Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

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

We still have time to mess this up!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Everybody saw this coming.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

After roe, women are no longer free.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

I was promised a recession.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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

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

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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  7. 7.

    geg6

    Great news. I like his blog a lot. Especially the Mad Men blogging. Not everything or everyone there is my cup of tea, but TNC’s is one of the few blogs I still check out every.single.day.

    Edited to add: I have learned more about other races and religions there than I learned anywhere or from anyone else.

  8. 8.

    freelancer

    “…and you tell me you have some P.E. Teacher directing this, well that just makes me want to puke all over your head, sir! Give me a chance to tell the Bard’s tale, and I give you my word on humble knee whence you shall not say it wasn’t e’er to be.”
    “Jerry? You cool with this?”
    “Sure, let the little fruit do it.”
    “Huzzah!”

    very cool, for realsies.

  9. 9.

    The Moar You Know

    Well, damn, good on him.

    No need for him to feel bad about being a college dropout. He can always go back, and hell, he’s writing for the Atlantic, so who the fuck cares what he dropped out of? I have a college degree. World-class school, even. Do I have a column at the Atlantic? No. So fuck my degree. It has nothing to do with what I do for a living or my writing ability.

    A good mind can’t be kept down no matter what pieces of paper are attached to it, or not.

  11. 11.

    freelancer

    @The Moar You Know:

    We perpetual undergrads feel that lack of degree like an albatross around our necks almost constantly, and the accomplishments of others is always mirrored in sharp relief by our perceived ignorance. My best friend’s girlfriend has a Masters, but tells me that she’s intimidated by the conversations that he and I have with each other. I get where TNC’s coming from.

  14. 14.

    Demo Woman

    Definitely well deserved! It’s great that John has opened up his blog and is allowing us to gush over the promotion.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    TNC won’t let us comment on this great news over at The Atlantic, so I’m grateful to you, John Cole, for making your own space available. Big congrats to TNC. And John, you have once again proved your menschdom (menschhood? menschness?) and I hope TNC reads Balloon-Juice and gets all embarrassed over how much he is admired over in these parts.

  16. 16.

    asiangrrlMN

    Woot-woot! A well deserve coup for TNC. His blog is one of three that I consider must-reads (along with BJ and WaMo). Good for you, Ta-nahesi!

  18. 18.

    JGabriel

    SiubhanDuinne:

    TNC won’t let us comment on this great news over at The Atlantic …

    Which is why I’ll keep my remark very brief; besides, Cole’s suggested praise says it all:

    Huzzah, Coates!

    .

  20. 20.

    donovong

    Kudos, congrats, huzzahs, hoorays and good-onyas to Mr. Coates!!

    I read his work daily, comment occasionally, and consider his to be one of the four blogs that I must read more than once daily (Ezra, Benen, and some other guy with a dog, a cat, a neti-pot and an attitude would be the others).

  21. 21.

    Rey

    I got a promotion today as well-Retail Manager. Considering seven months ago, I was on the floor in a fetal position having lost my job with a local Bank after 10 plus yrs. Found this retail job and just thanked God I was making some money and getting full health care benefits. The pay is not even close to what I was making but, the schedule works with my schooling (returning back to prepare for Nursing school), my work associates are pretty great, and I’m networking and making contacts for other job opportunities. Congrats to TNC and me!

  22. 22.

    Cain

    @Rey:

    got a promotion today as well-Retail Manager. Considering seven months ago, I was on the floor in a fetal position having lost my job with a local Bank after 10 plus yrs. Found this retail

    Congratulations!! :)

    cain

  23. 23.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Huzzah for TNC!

    OK, I’m either as thick as a brick, or as blind as a bat. What did he get promoted to? Can anybody clue me in? All I saw was a very vague reference on the closed thread which John linked to. Inquiring minds want to know.

  25. 25.

    thomas Levenson

    Great news. More TNC is a good in itself, and may shrink the Atlantic’s page count available to some over there who shall remain nameless on this glorious day who do not put their bully pulpit to the good uses Coates does.

    He and Fallows are the reasons to go to the Atlantic (and I kind of like Corby Kummer’s food stuff, I must confess). May their tribe ever increase.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Kris
    @asiangrrlMN

    I think I’m going to get me a kitteh and name it:

    Teh-Nehisi Cutes

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