He Doesn't Actually Say Anything

Trump: "I have to do what's right.  And what's right is this: We have a problem. It's a serious problem. It's gotta be solved.  And people that are Muslim; that are friends of mine are so happy that I brought it up."

I have to do what's right.  And what's right is this: We have a problem. 

Why is anybody pretending that's some kind of policy statement?

The Larval Stage Of A Yam

Hey @Buzzfeed "mendacious racist" isn't the only accurate description of Trump. Here's some of our fave suggestions… https://t.co/oWxGkkaO8M

— @midnight (@midnight) December 10, 2015

Take The Higher Moral Ground

Here's a picture of "their" guys:

And here's what "they're" doing about it:

And here's a picture of your guy:

And what are you doing about it?

Today's Toon

And there's more at Democratic Underground

Whole Lotta Tweetin' Goin' On

The combination of message and face makes this a prize-winner (and my sentiments exactly) h/t@mikehudema pic.twitter.com/6AfL0IpPWq

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) November 30, 2015

Tis The Season

...for everybody who needs a quick rebuttal for all those cranks who can't stop eye-guzzling DumFux News - waiting for the annual tradition of bringing the usual and customary crapola about how Obummer and Moochell are alla time slaggin' poor ol' Christmas (and various shit like that right there).

From whitehouse.gov:

Dirty Politics

O the Saturday nights @realDonaldTrump will have with his favorite model. #GOPdildo pic.twitter.com/gkbMPQAEfg

— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) December 5, 2015

Ok, fine, one last #GOPdildo for today on https://t.co/yj4XmJHoxs pic.twitter.com/kBpX9K2MRu

— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) December 6, 2015

Keep your damn government hands off my Pink Dragon says @RandPaul #GOPdildo pic.twitter.com/XgxJNBFInm

— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) December 5, 2015

You get the idea.

Today's Tweet

@TitusNation Thought you'd appreciate this. pic.twitter.com/nrtbV7fDOc

— Primrose MK (@PrimroseMK) December 9, 2015

Today's Pix

Thoughts On That Tweet

@Millennial_ @RethugWatch #RepublicanHypocrisy #ProlifeHyopcrisy @gop @bennydiego @TuxcedoCat @JohnFugelsang pic.twitter.com/p3zYZEN5cJ

— ThisHeartsOnFire (@JustAnotherRich) February 15, 2015

Maybe I'm reading a little too much into it, but given our national pathology where guns and violent tendencies seem to link up for some kind of wishful Danse Macabre, that thing on the back of that car - the thing with the red lettering - it says what it says because... 

"My barely-sublimated potential for psychotic behavior could manifest itself at any minute, in a rather explosive display of road rage, during which your 1st amendment right to express yourself on the public thoroughfare will get the fuck 2nd-Amended out of it, because I'm afraid I have very little for you to respect in terms of maturity and reason, so all I can think of is to compensate for it by making you fearful of what I might do because of my toxically unresolved Daddy Issues and the resultant deep-seated feelings of inadequacy regarding the size of my penis"  

...doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.

And oh yeah - this:

Menacing is the name of a criminal offense in many US states. The wording and degrees of the offense vary from state to state. It often consists of displaying a weapon to a person with the intention of threatening them with bodily harm from the said weapon, or of criminally threatening another, or otherwise putting them in fear of physical harm. Depending on state, degrees of offense range from a misdemeanor for first time offenders, to low to mid level felonies for offenders with a prior menacing charge. The tangentially related crime of "Menacing By Stalking" was introduced as a new charge in some states following the popularization of laws specifically targeting stalking behavior, in which a perpetrator adopts a long-term pattern of actions designed to frighten and harass a victim while still adhering to the letter of existing harassment laws.

Today's Winning Tweet

Upon seeing Ted Cruz's rise in the polls.... Donald Trump is cranking it up a notch! pic.twitter.com/luVZXOzN15

— All Things Flynn (@AllThingsFlynn) December 7, 2015

Keep Shopping, Dammit

What're Your Wings Made Of?

I think I posted this one a while back - worth a 2nd look anyway.

hat tip = Little Green Footballs

Today's Quote

On Tom Waits's birthday

hat tip = Facebook friend LM-M

Cross Pollination

Generally, but not necessarily a good thing. There's more of this, of course, and it doesn't get any better.

'Tis The Season

The word 'reconciliation' pops into my fevered little noggin a lot this time of year, but right now it has to go beyond the usual "spiritual-ey" stuff about making a special effort to recognize the things I've done or said or tho't that I shouldn't, and the things I should've done or said or tho't that I didn't.

What it gets down to now is:  How do we reconcile a call for this country to be more Christian while demanding government policies that are anything but Christian?

Take in refugees who're trying to get free of the horrors of war and the bondage of poverty?  Fuck 'em - they might be terrorists.

People who don't like us because we're Christians have killed a bunch of us.  So "turn the other cheek"?  Fuck that - we will seek vengeance as if we've never even heard of this Jesus guy, much less his lessons of loving our enemies and forgiving those who trespass against us.

Drug testing for Welfare and SNAP recipients - even though it has a much greater and more damaging impact on the totally blameless kids of those very few parents who get caught? Pretty sure your Jesus had more regard for people than that.

Guys like John Fugelsang have been trying to point these things out for quite a while, Christians - when can we expect you to start answering the criticism?

.@bradcundiff Muslims will never destroy Christianity but fake Christians are already doing it.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 5, 2015

Donald Trump calls for the murder of terror suspects' families because that's how you go for the Christian vote these days.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 2, 2015

And this next one doesn't have anything to do with Jesus really - even though (I just found out) there's lotsa "Christians" who think Jesus commanded the apostles to arm themselves, citing Luke 22:36.  I'd never heard such silliness, and of course it turns out the American Ammosexuals (like all the other hyper jagoff-ey god-knobbers in the whole fucking world), who always need some "higher" authority to rationalize their douchery are missing the whole fucking point, as Benjamin Corey explains.

And btw, how do you not reconcile that one?  How do you not see that your appeal to an ultimate authority is exactly the same as everybody else's appeal to their version of an ultimate authority?  

Anyway, if we all carry loaded guns at all times, the whole country gets really safe - but we'll have to insist that there be no loaded guns at the Gun Shows because we need to ensure the safety of our vendors and attendees.  
And we'll lock up all the weapons on all the military bases in the interest of safety for our service members.  
And you don't get to carry a loaded gun in a police station because safety is uppermost in our minds.
And no guns on airplanes for the safety of the flying public.  
And no guns at the football game for the safety of the fans. 
And no guns in the courtroom for the safety of the people there.  
And no guns at school for the safety of the kids and their teachers.
And no guns and no guns and no guns.

It's all outa sync.  Get this shit reconciled, and let's go to work.

Today's Winning Tweet

I can't say "Fuck" on ABC and my 1st amendment survived. Think my 2nd amendment could survive having to reload after 6 shots.

— Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) December 6, 2015

But this is USAmerica Inc, silly - you're not gonna get anywhere talkin' sense.

Mazel Tov, Bitches

hat tip = Facebook buddy DR

Shopping Early

For that hard-to-shop-for got-it-all-anyway gal who's on everybody's list every year, how's about some clothing and accessories featuring skin, hair, nipples and even some puckered bungholes - all human, and all in the name of staying current and fashionable while doing something about over-population.  Let the wild rumpus begin!

hat tip = Mock Paper Scissors


(No - not really human.  C'mon, man)

Do More Than That

Anthony Jeselnik:

hat tip = Democratic Underground

I don't have a problem with anybody praying.  

And I don't have a problem with anybody making fun of anybody for praying.

The problem I have is when we fall for the same old shit - again - by getting hung up bitchin' about people praying vs people bitchin' about people praying instead of concentrating on what's actually happened for about the 350th time in about 340 days just this year.

I got caught up in it too in the last coupla days.  I, of course, made some awesomely awesome points, but... fuck - never mind that.  Work the fucking problem.