Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

It’s a doggy dog world.

A consequence of cucumbers

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

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The words do not have to be perfect.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

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  2. 2.

    Unabogie

    One question. Is “we are all Georgians now” the stupidest thing John McCain said in that election, or was there anything worse? Because looking back, what the hell did he think he was doing with that?

  5. 5.

    Allison W.

    @Unabogie:

    The stupidest thing McCain said was: ‘Meet my VP Sarah Palin’. “We are all Georgians now” was the most desperate. I honestly think he was talking off the top of his head on that one. I’m sure his managers banged their heads against the wall after that one.

  6. 6.

    fucen tarmal

    @Unabogie:

    in a campaign floundering for resources he was assuring the 527 groups that might work on his behalf, that he could indeed be bought, and he would go to bat for those lobbys who favored him with cash.

    though because he didn’t take matching, it had to be encouraged through outside efforts, rather than direct payoffs to the campaign.

  7. 7.

    Unabogie

    @Allison W.:

    Hey, at least Palin’s pick was somewhat tailored to appeal to somebody. Who the hell did he think would go all teary-eyed over the Georgians (besides other Georgians)?

  9. 9.

    Martin

    @Allison W.: Nah, he at least has his own craven reasons for nominating Palin. It was the most evil thing he did, but not the stupidest. I think the stupidest thing he said was in response to the question “How many houses do you own?”:

    I think — I’ll have my staff get to you. It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.

  11. 11.

    Elisabeth

    @Unabogie:

    Who the hell did he think would go all teary-eyed over the Georgians (besides other Georgians)?

    Neocon warmongers who think we’re still fighting the -Soviets- Russians.

  12. 12.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    It’s xkcd. The signal to noise ratio there is about .8, which really blows everything away.

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    @Unabogie:

    One question. Is “we are all Georgians now” the stupidest thing John McCain said in that election, or was there anything worse? Because looking back, what the hell did he think he was doing with that?

    So many stupid things to chose from. Sarah Palin has already been mentioned, so let me nominate “I’m suspending my campaign so I can fly back to Washington and go to a meeting where I will pretend to do something about the economy.” I don’t remember what he actually said, but that was what it boiled down to.

    dms

  15. 15.

    The Dangerman

    If I’m recalling correctly, someone on McCain’s campaign was taking money from some Georgian folks through some lobbying; so, it was a natural for him, money talks (while bullshit walked in as his Vice Presidential nomination).

  16. 16.

    The Dangerman

    Also, I think we should recall that McCain never had a chance; they were phoning the whole thing in (see Palin, French President). I mean, fuck it, they had a website where anyone could comment on John McCain’s balls. No discipline at all.

  21. 21.

    eemom

    I’d prefer to see an alligator riding a burning James Carville.

    As for the stupidest thing McCain said in the campaign — good heavens, we could be here all night. But lemme just throw in “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”

  22. 22.

    Chad N Freude

    The thread devolved into a discussion of stupid things John (I never considered myself a maverick) McCain has said. But in what will be a vain effort to get back on topic, the subject of the cartoon reminded me of this report on Pro Publica, something more worrisome than snarking about Sarah Palin’s mentor. The author was interviewed on NPR Fresh Air this week.

    (And, yes, for the record, I think the cartoon is both funny and horrifyingly predictive.)

  25. 25.

    Martin

    @Chad N Freude: Yeah, I don’t see how BP can continue operating in the US considering the sheer scale of violations they’ve had. It’s not like they had one bad incident, or are just a bit worse than the others – they appear to be far and away the worst in the US.

  26. 26.

    Roger Moore

    @Martin:

    Yeah, I don’t see how BP can continue operating in the US considering the sheer scale of violations they’ve had.

    I’m betting on gross corruption. Remember just how bad the mess at MMS was/is. This is a “regulator” that was failing to collect royalties while its employees were receiving sex and drugs from the companies they were supposed to be overseeing. As far as I can tell, the organization hasn’t been materially reformed in the years since those revelations came to light. To the contrary, they’re still passing out drilling permits like they’re candy. Is it any wonder that BP is still around?

  30. 30.

    Uloborus

    @Roger Moore:
    Incidentally, Obama explained why those permit waivers continue, and I thought it was rather good. They’re waivers for a site-specific environmental impact analysis. They’re given routinely because the law mandates the MMS make that decision within 30 days, and you can’t do a site-specific environmental impact analysis of any value in that time. So they don’t have much choice but to give a waiver and move on.

    I mean, don’t get me wrong, MMS was a terrifying example of Cheney’s disgusting lawlessness and corruption, and it’s a long way from properly cleaned up – but I’ll buy that explanation that the waivers themselves can’t be fixed without a new law.

  31. 31.

    fucen tarmal

    the brittish are crying! the brittish are crying!

    oh noes, their criminal ass corporation is losing share value because americans are saying bad things!

    i’m sorry, but i will double down on pissed off if we let bp off the hook at all, because holding them properly accountable will have a negative impact on the brits….

    make them pay all we can make them pay, and if they don’t cough up all that it takes, well in brittish history, populations have been enslaved, and wars have been fought over less…

    there is nothing in international law that says the brits can’t be on the losing end of one of them type situations, even though, to hear them tell it, doing damage to their poor pensions would be the worst genocide ever.

    that makes me want to fill the streets of london with a rolling wall of flaming aligators, james carville citizen and reptile commander.

  32. 32.

    Boney Baloney

    On the minus side, it’s a cartoon about Fishface Carville riding an alligator.

    On the plus side, it’s an acknowledgement that 1) life goes on beyond soccer, and 2) hurricane season is wide open, with the world’s largest non-radioactive ecological catastrophe boiling away at ground zero.

    Back during the ’60s, Dr. Strangelove types talked about altering the weather by spreading oil on the ocean’s surface. Well, this should be interesting to see in practice, considering nobody ever let them try it on a grand scale. In fact it’s already interesting. Flash floods all the hell over the American Midwest — gee, that’s kind of peculiar.

    If the Missippi River goes 100% bonkers, a large part of Flyover Country could be screwed from behind. I look forward to seeing NY and LA grow their own food crops in that case.

    In the meantime, soccer! Hoo-ah!

  33. 33.

    bob h

    Carville and his wife are circus clowns. He’s trying to enhance his fading street value with his tantrums in New Oryeans.

  34. 34.

    gmf

    I don’t complain about this kind of thing usually – but you really should’ve linked to xkcd.com either for the comic (and skipped the thumbnail”) or somewhere in the post. This guy seems to work really hard and is so very good at what he does, he deserves the traffic.

  35. 35.

    brantl

    “James Carville, riding a burning alligator…”, so the only way to tell one from the other, is which one’s on top?

  38. 38.

    sidereal

    I’m not a fan of cartoons

    Evidenced by the fact that you call a comic a ‘cartoon’.

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