Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

T R E 4 5 O N

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

No one could have predicted…

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Republicans don’t trust women.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

I really should read my own blog.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

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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.

  2. 2.

    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.

  4. 4.

    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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