Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

T R E 4 5 O N

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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Another Take On Kurdistan

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Matt Yglesias notes that the Turkish-American-Kurdish conflict will put an especially painful squeeze on Nouri al-Maliki.

Given the Iraqi government’s dependence on the U.S. military, a Turkish invasion of Iraq that the United States approves of isn’t something the Iraqi government can or will do anything about. Thus this incident becomes one more case where U.S.-supported Iraqi leaders see their credibility as national leaders leeched away. If you think of the goal in Iraq as helping to prop up a government that’ll be able to stand up on its own, this sort of thing is a disaster.

At one point non-Kurdish Iraqis looked at the world with more of a nationalist than a secularist perspective. Intermarriage was common and Shiite officers and enlisted men had no problem going to war with Iran. To the degree that an Iraqi national identity still exists a Turkish invasion would create intense pressure from a side that Maliki has until now taken for granted. An opposition figure with a sizable base of support, say Muqtada al Sadr, would be well-positioned to tack towards national unity on a platform of repelling the Turks. Meanwhile America, in in bed with Maliki’s government and blocked by treaty from getting in the way of Turkey’s army, can look forward to an entirely new basis for popular support for the insurgency.

John McCain, foreign policy deep thinker, has declared that “as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed” we could stay in Iraq for 100 or a million years. Well sure, as long as I only buy winning lottery tickets I’ll be a billionaire. I could really use some straight talk on what McCain will do if our kids keep dying.

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    MNPundit

    I’ve often wondered if Muqty will order his people to take on the Turks as a way to put a further squeeze on the Sunnis and give the US a black-eye at the same time.

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    TenguPhule

    Right on schedule.

    Piss off the only group in Iraq that wasn’t shooting at us and give them a reminder that Bushs will always backstab them.

    Sometimes I hate being right all the time.

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