Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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

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

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Second rate reporter says what?

Come on, man.

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

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  2. 2.

    Chad S

    Is that supposed to be Obama in the middle? Because I’ve never noticed Obama’s double chin before…

  3. 3.

    The Dangerman

    Wasn’t Reagan called “The Great Communicator” (and, shockingly, used teleprompters)?

  4. 4.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    does this mean obama isn’t gonna put palin in his FEMA detention camp?

    :(

  8. 8.

    Rick Massimo

    It is hardly a shock that as Germany’s unemployment rate skyrocketed to 52.4% that the anti-regime, nationalistic Nazi’s were able to translate that into a plurality of seats in the Reichstag.

    Hmm. So tough economic times allowed a hard-line anti-regime party who saw enemies of the state around every corner to gain power in the national legislature.

    Gosh, I wonder whether there’s any parallel to any potential contemporary political scenario.

  9. 9.

    brad

    *stands up*

    Hi, my name is Brad and I’m… damn this is hard
    …
    I’m Adolph Hitler. I have been for my whole life. I’ve tried to hide it but I’ve been living a lie.
    I’m a liberal fascist, I want to force everyone to live a long, rich, rewarding life, at gunpoint. Grassfed steak and local organic produce or reeducation camps in the desert. Free quality health care or the gas chamber.

    Sorry.

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    @Wordsmith:

    It turns out that -it takes- Hitler didn’t, contra wingnut lore, charm his way to power with dazzling speeches.

  15. 15.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    Also too, obama didn’t charm his way to power with dazzling speeches. He won the nomination largely because he was the only candidate who opposed the invasion of iraq.

  16. 16.

    Elisabeth

    But Obama is like Hitler in that he also wasn’t a citizen of the country he wanted to lead until right before he sought to become president.

    Did Hitler have a birth certificate?

  19. 19.

    Wordsmith

    In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it.”

    ANYone who write those words and doesn’t say shit (and absolutely DIDN’T) about or when the Bush regime was in control cannot be taken seriously.

  20. 20.

    Corner Stone

    @Wordsmith:

    Sometimes my brain freezes and I’m at a total loss….stuck

    Well if you are stuck…then it is a total loss.
    Otherwise, let’s blame it on Cole having too much to drink and then posting.

  22. 22.

    PPOG Penguin

    “In toubled [sic] times,” warns the anti-Obama poster he reproduces, “the fearful and naive are always drawn to charismatic radicals.”

    Oh, Sarah Palin fans. Have you no sense of irony?

  23. 23.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    @Corner Stone:

    In what way?

    I guess to some Governor Dean’s and General Clark’s and Al Gore’s opposition to the invasion didn’t count because they didn’t actually cast votes, but primary voters, especially anti-invasion voters, saw it differently and choose obama.

    I mean really, if Hillary opposed the invasion, Obama doesn’t even bother to enter the race.

  26. 26.

    Ed Marshall

    @Mike Kay (Team America):

    2004 democratic primary voters picked “electability” as the reason they chose Kerry. They voted like pundits who thought that some mythical boob would be impressed with his vote for Iraq and that they would just go down in flames like McGovern if they brought in someone who didn’t vote for it.

    It didn’t help that all the democrats who wanted to run for president felt the exact same way. They all remembered that Clinton ran the primary field thumping on his support for Gulf War I. If people out of that experience stopped thinking like dipshit, political pundits and started thinking more like political scientists that’s absolutely worth the lost election of 2004.

  27. 27.

    Ed Marshall

    Although I hope the received wisdom that Hillary lost for her vote on Iraq sticks around. That’s pretty handy for future moronic democrats with ambition.

  28. 28.

    Joseph Nobles

    Just think of how much awful Nazi Germany would have been if Hitler had. /wingnut

  29. 29.

    GregB

    I have some proof that the Jonah Goldberg theory of liberal fascism has taken root in greater wingnuttistan.

    This is an actual FaceBook post from a former business associate:

    “…….is watching the NASCAR race and not the World Cup because I have dignity and self-respect. The United States never got caught up in soccer because we were too busy going to the moon and advancing medicine, science and technology. That is when we weren’t distracted saving soccer nations from left-wing tyrants like Hitler and Stalin.”

  30. 30.

    SRW1

    Stephen Taylor is quite correct, Hitler did not become chancellor because he was elected by a majority in an election, he was appointed to that office as the consequence of a cabal of reactionary conservatives who were stupid enough to believe that they would be able to instrumentalize him for their purposes by ‘framing’ him with a conservative majority of ministers in his cabinet.

    The tragedy was that the electoral support for the Nazi party was already waning, when that happened. You can see that if you look at the numbers in Table 2, which shows the percentage of votes the Nazis received in the national elections of July 1932 (37.3%) versus those of October 1932 (33.1%). Even after Hitler had been appointed chancellor and had called another snap election in January of 1933, the Nazis did not manage a majority of the votes.

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    MikeJ

    @Ed Marshall: I thought Hillary lost because state’s with caucuses shouldn’t count. Or states with black people. Or states that Clinton lost.

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    @SRW1:

    IIRC, the Nazi Party never received a majority of votes until all of the opposing parties had been banned.

    It should be a cautionary tale about assuming that conservatives can control a small group of fanatics when in fact they will more likely be overtaken by them, but somehow it never gets told that way.

  33. 33.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck: don’t bother. simply opposing the war when 70% of the country felt iraq was behind 9/11, during a time when the corporate media branded opposition to the invasion as treasonist was the easy route. Oddly, by the time 2007 rolled around, a lot of bloggers forgot how hated we were for marching against the war.

  35. 35.

    Ed Marshall

    @MikeJ:

    Self-serving as it was, the Clinton camp were the people beating the drum for CW as political guide and making “electability” noises.

    I know you are joking, but being serious the people making those arguments were saying that Obama couldn’t win in the general. Over the four years I noticed like 1:1 correlation between the people who were arguing for anyone but Dean in 2004 and anyone but Obama 2008 (eventually becoming the Hillary 08 deadenders).

  36. 36.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    @Mnemosyne: well, that’s already happened, hasn’t it.

    the business republicans decided to partner up with the neo-cons and theo-cons in the 70s, and they were taken over. Now the party of rockefeller, buckley, and henry luce has to suck up to palin and bachman.

  37. 37.

    kay

    @Mike Kay (Team America):

    I always felt Edwards really screwed Clinton there. He took the “apologetic Iraq supporter” position, Obama had the Iraq opposition position, leaving Hillary with her conflicted and nuanced…explanation.

    By then, of course, Edwards was opposing his entire Senate career, he was an entirely different person, so, really, it was just one more apology.

  38. 38.

    MikeJ

    @Ed Marshall: Even worse, I am worse than Hitler. I added an extra apostrophe, after I taunted somebody else here for that very thing earlier today.

    Of course I’m at +6, but that is no excuse. I will say four Struck and Whites and three AP style guides.

  40. 40.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    @kay:

    he was an entirely different person,

    I was indifferent to edwards as he was a non-entity, but what shocked me was how the supposedly principled and idealistic blogosphere decided to give edwards a free pass on his entire rotten voting record (PNTR, Glass-Steagall, the bankruptcy bill, restoring felon voting rights, iraq) because he would give red-meat speeches, cobbled together by joe trippi and his luntz-like focus groups. I completely misjudged them (seriously). I didn’t think high-information voters, so well read, would succumb to transparent laundry lists of emotional buzz words.

  41. 41.

    fucen tarmal

    well according to sylvia plath, every woman adores a fascist so i mean what do they expect us to do, we don’t all have the iron will, and the high moral principles of a douthat.

    we are liberal fascists for the nookie. we do it all for the nookie. really when the conservatives compare obama to hitler, its about the nookie. when we want to take their hard inherited money, its for the nookie.

  44. 44.

    Splitting Image

    I know you are joking, but being serious the people making those arguments were saying that Obama couldn’t win in the general. Over the four years I noticed like 1:1 correlation between the people who were arguing for anyone but Dean in 2004 and anyone but Obama 2008 (eventually becoming the Hillary 08 deadenders).

    Not entirely 1:1. I thought Kerry was a better choice than Dean in 2004 because yes, he was more electable. When he mortgaged his house for campaign money I figured he was enough of an ambitious rat-bastard to do what it took to win. And he had a reputation for being exactly that. He campaigned horribly based on his record.

    Before the campaign started in 2008, I picked Edwards as the most “electable”, but it was obvious right from Iowa that Obama had the resources to win, and a better strategist than Clinton.

  45. 45.

    sukabi

    silly man…. haven’t you figured out that FACTS mean NOTHING to the teabaggers or the GOP… the only thing that matters is the PERCEPTION…. and perception becomes “truth” if you push it far enough.

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