Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

No one could have predicted…

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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

Infrastructure week. at last.

This fight is for everything.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

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  2. 2.

    JGabriel

    Interesting. I can’t really imagine anything like that happening in the US — that a common burglar would be cheered on and get a fan base for escaping prison.

    In America, such a man would become political fodder with which to bludgeon the governor of his state, or a presidential nominee, while the Republicans would put up a hue and cry that “if we can’t keep a regular street thief behind bars, how do we expect to safely contain Gitmo terrorists? Huh? Huh?”

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    Paul in KY

    He’ll get some ‘bugger’ when they get him back in that prison. The bulls will be the ones doing the buggering.

  7. 7.

    dr. bloor

    @JGabriel:

    Interesting. I can’t really imagine anything like that happening in the US — that a common burglar would be cheered on and get a fan base for escaping prison.

    Gordon Liddy and Oliver North say hello.

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    beltane

    There is something very British about this, and in a good way. I also couldn’t help but notice that under the story about the happy escapee is another story about the Palin custody battle, which a judge has ruled will be open to the public. This is excellent news for Andrew Sullivan.

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    aimai

    And don’t forget the Atlanta Bomber–he was on the run for ages, supported by the populace.

    After being identified following the attacks, Rudolph spent more than five years on the run in the North Carolina wilderness. He employed the survivalist techniques he had learned as a soldier.__
    Rudolph was captured in 2003 while scavenging for food behind a grocery store.

    aimai

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    Zifnab

    Lulz!

    @beltane:

    I also couldn’t help but notice that under the story about the happy escapee is another story about the Palin custody battle, which a judge has ruled will be open to the public. This is excellent news for Andrew Sullivan.

    Countertops, bitches! The public has the right to know.

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    Terri

    @aimai

    Rudolph was caught in Murphy NC. My father’s “people” are from Murphy. Having spent some time there as a child, I can tell you, residents there, make teabaggers look downright progressive. My paternal grandfather(hateful sonofabitch that he was) was a Grand Dragon back in the 40’s and 50’s. No big suprise that they gave him aid and comfort.

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    margarita

    I call shenanigans. I saw that same picture 5 years ago, only it was taken in Iraq, and George Bush was holding the turkey. This guy’s pulling a Cool Hand Luke.

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    Stefan

    Interesting. I can’t really imagine anything like that happening in the US — that a common burglar would be cheered on and get a fan base for escaping prison.

    Now, a common traitor like Lewis “Scooter” Libby who revealed the name of a CIA asset — he of course would be cheered on and get a fan base for escaping prison. Also any American accused of torturing and/or murdering an Arab Muslim prisoner — they’d also be cheered on and get a fan base.

    But a common burglar? No. We do have some standards here.

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    JGabriel

    @dr. bloor:

    Gordon Liddy and Oliver North say hello.

    Slightly different cases. North escaped conviction, not from prison directly. Liddy served his sentence up until it was commuted by Carter — 4.5 years out of 20 — for which you’d think Liddy could show a little fucking gratitude towards Democrats. Here’s hoping future (and current) Democratic presidents learn a lesson from that episode: never, NEVER, commute or pardon a corrupt Republican or his/her accomplices.

    Anyway, neither of them actually escaped from a prison cell, except metaphorically.

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    Jay in Oregon

    @beltane:

    I also couldn’t help but notice that under the story about the happy escapee is another story about the Palin custody battle, which a judge has ruled will be open to the public.

    Palin custody battle? No thanks, you can keep her…

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    CanadaGoose

    Teen fugitive captures imagination of many
    Colton Harris-Moore, 18, escaped from a holding facility last year. Police say he’s since stolen two boats, crashed three planes and burglarized homes and stores. Some call him a teen Jesse James.
    LA Times November 08, 2009

    Just Google this guy’s name and you can see that the English story is not unique. Harris-Moore has a fan club on Facebook!

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    Will

    He’ll get some ‘bugger’ when they get him back in that prison. The bulls will be the ones doing the buggering.

    It might shock you to realize this, but UK prisons don’t really have the problems with inmate violence, guard brutality or prison rape that we have. Even France, which has one of the worst prison systems in the Western world, doesn’t have a huge inmate violence problem. Bad things happen, of course, but they are the exceptions and not the rule like here.

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    Will

    I hope he enjoys it while it lasts. This is NOT going to end well!

    Once again, the UK isn’t the U.S. There’s a good chance he’ll be arrested without violence by professional police, get extra time for the escape and then serve out his sentence without a beating by the guards.

    The British police aren’t perfect – way too much surveillance – but they aren’t thugs in uniform either. Incidents like the dude who was mistaken for a terrorist and shot in the subway are a national scandal, not Page 2 items in every local paper.

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