Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Giving up is unforgivable.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

This blog will pay for itself.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

“But what about the lurkers?”

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

He really is that stupid.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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My new shirt. Appropriate for this day and age, don't you think?

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— soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM


 

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— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) May 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM


 

So he's not deporting just the criminals, he's not making us all rich, & he's not bringing peace to the world
Seems like politics journos should be asking what exactly Trump is doing for his voters (The answer is obvs "giving them idiot slop to cheer for" but I want to see each of them admit it)

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— Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) May 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    Seems like politics journos should be asking what exactly Trump is doing for his voters

    They’re more interested in how Trump is giving them clicks.

  4. 4.

    MagdaInBlack

    Love the t-shirt, love the cat.

    Fuk Vance and the “journos.”

    Glad to see you posting A.L.

  10. 10.

    WTFGhost

    I don’t recognize the critter in the “The Horrors Persist” t-shirt, but I like the concept. I’d replace the critter with my unshaven, barely groomed face wearing it’s best scowl, e.g., one evoked by “I read something Vance said, and it stinks – I mean, there is actual synesthesia happening, I feel an unpleasant odor scorching my nostrils while rage is carried through all working mental passageways, and I remember that somehow or another, not only will I dance on their metaphorical/political grave, I will by-golly try to help bring it about.”

    My scowls can be extremely expressive.

    Anyway: “Go critter!”

  13. 13.

    WTFGhost

    @prostratedragon: Hm. I always preferred the much longer (mode=annoying_younger_brother)(sarcasm) Oh, so you think // is a decent idea!!!  (/sarcasm)(/mode) method, but, I guess // works.

  14. 14.

    WTFGhost

    @Nukular Biskits: Now, now, people don’t have “full” times or “hungry” times, we don’t talk about such personal matters in this blog… oh.

    Never mind.

  15. 15.

    WTFGhost

    @CHETAN MURTHY: I’m afraid I’ve used too many Perfectly Legal Herbal Remedies to say anything other than “no thanks, I’m trying to eat more vegetarian, to see how it affects my cholesterol.”

  16. 16.

    CHETAN MURTHY

    @WTFGhost: So that’d be a  “no” to “care to try one of these squirrel-brain sandwiches?”

    ETA: apparently a delicacy in the hollers of Appalachia.

  19. 19.

    Suzanne

    (The answer is obvs “giving them idiot slop to cheer for” but I want to see each of them admit it)

    I am at the point where I feel like the best response that each of us, as a matter of style and presentation, can affect, is an air of extreme unbotheredness. If FFOTUS voters want to kick themselves in the dick, be my guest. I’ll hold your beer.

    They just want to trigger libz.

  25. 25.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud: I’m trying not to be dramatic. When I see an opportunity to help, I do it. Quietly. I’m refusing to let him make me scared. Fuck him.

  27. 27.

    Old School

    About the shirt:

    The design features a charming opossum, captured in a whimsical sketch style, standing defiantly with outstretched arms. Its wide-open mouth adds a touch of humor and personality, drawing attention to the playful yet resilient attitude portrayed. Surrounding the opossum, the phrase “The Horrors Persist But So Do I” is emblazoned in bold, red lettering that arcs above and below the character. This typography complements the animated nature of the opossum, creating a balanced visual harmony.

  28. 28.

    Aussie Sheila

    @rikyrah:

    The Australian federal election just smashed our version of right wing fucknuckles. Just smashed them. Looks like the ALP will have over 80 seats in the House of Representatives. We took seats off the Tories everywhere, including in their heartland.

    Greens also lost seats.
    The election was like a ‘war time’ election, where electorates cleave into the known rather than risk something with a gamble.

    However the ALP ran a very good, disciplined campaign against a leader and a Party that had a very ‘off putting’ affect and put forward some very unpopular policies like nuclear power, sacking federal public servants and complaining about schools and teachers that ‘indoctrinated’ the young.

    I leave it to your imagination to work out what they meant. The electorate understood their offer well. Assisted in no small part by the antics of trump in the US.

  30. 30.

    Suzanne

    @Baud:

    We should try to avoid being a source of their amusement.

    Yes. And they can be a source of our amusement.
    I mean, I enjoy dumb comedies from time to time.

  31. 31.

    They Call Me Noni

    Sovereignty won the Derby.  Track was very sloppy as all it has done here is rain.  Gin & tonic is good and said to tell Baud “hi backatcha”.

    We did go to the Derby once in either 1996 or ’97.  Best people watching day ever.

  34. 34.

    Baud

    @Suzanne:

    And they can be a source of our amusement

     

    TBH, I think sometimes people go overboard with that. They are monsters, after all.

  35. 35.

    Aussie Sheila

    @Baud:

    Heh! Social media assisted us well in this campaign, and was well utilised. People here just ‘get’ what trump stands for and they can’t stand it.
    Completely against the cultural ‘grain’.

  36. 36.

    Nukular Biskits

    @They Call Me Noni:

    We did go to the Derby once in either 1996 or ’97. Best people watching day ever.

    Ms. Biskits asked me about the Derby after we saw an NBC promo for the race.  I told her I had never understood what was so special about the Derby now that we’re no longer in the horse ‘n’ buggy age, then it dawned on me:  People go to watch other people.

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    @CHETAN MURTHY: I think consumption of squirrel brains has declined in Appalachia since an alert was put out that they can carry a prion disease similar to “Mad Cow Disease.” At least, I hope it has.

  38. 38.

    Suzanne

    @Nukular Biskits: People go to have collective experiences, yeah? I mean, I don’t understand sports team fandom, I certainly don’t understand why people would pay hundreds of dollars to sit in the cold on uncomfortable seats to watch games. But…. there’s joy in doing things with others.

    I took Spawn the Youngest to run a “kids marathon” this morning (LOL not a marathon, only one mile). We could certainly have just run a mile on local streets or at the high school track. But… it’s more fun to share the experience. And get shave ice afterward, of course.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    MAGA will say, support and do anything to “own” the Libs,

    Even to the point of destroying their economies, jobs, housing to the point where soon, they won’t even be able to “rent” the Libs.

    Saw a forecast that said between 80% and 90% of incoming cargo’s will wind up in large cities, so while the shelves may be bare in some areas of a Seattle Walmart, the Oroville Walmart will be closed.

  40. 40.

    Suzanne

    @Baud: At the risk of reopening the debate about calling FFOTUS voters evil….. I think we would be wiser if we accepted that there’s a chunk of the electorate — probably not big, but statistically significant — who voted for FFOTUS who aren’t monsters, who aren’t evil. They’re often incoherent and mercurial and maddening. But building a coalition sometimes sucks.

    But…. I am an asshole, and I will absolutely roll around in schadenfreude when the leopards eat a nice face snack.

  41. 41.

    Geminid

    @Aussie Sheila: I’m glad to see that the hard work you and and others put in was rewarded. Congratulations!

    And I’m curious: I understand that half of Australia’s Senate seats were contested yesterday. How does that chamber look?

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    More on the Waltz TM SGNL app that 47’s people were using to discuss all kinds of things they shouldn’t.  Including links to the GPL source code, the hard-coded credentials in the code, etc., etc.

    Every intelligence service in the Eastern Hemisphere probably has a copy of everything those idiots talked about…

    Grr…

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  43. 43.

    Nukular Biskits

    @Suzanne:

    Definitely understand.

    I’ve never been a spectator of any kind of “sportsball” … except when my kids played soccer. But they’re grown now so I share little in common with my coworkers who want to talk about sports all day long.

    To each his/her own, I suppose.

  44. 44.

    waspuppet

    I don’t put a lot of stock in the “outrage X is a distraction” theory, and even less in the “don’t fall for it “ advice — Trump just doesn’t put that much conscious thought into anything. However, I’ve known enough abusers to know that if our White House press staff got their act together (lol I know) and asked him literally “Have you actually done anything you said you would do easily? Yes or no?” he would literally invade Canada. People like him will do anything not to answer that question.

  46. 46.

    Aussie Sheila

    @Geminid:

    Senate results will take a while to count. My gut tells me there will be a ‘centrist’ Senate. The Greens will  do better there than they did in the Lower House. But so will the One Nation Party, a sort of trumpist outfit that arose ‘avant- la lettre’ as they say.

    Lower House could be 85 ALP seats.
    A truly excellent result.

    Albo was always very good in the close political clinches . He cut his political teeth in ALP factional warfare in NSW in the ‘mid ‘80s through to mid ‘90s.

    An excellent training ground for dealing with arseholes and fucknuckles.

  47. 47.

    Baud

    @waspuppet:

    Asking them questions wouldn’t yield anything. IMHO the bigger problem is the hack deficit. What kills us is how the punditry talks about us. As a group, they just don’t treat Republicans with derision.

  48. 48.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Suzanne:

    I am at the point where I feel like the best response that each of us, as a matter of style and presentation, can affect, is an air of extreme unbotheredness.

    Are you sure? I was thinking of a two by four to the back of the head, but I will give your idea serious thought.

  51. 51.

    Jay

    So, let’s see, Germany, Canada, Australia, Singapore,

    yup, everything St Upid touches dies.

  53. 53.

    They Call Me Noni

    @Nukular Biskits: It’s a month of parties for a two minute race.  Seriously.  Honestly, the best time to go to Churchill  Downs is any time other than Derby or Oaks which was yesterday when the fillies ran.  Place is packed to the gills those two days and locals have been priced out of attending which is a shame.

  54. 54.

    Aussie Sheila

    @rikyrah:

    Yes! Dutton losing his seat was the cherry on top. That might teach our own fucknuckles not to ‘copy’ US Republican themes and tactics here. It simply goes against the political and cultural ‘grain’.

    The LNP (think Republicans) will cycle through at least three leaders before they get their act together if history is any guide.
    I’m loving it.
    They deserve everything they got.
    Which is nothing.

  60. 60.

    persistentillusion

    @Nukular Biskits: My ex and I used to go to the Indy 500 every year. Half a million drunk people, urban camping.  Best people watching ever.  Just didn’t leave you with an elevated perception of “people”.

  62. 62.

    They Call Me Noni

    @Suzanne: I’m with you.  I know the Democrats are a big tent party and I hope they join in.  I just don’t want them sitting at my table.  I want them to sit at the traitor tables and think about what they’ve done.  I do not understand in this day and age how you can be so ignorant of the basic facts.  Is it on purpose or are they just too damn lazy to any kind of research?  My general feeling is “fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for him”.

    Sorry, not sorry.  If J6 didn’t convince you he is horrible I think the most civil I can be to you is to ignore you.

  65. 65.

    Jay

    @Baud:

    Yes/no. S’pore is not really a democracy, but the PAP are good and adaptive economic managers, so they should do well in the Trade Wars.

  66. 66.

    They Call Me Noni

    @Nukular Biskits: Good comparison.  They have parades and all that stuff.  There’s and air show and Thunder Over Louisville which is huge.  The biggest fireworks display in the US.  It was cancelled this year because of the flooding.  There’s a steamboat race, a bed race and lots and lots of parties.  And waayyy too many people for my liking any longer but it does bring a lot of revenue for Louisville and the surrounding areas.

  68. 68.

    Shalimar

    I find it fascinating in a creepy way that the White House is reposting an AI image of Trump dressed as the pope.  It’s only a matter of time before we get pictures of him in his Batman underoos.

  70. 70.

    Nukular Biskits

    @persistentillusion:

    Earlier in my career, I used to enjoy layovers in airports because I got to watch all kinds of people walk by.

    Now, because I hate flying so much, I just want to get to my destination asap and it doesn’t hold as much interest.

    I’m an old. LOL

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @persistentillusion: I went to the Indy 500 once.  I had tickets in the grandstand, so I wasn’t really among the drunken masses.  Oval racing is boring IMO.  It was cool to tick that box, but I wouldn’t go back.

  76. 76.

    frosty

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​
     I too went to the Indy 500 once. My brother and I drove west on I-70. There were many cars with signs that said “Indy 500. Drive fast, turn left.”

    The most exciting part was seeing a rabbit hop out onto the track in front of us during the race. AFAIK it escaped unharmed.

  80. 80.

    Suzanne

    @They Call Me Noni:

    I do not understand in this day and age how you can be so ignorant of the basic facts.  Is it on purpose or are they just too damn lazy to any kind of research? 

    Well, yes. Laziness. But also just extreme self-interest. And by that, I don’t mean “self- interest” as rational efforts to forward one’s position. I mean only being interested in oneself and one’s own feelings. Navel-gazing.

  82. 82.

    sab

    @kindness: I like opposums. Poor little guys lead very hard, simple lives, eating bugs. And everyone hates them because of their fierce faces which is no indication of their actual behavior. They eat bugs and slugs for a living.

    I had a friend years ago who lived in a wrecking yard, and they rescued a baby oppossum that she bottle fed and raised. Sweetest little critter imaginable, but not very bright.

  83. 83.

    persistentillusion

    @Omnes Omnibus: We were in the 4th row in the 4th turn.  On hot race days, our skin would be grey from all the tire debris.  Could see the Start/Finish line and back into the third turn.  Great seats for a race I wasn’t very ineterested in.

  85. 85.

    Nukular Biskits

    @sab:

    Growing up in the South, I’d seen plenty of possums in the wild and, unfortunately, as roadkill.

    It wasn’t until I was on a weekend break from work in SoCal that I encountered someone who had one as a pet.

    Odd choice to me, as they’re not exactly cute critters but he seemed a well-behaved gentleman.

  87. 87.

    Jay

    @Aziz, light!:

    Opossums are the only native Marsupial species in the America’s with 9 subspecies.

    Downunder has 100’s of species and subspecies. 15 are “called” possums. Inland from here, is the “Possum” graveyard. It’s on the CNR tracks, just before the bridge over the Chilliwack River. The upper valley has a large Opossum population and they apparently use a trail nearby that crosses the railroad tracks.

    Apparently their defense mechanisms of hissing, playing dead, then leaping airborne at the last minute does not work well with trains. Bones, teeth and skulls are scattered all over the tracks.

  89. 89.

    Jay

    U.S. Central Command, the part of the Pentagon that oversees its wars in the Middle East, denies that the United States military bombed a target in Yemen based on posts on X from an anonymous open source intelligence account which identified it as a Houthi base before the bombing and apologized for their posts after local news reports said civilians died in the bombing.

    A defense official declined to say whether it was the U.S. that bombed the target, but said that the military does not use information posted by open-source intelligence accounts on social media to select targets. The defense official said CENTCOM uses detailed and comprehensive intelligence to conduct strikes against the Houthis. It’s common for the U.S. to kill civilians in airstrikes, and it has done so several times in Yemen. On Monday, for example, Reuters reported it killed dozens of people when it combed a detention center for African migrants.

    https://www.404media.co/u-s-denies-picking-bombing-targets-from-random-twitter-accounts/

  90. 90.

    Nukular Biskits

    @Jay:

    That’s bullshit.

    The US intel and defense communities do incorporate OSINT.

    Adam could speak to that more than could I but that categorical denial is an absolute lie.

  92. 92.

    Jay

    @Nukular Biskits:

    While the US Military does incorporate tons of OSINT, one would expect that they would “vet” and confirm any OSINT found on the web before targeting along with OSINT sources.

    They do not.

    Make a seemingly plausible “Houthi Base” claim on the Dead Bird site, with grainy photos and geotagging and the the US will send several millions of dollars of ordinance to kill a family of 4 and destroy their $275 mud hut.

  94. 94.

    BlueGuitarist

    @They Call Me Noni:

    the phrase “Kentucky Derby Day” always reminds me of Keith and Mick Taylor’s guitars in The Rolling Stones song “Dead Flowers,” (lyrics include the phrase).

  96. 96.

    Jay

    @Nukular Biskits:

    My take is other.

    It shows the continued enshittification of US Intel, SOF and Command and Control.

    It started with Somalia, continued on in Afghanistan, then Dubya Dubya Me Too.

  98. 98.

    catclub

    @Jay: ​
     

    It means the commenter/poster meant the text as snark.

    Is there some other type of comment on the internet?

  99. 99.

    catclub

    @Shalimar: ​
     

    I find it fascinating in a creepy way that the White House is reposting an AI image of Trump dressed as the pope.

    Ever more evidence that Trump ( not Obama) is the anti-Christ.

  101. 101.

    Jay

    @catclub:

    It’s become a big deal on r/Leopards  amongst both Catholics and Evangelicals, suddenly realizing that St. Upid is the AntiChrist.

  104. 104.

    They Call Me Noni

    @BlueGuitarist: Not familiar with that song.  Somehow I never did really listen to the Rolling Stones but oddly enough I saw them at, are you ready?, Churchill Downs!  There was a group of us who went because when are you ever going to see the Rolling Stones at Churchill Downs again?  Alice Cooper opened and it rained like crazy up until Mick and the boys took the stage.  No pyrotechnics though because of the horses they stable at the track.  It was quite the evening.

  105. 105.

    Jeffro

    have to agree with the premise in the post: WHERE ARE THE RESULTS FOR YOUR VOTERS, TRUMP??!?

  106. 106.

    Jeffro

    @Suzanne:

    If FFOTUS voters want to kick themselves in the dick, be my guest. I’ll hold your beer.

    They just want to trigger libz.

    the RWNJs in my life seem to not want to talk about trumpov posting a pic of himself as Pope…guess they are confused that I’m more ‘triggered’ about it than they are, fine religious folks that they claim to be and all, and me an atheist and all…

    I’m surprised there isn’t a PhotoShop of Obama in the same getup kicking around on social media right now, just to see if they ‘get it’

  112. 112.

    Ruckus

    @Jay:

    Cheapest way to get large quantities of stuff to sell across oceans is by ship. And a big enough port to put a large freight ship (or a lot of large freight ships) into is going to have a not insignificant sized population. Say Los Angeles or San Francisco. And a lot of that cargo from China (if it continues….) is going to be trucked/railroaded from there eastward. Ever seen an automobile cargo ship? Holds a LOT of vehicles.

  114. 114.

    Chris T.

    @Suzanne: Perhaps they’re just slightly evil.

    90% stupid, 10% evil? As opposed to Trumpov, 90% stupid and 110% evil. I know that adds up to 200%, but he’s extra bad, so…

  115. 115.

    Chris T.

    @Jay:

    Make a seemingly plausible “Houthi Base” claim on the Dead Bird site, with grainy photos and geotagging and the the US will send several millions of dollars of ordinance to kill a family of 4 and destroy their $275 mud hut.

    Hm, so what happens if someone fakes the geotag and uses the coordinates of, say, Mar a Lago?

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