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Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

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

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

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

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

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

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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  4. 4.

    SnarkIntern

    Is there anyone in public life with a mustache who isn’t a buffoon?

    I don’t know, can you please post your picture?

    Heh.

    :-}|

  8. 8.

    JK

    In addition to Henry Waxman, I would add Jim Hightower, Jeremy Rifkin, Slavoj Žižek, and Ron Kuby.

  11. 11.

    Yankeedrawl

    Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chair of the Education and Labor Committee, is one most decent and intelligent representatives in Congress. He’s also got a kick-ass mustache.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Stuck

    “Deep thought”

    You’all came to the right place to get one of those.

    Bwaaa Hahaha hee tee dee!!!

  14. 14.

    MattF

    David Axelrod?

    I think the problem is that there are a lot of buffoons in public life, both mustachioed and not.

  16. 16.

    adolphus

    Frank Zappa?

    edit: Okay, so he is dead, not currently in public life, but he was and did have a bodacious mustache of and on.

  20. 20.

    Michael

    Ah, the Walrus.

    I remember his tenure in the UN well. In a foreshadowing of just exactly how much I’d come to reject the entirety of my political suppositions over the past administration, I remember thinking that the boy just wasn’t quite right in the head, that diplomacy wasn’t about yelling at people.

  22. 22.

    adolphus

    @Gregory

    Not since that OxyClean guy died.

    Are we talking solo mustaches only or mustaches in combination with other facial hair? I thought the former, but could expand the sample.

    Oh, how about Wilfred Brimley?

    edit: Damn! Cleek beat me to it. But then he could be a buffon. (Brimley, not Cleek)

  26. 26.

    gbear

    Greg Norton, the bass player from Husker Du had a major moustache. Of course, he’s a chef now so it’s OK.

  30. 30.

    gbear

    I used to have a mustache, but I grew a beard when everyone kept telling me ‘You look just like the drummer from Cheap Trick!’ Even Bob Stinson told me that.

  38. 38.

    adolphus

    Lemmy from Motorhead

    Derek Smalls (mock buffon)

    Paul Teutul from American Chopper

  46. 46.

    adolphus

    Snydley Whiplash, Horatio J. HooDoo, & Dick Dastardly

    not buffoons so much as villainish

  49. 49.

    Tsulagi

    Good to see Bolton still free of the oppressive chains of Peak Wingnut.

    Yeah, send the Israelis to bomb Iran while McCain sings. Paint the bombs green to show your solidarity with the protesters. Could there be any doubt those Iranian protesters would be tossing flowers and candies up toward the liberating Israeli pilots? No doubts for Bolton. Oh, and to show you’ve gone the extra mile in your really smart thinking and planning, make sure the Israelis use their Barak model F-16s.

  50. 50.

    DougJ

    Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson.

    West is a borderline buffoon. Big Nader supporter. Nader supporters are kind of the neocons of the left, IMHO.

  55. 55.

    Legalize

    Sometimes Sen. Sherrod Brown wears like a 9:00 shadow, and a shirt he slept in. Ok, not a responsive answer. But it’s true, and I like Sherrod Brown.

  59. 59.

    geg6

    @Gregory:

    Sorry, but the OxyClean guy was a religious nut. Believe me, since he died and was a Pittsburgh native, I’ve been treated to local media reports on every aspect of his life as if he was Michael Jackson.

  66. 66.

    cleek

    i can’t think of Brimley without thinking of a scene from Strangers With Candy where they have him (though it was Colbert doing Brimley’s voice) reading a book-on-tape about how dangerous retarded people are:

    Wilford Brimley on tape: Hi. This is Wilford Brimley. Welcome to ‘Retardation: A Celebration.’ Now, hopefully with this book, I’m gonna dispel a few myths, a few rumors. First off, the retarded don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it – nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ‘em, don’t do it. Puts ‘em on edge. They might go into berserker mode, come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming, ‘No, no, no,’ – all they hear is, ‘Who wants cake?’ Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake. Well, that’s it for the celebration. I guess the most important thing to remember is, they’re just like you and me.

    every time we hear Brimley now, my wife and I say “They all want cake”, or “the diuhbeetuhs”

  68. 68.

    Tax Analyst

    I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure you get “Bonus Buffoon Points” if you not only have a mustache, but somehow manage to follow the example of basketball coach Rick Adelman and wear it and comb your hair in a manner that makes you look a whole lot like Adolph Hitler.

    Now this may be a sexist remark, but isn’t one of the reasons guys get married is to have someone TELL them when there is something seriously off-putting in their appearance, as in, “Dear, why don’t you shave off that mustache? I don’t think the ‘Adolph Hitler’ look gives off the right type of impression”.

  70. 70.

    AdrianLesher

    Henry Waxman, David Axelrod, Ian McShane (as Al Swearengen).

    Eric Holder isn’t that bad, either.

  76. 76.

    gwangung

    He never got one over on Bugs…

    Now THERE’S a worthy opponent for Obama…

  81. 81.

    geg6

    @JK:

    I respectfully disagree with your description of Cornel West as a borderline buffoon and also with your reference to Nader supporters as neocons of the left.

    Whereas I will respectfully disagree with you and agree with DougJ. ;-)

  82. 82.

    ChrisB

    Good calls on Waxman, Axelrod and Cronkite.

    @JK: Perhaps more than DougJ, I think Brother West and Eric Michael Dyson are both buffoons.

    Civil war buffs might start with Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Phil Sheridan (but not Ambrose Burnside, who was a buffoon).

  87. 87.

    Dr. Loveless

    I can’t believe this thread has gotten this long without at least one mention of Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters.

    I remember reading once that most men settle on a hair/facial hair style in their 20s and early 30s, and rarely change it afterward. Which would explain why so many wingnuts in their 50s and 60s look like they’re still waiting for the return of Disco.

  96. 96.

    JK

    @Mar:

    You mean the Chuck Norris who wants to run for President of Texas after it secedes from the United States and participated in that wacko 9/12 townhall gathering promoted and hosted by lunatic Glenn Beck?

    I think Norris more than qualifies as a buffoon and worse.

  100. 100.

    DZ

    @JK:

    Well, not exactly. Dali believed that surrealism could exist in an apolitical space, so he did refuse to renounce fascism, but it is simply untrue that he supported Franco in spite of Andre Breton’s accusations.

  101. 101.

    Colette

    @JK:

    Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums

    Dellums didn’t used to be a buffoon, but as mayor he could single-handedly fill a whole clown car.

  103. 103.

    DougJ

    I don’t think Paul Krugman is a buffoon.

    That’s a tricky one. On the one hand, he’s probably my favorite columnist. On the other, his recent use of the word “treason” and his over-the-top Hillary boosterism in 2008 were buffoon-like.

  104. 104.

    TenguPhule

    Is there anyone in public life with a mustache who isn’t a buffoon?

    No.

    SATSQ.

  105. 105.

    ChrisB

    @John: Keith Hernandez!

    Great fielder, leader and clutch hitter.

    But a buffoon in the booth with Gary and Ron.

  107. 107.

    eric k

    Krugman has a beard anyway, we’re just talking about ‘stache alone types.

  108. 108.

    JK

    @DZ:

    Did you read the Counterpunch column http://www.counterpunch.org/navarro12062003.html I cited in a previous posting? I don’t have the citations at my fingertips, but I have read elsewhere that Dali had fascist sympathies.

    Even allowing for a charitable benefit of the doubt on behalf of Dali which you put forward, I cannot give him a pass for refusing to condemn fascism.

    Other people with mustaches who are not buffoons

    John Cleese and Johnny Depp

  111. 111.

    Rommie

    John Shaft

    If Obama grew a ‘stache it would up the Scary Negro quotent x 100 – that would rule!

  112. 112.

    tom c

    Alot of those law enforcement types like Eric Holder and Jim Dangle sport moustaches.

  115. 115.

    ChrisB

    @burnspbesq: Without a doubt.

    Which brings to mind Walt “Clyde” Frazier, who has gone from quintessentially cool to a poster child for this thread.

  116. 116.

    tc125231

    @DougJ: I could care less who is your favorite columnist.

    I reiterate, Krugman has been objectively right far more often than his detractors.

    His timely insights caused me to take actions that saved 25% of the value of my 401K. That’s almost $100K.

    Think you can say the same?

  117. 117.

    Lancelot Link

    Eugene Hutz from Gogol Bordello.
    Fred “the Hammer” Williamson.
    Captain Sullenberger

  118. 118.

    Tim F.

    @JK: I disagree with the other guys. Neocons think too tactically to have anything in common with Naderites. In terms of ideological rigidity and tactical brilliance I think of them as falling somewhere between Lyndon Larouchies and the Religious Right.

  121. 121.

    Wile E. Quixote

    Bryan Cranston.

    Speaking of Wilford Brimley my favorite scene in The Firm is the fight scene between Tom Cruise and Wilford Brimley where Tom Cruise kicks his ass. Every time I watch that movie I start yelling “Yeah Tom Cruise! You go and kick Wilford Brimley’s diabetic ass. Go on, fuck him up! Fuck him up real bad!”

    If kicking the shit out of a portly, out of shape elderly diabetic isn’t the pinnacle of cinematic fight scene manliness then I’d like to know exactly what is.

  122. 122.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Rommie

    If Obama grew a ‘stache it would up the Scary Negro quotent x 100 – that would rule!

    Yeah, but what would give him a bigger SNQ (Scary Negro Quotient)? A full stache and beard with a big fro? A neatly trimmed mustache and goatee and big fro or a neatly trimmed mustache and goatee with a shaven head (think Samuel L. Jackson)?

    Oh, and other non buffoonish stache possessors, Morgan Freeman, Tavis Smiley, Romany Malco, Ron Perlman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Omar Epps.

  126. 126.

    Phoebe

    And while it’s not the mustache that makes Josh Bolton a buffoon, how could you have that and not be? When I read the question, and had not clicked on the link, the first image that flashed before me was of Josh Bolton. He has the Geraldo special, and who would want to remind people of Geraldo, or even be recklessly indifferent to the risk, without being himself a buffoon of Geraldic dimensions?

  128. 128.

    Johnny Pez

    In fairness to Bolton, I think trying to fend off Pamela Geller’s advances would drive any man insane. And if he didn’t try to fend them off, the result would be even worse.

    I tell you, the man has suffered enough.

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