Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

I was promised a recession.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

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  1. 1.

    matoko_chan

    i think their idea of sexy is different.
    If you have seen the swedish movie of Dragon Tattoo (subtitled, but avaiable on streaming Netflix)), the guy that plays Kalle Blompkvist is not exactly a hollywood style dreamboat and some of the leading ladies are downright OLD.
    Lisbeth’s casting is teh awesome tho…shes perfect…..the full jacketback dragon is simply the most spectacular tattoo i have ever seen.

  2. 2.

    El Cid

    Hey, why don’t we get that anti-regulation asshole who owns the exploding West Virginia mines to run our nation’s chicken and egg suppliers?

    A supplier in egg recall has history of violations
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    WASHINGTON (AP) – Two Iowa farms that together recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs this month share close ties, including suppliers of chickens and feed.
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    Both farms are linked to businessman Austin “Jack” DeCoster, who has been cited for numerous health, safety and employment violations over the years. DeCoster owns Wright County Egg, the original farm that recalled 380 million eggs Aug. 13 after they were linked to more than 1,000 reported cases of salmonella poisoning.
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    Another of his companies, Quality Egg, supplies young chickens and feed to both Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, the second farm that recalled another 170 million eggs a week later…
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    …DeCoster is no stranger to controversy in his food and farm operations:
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    • In 1997, DeCoster Egg Farms agreed to pay $2 million in fines to settle citations brought in 1996 for health and safety violations at DeCoster’s farm in Turner, Maine. Then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said conditions were “as dangerous and oppressive as any sweatshop.” He cited unguarded machinery, electrical hazards, exposure to harmful bacteria and other unsanitary conditions.
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    • In 2000, Iowa designated DeCoster a “habitual violator” of environmental regulations for problems that included hog manure runoff into waterways. The label made him subject to increased penalties and prohibited him from building new farms.
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    • In 2002, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a more than $1.5 million settlement of an employment discrimination lawsuit against DeCoster Farms on behalf of Mexican women who reported they were subjected to sexual harassment, including rape, abuse and retaliation by some supervisory workers at DeCoster’s Wright County plants.
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    • In 2007, 51 workers were arrested during an immigration raid at six DeCoster egg farms. The farm had been the subject of at least three previous raids.
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    • In June 2010, Maine Contract Farming — the successor company to DeCoster Egg Farms — agreed in state court to pay $25,000 in penalties and to make a one-time payment of $100,000 to the Maine Department of Agriculture over animal cruelty allegations that were spurred by a hidden-camera investigation by an animal welfare organization…
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    …Still, DeCoster’s Wright County Egg is already facing at least two lawsuits related to the egg recall. One is from food distributor Dutch Farms, which says the company used unauthorized cartons to package and sell eggs under its brand without its knowledge.

    Clearly a humble 18th century Founding Father style entrepreneur who should receive funding by the Chamber of Commerce and defended by Glenn Beck from the ACORN journalists and union thugs and eco-terrorists who are attacking him.

  3. 3.

    Violet

    Ha. That’s awesome. Maybe he is the new James Bond, updated for the 21st century.

    I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s something about him that reminds me of Neil Patrick Harris. Shape of the face? Mouth? Eyes? Not sure, but there’s some resemblance.

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    You know, there are some questions you just don’t need to translate:

    Har du haft sex med dem?

  8. 8.

    burnspbesq

    Is Julian Assange the new Swedish sex symbol?

    I tend to think of the Swedes as sensible people who don’t see criminals as sexy.

  9. 9.

    Cat Lady

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    And from the Hardrocken Konsert reviews :

    Dystopiskt cyberpunkmörker i skärningspunkten mellan industrimetal, techno och synth.

    då drar headbangern på sig denim och läder för att bege sig ut på jakt efter metal

    För att om du inte kan relatera till orden ”thrash” och ”mosh”, så är det här en ypperlig kväll att lära sig. ”It’s time to raise the flag of hate”, som Mille i Kreator brukar säga.

    Soft power, indeed.

  10. 10.

    Violet

    I put the page into Google Translate. The translation is terrible, but there were a few interesting tidbits:

    Have you had sex with them?
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    –They are anonymous in the media. I have no idea who they are.
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    Have you had sex at all during your stay in Sweden?
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    –It is one thing that belongs in the middle and, if present, women’s privacy.
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    But it is not as good to you in this situation is as transparent as possible?
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    –Yes, but I do not want to drag people’s private lives in the dirt without having the whole situation is clear for me. Why do they turn to the police? What lies behind?
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    –What I can say is that I never, either in Sweden or in any other country, had sex with someone in a way that is not built on total voluntary from both sides.

    At the time of the interview it doesn’t seem like he even knew who the accusers were.

  12. 12.

    Kay Shawn

    I’ve noticed this in the British press too. Today’s Observer has a big front page photo that’s very glam.

  13. 13.

    Guster

    @burnspbesq:

    I tend to think of the Swedes as sensible people who don’t see criminals as sexy.

    I tend to think of the Swedes as sensible people who manufacture Saabs.

  15. 15.

    valdivia

    @Adrienne:

    yum yum. Co-sign.

    ETA: if we’re talking Sweden then Assange is NOT the James Bond of the 21st Century. He is the real-life Michael Bloomkist of Dragoon Tattoo Girl fame….

  21. 21.

    Violet

    @DougJ:
    At least we know who should play him when they finally make a movie. NPH and Assange are about the same age too.

  23. 23.

    Alwhite

    @El Cid:
    “Yankee Traders” used to make the rounds during the 1700 & 1800 selling whole nutmeg . . . which they turned out of dark wood like walnut, in their workshop.

    Patent medicines are now rightly famous for all sorts of poisons & moonshine. At one time one bright American entrepreneur sold tape worms as a weight loss remedy.

    This has been with us always and will always because there are plenty of people willing to put a marginal profit increase ahead of human well-being. We are trying desperately to prove that modern Americans are just as awful but the consequences can be so much greater thanks to modern efficiency.

  26. 26.

    Adrienne

    @Starfish: Brings the sexy time is an understatement, to say the least. Just looking at him almost makes my love come down — as my mama would say. Old school slang for you get-off-my-lawners out there!

  30. 30.

    El Cid

    @Alwhite:

    This has been with us always and will always because there are plenty of people willing to put a marginal profit increase ahead of human well-being. We are trying desperately to prove that modern Americans are just as awful but the consequences can be so much greater thanks to modern efficiency.

    This is clearly unpossible because the free market would react negatively to them endangering their consumers.

  33. 33.

    Violet

    @KCinDC:
    Was wondering the same thing. Is it just lighting? Perhaps he has light blond hair and how it looks changes with the lighting?

  39. 39.

    Arclite

    Hey, I’m a happily married straight guy with gorgeous surfer wife and I think Julian is s3xy. It has less to do with has looks and everything to do with bringing to the light of day the deepest darkest secrets of the most powerful religious, corporate, and governmental agencies in the world. He’s Robin Hood, Luke Skywalker, and Neo rolled into one.

  41. 41.

    chaseyourtail

    There’s something about his face that’s unattractive to me…he’s also a bit of a preener.

  42. 42.

    Anne Laurie

    @burnspbesq:

    I tend to think of the Swedes as sensible people who don’t see criminals as sexy.

    You didn’t have a Norwegian-American mother-in-law. Folk chant:

    “Ten thousand Swedes
    Came through the weeds
    To fight a sick Norwegian;
    Ten thousand more
    Stood up & swore
    The fairest fight they ever saw!”

    Actually all the modern Scandinavian nations benefitted, to pull a Matoko-chan, from the several hundred years during which they exported their most aggressive and least-suitable-for-civilisation individuals to pollute the gene pools of Scotland, Ireland, northern France, Russia, and possibly North America. (There is an Iroquois creation legend involving the Storm God’s runaway, redheaded daughter.)

    Assange’s terrible horrible very bad no good Wikileaks doc-dump has had, so far, a positive effect on the American discussion of “our” AfghanIraqistan fustercluck. Whatever the man’s secret hidden motivations, if any, he’s helped bring to light some of the ugly details of war and would-be imperial conquest to light. Never was a Star Wars fan, but if Assange wants to play Han Solo, more power to him.

  46. 46.

    Alaine

    but he is sexy indeed. Julian has a high carismatic look with a confident and smooth talk..

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