Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

So many bastards, so little time.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

We will not go back.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Everybody saw this coming.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

He really is that stupid.

You are here: Home / Open Threads / Late Night Respite Open Thread: Animal Urges

Late Night Respite Open Thread: Animal Urges

by | 20 Comments

This post is in: , ,

Cherish joy!


Cat response:

Reader Interactions

20Comments

  1. 1.

    Origuy

    I think Bella is the same dog that was on the American Rescue Dog Show that Rob Riggle and Joe Tessitore hosted. They had categories like Best Snore and Best Couch Potato. It was adorable. You can still watch it on Hulu, I think.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    It’s like when you leave a big box out on the savanna, and some cheetah crawls into it.

  3. 3.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Just from reading the last few threads here on BJ, I’m discovering some disturbing things. How can it be that races for the NY governor, Oregon governor, WA Senate Seat, etc are apparently so damn close according to the polling? What has gone so catastrophically wrong? This feels like fucking 2016 all over again, except even worse. Republicans are making inroads where they absolutely should not be. And what about the effect of Dobbs?

    What am I missing here?

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    1. Calm down. Take a deep breath. Focus on what you can do: encouraging everyone you know to vote, and casting your own vote.

    2. Calm down. Take another deep breath, and remember this is a respite thread.

    ;

  6. 6.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Anne Laurie:

    @Amir Khalid:

    Thanks for your kind words of encouragement. I do try to keep all of this in mind, but what commenter Eolirin from that thread, a normally optimistic commenter, said really stuck with me. I can’t really come up with any counterarguments

  12. 12.

    RaflW

    Good (late) morning from Athens (GR)! Heading home, though I wondered why on a ferry boat yesterday when it was 72°, sunny and we’d been swimming in the Aegean earlier in the day. It’s been a lovely break from American ‘reality.’

    Back to it. Soon. Ah, well.

  14. 14.

    Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg

    @RaflW:

    The Athens lounge for AA is pretty decent. And if you’re routing back via Madrid, that one’s freakin beautiful.

  17. 17.

    J R in WV

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ​
     

    How can it be that races for the NY governor, Oregon governor, WA Senate Seat, etc are apparently so damn close according to the polling? What has gone so catastrophically wrong? This feels like fucking 2016 all over again, except even worse. Republicans are making inroads where they absolutely should not be. And what about the effect of Dobbs?

    What am I missing here?

    We’ve been here so many times already. The polling is p=bought and paid for by fascist republican owners, and so gives those people the answers they have paid for: “You Masters of the Universe are beloved and will win everything!!”

    You need to quit looking at spurious results and chill out, both at home and on the web. I am so tired of your panic attack posting. Please give it a rest.

    When it is safe again for you to come out and play with the grownups I’ll take you back out of my pie safe.

    Now go lie down and take a nap, you will feel better with a rest.

  19. 19.

    craigie

    That’s quite a backyard to leave your squeaky toy in. Should check to make sure there are no lost tiaras out there.

  20. 20.

    StringOnAStick

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The Oregon governor race issue is because the very blue dog dem who lost the primary is running as an independent, and Mr. Nike, the richest guy in the state, gave her a bunch of money to do so.  After that happened, he started dumping money into the coffers of the R candidate.  The purpose of the blue dog is to split the ticket so the R wins; she knows it and so does Mr. Nike.  Hopefully the voters figure it out.  The state legislature will remain blue.

Comments are closed.