Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

So many bastards, so little time.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

T R E 4 5 O N

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

The lights are all blinking red.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

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

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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  1. 1.

    beltane

    Is that who writing her tweets now. Over at GOS they are all marveling at her ability to spell correctly.

  3. 3.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’m waitin for it to get good and dark and then I’m going to scrurry up on the roof and clean my gutters naked.

  5. 5.

    Elisabeth

    @beltane:

    Interesting that, apparently, everything she/he wrote in Facebook message is a lie. The GOS diarist forgot to mention that Sarah couldn’t cite the Exxon case as one she disagreed with when asked by Katie. Because it was oh so important to her.

    I hate that woman.

  6. 6.

    beltane

    It will be interesting to see how they juxtapose images of absolute horror and devastation with the dunce’s chirpy “We can still believe” tweet.

  7. 7.

    beltane

    @Elisabeth: She claims she offered legal assistance to those affected by the spill. Puh-lease. That one really make giggle to myself.

  9. 9.

    Elisabeth

    @beltane:

    So, why isn’t she down on the Gulf Coast rendering aid and assistance to Gov. Jindal because, of course, she knows soooo much more than Obama and his incompetent cabinet.

  10. 10.

    demo woman

    @Elisabeth: Because she is an ignorant ass who only served as Governor for 2 plus years and most of that time she was campaigning for another job. SATSQ

  11. 11.

    JK

    Sarah “Mooseburger Helper ” Palin is a malignant media carcinogen and a toxic, knuckledragging neanderthal.

    Palin “restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos.”

    h/t Woody Allen

  13. 13.

    beltane

    @JK: If only she had disappeared into Geraldine Ferraro-like obscurity, only occasionally emerging from her lair to spout PUMA talking points.

  14. 14.

    toujoursdan

    Free markets fix everything. Think of all the wonderful companies that can be created to clean up the mess. The government should totally contract this work out to one of them and reward BP for doing their part to stimulate the economy with some tax cuts. In fact, maybe Exxon and Shell should uncap their wells and create even more companies and jobs. It might even bring the Gulf Coast out of recession.

    Jesus is coming, so unless you’re an Christ hating-envirofacist, you’ll know that the Real Christians will get a brand new planet soon anyway.

  16. 16.

    Mike Kay

    The rich irony.

    She was in new orleans on april 9, for the southern republican leadership conference, where she once again DEMANDED drill, baby, drill.

  18. 18.

    Mike Kay

    this spill was the result of too much big government regulation and not enough tax cuts.

  19. 19.

    beltane

    @Mike Kay: Nothing I’m aware of. I was just thinking back to Geraldine Ferraro circa 2008. It was the only time I’d heard about her in years. Palin never went away.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    Cleaning up the Gulf Coast could be the next WPA, TVA, Hoover Dam, etc. Employ thousands of people for years.

  22. 22.

    JK

    @Mike Kay:

    She was in new orleans on april 9, for the southern republican leadership conference.

    Where she finished in 3rd place in the presidential preference straw poll which shows that even Republican activists realize that she’s too fucking dumb to be President.

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    @burnspbesq: I wish I could be so optimistic. But good luck getting that past the teabagger obstructionists in Congress. And Allah help up all if we get a Speaker Boehner.

  25. 25.

    Mark S.

    From Sarah’s idiotic book:

    It took years for Alaska to achieve victory. As governor, I directed our attorney general to write an amicus brief in the case, and, thanks to Alaska’s able attorneys arguing in front of the highest court in the land, in 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the people. Finally, Alaskans could recover some of their losses.

    The plaintiffs got a tenth of the punitive damages that a jury awarded them. What a fucking victory.

    But thank God the Supreme Court discerned the original intent of the Fourteenth Amendment: making sure corporations don’t pay excessive punitive damages.

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    @Yutsano:

    Jindal, Barbour, and Goodhair are dicks, but given a choice between sucking the Federal tit and the destruction of their states’ economies, I think they’ll make the right call. If not, those are three states that will turn blue for decades.

  31. 31.

    JK

    @beltane:

    In an interview, Roger Ailes recently whined that nobody complained when he hired Geraldine Ferraro as a Fox News analyst, but that people made a big fuss when he hired Sarah Palin as a Fox News analyst. The only Democrats that Ailes likes are the ones who bash fellow Democrats as vigorously as Republicans do. Was there any other Democrat who made as disgusting a personal attack against Obama as Ferraro did?

  34. 34.

    burnspbesq

    @Mike Kay:

    Orange, California. Grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. I’m a Mets fan because my grandfather was a Giants fan. Rule One: Hate the Dodgers. Rule Two: Hate the Yankees. Rule Three: In case of doubt, consult Rules One and Two. First game I ever went to was the first time the Giants came back to play the Mets at the Polo Grounds.

  35. 35.

    burnspbesq

    @khead:

    You may be on to something, sort of. How about Goldman contributes a billion to Gulf relief in exchange for the SEC dismissing the complaint?

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    @burnspbesq: So far I have to say that’s working wonders for Charlie in Florida. Never mind the fact all three took stimulus funds and then lied about it to their constituents (hell they’re still lying about it), they all are playing to their crazy base hardcore right now. I’m pretty sure Piyush will take the cash but the others I’m not as sold on.

    @burnspbesq: Fine by me, as long as they can’t deduct it as a charitable contribution.

  39. 39.

    Mike in NC

    @JK:

    Was there any other Democrat who made as disgusting a personal attack against Obama as Ferraro did?

    Lady Something Something de Rothschild Something?

    Wasn’t fucking Randy the imbecile McCain aide who thought it would be a great idea to start a war with Russia just to get some oil deals with some weasels in Georgia?

  42. 42.

    victory

    Palin was overheard the other day, “I could see the Exxon Valdez spill from my house!”

  45. 45.

    burnspbesq

    @Svensker:

    Backatcha!

    And I see that the streak is intact. RHS 19, IHA 12. RHS girls lax has NEVER lost to a Bergen County school. Woo-hoo! Bragging rights for me (my sisters all graduated from Horny Hill).

  47. 47.

    eemom

    @Elisabeth:

    not to worry. Her winkin’ starburstin’ ain’t gonna last forever. 40 year old virgins like Rich Lowry and the other ilks that make up her fanbase are not known for brand loyalty.

    Sooner or later her looks, and her novelty, are gonna wear off……and then she’ll end up like Christie Whitman, a shriveled up old has-been poster girl for republican “feminism.”

  48. 48.

    mr. whipple

    Free markets fix everything. Think of all the wonderful companies that can be created to clean up the mess.

    This country has 10% unemployment. I say we should start a WPA program for the oil spill. Hire a couple million people and give each one a lot of paper towels.

  49. 49.

    Svensker

    @burnspbesq:

    My hub and his sis are Ridgewood kids. Still get there regular like to see family. And my son was born there, right at good old Valley.

  50. 50.

    burnspbesq

    I believe I shall put on my Mets hat and go get a cheesesteak.

    Final score Mets 9, Scumbags 1.

  52. 52.

    burnspbesq

    @Svensker:

    Was a great place to grow up. If I worked in the city, I would live there. Not that I could afford much house there, even on my exorbitant salary.

  53. 53.

    jl

    There is a saying that entrenched but incorrect ideas cannot be defeated, they only go away when the people who hold them die (note that this is NOT a death threat, but a statement of fact and I hope everyone dies happily and peacefully in their beds when their time comes naturally)

    We may be seeing that here with this possibly, perhaps now probably, catastrophic and tragic oil spill.

    The Lousiana gulf coast is one my very favorite places and I fear how bad this may turn out to be.

    How many times does tribalism, rationalization, persistence of wishful thinking have to defeat obvious fact in the minds of so many people?

    After Iraq, after the housing boom and bust, after the financial crisis.

    We will be seeing more of it in wrong policy lessons drawn from the Greek-Portugal-Spain economic crises.
    See Krugman’s NY Times column and blog today
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/opinion/30krugman.html

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/why-isnt-britain-in-more-trouble/

    More of it in response to strong evidence that the Eastern US’s snowy winter was associated with above average rather than below average temperatures in much of the US.

    I don’t think you have to be a radical lefty nut to wonder whether we will destroy ourselves by clinging to rigid, entrenched but incorrect ideas.

    Maybe this is something like how the Maya went down.

  55. 55.

    burnspbesq

    @Yutsano:

    Catholic high school girls are notorious for their lack of self-control. You can’t coop teenagers up in a single-sex environment all week and not expect them to go insane on the weekend. Ask any Jersey guy, and he’ll corroborate this.

    Plus, Monday is a lot easier if nobody from your own school saw you make an ass of yourself on Saturday night.

  56. 56.

    Elisabeth

    @eemom:

    Please let it be sooner rather than later. Andrew Sullivan had a couple of posts yesterday, I believe, that frightened me. One of them mentioned Palin as the CEO of an alternate America and that’s true. My only comfort is knowing that this alternate portion is a tiny slice of “real” America. Those people believe what she says/writes without any questioning. And, yet, Obama supporters are called sheeple.

    Thank goodness for baseball and shoe shopping destined to make me feel better.

  58. 58.

    Xenos

    Ghostwriter? That Facebook comment read like an industry press release. Copy and paste, baby, copy and paste.

  61. 61.

    Quiddity

    Palin:

    “Production of our own resources means security for America and opportunities for American workers. We need oil, and if we don’t drill for it here, we have to purchase it from countries that not only do not like America …”

    Offshore drilling doesn’t mean energy independence, which is what Palin (or her ghost-writer) implies. Perhaps we should cut down all the trees and burn them in wood stoves. Etc.

    Palin is the idol for idiots.

  62. 62.

    Quiddity

    RELATED: CBS reports that:

    In Congress, Republicans like House Minority John Boehner have yet to speak out about drilling. One House GOP leadership aide says that the party is staying quiet because they are wary about coming on too strong for drilling offshore while the ocean is still on fire …

    What do you think? Should Republicans be silent while the ocean is on fire, or not?

  63. 63.

    JGabriel

    @Quiddity:

    What do you think? Should Republicans be silent while the ocean is on fire, or not?

    Of course not! It is only by the light of the ocean’s fires that Republican truths can stand and glimmer in all their glory!

    .

  65. 65.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Quiddity: I read that as Palin is the idiot for the idiots, which made perfect sense to me.

    @Elisabeth: Agreed. I loathe everything she stands for as well as her very purpose in being. Talk about the ultimate Peter Pan Principle in action.

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