Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

When we show up, we win.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Accountability, motherfuckers.

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

In my day, never was longer.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

People are weird.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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  1. 1.

    donovong

    All we need now is an Obama ad:

    "John McCain hates pooties" and "Sarah Palin shoots wolves from airplanes"

    Wait a minute….

  4. 4.

    patrick

    makes me wish I still lived in MN to vote for Al…..

    I’m waiting for a DNC ad with James Garner in it, basically saying "Hi, I’m James Garner, the original Maverick. John McCain and Sarah Palin claim to be mavericks, but . Finally, the most sure fire way to tell that someone is not a maverick is if all they ever do is claim to be one. John McCain, more of the same"

  8. 8.

    shortstop

    But if Franken really does hate puppies, wouldn’t this be a fiendishly clever way to hide it in plain sight?

  13. 13.

    Brachiator

    Off topic, but a middle school teacher in Florida apparently dropped an n-bomb in his class last week while talking about Obama. He’s been suspended without pay.

    And so it begins. As we get closer to the election, more people will be unable to contain themselves and will erupt with the nastiness that they have been holding back. I heard a Palin supporter — an elderly woman — call a talk radio station and vehemently declare that "Obama scares me….I can’t stand looking at him." And she said this even though she noted that she believed that the goverment should help regular people out of the economic crisis (not a big part of the Republican platform).

    The humor that we get from someone like Franken is a small, but needed antidote to the increasing nastiness erupting in the national election.

  15. 15.

    gbear

    a middle school teacher in Florida apparently dropped an n-bomb in his class last week

    Man, that was one hell of an acronym for ‘change’. I wonder how widespread that is already?

  17. 17.

    Martin

    I don’t understand why Franken isn’t crushing Coleman. Franken is a brilliant comedian that seems to have had trouble translating that to campaign messages.

    Sarcasm *does* work, and it works really well, and it works doubly well *for Franken*. I know he doesn’t want to be the ‘comedian politician’, but gosh darn it, nobody in MN is dumb enough to not know what his first career was, so he really should be using it when it’s appropriate. Nobody reveals politicians like comedians because they can cut to the bone without the audience disliking the tone of the message. I don’t know why he isn’t doing this kind of thing more.

  18. 18.

    Brachiator

    I don’t understand why Franken isn’t crushing Coleman. Franken is a brilliant comedian that seems to have had trouble translating that to campaign messages.

    People are not supposed to take comedians seriously. It’s one thing to be able to use comedy and sarcasm to skewer your opponent, but this alone does not convince voters that you will treat their own issues and problems with sufficient concern.

  20. 20.

    donovong

    I’ll bet you $2.39 and a glassy that Palin throws out the "Obama is a muslim" smear before this is all over.

    Any takers?

  23. 23.

    Indylib

    @gbear: That video is fucking hilarious. My favorite part is the first verse,

    Hey, Sarah Palin did you tell them in Wasilla that we roamed the earth a thousand years ago, with Godzilla? Is it true ? I’m so fucking scared of you, as # 2

    .

  24. 24.

    rob!

    i’m trying to imagine a world where Barack Obama is the president, AL FRANKEN is in the Senate, and Prop 8 is roundly defeated.

    What a wonderful world…

  25. 25.

    Comrade Peter J

    This bit:

    just because I can see the moon
    doesn’t make me an astronaut you loon
    your foreign policy expertise is poo

    gives me a chance to link to this from Krista. That is one exceptional comment :)

  26. 26.

    Jim

    I do think that Obama needs to make a couple of trips to Minnesota and spend some money of its own. Not only have some recent polls been somewhat favoring McCain, but it would greatly energize Dems in Minnesota which would only help Al out.

  27. 27.

    ComradeJ. Michael Neal

    I don’t understand why Franken isn’t crushing Coleman. Franken is a brilliant comedian that seems to have had trouble translating that to campaign messages.

    Franken is terrible. I disagree that he was a good comedian, but there is no denying that he is a terrible candidate. God awful. I don’t think he’ll make a good Senator, either. I’m voting for him solely because he isn’t Norm Coleman. The upside if he loses is that maybe the Democrats in Minnesota will stop nominating useless fuckers for major office, and start nominating people qualified for the job. Good bye, Al Franken, and take Mike Ciresi with you when you go.

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    ...now I try to be amused

    And so it begins. As we get closer to the election, more people will be unable to contain themselves and will erupt with the nastiness that they have been holding back.

    It’ll get worse after the election is over and it sinks in that the man they so hate will be President Obama for the next four years. At least.

  29. 29.

    Wilson Heath

    I know politicians are supposed to be talking directly to people, but there’s something about Franken’s ad that is a bit more like "breaking the fourth wall." But maybe that’s just because sarcasm speaks to me.

  30. 30.

    timmo

    If that is supposed to be a good ad for Al Franken, I would hate to see an average one from this consultant. The audience is Minnesota.

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