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Donald Trump yelled at the news networks yesterday — it was like “a f___ing firing squad,” according to frequent Donald Trump leakee the New York Post — and CBS for one seems to have taken the chastisement to heart!

Just watch this video!

“Donald Trump has wrapped up his meeting with the New York Times,” announces the anchor peppily, “and as he was leaving he was greeted by cheers!”

Cheers for the king! Cheers for the king! Do not lock us up, o gracious one!

Listen to the cheers for yourself.


By the end, the anchor nervously chuckles that there are perhaps a few boos mixed in. But don’t tell that to CBS’s social media team!

Are they cheers or boos? Is the dress blue and gold or black and go fuck yourself?

Will Facebook ban CBS for making up fake news? Or are we going to drink this nice cup of bleach?

It’s a quandary of an enigma wrapped in the death of journalism, the end.

[CBS]

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  • Zippy W Pinhead

    Assume media cowed

  • Zippy W Pinhead
  • proudgrampa

    And the Fourth Estate has just been paved over to make a new parking lot…

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      the big orange taxi…

      • House0fTheBlueLights

        took away my old lady….

        • proudgrampa

          You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone…

          • House0fTheBlueLights

            Ah, Wonker came through. smiley face emoji

  • A representative for CBS said, “Thank you, Mr. Trump, may I have another one?”

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      Trump turned those whores out in record time…

  • janecita

    I miss living in Sweden, I miss watching Al Jazeera.

    • Boscoe

      Please go back and while you’re at it, take me with you.

      • janecita

        I wish! We lived there for work (my husband’s), he is hopping for another international assignment lasting at least four years.

        • Rise Up, Demme!

          that’s the best, isn’t it?
          we were ex-pats in london for 4 years.

          • janecita

            It’s the best! Traveling all over Europe on weekends was awesome.

  • FlemmishSpy

    I was saying “Boo-urns!”

  • Crystalclear12

    Christ! I am tired of this shit and he isn’t even in office yet!

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    OT update: still making calls to the House Oversight Committee to investigate Drumpf’s financials because some of the DC lines were busy. Seven members are repeatedly busy or not answering at all. Time to call their district offices. Hello, Trey Gowdy!

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      Hello, Trey Gowdy!

      AKA Howdy Doody!

    • Jennifer R

      Too busy practicing his wide stance.

  • Resistance Fighter MausFeet
  • Bitter Scribe

    They were saying boo-urns.

    • SuspectedDemocrat

      I was saying boo-urns.

  • Lefty Frizzell

    That was insane. What the fuck is wrong with them?

  • Monsieur_Grumpe

    Sounded like moans of pain to me.

  • Scooby

    I thought they were singing “Thats why the lady is a Trump”

  • AntiDerpomeme

    They were saying “Boo-urns” ?

    • House0fTheBlueLights

      I for one, welcome my new dystopia overlords.

    • Rise Up, Demme!

      wait till i join the muslim registry!

  • The Outraged Ms. MLG

    I listened to a few seconds, and in my expert opinion, that is the sound of America dying in a fire.

    • While being drowned.

      • Jennifer R

        Every time I see you post, I think your avatar is a plague doctor mask for the first three seconds.

        • Just Old Man Whitman wishing he had a plague doctor mask to get him through the sickest parts.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        thanks Grover

      • janecita

        Poisoned and shot. Just like Rasputin.

  • janecita

    I feel like I’m trapped in a Westworld episode, I don’t know what’s real anymore!

    • Señor Skwerl!

      The cake is not, but the dicks are.

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      I might have to save this tweet to my desktop.

      Glenn Fleishman ? Verified account ‏@GlennF 2h2 hours ago
      @anamariecox It’s as unreal as if I went into the living room and an actual ghost was throwing my stuff around.

  • Mr. Blobfish

    Huh. You can polish a turd.

  • Lefty Frizzell

    It’s a very, very short step from here to a state run media inventing election results.

    • Señor Skwerl!

      We have 100% support for that. The misguided protesters did not vote.

    • laughingnome

      That may have already happened.

      • MynameisBlarney

        May have?

      • House0fTheBlueLights

        Yes, but it was Investia that invented them.

  • Shanana Republic

    What the hell time is it? I need to take off my pants.

    • AntiDerpomeme

      Um, why are you pants’ed to begin with?

      • Shanana Republic

        I need to keep my job.

        • Jennifer R

          Pants are the first part of the old world to go in my new society.

          • Shanana Republic

            Oooh, all the men wear kilts?! I’m in!

          • Jennifer R

            People wear whatever they want (or whatever they don’t want is often the case) in my house.

    • Mpeg

      Dance party isn’t til Wednesday.

      Wait – – there’s no rules in this society anymore.

      DANCE LIKE IT’S 19-NINETY-SOMETHING
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOy9IJUaIRc

      • Mayor_Mayor_Mayor

        Thanks for the Blues Explosion.

    • BigBoppa pour la résistance

      Pics or….

      never mind.

    • I have 4 hours to go until de-pantsing can occur.

  • MynameisBlarney
    • tehbaddr

      It’s a mystery!

  • Cousin Itt de La Résistance
    • thixotropic jerk

      I hear he just loves a good bowl of steaming human stew – now with extra fawning presscore pieces!

    • Meccalopolis

      They were all giving him the finger

  • Tallmutha

    Turn that frown upside down.

    • laughingnome

      Turn that rump up to Trump.

    • AntiDerpomeme

      The beatings will continue until morale improves, and America is made great again.

      • MynameisBlarney

        Have you flogged your crew today?

  • Wild Cat

    “REMEMBER: Only YOU can poison your wingnut relatives during Thanksgiving.”
    —A Public Service message from Smokey the Rationalist

    • SuspectedDemocrat

      But then how will they get to all the new factory and coal mining jobs they were promised?

      • Wild Cat

        They’re the coal.

        • thixotropic jerk

          “Soylent Coal Is Trumpanzees!”

    • Jennifer R

      How long until deadbeat donnie uses the military to break up a strike. Bonus points if it’s WV Coal miners again.

      • SuspectedDemocrat

        Why, are the four or five guys running the mountaintop remover machine talking about a strike?

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        it’ll be teachers

        • Jennifer R

          Well no doubt at least a few people will feel fine with mortars raining down on the last people who give half a shit about teaching their kid to not mix bleach and ammonia to clean the floor.

  • Zippy W Pinhead

    Meanwhile, the crowd is cheering Bamz like a rockstar

    we’re so fucked…

  • tehbaddr

    Check our Editrix digging in and producing story after story! The Lame Stream Media should have walked out on that Rage Monkey with his chastisement meeting. Given him the “Go Fuck Yourself Treatment”!

    • Lefty Frizzell

      ooh, ooh, they might lose “access”. Fucking small price to pay for your actual souls guys.

      • Carpe Vagenda

        We are talking about the Times here. Are they risking anything they still have?

        • Lambsendbeds

          Nah, they sold that off during the Reagan years.

      • Meccalopolis

        They might have to do journalism

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      and give up their precious access and their colorful lead story?

      BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

  • Vincent Ricola

    “Okay, so a mix of some cheers and some boos…”

    LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Nice try, worth nameless CBS news anchor, way to make me forget my terrifying existential crisis for 3 seconds with your journalistic observation skillz.

  • NastyBossetti

    I think it was just a voice-to-text error. They said, “jeers,” but the app mistook it for “cheers.”

  • MynameisBlarney
    • Zippy W Pinhead

      I’m pretty sure that’s a picture of argle bargle

      • Mayor_Mayor_Mayor

        Not jiggery pokery?

    • NastyBossetti

      This should be the photo that accompanies any story about him, forever.

    • Jennifer R

      Looks JUST like a frog getting ready to expand and let out a mating call.

      • Lambsendbeds

        Looks like Diana from “V” getting ready to swallow a guinea pig.

    • sincarne
    • thixotropic jerk

      “YOU EARTHLINGS ARE SO NAIVE!!!! THAT WASN”T A MANUAL IT WAS A COOKBOOK!””

    • tehbaddr

      Didn’t know Trump’s predecessors were from Innsmouth!

      • Nockular cavity

        Innsmouth libel!!!1!

    • Lambsendbeds

      And Trump was complaining that the press is printing photos that show his double chin…

  • Mpeg

    Did Rafalca die and come back as this stunt pony?

    (wishfully reminiscing: the Romneys at least had animal sidekicks. I miss coming up with faux-dialogues between Rafalca and Seamus, making observations of what they saw)..

    • laughingnome

      The Trumps don’t seem like dog people. Or cat people. Lizard people for sure.

      • janecita

        Black Mamba people.

        • herrointment

          You have to train them at night when they’re less stroppy.

      • Lambsendbeds

        “Hell no, give him to the amphibians.” – Every lizard everywhere.

  • coozledad

    One good thing about Trump telling the New York Times to suck his dick is they already spent so much time sucking his dick and he’s forgotten it. He’s got that cocaine senility, which is a hard senility- harder than Modo’s hate boner for the Clintons.

    I’m a little fish, so it’s likely I’ll live to see the opinion desk forced to clean the streets on their hands and knees. I hope that short beach house lease was worth it.

    • disqus_lWwzrwNaw6

      Yeah, I’m getting to the “send them to the countryside for criticism and self-criticism” phase of all this surprisingly quickly, myself.

      • coozledad

        I give it two years max until the Irish are unemployables again. They’re like Mexicans, but they’re too fucked up to work.

        Trump’s whole spiel is a carbon copy of P.J. O’Rourke’s racist Lampoon shit. I guess he’ll be doing the inaugural.

    • Jukesgrrl

      There might be something to that cocaine-induced dementia. Perhaps I should stop complaining about Ivanka sitting in with the world leader meetings.

  • Flashman

    If there is a silver lining to Trump keeping his residence in NYC, it is that New Yorkers will tell him to go fuck himself with regularity and vigor.

    • bookish

      They should. They’re paying for the privilege.

      • Jennifer R

        I hope his front door is caked in feces every day.

        • thixotropic jerk

          Mmmm those cakes Trump likkkes!

        • Nockular cavity

          Yeah, I’m assuming you’d get ventilated if you tried to run at the door.

  • Señor Skwerl!
  • MamaBrown

    war is peace. freedom is slavery. ignorance is strength.

    • Wild Cat

      If Blair lived, he would have become a “conservative.” They pay better.

  • Darthhippy

    Well fuck. Look at the Zuma administration ins SA and you’ll see our next 4-8 years. assuming we have elections.

  • handyhippie65

    the current media are cowards, afraid of a lawsuit from der oberfurher dumpster fire. journalistic integrity? gone the way of the dinosaur, or the polar ice cap.

    • calliecallie

      Or, soon enough, the polar bear.

  • Saxo the Grammarian

    The chocolate ration has been increased to 25 grams! Praise to Big Brother!

    • Señor Skwerl!

      Finally wrestled it away from The Wonkerhood I see

    • Rise Up, Demme!

      did you know that we’ve always been at war with east asia?

  • Flashman

    CBS also reports that a bystander was cured of the sniffles as Trump walked by. Just reporting the facts.

  • Michael Smith

    Trump also golfed 18 straight holes-in-one, and has walked on the moon.

    • bookish

      Hoorah!

    • SuspectedDemocrat

      And he receives gifts from every world leader because they respect and love him so much.

    • janecita

      All his wives married him for love.

      • Lambsendbeds

        Love of his money.

        • thixotropic jerk

          For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. And then won all the biglys and said suck it byootches!

          1 Timothy 6:10~Alt-Trump Book Of The Steal

  • Darthhippy

    I would send this to pixel but I can’t find any header links on the new site layout. The kitten banner disappears, all the article disappears after the whole page is resolved I get shit kicked down to 3/4 of the page and can’t scroll back up.

    What the actual fuck did you do to your website?

    • tehbaddr

      Looks fine to me, mebbe you been h4x0r3d!

      • Darthhippy

        I could barely scroll down had to reload the page 3 times to get this point. What browser are you using?

        • Jennifer R

          Try the newest chrome, it renders fine on Version 54.0.2840.99 m

    • rebecca

      what browser are you in?

      • clubseal

        Browser, I hardly know ‘er!

        Sorry.

      • Darthhippy

        Version 54.0.2840.99 m (64-bit)

      • aureolaborealis

        Netscape Navigator. Why do you ask?

    • Jamoche

      That happens to me on my iPad when I try to make a comment. Safari, latest version.

      • Mr. Blobfish

        I get that too.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        I use mobile chrome on my iPad so I can keep my bookmarks synced to the laptop and phone

      • Lambsendbeds

        Me also too. I’m fine on my MacBook, but on my iPad the site keeps crashing and if I try to comment or play an imbedded video the whole page disappears. I can’t remember if it started after I upgraded to iOs 10.

      • PUAAN Pussy Has Clawz

        me too

  • exinkwretch

    CBS now stands for “Cheerleading, Bootlicking Sycophants.”

    • Mayor_Mayor_Mayor

      Cunts; Bought and Sold
      alternately Cunts,Bungle Subservient

      • Lambsendbeds

        Cunt libelz !

  • JohnBull

    This is how Putin corralled the Russian press back in 2000. Basically he said to support him or find yourself with a new editorial board. This is how he keeps the facade of a free press but we all know better.

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      Thing is, Trump doesn’t even have the power to do that much; best he can threaten is to cut off access. Our news media is just so fat, lazy, and used to their stenographer role that this is an actually credible threat.

      • clubseal

        Now kiss this boot for your “anonymous government sources.”

  • Zippy W Pinhead

    CBS, where you see BS

  • Mr. Blobfish

    Kim Dong Un has played them like a fiddle.

  • Someone in post forgot to turn up the “cheering” dial and turn down the “booing” one. Used to happen all the time on “Name The Winner!”

  • disqus_lWwzrwNaw6

    The president of the news division at CBS, David Rhodes, trained under the guidance of Roger Ailes at Fox.

    Clearly, he was paying close attention.

    You can at least comfort yourselves with the fact that ultimately, fascism does not survive: even so-called peaceful fascism, like that of Spain, collapses under its own dead weight after a while, consumed by internal purges and rivalries, and by the basic inefficiency of authoritarianism.

    But it can last for a hell of a long time and ruin a lot of lives before that happens.

    • janecita

      Dude, let’s hope that we are not like Spain! That cancer lasted for forty years!

      • disqus_lWwzrwNaw6

        My bet for the US is somewhere between 20 and 40 years. And I have no idea at this point whether we’re going to be a relatively peaceful fascist state, or whether we’re going to deteriorate into civil and official violence.

    • Señor Skwerl!

      But I’ll be dead in 50 years… I want my hedonistic orgy now!

      • disqus_lWwzrwNaw6

        Join the Resistance, they’re great at orgies!

        • Jennifer R

          Damn right I am.

        • janecita

          Liberals do it better.

          • Jennifer R

            For real though, Think about everyone you have ever seen or heard unironically call someone a “cuck”. Now think about how many of them have ever even been close to having sex.

          • disqus_lWwzrwNaw6

            Ack. Gag.

          • clubseal

            Good thing synthetic dolls can’t give birth.

          • Nockular cavity

            *Cough* Trump wife *cough*

          • Jennifer R

            Think of the poor body pillows.

          • clubseal

            Just don’t shine a black light on them.

          • Jennifer R

            Like they would let a black *anything* in to their homes.

          • Zippy W Pinhead

            given their apparent porn fetishes, I’m guessing they’ve been CLOSE lots of times…

        • MynameisBlarney
    • laughingnome

      Spanish fascism wasn’t too peaceful to the leftists.

      • disqus_lWwzrwNaw6

        Nor for the fascists, while the war went on, clearly. But fascism lasted in Spain for decades after the civil war: and it is usually compared to the violent fascisms of Italy and Germany, which never achieved the kind of terrifying tranquility of Franco’s Spain..

        • laughingnome

          Franco had the sense to play neutral in WWII.

          • janecita

            Wink, wink, neutral.

          • laughingnome

            Neutral like Portugal. Wink, wink.

          • janecita

            And Sweden.

          • disqus_lWwzrwNaw6

            Perhaps he saw what was happening to Mussolini, who, flattered by Hitler’s attentions, played along with the Reich, and in consequence took himself and Italy into the ditch long before the partisans gave him a fitting send off.

          • laughingnome

            I don’t think he appreciated Hitler and Mussolini’s version of anti-clericalism – he was a Catholic patriot.

      • janecita

        Almost 500,000 people died during the Spanish Civil War, including Federico García Lorca.

        • Meccalopolis

          Come and see the blood in the streets

  • FlownOver

    Edward R. and Walter say “Not MY CBS!”

    • Jukesgrrl

      Don’t forget the great Eric Sevareid.

  • reelreeler

    Supreme Leader Kim Don Trump

    • SuspectedDemocrat

      aka Trump Fat Fat Fat

    • Melinda Piette

      Kim Dung Orange

      • Crystalclear12

        The Orange Blight.

    • WIDTAP

      Kim Fatty Fat Fat and Trump Dumby Dumb Dumb. Two great idiots that we soon will get to see together.

  • calliecallie

    Is there a dictator’s playbook somewhere? First, control the media. What’s next? Maybe higher education? I read on the intertubes that a group of conservative college students accused the president of U of Mich of being “anti-Trump.”

    • SuspectedDemocrat

      They already started a professor watch list, on the lookout for anti-Trump propaganda in higher education.

      http://professorwatchlist.org/

      • I would refer all incoming freshmen to the list as a way to find the best professors.

        FFS, the seeds of fascism are truly here.

    • I remember right after the election a few “humorous” conservative Facebookers said that students who protest should have 15 minutes to stop and return to class or be expelled and their loans called in immediately. And 15 minutes after that, have the police and National Guard use “Kent State tactics”.

    • MynameisBlarney
      • calliecallie

        Holy shit! We are already fucking there. We are truly fucked.

        • MynameisBlarney

          I thought the same thing during the bush43 administration…
          I don’t think we’re quite there yet.
          But we are right on the fucking brink.

    • Render neutral, in no particular order:
      1. Intellectuals
      2. Artists
      3. Social organizations.
      4. Media

      etc

      • thixotropic jerk

        Dr. Zhivago, calling Dr. Zhivago–

      • Toomush_Inferesistance

        The Artists part might be a little more difficult….

        • Rise Up, Demme!

          guaranteed.

        • HazooToo

          Not if he gets the media first. No one will even know what he’s doing to them.

      • Mr. Blobfish

        Clergy. You know. That “other” kind.

        • WIDTAP

          Nah, you have to co-op the clergy. This is where campaign funds and luxury hotels come in handy.

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      Who knew you didn’t even need a Gestapo or censorship office to do it? You just yell at them once and they fold like lawn chairs.

    • Jukesgrrl

      The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism:
      http://www.rense.com/general37/fascism.htm

  • Señor Skwerl!

    Jeers not cheers.

  • BigBoppa pour la résistance
  • Melinda Piette

    Remember when CBS used to be the good news network? Dude, ABC is now more ethical than you are

    • Jukesgrrl

      I guess “The Tiffany Network” is now “That Other Tiffany Network.”

      • Meccalopolis

        The flag affiliate in NYC is has been the anti diblasio for a while so nit surprised

      • Melinda Piette

        Air Rights Libelz!!!!

  • Mavenmaven

    Bronx Cheers

  • For those unfortunate enough to be within earshot of Trump, I say boo loud and hard. You just know if keeps him up at night.

    • SuspectedDemocrat

      Boo so loud he tweets about you at 3AM.

    • Jennifer R

      I wish bill hicks was still alive so he could joke about kicking deadbeat donnie’s head down the street like a soccer ball.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RocZqFbRa7M

  • Bureaucrap

    Let us bring an ephah of corn and a calf without blemish to the Temple of the Deified Trump, that he may be gracious unto us and bless us.

    • The Wanderer

      Is it okay to wish him emerods in his secret parts? With votes?

  • CraigSchultz

    I think they were saying “moooose!”

    • laughingnome

      Because of the stuff he puts on his hair.

      • Lambsendbeds

        That’s not mousse, it’s Crazy Glue !

      • BrianW

        I like your explanation better than mine. I was thinking “mooooose” meant they were shouting for a Sarah Palin appointment

        • thixotropic jerk

          She’s already in – Ambassador To Baked Alaska

          • BrianW

            I was thinking Ambassador to Russia because, like her boss,she wouldn’t have to leave her house. Of course, I guess she can see Baked Alaska from her house too, so it works.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Are they cheers or boos? Is the dress blue and gold or black and go fuck yourself?

    Black and go fuck yourself will be how I describe my hometown’s Steelers from now on.

    Also too, they were both, but definitely more boos than cheers. Fuck you, CBS.

    • Jukesgrrl

      I’m down with that. But what’s with Squirrel Hill’s Most Famous Rapper Wiz Khalifa trying to change it to black and yellow? He didn’t learn that at Taylor-Allderdice. He WISHES he would have thought of “black and go fuck yourself.”

  • clubseal

    Where everybody knows your name, ba-na-na-na-na na-nuh
    Oh, wrong Cheers.

  • ltmcdies

    they were boos….the only cheering was likely from KellyAnne cattle prodding the interns

    • I think she uses shock collars.

      • thixotropic jerk

        Shock and caw

  • chicken thief

    Never fear. Gov Pence will appoint someone who has never worked with audio before to get to the bottom of this!

    • The Rain in Spain’s Therapist

      Hey now! Why would you want an expert in charge when we could just appoint an outsider to shake things up!

  • thixotropic jerk

    Somebody needs to make a picture of Trumpky like the one for Shrubby holding the “Presidenting For Dummies” book only Trumples title would be “Putin’s Playbook For Dummaldos”

  • Hemp Dogbane

    Why didn’t failing CBS also note Mr. Trump glided through the lobby as if on wings, head held high? Sad.

    • Suttree

      They also failed to mention that the angels sang when he farted.

  • Suttree

    Hey Rebecca! It was so nice to see a bunch of posts from you today. Great job covering the vacations. I can’t remember the last time I saw you put out this many posts in a single day. We have missed you and love you!

  • coozledad

    Chuck Todd is finally going to get a creampie on that facepussy.

  • Markuserektus

    When things get really bad, there’s the…

    https://youtu.be/vKOb-kmOgpI

  • Suttree

    Fuck these patsy fuckers. I am at almost 2 weeks of not watching any of these lickspittles.

    • Shanana Republic

      Do you get to see Lizzie over the holiday?

      • Suttree

        Heading over tomorrow!

        • Shanana Republic

          Yay! I’m sure she will help you think of creative ways to avoid watching things you don’t want to watch.

          • Suttree

            I miss my baby! I haven’t been over in weeks. I’m assuming that we should have four days together though. MMmmmmmmm snuggling and cooking and watching terrible movies.

          • Anna Rompage

            That sounds like bliss!

          • Suttree

            It is! I also miss my penguin pillow. Lizzie ameliorates my need for stuffed animal fun, and placates my desire to cook for someone that I love.

          • Anna Rompage

            While I enjoy cooking for myself, it’s much more satisfying to cook for others that care for..

            I’m taking tomorrow off of work to prep and do the first round of cooking for National Genocide Day… We’re having about 12 dear friends who don;t have family in the area over for T-day dinner, good food, lots of drinking, and a few rounds of Cards Against Humanity!

          • Suttree

            Nice! I cook for myself on occasion, but I enjoy it so much more to cook for others.

          • Anna Rompage

            Me too!

    • Look Closer

      Yeah, I’ve pretty much had it with them myself!

  • The Wanderer

    “They were booing you.”
    “Some of them were cheering!”
    “They were cheering the booing.”

    • The Rain in Spain’s Therapist

      Ha!

    • Suttree

      I said Boo-urns.

    • puredog

      They were crying “DAAAAAAVE.”

  • Ninja0980

    “Liberal” media my ass.

  • Bill Slider

    Richard Milhaus Nixon would be jealous.

    • Anna Rompage

      We’ll see about that….

  • Toomush_Inferesistance

    Just keep faith – over half of all voters voted for Hillary. Not so easy to intimidate, if we speak up….

  • The Rain in Spain’s Therapist

    Boos?? Where? *squints ears*

  • Zippy W Pinhead

    Meanwhile, Bamz just gave a medal of honor to some Muslin, a real tall one. And now he gave one to some Lesbitarian and one of those libtard Hollyweird elitists… it just never stops!

    • Anna Rompage

      He should be giving one to every American who voted for Hillary to honor our defending life and liberty!

      • moebym

        Or he could just give it to Hillary herself. But that’s too ~political~

    • efoveks

      Don’t fergit Uncle Bill, the Other Bill with a foundation!

      Altho a different medal. Medal of Freedom?

  • Daisy

    Really? Should I just post 1984 every post? Because that’s what it feels like.

    • Anna Rompage

      “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      Maybe broaden your references. Have you read Kafka yet?

      • Objectifer

        Today we are all Gregor.

        • Resistance Fighter Astraea

          I feel more like most of the people around me suddenly turned into cockroaches.

    • efoveks

      You say 1984, I say Animal Farm– we’re both right!

  • Zippy W Pinhead

    Dan Rather is rolling in his grave

    (see? I can create fake news too!)

  • Bill Slider

    So, this is what post-truth looks like.

  • WIDTAP

    It’s just an editing mistake. The tweet should read: “UPDATE: Donald Trump is greeted with Bronx cheers….”

  • exinkwretch

    Does the resistance movement have an official anthem yet? Here’s my nomination. The brass parts and Sly’s vocals always leave a big lump in my throat:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JvkaUvB-ec

  • calliecallie

    Inspired by Callyson, I just emailed both my state senators (Dems) and even my reprehensible republican congresscritter.

    • Call them — it has more of an impact than email.

      • Jukesgrrl

        Mine puts someone on the phone to argue with me.

  • Fartknocker

    What a punch of lame ass pansies.

    Dan Rather

    No shit Sherlock!

    Walter Cronkite.

  • Vecchiojohn

    The last thing the big corporations want to do is piss off The Don, and that includes corporate media. If they play their cards right there will be tax breaks and relaxed regulations for everyone. Staying in his hotels and paying whatever other blow-me fees he demands will be more than repaid. And muzzling the newsreaders won’t be hard, as most of them know how to censor themselves.

    • yyyaz

      Too bad there won’t be anyone left to buy ads in post-Trump Merika.

      • Vecchiojohn

        I’ll still be able to sell my Golden Years Guaranteed Gold-Backed Gold Certificates/Variable Annuities on Breitbart.

  • Fancy Meau-Faux

    Bronx cheers? I am old so that might not be a reference that anyone gets anymore.

    • WIDTAP

      I’m with ya, old timer. Now get them damn millennials off my lawn.

    • Msgr_Moment

      Raspberries are no longer in season.

    • harryr

      “Hamlet – buzz, buzz” – Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2. Have an even older reference

      • Msgr_Moment

        Something’s rotten in the state of Bronx.

    • H0mer0

      I remember it from 5th grade vocabulary, that being 1975 or so. (sob)

  • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

    See, you guys just don’t know how a 24- hour news channel works. Here’s the breakdown:
    3 hours: Commercials tailored to the extremely elderly/incontinent.
    3 hours: Kardashian Watch
    6 hours: What the interns have ripped off of Reddit and Twitter.
    12 hours: ???

    That’s 12 hours they gotta find stuff to fill your ears with every day! And news is like, hard! You gotta find stuff, and talk to people, and wait, and people just ain’t got time for that nowadays due entirely to the news structure we ourselves created! And look at the people we’ve promoted to the top! You think Chuck Todd is gonna do some gumshoe work? You think Wolf Blitzer is going to the parking garage after dark?

    So if Trump threatens to cut off our government-stenographer duties, like, what are we gonna fill it with? Even Kim/Kanye need sleep, people!

    • WIDTAP

      Look, it costs money to produce content. How is a news organization supposed to maximize profits if they don’t have plenty of filler?

      • Jukesgrrl

        Yes, but they need to start preparing for the day they can’t just pick up a newspaper and read the articles. (On the radio, listeners can actually hear them rattling the paper as they turn the pages. But do the authors/publisheres get any credit? NO!)

    • Anna Rompage

      12 hours filled with jackasses with over inflated egos and no moral compasses, spewing BS for hours on end just because they enjoy hearing the sound of their own voices?

      • The Outraged Ms. MLG

        You attend my company’s meetings?!

        • Anna Rompage

          I don;t think so, but I’d imagine we could have a lot of fun at the expense of others if I did…

      • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

        I knew I forgot the “continuous, dolorous shouting” block somewhere!

      • WIDTAP

        Is that a criticism or a recent job availability posting at CNN or Fox?

        • Anna Rompage

          It was one of many positions that CNN has, this one was just vacated by Trump’s ex campaign manager, and soon to be henchman…

    • mancityhombres

      somewhere, a plane is missing
      that’ll take up at least 23 hours a day for a couple of months

      • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

        Somewhere, Don Lemon’s ear just perked up.

      • WIDTAP

        I hear ebola may come back someday.

        • mancityhombres

          not until at least ’18

        • Pisto75666

          Swine Flu otoh is on a fierce comeback.

          We can only hope.

      • efoveks

        That “Breaking News!” banner was ‘spensive…

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        Don Lemon is still looking for the last one…

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      It tough out there. You can’t always count on a con artist claiming his kid flew off in a hot air balloon.

      • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

        99 kid balloons,
        floating in the summer sky

    • Jukesgrrl

      What’s with the question marks? The answers are “weather” and “sportsball.” Snow, rain, sleet, and hale cause panic, let alone hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. And even CNN was obsessed with the inflation rate of Brady’s balls.

    • Suttree

      There is plenty of news out there. Me, myself, and I could fill 24 hours of interesting news by myself every day. They are just lazy shit asses that don’t feel like doing any work or paying anyone besides a news reader. Don’t mind that they have plenty of cash and they could hire foreign correspondents that might keep Americans involved with the world. Pulling bullshit stories and repeating them over and over and over make the best sense for an ignorant electorate and the CEO’s balloon.

      • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

        Well also, no one’s got a gun to their head that they *absolutely have* to fill 24 hours with news. They deliberately took it on themselves to fill an entire day, every day, with shit. And when you’re on that treadmill, expedience is the magic word, especially when bloated-salary deadweights are the face of your network.

        • It was better when CNN did more “long form” style journalism (and ran repeats of their roundtable shows on the overnights unless actual breaking news happened) and left the “news for people in a hurry” to Headline News. Then, of course, HLN became “The Missing White Woman Channel” and CNN decided long form was dull.

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            I wonder if the decline of long form style journalism was driven by the fact that a growing number of viewers have attention spans that are a fraction of that of a fruit fly.

          • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

            I always thought that news networks got addicted to “spike” ratings, the ratings they get when something really big has happened and glues everyone’s eyeballs to the tv. Problem is, the kind of audience that style generates is mercurial and emotional, and one of the emotions we experience is boredom. Hence the decline of more staid journalism and the rise of LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!

          • Resistance Fighter Astraea

            Long form journalism is also harder, more time consuming, and more expensive.

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            And the so-called “journalists” have to brain more. I guess that really hurts for them. But then the viewers are far worse in the brain-challenged department.

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            Yeah, like that endless 24x7x(weeks&weeks) TeleVideoCircularWankFest every fucking time an airliner disappears? And there is no information available and they still fill up all of the time not spent on endlessly repeating irritating, banal commercials? I couldn’t even use that shit for a night light.

        • Suttree

          It’s funny, as a child Wolf Blitzer seemed like a journalist. Now I want to punch his in his smarmy head with votes.

          • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

            I mean, I’m sure he wasn’t born in a suit yammering off of a teleprompter… right?

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            Wolf is what I would call a “urinalist”. It’s him and toadies like him and chuck toad, etc. & etc.where I find myself saying “piss on this!” and throwing the fucking TeeVee through my picture window and stomping off to do something productive with myself. Or getting drunk. Or high. Whatever.

          • Suttree

            If we ever hang out together, I say axes in the woods at midnight.

      • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

        Sure, you could fill 24 hours with interesting stuff. I mean really, where do I sign up??!?!?! Seriously, though, I am of the opinion that the vast majority of viewers are too fucking stupid to even be able to find such programming interesting. Unless you are fascinated by NASCAR and crap like that–which I doubt you are.

        • I like NASCAR. Not so much for the sport, for it is not. But more for the metaphor as it applies to life, forever stuck making a left hand turn

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            Well, there’s that. I mean the left-hand turn thingy.

          • Round and round. Forever. Going left. at 200mph
            Think about it.

          • starfanglednut

            And the only break in the monotony is when you crash and die an agonizing fiery death.

          • well, and when you have to stop and change your tires.

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            I always thought that’s what attracted people to watch that. Seemingly, there’s some eternal “hope” that sudden mayhem might occur.

          • Hockey!

        • Suttree

          Maybe I should start a youtube channel just reading the interesting news that I find on a daily basis. I wouldn’t have to lie and make shit up. I have always been told that I have a voice for radio. Probably would a be a day late. It would give women something to fall asleep to though. A deep liberal voice to sooth your soul.

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            It would probably work pretty well. Too good, maybe. For awhile. Until Trump makes a phone call and twelve hours later you have been “disappeared”.

            They say it can’t happen here. We’ll see about that.

    • Bear OmNomNom

      I, for one, welcome our new missing white girl overlords.

    • Paperless Tiger

      If the bastard would just do a regular press conference, they would have plenty of material for weeks, but I guess that’s what he’s afraid of.

      • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

        The sad thing is, I can completely see a Hugo Chavez-style presidential show happening. And the licensing rights being granted/retracted based entirely on favorable coverage.

        • Land Shark

          That’s already happening Trümpenfuhrer is already granting favored status. People will eventually get sick of that shit. (I hope)

          • No they won’t. GOP has done this to the media for decades, and they fall in line every time. Those who do not will be relegated to “opinion” columns so the org can say see? Fair and balanced!
            Funny how much they looovvvveee to say how secretive Obama is or Hillary is and yet…nada on this shit huh?

          • Land Shark

            That’s why my battles are things like the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine and no more media mergers.

      • Rise Up, Demme!

        but think of the shenanigans he could get up to with that much cover!

  • Nockular cavity

    “wrapped in the death of journalism America, the end.”

    Fixed.

    • Suttree

      Wrapped in a flag and carrying spray tan.
      -Sinclair Lewis

  • Msgr_Moment

    JEERS. They meant jeers.

    • Jukesgrrl

      Of course. It’s a well-known fact millennials can’t spell.

  • Mayor_Mayor_Mayor

    Meh, they were just adoringly saying bye (tschuss)in their preferred tongue.

  • yyyaz

    Nov. 22
    1. JFK
    2. Genocide Day on Thursday
    3. CBS decapitated
    4. Turkey and sportsball!

    • Msgr_Moment

      Nov. 22, 1963: Aldous Huxley dies! Talk about fucking up your chance at a page 1 obituary.

    • 54th anniversary of Doctor Who is November 23rd

      • tehbaddr

        How wibbly wobbly timey wimey!

    • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

      Columbus lied. He said he discovered a new land. But how could that land be new if there was someone living there already?

      • Good_Gawd_Yall

        In the same way the ads say the product is “New and Improved”? If it’s new, how can it be improved? And if it’s been improved, then it’s not new. But it sure sounds good if you don’t think.

      • yyyaz

        Natives were never, ever “someone.” Thanks, religion!

  • harryr

    “They were saying “Boo-urns”, siir”

  • Msgr_Moment

    Little OT, but I notice that the fact that SQUIRREL! has settled his SQUIRREL! University lawsuit and has paid a fine to the IRS has been drowned out of the media discussion by everything else SQUIRREL! can do to hog the media cycle.

    Oh, and SQUIRREL!

    • mancityhombres

      it’s hard to cover real news, let’s just have some fluff instead

      • starfanglednut

        Marshmallow fluff? Yes please!

        • HooverVilles

          I Second the marshmallow fluff!

      • Naytch

        I miss hard-hitting Matt Lauer interviews…

    • Señor Skwerl!

      What? What? WHAT IS HAPPENING!

      • Naytch

        We gotta find out what the heck is going on!!

      • eka

        would memory loss be a good thing or a bad thing in today’s world? on the one hand, there might be moments where you forget who won the election. on the other hand, you have to constantly re-experience the trauma of finding out.

        • moebym

          The trauma of the morning of 11/9/16 is one thing I don’t care to ever feel again.

          • puredog

            Word. That it was accompanied by a monumental hangover made it extra-crispy. And then I got a truly nasty cold that lasted two full weeks. I’m almost over it.

          • moebym

            Honest to god, I wish I did drink myself into a stupor that night, even though I find alcoholic beverages revolting.

          • yyyaz

            Topper: no ‘puter cuz I dropkicked it across the living room the instant Lizard McShitbreath hit 270. Projected, of course.

        • yyyaz

          “Any way you look at it you lose.”
          — P. Simon

          • And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made
            –Also too P. Simon

          • clubseal

            Knock it off, Garfunkle, I’m trying to write.
            – Also P. Simon

          • HooverVilles

            ^^^^THIS^^^^

          • Naytch

            against “a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires”?

        • Msgr_Moment

          What was the question again?

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            Huh? Say what?

        • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

          Most people’s attention spans are so short anymore that I would be surprised that they or their similarly-inflicted friends would even notice if they were having memory loss.

        • oblivias

          I woke up Nov. 9 and for a brief, shining moment thought to myself, “thank god, it was just a bad dream.” Then I remembered that it was not a dream, but a waking nightmare that’s going to stay with us forever.

          • HooverVilles

            Eggsactly!!!11!!1

    • HooverVilles

      Well stated!

  • Bill D. Burger

    Oh c’mon! They were all obviously Marines and shouting “OORAH!”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoD9QoLHN64

  • puredog

    “THIS JUST IN: Wisps of smoke generated by extreme rotational friction sighted above the grave of Edward R. Murrow today. Details at 11.”
    —————–
    NB: This is fake news. Murrow was cremated.

    • Those ashes are now a whirling dervish of rage

  • FauxAntocles

    We have always been at War with the New York Times!

    • Anna Rompage

      Especially that awful Dowd person…

  • Land Shark

  • Nah…they were calling down the almighty Bruce Springsteen to smite cheeto jebus out of existence

  • jesuswasablack
    • Vecchiojohn
    • Roadstergal

      “Man of the year” means ‘influential,’ not ‘awesome and fantastic.’ Can’t deny that the dude was pretty influential. (I think Stalin got the nod one year, as well.)

    • Bitter Scribe

      A lot of people have never understood that Time’s “Man of the Year” did not mean the BEST man of the year. It means the man who made the most difference in the world, for good or ill. By that standard, Hitler was a perfectly logical choice.

      • SnarkON

        Really the only choice. No doubt Trump will be Person of the Year in 2016, as, alas, he should be.

        • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

          Well, Time could just change the title a little bit and call Trump “The Douchebag of the Year”. They should have started that tradition back with Hitler. Was “Douchebag” a thing back then?

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      For being the “greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today.” Seems reliable to me.

      • Paperless Tiger

        You know who else they said that about, and recently too.

        • Resistance Fighter Astraea

          Hipsters?

        • SnarkON

          Hillary Clinton?

    • Toomush_Inferesistance

      Donald Trump: 2016’s Shiniest Man Of The Year!…

    • yyyaz

      As per the non-comments below, this meme is absolutely wrong in framing the argument presented.

    • SnarkON

      “Man of the Year” doesn’t mean “the best person of the year.” It means “the most newsworthy person of the year.”

  • They were saying Boooo-urns!

    • Duke

      Reminds me of an old Hogan’s Heroes episode with the Bronx Cheer. Klink loved it! But if he loves it, isn’t that enough?

  • Duke

    Hey! I’m the Infallible God-King!

    Look at the hat, dammit! Look at the hat!

    • Vecchiojohn

      You always grab the hat! I want a turn. No fair!

  • Nounverb911

    In the meantime, the Times hasn’t really tweeted any news since trump left their offices, coincidence?

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      THE RED MEETING??

    • Rick Hill

      Takes a long time to figure out what isn’t going to piss him off.

    • Anna Rompage

      Sitting down with lawyers and coming up with a strategy to see how far they want to push it with the cheeto hued petulant man child that has a long list of lawsuits against detractors?

  • Art Moak

    And I would like to cheer on CBS, Stuff it you cretins, tell the truth, try something new

  • Nounverb911
  • Walter Wellstone

    CBS has always been a fucking lapdog. No surprises here.

    • ya know…it would not be as bad if they were consistent lap dogs. But I do distinctly remember how gleefully they reported on the deaths in Benghazi, the Hillary hearings, all the mean stuff people said about Obama… oh wait, I see your point

  • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

    Boooourns.

  • Outstanding article in paywalled WaPo for the resistance:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/21/the-tricky-political-optics-of-resisting-donald-trump/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-posteverything%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.e647a2af6db1

    …goes on to say it’s time Trump resisters give some thought to “tactics’ when dealing with Trump who views “politics as war”. That, perhaps, a perceived overeaction by the anti trump crowd will net trump strength with his supporters.

    More good beta at http://duckofminerva.com/

    • Tactics and thought out resistance is really not a liberal strong suit. We’re just a tiny bit on the reactionary side….not a bad thing! But true, none the less.
      I say keep up the non-stop outrage and pointing out of every corrupt move, constantly, always, and loudly. Maybe we can wear ’em down as they did us with Bamz?

      • I hear you Jen B. However, we’ve got to learn to be more effective at the message game (tactics) if we’re going to get through to people. Progressives get stomped on too damn often by the knuckle dragging messengers from the regressive side. If nothing else, we can learn to be smart and effective about how we take the sonofabitch on. Results and ranting can go hand in hand!

        • Oh I agree. I am just not over my mad fully, as of yet ^.^
          And why can we not do both? Raise hell AND tactics?

          • Jennifer R

            I for one can be an inexorable well of outrage.

      • bookish

        Identify one of Trump’s blatantly corrupt enterprises that his kids are knee-deep in. They will claim to be minor players. No matter. Give ivanka a choice: state’s evidence or the max prison term available. By all accounts Ivanka is a good and devoted mother. She will make the right choice. Even if the prosecution doesn’t win, a wedge will be driven between fascist Dumf and his foremost enabler. Dumf does not forget betrayals. Yes, it’s ugly. So is fascism.

  • SnarkON

    How any news organization could agree to sit down with an elected official and keep it off the record is beyond me. Every meeting with elected officials should be on the record. If I were one of these people, I would now report every last thing that happened in that meeting. What’s the worst thing that could happen–Trump will deny them access to him in the future? He already is.

    • Land Shark

      Under the FOIA, he is not yet a public official.

      Soon, Donnie Dumplings, soon ……

      • 2 minutes after inauguration, Trump signs a new law prohibiting FOIA requests from applying to the office of the President, Vice President, any cabinet member, appointed or implied, and 3rd wives

        • Land Shark

          *sigh*

          Yet another battle that will have to be re-fought.

          • SnarkON

            We’ll all be radioactive dust before we get a chance to fight it.

          • Count Awesome

            The cockroaches can pick up the fight for us.

          • Land Shark

            But how do they carry signs?

          • Very carefully

          • Jennifer R

            We have to think of the world we are leaving to Keith Richards.

          • SnarkON

            Thank you — I actually laughed.

          • yyyaz

            DEA: We have always been at war with Keith Richards.
            KR: I win.

        • UncleTravelingMatt

          Deportations for some, universal NDAs for the others.

          • I am waiting for the story of how those who donated to Trump and could not stop the auto deductions are STILL paying

        • Land Shark

          Luckily, Freedom of Press is still in the Constitution. I would expect a lawsuit right after that is enacted. SPLC, EFF, and ACLU would be on that like white on rice.

    • shivaskeeper

      Honestly, sitting with any elected official off the record just smacks of, “look at the access I have that you don’t. Aren’t I the important one? I’d tell you what we talked about, but then I’d have to kill you. Cause I’m in the know.”

      In other words intellectual masturbation.

      • SnarkON

        OK, but no. Off the record is a very important tool to have, and to use in extremely limited circumstances when you can’t get the story from an on-the-record source (perhaps because the source would get fired, or killed). It’s not about being the cool person with the hidden knowledge. As a side point, I had no idea how little people understand about the media until this election. I always thought the way we worked was obvious, but apparently not.

        • shivaskeeper

          I get that. Interview me, some Joe Schmoe, off the record? Fine. Sit down with the president elect a day after he chewed you out for not being “fair” to him off the record? Not so fine.

          At the least, the optics of it look like shit.

          • puredog

            And the Yam is really concerned with optics.

          • He’ll just have KA explain to us why it is all fine

          • SnarkON

            This is literally what I said in my original post.

          • shivaskeeper

            I think we miscommunicated. I was backing your original statement. And adding my bit of vile snark to it.

      • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

        Remember that shit-eating grin Chuck Todd was sporting yesterday? That was exactly what he was thinking.

        • shivaskeeper

          Don’t watch him. But it seems to be the thing. I’ve met a lot of people over the years with the same attitude.

  • Jenny

    Well *they were cheering so that’s all that counts.

    * CBS stockholders

  • MynameisBlarney

    Juuuuuust a wee bit OT…

    Ok…way OT.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVzAS88al0

    • Yes please.

    • Toomush_Inferesistance

      Maybe, but you should try to see the original on a fairly big screen – not one wasted frame!….

      • MynameisBlarney

        That would be something, I’m sure!

  • DoILookAmused2u ?

    CBS Cares.

  • Nounverb911
    • Jennifer R

      McCrory will steal NC from the will of the people, and the Klan will lynch some black people to celebrate. NC is going to descend in to the hell it thought it was better than.

      • He won’t win tho. Even if they toss out every single contested vote, he still loses.

        • Jennifer R

          The votes don’t matter. The legislature is already saying they get to pick if they think the votes were tampered with, and without judicial review.

          • …that is not legal is it?
            Jesus fuck, it really is a banana republic

          • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

          • So they set this up just in case they did get beat. Ahead of time.

          • Anna Rompage

            Yeah, it sounds like NC has a law on the books that allows the legislature to name the Gov if there is fraud suspected, and supposedly there is no way to appear or have any sort of judicial review. Though if they try this, it will likely end up in the courts to see if the law is actually legal or not…

            My guess is that this is an unconstitutional law, but has never been challenged before..

          • Shanana Republic

            But…what? All they have to do is have someone say “I suspect fraud!” and BOOM…that’s it?

          • No no no, a Republican say I suspect Fraud.

          • Jennifer R

            Our institutions will not save us.

          • yyyaz

            “The scariest words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the gummint and I’m here to help.'” — St. Ronnie of Dipshit.
            Actual quote. He started the undermining of our institutions, Il Fuckweasel of Orange is merely finishing the demolition.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Yeah, the last people I want to see after a hurricane, or natural disaster, are government employees. I’d MUCH rather see unscrupulous contractors who show up to fleece me.

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            Only if your unscrupulous insurance company actually sends you a check.

          • Anna Rompage

            I believe so… I’m sure there’s some mechanism they have to invoke, but yeah.

            I cannot imagine that it is a constitutionally valid law, but seeing that it has never been used, there has been no way to challenge it in the courts..

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            This isn’t the article I was looking for, but it does explain the process:
            http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/faced-with-loss-north-carolina-governor-cries-voter-fraud.html

          • Jennifer R

            Sure is, the laws they wrote say they can.

          • That is insane.
            But if it goes all the way to a conservative picked supreme court….
            Dear lord

          • Jennifer R

            Yeah, it will be 30 years before we can start undoing the damage to civil rights.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            There’s a great article in New York magazine, all about how Republicans wrote a law that says the legislature can decide the election, and it is NOT reviewable by the state’s Supreme Court. It’s pretty outrageous, and a complete travesty of democracy.

      • I hope you are wrong Jennifer R. If you’re not, I’ll be in Raleigh post haste (and missing paychecks for missed work).

        • Jennifer R

          Part of me will always feel for my home of Asheville, but so much of the rest of the state made is clear I wasn’t wanted.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Asheville is awesome. Why did you leave?

          • Jennifer R

            Just the soul crushing of most of the people I actual would meet being awful people. At work, At school, trying to do anything in public at all what so ever. As an institution of learning AB-Tech is a fine place (Did you know we beat the culinary institute of america as often as not in various cooking competitions?), but everyone who taught in the engineering department started at “A queer deserves to be picked on at work, and he should expect it too” and varied in to “I have guns burred in my yard with 100 000 ball bearings sewn on top to stop the government finding them with metal detectors.” So between that, the growing anti-trans sentiments even as early as 2010 and my mother refusing to leave this realm of existence, I finally clawed my way fully out of the south and knocked the dust from my shoes as I did.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Fair enough! I’m kind of surprised Asheville was so intolerant. Where did you end up moving to? Are things going better for you there?

          • I’m a move in from Northern California and I’ve been pushing the rock uphill for 25 years here in WNC. The hill hasn’t got any less steep!

    • If you cannot win fairly, cry rigged and play dirty

    • shivaskeeper

      I’d put on my shocked face, but if I keep doing that, it’ll get stuck that way. Trying to stay in power just to keep staying in power? I just didn’t see that coming. This fucking guy.

      • It is not only staying in power. It is a precedent. Fuck the will of the voters, our way or the highway

        • Count Awesome

          It’s only the will of the voters when Republicans win of coarse.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            The electoral college is a RIGGED system!!!!

            Wait, we lost the popular vote, but won the electoral college? Well, that changes EVERYTHING!!!!! The electoral college is THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

            ~idiots of the GOP

        • shivaskeeper

          Agreed. But I think the core drive behind it is to stay in power to maintain power.

      • Wonkette road trip to NC? I think there are a couple of Wonkers from there we can crash with

        • shivaskeeper

          Unfortunately I’m about 3000 miles away.

          • I’m in a different country!

          • Anna Rompage

            I believe with Trump’s win, you actually live in a different universe from us now…

          • yyyaz

            As of 11/9, we all are.

          • shivaskeeper

            Damn furriners;)

      • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

        Well, you know what the RW Ammosexuals say: “Time to use a 2nd Ammendment remedy here. {wink wink}” Might need to throw their shit right in their face. At high velocity.

        Uh, yeah, with votes and stuff. Of course.

        {wink wink}

    • BeachBum

      Oh my, Lordy and Lordy, oh my ! That there be’s a hoping for NC has made my day ! Thanks.

    • Blacktop Cadence

      I mean, if this whole thing goes down does that mean there might actually be a revolt against this anti-democratic shitshow?

      With votes, of course.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        It’s definitely revolting.

        • Msgr_Moment

          The deplorables are revolting.
          You can say that again.

      • Jennifer R

        Watch him immediately call martial law and summon the state national guard.

    • Vagenda and Tiara

      How dare people’s votes who died before the election have their votes counted? I’m sure they are also throwing out people who were Republican’s votes.

      • Resistance Fighter Astraea

        Look, if you die it’s just your civic duty to go in and report it so they can pull your vote.

    • Jgb979

      You’re talking about a state who just cost itself a half billion dollars to screw over trans, (and gays and cities and low wage workers and democracy).

      The Republicans in the NC statehouse are absolute lunatics. It would not surprise me in the slightest if they tried to invalidate the election by bullshit.

  • timpundit

    Well, remember….

    “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,” Moonves
    said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in
    San Francisco, according to The Hollywood Reporter
    — perfectly distilling what media critics have long suspected was
    motivating the round-the-clock coverage of Trump’s presidential bid.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001

  • gullywompr

    What would Hunter S. Thompson do?

    • Get high and shoot something?

      • Sister the Resister!

        needz moar adrenochrome

        • yyyaz

          Gotta be careful with that, I still have the scars from having the six tits I grew on my back removed.

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      I’m sure a long-winded rant about Nixon with several detours into ADHD-ville would ensue.

    • Weep, while shaking his fist at the spineless, gutless, perfidious dandies currently running the media.

    • Jennifer R
      • Hardly Ideal

        I’ve been going back to Transmetropolitan a lot these past few weeks. Lies pass for news, the truth is obsolete, and we’ve decided to elect The Smiler over The Beast.

        Hang your head low, America, for 2016 will be remembered as The Year of the Bastard.

        • Jennifer R

          We won’t get off as lightly as The City did.

    • Pie of Sadness

      A pint of ether and some peyote.

    • Kiri the Resistant Unicorn

      Empty his pistol.

    • azeyote

      one could only wish to hear his fear and loathing these days – i drink to his memory –

    • yyyaz

      Launch mortar rounds at John Denver’s grave, prolly.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      Perhaps something like this…

      If I followed my better instincts right now would put this typewriter in the Volvo and drive to the home of the nearest politician – any politician – and hurl the goddamn machine through his front window…flush the bugger out with an act of lunatic violence then soak him down with mace and run him down Main Street in Aspen with a bell around his neck and black lumps all over his body from the jolts of a high powered “Bull Buster” cattle prod.

      • Jennifer R

        And we would owe you a godsdamned medal for it.

    • Panika MCD

      “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
      Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

      • Jonny On Maui

        Kids, this is why you should leave drug abuse to the professionals…

        • Bub the Mad Zombie

          “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

          Hunter S. Thompson

        • Jennifer R

          Apply to trade school today?

    • Msgr_Moment

      AOT,K?

      Meaning drugs.

  • UncleTravelingMatt

    Our media traded their freedom and independence for access during a war. There is no way they weren’t gonna make the same trade for Presilebrity gossip.

  • Apple Scruff

    • lol not sure it works that way XD

      • Apple Scruff

        If not true… don’t tell Obama.

      • Jennifer R

        I would be willing to say it does.

        • Kiri the Resistant Unicorn

          I saw it on the Internet.

        • UncleTravelingMatt

          I didn’t approve when Giuliani threatened to scrap term limits if he didn’t get an emergency extension of his term (yeah, I Never Forgot) so . . .

          • Jennifer R

            Well Rudy also based his career on hurting people. B-rock has only lifted his critics up.

          • UncleTravelingMatt

            I just like to remind people that Giuliani did that.

          • Jennifer R

            Oh yeah anything else to make the racist homophobic scum bag ambulance chaser look bad.

          • UncleTravelingMatt

            I feel like we — as a country — don’t say enough bad things about that fucker.

          • Jennifer R

            I have to say I agree with you. I think I should make it a personal goal to say three awful things about Rudy every day in public.

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      Preferably a Mouse-That-Roared situation with a microstate. Hey Luxembourg, wanna make a quick billion or two?

      • Jennifer R

        Not to late to wag the dog.

    • mml1996

      Hey Australia – do you want to take Hawaii? (sorry)

      • Jonny On Maui

        Umm…

        • mml1996

          Sorry Jonny :/

          • Jonny On Maui

            It’s okay. There’s folk here pissed about being part of the USA. Just might want to talk to them before handing the place over to other, um, crazy old white men?

          • proudgrampa

            Well, Australia ain’t so bad…

            ;-)

          • mml1996

            Hawaii’s closer to the crown than most of America anyhow – I mean you’ve still got the Union Jack on your state flag…

          • proudgrampa

            Indeed.

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        Do you think if we asked Canada nicely to invade Washington, Oregon, and California and routinely (and secretly) told them we still wanted it they would?

        • mml1996

          I think the mandatory law of having Maple syrup in every home would injure too much personal freedoms.

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            But I’m already prepared!

    • yyyaz

      Yeah, as if the constitutional crisis that precedes martial law won’t be here by Jan. 20 anyway.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      How specifically is war defined for this rule to kick in?
      We are gearing up for our annual war on Christmas, hostilities could run long this year.

    • M.E. Lawrence

      What if California abruptly seceded from the Union, and we went to war over the fate of the weed profits and all the Federal taxes we would refuse to pay, etc., etc.?

      (O.T.: One result of this election is that more and more I think of myself as a California instead of an American. Anyone understand this?)

      • Jonny On Maui

        Completely!

      • Jennifer R

        CA is 1/6th of the USA’s entire economy. When they come to fuck with us for being liberal, it’s just going to sink everyone.

      • NeverNormalizingKatie

        Hell yes.

        And I think we should figure out a way to go on a tax strike or something until we get some accommodations from the feds too.

    • Msgr_Moment

      Ummmmm… aren’t we still at war somewhere?

      • yyyaz

        War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Christmas, War on the Middle Class, War on Butthurt White Crybabies don’t count.

  • sweeper

    Boo-urns! Boo-urns!

  • Nounverb911

    The Boss looks happy, was Christie lurking behind a plant somewhere?

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f78d62e37aa016563f0300f8d4eb9cf229a865024e8124a54eb3b7c3d242cb62.jpg

  • mml1996

    https://twitter.com/thekarami/status/800871391192969216

    Ain’t the media so good at its job?

    • Count Awesome

      But didn’t you know that white rage is especially trendy now?

      • Nounverb911

        And they have their own rainbows now too.

        https://twitter.com/Independent/status/801201093849952256

        • Count Awesome

          “Fuck diversity!”
          –White Rainbow

      • M.E. Lawrence

        Not my white rage. I’m female and left-wing and no longer a cute young thing, and that’s apparently three strikes against me.

        (Did anyone hear the NPR report this morning from a small town in Indiana that was–quote from one of the residents, I believe–just so gosh-darn full of “real people”? And what are we, mannequins?)

    • Nounverb911

      I say make the media sit in a locked room for a day and have them stare at holocaust (pick one or all) pictures without a rest.

      • yyyaz

        Show them the clips of Eisenhower forcing all the locals to line up and walk slowly, single-file past the crematoria, the human warehouses and the bodies stacked near and in the unfilled mass graves.

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Oh. for fuck’s sake.

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      If only Al Qaeda had just hired white surrogates to speak for them, CNN would give them a permanent seat on one of their panels.

      Oh god, they probably would.

    • Panika MCD

      paging Keith Olbermann!

  • memzilla (Maquis Uni)
    • Nounverb911

      IOKIYAR?

    • Dr. Rrrrrobotnik

      Major lessons of 2016: you really can overwhelm people with the sheer scale of your crookedness to the point where they just throw their hands up and say “fuck it.” Just look at that banner to the right.

    • Count Awesome

      A little late for caveat emptor.

    • Panika MCD

      in the same vein as the self dealing already going on excuse of “well, they knew I was a business man when they voted for me!” we will hear:

      “well, they knew I had settled lawsuits before even though I said I didn’t when they voted for me!”

      “well, they knew I was a crook even though I continued to call my opponent that when they voted for me!”

      “well, they knew I was in Putin’s bed every night when they voted for me!”

      “well, they knew I was an authentic liar when they voted for me!”

      “well, Ivanka knew I wanted to fuck her and was a pussy grabber when she voted for me!”

      • Msgr_Moment

        I can’t wait for Melania’s “I am not a crook” speech.

        • Count Awesome

          How does she pronounce “checkers”?

          • Panika MCD

            “Barney Bush”

          • Msgr_Moment

            That’s the one on the “grab them by the pussies” tape?

          • Panika MCD

            HE PRESSURED DRUMPF INTO IT!

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        “Well, they knew we were going to rig the election when they didn’t vote for me!”

    • Msgr_Moment

      OVER THERE!!! SQUIRREL!!!

      • Rise Up, Demme!

        over there!!! hamilton!!! left-wing media!!!

  • mml1996
    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      Plus whatever the hell is going on in Wisconsin.

      Official vote counts had more votes for Pres than total # of votes cast in a bunch of counties, that’s suddenly been “corrected” and all of the extra votes had been given to Trump. His lead there decreased by I think 7% based on the corrected numbers from a single county.

      • mml1996

        Any idea if the Clinton camp can contest results from PA, WI & MI??

        • NeverNormalizingKatie

          I know she can in WI, in fact they’ll only do a recount if she does, the public can’t call for it. No idea if she will though.

          I think she’s damned either way. Say she calls for a recount and it changes the outcome?

          • mml1996

            I know that is such a long shot – but with every passing day it looks like we’re fucked bigly (sorry again)

          • Panika MCD

            more than half the country would be happy and there’d be an even larger rash of racist and sexist bullshit, but all those people would end up in jail?

          • NeverNormalizingKatie

            If Dems were better at this we’d have figured out how to splinter the various hate groups so they would be occupied with attacking each other.

            Maybe we should start interning with Republicans or something so we could pick up some of their dirty tricks.

          • Jennifer R

            We did that for a while actually. We were even successful. Someone popped George Lincoln Rockwell while he was walking out of a laundromat.

          • NeverNormalizingKatie

            I hadn’t heard of him. That’s an awesome wikipedia entry.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            See my link to mml1996, above. A group of computer scientists is urging Clinton to contest the results.

        • Vagenda and Tiara
          • mml1996

            Just saw that – I need to throw up.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Republicans are really starting to disgust me. They’ve always sickened me, but now they’re actually disgusting. They can’t win on their ideas, so they have to cheat.

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        And here I was trying to tell myself that believing in Russian and Republican literal election rigging was ridiculous and paranoid.

    • Jennifer R

      MANDATE!

      • Panika MCD

        * man date

        • mml1996

          That reminds me to get one.

    • Vagenda and Tiara

      Fucking Michigan! They’re the new Florida as far as I’m concerned.

  • Msgr_Moment

    OT: These two talking heads on Pardon The Interruption With All Due Respect are really stupid, dontcha think?

    • Nounverb911

      Didn’t their show get cancelled now that the ‘election’ is over?

      • Msgr_Moment

        Someone needs to tell them.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      Mark Halperin (the less hipster one) is so awful that I’ve even seen Brian Williams throw shade at him.

  • Nounverb911

    Vin Sculley needs a ticker tape parade starting in Brooklyn and ending in LA.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b78f85910c8ad24ee6c399b57c552db7a95c2223d3ba9a256bfd53927108f0d9.jpg

    • Count Awesome

      I will miss his golden voice doing dodger games.

      • Nounverb911

        I read on the internets that he has recorded next years Dodger’s games already.

  • DahBoner

    In Russia, is different. Turkey gobble you.

    Wait. Is same in America.
    http://mrlopez.net/turkey_trump_icon.png

  • memzilla (Maquis Uni)
    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      Worthless little assholes.

    • Msgr_Moment

      Jesus. Trent, Ryan, and Riley can’t even line themselves up in proper order!!

    • Jennifer R

      Are they making east coast gang signs too? Lordy some people just ask for it while grinning.

      • Resistance Fighter Astraea

        East coast gangs use ASL for their signs?

  • LiberalsAreDisloyaltoAmerica

    Why do liberals think that one man violently ramming his throbbing member into another man’s rect*m and slamming it against his prostate while screaming loudly in ecstasy and releasing gallons of sticky, greasy splooge deep inside as the adopted children sleep next door in the “family” home qualifies as an “act of love” that “consummates a marriage?”

    • Jonny On Maui

      TLM! You’re back!

      • LiberalsAreDisloyaltoAmerica

        You miss me?

        • Jonny On Maui

          Like a toothache!

          • snark-lurker

            we have redoubled the attic door bars and locks
            the id has been disturbed

        • Resistance Fighter Callyson

          You really don’t get it, do you? Troll, we make fun of you when you’re here, and blissfully go about our business when you are off fantasizing about who you’ll hook up with on Grindr.

        • snark-lurker

          shhh…the id…donut disturb it

          • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

            Actually, I think it really needs to have it’s donut disturbed, yes?

          • snark-lurker

            id iz a terrible horrible ugly monster it best to leave it alone
            i cannut control it

    • Count Awesome

      Why do conservatives believe that sexual assault is a qualification for the presidency?

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson
    • UncleTravelingMatt

      I don’t know. Why are you so fixated on men violently ramming their throbbing member into your a friend’s rect*m?

    • yyyaz

      Let you back out again, didn’t they. Here, have a dollar to buy some gas and a match.

    • Shanana Republic

      Your material is getting stale and repetitive.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Oh, it’s you again! Haven’t you found nice guy to settle down with yet?

      • Nounverb911

        His mother hasn’t let him out of the basement yet.

      • mml1996

        His heart must be achin’ because nobody wants to slam him in his rear end…

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Also too: gallons? I feel so inadequate: the men I’ve been with leave hardly a tablespoon at most behind. Lucky you!

    • mml1996

      You know you want to…. #tehgayagenda

    • Bigby

      Man, you really think long and hard about your little anecdotes. Again. And Again. Sorry you’re still not getting any, even from your vicar.

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      You must post this out of habit now. I’m sorry the spark between you and Wonkette has gone out but someone below has already offered you matches! Feel free to use.

    • nightmoth

      Oh, for God’s sake, are you back here again? Get laid all right all ready and quit COMING to Wonkette.

      • Resistance Fighter Callyson

        He can’t get laid. He’s been blacklisted by all the local escort agencies.

    • TJ Barke

      Why do you keep talking about it in such detail if you hate it so much? Get help.

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        Seriously. Does he know therapists can refer him to a sex person to make him more comfortable with his sexuality? Don’t ask me how I know, I don’t remember. But it’s a thing.

    • Msgr_Moment

      Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, Bub. You really haven’t tried it??!?

      • shivaskeeper

        Of course he has. I get the feeling he was disappointed though. Something about what he says. I can;t really put my finger on it though.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      Gosh I’ve missed you. Tell me more. Slowly, and with a sexy voice.

      • mml1996

        Oh my god yes. Can you also be Ryan Reynolds or Matt Bomer (I’m sorry – Boner) as you say that? Thx

        • If ever there were two men i deeply regretted being gay, it’s Matt Bomer and John Barrowman

    • Sister the Resister!

      No no, I think you have that wrong – YOU are the one who keeps thinking about it

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        I wish he’d get a new fantasy, this one always creeps me out, because he’s so intent on screwing his imaginary boyfriend in front of the kids.

        • Sister the Resister!

          Yeah there’s some sick shit in there, and not the gay part

  • Rick Hill

    I guess that trump has listened to a few of those Putin pointers on handling the press….

  • Bub the Mad Zombie

    Just for the hell of it, let us suppose that the grifting of Drumpf and his fucking repugnant spawn becomes so completely egregious and blatant that even the Rethugs decide he must be impeached. Does anyone think that he will go quietly? There were concerns about what Richard Nixon might do when he was backed into a corner over Watergate, facing impeachment. He resigned in the end, but what is the likelihood that Drumpf would do that? Not very great, I think.

    Once the loathsome son of a bitch is in office, it will be hell getting him out. He will cling to power tenaciously, and I would not be at all surprised to even see him try to use the military to stay in office. Getting rid of Donald J. Trump is going to be tougher than trying to snap snot off of a fingernail.

    • Rick Hill

      He decides America is great enough or that there is an emergency and he needs to spend more time with his money. Never let it be said he doesn’t leave on his own terms

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        You are more optimistic than I.

        • Rick Hill

          I think he’ll fight but if Kellyann tells him it’s done then he finds a way to make it about him

    • Panika MCD

      or he could just take all the high security info he’s already gotten his paws on and make several billion without regret.

    • yyyaz

      “Becomes?” We’re already beyond that event horizon.

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        Not for the Rethugs. Not yet.

        • yyyaz

          I have a hard time — impossible, you could say — envisioning that scenario after the past 16 years. We would need at least a bare majority in both houses voting for censure, investigations, refusing to follow orders or impeachment to even create a ripple of dissent.

          • Bub the Mad Zombie

            The thing is, I think many Rethugs want to get rid of him. They’d much rather have Pence as President. So I can envision scenarios where they would turn on him if they thought he was a danger to their agenda, or if they feel that sticking with him would drag them down.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      I’ve been thinking about this, and I wonder if he’s not looking for an exit. Did you see his Q&A with the NYT this morning? He’s basically daring them to do something about it.

      But say he doesn’t take office. Then he can start his TV network of white grievances. He’ll make a fortune, his fans will love him, and he can claim permanent gold star victimhood for life.

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        So we’re screwed either way. Can I be screwed with a President Hillary?

        • NeverNormalizingKatie

          I think we’re looking at 4-8 years of screwed no matter what we do. I’m just hoping for screwed with fewer nazis and less chance of a temper tantrum sparked war.

      • jowgajen

        I like the fake his own death option. I mean he’s a billionaire (sort of), he could make it happen and be comfortable after.

        • NeverNormalizingKatie

          Plus, if he ditched the spray tan and whatever the hell is on his head, no one would ever recognize him.

  • LiberalsAreDisloyaltoAmerica

    Normal, healthy people envision one man shoving his throbbing, HIV infected love sponge into another man’s butthole and gag. Liberals envision it and think it’s sweet and courageous.

    • Jonny On Maui

      Bye TLM. You’re boring.

    • jowgajen

      Consider getting some counseling, man. Those fantasies are your repression speaking.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        This poor bastard is such a raging homosexual! I’ve always felt bad for him, since he’s clearly so desperate to get his ass pounded. He thinks about gay sex way more than I do, and I’m gay.

    • shivaskeeper

      Well at least you rephrased is a bit this time. Still ignorant as fuck. Still has no bearing on anything other than your somewhat twisted fantasies. But OK, I guess.

    • DainBramage the BBROYGBVGW
    • UncleTravelingMatt

      You know you can get free gay porn, right? You don’t have to come here and write fan-fic when you want to jerk off.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      And sick, twisted little internet trolls obsess about it.

      Welcome back, Turgid Love Muscle guy! How ya been? Just get out of jail again?

    • The Outraged Ms. MLG

      HIV infected love sponge?! Is THAT what I’ve been cleaning my counters with?

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        Nothing better for really stubborn mildew!

        • The Outraged Ms. MLG

          Ramming your throbbing member into a turgid love muscle can be messy business. The gallons of splooge alone can take hours to mop up. That’s why we’ve created the fabulous HIV Infected Love Sponge! Wipes up 50x it’s own weight in splooge!

          • Bub the Mad Zombie

            I need to coin a word or phrase to describe simultaneously laughing and gagging.

            I’ve got it! I just “Drumpfed!”

          • The Outraged Ms. MLG

            I keep envisioning myself selling these on late night infomercials and having the time of my life.

          • Bub the Mad Zombie

            You’d have the “ShamWow” guy beaten by a mile…

          • mml1996

            Nice use of the word “beaten” there ;)

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            I’d buy one!

          • The Outraged Ms. MLG

            I knew I could count on you!

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Always! ;-)

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        It’s probably fine as long as the sponge is taking its medications correctly.

      • Vincent Ricola

        It’s the normal and healthy way!

      • Household Hack!

        Spray it with white vinegar and lemon juice and heat in the microwave for 30 seconds or so.

        It might be a bit stingy, of course…

    • Jennifer R

      Conservatives hate freedom.

    • mml1996

      I’m betting that your other hand is doing something else as you type this fantasy on your keyboard….

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        He’ll be needing that sponge…

        • Suttree

          A doctor at the ER will be removing it later this evening.

          • yyyaz

            Gave me a nasty, nasty vision of a cranial-rectally inverted Sponge Bob.

          • mml1996

            I assume it was found on his brain – because all the intelligent parts have been absorbed by the sponge..

          • Bub the Mad Zombie

            There were *never* any intelligent parts…

          • Suttree

            I blame Ben Carson.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        He comes here because he knows there are plenty of us who are sympathetic to his closeted gay lifestyle.

        • mml1996

          If he truly is gay – you’re welcome here. Be gay to your wildest fantasies possible. No snark at all.. :)

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            He’s a raging homo, but buried deeply inside the closet of his own inhibitions.

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Thanks for sharing, troll, but it’s the RWNJs who obsess over sex. Though some of them don’t seem to do so quite as much as you do: I honestly don’t know how you find the time to do other tasks in life, like practicing basic hygiene and holding down a job FFS.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Cool story, bro. You going to describe the lesbian version now, or do I need to?

      • shivaskeeper

        Please?

    • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

      Meh. I can only give you a 2/10. Your attempt at creativity, that is, “love sponge” gets you two points. The rest of it is rather boring and a trifle cliche.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      Just out of curiosity, what exactly would you know about what “normal, healthy people” think anyway? I deal with some of the sickest, most depraved sex offenders at work every day, and even they are better adjusted and less messed up than you are.

      • Sister the Resister!

        I know! the most sex obsessed gay dudes I’ve know wouldn’t spend this much time obsessing on the details of homosexxxing. I can only assume he’s gay – not that there’s anything wrong with that h/t jerry – and hasn’t figured it out yet. Straight dudes wouldn’t be able to focus on the details like that.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        I’m curious as to what type of job you have that you deal with the sickest, most depraved sex offenders…also, is your workplace hiring?

        • Bub the Mad Zombie

          I’m a provincial corrections officer. And I believe the new provincial Conservative government just announced a hiring freeze.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Damn it! With my perversions, I would have been a shoo in for that job.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      You sure do a lot of envisioning.

    • Vagenda and Tiara

      So you STILL haven’t gotten your ass pounded yet? Damn, that’s sad. You must be really, really ugly! Or, it could just be your ugly soul. Did you try going to a gay bar, and all they guys were really mean to you because you’re such a racist? Try going South, there’s plenty of Log Cabin Republicans here, who’d be happy to shove their logs up your butt.

    • Panika MCD

      normal, healthy people envision what they may do in their own bedrooms with the consent of their partner rather than obsessing about what everyone else does in theirs. but, I know, you can’t get hard without thinking about the gays and what they’re up to.

  • Rick Hill

    And now, for something competely different: A NASA generated list of air filtering houseplants(I just posted the address but this wants to load the jpg. You have to click it to embiggen it.)
    https://urbanverticalproject.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/nasa-guide-to-air-filtering-houseplants.jpg

  • The Bronx cheer has been replaced by the CBS cheer?

  • LiberalsAreDisloyaltoAmerica

    Obamacare could be made solvent if we stopped homosexual men from screwing 300 men in one weekend and spreading HIV like rabbits.

    • EddieFrancis

      this is the best you’ve got?

      i’m guessing you voted for mr pivot and are now mouth-breathingly furious…

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      You clearly don’t understand how medicine, disease, sexuality, or sex works. I feel sorry for you. Please see your general practitioner and get a referral for a mental health specialist.

      • Rick Hill

        It’s throbbing member guy

        • Resisting the Urge – Holly

          And my breasts are heaving and moist with perspiration.

          • Rick Hill

            Wow! Don’t do that to me!

          • mml1996

            Is it getting warm in here or is my face just doing that….?

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      How did the bunnies get HIV?

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        Mad scientists?

      • snark-lurker

        OOOOO NOOOOO!!! i didnut gnow that they bunnies iz infestid

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      300 men in one weekend? My, your fantasy world is crowded!

      • BoatOfVelociraptors

        That’s what he said!

    • mml1996

      Obamacare RULEZZZZ IF THAT IS TRUE!1!1!1!

    • 300 men in one weekend?

      Amateurs.

      • Rick Hill

        Hasn’t it been scientifically proven that after 128 guys in one weekend your member falls off?

      • Resisting the Urge – Holly

        What with all the nasty women and homosexxxy’s in this room we should all head to our bunks PRONTO!

    • Suttree

      I think that we need to hear you views on scabby penises and rectums consummating a marriage that results in adopted children. It’s like your not even trying anymore. Give it a good thrust!

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        He really has been letting himself go. He rarely even mentions “turgid love muscles” anymore. Luckily he’s still a massive closet case, who burns with desire for a big dick up his butt. I’m guessing he really fantasizes about doing it with a black guy.

        • Suttree

          There is a man out there for him. He just needs to let his freak flag fly.

          • Sister the Resister!

            Lotta work ahead for the guy who brings him out of the closet – hope there are no maimings or killings involved…. yikes!

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            He needs to move South to find a nice Log Cabin Republican who he can be a gay racist with.

    • Dg Hacket

      Sounds like you’d like to join in that group. You should really check it out. Probably like it better than what, if anything you’re getting now. Maybe you wouldn’t hate yourself anymore

    • Panika MCD

      I’d say it’d be more viable when you and those like you quit taking viagra to masturbate and seek help for your opioid addiction.

  • Rick Hill

    So, cheerful thought, when is he going to get to stifling speech on the ‘net? Before or after turkey day?

    • Rick Hill

      I’m thinking he’ll start slowly, just make arrangements with the internet providers who maybe have some issues with regulations, get them to stifle little trump hating mommy bogs and then move on to filtering any site that has flagged speech next. Or redirects, everytime you try to go to Hullaballoo you wind up at fawksnooze

      • yyyaz

        Tater, totter. You know it’s coming.

  • LiberalsAreDisloyaltoAmerica

    Hillary’s base consists of the following groups:

    Blacks who want welfare and racial preferences, Hispanics who want welfare, racial preferences, and amnesty for everyone with brown skin, limp wristed homosexuals who want their deviant lifestyle validated by society, single women who want society to pay for their birth control pills and abortions, union th*gs who want to legally extort as much as possible from the taxpayers, reform “Jews” whose “practice” of Judaism consists of bashing Christianity and whining about the Holocaust, unemployed people whose idea of a job search is sending their resumes written on a napkin to two random companies per week, jihadist Muslims who take advantage of the left’s open borders policies (even for people who want to kill them), atheists who are offended by a God they say doesn’t exist, people who think guns are evil and that murder is impossible without them, environmentalists who think that a winter storm is proof of global warming, pathetic lazy losers who worship recreational drug use, “students” who want the loans they took out to get a degree in gender studies forgiven, pathetic city dwellers who think that their running marathons and eating fair trade granola snacks contributes to society, and finally, disingenuous white liberals who use the others as pawns to gain power. In other words, parasites who make America worse.

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Glad to see you are expanding your repetoire.

      That said, Hillary won the popular vote. Suck on that, troll.

      • UncleTravelingMatt

        I liked his early stuff better.

        • Vagenda and Tiara

          Needz moar “turgid love muscle!”

    • mml1996

      Do you really want a slamming in your rear end?? You can pay to get that done you know…

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      Some of us Hispanics and African Americans are pale, actually. How dare you not include albinos. I am offended.

    • Jennifer R

      AntiFa knows where you live.

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      How dare Jews whine about the Holocaust! They should whine about gays!

    • Rick Hill

      “….parasites who make America worse.”
      You included trump in that list

    • shivaskeeper

      We get it. You’re a Nazi, and you’re proud of it. You hate everyone not just like you. Understood This gish gallop of stupidity has been refuted about a thousand times. To much to even start on.

      But maybe you can answer me this: why do you use random asterisks ( * )? Trying to throw off some sort of filter that doesn’t exist here seems a bit… fucking stupid.

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      At least you’re here to represent the Moran group of the right wing.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        Wouldn’t that be EVERY group of the right wing? The crazed Christianists, the insane gun freaks, the dipshits on Medicare who want to keep their goverment out of their Medicare, the grifters, the war mongering draft dodgers, etc…

        • Panika MCD

          not really. a few have stayed behind in the desperate hope that once these idiots burn down the party they can reconstruct it with all these millenials. and I do wish them well. better they stay over there and fight than water us down any more than we already are.

    • Anna Rompage

      Shouldn’t you be busy pressing you finest robes and hood for this evening Cross Burning down at your local church?

    • DainBramage the BBROYGBVGW

      We’re unimpressed with your over the top (under the bottom?) ignorance.

      • Panika MCD

        up the bottom!

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      So…you pretty much hate everyone then, right? Except white folks girded with God, guns ‘n grievances?

      News flash, asshole – you and your ilk are obsolete. You already have to cheat to win elections. Soon you will be consigned to the ash heap of history, where you belong. And Donnie’s victory will be seen for what it is – the last, pathetic gasp of a bunch of vicious, hateful bigots who couldn’t stand the thought that they were not going to have everything their own way any more.

    • efoveks

      You have absolutely no insight as to what other people think, what are their experiences or how to see things from anything beyond what your beady eyes can see for your teeny tiny brain. Get out of Mom’s basement.

      Most of all, you are a boor. A mannerless, useless boor. Go home.

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I laugh at you.

    • Nodrama4mama

      Was this a real commenter? I thought this was an Onion writer?

    • Vagenda and Tiara

      God, I really do hate it when those pesky Jews whine about the Holocaust. Why can’t they just get over it already?

      • Panika MCD

        and I really hate it when the pasties bitch about losing the Civil War!

    • Bang Crasby

      Blah blah blah. Call me in two years when the country is a flaming wreck.

    • Mayor_Mayor_Mayor

      Bruce, is that you? Regardless, as i have said before,fuck you, you fucking racist fuckstick motherfucker.

    • Vagenda and Tiara

      Thank God we got taken over by rural Americans and their idiot king! We can now solve the massive debt problem that Bush caused with his tax cuts and wars, with MORE tax cuts and war. I can’t wait until the dumb rubes get told “hey, sorry, overweight smoker, the USA is out of money due to all the tax cuts, so you’ll just have to drop dead now, since Trump and Paul Ryan got rid of Medicare.” Flyover country will really get their revenge when there’s no money to support their lazy asses when they turn 80 years old. Fucking moochers! Luckily the NRA and the GOP have made sure the people they’re about to bend over and fuck really hard, are all heavily armed to the teeth. Yup, it’s just smooth sailing from here on out!!!!

      • Panika MCD

        this has to be a suburban America motherfucker.

    • Panika MCD

      you consist of:

      one CSA battle flag which is still pissed off that not only did it lose the Civil War, but it was never fully adopted by the CSA or the Weapons Grade Plum. (we’re sure you wrote letters expressing your rage at not fully alienating African-Americans by putting several on the stage during the RNC.)

      a field of spoiled produce because while you don’t want migrants picking your potatoes, you’re not going to do it yourself because: NOT LAZY, LAZY!

      one irony too lazy to look anything up to verify whether or not his assertion that others are lazier than him is true because: white people JUST KNOW! ya’know? and it would take valuable time away from vandalizing churches. because: JEEZUS!

      one failed plethysmograph test showing that you get hard every time you see Putin.

      one heavy tax increase to pay for all those children of unwanted pregnancies carried to term. because if we don’t find clever ways for taxes to be raised, then you can’t bitch about rising taxes and would have to get off your ass to do something else.

      one squeaky wheel who really hates weekends, 40 hour work weeks and minimum wages because he’s a lazy asshole who’d rather not work at all. onto the recycle pile for you!

      one burning cross who forgets that the KKK used to put those in the yards of Germans, Italians and Irishmen, too!

      one unemployment grifter who doesn’t count himself as unemployed because he’s working his fingers to the bone on the internet FOR TRUMP and a check is still coming in the mail who assumes he’s the one person Trump will finally decide to pay.

      one roll of toiletpaper for sending in resumes on because that’s more civilized than napkins.

      one “mentally ill” “protester” who will be called such so white men exactly like him can alleviate themselves of guilt when he shoots a cop for giving him a traffic ticket. because: WHITE PENIS. where is our wall to keep you away from us?

      one Ouijah board (that’s not occult unless you say it is, shut my mouth!) which can divine what atheists think and, for that matter, anyone else because OBVIOUSLY if you’re so hateful, everyone else must be, too! it’s just natural! and obviously keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill and domestic abusers means that all the guns go away because who in their right mind would own one otherwise, right? (probably thought Kerry, an avid hunter, wanted to take his guns, too. is really oblivious to the fact that making this argument makes him look like an unhinged wife beater.)

      more lazy pie who thinks a snowball disproves global climate change. has read nothing about global climate change, but just “feels” it’s trying to put him out of business rather than protecting the planet for the grandchildren he will never have.

      one oxycontin prescription “for his back”, “not an addict”, “only takes an extra when celebrating”.

      “businessman” who thinks land the government never ceded to people is his because: SHRIVELED WHITE PENIS.

      one Magic 8 Ball BIGOTS Edition who thinks buying cheap plastic crap is any help either.

      one vote for a glorified traffic cone with a long history of bankruptcy, self-dealing and straight up lying who can’t quote one Holey Babel verse and believes this means one day he can too!

      in other words: the root of all that is wrong with this country–lazy bigots who project onto everyone else because they can’t look in the mirror and cry when they masturbate.

      • TX Taco Truck Brigade

        and a partridge in a pear treeeeee!

        Sorry, you were making a serious point, but I couldn’t help thinking it.

        I’m an awful person.

        • Panika MCD

          I wish I’d thought of it!

    • Notreelyhelping

      And there’s a problem?

    • Royal Ugly Dude

      No wonder she won the popular vote!

    • satanscheerleadersloveamerica
  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    OK, kids, fucking with the troll below has been fun (he’s BAAAACK!) but I have to hit the road. See you night owls in a little while!

    • Nounverb911

      Have fun storming the castle!

    • EddieFrancis

      we’re not all night owls. it’s mid morning in the part of the world where i am… :)

      • Nounverb911

        Are you upside down?

        • EddieFrancis

          yeah

          • Nounverb911

            I liked it down there when I visited.

          • EddieFrancis

            it’s good – but is becomingly cloyingly right-wing. i was in the usa for almost 20 years, came back, and discovered myself surrounded by nationalism, corruption, racism, etc – all the trademarks of the right. a pity

          • Nounverb911

            Shame, though it has been 23 years since I was there last.

          • EddieFrancis

            yeah – it was swinging right even then, apparently. so now we have a conservative party in power (once more) that hates immigrants, non-whites, non-christians, women, etc etc etc – an extension of the Howard years

          • Suttree

            You lucky fucker! I’m sleeping on your couch when the shit goes down. Don’t worry, I cook and clean and repair.

    • Jennifer R

      It’s mid afternoon here.

    • Panika MCD

      which one?

    • mml1996

      See ya soon Cally!

    • boyblue122

      the block user function is pretty nice

  • Courser

    We’re so incredibly fucked. In my conversations with like minded folks, we’re all so overwhelmed by the totality of the situation that we just have to make spaces where we can escape and unwind. We can’t live 24/7 in the waking nightmare. Never thought the day where the US sold out to the Kremlin.

    • Suttree

      And it was celebrated.

    • jowgajen

      My current best case scenarios are pretty damn bad. And honestly you can’t really blame Turnip. He’s a symptom, not the disease.

      • yyyaz

        If he’s not a carrier, I’ve never seen one.

        • Msgr_Moment

          Can he be cured, using Ebola?

          • yyyaz

            Short answer is yes, but viraling in intelligence and empathy is still about 10 years out. So we’re boned.

          • Cousin Itt de La Résistance

            The Ebola cured me of newt.

          • mml1996

            Ebola + HIV + Mad Cow Disease…

            Although I’m pretty sure he has the last one atleast.

  • JMP

    I was saying Boo-urns.

    • Suttree

      I beat you to it JMP! Small minds crawl along the same gutter. :)

      • Msgr_Moment

        Today we are all saying Boo-urns.

  • memzilla (Maquis Uni)
  • yyyaz

    Loathsome parasite trolling below is very, very ignorant and tiresome. Pleeze don’t tell us that’s all you have left, RWNJs.

    • shivaskeeper

      It’s pretty much all they ever had. Plus a huge dose of fear.

      • yyyaz

        And that fear is now being channeled into a hate-mob mentality.

    • mml1996

      Pffft – he’s working through his turgid love muscle..

    • Sister the Resister!

      Repeat visitor too… didn’t take to long to watch him fall into repetitive patterns. *sigh* boring troll is boring…. also may need psychiatric help.

  • LiberalsAreDisloyaltoAmerica

    Okay everyone, I’m done trolling for now. I’ll be back next month!

    • Nounverb911

      Whatever.

      • BoatOfVelociraptors

        ‘bqhatevwr’, as my autocorrect calls it.

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      1/10. Low energy. No laughs. Wasted good material with no return. :( Sad.

      • H0mer0

        I read that as “Wasted good material with no rectum.”

    • EddieFrancis

      um… ok?

    • mml1996

      Finished already? What a pity…

      • Nounverb911

        Premature jocularity?

        • mml1996

          I guess so. The “itch” only lasted for a few mins…

          Anyhow, here’s that sponge to help you clean up!

    • Count Awesome

      So you’re like herpes?

      • Panika MCD

        more like syphilis. going4broken is herpes.

    • shivaskeeper

      At least TRY to bring some new material. I know you’re proud of your… writing. But sitting on the ass you so want to get pounded without conning up with something new just smacks of being a lazy parasite.

      • Panika MCD

        doodling. please.

    • Me not sure

      Oh fuck, I just got back.

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      How will we miss you if you won’t stay gone?

    • snark-lurker

      the id sleeps

    • Sister the Resister!

      I’d give this troll a 0.5/10. Low energy, poor imagination, repetitive. Would not bait again.

    • Panika MCD

      aw! look! the troll got a hit on Grindr! have fun getting fucked in the ass and crying about it into your stars n’ bars sheets tastefully paired with your swastika pillows!

  • Nounverb911

    In a followup to yesterday’s post about Judge Primomo, he has been censured by his boss and not allowed to do citizenship ceremonies any more.

    https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/801209411414925312

    • shivaskeeper

      Good.

    • yyyaz

      I’ll take any win we can get.

    • UncleTravelingMatt

      I loved the Both-Sides-Do-Itism at the end. RBG expressing her opinion to a journalist in an interview is equivalent to a judge lecturing new citizens on his view of their rights and obligations from the bench.

      • TX Taco Truck Brigade

        Scalia used to do it all the time, and worse, but you know…IOKIYAR.

  • Msgr_Moment
    • Vagenda and Tiara

      This is driving me fucking NUTS. He’s acting like he’s doing her a fucking favor by not launching the umpteenth investigation of Clinton over the same stupid shit. Why not just say “I’m not prosecuting her, because she was found innocent of all charges, and it’s a waste of money to keep doing this idiocy endlessly”?

      • NeverNormalizingKatie

        I read something yesterday arguing that she should call his bluff and insist that he move forward with it. I don’t know that I agree, but the Irish half of me definitely appreciates the defiance of it.

        • yyyaz

          My inner monkeywrencher can see possibilities for tying up the Congress to keep them from doing anything more harmful.

          • NeverNormalizingKatie

            I like that!

        • Vagenda and Tiara

          I hope to God she sues the next Republican who tries to start an investigation of her. There has to be a malicious persecution law on the books.

          • NeverNormalizingKatie

            She’s a way better person than I am. Because me? I’d dedicate my now abundant free time to making their lives miserable.

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Same here!

      • Pisto75666

        Logic and rational thinking wouldnt be any fun now would it?

      • Constant Gardener

        Or he could admit that the president cannot tell the DOJ what to do because, for fucks sake, this is America. Or, it was.

        • Vagenda and Tiara

          Details, details…

  • Cousin Itt de La Résistance

    Gonna get my head banging on tonight with Epica (Dutch existential symphonic metal) and Arkona (Russian pagan metal) plus of couple of other Eurometal bands. It will be AWESOME and therapeutic. Four hours of mind shattering bliss. Carry on, all!

    • Me not sure

      Blow out the windows, bro. Have a ball.

    • Me not sure

      Blow out the windows, bro. Have a ball.

  • BoatOfVelociraptors

    The whole alt-right, “We sure trolled, them, they think we’re nnnazis” kekekekeke! thing… well. 4chan is as 4chan does.

    • shivaskeeper

      Truth is the “alt-right” is Nazis. The 4chan shitheads? Maybe, maybe not.

  • shivaskeeper

    Awww. I think I lost my troll on the other thread. At least mine could spell. Suck it fellow wonkers.

    • Panika MCD

      which thread?

      • shivaskeeper

        Pence appointing a carbon based life form to a judgeship. I’m handling him though. Since I refuse to get sidetracked and keep asking him for his actual arguments I think he’s done now.

      • shivaskeeper

        I think he’s gone for real this time.

  • Nounverb911

    Now this is interesting, activists are saying that Hillary was hacked.

    https://twitter.com/gabrielsherman/status/801204326001680385

    • mml1996

      Ok folks – call up the DoJ ASAP – it’s not too late. STOP ORANGE MUSSOLINI FROM COMING TO POWER PLEASE!!!

      • NeverNormalizingKatie

        Keep trying too, it will take a lot of tries to get through.

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

      • mml1996

        SHE HAS TO FILE FOR RECOUNT OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD FILE PLEASE FILE PLEASE

        • IOnlyLikeCats

          SHE MIGHT NOT BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE WOULD ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULTS AND PEOPLE ALREADY CALL HER DISHONEST.

          • mml1996

            WHY AM I SCREAMING WHY IS EVERYTHING SPINNING IS THIS THE END OF AMERICA..1212

          • Resistance Fighter Astraea

            WHAT IF THERE IS SOLID EVIDENCE THAT THE RESULTS ARE WRONG?

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            IDK SHE MIGHT BE DONE WITH US ALL, I WOULD BE.

          • mml1996

            SHE LOVES AMERICA EVEN THE UGLIEST SLIMIEST GROSSEST DISGUSTING PARTS PLZ HILLARY DON’T

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            OBAMA IS ALSO SAYING SHE SHOULDN’T BECAUSE OF THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER. AMERICA’S FUTURE IS AT STAKE HERE, IT’S ALREADY NOT GOING TO BE PEACEFUL, PLZ HILLARY I LOVE YOU DO THIS FOR US GIVE UP YOUR NEW LIFE AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN TO BE PRESIDENT

          • mml1996

            FUCK PEACEFUL PROCESS PEOPLE WILL DIE WHEN THEY LOSE HEALTH INSURANCE RIGHT TO SAFE ABORTIONS HIV PLEASE HILLARY AUDIT PLEASE.

          • Resistance Fighter Astraea

            HOW IS AN AUDIT OR RECOUNT NOT PEACEFUL OMG

          • mml1996

            WHEN HE LOSES HE WILL THROW THE BIGGEST HISSY FIT LIKE A BIGLY BALD BABY AND HIS SUPPORTERS WILL DO IT AND OH IT WILL NOT BE TREMENDOUS HUUGGEE OR PEACEFUL

          • Sister the Resister!

            MY EYES ARE HURTING YOU GUYZ!!!!
            (not really)

          • mml1996

            THE RINGING IN MY EARS HASNT !?!!

          • Damn you Tinnitus!

          • mml1996

            WHAT IS TINNITUS AND IS IT COVERED BY OBAMACARE OHMYGOD OBAMACARE?!

          • Resistance Fighter Astraea

            ISN’T CONFIDENCE IN THE RESULT OF THE VOTE ALSO TOO IMPORTANT?

          • mml1996

            PFFT NO BIG WORDS TO TRUMP SUPPORTERS

          • jowgajen

            ALREADY NOT GOING TO BE PEACEFUL NEEDS EMPHASIS

          • Resistance Fighter Astraea

            ALREADY NOT PEACEFUL

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      I’ve been following a journalist covering this and there is absolutely some weird shit in Wisconsin.

      Also too, programmers will laugh until they cry if you argue that paper trails mean voting machines can’t be hacked. Seriously, the first programming class I ever took one of our first assignments was to write a program that printed whatever phrase we wanted it to.

    • mml1996

      PLEASE HILLARY – FILE FOR THAT RECOUNT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!@!!!!

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      I must have just picked a bad source for this same information last night. Either that or the journalist knew something he didn’t include in his editorial (let’s go with both).

    • shaar dula

      This needs a congressional hearing?

      • mml1996

        This one or the next won’t do diddly squat.

      • Panika MCD

        it needs 12, but it won’t get one.

  • boyblue122

    Looks like Drumpf has officially offered sleepy Ben the position as secretary of the dept of Housing and Urban development

    https://twitter.com/passantino/status/801209403684765696

    • Count Awesome

      He can build grain silos as housing projects

    • Does this make him the Designated Survivor if someone blows up the SotU?

      • boyblue122

        SotU?

      • Nounverb911

        OOOH! Difficult to decide if I like that idea or not….

      • Msgr_Moment

        i.e. SotU saboutage insurance?

        • Like how Pence is impeachment insurance?

          • BearLeft

            And after the VP comes the Speaker of the House. We are well and truly fucked.

      • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

        Shhhhhhhhh! We agreed that you were not to mention that in an online comment thread!!!111!!!

        Oh, sorry. Okay, no comments allowed here. I was dreaming or something.

    • shivaskeeper

      And now it’ll be time to see if Stabby Ben is a man of his word, since he already officially turned down and postings. Anyone got the odds on that one?

    • shivaskeeper

      Think it”s because he’s black? Urban = black so he would be great for the job.

      • boyblue122

        doh…thats not the way this works donnie

        • shivaskeeper

          Probably the only black guy whose name he could remember.

          • boyblue122

            dont forget sheriff big hat

          • mml1996

            Or Pastor whatshisface

          • shivaskeeper

            To you and mml, I don’t know that he can remember their names. He probably has some recollection of Stabby Ben from the debates.

    • Nounverb911

      Can’t be official, trump hasn’t tweeted it yet….

    • azeyote

      and Clarke can enforce it –

    • shaar dula

      Who better to house to sleep over issues of urban development?

    • shaar dula
    • Nounverb911

      I think you want the HUD Secretary over there.

      • mailman27

        A HUD organization.

    • Msgr_Moment

      Is he going to accept it, having now gone on record as saying he didn’t have the preparation to serve in the Cabinet?

      • NeverNormalizingKatie

        I’ve decided he’s one of those people that lead an entire second life while on Ambien. That explains everything.

    • Snopes Shop

      Good lord.

    • Shanana Republic

      Ooooh…I knows peoples who work for HUD and they are not going to be impressed.

    • TX Taco Truck Brigade

      ah, housing and development are only worth the time if it makes people like Trump money. That’s why he didn’t nominate himself.

      I would be completely shocked if this isn’t one of the agencies he tries to do away with. Housing options for poor people and people of color? Nix(on) it.

    • Panika MCD

      and he’ll have to change his name to “Dr. Drumpf’s African-American Carson”.

  • Snopes Shop
    • Suttree

      Probably not.

    • mml1996

      It’s US Uncut – fakeiest fake fuckers on the left.

      • Snopes Shop

        Ok

    • Panika MCD

      what mml1996 said.

  • Suttree

    So, I would like to thank all of you Wonketteers. A week ago I was in such a terrible funk that I couldn’t even read Wonkette. It may be temporary but I believe that I have moved on to the fifth stage of grieving. It is not like I am totally healed, but I see a future somewhere beyond that mist and clouds and the burning volcano. I have retrieved my snark. I hope not to fall back into the pit where I was. I thank y’all for making me smile when I felt the worst. I love you guys!

    • mml1996

      Thanks to you as well, Suttree – was able to gain some strength now.

    • Nounverb911

      We try.

    • jowgajen

      I dunno that acceptance is necessary and bargaining ain’t gonna give us shit. So … hook a left and find a spot where you have enough rage to actually fight for what’s right and good.

      • Rise Up, Demme!

        acceptance?
        never.

        i’m having trouble keeping trump supporters off my “dead to me” list.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      I was totally unprepared for how badly this shook me.

      I’m really glad I’ve gotten past crying at the slightest provocation and muttering “Trump is our president, Donald Trump is our president” like fucking Rain Man. That was really awkward at the office.

      • Suttree

        Big hugs darlings! We shall overcome!

      • OneYieldRegular

        I have never felt more grateful for my co-workers than when I walked into the office Nov. 9 and found them all together in a conference room crying. I can’t imagine what some of you must be going through having to work with Trump supporters. We are sending you our love and strength.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        I’ll never be able to say “president Trump.” I just can’t do it.

        • eka

          i can’t even say president-elect … him. see? can’t combine the name and the title. it just feels wrong.

      • eka

        I was past the crying until this song showed up on my morning commute:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_ztU0cvL8

        lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/rain_falls_down_in_amsterdam_lyrics_eric_andersen.html

        Just a reminder of how scary it is that so many people seem unalarmed by all this xenophobia.

      • arglebargle

        Me too. I knew there was still racism and misogyny in this country, but had no idea how pervasive it was. Here is a fantastic article which explains a lot, at least in my mind.

        http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/rural-america-understanding-isnt-problem

        • NeverNormalizingKatie

          I was standing on my desk yelling ‘oh captain, my captain’ by the end of that.
          I would like to send that to half of my family. Pointless to though.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      I am still completely unsettled by this. I cannot wrap my brain around the idea of “president Trump.” I firmly believe that the only thing that has ever happened to the United States that was more of an existential threat was the Civil War. This is going to have ramifications that we cannot begin to imagine, and that will last for decades.

      • Suttree

        I have calmed my mind, and started to think about the mid-terms. Heinous shit will happen before that, but that is the next point of attack. My liver is strong and will jump out and kick some ass.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        Paul Krugman said the effects could potentially last a generation. Woo hoo!

  • HogeyeGrex
    • Count Awesome

      Would look right at home hovering over Trump Tower.

    • Wookie Monster

      Welcome to the Ministry of Truth, Winston.

    • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

      Trump’s equivalent to this would be an anus, not an eye.

    • snark-lurker

      unc walt haz rolln over n over n over ad nauseum

    • Msgr_Moment

      Has it tried Preparation H?

    • Bill D. Burger

      World’s angriest vajayjay?

      • NeverNormalizingKatie

        They don’t like to be grabbed like that.

  • Nounverb911

    Latest update on NC from the WSJ.

    North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory Asks for Recount in Re-election Bid

    By CAMERON MCWHIRTER
    Nov. 22, 2016 4:54 p.m. ET

    North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who in a preliminary count is narrowly losing re-election to Democrat Roy Cooper, has filed a request with the State Board of Elections for a recount, setting in motion a legal battle for the state’s top executive post.

    Mr. McCrory’s move to call for a recount, announced Tuesday, could mean that the matter won’t be settled for at least several more weeks.

    The governor solicited supporters Tuesday for funds to pay the legal costs of the recount.

    “With serious concerns of potential voter fraud emerging across the state, it is becoming more apparent that a thorough recount is one way the people of North Carolina can have confidence in the results, process and system,” Mr. McCrory wrote in a Nov. 18 letter to the board.

    His rival Mr. Cooper already declared victory in the Nov. 8 election and started assembling a transition team. Mr. Cooper dismissed the recount effort as “a last-ditch effort.”

    The Cooper campaign said their candidate leads by about 8,500 votes—“a number that is growing daily as counties finalize election results,” said Cooper campaign manager Trey Nix. “We are confident that a recount will do nothing to change the fact that Roy Cooper has won this election.”

    About 4.7 million votes were cast in the race. The tight race for governor was an outlier for Republicans in the state, where the GOP has a supermajority in both houses of the legislature. Republicans President-elect Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Richard Burr carried North Carolina handily, as did Republicans running statewide for treasurer and lieutenant governor.

    But Mr. McCrory lost the state’s two biggest metropolitan areas of Charlotte and Raleigh, both of which he carried in 2012. Many voters said they disapproved of Mr. McCrory’s championing a law restricting public bathroom use by transgender people.

    Write to Cameron McWhirter at cameron.mcwhirter@wsj.com

    • shaar dula

      Correct hedline IMHO: Not knowing where to piss at, Gov McCrory pissed at the State Board of Elections.

  • mml1996
    • IOnlyLikeCats

      I messed up really badly when I called. I was awkward and I have no idea what they said but I mentioned the states and votes and investigation so I’m pretty sure they got the point (I am very awkward and anxious).

      • mml1996

        No problem at all – get your friends/family/lovers/ex-lovers/ex-haters/whoevers to call!!!!

      • jowgajen

        Upvote for courage.

    • Snopes Shop

      Rachel Maddow spent her entire segment of the Hamilton debacle last night, why did we ever consider her a hero?

      • Sister the Resister!

        Here’s my take on Maddow:

        a) she takes a look a news, she’s not “doing” news

        b) a lot of her stuff is about attitudes, or historical trends, and so on, so her focus is on stories where that is operative

        c) it’s “her” show, but not 100%, and I’m sure she is asked to focus on, or steer away from, certain stories on certain days (sometimes the evening shows will cover different things, so other more substantial stories may have been covered by Chris Hayes or Lawrence O’Donnell, for example)

        d) I think sometimes they sit on stories till they finish up affirming details, flushing out interviews, etc.

    • Panika MCD

      got a busy signal. will try again in a bit.

  • Resisting the Urge – Holly

    Ladies and Gentlemen, and the darling Troll that can’t stop talking about homosexxy times? All your unallowed comments to this A idiot troll that’s a bigly sad loser have made my Tuesday evening a fun sexxy time. Going to my bunk now if you’re looking for me. Love and kiss to the Troll.

    • Sister the Resister!

      WATCH OUT FOR THE SPLOOGING, HOLLY!!!!!!!

      • Resisting the Urge – Holly

        Exactly right! I’m going to watch all the splooging. I’m a perferterated fucker.

    • TJ Barke

      He really needs to get over his repression.

  • The KGB Ate Our Votes

    The BOOS have it.

    • Nounverb911

      Boo Radley?

    • Chicken Boo?

      • Cousin Itt de La Résistance

        In a garlic sauce, with fried rice and straw mushrooms?

    • Msgr_Moment

      Honey Boo Boo? Boo! Boo!

  • Bad Scooter

    Bronx Cheers?

    • Nounverb911

      GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!

  • TX Taco Truck Brigade

    So this is a quote from somebody who was apparently at the media dress down yesterday…I bolded the parts that made me shake my head:

    “Toward the end of the campaign, it got to a point where I thought that the coverage was all about [Trump’s] flaws and problems. And that’s legit. But, I thought, O.K., let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. After the meeting today, though—and I am being human with you here—I think, Fuck him! I know I am being emotional about it. And I know I will get over it in a couple of days after Thanksgiving. But I really am offended. This was unprecedented. Outrageous!””

    Sigh.

    • Bigby

      It’s really not “unprecedented”…it’s perfectly “precedented”…in Banana Republics and dictatorships. Thanks, “liberal media”, I’m looking forward to 8 years of you ignoring every despotic shit thing Trump does!

      • TX Taco Truck Brigade

        I just love the two points I bolded – one, he thought the coverage was all about Trump’s flaws and problems? Really? Trump U scams, sexual assault, and a shady business sounds like just “coverage” to me. And considering the email bullshit, it was NOT “all about” those issues, even though it should have been.

        The next part is just how outraged this person is and it’s all so unprecedented…but he’ll be over it after thanksgiving.

        Just stunning.

        • HazooToo

          ‘Over it’…’after Thanksgiving’… Yeah, no, Trump will still be a whiney little bitch after Thanksgiving, and that idiot will still have to bend over for him, so I hope he has fun ‘getting over it’.

    • Panika MCD

      I’m totally cool with some in the press taking the “bucket” attitude. maybe it will spread.

  • TheGrandWaz00

    Kellyanne Conway is amazing. She knows everything about what’s going on in Trump’s head except when it comes to questions she doesn’t want to answer.

  • mml1996
    • Pinkham’s Law

      Only about 12 months too late.

    • Panika MCD

      finally, the non-PC titles they’ve always dreamed of!

  • snark-lurker

    cbs abc nbc pbs grand old lady time et al etc have been gobbeled up by greed

    • TJ Barke

      At the end of the day they’re corporate before they’re liberal.

  • OrG

    Corporate media is not on our side.

    • mml1996

      Sold to Hillary my ass.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      Corporate media on the side of whatever makes them the most $$$

    • MynameisBlarney

      Nope, never was.
      And that’s by design.

  • idiokratischtrumpenjugend

    Somehow you just knew that CBS News was going to be at the vanguard of the ass-kissing.

    • yyyaz

      Pivot person in the middle of the circle jerk.

      • idiokratischtrumpenjugend

        ABC News has dibs on the taint licking while NBC claims the honor of sucking and massaging the tiny ballsack.

        • Shanana Republic

          Did Turgid Love Muscle Guy inspire you tonight?

          • idiokratischtrumpenjugend

            I heard mention of a troll, but haven’t been to that area yet. The above are just inspirational thoughts after reading Rebecca’s post.

  • Sister the Resister!

    So I admit I’ve been lazy and not ventured very far outside the safety of the Wonkette home planet today (hey, I had two teeth pulled and am whiny! therefore, no so-called real news today except the radio in the car).

    What exactly did Trump forbid and/or make them agree to? I’m still a little vague on the results of this meetup.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      With the NYT this morning, it was kinda crazy, and on the record. He said the opposite of many of the things he campaigned on (climate change is because of us, torture is bad, Hillary isn’t going to jail, he has no idea why the “alt-right” love him, he wouldn’t appoint Bannon if Bannon was a racist, I can’t remember what else).

      Then he went full Nixon and said there’s no such thing as a conflict of interest for the President, and he can run his company and the country perfectly, so we should just simmer down.

      Oh, and Kushner can bring peace to the middle east.

      Sorry about the teefs :(

  • Msgr_Moment

    oo oo it’s magic

    Okay, then.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlK0OGpIRs

  • Resistance Fighter Astraea
    • Shanana Republic

      *sniffle*

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      It’s been really nice having a POTUS and V-POTUS who seem to genuinely like each other.

      • moebym

        Hillary and Tim also got along very well. goddamnit

    • mml1996

      Okay, you make my cry Joe.

  • Nounverb911

    Also this is interesting:
    Texas to start charging real American money for viewing police body camera footage.

    http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/11/21/police-will-charge-body-camera-footage-new-state-rule

    So police do something stupid = profit.

    • Dg Hacket

      Plus if you charge enough the average guy won’t be able to afford it

      • TX Taco Truck Brigade

        Ding ding ding. I was told once this is a way they try to get ya on FOIA requests…as a news agency we could sometimes justify the cost, but for regular citizens, maybe $500 in research and copies is too much – thereby preventing the exact outcome the law was intended to make.

        • Panika MCD

          we could also get a legislator to get it for us.

      • Panika MCD

        we’ve crowd funded things like this before.

    • MynameisBlarney

      “Under the rule proposed by the Texas attorney general’s office, law
      enforcement agencies in Texas will charge $10 for each recording they
      provide to the public. They will also charge an additional fee of $1 per
      minute of footage if an identical copy hasn’t been released.”

      Well, kind of a dick move….but at least it’s not crazy expensive.

      • TX Taco Truck Brigade

        Ah, I didn’t even bother to read it. Great point though.

      • Panika MCD

        that doesn’t make Paxton un-THE WORST. he’s terrible. the meeting where they put this on the register should have been public.

    • Pinkham’s Law

      In and of itself, not unreasonable. $10 per request, plus $1 per minute if not previously requested? Eh. That’s fair. If it was $10 per request plus $10 per minute, that would add up to prohibitive quickly.

      • Jonny On Maui

        If this money was going to be used to purchase the equipment to live stream all police bodycams to the public I could support it.

    • Panika MCD

      I was going to do that earlier. no one had put it up, just updates on NPR. yeah, we fucking dropped the ball on that one. how did no one know this was up for public comment? oh, yeah. even though the agency is subject to open records laws, they decided not to publicly air the meeting for me to cover. I suspect this is not going to go well.

  • Bill D. Burger

    “A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves.” __ Edward R. Murrow

    Oh, how he must be spinning like a dervish in his grave to see that CBS News has become nothing more than a corporate whore cesspool with little hope to redeem it.

    • Walter Wellstone

      “Yokels”… you don’t hear that word much anymore. Good times; good times.

  • TX Taco Truck Brigade

    So Thanksgiving is Thursday and we still have bamz – anyone else think Donnie won’t bother to pardon the turkey next year?

    “We’re going to shake up the establishment here. No more turkey pardons…they’re trying to screw white American chickens. Sad!”

    • Nounverb911

      Hopefully, next year trump will be the turkey needing to be pardoned.

    • Panika MCD

      you think he’d touch a turkey with those dainty hands?

    • Spurning Beer

      The White House press corps will be invited to witness a turkey being waterboarded and executed.

  • unagidon

    Soon it was all over.

    Except for the sucking.

    • Msgr_Moment

      I usually just fast forward to get to the sucking part.
      Wait. What?

    • Panika MCD

      Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt.

  • TX Taco Truck Brigade

    A daily Kos analysis of the two names people supposedly close to trump are saying could be next Justice.

    tl;dr they’er awful awful people:

    William Pryor’s record is replete with right-wing actvism. He has labeled the Roe v. Wade ruling the “worst abomination in the history of constitutional law” and “a constitutional right to murder an unborn child.” In enacting FDR’s New Deal and other measures, the United States, Pryor says, has “strayed too far in the expansion of the federal government.” He says the federal government “should not be in the business of public education nor the control of street crime.” Indeed, he has a history of official support for states’ rights and an extremist view of federalism that several Supreme Court rulings have shot down.

    From his judgeship on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, he ruled for the restrictive Georgia voter ID law, claiming that “racially disparate effects” are inadequate to prove a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. (The Supreme Court he would sit on has ruled oppositely.) In Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents, Pryor went a good deal further than the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling, arguing that Congress “had no power to legislate under the Fourteenth Amendment with respect to age discrimination because it was not concerned with a ‘suspect’ classification like race and national origin, a radical theory that would further limit Congress’s ability to protect individual rights.“

    He has also attacked environmental protection laws, limits on privacy protection, and on the reach of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    Diane Sykes—who, besides being on the Heritage Found list, is a favorite of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker—sits to Pryor’s right.

    At the Wisconsin Supreme Court and later on the federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, she frequently wrote various dissents in which she put the interests of business ahead of the interests of consumers and victims of discrimination. She argued for limits on corporate liability for defects in their products and urged overturning of a $1 million award for damages from defects and a $3.5 million judgment for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    In a dissent she argued that a jury verdict should be upheld even though it was obvious one of the jurors did not understand English well enough to understand what was said in court or in deliberations. She took the outrageous view that a prosecutor should be legally shielded from a claim that he fabricated evidence that put a wrongly convicted man in prison for 17 years. She argued that a federal law barring ownership of firearms by people convicted of domestic violence is unconstitutional. All the other 10 justices on the 7th Circuit said otherwise.

    Sykes wrote the 2-1 Circuit Court majority ruling to invalidate the contraception mandate of Obamacare, a 154-page decision that brought her some national limelight. She disagreed with the 10 other judges on 7th Circuit when she voted for the strict Wisconsin voter ID law despite its unfair impact on student voters.

    She was also the sole dissenter on the Wisconsin Supreme Court when it ruled that evidence collected during the interrogation of a person who was not issued a Miranda warning must be excluded from trial. While she generally ignores the rights of the accused, as in the Miranda-related case, she backed a lenient sentence for two forced-birther protesters who had to be forcibly removed from blocking the entrance to a Milwaukee abortion clinic. And she lauded them for their “fine character” and expressed “respect” for the goals they hoped to achieve.

    And she wrote that an anti-gay student group should be allowed to receive state funding and recognition even though it engaged in banned discrimination. Sykes even claimed the group had not discriminated because it allowed membership of gays who vowed not to be engaged in sex. The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently ruled the other way.

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/22/1603046/-Trump-s-apparent-first-choices-for-associate-justices-on-the-Supreme-Court-are-unfit-to-serve

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      Which one is oldest and/or in the worst health.
      There’s no question he’s going to pick someone terrible, hopefully they’ll at least be terrible with a short shelf life.

      • TX Taco Truck Brigade

        Pryor appears, in the picture at least, to be younger. They both look fairly young.

        • NeverNormalizingKatie

          Not good. We’re saddled with Roberts for decades. The least he could do is find someone as old as he is, with similar eating habits, and…

          Wait a minute, could someone convince him to appoint himself? Combined with his tendency to be swayed by whoever he spoke to last that could work out really well for us.

          • Pinkham’s Law

            Rs would confirm him in a heartbeat – they’d rather have Pence, anyway.

          • NeverNormalizingKatie

            It’s less work. Better hours. Could stay in NY most of the time. His name would be everywhere for centuries. The robe is universally flattering and wouldn’t clash with his orangeness. It would really piss off Ted Cruz…

            I think we could make this work.

          • Pinkham’s Law

            And then Pence couldn’t be the Man Behind the Curtain an run against Donnie in 2020, claiming he had tried to restrain him from his worst excesses. Hmmmm..

          • NeverNormalizingKatie

            And an easily swayed Trump could be a bulwark against Pence/Ryan.
            We’d just need to make sure he sits between Kagan and Sotomayer, and that they spend a lot of time flattering him.

          • Pinkham’s Law

            Didn’t Notorious RGB have a Conservative friend on the bench until the passing of Justice Scalia (who, it should be noted, is STILL DEAD!)? Perhaps she needs a new friend!

          • NeverNormalizingKatie

            That might be even better. His ego would love it if she was suddenly making nice after saying such mean things about him. She’d own his orange ass.

          • bookish

            Trump said he could run his businesses and be the president “perfectly” at the same time, so why not add Supreme Court Justice? The man is a marvel.

          • mailman27

            The only thing he’s not ready for is teaching 6th grade English. Or speaking at a 6th grade level for that matter. Or holding two thoughts at the same time. Holy Shit, he’s the president.

        • La Resistance O’hontas

          Don’t let the picture fool you. They’re both even bigger assholes than they appear.

    • Great, two people who make Clarence Thomas look like a reasoned moderate…

    • Jennifer R

      Fuck them both.

  • TundraGrifter

    It is, indeed, a conundrum. Since we’re talking Trump here – extra small. The ones they keep behind the counter you have to ask for.

    • HazooToo

      Next President’s Day, if the creature is still there, I suggest we all send him a pair of children’s gloves and an extra small condom.

  • Dolmance

    I just read that Trump and his cohorts want to sweep aside Obama’s Net Neutrality rules. I don’t know what those Blue Collar white guys are going to do, when they have a hankering to watch that Cuckold porn they’re so into, watching black guys screwing their wives in front of them, and have to deal with one frozen screen after another.

    Poor bastards. And you thought they were pissed off before, just wait.

    • TX Taco Truck Brigade

      Good point, and I was just reading that the overtime rule Obama championed just got smacked down – so his supporters will be poorer AND without high speed pr0n. That’s a scary thought.

      • Land Shark

        That’s two of three things needed to push them over into outrage. What’s the third thing?

        • When he starts some trade wars and it costs $20 for a 12-pack of Budwieser?

          • Land Shark

            IIRC, Budweiser is now owned by a foreign company. Trade war and “bring the taxes home” causes Bud Light prices to soar to $12 US. Riots ensue.

            Sounds good to me.

      • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

        The injunction only delays it, so it’s not technically dead yet. The operative word being ‘yet’.

    • Blacktop Cadence

      I bet Deadbart and WND won’t be on the first tier package either. Gonna have to go gold or something for that shit.

    • yyyaz

      Good thing they don’t have any females in their households to vent their frustrations on.

    • mailman27

      The first thing that Paul Ryan was gloating about after the Trumpocalypse was the plan to dismantle Medicare. MEDICARE!!!1!! Nobody even mentioned dismantling Medicare during the campaign. Whoo boy, I hope these dopes are going to be scratching their pointy little heads about this for a while.

  • Msgr_Moment

    Chris Hayes seems to be getting it. First two stories: conflict of interest and tax lawbreaking, with video of Nixon saying that if the President does it, it’s not illegal.

    • Land Shark

      He took the red pill? Really? “You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

      • Msgr_Moment

        Spent a full half of his show on the corruption and the Trump Foundation stories.

        • Land Shark

          Definitely the red pill. He’ll be fired soon enough.

        • IOnlyLikeCats

          He also talked about what happened at the DAPL protesters, in-depth, and DIDN’T BLAME the protesters.

    • NeverNormalizingKatie

      As shit as this all is, it’s been great for him and Joy Reid. Both of them have come through this stronger and more focused. They’ve both been on point for months.

  • Shoto

    Journalism: What is it?

    — The Idiot Beltway Media

  • Sean McLaren
    • Blacktop Cadence

      I laughed waaaaaaay to hard at this.

    • Blacktop Cadence

      Also, why am I reading more Buzzfeed than NYT this year?

      Why is the world THIS upside down?

      • laineypc

        attention spans shortening

    • Went to check one of the links in the article to her Twitter account… Suspended.

      Good on ya, you fucking lunatic.

  • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

    OT: Obama’s overtime rule got delayed, and I’m sure Republicans everywhere are wetting themselves with glee.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-overtime-rule-injunction_us_5834db63e4b01ba68ac387ba

    • They certainly are on The Hill’s comment section – along with a heaping helping of “If you don’t like the pay, go get another job you stupid libtard meat sack!” (Like that’s so damn easy…)

      • Resistance Fighter Astraea

        But I thought their economic anxiety over not enough JOBS was the reason they voted for Trump???!!

      • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

        I have issues with the rule, but there are people who were given raises or were finally going to be paid overtime who are depressed as fuck.

        • I can see some issues. We have to adjust our salaries (and some people currently on the cusp of the threshold will have to be evaluated to see if their jobs should be adjusted upward to salaried or converted to hourly), but the old threshold is ripe for abuse by “McJobs” where you get the title but none of the responsibility so they can rip you off.

          • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

            I definitely wanted it increased; in a perfect world where states don’t suck, I would have liked to see it be more regional and take into account that a dollar where I live is not the same as a dollar in the District, or NYC, or San Fransisco. $35,000 is more than a living wage in my area (which is sad, maybe).

      • boyblue123

        It drives more qualified people out of the govt sector is really what it accomplishes

    • Shanana Republic

      I don’t get it. So many of the supposed “rural white working class dudes” who voted for Trump were actually middle-class white dudes in the $70K/year range, a lot of whom are the very ones who are going to be affected by this.

      Maybe they just do so little the rest of the time they don’t mind answering emails and drunk-texting all night for free.

      /meow/

      • mailman27

        It’s so great how the media has been all over the statistics showing that working people making less than 50K/yr voted for Hillary by a large margin. You know, the working people left behind in the global economy. They felt totally represented by Tru… wait a second… Never mind.

    • “…the ruling by a federal court in Texas..” Of fucking course…

  • Resistance Fighter Astraea
    • Jonny On Maui

      Poor Paul. He’s going to be one of the first ones disappeared…

      • Anna Rompage

        At least those Obama FEMA concentration camps will finally get some use… Personally I’m looking forward to the cedar lined sauna, and ample amounts of time gardening…

        • efoveks

          You know… they’ll probably make you do the organic kind. And you’ll probably have to grow a few herbs & vegetables.

          Horrible, I know, I know…. :)

          • Msgr_Moment

            I picture myself imprisoned in some dingy Texas Walmart instead.

          • Anna Rompage

            My dream is to be a house husband that splits my time between the garden, the kitchen, and the wood shop…

          • efoveks

            Mr. efoveks agrees. :)

    • Juan de Payaso

      Is he talking about this story? I’ve been out all day but came across this a couple of days ago. Chalked it up to, “probably not but if so, we could easily find out.”

      I need to catch up.

      http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/46607_Did_Trump_Win_Because_Russia_Hacked_the_Election

      • Resistance Fighter Astraea

        Yeah, that’s it.

        • Juan de Payaso

          Seriously? And I thought I was the only one (besides Charles and some at LGF) who thought it was at least plausible. Started to post it here last night but didn’t want to be labelled as Wonkette’s “Alex Jones” commenter.

          It’s plausible but then again, if true, it’s easy enough to prove. So easy it would’ve been really stupid for Putin to try such a thing. Not buying into it. Nyet.

      • Goddammit, I really didn’t want to start thinking this way, but those are some pretty convincing lines of thought (in the Full Article)

  • Anna Rompage

    Yay, after two grueling days at work, it is officially my Friday and I don;t have to return to the grist mill until Monday!

    I’m kicking this off right with a Wanderlust IPA in one hand, and a little sippy cup of brandy in the other…

    • efoveks

      Enjoy!

      • nick kelly

        Wonkette patrol here. You are being monitored for suspicion of turning this site into a branch of that Danish thingy begins with H rhymes with cougar.
        A revolution is not a tea party!
        This is a meeting of the Resistance!
        There will be no more swapping of recipes

        • efoveks

          B-b-b-b-b-b-ut…. :(

    • Shanana Republic

      Yay! I got into the wine tonight after some drinking time off and am nicely relaxed. After my kids decide they’re hungry, I have some of the beef stew (from my Kitchen Idiots Slow Cooker Menu) that I set off this morning. It smells good but I feel a little iffy because there are no potatoes involved.

      • Suttree

        YOU MONSTER!

        • Shanana Republic

          It has green beans…?

          • Suttree

            You lack of potatoes, is disturbing. :)

          • Shanana Republic

            I know! I’m Irish enough that I gave it some side-eye as well. But the recipe didn’t call for them so I…I didn’t do it.

            This is a special thing I’m trying where there are 10 recipes and a shopping list and everything. You buy the stuff one day, prepare it the next and put all the bags in the freezer, marked with cook time/temp and how much of what kind of liquid to chuck in at the time, then take them out on the day you want to make them and flop all the frozen contents into the slow cooker and dump the liquid on top. Maybe potatoes just don’t work with that kind of thing?

            I don’t know. I’m a disaster. I just need easy food that I can eat as soon as possible after coming home from work. It wouldn’t be so bad but my daughter is super picky and I’m tired of telling her to fix a PB&J or mac ‘n’ cheese again.

          • Anna Rompage

            That’s exactly it, potatoes don’t freeze well, as they turn all grainy and fall apart when they’re defrosted.

            I know this will sound a little weird, but a turnip or two makes a good replacement and they freeze well

            Chayote squash is also another good substitute

          • Shanana Republic

            Oh, I like turnips! Good idea for next time. Thank you! What are the fat purple-ish white things called again?

          • Anna Rompage

            There’s rutabagas and turnips. Turnips are usually mostly white, with purple tops and smooth skins. Rutabagas look similar, but they’re a little more rustic looking with slightly rougher looking skins and are usually larger in size

          • Shanana Republic

            Turnips look like anemic carrots but taste spicy and awesome and rutabagas look like purple radishes on steroids but taste less spicy. IMO and all that.

            Or something. Anyway. I’m still missing one of the massive tubers. It’s sort of orange. Maybe that’s why everyone is avoiding it.

            Please don’t say yam. And someone is going to tell me what it is and it’s going to make me look like I couldn’t remember the word for “spoon”.

          • MizzMazz

            The anemic carrots are parsnips :)

          • Rise Up, Demme!

            turnips!
            a little olive oil, salt, pepper.
            hot, 425 oven, and roast until they’re done.
            a bit soggier than fries, but very tasty!

          • Suttree

            You have the proper idea Mom’s. You ain’t doing nothing wrong! :)

          • Shanana Republic

            Every day that my children are still alive, I consider that I DID MY JOB.

          • Suttree

            I hope that someday I can meet your children and cook for them tasty treats! As much as kids weird me out, I am a great uncle to my sister’s children. I should expand my base. Last year around this time I spent a few weeks with my sister’s three kids. My nieces and nephew were super fun last x-mas. The eldest super-duper niece was already living her own life, and elder niece is being looked at by colleges because she is a bad motherfucking ass baller with intelligence to boot. My nephew is an amazing actor with a future in theater and an athlete. It was so much fun to watch his older sister and him ball. Bella’s ball skillz made uncle Suttree say that she whooped my ass, and she was only 16 years old. They are all beautiful children! I think my sister bred enough for both of us. :)

          • Anna Rompage

            Green beans are great!

      • Anna Rompage

        Yay for chillaxing time!

        If you’re looking for a starch to go along with your stew, pasta (especially egg noodles) always works well!

      • alpacapunchbowl

        The taters would have probably just broken down being in the slow cooker all day. When I do stew in my slow cooker, I boil the potatoes separately and add them in at serving time.

      • Shoto

        Tater Libelz!

      • bookish

        I’ve got a pork shoulder in the slow cooker with onion, garlic and cracked pepper. Carnitas, or a roast, or something.

        • Shanana Republic

          Thanksgiving day, I have a pork loin with some cranberries, orange juice, and dijon. We’ll see how it goes.

          And I hope it goes well because I did 2 of those for the freezer since the only pork loin available to buy was twice the size I needed it to be.

    • Suttree

      Sweetheart, I’m right here with ya.

    • I have a half-day tomorrow. It should be quiet. Maybe…please?

    • Jennifer R

      I am having a bowl in your honor.

      • Anna Rompage

        I wish I liked smoking more… Often times it doesn’t sit well with me, which is weird because in my 20s, I loved to smoke and hated drinking, and now it’s totally opposite.

        The sad part is that I even live in a state where rec use is legal…

        • Jennifer R

          Well really, it’s a bag of vapor. Actual smoke tastes too foul to enjoy any more.

      • Shanana Republic

        *jealous*

  • memzilla (Maquis Uni)
    • Shanana Republic

      I finally followed him on social media and it’s been…refreshing?

      • memzilla (Maquis Uni)

        “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” — Mark Twain

        And that’s the way to get this motherfucker. As Charlie Pierce said, this guy is so thin-skinned he could swallow a flashlight and do a credible impression of a Chinese lantern.

        • Shanana Republic

          I like the mental visual you gave me.

        • Shoto

          In addition to hard-nosed, unrelenting investigative reporting, the comedians and satirists also need to be absolutely merciless. He has already proven that he can’t take some relatively mild SNL sketches. Accordingly, it’s time to turn up the volume.

          The down side is the possibility that he will use federal intelligence, law-enforcement, and regulatory power to attack reporters and artists. I am convinced that he is going to push the limits of executive power, and wait for a spineless, Republican-controlled congress to check him, which would be a very slow process, at best. Sorta unsettling, but not (I would suggest) an unrealistic scenario. I’d love to be proven wrong.

          • yyyaz

            And when he leans on all the networks, cable and YouTube to blacklist them?

          • Rise Up, Demme!

            very soon, the comedians and satirists will be competing in the “who can get the most outrageous trump tweet” contest.

        • Spurning Beer

          Snark warriors! To arms!

          • Vagenda and Tiara

            Grab the whoopee cushions! Unleash the fake dog poop!

    • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

      Well. He … has a point.

    • Shoto

      Unhinged orange man-baby Drumpf’s perceived “conflicts of interest” are all part of the Grand Plan to Make America Great Again. I mean…can’t you just feel things getting greater by the minute?

  • TJ Barke

    I don’t think I can make it through 4 years of this garbage… Let alone 8.

    • yyyaz

      I give us 2 years before it is all Mad Max redux.

  • Maggie Haberman making a play for official New York TImes Trump lickspittle correspondent.

    https://twitter.com/CNN/status/801231530882465792

    • mackafritz

      That’s not what the press is for Maggie. It’s not to make governing easier.

      • TJ Barke

        It is in a fascist state…

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      I want to vomit.

      I want to vomit on her.

      • Anna Rompage

        You should have her swing by my place in about 3-4 hours, as I’m thinking I might be able to conjure that up for you!

      • Shoto

        Please feel free. In fact, I would encourage you to do the extra-special, super-enhanced, exorcist-style spinning head vomit…y’know, in case there are any other Idiot Beltway Media types hanging around.

      • OrG

        Crude…..but Right On.

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        I’m thinking more in terms of the other end, myself…

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        Get in line, sister!

    • boyblue123

      Maggie Haberman is a trump shill. NYTimes actually posted an article about Drumpf’s financial conflicts of interest yesterday. Of course, other authors published the article

      • Paperless Tiger

        Did they use the phrase “all up in your face”?

    • dshwa

      The job of the media is not to make governing easier. It’s to help hold government accountable to the people.

      • sgt. jmk of the résistance

        Funny that you have to explain that to her, isn’t it?

        And yet, she’s employed – at what I would imagine would be a more-than-decent wage – to do a job that you understand better than she does.

        FFS.

  • Begin Anew Day

    Why on earth would Donnie hand over control of his money and property to his children?

    The truth is they are HIS CHILDREN!

    Donnie knows that if he relinquishes control of his wealth to his spawn that he will NEVER see that money again! He has never stopped bragging about how he trained them. He knows he cannot trust them to do right by him because he trained them to NEVER TRUST ANYONE.

    This “conflict of interest” story is secondary to the Trump family re-make of King Lear.

    • Anna Rompage

      His kids already run everything, including the country now…

      He’s a really shitty businessman who’s only real success has been building a brand that he licenses to other developers…

      • Jennifer R

        And he did that by systematically refusing to lease to black people. His father was a noted member of the KKK. This is all just coming home to roost.

        • Lefty Wright

          No, he did it by being an a$$hole on reality tv. The public eats that up. The more grifting and backstabbing the better. For some reason, they think that being good at that makes you a winner and someone to be admired.

    • Shoto

      His spawns are at least as pathological as he is…Some real Children of the Corn MFers…

      • Hamilton, AKA Formerly DN

        Chldren of the Cornhole.

  • Cogswell – User of the wheel

    I see Complete Bull Shit is still the orange turd’s water carriers.

    • Anna Rompage

      Yeah, they’ve already re branded white supremacist nazis as the “alt right”…

  • Vagenda and Tiara

    Memories, light the corners of my mind, misty colored memories, of what a dipshit Bush was – Twenty forgotten Bush scandals:
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/01/06/forgotten-bush-scandals.html

    I’m feeling nostalgic for Bush, at least he was just a mental lightweight, and not a world class grifting con man.

    • Juan de Payaso

      It would normally be a sad commentary or whatever when a Hollywood producer gets it right but then again, this is Judd Apatow we’re talking about:

      Ironically, the entertainment industry should benefit from Trump’s upset win, he said, because people will need to laugh and escape.

      “The sh—tier things get, the more people need to numb themselves out,” he said. “We’re probably one of the few industries that doesn’t get hurt by this.”

      Apatow didn’t temper his anger about the outcome of the election.

      “What saddens me is that over the next eight to nine months people are going to see that they got conned,” he said. “It’s going to be exactly the same as George W. Bush but scarier because the guy in charge is unstable and loves revenge.”

      Apatow predicted that for all of Trump’s populist anti-establishment rhetoric, he will side with big business interests and fill his administration with corporate “shills.”

      “He is the swamp,” Apatow said. “This is going to be a country completely controlled by corporations. It’s going to be brutal when the people who voted for him realize that he’s not their savior — he’s their worst-case scenario.”

      http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/judd-apatow-on-donald-trump-people-are-going-to-see-they-got-conned-1201914278/

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        Well, at least all the people he conned aren’t armed to the teeth with automatic weapons…uhhh…wait a minute.

        Actually, I don’t think the morons are even going to notice they got conned. The only thing they’ll actually notice is that he didn’t jail Hillary, and he didn’t build a wall. The economy will be good for a few years, while Wall Street gets ready to rape the middle class again, and when it all collapses, they’ll blame Obama and Hillary. The rubes will continue to vote for them. That’s why I call them “rubes.” They’re too stupid to even notice they’re getting fleeced.

  • Begin Anew Day

    Journalism Dead? Just because the the NYTimes bent over and offered it’s withered cheeks for Donnie’s pleasure?

    This is nothing new.

    It is a mistake to think that the NYTimes had any ethics to sacrifice to Donnie in the first place.

    • yyyaz

      I dare say you, I and what is left of this country, will miss them when they are gone.

      • Begin Anew Day

        I missed them for awhile back when they swallowed the whole Bush-Cheney Iraq Invasion BS. I went through the stages of grief at their passing away at that time. They have been dead to me since then.

    • Anna Rompage

      Maureen Dowd, enough said….

    • Rise Up, Demme!

      i’m through with the nytimes.
      gail collins is not enough.
      any suggestions?
      is wapo good?

      • sgt. jmk of the résistance

        Recently, they’ve been doing some good work – I turned to them often during the campaign, as they had neither the “it’s only about the horserace” vibe of other sources nor the deep vein of ClintonHatred that the NYT sports.

      • Paperless Tiger

        Didn’t Trump blacklist WaPo?

        • Sister the Resister!

          Well, that certainly speaks in its favor!

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            They’re trying to regain his favor. HuffPo is pretty good (surprisingly) when it comes to Donald.

      • boyblue123

        BBC news is reliable too

      • Begin Anew Day

        Mother Jones , Wonkette (NATCH!), Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now

        Hell, even Rolling Stone has more integrity and insight than NYTimes.

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    O/T Chris Hayes is killing it tonight. With his rhetoric (although watching him kill something with his bare hands would be entertaining and horrifying).

  • Juan de Payaso

    Are they cheers or boos? Is the dress blue and gold or black and go fuck yourself?

    Trump got booed worse than Santa Claus at a Philadelphia Eagles game, so CBS can indeed go fuck themselves.

    However, that dress may have been blue and black but the picture of it had more white and gold than Trump’s penthouse suite. The picture of the dress was white and gold.

    I blamed it on the same phenomenon that happens whenever I try to take a picture of the moon and it comes out looking like a blurry orb from one of those, “10 Most Mysterious Ghost Photos Ever Taken” websites.

    The dress was white and gold!!11!!

    • boyblue123

      If the meeting happened in NYC theres about a 99.999% chance Drumpf was booed

  • Sean McLaren

    A bit of a bright spot It’s going to be titled “Unbelievable”

    https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/801235340245827584

    • boyblue123

      I want to pre order Katy Tur’s book now. All the stories she has to tell covering the Drumpf campaign

    • Nounverb911

      Jinx, didn’t scan down far enough….

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    O/T I am witnessing a Rachel Maddow from the future and she ages terrifically.

    • Anna Rompage

      Perhaps it’s because she’s queer and refuses to put up with egotistical men’s bull shit….

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        Her glasses are a vintage spacey kind of fabulous (on Chris Hayes’ show, right now).

  • Vagenda and Tiara

    Trump supporters all butthurt that he’s not going to jail Hillary for her many nonexistent crimes:
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/22/donald-trump-s-minions-furious-he-now-won-t-imprison-hillary-clinton.html

    Sorry, rubes, you’re about to find out that “cutting taxes” is the only promise Trump will keep, and you’re too dumb and broke to benefit from a capitol gains tax reduction. Open your mouths, if you want to catch some of Trump’s trickle.

    • Anna Rompage

      Trump is fooling himself… His supporters were looking forward to the first public execution in US history being televised on Pay Per View sometime in this next year…

      • Paperless Tiger

        By then it may be him.

        • Bub the Mad Zombie

          We should be so lucky. That is one Pay Per View I’d probably be willing to spring for.

    • Cogswell – User of the wheel

      The idiots have no idea that they’ve been played like a cheap violin and will get absolutely nothing.

      They already have their shorts in a bunch. I, for one, am hoping for a major meltdown.

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        Love to see a mob of angry trumpanzees marching on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

      • nightmoth

        The wedgie from hell—-

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        The only problem with the major meltdown, is that the idiots have armed themselves to the teeth, while us “coastal elites” are going to be taken over by them. The best we can hope for is that Trump gets impeached, the markets swoon, and we get rid Republicans for another 8 years.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      From the above story:

      Bill Mitchell, a small-time talk-show host and a fervent Trump supporter, suggested the president-elect was pulling a Machiavellian maneuver.
      “You may be upset Trump has signaled he will not ‘persecute Hillary,’ but you will see in short the this was brilliant strategic positioning,” he wrote on Twitter. “When Trump looks at an apple, he doesn’t just see the apple, he sees the soil and the tree and the farmer and the rain. Trust him.”

      That has to be one of the most stunningly idiotic statements I have ever seen in my life! How is it that this genius, who sees “the soil and the tree and the farmer and the rain,” managed to go bankrupt several times and run numerous businesses into the ground? The only way the incompetent fucking bastard EVER makes money is when he’s defrauding people!

      • nightmoth

        When Trump looks at an apple, he sees some kind of a fruit. Not sure which kind, really, but sure looks fruity.

      • Vagenda and Tiara

        Yeah, I was impressed by the idiocy of that statement as well. If Trump sees the farmer and the rain, you’d think he would have been able to see that Atlantic City was not going to be the next Las Vegas.

        The most amazing thing about Trump supporters is their capacity for self delusion. They genuinely believe a guy on trial for defrauding poor and middle class people, and a guy with a long history of stiffing small business people, is going to somehow or another, make their lives great again. LOL, it is great to see Wall Street, and the banks, celebrating the return to deregulation that worked out so well for the country in 2008. Fills me with hope!

    • HooverVilles

      You are soooooo right!

  • nick kelly

    I thought Trump might pick a team of moderates to smooth out the impact of his shock election and move to the center of the public.
    But instead his team: Bannon, Flynn and now for defense a general nicknamed Mad Dog seem calculated to smooth out Trump by making him look moderate.
    So in a way Trump has moved to the center….of his team.
    Our only hope may be the women.

    It’s easy to laugh at Nancy Reagan but it was she who warded off evil in the form of the evangelicals around the WH and pushed Ronnie to get an arms control agreement.

    • Jennifer R

      Then again she turned out the evangelicals for the astrologers.

      • Paperless Tiger

        Even they’re more down to Earth.

    • nightmoth

      Sigh–I’m just remembering how kind and sweet Obama was to Nancy when he brought her to the White House for that bill signing that honored Ronnie.
      No, I don’t laugh at Nancy. I think she ran some things while Ronnie was succumbing to the first stage of Alzheimer’s.

    • HazooToo

      What women? What did I miss? Did he actually appoint a human with a vagina to his cabinet?

  • MynameisBlarney

    Now, for your regularly scheduled crazy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StZwrbKHnG4

  • Anna Rompage

    Okay, Santa has to head out to the shop for a little while and put some finish on some holiday gifts… I would have had the Elves do it, but the dems raised minimum wage in my state and I can no longer afford to pay them while I sit on my ass, drinking expensive beer, and making my living on others work.. ;D

      • Rise Up, Demme!

        when i lived in toronto, the barenaked ladies were banned by a conservative mayor who was trying to pander to the liberals.
        she said their name “objectified women.”

        • Hate to think what she thought of the Butthole Surfers…

        • cynmac will never surrender

          My daughter and I saw them live. When I mentioned that we were going to Barenaked Ladies at a family luncheon, my misogynist uncle overheard and said “What? Who? Where?”. You can’t make this shit up.

  • Marceline

    This fuckery makes me glad I quit “The Good Wife” in its final season

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    This has to be the least transparent presidential anything.

  • memzilla (Maquis Uni)
  • Msgr_Moment
  • Vaara Thaumetergist

    Are we sure Trump won without other help? Look I know something about statistics and correlation enough to agree that DoJ needs to look into this now.
    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-hillary-clinton-to-challenge-election-results.html

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      We all have been trying to call them to leave public comments (I got them on the first try but most don’t).

      • Vaara Thaumetergist

        Thanks. I sent a note to the White House. Will be calling tomorrow.

    • nightmoth

      Oh, hell yes–this stinks like old dead fish. Among that cross-check purge of the voter rolls, and unnecessary voter id laws, and weird Russian trolls on the internet, and Putin hacking the Democratic National Committee, and Trumpster himself whining about why he wasn’t going to win before he -SURPRISE-did?
      Oh, yeah, baby—stolen big time.

    • Sean McLaren

      https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/801226924156719104

      Nate Cohn and Nate Silver are both saying this is entirely due to the different types of precincts that have paper vs electronic, and that you see the same differences in those types of precints (by education/race/income) in other states

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        You expect me to believe there wasn’t any foul play after everything else…? Sorry, but no.

      • Vaara Thaumetergist

        Interesting, but I find that if we look at multiple states and multiple counties in these states, with a correlation for the type of machine that is is getting beyond their exception. Will look for more on this. Regardless DoJ should examine the condition and answer the question at this time.

      • Vaara Thaumetergist

        Can you cite the Nate Silver article?
        I find Cohn to be actually incorrect too frequently. In particular Cohn did not balance the above analysis for favorability. See Silver on this.
        Thanks.

        • Sean McLaren

          I haven’t seen an article write up yet, but this is his series of tweets on it

          https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/801220813890277376

          • Vaara Thaumetergist

            Ok… so Nate looked at this based only on stats and not on potential pattern analysis. Really need the data set and analysis from U of M for this to be published. Best thing for Trump and the nation is to have the DoJ look into this and confirm no tampering. I would be inclined to agree with Nate except for the error he made in the 538 projections (which by the way I have to point out was that he was doing only stat analysis and not pattern!). I take a certain degree of sad pride in that I told my spouse on the Thursday before the polls that I thought Clinton would lose (which was due to a delta pattern analysis). .

  • TJ Barke

    <—- This is pretty much me all the time now. When I'm not screaming in fury…

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      I don’t know if you’re confused by the stupid, outraged, or baffled, but same.

      • TJ Barke

        Aot,k…

    • nightmoth

      Don’t get mad—get even.

  • TX Taco Truck Brigade
    • Jennifer R

      It is nice seeing how much of the world *isn’t* OK with racists being racist in public.

    • Darkrose

      …has anyone mentioned to her that she’s not white?

      • cynmac will never surrender

        She gets a pass because slutty and boobs.

    • mailman27

      I’m about done with “reality stars.” Wait, President WHO?

  • Msgr_Moment

    Trump Shampoo. Now with more emoluments.

    • TJ Barke

      I think those cause cancer.

      • efoveks

        Yes, but they can also help that uncomfortable constipation problem! :)

  • MynameisBlarney

    One more Gogol Bordello vidja…ok…maybe one more after this…
    Listen to this shit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Zc2u0WBXM

  • Spurning Beer

    Seems to me we need to establish an Alt-Left.

    Up against the Beautiful Wall, motherfuckers!

  • La Resistance O’hontas

    Is that an “In School” suspension?
    She’ll probably be passing notes…

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    O/T my pizza dough looks like Play-Doh what have I done?!?

    • Land Shark

      Too much kneading?

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        I haven’t kneaded that much… Last dough I made I worked on for ten minutes and it was fine. I’ve only kneaded this one for maybe three.

        • Anna Rompage

          Is it sticky, or kind of dry?

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            A bit sticky.

          • Anna Rompage

            You might try kneading a little more flour into it…

            Worst case, if it seems weird, roll it out thin and it will bake up to a thin crisp crust…

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            I’m out of flour actually. And I am not a fan of thin crusts… how bad will it be if I just cook it like that?

          • Anna Rompage

            It’ll likely be totally fine, I’d let it rise a bit and let the yeast get pretty active…

            If it does seem a bit dense when you’re getting ready to make the pizza, you can bake the dough after it’s been rolled out and on the pan to help take off any excess moisture, and to give it a lighter texture..

      • Msgr_Moment

        Who kneads dough?

        • TJ Barke

          I need less, girls never look at me…

    • How old is your yeast? Did it rise at all?

    • Juan de Payaso

      How long ago did you make the dough?

  • Land Shark
    • IOnlyLikeCats

      Where did he get Trump’s card? XD

      • TJ Barke

        Bought it off Jared Kushner.

    • Msgr_Moment

      I call shenanigans. Black-haired Obama.

  • Anna Rompage

    Well shit, things seem to fall apart when the worker elves aren’t around. It appears Santa’s workshop is out of 400 grit sandpaper, so no work for the jolly old man this evening…

    I guess that means you’re all stuck with me!

    Another beer, another sippy cup of brandy… Why it’s like groundhogs day here in the PacNorWest pole….

    • Jennifer R

      Guess I will get in on this relive the past wonkery too.

    • MynameisBlarney
    • Kiri the Resistant Unicorn

      I’m sure we have some left over from Leslie’s guitar-refinishing project. You might not want to drive all the way to Lebanon, though.

  • MynameisBlarney
  • Nounverb911

    As a reward for putting with trump’s bs for all those months, Katy Tur got a book deal….

    https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/801238616995282944

    • TheGrandWaz00

      Several weeks ago I predicted Katy already had a book about the Trump campaign just about finished.
      It’s the only thing I got right about this election.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      I would suggest the following title: “American Grotesque: On the Campaign Trail with Donald Trump”

      • Msgr_Moment

        Rascalnikov: The Idiot

      • Meanie-meanie, tickle a person

        I feel sure the shade of HST wouldn’t mind if she “borrowed” “Fear and Loathing…”

        • Msgr_Moment

          Fearful and Loathsome.

  • Nounverb911
    • nightmoth

      So funny! Not. I called today and told my Trumpanzee cousins I had other plans.

      • Wild Cat

        You mean they’ll have to lynch themselves?

        • nightmoth

          Ha! I don’t want to kill them: I just can’t stand to be around them right now.In my better moments I feel sorry for them, because they are SO SCREWED.

          • Wild Cat

            Maybe you can show us some home videos next year. I want to watch them suffer.

    • Wild Cat

      How about Clinton, Racist Asswipe, Clinton, Moronic Scumbag, Clinton, Clinton Voter Denied Right to Vote, Clinton Voter Whose Vote Was Reversed by the Stalinist Counting the Vote, Clinton, Racist Moron, Clinton, Jill Stein’s Douche . . . ?

      • Rise Up, Demme!

        good for you!
        i’ve heard too much “give him a chance” crap today.
        there is no justification for a vote for that idiot con-man.
        i’ll let others “make nice.”

  • CogitoErgoBibo

    So OT as to probably exist on another planet: Currently avoiding reality watching the finale of Dancing with the Stars. A football player. An Olympic gymnast. An IndyCar driver. The cutie little Olympic gymnast will probably win, but I’m pulling for “I survived death” James Hinchcliffe, the IndyCar driver. I know. I’ve found it’s good to have escapist hobbies these days. Don’t judge.

    • Nounverb911

      I have a Rick Perry .gif sitting around if you want to see some really bad dancing.

      • CogitoErgoBibo

        Oh god he was TERRIBLE.. But then they just brought back Vanilla Ice, so I need my eyeballs replaced.

        • Nounverb911

          I’ll take that as a no thanks on the gif then….

    • Hinchcliffe is a pretty cool dude to root for. Plus IndyCar racers have had pretty good luck at the whole dancing thing.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-f-AT9OKVo

      • CogitoErgoBibo

        Helio is a smooth dude. No doubt. Hinch is a goofball nerd. Love him a lot. Sorta kinda know Hinch and his family in a casual, “Hey, how ya’ doin’ and whatcha been up to?” way. The sport is crazy small. It’s nice to see everyone supporting James.

    • Pisto75666

      This is the first season I skipped because of that Ryan Lochte foolishness. I would’ve thought for sure he’d have made it to the finale. My faith in the human race is restored…almost.

      • CogitoErgoBibo

        He sort of sucked. My guess is that Lochte didn’t really push himself. Was happy to see him go early.

        • Pisto75666

          I’d heard he was pretty good in the beginning. But the not pushing himself part, yeah that doesn’t surprise me all that much.

  • MynameisBlarney

    Ok,this is beautiful not to share.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klt904ga4IA

  • Anna Rompage

    Yay, it’s dinner time.

    Chorizo & smoked chicken, braised down in a little beer, with cabbage, carrot, & potato, and topped with some home made Habanero Haut Sauce

    http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac100/Ben-Gahzi/IMG_2825_zps5re74f2n.jpg

    • TheGrandWaz00

      Oh, dinner. Whew! For a second there I thought it was a super close up of Trump’s junk.

      • Msgr_Moment

        No. You don’t get colors from an electron microscope.

    • Suttree

      It’s almost like a New England boiled dinner. Shut up, I love those! Needs more turnips.

      • Anna Rompage

        It totally is…

        I do a germanic take on this with the same stuff, but substituting good bratwurst for the chorizo, and then add a hearty pinch of whole mustard & caraway seeds, and then serve with mustard…

      • mailman27

        New England Boiled Pecker. (so sorry)

        • Suttree

          New England is farther north! :)

    • CogitoErgoBibo

      That looks yummy (even though chorizo can look unfortunately pallic). Still yummy, dammit!

  • TX Taco Truck Brigade
    • Wild Cat

      They did a great public-service series in 2003 courtesy of dead heroin addict Jimmy Miller’s half-sister. They cooked up a war that not only bankrupted any hope for the US to enter the 21st c., but they created a quagmire for young wing-nuts to get their legs and tiny brains blown up real good.
      Let’s hope 2017 brings more wing-nut employment overseas.

  • TX Taco Truck Brigade

    Fuuuuuck:

    (CNN)Hillary Clinton’s campaign is being urged by a number of top computer scientists to call for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a source with knowledge of the request.

    The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the three states could have been manipulated or hacked and presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday.

    The scientists, among them J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, told the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of Clinton performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners, according to the source.

    The group informed John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, and Marc Elias, the campaign’s general counsel, that Clinton received 7% fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic voting machines, which the group said could have been hacked.

    Their group told Podesta and Elias that while they had not found any evidence of hacking, the pattern needs to be looked at by an independent review.

    Neither Halderman nor John Bonifaz, an attorney also pressing the case, responded to requests for comment on Tuesday evening. Their urging was first reported by New York magazine.

    A message left with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team also was not immediately returned.

    There were widespread concerns about hacking ahead of this month’s election, including the Obama administration accusing Russia of attempting to breach voter registration data. But election officials and cybersecurity experts said earlier this month that it is virtually impossible for Russia to influence the election outcome.

    A former Clinton aide declined to respond to questions about whether they will request an audit based on the findings.

    Additionally, at least three electors have pledged to not vote for Trump and to seek a “reasonable Republican alternative for president through Electoral College,” according to a statement Wednesday from a group called the Hamilton Electors, which represents them.

    “The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as the last line of defense,” one elector, Michael Baca, said in a statement, “and I think we must do all that we can to ensure that we have a reasonable Republican candidate who shares our American values.”

    • DainBramage the BBROYGBVGW

      Trump said the election was rigged.

      • Wild Cat

        He was ready to lose. Rove and Preibus had other plans.

    • Wild Cat

      They stole 2000.
      Blackwell in Ohio stole it in 2004.
      The turnout for Obama in 2008 was too overwhelming to steal.
      Rove was visibly shocked in 2012 that his arrangement with Ohio to steal the vote went FUBAR. Watch the Fox “News” reaction on that election night.
      They stole 2016. The lack of enthusiasm by 40% of the electorate made it a piece of cake for them.

  • Nounverb911

  • Okay, so the package snafu has been fixed. Went back to the leasing office to see what I could do now that I was armed with the date stuff was shipped and the estimated arrival. After checking the computer, the lady in the office suggested I go with her to check the back office where some parcels were still waiting for pickup (pre-automated delivery).
    She said “What does it look like?”
    “It’s a flat envelope, maybe 11″ x 14″.”
    “Does it look like this?”
    “…It looks exactly like that. Mainly because that one has my name and address on it.”
    They had mislaid it. The lady I talked to on Sunday was extremely apologetic about not finding it then.

    • CogitoErgoBibo

      Whew. You found it. It’s at least a thing!

    • Anna Rompage

      Yay, it’s so great they didn’t totally lose it!

  • boyblue123

    The slate has an article out about Trump’s specific conflicts of interests in Las Vegas. It involves Trump’s hotel co-owned by him and his fight with a local union.

    The National Labor Relations Board, the agency charged with enforcing federal labor law, ruled Thursday that the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas violated the National Labor Relations Act by refusing to bargain with a union that represents more than 500 housekeeping, food and beverage and guest services workers there.

    Trump will soon have the power to fill the two vacant spots on the five-person NLRB, shifting the board’s composition to a Republican majority. He will later have the opportunity to appoint the board’s general counsel, who decides what cases come before the board. Those officials would then be in the position to rule on future disputes between the union and management at his hotel.

    Also the current NLRB ruling against Trump’s hotel is being appealed to the DC Circuit court of appeals where Judge Merrick Garland is the Chief Justice

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/11/22/donald_trump_merrick_garland_and_las_vegas_a_tale_of_unionization.html

    • Yeah. Cuz that guy doesn’t have a reason to be pissed as fuck

      • boyblue123

        If I was Garland Id be a thorn in Trump’s side for as long as I could if I didnt get the SCOTUS nod

    • Meanie-meanie, tickle a person

      Nothing to see here, move along…

  • Anna Rompage

    The Velveteen – a perfect holiday drink!

    Fill 8-12 oz mug 2/3 way up with Wassail (hot apple cider mulled with cinnamon, clove and oranges cut into quarters)

    Add 1.5 oz of Tawny Port
    and 1 oz brandy.

    stir well and enjoy….

    • Poir down drain and chug 40 of vodka

    • CogitoErgoBibo

      That sounds delightfully Downton Abbey. I would totally ask if Carson could see about whipping up one of those for me, with Mrs. Patmore’s help.

      • Anna Rompage

        The wassail does make a good non-alcoholic beverage too, and is so warm and comfy on a cold fall night

        • Jennifer R

          I would be tempted to use hard apple cider (or hard raspberry cider).

          • Anna Rompage

            The only issue I see it that if you simmer it to infuse the flavors of the spices and orange, it could cook the alcohol out of the mix…

    • TJ Barke

      Or eggnog.
      Start with eggnog
      add White Christmas Rum&Brandy to taste, serve.

    • Meanie-meanie, tickle a person

      Hip flask of Rock & Rye is more convenient…

      • Anna Rompage

        When you’ve been drinking all day, which is the intention on Thursday, it’s good to pace yourself…

        Not to mention, I’ll be hosting this year, so I have a whole kitchen of magical goodies at my disposal

      • CogitoErgoBibo

        DUDE! I make my own Rock & Rye. I call it “the medicinal.” Definitely cures what ails you.

  • Cousin Itt de La Résistance

    He lied, people sighed.

  • Land Shark

    McCrory is not so obtuse as to think he can actually overtake his opponent, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, in raw votes. His strategy is more insidious: He seems intent on delaying the formal declaration of a winner—and delegitimizing the voting process—in order to let the Republican-dominated legislature ignore the true result and re-install McCrory as governor for another four years.

    Pat McCrory Lost the North Carolina Governorship. Now He’s Trying to Steal It.

    • TJ Barke

      Republicans are corrupt amoral scum, film at 11.

      • Land Shark

        Redundant, but correct.

    • Jennifer R

      And he will probably succeed too.

      • TJ Barke

        I’m finding it hard to resist my “burn it all down” urge these days…

        • Jennifer R

          We can write a new constitution.

          • TJ Barke

            For the love of god let it put severe limits on the power and accumulation of private capital…

  • Ilgattomorte

    From a CBS news report:

    “As Donald Trump left, he waved his amazingly large hands, indicating that there is definitely no problem down there, while his perfectly coiffed hair shown in the sunlight. His absolutely wonderful skin tone made him look extremely attractive, like a Florida orange in the open sunlight. He was beautiful. It was as if a halo formed around him as a choir of cherubs descended upon his nether regions to provide him with oral gratification before he left the building. If I have to be totally honest, I must say that, today, Donald Trump grabbed me by the pussy.”

    • Land Shark

      *gag* …. Dude, I just ate.

    • Saxo the Grammarian

      Did Chris Matthews move over to CBS?

  • lois patuto

    F’n cowards boo’s will continue,

  • Suse

    I hope Hillz is up to the challenge. What do you think? http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/hillary-clinton-challenge-results/index.html

    • Anna Rompage

      “and I think we must do all that we can to ensure that we have a reasonable Republican candidate who shares our American values.”

      Who the hell would that be? All the reasonable republicans bolted the party years ago…

      • Land Shark

        At this point, Strom Thurmond would look reasonable.

    • MynameisBlarney
    • JHan

      Hillary has no more fucks to give, I doubt she will do this. I think she’s in fuck you America mode.

      • Jennifer R

        Like I said elsewhere, we just don’t deserve her at this point.

      • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

        I agree. I think Obama will be next on that list.

  • Reality Kills

    Well, so Donald have backed up out about every single promise in campaign so I have no idea what his agenda is. Sorry.

    • Anna Rompage

      Tax cuts for him and his friends, and new business opportunities for Trump Inc?

      • Reality Kills

        Heard something of that but I wasn’t even sure about that.

    • Jennifer R

      Have you ever seen Duck Tales?

      • Reality Kills

        LOL!. I was born in 76 and McDuck Tales is like our anthem! Yes, that’s Donald!

        • Jennifer R

          At first I was just going to link a video of scrooge swimming in his money pit, but a clip from the series of that was actually more difficult to find than I expected.

          • John Smith

            Disney! If they don’t get paid, it don’t get played.

  • JHan

    Trump believes he has some say in who he can prosecute – saying he doesn’t want to hurt the Clintons, but then Lindsey Graham comes out and says that if indeed Trump believes Hillary is crooked, then maybe they need to relook the whole email investigation.

    GOP y’all. When poll numbers drop, Clinton’s emails will become an issue again.

  • mml1996
    • TJ Barke

      I was chewing on a pencil, and that made me bite it in half…

    • boyblue123

      Make America dumb again…yay

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      This is the kind of shit that really makes me furious. That piece of shit has absolutely no fucking business being anywhere near anything that shapes young minds. The damage a scumsucker like him could do is incalculable.

      There are more than enough abjectly stupid people in America already.

    • And I thought when I heard Michelle Rhee’s name in the mix I was depressed. This is the kind of thing that will drive people from the teaching profession.

      • shivaskeeper

        That would be fine with Jerry Jr. He loathes public schools and public education. As far as he’s concerned every school should be Christian or even better the kids should be homeschooled.

    • I’m pretty sure my brain just threw up

  • Reality Kills

    Donald Trump’s slogan: I am up for whatever!

  • Blacktop Cadence

    OT and drunk (Hehe): I decided to volunteer with the gay-straight alliance at my local school to pad my resume and begin establishing myself as the trans (and LGBQA+) friendly teacher in the district I want to worm my way into.

    Did so, the guy who co-runs it seems cool on the idea of getting more help, but when I come out as a transwoman and make my credential case (trans, have local resources, know local trans leaders, etc.) over email, no response yet? Granted, this is, like, a super big deal for me, and I did spend past school hours (on the last day of school before break, no less) crafting my response and my no-share “I’m a transwoman with resources” thing, but gah!

    Look, I sent the email at like 5 pm, and still nothing. >.> I’m freaking out a bit.

    • mml1996

      Don’t worry, I think he will respond :)

    • Land Shark

      Relax … people actually do have lives that sometimes preclude answering emails ….

    • Jennifer R

      If you sent it at 5 pm then he probably isn’t going to look at it until 9 am?

      • Blacktop Cadence

        That’s… the hope. No school tomorrow, obviously. Maybe he walked away from it all?

        I didn’t overshare or anything. Just stated who I am, how I’m approaching the subject (kinda out, but avoiding administratively being out), and wanting to help in any capacity, but, hey, I know people who know people!

        It’s a school with 2500 kids. LGBT is a thing here, and I legit want to help, too.

        • Jennifer R

          I can say from just trying to run a 20 person IRC, you set limits to what and when, or you go crazy and burn out.

    • TJ Barke

      For what it’s worth I’ve never not regretted putting myself out there, and I’m a boring cis white guy.

    • Anna Rompage

      I’d give him even up to a few days to respond…

      We are going into holiday mode and a lot of people have a bit going on right now…

      • Jennifer R

        I totally forgot it was a holiday thing happening too.

        • Anna Rompage

          Why of course, we’re 29 hours away from National Genocide Day, where white people will celebrate their heritage of being starving, cold, and woefully ill prepared immigrants that were warmly welcomed and fed by the indigenous people of the land…

          • Jennifer R

            Oh yeah. I moved this year and no one is driving hours to visit so I didn’t plan on cooking.

    • CogitoErgoBibo

      Definitely consider the fact that he can’t read your mind and realize this is a Big Deal for you. He’s running on business time. Give him a chance. Don’t take it personally. And we’re here to cheer you on. Good luck!!!

    • Blacktop Cadence

      Thanks, btw, guys. It’s easy to freak on this shit, but waiting is the best option, I agree.

      Teachers often walk away from school email after the bell. It’s a thing, true.

    • BadWolfGirl

      No freaking out, no hyperventilating. Patience. And we’re all with you.

    • If you sent it to a business/org email, it is very possible he won’t even get it until after the holidays depending on if he took a couple break days. Plus, if there are kids involved, they will likely want a background check, at least a min one I am thinking? Don’t freak just yet :huggles:

  • Suse

    We can get off this planet now?

    • I call dibs on a ride to Beetleguese 6

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        I’m going to Risa, where everyone is having cosmic nookie according to the Trekkies

    • BadWolfGirl

      Yes, please!

    • TJ Barke

      Not in the way you’re probably hoping…

  • yyyaz

    Anyone know why Rachel and Lawrence are not in their chairs tonight?

    • TJ Barke

      Cuz they’re too drunk?

    • Americans are lazy on Thanksgiving week

    • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

      They’ve given in to the hype and are applying for jobs in the Trump administration?

    • Apple Scruff

      Rachel is back tomorrow. I think Lawrence has off all week.

  • Shanana Republic

    OT: Just got a notice in the mail from my doctor that they’re cutting me off from my Free Obama Slut Pills if I don’t go in for an annual exam this month. Which is kind of weird, because my doctor herself actually told me ages ago that at this point I only need to go in for a turn-your-head-and-cough exam every three years and I had one LAST year. Plus, my daughter has NEVER had one of those exams and she’s been taking the things for going on two years, but for non-contraceptive reasons, and without threat of interruption. Technically, I’m not taking them for birth control reasons, either, so why are they holding mine hostage for cooter-rummaging now?

    Normally, I would go all bolshy on them but I do need to go in for an exam and get tested for other things but they don’t know that and I resent the high-handedness of the notice.

    I also am angry at Rewire, who I normally love, for recently tweeting that Trump could possibly exectutive-order away the “preventive measure” coverage for BC. I’m unhappy with them in that I didn’t see them explain that that would only kill the no copay part of it and that it made it sound like a Trumporder would make ALL BC coverage go away. Which it can’t because of the 2000 EEOC order.

    So there’s that also.

    Need to direct my crank somewhere, obviously.

    • BadWolfGirl

      Sorry Shan. You’re a red head (as am I) so let it rip!

    • Have you considered primal screaming? It’s good for the blood pressure.

      • mml1996

        Oh, it gets your brain ringing that gets rid of all those pesky toxins…

    • Rick Hill

      “…she’s been taking the things for going on two years, but for non-contraceptive reasons,”

      You’re not raising her to be a proper slut? Hang your head in shame as we consider taking away your librul membership card and ACORN voting kit…

      • Amy!

        If I recall correctly, Shan’s raising her daughter to be a proper lezbean.

        Which, errrr, trumps proper slut in the moral arc of the librul universe.

        • Rick Hill

          Dr Gilligan tought me to walk and talk like a regular lezbean!

        • Shanana Republic

          I’m failing terribly at it. I took her shopping for back-to-school clothes and when I dragged a red/black flannel shirt off the rack for her to see if she wanted it, she gave me the typical “WTF MOM ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID GO DIE IN A FIRE!!!” look.

          Need to find more lesbians for her hang out with locally, I guess.

    • Anna Rompage

      Take a pillow in hand, give out a good yell while using it to beat the shit out of your bed, set it down, and enjoy the rest of the evening….

    • CogitoErgoBibo

      I’m really sorry. I hate people rummaging around down there any more often than necessary. That sucks. And obviously not in the fun way.

    • Rick Hill

      I couldna find the part with the Slut that attacked the village so this one will have to do. Also, generally nsfw and very odd and ooccasionallyfunny.
      http://i.imgur.com/EbBikN1.jpg

      • Shanana Republic

        Yeah, is funny but…

        *is now glad has made it through life without needing to ask someone to wash their cock*

        • mml1996

          I have to BRB…

        • Rick Hill

          Here, you just need to have it properly assplained to you…..

      • Jennifer R

        Oglaf is one of the best women on the internet.

  • Rick Hill

    Anyone want to bet that getting trump onboard for ending net neutrality is as simple as promising him they will censor all the negative things said about him on the interwebs?

    • Rick Hill

      Also, that nifty dictator in Turkey? He’s brought people up on charges because they have posted humorous things about him online.

    • yyyaz

      They’ll have to pay him a bazillion simoleons a year to carry Dump TV too, minimum 10-year deal.

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      he’s already onboard

      • Rick Hill

        I know, just filling in the minutes of his meeting.

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          kiss your internet goodbye- Comcast will own it all soon enough

  • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

    So, Donnie has disavowed his supporters again. How many more times will he have to do this until they realize they were used?
    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-again-disavows-alt-right-white-supremacists/ar-AAkDhgo?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

    • Hey thanks for gettin me here but you can shut up now, thanks, tryin to make a buck here

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      except his disavowal is tepid at best- more of a wink, wink “we have to say this to appease the press” thing

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader who convened the weekend
      gathering sponsored by his National Policy Institute, told the Associated Press he was “disappointed” in Trump’s comments. But Spencer said he understands “where he’s coming from politically and practically,” adding that he will “wait and see” how the real estate mogul’s administration takes shape.

      Still, Spencer argued Trump needs the alt-right movement and should be wary of shunning it because of a few news cycles of bad publicity “that do not define what we’re doing.” Spencer said Trump needs people like him “to actualize the
      populism that fueled his campaign.”

      Oh, God, just what we need: more of these assholes crawling out from under their rocks.

      • TJ Barke

        They’ll be easier to vote if they come out from under their rocks…

        • Bub the Mad Zombie

          That’s what I usually do to repulsive little critters that come out from under their rocks. Squash ’em.

      • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

        Well they already came out to vote so they’re just staying out in public now.

  • Anna Rompage

    Okay, I’m off to find something to watch on the boob tube!

    Good night y’all, may you have a lovely evening hanging out in the non-comment section, and if I don;t see you between now & Thursday, gobble gobble!

    • Shanana Republic

      Cheerio!

  • Apple Scruff

    Not sure if this has been posted but holy shit:

    Experts Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-hillary-clinton-to-challenge-election-results.html

    ALSO TOO WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH —

    “At least six electoral voters have said they would not vote for Trump, despite the fact that he won their states.”

    • Activists or experts or expert activists? She lost the electoral collage, through various means, not all of them likely legal yes, but still lost it. I don’t think challenging it would change a thing any more than it did in 2000 and doing so would lend credence to the right wing chant that liberals are a: sore losers and b: trying to steal the election.
      Would be nice tho

      • Apple Scruff

        That’s probably why the Clintons haven’t moved forward with this (at the moment). They want to be sure. But at least all of us who have been feeling like things were screwy have not been taking crazy pills.

        The part about the faithless electors is intriguing, though. Maybe if we work hard enough, we can get more of them to flip.

        • Would we want them to?
          Considering the environment, considering how if we “steal” the election, considering what they are trying to do in NC, do we want faithless electors even if our side wins out?
          IDK. Part of me says no, of course not. The other side says…but cheeto mussolini

          • Apple Scruff

            Whenever you are not sure just think: STEVE BANNON and JEFF SESSIONS

          • And apparently Jerry Falwell Jr at education. That’ll fix everything

          • mml1996

            My head is just swirling in puke and brain bits..

          • Rick Hill

            -Supreme court
            -net neutrality
            -privatized public works projects

          • EPA, CWA, CAA, Education, Roe V Wade, the cluster fuck that is about to be NC

          • Rick Hill

            Somehow, Mitt as SofS isn’t even a blip

          • Out of all of it, that is about the only part I am Ok with. If only by comparison

          • TJ Barke

            Makes me all stabby.

        • MC Planck

          We cannot win this by breaking the rules. Because…

          hmm sometime in the last few days, I forgot how to complete that sentence. Because then democracy will be imperiled? But it already is. Because then they won’t respect us? But they already don’t.

          • That is my problem right now XD
            I know in my gut that no, we don’t wanna do that. We go high.
            And yet……

          • Rick Hill

            They’re already dragging the country through the mud. Wait till they have power

          • This is true.

          • mml1996

            I wish we won on Election Night. Fuck.

          • Rick Hill

            Is it going against democracy or standing up for it, if the election was genuinely stolen?

          • Vincent Ricola

            This current topic is breaking my mind. I am flipping back and forth faster than Donald Trump in any media interview ever.

          • RIGHT????
            I am going to say faithless electors is bad.
            But if the machines were hacked, that should be investigated for sure.
            Gonna stick with that for now.

          • Rick Hill

            I personally think that Obama should make an executive decision if enough evidence comes forth, suspend the transfer of power until it becomes apparent if it was stolen. If it was stolen then trump didn’t win and the universe becomes less aweful

      • Amy!

        No, they’ve got statistical anomalies in precincts that use certain (more easily hackable) voting equipment as compared to districts that are equipped with more secure stuff. In Wisconsin, for example, the ‘undervote’ (shortfall in expected votes) amounts to about 30,000, which is 3,000 more than the amount she lost the state by.

        So … these are voting experts, yes. And they are somewhat concerned that the vote got hacked, by concentrating solely on the precincts equipped with vulnerable election machinery. Kinda fucked up.

        I agree that it’s hard to figure out whether it’s worthwhile to challenge. McCrory is, in NC, but it’s pretty clear that that’s because he wants to steal the election that he lost. Understandable, since his career is over, if he managed to lose in a state that otherwise went pretty red. And it’s also pretty clear that all the norms of electoral behavior in the US have been abrogated, so why not see if you can steal an election?

        Could Clinton challenge in states so that she could end up winning? Well, doubtful, in my opinion. But what the fuck do I know? We’re through the fucking looking glass.

        • TJ Barke

          Those electronic voting machines have always been fishy as fuck.

          • Needs more fucking anger!

          • TJ Barke

            I’m too tired and sad for anger right now.

          • Amy!

            Well, sure. Most of the companies were founded by former NSA spooks to sell the machines to “new democracies” in the third world.

            I worked for one of those companies for a while. After that, I decided that I really liked the ones that read the fill-in-the-circle ballots (because those can be hand-counted, in case of suspicion).

      • Resistance Fighter Callyson

        The group, which includes voting-rights attorney John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society,
        believes they’ve found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked. The group is so far not speaking on the record about their findings and is focused on lobbying the Clinton team in private.

        Last Thursday, the activists held a conference call with Clinton
        campaign chairman John Podesta and campaign general counsel Marc Elias to make their case, according to a source briefed on the call. The academics presented findings showing that in Wisconsin, Clinton received 7 percent fewer votes in counties that relied on electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used optical scanners and paper ballots. Based on this statistical analysis, Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes; she lost Wisconsin by 27,000. While it’s important to note the group has not found proof of hacking or manipulation, they are arguing to the campaign that the suspicious pattern merits an independent review — especially in light of the fact that the Obama White House has accused the Russian government of hacking the Democratic National Committee.

        I’d be open to looking at the evidence, in any event. IDK if it would help, but I sure as fuck would like to know more.

    • mml1996

      https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/801265674307903489

      NEERA, HONEY – GET ON THE PHONE WITH YOUR BOSS.

  • My youtube recommendations is throwing up almost nothing but Hamilton interviews. I am not having an issue with this

    • Jonny On Maui

      Good evening Pickwick, RD. I must congratulate you on your invasion planning. It looks like you’ll hit the beach after everything is unpacked and put away…

      grumblesnort…

  • MC Planck

    After years, nay decades of cowardice, it’s nice to see them completely groveling in abject terror.

    Who knew that over-throwing the Fourth Estate was as easy as threatening not to return a phone call?

    • Rick Hill

      Ever since it became all about the Amero-clicks….

  • mml1996
    • shivaskeeper

      She doing what she should be doing. Talking well earned time. I have dealt with some shit in my time, but I think 1/4 of what she has had would have broken me. Or sent me into incomprehensible rage.

      • mml1996

        That’s kind of the sad point isn’t it – the amount of shit she has gone through since being First Lady of Arkansas would’ve been a suicide and a half for most people.

        • shivaskeeper

          I don’t think its sad. I think it’s another mark of her character that she can at the minimum put on a brave face and carry on. I don;t see it as sad, I see it as another display of strength, and an example.

      • jowgajen

        Ayup we traded a person who could handle the pressures of presidenting for cheeto mcfuckface who can’t handle anything.

        • shivaskeeper

          But, but… both sides… no difference… So yeah, I don’t see how anything can go wrong.

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        My admiration for her grows by the day. I have a very bad temper, and 1/100th of what she has put up with would have resulted in me sending a few assholes to the hospital.

        • shivaskeeper

          It’s not that I have a particularly bad temper, But the shit she has put up with would have burned my fuse down long ago.

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      I really think if I were to meet up with her right now I’d start to cry. She deserved so much better than this. The way she was treated by the Rethugs and the press is absolutely abominable, not to mention the stupid assholes whose “protest votes” went a long way towards putting a stupid, grifting fascist in the White House.

      • HazooToo

        I had a complete raging/wailing/roaring/despairing cry in my car, last night. We came so fucking close! And then it was snatched away. She could have been the first woman to be President of the USA. And for her to lose like that, it felt like I lost, too. I felt like I lost the goddamn election, personally. I’ve never felt like that before, about any candidate.

  • The Librarian

    Really, that was cheers? I heard boos with some cheers tossed in. Back to the re-education camp for me……

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Those are fantastic. Thanks honey!

    • RC

      Thanks for the link. It made me smile.

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    I have lost almost all ability to clean my room. It doesn’t have wrappers or food or anything all over the floor (i just vacuumed) but the stuff on the table and the nightstands and in the trash have seriously added up and I don’t have the energy to clean it up increasing my anxiety and less able to clean my room.

    • jowgajen

      Don’t look at the whole room. Clean a nightstand and see how you feel.

    • My kitchen table currently has about a 4th of a puzzle on it, one almost dead house plant, a lego brick blanket, the table cloth that is 1 month past changing, assorted papers, bags, lunch boxes and sundry small items.
      I think I feel ya on that one

      • Jonny On Maui

        I’ll compare pictures with anyone. Not every flat surface is covered, just 99% of ‘ em.

        • then I beat you because I have no un covered flat surface in my entire house

        • TX Taco Truck Brigade

          My father use to tell the TX mom and me that we both had pile-it’s license – pile it here, pile it there, pile it everywhere.

      • shivaskeeper

        I see you most of that, plus the cat food bowl, since if it’s any lower to the ground the dogs eat it.

        • cynmac will never surrender

          That’s how I learned that my dog likes fish. When we go to my boyfriend’s she will try to eat the cat food. She will lick their plates. As a treat, I will splurge on the salmon/sweet potato dog food now.

          • shivaskeeper

            It’s got nothing to do with what the food it. The dog in question is a Lab, so all food or even vaguely food like objects are hers by rights (or so she would have me believe). It’s that the food belongs to the cats, so she must show them that no, it is in fact hers.

          • cynmac will never surrender

            Mine is shih tsu/corgi mix and is not food obsessive. She tends to not eat unless I’m eating.

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        I washed my sheets and blanket to have a fresh bed. Care to guess how long I’ve been sleeping on the mattress protector?

        • shivaskeeper

          I’ll play your silly little game. A week?

          • I got the over under on 3 days.

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            God you guys are optimistic.

          • shivaskeeper

            Damn.

          • I am REAL picky about my sheets. About all I am picky about XD
            So erm…hm. Ok new bid, a month and 3 days

          • IOnlyLikeCats

            I have done that before, actually. Not this time, however.

          • shivaskeeper

            As in dammit, I was wrong.

          • The longest I have ever gone is 5 night. And I could barely sleep that last one. I have issues

        • jowgajen

          See, you are doing better. Fresh bed will feel great, and you will feel even better.

        • Jennifer R

          I’ve been depressed before so 5 months?

      • Jennifer R

        We don’t even have a kitchen table. Who eats at one of those now a days. It’s the couch or computer desk for us!

        • Well, I own one….might use it Thursday

          • Jennifer R

            The living room table has my computer a TV and my design documents on it! That is basically intended use.

          • As it should be! It is large and flat. Seems right to me!

          • Jennifer R

            The TV or the table?

        • As long as it’s not over the sink. That’s so gauche.

      • I have my work satchel, some baseball caps (they are stacked up), a placemat that probably needs to be washed, some assorted DragonCon bric-a-brac I haven’t figured out a spot for, a scarf, an old iPad cover, and some coupons for local pizza and chicken places.

      • BeachBum

        There are cloths on tables ? Wait…..oh yeah…….I see it now. Under voter guides/propaganda, Sunday paper (unread) junk mail, kids art…….

    • shivaskeeper

      Start small. One thing at a time.

    • cynmac will never surrender

      I can’t even describe what a hovel my place is right now. I at least got the toilet fixed and the washer dryer next week, Wheee!

      • I tend to only clean when the alternative is to start charging the dust bunnies rent.

        • IOnlyLikeCats

          When I was in Toronto, FMC did all the cleaning and made me rest or go take a shower and if I move to Windsor for university he’ll probably do the same (depending on dorm rules, and perhaps, in spite of them).

  • Steve Sutherland

    Did you notice,that Trump apparently doesn’t know how to exit the building? He first starts up the stairs , then turns around and goes the other way. Very odd.

    • cynmac will never surrender

      He’s A Idiot.

    • zerosumgame0005

      coke head behavior

    • shivaskeeper

      Stairs are hard. Who the hell knows which ones go up and which ones go down. They look the same.

    • Nounverb911

  • PBS says Texas judge stopped a rule mandating overtime pay.
    Hey, economically anxious folks, guess what?

    • Y’all just fucked yourselves. Would have been nicer if you hadn’t done everyone else along the way

    • boyblue122

      Was Drumpf ever appealing to the economically anxious? The folks Nazi saluting at the fancy Italian restaurant in NYC didnt seem to be hurting for money

      • That is what the main stream press and our lefter than lefter friends are saying. Economically anxious. Yes. Voted for the one guy in the race who said he would bring jobs.
        Never mind that he would kill min wage, over time, labor laws, etc.
        But we liberals are the ones who are condescending to the working class, sure.

  • FEH. PBS has Kellyanne on.
    What the hell. Seriously. Fucking PBS.
    Oh just because Trump doesn’t want to lock her up does not mean people don’t think she is untrustworthy!
    Yeah. right.

  • OOOO now Republican Congress critters want to repeal Obamacare over years now that they actually looked at it.
    Says KA, well he wants to replace it with crossing state lines for health care! And saving accounts

    • Is it 1993 again? Damn.

      • I can’t stop yelling at the TV. And I think I am canceling my PBS subscription. Judy is not pressing her on a friggin thing. “He is going to look into that!” over and over

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          pressing the liars? Yeah, that ain’t gonna happen with our press

          • They might lose “Access”
            3 times KA said how unfair it was people are not giving Trump a change and we should let him do his thing

          • Well, one of the first things he did was appoint a misogynist, white supremacist asshole to be his chief adviser? Or we were listening for the last 18 months, despite all of the bleeding from our ears?

          • Zippy W Pinhead

            Why won’t we give the despot in training a chance?

    • boyblue122

      In case of emergency, drive across state lines lol

  • mml1996

    Time for some extra dick jokes OT:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eETuZBeSxuA

    • Can Jonah be a Cabinet secretary? I trust him more than anyone we’ve seen

      • mml1996

        He’ll probably bring his posse of hunks too.. :D

  • Pierre_de_Fermat

    Twitter rept “Trump sez he is considering Ben Carson for HHS.” First good laugh I have had in a couple of weeks.
    It may even be true. It is all the more absurd.

    • mml1996

      Time to laaf some more – he’s also considering Falwell Jr as Education Secretary :D

      • Pierre_de_Fermat

        So the idea is the administration will be a confederacy of dunces?

    • HHS, I thought it was HUD? Or maybe CGK (Chief Grain Keeper)

      • Nounverb911

        Carson turned down HHS and trump reoffered HUD today….

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          yup

        • Jennifer R

          He isn’t dancing right, and it’s rubbing deadbeat donnie wrong.

        • Pierre_de_Fermat

          HUD? HUD? He’s less qualified for HUD than he was for HHS. And he was unqualified for HHS. Sure, this guy can run a huge bureaucracy.
          Actually, NONE of these guys would seem to be capable of running an organization of any size. Being crazy and/or megalomaniacs may be a hindrance.

    • Wait….is Drumpf just playjng a super troll-y version of Cones of Dunshire? And Dr Ben is fighting hard for Ledgerman because of the neat hat?

    • cynmac will never surrender

      Surgeon General – then Carson can practice leaving sponges and other crap in our brains.
      ETA – didn’t Carson say that he wasn’t qualified to be in the cabinet?

      • Old Man Yells at Cloud

        I thought he said the graft was too lucrative outside the cabinet.

        • Markuserektus

          The book tour is over.

      • Markuserektus

        That’s the best qualification!

    • The Librarian

      I heard this too on the news radio. It’s a comedy of errors.

  • YEP DONE!
    KA says it is unfair to say Trump is like the alt right because no one asks Hillary if she thinks pigs should fry.
    No, really, just said that. FINALLY Judy finds her fucking spine and goes “Couldn’t he be more forceful in his denouncements?”

    • Wait, “pigs should fry”? Is that supposed to make sense?

      • Apparently something against our men in blue. Funny, have not heard that from any BLM? Guess I missed that meme?

        • TJ Barke

          Pigs that murder unarmed people should probably fry…

        • 3FingerPete

          There was a BLM march that chanted along those lines a earlier this year.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        Deep fried- it’s not just for frozen turkeys anymore

      • GRAHHHH stop making fun of him and talk to him!!!! ANGLE MOMS.
        Goddamn it. I think I change my mind about those electors now. I cannot stand this woman’s voice.

        • NellCote71

          I am so glad I am not the only one. Her voice is a weird blend of baby talk and vocal fry. I am so irritated by her voice that I almost miss her head-spinning pivots.

    • Nounverb911

      • She just said that immigrants who spend money to become citizens should get to stay because they spent their disposable income.

        • Ah, of course. Bribe your way to the front of the line. The Trump way.

        • Nounverb911

          There’s one of those $500K real estate investment visa schemes going up in my town. Expecting about 300 visas worth of investment in it.

          • TX Taco Truck Brigade

            As part of job I research various real estate developments, I’ve seen at least one, maybe more that have the documents for that loophole right there on their website.

          • Nounverb911

            The local paper bragged about it for this project.

        • TX Taco Truck Brigade

          So people with no disposable income are shit out of luck? That’s going to be a familiar refrain.

      • BeachBum

        The big advantage the GOP has there is that no gerrymandering is required to stay Red. ” It’s great to run in a total Red District. I always win” says Rep Lucifer. (R- Hell).

  • So my computer is well and truly dead. Upside, It’s almost Black Friday, so deals. I have one picked out already and ready to go

    • yay!!! Hope you get a good one ^.^

    • Nounverb911

      Just make sure the punchcard reader is fast.

      • Jonny On Maui

        And your cards better be in the right order!

        • Nounverb911

          And do not bend, fold, crease or mutilate the cards.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            Definitely do not duct-tape several cards to Steve’s head when you catch him sleeping in the temperature controlled room again.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            You’re no fun anymore.

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      Dude! You’re getting a Dell!

    • TX Taco Truck Brigade

      Order refurbished…been doing it for years. Totally worth it.

      • Zippy W Pinhead

        I do that a lot. Most of the machines are actually leased and there was never anything wrong with them

      • Old Man Yells at Cloud

        Me too, but order it from the original manufacturer. They all have refurbished gear on their web sites and it comes with the same warranty as non-refurbished.

        • TX Taco Truck Brigade

          Ah, great point.

      • I have just gotten finished with dealing with my magical exploding phone. I want all tthe guarantees in the world when i buy stuff

        • Markuserektus

          Buy a Trump computer…

        • TX Taco Truck Brigade

          as noted by the commenter below notes they typically have 30-90 guarantees.

          • Still super wary of stuff. I am a fan of full year warranties

          • georgiaburning

            Your credit card may have an automatic double-the-warranty promotion on electronics. Some do, it pays to check

  • mml1996
    • mml1996

      Hillz now leading by 1.9 million votes. I haz no hope.

      • TJ Barke

        Me either.

      • For the next 4 years we get to taint every smug we won get over it with you lost the popular vote, only a rigged system saved you.
        Every fucking time.

        • Zippy W Pinhead

          the system isn’t rigged, it’s just antiquated and in need of either fixing or being eliminated

        • mml1996

          Sad thing is – if all the Dems came in unified to vote – we’d probably be able to cut back on this, but no. It has to be the longer, more painful way… *sigh*

        • Resistance Fighter Callyson
          • MilwaukeeKent

            Courage!

        • NellCote71

          Please tell that to HellyAnn Contwit every time she baby talks about how the majority of people elected Donald Trump.

  • Nounverb911

    Breitfart came out with an ‘editorial’ demanding trump do something about his business conflicts.

    (Warning: linky thing opens breitbart)

    https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/801250100098039808

    • boyblue122

      Trump himself appointing an “independent” investigator to oversee his conflicts of interest as POTUS isnt going to solve any problems. Itll just give the appearance that Trump is being ethical to the public

      • TJ Barke

        *whispers*that’s the idea…

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        “Independent” my fucking ass. He would assign some fucking whore who’s been kissing his ass all along. Christie maybe. Or Lewandoski.

        • boyblue122

          thats why i put independent in quotes. Drumpf could just hire someone as corrupt as himself

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      shorter Brainfart- stick to the white supremacy and xenophobia!

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      HahahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

      *takes breath*

      MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    • Bub the Mad Zombie

      It isn’t a bug you stupid motherfuckers!

      IT’S A FEATURE!!

    • Okay, time to lay off the sugar…I’m seein’ things.

    • TJ Barke
      • BeachBum

        They are real mad over there. Right Wing v NeoNazi Right. I had to wear pants just to feel safe. Some trolls pouring gas on the fire. Horrible. Tragic. Sad.
        (whistling and walking away)

    • Gosala

      Nobody cares about Trump’s “conflict of interest.” Government has always been a scam, a way to transfer wealth from the common people to the elites. He’s just more honest about it.

      –random Trump supporter

    • Markuserektus

      Thirteen days after winning the presidential election, Donald Trump announced on Twitter that no one should worry about the potential conflicts of interest he could face over his range of global properties because everyone knew about them when they elected him. He blamed any questions of impropriety on the media for reporting on them. (Huff Po) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-conflict-of-interest_us_5833b971e4b058ce7aacbb56

    • BeachBum

      Why is Breitbart so negative that there will be conflicts of interest ?
      Trump has said the problem is that simply the Evil Media has reported his business is the real culprit. There are no conflicts, it will all go very well.

  • RC

    I’m stocking up on edibles before the new justice dept decides that legal pot isn’t a thing anymore. Although I’m counting on my governor to decriminalize possession if that happens.

    • Jennifer R

      I fully expect them to seize all the MMJ verification databases and use them to purge voter lists and charge with crimes.

      • TJ Barke

        And my future plans instantly get flushed down the drain…

        • Jennifer R

          It’s an easy way to cut a lot of that education funding too. A bunch of people become ineligible for any federal student assistance.

      • RC

        the only way to fight them on this would be to not make any deals. Make them drag every one into court one at a time and clog the entire system, bring it to a stand still because that is one hell of a lot of people never mind those of us who live in a state where it’s just plain legal for every adult.

    • Kooolest G

      I can’t wait to see my governor, jerry “the moonbeam” brown, stare down the federal marshals, and jefferson beauregard sessions III at the door of oaksterdam university.

    • shivaskeeper

      As I keep saying, the states are not going to give up that sweet, sweet tax revenue without a fight. Yes the Feds override the state. But the States don;t have to cooperate. They can’t stop the Feds from arresting/charging/prosecuting, but they don;t have to help either. Slim ray of hope, yes, but a ray nontheless.

      • jowgajen

        That’s actually an interesting question, do federal drug laws trump state laws when there is no interstate trade?

        • Jennifer R

          Yes, but state officers don’t have to enforce federal law. And in fact may be constrained from doing so under state law.

        • shivaskeeper

          My understanding is Federal trumps State because Federal is Federal. Weather the feds want to spend the money without the state people doing the leg work I don;t know.

          But I am not a lawyer, or criminal justice expert or anything even similar.

      • RC

        the problem is all the feds have to do is cut off the spigot by using ATF to storm troop all those farms/dispensaries/shops on the corner. I don’t think they’ll go after individuals but they’ll use the federal storm troopers to shut the legal end down. Agree with the individual states fighting it but as long as it’s schedule 2 or whatever it is, they can do what they want. All we can hope is for decriminalization of possession in each state.

        • shivaskeeper

          And the problem with THAT, is the Feds are still under a sequester. Investigations and raids and whatnot cost money, especially if the locals won’t be participating. They will have to figure out if the cost/benefit analysis and if the money is needed elsewhere.

          I’m not saying it can’t happen, but it’ll cost a lot of money when congress wants to cut more taxes.

          • RC

            very good point. That’s something I hadn’t considered. It’s like the deport 11 million (or whatever the number is this week) undocumented. To do what he was talking about would take an awful big chunk of change that almost no one is going to want to spend.

          • shivaskeeper

            Not to mention hiring a metric shit ton of new agents, plus training, plus gear, and on and on. These things cost money.

          • RC

            I keep telling my fiscally conservative friends that the deficit never matters when a republican is president. Although I think the number Ryan has in his head to spend and the number Trump has are probably not the same.

          • BeachBum

            Cheney said deficits didn’t matter. How quickly they forget.

          • RC

            Here I thought I was the only one that remembered that. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t he say that to Tim Russert?

          • BeachBum

            I dunno exactly but I’m sure it was Sunday show.

        • Jennifer R

          DEA only has 6000 agents at the best of times. They could dent production and distribution but that is it.

      • Markuserektus

        It seems the real handicapper is that dispensaries can’t get bank accounts because banks are federally regulated.

        • shivaskeeper

          I’m pretty sure the dispensaries here have bank accounts, as long as it’s with a local bank/credit union but don’t quote me on that. The problem is customers have to use cash (no card/atm) and they shops have to hand carry the till to the bank at the end of the day since the companies that would normally be hired to do that are interstate.

          But we have been dealing with that since the beginning.

          • Markuserektus

            My info might be dated. Any institution that is FDIC couldn’t offer an account because it is akin to money laundering.

          • shivaskeeper

            I don;t get into the financials with the people I know, because it’s not my business, but I think some have accounts at local credit unions.

          • Markuserektus

            I wasn’t trying to be testy. I just find it fascinating that the Feds keep MJ such a high level crime. There must be more money in fighting “the war on drugs.”

          • shivaskeeper

            Didn’t take you as testy. Tone doesn’t really come through. I really don;t get into the financials, but I’m pretty sure some of them have accounts at the local credit unions.

          • shivaskeeper

            Reply again. Of course there’s money to be made by keeping it illegal.

        • Jennifer R

          Square pay. Most of the dispensaries in the bay I used had them or a comparable service. Sparc would even refund the fees in excess in your favor.

      • bookish

        Tangentially…Our fire breathing anti-pot sheriff is still an idiot about the decriminalized marijuana. Cuts into her revenue stream. But the local farmers– who widely embraced Trump, because of his promise to turn back on the water that we don’t have– have just now noticed that if Trump deports all the Messicans, there will be no one to pick the fruit. So big local hullabaloo and resistance about that. Self-serving assholes, the lot of them.

  • Juan de Payaso

    O/T
    What in the hell is Lindsey Graham’s deal? Is he less crazier than Trump, more crazier or A,OTK?

    Google, “lindsey graham trump mistake to forego clinton investigation” and then Google, “lindsey graham my party is batshit crazy trump.”

    You be the judge.

    https://youtu.be/BXOwNOf2QXY

    • Jennifer R

      Repressed prick.

      Him, not you I mean.

      • Juan de Payaso

        That or maybe Graham see’s an opening to appeal to the far right crowd that Trump is going to let down but he has to know he’s never to appeal to that crowd because he (Lindsey) is a part of the establishment that Trump isn’t. Because Trump is the rich elite guy draining the swamp so he can appoint everyone in the swamp to his cabinet of extraordinary elite rich bankers after he drains it – because that makes sense with his voters.

        Except that Lindsey Graham is actually a lawyer and should know better, which makes him at least as opportunistic and deplorable as Trump.

        Fuck ’em both. With votes.

        • Jennifer R

          Miss Lindsey should know he will never appeal to the racist right because they think he is queer.

          • bookish

            Well, my goodness me.

          • Jennifer R

            It always get rumbles during his primaries.

    • Jonny On Maui

      My SparklePony is batshit crazy, that’s why I love him. Especially when he day drinks, which is pretty much all the time now…

      • Juan de Payaso

        Looking forward to my five day weekend that kicks off tomorrow at 4:30 PST. Will do my best to not day drink during the next five days but Thursday is a toss up as the Cowboys are playing that team from D.C. :)

        Have a feeling I’ve lost the snark though. Should probably consider taking up day drinking.

    • Apple Scruff

      I’m so mad at Miss Lindsey right now. He seemed like one of the few Republicans with a spine and then he goes and gets mad at Drumpf for not going after Clinton. WTF, lady?

      • bookish

        You make me laugh.

    • BeachBum

      I think Graham has seen too many Terminator/Mummy/Zombie movies and if Trump doesn’t do a “double tap” on Hillz, she will rise up with her minions and cause all kinds of shit later on. Like the midterms and 2020.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Got an interesting idea for us to discuss, WaPo linky?

    The best choice for the next DNC leader is right under our noses

    This fight promises to be nasty and to embroil the party, too early, in a fight over policy direction. Should we turn inward or outward? Reject globalization or embrace it? Run as a party of inclusion or exclusion? Of trade or of walls?

    But we don’t have to have that fight right now. There is a consensus choice, right under our noses, who could unite the party across its broad spectrum, who could
    speak to coastal elites and heartland stalwarts, whose popularity across all the Democratic demographics is sky-high.

    There is Joe Biden.

    Hmmm…

    • Markuserektus

      IF OHJB would do it. It seems he’s kinda frazzled by politics.

      • WomanInTheResistance

        He’s had a pretty lousy year.

    • Zippy W Pinhead

      Interesting, though it is an establishment choice.

    • NellCote71

      Think of the memes.

    • Apple Scruff

      I heard Joe mentioned the other day but in more of an advisory roll. Still, it would be swell to keep him around!

      I love Keith Ellison for chairman. Listen to his interview here on Keepin’ it 1600: https://theringer.com/keepin-it-1600-keith-ellison-dnc-8dd365bd5739#.86knqde7p

  • Old Man Yells at Cloud

    You know I bet we could generate more power than we would need by harnessing Walter Cronkite spinning his grave from what CBS News has become.

    • TJ Barke

      George Orwell also, too.

  • Shanana Republic

    OT: So I’m working my way up to eating again finally after…one thing and another. So now my kitchen smells like curry and garam masala and butternut squash and red lentils.

    Yes, I’m about to touch myself.

    No, you can’t watch.

    • Killjoy.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      That’s sounds like a fine-ass meal.

      • Shanana Republic

        It’s assembled for later cooking. Tonight is beef stew if anyone wants it’

    • TJ Barke

      What about listening? Can we listen?

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      That sounds fantastic. Dammit, now I’m hungry and I can’t even snack for two more hours!

    • Jonny On Maui

      That’s okay. I have a vivid imagination… ;-)

  • Once&futureFred

    I sensed that that stupid dress thing was some kind of equivocation programming.

  • NellCote71

    Beks: Pure poetry.
    “It’s a quandary of an enigma wrapped in the death of journalism, the end.” I am nominating you for the next Presidential Medal of Freedom, to be give in the next Democrat administration.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Not sure if this makes me feel better or worse:

    More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump. More Americans voted for Democratic Senate candidates than for Republican Senate candidates.

    So why aren’t Democrats acting like it? Why aren’t they trying to force Republicans, the media, and the emergent Trump White House to act like it?

    This is not an argument that the election was rigged, or that Trump’s win is somehow illegitimate. The president is chosen by the Electoral College. The Senate is built to favor small states. Gerrymandering is legal. America does not decide national elections by simply tallying up votes.

    But the will of the voters still matters, or at least it should. Thus far, Democrats have slipped comfortably into the position of minority party. They aren’t demanding that Trump put forward compromise candidates for key posts. They aren’t laying out a proactive agenda that would serve as their basis for negotiations with Trump and
    the Republicans. And they aren’t, in their public messaging, emphasizing that most voters opposed Trump’s agenda, and that both Democrats and Republicans need to take that seriously.

    Maybe they aren’t, but we need to do so. Every fucking day.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      I’m not so sure. I’m starting to see this happen.

      • Resistance Fighter Callyson

        From your lips to God’s ears!

      • WomanInTheResistance

        Good. Because I’m so over this.

    • pstockholm

      I think the fight against Trump and against Republicans should be two distinct but parallel fights. It is possible to delegitimatize authoritarianism and Trump personally, and attack his corruption and racist/sexist/incompetent/crony capitalist appointments (which should be done one item at a time with massive force on each point), and to separately push a “no mandate” agenda against Ryan and McConnell. There is overlap, sure, not least to resist the siren call of a Trump/Rep. infrastructure boondoggle, and the two do support each other, so any attack on one is an attack on the other. But I think there are advantages to a separate tracks.
      In any case, the Congressional Democrats should be publicly engaging with strategic and messaging issues like this, laying out their (united) position and a coherent plan for resistance. They aren’t from what I’ve seen. We need to keep calling. Called Blumenthal CT Sen office yesterday re Bannon, statement too weak. fwiw

    • pstockholm

      Just want to say that your work with GOTV is an inspiration. Also others here that were doing that.

      • Resistance Fighter Callyson

        Thanks honey. I just wish I could have delivered a better result, but thanks.

  • Ok everyone…off to bed since i am on days this week…

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      Good luck with the new computer!

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Sleep well!

    • WomanInTheResistance

      Pleasant dreams of functioning computers.

      • Jonny On Maui

        Good evening WomanInTheResistance. How are you doing this night? Are the store retail berserkers holding up?

        • WomanInTheResistance

          I am well, though very tired. And tonight was…unsettling. Normally right before a holiday, I am planted behind the counter, helping people find precisely the right cheese. Tonight was almost glum. I had some folks that were into it, but for the most part people were simply grimly determined. Not many folks in my little corner of heaven seem full of thanks.

          Sorry about the rant. How are you this evening? Does the unpacking go well? And are Misty and Elf still fascinated by the local poultry?

          • Jonny On Maui

            Nothing to forgive about the rant. It’s a valid observation.

            I have unpacked the last box. Not everything is where it should be, but it’s coming together. I have too much stuff and some I must part with hurt like the griddle. My poor wok, useless unless I revert to fire…

            Tomorrow is the horror day, IMS. I hope you fair well.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            I am fortunate to work with exceptional people. It’s a pleasure to know I have such great people around me. And is it wrong that I miss your griddle?

          • Jonny On Maui
          • WomanInTheResistance

            I…I…tried to come with something witty. Involving kale, or possibly collards. Spinach also, too. Alas, I failed.

    • Jonny On Maui

      Good night Pickwick, RD.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Does the story about potential voting irregularities have legs, auto-play CNN linky?

    Computer scientists urge Clinton campaign to challenge election results

    Hillary
    Clinton’s campaign is being urged by a number of top computer
    scientists to call for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan
    and Pennsylvania, according to a source with knowledge of the request.

    The
    computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals
    in the three states could have been manipulated or hacked and presented
    their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday.

    The
    scientists, among them J. Alex Halderman, the director of the
    University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, told
    the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of
    Clinton performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting
    machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners, according to
    the source.

    TBH, I’m not too optimistic that this will happen, but anything that calls attention to the illegitimacy of a Trump presidency is a good thing, so there’s that…

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      I really think this is a nothingburger. The discrepancy is on the order of 7%, I read somewhere, which *may* be statistically significant, but I’ve not seen the breakdown.

      If it’s true, Russia (probably) has once again helped foist the Cheeto Hateyam upon us.

    • Markuserektus

      This is my uninformed theory. Many articles stated that the elections couldn’t be rigged since they’re so decentralized, but what about hacking a few districts in a few swing states. Trump got the electorate by some 170,000 votes.

      • NellCote71

        Shonda Rhimes. Premise of Scandal. It came down to one county (Ohio?) of making Fitz president. As I understand it, in reality, and who is to say Shonda Land is not reality these days, there are no longer swing states, per se, but critical counties in these states.

        • IOnlyLikeCats

          That’s true according to the News. They said it’s maybe five or six counties that you need to win. Perhaps Mother Russia was watching?

  • SadDemInTex

    I will not watch the news. I’m too disgusted with the grovelling and misinformation. And fuck PBS. I swear they are owned by Koch now.

  • Radardude

    Why is any of this surprising? Faux Noos created the model with a mix of mostly opinion and a smattering of actual news. Their choices of genuine news to air were and are those that support their viewpoint, and they don’t report those that don’t. Ask yourself about how much Faux Noos reported on the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood murders or the demise (I thought perhaps castration would be an appropriate verb, but commenting rules with votes) of Roger Ailes. Other than initial facts or an official press release respectively – nothing. Yet they’re the ratings leaders by far. And that brings in advertising dollars. The rest of the now, corporate newsrooms, studios, etc. have taken notice because the MBAs who run the place told them to. CBS is falling in line but I hope the ghosts of Murrow, Cronkite, Safer and the rest still haunt them.
    CNN used to be a primarily news network, now mostly opinion and news, but a lot more balanced. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS, are looking for the Faux Noos model and what voice to trumpet, and with newspapers ceasing publication, so comes the death of journalism as a profession replaced by shill, and with it the free press.

    • HooverVilles

      Eggsactly! You are describing the FOXification of the news media to a tee! It is really evident in CNN. CNN executives seem to live in fear of not even appearing to be “fair and balanced” . CNN has bought into the FOX bu$ine$$ model hook, line, and sinker.

  • FukuiSanYesOta

    OT: I had a shot of cortisone directly into the nerve between L5 and C1 today. I’ve never yelled so much, and they gave me Dilaudid IV, which I heartily recommend. It’s like seeing the world through warm honey.

    Anyway, here’s the wonkette part: I worked out the metabolisation rates for the muscle relaxant (which they swore up and down meant I couldn’t drink today), and I CAN DRINK AGAIN NOW! So here’s to you guys on this Tuesday. Keep on keepin’ me (relatively) sane.

    • WomanInTheResistance

      Dilaudid is the legalest thing to heroin. Please be careful with the drinking. And yes, it is remarkably fun.

    • TX Taco Truck Brigade

      math does have a useful purpose!

      • Markuserektus

        Simple…therapeutic half life (T/2) ;-)

        • TX Taco Truck Brigade

          Yeah, I started sucking at math starting with fractions…that was 4th grade maybe. ;)

      • HooverVilles

        Not according to some people. /s

    • Markuserektus

      Keep your Narcan pen handy.

  • AnnieGetYerFun

    Eh, it seemed like there were some cheers at first. I assume he has a few fanboys that follow him around and cream themselves every time they gaze upon his regal orangeness.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      Someone I was speaking to yesterday recommended replacing the Presidential entrance music “Hail to the Chief” with Chester Cheetah saying “Yes, we know”.

      There’s something to that.

      • Bub the Mad Zombie

        I like that. I also like the “Imperial March”, from Star Wars.

        • HooverVilles

          Yes. ^^^^THIS^^^^

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      I heard a few but they were quickly drowned out by the boos. I wonder if the anchor who had to step in with “well, some cheers and some boos” didn’t get to hear the audio until then and was pissed to have been misled by the description of whoever filmed it? Oh, to be a fly on the wall at CBS right now…

      • RobKanC

        Fair and balanced reporting there for ya.

    • cat cafe

      …a few PAID fanboys…

      • HooverVilles

        Paid yes. But we’ll paid? Probably not given how the Donald just “loves” to pay people who contract to do work for him.
        Well he does love the under educated.
        Sigh!

  • OrG

    Fight The Power

  • Nasty Girl Brianna

    “But Grandpa,” the child said as the crowd cheered for the passing Emperor. “The Emperor. He wears no clothes.”

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Time to hit the road. If anyone is still around in about an hour, see you then!

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      Take care, Callyson!

    • Suttree

      Some of us me happen to not sleep. :)

  • Jonny On Maui

    OT: If I can peal the cats off and get 2 more loads of kitchen crap cleaned I might actually have food prep area. That’s good as I’m getting hungry. Later my fine friends!

    https://youtu.be/a6JQj7WiJ3M

    • WomanInTheResistance

      Good night, Jonny.

    • Suttree

      You just need to look at the cats as beneficial parasites Jonny. :)

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    OT: MSNBC has been shooting the bullseye all night (except for Brian Williams and tweety, who are stupid and I ignore).

  • Nounverb911
    • Suttree

      Hehee, I didn’t get a subscription last year (for the first time in 20 years), but my new one shall be coming in December. I spent a year with LRB which was nice but it wasn’t The New Yorker.

      • FukuiSanYesOta

        Heh, the New Yorker and the Economist are the two that are worth the subscription. Nothing quite like either of them.

        • WomanInTheResistance

          The Economist reminds me that there are sane center-conservatives. Not something that is readily apparent in US publications.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            It’s more neoliberal than conservative, IMHO. It fits my fiscal viewpoint quite well. They’re not nuts, is the main point. Their reportage of world events is second to none, too.

          • Beanz&Berryz

            And they write crazy-well.

          • pstockholm

            Yeah for that reason alone they are a global treasure.
            But a weird mixture of reasonable and sober reporting, lazy center-right pontificating, occasional libertarian deviancy, and truly interesting features and trend forecasts.

          • Beanz&Berryz

            I’ve not subscribed for years… out of lost evening time (children) and expense, but wow was I informed when I was a subscriber. I’d know about global mess-spots a month before NPR mentioned them, and 2 months before the rest of the MSM said anything… But, in all that time, never once did I understand a single article in the, I forget what it’s called… the “Finance” section…

          • WomanInTheResistance

            I hesitate to use neoliberal, because that word has been so misused. I certainly don’t agree with all of their editorial stances, and I think that’s a good thing. Because they are intelligent, well-researched and not batshit insane. It is, IMHO, important to listen to opinions that may vary from ones own. Because it’s not good to be intellectually flabby.

          • Phoenixdoglover

            I have got to get back to reading The Economist (any port in a storm). Oddly, I love their tables in the back. Hmmmm, what is the inflation rate in Venezuela this week?…and other important questions.

          • pstockholm

            When I had a subscription my Sat. morning ritual was to open first to the end and see who had died.

  • Nounverb911
    • Suttree

      How did you get that picture of me!?

    • Panika MCD

      it’s not by choice! oh, wait, Cary Cary is totally by choice an indoor cat.

  • Suttree

    Yes I just woke from a stupor. I need this !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXU5zUHA1Ak

  • BeachBum

    So now, 2 weeks after the election, NY Times is in favor of the TTP, Breitbart is very concerned bout Trumps conflicts of interest, and Trump is not gonna prosecute Hillz.
    Whats next, back off of climate change Paris Agreement ? The Hoax Perpetrator now thinks clean air is important ? Unpossible !http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/11/22/trump-seems-to-be-changing-his-mind-on-climate-change.html

    • Suttree

      I was raised by a lawyer. My bullshit meter is finely tuned. I tried to tell people!

    • Panika MCD

      as I understand it, he’s “open to” real shit about climate change and *maybe* keeping some of the Paris Accord measures in place (regardless of the fact that the whole thing works only because everyone agrees to the whole package). so he’s going to be President Pussyfoot and it seems more and more likely that he’s not gonna get shit done–which is comforting in its own fucked up way.

      • HooverVilles

        It’s really weird these days. Even Rod Serling would be in awe of how today’s reality would have made the ultimate Twilght Zone episode.

  • theoldsheepherder

    The Emperor shit himself and everyone cried, “Who is baking cookies?”

  • Suttree
  • Panika MCD

    hey! I got boozy with friends outside of the internet (WomanInAMood excepted)! and then talked to old family friend about #factsoflife and maybe being helpful if we still manage to move Prima Momma to Fairbanks! good times. now I still have to figure out what to do if DETOUR gets his way on “stop and frisk” since TSA already thinks I deserve the 3rd degree, but whatevs. let’s listen to Tom Burris sing our new national anthem.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcNQ1CXQYMI

  • WomanInTheResistance
    • Suttree

      I love me a badass woman!

      • WomanInTheResistance

        That is because you are a smart fellow, indeed.

        • Suttree

          I can’t wait to see my baby tomorrow. I found the the perfect woman through Wonkette! She is my sweetie, and I love her!

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            That is great!!! I’m really happy for you.

          • Jonny On Maui

            Way to go man!

          • Suttree

            We have been together since 2/13/2016. I told her that I love her month before last, in a fit of cuddling grossness. All hail wonkette drinky-things! I blame Rebecca!

          • Jonny On Maui

            I am truly happy for you! I’m glad you finally told her.

          • Suttree

            There are a few things worthwhile in life. Love is at the top of the list.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            Hang on, you sparked the love thread! And you finally did it! Excellent! I’m really happy for you both.

          • Suttree

            I totally told her that I love her! She makes me happy. That breakthrough of saying I love you ain’t none to easy neither. But I did it.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            I am proud of you. No snark. Really proud. It’s scary to be that open and vulnerable. I’m so happy for you both.

          • Suttree
          • Jonny On Maui

            Not enough ups… :-)

          • WomanInTheResistance

            That is lovely. Excuse me, stupid onion ninjas were here recently.

          • Suttree

            Yes we are both wearing Wonkette t-shirts. I bought her one and she bought me one. We both have matching hillz t-shirts also. too. She got me a Weyland-Yutani t-shirt tooooooo! How cool is my baby?

          • Suttree
          • Jonny On Maui

            I loved my Umbrella Corp. T-shirt. Also had psycops from Babylon 5…

          • Suttree

            Lizzie got me a Weyland Yutani t-shirt that no one recognizes.

          • Pierre_de_Fermat

            Very happy for you both.

          • Suttree

            And she keeps giving me stuffie presents! I now have a hedgehog, a lobstah, a penguin, and Mr Mooserson.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            I read that as “stiffie” and I was suddenly fifteen again.

    • Jonny On Maui

      Not my usual genre but I like this!

      :-)

      • WomanInTheResistance

        We can learn a lot from each other. I’m actually blasting that one you posted earlier. And am surprised the neighbors haven’t come knocking yet to see if I’m ok.

        • Suttree

          There is a reason I spent $100 on wireless headphones. :)

          • WomanInTheResistance

            Neighbors can be both a blessing and a curse.

          • Suttree

            I like my headphones. They are where you go go when you want to get your groove on without bothering anyone. Money well spent.

          • BeachBum

            To go pee, get the mail, take out the trash, ……..

        • Jonny On Maui

          We certainly can. I truly enjoy the different music I hear here.

  • bookish
    • FukuiSanYesOta

      “subscribe now to get the full story”

      Sorry, nein, no and non.

      • Resistance Fighter Callyson

        It would be wrong for me to tell you to open the link, copy the title of the article, open a new private or incognito window, go to Google, paste the title of the article, hit search, and click on the first link so you can read it.

        So I won’t do that.

        • BeachBum

          Wow. Now I know who to ask to not do things. Impressive.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            There is a reason we hold Callyson in awe. FFS.

          • Resistance Fighter Callyson

            Aw, I’m blushing!

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            It’s true though!

        • Panika MCD

          but, common! we just found out that most people don’t know why it’s a bad idea to run the government “like a business”. baby steps. baby steps that we thought we’d gone over enough times to call them “must know to pass the standardized tests” steps, but were wrong in that respect.

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Civil society is a power base even when you’ve lost the executive and legislative branches.

      When the corridors of power are blocked to us as insiders, progressive civil society becomes a powerful base to organize alternatives through. These alternatives are about meeting the needs that the closed-off government refuses to meet. For example, back in the late 2000s, when Israel saw a massive wave of immigration from South Sudan and Darfur, the right-wing government wanted to control borders, to deport, to “make it so bad for them that they leave on their own.” But we had thousands of refugees sleeping in public parks, many of whom had been through serious trauma on their journey. So organizations like Physicians for Human Rights Israel organized volunteer medical professionals and set up an open clinic to provide the health services the government refused to provide to these people. Thousands of people received much-needed treatment at that clinic and then, in 2009, the clinic decided to take a radical advocacy step and closed its doors for three days demanding that the government provide these services and not rely only on volunteers to do so. It made headlines for weeks and pushed those in power to pay attention.

      This is why organizing matters. Never give up!

      • WomanInTheResistance

        Never surrender!

  • Jonny On Maui

    I don’t remember a music night for quite a while…

    https://youtu.be/AyBFySXi6Cc

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    Work is driving me mad. I mean, I’m already crazy, but work is not helping.

    • Jonny On Maui

      I loved my job and most of the people there. Made me what I am today, bugnuts insane, but I loved it…

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      I know the goddamn feeling. Hang in there.

    • At the crossroads, stay strong

      Is it keeping you from obsessing over the nightmare election? That could be a plus.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Someone wants music? OK, but I want the full version of this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj9SeMZE_Yw

    • Suttree

      Hell yeah!

  • FukuiSanYesOta

    If we’re doing music, I never get tired of this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I

  • WomanInTheResistance

    Not great dance music, but I’m feeling a little bolshie tonight.

    Oh, and fuck Trump.

    https://youtu.be/dbwQXVcbkU0

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson
  • Jonny On Maui
  • WomanInTheResistance

    I’ve posted this quite a few times. It’s the earworm from hell. And this has helped me get through the past few weeks. I’ll stop after this. Or at least try.

    https://youtu.be/6gQKaUHAQsI

    ETA- fuck Trump.

  • BeachBum

    Seems like KA is starting to dismiss some, many, most, or maybe even all of the Orange One’s positions as simple “campaign rhetoric” so be ready for him to not do all, some, or none of what he campaigned on.
    His campaign style may be a good way to buy real estate, but I think Trump voters thought they were getting the “straight talk,” and the “truth” and he was gonna do what he said he was gonna do . So when he screws them over, at least it was by him, so its ok ? Seems traitorous to me.

    • Pierre_de_Fermat

      Well, with no idea about what he is doing, he seems to be turning to the nut-right.

  • At the crossroads, stay strong

    I have to admit that I sometimes feel like a fraud, sitting over here in Mangaland, far removed from the hurly-burly of resistance, simply posting from my safe place. I know I’ll never return to my homeland, yet I still care deeply about it, but there is still this nagging feeling that I’m impotent here, that I should be there, in the thick of things, standing up to the increasing thuggery and anti-democratic assholes that feel empowered to do their worst.

    That is not to say there aren’t political shenanigans going on over here. Prime Minister Abe and his ultra-conservative cronies are on an attack of the Japanese Constitution, particularly Article 9, the renouncement of war article. The majority of Japanese are against this move, but Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, which is neither liberal nor democratic, is hot to get back to something like the Meiji Constitution, where the talk is not of citizens but subjects of the state. Here also, as a permanent resident, I have no voting rights and feel powerless. Toss in my chronic depression, and you’ve got a toxic mix of confusion. So it goes.

    • Jonny On Maui

      You’re not impotent At the crossroads. You have power and a voice here that effects.

      • At the crossroads, stay strong

        I wish I could internalize that feeling. Depression makes that impossible. Cerebrally I can understand it, but emotionally I have my own wall to contend with.

        • Jonny On Maui

          Tell me about it brother…

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      Live your life, which appears to be in Japan. Do what you can but don’t beat yourself up because you aren’t going to radically alter your life because voters or Russia screwed us over. Don’t feel powerless, I’m sure there are plenty of things you can do over there. And don’t worry. We’ll be fine.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      “Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, which is neither liberal nor democratic,
      is hot to get back to something like the Meiji Constitution,”

      The Meiji Constitution? Are you fucking kidding? Is he getting some traction with this bullshit?

      Good luck to the Ainu.

      • At the crossroads, stay strong

        There’s a fair amount of passive resistance, but such is Japanese society, things have to really go south before the people rise up. Political activism is still not much of a thing here, but there are signs that things are changing, if slowing, which is the norm here.

        • FukuiSanYesOta

          I’d hope that an active effort to go Meiji would be passively but soundly voted the fuck out. Then again, I know fuck all about Japan, really.

          • At the crossroads, stay strong

            So, how does that ‘Fukuisan’ fit in? There’s a
            Fukui Prefecture             (福井県) here, which translates as something Like The Well of Blessing/Good Fortune/Luck/Wealth. Inquiring minds would like to know.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            Oh, it’s a reference to Iron Chef Japan, when the challenge announcer (not Chairman Kaga) would say “Fukui-san?” who’d reply “Yes, Ota?” It was backwards because Ohta was the floor reporter and would have to ask upwards.

            It’s a conceit. But “Always a pleasure” holds.

          • At the crossroads, stay strong

            “I see”, said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.

          • Pissed de Résistance

            What the fuck are you guys on about? :-)

          • FukuiSanYesOta
          • At the crossroads, stay strong

            As much as I like cooking and baking, this is a little too much like watching pro football, which I don’t do anymore. Just a tad over the top.

    • Pissed de Résistance

      This resonates with me. Expats up and down as well, I suppose. Since I left the States for good, I always felt like voting absentee religiously and sending a few bucks to my favorite candidates was enough. It’s not.

      • pstockholm

        Same here.

    • Beanz&Berryz

      I first read that as a toxic mix of Confucian…

      • At the crossroads, stay strong

        If you know anything about Japanese society, that’s actually an apt analogy. It’s the paradox and cognitive dissonance of trying to juggle Eastern group orientation and obedience to the powers that be and the Western concept of self-awareness and self-determination.

        • Beanz&Berryz

          That was kinda my joke, actually, though I couldn’t have articulated what you articulated with remotely the same articulation of cultural issues.

          • At the crossroads, stay strong

            Living nearly half of my life in another culture will do that. I’m a firm believer in broadening horizons.

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    I spilled water on my bed, it’s too late to put the protector in the dryer, and I refuse to sleep on a bed that does not have protection. So either I’m not going to sleep or I’m going to sleep in my bathrobe. Depends on how tired I am, really.

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      You don’t have a couch? Slept on one for my first two college years. You get used to it after a while.

    • At the crossroads, stay strong

      Do you have some thick blankets and perhaps a sleeping bag? The floor can be your friend, particularly if it’s carpeted. More room to spread out and no worries about falling off. I still sleep on the floor, granted I have tatami mats and a nice futon. Still, I’ve spent many a night in my life sleeping on the floor. I’m sure you can think of something.

    • jowgajen

      Hairdryer?

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        I don’t own one.

        • FukuiSanYesOta

          Bathrobe FTW

  • motmelere

    Hey CBS, if you’re wondering where your balls are, ask Stephen Colbert.

    • Resistance Fighter Callyson

      Here, here, fucking here!

    • UnsaltedSinner

      Can’t help wondering how long they’ll dare to hang on to him.

    • BeachBum

      IMHO I think they need a completely new ownership group. One with balls would be good. Far cry from when Walter Cronkite said something and that was that. Mark Harmon wont live forever and someday they are gonna have to do real work.

    • WomanInTheResistance

      Ovaries are also quite strong.

    • At the crossroads, stay strong

      So, CBS is now what?
      Cowardly Broadcasting System?
      Cuck Broadcasting System?
      Cheeto Broadcasting System?
      Crony Broadcasting System?
      Craven Broadcasting System?

  • Suttree

    Ok, crazy huge band. You should probably get out of your chair and jump up and down. Goran Bregovich. And yes I do kno0w what the song is about.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqOL7LOR6ko

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    OK, kids, this time I am off to bed. But for you fellow activists, there is a new call to action that I haven’t posted yet–and I’ve posted a fuckton of them–from the Hillary Clinton sub-reddit (yes, that is still a thing):

    Everyone call Tim Kaine at (202) 224-4024 and ask him to file recounts.

    There have been numerous irregularities reported in Wisconsin and North Carolina. Voters deserve a recount. The people deserve a recount.

    The deadline for recounts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin is tomorrow.

    Talk about the various Wisconsin voting irregularities, the bizarre fact that 90 000 people in Detroit didn’t vote for President on their ballot, the fact that Hillary lost counties with electronic voting machines by a wide margin, especially compared to Obama etc.

    In the end, there may be no “there” there, but at a minimum we should stand up to show the illegitimacy of the Trump presidency. Fight on and good night!

    • IOnlyLikeCats

      My phone died right as I was calling. Awesome.

    • Jonny On Maui

      Good night Callyson. You’re awesome!

    • Suttree

      I called McCrory today by Ms. MLG’s truth. Keep reminding us Cally because we need a kick in the ass the ass. I also called PX90 Ryan today also too. Keep punching us in the taint and reminding us !

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      You’re the fucking best, Callyson.

      • WomanInTheResistance

        Truest words ever spoken.

    • Pierre_de_Fermat

      closed right now. darn.

  • WomanInTheResistance
  • Jonny On Maui

    Time for lights out. Good night.

    https://youtu.be/eDk1P2kjGJ8

    • WomanInTheResistance

      Sleep well, Jonny.

      • At the crossroads, stay strong

        おやすみなさい、ジャニ君。 From one islander to another.

        • FukuiSanYesOta

          Katakana is really quite impressive.

          Sleep well, Jonny.

  • IOnlyLikeCats

    Because I never seem to finish any stories but am constantly coming up with new ideas I keep thinking about a group of women in the STEM field suddenly possessing superhuman/supernatural powers and spending half the time hiding their abilities/denying the existence and possibility of their abilities. Like a scene where a scientist is upset and her hand glows with fire and she’s screaming theories banging her head against a wall because surely, none of this can be real, a healer telling her she doesn’t have regeneration powers and she needs to stop relying on her to heal her and a doctor shouting in the background, “That’s not how this works! That’s not how anything works!”.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      I can give you real. There’s a lady, now the CEO of my company, who started in Product. Very, very smart. She’s rightfully the boss now.

      My best engineer, the person I’m grooming to take my job, is also a lady.

      No fire though. I’ll ask on Monday about that.

      • IOnlyLikeCats

        Think of all the jokes to be made when geniuses suddenly get superpowers. Grrl Power Comic has a few characters like that (the woman in charge is a general, a succubus alien is a scientist/engineer, etc) and I feel like it’s a mistake not to focus in on it (and also work to dispel the myth that women can only be nerds or geeks and rarely either because that pisses me and my prized Lady Deadpool comic off).

        • FukuiSanYesOta

          Aw, I’m sorry. I can’t get in to that alternate thing as quickly as others do because I’m kinda OCD.

          What I do believe in is meritocracy. There’s more I could write, but it’s probably boring.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            I doubt it. Based on your previous track record.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            OK, woman without a snood.

            Currently, my company builds stuff for much larger companies what can’t do what we do. That’s quite cool. Just recently, I had the pleasure of telling a $100Bn company that they’d fucked up in two different ways, and explained how they did it. Fun. We help people with diabetes. Soon to be expanded.

            My new boss is someone who helped hire me. She’s amazing. Mexican by birth, and a goddamn immigrant. Well, rather like me.

            The engineer is easy for me: I see talent and capacity to grow. Sex isn’t an issue.

            There are quite a few people who don’t like the decisions made, and I don’t give a fuck about those people. Luckily, I’m powerful enough to override dickweasels. It’s interesting. WIthout giving too much up, the loudest shitvole is an MIT grad from Texas who is super fundagelical.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            Ummmm….I just meant that what you write is never boring. Sorry about the inadvertent crossed wires. And I’m not even slightly surprised that a fundy from Texas is a true shitweasel.

            Again, sorry.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            It’s ok. I got to write about real-world Silly Valley stuff, and hopefully that’s inspiring to young ladies.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            I hope so too. And your boss sounds wonderful.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            Oh no, she’s vicious and threatened to fire me. That is business, and I will support that. I’m very expensive, unfortunately. I understand.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            And now I like her even more. Except for the threatening to fire you part. Because that sounds a bit foolish.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            Yes, she really is something. Something I respect.

            My vacation got cancelled to see my brother’s 40th. $11K in flights.

            Sure, I make a fuckton of cash, but that hurt. Now I’m going to enjoy drinking on opioid painkillers, I think. Love you guys.

          • WomanInTheResistance

            So not kidding, be careful with that. And love you too.

          • FukuiSanYesOta

            An MSc in diagnostic imaging, radiopharmacueticals and auxiliary drugs has set me up pretty well for being a shithead patient. University College, Oxford, with experience at the John Radcliffe.

            Didn’t help today. I yelled. Damn that hurt. Fluoroscopy can kiss my nads.

    • At the crossroads, stay strong

      I’m currently rereading Clive Barker’s Imajica, and in it he has some very interesting things to say about the differences in male and female power. Granted it’s fantasy, but thought provoking nonetheless. Also Terry Pratchett had some interesting thoughts about the differences between the mindsets of the witches and wizards, considerably funnier, but no less perceptive.

      And for what it’s worth…
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Rjy5yW1gQ

  • Biel_ze_Bubba

    Who wants a bumper sticker? I figure I can sell about 50 million of ’em by the time 2020 rolls around. (“Not My President” is politically correct – but technically incorrect.)

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bd298ccf5850d624df145b8b91975d71b5265dac0b09e35dcffa566aba59b66b.png

    • The Wanderer

      I’d buy one, but my car would be a charred wreck within a week.

      • At the crossroads, stay strong

        Hopefully without you in it.

        • The Wanderer

          Well, yes. I’m not a fan of being immolated.

  • Nounverb911

    In other trump administration news, according to the Bezos Washington Post, it seems that the donnie has chosen Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador. I wonder how a girl from Bamburg, SC will do in the big city…

    https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/801323812985901056

    • The Wanderer

      Predictably?

    • Pissed de Résistance

      “…has worked on trade and labor issues as governor but brings ________ .

      Fuck-all to the United Nations?

      • Msgr_Moment

        melanin?

        • Pissed de Résistance

          Tandoori Tuesday. Our dreams of taco trucks, now dashed on the rocks.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      I’ve always had respect for Haley, despite her espousing some pretty hateful views. A wait and see moment, in my opinion.

  • freakishlystrong

    I heard a few actual “fuck yous”, so, “greeted by beers” would have been more truthful.

  • IOnlyLikeCats
    • Pissed de Résistance

      Love it. It’s going to be an interesting few years…

    • HooverVilles

      Nice!
      Thanks for sharing that!

    • Msgr_Moment

      I always appreciate a well-thought-out acronym.

  • WomanInTheResistance

    Tomorrow is going to be a ton of fun, yes sarcasm, so I’m to bed. Good night, all.

    https://youtu.be/lyN-krBTWLY

  • Joe Beese

    President-elect Donald Trump denied Tuesday that he did anything to “energize” the alt-right movement through his presidential campaign and sought to distance himself from it, even though many of the movement’s leaders have sought to tether their political views to Trump’s rise. …

    “It’s not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why,” he added, according to one of the Times reporters in the room, Michael Grynbaum.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-disavow-groups-new-york-times/index.html

    “Steve, have someone look into that.”

    “Yes, Mr. Trump.”

    • Pissed de Résistance
    • The Wanderer

      All those lovely people in the primaries who gave the HitlerGruss when they pledged their loyalty to the process (yes, I remember all of that ‘oath’ nonsense) call Trump a lying liar who lies.
      With lies, not votes.

    • NastyBossetti

      “IF” they are energized? There isn’t a question about that. They are. You can look into it by gazing at your own reflection in a mirror.

  • UnsaltedSinner

    Oh, look: The British Parliament is cheering for Donald!

    https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/801028703656415233

    He can consider himself damn lucky that he won’t have to defend his policies to that crowd…

    • The Wanderer

      The Commons would, quite literally, eat him alive. I don’t think they have a rhetorical genius on part with Chatham or Churchill, but still . . .

    • Pissed de Résistance

      Yeah, question time. Or in Donald’s case, question and lie time.

      • I always love question time. There are no group of people who can make the phase “my honourable friend/colleague” into a bitter insult like Parliamentarians

        • The Wanderer

          “So are they all, all honorable men . . . “

        • Vienna Woods

          But no farts!

  • Land Shark

    How many things can you find scary about this story?

    Chicago-based Geofeedia, a CIA-backed social-media monitoring platform that drew fire for enabling law enforcement surveillance, has let go 31 of its approximately 60 employees, a spokesman said Tuesday.

    In mid-October, Twitter followed Facebook and Instagram in cutting Geofeedia off from its valuable data stream, after an American Civil Liberties Union report said police had used the platform to track protests and other large gatherings. The Chicago Police Department and others have used the company’s tools.

    Geofeedia cuts half of staff after losing access to Twitter, Facebook

    • Marion in Savannah

      AOT,K

  • Land Shark

    AppNexus scrutinized Breitbart’s website after U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump tapped Steve Bannon, former executive chairman of Breitbart, to be White House chief strategist last week. The digital ad firm decided the publication had breached a policy against content that incites violence, said AppNexus spokesman Joshua Zeitz.

    “We did a human audit of Breitbart and determined there were enough articles and headlines that cross that line, using either coded or overt language,” he said.

    Breitbart News Network Chief Executive Officer Larry Solov said in an e-mailed statement that Breitbart “has always and continues to condemn racism and bigotry in any form.”

    Major Advertising Technology Company Bars Breitbart News for Hate Speech
    Where was the “human scrutiny” before the election?

    • Odd Jørgensen

      condemn racism and bigotry in any form

      the comment section begs to differ.

  • Nounverb911
  • Land Shark

    I welcome our new Ministry of Information overlords. Don’t think our “new” NSA Director won’t try for this:

    The key point about this power, though, is that it has no judicial oversight. Access to citizens’ web history will be solely at the discretion of the police, with a specially trained supervising officer approving or denying requests. “It makes this kind of surveillance a simple, routine activity,” says Killock, adding that without oversight, it’ll be impossible to know when police target specific groups disproportionately. That’s definitely a problem in a country where even senior law enforcement officers admit that claims that the police force is institutionally racist have “some justification.”

    THE UK IS ABOUT TO WIELD UNPRECEDENTED SURVEILLANCE POWERS — HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS

    • Msgr_Moment

      What could go wrong?

      • Land Shark

        Well, that scratches the UK off my list for refuge. Hmmmm ….. Germany maybe?

        • Pissed de Résistance

          Bring money. And umlauts.

    • What’s that quote about those who give up liberty for safety?
      Yeah….About that…..

      • I don’t think the Brits go in much for Ben Franklin’s ideas

        • Pissed de Résistance

          Nor do the Yanks of late.

        • Msgr_Moment

          The women of Paris, OTOH…..

          • Land Shark

            Yes, apparently ol’ Ben was good at French relations.

  • Resistance Fighter Astraea

    No matter what I do, I keep waking up in the wrong timeline.

    • The Wanderer

      It could be worse. Like the timeline where General Lemay acted without JFK’s permission and we had a nuclear exchange over Cuba.

      • mml1996

        We’d probably revisit this comment in 1 month after inauguration – and say “Yep, that was the better timeline”…

        • The Wanderer

          Probably.

        • Will season two of Man in the High Castle be as fun to watch this year?

          • mml1996

            Might want to lower your expectations just a wee bit…

          • Vienna Woods

            I won’t know because we can’t access it here! Damn you, Amazon! *shakes fist across Lake Erie*

          • We can’t legally access it….

          • Vienna Woods

            I’m not very good at the under the table methods. And I’m always terrified of getting viruses. My puter suffered horribly when I used those far from reputable sites for watching stuff before the advent of Netflix. I figure I will patiently wait until it is available somewhere. Anticipation heightens the pleasure, as the actress said to the Archbishop.

    • Msgr_Moment

      Try pinching REAL hard. Or get someone else to pinch you. But, for chrissake, don’t let them grab your kitty.

    • Get youself a felt goatee and become Darkest Timeline Astraea. Fighting everyday to get to a better timeline

      • Resistance Fighter Astraea

        I thought women had to get sexier and bisexual?

        • Just going with the Abed Nadir rules of living in the Darkest Timeline

          • Resistance Fighter Astraea

            A felt goatee does seem easier. I really didn’t want to start seducing men.

          • Vienna Woods

            I blame Jeff.

  • mardam422

    Well, really, boos can be considered cheers. Kinda like all squares are rectangles, but all rectangles are not squares. My head hurts already. And he hasn’t even taken office yet.

    • Pissed de Résistance

      Cheers, indeed. All the way from the Bronx.

  • ez

    Jeers, jeers for Trump.

    All better now.

  • Land Shark

    I call bullshit.

    President elect Donald Trump said Tuesday during an interview at the New York Times that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called him after the election to congratulate him on his victory.

    Trump says Tim Cook from Apple called him, so did Bill Gates.

    — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016

    Donald Trump says Apple CEO Tim Cook and Bill Gates called him after the election

    • Then they had better luck than most foreign leaders

    • Carpe Vagenda

      So the sources on that are DJT and Maggie Haberman? Seems like a vaguely sourced rumor to me.

      • Land Shark

        Hence my highlighting of “says”.

        Here what I say, “Bullshit”

  • brad

    First time I’ve read any ‘news’ on this site. The last time as well. Total garbage.

    • Well, my honourable friend, your level of misunderstanding would be astounding, if not for the President-elect’s existance.

      • The Wanderer

        To get a feel for the ‘news’ we can expect to encounter over the next four (hopefully two) years, I recommend locking yourself in a room, listening to nothing but Ted Nugent, while spanking yourself in the crotch with a raw salmon.

        • I am not interested in this newsletter

        • tehbaddr

          Are we talking the whole fish, scales and all, or just the fillet?

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      I’m so glad Von Clownstick’s amazing writing style is catching on with his deplorables.

      • brad

        Did not vote for Trump. chump.

        • even worse. you’re a collaborator and enabler

          • Pissed de Résistance

            And an idiot to boot!

        • Pissed de Résistance

          Chumpess, if you please.

    • Pinkham’s Law

      We’ll miss you! Oh, wait: what’s the opposite of that? Yeah. That’s what we’ll do.

    • mml1996

      Bye, f***face.

      This time, I hope it hits ya where the good lord split ya (with votes!)

      • brad

        I’ll have a pumpkin spiced latte please.

        • mml1996

          Did that trigger you? :snickers:

          Is that why you came back?

        • Carpe Vagenda

          Oh geez. I thought the rest of your fetishes were repellent.

    • Odd Jørgensen

      Bye Felicia.

    • Land Shark

      We don’t do “Echo Chamber” news. Try Fox.

      • brad

        Sure sounds sounds sounds like like like it it it!!!.

        • The Wanderer

          Oh, that’s funny and clever and original. Your parents must be proud of raising such a funny and clever and original person with such a funny and clever and original sense of humor.

        • Carpe Vagenda

          Ah. Bot.

    • Pissed de Résistance

      You could give everybody a blowjob before you leave, like a nice Republican.

      • brad

        Not a Repub, loser.

        • The Wanderer

          (sniffs) Libertarian, perhaps?

        • Pissed de Résistance

          I wouldn’t admit it either. But sieg heil anyway, motherfucker.

        • Carpe Vagenda

          Just a loser who supports them. Seems like a poor choice. You’re going to miss out on the grift when they cut the commonweal up for the big sack.

      • brad

        An obviously highly edumucated loser to boot!

        • Pissed de Résistance

          BA, MA, flight instructor in supersonic jets in three USAF major commands. And that was before I was 35.

          You?

        • Dazza

          Brad, honey. Trump doesn’t care what you want, or what you think. You aren’t rich enough, powerful enough or pretty enough to matter to the PEOTUS. It will be hard for you, because Trump will impoverish you with poorly thought out economic polices, and see to it that the air you breathe and the water you drink will be poisoned by the really powerful interests he will pander to.

          Dude, I am very sorry for you because you will be betrayed by the macho take-no-prisoners ideology you love.

    • Pissed de Résistance

      Got lost on your way to Grindr?

      • mml1996

        HEY! WE DON’T WANT BRAD THERE TOO YA KNOW!

        • Pissed de Résistance

          Upps.

    • tehbaddr

      Brad Bro, you can just go ahead and fuck off, then when you’re done fuck off again, then repeat the process troll.

    • The Wanderer

      I like you. We need someone like you around to feed the pantomime horse.

    • Pissed de Résistance

      The only thing brads are good for is hitting them on the head with a hammer. Following that, they perform a useful function for the first time in their existence.

    • Carpe Vagenda

      Aw, Brad. You read CNBC, a ‘news’ organization so bad their only measurable viewership is in airport bars. If you approved, it would be a little creepy.

    • bookish

      Bye Brad!

    • Notreelyhelping

      Wonkette shrugged.

  • Pinkham’s Law

    Well. I did not see this coming. I guess Darling Nikki Haley doesn’t mind being associated with a Trump administration, after all.

  • TheGrandWaz00

    Thanksgiving Resolution because it can’t wait til New Years:

    Stop falling asleep on the couch with the TV on and waking up to Morning Fluffer Joe.

    • The ass-kissing toadying is coming from inside the house!

    • mml1996

      Why waste precious thanksgiving minutes listening to Useless Idiot and whatshername, when you can use them to scream profanities at your Republican party?

    • The Wanderer

      My Thanksgiving resolution is to eat too much, watch much feetball, and try not to think of politics. Should be easy, as I work tomorrow.

    • bookish

      My Thanksgiving resolution is to stay home because I still can’t be trusted in polite company, and if I had to do the whole small talk, TV, mah jong thing I would lose my mind. Got my pork roast cooked, gonna bake it with cornbread stuffing and slice some tomatoes for a feast. Remember to buy wine. See you wonkers on the day.

  • Land Shark

    Too bad, so NOT sad:

    Who’s in Peter’s file? Moneybags Thiel hits up Silicon Valley brains to join his Trump think tank
    And all he hears is crickets, apparently

    Who’s in Peter’s file?

    • mml1996

      I’m trying to feel sorry – but why am I feeling unbridled joy…?

      • my empathy reflex is shot all to fuck lately

        • mml1996

          Same.

          • irony and snark are chugging along just fine though

          • mml1996

            Power of wonket. They’re nice enough to load up of cartfuls of irony and snark when we’re down in the bunk..

          • Land Shark

            Some of us will need snark recharges before heading to family holiday gatherings ….

          • mml1996

            “So mom, what new hobby have you found this year?”

          • The Wanderer

            If irony and snark were energy sources, we’d be setting up shop on Alpha Centauri right now.

      • Land Shark

        The repercussions in the tech industry for backing the Trümpenfuhrer are going to be harsh and ruthless. Peter’s got lots of money, so he’ll be alright. He won’t, however, be trusted with anything going forward.

        • did we trust him even before he used his money to maliciously destroy a branch of the press?

          • Land Shark

            Peter’s involvement in some technology incubators will cause many to seek funding elsewhere. His backing of Trump has already had the effect of successful startups backing away from funding by him.

          • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

            That’s how he makes his money.

          • Land Shark

            ‘Tis true. He won’t suffer much, but any startup who takes his funding will automatically be suspect. I wouldn’t … it would taint the startup, and make it harder to attract people and funding.

          • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

            Oh, good, he won’t suffer. That’s what I was worried about.
            OT, I wonder what happened to him during his childhood that made him so “contrarian”.

          • Carpe Vagenda

            I guess you missed the very special Alex P Keaton Glares Resentfully Through the Closet Keyhole at People Who Are His Inferiors, goddamnit, I’ll Show Them All episode of Family Ties.

          • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

            Maybe? I was into Qbert back then. But I guess you’re saying he has unresolved issues? No, really?

          • Carpe Vagenda

            Thought has crossed, yeah.

          • Land Shark

            Peter is gay, and was outed by Gawker. I’m sure keeping that secret while in grade and high school might have been a contributing factor.

          • Resistance Engineer Red Bird

            Got it. Being a gay teenager made him a racist sympathizer and ultra conservative.

          • Land Shark

            I don’t think that’s it. (Take my opinion as that of a hetero white male oldz) I think his having to keep his sexuality to himself might have been a contributing factor to his warped view. He made a lot starting up PayPal, which I also think cemented the libertarian/fiscally conservative bent he has now.

        • Carpe Vagenda

          Except for the future of facebook, where he can leverage his seat at the table to bring up farm team Palmer Luckeys.

          • Land Shark

            Facebook has to be careful …. if they alienate any reasonable portion of their user base, their revenues will drop like a rock. A difficult balancing act for sure.

    • Land Shark

      In a cost-benefit analysis, the enormous value of being a close advisor to the president of the United States is outweighed by the fact that people would be socially ostracized for having anything to do with such a divisive figure. Plus of course, there is the fact that Trump doesn’t appear to listen to anyone who doesn’t reflect what he already thinks. On that particular day.

      Toxic Trump … you heard it here first.

  • RecreationalPilot

    After Trump’s “Off the Record” meeting, CBS signed on as our first State Run Media

  • Nounverb911

    Afraid that your Thanksgiving dinner will become a raucous political debate? Wolf Blitzer is available to moderate it for you…

    https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/801400713054142465

    • mml1996

      This is an Onion article, right?

    • The Wanderer

      If Wolf Blitzer showed up at my door, the first thing out of my mouth would be, “Get a shave, you Arafat wannabe,” and then slam the door in his face.

      • Mine would be “Thank you for being an ardent activst for the dismatling of the free press, you useless jizz stain”

        • Pissed de Résistance

          “Come on in, Wolf. We saved the turkey asshole just for you!”

          • tehbaddr

            I call that part “The Pope’s Nose”.

          • Pissed de Résistance

            We do too. WTF is that thing?

          • tehbaddr

            The part that goes over the fence last.

          • Msgr_Moment

            Something, something, where he can stuff his giblets.

        • The Wanderer

          “Useless Jizz Stain” will be the name of a new steampunk techno hip hop band.

          • Pissed de Résistance

            Oh, Jizz Stain. I thought you said Jill Stein.

    • TundraGrifter

      Election night – this is so hard to talk about! – Wolf embarrassed the Hell out of himself. He was an ignorant cheerleader with no knowledge of events. John King was a smooth professional who clearly knew what he was talking about.

    • tehbaddr

      I’d kick him in the nut-sac if he darkened my doorway!

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      Fuck no!

    • Why, so he can fawn on my wingnut brother?

  • Nounverb911

    Serious happy nice time, Ellen burst into tears of joy after receiving Presidential Medal of Freedom yesterday.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f12126a61b1a59cd79c508be161c520203a7ef5869d93efa8bfa61fba5d2184b.jpg

    • Pissed de Résistance

      The Boss looked pretty cool up there.

    • My mom asked which president when i told her Springsteen got one. My response was the unterrible one

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      This is so awesome.

    • mml1996

      Slightly ruined by notoriously slimy dickfartface Ted Cruz making a cheap shot at one of her jokes on twitter.

      • Nounverb911

        If a moron tweets in the woods and no body reads it, did the moron really tweet?

  • alwayspunkindrublic

    Wondering if we will hit Peak Stupid soon. Off to a good start, with boycotts of Starbucks, NBC, the Pope, Target, the Times, Saturday Night Live, Santa Claus….what else, fucking Disneyland? When we’re down to Walmart, Hobby Lobby, strip clubs, Cracker Barrel, and Jesus R Us, is it official?

    • Nounverb911

      I’ve been boycotting Walmart, Hobby Lobby, and Cracker Barrel for years already…

      • alwayspunkindrublic

        Get over it. They’re going to be the only businesses allowed to operate under President Trump…well, other than the ones he owns.

        • tehbaddr

          Now All Restaurants are Taco Bell.

          • nastymagyar

            I’m cool with that.

    • Pissed de Résistance

      Mmmmm, c’mon man, not strip clubs!

      • alwayspunkindrublic

        Believe it or not, I’ve never been to a strip club. I don’t know why I’m telling you assholes this.

        • tehbaddr

          0-o

        • Pissed de Résistance

          I thought they were somewhat more alluring 40 years ago, before I figured out that whole human trafficking thing.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            Single, fighter jock….I get it.

        • Vienna Woods

          I made my husband take me once, about 5 years ago. I wanted to see what it was like.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            How was it for you?

          • Vienna Woods

            Meh. Interestingly, none of the strippers had stripper tits. That’s really all I remember, except the drinks were really expensive.

        • The Wanderer

          I recall quite fondly my first trip to a strip joint. The dancer gave me 50% off a lap dance because it was my 25th birthday.

        • pstockholm

          I thought I was the only one.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            Maybe we should start a club or a support group or something.

          • nastymagyar

            Why choose one?

          • nastymagyar

            I went once. The first dancer to hit the pole was my ex-fiancée. That was enough for me.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            “Mom??!!?”

          • nastymagyar

            Are you saying I’m old enough to be you dad, or that your mom is a cougar.

          • Pissed de Résistance

            My blood runs cold,
            My memory has just been sold.
            My angel is a centerfold…

          • nastymagyar

            Earworm trigger warning, please!

    • Resistance Fighter Astraea

      There already are boycotts of Disney because of their support of the gays. You can see it’s as effective as the Hamilton boycott.

    • Carpe Vagenda

      The Pope? Well, yeah, I suppose the fugu snappers in the Scalia wing are probably hoping Pope most likely resigned to avoid indictment is coming back, so it’s ok to ignore the current one.

      • alwayspunkindrublic

        I belong to a Catholic Democrats forum. The hatred for Pope Francis out there in wingnutlandia is astonishing. Of course, since we seem to resurrecting every other kind of bigotry from our past, why not anti-Catholic bigotry as well?

        • Carpe Vagenda

          Yeah. We really are getting America First. I’m just surprised the Catholics are joining in. Even Father Coughlin shut the fuck up when the Pope told him to.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            Oh, the group I belong to is super lib. The hatred I referred to is, by and large, not among Catholics themselves…Francis is a freakin’ rock star. I just hear all the stories and see all the hater trolls that stop by.

        • Blacktop Cadence

          Dirty Papist. Take your Messican, foreign ruler and get outta my America!

          ;-)

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            I’m on my way, Master.

        • nastymagyar

          I’m ex-, not anti-Catholic (for the most part, it’s complicated) and I want “Mackerel Snapper” to come back if we have to resurrect to anti-Catholic slurs.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            That was one of my dad’s favorites. Among his other charming traits, he was a bigot who hated Catholics and Mexicans-which included his own wife and children-so believe me, I’ve heard ’em all.

          • nastymagyar

            He seems nice

          • Pissed de Résistance

            I’m surprised that people can generate such a hardon for Catholics (or Jews for that matter). There are far easier people to hate.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            My dad hated everybody…himself the most, obviously.

          • Pissed de Résistance

            I consider it being culturally Catholic. I’ll never get over that upbringing, but I still suppose there are worse things you can do to a kid.

          • alwayspunkindrublic

            Yeah…the fundie “spare the rod” types, for instance?

          • pstockholm

            It was a spur to fantasy if nothing else. And the incense was nice.

          • Pissed de Résistance

            Agree. There are GREAT musty old cathedrals over here to sniff.

          • LucindathePook

            Frankincense is the best.

    • Gotta boycott the walmart too cause those owners did not support the trump

      • Oblios_Cap

        I’ve been boycotting Wal-Mart for years. It has nothing to do with the Rump guy.

  • Oblios_Cap

    They were yelling “Bruce” because the Boss got the Medal of Freedom.

  • Bozilingus

    OT – I am ready to order some gifts from Amazon and I read somewhere in the non-existent comments that I could help Wonkette if I purchased through a portal here. But I can’t find a link. Please, help!

  • Rick Hill

    Something something Dakota pipeline, I’m tired
    http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aG0z7Y5_460s.jpg

  • Resistance Fighter Astraea
    • Blacktop Cadence

      Good, a number we can help drive into the dirt.

    • The Outraged Ms. MLG

      But, but, but….Winning? Best Words? Best People? Winning with all the best words and people??

    • alwayspunkindrublic

      In my glass-half-full world, I’m thinking, 42% favorable? What the everloving fuckety fuck?

      • pstockholm

        Deplorables + Quislings = 42

        • alwayspunkindrublic

          I was told there would be no math.

          • Pissed de Résistance

            I think he’s saying 41 +1 = 42.

            Make it quisling.

    • The Wanderer

      Ouch. That’s a hell of a fall-off.

  • Nounverb911
  • bookish

    Mother Jones: What Can Be Done About Trump’s Conflicts of Interest?

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/only-congress-can-deal-with-trump-conflicts-of-interest

    • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

      So, nothing. Nothing can be done.

  • Nounverb911
    • Msgr_Moment

      In Amurikkka, turkey pardons YOU.

      *rimshot*

  • ThirdAmendmentMan

    Clearly they were just saying “Boo-urns”

  • Has anyone considered maybe they thought they saw Springsteen and they were all shouting “BROOOOOOCE!”?

  • bookish
    • Me The People

      How quickly everyone forgets about James Comey, and how he single handedly sent Hillary’s numbers into a terminal nosedive a week before the election, on the basis of nothing. That’s probably all the rigging they needed.

      • alwayspunkindrublic

        I will never forgive that asshole.

    • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

      “Because her get-out-the-vote operation was not all it was cracked up to be.”

      Oh fuck you. She was busting her ass.

  • Resistance Fighter Astraea
    • The Wanderer

      Proving again that Trump does not have the tianming.

    • Teecha

      Why do elections get decided on what the poll says, not what the actual votes counted reveal? How do tv news shows get to decide the outcome?
      Confusing.

      • mardam422

        Statistics. She’ll still lose Michigan.

      • Paperless Tiger

        Electronic voting was supposed to fix that, but somehow, it made it worse.

  • alwayspunkindrublic

    I’ve turned booze into cheers a couple of times in my life.

  • Resistance Fighter Astraea

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/11/22/a-muslim-girl-wasnt-allowed-to-box-in-a-hijab-so-her-opponent-shared-victory-with-her

    Sixteen-year-old Amaiya Zafar was about to put on her gloves Sunday at the Sugar Bert Boxing National Championships in Kissimmee, Fla., when officials called off the impending fight.

    Zafar, a devout Muslim from Oakdale, Minn., wears a hijab under her headgear as well as a shirt and leggings under her shorts and top. Such apparel has been deemed a violation of uniform regulations set by the International Boxing Association for reasons USA Boxing executive director Michael Martino called “clearly a safety issue.”

    As a result, Zafar was disqualified, and her opponent, Aliyah Charbonier, was declared the winner — though that didn’t quite sit right with Charbonier. So she approached Zafar.

    “This girl comes up to me then and puts her belt in my lap and says, ‘This is yours. They disqualified you. You’re the true winner. This is unfair,’ ” Zafar recalled over the phone Tuesday morning. “Then we started hugging each other, and the owner [of the event] came and got me to make sure I got [a belt.]”

    Charbonier said she felt she needed to do something.

    “It’s just not right,” the 15-year-old from Clermont, Fla., said. “It’s not really a distraction for me what she’s wearing. She still had on gloves and headgear. I felt really bad for her. They didn’t give her a chance to fight. We tried to tell them that it was all right, but for safety purposes they say they need to have a visual of your arms. And yet they still have 18-year-olds fighting 20-somethings. It wasn’t right.”

    The journey to a bout hasn’t been easy for Zafar, who fell hard for boxing at a Minneapolis-area gym over two years ago and has since fought to fight in traditional dress. Her father, Mohammad, initially suggested that she take up fencing, to which she responded, “I’ll box before I’ll fence.” Mohammad Zafar worked with his daughter on the finer points of amateur boxing, and she found a group to train with, winning the support of male teammates after meeting one in the ring.

    “All the boys around the ring kept telling him, ‘She’s just a girl. Punch her pretty little face off. You can’t let a girl beat you,’ ” Amaiya Zafar recalled last year. After she scored the final jab, Zafar had the last word with the boy and his friends: “I might be a girl, but you hit like a girl.”

    • The Wanderer

      Good for both of them. Sometimes the young are wiser than the adults.

  • Msgr_Moment
    • The Wanderer

      I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this might be going.
      “Caution! Dick-squid hazard! Swim at your own risk!”

      • nastymagyar

        Great minds, etc,. etc., etc.

    • nastymagyar

      Anime boob headlights are the only defense against accidental tentacle porn?

    • Ali | Cat of the Resistance

      “If you go swimming with your boobs and your crotch cut off of your body, you might get eaten by a penis-squid.”

    • FSM porn.

      • The Wanderer

        Is that what’s meant by “May He bless you with His noodly appendage?”

        • Damn right.

          • The Wanderer

            I’ll get my swim fins, then.

        • nastymagyar

          Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

    • Msgr_Moment

      “My eyes are up here.”

      • pstockholm

        Winner

    • MynameisBlarney

      “I’ve seen enough Hentai to know where this is going.”

    • mardam422

      Tentacle porn ahead?

  • The Wanderer

    For those of you cooking turkeys this year:
    “If your turkey’s dry
    And you want to die
    Don’t end your life
    With a carving knife
    Just pour some gin
    And order in!”

  • Teecha

    I would really like it if the people he passes/meets/gets in the way of from now on – those who don’t like him- would start singing in the manner of an English football chant ‘you’re shit, and you know you are, you’re shit, and you know you are, you’re shit and you know you are’ to the tune of the Pet Shop Boys classic ‘go west.’
    It could go on for hours. And would be much clearer than ‘boo’ which is obviously very confusing for journamalists.

    • The Wanderer

      I’ll do the Bronx Cheer and the One-Finger Salute. It’s easier.

    • Lefty Frizzell

      My personal favorite from the 70’s/80’s heyday of football hooliganism was “you’re going home in a fucking ambulance!”

      • Teecha

        It’s a good one, but carried a threat of violence which maybe heartfelt, but could get the chanter(s) locked up. Just telling ole farty that he’s shit and he knows he is would really irritate him.

        • Shanana Republic

          I say use all HIS words.

          WEAK
          SAD
          PATHETIC
          LOSER
          FAIL

          • Pissed de Résistance

            Failing.

          • Shanana Republic

            Oh, but y’all are talking about a chant. Never mind.

            *drinks more coffee*

        • Lefty Frizzell

          Or what about “Oo are yer? Oo are yer? Oo are yer? Oo are yer? Oo are yer?”. It has the merit of being incredibly dismissive and annoying, without carrying any specific threat.

          • Teecha

            That would work

    • Pissed de Résistance

      Oway oway oway
      Fuck you
      Donald

      • Lefty Frizzell

        To the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it”

        You can shove your orange fascist up your arse!

    • Bozilingus
      • Pissed de Résistance

        That’s the spirit!

        • Bozilingus

          Trump will be bringing back Shoes For Industry, Shoes For The Dead!

    • pstockholm

      I’m really hoping people have some great protests planned for Inauguration. Unfortunately it will probably be a mixture of crowds the of earnest and polite (that’s important too I guess), and the usual assortment of assholes who break windows and set cars on fire.
      Would be great if someone unfurled a Naked Emperor giant banner Greenpeace style from a building. Or other severe mockery.

      • Teecha

        It needs the Mark Thomas touch perhaps?

      • mrpuma2u

        It won’t be covered. Did you know that people egged the limo of W in 2001 inaugural parade? It wasn’t covered then, and won’t be covered this time. I truly hope I am wrong, but fear that I will be right.

        • Rachel Book Harlot

          Hopefully people will use their phones to record things like this.

  • eka

    obviously they had to interpret boos as cheers. pence was booed at hamilton and the king got angry. if you deny the boos happened, you’re safe.

    • Resistinceisnotfutile

      I swear to god at some point a very short man in a onesie and a pointy hat is going to appear at teh Donald’s side and dance around him and tell him what he wants to hear, and occasionally make fun of him.

      • RussinSactown

        He’d better have bells on.

  • mardam422

    They’re not booing. They’re saying Dooooo-nald…Dooooo-nald!!

    • HooverVilles

      ISWYDT

    • HooverVilles

      Coincidently, I recently saw a car that had the license plate -> boourns.
      Yea Simpsons.
      >^o.o^<

  • Rick Allen

    All this living in a post-fact society depresses me. Or, as CBS would say, makes me orgasmically happy all day every day!

  • mardam422

    Cheers for the President-elect!! And his clothes are the finest…beautiful…the best.

  • kindness

    We are so screwed.

  • Jado

    Actually, it is nice to see some actual new network going full-bore lapdog. There is no equivocation on this – they are sucking up to the Lunatic-in-Chief, and nothing they can talk about will alter the visual. There is NO DOUBT left in any viewer – CBS is no a propaganda apparatus for the Trump administration

  • RussinSactown

    Yeah, that’s a good old Bronx cheer right there.

  • Cool_North

    That’s the reporting equivalent of “blink if you’re in distress” from CBS. They just gave away the code to interpreting their reporting in the years to come, the opposite of what they’re saying, like a quickly put together journalistic Pig Latin.

  • JD Mulvey

    You’re just way to fixated on objective truth, Rebecca. It’ll be way better when you get over that.

    • Begin Anew Day

      My package came today. They are supposed to be weekly supplies and have the correctly color coded pills allotted for each day.

      Sunday–one LARGE purple pill taken as I watch the god-emperor perform a cable linked blessing on TeeVee. Mandatory attendance.

      Monday–two brown pills taken together in the morning. One white pill with another large purple pill in the afternoon.

      Tuesday– 3 green pills that must be eaten with a bag of potato chips.

      Wednesday–clinic day, you show up at the state clinic for tuneup shots

      Thursday–Sleep all day after 1 red, 1 yellow and one lavender pills

      Friday– 1 very large psychedelic colored bomb of a pill known as the “YEEEHHHAAAAAA Special!”

      Saturday- NO PILLS FOR YOU. Too much party last night.

  • Paperless Tiger

    Trump is staging ‘captive meetings’ with the press in lieu of public press briefings. It is an outrage against our freedom of the press. Rather than questions and answers, we get only dictates. We have a dictator.

  • roberteye

    Blatant Pravda-style lying. “Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes and ears.”

  • Theodora30

    The head of CBS News is Fox alumnus and Roger Ailes protege David Rhodes. That explains a lot – like why Lara Logan still has a job at 60 Minutes after basing her Benghazi story on the word of a con man.

  • Kent

    Jill Stein is raising money to demand ballot recounts in MI, PA & WI.

    https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount

  • Deplorable Alva

    Why would the Clinton Broadcast Station edit out boo’s and edit in cheers? Move along please, nothing to see here. Just more liberal paranoia and conspiracy theories.

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