Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

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

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

This really is a full service blog.

“They all knew.”

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

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

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

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

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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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