Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The words do not have to be perfect.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

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

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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  3. 3.

    liberatemeiexinfernis

    I feel like one of those supporters..lost..no more aim in life…this election was fun….but now I dont know what to do…thank God Fox News and Sean Hannity and toilet rag Michelle Malkin are still around for us to flog them

    btw, Onion has another funny piece in the same page as the video..black man given nations worst job..its pretty funny

  4. 4.

    Montysano

    I’m very happy, but I’m very over it.

    It was the best election ever, eh?

    It’s beautiful here in north Alabama. I’m dusting off the camping gear. I finally capitulated and bought a GPS unit, so I’m itching to try it out.

  7. 7.

    Josh Hueco

    OT, but–
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    SUCK IT, JOPA!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!1!1!111!ELEVENTYMILLION

  8. 8.

    t jasper parnell

    I thought the Onion video was teh funny; however, I heard some dope on NPR making the same point and I thought: for fuck’s sake, it is entirely possible that those engaged by the campaign will now actually spend the time in between elections equally engaged and jeez that would be a good thing. I hope, to perfectly frank, that more and more people recognize that zoon politikon is not Greek to them.

  10. 10.

    gbear

    @Josh Hueco:

    Oops, forgot the link.

    Yea, I was wondering…

    & Comrade Jake, send Gallup up to cover the Norm Coleman meltdown. He’s going to turn this state into Florida 2000 before he’s dragged away screaming obscenities (TPM’s been posting about it)

  13. 13.

    Dennis - SGMM

    @Comrade Jake:

    Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is Very Favorable.

    All they want is the right for their McCain/Palin bumper stickers to be valid for Handicapped Parking.

  16. 16.

    Warren Terra

    @gbear:
    It’s not quite the same, but in the first chapter of that huge 7-part campaign postmortem Newsweek ran, there were two very early Obama boosters who were pressuring him to run, and maybe getting too obsessive about it, and Obama took to calling them "The Kool-Aid Boys". But in general, if Obama was too level to denounce the morons sliming him, he’d hardly be likely to rag on those among his supporters who turned out to be morons adoring him.

  17. 17.

    Dennis - SGMM

    @Comrade Jake:
    If those poll results are anything other than post-election defensiveness then it means that self-identified Republicans favor ignorance and slogans over ideas and principles. That portends a very sad future for the GOP. Nonetheless, Palin’s new-found status as a martyr for conservatism will ensure that hordes of GOP operatives are packing for Alaska, all of them convinced that by feeding her the right lines they can imbue her with enough gravitas to be a contender in future presidential elections. That she is an empty vessel only encourages them. That she is so by choice is lost on them. That they will be on the Alaska state payroll is a burden that Alaska will just have to bear.

  19. 19.

    tripletee

    @kommrade jakevich:

    And every time I read about Republican support for Palin I get a funny feeling up my leg.

    I see starbursts, but I think the effect is pretty much the same.

    Please, please, please God let there be a Palin/Gingrich ticket in 2012. I’m ready to throw all of my money into popcorn futures.

  20. 20.

    Dennis - SGMM

    @Comrade Jake:
    Who are we to deny the stupid the standard bearer of their choice? The deliberately ignorant, the fundies, and those who yearn for an America that never was all deserve representation – no matter how comical and humiliating that representation may be to the rest of us.

  21. 21.

    Comrade Stuck

    How can so many people be so fucking dumb?

    I don’t know why, but they are. That’s why I’ve been saying to not count this woman out. She’s a world class bullshitter, and is showing some real talent at playing the victim. No wonder Malkin loves her. And she’s only 44. By the time she is 55 to 60, people will have forgotten her bumbling entrance onto the national stage. And she will have figured out that Africa is a continent.

  22. 22.

    Comrade Stuck

    Isn’t anyone going to tell me I’m full of shit claiming Palin is something to keep an eye on, because I very well could be. :–)

  23. 23.

    Dennis - SGMM

    @Comrade Stuck:
    Not me. The poll linked by Comrade Jake, above, suggests that the mass of Republican voters feel that there wasn’t enough Palin in the last election. She does bear watching, just like the Black Widow spider in her untidy web in the corner of a California garage or a rattlesnake sunning itself beside a trail.

  24. 24.

    Comrade Jake

    @Comrade Stuck:

    No, I suspect more than a few of us are of two minds on Palin. Part of us really wants her to be the nominee in 2012, because we assume it’ll be an EPIC FAIL.

    The other part knows that anything can happen, and doesn’t want to give that wacko/diva anything close to another shot at the WH.

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    jenniebee

    And she’s only 44. By the time she is 55 to 60, people will have forgotten her bumbling entrance onto the national stage. And she will have figured out that Africa is a continent.

    And her boobs will be saggy and her face will still look pretty young, but oddly, not as expressive as she did in 2008.

    I hope I’m not getting out of line when I say that as a rule heterosexual men are simply not good judges of women they don’t know very well (and even more so for attractive women they don’t know well), and unfortunately the MSM is run by hetero men. There are a few, like George Will, whose bow tie can actually stop his dick thoughts from getting into his head, but they’re few and far between.

    That woman only has a chance because she isn’t very well known, even after the last two months of scrutiny. Other women are looking at her and either doing a Malkin and deciding that Trig is all you need to know about her, or else they’re spotting a Mean Girl who is trying to flirt her way through life. That chick is bad, bad news, and she’s going to have the next four years to make sure everybody knows it.

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    Comrade Stuck

    @Dennis – SGMM:

    She does bear watching, just like the Black Widow spider in her untidy web in the corner of a California garage or a rattlesnake sunning itself beside a trail.

    LOL, very well said.

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    Dennis - SGMM

    @jenniebee:
    No, ma’am. I don’t think that you’re a bit out of line. Hearing Palin’s post-election blather a line from the Pretenders came to mind:
    "Stop snivelling; you’re going to make some plastic surgeon a rich man."

  28. 28.

    Comrade Stuck

    I hope I’m not getting out of line when I say that as a rule heterosexual men are simply not good judges of women they don’t know very well (and even more so for attractive women they don’t know well),

    I resemble that remark. I don’t know how we walk around all day with those things. :–)

  29. 29.

    tripletee

    @jenniebee:

    There are a few, like George Will, whose bow tie can actually stop his dick thoughts from getting into his head

    So awesome.

    More seriously, I don’t get the whole Palin starburst phenomenon anyway. I mean, she’s attractive (physically, at least) but I wouldn’t think twice about her if I saw her walking down the street. Then again, this is a group that thinks Ann Coulter is the ideal of feminine beauty, so Palin is actually a step up for them, I guess.

  30. 30.

    Dennis - SGMM

    @jenniebee:
    And so, at sixty years on, I understand how much heartache I could have saved by wearing a bowtie – or by having the brain power to tie the son of a bitch.

  31. 31.

    Limniade

    Since I’m a) cynical and b) personally familiar with the achievements plastic surgery can accomplish, I think it would be far more effective of Palin to have a Demi Moore-like whole-body makeover and get some personal tutoring on political science and foreign policy. Then she can REALLY blind the GOP with a truly scary cult of personality.

  33. 33.

    Dennis - SGMM

    @Limniade:
    Did IT for an excruciatingly profitable and completely unpublicized Beverly Hills plastic surgeons’ practice. Unfortunately, the bastards made me sign a comprehensive NDA.

  35. 35.

    ilsita

    Hi guys, OK, so, I don’t mean to drag my dysfunction into this, but ever since the election, my dear mother has been filling up my mailbox with every "Heh" and "Indeed" that squirts out of the Instapundit. It’s making me cah-ray-zee. I usually read it, tear the ass out of it in my mind, and then drop it in the trash. Really, I don’t respond because I love my mom. But I know she believes that I am struck mute by the indefensible hypocricy of the socialists ("Well, these days you call them ‘progressives.’") I’ve aligned myself with.

    So, today, she sent me this thing. And I broke my rule and wrote a long response (I’ll spare you, but I ended with this line, "I think that using the results of a scientific study to prove a point is not a good move for people who have an implicit bias against science."). I’m following the 24 hour rule.

    But I am curious about what others think of the latest "Heh." (If anyone is interested in what I wrote back, I’ll post a link. It’s too long to paste.)

  37. 37.

    Common Sense

    @ilsita:

    Send her your own heh:

    So a canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she’s planning to vote for. She isn’t sure, has to ask her husband who she’s voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We’re votin’ for the n***er!"

    Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We’re voting for the n***er."

    It’s possible for someone to not like black people in general, enough to where they would never normally vote for a black guy. But these people were so disgusted by McCain’s campaign they voted for the black guy anyway. The reason that 88% of white people may hold an implicit bias against black people, yet still vote for Obama despite his blackness, is George W. Bush and the GOP over the last 8 years.

  38. 38.

    ilsita

    @Common Sense:

    Definitely, Common Sense. I mentioned that to her, and also pointed out that an "implicit bias" is not the same thing as bigotry. One can have an implicit bias and still make a thoughtful, logical decision that goes against it.

    And I mentioned that the reason the "math" doesn’t work out for them is because it’s not "math." If they are comparing the study (which they don’t understand) with their own interpretation of the election results, (I mean, maybe it just means that people are more sexist than racist! Right? Or a million other things) are using bad science (no surprises).

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