Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

“woke” is the new caravan.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

We will not go back.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

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

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

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  3. 3.

    Crashman

    Does he think he’s cool, dressing all in black like that? Talk about trying too hard.

  4. 4.

    Cap'n Billy

    Well, the slightly untucked shirt and too-tight jeans make for nice accessories on Mr. Kaus …. I heard he raises goats. Has anyone else heard that?

  5. 5.

    slippy

    I stopped playback when the FIRST sentence was “and I can live on $80,000.”

    The minute elites start talking about how they can “live on” twice the median American income, I feel my mouth filling up with warm spit.

  6. 6.

    Punchy

    Damn that’s BAAAAHHHd. It’s like he’s talking to the sheeple. He’s goat’ing me into breaking my computer.

  7. 7.

    Scamp Dog

    @Xecky Gilchrist: Thank the FSM for your workplace’s blocking. I had to look at a picture of Mickey Kaus talking to some dude from Reason magazine. I made sure not to click the play button to avoid further brain damage.

  9. 9.

    Poopyman

    Well, I started the video with no sound ’cause I’m at work and who wants to hear The Goat F#ckerer anyhow. Anyway, first thing I notice is that it’s 41 minutes long. WTF? There’d have to be a lot of car crashes in this video to make it worth my time, but I’m not gonna bet that there are.

  10. 10.

    Hunter Gathers

    @slippy:

    I stopped playback when the FIRST sentence was “and I can live on $80,000.”

    That’s where I stopped. I would kill to make 80 grand a year. And with that kind of scratch, he could afford better fitting pants.

  13. 13.

    Brachiator

    Should any government ever feel the need to torture me, I’ll take a year of waterboarding over being forced to watch this:

    I tried. I couldn’t last more than 10 seconds.

    Does Amnesty International know about this video?

  14. 14.

    Perry Como

    Dear god. That’s like a year’s worth of douchebaggery compressed into 10 minutes.

  15. 15.

    sukabi

    2 minutes in… that’s enough.

    the interviewer wasn’t taking him seriously… first question, response, reply…. paraphrase “you’ll be replaced by illegal mexican bloggers?” and there was another shot involving illegal immigrants within that 2 minute mark… but I’m not going to listen to the whole thing to see if the interviewer makes a comment about anything regarding goats.

  16. 16.

    Poopyman

    @Perry Como:

    Dear god. That’s like a year’s worth of douchebaggery compressed into 10 -minutes-seconds.

    You’re a generous man, Perry.

  23. 23.

    Joel

    Kaus, as compared to Christopher Hitchens.

    Hitchens is eloquent, Kaus is inarticulate.
    Hitchens is erudite, Kaus is just rude.
    Hitchens is a douchebag, Kaus is a dushbag.

    Obligatory Roger Clemens reference.

  26. 26.

    Comrade Jake

    I made it to 1:45. That’s all I could stomach.

    Fuck you Cole. It’s lunchtime, goddamnit!

  27. 27.

    Rommie

    I like the new tags – lots of potential to use as bait, and get the foaming at the mouth Usual Suspects to show up like a puppetmaster. Plain ol’ delicious snark is good too.

  32. 32.

    celticdragonchick

    @Brachiator:

    I tried. I couldn’t last more than 10 seconds.

    Does Amnesty International know about this video?

    I lasted about 12.

    I need a Scotch and water.

  34. 34.

    slag

    Thirty seconds is all it takes to determine that those are two people you would never ever want to hang out with.

    In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if the term “douchebag” was created just for them.

  35. 35.

    Phil

    Helen Thomas forced to retire and booted from polite society.

    President of Iran, anti-Semites and John Cole hardest hit.

  37. 37.

    EvolutionaryDesign

    Could only make it to 5:00 – there’s 40 minutes of this crap?!? BTW, these guys sound nearly identical – it’s like a super-unpleasant (literaly) babbling brooke.

  38. 38.

    IndieTarheel

    @slag:

    In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if the term “douchebag” was created just for them.

    I object, on the grounds that douchebags (in their original context) contain a vital commodity and as such perform a useful service.
    __
    Although I suppose it could be argued that being a living example of wasted protoplasm is useful too. Just sayin’.

  40. 40.

    Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions

    Helen Thomas forced to retire and booted from polite society.

    President of Iran, anti-Semites and John Cole hardest hit.

    But you repeat yourself…

  43. 43.

    SRW1

    I heard he raises goats. Has anyone else heard that?

    I heard he’s working on human-goat hybrids. He apparently hasn’t succeeded yet, but according to radio Jerewan, the attempts are continuing.

  44. 44.

    Ed Drone

    @SRW1:

    I heard he raises goats. Has anyone else heard that?

    My understanding is it’s the other way ’round — goats raise him.

    [nudge, nudge, wink, wink]

    Ed

  45. 45.

    Chuck Butcher

    What 5 minutes left me with was a wonder that he put a (D) after his name. WTF isn’t he running as a Teabagger?

    Edit: Now my brain hurts.

  46. 46.

    JMC_in_the_ATL

    Jesus, Gillespie, if you’re going to insist on dressing like a hipster douchebag half your age, at least learn how to match your blacks.

  47. 47.

    Giles Goat Boy

    Mickey Kaus fucked me in the ass. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!

    And then he went fucked every other goat in the farmyard — even after telling me that I was the only goat for him. Lying bastard!

  48. 48.

    Fwiffo

    Damn, 42 minutes. I thought the waterboarding thing was hyperbole… I mean, both would lead to life-long emotional scarring, but waterboarding would be over much more quickly. And there would be less chance of permanent physical injury and/or death with the waterboard too.

  49. 49.

    Brachiator

    @Chuck Butcher:

    What 5 minutes left me with was a wonder that he put a (D) after his name. WTF isn’t he running as a Teabagger?

    Obviously he is running as a Douchebagger.

    There’s a profile of Kaus in today’s LA Times.

    He notes that he is running for the Senate in California not because he expects to win, but because he wants to start an argument and hopes to “move the ‘silent majority of moderate Californians.'”

    Seriously.

    It’s a weird, mercy fuck kind of profile by Robin Abcarian (“hey, you used to be a journalist, and I’m a journalist until they turn the lights out here, so I’ll throw you a freebie”) in which Kaus comes across as a pathetic little weasel groveling for attention.

    A few … highlights:

    In the same spirit, here are a few quick facts about Kaus, who is sometimes described as disheveled but is well-groomed, balding and attractive in a Robert Klein kind of way:
    …
    He’s 58 and has never been married. He graduated from Beverly Hills High, Harvard and Harvard Law. He clerked for California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk when his father, Otto Kaus, was a presiding judge on the California Court of Appeal, but claims it was not nepotism because he asked Mosk for work while his dad was on vacation.
    …
    “I spent a year and a half in every journalistic institution on the planet,” says Kaus. “I have the resume of an alcoholic.”
    …
    He’s driving his mom’s Volvo these days because his 1991 Nissan 300ZX — with a “Kerry Haters for Kerry” bumper sticker — is not running.

  50. 50.

    Ruckus

    I will not click. I will not click. I will not click.

    I like easy voting. Not voting for this clown is one of the easiest. Ever.

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