Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

You cannot shame the shameless.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

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

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

No one could have predicted…

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

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  1. 1.

    Raoul Paste

    From the first cartoon, it appears Trump has factored organic chemistry into the tariffs.  He really can do it all

  2. 2.

    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

  3. 3.

    different-church-lady

    Even after all this, far too many people still think fascism is just a fun TV show.

  4. 4.

    Professor Bigfoot

    I’m gonna drag this up from downstairs: I was asked, “what do Democrats stand for?”

    This is my reply:

    The Democratic Party stands for the right of individual people to live their lives, in peace with their neighbors, and for every citizen to have “the blessings of liberty” as promised in the Constitution.

    We stand for the Constitution. We stand for the rule of law. We stand for the rights of EVERY American, not just the white, moneyed, Christian, males.

  7. 7.

    Spanky

    President Donald Trump told reporters he “got every answer right,” on a cognitive test during his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday.
    Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after the physical, Trump said he thinks he did well and that he believed the full report would be released Sunday.
    He did not share many other specific details from the exam — which was the first of his second term. He said the exam showed a “good heart, a good soul, very good soul.”

    Jaysus, where’s the smiting when you need it?

  8. 8.

    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.”

  9. 9.

    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.

  10. 10.

    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.

  12. 12.

    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.

  13. 13.

    Suzanne

    @Professor Bigfoot:

    and for every citizen to have “the blessings of liberty” as promised in the Constitution. 

    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.

  14. 14.

    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.

  15. 15.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Suzanne: 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.

    When your version of liberty is the freedom to oppress others…

  16. 16.

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  22. 22.

    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.

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    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.

  26. 26.

    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.

  27. 27.

    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.

  31. 31.

    MoCaAce

    At my last checkup they found my soul was deficient. Something about a lack of empathy for FFOTUS voters.

  32. 32.

    catclub

    @Martin: Billions were made by the options traders.

     

    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.

  34. 34.

    Splitting Image

    @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.

    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.

     

  37. 37.

    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.

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