Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.
The willow is too close to the house.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
No one could have predicted…
Republicans in disarray!
“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.
Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.
Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?
Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.
Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.
Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Raoul Paste
From the first cartoon, it appears Trump has factored organic chemistry into the tariffs. He really can do it all
A Ghost to Most
Such is life around the willfully ignorant. Too much truth, not enough reality, and a complete lack of ability to separate the two
different-church-lady
Even after all this, far too many people still think fascism is just a fun TV show.
Professor Bigfoot
I’m gonna drag this up from downstairs: I was asked, “what do Democrats stand for?”
This is my reply:
MCat
@Professor Bigfoot: Perfect. Thank you!
Elizabelle
Anne, I am so glad to see you back. Hope you are feeling spiffier.
@Professor Bigfoot: Well said. Brief and informative.
Spanky
Jaysus, where’s the smiting when you need it?
karen gail
@Spanky: He has a good soul? Obviously he didn’t go to a “real” doctor since don’t think the medical profession has a test for a “soul.”
The Audacity of Krope
@Spanky: President Donald Trump told reporters he “got every answer right,” on a cognitive test during his annual physical
Thinking that simply getting the “right answer” adequately describes the scope or purpose of a cognitive test suggests at least one type of poor cognition.
Then again, it’s the fairly common lazy thinker type.
bluefoot
Finally got around to doing my taxes. I should have done them earlier. I made little enough money last year that I actually get a refund. It would be just my luck that the first time in a long time I get a refund, the IRS gets dismantled…
Now I’m procrastinating on other stuff by posting here and cleaning the house a bit.
Redshift
@Professor Bigfoot: Excellent. I’m always frustrated by “freedumb!” conservatives and their “freedom means freedom to do the right thing, doing the wrong thing is ‘abusing your freedoms'”.
sukabi
@The Audacity of Krope: “every answer right”…. that’s quite a decline from the last time when he provided specific details about the animals he needed to identify and his set of words he had to remember…and the countless times he told everyone what a smart boy he was because he aced his cognitive test…
quite the decline Mr. Trump.
Suzanne
@Professor Bigfoot:
You would probably be shocked-but-not-surprised by the number of religious conservatives who mock “the blessings of liberty”. Because, of course, they’re all about liberty for themselves and their friends, and straight up hate the liberty of everyone else. Go read Rod Dreher on this topic sometime and try to keep your food in your stomach.
JaneE
Well it looks like cellphones and computers and chips are exempt now. Apparently even from China and all the tariffs on them, but I could be wrong about that. Even the Customs folks are having a hard time keeping up with the changes. And it is supposed to be retroactive, so those who already paid now have to request refunds.
Economic chaos and meltdown are the goals, primary even to the money.
The Audacity of Krope
When your version of liberty is the freedom to oppress others…
Suzanne
@The Audacity of Krope: These people are fucking monsters. Anything or anyone who offends their aesthetics, they would use the force of law to ban. They do not believe in “the blessings of liberty”, they believe those things have destroyed society.
These are the enemies we have to fight.
Martin
@JaneE: Investors won that round. Billions were made by the options traders.
cmorenc
@Professor Bigfoot: You are asking for an effective phrase for communicating what positives Democrats are about. We need to come up with a phrase as effective as “Make America Great Again” – it concisely fits on both a physical and mental bumper-sticker, and is at once aggressively positive and nebulously vague enough for folks to color in whatever notions they wish for it to mean. One key common core belief the phrase signals is belief in a more prosperous, secure past era before society and government got corrupted by unhealthy notions of modernity imposed while liberals controlled things.
In short, it’s one of the most efficiently effective political slogans ever – communicates a whole worldview i just four words, while being vague enough to mean just what the individual listener wants it to without requiring any critical thinking.
I wish we could come up with as effective and concise a phrase – as with MAGA, the less critical thinking it required to convincingly resonate with people’s core feelings and beliefs, the better. One thing it is definitely NOT is a draft for a debate argument – it is instead designed to be a phrase that effectively cuts off debate because it hits people’s core values in the solar plexus like a hard punch.
Steve LaBonne
@Professor Bigfoot:
But wait you can't say that last part too loud because we'll lose white working class voters herp derpThe Audacity of Krope
@cmorenc: “Liberty and Justice for All” covers all the major points and is time-tested.
The Audacity of Krope
@Steve LaBonne: I may be a rarity among my white male peers, but I find far less to identify with my skin color or the culture I was raised in as opposed to the culture where I truly found community.
I don’t even mind the lack of a true feeling of belonging. Nothing to be done there. But ‘white” describes a poison that has been hurting the broader American culture since it’s inception. I say attack that which is white with almost full abandon, save for the usual caveats it’s a matter of culture rather than birth condition.
Steve LaBonne
@The Audacity of Krope: I am proud of my Irish and Québecois ancestry. I have no use for “white” identity, which is horseshit made up in the early modern period to justify exploiting and enslaving people with more melanin than Europeans.
AM in NC
@cmorenc: Democrats: Decency, Prosperity, Liberty, Nobody’s Puppet
AM in NC
@The Audacity of Krope: even better than what I said above and already time-tested
Professor Bigfoot
@Suzanne: Nah, that wouldn’t surprise me.
Conservative Christians want Gilead.
No “minorities,” women under complete control, strong white “commanders.”
Freedom for all? Oh, hell no.
RevRick
@Martin: What investors? A few might’ve gotten ahead of the curve, but Trump’s tariffs on, tariffs off, tariffs on, tariffs maybe have the markets reeling.
Billionaires make their unholy piles, not by playing the market, but by owning companies.
Professor Bigfoot
@cmorenc: “Make America Great Again.”
What does that actually mean?
It’s some sepia-toned version of the 1950s where there were no Black people, women put on dresses and makeup to prepare dinner for their hardworking husbands every night.
Where they never have to compete with Black people OR women for anything.
The Nazis were very good at slogans.
Professor Bigfoot
@Steve LaBonne: Right? [snicker]
The Audacity of Krope
@Steve LaBonne: All this, precisely.
Melancholy Jaques
@Professor Bigfoot:
I agree with that, though I’d put a period after American just so as to not single out any subgroup of Americans.
MoCaAce
At my last checkup they found my soul was deficient. Something about a lack of empathy for FFOTUS voters.
catclub
it is kind of a zero sum game, so billions were also lost by options traders.
The ones who bet on increased volatility definitely are winning.
Steve LaBonne
@MoCaAce: I once had an MRI of my head. They didn’t find anything.
Splitting Image
@The Audacity of Krope:
I had two surgeries a few years ago and was given cognitive tests after I came out from under the anesthetic. I remember how relieved I felt when I was able to answer every question and was also able to remember why they were asking those questions. and how serious it would be if I got even one question wrong. (A lot of horrible things can go wrong during surgery.)
Bragging about for years afterward would have been the last thing on my mind.
Betty
@cmorenc: Liberty and justice for all?
NotMax
@Splitting Image
“Who is president of the United States?”
“He who shall not be named lest I vomit.”
“You pass.”
:)
Betty
Oops! I see The Audacity of Krope got there long before me. The problem is too many people don’t believe a lot of Dem politicians really show that in their actions.
Matt McIrvin
@cmorenc: “Liberty and justice for all” is pretty good, I always thought.
All means all.