Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Bark louder, little dog.

Let there be snark.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

I was promised a recession.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

I really should read my own blog.

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

In my day, never was longer.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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  2. 2.

    Kennedy

    Working as intended. They’re supposed to receive tax dollars, not actually paythem.

    34% is still punitively high. It clearly inhibits Goldman’s profits and ability to compete globally. What we really need to stimulate the global economy is a corporate tax cut and more deregulation.

    In other news, I just saw the first “Buy your spouse a fucking Mercedes/other luxury car” moronic commercial of the pre-emptive holiday season. God help us.

  4. 4.

    licensed to kill time

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    The rate decline looks “a little extreme,”

    Uh, yeah!

    How do we get rate declines like this? Srsly, from 34.1 percent to ONE percent?

  5. 5.

    Immoral Majority

    Onward Christian soldiers marching as to war with
    cross of Jesus marching on before…wait. Jesus was
    that turn the other cheek guy. Didn’t he say “As you
    do unto the least of these….never mind. In Gold we
    Trust. That’s the country club motto now.

  6. 6.

    Kennedy

    Christ, I initially read this as it dropped by 1 percent, to 34.1 percent. I guess I should know better.

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    So, they’re no longer a US company then? Fine, let them beg for bailout money from the Cayman Islands or whatever.

    And might I suggest an import tariff on all exotic financial instruments?

    -dms

  9. 9.

    jwb

    @Kennedy: Ah, but you forgot to add that in order for our government to afford the Goldman Sachs tax payout we really need to cut government spending and raise taxes on families making less than $50,000. I say it’s only fair that the less well off pay those bonuses that ensures that the Goldman Sachs traders don’t go Galt on us.

  10. 10.

    licensed to kill time

    Oops! Never mind. Hey, I read it too and didn’t see a date. Just looked again and it says Dec.16, which should have been a clue….

  11. 11.

    Napoleon

    Keep in mind that one of the reasons the financial industry has been advancing for why Congress should not increase regulation on the finance industry is that if you do they will pick up and go somewhere with less regulation, like London.

  12. 12.

    jeffreyw

    Neither the post nor any of the comments make any sense at all to me, I feel as if I’ve missed something.

  14. 14.

    licensed to kill time

    @jeffreyw: That’s because John magically disappeared the article he originally posted when he realized it was out of date, which didn’t stop any of us from jumping on the spitting on Goldman Sachs bandwagon, ptah!

  16. 16.

    geg6

    Well, John, take comfort that you are not nearly as big an idiot as Chuck Todd. Or, as Harry Reid pointed out, David Broder. Or as Fallows pointed out in conjunction with his oh so polite takedown of Chuckles, Chris Matthews. So, basically, you’re not as idiotic as the average Village Idiot. There. Feel better?

  19. 19.

    harlana pepper

    I join to spit on Goldman Sachs, as well. And Geithner just needs to go, stat, that worthless sack of shit.

  21. 21.

    jeffreyw

    Damn, strange days. I post pic after pic of food pr0n, and what gets the most views? Jack gettin a bath in the sink. LOL

  22. 22.

    shoutingattherain

    @John:

    I’m an idiot

    Nah. You’re just a Stiller fan. Don’t be so hard on yourself.

    Could be worse. You could be a Seahawk fan.

    Here ya go. Read this. It ought to pep ya up sum:

    http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3397

    In this grotesque carnival, the US military’s contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes. It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting. And it is a deadly irony, because these funds add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban. “It’s a big part of their income,” one of the top Afghan government security officials told The Nation in an interview. In fact, US military officials in Kabul estimate that a minimum of 10 percent of the Pentagon’s logistics contracts–hundreds of millions of dollars–consists of payments to insurgents.

    Foam fingers, baby!

  23. 23.

    Warren Terra

    Could you put back the post with strikethrough or something? I hate this sort of “guess what I was wrong about” post.

  25. 25.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Time to do my Matt Taibbi impersonation: How assholish are the heads of Goldman Sachs? Even their stockholders are getting cheesed at them.

    Goldman Holders Miffed at Bonuses

    Some of the largest shareholders in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. have urged the Wall Street firm to reduce the size of its bonus pool, arguing that it should pass along more of its blockbuster earnings to investors, according to people familiar with the situation.

  28. 28.

    shoutingattherain

    @2th&nayle:

    It really is hard to believe. We are paying the Taliban to not shoot at our supply trucks, and they’re taking the $ to buy arms to shoot at us someplace else. We are funding our own opposition. How does this make any sense?

  30. 30.

    Anne Laurie

    @shoutingattherain:

    We are funding our own opposition. How does this make any sense?

    It is VERY good news for John McCain Xe, ex Blackwater. And who’s more important to the average redstate Congresscritter, some poor American mopes getting shot up, or the smooth flowing of tax dollars from those mopes’ fellow sufferers to the military-industrial megacorps that pay for said Congresscritter’s nice lifestyle?

  32. 32.

    Delia

    @shoutingattherain:

    We are paying the Taliban to not shoot at our supply trucks, and they’re taking the $ to buy arms to shoot at us someplace else. We are funding our own opposition. How does this make any sense?

    There’s a line from a song on George Harrison’s last album:

    “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”

    I think that sums up the situation quite nicely.

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