Hoo Boy

Say what? Is she telling us we should all be up

on a rooftop somewhere

trying to shoot Trump's ears off?

This confuses me.

Today's "Conservative" Meme

What happened?

Well let's see:

1. You're an ignorant fuck who apparently slept through the worst pandemic in over 100 years
2. You're a complete asshole who has absolutely no respect for his audience
3. You're a cynical manipulator who thinks peddling this kinda shit is how you make it big

(choose all that apply)

A Thought

Remember when Hunter Biden

made over $600 million

from foreign countries,

doing a job he was

totally unqualified to do,

while his dad was in government?

You don't remember that?

Me neither -

that was Ivanka.

Today's Whoa Bubba

First - if a fetus is developing without a brain, or grows its organs outside its body, or begins to wither and die in the 3rd or 4th month, then maybe people could see that "life" isn't always the kindest, most loving option.

But second - I think in this case, the miracle is actually all about a man who is pregnant.

It's certainly no miracle that a wingnut screwed up and chose the wrong picture to illustrate his point - and ended up blowing the whole meme.

It does beg the question though: Who the fuck drew an anatomical cross-section of a pregnant man?

Dead Kids TYD

So far in 2022

American kids killed

by gunfire:

29

American kids killed

by books:

0

Reasons To Be Atheist, # ∞

cuz god says I have to love these

fuckin' idiot "conservatives"

who're telling me Neil Young

is trying to censor them.

Where We Are

Politicians in general, and Repubs in particular these days, are always trying to set up situations where they win no matter what, and the other side loses no matter what.

If Dems say, "OK, we won't go with an impeachment trial and just leave it to the courts", the Repubs will come back with "No no no - you can't go after a political opponent in criminal court - you liberals were all up in arms when we were saying Hillary should be brought up on charges and blah blah blah."

Brian Tyler Cohen:

And we can just kinda blow it off as "Oh well - it's politics - whaddaya gonna do?"

But the shit that assholes like Rand Paul are trying to pull is the classic No-Win Bind that gets autocrats off the hook. It's a trap that abusers try to to set for people all the time, and is, in itself an abuse of power.

Theramin Trees - The Double Bind

Always remember those little life lessons our favorite sportsball coaches tried to illustrate for us.

Hope For The Fall

When the loudmouth loses his megaphone, and when the guy who won't stop shoving his face in front of us loses his place on camera, there is the sweetest feeling of respite and delicious irony. 

USPS

Today I FlipFlop A Bit

This is the kinda shit that pops up on any given social media feed a hundred times on any given day.

First, I have no problem respecting and showing a little appreciation for the cops or the librarians or the moms or the service members or the guy behind the counter at 7-11 - although I have indeed gotten more than a little peeved at how much whining goes on about all of it.

But I think maybe I should be trying to see past the complaints, and look at the reasons for those complaints.

Maybe what we need to do is address the fucked up system that gives people good reason to believe there's no respect for them, and leads them to where they have to stand up and holler.

Which happens to be also the place where they're more easily manipulated into thinking a bottom-feeding slug like Donald Trump is their ticket to a more perfect union.

We have to start talking about honor again.

If we put some sense of honor (and honorability) back into the way we conduct ourselves - and the way we demand our government conducts itself - then there's less likelihood that anyone becomes so disillusioned that they end up feeling they have no alternative to throwing rocks and punches and bombs.

And like the man said - when we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make bloody rebellion inevitable.

Today's Other Side

The Christian Left would like to remind everybody that maybe we got Trump because god was all out of frogs and locusts.

Thank you, and stay tuned - the plagues have just begun.

Today's Today

A Minor Pivot

I'm not growing any fonder of "Make America Great Again", but I'd like to think we could go back to where the President Of The United States and the dumbest fuckin' jerk in the country weren't the same guy.

Quickie Meme

Right now in America the President is making an argument he doesn’t believe 

for a solution that’ll never happen 

to solve a problem which does not exist 

because it’ll excite people who don’t know the difference.

Quick Reminder

37 days until 11-06-18

A Reminder

(versions of this have been floating around for quite a while)

I'm not mad that Hillary lost.
I'm really not concerned that we have differing political preferences.

I don't think less of you because you vote a certain way.

-- I think less of you because you watched an adult mock a disabled person in front of a crowd and you still supported him.
-- I think less of you because you heard him spouting clearly racist language, and you stood with him.
-- I think less of you because you listened to him speak in favor of committing war crimes, and you still wanted him to lead our government.
-- I think less of you because you watched as he reduced a woman's worth to nothing but her appearance, and you got on board with him.
-- I think less of you because your loyalties lie with your political tribe instead of our national family.

It isn't your politics that I find repulsive. It's your willingness to side with a traitorous Daddy State bully - to indulge his bigotry, his misogyny, his cruelty, and his treachery; which leaves me only to surmise that you embrace those characteristics as your own.

So no - we will not be coming together to move forward, or whatever.

Trump disgusts me, but the simple fact that he doesn't disgust you is why these particular bygones will never be bygones. ever.

Today On The Toobz

Overheard on Twitter:

Yesterday, Larry Kudlow said "there's a special place in Hell" for Justin Trudeau. 

Today, Mr Kudlow suffered a heart attack.

And the karmic kicker is: now he has a pre-existing condition and could easily be denied coverage because of the GOP's plan to scuttle ACA.

Meme For A Day

I only wish this made as much sense to some people as it oughta.

Nothing Fails Like Prayer - Thank God

Praise Mammon from whom all blessings flow
Praise him, all victims here below
Praise him, Congress - who love him best
Praise money and power - and fuck the rest

Without Adult Supervision

Paraphrasing Mr Mencken: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste or the intelligence of the American consumer.  Wal-Mart seems to work very hard at proving it.