When I saw his head emerge from the ground, I immediately thought "Rygel Lives!" For those who don't know (shame on you!), Rygel was the deposed (by his cousin, IIRC) absolute ruler of six trillion subjects, who very occasionally exhibited some small signs of decency and humanity (in the good sense.) He was always deeply ashamed and quite in defensive denial when he did so, but still, what chance did he have? Far more signs of being positive person than the Orange Psychopath has ever shown.
Yikes! My niece converted her bedroom to a natural history museum. (She started out by stapling chicken bones to her wall with little notes describing them and their provenance. That was when she was seven, 17 years ago.) One of her most prize exhibits is a taxidermy mongoose vs. cobra fight. It is probably the second scariest exhibit. My brain keeps blocking out the scariest one, so I can't tell you about it. She no longer sleeps in her bedroom because it is too scary. She built a nest behind the living room couch. It gets worse. Last time I visited them (in Tasmania), we went on a mini-vacation and stayed for a few days in a cabin in the bush. She built a nest in that living room (lounge, they call it in Oz) too, moving a mattress to the floor behind the coach. One evening she found a tiny little scorpion crawling across the floor, which she trapped in a Pringles can and insisted I release somewhere safe outside. I thought about squishing it, but realized I would never be able to withstand interrogation, and she would be heartbroken, so I did as ordered.
But the wild thing is my 57 yo partner did not remember that song (it came out when she was around 5, probably) so it isn't just The Kids. And weirder still it's only been a few weeks ago that we had that conversation and I found the video of it on YouTube. She just sort of sat there... stunned... not really knowing what to say.
Just to let the Wonkette community know, Tempus Fugit responded to my comment about James Talarico as follows, and then blocked me, I guess because he doesn't want anyone to see how nasty he can be. His response was way out of proportion to my comment. I thought it was worth sharing as an example of the kind of rant that virtually everyone else on Wonkette eschews.
"What is YOUR problem? Of course they're worried; things are worse and worse esp in TexASSSS (ever heard of climate change and resultant catastrophes in TexASSS, GRANNY? Wise up!) and Paxton's felonies are more and more known. TexASSSSans who are non-MAGA refuse to bother to vote or the state would be blue already. That is fairly likely to change soon, and possibly in November 2026. As for JIZZY, dRUMPf doesn't give a shit, and the issue is that Jizzy Divan is charmless, imbecilic, and Nazi at all once. He has NONE of Glorious Leader's cult nor will he EVER have. MAGAts are not the majority of this country, GRANNY dear, and their position is that of a fascist MINORITY. Do learn some basic civics even in your old age, right after you learn to spell Talarico's name. Blocked."
From what I’ve read and heard about Erika Kirk, she spent her twenties trying to get onto every reality TV show possible, so I think it’s safe to say she’s had a thirst for fame her entire life. That would explain her entrances to pyrotechnics and other antics.
It may be that she legit doesn’t understand how off-putting the Merry Widow routine is for Kirk’s supporters. To her, this is just what you do for attention.
That said, Marcotte probably also has a good point about how this generation of Incels doesn’t believe you can be a girl boss and a trad wife at the same time. In addition, I would say she simply lacks the talent Charlie Kirk had for getting rightwing billionaires to write checks in support of fascism.
As is often the case, her failure in running Toilet Paper USA has multiple causes.
"In a speech last month full of creative math, Trump claimed nearly half a million Nevadans “saved an average of $10,000 on their taxes” due to the tip policy alone. Think of it: Every worker made $10,000 more money. That’s all because of the fact that I said I was going to do it and I got it done,” he boasted Aug. 5 in Las Vegas.
Critically, the benefit is a tax deduction — not a tax credit. A worker who claims $5,000 in tips on their tax return won’t be $5,000 richer; they just won’t be taxed on that income. For a worker in the 12% tax bracket, which for a single filer in 2025 was an income of $11,926 to $48,475, the $5,000 deduction would come out as a tax savings of $600. “It’s just a deduction from the income that would be used to compute your taxes,” said Aparna Mathur, an expert at the Tax Policy Center. “It’s a big distinction that I think the average person [needs to] understand.”
“That’s just fully misleading, and intentionally so,” Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, said of the $10,000 line. “They put out the deduction number because it is bigger. … They prey on people’s misunderstanding of credits and deductions. If it was a tax credit, it would be dollar for dollar.”
You are smiling broadly, holding a sign that says FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK. You were featured because the next No Kings is October 17th. I hope every single protest has voter registration for those states where 10/17 is not too late.
Lol that AI guy thinks the models actually think for themselves and have agency and try to understand. I don't know if there are real AI risks related to the kind of ideas they're putting out there, but i do know that this guy's warning is basically poop.
These models don't think. At all. They have no awareness. AT ALL. If they're doing these things they're concerned with, that's just how the statistics of the things they consumed point.
Sec. of MAHA: “The party of Me Too — remember that we were all supposed to listen to women, and to believe women? They cruelly silenced the voices of tens of thousands of mothers who believe that their children had suffered vaccine injuries,” he said on Thursday night. [HuffPost]
Because there's no difference between a woman who knows she was assaulted by creep and a woman who has zero evidence that her child's problem has anything to do with some vaccine they received.
And not for nothing, but "believe women" doesn't mean "believe anything a woman says as the undeniable, literal, objective and unchanging, truth", but "hey maybe don't just assume a woman is lying when you can't find direct evidence of what she's claiming". People can be sincere but wrong.
On topic, the impression I have developed of the tradwife niche culture is a literal Potemkin village. These aren't people living a lifestyle. These are independently wealthy people using advanced knowledge of audio/ video tech and search algorithms to package a product that could just as well be fiction.
She had an EVP-level position at Goldman Sachs when he got caught in the airport skulking off to Mexico the first time his Texas constituents were in environmental / electrical trouble
[HuffPost] "Vice President J.D. Vance took a crude swipe at Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday while criticizing his prior positions on various issues, including trans rights. “A guy that age who is so obsessed and focused on transgender children, I don’t know about you, but I never want to see that guy’s web browser history,” Vance said."
I conclude from Vance's veiled accusation that the Republicans are worried that Tallerico might beat Paxton in the Senate race. That said, Tallerico needs to learn quickly to deflect questions about hot-button issues that can burn him.
What are you saying "no" about? Why "of course they're worried"? Paxton and Abbott have been in office forever with the full financial support of the Republican Party. Texans could have voted both of them out long ago, especially if the Hispanic population had organized against them. As for JD, Trump is supporting him for president now and MAGAs will do their king's bidding.
What is YOUR problem? Of course they're worried; things are worse and worse esp in TexASSSS (ever heard of climate change and resultant catastrophes in TexASSS, GRANNY? Wise up!) and Paxton's felonies are more and more known. TexASSSSans who are non-MAGA refuse to bother to vote or the state would be blue already. That is fairly likely to change soon, and possibly in November 2026. As for JIZZY, dRUMPf doesn't give a shit, and the issue is that Jizzy Divan is charmless, imbecilic, and Nazi at all once. He has NONE of Glorious Leader's cult nor will he EVER have. MAGAts are not the majority of this country, GRANNY dear, and their position is that of a fascist MINORITY. Do learn some basic civics even in your old age, right after you learn to spell Talarico's name. Blocked.
Hed gif giant mole rat says hello, briefly: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/the-giant-mole-rats-of-ethiopia
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/46f15c25-9cdb-4175-9cd1-2db01219bf8b?utm_source=share
Have a good weekend!
Sudden Giant Mole Rat meets Surprise Giant Mole Rat!
Now I know what Kevin Hassett reminds me of.
Wonderful rat-tatooi.
Whoa, it's Farscape's Rygel XVI!
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/farscape/images/1/19/Rygel9.jpg
When I saw his head emerge from the ground, I immediately thought "Rygel Lives!" For those who don't know (shame on you!), Rygel was the deposed (by his cousin, IIRC) absolute ruler of six trillion subjects, who very occasionally exhibited some small signs of decency and humanity (in the good sense.) He was always deeply ashamed and quite in defensive denial when he did so, but still, what chance did he have? Far more signs of being positive person than the Orange Psychopath has ever shown.
He was basically a Muppet, so some decency was built into his foam.
Honestly, I always forgot he was a puppet, the show was that good. Time for a rewatch?
I heard the beginning of Ride of the Valkyries as they were popping up out of their burrows.
Holy Wagner, Batman!
I just wanna … brush those teeth! And I have always been ungood at teef brushing. But okay, cute.
So cute!
Who knew that a nose could grow deeply rooted rodential teeth?
Mole rat is not particularly attractive, although I am sure her mother thinks she's beautiful, but that wolf? Gorgeous!
I’m weird maybe, but I think the giant mole rat is gorgeous. That fur!
I was thinking of the face - but yes, that fur does look beautiful.
TEEFS!
This, honestly, could have been the first and only comment.
We also would have accepted TOOFS!
Every time someone mentions mole rats, I flash back to this classic:
https://thebloggess.com/2013/03/05/and-thats-why-im-not-allowed-to-be-here-unsupervised/
Wonder what she's doing these days.
I'm 99% sure she's here on Substack.
I would not be surprised to find that out.
Yikes! My niece converted her bedroom to a natural history museum. (She started out by stapling chicken bones to her wall with little notes describing them and their provenance. That was when she was seven, 17 years ago.) One of her most prize exhibits is a taxidermy mongoose vs. cobra fight. It is probably the second scariest exhibit. My brain keeps blocking out the scariest one, so I can't tell you about it. She no longer sleeps in her bedroom because it is too scary. She built a nest behind the living room couch. It gets worse. Last time I visited them (in Tasmania), we went on a mini-vacation and stayed for a few days in a cabin in the bush. She built a nest in that living room (lounge, they call it in Oz) too, moving a mattress to the floor behind the coach. One evening she found a tiny little scorpion crawling across the floor, which she trapped in a Pringles can and insisted I release somewhere safe outside. I thought about squishing it, but realized I would never be able to withstand interrogation, and she would be heartbroken, so I did as ordered.
Interesting juxtapose, the 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘴 beneath 𝘽*𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮...
"Well, Your Honor, when I said I didn't have the money, she brandished a giant mole with giant teeth and said..."
Nice marmot -
HE CUT OFF YOUR JOHNSON!
Bitch better have my money LEBOWSKI!
yippie yi kai yay get along giant mole rats
It's your dang burrow and none of my own
There was a movie…
Those orange "stains" on their teeth is actually embedded iron and it makes their teeth incredibly tough.
I always thought that too, but it turns out to be slightly more complicated. Science, learning new stuff everyday!
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2024/april/iron-rich-enamel-protects-but-doesnt-color-rodents-orange-brown-incisors.html
Thanks! I was repeating what I'd learned back in the day!
I didn't click on study that was referenced, but looks like it comes from 2024, so relatively recent discovery.
same as with nutria!
ALL rodents!
So they are eating iron? Not sure the chemistry works out...
Their body produces it in the rodents teeth because they chew like crazy.
That's what I tell people when I eat a whole bag of Cheetos, "It's 𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯, dude!"
I love Cheetos, but I keep a damp washcloth nearby.
And the ingredients: lookit alla them VITAMINS!
Thanks, I had assumed it was doro wat stains.
At least it's not nekid!
DON'T LOOK, ETHEL!
I love you for this. Also all those here who got it.
Many years later, I was in a hotel where a lot of Shriners were too. My friend and I simultaneously said "Don't look, Ethel!"
Thank you, and that's great with the Shriners!
. . . but it was too late.
She done got MOONED!
LOL
The kids here will be all WTF?
Who are these "kids" you speak of?
But the wild thing is my 57 yo partner did not remember that song (it came out when she was around 5, probably) so it isn't just The Kids. And weirder still it's only been a few weeks ago that we had that conversation and I found the video of it on YouTube. She just sort of sat there... stunned... not really knowing what to say.
(giggling)
Just to let the Wonkette community know, Tempus Fugit responded to my comment about James Talarico as follows, and then blocked me, I guess because he doesn't want anyone to see how nasty he can be. His response was way out of proportion to my comment. I thought it was worth sharing as an example of the kind of rant that virtually everyone else on Wonkette eschews.
"What is YOUR problem? Of course they're worried; things are worse and worse esp in TexASSSS (ever heard of climate change and resultant catastrophes in TexASSS, GRANNY? Wise up!) and Paxton's felonies are more and more known. TexASSSSans who are non-MAGA refuse to bother to vote or the state would be blue already. That is fairly likely to change soon, and possibly in November 2026. As for JIZZY, dRUMPf doesn't give a shit, and the issue is that Jizzy Divan is charmless, imbecilic, and Nazi at all once. He has NONE of Glorious Leader's cult nor will he EVER have. MAGAts are not the majority of this country, GRANNY dear, and their position is that of a fascist MINORITY. Do learn some basic civics even in your old age, right after you learn to spell Talarico's name. Blocked."
From what I’ve read and heard about Erika Kirk, she spent her twenties trying to get onto every reality TV show possible, so I think it’s safe to say she’s had a thirst for fame her entire life. That would explain her entrances to pyrotechnics and other antics.
It may be that she legit doesn’t understand how off-putting the Merry Widow routine is for Kirk’s supporters. To her, this is just what you do for attention.
That said, Marcotte probably also has a good point about how this generation of Incels doesn’t believe you can be a girl boss and a trad wife at the same time. In addition, I would say she simply lacks the talent Charlie Kirk had for getting rightwing billionaires to write checks in support of fascism.
As is often the case, her failure in running Toilet Paper USA has multiple causes.
Charlie's face is too big on that corn maze.
That corn maze looks more like Jay Leno than Charlie Kirk.
"In a speech last month full of creative math, Trump claimed nearly half a million Nevadans “saved an average of $10,000 on their taxes” due to the tip policy alone. Think of it: Every worker made $10,000 more money. That’s all because of the fact that I said I was going to do it and I got it done,” he boasted Aug. 5 in Las Vegas.
Critically, the benefit is a tax deduction — not a tax credit. A worker who claims $5,000 in tips on their tax return won’t be $5,000 richer; they just won’t be taxed on that income. For a worker in the 12% tax bracket, which for a single filer in 2025 was an income of $11,926 to $48,475, the $5,000 deduction would come out as a tax savings of $600. “It’s just a deduction from the income that would be used to compute your taxes,” said Aparna Mathur, an expert at the Tax Policy Center. “It’s a big distinction that I think the average person [needs to] understand.”
“That’s just fully misleading, and intentionally so,” Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, said of the $10,000 line. “They put out the deduction number because it is bigger. … They prey on people’s misunderstanding of credits and deductions. If it was a tax credit, it would be dollar for dollar.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-tax-cuts-midterms_n_6aa30f58e4b0b2af35a59330?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
Ugh, here's an archive link to the article about Elon trying to stop Alex Gibney's documentary:
https://archive.is/GHLDo
“Goebel Farms” I guess they forgot the S.
It's missing a "b" as well, like "dum," but otherwise on-the-nose.
The "S" is for SOCIALISMS.
The call and response at last night's Trumpathon of "Shot him" was pretty disturbing. The Maga party is a threat to civil society.
It was nice seeing your smiling face on Tiedrich this morning, Rebecca. I hope you saved your sign.
oh thanks for the heads up!
You are smiling broadly, holding a sign that says FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK. You were featured because the next No Kings is October 17th. I hope every single protest has voter registration for those states where 10/17 is not too late.
Lol that AI guy thinks the models actually think for themselves and have agency and try to understand. I don't know if there are real AI risks related to the kind of ideas they're putting out there, but i do know that this guy's warning is basically poop.
These models don't think. At all. They have no awareness. AT ALL. If they're doing these things they're concerned with, that's just how the statistics of the things they consumed point.
I seriously think the developers have AI psychosis.
Sec. of MAHA: “The party of Me Too — remember that we were all supposed to listen to women, and to believe women? They cruelly silenced the voices of tens of thousands of mothers who believe that their children had suffered vaccine injuries,” he said on Thursday night. [HuffPost]
Moar Brainworms: “Neither my father nor my uncle would recognize the Democratic Party of today.”
To paraphrase Will Smith: "Keep [those names] out your fucking mouth!"
Or Lloyd Benson: "You're no Jack Kennedy."
Try not paraphrasing ghetto THUG Will Smith, why don't you?
Because there's no difference between a woman who knows she was assaulted by creep and a woman who has zero evidence that her child's problem has anything to do with some vaccine they received.
And not for nothing, but "believe women" doesn't mean "believe anything a woman says as the undeniable, literal, objective and unchanging, truth", but "hey maybe don't just assume a woman is lying when you can't find direct evidence of what she's claiming". People can be sincere but wrong.
On topic, the impression I have developed of the tradwife niche culture is a literal Potemkin village. These aren't people living a lifestyle. These are independently wealthy people using advanced knowledge of audio/ video tech and search algorithms to package a product that could just as well be fiction.
I wish the teenage daughters of Ted Cruz happy lives, free of this vicious hatred.
Ted's spouse, Heidi Nelson Cruz, seems as irrecoverable as he is. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/03/23/heidi-cruz-presidential-race-profile/70329060/
She had an EVP-level position at Goldman Sachs when he got caught in the airport skulking off to Mexico the first time his Texas constituents were in environmental / electrical trouble
Go fuck a cushion, Vance:
[HuffPost] "Vice President J.D. Vance took a crude swipe at Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday while criticizing his prior positions on various issues, including trans rights. “A guy that age who is so obsessed and focused on transgender children, I don’t know about you, but I never want to see that guy’s web browser history,” Vance said."
Jizzy, dear little bitch, that's called *massive* PROJECTION.
I conclude from Vance's veiled accusation that the Republicans are worried that Tallerico might beat Paxton in the Senate race. That said, Tallerico needs to learn quickly to deflect questions about hot-button issues that can burn him.
No. Jizzy Divan is a bitch**** who will say anything, because it is so epically loathed and unpopular it rivals FLED TED CANCUN Cruz.
Of course they're worried. Paxton is a felon who should have been imprisoned years ago!
What are you saying "no" about? Why "of course they're worried"? Paxton and Abbott have been in office forever with the full financial support of the Republican Party. Texans could have voted both of them out long ago, especially if the Hispanic population had organized against them. As for JD, Trump is supporting him for president now and MAGAs will do their king's bidding.
What is YOUR problem? Of course they're worried; things are worse and worse esp in TexASSSS (ever heard of climate change and resultant catastrophes in TexASSS, GRANNY? Wise up!) and Paxton's felonies are more and more known. TexASSSSans who are non-MAGA refuse to bother to vote or the state would be blue already. That is fairly likely to change soon, and possibly in November 2026. As for JIZZY, dRUMPf doesn't give a shit, and the issue is that Jizzy Divan is charmless, imbecilic, and Nazi at all once. He has NONE of Glorious Leader's cult nor will he EVER have. MAGAts are not the majority of this country, GRANNY dear, and their position is that of a fascist MINORITY. Do learn some basic civics even in your old age, right after you learn to spell Talarico's name. Blocked.
This is one of the few things that, if said in my presence, would spur me to violence.
No one should sit there and be called a pedophile (even implicitly) by one of these creepers.
Not a single fucking person.
These people need to be taught a lesson in civility and learn to keep their drooling hateful mouths shut.
So here we are, better news coverage of a Presidential proposal from Yahoo! Finance than in the Washington Post.