Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

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

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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Dumbest Way to Make Money – Ever

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I don’t quite get what CNN is up to. Occasionally, next to the headlines in the right column at CNN.com, you’ll see a tiny t-shirt icon. You can now buy t-shirts with CNN headlines on them. $15 a pop. But they’re just plain old headlines:

Straight Talk Express Stalls After Query
Secretive swingers club irks neighbors
These 5 Homes Top $100 Million

Now, if that last one said “These 5 Homos Top 100 Million” it might be worth a shirt.

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    plus C

    Maybe it’s a sequel to that trend in the 90’s when everyone was wearing Mr. Bubble and Circle K shirts.

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    Jon H

    This can only turn out badly, like when they used to run things like: Infant cooked in microwave | Watch Now!

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    Notorious P.A.T.

    I hope this service is still up and running when the headline is “Obama wins presidency in landslide”.

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    calipygian

    Or the New York Post. Who wouldn’t want a “Headless Body Found in Topless Bar” t-shirt?

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    This is for you, John

    “Game Characters Can Be Directed To Drink Soda, Eat Hot Pockets”

    LMFAO

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    jag

    When they first launched this thing, the URL could be easily modified to create your own headlines (so you can have a T-shirt saying “Buttsecks? I saw it on CNN, August 6, 2005”), but looks like they’ve added some hashes to prevent that from happening. Fun-killers.

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    Notorious P.A.T.

    Secretive swingers club irks neighbors

    I’d be irked too! How dare they keep their swingers club a secret!

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    passerby

    You can now buy t-shirts with CNN headlines on them. $15 a pop.

    At $15 a pop? A shirt with some inane headline, and of course “CNN” (in red)…Are they wanting people pay $15 to be walking billboards?

    It’s not a clever way to make money mostly because I can’t imagine who would pony up the $$.

    It’s not like CNN is some hip, edgy medium…

    Maybe it’s some stagehand’s kid’s Junior Achievement project.

    This is so hare-brained I don’t know what to make of it even as I type this at 3 a.m. EDT. (and +0)

    I would rather have a Mr. Bubble, Wonder Bread, or Twinkie shirt, at least they are commercially iconic and decidedly American.

    T

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    SamFromUtah

    It won’t be dumb if it works – I’m guessing it won’t, but who knows.

    This scheme would be really stupid if T-shirts were pre-printed with the headlines and they had a warehouse full of a million XXL “Canada stalls in trade pact” variants, and that approach wouldn’t be too up-to-the-minute, anyway. They must be using some CafePress sort of thing where no shirts actually exist until they’re ordered, so their cost is very small or nothing to offer the shirts, and maybe some big headline like “MUP landslide yay!” will sell a bunch.

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