Russian Conspiracy Twitter had a side-thread about this. It is apparently part of Vatican etiquette that only seven Queens and Princesses in the world, as Catholics, are permitted the “privilege of the white” when having an audience with His Holiness, and all others wear black with arms covered and a traditional veil.

This is some savage papal shade right here. Like, “you are an abomination of a human being who is actively working against everything I have dedicated my life to bring into this world, but I am required to receive you because you inexplicably are a head of state”-level shade.

(the Post estimates a fifth of Americans would be impacted)

wtf, you aren’t going to mention @TrueFactsStated, @20committee, or @LouiseMensch? I’ll admit, they veer (especially Mensch) dangerously close to tinfoil-hat territory at times, but they also have inside sources and are, on some things, literally weeks ahead of mainstream media reporting on this.

I wasn’t talking about the roots of the problem at all. I was talking about the difficulty in trying to explain how much money is worth these days to people who grew up when money was worth a lot more, and consequently don’t understand that the minimum wage is no longer anything near what you’d need to live (and yet…

Fun (?) Fact: dunk tanks have a super racist background.

It may surprise you to hear this (spoiler: it won’t, but it will definitely depress you), but a huge portion of the country is deeply racist, and will deliberately vote for the party that will bring the Republic to ruin so long as oppressed minorities get crushed worse than they do on the way down.

#notallolds

The other thing worth noting is that most Olds (lookin’ at you, Boomers) have no clue whatsoever just how much inflation has changed the value of money since when they were young and earning it.

Word is that Flynn’s lawyers have informed the Senate Committee that he will not be complying with the subpoena. So, he’d rather go to jail for contempt than testify, apparently.

If Louise Mensch and the rest of Russian Conspiracy Twitter is to be believed (which, you know, take Mensch with a block of salt but Claude Taylor and John Schindler seem pretty legit) something like “30-40” people are going to jail, including all of That Asshole’s family, and most of the upper tier of the GOP. They…

A+ tagging and caption game.

I can’t stop watching this. +1

You know, this is the sort of gonzo street theater Bread & Puppet used to do: back in simpler, more heroic times. Glad to see stunts like this coming back in style.

Apparently Melissa McCarthy was rolling around 58th St today, in character, with her Sean Spicer podium/lectern.

So, as has been pointed out on Russian Conspiracy Twitter (@20committee, @TrueFactsStated, and @LouiseMensch are all my new boyfriend), Comey is a private citizen now, and a potential witness in national-security (nevermind criminal) investigations. Threatening to release embarrassing material about him, and admitting…

But you realize that the entire basis of Republicans’ bullshit claims of voter fraud rests on the assertion — which for some reason is never challenged by media — that “multiple registrations” = “in-person voter fraud,” right? That’s their entire justification for all these awful voter-suppression measures.

“Our investigation into the 2016 election has been proceeding fully independently, going wherever the evidence leads. In fact, I can now announce that we have uncovered evidence of direct interference in the election. Multiple sources, which I will discuss at a later date, corroborate that the Democrat Party was…

I’m beginning to think the phrase “with the Russian Ambassador” is going to become one of those weird cultural synecdoches that signifies something far more than the words themselves. My mother, a connoisseur of the genre, remains enamored of two such phrases from the early 90s: “bitch set me up” (to be muttered under…

This is some third-eye esoteric satire shit, isn’t it?