Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

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

When I was faster i was always behind.

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

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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  1. 1.

    CadillaqJaq

    Yes, John, but did you read the comments to MY’s post? Jeezo-pete… and many of those assholes are in wonderment that GWB was reelected.

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    Al Maviva

    Interesting yes, but he still doesn’t get it.

    You don’t have to be a full-on bible thumper to be with Bush, or conservatism. If you hew closely to the Judeo-Christian system of morality, or if you believe that “social justice” isn’t just a code word for forcible redistribution of the wealth but rather a duty of doing right, when there is a choice between right and wrong – well, then you are probably in Bush’s camp, more or less.

    There are some morally driven people on the left, but most of the morals I see emanating from the left appear to be of the “smug assurances of the age” type of morals – “why, everybody should be in favor of gay marriage, and anybody who isn’t is just an immoral hater” type stuff. As the Dems have raced to ditch any notion of conventional morality (with its timeless notion of right and wrong) people who believe that there is something beyond themselves and the momentary pleasure of self indulgence, have had to move to a new political address. The Republican Party may not be a permanent home, but it’s a decent place to rent an apartment for now.

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    Sinbad

    I don’t really see it as that good a point; distilled, Yglesias is basically saying, “They’re pious moralizers who think they’re doing Good Works(tm) but nevertheless get more wrong than right.”

    Of course, take my opinion for what it is: snark from somebody who thinks the whole concept of “social justice” is Marxist claptrap.

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    Karen

    An interesting post indeed but, like Cadillaqjaq, I find the comments more interesting. If they spent half as much time weighing the good and harm done by various governmental and NGO aid programs, they might actually see an improvement in the “social justice” they are looking for.

  6. 6.

    Dave Schuler

    Way too snooty for a kid who can’t string together a grammatical sentence without an editor looking over his shoulder:

    and that they are tacked on to various more-or-less nutty proposals that strike Mark and I as unrelated

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