Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

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

Motown is Joe-Town!

No Justins, No Peace

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

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    Are we sure that he didn’t hire Doug?   The poo post is priceless, btw

    This is Fetterman’s response to Oz’s tweet about poop.    link

  4. 4.

    Ben Cisco

    Indeed he is one with the troll-fu, and the troll-fu is one with him.

    Also, he’s been blessed with an absolutely ridiculous opponent.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    John, I think this is along the lines of wearing a hat or wearing a bikini.

    You have to be able to WEAR IT.  If you’re constantly tugging at your bikini, it is not the look you want, it doesn’t work for you.

    If you’re going to be a person who always wears a hat, that’s your thing, you have to be able to pull it off.  You have to be able to WEAR IT.  Own it.

    So this kind of stuff from a ton of people would not be authentic, and authenticity is one of Fetterman’ big things.

    Let Bartlett be Bartlett.

  8. 8.

    Suzanne

    Fetterman’s campaign also posted a hilarious picture of a table with an array of raw veggies on Facebook today.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: Ha!  With “America First” and the poop reference, at least he didn’t say anything about “#2”, or even “#1”.

    Oz is like a 5-year old trying to play varsity sports.  Oz is totally out of his league and it appears that he doesn’t know it.

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    @WaterGirl: He reused URLs from his scam-health-remedy operation for his campaign. So, a lot of old scam-health Tweets now have an embedded Oz For Senate graphic…

  15. 15.

    Dan B

    @WaterGirl: John Fetterman.

    Is he America’s Zelensky or our Patron?  More at eleven.

     

     

    I believe there’s more than a touch of George Carlin and DougJ in the mix.

  17. 17.

    Dan B

    @Dan B: There’s more than a touch of Leslie Jones and The Rock in the mix.  Could you imagine Leslie Jones and Fetterman together on camera.  It would be BIG!  HUGE?!

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl: This is true.  One size fit all solutions don’t work.  This works for Fetterman in PA.  No guarantee that other people in other locations could do it as successfully.

  21. 21.

    HinTN

    @Omnes Omnibus: Fetterman couldn’t pull it off if he didn’t naturally prefer to present as he does.

    “Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform and don’t you forget it. ”

    – Frank Zappa

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: One more “this one weird trick”.

    I DO think it’s good that we have some outspoken candidates that this works for, and it’s getting attention.

    Maybe it’s like parsley or *cilantro – it’s not supposed to be the main course, but it’s a great accent that makes the whole thing better.

    *including cilantro for the people who don’t think it tastes like soap. I personally hate cilantro.

  24. 24.

    RaflW

    @WaterGirl: Apparently Meh (“Can I call you Meh? Mehmet seems so formal”) did a segment on his old show where the audience all brought urine samples and he had them sniff ’em.

    I stopped watching the clip as soon as I realized what was happening. Life is too short for that nonsense.

  34. 34.

    JPL

    The Costco in Alpharetta, GA has gas at 3.19, so I think the right’s complaint about inflation is going to flatten.   As far as the border, I think Biden should go down thank Border Patrol for their good work in catching all the terrorists and drug dealers.

  39. 39.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Starfish:

    Hahaha! Love it!

    I still want to know what Oz meant when he said he owned two legitimate houses (or legitimately owned two houses). I still can’t figure out what that means.

  42. 42.

    Wombat Probability Cloud

    @RaflW: As long as we’re on the subject, a couple of weeks ago I was walking the dog on a rural road in the western Michigan U.P. At the roadside was a black nylon satchel. I opened it, thinking perhaps one of my neighbors lost if off the back of a pickup or bike. Inside were three bottles of sports drink, and a packet of “X-stream” synthetic urine.* WTH? I immediately began concocting story lines: A Trumpy neighbor with unexpected kinks, a local who has to take to the back roads for privacy, a prospective employee who needs to beat a drug test, or a way to repel animals (though the hunters here would be trying to do the opposite)? A few days later, a mower came along and chopped up the unclaimed pack: An unsolved mystery.

    *I didn’t know this was a thing until I Googled it. (Maybe I’ve led too sheltered of a life.) An alternative with an even more ingenious name was “Urine Luck.”

  47. 47.

    Ken

    @different-church-lady: I’m learning so much I didn’t want to today!

    And just a day or two ago, we* were talking about parasitic worms in the brain. Sometimes we’re too much of a full-service blog.

    * By “we” I mean a couple of people were posting links to pictures, saying “you really don’t want to look at this”. So I didn’t.

  50. 50.

    Feathers

    @SiubhanDuinne: There are people who buy fancy houses at fancy locations around the world and rent them out for the 50 some odd weeks they aren’t there. There are, of course, usually tax advantages to doing this, espionage* if you can show a paper loss.

    *especially, but I’m learning the weirdo autocorrect in.

  58. 58.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: Last winter Republicans were talking like there would be a big red wave in the midterms, and I guess they believed this. I think candidates like Oz and Vance thought that winning  their primaries would be the hard part, that then they could just cruise to victory in November. Now they realize they have to campaign and they don’t know how.

    Sad!

  62. 62.

    Steeplejack

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Actually, a long-standing joke between me and my brother is that when I was talking once about how to describe my varied and checkered work history he said I should just tell nosy people that I had a long career as a “legitimate businessman,” that being the phrase that shows up in every news story about any “reputed mob boss.”

  65. 65.

    Steeplejack

    @WaterGirl:

    I like Waffle. I picked it up a few weeks ago, maybe after schrodingers_cat mentioned it. For some reason it does make me more nervous than Wordle.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack: i have wondered but never looked into it.  In these games, do we all get the same words on the same days?  Surely not, right?

    Because some asshole could just always post the answer somewhere and ruin it for everyone.  Not that anyone here would do that.

    Never mind, I just googled.  How is it that no one ruins it for everyone?  That is mind boggling

    edit: Maybe it’s like all the passengers on Amtrak are really nice.  Pre-Covid, at least, people share food and watch people’s kids and all sorts of stuff on the train.  Like camping, too, when I used to camp.  It always seemed like people were good and kind.  Maybe people who like games are like that, too?

  68. 68.

    Dark Steep

    @WaterGirl:

    Wordle is definitely the same word for everybody. I don’t know about Waffle, but I suspect it is the same. I usually do Wordle after midnight or early in the morning, so I’m fairly spoiler-proof.

    Wordle does make it easy to share your results without spoilage, e.g.:

    Wordle 427 Saturday

    🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    ETA: Oops, forgot to change my nym back.

  71. 71.

    Dark Steep

    @Anyway:

    Thanks for the confirmation.

    I’d really like to find an “unlimited Waffle” site, because, like Wordle, it’s kind of addictive. (See Word Master for Wordle.)

    ETA: Damn it, keep forgetting to change my nym back.

  73. 73.

    Steeplejack

    @TEL:

    I usually start with raise or arise, followed by cloud or pious, if the first one doesn’t yield much. I like to get my vowels sorted! Since it’s close to midnight, I will risk spoilage and reveal that today I went:

    ARISE

    TREAD

    TREAT

  77. 77.

    Mai Naem mobile

    Oz has to be counting down the days till the election is done. It’s got to be so embarrassing for somebody who’s probably normally feted by everybody he meets. It’s even worse than Jeb ‘please clap now’ Bush’s ’16 campaign.

  80. 80.

    Steeplejack

    @James E Powell:

    You could’ve nailed it in two!

    Sunday was a bear for me. I’m sure you recognize the pattern.

    Wordle 428 Sunday

    ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Whew!

  81. 81.

    The Quiet One

    @WaterGirl: A friend was posting witty clues to the answers daily on his social media. ” Boy that was a close call ” if the answer was phone for example. His daughter even told him to knock it off!! Don’t mess with peoples games!!!

  82. 82.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack: That used to happen to me until I figured out that once I got down to one MIA letter, I could make a list of all the letters that could complete that word and then form any word that could use 3-4 of those letters, and I start with that..  It either tells me the correct letter or at least narrows it down so I don’t just have to play the odds re: which are the more common letters.

  84. 84.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    “Oz is like a 5-year old trying to play varsity sports.  Oz is totally out of his league and it appears that he doesn’t know it.”

    He’s told himself that he’s so great for so long that he actually believes it. A problem for (a lot of) conservative assholes – they believe their own bullshit. Which of course is a huge part of being a successful bullshitter, believing their own bullshit. They say it so often it becomes the only thing they hear.

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