Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Let there be snark.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

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

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

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Supporting the troops

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I guess this is, sadly, not very surprising:

In the Fox News segment, widely aired on the Internet, Mr. Gutfeld said the Canadian military “wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants.”

“Isn’t this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country?” he said. “They have no army.”

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“I didn’t even know they were in the war. I thought that’s where you go if you don’t want to fight — you go chill in Canada,” he said.

That same day:

Four hearses carrying the flag-draped coffins of the latest Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan are receiving a police escort along the Highway of Heroes.

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The deaths bring to 116 the number of Canadian soldiers who have died in the Afghan mission since it began in 2002.

No US ally has lost more troops in Afghanistan than Canada.

Update. I missed this part of the Globe and Mail piece the first time through:

Mr. Gutfield, who is also a Huffington Post blogger, author and magazine editor who previously had stints at the helm of Men’s Health, Stuff and Maxim UK, refused to reply to an e-mail from The Globe and Mail sent to his personal account requesting an interview (as well as a short game of Canadian trivia). Instead, he forwarded the message to a Fox publicist, who responded on his behalf.

I’m not the biggest fan of the HuffPost, but why on earth would they let someone like this clown blog there?

Update update. And here’s what Gutfield wrote in his Twitter account about the incident:

My apologies to the Canadian military, they probably could at least beat the Belgians.

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Armed and dangerous

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Michelle Bachmann:

“I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people – we the people – are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.”

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In Other News, Frat Boys React Positively to Plans For Free Beer and Get Out of Jail Free Cards.

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DOW up 500 on the news that all bad decisions by Wall Street will be taken care of by the sugar daddies on Main Street.

I really suck at optimism, but after too many years of insufficient cynicism…

*** Update ***

Ben Stein on my tv- “The big boys get the gain, the taxpayers get the risk. This is what Wall Street loves- something for nothing.”

Republicans are going to have to work on that socialism mantra. It just isn’t making any sense.

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More punch-drunk love

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Following up on John’s “Mission Accomplished” post, check out the second from-the-top story at Halperin:

The hosts of the daytime show aren’t smiling at Obama’s chuckles about the economy in his “60 Minutes” interview.

Hasselbeck: “Nobody’s laughing… It’s not a joke.”

That’s right, one of the most important developments in American politics today, at time when a complex controversial plan to shore up our banks is being unveiled, while American troops are occupying two countries, while the economy is plunging into the worst depression since WW II…is what fucking Elizabeth Hasslebeck thinks about Obama’s jokes.

Is it any wonder we’re in such bad shape?

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More of this please

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E. J. Dionne writes about what we’ve talked about repeatedly here, the silly procedural focus of our national political dialog:

A deep narrative is taking root in the political class, and it goes something like this: Obama is biting off way more than he can chew, “overloading” the system and dealing with all sorts of “side issues,” when he should be focusing solely on the broken economy. He is said to be asking Congress to do too much.

Note that anyone who makes an argument of this sort is freed from responsibility to mention any of the specific problems Obama is proposing to take on. Insisting the economy trumps everything means you don’t have to say a thing about health-care reform, energy, education and taxes.

I have no idea if Dionne got the idea of writing about this from the blogosphere, but this is an important media critique that I hope we’ll see more of.

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An Apt Explanation

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If you are wondering why the tea parties are popping up and what is motivating them when the first thing Obama did was pass a tax cut, this goes a long way to explain why:

My sense is that it is a delayed reaction in some ways to Bush, and his betrayal of conservatism. For all sorts of reasons, most of the current tea-partiers backed the GOP under Bush and Cheney, although some, to be fair, did complain about some of it. The pent-up frustrations behind conservatism’s collapse under Republicans were trumped, however, by the fruits of power, partisan hatred of “the left”, defensiveness over the Iraq war and torture, and, above all religious devotion to the Leader. Now that Bush has been removed, the massive damage done, and a pragmatic liberal is trying to sort out the mess in a sane, orderly fashion, they’ve gone nuts.

Think of someone like Glenn Beck.

He sat back and watched Bush preside over the worst domestic attack in US history, explode the entitlement state, engage in unending projects of nation-building in two of the most dysfunctional countries on earth, rip up the Constitution, and bequeath as his legacy a trillion dollar deficit, unprecedented domestic discretionary spending, a banking collapse and the worst recession in many many years. The right will take some time to absorb this but Bush was Carter II – with two full terms. All that rage at what has actually happened – bottled up by rank partisanship for years – has come bounding out. Hence the bizarre spectacle of a president just two months on the job being treated on the right as if he’s already Robert Mugabe. Throw in a little racial and cultural panic, add a world of genuine economic pain … and you have the Malkin surge.

Pretty much.

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