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Greg's avatar

"and got tossed out like Busch cans from a jacked pickup."

Whoa - you know my neighbors?

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thephantomcheese's avatar

Sorta OT, but that postcard y'all found is the most off-model map of North Carolina ever...

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I so want someone to do a number on that postcard image and remove the golfer's pants. That pose, that grin on his face, my first thought was he was taking a crap.

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Glennis Waterman's avatar

So, wait, he’s bugging the State Supreme Court to do him favors regarding his State Supreme Court race? I’m sure he’s making a great impression on his potential future colleagues!

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Is it hard to make the wanking motion with a gavel in your hand?

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Sgt JMK's avatar

Well, most of them are GOPers also too... so they'd be disappointed in him if he didn't find ways to cheat.

It's who they are.

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BosGrl's avatar

Totally OT: If you ever need to get a teacher gift, a big 12-pack of tissues or paper towels is the best ever.

2-1/2 hours until vacation.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

I’ve been on vacation since 5pm Eastern yesterday, and my manager is still sending me emails telling me about emergencies (in her mind, but maybe if she didn’t also fire the person who normally handles A Thing this morning, it wouldn’t be an emergency) that need to be fixed today. I don’t think I’ll spend my first day of vacation automating a process that is normally done manually, on a system I have no access to. If, in two weeks when I get back, she’s still upset, I will remind her that I’ve been asking for access for over a year now so that I can spend the week or two I need to properly do what she needs. I need a paper towel.

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BosGrl's avatar

Everyone needs rest. Especially if it's been a year! I'm so over everything. Have a peaceful vacation.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

You too! I’m going to rest by ignoring work until January 2.

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Spotts1701's avatar

BREAKING MUST CREDIT NBC NEWS:

Republicans ordered lunch from Potbelly sandwich shop. No word if Speaker Johnson ordered his with extra mayo.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

That actually is news. Most Republican reps get their food exclusively from Chick-Fil-A.

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Kobayashi Marooned's avatar

Hopefully they all came with extra bodily fluids.

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Nemo's avatar

"The evil that men do lives after them ...". And here we have an example illustrating the legacy of Thomas Hofeller, the Michelangelo of Gerrymandering. And as one would expect, a product of Claremont, breeding ground of John Eastman and many other Con-servatives in the French sense of that compound word.

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Mavenmaven's avatar

Hey, I coined that here on Wonkette already!

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Alpaca22's avatar

take it up with Mr Snyder

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Mavenmaven's avatar

If I were Trump, I'd SUE!!!!

lol, now I'm off to make fetch happen

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Maybe they’ll shiv each other in the next few weeks

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VasyaCognito's avatar

OT: Elno never met a Nazi Party he didn't like.

Jon Cooper:

There you have it. Elon Musk enthusiastically supports the neo-Nazi party in Germany, which also happens to be the most pro-Russian political party in Europe.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7qqkq2zdwq4j5jingukgtuky/bafkreibhgmcnlapuhddrbee3gxnhixtl6h6tt3zhqb2fox2mdlg7xrtdda@jpeg

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

What will be interesting is to see if Putin tries to own Musk; the cataclysm from that clash of egos might reset the timeline that weasel in the Hadron supercollider fucked up.

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Anarchy Pony's avatar

I am so fucking shocked.

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Eva, Iron Goddess of Mercy's avatar

Right? Didn't see that coming.

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Furiouser and Furiouser's avatar

I was with you on Sun Drop, although I prefer Cheerwine. I hung in there for the liver mush sandwich, although my mother ate her liver mush and mustard on saltines. But I gotta draw the line at chitlins. I don’t know anyone who’s ever even seen a chitlin.

Also Jefferson Davis Griffin should be consigned to a diet of Texas “barbecue.” No North Carolina barbecue, not eastern NC style, not western NC style, nay, not even SC mustard style may he eat, forever and always.

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Sherry's avatar

Honestly a little disappointed that there was no Moon Pie and RC cola reference.

The curse of no NC barbecue was a nice touch.

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Furiouser and Furiouser's avatar

Tar Heel born, Tar Heel bred, when I die etc.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I’m in NOVA and I’ve seen buckets o chitterlings. I’ve never eaten any though.

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Furiouser and Furiouser's avatar

Yeah I’m not squeamish but I draw the line at intestines.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Give it a couple of years. You won't be that choosy.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Back when I was much younger I visited a friend from work who was cooking chitlins and her house smelled so bad I had to go outside, according to her the chitlins were delish but I just couldn't.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

Well, intestines would smell like their former contents, wouldn't they?

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I always thought of that longass boil as cooking the shit out of them.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Republicans?

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Alpaca22's avatar

OT but a really important article from Carole Cadwallader about the' sale' of The Observer newspaper and the money behind the money in journalism and media

https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/who-is-the-money-behind-the-money?r=xb3q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Lefty Wright's avatar

Sounds like wealthy people have a new hobby. Buying up moderate and liberal news sources. Like Twitter, the Washington Post and LA Times, and now the Guardian.

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President Rufus T. Superfly's avatar

OT: Please pour one out for OG Richard J. Daley, who died on this date in 1976.

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Spotts1701's avatar

"This is definitely Lower Wacker Drive! If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza!"

"That's where they got that Picasso."

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Zeitgeist's avatar

Also OT. The "they were heavy smokers" theory not ruled out however.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭

For years, scientists have floated an alternative theory to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs—one involving extreme volcanism. It’s an intriguing idea, but new research seems to have finally put this competing explanation to rest.

To answer this decades-old question, researchers led by The University of Manchester reconstructed the average air temperatures of the 100,000 years preceding the extinction event. Their findings, detailed in a December 18 study published in the journal Science Advances, confirm that the infamous asteroid was indeed responsible for the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

https://gizmodo.com/the-theory-that-volcanoes-killed-the-dinosaurs-is-officially-extinct-2000541485

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BosGrl's avatar

FFS, I just told the kids it *wasn't just* the asteroid.

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weejee's avatar

Prez Musk, vCreep PAB, and the Haus Squeeker are going down...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uKpwCZnkk

/ Joe Bonamassa, Dusty Hill, Derek Trucks, and Billy Gibbons...

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President Rufus T. Superfly's avatar

OT: Will a govt shutdown mean having to stay with the in-laws longer?

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BlueStateLibel's avatar

No, as long as you don't mind flying without air traffic controllers.

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Schmannity's avatar

Which answer would you like?

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Spotts1701's avatar

CNN and NBC reporting debt limit increase is now off the table.

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BillEGoatSmile's avatar

President Musk and VP Trump gonna' be mad.

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Mavenmaven's avatar

The Mad Kings

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

so the feckless, toothless blowhard learns the hard way....

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MRK's avatar

One step closer to winding up back at the original deal at the last possible moment.

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TerseNurse's avatar

Possibly minus a COL increase for congress

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

Fuck, I hope they have a single issue vote for a cost of living increase for congress, pass it and go home for the holidays.... that would be glorious....

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phantom_stranger's avatar

Well that would be tragic.

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Schmannity's avatar

Darn. There goes tax-free decade for billionaires.

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TerseNurse's avatar

Well, let's not get hasty!

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Bobathonic's avatar

Hoom, hom.

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gedjcj's avatar

Apropos of nothing, these days my go-to Treebeard quote, usually to the grandged, is "I am not very, hm, bendable."

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BlueStateLibel's avatar

We need to deport his crazy ass back to South Africa.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

Drugged up sociopath does what now?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I think it's called tweaking.

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Smoke O'Possum's avatar

Skippin dipshit.

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