Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

The words do not have to be perfect.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Everybody saw this coming.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

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

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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

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

Innocent people do not delay justice.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

We will not go back.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

The National Guard is not Batman.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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Have a nice dinner out…

 
… and maybe take in a movie!

 
Pick your subjects carefully, though…

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  6. 6.

    Matt McIrvin

    …This whole business seems to be pulling Trump’s approval ratings up, probably because it’s bringing anti-Trump conservatives home.

  9. 9.

    Brachiator

    Love, love, love the Pulp Fiction mashup. Funny as hell, and a brilliant counterpoint to this tawdry mess.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    @Mike in NC

    Too logy (it’s been record breaking hot all week) to work up new lyrics for the song, substituting “It’s Kavanaugh” for “In Camelot.”

    Maybe later on.

  13. 13.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    That Pulp Fiction video was hilarious. I loved it when Samuel L Jackson shut Lindsay Graham up.

  14. 14.

    JustRuss

    Ya know, if the Republicans can bring in a random prosecutor from Arizona, why can’t the Democrats let Samuel L. Jackson lead their interrogation?

  17. 17.

    Mart

    Didn’t Kav’s opening include outrage over the boat rape and the other story the GOP ops dumped late Wednesday. A couple more rehearsed lies.

  18. 18.

    Mike in DC

    Polling seems a bit flaccid, but perhaps if they keep flogging the bish…er, judge, they can stave off inevitable shrinkage.

  23. 23.

    Major Major Major Major

    Jerry Brown vetoed a bill tonight that would’ve let some municipalities decide whether to test out a 4am last call. He said you can get up to quite enough highjinks with a 2am last call thank-you-very-much! Sorta came out of nowhere.

  24. 24.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Major Major Major Major:

    He also left SB 320 unsigned, that would mandate UC and CSU campuses provide abortion medication.

    I think he vetoes it, CSU can’t handle the medical costs and UC has all the hospitals anyway.

  30. 30.

    opiejeanne

    @Mart: Wait, what? I only heard some vague remark about a rape on a boat, but never any details, mainly because we were on the road in the hinterlands of SoCal with lousy radio reception most of the time. You’re saying that was a set-up by GOP operatives just so he could deny it? I don’t know if that’s incredibly stupid or what.

  36. 36.

    Mnemosyne

    @Steeplejack (tablet):

    I think the streaming is only on Amazon Prime right now? We have the DVD, so I’m not sure. Your local library should have it if you still have the ability to watch physical media.

  38. 38.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Mnemosyne: I’ve been meaning to watch that. I think the movie that always makes me cry is “Big Fish”, at the very end.

    Thanks for the link and rec.

  41. 41.

    ruemara

    Not too bad a night. I came home to, er, well… my kitchen is a disaster. For only one meal, but… The housemate made homemade pasta and marinara, plus sweet potato fries.

    He seems to feel he can cook me into a good mood. I can’t complain. Except the floor now needs a good washing, stat.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Mnemosyne:

    [. . .] if you still have the ability to watch physical media.

    Hey, I’m old, but not that old!

    I’ve got Amazon Prime, but for some reason I never think to look there except for Amazon series.

  43. 43.

    montanareddog

    looks like Kavanomeansyes has a poll that is wilting in the face of stiff opposition. The brewer’s droop nominee?

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    G once told me that he wasn’t going to let me use his kitchen again until I explained how I got marinara sauce on the ceiling.

    But then we moved in together and the point was moot. ?

  46. 46.

    ruemara

    @Steeplejack (phone): Girl, there are tomato sauce drops everywhere & I cannot even with the counter where he rolled out the pasta dough. But he did clean up the bulk of it. You can’t complain when someone cooks for you for several hours.

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @ruemara:

    (I know you weren’t replying to me.)

    I’m mostly a “clean as you go” cook. Years of working in small kitchens. I really don’t like people trashing the whole kitchen with their diva cooking routines.

  48. 48.

    ruemara

    @Steeplejack (phone): lol, I have no idea how you got included, but all good. Oh, he’s no diva. He’s just a messy guy. But he cleans up after himself & there are far more important things to fret over.

  49. 49.

    opiejeanne

    @ruemara: I think that’s a healthy attitude.
    anything else and you’d make yourself nuts. My husband has decided he’ll clean up if I cook for him. It’s worked out pretty well so far, and we both tend to lose weight more quickly than when we’re eating out (not because I’m a bad cook).

  52. 52.

    ruemara

    @opiejeanne: We had a few bobbles when we started living with each other, in the vein of “I’ve had previous arguments with women about this & I am pre-defensive before I know what you want”. I carefully but firmly explained that unlike his past girlfriends, I’m a grown ass woman and I’ve been grown about my shit longer than he’s ever even had his balls drop, so understand that I am fully capable of discussion, negotiation & acceptance of difference. Some people don’t become grown ass adults until they die. I’ve been grown since before I was 11. This is not anything to have huge fights over. I can’t imagine a relationship where you have a fight that lasts a week when someone is just trying to please you with a meal. Weird.

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    Well, at least he tried to clean up even if he didn’t quite get everything. Maybe encourage him to make something less messy next time? ?

    Otherwise, A for effort (assuming it was tasty) and C for cleaning ability.

  56. 56.

    ruemara

    @Mnemosyne: he does his best on cleanup and anything else I can handle with my normal chores. A for everything. I don’t mind. His meal prep skills are superb though. I will take a willing food chopper. And he will take on any chore that means I make things he can stuff in his face. Men – natural high metabolism or deal with the devil? The world may never know.

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    Oh, I have no room to criticize anyone else’s cleaning abilities. Living with me is like living with a frat boy, which is why we have cleaning people once a month. My own mother (who died when I was 7) was apparently a bad housekeeper herself, and my stepmom (current mom) came along too late to be able to teach me. Plus my undiagnosed ADHD didn’t help. So I am a terrible slob who feels guilty about having to be reminded, but still has to be reminded.

  58. 58.

    Mart

    @Yutsano: Well good for George Will to be human for a minute, or likely just advocating for the most cost effective solution to the death penalty. Another conservative proving weighing facts results in progressive solutions. (FBI investgations included.)

  60. 60.

    bemused

    I’ve been a little surprised someone hasn’t condensed a video of Kavanaugh just guzzling water, sniffing, crying, making weird faces but then I realized his whole statement and hearing was like that.

  62. 62.

    BretH

    Struck me this morning that it might not have been a good Presidential strategy to have been trashing the FBI for months leading up to them handling the investigation of the man you desperately want on the Supreme Court.

  63. 63.

    PST

    @BretH: it struck me the same way, but maybe we’re dead wrong. Maybe it’s exactly the right way to make the FBI want to placate and appease him. If there is one thing Trump seems to understand, it’s how to use trash talk to get what he wants.

  64. 64.

    Miss Bianca

    @JustRuss:

    Ya know, if the Republicans can bring in a random prosecutor from Arizona, why can’t the Democrats let Samuel L. Jackson lead their interrogation?

    Now, I would actually pay to watch that.

  68. 68.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I am still staggered why the popular fixation doesn’t seem to give a shit about what Judge McRapeyCryBaby did at the hearing and it’s all about what happened when he was a teen. You ask me the people who are supporting him after that rant are utter idiots and don’t see how out of control that guy is. Judge McRapeyCrybaby will be handing down decisions based on who didn’t say hello to him the elevator and crap like that. People are calling him Trump II and like Trump, what will be coming out of this idiot once he is a justice will be be far stupider than we can imagine.

  70. 70.

    Kathleen

    @raven: I loved the ballads on Surrealistic Pillow. Comin Back To Me is so haunting. BTW, I found out via local news this morning that he was born in Cincinnati.

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