Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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

This fight is for everything.

The lights are all blinking red.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

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

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

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Republicans Rediscover Osama

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Cute:

Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisers said Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be allowed to appeal his case to U.S. civilian courts, a privilege opposed by John McCain.

Responding to questions from The Examiner, Sen. John Kerry and former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said bin Laden would benefit from last week’s Supreme Court decision giving terrorism suspects habeas corpus, the right to appeal their military detention to civilian courts.

“If he were to be brought back,” Clarke said of bin Laden, “the Supreme Court ruling holds on the right of habeas corpus.”

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Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser, said those rights should not be extended to bin Laden or the hundreds of terrorism suspects being held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

“The individuals we hold at Guantanamo are very, very dangerous people,” Scheunemann said. “To give them full access to the federal courts and the criminal justice system is fraught with danger, moving forward, and likely to make America less safe, unlike Senator Obama’s claim of supporting the decision that it made America safer.”

Hey Randy- sure would be nice if Osama was captured before we worry about trying him don’t ya think? And why do these guys assume that habeas automatically assumes the imprisoned party will win the appeal?

See also, this.

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Best comment on the topic:

So the guys that railroaded an innocent Democratic governor don’t think they could win a case against Bin Laden?

Can’t these people ever say something credible?

Win.

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And this:

I guess not a single person in the Justice Department has ever figured out how they’re going to try Osama bin Laden. I know it’s a complex case involving some difficult-to-pronounce syllables and maybe even some maps with even more difficult names, but are we really unprepared for a Habeas response regarding Osama Freakin’ bin Laden?

I could put two inmate lawyers in a room with a copy of an old pirate novel, a pencil, and twelve sheets of paper and they could come up with a bullet-proof response in five or six hours, depending on their rec and visitation schedules.

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Internet Traditions, Continued

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It continues on. First, some video:

Even Morans are aware:

Varmints are aware:

Churches are aware:

Al Gore is aware:

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is aware:

The force is strong with internet traditions:

Even Rick Astley is aware:

Many more submissions in the comments here, and for those of you who are not aware, backstory here.

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Jack Shafer Hates America

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Quite simply, he hates America:

I wonder whether the media grievers gave a moment of thought to how this Russert torrent they produced played with viewers and readers. Did the grievers really think Russert was so important, so vital to the nation’s course, and such an elevated human being that he deserved hour upon hour of tribute? I wonder whether any of the responsible journalists paused to think, Hey, this is really weird. We’re using our unchecked editorial power to soak the nation with our tears about our friend, and that’s unseemly!

On days like this, I, too, hate the press.

For those of you wondering where the title of this post comes from, see here.

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Debra Saunders also hates America.

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Codebreakers

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The Politico:

In a campaign year marked by flare-ups surrounding comments that have offended one group or another, John McCain and Barack Obama have moved on to the next sensitive battleground: the question of McCain’s advanced age.

As some Republicans see it, Democrats are deliberately talking in code about the presumptive 71-year-old GOP nominee as part of an attempt to highlight his age.

“It is code; there is no question it is,” Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist who helped lead President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign, said when age surfaced as an issue. “They are trying to raise doubts.”

Yes. There is a definite code:

In all seriousness, Democrats would be really stupid to push ham-handed efforts regarding McCain’s age, because it is one of those issues that will raise itself. People will draw their own conclusions when they see McCain standing next to Obama. Hell, they will draw them when they see McCain standing next to his VP choice, who is more than likely going to be much younger than McCain.

But most of all, McCain’s ideas are old, and we are better off focusing on them.

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I Am Aware of All Internet Traditions

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This may be the greatest thread in the history of the intertrons.

Long story short, D at Lawyers, Guns and Money writes a “Shorter Geraldine Ferraro Neo-neocon” in which the neo-neocon post is summarized, and a troll comes along and states:

As a participant in the thread that follows the link to neoneocon, I should like to point out that the quote you excerpted

does not exist

in neoneocon’s post. Nor does it exist in the comments.

When the shorter concept is explained to him, he/she responds:

I am aware of all internet traditions and also of literary conventions in which placing something in quotes or in a blockquote means that your are quoting that person.

But here you are not.

It seems to me that what your are about is, well, sort of questionable.

Can you please expand on the idea your propose that putting something in blockquotes that does not appear at the linked item is a fair thing to do.

I am laughing so hard there are tears streaming down my face. Epic.

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Yes.

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Congratulations!

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Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, who’ve been together for more than 50 years, are finally married:

The lesbian couple were the first to participate in a 2004 challenge of California laws against same-sex marriage, exchanging wedding vows only to see the ceremony voided later.

But on Monday, Martin, 87, and Lyon, 84, exchanged vows again. This time, California law — at least for now — was on their side.

“I think it’s a wonderful day and I have to thank our mayor for most of it,” Lyon said. “I’m very happy and very grateful for all of you.”

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who helped launch the series of lawsuits that led the court to strike down California’s one-man-one-woman marriage laws, presided at their wedding at City Hall.

Lyon and Martin will now be able to inherit from each other, have hospital visitation rights, and share in the many of the same things straight couples do (with the exception of federal benefits.) What won’t change is the state of your marriage. You and your husband or wife will still be able to love each other, raise your kids, file a joint tax return, and all the things you’ve been doing together for years. And if all that comes crashing down around Tony Perkins and Jim Dobson because Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin got married yesterday, they may feel the urge to scapegoat them. If allowing gays to marry is going to affect their marriages, then they probably just have a shitty marriage to begin with.

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The truth is, for people like Dobson, Perkins, and supporters of theirs everywhere, this is not about marriage at all; it is about power and not wanting anything to change without their say-so. It’s about control of the political process and they will object to any social change if it doesn’t fit within their narrowly defined, small-minded worldview. When decisions are made that they have no control over, they see that their power over the process is slipping away. They see their power over the way people think and their ability to shape the debate diminish greatly. That must be a tremendous blow to their egoes. I thoroughly enjoy watching them implode and embarrass themselves on national television.

Oh, and it’s about raising millions of dollars to line the coffers of their churches and organizations and their own pocketbooks. Yeah, that too.

(photo credit: San Francisco Chronicle – Liz Mangelsdorf)

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