Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

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

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

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

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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In case you haven’t noticed, we’re going to start posting protest sign pictures on the bottom right of the “right rail” ===>>>>

You can send them to me:  [email protected].  If you can, make sure there are no faces legible, but if you can’t crop a picture or blur, just send the over, my Photoshop skills are poor but adequate for the task.

WaterGirl is going to rotate them every couple of days.   I’ve uploaded a few already but it will be fun to see what’s happening at protests that you’re attending.

Open Thread - Send Your Protest Sign Pics
Loveland, CO – via the cyberstuck subreddit.

Here’s some news about the WankPanzer / SwastiKKKar / DivorceWagon:

A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild of deadly cars if ever there was one.

The site arrives at that conclusion by comparing the total units sold so far — 34,438 for the Cybertruck, compared to 3,173,491 for the ill-fated Pinto, discontinued in 1980 — and comparing reported fire fatalities for both.

At the current rate of horrible fiery deaths, FuelArc projects the Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto’s 0.85. (In absolute terms, FuelArc found, 27 Pinto drivers died in fires, while five Cybertruck drivers have suffered the same fate, at least so far.)

A base model Pinto sold for $2K in 1970, which is roughly $16K in 2025.  IncelCaminos start at $80K.

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  2. 2.

    zhena gogolia

    Back to wearing my “DUDE GOTTA GO” T-shirt.

    There’s a professionally printed yard sign in my neighborhood: “Presidents Are Temporary. JESUS CHRIST IS FOREVER.” It’s not really in line with general sympathies here, but I find it consoling. I’m not a great photographer, though.

    I’m looking forward to these images. The coffee one is great.

  3. 3.

    suzanne

    Did I tell y’all I saw a black swastikar last week? It looked slightly better than the stainless. Of course, that’s like saying 15-degree weather is warmer than 12-degree weather: simultaneously true and insignificant.

  6. 6.

    Phylllis

    @Baud: There’s one in the small town where I used to live that is cherry. The owners drive it in the town 4th of July & Christmas parades every year. I think it might have 70,000 miles on it.

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    OK MM and WaterGirl:  I have something to say about this, because the first one you guys put up is (in my view) vulgar, performative, and confusing.  And it lives at the bottom of every thread since sometime yesterday; cannot miss it.

    What is this person’s issue?  If it’s about abortion and contraception, the government would be in her uterus, right?  If it’s checking to make sure which gender so as to use the proper bathroom, that would be a vulva, wouldn’t it?  If they are checking a “vagina” at that point, one has a good case for digital rape, no?  (Be like the First Felon!)

    Why precisely “vagina” and must we see something that makes us think of coffee and vaginas all day long?  It has been inescapable.  (I realize for some jackals, those may be two of their favorite things.  However …)

    Personally, I would love if this protest thing lived in the middle of the “hamburger”(?)  so we don’t have to see it all day, in the event it is aggravating.  Or, very honestly, triggering or makes us sad.  Because that happens too.  (ETA:  It was very saddening to see the photo of Ozark and his beloved dog, day after day after day.)

    Please come up with some witty or instructive signs, and we know they are out there.

    That said, I am loving the photos WaterGirl has been selecting for the top of the blogsite.  They are restorative.

  9. 9.

    sentient ai from the future

    regarding the more thorough information release on these goons via krebsonsecurity, the fundamental thing to understand about these Rolf Grubers is that they are only marginally competent even when the labor has been offered up to them on a silver platter. they are clearly “script kiddies” who cause chaos based on the dissemination of other people’s work.

    so, when they are offered highly-capable tools by well funded adversaries that are intended for use in their exploitation of a target, they are incapable of figuring out whether those tools do anything else, including pwn themselves. the cybercriminal economy goes through this all the time, now this malware vendor doesnt realize they’ve been pwned by some other malware vendor and all their customers are locked out, it’s a soap opera of double crossing.

    and guess who is very keen on the machinations of jovan himself? probably has compromised Team Rugrat fifteen ways from friday? yeah, you know the guy.

    their ignorance would be laughable if it werent so dangerous.

  12. 12.

    Jay

    @Elizabelle:

    A few years ago, all the “woo” female alt-health sites were hyping the alleged benefits of using coffee as a cleansing douche.

    Actual Doctors pointed out that the only thing using coffee a “cleansing douche” did was greatly increase the odds of cervical cancer

    So the sites instead switched to hyping using coffee as an enema.

  14. 14.

    Percysowner

     

    My 7 year old grandson saw one the other day, and since it’s so different and stands out, he thinks it looks cool. He’s 7 what can you do. OTOH, after seeing it drive by he was already telling me design changes he will make when he becomes a car manufacturer. Also, he is going to sell his cars for a whopping $50. CyberTruck, a vehicle that a 7 year old can redesign and make better!

  20. 20.

    Elizabelle

    @Jay:  Missed that, thank dog.  I  believe they have coffee enemas, and I don’t appreciate thinking about that when checking in with my morning joe!

    And, if one thinks about getting burned with hot coffee on one’s private parts:  government can be good there, right?  Like requiring a safe temperature range.  Not to mention having the restaurant clean out the coffee maker from time to time.

    With this one, seems like it was written by someone who does not understand anatomy.  Precision is good.

    Also:  delighted to hear that your partner is recovering well; believe you said scan came back clean?  Yay!  More of that.

  23. 23.

    Jay

    @frosty:

    It’s on a Tesla Dealers lot. Globally, there has been a rash of “vandalism” targeted at Tesla Dealerships and Tesla’s themselves, from spray paint, new signage, stickers ranging from “Swasticar” to covering over the “T” with the new unofficial logo.

    Lot’s of Tesla owners are “defending” their cars by adding various stickers like, “I bought this before I knew he was a Nazi”.

  24. 24.

    A Ghost to Most

    You want a protest song? Check out “The Perilous Night”, by DBT on “The New Ok”.

  28. 28.

    satby

    @Elizabelle: @MagdaInBlack:  it’s one of the stupidest protest signs I’ve ever seen, so there’s that I guess. Nearly Q-Anon worthy in its obscure reference to something nobody normal would ever have taken seriously in the first place.

  29. 29.

    TBone

    @NotMax: my Dad would order those occasionally!  I’ve never had one though.  When one of these fucking guys bites the big one, I’ma make one!

    (Edwyn Collins sings the lyrics this page is titled on, but you have wait till near the end.)

  30. 30.

    Jay

    @Elizabelle:

    @NotMax:

    as “woo”, coffee enema’s have stuck around, mostly because of the sudden and short lived caffeine rush. It is of course, safer to double dose No-Doze pills.

    It is mostly a Joe Rogan/Fucker Fishsticks/Roid Junkies “thing” though. I guess they think that bowel cancer and prostate cancer will be a “fun” experience.

    coffee douches did not after one site that was heavily promoting them got sued into oblivion.

  31. 31.

    Jay

    @satby:

    It was a huge “Womens Health” trend for a few short years in the mid 2010’s, and in all the vanity Women’s Mags as a new “miracle thing”.

    As far as being “stupid” goes, well Goop still sells a lot of yoni eggs.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    Well, leaving coffee and its many uses aside:  I think the main point was:

    Don’t go for vulgar just to get eyeballs. Don’t we have enough of that already?

    Clever and makes sense is better.

    I think one day and done would be great too.

  34. 34.

    MagdaInBlack

    @NotMax: I used to love those. It probably won’t surprise you that they were pretty hard to come by at farm town bars. Too fancy schmancy.

  35. 35.

    satby

    As a female who reads a lot of “women’s health” stuff since I originally went to nursing school to be a midwife, I never heard of it. And the home birth crowd are often easy prey for weird ideas. But it was stupid then and it’s stupid now. Especially as a protest sign. As Elizabelle clearly explains, when what you’re protesting about is confusing, you’re losing.

    Unfortunately, the only part of nursing school I didn’t finish was the psychiatric rotation. The only one I’ve needed in all my subsequent careers. As well as here, often enough.

  36. 36.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @Ryan: if you can’t fit a single bike in the trunk, it is not worthy of being called a truck. My Honda Fit can handle a tandem bike with the wheels off inside the car, so it’s a better truck than the wankpanzer.

  37. 37.

    TBone

    A versatile, one size fits all sign from my Occupy Philly march day (original was in all caps Army type font):

    I GOT MINE, SCREW YOU IS A CRAPPY ATTITUDE

  38. 38.

    John S.

    @suzanne:

    Western Washington is littered with Wankpanzers due to the high incidence of techbros. I’ve seen all sorts of colors including white, red, army green and one with the most hideous Trump themed wrap I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t really matter what the color, they are fucking hideous.

  40. 40.

    Jay

    @satby:

    “Normies” won’t “get” even close to 99% of even the clearest protest signs because they don’t even know that there is a coup going on.

  41. 41.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @Jay: I thought it was alluding to the woman who got third degree burns in her lap from the McDonald’s coffee, but your explanation makes much more sense

  42. 42.

    NotMax

    @MagdaInBlack

    One thing I recently learned was that throughout most of the Old West, the next most popular drink in saloons after whiskey (whose pedigree might be – and often was – suspect) was champagne.

    Apparently it was shipped in and stocked by the caseload and readily available.

    Can’t quite picture Gary Cooper sidling up to the bar and saying “Gimme a champagne” though.

  43. 43.

    Ruckus

    @Percysowner:

    I’ve seen one close up and I am not in the least impressed. I manufactured industrial tools in a machine shop for decades and have a pretty decent eye for metal work – both good and not at all good. Hence my not in the least impressed. Add on that sfb II owns the company that makes these POS vehicles and they lose all concept of a reasonable, rational vehicle.

  44. 44.

    tobie

    I don’t like to write signs, so I try to keep them short: “I didn’t vote for the (F)Elon” may not be catchy but my wrists don’t get sore writing it on cardboard.

  45. 45.

    suzanne

    @John S.: Agreed. I think the black only looked slightly less bad because the stainless gets all fingerprint-y and it looks terrible. But all of them are ugly.

    It might be uglier than the Ford F-150, and I think that car is a personality disorder on wheels.

  46. 46.

    trollhattan

    @suzanne: Around here is at least one matte black one with utterly opaque windows of a degree not remotely “street legal” in California. Of course they’re not getting pulled over, unless maybe NBA players take a fancy to those.

  52. 52.

    Starfish (she/her)

    @Elizabelle: That sign in the back says “Centennial State,” and I tell you what, Colorado protests have been fairly vulgar. At one of the women’s marches, someone definitely had a penis on their sign. There were a lot of uterus with middle finger signs, and then there was some complaints on the internet that these were not trans-inclusive. You know, back when Democrats could disagree with each other because there were not fascists trying to destroy the government.

  53. 53.

    TBone

    Coffee and icky lady parts go well together IMO (on sign hahahaha!)

    It’s a riff on the old

    “I like my men how I like my coffee…” joke.

    (Sorta hot and picked up at the gas station.)

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    @Elizabelle:

    As one without said piece of anatomy I still think the sign is a good one and has a valid point. We are seeing a time when one political side runs our country. Not by a big margin but still. And it seems to be all clowns in charge. And I do not mean that in the entertainment side of clowns, but in the can’t do anything other than make noise and destroy stuff way. And they want to make it a lot worse for the vast majority rather than any better whatsoever.

    Now once again, as a human without said body part, I can see your point but look at this in a historical way. Women are NOT second class citizens. But often get treated that way by a lot of humans, and even from some on your side of the gender aisle. And many, many men do not think of women in any way but as subjects – and that is not good at all.

    So how else should that sign read?

    Because it really does get the point across.

  61. 61.

    HopefullyNotcassandra

    Senator Moran (R-KS) is almost protesting.

    “TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said a freeze on federal funding and change at the U.S. Agency for International Development left $340 million in lifesaving food grown in the United States sitting at domestic ports awaiting delivery to locations around the world where people were starving.“

  62. 62.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    The sign wasn’t confusing one iota to the people at the protest.  The woman carrying it was hanging near the three of us.  She had at least a dozen people come up and ask to take a photo of the sign and I observed countless more walking past, seeing it chuckling and giving her a sign of approval in one form or another.

    I posted it on my FB profile and got 40 “likes/loves” (fwiw) and if I get any responses from a FB post much less one with that kind of reaction, it’s saying something.

    Obviously it’s not everyone’s cup o’ tea but that’s what protesting is all about.  Clearly it resonated with a ton of people actually there.

    Der Wankpanzer:  I’ve been in one.  Another bro from Boulder opened a private “stem” school for 1-8th graders down in Five Points at the beginning of the last school year and he actually wrote a childrens book on the thing:

    The Ugly Truckling

    At our neighborhood annual picnic last May, I was doing a tiny “EV Car Show” as part of it (we had neighbors with EV park em and talk about em).  I saw his Wankpanzer at the building where this school is, barged in, introduced myself as on the Registered Neighborhood Org board and asked if he’d like to attend; I wanted it there because, love it or hate it, last May, it was a massive curiosity thing and would have pulled more people into a neighborhood event where we try to get the transplants to actually get to know their neighbors.

    He couldn’t (it was fairly last minute) but he gave me a tour of the thing.  He’s setup this school around the damned thing in terms of studying, something, I have no clue other than he’s charging around $36K tuition.

    Two photos of it next to my 2023 Bolt EV:

    https://flic.kr/p/2pVebgs

    https://flic.kr/p/2pV8x8Z

    People who beat on the Wankpanzer overlook the obvious features of the thing:

    1) It’s sucked up all of Tesla’s R&D and product development to the detriment of the rest of it’s product line.  As I’ve been posting over the last week, Tesla sales ain’t great and a lot of that has to do with the fact they’ve done very, very, little to keep the product line “fresh”.  As such, other EV makes like GM, Ford and Kia/Hyundai are out with better products can “catching up”.

    2) It easily helps one identify the biggest douche in the neighborhood.

  65. 65.

    Jeffro

    Musk sure had a lot of (evil) reasons to buy himself a president who’d run cover for him, didn’t he?

    In addition to the WankPanzer’s flammability issues, I think there were also DoD investigations and some other investigations?  Plus he wants to use OUR government to exact his revenge on USAID and the current South African government?

    Not a hard call here, Dems: make it all about Musk, all the time.  Use it to break the GOP…owning trump is one thing; owning a lunatic megabillionaire’s assaults on our very government is another thing entirely.  And tie it to the broader overall theme of “GOP = corruption”

  67. 67.

    Cara

    @Elizabelle: There’s nothing vulgar about vaginas, or saying “keep the government  out of my vagina” to register one’s objection to being treated like an object instead of like an actual human being with ownership of their body.

    Saying “uterus” might be more accurate if referencing pregnancy specifically, but if the objection is to the multiple bodily and civil rights outrages women are routinely subjected to, then the word “vagina” makes that broader point quite nicely.

  68. 68.

    M31

    coffee enemas were a staple of 19th C “health” weirdos like the Kelloggs, the old is new again

    and Graham crackers were to prevent masturbation, or something

    whatta bunch of malarky

  69. 69.

    Jeffro

    OT but Geminid I saw your note several threads ago about the VA GOV polling and all I can say is, if Virginia was able to resist the country-wide ‘red shift’ this last presidential election and stay blue…

    …NO way that crazy-ass Winsome Sears is going to get herself elected Governor, not on a ballot that doesn’t have trump on it, and not against “Hey!  Did you know I’m bipartisan as heck?!” Abigail Spanberger.

    My only concern at this point is that Spanberger overdoes it on the bipartisanship and makes Democrats less enthusiastic about turning out.

  71. 71.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:

    The sign wasn’t confusing one iota to the people at the protest.

    Not surprised. Even if there are any references to coffee douches and/or the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, it works without them as stand-alone slogan that’s absurdist enough to be quite memorable. Much like the famous “women need men like fish need a bicycle” feminist slogan.

    My thoughts were it was referencing abortion and potentially the genital inspections for trans girls/women competing in sport. And yes, “vulva” would be the correct term for what’s involved in the latter, but there’s many, many women who use “vag/vaj” as slang to referring to their vulvas. E.g. “vajazzle” (aka glitter pubes).

  72. 72.

    Jeffro

    fwiw, I have put most of my home-made anti-Elon signs out around my town in high-traffic areas…who knows if they’ll do any good but it feels good and since all we do now in this country is ‘vibes’, my ‘vibes’ are rockin’!

    “NO ONE ELECTED MUSK!”

    “USA > MUSK”

    or just “MUSK” with the red circle/strikethrough around it

    He’s really not popular and the MAGAts know it

  80. 80.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    it works without them as stand-alone slogan that’s absurdist enough to be quite memorable.

    That’s key and thanks for articulating it better than I wasn’t.

    Denver had one of the biggest rallies in the nation on Wed.  Sure, I saw tons of “No One Elected Musk” and a gazillion variations on that theme.  Great, but after you’ve seen the 500th sign, you begin to visually tune out.

    But at big protests, it always seems the signs with the most impact at the moment are the absurdist ones, the most pithy; the ones that get photos that have a far better chance of going viral.

    And such signs are also far more likely to engender a broad range of reactions, not all positive.  Again, one had to be there.

  86. 86.

    Jeffro

    @Baud: right…(I live here)…that was my point?  Sorry if I misled anyone.  I’m just trying to say that without trump there to drive turnout like last year…Sears is probably toast.

  88. 88.

    NotMax

    Anyone else hear Felon 47 refer – multiple times – to the Nissan deal with U.S. Steel? In front of the Japanese PM.

    (Hint: It’s Nippon Steel.)

  89. 89.

    zhena gogolia

    It’s gotten so that when we’re on our daily walk I embarrass my husband by yelling at any house that has a Trump sign (or has had one in the past — most have been taken down).

  90. 90.

    zhena gogolia

    @NotMax: I’m proud to say I have not heard his voice or seen him in a video since the election. I have glimpsed a few still pictures, but that’s it.

  93. 93.

    West of the Rockies

    @Baud:

    I mean this absolutely literally:  when that toad croaks, I will dance around the neighborhood, whooping and twerking in front of the homes I know house Trump voters.

  96. 96.

    Geminid

    @Baud: Virginia Democrats thrived politically during the Trump years, starting in November of 2017 when they cut the Republicans’ 65-35 majority in the House of Delegates down to 51- 49, with one tied race decided for the Republican by means of drawing.

    Democrats went on to win control of the state’s House and Senate in 2019. They had already flipped three Republican House seats in 2018. Democrats and candid Republicans alike said Donald Trump was a potent GOTV resource for Democrats. I don’t think that will change this year.

    We’ll get to see this November. Early Emerson and Mason Dixon polls showed Abigail Spanberger wiith leads of one and three points over Wnsome Earl-Sears.

  98. 98.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, … GovExec.com:

    A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Agency for International Development from placing thousands of employees on administrative leave and hurriedly evacuating workers stationed overseas. The order also reinstates all employees placed on leave earlier this week.

    The American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees filed a lawsuit Thursday night aimed at halting the apparent effort to decimate the foreign aid agency and reposition it under the auspices of the State Department. Hundreds of stateside employees were locked out of both the agency headquarters and its computer systems at the start of the week, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been named the agency’s acting administrator.

    AFSA and AFGE’s lawsuit alleges that the administration’s plans violate the constitutional separation of powers, the take care clause that tasks the president with faithfully executing federal law, and in multiple instances the Administrative Procedures Act.

    In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols halted all of the Trump administration’s workforce actions—leave placements, evacuation of overseas personnel and the shutting off of employees’ access to USAID’s various computer systems—until February 14 at midnight, in order to allow a fuller discussion of the legal issues.

    […]

    Good, good.

    More at the link.

    [eta:] That’s from yesterday and was probably talked about already.  Time is mushing together for me these days…

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  99. 99.

    RaflW

    @NotMax: This makes sense to me, because if adulterated or questionable liquor was a concern, faking the pop and bubbles of Champagne would be difficult back then (and, to some extent, even now).

    I second the recommendation of Widow Clicquot for a streaming choice, available now.

  101. 101.

    Baud

    @Geminid:

    Early Emerson and Mason Dixon polls showed Abigail Spanberger wiith leads of one and three points over Wnsome Earl-Sears.

     
    Stupid Dem voters who need “more information.”

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    FYI. The second paragraph in the snippet is vital.

    District Judge Paul A. Engelmeyer’s order now prohibits the Trump administration ”from granting access to all political appointees, special government employees, and government employees detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department, to any Treasury Department payment record, payment systems, or any other data systems maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information and/or confidential financial information of payees.”

    Engelmeyer also orders that those prohibited from accessing the records must “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems” since January 20th, 2025. A hearing is scheduled for February 14th.
    [snip]
    Attorneys General from these other states joined [Letitia] James in the lawsuit: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Source

  104. 104.

    Shalimar

    @Baud: I’m pretty sure they can teach an AI Trump’s speech patterns.  A Max Headroom president for the new age.

  105. 105.

    Layer8Problem

    @Shalimar:  Stick him in an AI and this crap could go on for hundreds of years, like in that Star Trek Original Series episode.  “Landru TFG, guide us!”  Screw that.

  106. 106.

    Ruckus

    @Jeffro:

    He’s really not popular and the MAGAts know it

    It’s tough to be popular when you are the world’s wealthiest man. People will likely think being rich is nice, being richer is nicer but if it ain’t you then all you are doing is praising this man, not what he does to get that way, which mostly was be left a hell of a lot of money by his white dad in South Africa, where white may be in power but it isn’t close to a majority. SA is over 80% black.

  107. 107.

    Geminid

    @Baud: The Emerson poll showed 13% undecided, with 4% responding “zother.” The last number may reflect support for ex-Congessman Denver Riggleman, who has teased a run as an Independent. I hope Righleman doesn’t run, and this is a one-on-one fight.

    Both Spanberger and Earl-Sears lag in statewide name recognition. I was interested, though to find that my five Charlottesville Democratic knew about her. They usually don’t pay attention to politics outside their own district and Washington. Within the Party spectrum, they range from Moderate to Liberal to “Progressive,” and they all were enthusiastic about Spanberger running.

  109. 109.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @NotMax:

    Engelmeyer also orders that those prohibited from accessing the records must “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems” since January 20th, 2025.

    I see the judge has a great sense of humor. Like any of these jamokes are actually gonna do that.

    But the finding out should be amusing: “Honestly Judge, I completely forgot that I’d made a back up of all terabytes of the data we stole….”

  110. 110.

    Leto

    @suzanne: way late of a reply, but we have both a stainless steel swastikar, as well as a matte black wankpanzer here in our neighborhood. On top of those two, we have a few more around in the area. They are so damn ugly. The offspring of a Pinto and Yugo.

  111. 111.

    Juju

    I finally saw my first Cyber truck in person. One was behind me at a red light as I drove in the suburbs of the state capital. It sort of looked like someone tried to make the front of a truck look like Gort, but with a bad complexion.

  113. 113.

    Suzanne

    @Leto: They look like someone put wheels on a commercial washing machine. Just went down to the laundromat, stole one, and Tinkertoyed some wheels on it.

  114. 114.

    frosty

    @TBone: Lots of variations on that for coffee and women, riffing off hot, black, sweet, etc. I decided mine would be:

    I like my women like my coffee: cold and bitter. LOL

  115. 115.

    MinuteMan

    Has there ever been a more ridiculous manufactured vehicle on the road than Muskrat’s CyberDumpster?

  119. 119.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto

    So this all about hiding Musk’s great mistake. I knew it was something both petty and pathetic.

  120. 120.

    Sally

    Yes, well, hooray for farmers (big ag) realising that closing USAID means their crops are no longer bought to feed the starving masses (whom they don’t care about). The reduction in USAID staff from 10,000 to 300 means that there is no point shipping said food as there will be no one to store and distribute that aid. There will certainly be no one to ensure it isn’t stolen by terrorists etc. So it might as well rot here as there.

    Me, bitter?

    Same as the food stamps. They don’t care about the people receiving them (military families, Walmart workers, etc), but they care about selling their produce at good prices to the, wait for it, government.

    If these guys weren’t so utterly bereft of thought, they’d be stupid.

  121. 121.

    John S.

    @frosty:

    I have a gay friend who has his own version. “I like my women like my coffee. I don’t like coffee.”

    I’ve always wondered if this expression came from Airplane! or if it was around before that.

  122. 122.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Also, I drive by the Tesla plant in Fremont going to work, all the flags are down, anyone have the world as to why?

  126. 126.

    frosty

    @TBone: I liked that one!

    ETA: I’m the only one here? Time to go do something a little less lazy. See youse/yinz/y’all/ustedes later.

  127. 127.

    Sally

    And another thing, it is not a Department. Not a Cabinet position. At best, it could be called an Office. I have been referring to it as OOGE. Brantl in a comment referred to it as DOZE (zero), so I might start calling it OOZE. Which I quite like.

  129. 129.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @frosty:

    A week or so ago, I was driving out in the sticks, not too far from town, and I saw a Trump 2024 flag that fades into the American flag, something like this

    It offended me on many levels, but really, I think it’s so weird to still have flags and signs up months after the election, especially one where Trump won even the popular vote, even if only slightly.

    I want to ask these people why they think nobody wore presidential campaign gear, like hats, outside of election years before Trump

  134. 134.

    Phylllis

    @MinuteMan: The hubby and I saw a Hummer in the neighborhood the other day and I said “Remember when we thought those were atrocious? They’re almost quaint now.”

  136. 136.

    different-church-lady

    @Baud: We really really really need to get our heads wrapped around the fact that they’re not just misinformed and full Nazi is actually popular.

  144. 144.

    Tazj

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): That seems to be a characteristic of Trump supporters. They leave their Trump campaign signs and flags up well past their expiration date.
    There was a person in my neighborhood that had a Trump 2016 sign up until spring/summer 2017. It was on the grass after the sidewalk, not on the lawn near their house and I was tempted to knock it over on my walks around the neighborhood. The Trump flags are of course, a year round thing and what a declaration they make! A policemen in the neighborhood has a Trump 2024 flag. Not a surprise, but yikes! That makes me feel safe.

  147. 147.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Tazj:

    Yeah it’s strange. I don’t remember that being a thing in 2017 so much as it was a 2021 phenomenon, but I maybe I didn’t notice then

  149. 149.

    CliosFanBoy

    Time to put some old-style Firestone 500 tires on those bad boys to get the full Pinto effect!

  153. 153.

    NotMax

    The Dolt also recently claimed the S in BRICS stood for Spain, not South Africa.

    Trivia:

    South African word of the night; sjambok.

    Maybe valid in Scrabble?

  155. 155.

    lowtechcyclist

    @TBone: ​
     

    You went and made me do it, a favorite Collins (not Phil or Susan)

    🎶

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqJ0JpMj6I

    I love that song! (Recognized the thread title immediately, of course.)

    The local alternative station (WRNR) played it a lot back around 2016 or 2017. I’d never heard it before. I have no idea why they started playing it then; it was released in the mid-1990s.

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