I am highly disappointed that none of you thought of this first.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Let’s finish the job.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
People are complicated. Love is not.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
The words do not have to be perfect.
Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
You can’t love your country only when you win.
Tick tock motherfuckers!
Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.
The willow is too close to the house.
John Cole
That is the kind of idiotic proposal that you would see in a Red State diary (and they would think it was not only clever, but serious and plausible).
Dreggas
I feel ashamed I didn’t think of that first. Here I thought that much like the state of Georgia the well was indeed dry…
Dreggas
The well I refer to is the one filled with entirely un-fucking-believable craptastic ideas.
Jake
They keep dropping the L when they spell his name. You have to love the line of “reasoning” here. If tactical aid to FreedomLovas is good (and it must be good since St. Ron did it), then tactical nukes is even better!
And given his party affiliation, he might still be in diapers.
Ugh
What a wuss, we should be giving nuclear weapons to our new Sunni ex-insurgent allies in Iraq to help root out al-Qaeda. Just one per person though, them’s expensive.
sujal
Um. Wow.
Jake
Speaking of Craptastic, care to guess his website’s Level of Dreadful?
Wrong. Not even close.
Tsulagi
That was exactly what I was thinking while first reading the Kos diary. That this dork in diapers running for Congress would be one of the future “leading lights” Kowalski was so proud of that appear on RedState.
Vote Republican! A new generation of Leading Lights on the way! Night vision goggles required to see their brilliant genius sold separately.
norbizness
No, this smacks of rank den Bestism, who contemplated a nuclear exchange with France over Iraq in 2002-2003. Of course, why confine lunacy to mere Congressional candidates?
fuddmain
Wow. All he needs is a blink tag somewhere and it’s perfect. His 5-year brother did one hell of a job.
Dreggas
Man that has to be some of the most craptastic flash I have ever seen. It’s especially funny how the “Aaron Schlock” animation jumps from one area to another at one point.
And that picture….dude…priceless.
Svensker
Hey, I don’t think it’s very nice to make fun of Aaron’s website. His 9th grade teacher gave him an A- on it, and said it was really awesome.
Zifnab
Ye gods, what the hell was he thinking. Clearly not a follower of McCain’s “The Website Was Made in the 50s” style.
Republicans really don’t know two shits about the Intertubes do they?
Faux News
Sorry Tim. My bad. May I suggest we arm Kurdistan with Nu-klee-ur war heads to keep the Turks at bay? That should stabilize thing in the mideast quite nicely.
If we REALLY get pissed off at the Turks we can also give nukes to the Greek part of Cyprus.
To quote Ed Koch: “How am I doing”?
Frank
What, you guys never met a college Republican before? I was a gaming buddy with one when I was 13-14 years old. He’d have loved this stuff.
Michael D.
Off Topic: * shudder *
r€nato
the snark practically writes itself.
Jake
Not many candidates would post a picture from their jr. high school graduation.
And the colors. My eeeeyeeeesssss! Why blue and yellow? Blue because he’s a boy and yellow … hmmm. Given he’s a Republican, I’m going to guess it signals an interest in golden showers.
But to me, the turd on the crap sundae is the curly swirly clown font used for About Aaron.
Honestly, I was expecting some lame ass pastische of American eagles, flags and crosses. Is there a way to submit a page to the Wayback Machine? This is a classic.
Chad N. Freude
Well I thought the page-turning book was a beautiful touch. They laughed at Picasso, too. Don’t you people have any aesthetic sensibility?
RSA
Oh. My. God. Paging through his picture album. . . I’ve never seen that level of craptastic interface design before. Thanks for the link.
Xanthippas
As ridiculously insane as that is, if we got onto every State House/Senate/Assembly member who said something crazy about foreign policy (or just something crazy) we’d be blogging about that everyday. And I say this as a Texan, so I know whereof I speak.
Krista
Yeah. If he were 16 and running for class president, and used that website, I’d say, “All right, cute kid, good effort on the site, not bad for his first try.”
But he’s not 16, and not running for class president, so frankly, that’s just pitiful.
bago
Nah. One they graduate college they upgrade to wetsuits.
NickM
Hey, he’s not saying that under his plan nobody’s gonna get their hair mussed . . . .
libarbarian
Hell Yeah!
First we threaten to kick Irans ass. If anyone doesn’t go along, we threaten to kick their asses. Suppose some nation has a problem with the idea of giving Taiwan nukes? Well now we have to threaten to kick their asses too. And so on…
Is their any problem that you cant solve by threatening to kick someones ass?
RSA
I can’t imagine that no Republican has yet suggested that if China starts picking up Euros instead of dollars, we should nuke them in the name of national [economic] security.
rawshark
OT
Anyone watched Enemy of The State lately? I hated it when I first saw it. Now its scary to watch. Ignore the parts about spy satelites having recording capabilities (and instant access to in-store video camera feeds) and everything they mention is possible now. And is most likely being used now since as they say in the movie you’re opinion about privacy and civil liberties will be different when buildings start blowing up. The movie was released in 1998 BTW.
LITBMueller
Hey, give the kid a break! He’s just tryin’ to live up to his unfortunately ironic last name!
ThymeZone
I dunno, it all makes perfect sense to me. If we should have given gun permits to students at Vriginia Tech (and, presumably, all campuses) to promote self defense, why wouldn’t we extrapolate that commonsense policy to nations? Wouldn’t we want to give all our friends out there nuclear weapons?
If weapon control is bad for citizens, why isn’t it bad for countries too?
When nukes are outlawed, only outlaws will have nukes.
Dennis-SGMM
The opening lyrics from Randy Newman’s “Political Science come to mind:
No one likes us-I don’t know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let’s drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful and they’re hateful
They don’t respect us-so let’s surprise them
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them
Full lyrics HERE
Punchy
Can someone give me the 10-sec skinny on whatever the fuck that link says? Some of us have webfilters that don’t allow the Orange Satan. “Profanity”, I’m told. I kid you not. It blocks DK for “profanity”, but not BJ. Unfuckingbelievable.
Dreggas
Punchy:
No one likes us-I don’t know why
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
But all around, even our old friends put us down
Let’s drop the big one and see what happens
We give them money-but are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful and they’re hateful
They don’t respect us-so let’s surprise them
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them
Asia’s crowded and Europe’s too old
Africa is far too hot
And Canada’s too cold
And South America stole our name
Let’s drop the big one
There’ll be no one left to blame us
We’ll save Australia
Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo
We’ll build an All American amusement park there
They got surfin’, too
Boom goes London and boom Paris
More room for you and more room for me
And every city the whole world round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it will be
We’ll set everybody free
You’ll wear a Japanese kimono
And there’ll be Italian shoes for me
They all hate us anyhow
So let’s drop the big one now
Let’s drop the big one now
Dreggas
Oh wait you meant the DailyKos link.
Put simply it’s about a republican who was in diapers when reagan was in office. He’s running on a platform of “If china doesn’t back us on Iran we’ll give Taiwan Nukes”. He also talks about how great regan was helping the contra’s and the “freedom fighters” and such.
ArchPundit
===As ridiculously insane as that is, if we got onto every State House/Senate/Assembly member who said something crazy about foreign policy (or just something crazy) we’d be blogging about that everyday. And I say this as a Texan, so I know whereof I speak.
I understand the point, but this asshat has been labeled as an up and comer nationally with even Novak talking him up. He’s a prohibitive favorite for that seat.
Well, until this broke.
ArchPundit
You can also click on my name, it’s on my site as well. I swear less than John, I think, so you should be safe.
ArchPundit
Oh, and he stood by it—check this out from House Race Hotline:
Dr. Schock-Love
McConoughey accused rival Schock of making “a very serious and reckless statement” when the 26-yo state Rep. proposed offering nuclear arms to Taiwan if China doesn’t go along with U.S. policy toward Iran in a speech 10/27. McConoughey said Schock’s comments “reflect a level of inexperience and overall lack of judgment and poor leadership.” McConoughey, asked why he thinks Schock made the comments: “My guess is, you know, he’s 26. And it’s a level of immaturity about what nuclear threat really can be to the United States and how it destabilizes the economic interests of the world.”
11/8 Schock “did not back down.” His camp issued a statement with the headline: “Schock: It’s Naive for My Opponents to Sit Still While Iran Builds Nuclear Weapons.” From the release, Schock said he does not plan to go to Congress “and sit idly by while Iran gets nuclear weapons. The fulcrum here is China. We need to introduce new diplomatic prods to China to get them to do what is right. The one thing that gets (China’s) attention is Taiwan.”
In a phone interview, Schock’s manager Steve Shearer added that Schock’s proposal is “not just something that he pulled out of his pocket … It’s a deeply thought-out policy.”
Dreggas
O/T but:
FEMA “Press Conference” while CA burned
Make7
I’m surprised you can even log-on if there is supposed to be a “profanity” filter.
Anyway, why don’t you try using a web proxy – perhaps ForumWhore will get you past the “profanity” filter.
rawshark
This won’t change his status as favorite. he’s saying what the clowns who listen to right wing radio or watch FOX News want to hear someone say. It sounds like something that makes sense and would work, at least to some it does. He’s saying what they want to hear and they’ll love him for it. (Great now I’m paraphrasing ‘senators’ from Gladiator, no wonder all these asshats think Hollywood’s liberal)
jcricket
I think RedState is for people that think Red Dawn was real. And that they would be Patrick Swayze if it happened in real life.
fuddmain
Should have said, “He was high on meth when he pulled that crazy shit out of his ass.”
Punchy
He’s 26? Clearly he has a paint-by-numbers book to sell…
Dreggas
Clearly, his website demonstrates as much…
Zifnab
The Republicans that have big Patrick Swayze posters hanging from their walls… are they the ones make all that noise in the bathroom?
jcricket
OT, but:
I do love the clear contrast in priorities between the parties. Republicans vigorously protest something because it might affect the income of investment fund managers – who will all
DIE AND BE UNABLE TO FEED THEIR FAMILIESonly earn $7 million instead of $8 million next year if the law passes. Oh, and these same investment managers might end up with effective tax rates that approach what people who make $100k/year pay.If people voted in their own economic self-interest (real, not perceived), Republicans would never get elected again.
Dennis-SGMM
Clearly, the privileged tax status of investment fund managers must be protected. If not for them, billions of dollars’ worth of financial instruments based on sub-prime mortgages would be ricocheting around the financial system.
rawshark
How should one counter the ‘if we tax them higher they’ll stop working hard’ argument when you know its being put forth by someone who is repeating what Rush said and doesn’t actually understand the argument? I face this stuff all the time and I don’t know how to explain this issue to someone who doesn’t already have the proper vocabulary. How do you combat truthiness?
dreggas
We have to tax them on wall street so we won’t have to tax them on Main st.
jake
Fixed.
jcricket
I think you have to bite the bullet enough and only raise taxes on the very high end. Say “Republicans are irresponsible and they’ve overspent for years and years plunging our country into massive debt. And we, the Democrats are committed to keeping the country fiscally sound, your Social Security checks coming, etc.
The only way to fix things is put taxes back where they were for people that make more than $500k. If you make $250k – $500k your tax bill will stay as it is now. If you make less than $200k, you’re getting a tax cut.”
You can also further explain (when you need to) that you’re simply making it so people who make $500k are paying the same amount as people who make less – because we all know the effective tax rates are way lower than the advertised/marginal tax rates.
Numbers aren’t that important, but you have to make the first tax increase at a high enough income level that pretty much no one can argue it hits them.
Yes, idiot fuckwads like Jonah Goldberg, Powerline & Rush will still argue that it’s going to fuck the economy, but that won’t matter. You can easily spin “make less than $250k and you get a tax cut” positively for most people.
Yes, I know it’s less simplistic than the fucking stupid-ass (I mean all these terms literally) sloganeering of the Republicans, but we can’t beat them on that front. The people that argue with a straight face that “Bush is a misunderstood genius” can’t be out-pandered.
But we don’t have to be overly wonky or “perfect” in our attempts to right things. We always shoot the moon, allowing each interest group to get a little piece and diluting the key messages.
Oh, btw, another key thing Dems need to do is take credit (deserved or not) for every economic good news/recovery that happens subsequent to the tax hike. Don’t call it a hike. Call it “tax fairness” or the “fair share act of 2008”
jcricket
So they’re the Chris Farley of the classic SNL skit, then?
TenguPhule
In our defense Tim, none of us are that fucking stupid and/or insane except for Paul L, EEEL and that Prick that hangs with them.
You can’t ask from us things that go beyond mere snark into the realm of outright lunacy.
Shalimar
Well, I didn’t think of that idiotic idea, but it is my idea to replace the Republican debates with a pay-per-view Torture competition, where each candidate brings 3 staff members and they take turns torturing each other’s staff members in any way they think is legal, last candidate with a staff member standing gets the Republican nomination.
They could also charge $2k per household to see this spectacle and raise hundreds of millions for the winner, which would overcome their current fund-raising disadvantage and make the general election more of a contest. I can see several hundred thousand Republicans paying that much to see it, how often to they get to see real violence on live TV?
Of course, the disadvantage to the idea is that Huckabee could use Chuck Norris as one of his three so the other candidates are going to have to come up with ringer staff members too. I think Republicans would probably prefer to see women and children victimized.
whatsleft
Hey Shalimar – I think you’re really onto somethin’ there!
Bread and circuses, bitches!