From Rudyard Kipling's "Tommy" ...

O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.

DEI judge or she's on the take.
#1 | POSTED BY VISITOR

Interchangeable.
#2 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Small net in need of repair cast across yuuge waters by possessors of teeny minds. Hilarious run up to the New Year. Thanks, cosplayers!

"Matriphagy," not "matripjagy."

Being totally ignorant as to the ladybird spider, I opted for a brief trip down the proverbial rabbit hole. And that's where I learned a new word: matripjagy? Whoosh. Live and learn. Thanks for posting that key to a small rabbit hole door, always interesting.

TWINPAC
Condolences on the reason for your rite of passage visit to West Virginia.

Some people see Weat Virginia as real "Take Me Home, Country Roads" country. I've been there a few times and always found it to be one of those locales with a decidedly "The Land Where They Eat Their Young" vibe. And it's not the topography that does that.

PFC Chickenhawk MacBonespurs is a giddy wars freak.
Like a lot of bloviators who keep themselves and theirs well clear of it.

"The sentence for nothing is ten years".
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1

The nursing home industry? Free to do what?
#2 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Cut costs and maximize profits.
Not called an "industry" for nothing.
Remember: "Corporations are people, my friend."
Land of the free, home of the brave.

hilarious watching the anti semetic left denounce anti semitism. This is the party that loves Hamas FFS.
#23 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Not nearly as hilarious as reading a comment about antisemitism from someone who can't spell the word and probably doesn't know what it even means.

#74 | POSTED BY SCOTTS

See now how it starts, Scotts?
Here's the usual Trumpian stance: Maybe true, maybe not, who knows, doesn't matter, nothing to do with me.
But it does have to do with him because he and Epstein were all over each other for ages
That's why Trump and his apologists will be dancing with this one for ages down the road.
Epstein was a gift MAGAts sought, believing it would serve their partisan purposes.
But now that they've got Epstein, suddenly he's got them.
Why the coverup MAGAts?
A little more cream with that schadenfreude, thanks.
Bon appetit!

Poor Boaz.
No critical thinking skills.
Perfect for Pharaoh's Army (see Tobias Wolff).
And all those forever wars.
But for comprehending the world in which you live?
Helplessly hopeless.

The White House Dementia Care Unit recognizes MAGAts throughout the land.
You gave us this.
Now go suck on some filthy Appalachian coal.

Saying Merry Christmas takes courage when you're a crazy lib. They hate that phrase
#33 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Such a small world.
Merry Christmas.

And to you and yours as well.

Would-be Yevgeny Prigozhins take note.

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

Thoughts and prayers, etc., etc., etc.

"War what is it good for? It's good for business."
Billy Bragg

Once again, the White House Dementia Care Unit falls down on the job.

I think it's good for the US to pay a great deal of attention to Latin America.
But not by allying with what are essentially rightwing hacendado cliques.
Trump will, though, because he personifies the pinche gringo bent on ripping off.

Don't drink it anymore, but when I did it didn't take long to figure out there was a whole world of excellent bourbon out there that left Jim Beam and Jack Daniel's in the proverbial dust. The Canadians are doing themselves a favor.

Before this is done, Trump will rescind the 1909 order abolishing wooden figureheads on the bows US Navy ships so he can have larger-than-lifesized(?) carvings of underage mermaids with yuuge ... prospects.

Boaz is gassed trying to keep up with TrumpWelt's shifting party line.
"We have always been at war with Eastasia."
Must be tough, though, adjusting to the shifting realities of a cult run by a senescent lunatic.