“What I like about the jokes, to me it’s a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won’t be funny.” ~ Steven Wright
Ahhh! the classic comedy Pie in the face routine. The gag works because in some level it satisfies our need to stand-up against some wrongdoer, it always gets a laugh because the victim almost always tends to be some odious person deserving of some facial cobbler justice but it also works because we’re all on the joke.
You know what is not funny? A malevolent gov official cracking jokes on the issue of net-neutrality. Ajit Pai, Obama’s cruel joke on the American people, is just days from finally delivering the death-blow to the way the internet functions, something that as a former Verizon lobbyist he has been trying to disassemble since 2001. He jokes and mocks the people because he can, there is nothing we can do to remove him from his post.
But the joke is on us because when Mitch McConnell conveniently persuaded Obama to hire Pai nobody cared, his supporters thought he was just being Bi-partisan, so funny how that worked out no?
Fancy Jack
People will get the speed they’ll just have to pay for it, pay to access content, pay just to turn on the computer. PAY,PAY, PAY!
and pay to be propagandized, oh-so-subtly as they’ve learned to do with the endless spying like win10 does, all “for your own good” of course! (and to keep the establishment neo-feudal corporate-fascists in CONTROL.
Yet people continue to use that monstrous OS.
hard not to, they control the monopoly “market”, everything’s made for it. Comes pre-installed in the machines most buy. Most people can barely work their computers Linux isn’t really a option.
The formula for success!..Or STEAL, STEAL, STEAL works, too….8-)
Jack, Pomchi wants you to send her pastry from A Peek at Mah-Ze-Dahr, The New Bakery From Cult Favorite Chef Umber Ahmad
I walked by that place before, lonely street. They need to be on 6th ave. Pom sure knows how to eat.
She was featured in CBS this morning.
YOU ARE NOT A DEMOCRAT!
Nor, Republican, Independent, Green, Libertarian or a Pastafarian well maybe some of you are Pastafarians 🙂 …you are a (supposedly), a freethinking thinking individual that votes for a representative that comes close to your ideology.
They are not your leaders, they are supposed to stand for you, therefore you MUST hold them accountable for their deeds and support them when warranted. IF you allow partisan dogma to indoctrinate you then you are a slave to people that answer not to you but corporations.
BINGO. But old habits are hard to break, especially when there’s no alternative viewpoint readily available. Expect this to worsen.
R’amen!..The vast majority of our leadership is corrupt AF and must be held accountable for their nefarious ways….8-)
Bring it on.
Luv it!, and so appropriate for “the season”! Though the “prosperity-gospel” creatures would not approve.
Eff ‘Em, is what I say.
Cultists!..Hiya CG!!.. ❤ ❤ & PP!!..
HIya, 4E!!! Howz things with you? ❤ ❤ PurrrrrRr
I’m all grrr most of the day, but kittehs on lap and Mrs4E help me thru it..Yeti & U??….8-)
Same, as far as the grrrr goes. Wish there was some place out of the line of fire to relocate. I am so over this.
Ditto..Mrs4E likes Sydney (but they drive on the wrong side of the road) a lot….8-)
Aaaaah – everything down there will try to kill you. 😛 If Scotland goes for Independence I’d likely consider that.
You have to eat haggis, you know….8-)
It could be worse – and I’m tired of having to eat the sh*t the Cons are dishing. Aaaargh!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr…………
We gotta work to stop ’em–it’s gonna be a slog….8-)
Yeah it is, and I’m already tired.
Rest up–Tuesday Saturn enters Capricorn for like the next 2-1/4 years!!..It should all come out (I hopoe)….8-)
Is that the day Jared gets his very own set of ‘cuffs?
and not the fun kind!
Gym time.
CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity
The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.
Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of “science-based” or “evidence-based,” the suggested phrase is “CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes,” the person said. In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/ar-BBGNo02?ocid=st
the depth of reich-wing neo-feudal corporate-fascist propagana-LIES and manipulations knows no bounds, and certainly no shame.
…and no bottom..Hioya MS–great cartoon finds!!….8-)
FAKE NEWS!..Playing poor victim snowflake while minions are lighting fires ….8-)
“life” in the stupidverse (batshit crazy-verse)
RICO ’em all and the horses they rode in on….8-)
Sign the petition: Investigate FCC vote on net neutrality due to fake public comments
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/petitions/sign-the-petition-investigate-fcc-vote-on-net-neutrality-due-to-fake-public-comments?detail=emailaction&link_id=2&can_id=1c3dc5935102fe64fcc28c60dd549038&source=email-sign-if-you-are-outraged-fcc-votes-to-kill-net-neutrality&email_referrer=email_276405&email_subject=sign-if-you-are-outraged-fcc-votes-to-kill-net-neutrality
not that I hold any illusions this will make any difference
Fascists don’t do Democracy—all this shit was predetermined the moment the Dems committed election fraud.
NYAG already filed suit….8-)
We’re trying to push our AG to follow suit, but it’s a long shot. However, she’s running for Gov, so there’s pressure to bring to bear.
No support from WI–but I’m hoping the GOP blood money infects our unholy trio….8-)
Destination, Dystopia…we have arrived. When deboarding watch that first step because it’s a motherfucker.
Ricardo Montalbán sexual harrassmen video 😀
Certainly looks like that, But he is not naked ?
PG 13.
they’re “try” him in-extenso, dig up the corpse to burn-it-at-the-stake, cuz WITCH-HUNT!
That was a nice long nap—heavy gym day wipes me out so what’s new?
The spice must flow.
‘Mornin’, Realmsters!..CAWFEFE!!..Be sure to stock up on batteries..Cuppa-cuppa….8-)
I know what to get BB for a Christmas pressie–a Bannon Chia Pet!!..It’s really a can of SPAM: All you have to do is open it, plop it on a plate, and just watch it grow–no muss, no fuss..YW….8-)
Aw, forget it–POM would just attack it–Say, where is POM??….8-)
Kenji’s at it again
DAWG!!..Looks delish!..Share with the puppies!..Been out anglin’ again??….8-)
4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man, I wish I were out anglin’. More like freezin’ my arse off.
So, are all those gifts wrapped and under the tree?
Tree??–We’d have to hang it from the ceiling!..Just gettin’ above freezin’ here–snow melting & gray..Got all week to wrap–following Jack’s lead..Got all other decorations all done, tho’–Mrs4E approved, of course..MrsCBD home for holidays??….8-)
Yeah, Wifey has off between Christmas and New Year. Now we’re headed to the mall……
Hey, I promised I would, how bad could it be?
Watch my purse… ….8-)
Someone gets it…
View story at Medium.com
“march toward corporate totalitarianism”
“the Democrats set you up, and the Republicans knock you down.”
“Democrats are able to stifle any American movement to the left on issues of economic justice and anti-corporatism by monopolizing the space meant for leftist politics and providing little if any pushback against the pro-war, pro-oligarchy, pro-corporatism agendas of the Republicans.”
“Once you get this, you suddenly have an answer to all your questions about things that don’t add up about US politics. Why is it nearly impossible to get true leftist politicians elected in America despite broad support for socialist policies and making tremendous progress on social issues like same sex marriage and marijuana legalization? Why have US politics been moving steadily steadily to the right on economic issues for decades when one of the two parties purports to oppose this? Why do Democrats loudly advocate for the little guy but slam the brakes on at the point where it might mildly inconvenience the oligarchs, the intelligence agencies or the military-industrial complex?
The answer is because they’re not fighting the Republicans. They’re fighting you.”
“They’re fighting you for the benefit of their corporate donors. They’re fighting to stop you from attaining the economic justice which would unseat the US oligarchs. They’re fighting to stop you from mounting a real revolution. They’re fighting to keep you striving for slow, incremental changes while the plutocrats build a cage of internet censorship, Orwellian surveillance, economic totalitarianism and militarized police around you as fast as they possibly can. They’re fighting to keep you begging for human rights like abortion and social justice while they continuously bolster and expand the soul-crushing Walmart economy. They’re fighting to stop you from seizing control of your government and using it to benefit yourselves instead of benefitting war profiteers and bankers.”
I like this author!, 100% gets it!
Dems are (R)-lite..The GOP is now full (Ru)..WINNING!….8-)
Word is that the woman to the right of butt hang is the one who pushed the pizzagate hoax. Birds of a feather
Momma always said, “Some people will do anything for money, and I mean anything“….8-)
Oh my….what a joke ❤
Why 2018 Might Be America’s Last Chance
What History Teaches us About Ruin, Revolution, and Renewal
https://eand.co/why-2018-is-probably-americas-last-chance-e7a95e877afe
Because if you really understand all the above, the inevitable conclusion is simply this: America has just a handful of chances left. Maybe one or two. 2018 and 2020, let’s say.
REVOLUTION!!!
Saturn stays in Capricorn until March 2020..Just sayin’….8-)
I don’t actually know much at all about astrology, except there’s the modern version and the “old” version http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/index.html
(and then there are different cultures versions entirely like the Hindu, and Chinese systems).
I simply love this song and 5th dimensions
I only recently realized Marilyn McCoo was in that group. Knew her from “Solid Gold”, remember that show, it was a thing for years.
And she married one of the member.
You were just waiting with that, weren’t you??….8-)
it’s a classic!
’tis, MS….8-)
What??..Who knew Presidential Transition Team (ppt) emails ending with “ptt.gov” where government property?..So derp….8-)
Every day, TV anchors breathlessly report some bizarre new insult or accusation or hissy fit or Putin nuzzling by the president, as he wanders around howling in the storm like a late-stage Lear — raging, blowing, spouting, wits turning — in his White House of dark delusions.
The dynamic in the capital grows ever more dangerous, as Donald Trump tells fables to justify the unjustifiable and his staff feeds him more fables in a futile attempt to manage his puerile moods. Truth is held hostage to Trump’s ego. The country’s fate — and the world’s — rests on who best flatters America’s Grand Canyon of Need.
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Hayek recalled that she was “lost in the fog of a sort of Stockholm syndrome,” thinking if she made some compromises — Weinstein demanded she add a full-frontal nude sex scene with Ashley Judd — that he would come to see her as an artist.
Hayek nailed it when she concluded: “Until there is equality in our industry, with men and women having the same value in every aspect of it, our community will continue to be a fertile ground for predators.”
No wonder, given the state of Washington and Hollywood, Dictionary.com chose “complicit” as its word of the year.
His “party” just won’t go after him, they are 100% complicit in everything he does.
The truth indeed.
They won’t turn on him until they’ve pillaged the treasury for every last cent, and turned the government over to the oligarchy irretrievably.
I’m back. Wut I miss?
Add your name to tell Department of Labor: We won’t let you take workers’ tips
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/add-your-name-to-tell-department-of-labor-we-wont-let-you-take-workers-tips?source=TipTheft2017DK&link_id=2&can_id=1c3dc5935102fe64fcc28c60dd549038&email_referrer=email_276922&email_subject=take-action-trump-wants-to-give-workers-tips-to-employers
damn the neo-feudal corporate-FASCIST bastards-to-HELL!
Those are some SOBs no?
It takes a new-depth of greedy-EVIL to go after those People’s tips! The reich-wingers just keep managing to go deeper and deeper in their absolute servitude to HELL.
Best way to avoid it is to give them a personal gift, not a tip. But then the rest of the staff gets screwed.
None of the restaurants here split tips – each one takes home what they’ve managed to get in tips home. Some of them tip out the bus goobs, fewer tip out the dish dog and none of them tip out the kitchen.
Yeah – because $2.13/hr is such an extravagant wage. Not to mention the employer takes taxes out of reported tips. I know waitrons who owe the company money when they get their checks.