If you're not following me on Bluesky you're missing out on a marathon of fun paired history facts about the countries in every World Cup matchup, featuring once-in-a-lifetime sentences like "In 1893, 200 Australian sheep shearers boarded a ship to follow a leftist labor journalist around Cape Horn and establish a utopian socialist, teetotal, whites-only New Australia on free land in the Paraguayan jungle." Remedy this immediately. ...
t's great that the cage fight at the White House - an almost fatally embarrassing thing in its own right; try saying the phrase out loud - is happening during the NBA Finals, the Stanely Cup Finals, and the Men's World Cup. Unless he dies at ringside, it might be the 4th sports headline on Monday. Emphasis on "might be."
Sure we're auctioning off whatever tiny shreds of dignity we have left as a nation but isn't it worth it to maybe be the top story on Yahoo! Sports for 20 minutes between World Cup group stage results like "Paraguay vs. Turkey" and "Ascension Island vs. Bir Tawil" ...
They're calling this an IPO because legally they can't print up a giant banner reading HEY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD A BAG, YOU BIG FUCKING IDIOT?
Make sure YOU don't miss out on the opportunity to put up 48% of the money for 4.2% of the stock! Book value, $8! ...
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Dustin says:
Why? Because he wants what is best for the country and refuses to stick to party lines? Not saying I agree with his vision of what's best, but I respect his maverick stance.
Also, a politician should cater to their constituency, and GOP voters DID vote him into office. Heh.
J. Dryden says:
While I agree that adhering blindly to the party line is not necessarily an attractive trait in a politician, there's a difference between being a maverick and being a smug douche who's been consistently proven wrong on his foreign policy issues and yet continues to flaunt them as if he'd been proven right.
Ed says:
His Napoleonic power trip over the Democratic senate majority has put him on my permanent shit list. His issue positions do not bother me beyond the fact that I often disagree with them.
He is a petty, egotistical, condescending asshat. I can't wait until these Senate elections are over. I forsee the solid Democratic majority filming a nice good-bye message to Joe in late November. "Hey former colleague. You know that bed you made? Enjoy sleeping in it."
warmbowski says:
I just watched the HBO movie Recount which chronicles his ability to throw a wrench in his own election bid for VP, by waffling on the issue with overseas military ballots that weren't postmarked or signed.
What a Schmuck!
Dustin says:
A schmuck he may be, but I'd love to see a Jew in the White House.