Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let me file that under fuck it.

The words do not have to be perfect.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

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

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

So very ready.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

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

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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  7. 7.

    rikyrah

    Will those ‘ you’re just trying to use Project 2025 to scare us’ crowd finally wake the phuck up?

     

    Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) posted at 10:38 AM on Tue, May 07, 2024:
    Mike Johnson says Republicans must take total control of government so they can enact their Project 2025 agenda, including a national abortion ban, or else America is “facing very serious threats” t.co/g3s4Nzve6F
    (https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1787869591839875495?t=VLqLLSo_XHO1i2C_oyXuWw&s=03)

  12. 12.

    Bupalos

    Trump in his little post-court rant suggests that 3.5% inflation is going to lead to the United States breaking up into little pieces, just like Nazi Germany.

    Also pretty clear he’s pursuing a fall-back election strategy of saying he would have won if not for the legal harassment that is keeping him from campaigning. That the operation of the judicial system is ‘election interference.’ He’s already positioning for more big-lie democratic destabilization, win or lose. “I was winning before they tied me up in court.”

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    If the GOP Can’t Keep Voters from Putting Abortion on the Ballot, They Will Try To Trick Voters. They Will Cheat.
    The “Decline to Sign” movement is gaining traction in GOP-dominated states

    JESS PIPER

    MAY 6

     

     

    The event to raise money for local Crawford County candidates was held inside an auction house right off the highway. It was a BBQ supper, with a silent auction, and a Bluegrass band. The event also had petitions at the ready for several amendments, including the abortion petition.

    As I pulled into the parking lot, I noticed a minivan and a woman stopping each person going down the drive. She was standing next to her van, while a man sat in the driver’s seat. She had what looked like paper tickets in her hand — I assumed she was checking in guests for the event. As I stopped, she smiled and asked if I wanted information on the petition to put abortion on the ballot in Arkansas?

    I returned her smile and said, “sure.” She handed me a piece of cardstock with a QR code. I was really excited to scan it, because I thought Arkansas may have a way to electronically sign the petition, and I could share it with my Arkansas friends…

    Oof. I was way off.

    When I scanned the code, it took me straight to a Google drive. I was hesitant immediately. The first folder in the drive is titled, “Arkansas Abortion Amendment Myth vs. Fact” and that was pretty much a dead giveaway; the lady stopping folks headed to an event intent on signing the abortion petition was going to hit them with disinformation first.

    Another folder in the Google drive was something called “Decline to Sign.” This graphic included bulleted points. Among them:

    …………………………………………

     

    Was the woman standing in that parking lot just some solitary extremist trying to dissuade voters from signing a petition? Some woman who got a crazy idea, created a Google drive, printed up cardstock with a QR code, and decided to lie to folks on their way to sign a petition in a small town in Arkansas?

    No. “Decline to Sign” is a coordinated movement and we saw it in Missouri as well. It is well-funded and not at all grassroots. They have signs, sites, and lawmakers who are bought and paid for to do their dirty work.

    I noticed “Decline to Sign” popping up on social media from Missouri GOP State Senators and Representatives. The messaging was exactly the same. Some Reps even started tweeting out videos of themselves, sitting on the same couch in front of the same bookcase, reading a script about “out of state” folks coming to Missouri to gather signatures and steal identities or allow abortions up to birth. It was creepy because it was so scripted and the deliveries were so automated. The politicians also had those dead eyes you need to straight up lie to someone.

     

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  15. 15.

    JPL

    @Bupalos:  You mean born again sleaze trump, who wants to put a 10 percent tariff on all imported goods is complaining about the current inflation.    oh okay

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    Moderately spring-y number.

    Tulip time
    They get excited over tulip time
    But I’m delighted over julep time
    ;

  21. 21.

    tam1MI

    @rikyrah: Will those ‘ you’re just trying to use Project 2025 to scare us’ crowd finally wake the phuck up?

    They are the same assholes who bellowed, “You’re just saying that the Supreme Cort and reproductive rights are on the ballot to scare us!”, so my guess would be, “No”.

  27. 27.

    TBone

    The Project 2025 plan specifically lists a ban on pornography stating, “[Pornography] is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.”

    “The minute that goes away, this country will flourish,” McEntee told Knowles.

    McEntee was Donald Trump’s former personal aide but was fired from the White House over a gambling debt issue that prevented him access to a security clearance.

    meidastouch.com/news/trump-aide-promises-ban-on-pornography-in-2nd-trump-term

    Yeah okay, sparky, we’ll get right on that.

  34. 34.

    John S.

    @mrmoshpotato: I seem to recall that the majority of all porn traffic went to… Utah. So it’s a pretty safe bet that these people want to stop others from engaging in behavior that they can’t control themselves.

  36. 36.

    sab

    We just had  my 99 yo dad with dementia ‘s funeral. We didn’t run an obit. He was so old, his only friends were Mom,  except the one’s that died in WWII,

    Our baby sister doesn’t buy into our nonsense. She called cousins as our baby sister. They were glad to here from us.

    So a few cousins showed up and many grandchildren at the funeral.  That was beyond amazing and we were not expecting it. Family loves a guy? Who knew?

    There was nobody on earth Dad loved more than his baby sister and her niece Kitty.

  37. 37.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @rikyrah: My fave black podcaster joked yesterday that Drake proved he wasn’t (culturally) Black when videos popped up of him talking shit at his Mom, in public, a few years ago 😂

  38. 38.

    Trollhattan

    Say, kids,

    1. Don’t do this.

    A motorist died Tuesday after a Tesla plunged hundreds of feet down an embankment on Highway 50 in Northern California’s high Sierra, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officers were alerted to the incident just before 11:30 a.m. in which the vehicle veered off westbound lanes near a Chevron gas station several miles east of Pollock Pines near the Fresh Pond community, according to the CHP’s dispatch log.

    Officer Andrew Brown, a spokesman for the CHP’s Placerville office, said he didn’t immediately know what led to the Tesla crash; it was unclear if the Tesla collided with any other vehicles. The El Dorado County Coroner’s Office, called to the scene, is expected to identify the driver. The vehicle slid down the embankment about 300 to 400 feet, leading authorities to shut down one lane on Highway 50 and deploy cables to extract the vehicle.

    sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article288397325.html#storylink=cpy

    2. Vehicle make does not matter if you pitch your car 400 feet off a mountainside, but one does wonder if “autopilot” was engaged. CA 50 be twisty as hell.

  39. 39.

    sab

    This whole family grieving thing is weird.

    Not the grieving, but how it works out.

    My dad just died. He was a widower and his only friend and the love of his life had died twelve years ago. He had dementia. He had a wonderful caretaker, but the last years of his life he was  often frightened and confused.

    Hospice is all about the dying not being frightened and confused by bad decisions their loved ones are making.

    Not by our caretaker. By us.

  40. 40.

    sab

    The replacement meyer lemons just artived. Ohio in May. They live in pots year round in CA.  Our weather is worse for them. Have to keep track of their weather.

    We had a five year old tree that died when I tried to repot it. Stupid me. The old pot was more than adequate. The repotting killed it.

  43. 43.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @SteverinoCT: ​

    When they see us coming, the birdies all try and hide,
    But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
    …
    My heart will be quickenin’ with each drop of strychnine
    We feed to a pigeon – it just takes a smidgeon! – to poison a pigeon in the park!

    FTR one of my good friends in Prague would approve: she is a columbaphobe. Must’ve been spattered or splattered or wingslapped by one when she was a kid. She’s a highly respected professional today, but on public square we routinely need to squire her past the flocks of dirty birds lest she freak out…​

  44. 44.

    Gvg

    It always startles me, how out of phase northern seasons get. Spring was February or March….May is summer. The tropical s are blooming and the Rudbeckias will soon. Agapanthus and Allamandas are doing well. It’s hot and the rains haven’t really started. The lawn needs water or it turns to crisp toast. Gardenias are scenting the air….it’s time for shade gardening!
    A tree company says it will drop a load of free wood chips tomorrow. If they do, I will be shoveling mulch all weekend.

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