Scott Brown

Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...

www.tcj.com/talking-ogla... Real good interview with the artists behind @oglaf.bsky.social - one of my favorite webcomics ever. Warning, some NSFW images (because Oglaf is heavily, but not entirely, sex farce).

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

The game would have a redemption arc for Agamemnon and decide he merely made a whoopsie-doodle that could be fixed offscreen with no input from the player.

I have only ever heard your voice on podcasts, and I have always considered you to be in the raccoon family.

Schumer always seemed quite smug, self-satisfied, and high-handed towards Democratic voters - the fucker cared more about what the imaginary voters in his head thought than his actual voters.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Once I told a teacher I didn’t have my algebra homework because the gales of November came early. She failed me, which was very disrespectful to the sailors lost that day.

Need a safety to really get a fun score.

To our knowledge he hasn't sacrificed a daughter to ensure favorable winds.

Of course, he refuses to have daughters...

The Democrats erred by not forcing Republicans to nuke the filibuster. But there was nothing Democrats could have done to get the ACA subsidies extended, because Republicans control all three branches and strongly believe that only rich people should have access to decent healthcare

Excellent. Precisely the type of pressure that's needed.

Lol, should have known something like this would get into the bill. Thanks, Shaheen and King and Warner and Coins.

Zentrumspartei voting for the Enabling Acts energy.

Sure, some wild-eyed leftists like [check notes] Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias think Democrats were winning the shutdown and shouldn't have caved....

👏DON'T👏FUCK👏YOUR👏STUDENTS👏

We'd kill him again just as quickly.

Schumer said the Dems will "keep fighting". Keep fighting their own voters? Keep fighting off effectiveness? Keep fighting being held accountable for anything? As far as I can tell the Democratic leadership is good at one thing only now, which is sending fundraising messages to my phone.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Mad at Dem leadership and the cowards they enable? Run for office, then dethrone their asses.

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Inshallah.

There were a lot more than those 8, if you look at when they're up for reelection. A large part of the caucus is congenitally unable to learn a goddamn thing.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

If you can't hold your caucus together, why the fuck are you leader? Retire, bitch.

That is, of course, why they're doing it now. And based upon who voted, we know there's other cowards who they're covering for. Primary Hickenlooper and Warner and others in 2026 for being utterly incapable of meeting the moment.

If this wasn't a terrible fucking deal for Dems the defectors wouldn't be pushing this through immediately before they can face any backlash that'd make some of them waver on their vote.

And this is before it gets to the House where it's entirely possible it fails.

We are a two fed family, so no income for 40 days. I am incandescent with rage about the Dems caving.

In terms of "promising a vote" does that mean a straight up or down vote or one subject to cloture? I'd expect the GOP to block it from coming to that to protect their members.

this legislation also includes backpay for federal employees, despite the saber rattling from the White House.

THAT IS ALREADY A LAW. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THAT LAW. YOU ARE A FUCKING NEWS REPORTER