Birds of a Feather

And so forth. Actually, I think this is pretty funny:

President Trump's reelection bid received a vote of support Friday from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News in a phone interview, "We hope he will win the election and wind up U.S. military presence in Afghanistan." The militant group expressed some concern about Mr. Trump's bout with the coronavirus. "When we heard about Trump being COVID-19 positive, we got worried for his health, but seems he is getting better," another Taliban senior leader told CBS News.

The Trump camp's reaction is about what you'd expect:

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said Saturday that they "reject" the Taliban support. "The Taliban should know that the president will always protect American interests by any means necessary," Murtaugh said.

"American interests" in this context being Trump's bank account. And don't forget -- he only likes white terrorists.

Via Joe.My.God.

Antidote: Hey, Those Are Mine!

Via Digby:

This cat discovering that it has ears is absolutely the best thing I will see today. pic.twitter.com/SDx80QOnAI

— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) July 16, 2020

The Weather Forecast for Chicago

The National Weather Service says, and I quote:

This Afternoon: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a steady temperature around 78. East wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

It is currently 95 degrees at O'Hare, there are a few wispy clouds that wouldn't dream of making rain, and the wind, what there is of it, is mostly from the south.

Sign du Jour

Sign in the window of Chicago Bagel Authority on Belmont Avenue:

With thanks to commenter fuzzybits at Joe.My.God.

Giggle du Jour

Courtesy of commenter Jeff25 at Crooks and Liars:

That is such a Groucho comeback.

Giggle du Jour

With thanks to commenter thatoneguy at Joe.My.God.

Giggle du Jour

I don't think I need to comment:

Love the Evangelicals out there preaching that they are not going to have something invisible control their lives.

Give it a sec.

— YS (@NYinLA2121) April 21, 2020

With thanks to commenter jixter at Joe.My.God.

Giggle du Jour

With thanks to commenter Bungemmint at Joe.My.God.:

Image of the Week

I love it:

Who did this?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/eUvs6hgcpQ

— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) December 14, 2018

With thanks to commenter Slippy-World at Joe.My.God., in a post about something else entirely.

In case you managed somehow to miss the image this is based on, here's the White House Christmas decorations for 2018:

Image du Jour

I don't need to add anything to this:

Thanks to John Cole at Balloon Juice.

Image du Jour: Taking Care of the Floor

Just in case you haven't heard Trump's totally brainless comment on forest management:

“You look at other countries where they do it differently and it’s a whole different story,” he continued. “I was with the president of Finland and he said: ‘We have a much different — we’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things. And they don’t have any problem.”

This is the best response I've seen:

Just an ordinary day in the Finnish forest ~ Ihan normipäivä suomalaisessa metsässä #Trump #forest #firesafety #raking #forestry #Finland #Finnish #CaliforniaFire #RakingAmericaGreatAgain #rakingtheforest #Suomi #haravointi #metsäpalot #rakingleaves pic.twitter.com/YOKA3D6C2K

— Pyry Luminen (@pyryluminen) November 18, 2018

Giggle du Jour

Ain't karma a bitch?

I'm sure he feels his religious freedom has been violated.

Thanks to commenter Clive Johnson at Joe.My.God.

Quote of the Week

From commenter coram nobis at Joe.My.God.:."

From former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's column, today:

Badda boom: A guy came up to me the other day and said, “Mr. Brown, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings have had at least one impact.

“We will never again be able to say ‘sober as a judge’ with a straight face.”

That's all, folks.

Image du Jour

I couldn't resist. Offered by commenter Slippy_World at this thread at Joe.My.God.

 

Signs of the Times

New York City (or at least, its tourism group) has undertaken an ad campaign promoting New York City as the "intersection of everything," which in itself is not particularly objectionable (although Chicago could certainly dispute it). Fine.

But the website on the ads is "NYCGO.com." Now I'm sure to a New Yorker, that translates as "New York City Go." To a Chicagoan, however, it reads "New York Chicago."

Just sayin'.

Quote du Jour

From commenter StevenB at Joe.My.God.:

Giggle du Jour

The Birther-in-Chief is on his way to Asia to visit his Asian hotels -- umm, a state visit to meet eastern heads of state. First stop, of course, is Hawai'i:

Protestors troll Trump with "Welcome to Kenya" signs during Hawaii visit https://t.co/iep1MFYbWB pic.twitter.com/FQ958ekMlq

— The Hill (@thehill) November 4, 2017

Pfft!

We Can Dream. . . .

Sadly, it came back:

But then at 8:05 p.m. ET, Twitter posted a statement saying Trump’s “account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee.”

“The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored,” the statement read. “We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.”

However, two hours later, Twitter admitted that the deactivation wasn’t an accident at all. A preliminary investigation showed that Trump’s account was taken offline “by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day.”

Oh, well. . . .

Cartoon du Jour

There's something reminiscent of Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter in this:

Or maybe it's just that this is where the Republican party has gotten to.

Via Digby.

Giggle du Jour

From Nikolaos Thiwerspoon, who claims he found it on Tumblr:

"The Flat Earth Society has members all round the globe"