Today's Tweet

But is it "milkshaked" or should it be "milkshook"?

Matt Gaetz got milkshaked in Pensacola pic.twitter.com/yqz3bPgjw5

— jordan (@JordanUhl) June 1, 2019

And are we sure it was a milkshake and not a malt?

Taking a page from the Radical Right playbook: If we get 'em arguing over the particulars of either the terminology or the physical aspects of the "weapon", then we won't have to worry about the need to address the behavior itself.

Fake Lord Have Mercy

I'd really like it if this god joker could show up and fry one of these Christo-Jagoffs.

If I could count on that happening - even just once in a while - I might have to consider going back to church.

Friendly Atheist:

In 2016, Pastor B.J. Blackburn of Kentucky’s Elevate Church received national attention as the owner of a pizza chain called Giovanni’s of Prestonsburg because he made it very clear he ran a Christian establishment. He played Christian music over the speakers, put Bible verses on his receipts, and didn’t care who complained about it.

“We, here at Giovanni’s of Prestonsburg are unapologetically a Christ-based business that runs and operates with Christian values and principles. We wholeheartedly believe that we have been blessed the way that we have because of the goodness of God. We understand that this is not the view of every customer and/or business owner and we are not trying to push this view on anybody,” Blackburn wrote (in a now-deleted Facebook post).

You know where this post is going already, don’t you…?

Of course you do.

He’s a Christian who can’t stop telling you how Christian he is. This can only end one way. (Wait for the twist.)

Bobby “BJ” Blackburn is charged with using an electronic device to try to get a minor to engage in sexual activities. Police said he messaged an employee, who was a minor, and asked her to engage in a “threesome” with another minor, among other obscene messages.

On May 25, police said Blackburn followed a third minor to the station where she tried to give a statement saying she sent the obscene messaged from Blackburn’s phone. But when they questioned her further, she took back her statement and admitted that Blackburn told her to say it or she would lose her job.

Police tried obtaining Blackburn’s phone, but he allegedly threw it in a river. Like all innocent people do.

So if I have this right, Blackburn is now known for allegedly soliciting an underage girl for sex, destroying evidence, obstructing justice… and Jesus. Sounds about right.

If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail.

Should make for a fascinating sermon this Sunday.

Today's Tweet

How shitty do you have to treat people to make the kind of enemies for yourself that you become paranoid enough to think you need that level of "protection" - at the grocery store?

Maybe somebody oughta look into what the fuck this guy's been up to.

Long live the Second Amendment. Such a pleasure to do your weekly groceries safe. And why would you carry just one gun, if you can easily carry 3? pic.twitter.com/Ywm3zgiMCj

— Paul van der Meer (@Paul_VanDerMeer) June 1, 2019

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Today's Quote

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

― Booker T. Washington

The McCain Incident

White House staff was so worried about giving 45* something to bitch at them about, they decided it would be a good idea to hide the USS John S McCain from his sight while visiting Japan.

Here's the eMail from those staffers to the advance team:

Of course 45* says he knew nothing of this, and even though our base assumption has to be that he's lying - since he lies pretty much all the time - it might be OK to take his word for it because we know that his default position is to know practically nothing about practically everything.

But it all fits. It doesn't matter to 45* what's true or not true. He's constantly working to undermine our ability to figure it out for ourselves, with the intent of putting himself in the position of being the final arbiter on all things.

"I'm the most powerful man on the planet, and I can make your life a lot worse than it already is - so you can either believe what I say, or what you see with your own lyin' eyes."

The war on reality is a thing. The Daddy State doesn't want you to know how to think. It insists on telling you what to think.

Today's Tweet(s)

We are still America, because this...

NEW: The White House wanted the USS John McCain “out of sight” for Trump’s visit to Japan. A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the trip, and sailors—who wear caps bearing the ship’s name—were given the day off for Trump’s visit. w/@gluboldhttps://t.co/6ugPceCOre pic.twitter.com/KuIoWJK5Kt

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 29, 2019

...gives us good ideas on how to countervail the worst tendencies of The Daddy State.

I’m calling my uterus John McCain so Trump’s government keeps away from it.

— Jena Friedman (@JenaFriedman) May 30, 2019

Time for DC City Council to rename Pennsylvania Avenue, "John McCain Avenue" ?

— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 30, 2019

Oh Dang - Now I See It

Key & Peele

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And then there was a wolverine just walking by - carrying the head of a goat.