanne

    Someone funnier than me described Third Lady’s holiday decor as bring “from the Crate and Barrel in the Westeros Mall” and I will never forget it.

  38. 38.

    Another Scott

    Speaking of something good after something horrible, …

    Rep. Omar’s statement on her conversation with Rep. Lauren Boebert. pic.twitter.com/B5JJVijXKI

    — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) November 29, 2021

    Totally unsurprising that Omar is behaving like a sensible elected official. And Boebert is doubling down on being a vile one.

    Grrr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  40. 40.

    Suzanne

    @Mike in NC:

    This time of year I often wake up in a cold sweat thinking about the Slovenian whore’s ghastly Christmas decorations. 

    Hey. Sex work is real work. She fucked Orange for free.

  41. 41.

    jonas

    @dmsilev: ​
     

    Especially when the kids would come into the East Room and see the Pale Man at the end of a long table of succulent treats and then one little guy couldn’t resist and would eat a grape and then the Pale Man would start staggering after them with their ghoulish hand-eyes but then pull off their mask and it would be Melania in a costume laughing maniacally. Good times.

    Oh, wait. That’s how they trained Barron not to snack after 9pm. He’ll turn out fine, I’m sure.

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    one of the laugh out loud funny parts of Mary Trump’s book, to me anyway, was the Christmas gifts her uncle gave her

    As Mary tells it, Donald and his then-wife Ivana were not shy about recycling presents around Christmastime. In 1977, during their first holiday season as a married couple, they allegedly gave Mary’s brother a journal that was two years out of date. (Mary, who says she got a $12 three-pack of Bloomie’s underwear, “felt a bit slighted” by the leather-bound journal until she realized it was… expired.)
    Mary writes that Donald and Ivana gave her a snack-filled gift basket of sorts encased in a gold lamé high heel. (When Donald saw Mary with it, she says, he didn’t even recognize it, and asked what it was.) Mary says she noticed one item was missing; her cousin David Desmond, Maryanne Trump Barry’s son, surmised it was “probably caviar.”
    Mary also remembers her mother getting regifted presents. “A handbag she got from Ivana one year bore a luxury brand but contained a used Kleenex,” she wrote.

  48. 48.

    JoyceH

    @Ohio Mom: ​
     

    You will have forgotten he exists until you see him in a “What ever happened to…” article toward the back of a People Magazine.

    At which point we’ll learn that Barron lives off the grid in upstate New Hampshire, where he raises goats and chickens. He also paints.

  50. 50.

    Kropacetic

    No lie, I actually kind of like Melania’s Christmas setup with the dark bare branches lit from underneath.

    It’s not warm, but it’s aesthetically pleasing.

  53. 53.

    JoyceH

    @Ken: “Bother”? That’s like saying nobody will knit socks anymore – why would you spend up to ten bucks on the yarn and spend a couple weeks knitting socks when you can get a six-pack of pairs at the store for what you paid for the yarn. And yet…

  54. 54.

    Jay

    @debbie:

    regrifting is fine, as long as it is something they want, will use, and isn’t used.

    I both flyfish and use tools. Lost track of how many fishing/tool themed crap I got, over the years. sweater, really?????? Tie??????

    No 96 tooth fine blade recut 10” saw blade?

    no box of 100 namagichi #16 2x long shank hooks?

  56. 56.

    Red Cedar

    @Gin & Tonic: You just saved me 90 bucks! My subscription was set to renew at $99/year in January, but I followed your instructions and voila! The renewal will now cost me 9.95. Thank you!!

  57. 57.

    JoyceH

    @Jay: Alpaca AND goats. He’s into Fiber. Also his small batch goat cheese is highly prized among those in the know. On some weekends you’ll find him at the local watering hole playing washtub bass with a jug band.

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