Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

The words do not have to be perfect.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Come on, man.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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This also was an amusing exchange from the Wolfowitz press briefing:

Q Secretary Wolfowitz, could I just also ask you, what did you really mean when you said people in the Middle East will believe almost anything?

Mr. Wolfowitz: It’s a — here’s what I mean. And thank you for giving me a chance to clarify. It’s a comment on how we are seen as a country that can do anything, that can restore power overnight. Sometimes it’s nice to have the reputation for being almost godlike, but frankly, I think it produces this phenomenon that if something isn’t happening, it must be because the Americans don’t want it to happen; and they begin to invent the most elaborate reasons to explain it. And the fact is — you know it — we often just make mistakes. We do stupid things. And then people spend years and years afterwards with elaborate explanations of not, “Gee the Americans are stupid,” but, “There must be some very ingenious plot here.”

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    Omnibus Bill

    Same way in domestic politics here.

    The left thinks Bush (and anyone to the right of Ted Kennedy, for that matter) is a subhuman drooling cretin, so stupid and evil that he can barely get out of bed in the morning, what with the primordial ooze, boogers and brimstone flood that practically surrounds him…

    Except when Bush manages to best the left, or turn a lousy situation into an advantageous one, in which case he becomes the man behind the curtain, the fiendishly clever chap who knows all, sees all, pulls all the levers, the omnipotent evil god who controls all things that happen everywhere around the world.

    It’s funny, the way people who dislike the U.S. perceive it – alternating between acting like incoherent monkeys throwing shit, and Dale Gribble. (“You gotcher black U.N. Helicopters, an’ tha See Eye Yay…”)

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    Chris

    Sounds like Nasser. “The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.”

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