Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Second rate reporter says what?

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

People are weird.

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

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  1. 1.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    Congratulations to Taylor Swift (Agent 99 13)and the CIA on rigging the Super Bowl

  5. 5.

    Almost Retired

    We’ve been live texting the game with my 90 year old Mom and her friends.  She lives in Kansas and was hosting a Super Bowl party for a bunch of women who were born at about the same time as the New Deal.  When the game went into overtime and the fifth bottle of cheap Chardonnay was unscrewed the ladies’ texts became less about the game and more  about what they would do with Mahomes and Kelce if they were younger.

  9. 9.

    HumboldtBlue

    That game ended up as a classic.

    The ads? Not so much.

    Budweiser should have gone with more field goal kicking Clydesdales, Pfizer was a nice little slap to the face of maga and the willfully ignorant, but nothing stood out.

  13. 13.

    Leto

    @Joey Maloney: total? Idk, maybe 2 mins tops? Maybe? They’d flash over to her for like 5 sec, and you’d see her, Blake Lively, one time Lana Del Rey (singer), or Cinammon Ice (another singer)… but they also showed some of the other stars who were at the game so…

  17. 17.

    gwangung

    @Leto: I mean, the Super Bowl ALWAYS attracts superstars from other entertainment fields. If one of them is dating a player, it’s just gonna be natural to switch to her multiple times.

  20. 20.

    Ohio Mom

    @Frankensteinbeck: It’s easy enough to find on YouTube.

    I was four years old when the first version, for JFK, ran. Not surprisingly, I had no memory of it and seeing it again jogged nothing.

    I did enjoy seeing it now as a historical artifact. It’s surprising how primitive and dumb early TV commercials were.

  22. 22.

    Leto

    @gwangung: One of the, if not THE, most popular singers currently on the planet, who’s also dating a premier player on one of the teams. Nope, can’t ever turn the camera that way…

    “I just wanna watch my football, with the big sweaty men rolling around on the ground with each other, giving each other ‘Good game’ pats on the rear… WHY CAN’T YOU LET ME JUST SEE THAT?!?!?” -MAGA Chuds

  24. 24.

    Chetan Murthy

    It’s all too hilarious.  The MAGAts “worked themselves into a shoot”.  Now they’re gonna spend a few days bein’ butthurt.  It’ll be glorious.

  25. 25.

    Leto

    @Ohio Mom: shows how TV was still an emerging format, but also there were a lot more regulations (eeewwwwww) with early television. Ofc, Reagan helped end that. There’s a really good book detailing the end of regulation and the advancement of product placement TV that happened in the 80s. Specifically in regard to children’s toys/cartoons.

    But eternal, fuck Reagan.

  28. 28.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Leto:

    But eternal, fuck Reagan.

    I don’t know the details, but I’ve heard that the stock regulations that created the vulture capitalism Hell we’re in are Reagan creations.

    EDIT – @laura:

    Ha!  I love badass grannies.  Badass grannies and little girls with oversized weapons, the two top action aesthetics.

  29. 29.

    Leto

    @Frankensteinbeck: honestly, would not doubt it. So much of our dysfunction is rooted in that era of “government is the problem” style governance. We’re seeing it on steroids here.

    @laura: I commented on your comment downstairs, but while Jenna Ortega was the teaser, the abuela’s stole the show! :)

  30. 30.

    brendancalling

    I’d have more to say but thanks to Taytay and Mr. Pfizer, I just became transgender and now I have to marry a box turtle. THANKS A LOT, CHIEFS.

    Q told me not to watch, but did I listen? Now who’s sorry? Me, That’s who. Now I gotta eat meal worms and figure out how to consummate marriage with a turtle.

  33. 33.

    randy khan

    @Joey Maloney:

    By my rough count, they showed her 8 times during the game, plus once in the brief wrap up before the postgame show and 5 more times during and after the trophy ceremony, including a longish bit when she and Kelce met on the field and smooched.  If I heard right, one of the things she said to him was “Oh. My. God.”  (Also, one of the postgame show talking heads, during that clip, talked about how sweet it was, something I never expected to hear during a Super Bowl broadcast.)

  38. 38.

    Roberto el oso

    The JFK ad. It’s like his advisors told him to do the obvious and really lean in to the Kennedy Family thing and he leaned in so hard he fell over.

  40. 40.

    lamh36

    I guess I was should have been rooting for 49ers seeing as I am literally here now and movin here in oh about a week’s time (Found an apartment BTW!!), but really I was only there for the Usher concert.

    Once that was over I was done watching, tbh.

    So congrats to winners I guess.

    I did see the RFK Jr ad, and it was SMH…I hope his uncle and daddy haunts him for the rest of his days, cause what da hell was that?  I understand it was a PAC suportting him…

    ETA: Apparently he’s saying “he” had no idea about the ad in response to his cousin Bobby Shriver and “apologized” for any upset…ugh

    https://twitter.com/PettyLupone/status/1756909810874982701

  42. 42.

    gwangung

    @randy khan: Chris Kluwe on Blue Sky was keeping track, and it was 12, but C’mon….this is such an obvious thing to do that even first quarter HIGH SCHOOL journalism students know what to do (and sports journalists, by and large, know their stuff, unlike their national politics brethren…..)

  48. 48.

    Chetan Murthy

    @lamh36:

    I guess I was should have been rooting for 49ers seeing as I am literally here now and movin here in oh about a week’s time

    I’ve lived here for 17 years, and I was rootin’ for MAGAt tears (lol!)  Got ’em, too (again lol!)  But, must admit, I don’t follow hand-egg at all, so really the only thing about it that interested me was the political ramifications.

    That, and more proof that Dark. Brandon. Is. King.

  58. 58.

    wjca

    @Hoppie: TS is not eligible to be President until December… just sayin’.

    Fortunately, Inauguration Day isn’t until January.  So it’s all good.

  59. 59.

    teezyskeezy

    @HumboldtBlue: Those ads were mostly all terrible. Like there used to be some really clever ads and…these were mostly all misfires. It’s like they hired PR people from…nevermind. ;-)

  60. 60.

    Shalimar

    @lamh36: Yeah, sure.  He had no idea they were going to make that ad.  Also, it was the pinned tweet on his twitter account before the game was even over.  Asshole.

  61. 61.

    wjca

    @lamh36: I guess I was should have been rooting for 49ers seeing as I am literally here now and movin here in oh about a week’s time

    Not to worry.  I’ve been here since Y.A. Tittle was the 49ers QB, and even I leaned towards KC this time.

  62. 62.

    Rusty

    @2liberal: Watching the right melt down over Biden’s post is epic.  Elon responded, libsofticktok responded, and more, they are all blowing a fuse.  This may be one of the greatest acts of trolling.  It’s art!!

  63. 63.

    SectionH

    @lamh36: CONGRATS on finding an apartment!!!  And good luck with Moving Hell. Doesn’t matter if it’s across the street or across the country, it’s always horrible. Best wishes to you.

    This afternoon, Mr S and I went to the place (in San Diego) we knew didn’t have any TVs. And, well they close at 8, technically, and by 6 tonight everybody else was gone, so the 2 guys in the back were streaming the SB. And they were both mildly cheering for the Niners. But when I pointed out to M that if KC won, it would drive the Magats insane, he just smiled, and told J, so I think they were both ok with the outcome.

  64. 64.

    dirge

    @Frankensteinbeck: I don’t know the details, but I’ve heard that the stock regulations that created the vulture capitalism Hell we’re in are Reagan creations.

    Yes, and changes in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions.  But don’t underestimate the impact of the capital gains tax cut (pushed by republicans, signed by Clinton), which pulled a lot of money into the stock market contemporaneously with the dot-com bubble and the advent of amateur day trading.  That got a lot of people identifying with the interests of their (tax advantaged, successful until suddenly they weren’t) stockholding selves more than with their (powerless, abused) wage earning selves, which interests are generally opposed.

  65. 65.

    Hoppie

    @wjca: Subtext is important, indeed.  But what if Joe resigned and Kamala nominated Taylor S as VP successor….  Inquiring minds and all that.

  66. 66.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @dirge:

    That got a lot of people identifying with the interests of their (tax advantaged, successful until suddenly they weren’t) stockholding selves more than with their (powerless, abused) wage earning selves, which interests are generally opposed.

    Is this a ding against 401ks/IRAs and passive index investing?

  67. 67.

    Gretchen

    Daughter wasn’t sure she wanted the Chiefs to win because now the schools are closed for the big Wednesday parade and there have been so many days off already. We’re all wondering if Taylor will be in the parade. Surely on Valentines Day?

  68. 68.

    laura

    Holy Toledo! After Beyonce’s super bowl commercial she dropped 2 country songs and they are amazing. Head’s will explode! I’m in awe. Jaw on floor. Stars in my eyes.

  69. 69.

    Hoppie

    @Hoppie: ETA Ghod couldn’t decide between the fags and the wokes, and took until well into the overtime to pick!  21st century for the win!

  70. 70.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Rusty:

    Elon responded, libsofticktok responded, and more, they are all blowing a fuse.

    What exactly are they saying?

  71. 71.

    Jay

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Nope, ETrade and the like, and the shift to day trading. When the markets were running up, many daytraders were making on paper more money sitting at home, (or at work, but not their job), than they did in their jobs. All well and good while the markets were going up, up, up.

  72. 72.

    wjca

    @Hoppie: what if Joe resigned and Kamala nominated Taylor S as VP successor

    Well, since such an appointment must be approved by both houses of Congress, by the time it might be possible (i.e. the Democrats holding the Senate and taking the House) the age question would be moot.

  73. 73.

    dirge

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Is this a ding against 401ks/IRAs and passive index investing?

    Sort of, but not really.  401k dates to the late 70’s.  Passive index investing has existed for a long time, but didn’t really take off until post-dot-com-bust.  The capital gains cut indirectly pushed everybody’s 401k up, by pulling money into the market.  Unclear how it affects the viability of passive funds, but it probably helps.

    It’s a ding against doubling down on the existing public policy of replacing traditional defined benefit pensions with defined contribution schemes, and incentivizing everyone to send their money to Wall Street.  A ding against using tax policy to tilt the playing field towards capital and against labor.

    It’s not meant to be a ding against any individual who rationally evaluates those incentives and chooses to take advantage of them.  In the current environment, 401ks and passive funds are good choices;  they’re better choices than they’d be if we had better policies.

    ETA:  Also, what @Jay said.

  75. 75.

    hotshoe

    @laura:

    Thanks for the link to the Oakland Museum — reminds me that it would be worth a special trip. I live a hundred miles away. When I used to live closer, I went all the time and I never got tired of it. The admission price is pretty steep nowadays, but there are lots of days/programs when it’s free or reduced price for folks who have to worry about the cost — and the photos make it clear that it’s more fabulous than ever.

    As a general rule, I wouldn’t bother with whatever Special Exhibition is in the Great Hall. Use time for the entire floors of natural science, history, and permanent art collection.

    Note: plan for a five-block walk from the museum to Oakland Chinatown (which has evolved into something of a cultural center for many Asian groups in the East Bay).

    Last time I was in Oakland Chinatown was literally the day before Alameda County went into Covid lockdown, so I don’t know what all has changed since then. But I know there are so many different good things to eat, it would take a lifetime to try them all.

  79. 79.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Hoppie: Every night at 2am ET, IIRC, some batch job runs, and those unlucky enough to comment at close to that time experience multiple duplicates.  You got off easy — some get 4-5 copies.

  86. 86.

    Patricia Kayden

    I thought San Francisco would win since they’ve had a stellar season but I’m good with the Chiefs winning since it pisses off MAGAts. I laughed out loud whenever the camera showed Taylor celebrating.

    I know it’s early but I am looking forward to her endorsing President Biden. Heads will explode. 😂 😂 😂

     

  89. 89.

    Tony Jay

    @Yutsano:

      With any luck this will knock off the “Biden is senile” smear from the news cycle.

    Pfft. Within minutes of the winning touchdown political editors were having a Teams meeting to decide whether they should push stories in a “Biden insiders hope Tra-Tay SB victory distracts from ‘geriatric memory’ scandal” direction or go full loop-de-loon with “Would a 21st century President have remembered to shield Taylor from the conspiracy theorists? Our panel decides.”

    All hail the Holy Narrative.

  91. 91.

    sab

    @lamh36: Congratulations on the apartment.

    Oakland is a better choice for you than San Francisco because San Francisco is really cold for anyone from a warm climate. Other than the occassional heat wave, the summer temperatures are rarely out of the seventies. And every evening when you get off work the cold damp fog is rolling in from the ocean.

  92. 92.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud: ​
     

    Biden needs to act his age. /NYT

    “I don’t know how to act my age, I’ve never been this age before.”

  94. 94.

    Betty

    @Frankensteinbeck: His cousin, Bobby Shriver, slammed him for the ad so he responded that it wasn’t his, it was his Super Pac’s and then pinned it to the top of his feed. What a clown.

  95. 95.

    Citizen Dave

    No one commented on Cole’s awesome Kenny Powers – Mahomes connection?  It’s the same voice, and hilarious!  Thank you Cole.

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