Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Republicans do not trust women.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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Bullshit Headlines

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The headline reads:

Ariz. Bishop Says He Hid Abuse Complaints

and the first few lines of the story state:

The Roman Catholic bishop of Phoenix has relinquished some of his authority in an unprecedented agreement with prosecutors that will spare him from indictment on charges of protecting child-molesting priests.

Under the agreement, Bishop Thomas J. O’Brien acknowledged he concealed sex-abuse allegations against priests, Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley said Monday.

So why doesn’t the headline really tell you the truth:

Lying Pedophile Enabler Admits Pattern of Corruption and Deceit in An Agreement to Escape Prosecution.

Cuz that is what really happened, you know.

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Good Ole Bob

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Leave it to Bob Herbert to not understand that people who don’t pay taxes, by definition, can’t get a tax cut.

*** Update ***

According to people I trust in the comments section, I am wrong. There are people who are paying more than payroll tax (8 Million of them) who are not receiving a cut. I want to know if this is from the original bill or due to ‘negotiations’ on the hill.

*** Update #2 ***

I guess I am not the only one ot misunderstand the tax cut. Paul Krugman doesn’t undertsand it either.

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The New “New” Vacation Hot Spot

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This doesn’t sound like my cup of tea:

Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit group that builds low-cost housing, is opening an unorthodox ”theme park” at its world headquarters this week designed to give tourists a look at the world’s worst slums.

Millard Fuller, founder of the organization, said he expects the Global Village & Discovery Center to attract as many as 70,000 tourists in its first year of operation.

”Essentially, it’s a theme park for poverty housing,” Fuller told Reuters. ”You’ll come out of the center and walk right into a slum. You’ll see the kind of pitiful living conditions so many people in the world have.”

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Hidden Meanings

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The Winds of Change has a long and very readable series of posts about why the Democrats are in trouble in 2004, and while they bring up many points (some good, some not so good), I think this comment by Kevin Drum goes farther to illustrate why Democrats are in trouble more than anything described by the folks at the Winds of Change. While discussing FCC Deregulation, Kevin states:

Heh, heh, just kidding. See, the problem is that I’m not sure I’m actually opposed to deregulation. There, I said it.

Roughly speaking, here’s where I stand: despite my liberal leanings, my conservative readers will be either surprised or amused (depending on temperament) to hear me say that I’m not especially in favor of government regulation of industry without a compelling reason.

I don’t recall the party of JFK (and that is Kennedy, not Kerry, thank you) beig culturally and politically defined as the anti-business party, yet that is where the Democrats find themselves today, at least rhetorically. All the years of faux-populism, railing against business, and using the class warfare rhetoric has placed the Democrats in a position where even Kevin has to excuse himself and explain- “Hey- even though I am a liberal- I am not overtly and instinctively anti-business.” When a proud member of the supposedly liberal party has to excuse himself for choosing the primacy of the individual over government, of the primacy of private enterprise over heavy-handed government involvement and regulation, it goes a long way to explain some of the problems the Democrats currently have to overcome.

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Congo Update

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While waiting for the woefully undermanned contingent of UN peacekeepers, at least 100 more people were slaughtered in the Congo:

At least 100 people were massacred at the weekend in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), near the southern tip of Lake Albert, a Ugandan army officer said on Sunday.

A DRC rebel official put the number of dead at more than 250, including about 20 babies.

The killings come in the wake of a spate of massacres in DRC’s Ituri region and amid preparations for a major French-led international force to deploy over the next week in Bunia, Ituri’s capital, to protect civilians.

Ugandan army Brigadier Kale Kaihura said that fighters from Ituri’s majority Lendu ethnic group attacked the rival Hemas “in Kyomya, about 30 kilometres from the Ugandan border, when they realised that withdrawing Ugandan forces, stuck there due to heavy rains, had finally withdrawn.”

Meanwhile, there appears to be no real mandate for the UN contingent, even when it does arrive:

The UN mission in Congo needs a tougher mandate across the board to allow it to keep the peace and help end the world’s deadliest ongoing conflict, a top UN official said.

A robust French-led force is due to start deploying to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week after getting the go-ahead from the UN Security Council to end horrific militia killings and cannibalism in the stricken Ituri region.

However, troops from the United Nations Observation Mission in Congo (MONUC) mission elsewhere in Africa’s third biggest country have a mandate which lets them do little but defend themselves. Uruguayan soldiers in Ituri were powerless to stop savage killings – including those of two UN observers.

For more information, make sure you check the Africapundit, and also read this piece in today’s NY Times.

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