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“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

This really is a full service blog.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

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

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

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

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

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  4. 4.

    hueyplong

    Nothing was resolved, and nothing happened that won’t happen again in the next five days.

    Just be glad you took a break.

  6. 6.

    Belafon

    If you work in the government, you can now tell that Jewish coworker that they should convert to Christianity, and if they refuse, you can snitch on them through the anonymous anti-Christian hotline.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    So same old, same old?

    Epstein, ICE, lies, corrupt supreme court, complicit media.   Nothing new?

  8. 8.

    Trollhattan

    NFL building gunman from Vegas kills four and becomes international news.

    Reno casino gunman kills three and the sportsbook has to close a couple of hours.

  17. 17.

    Trollhattan

    @WaterGirl:

    Perhaps Park Avenue vs. Reno, which folks know from Johnny Cash. (Shooter in custody so he in fact watched three die.)

    American spree killings don’t so much as ruffle the drapes.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    I worry that they have Vance tucked away so that when the shit inevitably hits the fan, they can say none of it has anything to do with Vance, this fine upstanding Republican president in waiting.

  21. 21.

    WTFGhost

    @MattF: Don’t forget, he scored a “great deal” whereby Americans would start paying a tax increase on everyday goods they buy from Japan or the EU. He’s also made sure that if you want to build cars, you should absolutely plan to do so in Japan, or in the EU, because in the US, you import steel at 50% and car parts at 25%, paid by *you*, while in Japan and the EU, there are no tariffs on parts, and just a 15% import tax, paid by the buyer.  So yeah, this is our disgraced felonious President, who fled to Scotland for a ribbon cutting ceremony to avoid answering questions about Epstein, while making deals of the quality that you’d have expected.

  22. 22.

    Betty

    @WaterGirl: Not really. The gunman from Vegas went to New York City and killed a policeman who is a Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh as well as three others. He was after the NFL over their handling of brain damage cases but went to the wrong floor after he took the wrong elevator. So it was newsworthy. Not sure why the Reno story wasn’t.

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    They are trying to free that paedophile pimp Maxwell, so they don’t have to release the files, which must contain the Orange Menace all in them.

     

    There was a mass shooting event in Manhattan by someone who drove from Vegas

     

    A bunch of paedophile ghouls were arrested in Alabama. They were holding children that they sold “sessions” for, in a bunker.

     

    One of the architects of the 6 week abortion ban in Texas has been found to be carrying on a 17 year long affair, complete with abortions.

     

    The USA denied Visas to the Venezuelan LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM SO THAT THEY COULD COMPETE IN THE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES.

     

    And, the President of Taiwan was also denied a visa.

  25. 25.

    Archon

    Its surreal learning everyday that Trump is actually a worse person than you thought. The fact a man like that could become President of the United States TWICE is such a profound indictment of our country I don’t even think liberals have fully processed the implications yet.

  26. 26.

    HinTN

    Scylla or Charybdis, choose wisely.

    I prefer to lash myself to the mast and hear the Sirens’ song.

  27. 27.

    zhena gogolia

    @Archon: Yeah.

    My only consolation is that he didn’t win the first time, and he won by a tiny margin the second time, despite the best efforts of the media to help him out.

  30. 30.

    catclub

    @WaterGirl: ​
     

    I worry that they have Vance tucked away so that when the shit inevitably hits the fan,

    The only case where Vance becomes president is Trump dies, and they have to admit it. He would never resign.

  31. 31.

    Belafon

    @Archon:

    The fact a man like that could become President of the United States TWICE is such a profound indictment of our country I don’t even think liberals Republicans have fully processed the implications yet.

  32. 32.

    H.E.Wolf

    Lots of news!

    As is true every July, it is Bat O’Clock in our yard from 9:30-9:45 PM. We have a pair who show up and put on an airshow in the back yard. They are welcome to every mosquito they catch.

    I updated 450+ addresses for our state Democratic party, and wrote a couple of batches of GOTV postcards. My hands are tired but my soul is rested.

    I mended a dishtowel as a bribe to the universe to return a missing household item. (Having already unsuccessfully tried the “brother, go find your brother” ritual.) Household item is redacted because it is almost as big as a Subaru… and for all I know is in the same place.

    …Oh, you meant actual news? Ain’t nothing won’t keep ’til later.

  33. 33.

    scav

    @rikyrah: Well, allowing a foreign Little League team compete in a World Series?!  Hell, it’s an aberration the US allows Canada to participate in the real one, and sure as there’s cane sugar in Coke, that’ll likely change when the Nasty 51st staters keep their elbows elevated & sharpened.  Besides, what if a little girl played in a game against a Venezuelan and lost!  She must be protected from that trauma!  Besides again, it doesn’t matter who plays cause Drump wants the trophy.

  34. 34.

    rattlemullet

    Suffice it to say if you missed everything you surely did not miss the most important things, visiting with your sister, having the sunrise and sunset, among family and friends. Your life was enriched beyond belief without the drag of the news cycle to bring you down.

  35. 35.

    Scout211

    Trump just  spilled the tea on himself.

    President Donald Trump said that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “stole” Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago club.

    Trump was speaking to reporters on Tuesday when he was asked about comments he made over the weekend about falling out with Epstein because he took employees from his business.

    “He took people that worked for me. And I told him, ‘Don’t do it anymore.’ And he did it,” Trump said, telling reporters that he barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.

    “I said, ‘Stay the hell out of here,'” he said.

    When pressed about whether any of the stolen employees were young women, Trump responded that many of them worked in the club’s spa.

    “The answer is yes, they were in the spa,” he said. “I told him, I said, ‘Listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa.’ … And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again.”

    This is not the news he thinks it is. His attorneys must be running for smelling salts right now.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    @rikyrah: Thanks for that.

    What the fuck is wrong with these people.  Petty.  Vindictive.  Evil.

    Trafficking children.  A little league team????

  39. 39.

    Math Guy

    There will be a meteor shower tonight. You generally see more after midnight (after 1 am to correct for daylight savings time). Also, a big storm blew through Minnesota last night and demolished the big honey locust tree in my backyard.

  40. 40.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @H.E.Wolf:

    Here in an urban core, it’s 8:30-9pm over the street in front of the house, looks to be 4-5 but then they’re hard to tell apart.

    It’s nice to see them after watching the bat population back in Central Misery decline massively in our two decades there.  In the late 90s, tons of bats in the evening, when we left in 2018, they were rare.

  42. 42.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @rikyrah: A bunch of paedophile ghouls were arrested in Alabama. They were holding children that they sold “sessions” for, in a bunker.

    hmm reading about this one, is it my imagination this seems a bit off?

    Wade said the suspects include relatives of some of the 10 alleged victims, who range in age from 3 to 15.

    The seven face a mix of charges including rape, sexual abuse and sexual torture of a child, human trafficking, sodomy, kidnapping, bestiality and animal abuse, according to the criminal complaints.

    Homeland Security Investigations is working to determine if there are possible links to a national, gang-run sex-trafficking ring, Wade said. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

    It’s like what they are expecting in the Epstein files.

  43. 43.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Belafon:

    cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-says-federal-employees-can-encourage-co-workers-to-re-think-th…

    Oh, they’re couching it in “They can’t be retaliated against if they refuse” but the hotline exists and it’s anonymous and run by the same administration.

    OK, but what’s the connection with the hotline?  If I’m a Federal worker and I politely tell a co-worker to get lost when they proselytize to me, I suppose they could call up the hotline and say…what? I’m mystified.

    OTOH, there’s this bit:

    In a memo to the heads of federal agencies, the Office of Personnel Management — the government’s human resources arm — said public employees have the right to religious expression in the workplace, citing civil rights law and the First Amendment. That includes the right to discuss religion, engage in “communal religious expressions” and display items such as bibles, crucifixes and mezuzahs on their desks, the memo states.

    This Christian would be bringing in his plush Cthulhu to put on his desk if he were still Federally employed. 😁

    (Yes, I have one. He keeps my Black Beast of Aaargh company.)

  46. 46.

    FastEdD

    Bubba Wallace became the first black driver to win on the oval at the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis. It was well deserved. Not sure how NASCAR fans will react but I’m happy about it. Lewis Hamilton won a long time ago when it was F1 but they were on the road course. It is only sports, but that is a milestone.

  47. 47.

    lowtechcyclist

    @catclub:

    The only case where Vance becomes president is Trump dies

    Trump must have to touch himself (no, I’m not talking about that way, you pervs!) on occasion, and we know everything Trump touches dies, therefore….

  48. 48.

    Math Guy

    @WaterGirl: Also, expensive. We’ll plant a new tree as soon as we can get this one removed. Called the tree guy this morning; I’m on the waiting list.

  50. 50.

    Baud

    Thailand and Cambodia had a shooting war but Malaysia stepped in to broker a cease fire.

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    @Math Guy: How big was your honey locust?  The tree I lost in 2013 when it crashed on the house was 7 foot in diameter, and it cost about $6,500 to remove it.

  52. 52.

    Scout211

    @WaterGirl: what came out in 2019 was that Virginia Guiffre was recruited by Maxwell and Epstein while she was working as a massage therapist in the Mar-a-lago spa.  There is speculation (it would be irresponsible not to!) that at the time, Trump looked the other way while his massage staff was recruited (pimped out) by Maxwell and Epstein. But when Guiffre (still underage at the time) went to work with Maxwell and left Mar-a-Lago, Trump was miffed.

    However, the real estate double-cross probably was probably the main reason for the fallout.

  53. 53.

    Archon

    @Belafon: The irony to that is I think Republicans, especially those who aren’t completely in the MAGA cult have processed the implications for their support of Trump better than the left has.

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Speaking of wars, now that the election is over, I guess no one cares about the hostages from Oct 17″  I’m guessing that they are either all dead, or wish they were.

  56. 56.

    Belafon

    @Archon: Doubt it. A Trump voter lost more than half of his construction workforce due to ICE and is now complaining about the penalties he’s having to pay because the project his company is working on isn’t complete. I doubt many Republicans are driving past the road construction happening here in the DFW area and wondering when ICE will conduct a raid like I do.

  58. 58.

    Shalimar

    Anti-Woke U.S. Dad Who Joined Putin’s War Machine ‘Blown Away by Hate’

    Some choice quotes:

    “I’m only doing what I feel is right… but the level of hate for Russia is insane.”

    The Huffmans, once a suburban family in the American South, now promote their brand of “traditional values” from behind enemy lines on YouTube, where DeAnna, a former teacher and floral designer, shares videos about their Russian relocation and his military service.

    He does not really seem to understand that Russians (including him, apparently) are murdering Ukrainians trying to live by their traditional values.  That is why most of us hate them at the moment.  The deaths are entirely on Putin.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    @Scout211:  Thanks.

    He probably forgets that trafficking women and girls –  and underage girls – is considered wrong.  Because he doesn’t think it’s wrong.

  63. 63.

    hueyplong

    @Scout211: It’s possible Trump was totally ok with pimping his young female employees to Epstein until about 2 weeks ago, and this is his new version of events.

    Assuming the worst has been a pretty accurate predictor for the last decade or so, and I’m reluctant simply to throw that tool away.

  65. 65.

    Math Guy

    @WaterGirl: Ouch! Not nearly that big – maybe a foot diameter trunk, but very tall. Also, they can’t get a cherry picker into that part of the property so they’ll have to climb and trim. I’m hoping it doesn’t go much over $2,000.

  67. 67.

    WTFGhost

    @WaterGirl: Well, I just got word my wife is coming home at the end of the week! tomorrow!!! which is a bit of a surprise and requires some work. Strange lass, you’d think she’d be comforted coming home to the same sheets as when she left, but *nooo-oooo* she wants them *changed*. And probably *laundered*.

    What I’ll change them *into* is my little secret, but it might not take well to being laundered!

    It’s not as bad as I make it out to be – she gave me a fair two week warning, so I started planning walkways, where to put things, etc.. It just turned into 3 days fewer than I’d expected.

    I just have to remind myself that, no, not all sudden changes are bad things, no matter how often they end up being that way. That’s one of my mental issues – everything hurts, so, changes hurt, and stick out as especially painful, but, they aren’t. So: I have to remind myself not to let a change become a negative and nasty thing in my memory, just because it’s a change.

    Lots of them suck for entirely different reasons, of course, but… it’s not that it’s a change, nor even a sudden change.

  69. 69.

    Trollhattan

    @WaterGirl:

    Quite a while, I believe since they retrieved anything more than a corpse. Ask Bibi if he cares. Think I know the answer, as do the families.

  70. 70.

    WaterGirl

    @WTFGhost: Your changing the sheets story made me laugh.

    My neighbor is waiting for her husband to come home from Africa.  In the reserves and they sent him there for a year, much to his displeasure as they were trying to start a family and move to a new house.

    He will either be home on Saturday or the following Wednesday.

    In my experience, humans do not have a fondness for uncertainty!

    Glad for you both that your wife is getting to come home.

  71. 71.

    Scout211

    @cain: Didn’t Trump take credit for that?

    Trump took credit for stopping five wars.  He’s so powerful and dreamy.  🙄

    ”I look foward to playing it today. We’re going to play it very quickly, and then I go back to (Washington) D.C. and we put out fires all over the world,” he said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new course, alluding in part to a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia.

    “We stopped a war – we’ve stopped about five wars. So that’s much more important than playing golf.”

  74. 74.

    Ohio Mom

    @zhena gogolia: Another very small consolation (or clutching at straws, if you are a half-empty type) is that this time around, Trump only won a plurality.

    Slightly over 50% of voters chose one of the other three candidates: Harris, Jill Stein (Green party) or whoever was the Libertarian party candidate.

    As I said, a very small consolation.

  75. 75.

    Betty

    @Scout211: Tara Palmeri on MSNBC said she spent a lot of time with Virginia who said she was not molested by Trump. Tara says the stolen girl story does not add up because Virginia was with Epstein from 2000 to 2002, but the break up was in 2004.

  76. 76.

    WaterGirl

    @Scout211: “Stopping a war is much more important than playing golf” is a sentence one might expect to hear from a precocious 5-year-old.

  77. 77.

    WTFGhost

    @Shalimar: Well, they don’t have any particular hate for him, they just want him wounded to slow down the butchering of Ukrainians, so, they should see if they can capture him, explain they don’t hate him, not one little bit, then shoot him in the gut. “We’d kill you, but now, you’re going to be taken to a hospital, eventually, where you might receive medical treatment, eventually, and some level of nursing help, like, making sure you’re turned to get fresh dirt in your wounds, eventually, and, that takes even more Russians out of the fight. So, please, understand, this is a purely tactical decision, made without any emotional involvement. If we hated you, we’d probably just kill you, but, hey, we’re not hateful. And we’re sure not ‘woke’ enough to kill you mercifully, so, hey, sucks to be you!”

  78. 78.

    Scout211

    @WaterGirl: He probably forgets that trafficking women and girls –  and underage girls – is considered wrong.  Because he doesn’t think it’s wrong.

    And he likely considered her his property so loaning (pimping) her out was fine, but stealing her was over the line.

    @hueyplong: It’s possible Trump was totally ok with pimping his young female employees to Epstein until about 2 weeks ago, and this is his new version of events.

    Agree.

  79. 79.

    hueyplong

    @WaterGirl: And that’s setting aside the fact that Trump doesn’t actually think stopping wars is more important than golf.  He thinks golf is so important that he cheats at it, and he hasn’t stopped a single war.

  81. 81.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Shalimar: ​
    Another quote:

    “I don’t relish the idea of taking life,” Huffman said. “But I’m doing what I feel is right. People ought to try that sometimes.”

    Just because he feels something is right doesn’t make it so, is what someone needs to tell him. If he feels that what he calls “LGBT indoctrination” is a worse thing than mass, indiscriminate slaughter in the name of empire, then his values…shit, there are no words. I give up.

  82. 82.

    ruckus

    @WTFGhost:

    Up until shitforbrains I knew there was a bottom, I just didn’t think it was qualified by a negative depth and in 4 digits.

  83. 83.

    Soprano2

    @rikyrah: Denying visas to Little League baseball players and the president of Taiwan, I’m sure that’s the kind of thing independent voters who voted for FFOTUS think are great ideas. What a moron.

  86. 86.

    Citizen Alan

    @Belafon:  I didn’t see anything about the “hotline” in the article you linked to. Not doubting it exists knowing these people, but I didn’t see anything about that.

  88. 88.

    cain

    @Betty: I think Trump is more into the 20+ women not underaged as such. That was Epstein. I seem to remember that he mentioned that Epstein liked his women much younger.

  89. 89.

    Citizen Alan

    @lowtechcyclist:  One wonders if this rule would cover atheists in the work place responding to proselytizing by RW Christians by attempting to convert them to atheism by pointing out the inconsistencies in the Bible as well as the moral turpitude of Christian religious leaders and the naked hypocrisy of most RW Christians in general.

  92. 92.

    WTFGhost

    @Scout211:This is not the news he thinks it is. His attorneys must be running for smelling salts right now.

    Naw, it’s the paralegals grabbing the smelling salts – when you pass out, you can’t “run for” anything until you’re revived. The paralegals also have a knowing smirk, the effing smart alecks, because they only have to research how many ways this ruins the defense – the attorneys have to try to fix it!

  96. 96.

    Miss Bianca

    @Baud: Most of the commentary I’ve read on l’Affaire Colbert has pointed out, if only in passing, that late-night TV appears to be a dying genre. People’s media consumption habits have changed drastically since the beginning of the century.

    So, yeah – there may be a kernel of truthiness to CBS claiming that it was business, just business, after all, nothing to do with a big fat bribe to the POTUS, but I’m in the por que no los dos? camp myself.

  97. 97.

    Shalimar

    @cain: IIRC, Trump was also in his late 50s when he told a 12-year-old that she would be old enough to be his “girlfriend” in a decade.  So yeah, he probably doesn’t mind underage as long as they are somewhat curvy, but prepubescent like Epstein preferred was not Trump’s thing.

  99. 99.

    Shalimar

    @Miss Bianca: Samantha Bee said today that was the same reason they (Comedy Central?) gave for cancelling her show 3 years ago.   The Late Show is supposedly losing $40 million per year.  Which isn’t bad for a show with several hundred employees, but cancellation was inevitable.  Too many of us don’t even watch networks anymore.

  100. 100.

    Rusty

    The EPA announced they are dumping essentially all greenhouse emissions standards.  When all the cities si k into the ocean we can tell the kids it was worth it to not vote for a black woman.

  102. 102.

    WaterGirl

    Baud:  That went into moderation.  I can’t see why.  Checking now.

    edit: I see your comment ONLY in this thread.  My only choices are Trash, Trash and Ban, and Trash Thread & Ban.  That is not normal. It doesn’t show up in the back room anywhere, which is definitely not normal.

    What led you to post a test comment?

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