Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Let there be snark.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

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Watch McCain in this clip, and tell me if you don’t just want to kick him in the junk:

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The juvenile old prick might as well have stuck his fingers in his ears and said “LALALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU” during the interview. The contempt was undeniable.

Such an asshole.

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  1. 1.

    Bret

    It is not the policy of the United States to torture prisoners, but we sure as shit found out ways to do that, didn’t we?

  2. 2.

    Poopyman

    I don’t need to see a video to want to kick him in the junk. He’s already given me plenty of reason to want to do it. This is just more of the same, I’m sure.

    Sky is blue, grass is green, McCain is a dick, etc, etc.

  4. 4.

    beltane

    The saga of John McCain is like a clown car version of King Lear, a tragedy in five acts which captures the mood of our trampy, trashy times.

  8. 8.

    bkny

    mccain’s always been a nasty asshole; it’s just that now the press is no longer finding much charm in it.

    re torture … i thought this in an obit of a British WWII spy was interesting. note the means of torture and how the nyt had no issue calling it ‘torture’ … unless this was a story about american ‘harsh interrogation techniques’:

    As she related in postwar debriefings, documented in Britain’s National Archives, the Gestapo tortured her — beating her, stripping her naked, then submerging her repeatedly in a bath of ice-cold water until she began to black out from lack of oxygen.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/world/europe/22nearne.html?ref=obituaries

  10. 10.

    Zifnab

    Senator McCain, keep’n it classy.

    Honestly, Hayworth would have done himself some serious favors if he’d just run a clip like that against McCain in the primary. Maybe a little tag line, “He doesn’t listen and he doesn’t care.”

  11. 11.

    Ash Can

    @MattF: Worse, it’d be Mitch McConnell or John Boehner or Rush Limbaugh in that position; Palin would have long since quit by now.

  12. 12.

    biff diggerence

    ” . . . I know the miltary very well.”

    I crashed 5 planes before getting blown out of the sky.

  13. 13.

    RalfW

    Can you just picture him yelling, “Gimee the button, Gimee the button, Gimee the button, Gimme the Button, Gimme the Fuckin’ BUTTON!” the first time Ahmadinajad had rhetorically poked (shudder) President McCain in the eye at the UN?

    We may be suckin salmonella eggs now, but, yeah, itcouldabeenworse.

  14. 14.

    cleek

    McCain doesn’t have to be nice. he’s got his next term in the bag.

    which is as good a reason as any to pledge to never move to AZ.

  15. 15.

    Jim Pharo

    I don’t know why anyone is upset with McCain over this. This is what he does. Dogs bark, babies cry, McCain is a lying hateful old fool.

    What I can’t understand is that a large majority of AZ voters want him in the Senate, and that 45+ million of our fellow Americans thought he was the better choice for President.

    Ask not what is wrong with our craven leaders; ask what is wrong with us for following them.

  17. 17.

    Dan

    Your “Branwdo!” tag in another diary reminds me that I want McCain to be a winning, month-long contestant on the future show, “Oww, My Balls!”

  18. 18.

    Earl Butz

    Answering questions that you’re not being asked is a sure sign that you’re lying.

    Or in this case, I’d also give credence to the idea that he’s going senile, the nasty, lying old fuck.

  22. 22.

    slag

    @beltane:

    The saga of John McCain is like a clown car version of King Lear, a tragedy in five acts which captures the mood of our trampy, trashy times.

    I don’t know. That’s a tough image for me to conjure because Lear was a slightly sympathetic character.

    I’m more inclined to give him the part of Polonius in Hamlet. That dude was pretty much an ass all the way around.

  23. 23.

    arguingwithsignposts

    I am foreseeing an online game of “Kick GOPers in the Junk.” no need to limit it to McCain.

    On my way in to work this morning, I saw a bumper sticker that read “One Big Ass Mistake America.” It took me a couple of minutes before figuring it out. Yes, it was a prickup truck. Yes, it was an old white bastard.

  24. 24.

    Mike E

    @bkny: Seriously, what a freakin’ badass! People love to call the French “surrender monkeys” and ignore many acts of true heroism. IMO the British are a nation of badasses just for the Battle of Britain, which crippled the Luftwaffe and paved the way for allied victory.

    My mom actually worked for the Italian resistance, but only to keep an eye on her younger brother who seemed eager to blow his cover–I still have her “ID” card and Allied Certificate, both of which are in Italian. We live in a golden age of historians, too bad it coincides with Peak Stoopid.

  25. 25.

    Aaron Baker

    McCain proves the paradoxical truths that it is possible to be both an asshole and a dick, and simultaneously.

  26. 26.

    Allan

    If someone would be so kind as to compile a list of sitting Republican Senators from states with Democratic Governors, I know a bunch of ex-military types with advanced weapons training and an axe to grind…

  27. 27.

    Jay in Oregon

    Watch McCain in this clip, and tell me if you don’t just want to kick him in the junk

    Can I skip the video and jump straight to wanting to kick McCain in the junk?

  28. 28.

    Ajay

    He needs to show those patriotic Arizonians that he stands up to gays, dems, people of color etc etc.

    I think even McCain himself know that he has turned senile. Imagine this guy would have been our president. He is nothing but against the principles that this country was founded upon.

    Even if its policy as he stated, the policy itself is discriminatory.

  30. 30.

    Montysano

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    On my way in to work this morning, I saw a bumper sticker that read “One Big Ass Mistake America.” It took me a couple of minutes before figuring it out. Yes, it was a prickup truck. Yes, it was an old white bastard.

    A friend of a friend (from south Alabama) on FB last night made this comment: “I don’t care about politics, I don’t follow politics, I don’t know anything about politics. I just know that I despise Barack Obama.”

    Do I need to translate that for you?

    To the topic at hand: yes, we dodged quite a bullet in Nov. 2008. McCain seems ……. unwell.

  31. 31.

    Redshift

    I’m reminded of the event a few years ago with a union audience, where McCain insisted that Americans “just won’t do” jobs like picking fruit, even if you paid them $50 an hour (because Real Murikan companies would never pay slave wages and have inhuman working conditions.) People in the audience started shouting out “I’d do it!” and McCain just kept repeating “You cannot do it, my friend.”

  32. 32.

    valdemar

    It seems obvious that you dodged two equally dangerous bullets when you didn’t get McCain/Palin running the store.

  33. 33.

    mclaren

    The one saving grace of this asshole is that he’s getting old and he’ll die soon.

    In the meantime, I’m for shipping McCain back to the Vietnamese so they can hoist him up by his arms backwards.

  34. 34.

    Larkspur

    @Paul L.: I don’t understand your comment/question about “Double Standards?” My neural receptors for irony, sarcasm, mordant wit, sardonicism, and such-like have all got shorted out some time back. So I have to ask what inevitably sound like dumb questions. Are you comparing the two video clips, one of McCain, one of Gore, and telling me that if I don’t think they are equivalent, I am a hypocrite? Or are you saying that other people are saying that and they are hypocrites?

    Darn. I could have shortened this by simply asking, Hi, Paul L., what did you mean at #21?

  35. 35.

    IronyAbounds

    Anyone who thinks McCain has even a minute trace of principles left should contemplate his coming out against the Dream Act. He co-sponsored the Dream Act the past 4 or 5 years, and yet comes out against it this year! The man is shameless, gutless, and a coward. Oh, and a real piece of shit.

  38. 38.

    Emma

    Ok this was weird. I tried to post something and got back a message; You’re trying to post too fast, slow down. In any case, the original comment was: Don’t need any added motivation, thanks!

  39. 39.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    That’s why I always carry a Sharpie in my glove box. “Ooops!!! Dropped my purse under this bumper here!!!” then one swift cross-out line and a hastily scribbled “IMA” is pretty much an undetectable act on parking lot cameras.

  41. 41.

    Allan

    @Jay in Oregon: Your error is in not recognizing that war has already been declared.

    The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato.
    Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

    Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

  43. 43.

    schrodinger's cat

    That this individual can get elected repeatedly to the Senate says something about Arizona and this country I am afraid. He is mean and he is stupid, but his knack for self-promotion is unparalleled. When is he going to retire? We have had enough, please go home.

  44. 44.

    Allan

    @TooManyJens: If the other side wants civil war, who am I to deny them the pleasure? They keep quoting Jefferson about refreshing the tree of liberty, I merely want to help them achieve that goal with some of their own blood.

    Of course I’ll wait until they draw first blood, but like all patriots, I’m ready to kill or die to save the US.

    But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  47. 47.

    Frank Chow

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I think it goes something like this: McCain once made a joke about “Gooks” and they all got a hearty laugh about it. He then invited them over to one of his many houses and talked sports while bbqing.

    He is the beltways’ wet dream. War vet, blonde wife, bipartisan fairy and rich. Plus he calls people “his friends.”

  49. 49.

    Bobby Thomson

    What a fraud. He sponsored the legislation himself before Obama supported it.

    McCain is a liar and a thief with the flying skills emotional maturity of a two-year-old.

  53. 53.

    licensed to kill time

    ♪♫ McInsane in the membrane….McInsane in the brain ♪♫

    Bullet, dodged, etc, whew!

  55. 55.

    Triassic Sands

    American institutions violate policies (written) as a matter of policy (unwritten) all the time.

  56. 56.

    asiangrrlMN

    He knew exactly what he was saying, the asshole. And, to Rachel and her guest, I would like to say that McCain was careful to say it wasn’t the policy over and over and over again. He never said it wasn’t happening. In my opinion, that makes him even a bigger dick than if he simply said it wasn’t happening. He was covering his ass and being an arrogant shithead about it. Per usual.

  58. 58.

    Andrew

    I just find it weird that no one there didn’t tell him to grow up and act like a US Senator, I mean that behavior I would expect from a child. He’s a complete disgrace and I’m not sure why people don’t start telling him. God the USA dodged a bullet when he wasn’t voted in as Pres.

  59. 59.

    Lojasmo

    McCain has always been an asshole. I am pleased as punch that I never fell for the CW on him bein’ all mavericky.

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