Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

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

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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  5. 5.

    Blue Jean

    Brave Ms. Malkin ran away
    Brave Ms. Malkin ran away, away
    When debate reared its ugly head,
    Ms. Malkin turned her tail and fled,
    Brave, brave, brave, brave Ms. Malkin

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    atari_age

    The trick is how to deal with the falling livestock and (later) poop. Is it ok to fling some of it back up at them? Or should we just use it to our advantage as food and fertilizer? And can I take this Python analogy and further and still have it make sense politically?

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    jcricket

    It’s basic physics. A right-wing commentator with an 8 oz brain simply cannot fathom the facts of a 10-lb debate about healthcare.

    I don’t love TNR, but I was reading their summary of this issue. After the TNR author found out that the Frosts had tried and failed to get private healthcare on their own (rejected for pre-existing medical conditions), the response by the supposed healthcare expert Republicans were using to question the Frosts’ healthcare cost estimates was priceless:

    I e-mailed Vineyard to see whether the cheap policy he quoted might have covered pre-existing conditions. Vineyard, who is also a private health insurance agent, declined to answer my questions. Instead, he responded thusly:

    “I’m not sure why you would try and divert the issue away from the point of my blog, but that is your prerogative. Have a nice day.”

    Do none of them have the spine to stick behind their statements when questioned?

  11. 11.

    jcricket

    Money quote from the same TNR article:

    Maybe that’s why polls show large majorities of Americans supporting S-CHIP expansion and, increasingly, the creation of a universal health care system guaranteeing coverage as a birthright.

    And maybe that is why the right is getting so desperate. They know they are defending a hopelessly dysfunctional system–a system in which even the middle class can struggle.

    Much like their response on any number of issues where they are hopelessly out of the mainstream (Iraq, stem cells, global warming).

  12. 12.

    Jess

    jcricket–

    that is a very good point. I think this may backfire on the right even more spectacularly than I hoped it might.

  13. 13.

    jcricket

    that is a very good point. I think this may backfire on the right even more spectacularly than I hoped it might.

    Don’t forgot about their opposition to gay rights, womens rights, minority rights, etc. Poll after poll shows the trends on these issues solidly in line with the Democratic party. Yet when they find their “gambit” has put them in a deep hole, what do Republicans do? Double down and get more unhinged.

    They’re basically like a football coach that at one point had a novel strategy that worked against unprepared teams. Then all the other teams wised up, changed their game plan and started beating that Republican team soundly. But the coach and his staff are so wedded to/enamored of the strategy they can’t see it’s a loser. I think I saw this in Varsity Blues or something.

  14. 14.

    Rome Again

    Don’t forgot about their opposition to gay rights, womens rights, minority rights, etc. Poll after poll shows the trends on these issues solidly in line with the Democratic party. Yet when they find their “gambit” has put them in a deep hole, what do Republicans do? Double down and get more unhinged.

    Yeah, except the Dems don’t know how to bluff either, so, unfortunately, the strategy still has some steam to it.

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