Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

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

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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

He really is that stupid.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Everybody saw this coming.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

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

Let’s finish the job.

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

In my day, never was longer.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

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President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Successful Counterterrorism Operation

President Bident (LIVE) 7:30 PM

Let’s listen to the President:

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  4. 4.

    Ihop

    Time for a little poetic license misquoting of bette Davis.

    But I know its unfair not to say something good about al-zawahiri.

     

    So, Ayman is dead.

     

    Good.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    President Biden:

    We left Afghanistan.

    I told you we will, can and will always make good on the pledge to address threats even after leaving Afghanistan.

    We just did that.  I told you so.

  13. 13.

    bbleh

    So who wants to play right-wing excuses bingo?  On my board:
    — He looked old and tired
    — It was Trump’s plan and he just executed it
    — Fake news
    — We have to see the long-form death certificate
    — Just an attempt to distract from Hunter Biden

  17. 17.

    Almost Retired

    @bbleh:  How about “al-Zawahiri wouldn’t have taken refuge in Afghanistan if Trump had been re-elected.”  Which is true.  He would been at the eighteenth hole at Bedford last weekend cheering on Phil Mickelson.

  18. 18.

    SpaceUnit

    Biden needs to be focused on inflation, not rehashing some old forgotten dust-up that happened more than twenty years ago.

    Clearly he’s trapped in the past.  Sad.

  26. 26.

    Ruckus

    @mrmoshpotato:

    I agree. And disagree.

    SFB makes that entire thing. A human talking. A human watching. And then a complete asswipe making a complete ass of himself. It’s not good but it is necessary every once in a while to be actually reminded of how absolutely bad he is, as president, and even as a human being. He is  as classless, ignorant, obnoxious, horrifying, ill mannered, and fucking useless as we all know he is, but it’s good to actually be reminded of that on occasion, so that we don’t have to reflect upon detesting him as much as we do.

  28. 28.

    Elizabelle

    @bbleh:   I don’t.

    Let’s celebrate we have a good president.  All the “let’s go the rightwing media one better” and “we can’t win for losing” here is tiring.

    Fuck ’em.

  34. 34.

    James E Powell

    Finish the following headline:  Biden may have killed the man who planned the murder of Americans, but in this Ohio diner . . .

  36. 36.

    Steve in the ATL

    President … Delivers Remarks on the Successful Counterterrorism Operation

    Has any Republican president in recent memory been able to say this? I think not.

  38. 38.

    Ken

    @bbleh:

    — He looked old and tired
    — It was Trump’s plan and he just executed it
    — Fake news
    — We have to see the long-form death certificate
    — Just an attempt to distract from Hunter Biden

    I’m sorry, the contest rules specified original. The judges can’t accept right-wing excuses that were used at the time of bin Laden’s death, or differ only by substitution of a proper name.

  41. 41.

    prostratedragon

    @Ruckus: ​ Huh. I think everyone gets something different, and they haven’t quite figured me out yet. Will check this out, though.

  43. 43.

    Ken

    @Steve in the ATL: Has any Republican president in recent memory been able to say this?

    Only definitionally, like when Bush said he wasn’t that interested in bin Laden any more. Violà, no more terrorist.

    I’m also trying to remember what TFG said when those US soldiers in Iraq who were bombed. Something like, most of them just got a little headache? Violà, no more terrorist attack.

  45. 45.

    Damned at Random

    The patriots at Breitbart say it’s a hoax if they don’t show the body. After a drone strike. Someone needs to produce a picture of a big pile of ground beef with a keffiyeh on top.

  47. 47.

    David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    Tale of the Tape

    McRaven chatted with the Post about the raid, noting that when it came time to ID bin Laden’s body, he had a young Navy SEAL lie down next to the remains so he could estimate the deceased’s height. McRaven said when he relayed that anecdote to Obama via a videoconference, the president paused for a moment, then said: “OK, Bill, let me get this straight. We had $65 million for a helicopter [to raid the compound] and you didn’t have $10 for a tape measure?”

    Obama later gifted McRaven a tape measure. (photo)​

  51. 51.

    Suzanne

    @Damned at Random:

    The patriots at Breitbart say it’s a hoax if they don’t show the body. After a drone strike. 

    I have some hummus in my fridge. That’s probably about right.

  52. 52.

    Mike in NC

    It seems like only yesterday that Trump was planning to invite Taliban leaders to Camp David to watch the Super Bowl and eat BBQ pork sandwiches.

  54. 54.

    Suzanne

    Some utter dumbfuck Breitbart commenter (but I repeat myself) posits that al-Zawahiri was killed by his Covid vaccine.

    LOLOLOLOLOOOOLLLLLLBWAHAHAHAAA.

  56. 56.

    Roger Moore

    @David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:

    the president paused for a moment, then said: “OK, Bill, let me get this straight. We had $65 million for a helicopter [to raid the compound] and you didn’t have $10 for a tape measure?”

    Wow.  This is exactly the kind of thing I can imagine Obama saying, so easily I can even hear it in his voice and with his vocal mannerisms.

  60. 60.

    eddie blake

    nbc white house correspondent kristen welker on msnbc hammering biden over the “botched withdrawl from afghanistan that was so widely criticized.”

    13 dead.
    130,000 saved.

    wtf is wrong with these people?

  61. 61.

    Jay

    @Baud:

    one of the resentments post invasion of Afghanistan, was how the flood of money and corruption impacted the cities. Warlords and others, by hook or by crook, kicked people out of their homes to seize prime real estate, then built gated McMansions.

    With the Talib takeover, I am quite certain that many were repurposed. 7 bedrooms, 4 baths, 12 foot blast proof fencing, gardens, AC and a swimming pool trumps, sure beats a dirt compound with goats.

  62. 62.

    Kay

    The numbers are in and it’s official: The attack on Democratic Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow backfired.
    The Michigan Republican state senator who falsely described McMorrow as a “groomer” in an April fundraising email raised less than $300 in the days following the solicitation, according to campaign finance filings. McMorrow, on the other hand, raised more than $1 million.

    There are more of us.

  63. 63.

    Kay

    who falsely described McMorrow as a “groomer”

    Because people think that- they naturally assumed she was a “groomer”, whatever “groomer” means now.
    They’re all such absolute chickens the way they write these stories. Terrified of the mighty wrath of the 100 donors to the “Michigan Republican”.

  64. 64.

    Kay

    Three paragraphs in before they identify the Republican. They’re afraid of them.

    In the fundraising email, Michigan State Sen. Lana Theis of Brighton said colleagues like McMorrow were “outraged” that they couldn’t “groom and sexualize kindergartners.”

    That would be LANA THEIS of Brighton, you know, in case you would like to know her name so you can vote against her.

  65. 65.

    RaflW

    I’m blocked (yay!) so I won’t bother to look to see how angry Ben Domenech is over another ‘murdered brown person’ ‘across the world.’

  66. 66.

    Geminid

    The AP story on the strike on Al Zawahiri has a “senior official” saying that a ground team was in Afghanistan to support the operation but is now out of the country.

  67. 67.

    RaflW

    @eddie blake: “wtf is wrong with these people?”

    The damnably smartest thing the right wing did in this country was to seemingly permanently (despite the existence of Fox, Newsmax, WSJ etc) tar “the media” with the liberal bias slander.

    How do all these print and TV reporters show that they aren’t biased? Praise Rs for the most trivial, ephemeral nothings, and bash Dems to show that they’re ‘hard on politicians’.

    I don’t know how that chicken ever gets unfk’d.

  69. 69.

    eversor

    @Geminid:

     

    This is the usual case in these sorts of things.

     

    @RaflW:

     

    The issue is Christianity.  Until that is addressed there is no point in votes or protests.  Christianity has been the heart of all our issues and the leading voice in anti progress.  So until we are willing to sit down and deal with this monster of a religion all other efforts beyond pointless.

    If the Democratic party is not willing to go after religious liberty which is the weapon of Christianity with full force, make Christianity as bad of a public stigma as a child rapist, then it is not fighting.

    Claiming there are good Christians is as insane as saying there are good Trumpers and good Republicans.  Sure they do exist, but their existance and refusal to hate, condem, and demand sanction against the cult just empowers it.

    So pick?  Are you with humanity, are you a Trumper, or are you something worse, a Christian.

    Wake up to the war you are actually in, it’s a religious one.

  70. 70.

    livewyre

    @eversor: There are those who benefit from the notion of splitting off religious groups from the Democratic Party, such as churches where voter registration and other acts of enfranchisement are organized, especially along racial lines. It’s not my place to pass judgment on whether you’re among them. Just noting for the record.

  71. 71.

    ColoradoGuy

    @eversor: There are big parts of the Democratic coalition that are critically reliant on churches … for example, in the Black community. These same churches were an essential part of the Civil Rights movement, are still the center of their community, and the Democrats would be insane to reject them and their parishioners. In many respects, this is the base of the Party. And there are churches that have served LGBTQ community for decades, particularly during the AIDS pandemic of the Eighties.

    Our beef is with the corrupt “prosperity” churches that worship T****, which from a mainstream theological viewpoint is not just heresy, but blasphemy. The social-justice churches call out the racism that animates the T**** cult, and organize their communities to fight against it. These churches are some of our strongest allies.

    We are fighting an internet-driven cult thousands of times more dangerous than the Jim Jones cult, or Scientology. We need all the allies we can get. I welcome the Black, LGBTQ, and social-justice churches. These are our people.

  72. 72.

    evodevo

    @ColoradoGuy: And the only way to retaliate against the right winger political organizations masquerading as churches would be to take away their 501c3 tax exemption, which, given the fascist propensities of the Republican Party, would be also applied to any churches who are traditional Dem allies in a NY minute, if they regain power.  So, we need to be careful what we wish for.  Exposing them and their agenda in the public media square, repeatedly, is a way forward, if only the heretofore compromised MSM can be persuaded to cooperate…

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