Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

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

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Let there be snark.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Tick tock motherfuckers!

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

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

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

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

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  1. 1.

    Poopyman

    Tea who?

    OT, but I wish to report that there’s no sign of The Rapture (TM) yet here on the East Coast US. We’ve been constantly scanning the skies here at the Ches Bay Detachment of BJ, and no sign of ascensions yet. But with those blues skies it’s a great day for it!

  2. 2.

    SnarkyShark

    You can stop pretending all you want, but don’t expect as much from the Village(tm). Reality has nothing to do with it.

  4. 4.

    Emma

    It’s such an… iconic… sort of picture that I wish I could find others of the same event. Surely there were others in other areas? Mind you, it is a fun pic.

  5. 5.

    SFAW

    Can we stop pretending this is a real political movement now?

    It’s real, it just has/had the lifespan of a Mayfly. I hope.

    However, given that Rethuglican Intellectual and All-Around Deep Thinker Paul Ryan’s “budget” “proposal” has actually been getting discussed seriously, I would say the Tea Baggers have a little bit longer shelf life than you’re positing and I’m hoping.

    Lokok, the 27-Percenters have power far outside their actual numbers, so thinking the Tea Baggers are gone or not “real” is poor judgment. I wish you were right, but that ain’t the case in this plane of existence, unfortunately.

  6. 6.

    Davis X. Machina

    You can’t expect the truth to be popular.

    Austere doctrines and subtle nuances like “F*ck off, I’ve got mine already!” and “You kids get off of my lawn!” will never be caviar for the general.

    If you look carefully both members of the audience have copies of The Constitution of Liberty open on their laps, and are following along.

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    Picture looks fake. Photoshopped almost. Her dais is too bright and colorful compared to the rest of the image. And god knows republican douchebags aren’t bright and colorful.

  11. 11.

    honus

    They were treated like dirt and they applaud Trump for it:

    Columbia Tea Party chairman Allen Olson expected as many as 2,000 would have attended Thursday’s rally had Trump been there. But The Donald, a favorite of many who attended the group’s Tax Day rally with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., elected to not run and dropped the rally from his schedule.

    “It was a kick in the gut, but it gives you a chance to regroup,” said Olson. “He’s a businessman. He showed his worth.”

    And freely admit they were only coming to see a carnival barker:

    Philip Stanley came to Thursday’s rally from Asheville, N.C., in hopes of seeing Trump but said he was pleased to learn Haley would headline the event instead.

    Stanley said he respected Trump for directly questioning President Barack Obama about his birth certificate without fear of being labeled with “the R word” for racist. (Obama subsequently produced his long-form birth certificate, and Stanley said Thursday that he did not dispute the president’s U.S. citizenship.)

    “I never thought he was serious,” Stanley said of Trump. “He’s a promoter. … Then, I heard Nikki Haley was here. That’s almost as good.”

  13. 13.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Someone tell Walter and Irene this isn’t a real fucking political movement. Because they drove all the way from Beaufort to keep government out of their Medicare, skipping Walter’s normal golf outing. God bless America.

  14. 14.

    BudP

    Great Photo! Using Harold Camping’s bible math, I count two thousand tea baggers sitting on two thousand lawn chairs.

  17. 17.

    Jay C

    @Punchy:

    Picture looks fake. Photoshopped almost

    What do you mean? That there were even less people at the SC “Tea Party” rally than those shown? Was Nikki Haley talking to herself, then? (Well, she IS a GOP Governor, so that isn’t all that unlikely)

    BTW, No Rapture here in NYC this morning, either: I know that Gotham is a pretty big and crowded place, and it would be hard to notice a bunch of folks missing; but I would think that if any appreciable number of people here got translated off to Heaven, you would know it by the crowd of real estate agents swarming in to grab all those empty apartments…

  19. 19.

    honus

    @Poopyman: What do you mean, no sign of the rapture? Where do you think happened to all of those people who were supposed to be at the tea party rally?

  20. 20.

    Violet

    From the article:

    Haley told the meeting she was forming the Governor’s Tea Party Coalition to be run from her office.

    Seriously? That seems wrong. If a Democrat governor formed the “Governor’s Soshulist Coalition” and ran it from his or her office, people would go ballistic. IOKIYAR, I guess.

  21. 21.

    dr. bloor

    I never thought he was serious,” Stanley said of Trump. “He’s a promoter. … Then, I heard Nikki Haley was here. That’s almost as good.”

    Nikki Haley: almost as good as a narcissistic snake oil peddler. Sounds about right.

    Glad to see that pantsing was in a SC newspaper.

  23. 23.

    Davis X. Machina

    @honus: In that case, there would be piles of clothes everywhere. The only time it’s permissible to get nekkid, if you’re a tighty-whitey, is when you’re being Raptured.

    And empty mobility scooters.

  24. 24.

    alwhite

    I don’t think the tea party was even intended to be a long-term tool of the masters of the universe. They saw it as a temporary way to take control of the conversation after the Democrats took control of the government. It worked very well.

    They should start rolling out the next diversion this winter. I have no idea what that will be but it will keep 27% of the country anxious, outraged and hopped up to vote until mid November.

  25. 25.

    El Cid

    I dunno. Maybe it still could be all faked-launched again if the same groups behind it start rolling in the cash and the hired local leaders and the internal media and the death-painted buses and such.

    Then they could get their angry crowds of 50 to 300 and it would be once again declared by the media a movement, a “TeaTard Spring”.

  26. 26.

    Ash Can

    @Violet: This struck me as well. Since the Tea Party is nothing more than a GOP astroturf organization, doesn’t this run afoul of campaign laws, even in SC?

  28. 28.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Ash Can: The organs of the State exist to serve the Party, and not the other way round, because it is the Party, and not the State, that is the Vanguard of the Revolution. The State in fact is destined, after the success of the Revolution, to wither away. The Party will always be with us, however.

    The GOP is the last major Leninist parliamentary party in the West.

  30. 30.

    PurpleGirl

    @Poopyman: The Rapture according to Camping was to be at 6 p.m (local time). No reports of anything from New Zealand and the Far East…

    Sorry, JC, no looting parties tomorrow.

  31. 31.

    wonkie

    DXM: absolutely. LIterally. WIthout snark. That is the vision the Rethuglican leadership has.

  33. 33.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @PurpleGirl:

    The Rapture according to Camping was to be at 6 p.m (local time). No reports of anything from New Zealand and the Far East…

    Oh shit. I took advantage of the imminent rapture to disappear a few folks.

  35. 35.

    Ash Can

    @Davis X. Machina:

    The GOP is the last major Leninist parliamentary party in the West.

    I lived through the Cold War and studied Soviet history, politics and government in college. No matter how often the GOP demonstrates that what you say is true, it never fails to gobsmack me when they do it. The GOP really has become what it purported for decades to hate the most.

  37. 37.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    There’s a pickup truck parked on the main drag in our little town here on the south Oregon coast that has poorly lettered and colored signs on each side of the pickup bed announcing a local Teabagger rally. If I can remember to grab my camera I’ll snap as shot of it for posterity.

    That’s if the cops haven’t ordered it moved…lol

  39. 39.

    Cat Lady

    So it looks like Jeebus went Galt. I didn’t expect to see anything from my perch here in Sodom Massachusetts anyway, but there’s a fundie church in the next town I’ll check out tomorrow, to see if there are any cars in the parking lot.

    How to keep your believers all hepped up on Rapturing Jeebus is the same challenge that the Kochs and Armeys have now – how to distract the teatards from focusing on Ryan’s Plan To Destroy Medicare?

  40. 40.

    Svensker

    @Jay C:

    I would think that if any appreciable number of people here got translated off to Heaven, you would know it by the crowd of real estate agents swarming in to grab all those empty apartments…

    And you KNOW the NYC real estate agents would get left behind.

  41. 41.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @PurpleGirl:

    Didn’t you watch the video by somegreybloke which ABL posted? He warned everyone not to use the Rapture as an excuse to off anyone.

    Doh!

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Do you really think that this little incident is the thing that is going to keep you from being Raptured? I am betting that you might have a couple of other peccadilloes in your past that might interfere.

  43. 43.

    TooManyPaulWs

    I think we can recognize now that the real Tea Partiers Baggers are the financiers and media promoters. Now that the uberrich are going after Medicare and Medicaid I doubt the retirees they’d scared into their rallies last year are gonna want to show anymore.

    Either that or they’d been Raptured already.

  44. 44.

    Mike in NC

    While SC continues to have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, the governor and GOP-controlled legislature are busy with one of those bills designed to prevent non-existent election fraud. It will supposedly cost the state millions to create new photo ID cards for voters who lack a driver’s license.

  45. 45.

    cathyx

    Can’t we all just assume that the rapture took all the people who planned on attending the rally?

  48. 48.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Mike in NC:

    Mike, the election fraud isn’t non-existent. It’s real. Some African Americans are still able to vote in SC, I’m sure, and that has to be taken care of!

  50. 50.

    RossInDetroit

    Wow! So this is what heaven is like! Hey, I can see my house from up here. And there’s free high speed internet.
    Pardon me a minute. My harp class starts in a minute and the instrument needs tuning.

  51. 51.

    Southern Beale

    From the link:

    Columbia Tea Party chairman Allen Olson expected as many as 2,000 would have attended Thursday’s rally had Trump been there.

    Really? Seriously? This assclowns STILL like Donald Trump? WHY? What utter morons.

  53. 53.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Southern Beale:

    These assclowns STILL like Donald Trump

    He’s not bankrupt again, is he? The outward signs of the Lord’s election are abundant with him. That’s enough for them.

  55. 55.

    Cat Lady

    @Southern Beale:

    The comments to that article are interesting – most of them are anti-Tea Party, and there’s a commenter there named Michael Gass. He didn’t mention laughing helicopters though.

  56. 56.

    Rihilism

    That poor couple, trying to have a pleasant picnic on the capitol steps and then that weird foreigner lady shows up and ruins everything…

  58. 58.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @Jay C: NYC wouldn’t be a place for the rapture, you and San Francisco are Sodom and Gammorrah. Await for God’s judgement you sinners!!

  61. 61.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    @jeffreyw:

    Well you can tell
    by the way I use my walk
    I’m a woman’s man
    no time to talk
    Music loud and women warm
    I’ve been kicked around
    since I was born

    And now it’s all right, it’s ok
    and you may look the other way
    We can try to understand
    The New York Times’ effect on man

    (chorus)
    Whether you’re a brother
    or whether you’re a mother
    you’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
    Feel the city breakin
    and everybody shakin’
    and were stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
    Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive

  62. 62.

    Joey Maloney

    Stay classy, right-wingers…

    But ever since Myers decided to write a letter to tea-party queen Michele Bachmann last month, challenging the GOP congresswoman from Minnesota to debate over the U.S. Constitution, her father says she’s been getting stung by the party’s most poisonous fangs.
    __
    “People are calling her a [word for a female anatomy part], a left-wing commie, a slut and a whore. They say they hope she gets gang-raped,” said Myers’ father, Wayne Myers. “And those are some of the nicer things they’ve been saying.”
    __
    Most of the vitriol has come via comments on online news articles, Wayne Myers said, particularly those posted on conservative-leaning websites. Many comments have been positive, he said, but the worst have threatened to publish the family’s home address.

  68. 68.

    JS

    I heard Daniels took something like 30 stitches? That’s like one for every Teanut that showed up for the sitting Gov. of South Carolina.

    Face it, when you’re a guy like Daniels – and your natural charisma is all you have going for you to win the Presidency.. you need time for the plastic surgeons to do their magic before you make a big announcement like that.

  69. 69.

    TOP123

    @Davis X. Machina: Well, the comrades responsible for ensuring sufficient turnout by the Komsomols and shock workers Bible Campers and retirees at this spontaneous rally are going to have some explaining to do.

  73. 73.

    Brachiator

    This is South Carolina Governor NIkki Haley speaking at a Tea Party rally that was supposed to feature Donald Trump. Can we stop pretending this is a real political movement now?

    Uh, isn’t Nikki Haley governor? Aren’t there Tea Party people in Congress?

    That the Tea Party is losing its sizzle does not automatically translate into a victory for Democrats. Snark and mockery don’t win elections.

  75. 75.

    maya

    What! The Rapture isn’t working?

    I was so looking forward to all the milk carton pics and bios.

  77. 77.

    jeffreyw

    @Josie: In the last two days he’s brought me a chipmunk and a field mouse. Both alive. Released back into the wild in our version of “catch and release”.

  80. 80.

    Ash Can

    @Cat Lady: From that linked article:

    It’s Daniels’ second on-the-job injury in recent months — he also had surgery on his rotator cuff after hurting his shoulder while shoveling snow during the winter. (Emphasis mine.)

    I was unaware that the duties of the governor of the State of Indiana included going to the gym and shoveling snow. You learn something new from Politico every day, I guess.

    @jeffreyw: My goodness, our little Homer looks so grown up!

  81. 81.

    TrevorB

    Wow i have had just a blast perusing this blog by GOP Rep Kimble. He wrote a challenge to a 14 year old, and an old lady broke his nose. He also thinks foster care kids have it too easy, and he wants to tell them where they can buy their food. Good stuff. http://kimbleforcongress.blogspot.com/

    upadte (check out the blog you will get it)
    He looks fantastic in that christmas sweater

  83. 83.

    WaterGirl

    @TrevorB: Just read the letter to Amy at your link. Ick. What a repulsive, condescending asshole prick. Unbelievable.

    I hope whoever runs against him next time uses that letter in a million ads against him.

  85. 85.

    trollhattan

    Somebody check the kerning of those lawn chairs–I say Photochop! Anywhere there’s a statue and flag, there are Patriots.

    This rapture thang had better get with the program, I haz my eye on looting a neighbor’s Aston Martin.

  86. 86.

    Yutsano

    @TrevorB:

    Just realize that if you accept, I will crush you. I know nearly all 2 dozen amendments backwards and forwards and with a little brushing up I will be ready for any challenge.

    When your challenge starts out fundamentally wrong, I reserve the right to mock you mercilessly Rep. Kimble.

  87. 87.

    piratedan

    @Linda Featheringill: just connecting dots here, wasn’t the Koch family fortunes founded on huge construction contracts in Soviet Russia? Kids are simply following the examples of what worked…. libertarianism as a conduit to control of the party elite. I guess that would make these hapless Progressives nothing more than patsy Mencheviks. ;-)

  90. 90.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @piratedan:

    It was, and the reason it was is that their father actually came up with a very innovative drill bit that was cheaper and more efficient than any that were available at the time. So the incumbent drill bit oligarchs set out to prevent him from marketing his technology.

    They succeeded, but in the process drove him into the arms of Joe Stalin, who knew a good deal when one was available to him.

  91. 91.

    PR_one

    I’m just repeating something I heard last night on TRMS.
    “TEA FOR TWO”
    Sorry Rachel, but I just couldn’t hold it back. (OOOPS)

  92. 92.

    Nick

    The Tea Party was the Republican Party astroturfed and rebranded for 2009-2010. They all voted for Bush twice and most voted for McCain. They’ll be back with a new name in 2012 (and probably less successful.) The influence of the Fox/Drudge/WSJ/Limbaugh right shouldn’t be underestimated no amtter what they call themselves.

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    @Corner Stone: Well, he got my heart beating faster, guess I can skip the gym today?. I would say well played, Mr. Kimble, but when so many of them are repulsive, condescending asshole pricks, how’s a girl to know it’s a spoof?

  97. 97.

    Turf Toe

    Meanwhile, today in Centennial Park in Atlanta, Herman Cain officially announced his candidacy for President. During his speech, he bragged about there being 15,000 at the event, which caused the people to look around to find the alleged 15,000. There were about 1200 people there, tops. Yes, can we stop pretending the Tea Party is a real movement?

    And apparently, pizza was being sold at the event. Papa John’s.

  98. 98.

    fasteddie9318

    Read the comments on that Kimble blog…it’s proof either that there’s a lot of people out there who don’t know spoof when they see it, or that the GOP really has gone so totally batshit that Kimble seems like the real thing.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    @fasteddie9318: I’ll have to go with door #2 since I got caught on this one myself. As i said upthread, when so many of these are repulsive, condescending asshole pricks, how are we to know it’s a spoof?

  100. 100.

    Caz

    If it’s not a real political movement, why do you post so many blogs about it? When millions and millions of people consider themselves aligned with the tea party ideology, it’s a real movement, regardless of whether or not you can find a misleading photo for a cute caption.

    If it’s not real, don’t write about it.

  101. 101.

    A Humble Lurker

    @Caz:

    Because maybe some posters here think that professional (using the term loosely here) news organizations shouldn’t be wasting their time on fake political movements when they could be spending that time on real political movements. (coughWisconsincough)

  102. 102.

    fasteddie9318

    @Caz:

    If it’s not real, don’t write about it.

    If him writing about it makes your butt hurt, fucking go somewhere else. You’ll not be missed.

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