Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

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

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

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

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

When we show up, we win.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Second rate reporter says what?

There’s always a light at the end of the frog.

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Early Morning Open Thread: B&B Pet Rescue, Pt. II

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From commentor Comrade Scott’s Agenda of Rage:

I could write a story on Bozo himself. He was dumped along the river here (weekend homes inhabited mostly by assholes) and wandered into town. He had all 4 legs back then. The old guy uphill from us took him in. Said old guy and dog lived in squalor for years. Bozo was allowed to roam around town and had an annoying habit of snoozing in the street.
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One day, the UPS truck makes a delivery and backs over poor ole Boze. The leg wasn’t broken so the hope was that perhaps the nerves would grow back. After 8 months of lugging a dead limb around town, it was clear they wouldn’t. So, the old guy, who didn’t have a pot to piss in, went ahead and had the leg amputated and eventually paid off the vet. That was, oh, maybe 7 years ago.
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We eventually started taking care of the old guy, Bozo and his two cats. Boze had mange, a hemotoma in one ear, and chronic skin allergies from years of living on ice cream, hot dogs and hamburgers; the old guy loved the dog damn near to death. The missing leg is the least of his problems. He’s also blind in that eye on the same side, again, probably nerve damage stemming from UPS—What Can Brown Do *To* You!
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About 4 1/2 years ago, the old guy was finally cajoled into moving out of his house, he was about 79-80 at the time. We promised to find homes for his cats and agreed to take in the dog, our first dog after being married almost 25 years. The old guy went into an assisted living home and we’d take Bozo to visit him pretty regularly. After 2 years, his health declined and he went into a nursing home for about a year. Again, we’d take Boze out to visit him. He passed away earlier this year and is buried in the non-denominational cemetery (the other one is for Catholics only) nearby. When Bozo’s time comes, we plan on cremating him and burying his ashes up there.
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A stubborn, loveable dog who’s probably around 12 now and acts like he won’t live to see 13. He loves kittens. We routinely let our foster broods out and he’ll nuzzle them, lick their bellies, etc…after they get over their initial fear of a big dog. Attached is one of the more friendly fosters attacking the old guy. He sucked it up.

(Part I of Comrade Scott’s story here.)

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An old demon still on the make…

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Back in the 1990s there was a Denzel Washington movie–Fallen–where he plays a detective working to solve a series a murders seemingly committed by a killer he had captured and whose execution he had just recently watched.

Turns out he is chasing an old demon named Azazel who can hop from one living body to the next. In a pivotal scene the old demon starts body hoping cops in the station and sings through them the old Rolling Stones hit “Time is on My Side” just to mess with Denzel. When Denzel confronts the body hopper on the street outside the station the old demon hisses “Beware my wrath!”

The Confederacy is just like Azazel. It is an old malignant force that has always been and still is a cancer on the notion of Liberty and Justice in America. Since the Confederacy lost decisively on the battle field it has been able to jump from political movement to movement to keep its destructive force alive–and it always warns anybody who notices them to “beware their wrath”. A threat that they have made good on time and time again.

For almost a century the Confederacy had a strong home in the Democratic Party. Then came FDR and the Democratic embrace of Civil Rights. As the Confederacy lost power in the Democratic Party it started to look for a new political host. The ideology of hate wander from Dixicrats to George Wallace until Nixon and Reagan invited the old Confederate Demon to make a new home in the Republican Party.

The Confederates took the GOP up on the offer and began an effort to remake the Party in their image. It worked.

It has taken 40 years, but now the old Party of Lincoln has been fully captured (history is filled with irony). The Republican Party of 1860 no longer exists. Neither does the Republican Party of 1960, or even 1990. Only a name “Republican” and some legacy branding elements still exists. The Republican Party today is a shroud and a faint echo of its past. Now it only exists as a thinly veiled mask and a stripped off skin for the old Confederate Demon to wrap itself in as it continues to work its political mischief.

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This election is a choice between moving forward or moving backwards. Backwards not to the policies of three years ago, or eight, or twenty or even to the 1950s. The goal is all the way back and to capture the USA in the same way that the Republican Party was captured, humiliated and destroyed. Elections have consequences. Get active like your future was on the line–because it is.

Cheers

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It’s This Simple

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To answer DougJ’s question about what O’Keefe thought he might accomplish, it is just this simple. These are wingnut activists feeding a wingnut audience. Any video he got from the boat would have been “proof” of whatever they claimed it would be. These are the folks who took a video of Shirley Sherrod rejecting racism and used it to… call her a racist. These are the folks who had Acorn officials fired for… calling the authorities when they went in and pretended to be sex traffickers and the Acorn folks did the right thing.

All they needed was videotape of anything involving Abbie Bordreaux on that boat. It doesn’t matter if she was repulsed or what she actually did, they would lie and edit the video and it would become whatever they wanted it to be. The wingnut blogs would all circulate it, Howie Kurtz and Fox news would mainstream it, the WaPo Ombudsman would three weeks later issue an apology for not looking into the sluts at CNN earlier, and the Politico would have a dozen “thought” pieces up discussing how this is bad news for Obama and Democrats.

When you make up your own reality and have a media that refuses to call you on your bullshit, the sky is the limit. The video didn’t have to have any evidence, it just had to exist. The wurlitzer could then turn it into whatever they wanted.

It’s just that simple.

*** Update ***

Here is Exhibit A:

Notice anything missing? Like a near complete absence of right wing websites discussing this? They’ll just pretend it never happened, and probably get away with it. Their superstar from last year’s Acorn smears will quickly become “James who?”

And the media will let them.

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In Search of Whitey’s Brain

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This piece made me laugh, as well:

About 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American mind began to unravel.

It had been a pretty good run up to that point. The brains of white folks had been humming along cogently for near on 400 years on this continent, with little sign that any serious trouble was brewing. White people, after all, had managed to invent a spiffy new form of self-government so that all white men (and, eventually, women) could have a say in how white people were taxed and governed. White minds had also nearly universally occupied just about every branch of that government and, for more than two centuries, had kept sole possession of the leadership of its executive branch (whose parsonage, after all, is called the White House).

But when that streak was broken—and, for the first time, a non-white president accepted the oath of office—white America rapidly began to lose its grip.

It is seriously weird, as someone who was a Republican and really not paying attention to politics during the Clinton years, to watch a large portion of the country totally lose their shit. Add to it that a small but vocal minority in the Democratic party have decided that the object lesson from the 1980 election was that Ted Kennedy was right to undercut his own party, and we’re all getting a refresher course on Democratic idiocy.

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Best-planned lay

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I wonder about this too:

I guess the trouble I’m having in wrapping my mind around this James O’Keefe story is trying to figure out what the hell he thought he was going to accomplish for his side with this sociopathic scheme. Right-wingers may be sick, but their tactics frequently work, and that was certainly true of O’Keefe with regard to ACORN — people believed what the heavily edited videos showed and ACORN was ruined. But why did he think he’d win a victory for his team by videotaping himself phonily “seducing” an older female reporter, who clearly would be repulsed by it, and would give him nothing to work with, except that she might literally be a captive on the boat, which takes this into the realm of criminal sexual behavior? What the hell audience did he think would watch this and derive a political point from watching him act like a sexual-predator-in-air-quotes, a harasser Joaquin Phoenix? Who, even among teabaggers, did he think would watch this and think it put him and conservatism in a good light, and CNN and the reporter in a bad light? How far removed from reality is this guy?

Any thoughts what O’Keefe thought he might accomplish? Any chance this will be made into a movie like that one about Facebook? That guy in the Facebook movie looks a lot like O’Keefe, but I don’t see who JT plays in this one.

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