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Sizzling TC, sizzlin’. That was more nutritious than a morning glass of V8.

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Whacky tobacky or no, I have absolutely no difficulties discerning where my vote will go comes November! I also have no difficulties figuring out where to send my (sadly, few) extra dollars in direct donations to blue races. I will also be donating to the Lincoln Project--they, at least, have no issues with hard-hitting messaging; something the Dems can't or won't do.

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Check out the Republican Accountability Project too; much the same approach, with documentation and, so far, without any of the founders paying themselves a couple of million a year.

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Have you noticed that almost any man standing or sitting next to Mitch McConnell looks handsome.

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yeah. I've always thought of him as an unhappy cartoon hybrid: Deputy Dawg and Foghorn Leghorn. Newt is, of course, Porky Pig after speech therapy and a cheap pair of pants.

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You're a star David. Want to take a picture with Mitch?

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I'm too religious for that kind of thing, no picture taking. It's the sabbath, David. Light your candles.

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I'm about to light a candle, but, as a completely non-observant jew, it's for Shakespeare, with whom I've enjoyed what is possibly the most consistently excellent relationship of my life. uniquely among great cultural figures, it's both a tribute (birthday) candle and a yahrtzeit (memorial) one at the same time.

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I really did just "laugh out loud." thanks for that, Fern.

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sizzlin' is definitely the right word. very well put, although I can pay plenty of attention WITHOUT foregoing the funny cigarettes after close to sixty years of practice. I especially like the kneepads, since every time anyone talks about "kissing the ring" I end up snorting even with a beverage, which gets very messy. of course, the horrifying reality is that there probably won't be any "moment of reckoning" for McCarthy, since there wasn't a lot of what is now called "pushback" during that two or three weeks after he said that TFF was to blame for the 1/6 riot (I hate to dignify it with a fancy historical-type term like "insurrection") prior to making his trip to Florida to (yeah, I'm gonna say it and apologize if I offend anyone) suck the dick. this craziness is where we are, and it's the result of another chiseling fat fuck (Gingrich), a shitty television show and a deeply stupid, cruel, bigoted and....why am I even trying to find the adjectives for him? it seems like too little to destroy a government, but Franklin ("...if you can keep it.") had it right, as he so frequently did.

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If that was indeed McCarthy's breakfast, it was a very small meal.

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I hope people are paying attention. Good grief! (My hand slapping my forehead - I could have had a V8!)

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Man, oh man. I love that test at the end - in the voting booth!

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