Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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

No one could have predicted…

T R E 4 5 O N

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

A consequence of cucumbers

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Let’s finish the job.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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Okay, the Irish didn’t invent either populist sentimentality or bare-knuckled politics, but we’re certainly known as skilled practitioners of those dark arts…

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    I hope next year when Joe gives a big campaign speech on civil rights for trans people, his walkout music is Lola by The Kinks.

    I wonder what a good abortion walkout song would be.

  7. 7.

    Ceci n est pas mom nym

    @Baud: Paul Anka, “You’re having my baby”

    Kidding of course but it’s the only song I know with an abortion line in it.

  15. 15.

    Geminid

    It may not be walk on music, but the oldies station just played Barbara Streisand singing Laura Nyro’s “Stoney End.” What a song!

  21. 21.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: I read that when she was a teenager, Laura Nyro and her friends sang on street corners and subway stations. The Bronx being a small place, Annie Laurie probably heard them but was too young to remember.

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: ​ It’s a dirty job but somebody has to make up for Joe’s shortcomings. It makes me happy to hear you are on the job. I now know I can take a break from time to time and not worry.

  27. 27.

    Steve in the ATL

    Dropkick Murphys are playing Woodie Guthrie songs on their current tour, and in between them Ken Casey talks to the crowd about the importance of the working class and unions and sticking it to the man.  I was at their show in Minneapolis a couple of months ago and thought that if the crowd knew what I did for a living—and what I was in Minneapolis to do!—I would not have made it out of the State Theater alive….

  29. 29.

    H.E.Wolf

    Thank you, Anne Laurie, for the post title! Well played. :)

    Although I can’t yet think of an answer to Baud’s question, here’s a version of “Erin Go Bragh” sung by the Scottish musician Dick Gaughan.

    The lyrics make clear that the song’s narrator is a Scot traveling in Ireland, and the song’s theme is anti-bigotry, anti-police brutality, pro-immigration, and pro-allyship. Seems like a good fit for Scranton Joe.

    Sae come aa ye young people, whairever ye’re from
    A don’t give a damn tae whit place ye belang
    A come fae Argyll in the Heilans sae braw
    Bit A ne’er took it ill bein caad Erin-go-Bragh

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSet_UriUtM

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    Despite the butt hurt from various Tories, Biden was able to avoid political controversy because Boris Johnson was not the UK prime minister and the new PM, Rishi Sunak had got the updated Windsor Agreement passed.

    Biden had made it clear that the US saw attempts by Johnson and hard core BREXIT supporters to undermine the Northern Ireland Protocol as being unhelpful and unacceptable. Sunak’s deal with the EU on these issues was fine.

    So Joe could let various UK officials be upset without having to play hardball with them.

  32. 32.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The Louisiana woman who has set the Guinness world record for the largest afro three different times in the last 13 years says she keeps breaking the mark to personally vouch for the beauty of natural hair.

    “I didn’t decide to grow an afro as much as I decided to go natural,” Aevin Dugas told Guinness World Records in an interview earlier this month. “It’s about pride in textured hair which leads to self-love.”

    I’m glad it makes her happy but mine drove me nuts. I think my max was maybe 24″ and it drove me crazy. 5′-5″? No effin way.

    She bettered that record in 2021 with nearly 5ft 2in (157cm) before setting the current mark of almost 5ft 5in (165cm) this past September.

    The record-setting afro – which is also more than 9in (25cm) tall and 10in (26cm) wide – requires “frequent trims and styling regimens” to maintain, according to Guinness. She also said she gets a wide array of reactions from the public whenever she lets her afro loose in public.The record-setting afro – which is also more than 9in (25cm) tall and 10in (26cm) wide – requires “frequent trims and styling regimens” to maintain, according to Guinness. She also said she gets a wide array of reactions from the public whenever she lets her afro loose in public.

    These days my hair takes a regimen of “Bzzzzzzz… bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… bzzzzzzzzzzzzz” once every 2-3 months. Short, sweet, and simple. Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

  34. 34.

    Ken

    Coronation “snub”?  Last time they got a retired Secretary of State. The First Lady is a step up.

  37. 37.

    Nukular Biskits

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I sported a ponytail for about 3 years after having a #3 buzzcut for previous 10 years.

    I finally cut it off … long hair is just too damned much of a hassle for an old like me.

    Honestly don’t know how women do it

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Nukular Biskits: A half (Lakota?) buddy of mine had a mane of long, beautiful, black hair that always turned my eyes green with envy. If I had had it… Yeah, eventually I’d of cut it short too.

  40. 40.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Well, I’m back.

    Got home from South American late last night, a day later than we planned. That’s because we docked in Ft. Lauderdale, which, you may have seen, had 25 inches of rain and was flooded. The airport was closed. The runways were completely under water.

    We had to get off the ship, though god knows whether any new passengers arrived to get on. We scrambled, got a hotel in Ft. Lauderdale for Thursday night, and then took a cab to the Miami airport where we’d managed to score a flight home.

    Also, did I tell you we got COVID midway through the trip?

    I am never going away again

  44. 44.

    kalakal

    @Nukular Biskits: I used to have waist length hair. These days I get it cut short, let it get to shoulder length and repeat. The really great thing about short hair is how fast it dries, it’s great.

  45. 45.

    kalakal

    Love seeing the Tories and their media trying to invent imaginary grievance about Biden and the UK. Nobody give a fuck what the Spectacularly Boring says

  50. 50.

    Nora

    Biden’s smile is such a genuine thing.  Such a contrast with TFG’s snarl.  You see Joe grinning at people and you just know he means it, and you feel cheered up.

  55. 55.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Biden needs to start walking on stage to Americans by Janelle Monae (who is non-binary):

    Love me baby

    Love me for who I am

    Fallen angels

    Singing: “clap your hands”

    Don’t try to take my country

    I will defend my land

    I’m not crazy, baby, naw

    I’m American, I’m American, I’m American, I’m American

    Seventy-nine cent to your dollar

    All that bullshit from white-collars

    You see my color before my vision

    Sometimes I wonder if you will fly

    Would it help you make a better decision?
    I pledge allegiance to the flag

    Learned the words from my mom and dad

    Cross my heart and I hope to die

    With a big old piece of American pie
    Just love me baby

    Love me for who I am

    Fallen angels

    Singing: “clap your hands

    “Don’t try to take my country

    I will defend my landI’m not crazy, baby, naw

    I’m American, I’m American, I’m American, I’m American
    Let me help you in here

    Until women can get equal pay for equal work

    This is not my America

    Until same gender loving people can be who they are

    This is not my America

    Until black people can come home

    From a police stop without being shot in the head

    This is not my America

    Until poor whites can get a shot at being successful

    This is not my America

    I can’t hear nobody talkin’ to me
    Just love me baby,

    love me for who I am

    Fallen angels singing, “clap your hands”

    Don’t try to take my country,

    I will defend my land

    I’m not crazy, baby, naw

    I’m American (love me baby), I’m American (love me for who I am)
    Until Latinos and Latinas don’t have to run from walls

    This is not my America

    But I tell you today that the devil is a liar

    Because it’s gon’ be my America before it’s all over
    Please sign your name on the dotted line

  59. 59.

    SFAW

    Being a commenter of very little brain, I especially liked one of the replies to the Amee Vanderpool tweet re: Ken Casey:

    “Are you sure he’s from Boston…. seemed light on the F-bombs ???“

  62. 62.

    Kay

    I saw a Vivek Ramaswamy 2024 flag flying from a huge, very expensive vacation house on Lake Michigan (in Michigan) yesterday. Looks just like the Trump flag. Probably a 15- 20 million dollar property.

  63. 63.

    SFAW

    @kalakal: ​
     

    With the follow up “The Worst Journey in the World”

    Sorry, that title’s already (pre-emptively) taken by TFG for his absolutely-totally-written-by-himself-and-not-ghostwritten memoir about his multi-year “visit” to Rikers.

    Well, a kid can dream.

  71. 71.

    kalakal

    @OzarkHillbilly: I know, it’s one of my top 10 all time books, bump it to the top of your list.. I recommend it whenever anyone is foolish enough to give me the chance. It’s superb, I literally cannot praise it highly enough

    I gave a lecture on poor old Captain Scott ( of the Sahara Antarctic ) on Thursday and made sure to plug Cherry-Garrard’s masterpiece

  73. 73.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @kalakal: ​After I posted that it occurred to me you already knew it. :-) I have a lot of books on my “to read” shelf, it’s hard to prioritize them. I’ll have to see if I can squeeze Worst Journey into the front of the lineup.

    Here’s a recommendation for you: Shadow Divers. It’ll grab you.

  74. 74.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Kay: I had to google Vivek as I’d never heard the name. Interesting story, too bad he seems to have swung hard for the fascist shitheels. Let’s how long his stand against ESG pays the bills, I’m thinking not long.

  78. 78.

    Bostondreams

    @Raven: that song hit harder when I learned her own coming out journey. I suspect a line may have changed if it were made today.

  79. 79.

    sab

    @Miss Bianca: Check out his wiki page. It’s scary. And gives me another reason to hate JD Vance.

    I’d link if I could but I don’t know how and my Nook won’t let me.

  81. 81.

    greenergood

    @Baud:  The UK ‘Union’ hates anything that threatens the UK ‘Union’, including any threat to the UK Union part known as Northern Ireland. So the Unionist party in Northern Ireland, aka the DUP, is unrelenting in their support of the Union, to the point of gladly shutting down Northern Ireland’s government for at least a quarter of the past 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement. The UK Union has great difficulty in accepting that Ireland (which used to be part of the UK pre-1916) is now an INDEPENDENT country and part of the EUROPEAN UNION – both situations are _hated_ by the current UK government, who left the European Union in 2016 and is now dealing with not only the consequences of leaving but the terrifying fact that many of the UK’s (even Tory) constituents are really wanting to re-join the EU, as they see what an economic/educational/tourist disaster leaving the EU has been. But the Northern Irish conservatives have been stalwart supporters of the English Tory government for many years, and will no doubt continue to do so, while the government of Northern Ireland languishes due to lack of any governemtal procedure – it’s kind of like shutting down the House of Representatives – nothing gets done – and politicians get to foment, while social progammes and benefits aren’t implemented and people genuinely suffer, all for the sake of positional politics.

  82. 82.

    Matt McIrvin

    @MagdaInBlack: I always thought of that as a transphobic song– was kind of disturbing to hear it still being used on Disney’s “Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster” but making too much noise about it might make it a conservative cause celebre.

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