Today's Tweet

Every failed attempt at anything is worth something.

I made a robot to help me argue on the internet pic.twitter.com/NxpXhk0NMM

— Simone Giertz (@SimoneGiertz) March 16, 2016

Today's GIF

Took me a while, but here it is.  And yeah - it's been around for a while; don't care.  Can't  stop loving this.

Today's Pix

Down To 3

Well, at least we're back to having Drumpf right smack in the middle again.  The stage craft and show biz crap is just crazy stoopid obvious.  And there's great promise for lots more because of the drama of the GOP elders wanting so desperately to keep Trump out of their club, that the worst-kept secret in politics now is that they'll run a 3rd party candidate against him just to make sure they lose.  And won't that be fun?    And to be sure, let me say that one part again: The GOP is taking steps to make sure their presumptive candidate loses the general election in November.

They have to find somebody to run against Trump, but then run the campaign in a way that doesn't smack of panic, so it generates enough turnout that they get the down-ballot support they need to stave off some potentially humungous Dem gains in House and Senate seats, as well as all the little stuff like state houses and governorships. 

And they have to stake out their territory and try to reclaim the tiny bits of GOP that can still be pieced back together so it looks more or less like a political party again; which is a herculean task that this GOP has been trying very hard to countervail for the last 20 years. So if that Grand Unifier exists - maybe Rubio can collect a few more paychecks after all - just who the hell is he? Her?

I don't like making sweeping predictions and pimping some circumstance or another as so totally dire that there's nothing but disaster ahead, but dang - this looks pretty damned dire, dude.

So, Trump's done it (almost anyway) - he's practically pulled off a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.

And we've still got 5 months of televised circle jerk to go before Cleveland. Woohoo.

So, Dems - how's that party unity thing going for you guys?  The next 2 months or so, it's going to be kind of important to get people out of the house and into the streets to move voters out to the polls during the primaries, so you have some organization in place for the general. You know that, of course, but it seems like this is the kind of near-freebie you guys have made a habit of screwin'-the-pooch on.  So here it is.  This is your shot.  Quit fuckin' around and go do it.

Today's Tweet

.@SarahPalinUSA you want to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain but you don't even know what the 1st amendment is about pic.twitter.com/DdshNpr7EP

— krautsider (@krautsider) March 15, 2016

Today's Day

Today's Tweet

"@LlacerMarianne: @1ven55 pic.twitter.com/cfZSRSE78n"

As if , like the coloring from the sky(≧▽≦)✴🎵

— ひーちゃん (@shaiynoa) March 11, 2016

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Today's Tweet

Trump cancels Chicago rally amid security concerns https://t.co/LVEGWkrAQ7 #Chicago #DonaldTrump photo by @ejwamb pic.twitter.com/tF1NTu8qui

— Chicago Trib Photo (@ChiTribPhoto) March 12, 2016

Slag her all ya want, guys.  She's earned it.  And she knows she's earned it.  And she's proud of having earned it.

For 25 years, she's been taking the training to do exactly that, at exactly that moment. 

Limbaugh, Coulter, Boortz, Savage, Cavuto - they've been teaching her that what really matters is to make "The Libruls" mad.  That's the only test.  If "The Libruls" get pissed off, then you're on the right track.  Do anything, say anything - it doesn't even have to make sense cuz making sense is what "The Libruls" try to do. So just come out with whatever you find when you unpack all that weird shit way down deep in the lizard part of your brain (which, of course, you're absolutely sure isn't even there); now say it.  And watch "The Libruls" gag.  And you'll know you're right.

Try it.  It's easy.  

Somebody needs to start a betting pool on when the lid comes off this motherfucker, and we get our first real donnybrook / fracas / melee / gunfight whatever.

I'm taking sometime before midnight on March 31.

And with apologies to Gil Scott Heron, this little dance party is gonna be on everything that even remotely resembles a TV screen. 

Friday Groove

Let It Roll

(headphones recommended for the Zeppelin cut - #2 - cuz it's freaky, man)