Nice image, but the VP swears in Senators, not Reps.

The reason Republican and reactionary assholes win is because the GOP would have looked at gains like last night and seen it as a beachhead to build on next cycle. Democrats seem to be looking at last night as proof that the country doesn’t really love them and they should go home and stop trying.

jfc my nerves are gonna be shattered by tomorrow morning. As I reside in Perverted Yurp, polls don’t start closing until long after I’ve gone to bed, so I won’t see anything until Wednesday morning. My plan is to spend my evening pantsless and drunk.

Cracked’s David Wong made a good point about this yesterday:

There’s something to be said, though, for having somebody in a position to speak for the nation as a whole, rather than any one (or bloc) of its various constituencies. Even Germany, while having a parliament, also has a president (though he’s largely a figurehead). In a healthy democracy, it’s a good role to have.…

Right? I got a lot of shit here for arguing that maybe we shouldn’t throw ourselves at every neophyte who manages to grab headlines and pretend like they’d be a viable presidential candidate (looking at you, Nixon, Avenatti, Winfrey, O’Rourke, etc. etc.), much less a successful one, to say nothing of whether they’d…

And much as I adore Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (and she does seem great), it’s absolutely insane to think she should run for president in 2024, when she will, at best, have had six (6) years of experience in elected office, and will barely be old enough to be eligible. I think she’d be a great voice for progressive…

I absolutely hate the horse-race presidential-candidate speculation like it’s some sort of celebrity fantasy-football league or an exercise in stunt casting. The presidency, as the last decade we’ve suffered through since 2016 should have taught us by now, is a really important job, and the last thing we should be…

Counterpoint: how about instead we ostracize them like the pieces of shit they are, and they can go crawl back into their hole or wander off into the wilderness to spend a few years getting their shit straight before they’re allowed to walk among the civilized?

Nothing short of baristas angrily yelling, “Merry Christmas because FUCK YOU” will appease reactionary rightwingers.

This whole thing stinks of Kremlin active measures. Burkman (or was it Wohl?) was actively peddling Seth Rich conspiracy theories (which is straight-up deza), so it’s not entirely surprising. 

Yeah, but see: despite being a bunch of flag-waving, yellow-pin-wearing jigoistic support-the-troops assholes, most conservatives haven’t served their country, or likely know anyone who has. Most conservatives, in fact, don’t give two shits about soldiers (or they’d want to bring them home, safe), much less veterans…

and yet, thanks to late-stage dementia, he will still likely be incapacitated before 2020. 

In 2018 America, the Republic will be saved from fascism and tyranny by porn stars, anti-vaxxers, and a true believer in Oprah’s “The Secret.”

This. It’s not a question of whether the assholes outnumber decent people; it’s a question of whether the latter show up. 

at this point, I suspect that unless you give a specific date and time when you plan to murder people of color, and possibly the intended means, Twitter will just shrug it off.

Feature, not a bug.

So much this. I get into this shit all the damn time with MAGAts bitching about how we need to Do Something about “all these illegals.” In point of fact, the US is a signatory to numerous treaties that obligate it to take in refugees and asylum-seekers.

I moved to Perverted Yurp, one of the side benefits of which is that I almost never see him. I have one more trip left, where I’ll pick up the last of my shit, explain to him why he’s never going to see his grandkids, and then peace out on that shit.

Is this the Mispatry Corner? Because lemme tell you, my dad has turned into a Breitbart-gobbling MAGAt this last year, and hooo boy, after him being a drunk all my childhood, I’m really done with his shit.