Overheard

Hey - I completely understand why so many people are having a hard time deciding who to vote for in the midterms.

I mean, really. On the one hand, you've got Democrats, who've been pretty disappointing for a while now.

And on the other hand, there are child-raping murderers, cheating at every turn, running coin-operated concentration camps, siphoning hundreds of billions of dollars out of the treasury directly into their offshore numbered accounts, while making the whole planet uninhabitable for humans - then blaming you for having a bad attitude, and not being a team player.

I get it - that's a really tough call - a regular Sophie's Choice.

Overheard

I've got a brand new Benjamin that says there's a dumbass ICE agent out there who's going to fry his own ball sack with one of those gloves.

Overheard

It seems white people are buying Mexican flags, and putting them on their cars and pickups, so the Immigration thugs waste their time chasing the wrong people.

They call it ICE Fishing.

Overheard

Oprah owes us all a very deep apology for platforming these two grifting schmucks.

Overheard

Save the fetus - starve the child

Honor the soldier - abandon the veteran

Enrich the corporations - fleece the worker

Protect the abuser - blame the victim

Quote the bible - ignore the lessons

It's the Republican way

Overheard

If you want members of the Trump regime - and any number of parasite plutocrats - held to account, you have to expand SCOTUS to 13, and term limit the justices.

1. Win the Senate
2. Reform the filibuster
3. Block nominees
4. Elect a Dem POTUS
5. Abolish or reform the Electoral College
6. Grow the House by 4 seats
7. Fix all the shit and have nice things again

Overheard

If you claim to hold no opinion on political issues, you have no credibility, especially when you start to explain why you have no opinion on political issues.

Overheard

Once freed, the Israelites - guided by their all-seeing, all-knowing god - took 40 years to walk less than 500 miles.

The proverbial tortoise could have made it in about 4½ years.

And that, my friends, is what human progress is like when religion is involved.

Overheard

The US Constitution is not a book of magic spells and incantations.

It's an instruction manual on how not be politically stupid.

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In case you needed one positive thing to think about today:

Lindsey Graham wanted war with Iran more than he wanted practically anything else - and he died knowing it was all fucked up.

Overheard

Women are lonely too.

But it's not noteworthy

because lonely women

don't commit a lot of crime

or join violent fascist gangs.

They go to grad school

or adopt a rescue dog.

Overheard

Getting a 2 or 3% raise

during a period of 4 or 5% inflation

is a slow motion pay cut.

Overheard

Donald Trump is the perfect example

of what happens when nobody

ever told you to just shut the fuck up

Overheard

The extreme hot weather these last few days is the result of the gates of hell being opened in anticipation of Mitch McConnell's arrival.

Overheard

Republicans aren't afraid that

progressive policies will destroy America.

They're afraid because they know

those policies work,

and that will destroy the GOP.

Overheard

The average American's lifespan is 78 - so middle age is 39.

But the Plutocrats fooled us into thinking it's 50 or more so we wouldn't bitch about having to work until we turn 65 - which is a solid 10 years past the time most of us can expect to contract a fatal disease, or have a massive heart attack.

They've been fucking us with our pants on for a very long time now. 

Overheard

Not to offend anyone, but I was raised to take care of my husband. Cleaning up, washing his clothes, wearing gloves and an apron while handling the body, and acting very sad at the funeral.

Overheard

A short lesson

In 1861, Charles Darwin wrote in a letter to a friend:

"But I am very poorly today, and very stupid, and hate everybody and everything."

We can have extremely shitty days, and still rise to do great things.

Overheard

Human Body:

In about 9 months, I can grow an entirely new human being, complete with a brain, and bones, and skin, and eyeballs, and fingers and toes - the works.

Me:

Cool. How long before my back starts to feel better?

Human Body:

Forever - that's just you now - get used to it, loser.

See You Next Time, Elon

At a bus stop about 5 miles south of London