Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

The revolution will be supervised.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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Late Night Open Thread: From the FAFO Files

(Matt Davies via Gocomics.com)

Remember JOKeefe-III whining all over social media last week that he was ‘not suicidal’ but might ‘be forced to disappear’? Well, looks like he hoped to preempt discussion of his latest fvckup:


From the local GoErie newsite (which includes a detailed report on the whole disgraceful episode):

The right-wing activist group Project Veritas has settled a lawsuit with an Erie postmaster over the group’s false claims that the postmaster was part of a plot to tamper with mail-in ballots to the detriment of Donald Trump in his unsuccessful campaign to get reelected as president in 2020.

The claims and the lawsuit, which the postmaster filed in Erie County Common Pleas Court in 2021, placed Erie in the frenzy over Trump’s unfounded allegations that the mishandling of mail-in ballots helped President Joe Biden steal the White House from him.

Project Veritas and its founder, James O’Keefe, issued statements Monday in which they apologized to Robert Weisenbach, the postmaster in Erie, and said Project Veritas’ reports on election fraud at the Erie post office were based on wrong information — as Weisenbach contended from the start. The reports wrongly accused Weisenbach of backdating mail-in ballots…

(Spoiler: The postmaster seems to have been a Trump supporter, which in a sane community would ding O’Keefe’s standing with the MAGAts.)
 
I suspect we’ll be hearing more about Carlson’s road trip, possibly from Adam:

More GOP ratf*ckery uncovered:

Mississippi goddamn:

Late Night Open Thread: From the FAFO Files 1

(Clay Jones via GoComics.com)

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  8. 8.

    SpaceUnit

    @NotMax:

    I’ve heard he’s an heir to the Swanson’s frozen food fortune.  So yeah.

    Not sure those work camps will be doling out Salisbury steak and peas though.

  11. 11.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    I would settle for Ruzzia conscripting Comrade Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson as a drone catcher on the front lines.

    Just stand him out in a field and post his coordinates online.

  17. 17.

    SpaceUnit

    @sab:

    I have no clue and I’m too lazy to look it up.

    But Tucker and TV dinners seem to share something in common.  Can’t quite put my finger on it.

  20. 20.

    Chris T.

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    Moscow, 12 Feb 2024: We have taken Tucker Carlson as a political prisoner. We demand US$30 million for his return.

    Moscow, 19 Feb 2024: We have Tucker Carlson. We demand US$10 million for his return.

    Moscow, 26 Feb 2024: We have Tucker Carlson. Please take him back.

    Update, 29 Feb 2024: We’ll pay you $10 million to take him back!

  21. 21.

    sab

    @SpaceUnit: I boycotted them for years then I looked it up and apparently the family bailed years ago. But my business research skills are weak. I felt stupid boycotting a company that apparently had no ties to that twerp.

    I don’t like frozen dinners ( I like to cook) but they do sell pretty good boxed broth/stock.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @SpaceUnit

    ‘I don;’t feel like cooking. Gonna pop an Eskimo in the oven, okay?”

    Swanson’s concept was not original. In 1944, William L. Maxson’s frozen dinners were being served on airplanes. Other prepackaged meals were also marketed before Swanson’s TV Dinner. In 1948, plain frozen fruits and vegetables were joined by what were then called ‘dinner plates’ with a main course, potato, and vegetable. In 1952 the first frozen dinners on oven-ready aluminum trays were introduced by Quaker State Foods under the One-Eyed Eskimo label, and by 1954 the company sold 2 million such dinners annually. Quaker State Foods was joined by other companies including Philadelphia-based Frigi-Dinner, which offered such fare as beef stew with corn and peas, veal goulash with peas and potatoes, and chicken chow mein with egg rolls and fried rice. Swanson, a large producer of canned and frozen poultry in Omaha, Nebraska, was able to promote the widespread sales and adaptation of frozen dinner by using its nationally recognized brand name with an extensive national marketing campaign nicknamed “Operation Smash” and the clever advertising name of “TV Dinner,” which tapped into the public’s excitement around the new device. Source

  23. 23.

    sab

    @NotMax: Yikes! That’s a lot of majors. Indecicisive or unduly curious? I only had one major and two minors.

    My baby sister had two majors (linguistics and botany) that we mocked about okay now you can talk to plants. She built them into a very successful career somewhere in customer service for scientists using  computers

    ETA Scientists around the world all need help with computers.

  27. 27.

    SpaceUnit

    Microwave dinners aside, let’s nuke us a party of assholes and traitors come November.

     

    I’m clocking out.  Way past my bedtime.

  28. 28.

    sab

    Not Max: Are you “a historian” or “an historian”?

    ETA I assume you have gone to bed. I will follow up tomorrow.

  31. 31.

    sab

    @OzarkHillbilly: So do accountants. I just spend two hours this morning on a five minute task because my printer and my computer were at odds with each other. I don’t know why. Yesterday they were fine. I think my radio with classical music interfered with my printer/computer vulcan mind meld.

    My understanding of all this stuff is unsophisticated. Multicolumn green ledger paper for me.

  33. 33.

    lowtechcyclist

    @sab: ​
     

    Not Max: Are you “a historian” or “an historian”?

    Presumably neither, since he’s only got a B.A. You’re a* historian if you’re doing original research in history, which is hardly a prerequisite for the B.A.

    *Maybe it’s different in Britain, but any American calling themselves ‘an’ historian is just being pretentious, AFAIAC.

  35. 35.

    sab

     

     

    @Baud: Sweet summer children. It is age not nationality that divides. The puppies haven’t learned linguistics yet.

    Aspirated or unaspirated h. That used to be a thing.

  39. 39.

    Jeffro

    @dm:Whenever I see a “Molon Labe” sign, I think, “You misspelled ‘moron label’”

    That works!

    I always see it as “moron labia” =)

  40. 40.

    satby

    Good morning campers! Wonder what new political cliffs we’re going to be confronted with today. I just wish tfg would decide to make his run to whatever non-extradition treaty country he’s chosen; because I’m betting he runs at some point.

  42. 42.

    Ken

    @satby: Perhaps he’ll flee after Judge Engoron rules on the fraud case, in an attempt to preserve what he can of his wealth.

    As so much of it is real estate, or already under the control of the court-appointed supervisor, that may be limited to a suitcase full of hundred-dollar bills, so he may have to choose a cheap non-extradition country.

  43. 43.

    marklar

    @sab: Probably a dead thread, but what the ‘ay.

    I grew up in Quebec, where, when speaking Henglish Francophones would often add the phoneme ‘h’ to words starting with vowelss, and drop the ‘h’s from words with vowels as the second letter.

    Thus, the local ardware store “Handy Andy” was usually pronounced “‘andy Handy”.

  44. 44.

    satby

    @Ken: Someone (maybe on Blue Sky) suggested Indonesia. Or Dubai, but he’s a fake billionaire and isn’t rich enough for it. Plus, he’s of no further use to Putin or others if he runs, he’d lose more cultists that way.

  46. 46.

    SFAW

    @marklar: ​
     
    Native-born Massholes do a variant of that with an ending-R/A sound: my favorite examples include “Donner, come heah!” (translation: Donna, come here) and, me not knowing if the Honda Accord was the Accord or “Ruh-cord” for a number of years, because it was introduced after I started living heah here. (“HondaRaccord” was how the locals said it).

  47. 47.

    SFAW

    @sab: ​
     

    I never knew you were a history major.

    When you’re as old as NotMax, you become one by default, because you’ve lived through most of it.

  49. 49.

    Kosh III

    Re: Brett Favre
    “No criminal charges have been brought against Favre”

    Once again we see the rich and powerful can get away with crimes while the rest of us get a life sentence  for stealing candy.

  50. 50.

    Paul in KY

    @OzarkHillbilly: Somen my kin from Elkhorn City in Pike County, KY mighta considered you one o them uppity hillbillies what is livin in the vacation spot known as the Ozarks!

    I myself do not.

  51. 51.

    Chris Johnson

    Carlson: called it called it called it. Of course he’s in Moscow facilitating Putin. It’s not the first time he’s been.

    He hates Trump, quite genuinely, because they compete for Putin’s favors, and he knows (correctly, too) that he would be way better at Trump’s job than Trump is. He doesn’t fuck up constantly, he’s good at being a Russian agent in a way Trump can never be.

    In a way I’m happy that he is in Russia doing a tongue-bath apologia for Putin, publically.

    If he was not, he might be more in line for political office. If he’s available to piss away his reputation this publically, then he isn’t expected to become the new Trump. He was on that track but pissed off the wrong Murdoch, and that ruined his effectiveness.

    Now he’s a slightly more mainstream Tim Pool. Fuck him, hate that guy, let him stay there.

  52. 52.

    mrmoshpotato

    Ex-NFL quarterback Favre must finish repaying misspent welfare money, Mississippi auditor says

    Favre repaid $500,000 to the state in May 2020 and $600,000 in October 2021, but the new court filing said he still owes $729,790 because interest caused growth in the original amount he owed.

    And the pile of shit owes nearly 3/4 of a million more!  HAHAHA!  Fuck you, Brett!

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