Tim Kreider: "American conservatism is demographically terminal and knows it." Today's GOP is a last, panicked bid by a white male religious minority for permanent rule by any means including cheating and violence. To say you're a Republican is to say you have exactly two values: privilege and hate.
12:07 PM - Sep 03, 2023
Thom Hartmann explodes Republican rants about crime: "Poverty doesn’t cause the societal disintegration that leads to most crime, it turns out: inequality does ... Humans are wired to rebel against unfairness. Inequality devastates social trust among people, opening the door to antisocial crime."
01:47 PM - Apr 23, 2024
Odd Washington Post headline: "On Broadway, Vladimir Putin remains an enigma." Turns out he's the topic of Peter Morgan's new play "Patriots," but for a second I thought he was debuting a cabaret act with his medley of "Open a New Window," "Jump," and "Poison."
06:17 PM - Apr 22, 2024
Mike Johnson is a creepy maniac who gets hard reading "The Handmaid's Tale," so I'm glad the "Johnson heroically enables Ukraine aid" stories are yielding to the tragedy of his dithering delay. It seems clear he was motivated by his only good quality, hatred of the hideous Marjorie Taylor Greene.
06:03 PM - Apr 22, 2024
The Gran Torino and 308 GTS are legends, but I vote KITT for the great William Daniels and the best continuity error since James Bond's alley stunt in "Diamonds Are Forever"—Michael Knight each week driving into the trailer with 2 inches on each side then opening the door and getting out of the car.
10:35 AM - Apr 22, 2024
The Washington Post has an article on my go-to product, Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. It says contrary to what you may see on TikTok, do not use them on skin or teeth.
To respout an old trivia question, did you know Mr. Clean has a first name, chosen in a promotional contest in 1962? Veritably!
To respout an old trivia question, did you know Mr. Clean has a first name, chosen in a promotional contest in 1962? Veritably!
09:32 AM - Apr 22, 2024
I'm so used to 6 or 7 daily emails and texts from the DNC and Biden campaign saying "You need to make your first donation" and "Your Donor Record: NONE" that I was stunned to get a "Hi, Joe Biden here" text correctly saying I've made 3 donations totaling $600. Of course I still get all the others.
01:54 PM - Apr 18, 2024
Corrupt, cadaverous Batboy Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has launched his reelection campaign with an ad about him fighting socialism, starting from the get-go with the lie that Republicans can define a single Democratic program as socialist apart from the "make the rich pay their fair share of taxes" thing.
01:08 PM - Apr 18, 2024
I continue to seethe with jealousy over @ScottClevenger 's movie review subtitles. This week's flick is "Event Horizon," which gets "Attention: Eye Protection Must Be Worn in This Area."
01:02 PM - Apr 18, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
There's a hideous piece on the CNN site by a right-wing think-tanker about "the basic problem with putting Trump on trial," bitching about Democrats' "creative legal theories" (i.e., enforcing the law) and "too-cute attempts to keep Trump out of the White House."
12:53 PM - Apr 18, 2024
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You may know it's Batman's 85th anniversary, but did you know there's a limited-edition scent with notes of candied apple, magnolia, oh, really just sweat and rubber? "The modern, empowered woman who embraces the timeless allure of Batman" can own a 2.5-ounce bottle with Swarovski crystals for $418.
12:22 PM - Apr 15, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Creepy Jesus freak Mike Johnson and his buddy Baphomet ranting about how the great replacement causes a tsunami of non-citizen voting (the right-wing Heritage Foundation counts 80-odd cases among a billion ballots in 20 years) inspires me to respout my two infallible rules:
11:50 AM - Apr 13, 2024
It's time for bed. I glanced at this and thought it said "Are you by chance having ED on happy hour." That's rather personal.
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Jettyon Pyatt @Jetta1PAre you by chance having EP on happy hour right about now🥃 🤔😁10:43 PM - Apr 12, 2024
11:09 PM - Apr 12, 2024
I'm sure some bank tellers are fine people, but banks in general are scum. Yesterday I deposited a check my wife wrote from her old account so we could e-file our taxes, and today I learned it's subject to an 11-day hold. I'd be fine with 3 days but 11? How are we supposed to pay April 15?
12:35 PM - Apr 12, 2024
Seven-month-old Nessie acting all cute and shit. "I can flop on the desk. I do what I want. I'm Daddy's girl." Saucy minx. #CatsOfSpoutible
12:54 PM - Apr 11, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Spoutible keeps disappearing the gift link I tried to put to a Washington Post story about self-described "alpha male" Nick Adams, but basically he's just another albeit epic example of the legions MAGA has given us—types you can really only describe as half clown and half asshole.
09:26 PM - Apr 09, 2024
I've never managed more than 700 spouts in a night.
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Kay Emell @WonderfulWon’t make it to 1,000 spouts tonight. Thats as it should be. G’night, spoutains! 🩷08:44 PM - Apr 09, 2024
09:17 PM - Apr 09, 2024
Via Raw Story: A Trump advisor explains how RFK Jr.'s support, which is nearly 100% Republican, backfires: "The challenge today with Kennedy is he is appealing to the 'go fuck the world' voter, which is a portion of the Trump coalition."
10:28 AM - Apr 09, 2024
I keep telling Rascal the wrist rest is supposed to go on the near side of the keyboard. #Caturday #CatsOfSpoutible
09:00 AM - Apr 06, 2024
I actually agree with saying "Democrats have to earn my vote" in the sense that I needed to spend a good 30 or 40 seconds reading their policies before deciding yep, I support them. More to the point, Republicans do a spectacular amount of clinching my vote for Democrats every day.
04:29 PM - Apr 04, 2024
Cis straight white man here. Anyone who comes after Kace is going to have to go through me, and ten thousand other folks stronger and smarter than me.
09:00 AM - Apr 04, 2024
You call yourself a Republican? You're a racist or at least OK with violent bigotry; you like policies that benefit billionaires and polluters but don't do a damn thing for you; and you wish independent women and gay and trans people didn't exist and America had a dictator like Putin. Suck it.
11:35 AM - Apr 03, 2024
The barbarism of Hamas terrorists cannot go unpunished. But Israel has bulldozed Palestinian civilians, killing over 30,000 including over 12,000 children, not to mention blocking aid, causing famine, and killing 200 aid workers. Why is Benjamin Netanyahu not before the World Court for war crimes?
08:33 AM - Apr 03, 2024
Robyn Pennachia at Wonkette: "While I would generally caution anyone against getting their hopes up as far the state of Florida is concerned (unless those hopes involve meth-gators in some capacity), [abortion bans] have not worked out too well for Republicans even in the most conservative states."
12:21 PM - Apr 02, 2024
The Republican campaign message: "We've proven we can't govern and always crash the economy. We have literally no plans or policies except taking away your freedoms, no taxes on billionaires, and imposing a dictatorship like our idol Putin. But vote for us because Democrats are literally Satan."
08:35 PM - Apr 01, 2024
@JeffTiedrich today: "In 2016, Michelle Obama famously said, 'When they go low, we go high'—but that was then, and this is now. In 2024, we need to be 'When they go low, we go thermonuclear.'"
08:24 PM - Apr 01, 2024
#Spoutories
"Waste not, want not" is a sensible idea in theory, but can certainly be taken too far. Who was it who first thought "Grapes way past their sell-by date, yeah, that'll work"? #NoRaisinNation
"Waste not, want not" is a sensible idea in theory, but can certainly be taken too far. Who was it who first thought "Grapes way past their sell-by date, yeah, that'll work"? #NoRaisinNation
01:10 PM - Apr 01, 2024
I flunked the #SpoutibleScavengerHunt because there's no #Candy in the house. Will this package of raisins do? #NoRaisinNation
09:13 AM - Apr 01, 2024
My new therapist says self-esteem involves comparison to others, while true self-compassion is more embracing one's humanity and imperfections. Technically April has no imperfections but there's the shriveled scrap thing. #NoRaisinNation
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April Sparkles @April_SparklesI keep liking myself. It’s wonderful for my self esteem! 😂💛08:14 AM - Apr 01, 2024
08:46 AM - Apr 01, 2024
It's been sad watching Republicans claim they own Easter. Democrats have many faiths, some have none, but most worship a loving God. Republicans used to just worship Mammon, but these days most of them worship a racist, rapist Russian asset.
11:50 PM - Mar 31, 2024
Been rewatching movies lately and enjoying some of my favorite whooping, hollering, crowd-goes-wild moments from movie theaters. Two examples: "Major Strasser has been shot! [beat] Round up the usual suspects" and "Cap is worthy." What are yours?
09:53 PM - Mar 31, 2024
