Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

No one could have predicted…

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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  2. 2.

    Dork

    Maybe this has already been discussed here, but whomever penned this screed just nailed it.

    A more succinct, dead-on, pulls-no-punches non-Taibbi undressing of the fraud that are the teatards has not been written.

  4. 4.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @JPL:

    Yeah, I know. I always think these blegs accomplish nothing, then five hours later, I see that we netted a few G.

  5. 5.

    R-Jud

    @Dork:
    Thanks for that. My favorite bit:

    The Tea Partiers belong to a different tradition: a tradition of divisive fundamentalism. Like other fundamentalists, they seek refuge from the complexity and confusion of modern life in the comforting embrace of an authoritarian scripture and the imagined past it supposedly represents. Like other fundamentalists, they see in their good book only what they want to see: confirmation of their preexisting beliefs.

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    OT:

    Where was I when this all went down?

    Wow:

    According to the Washington Independent, al-Kidd was detained in high-security prisons for 16 days, strip-searched and shackled. When they released him, he was ordered to live with his in-laws, restrict his travel to four states and submit to home visits for a year. He was never charged or called to testify.

    Under what pretense did Ashcroft use to pull this on an American citizen? Did this not violate about 3 or 4 Constitutional Amendments? Just stunning that the media ignored all this.

  9. 9.

    John Bird

    I’ve been reading the present into the past lately.

    H.L. Mencken, accidentally describing John McCain in William Jennings Bryan’s obituary:

    But what of his life? Did he accomplish any useful thing? Was he, in his day, of any dignity as a man, and of any value to his fellow-men? I doubt it. Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment’s notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting.

    And the ominous feeling I get when I look at Sarah Palin is perfectly described in Thompson’s obit for Richard Nixon:

    He had the fighting instincts of a badger trapped by hounds. The badger will roll over on its back and emit a smell of death, which confuses the dogs and lures them in for the traditional ripping and tearing action. But it is usually the badger who does the ripping and tearing. It is a beast that fights best on its back: rolling under the throat of the enemy and seizing it by the head with all four claws.

    Remember, Nixon’s political career was declared dead in 1960.

  10. 10.

    R-Jud

    DougJ@ Top:

    Update. A classic 70s music video to validate your fee fees while you give.

    You know what would validate my fee-fees? Not using the expression “fee-fees” anymore.

  12. 12.

    John Bird

    @R-Jud:

    I heard “fee fee” exactly once before this blog, in a YouTube video, when it was used to describe a rubber glove, lubricated and turned inside out in a towel for purposes of masturbation in prison.

    I can’t really imagine it meaning anything else, now.

  14. 14.

    R-Jud

    @John Bird:

    I heard “fee fee” exactly once before this blog, in a YouTube video, when it was used to describe a lubricated condom turned inside out in a towel for purposes of masturbation in prison.

    You know, that’s actually an improvement.

    One wonders how DougJ would validate those fee-fees. A stamp, maybe?

  19. 19.

    YellowJournalism

    They even travel to Colonial Williamsburg and ask the actor playing George Washington how to topple a tyrannical government.

    If that really works, I’m heading to Disneyland to get Snow White’s advice on how to get woodland creatures to clean my house for me.

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    p mac

    I’d like to see the total number of contributors go up more than the total contributions go up.
    451 contributors just isn’t that many for a blog with ~1M distinct views a month.

  26. 26.

    p mac

    Very sorry about that broken post — looks like still another problem on this site with IE-8. (I wasn’t able to delete the copies; there were sextuplets originally before I deleted the original.)

  29. 29.

    Koz

    “Yeah, I know. I always think these blegs accomplish nothing, then five hours later, I see that we netted a few G.”

    Yeah, but this is going to be overran by the foreigners at the Chamber of Commerce by 100-to-1 or something. Be sure to welcome your new overlords warmly.

  31. 31.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @YellowJournalism:

    If that really works, I’m heading to Disneyland to get Snow White’s advice on how to get woodland creatures to clean my house for me.

    LOFL! Hey wait–could I really get woodland creatures to clean my house for me–that would ROCK!

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