Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

The revolution will be supervised.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Let there be snark.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

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

T R E 4 5 O N

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

You cannot shame the shameless.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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I just got this email from Amazon.

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  2. 2.

    Common Sense

    Austin Goolsbee mimics Kevin Nealon to win “Washington’s Funniest Celebrity.”

    Among them:

    “When we came to office, it was not that fun of a time to be here in the economy … but we basically knew what to do (panic) ….” “Let’s just start with the fundamentals (throw money at the problem).” “We kinda had to go back and look at the old text books (Karl Marx, Trotsky)…”
    On the Obama administration’s top priority coming into office: Make sure “all the Clinton people got their jobs back.”

    On the president’s trip to Copenhagen and the Illinois delegation: “I think they’re bringing the governors (if the parole board says it’s okay)…”

    On Sen. Ben Nelson: “He is still a Democrat and I do think that if you see somebody as distinguished as Senator Nelson, maybe we can learn something from him (sneak attack) maybe it’s a lesson (stab him in the back) and there are many leading figures he reminds me of (Benedict Arnold) …”

    “If you think about it, we all want our kids to be educated. … If you have no skills and no education and you don’t know anything, what future do you possible have (Fox News Correspondent)…

    On 2012: “I think [Republicans] might do better looking outside of Washington to governors, there’s a lot of governors. There’s obviously Sarah Palin (wingnut) from Alaska who’s a former governor (quitter) and you cannot rule out that by 2012 (there will be a warrant for her arrest) that she’ll be the nominee. … They might want to take somebody who was against Obama from the start, someone who’s just had it out for him for some time (Hillary Clinton)…”

  4. 4.

    Snark Based Reality

    Keep it up DougJ and I might have to drop my man crush on Barney Frank and move onto you.

  8. 8.

    Violet

    Suspended? Does that mean you can’t go to Amazon for three days and your parents get really mad at you?

  14. 14.

    Comrade Dread

    @Gravenstone

    Yeah. I was just more taken back by how pretty much every name on it is an example of someone who consistently makes bad predictions and analysis and is taken as gospel by Dem and GOP insiders.

    I guess nothing should surprise me anymore. We seem to live in a giant echo chamber of Fail.

  17. 17.

    smiley

    I don’t understand why your tag would be suspended considering that some of the others are “idiot”, “racist”, and “keeping America stupid.” I guess it means that those tags are referring to the author. Maybe that’s a second-order win. Congrats!

  18. 18.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    What does ” We Are All Mayans Now ” mean? I looked at the other articles in that category but couldn’t figure it out. And I’m too lazy today to do further research.

  20. 20.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Sorry u haz a sad.

    But that it some weapons grade snark my man. I’ll be laughing about that one for the rest of the night. Maybe the mayans were just setting us up for some comic relief. We’ve gotten plenty of laughs out of the “mayan prophecy.”

  22. 22.

    Silver Owl

    I was in Barnes and Noble last evening to get a book on Cd. They had Beck’s publication on display. Ironically is was displayed among all fictional titles, which made me think that was appropriate and smile.

    Anyways, I saw his picture on it and thought he does look like an idiot. That picture so fits his own title of “Arguing with idiots”. lol

  23. 23.

    chuck

    I read that Amazon message five times. I still don’t know what the hell it means. Someone want to explain it to me?

  24. 24.

    DougJ

    Someone want to explain it to me?

    They won’t let me tag the new Glenn Beck book with “mayan prophecy”.

  25. 25.

    Joel

    @Notorious P.A.T.:

    It’s a sure sign of the pending apocalypse.

    According to the loonier interpretations of the Mayan calendar, the world will end catastrophically in December 2012. This view is mostly held by people who read Dan Brown and believe.

    The reality is a bit more mundane. 2012 demarcates a long time cycle on the calendar in exactly the same way the year 2000 represented a major shift (in numbering anyway) in our own calendar. Lots of celebration, jubilation, excitement over the possibilities for the upcoming era…not to mention a few nutcases hiding out in their basements with tinned food and gas-powered generators because of teh y2k.

  26. 26.

    BeccaM

    I saw Beck there on the cover of his book, all dressed up in his Nazi uniform, mugging for the camera, and couldn’t help but wonder, “So, he’s telling us he aspires to be Goebbels now? This isn’t exactly a stretch for him…”

    The other thing was it’s clear to me Beck’s monstrosity absolutely falls into the category of “those books which OUGHT to be judged by their covers.”

  27. 27.

    Epicurus

    Great story, Doug, thank you. But, time to be grammar nazi in the comments. This is the second time I’ve seen this today, it’s “REIN” in. Reigns are the length of time a ruler serves; reins are the devices used to control a horse. Here endeth the lesson; don’t even get me started on “nookleeur.”

  32. 32.

    Anne Laurie

    Cheer up, DougJ. The Amazon minions are just afraid that if the Noo Auj crystal bunnies interbreed with the teabaggers, it’ll produce a race of subhumans so stupid that they’ll destroy the whole planet… even faster.

  33. 33.

    Chad N Freude

    @Comrade Dread: OK, here’s a comment. “shap[ing] their own opinion or worldview” certainly includes “If X said it, then it must be wrong, completely at odds with reality, and my opinion or worldview is opposed to whatever it is.” Hence all of the Dems should be influenced by all of the righty sources.

  35. 35.

    justme

    Love the “pig vomit” tag.

    I was thinking that “guano faucet” might find an appropriate home there as well.

  36. 36.

    Edward G. Talbot

    DougJ, you gotta be more subtle. tag it with “The Fifth World” – they might not take the time to use The Google and just assume it’s a valid connection that they don’t understand :)

  37. 37.

    Comrade E.B. Misfit

    I was thinking that “guano faucet” might find an appropriate home there as well.

    Someone’s already tagged it with that one. I’ll have to log in from home and tag it with that, as well. Maybe we can drive “guano faucet” up in the tag ratings.

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