Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

“But what about the lurkers?”

This fight is for everything.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

People are weird.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

I really should read my own blog.

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

No one could have predicted…

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Second rate reporter says what?

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

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

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

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  9. 9.

    PeakVT

    OT: Did anyone in NY/VT feel the earthquake in Ontario at about 1:42? The shaking lasted about 20-25 seconds in Burlington. First quake I’ve ever felt.

  10. 10.

    CT Voter

    Not only would it already have been plugged, but the oil would have flowed backwards into the well.

    If Obama can’t stand up to a gushing plume of oil, how will he stand up to terrorists?

  11. 11.

    LarsThorwald

    I hope you and your little hippy friends are happy, because today your President — who, by the way, is Kenyan and smokes cigarettes — made America unsafe against the invading Afghan hordes.

    You fucking people….

  12. 12.

    Corner Stone

    If you prick a strawman, does it not bleed?
    if you tickle it, does it not laugh? if you poison
    it, does it not die?

    No, obviously a useful strawman never dies at BJ.

  14. 14.

    Zifnab

    Who the hell does Barack Obama think he is, anyway? How dare he extort a resignation out of General McChrystal! This isn’t how free markets work at all.

  15. 15.

    slag

    @LarsThorwald: I’ll admit that smoking thing does piss me off. I at least hope he’s not smoking around gushing oil wells. Or alcohol-soaked former generals. That shit’s dangerous.

  16. 16.

    ricky

    If Obama had been this tough with Hayward and McChrystal year ago a lot of people who are not alive might be.

  20. 20.

    lamh31

    So Obama fires McChrystal and appoints Petraus. Forget about the policy or a minute, this is some great “politics” right here. By appointing Petraus, the Prez has essentially neutralized GOP efforts to at least criticize the replacement and limits their ability to get much traction over McChrystal’s firing.

  21. 21.

    Zifnab

    @ricky: Being tough with the Generals =/= Leaving Iraq or Afghanistan.

    If anything, firing these guys is just going to make the whole draw down take longer. Now we’re going to need a new commander, a new plan, and a new chance for said commander to “make a difference” and blah blah blah.

    The only people who can get us out of the war at this point are Obama – by ordering the troops out – or by Congress – if they were to try and defund the war effort. Congress is in no rush, so that means it’s all on Obama’s head. A change of generals doesn’t really change anything.

  22. 22.

    Angelos

    One of my Facebook “friends” contends that the government could fix it, but isn’t so Obama’s delayed response looks less egregious.

    “BP isn’t fixing the leak because they can’t. The US govt could, but they’re not trying. I don’t know how to spell it out simpler than that.”

    You’re right, dude, that is pretty “simple.”

  24. 24.

    geg6

    @lamh31:

    Yup, that’s how I see it. He’s headed the asshole chorus off at the pass. Not to mention that Petraeus was ol’ Stanley’s biggest cheerleader, so now he’s gotta clean up after his tarnished golden boy.

  25. 25.

    Mark S.

    OT- Jesus, there is no tiebreak in the fifth set of Wimbledon, and these guys are going waaay past the distance: 48-48.

  26. 26.

    Bulworth

    By appointing Petraus, the Prez has essentially neutralized GOP efforts to at least criticize the replacement and limits their ability to get much traction over McChrystal’s firing.

    Obama could replac McCrystal with Curtis LeMay and there is no way that would neutralize the reichwing’s criticism.

  27. 27.

    geg6

    @Zifnab:

    If anything, firing these guys is just going to make the whole draw down take longer. Now we’re going to need a new commander, a new plan, and a new chance for said commander to “make a difference” and blah blah blah.

    Why? I simply don’t see that, especially as it’s Petraeus taking over. Petraeus was in on the planning for the COIN in Afghanistan. Petraeus had basically signed onto the administration’s timeline for drawdown there (with only the very slightest of differences).

    I don’t follow how your scenario plays out under those conditions. Perhaps with a brand new guy who has had no input into the planning and operations there, but not with Petraeus in charge.

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    @geg6:

    It may be the Obot in me, but putting Petraeus in charge of both areas makes me hope that Obama actually does want to stick to the withdrawal timeline that was set up and not let the war(s) get dragged out with a promise from the generals that just one more Friedman Unit will, like, totally fix everything.

  32. 32.

    lamh31

    @Bulworth

    No it will not completely stop the crazy, but it will take some really inane pretzel twisting of the logic to try and get some traction on it outside of wingut circle.

  33. 33.

    sherifffruitfly

    Because everybody knows that nothing stops oil faster than being tough.

    Gawd we’re a fucking stupid country.

  34. 34.

    Island in Alabama

    @slag:

    Thanks to hydraulic fracking, it’s getting so we can’t even smoke around our tap water. What isn’t dangerously flammable these days?

  37. 37.

    Elie

    I dunno — not to be a contrarian, but does anyone actually believe that we are in Afghanistan to prevent their Taliban from mistreating women and other citizens? Really?

    This has been discussed many times elsewhere and in B-J. We are in Afghanistan to keep the lid on the pot in Pakistan — nuclear, unstable, terror exporting, India hating, US hating Pakistan. We cannot invadate Pakistan. The next best thing is to squat next door. Do you really think we are not going to be doing that soon? Not saying that we need the troop strength that we have now to do that, but the only reason we care at all about the stability of Afghanistan is so that we are not harrassed while we are doing what we are actually there for.

    I am happy to hear if folks think that I am wrong and why (I actually am not happy to be correct about this)… no easy out for this policy… I don’t have visions of Americans pulling out leaving Afghanistan to not only Taliban but incursions of Indian troops (already suspected). Do you?

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