Today's Tweet

No lifeboats. As it is right now, the GOP has to die - along with Cult45.

Fuck bipartisanship.

Republicans are bad. They have bad morals and bad ideas. The goal should be to eliminate them utterly as a political movement and then allow a center-right party to move into the vacuum which has basic skills like arithmetic and not being racist.

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 28, 2018

And I'll say it again: 45* has not remade the GOP in his image - he is the perfect reflection of what the GOP has become.

Nancy MacLean explains it:

Today's GIF

The best ever - so far

Donald Trump Middle Finger GIF from Donaldtrump GIFs

Connections

Overheard:

I wanna thank my government for saving me from lettuce recently.

Can we do guns now?

(hat tip = FB friend Nancy Patrella)

Something clicked in my brain: what stops bad guys with guns is a lot more good guys with salads.

BTW - I'm pretty sure that's what The Beatitudes would sound like if that Jesus guy was here preaching today.

Anyway - then I went to Beau on YouTube, and he reminded me of just how big a lie it is when the ammosexuals make their spiel about the good guy with a gun and blah blah blah.

4%

Today's GIF

Situational awareness

James Madison

The father of our Constitution, and the progenitor of American bi-lateral politics.

He was considered a prissy little booger, but he knew his shit straight up.

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

- and -

When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”

hat tip = @JohnFugelsang

Today's Tweet

Stoopid human

"fuck you and your shitty biscuits, Janice" pic.twitter.com/L2B77thjvw

— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) November 26, 2018

Today's Joke

Overheard on the interweb:

Kid: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Me: I give up - why?
Kid: To get to the idiot's house.
Me: Mm-hmm. OK.

(three...two...one)

Kid: Knock knock
Me: Who's there?
Kid: The chicken

Today's Quote

We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us,
with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke,
and the presumption that once our eyes watered.

-- Tom Stoppard

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Parody Lyrics and Vocals: Dustin Ahkuoi

Videography: Nathan Durnwald

Video Assistant: Luke Amerson

Vocals recorded and produced by Ryan Snow for BSE.

Executive produced by Aaron Brutcher.

Mixed by Lee Martin at Hewlett Studios

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