Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

“woke” is the new caravan.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

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

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

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

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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False Hysteria

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Matt Yglesias links to this piece in TNR debunking the false hysteria promoted by the rhetoric of the pro-choice crowd. I understand that they must use this sort of nonsense to whip up their base, but it is really unappealing to the vast majority of voters. You think they would have learned this by now. I am pro-choice (within reason), but I have little sympathy or patience with the rabid abortion-at-all-costs that gets all the press. They make my head hurt as much as the Falwell’s and the Robertson’s. Every time Al Gore got up on the podium during the last election and said in his drawn out faux-good-old-boy accent “The right for women to choose is in deep peril,” I just wanted to smack him in the face. I am assuming I am not alone.

Matt closes with this remark:

At any rate, you won’t see me supporting pro-life Supreme Court nominees.

That is fine- everyone has their issues and their reasons. But can we stop the lying and the hysteria (and Matt agrees with the article, so I am not insinuating or implying he is lying, so don’t go flaming him)?

*** Update ***

Yglesias has updated his comments and I don’t know if initially interpreted him in the manner I should have. To hell with it. Go read the TNR article.

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Presidential Mad-Libs

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How many of you out there remember Mad-Libs?

If you don’t, it went something like this:

A famous or noted phrase was taken, and then verbs and nouns were removed, allowing players to insert words oftheir choice. You could come up with some great humor that way, and I spent hours in the car on long trips as a kid playing the game.

At any rate, now that every liberal in the House and Senate is running for the Democrat nomination, I thought it would be fun if I created a special series for the candidates. Thus, I introduce the first edition of Presidential Mad Libs (and yes, I think Mad Libs is a punny title and intend to keep it).

Week 1’s submission, from Dick ‘Gebhardt’s’ announcement today:

Fill in the following and then click on the extended link below to fill them in in the appropriate place. Don’t forget to submit your Presidential Mad Lib in the comments section. I will select the winner, and the reward will be a prominent link to your website for a week, or a pat on the back if you don’t have one.

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Remember, keep it somewhat clean, folks, and don’t look at the phrase until AFTER you have chosen your words. That ruins it.

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High Tech Weaponry

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No, this is not an Onion story:

A war against Iraq will see the debut of some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever used. But U.S. troops will also rely on one of the most low-tech detection devices around: chickens. Worried that the pollution from blown oil installations will clog up complicated detection equipment and make it difficult to pick up deadly chemicals and nerve agents, U.S. marines and soldiers will drive into battle across the dusty plains of Iraq with caged chickens atop their Hum-Vees.

The chickens, which were otherwise destined for Kuwaiti dinner tables, will work in the same way as canaries in coal mines used to. Small traces of poisonous gases or chemical agent will kill the birds and warn troops to put on their gas masks. “A sky full of oil can mask some chemicals,” says Warrant Officer Jeff French, a nuclear, biological and chemical officer for a marine battalion in Kuwait. “Using chickens may sound basic but it’s still one of the best ways we have of detecting chemical agent.”

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