Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Bark louder, little dog.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

“But what about the lurkers?”

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

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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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