OK, “former street mime” made me spit out my coffee, lol.
I’m sure we all saw the interviews with potential voters in the Times or maybe the Post, with the woman who said she wasn’t voting for Biden because she supported abortion rights and Roe had been overturned when Biden was President. It had to be explained to her how Supreme Court appointments work, and how the Supreme Court works in relation to the Executive Branch. I read that and was strongly tempted to put my affairs in order and walk into the sea.
Which is all by way of saying every third party whack-a-doo who seems like a joke to us, be it RFK Jr, Cornell West, Jill Stein, or even Joe Manchin, may not look so preposterous to the idiot on the street. We really need to get civics lessons back in schools, but since the trend has been to remove books not add them, I can’t say I’m especially hopeful.
That illustration at the top reminds of the early attempts to use the modern industrial capabilities offered by the firearms makers to kill every damn bird. That gun he's holding was puny compared to the long shotguns used in marshes like that. So heavy they had to be mounted in long boats. Killed dozens or hundreds of birds with each firing. Led eventually to one of the very first laws prohibiting mass slaughter of wildlife.
America, where any child can grow up to be a Presidential campaign spoiler. Anyway, tomorrow is our national day of giving thanks, so let me thank Roy and the many clever commentators here for making five mornings a week more bearable as we await the destruction of democracy and the establishment of a Christofascist autocracy, now with fewer rights for women (and soon, gays and fornicators of all persuasions).
but the fifth-generation cornhusker says his town is a “cross-section of the American people — we got schoolteachers and farmers and car salesman, not too many blacks, and enough women to keep the menfolk happy.”
Just enough blacks to play basketball, and hands off the women-they're for us.
Sorry Roy, although another Trump term would mean complete anarchy and the end of democracy as we know it, Trump has already killed satire in America, so your newsletter is a hard pill to swallow!...::)
I was very confused as to why Wallbanger, a state senator in Tennessee, was coming to bars in Raleigh, some 6 hours away. Then I found out there’s one that’s a suburb of Memphis, and that made a lot more sense.
This one struck a chord or three. I had a stretch of high grief and anxiety after tangling with a couple of sovereign citizens in print some years back. Are they still around? I guess they never go away.
And pretty sure I backed up Djalikakik/Wallbanger at the Lakeside in Raleigh.
"McGillicuddy" is the best of all names.
That's an obvious fact.
One of the big things wrong is presidential campaigns cost billions of dollars and last several years. No wonder it's all fucked up
OK, “former street mime” made me spit out my coffee, lol.
I’m sure we all saw the interviews with potential voters in the Times or maybe the Post, with the woman who said she wasn’t voting for Biden because she supported abortion rights and Roe had been overturned when Biden was President. It had to be explained to her how Supreme Court appointments work, and how the Supreme Court works in relation to the Executive Branch. I read that and was strongly tempted to put my affairs in order and walk into the sea.
Which is all by way of saying every third party whack-a-doo who seems like a joke to us, be it RFK Jr, Cornell West, Jill Stein, or even Joe Manchin, may not look so preposterous to the idiot on the street. We really need to get civics lessons back in schools, but since the trend has been to remove books not add them, I can’t say I’m especially hopeful.
Wait, "bargained for"? That's what we was doin'? I thought we was just joshin' around...
I appreciate the fact Wallbanger got that church goin' in the tire lot – obvious choice of fuel for the Hellfire Saturday Night fish fry.
Just fuckin' shoot me now ... 🤣
That illustration at the top reminds of the early attempts to use the modern industrial capabilities offered by the firearms makers to kill every damn bird. That gun he's holding was puny compared to the long shotguns used in marshes like that. So heavy they had to be mounted in long boats. Killed dozens or hundreds of birds with each firing. Led eventually to one of the very first laws prohibiting mass slaughter of wildlife.
America, where any child can grow up to be a Presidential campaign spoiler. Anyway, tomorrow is our national day of giving thanks, so let me thank Roy and the many clever commentators here for making five mornings a week more bearable as we await the destruction of democracy and the establishment of a Christofascist autocracy, now with fewer rights for women (and soon, gays and fornicators of all persuasions).
Where is Vermin Supreme when ya need ‘im?
but the fifth-generation cornhusker says his town is a “cross-section of the American people — we got schoolteachers and farmers and car salesman, not too many blacks, and enough women to keep the menfolk happy.”
Just enough blacks to play basketball, and hands off the women-they're for us.
Sorry Roy, although another Trump term would mean complete anarchy and the end of democracy as we know it, Trump has already killed satire in America, so your newsletter is a hard pill to swallow!...::)
I was very confused as to why Wallbanger, a state senator in Tennessee, was coming to bars in Raleigh, some 6 hours away. Then I found out there’s one that’s a suburb of Memphis, and that made a lot more sense.
This one struck a chord or three. I had a stretch of high grief and anxiety after tangling with a couple of sovereign citizens in print some years back. Are they still around? I guess they never go away.
And pretty sure I backed up Djalikakik/Wallbanger at the Lakeside in Raleigh.
All this gurtl can say is: aigh...
In the words of Isaac Brock (less unhinged, more resigned): This plane is definitely crashing!
Sanka, Nebraska, is a perfect place name. It sounds a bit like Native American place names, but also like Swedish instant coffee.
Enough women to keep the men folk happy and weirdo free. My kinda place!
And these are the *Democrats*...