Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, man.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

White supremacy is terrorism.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

He really is that stupid.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

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Holy Warrior Boykin Finally Retires

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It’s about time.

Steve Benen has thoroughly documented Lt. Gen. William Boykin’s cartoonishly enthusiastic evangelist streak. The next time you see a jihadi video ranting about imperialist American crusaders out to destroy the Muslim religion, keep Boykin in mind. We really have guys like that. It’s worse than scattered nuts like Coulter and Malkin or the odd presidential freudian slip. We had a guy who presented our side in exactly the same terms that terrorist recruiters use to describe us running counterterror operations at the Pentagon.

Now Boykin’s gone, the nutters seem to have quieted down at the Air Force Academy and we have a Secretary of Defense who seems minimally capable of doing his job. Chalk it up to the soft bigotry of low expectations, but I feel something verging on relief.

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    Tsulagi

    Boykin is a crack up. He’s capable in many ways, but he’s a certified loon. He really believes he has a photo of Satan hovering over Mogadishu when we were in Somalia.

    Props to Gates. He’s forced out Boykin and some of Cheney’s Gestapo (Powell used that term) like Cambone. Actions which might have been part of the reason to create and look for a War Czar. Gates is/was daddy’s man and maybe now suspected of being not entirely loyal by the idiot son and Last Throes Cheney.

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    Davebo

    Now he can present the war on his garden moles as a Holy Crusade to his wife and his assorted buddies down at the American Legion.

    Or perhaps he saw an opportunity in the death of the right reverand Falwell.

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    Wilfred

    One by one, the stars of the Bush firmament begin to recede. Years from now we’ll look back at the Armitages, Rumsfelds and Boykins with nostalgia, to a time when uncommon craziness was a common nuisance.

    Well, at least now we know that Bush won’t attack Iran – Boykin would never have missed a chance at that.

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