Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

In my day, never was longer.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

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

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

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

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

All hail the time of the bunny!

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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  1. 1.

    Jeanne ringland

    That’s got to be Susan’s parents in the coach, and Susan on Binky, and Imp y Celyn. Truly bad animation.

  6. 6.

    beltane

    @freelancer: There is little point in trying to engage in an intelligent conversation with sociopaths. Their arguments are the functional equivalent of a bored aristocrat emptying his chamberpot out the window onto the head of a a beggar child below. Rather than analyze the contents of the chamber pot it is better to attack the depravity of he who emptied it.

    Those who value property over life deserve a dose of their own sadism.

  7. 7.

    Martin

    “Do we really have to have our own Egypt, right here in the U.S.?”

    Nah. Another round of tax cuts ought to fix it.

  11. 11.

    RalfW

    CBS News poll: 24% approve of job Congress is doing. 62% disapprove. 48% approve of job Obama is doing, 41% disapprove. via markknoller

    So, wait, the voters just elected these assclowns 4 months ago, and already the opinion is that they are craptastic?

    I know, Congress was at like 21% approval before. But jeebus, we went through the Sharon Angle-ing of American politics for this?

  12. 12.

    The Dangerman

    I was listening to some random Fox person who was stating that “we all had to sacrifice” but all the sacrifice HAD to be on the spending side, not the revenue side. Apparently, tax increases are so off the table.

    I’m all for our own Egypt; shit, I’m basically living in a tent as it is. Find me a nice traffic circle in DC (after the winter; wuss thin blooded CA boy here).

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    @RalfW:

    Nobody but the virulent teatards went to vote in November. We reap what we sow, and if we stay home in bed we reap nothing but their bitter weeds.

  14. 14.

    jwb

    @RalfW: Yes, and they’ve earned this on their own. The Dems really haven’t begun to attack the Goopers in any systematic way yet or anything. It will be interesting to see if there is an actual floor to that number. Nevertheless, I’m certain it’s good news for Republicans.

  15. 15.

    Comrade Mary

    Looks like they were trying for animation with rocks in it, but they got shit instead.

    AND DEATH LOOKS ALL WRONG.

  16. 16.

    Martin

    @RalfW: Well, it’s not really like that. I’m pretty fond of my pénis. I don’t expect to ever want to replace it with another penîs. But if you put my peñis together with 434 other ¶enises, I can’t say I’d be too eager to jump into that bone pile.

  21. 21.

    Comrade Mary

    ARGH!!! Why oh why did I type pénis the conventional way in my previous comment?

    FYWP. FY with the world’s limpest dick.

  22. 22.

    suzanne

    I’m still reading through that thread on Volokh Conspiracy and marveling at the insane that got sprayed all over the place. But I did stumble upon this gem:
    “Libertarianism is the haunting fear that somewhere, an able-bodied, affluent white man is being told ‘no’.”
    LMMFAO.

  24. 24.

    David Fud

    I just noticed something sort of funny:

    In the Blogs We Monitor And Mock As Needed section below, there is no “special” position for McMegan.

    As much mocking as she receives around here, I think that she should be at the top of the list.

  25. 25.

    Comrade Mary

    I just tuned into the last bit of Colbert before the final commercial. Somebody please tell me if Christiane Amanpour met Christiane Amanpurr.

  26. 26.

    PeakVT

    @RalfW: Congress is always unpopular. Local Congresscritters are much less hated, because the problems of Congress are always the fault of other Congresscritters elected by thoooose people over there, who aren’t like us.

    Can you follow that logic? I can’t.

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @PeakVT:

    No, can’t follow the logic, but since my congressman is Peter DeFazio, and he’s definitely not part of the problem, then some of the other 434 congresscritters are.

  28. 28.

    freelancer

    @suzanne:

    He gets labelled an Objectivist, and comes back with this insane pablum:

    I think maybe reality exists independent of consciousness, but not enough to make an axiom out of it. A lot of stuff in Objectivism, I like in a general way, but not in an axiomatic way.

    Maybe? Frakkin’ maybe?! That it’s only Objectivism that posits that reality exists independent of consciousness is nothing short of retarded. The Universe doesn’t spring into being when we are born, and it isn’t demolished when I’m put under anesthesia. The fact that he knows enough abstract philosophy to not even do some hand-wringing over the end of the human race just illustrates how much wankery is involved in the philosophy of political worldviews.

  29. 29.

    Morbo

    @freelancer: Libertarians wonder why no one takes them seriously outside the internet. Perhaps it is because they write earnest responses to articles from The Onion.

  31. 31.

    asiangrrlMN

    Goddamn it. Now I did it.

    @MattR: Still with the DICK, are you (is that better, FYWP?)? Detachable is better than dipping your balls, I suppose.

    @Steeplejack: You! I got a bone to pick with you, yeah, you. You made a reference to Cowboy BeBop which allowed m_c to make a joke about me that actually made me laugh. I’m traumatized!

  34. 34.

    suzanne

    @freelancer: I know. I’ve had conversations while stoned about the sophistication of the color palette of M&Ms or how much I wanted a pair of conjoined twin monkeys while stoned off my ass that were more edifying. Libertarianism is really just one step removed from sociopathy.
    @Morbo: And ’cause they’re almost all stoned and besotted with their own identical uniqueness, it seems.

  36. 36.

    Kryptik

    I’m seriously trying my hardest to care about politics still and not to simply give in to soul crushing despair and fatalism. It simply seems like everywhere I look, events and circumstances continue to falter further and further away toward sanity and more toward the psychotic Objectivist utopia bullshit to the detriment of everyone except the richest of the rich. And the more I want to care, the more it seems like everything tilts more and more toward trying to prove how stupid I fucking am to care because I’m obviously a fucking evil lib who doesn’t deserve to live in this country ever.

  37. 37.

    KG

    @PeakVT: the logic isn’t that hard to fathom… your congresscritter is righteous and doing the Lord’s/Gia’s work. But that other congresscritter is hellbent on destroying all that is holy and righteous in this great land. Unfortunately, there is always, always, always more of those other congresscritters than there are of your congresscritters.

  38. 38.

    Redshift

    I haven’t managed to intersect with an open thread since the Atlas Shrugged trailer thread a few days ago, but I urge everyone to read this “interview” with the director, or at least these excerpts:

    But also look at what we got with our production budget. For example, we used red camera technology to film it. It creates digital images rather than images on film. Its software is great for editing. We were able to get the director’s cut of the movie and add some very good visual scenes and other elements in weeks rather than the months it would have taken with film. So it is high tech, and we didn’t scrimp on using red camera.

    As I’ve said, we had the opportunity to hire many of the actors and others at perhaps 25 percent of what they normally make. I mean when you get a famous actor for a movie, you might have a $30 million price right there.
    …
    If we had had to pay just standard or going rate for cameramen, production designers, and all of these various parts of a movie, this budget would have doubled. So we got lucky.

    And then watch “Sound Mixer Hell” on Xtranormal.

    “It is a labor of love.” Heh.

  39. 39.

    Chris

    If we’re going to have shared sacrifice, how come we have to have it via economy-sapping spending cuts instead of the slight-for-most-people tax increases that undoing all the Bush tax cuts would’ve meant? Really, I’d like to see some poll numbers that don’t come from a centrist hack pollster shop before I believe Obama’s got a secret plan to end the GOP war on the economy by endorsing it.

    On the other hand, if the GOP won’t do anything about global warming except lay back and enjoy it, then maybe we don’t need as much LIHEAP any more.

  40. 40.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    I am so eye-poppingly angry about the attack on Lara Logan, and the fact that so many people want to believe that rape is something done by Other People, in Other Places, in Scary Cultures, when the fear and threat of rape is the lived reality of every woman on earth.

    Here’s the result of my rage – The assault on Lara Logan and the reality of rape: http://bit.ly/gzaaI1

    Please read, pass on, share — my impotence in the face of the world’s insistent ugliness is particularly painful tonight….

  41. 41.

    Redshift

    @Chris: And in what sense is it shared sacrifice when the sacrifice is almost entirely among people who have already suffered plenty from the economic crash, while the people who caused the damn thing aren’t sacrificing anything at all?

  42. 42.

    S. cerevisiae

    Don’t be knockin’ BOC – they sound a lot better than most of what passes for rock these days. Now get of’n mah lawn!

  43. 43.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Thanks for this, ee. I am more in sorrow and despair over the story. I wish I could tap into the anger, but I just cannot right now.

    @Steeplejack: TWO people made the similar joke! Did you have that in mind when you posted the link? And, how you be?

    ETA: Though I was absurdly fond of m_c’s demon hentai grin. It was a nice touch.

  45. 45.

    Mark S.

    @freelancer:

    I believe Sasha Volokh has achieved the wingnutlarity. I realize this is a highly theoretical topic and many physicists even doubt its existence, but I believe it has at last been achieved.

    He at one point argues that it is morally wrong for a government to use tax money to feed starving citizens. It is, however, justifiable to do it for the purpose of preventing a riot that may inconvenience non-starving people’s property.

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I’m home from the night shift and not going back until 4:00 tomorrow, so I’m good. Just catching up with the threads and getting repeatedly modded by FYWP on the “My Funny Valentine” thread. Which sucks.

    How’s it going with Mom?

  51. 51.

    Kryptik

    @Mark S.:

    Wingutlarity? Hardly. We have god knows how many standing GOP congressmen and governors arguing precisely that. And they’re still not far right enough for some of the fuckers who are simply given all the credulity in the world while Al Gore is still considered the punchline of punchlines and Obama is still believed to be a literal Kenyan Marxist usurper, at least enough to where they make up the majority of the ascendant party in the country (and with looks to only grow more powerful).

    There is no fucking Wingnutlarity. I’m honestly convinced at this point there’s only Liberalularity, and we’ve already passed that into rapid decline. Simply because the country hates hippies more than it gives a fuck about fixing itself.

  53. 53.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: By the way, I look NOTHING like that. I only wish I did!

    ETA: And, given what m_c said about me, I don’t think LIKE is the operative word.

    @MattR: Heh. Plus, marriage is no guarantee of that, anyway, amirite?

    @Kryptik: I would try to talk you down, but I can’t. I’m pretty much in the “we’re doomed” mood right now, too.

  54. 54.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    @asiangrrlMN: Well, and you’re dealing with having your mom there too, which can’t help with the whole emotional roller coaster! I think I gave myself a blood pressure head ache — I had those once, when very ill, and they felt not unlike this. Rage has it’s place, & right now, it’s in the top of my head. Trying to calm down a bit….

    @freelancer: No, my goodness, it has not. On the other hand – idk: Is the world worse this month? Or are we talking more about what’s always been bad? I tend to think it’s the latter, actually, but that doesn’t make the talking any more pleasant.

  55. 55.

    Mike G

    “Do we really have to have our own Egypt, right here in the U.S.?”

    In the US, the corporatists know they can rely on the Fox-addled teatards (who are pro-corporations at a rate far above the general population) to show up with their guns to threaten the Dirty Fucking Hippies in the name of supporting and expanding continued corporatist serfdom in the cause of Freedumb(TM).

  57. 57.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Very true (re: my mother). And, as for your point to freelancer, yeah, it’s always there. It’s just pretty damn prominent right now with the Republicans declaring War on Choice.

    ETA: And, my mother doesn’t help with the whole “Ain’t I a Woman?” feeling I fight.

  61. 61.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Mike G:

    This is why I refer to these wretches as natural serfs.

    They’re utterly undeserving of the freedoms that so many have fought, bled, and died for.

    They sicken me.

  62. 62.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    You have jet-black hair, two eyes, one on each side of face, nose in middle, mouth below–you dead ringer for Fay Valentine!

    I’m out. Need to get to bed before I catch a second wind and stay up all night.

  64. 64.

    freelancer

    @MattR:

    Wrong. They can’t actually implement the fiscal policy that they used to whip the Tea Party into a rabid lather. So, from a GOP point of view, the pivot to the Culture War issues is nothing more than a political jackalope, a “SQUIRREL!” tactic, if you will.

    Maddow covered this quite nicely in this segment:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnu1CKp0Fl8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u9_3PzX4Os

    They’re gon’ dance with the grrl they brung in 2004.

  67. 67.

    MagicPanda

    Apropos of nothing, I just have to say that I HATE HATE HATE Mark Halperin’s habit of calling President Obama “Bam”.

    Now one might rightfully ask why I am punishing myself by “reading” this fool (if clicking on a link that leads to you to a single vapid sentence is considered reading) to which I say, “touche.”

    But I mean… “Bam”? WTF?

  68. 68.

    Wag

    A quote from the review of I Am Curious (Yellow) that was cited above. The quote sums up modern Libertarian thought better than anything I have ever read

    They do not exactly talk about current political and social problems, but they recite words associated with them.

    My wife was glaring at me because the bed was shaking due to my laughter.

  69. 69.

    suzanne

    @asiangrrlMN: Because, who will take care of me when I’m old?

    Me! I make delicious pasta.
    @Yutsano: Dude. You should be here. There are 80 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in my daughter’s bedroom.

  72. 72.

    Yutsano

    @suzanne: Taking red-eye to Phoenix on craptastic USAir NAOW. Hell I’d even sacrifice flying on Alaska for that. I’m not even sure I can wait until this weekend.

    @asiangrrlMN: My source used to be the daughter of one of my old supervisors. I am now cut off from that supply. This makes me haz a big cranky.

  73. 73.

    Suffern ACE

    @freelancer: Well, you can combine the two. You know-domestic partner benefits are a luxury we can no longer afford. Saves a few million while you attempt to close a trillion dollar gap.

  74. 74.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Now I know why Lexie is addicted to kitty crack–she has you as a role model!

    @freelancer: She is saying she’ll take care of me because she makes delicious pasta and that Yutsy should go get summa dat GS cookies from her house.

  76. 76.

    freelancer

    @Yutsano:

    Are you serious? I’m flying there in two weeks to scope jobs/take a warm weather mental health break. The world might not be flat, but it is small. US Air wasn’t that bad last time I flew.

  78. 78.

    suzanne

    @freelancer: yeah, sorry, I fucked that all up. The tags are a bit more frustrating on my iPhone.
    @Yutsano: I would ship some to you, but after the hassle we went through last year, I promised my husband I would refrain. However, cookie booths are starting! I’m sure you’ll come across at least one. Walmarts are popular with Scout troops.

    OT, but my iPhone wants to change “Walmart” to “Dalmatia”. Damn you, autocorrect!

  80. 80.

    Yutsano

    @freelancer: It’s kind of an inside joke from when they were America West. My old roommate is from down there (the reason I was down those parts same time as you was for her wedding) and she hated them with a passion. My preferred airline is Alaska for most domestic flights, but I took them a couple of times and wasn’t too impressed. That and Alaska has better fares out of Seattle. As with all things, YMMV.

    @asiangrrlMN: Speaking of which, Lexie is playing with her kitteh crack sachet as we speak. I’ve definitely created a monster here.

    @suzanne: I’m going shopping with Mom this weekend. This will inevitably include a stop at Wal-Mart. For teh cookies, I will sacrifice. And I am more than willing to purchase and pay for shipping any excess supply you have remaining.

  82. 82.

    Batocchio

    Bad music? That memorable Buck Dharma guitar work? Anne Laurie! Look, I love me some celtic music (and play it), but variety is the spice of life! A woman of your taste, who can appreciate both the sublime and the ridiculous, can surely find some room for B.O.C. (Hey, they deliver geek-heavy lyrics with none of that Ayn Rand crap!)

  86. 86.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: She’s my own wittle Miley I swear. I’m just waiting for some ebil agent to come sweeping along and stealing her image and exploiting her teh cute.

    She’s playing teh sleepies game now. The positive side of the kitteh crack is it wears her right out.

  89. 89.

    freelancer

    @suzanne:

    No worries.

    @Yutsano:

    Yeah it’s all relative.

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    I know Bill Hicks is passed and has been gone for 17 years now, but it’s not too late for CBS to pick up his TV show pitch.

    I finally got my own TV show coming out next fall on CBS. . . . it’s a half-hour weekly show that I will host, entitled “Let’s Hunt and Kill Billy Ray Cyrus.” So y’all be tuning in? Cool, cool. Cool, it’s a fairly self-explanatory plot, uh . . . Each week we let the hounds of Hell loose and we chase that jar-head, no-talent, cracker asshole all over the globe . . . till I finally catch that fruity little ponytail of his in the back . . . and we’ll be back in ’95 with “Let’s Hunt and Kill Michael Bolton.” So. Thank you very much. I’m just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious and making us pay a higher psychic price than we imagine. In fact, that’s how I pitched it to the networks exactly, I said . . . “Uh, I’d like to do a show where I rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious,” and the guy at CBS said, “Will there be titty?” And I said, “Sure, I don’t know, sure.” Boom! A check falls in my lap and — I’m a producer!

  91. 91.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    OK, the Onion AV club is supposed to be based on reality, and I can buy Billy Ray Cyrus using the old “the work of SATAN” thing that plays so well with the rubes of the Bible Belt.

    But the hypocrisy, as usual, is both stunning and mundane. His fans can’t see it, even though the article paints a pretty convincing picture of it.

  92. 92.

    freelancer

    @suzanne:

    If you find a job, pleez share. Thank yoo.

    Seriously? I lack a degree, and would be satisfied working at the In and Out in North Scottsdale, I’m disliking Midwest Winters that much.

    My friends down there put it too me this way in a conversation:

    “Well, basically, I’m working a cubicle job I hate and which has added untold stress and at least 30 pounds of dead weight to my body that no matter how hard I try, I can’t shake off. I’m doing the 21st century American equivalent of subsistence farming.”
    “Well, you might as well do that down in AZ, at least it’s warmer down here, plus you say you’re a trainwreck in mid-winter, the sun comes out down here.”
    “Good Point.”

    However, wherever I end up, I’ll keep you in mind. Even if the position is available above me, I’m sure you’d be a fair boss.

  94. 94.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    It’s not even the “work of Satan,” thing but that he has the balls to blame it on someone- and a guy who’s supposedly a very nice someone who happens to make some really odd films- in particular for his woes.

    There’s nothing wrong with David Lynch or thousands- if not hundreds of thousands- of people in the entertainment business. BRC is just a dumbass who didn’t figure out how to maneuver himself and his family through the pitfalls of Hollywood.

    And as if there aren’t pitfalls EVERYWHERE….

  102. 102.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Yutsano:

    You’ve probably got it right, but what gets me is how he manages to drag Lynch into this, not for casting the daughter, but for having cast DAD….Which led to dad being cast in a similar role on a tv show, a show in which Miley was cast in her first role.

    If dude was saying “Well, uh, Hollywood evil, must get away,” I’d think that it’s a cop out, but that he goes all Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to pin the blame on a specific person…Jeebus!

  103. 103.

    Suffern ACE

    @asiangrrlMN: He’s talking while going through a divorce. “Opening up” might create other hassles for him. His wife is probably not going to go after David Lynch and satan for ruining the marriage.

  107. 107.

    different church-lady

    I hereby unilaterally declare a moratorium on comparisons to Egypt. A, it’s cheap and lazy. B, those people stood up to a fucking strongman of 30 years standing, and put their very real lives on the line to do it.

    And we’re gonna seriously, on a regular basis, compare that to 10% unemployment and income inequality? Here in a country where like 104% of the suburbs bought a new flat panel TV last year?

    Fuckin’ sick of everyone taking someone else’s revolution and making it about us.

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