Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

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

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

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

No one could have predicted…

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

Their shamelessness is their super power.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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WIRED has the latest in the ongoing Trump vs. Musk feud:

Over the last few days, Musk has posted increasingly personal criticisms at Trump and the Republican budget reconciliation package known as the Big Beautiful Bill on X. This came to a head on Thursday, when Trump addressed the relationship during a press conference with German chancellor Friedrich Merz.

“Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we will anymore,” said Trump, who compared Musk to past aides who have, he said, developed “Trump derangement syndrome” after leaving his administration…

Today’s remarks, though, reveal how fractured that relationship has become. “Without me, Trump would have lost the election,” Musk posted on X shortly after Trump’s comments. “Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

Thanks, John Roberts, you fucking wanker!

Behind the scenes, Trumpworld Republicans tell WIRED, this tension is about more than just a bromance falling apart. If Musk continues to escalate, he may drag down legislation that Trump sees as a key part of his political legacy.

“If [Musk] actually successfully gets any votes switched to tank this bill and kills it,” a senior Trumpworld strategist tells WIRED, “then I think at that point he’s fucking dead to Donald Trump.”

Could these swollen ass-pustules still kiss and make up? It wouldn’t be the first time, but Trump is so vulnerable to narcissistic injury that he can’t admit he lost the 2020 election — even to himself. Now Musk is openly telling everyone HE bought the presidency and Congress for Trump.

Meanwhile, Musk also appears to be spiraling. And he’s saying this shit, presumably with full awareness that Trump is illegally exerting control over the government contracts that are the basis of Musk’s fortune. (Nationalize SpaceX on nat-sec grounds, anyone?)

The other villains in this drama, elected Republicans, probably don’t know whether to scratch their watches or wind their asses. They’ve hitched their political futures to Trump, an elderly lame-duck president, and they’re scared shitless of Musk’s money.

Friends, we might just need ALL the popcorn.

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Raoul Paste

    I’d forgotten about the influence Trump has on Musk‘s government contracts.    Could get ugly

  2. 2.

    zhena gogolia

    “Without me, Trump would have lost the election,” Musk posted on X shortly after Trump’s comments. “Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.”

    Probably true.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    I’m saving my popcorn for when we’re back in power.

    But that might require several unforced errors from the GOP. So hopefully they will increase their infighting.

    Defeating the bill is important, but not necessarily to our political advantage.

  5. 5.

    Suzanne

    Elmo is currently tweeting about wanting to start a third party, and I wish him all the best.

    (Guess what all the best is.)

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    I’m saving my popcorn for when we’re back in power.

    Okay. But we can root for injuries without popcorn. 

  7. 7.

    catclub

    This is all a distraction for the media so they won’t have to report
    “Kilmar Abrego Garcia has still not been returned to the US” over and over again.

  8. 8.

    cmorenc

    @Suzanne:

    Elmo is currently tweeting about wanting to start a third party, and I wish him all the best.

    When your enemies are busy destroying each other, best to stay out of the way and not interfere.

  9. 9.

    tam1MI

    Two toxic narcissists, both who believe the other would be nothing without them, fight.

    Let us savor.

  12. 12.

    mapaghimagsik

    I can’t help but wonder what fresh disaster is this family feud meant to distract from?

  16. 16.

    hotshoe

    don’t know whether to scratch their watches or wind their asses

    I am happy to have heard this today 💙

    But there seems to be a sad lack of gator emoji with which to show appreciation for Betty Cracker :(

  22. 22.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Hair Furor can yammer all he wants about cancelling Edolf’s sweet, sweet gubmint contracts.

    In the end, it’ll be a typical Donny TACO exercise.

  23. 23.

    Archon

    @Baud: Lol. You can kind of understand where the Predator is coming from. The Alien is truly a terrifying species with zero redeeming qualities.

    So I guess Elon is the Predator in that analogy and I grudgingly have to root for him.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    Trump also says an occasional negative thing about Russia. It don’t mean nothin until somethin actually happens.

  28. 28.

    PaulWartenberg

    Both of them are monsters.

    Musk’s still got his DOGE interns gutting our federal agencies, he’s responsible for cutting foreign health aid that’s killed tens of thousands of people, and he’s a goddamn racist/eugenicist/white supremist.

    and trump… well, he’s the Eternal Shitgibbon.

    I’m not celebrating any of this, and I’m not buying this public spat until either – or BOTH – assholes are sitting in adjoining jail cells.

  30. 30.

    Steve LaBonne

    @sixthdoctor: Lemon really is an idiot. Everybody already knows what Trump is. It’s just that his cult thinks it’s great. They only wish they could get away with the same stuff.

  36. 36.

    zhena gogolia

    @hotshoe: I guess they’re saying it’s a crocodile. I don’t know how to tell the difference. It looked like a gator to me.

  40. 40.

    Archon

    There was a 100 percent chance there was going to be a fallout between Musk and Trump but this went nuclear REAL quick

  51. 51.

    MattF

    You think Elon has the goods on Donnie? Of course, accusations of pedophilia is something Musk does now and then… so real evidence would be significant here.

  55. 55.

    hotshoe

    @Mr. Bemused Senior:

    It’s been … hmm … many decades since I needed to know the difference between croc and gator for a class. Dimly remember the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, visiting their “swamp”. They had well-written informational plaque explaining the difference, but I don’t remember which kind they had. Alligator, maybe, because native to the states even though not native to CA?

    What CA has are alligator lizards, pretty fierce with a vicious bite — but not charismatic “megafauna” 😎

  56. 56.

    hotshoe

    @zhena gogolia: ​
    Croc emoji officially stands in for gator emoji. The differences are too subtle to make it worth having one of each — when most of us would just use one or the other at random anyway.
    But I’m the kind of person who has to know, once something makes me curious, so I looked it up.
    The emoji picture is a crocodile because its lower teeth are showing. Gator lower teeth don’t show when they’re at rest. And the head is “V-shaped”, narrow. Gator head is “U-shaped”, broad.
    So whoever drew that emoji did intend it to represent croc.

    It’s fine, it’s all fine. And we can use our tiny pieces of art online however we want 💚 🐊 💚​

  58. 58.

    Ken B

    @zhena gogolia: Gators have a broad, U shaped snout; crocodiles have a narrower, V shaped snout.

    Crocs also grow bigger, eventually,

    Looks more like gator to me. But it is an emoji, so who knows.

  59. 59.

    Repatriated

    @zhena gogolia:

    @hotshoe: I guess they’re saying it’s a crocodile. I don’t know how to tell the difference. It looked like a gator to me.

    The difference is in when you will see them again.
    Alligators, you will see later.
    Crocodiles, however, you will see in a while.

  62. 62.

    Marc

    @Ken B: Well, the other big difference is that if I found myself halfway between a crocodile and an alligator, and I needed to get by one to GTF out, I’d go with the alligator.

  63. 63.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    Sweet Zoo 🎶

    …
    So I dreamed I was an alligator
    Crocodile? No, alligator with a great big mouth
    And four very funny little legs which are no good for dancing

  65. 65.

    Ruckus

    The other villains in this drama, elected Republicans, probably don’t know whether to scratch their watches or wind their asses. They’ve hitched their political futures to Trump, an elderly lame-duck president, and they’re scared shitless of Musk’s money.

    Friends, we might just need ALL the popcorn.

    I don’t believe that this could be stated any better.

    I think this bromance was always going to fall apart because at some point they were always going to fight over who is #1 on the asshole hit parade. shitforbrains because his ego is far, far bigger than it has any right whatsoever to be and shitforbrains II because his world of “I’m the richest so I’m the bestest,” seems to be unravelling because he may be the richest, but he’s still a shitty human being who thinks money is the key to EVERYTHING. Now saying money is not important in today’s world would be ignorant as all outdoors but humanity is a tad bit more than just a bank account. And he seems to draw a far smaller humanity measurement than said bank account(s).

  66. 66.

    AM in NC

    In honor of Pam Bondi (and because one of the kindest people I know is named Karen), I support the new push to make “Pam” the new “Karen”.  Also too, Ivanka would work (and affect far fewer decent people with the same name).

  68. 68.

    Miss Bianca

    Dear God, just the title on this one made me crack up. Bless you, Betty C!

  69. 69.

    brantl

    I keep hoping for reciprocal head injuries, but then I realize you can’t hurt either one of them in the head. Not enough gray matter.

  71. 71.

    Warblewarble

    All is kabuki, until there is an ocean of republican blood. Time to celebrate is when significant damage has been shared out among the whole cast of villians. Noise and shadow play fixes nothing.

  74. 74.

    Paul in KY

    @catclub: A crocodile that big has no natural enemies. Maybe an orca pack, but that’s it. Much heavier than a great white and armoured, etc. etc.

  75. 75.

    Ruckus

    @cmorenc:

    Actually the best thing to do then is to tell each of them how much they are being shit upon by the other. Their bromance is done, they both did that to themselves, and elon seems to have stepped upon a part of himself that does not take well to golf spikes being plunged into them. (shitforbrains doesn’t seem to have that body part or at least it seems to rather nonfunctional as he approaches 80 years old… and drives himself into senility, at speed)

    I often wonder how it will turn out, considering how much they are doing for the republican party at this point, none of which seems to be positive, in any way, shape or form. I also wonder how many of shitforbrains disciples will follow him regardless. And how many will wonder how the hell they made such a dumbass decision. (I’m not holding my breath waiting to count them using my fingers – of one hand)

    Now I have to hang around for at least a couple more decades just to see how it all works out.

  76. 76.

    Ruckus

    @PaulWartenberg:

    No, no, no, NO.

    Not adjoining cells, one small cell. They should have to experience the joy of having their now seemingly worst enemy joining and sleeping in their worst concept of continuing to live. They both deserve it.

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