Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

It’s possible to be a liberal firebrand without crapping on the party.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Everybody saw this coming.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

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

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

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

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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  9. 9.

    TenguPhule

    @schrodingers_cat: I could live with either the big ugly ads or the annoying autoplay ad.

    No, I lie. I can’t live with the autoplay ad.

    But both at the same time is really asking too much of us.

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    CaseyL

    Twitter is, ahem, a-twitter over this ad by Dan Helmer, a Democratic candidate in VA-10:

    Helmer Ad, “You’ve Lost That Centrist Feeling”

    The ad is getting really harsh reviews, but I think it’s funny and cute. If he wanted to get attention, he seems to have succeeded.

    I don’t know anything else about him, but a guy who can laugh at himself gets brownie points right off the bat.

    Also, he’s defining support for Planned Parenthood and ObamaCare as “centrist,” much to RW dismay. That can’t be a bad thing.

  13. 13.

    TenguPhule

    @Major Major Major Major: Alain said something about how the big ads were supposed to replace the autoplay ad. And that there were apparently worse alternatives to this.

    But those ads can’t possibly be generating the kind of hits needed since I’m fairly certain the regular readers here hate all of them.

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    Yutsano

    @CaseyL: Okay I just watched it. The ad is total cheeseball but it definitely will leave a mark on Comstock. It doesn’t hurt that Helmer is quite photogenic.

    And that whole thing about no bad publicity? Hey folks are talking.

    @TenguPhule: I will not click on anything sponsored by Taboola.

  15. 15.

    RedDirtGirl

    Question: is everybody getting 8 ads before the comment section on the mobile site? And is there something I can do to make them disappear?

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @RedDirtGirl:

    Question: is everybody getting 8 ads before the comment section on the mobile site?

    No.

    I am getting only 6 ads before the comment section. (FWIW, even though I use mobile devices exclusively, I always keep BJ set to Desktop Version. Much more attractive, much easier to navigate, IMO.)

  18. 18.

    CaseyL

    @SiubhanDuinne: Haven’t had a whole lot of respect for Charlie since he went full BernieBro during the primaries. And he doesn’t say what it is about the ad that put his teeth on edge; maybe it’s not sober and high-minded enough for him? Cheesy and playful doesn’t float his boat?

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    Yutsano

    @CaseyL: Pierce has been hit or miss for me lately. And yes the ad is a cheese fest. But there is nothing in there that will damage Helmer. And it’s getting name recognition beyond what a typical political ad would do.

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    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Yutsano:
    I personally think this ad will have little affect on the race 1 year from now. 2018 is our election to lose at this point, really. Trump and the GOP are so bad and opposition parties traditionally do well in midterms.

  26. 26.

    RedDirtGirl

    Howdy, Helen. Life is good. Just passed the 1 year mark with the fella. Any more dating stories from your neck of the woods?

  28. 28.

    Waratah

    @CaseyL: Thank you for the link, I had heard of this and wanted to see it. It is really awful but I loved it. He is going to get a lot of attention .
    if I lived in his district this ad would have me looking up who he is and what he stands for.

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