Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

So many bastards, so little time.

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

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

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

“woke” is the new caravan.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Come on, man.

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Ratz takes a holiday

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When you get right down to it, this (via NoMoreMisterNiceGuy) is ultimately more benign than uniting Christians for the coming holy war with Islam, though the apostrophe here makes the holiday look a little more Islamic:

The Vatican issued the warning through its official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, in an article headlined “Hallowe’en’s Dangerous Messages”.

The paper quoted a liturgical expert, Joan Maria Canals, who said: “Hallowe’en has an undercurrent of occultism and is absolutely anti-Christian.”

Parents should “be aware of this and try to direct the meaning of the feast towards wholesomeness and beauty rather than terror, fear and death,” said Father Canals, a member of a Spanish commission on church rites.

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Open Thread: FTFY

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I really wish Steve Gilliard were here to share his opinions on the Hoffman Surge in NY-23. There is a war between the native NYCers and the appleknockers cowhumpers upstaters with at least 200 years of history behind it, and the Ankh Morpork Big Apple team has all the good snarksters.

I am not superstitious but I am a devout animist, and this worked for the first game:

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Home at Last

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Finally home with both animals back. Apparently I have the kids that can not behave outside of the home. Lily whined and was generally super needy the whole time I was gone, and according to Tammy, Tunch refused to use the litter boxes and in a fit of pique shit on her pumpkin table display.

Bastard.

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Pretty words

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Why do all the kids in the At pack have to say things like this?

Hoffman has harnessed several shoots of energy, including anti-incumbent sentiment, conservative opposition to liberal Republicans, and the iatropic excitement that’s generated when conservative activists suddenly coalesce around a candidate.

Iatropic excitement?

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24 hour party purge people

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If Pete Sessions escapes with anything less than being publicly stoned with fake dog poop, he should consider himself lucky:

Make no mistake about it, Pete Sessions and the NRCC must shoulder most of the blame and responsibility, with Michael Steele and the RNC coming right behind them. They did not listen. They would not listen. They posited themselves as the smartest people in the room.

And we’ve cleaned their clocks.

Now? We should be magnanimous in victory — and whether Hoffman wins or loses, as long as Dede Scozzafava loses it is a victory — but we should demand accountability, we should demand a reckoning, and we should demand a purge from the party establishment of those people most responsible for the Republican disaster in NY-23.

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America’s next great pundit

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Well, I’m sad to say that I was not selected as one of the ten finalists for the WaPo next great pundit competition. It’s probably just as well, because I wouldn’t want to spend the next six months living in a house with nine people I’ve never met before.

Here are the winning essays. They’re about what you’d expect: three full-tilt concern trollings, a couple MoDo/Double X style gender pieces, a pointless piece about that college kid who’s hiring a personal assistant, a snoozer about good government (which does make a good point), a predictable rant about cable news, and one thoughtful piece about health care.

I guess I’m just jealous that mine didn’t make the cut.

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For the good times

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It goes without saying that whatever happens in NY-23 on Tuesday, it will be good news for conservatives. If teabagger Hoffman wins, it will signal a profound political realignment, the likes of which have not been seen since the days of Ronaldus Magnus. If the Democrat Owens wins, it will still be amazing that Hoffman came out of nowhere to make the race so close; this will probably be true no matter what the vote totals are, though there is also the possibility that Hoffman will lose by so much that it will turn out that he wasn’t a true conservative.

I have some serious question here. First off, what benefit does all the good news, here and elsewhere, actually bring conservatives? Is it really a smart tactic to claim that everything that happens is good news for your political movement? The only parallel I can think of is communism where good economic times for capitalist countries meant that capitalists were getting fat and lazy while bad economic times meant the workers were getting ready to rise up. Is this a fair comparison? And was it smart for communists to spin things that way?

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