Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

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

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

Please don’t feed the bears.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

“woke” is the new caravan.

Republicans don’t trust women.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

When we show up, we win.

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  1. 1.

    Jeffro

    Between Kimmel and the House Dems on the oversight committee, I may have to call it a day.  =)

    I might have to print some t-shirts that say

    Crockett &

    Raskin &

    Moskowitz &

    Swalwell

    (or something like that!)

  5. 5.

    Scout211

    And since he did such a bang-up job of apologizing* on McAfee’s show yesterday, Rodgers is now permanently off the show.

    ETA:  correction, he’s off the show for the rest of the season.

    McAfee, who has drawn significant scrutiny for allowing the injured New York Jets quarterback to appear on his program and deliver lengthy conspiratorial rants, made the announcement Wednesday on his show.

    “So ‘Aaron Rodgers Tuesday,’ season four, is done,” McAfee told his audience. “There could be a lot of people that are happy with that. Myself included, to be honest with you. The way it ended, it got real loud.”

     

    *he did not apologize.  Kimmel just “misunderstood” him. Poor Aaron, so misunderstood.

  6. 6.

    Alison Rose

    @Scout211: Was just coming back to share a link about this. Yeah, Rodgers insists that he didn’t call Kimmel a pedo. But like…you can call someone something without using the exact word, you fucking numbskull.

  10. 10.

    Tony G

    Back in my long-ago teenage years, the jocks were usually the dumbest loudmouths.  Maybe that doesn’t change much when they grow up to be paid millions of dollars to throw a football.

  11. 11.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    There’s apparently a move in Iowa to “crash the caucus.” That is, some Democrats are considering attending. At least when I lived in Iowa, you could change your party registration at the door.

  13. 13.

    piratedan

    @Jeffro: I gotta say that Ms. Crockett is all kinds of awesome.  I’m kind of surprised that the GOP hasn’t put out a hit on her because she’s devastatingly plain spoken in unspinnable terminology.

  15. 15.

    Chief Oshkosh

    I’d never seen The Pat McAfee Show. That excerpt was…ugh. The sobering/dismaying aspect of it is that there apparently is a large number of people who watch it. I mean, I feel measurably dumber just having seen those few seconds of that dreck. Truly the vast wasteland.

  17. 17.

    ALurkSupreme

    Re the story from South Carolina, why on earth should a home heating device ever be able to achieve that high a temperature?

  21. 21.

    jackmac

    Oh jeez. Aaron Rodgers is example Numero Uno (and no other evidence is needed) as to why athletes should stick to talking about sports.

    Otherwise, opine and show your ignorance about anything else and there’s a very good chance that feet will be inserted in mouth and extensive mockery will follow.

  23. 23.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Baud: The story said that the family “fiddled with” the hot water heater. Not sure from the story whether the heater was also fiddled with.

     

    ETA: Sorry, hit the post button too fast. I was going to say,  regardless, that is one weird and sad story.

  29. 29.

    dmsilev

    @ALurkSupreme: The only thing I can possibly imagine is that it’s a gas furnace, where the burner itself will get that hot, and something happened so that the flame was in direct contact with the walls of the furnace or other structural pieces.

    Otherwise it makes no sense. The furnace should have either turned itself off (thermal limit switches are standard on those things) or at the very least stuff should have started breaking and even melting long before reaching those temperatures.

  31. 31.

    Jeffro

    @piratedan: Froette texted me: “Will you disown me if I move to Texas?  I want to be in her district!” LOL

    I told her we could send Rep Crockett $50, or get a t-shirt, or both.  =)

  32. 32.

    Scout211

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    There’s apparently a move in Iowa to “crash the caucus.” That is, some Democrats are considering attending. At least when I lived in Iowa, you could change your party registration at the door.

    Apparently, still the rule:

    Q: Who votes in a caucus?
    A: Anyone who will be 18 by Election Day 2020 may attend and participate in a caucus. Participants must be registered with the party of the caucus they are attending. Voter registration forms are available at each caucus location and participants can register the same day that they caucus. Younger Iowans who are not eligible to participate as a registered voter are encouraged to attend to learn about the caucus experience. Young people may also wish to be elected as a junior delegate. Each phase of the Caucus-to-Convention process has special sessions for junior delegates to learn about the process.

    Q: Do voters need to be registered to attend and participate in the caucus? If so, can an individual register at the caucus? Can party affiliation be changed when the voter arrives?
    A: Again, anyone who wishes to participate in a caucus must be a registered voter with the party of the caucus they wish to attend. An eligible individual can register at the caucus and/or change their party affiliation at the caucus by filling out an official voter registration form.

    If Democrats and independents do crash the caucuses, voting for “anyone but Trump” would be what I would do.  Anytime Trump is humiliated or at the very least, knocked down a peg or two, is good in my book.

  35. 35.

    Brachiator

    @jackmac:

    Oh jeez. Aaron Rodgers is example Numero Uno (and no other evidence is needed) as to why athletes should stick to talking about sports.

    Isn’t this what some Fox News Bimbo said about Shaq?

  36. 36.

    Barbara

    @ALurkSupreme: Truly bizarre.

    Around two years ago my oven started overheating, and would shut down.  It was the result of a faulty thermostat (oven was more than 10 years old).  This is a common, not quite standard part, and we were able to replace it.  Basically, the thermostat wasn’t sensing when the temperature reached the desired level, so the oven just kept heating.  The heating element looked like it was set to a high level broiler — until the safety shut off was triggered.

    I would guess it was something like that.  Depending on its age, it should probably have a shut off sensor.

  37. 37.

    David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch

    Holy crap – Seattle Seahawks just fired Pete Carroll.

    This wouldn’t have happened if Bernie was president.

  38. 38.

    Alison Rose

    @jackmac: Eh, I mean…athletes are citizens and voters, too, and I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong for them to speak about important topics. Good example is folks like Kaepernick and others re: BLM. The issue here isn’t that Rodgers was speaking about something other than sports — it’s that he was spouting hateful batshit conspiracy theories and lobbing disgusting accusations at a public figure.

  39. 39.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    I liked, “He put on a magic helmet and that G made him a genius.” lol

    Can Kimmel sue Rodgers for defamation? Does his being a public figure make this impossible? If I were Kimmel, I’d sue. Then again, even if Kimmel could, suing Rodgers would just play into his hands

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    [open happy dance]

    Brand spanking new router installed, settings tweaked, firmware updated and is chugging along with aplomb. Blackout of ability to watch or listen to stuff through the Roku exiled.
    :)

  42. 42.

    Citizen Alan

    @jackmac: Amazing that no so long ago, he had such a reputation for intelligence that he was seriously considered as the new Jeopardy! host.

  43. 43.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Scout211:

    Wow, imagine Trump losing in Iowa lol. What a humiliation! I’d have a hard time even voting/caucusing for somebody like Nikki Haley tho, even if just to spite Trump

  44. 44.

    catclub

    @jackmac: (and no other evidence is needed) as to why athletes should stick to talking about sports.

     

    Overgeneralizing.   Ever heard of Colin Kaepernick?

    How about Kareem Jabbar?  Bill Russell? Senator Bill Bradley?

  45. 45.

    Barbara

    @Alison Rose: Agreed.  Of course athletes can express opinions, but when an athlete like Rodgers starts spouting off complete nonsense about matters that he has zero knowledge of then he deserves to be mocked.

  47. 47.

    Betty Cracker

    Well done, Mr. Kimmel. Also, I wish that clip of Trump and Epstein at the end of Kimmel’s monologue would reach saturation levels of viewership across every channel and platform. It’s Trump’s leering, gross, exploitive, piggish essence distilled down to its purest form. Most people haven’t seen it. 

  48. 48.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Alison Rose:

    Agreed. Athletes and celebrities should be allowed their opinions, to an extent. The issue, as you say, is spouting ignorant and hateful opinions

  50. 50.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: Kareem, Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Tommy Smith, John Carlos, Billie Jean King, Arthur Ashe, Venus & Serena Williams, Lebron James, Jeremy Lin, Megan Rapinoe, Naomi Osaka, etc.  It’s mostly white male athletes (with a handful of exceptions) who are the problem.

  52. 52.

    catclub

    @Scout211: If Democrats and independents do crash the caucuses, voting for “anyone but Trump” would be what I would do.

     

    Strategic voting during the caucus, to deny Trump a chance, would be my choice.

  56. 56.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    👍

    Any legal eagles familiar with the case know what’s next for Warren’s case at the district court? Could the court order his reinstatement?

  58. 58.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @catclub: And we should always remember that “Shut Up And Dribble/Stick To Sports” complaints have a deep history of anti-Blackness.  For anyone who needs a primer, check out sports journalists: Howard Bryant, Jamele Hill and Bomani Jones, who have all written/spoken extensively, about it.

  60. 60.

    jackmac

    @Alison Rose: Athletes are, of course, citizens and voters and certainly entitled to their opinions. But they lack credibility when they use their public presence to spout ill-informed nonsense on issues well beyond their area of expertise. Kaepernick is the rare exception. Unfortunately, for every Kaepernick there are a few hundred lunkheads like Rodgers out there.

  61. 61.

    Betty Cracker

    @HumboldtBlue: Yep, that’s the one.

     

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Warren recently announced he’s not going to run for his former seat, which is up this November. I hope Hillsborough County residents remember how DeSantis stole their vote and bounce his lackey out of that seat at least.

  62. 62.

    Devore

    Off topic

    I live in the phoenix area and I haven’t had to scrape ice off my windshield for a number of years

    hmmmm so what big change in the Phoenix area has happened in the past week or so?

    yeah   That’s right   You know who is here in town now   Not saying you know who is to blame for the unnatural cold weather   But I can’t think of any other obvious reason

  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    The district court erred in concluding that the First Amend-ment did not protect the activities behind two of the other factors. We therefore vacate and remand. On remand, the district court should reconsider whether DeSantis would have made the same decision based solely on the unprotected activities.

    I wonder how long the district court – that screwed Andrew Warren the first time around – gets to take in “reconsidering”.

    Hard not to wonder if Andrew Warren might “win” in court but still never get to again hold the office he was elected too.

    Whatever happened to “staying” a ruling because harm would be caused in the period while the case is being considered?

    (not yelling at you, just yelling)

  67. 67.

    jackmac

    @catclub: Ok, I do deserve to be smacked around for overgeneralizing, but as I mentioned in another response that for every Kaepernick (or Kareem or BIll Russell or Sen. Bill Bradley) there are hundreds of lunkheads like Aaron Rodgers given forums to spew nonsense.

     

    @catclub:

  68. 68.

    Paul in KY

    @piratedan: I had no idea a home furnace could go that high! I knew one of those mini-jet heaters you see on sidelines of an extremely cold game will get up there, but your home furnace?!?!?!

  70. 70.

    Paul in KY

    @JCJ: Supposed to be some ‘club’ at South Pole where the first time temp gets to -100 Fahrenheit, you have to run 100 yards out to get a flag & then run back (if you want to be a member of said club). Heard about that in military. Could be complete BS.

  74. 74.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @WaterGirl:

    Yes, and I read the part you quoted above in another comment. I was more wondering what specifically the district court would do next and if Warren would be reinstated to his elected position or if he would run again for it. Betty Cracker answered the second one by saying he announcer he would not be running for it this November

    Maybe I missed something? I’m sorry

  76. 76.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Roku connects to the internet wirelessly and the wi-fi function of the router got fried when the power came back on after an outage the other day. PC had no disruption to internet because that’s directly connected by ethernet cable and that part of the router still worked after the power came back on.

    Ditched cable TV some time back so was unable to keep up with streaming media and news on the TV.

  78. 78.

    piratedan

    @Paul in KY: my best guess is that it shouldn’t, but some “helpful” family member likely did some modifications that may have been unsafe.  Just speculating because there is indeed a select subsection of people who have just enough knowledge to be dangerous.

  79. 79.

    smith

    Sooo, after Hunter Biden humiliated MTG today by walking out on her speech and taking the media with him, she revenge-porned him again in committee. First Nancy Mace and then Marge. Why are GQP women so obsessed with Hunter Biden’s junk?

  80. 80.

    Paul in KY

    @piratedan: Police probably need to check it out to ensure this wasn’t some way of ‘accidently’ offing them for insurance or something like that.

  81. 81.

    David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch

    @Brachiator: ​ While he hasn’t been discharged, he auditioned to NFL owners for a future coaching job at a presser, saying he’s no longer hard to work with and would be happy just being a part of a team, instead of emperor of the franchise. Needless to say that is a big come down for Mr. My-way-or-the-highway.​

  83. 83.

    NorthLeft

    @jackmac: Sportsball players have every right to voice their opinion as any other group of people.
    And, like other groups of people, some sports ballers are intelligent, thoughtful, and well informed. Some aren’t. They all have the right to then get lauded/mocked for their views.

  84. 84.

    smith

    @piratedan: They seem to be inadvertantly acknowledging that he is the alpha in the monkey troop, something he demonstrated again today, with some help from his Dem confreres. But, then, it was always pretty apparent that at base Republicanism is a psycho-sexual disorder.

  86. 86.

    artem1s

    @Old School: ​ 

    home’s heater had reached 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit

    No. Maybe 100 degrees. Remember the book Fahrenheit 451? The flash point of paper? The house would have spontaneously combusted if it got anywhere north of 250-300.

  89. 89.

    Ruckus

    @Tony G:

    Many of the footballers may be taking some rather strong hits to the head. Even with a helmet it can have an effect. A decade or more of that may have a detrimental effect. OTOH he may have already arrived at this level all on his own…..

  90. 90.

    NorthLeft

    @Paul in KY: As a Lions fan I considered it my duty to dislike this Packer and entitled asshat, but I would never deny that he was an amazingly talented and productive NFL QB.

    I felt bad for him during the NFL draft as he was passed over by many teams (including my own Lions) who could have used an excellent prospect like him. Not sure if that was the start of his anger against the world or whether it developed in his career in Green Bay.

  93. 93.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    @smith:

    First Nancy Mace and then Marge. Why are GQP women so obsessed with Hunter Biden’s junk?

    I’m assuming its because the GQP men they are involved with don’t quite measure up.

  95. 95.

    Ruckus

    @ALurkSupreme:

    That might be the flame temperature, not the temperature that the room achieves. Because I’m pretty sure the flame temperature is just a tad more than the room temp. A check of Google says the temperature of a furnace flame is 1277 degrees.

  96. 96.

    smith

    @Chief Oshkosh: The link I saw was here. My impression was that it was just Marge getting out her scrapbook to get back at that mean boy who wouldn’t listen to her this morning. She apparently tried to connect it somehow to women’s issues — something Republicans care passionately about! — but I don’t see how that computes. A quote from the post:

    Greene attacked her fellow female colleagues for expressing outrage over her proclivities towards public pornography, stating that the evidence of a private citizen engaging in sexual activity constitutes a “women’s rights issue.”

  97. 97.

    jonas

    @Old School: Horrible. Years ago, I got a call from an elderly neighbor — sweet woman in her 80s — who asked me to come over and check on her heater because it felt so hot. I went over and it must have been 100 degrees in the house. Poor thing had bad eyesight and the thermostat was sort of in a dark hallway and she couldn’t tell what it was set at and she’d accidentally pushed it up to max. I put it back down to 75 or whatever she wanted and everything was ok, but that could have been dangerous.

  98. 98.

    geg6

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    My guess is Disney came down on McAfee like a ton of bricks.  Seeing as they do own both ABC and ESPN, I’m sure they don’t want one of their bigger stars suing McAfee, Rodgers and Disney.  His kids were getting death threats.

  99. 99.

    Urza

    @artem1s: No, I thought that myself and it was clearly 1000 degrees according to every article about it.  Thats just inside the heater though, it was only about 106 in the house, even after opening it to outside chilly air for a couple hours.

  100. 100.

    HumboldtBlue

    .@MarkHalperin
    reporting this:
    SOURCES: CHRIS CHRISTIE LEAVING THE RACE
    Campaign has reportedly briefed allies about a 5pm announcement today in New Hampshire

  105. 105.

    Urza

    @smith: How does it go from being reported that she was the abuser to him being arrested for abuse and weapons charges?  That seems more than a little odd.

  106. 106.

    jonas

    @jackmac: Plus, Kaepernick’s protests and activism weren’t hurting anyone or defaming anyone. There’s a difference between speaking out on something you care about and spouting defamatory bullshit about someone because you’re an arrogant, ignorant ass. As Kimmel pointed out, Rogers’ insinuations about him being involved with Epstein are putting his family in danger.

  108. 108.

    smith

    @jonas: Yes! This is the difference between Rodgers’ anti-vaxx nonsense and his statements about Kimmel. The former may be deplorable, but are within his rights to make. The latter is a way of putting a serious target on an individual’s back for no other reason than that they disagree with you. It’s become the standard play of both TFG and the GQP, and is often aimed at individuals who, unlike Kimmel, don’t have a national platform available for response or the resources to take an offender to court. In my opinion, it’s a form of terrorism.

  109. 109.

    HumboldtBlue

    @smith: ​ 

    I read something the other day that quoted him as saying he instigated the altercation and that “he just wants her back.”

  110. 110.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Percysowner:

    I’m pissed. Both of my state reps are co-sponsors of that bill. Rulli, my state senator, is running to represent Bill Johnson’s old congressional district. Rulli is from the Rulli family, that owns the local Rulli Bros Supermarket chain. Back when he first won in 2018, the doucebag said he was excited to work with both sides of the aisle. All this clown cares about is higher office.

    Good luck to your trans grandson and his parents. This is just awful

  112. 112.

    Tony Jay

    @smith:

    Why are GQP women so obsessed with Hunter Biden’s junk

    You haven’t seen the Let’s Blow Brandon series on PornHub? I bet Wide-Neck Marge and her fellow aficionados have. It’s stirring stuff, especially the one where he ‘negotiates an extension of pork subsidies’.

  113. 113.

    catclub

    @Paul in KY: He was my favourite QB, till COVID exposed him as a complete crank/douchewad.

     

    Bach is my favorite composer, but luckily he is dead. I am sure he would be a complete crank.

    Actually perhaps not. He was fined/jailed for bringing a woman – I think later his wife – into the choir section of a church.

  115. 115.

    dr. luba

    @Alison Rose: also, too–he is opining loudly about medicine (vaccination) without having any sort of medicine–or even science–background. This was all the more dangerous during a pandemic.

    Unless he’s gotten a degree in immunology in the off season, it is perfectly fine to point and laugh at him.  The sad part is that many believe him.

  116. 116.

    Martin

    @Barbara: The underlying issue for me is that athletes have outsized voice that they can then apply to issues on which they haven’t earned that voice. And there isn’t anything inherently wrong with that except that we have this meritocracy fetish and interpret the size of the microphone you wield as being something you’ve earned – and conflate the thing you are speaking to as being authoritative.

    Now, younger generations don’t generally fall into this trap because they’ve seen popular idiots on social media their whole lives, where for older generations, microphones were gatekept behind this hierarchy of control – you needed to get permission from a whole bunch of people to speak on a topic on a national level and so access and authority usually went hand-in-hand. Cancel culture is a component of this – shutting down people who take their audience as endorsement to say dumb shit, and to say ‘you know – you want to lie, we’re going to knock your microphone back down in size’.

  119. 119.

    cain

    @JCJ: lol – I thought it was always ‘banned’. The nude olympics was always at the Quad. I never stayed in the dorms at Purdue so I always missed it.

    It’s a crazy event – but fun for them I suppose. But with global warming, maybe it isn’t as challenging of an event as it used to be.

    ETA – yes, it’s still going on – at least in the 90s. But I don’t see why not..?

  124. 124.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @geg6:

    That’s another good point. I didn’t know Disney also owned ESPN. It wouldn’t do for Kimmel, from ABC, to sue another of their talent, such as McAfee, in addition to Rodgers

  129. 129.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @HumboldtBlue:

    @Alison Rose:

    Wow, she was on 🔥

    She nailed the GOP exactly. They were all running for their lives on 1/6, and it was only afterwards when they knew about Trump’s involvement as well as the political incentives, they flipped. They don’t care about the Constitution, no matter what they say

  130. 130.

    smith

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Christie’s only value in the current race was as an attack dog not wholly owned by TFG, and he never got much traction at that. This is his final fade into irrelevance, and I think we can safely forget about him from now on.

  133. 133.

    Tony Jay

    @Hoodie:

      but I think that guy was shorter.

    Past ‘regulation length’ it’s all pretty much down to aesthetics and camera angles.

    Or so I hear.

  135. 135.

    trollhattan

    Attention CA budget and politics nerds: Governor’s proposed ’24-’25 budget dropped today. More interesting than usual, given the current FY’s manyBILLYUN-buck revenue shortfall. Hey, the intro is only eight pages of 261, followed by tables and pretty charts before the actual content. Don’t be skeert.

    (Link fxd)

    https://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf

  137. 137.

    trollhattan

    @Percysowner: Remains the weirdest hill for Republican flag-planting, ever. “Here’s a thing we didn’t know about, don’t understand, and now must halt at all cost! Braaaagh!“

  140. 140.

    trollhattan

    @ALurkSupreme:

    “Fiddling.” I’ll bet.

    Once had a rental, ’30s era I think. The in-floor gas gravity heater* got hot enough to give 2nd degree burns if you touched or god help you, walked on the grate.

    Seemed, suboptimal.

    *Yes, it heated gravity.

  143. 143.

    frosty

    @Alison Rose: ​ @Paul in KY: ​Or a short, skinny kid (<100lb all through HS) who got mostly A’s. I can still hear the word “Peeeuuuuune!!”

    I think the only thing that saved me was going out for cross-country and track (they didn’t cut anyone – not enough volunteers). I was the slowest miler in the County but at least it was something athletic.​

  144. 144.

    David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch

    BOMBSHELL

    This is quite a day:

    Nick Saban is retiring, sources tell ESPN.

  146. 146.

    trollhattan

    @frosty: Of all the sports my sportskid participated in, XC has by far the greatest sense of community–among the team, among rivals, among families.

    And you just never know who will break through and become a great distance runner. Very few sports test the body in the  same fashion.

  149. 149.

    frosty

    @trollhattan: Way back in the Jurassic, X-Country had no sense of community on the team*, with rivals, in the community. No family members ever watched us run. The sport was just an afterthought. Fun, though, in a winded, dragging, shin-splint, painful kind kind of way.
    I’m so glad it wasn’t co-ed. I can think of half a dozen girls that would have been faster than me.
    * OK, on occasional Wednesday nights after practice we would walk over to Howard Johnson’s for the all-you-can-eat fish fry. And eat for hours. The only stats I remember was 70 orders of french fries and 10 bottles of ketchup for 7 of us. I’m surprised they didn’t run us out!​

  150. 150.

    Alison Rose

    @trollhattan: I watched the livestream of him going through it and answering press Qs earlier. I appreciate how clearly he lays everything out, and I do NOT appreciate how snippy and right-wing-framed some of the questions were. One woman in particular first seemed like she was flirting with him by saying she had a long question and maybe they could go to lunch instead, and then she unleashed a bunch of bullshit talking points. I don’t know how he maintains his calm in these things, I’d tell them to fuck off. Which is why I will never run for office.

  152. 152.

    columbusqueen

    Kimmel needs to sue Rogers’ sorry ass, Disney be damned. Hitting Aaron hard in the pocketbook is the only way to shut him up.

  153. 153.

    Scout211

    @trollhattan: Pete Carroll was let go today. Perhaps time, but I’ll miss the guy–maybe the most positive dude in sportsball and holy hell, does he make growing old seem like no big deal.

    He will still be working for the Seahawks organization, just not as the coach.

    Did you know that Pete Carroll played football when he was a student at the University of the Pacific in Stockton (when they still had a team)? He also got his Masters there and was a grad assistant.  They love him at Pacific, a famous alumnus.

  154. 154.

    TBone

    @smith: same tactic used by the Salem witch accusers in 1692.  When fat bastard says “witch hunt” I just can’t help where my imagination takes me.

  156. 156.

    Ken

    On the theme of the post title, Judge Engoron has posted his emails with Trump’s lawyer Chris Kise, regarding whether Trump would be allowed to demagogue present part of the defense’s closing arguments.  Various commenters have noted that it is never good when a judge uses all caps….

  157. 157.

    cain

    @Tony Jay:

    You haven’t seen the Let’s Blow Brandon series on PornHub? I bet Wide-Neck Marge and her fellow aficionados have. It’s stirring stuff, especially the one where he ‘negotiates an extension of pork subsidies’.

    HAHA!  Thank God I work from home – :D

  158. 158.

    zhena gogolia

    @Ken: Wow, that is a great read. Those assholes. He was trying to use the death of Melania’s mother as an excuse to put off closing arguments until Jan. 29! His only strategy is to delay everything, every chance he gets.

  160. 160.

    Scout211

    @zhena gogolia: He was trying to use the death of Melania’s mother as an excuse to put off closing arguments until Jan. 29!

    Well, Trump and his mother-in-law were very close . . . . in age.

    She was 78. 

  163. 163.

    zhena gogolia

    @Scout211: I hate that I’m now waking up at 3:00 AM again worrying about Trump, after three years of sleeping through the night. I shouldn’t read the NYT before bed. They and their readers are taking it as a given that Trump’s going to be reelected.

  165. 165.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @zhena gogolia:

    They and their readers are taking it as a given that Trump’s going to be reelected.

    That sentiment is so annoying. Nobody knows the future

  166. 166.

    George

    @JCJ: Those were good times back in West Lafayette. The university president was such a soulless dweeb.  The riot in October 1984 was interesting, too, given that it wasn’t about anything in particular, just drunken Boilermakers.

  168. 168.

    HumboldtBlue

    @raven: ​ 

    I have a deep, deep, deep, dislike of Alabama specifically because of Bear (fucking Joe Paterno calling four straight plays up the gut and Matt Suhey didn’t gain a fucking inch!). Saban became an enemy the moment he put on the crimson as well. Saban may be the greatest ever — and there ain’t no argument about that — I still hate him and want him to fail.

  169. 169.

    misterpuff

    @frosty: You’re in my head.

    X-Country was my way into the jock set also, I stayed through indoor and outdoor track also. Super slow. But I was accepted at all the parties….

    College was a relief after high school……

  172. 172.

    frosty

    @Ken: ​
     Fun watching a judge run out of patience with TFG in almost real time. “You have seven minutes..” LOL

  173. 173.

    Ruckus

    @zhena gogolia:

    I’ve heard this before, When you have no defense, plead for the mercy of the court. When you have a client who thinks the law doesn’t apply to them, do not let them speak during closing arguments. If that fails, gag your client with a gag that will cause them to bleed if they attempt to speak, like made with course sandpaper. If this fails be sure to be paid ahead of time and apologize to the court when you say your client demands to speak. If your client is anyone from the family trump, always, always collect your fee up front before you or anyone on your side speaks one word, answers one question by the court or speak in public. And then take a remedial law school course in not doing stupid shit.

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