Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

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

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Stand up, dammit!

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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Great Moments in Fake Punditry

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Chris: Isn’t this election just like a great FOOTBALL GAME? I mean, like a great knockdown, drag-out football game, where people are hitting each other really hard and really going at it? Don’t you think it’s just like a football game?

Howard: Not really, no.

Chris: I think it’s just like a football game, I really do. It reminds me of, you know, going to the stadium and seeing two teams just BATTLE back and forth. Only now we’re in OVERTIME! Isn’t it just like an OVER TIME FOOTBALL GAME?

Howard: Again, no. Football is an athletic contest played on a field whose outcome is determined by some combination of physical skill and good luck. This is a presidential primary election, whose outcome hinges on grass roots organization and effective if sometimes duplicitous PR and ad campaigns. It’s, you know, totally different.

Chris: Yeah, but can’t you just see Obama as the cocky young quarterback, who isn’t favored to win, but finds himself with a giant lead at the half? Only now he’s just trying to hang onto that lead, while the original favorite storms back and makes him sweat a little? Huh? I think he’s just like that. Don’t you think he’s like a football UNDERDOG here? A football underdog who kinda becomes the favorite, only to slip a little and therefore regain his underdog status? Isn’t he kinda like a slightly favored underdog?

Howard: What?

Thanks Big Daddy Balls.

Big Daddy Drew is a master of the imaginary conversation. Personally I’m a sucker for these fake conversation with real people type posts. If you know of any classics, post ’em below.

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Senator Clinton, WHERE IS THE BILL

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Apparently things are more dire than we thought, and if we do not have the Gas Tax Holiday, the good folks at Corrente will be forced to survive on ramen noodles and ketchup packets. I think we will all agree that is a better choice than their current diet of paint chips and bullshit election year talking points, but still a pretty sad situation.

At any rate, Sen. Clinton, I beg you to introduce your bill so we can get it passed immediately.

What? There is still no bill? What? It won’t get passed? What, even if it did, no one would see any real savings anyway?

Shit. As a newly minted member of the creative class, I am fresh out of ideas, because, let’s face it- what gets more creative than pretending people are starving to death and won’t find relief unless Obama is beaten rhetorically with a mythical gas tax holiday proposal? I mean, it is pretty hard to top that.

*** Update ***

Read August. I went down that rabbit hole once. Not this time.

*** Update #2 ***

Eureka! We have a bill!

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A Solution To High Gas Prices

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…and one that will probably work at least as well as the Clinton/McSame gas tax holiday!

“Someone’s making a lot of money and it’s really, really wrong,” added Twyman, who founded the Prayer at the Pump movement last week to seek help from a higher power to bring down fuel prices, because the powers in Washington haven’t.

The half-dozen activists — Twyman, a former Miss Washington DC, the owner of a small construction company and two volunteers at a local soup kitchen — joined hands, bowed their heads and intoned a heartfelt prayer.

“Lord, come down in a mighty way and strengthen us so that we can bring down these high gas prices,” Twyman said to a chorus of “amens”.

“Prayer is the answer to every problem in life… We call on God to intervene in the lives of the selfish, greedy people who are keeping these prices high,”

I simply have no words, although I am sure commenters will fill in that gap. (via PZ Myers, who links to lots of wierdness)

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Hillary: Let’s Break Up OPEC

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I’d love to see OPEC gone. The only problem is, Hillary (not her, not anyone) could do it.

Clinton’s attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

“We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they’re going to produce and what price they’re going to put it at,” she told a crowd at a firehouse in Merrillville, IN.

“That’s not a market. That’s a monopoly,” she said, saying she’d use anti-trust law and the World Trade Organization to take on OPEC.

Now, from what I understand, anti-trust laws would be very difficult to use against countries – so that idea is as stupid as you’d expect. As for using the WTO – I don’t think the WTO deals in energy, correct?

It’s a potent message, like the attack on “Wall Street money brokers,” with deep roots in American politics. It’ It’s also very hard to figure out what exactly she means by the threat to break OPEC.

Er, she doesn’t mean anything. It’s just more populism from the Hillary campaign designed to appeal to an electorate that largely doesn’t know any better, with nothing to back it up. Welcome to the Clinton fantasy world or, as we call it around here, Tuesday.

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More on The Gas Tax Holiday Nonsense

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More elites voice their opinions:

More than 200 economists, including four Nobel prize winners, signed a letter rejecting proposals by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain to offer a summertime gas-tax holiday.

Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz, former Congressional Budget Office Director Alice Rivlin and 2007 Nobel winner Roger Myerson are among those who signed the letter calling proposals to temporarily lift the tax a bad idea. Another is Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was member of President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Since oil is apparently the only thing we talk about anymore, I have a great idea for the 2008 Presidential election. We should elect two people with extensive ties to oil. Real oil industry insiders, who have experience and know how these things work. I bet we could get oil prices down in no time if we do that.

Oh. Wait. Nevermind.

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