Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

We still have time to mess this up!

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

When we show up, we win.

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

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

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I Would Like a Wetsuit and Four Blank Videotapes

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Speaking for Ron Jeremy

Whee:

For days, Bruce Barclay’s political career hung in the balance. The Republican commissioner of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, had been accused of rape — by a man, no less — and the police were bearing down. Barclay’s lawyer issued a strong denial (“This accusation of rape is ludicrous It will be defended forever and is wrong.”). But it was clear things were looking pretty dicey. Until… vindication! Well, sort of.

On March 31st, police, investigating the allegation of rape by the 20-year old Marshall McCurdy, obtained a warrant to search Barclay’s home. They didn’t find evidence of rape. But they did find videotapes of hundreds of sexual encounters with men that Barclay had filmed on high-tech surveillance cameras. The cameras were hidden inside AM/FM radios, motion detectors and intercom speaker systems, among other places. There was also one at his business office.

None of the subjects were aware they were being filmed and no permission had been obtained, Barclay admitted. According to a second warrant issued on April 9th, Barclay also admitted to hiring prostitutes on a weekly basis from the now-defunct website harrisburgfratboys.com.

I predict this will be bad news for Democrats. Particularly bad for elitists who go to SAN FRANCISCO.

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The Bitter Aftermath

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Anecdotal evidence that there will be no bounce for Hillary from her latest episode of kitchen sink chucking:

Little says he switched his party registration from Republican to Democrat so he could back Obama in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary on April 22. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s criticisms Sunday that Obama’s comments were “elitist and divisive” haven’t moved him.

“I don’t think he put his brain in gear before he engaged his mouth,” Little said. “But he apologized. … I think he has the right ideas, and I like hearing him talk. I put him in sort of the same mold as the Kennedys, JFK and Bobby.”

Little’s support for Obama puts him in the minority in heavily Republican York County — particularly in the small boroughs, such as Jacobus, which is about 50 miles northwest of Baltimore. People here, as resident Barbara Larson put it, “vote on the gun issue, and the pro-life issue.”

Still, in more than a dozen interviews here, even conservative Republicans couldn’t muster the sort of outrage over Obama’s remarks that Clinton backers were expressing Sunday. For example, Clinton partisan Stephen Reed, the mayor of nearby Harrisburg, said Obama’s remarks “lacked judgment. They lack understanding.”

Several McCain supporters here said the comments wouldn’t play well among rural Americans. But nearly everyone allowed that, in fact, many small-town residents are indeed bitter.

“Hell, yeah, they’re bitter,” said Harold Creager, a retired phone company technician who was sipping coffee in Rutter’s, a convenience store. “George Bush has been a disappointment. The economy. Jobs. Immigration — we’re being invaded.”

So, in case you are keeping score, yes, American voters are dumb enough to vote for Bush twice (and I include myself in that number, sadly). They are not, however, dumb enough to sit around and listen to an Ivy League educated lawyer who has spent all but two of the last 40 years living in a Governor’s mansion, the White House, and a NY mansion and who made 110 million over the past six years call someone else elitist.

Go figure.

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Our New #1 Export

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It appears we are exporting the shitpile–

The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India.

This synchronized global slowdown, which has become increasingly stark in recent months, is hobbling economic growth worldwide, affecting not just homes but jobs as well.

In Ireland, Spain, Britain and elsewhere, housing markets that soared over the last decade are falling back to earth. Property analysts predict that some countries, like this one, will face an even more wrenching adjustment than that of the United States, including the possibility that the downturn could become a wholesale collapse.

Good times.

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I Want In On This Racket

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This is some good stuff:

Health insurance companies are rapidly adopting a new pricing system for very expensive drugs, asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions for medications that may save their lives or slow the progress of serious diseases.

With the new pricing system, insurers abandoned the traditional arrangement that has patients pay a fixed amount, like $10, $20 or $30 for a prescription, no matter what the drug’s actual cost. Instead, they are charging patients a percentage of the cost of certain high-priced drugs, usually 20 to 33 percent, which can amount to thousands of dollars a month.

I am suspicious about single payer, but as I have often stated, I think it is an inevitability- big businesses want it, the number of uninsured in this country is untenable, our national standards for care have been declining (and you can choose your own statistic- infant mortality and so on), so my personal opinions really don’t matter much. I think the only questions regarding single-payer in the US are when, and how bad will the special interests loot the treasury in the process (will it be another boondoggle like Bush’s welfare plan for big pharm?).

Regardless, when I read crap like this, my attitude is how can it be any worse than the current system?

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Sunday Night Open Thread

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I have calmed down (sorry for the earlier outburst, I really don’t know anyone who has the capacity to drive me insane as much as Hillary- I really don’t) and allowed myself to watch the idiots covering the post-debate, and only one thought is going through my mind:

“Was Michael Gerson beaten as a child, and if not, is it too late to make up for lost time?”

What an insufferable jackass. Why is it that the predominant value shared by those representing “values voters” is to be a tool? I don’t remember that value being taught in Sunday school.

Consider this an open thread.

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Debate Open Thread

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And Nixon opens calling Obama elitist. Talk about bad faith.

Fuck her. I am not voting for her in the general. Period.

*** Update ***

The pantsuit gets testy and won’t give specifics about when she first experienced the rapture. She loves everyone, though, and is full of God’s grace. Except Obama- that elitist motherfucker needs to explain himself.

This is nauseating. I am done watching this crap. Back to 60 Minutes. I am sure I will hear about it tomorrow.

*** Update ***

Ok. I have calmed down after my flash of anger. How is this going?

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