Sadly, some Swedish right wingers rose to my challenge.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
I really should read my own blog.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
Ah, the different things are different argument.
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
People are complicated. Love is not.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!
I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Linda Featheringill
Does that mean that we in the US are normal?
Somebody ought to tell the Swedes, “You folks are just like Americans.”
That ought to make they happy. [not]
Omnes Omnibus
It’s the same the whole world over,
It’s the poor what gets the blame,
While the rich gets all the pleasure,
Ain’t it a blooming shame.
Omnes Omnibus
It’s the same the whole world over,
It’s the poor what gets the blame,
While the rich gets all the pleasure,
Ain’t it a blooming shame.
SRW1
Another export of American culture.
Cat Lady
Their right wing are amateurs – why aren’t they investigating her countertops? Why haven’t they sent the flying monkeys to her home and work? Why haven’t they started a media “some say” campaign on how the slut* got chlamydia? Accusing her of politicizing her mother’s illness before an election – so 2000.
*/snark
c u n d gulag
I can see that our American righties have now been challenged by the Swede’s. Great job, Sweden. Too bad Mother Teresa’s dead, eh?
Now, our righties will want to up the ante.
Let the unempathetic rightious insults fly, no matter who the target! Then, it will be the Swede’s turn. Then ours, then theirs, then ours, etc.
It’s the blog world version of MAD – Mutually Assured Dissonance.
roshan
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When did this happen? I thought it was all professional something something here.
El Cid
You gave them the idea.
Chad N Freude
From this week’s Economist: Swedish politics
The strange death of social-democratic Sweden
A new sort of Swedish model appeals to the right, not the left
Dennis SGMM
Chad N Freude’s linked article stated that the main reason for Sweden’s turn to the right was that the righties were governing competently. That just goes to show that they still have much to learn: our right wing abhors competence and they manage to get elected.
Resident Firebagger
Tim, now tell the right-wing Swedes to hop around on one leg.
I’m thinking maybe you can harness your power for good…
John Bird
Sweet Lord, the Economist printed a story about how Current Trends Show that social democracy is dead in Europe? My stars. Ring the coroner. It must be for real this time.
But putting aside how often they’ve cried Wolf, the problem is that the Economist is the same as many UK and US outlets when covering the party splits in these countries: they equate the center in these countries with the center in their own, and describe the left-right party horse race without describing the consensus between the parties.
And this isn’t because they’re stupid, because it’s hard to be stupid and write for the Economist, but because they want to give the benefit of the doubt to these countries as being reasonable, and the writers for these outlets do not believe that a consensus to the left of their own evident even-tempered and brilliant moderation is reasonable.