Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

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

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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  1. 1.

    The Dangerman

    Has TFG’s official portrait been reviled yet? Maybe it should be of him on the can, head resting on fist, kinda like The Thinker. Other hand would be tearing up papers.

  5. 5.

    Sebastian

    Welp. I’ve been permanently suspended from Twitter for wishing an asshole to experience the same treatment Elon gave those poor monkeys.

  7. 7.

    Jerzy Russian

    Can someone nearby Ronny Jackson give him a knee to the groin?  Ideally, you would step on his foot with your own left foot and use your right knee to finish the job.  However, given the circumstances, you can use your own discretion in this matter.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Sebastian:

    Welp. I’ve been permanently suspended from Twitter for wishing an asshole to experience the same treatment Elon gave those poor monkeys.

    Wait a year, ask to be unbanned.

  19. 19.

    Sebastian

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I know haha

    But seriously, there are thousands of people who are COMPLETELY disconnected from reality. It’s frightening.

    Elon Musk has created a dangerous cult and he obviously a raging narcissist and built a fake success persona, much better than Trump. His fans are no less dangerous than Trump’s and they are of course rabidly racist, too.

    My only hope is that Elon’s stock manipulations are coming back to haunt him and will take him out for good but I am still worried.

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    @Sebastian:

    Welcome to the club…

    We don’t have hats or anything like that but really it isn’t important enough for that anyway, it is just twitter….

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    @Starboard Tack:

    His pile is much, much bigger, stinkier, nastier and he’s an automatic shit dispenser, which is handy for him because that’s what he was trained to do, sort of like the circus monkey that flings his shit. Only far more vile.

  25. 25.

    Ruckus

    @Jerzy Russian:

    We could get their mascot to do the kneeing. I’d imagine that being hit in the nutsack by an elephant’s knee might be a tad harsh, but when someone really, really deserves it…..

  27. 27.

    Leslie

    FYI to game players: Wordle has spawned some similar games, all of which may have already been posted in various threads, but just in case:

    -Nerdle, for equations (perforce very simple ones);

    -Globle, for geography; and

    -Quordle, my new favorite, which works like Wordle but lets you /makes you solve four words simultaneously.

  29. 29.

    Viva BrisVegas

    If we are looking for a fish metaphor for Trump, lamprey would be much better fit than the noble Great White Shark.

    The lamprey latches onto other fish and bores into them with its rasping teeth, eventually eviscerating them. It can also produce unlimited quantities of slime to confuse and entangle its enemies.

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Starboard Tack:

    The world is covered by a thin film of excrement. I think Trump’s going to leave something similar. 

    Haha, eww.  Time to go back to wearing gloves outside and immediately washing my hands went I get home.

  31. 31.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Sebastian:

    Did anyone make a comprehensive list of weird statements like the toilet flushing? All of them are admissions of crimes. 

    The mental toll that would take…

    On a related note, bless Daniel Dale.

  33. 33.

    Cermet

    @Sebastian: LOL; me, the WashPoo for telling people to go back to their mother’s basement. Yup – that’ll get you banned from that rag

    I should add that the people I crossed the line with where telling others to ignore safe guards and vaccination – i.e. killing people but that’s A-OK for that rag.

  34. 34.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @Ruckus: well, now I don’t feel so bad.  Looks like I’m just another Jackal, which puts me in very good company, n’cest pas?

  36. 36.

    lowtechcyclist

    I’ve been on Twitter for five years or so now, but I almost never get into arguments there, despite being a somewhat argumentative sort of person.

    But I use Twitter in what I’d guess is a rather unconventional way.  I never even look at my own timeline there.  There are a handful of people I follow, and I read *their* timelines and occasionally toss in a comment if I feel I have something worthwhile to contribute.

    Occasionally I’ll see in my notifications that someone has taken issue with something I’ve said, but after one or two back-and-forths with them, it’s either turned into a genuine discussion or I’ve decided there isn’t likely to be a meeting of the minds, and walk away and let them have the last word.

    Part of it is the format: you can only explain your position but so much in 280 characters, so debate there is just too fucking tedious.

  37. 37.

    Chris Johnson

    @Chetan Murthy: This. Much like Facebook, it’s important to realize that Twitter is just voluntarily hooking yourself up to every propagandist and bad actor, on purpose.

    They’ve got the money to saturate you with all the bullshit in the world: you are volunteering to be poisoned, informationally. Getting banned off Twitter is not so much a sign that you’re doing something right, as it is just DOING something right. Stay off, there is no good to be had there.

  38. 38.

    prostratedragon

    @Viva BrisVegas: That works. The lamprey I had in HS biology lab was far, far more repulsive than the little shark in college. Really had to steel yourself to examine the thing.

  40. 40.

    barbequebob

    @prostratedragon:

    The title Pilot Fish is confusing, because a Pilot Fish is a fish that hangs around sharks and eats food scraps and ectoparsites off the shark. To be honest, I thought a pilot fish and remora (aka sharksucker) were the same thing, but apparently they are not. I think the artist may be attempting to portray Trump as a parasite or scavenger, but is confused about fish species and their names.

  42. 42.

    Ella in New Mexico

    The MMSE (Mini Mental State Exam) for Dementia is easy for someone to pass who is of average intelligence, even if impaired. That’s why it’s not the testing used to diagnose dementia, it’s barely a screening exam.

    So I gave the “Very Hard 30 Question Test” to an elderly woman the other day because her family is concerned she’s got dementia.

    She passed the test with flying colors.

    Yesterday the daughter called me to say the police contacted her because she tried to drive to the church 3 blocks from her house like she’s done for 40 years and she ended up getting lost. Also, they found her daily medication pill pack had the entire bottle of each medication put by day: Monday it was lisinopril, Tuesday it was her thyroid medicine, Wednesday it was her metformin….She clearly can’t be left alone anymore but if you chatted with her you’d think her family was nuts.

    That test is practically worthless for all but the most severely impaired: who are already obviously having cognitive problems. Ronny knows it which is why he can blather on about how Trump aced it and not have to technically feel like he’s fucking lying to the whole country–AGAIN.

  43. 43.

    dyspeptic

    the Right wing Wurlitzer is going all in on the non-competence thing. Every er and um from Biden will be on FOX. i am not sure what the strategy out of the White House will be but they better have one

  44. 44.

    Nora

    @dyspeptic:  I suppose it would be a waste of time to remind people that Biden had (has?) a stutter and the ums and ers are the way stutterers are trained to deal with the issue.  I mean, the Faux News people are perfectly okay with mocking people who have handicaps, but it might be worthwhile reminding people that these guys are picking on someone for a handicap, and that’s pretty scummy.

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