Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

We will not go back.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Come on, man.

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

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

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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Corporate Welfare

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I am about as anti-tax as is possible, but this sure does stick in my craw for some reason:

More than 60% of U.S. corporations didn’t pay any federal taxes for 1996 through 2000, years when the economy boomed and corporate profits soared, Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal reported, citing the investigative arm of Congress.

The disclosures from the General Accounting Office are certain to fuel the debate over corporate tax payments in the presidential campaign. Corporate tax receipts have shrunk markedly as a share of overall federal revenue in recent years, and were particularly depressed when the economy soured. By 2003, they had fallen to just 7.4% of overall federal receipts, the lowest rate since 1983, and the second-lowest rate since 1934, federal budget officials say.

Fix the damned tax code. Pronto. If I am way off base here- explain to me why these corporations shouldn’t have to pay SOMETHING.

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Iraq

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Only a fool would deny the obvious- things are a bloody mess in Iraq. However, I think things are not as bad as they could be, and I never thought this would be easy, so I remain hopeful and keep praying for those men and women in harm’s way. Really- what else can I do?

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The Failure of the 9/11 Commission

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I hereby declare the 9/11 Commission a waste. What may have been a useful endeavor to examine intelligence shortcomings and institutional problems in the pre-9/11 era has now effectively been so lost in partisan finger-pointing (here is the latest installment)that I really couldn’t give two hoots in hell about their conclusion anymore.

I know what happened- we didn’t take terrorism seriously enough, in either administration, and we got hit hard by a group of savages. The questions that we need to ask now is are we doing enough and are we doing the right things.

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Which NY Times Columnist Are You?

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You are William Safire! You’re ruthless and
cunning, and a conservative demigod. You used
to write speeches for Nixon. Now you write
another column on the English language which
has made you the world’s most popular
etymologist. You hate media deregulation, but
love the Bush administration. If only you
weren’t such a brilliant writer. You bastard.

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Clearly, the quiz graders have not seen my daily assault on the English language.

(via TalkLeft)

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Let’s Hope This Doesn’t Become a Meme

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Dave Neiwert is right– this is idiotic:

Unfounded Accusations Against Presidents Should Be A Felony

There needs to be a law passed where any person who disrespects the “Office of the Presidency” by making false accusations and spreading deliberate rumors about the president, should be charged with a felony or at the very least a high misdemeanor.

Dave snarks- “Damn, if this had been the law in 1998, every Freeper on the planet — and about half of Congress — would have been behind bars.” Maybe, but we know which half of Congress would currently be heading for a term in the hoosegow if this law were in place.

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