I mean, no shit? The MAGA wing of the House GOP have been pretty forward about wanting a government shutdown (even though every previous shutdown has hurt the party controlling Congress in the next election...). *ANY* negotiations on the part of Johnson was going to face fierce resistance from his own caucus. And…

Took longer for them to turn on their own than predicted, but, yeah, this was entirely predictable.

The golden globes could learn something from the NFL and use parabolic microphones. 

“Oh and you fucked it all up? No. Your split isn’t like getting a flat tire or a paper cut or stepping in gum. It’s the result of very intentional acts on your part.”

OK these are good. Let’s try it...

Go back to 2007-08 - instead of running for President, he could have just (had ghost)written a book called America’s Mayor or some shit like that about how he bravely brought NY back from 9/11 and made millions, then fucked off forever able to afford a lifetime supply of hookers, booze, and blow. Now he’s a broke ass…

“No person could have reasonably believed that Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be able to pay such a high punitive amount”.

I don’t know about his other debts, but declaring bankruptcy won’t protect him from having to pay the $146 million.

Ol’ Rudi is the poster child for why people should retire.

Broke, but still has the money for a political advisor and full time PR person who was in court with him every day. Plus, limos and dandy meals. I need to be this kind of broke. Force him into a budget that normies live on and take the rest.

“Jeez, I prefer democracy to a dictatorship and see that repubs are doing everything they can to destroy this country and its institutions, as well as obliterating long-standing norms in pursuit of holding on to power so they can enact their fascist policies. But Biden seems like he’s not pro-choice enough... so I am…

My sincere hope is the site is not just back but returns to some of the former quality and insight that made it a an outsized-pop culture staple. Frankly the site had been in decline for years before its shuttering. I don’t mean to shit on you or any other writers who, I gather, have been working under less-than-ideal…

And so is the comment section! Hurray!

And I literally just got ungreyed here like a week ago. Damn.

Well shit.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) claimed in a cable news interview that he simply couldn’t recall whether he’d voted against birth control—despite doing so a little over a year ago.

1. The Republicans are majority.
2. There’s no obligation for the minority to come to the majority’s aid in determining the majority’s Speaker.
3. I cannot find a single, recent, historical example of the minority party having come to the rescue of the majority to elect a Speaker.
4. If the shoe were on the other foot,…

I hope those ladies talked about money and investing, not boys.

“he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake and called his son his accountability partner.”

This is so deeply disturbing but of course we’ll get nothing but crickets from the “moral majority” crowd b/c it’s their guy and they would have no values if it weren’t for hypocrisy. 

This guy is a religious zealot, far more dangerous than any of the Taliban thousands of miles away from the United States. The Republican Party, which at this point is a criminal conspiracy of fraud and insurrection, supports his insane, dangerous and frankly un-American ideology.