Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

“But what about the lurkers?”

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

T R E 4 5 O N

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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Arango’s excuse for posting pics of himself on gay/bi hookup phone ap Grindr—including one of him bent over, cheeks spread, senatorial asshole winking at the camera—isn’t as catchy as “hiking the Appalachian Trail” or “lifting your luggage.” Those two were pure poetry. But Arango’s excuse is delightful in its own way: Arango wasn’t looking to hookup with dudes, he was just documenting his weight loss regimen. (“Why, Senator Arango! Your asshole is looking so slim these days! You simply must share your workout routine with me!”)

Puerto Rican Senator Roberto Arango is, of course, a Republican who opposes gay marriage,  helped pass a ban on adoption rights for gay couples, and who intimated that his opponent was gay in a recent election.

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  4. 4.

    SensesFail

    (“Why, Senator Arango! Your asshole is looking so slim these days! You simply must share your workout routine with me!”)

    HAHAHAHA!

  5. 5.

    BerkeleyMom

    I think it is safe to assume that all these anti-gay politicians who think about gay sex all day are actually gay.

  6. 6.

    Derf

    Could have been worse. He could have been a libertarian eh Mrmix? We all know what hypocrits they are eh mrmix?!

  8. 8.

    PurpleGirl

    Okay, Republican/Conservative pundits, I’m waiting for you to condemn this guy and call for him to step down. I guess that I shouldn’t hold my breath waiting for him to resign?

  9. 9.

    singfoom

    @Derf: Dude, you need to up your game.
    /TROLL STOP

    Ah in the closet conservative politicians. I pity them. Leading a double life has to cause so much stress and consternation.

  10. 10.

    Dave

    From further in the article:

    Have we reached tipping point yet? Shouldn’t homophobic politicians and anti-gay bullies be presumed to be gay until they get caught up in a straight sex scandal?

    Yup. Pretty much.

  12. 12.

    JGabriel

    Do we already have a tag for de-closeted Republicans?

    If not, GOP Weight Loss Regimens Documented seems as good a tag for the subject as any. It certainly happens frequently enough to merit its own tag.

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  16. 16.

    Guster

    I read an article where they’re trying to make a Gridr for straight people, and the problem is that straight women don’t need a service to find themselves surrounded by men looking for casual sex.

  17. 17.

    Cat Lady

    Republicanism is a mental disorder and needs to be an entry in the DSM. They’re all clinical.

  18. 18.

    JGabriel

    @PurpleGirl:

    Okay, Republican/Conservative pundits, I’m waiting for you to condemn this guy and call for him to step down.

    GOP Response: Arango can’t be Republican, he’s from Puerto Rico.

    I.E., you can be sure Fox News will forget Arango’s Republican, but remember that he’s from Puerto Rico. ‘Cuz Hispanic.

    .

  21. 21.

    KG

    @Dave: I remember back in high school in the mid90s that the most homophobic guys almost invariably turned out to be the ones who wanted to wear their girlfriends’ underwear (not in the good way, and not that there’s anything wrong with that… either way). I thought we reached that tipping point years ago, and just figured that like with most things, the Village was slow to learn.

  22. 22.

    El Cid

    Maybe he just didn’t want to become another statistic.

    [Bob Allen, chairman of FL’s McCain campaign and State House Rep was caught] Offering an undercover cop $20 to allow Allen to blow him in a men’s room in a public park. After being arrested, Allen tried to explain that he only offered to blow the cop because the cop was a “burly black man” and he “didn’t want to become a statistic.”

  26. 26.

    JGabriel

    @BGinCHI:

    Isn’t a sweet asshole in the eye of the beholder?

    Today’s Health Tip: If your asshole is in someone else’s eye, you need to see a surgeon about that immediately.

    .

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @El Cid: Heh. I remember that chiefly cause Pudge Carlson made up some story about being harassed in a men’s room.

    Nobody’s more grateful for Arango than Phil Hinkle

    An Indiana Republican state lawmaker resisting calls to resign after becoming embroiled in a sex scandal insists, “I’m not gay,” according to the The Indianapolis Star.
    The AP relays background on the controversy:
    The Indianapolis Star reported that emails suggest Republican Rep. Phillip Hinkle arranged to pay Kameryn Gibson up to $140 for “for a really good time.” The paper published emails between Hinkle and Gibson detailing a plan for them to meet at a downtown Indianapolis hotel.
    The Star reported Hinkle didn’t contest the emails but said he was “aware of a shakedown taking place.”

  30. 30.

    Xboxershorts

    @singfoom:

    Ah in the closet conservative politicians. I pity them. Leading a double life has to cause so much stress and consternation.

    Indeed, all that stress must really make them clamp down a lot.

    Which probably makes them very popular with other republican politicians.

  32. 32.

    Warren Terra

    Derf, please be a dear and fnck off. You don’t like this blog; we get it. But you don’t express any meaningful criticism. Random nasty comments that are nonresponsive to the post and to the comment thread are just you being an asshole.

  33. 33.

    Derf

    Speaking of assholes.

    The people who did this were defended by Cole. He thought that the US involvement using force was the wrong thing to do. So as far as I’m concerned, Cole is as much guilty of what happened to this woman as anyone. You still proud of your stance against Libyan involvement Cole? Still holding your head high? Will you ever realize that sometimes, complacency is more harmful? Pffft!
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/28/libya.gadhafi.nanny/

  34. 34.

    mattski

    @Derf On the plus side you are hitting every post. On the negative side, you are unimaginative and lack both wit and humor and you do a poor job of engaging the rest of readership. For this you only get a 2 out of 10 on the BJ troll scale. But if you really work hard and step up your game and practice hard everyday for hours on end you might be able to get yourself a 3 rating. Good luck!

  35. 35.

    rlrr

    @JGabriel:

    I.E., you can be sure Fox News will forget Arango’s Republican, but remember that he’s from Puerto Rico. ‘Cuz Hispanic.

    Fox “News” will likely identify him as Democrat – It’s happened before…

  42. 42.

    John O

    @Derf:

    I STILL think the involvement in Libya was the wrong thing to do, but am less sure about it than I was before, Derf. (Derf?)

    How are you going to feel if an Islamic theocracy emerges? Or will you just think we have to bomb them again?

  43. 43.

    Xboxershorts

    @Derf:

    Defending Ghaddafi? Not so much.
    Disagreeing with this administration? Yes.

    Keep reaching, sooner or later you’ll be able to give yourself that reacharound that you crave so desperately.

  45. 45.

    NonyNony

    @John Weiss:

    Don’t you have better things to do than troll BJ? Seriously.

    Clearly the answer to this is “no”.

    I’ve seen a lot of pathetic “look at me – look at me!!! I’m so very lame! Look at meeeee!!!!” trolls in my time, and freD isn’t really even in the running for most interesting. For a while there I thought his stalkerish obsession with Cole was going to provide a new and interesting kind of troll, but now he’s just pathetic.

    Hopefully he’ll take the criticism to heart and go back to the stalkerish love letters to Cole – those were far more entertaining than the more general attention whoring he’s being doing recently.

  47. 47.

    Derf

    @John O: When you are prepared (or capable….?) to having a serious discussion about it rather than ridiculous over simplifications I’ll take you up on it.

  49. 49.

    bobbo

    This is odd because grindr actually has a photo policy and screens photos before they let you post – and they don’t allow anything below the waist. There must be a special premium grindr for closeted Republicans.

  50. 50.

    Tonal Crow

    Today’s star troll is so lame I wonder whether it is an AOL refugee. Ah well, time for some blueberry-peach with fresh mint topping!

  51. 51.

    singfoom

    @Derf: You of all people should not be using the phrase “have a serious discussion”, Mr. Troll.

    Someone who shits on every thread with non-sequiturs and ad hominems at the OPs certainly shouldn’t be commenting on the color of any other kettle.

    Please, STFU and go away. You’re just fucking up the signal to noise ratio. What’s the point? You’re not interested in changing minds, you’re just getting your rocks off pissing in the pool.

    But, I guess that’s “serious discussion” to you.

  52. 52.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Derf: Sorry, but the opposite of “not wanting to bomb libya” is not “supported everything that went on.”

    Question for you then: Have you gone out and shot a gun toting Christian for supporting the killing of abortion providers? If not, does that mean you are anti-abortion?

  53. 53.

    singfoom

    What gets me about these all-to-recognizable scandals is that the Log Cabin Republicans are out there. These people could live the life they want to live.

    How the hell do you hate yourself so much as to legislate / speak against your own secret behavior?

    Fuck, I don’t care if the guy is a hypocrite, but I want him to resign just based on the idea that he can’t possibly be in a good mental state to legislate or do any other business.

  55. 55.

    Tonal Crow

    @singfoom:

    Fuck, I don’t care if the guy is a hypocrite, but I want him to resign just based on the idea that he can’t possibly be in a good mental state to legislate or do any other business.

    I want him to resign because he sees himself as above the rules he’s trying to force upon others. In other words, he’s a psychopath and a tyrant.

  56. 56.

    singfoom

    @Tonal Crow: Oh for sure, I can agree with that. It’s just that usually in these scandals, my immediate reaction is that they should resign because of that (which is a longer form version of calling out their hypocrisy.)

    But now, while their hypocrisy offends me, its the mental anguish their very existence must cause them because of the disconnect between their stated policy/moral positions and their actual lives. Can you imagine the level of self-loathing the guy must have?

    People in situations like that are rarely thinking very clearly…

  58. 58.

    John O

    @Derf:

    I’m willing to try. Should we bomb everyone that has a dictatorial and cruel leader?

    Even though it’s “efficient” warfare, it still costs a boatload of money we don’t have.

  59. 59.

    wrb

    Instead of resigning he’ll enroll in a seminar with Mr. Bachman, then go on a fabulously lucrative speaking tour. Then he’ll be our next vice president. He’ll tape his show for Fox in the Naval Observatory.

  61. 61.

    Menzies

    I’ve been visiting the hometown for the past two weeks (leaving for Western New York again today) and I was waiting to see if someone stateside would get ahold of it. It’s been hilarious watching this unfold here in San Juan. Arango wasn’t just a Senator, he was Majority Leader in the Senate, and his party’s pretty much like the Massachusetts Democrats or, say, Oklahoma Republicans – the PNP (New Progressive Party) controls all branches of government right now.

    (Quick primer: you can be a Democrat or Republican in Puerto Rico, but we have other parties – the Popular Democratic Party [PPD], which is pro-commonwealth; the New Progressive Party [PNP], which is pro-statehood; the Puerto Rican Independence Party [PIP], which is, well, pro-independence; and Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico [PPR], which is essentially our equivalent of a Green Party. This dude was NPP and a Republican.)

    . . . and yes, he’s (or was) my state senator (or now my parents’, since I’m officially living in New York now). Thanks for asking.

  64. 64.

    Derf

    @John O: So sad. Some people just aren’t capable of understanding. Like trying to teach your dog to read the paper.

    I luv you just the same my little furry groupie. Now go fetch.

  65. 65.

    gelfling545

    @singfoom:

    How the hell do you hate yourself so much as to legislate / speak against your own secret behavior?How the hell do you hate yourself so much as to legislate / speak against your own secret behavior?

    I have wondered about this and the best I can come up with is that, after years of being told how sinful his inclinations are and how damned he would be if he succumbs to them, he hopes that stringent and punitive legislation will control HIM. Of course it won’t but that may be his hope.

  66. 66.

    Hal

    including one of him bent over, cheeks spread, senatorial asshole winking at the camera

    Ha….hahahahaha…..hahahahahaha

  67. 67.

    Lojasmo

    @Derf:

    Stocks go up, stocks go down. Good when up, bad when down. Sky blue, gravity important.

    Shove it, durrf

  69. 69.

    Svensker

    What is it with men posting nudie pics of themselves on the internet? And why don’t they understand that they’ll probably get caught? What was this guy thinking when this picture was taken?

    Guess the gulf between aging female mind and horndog male “mind” is just too, um, broad, for me to bridge.

  70. 70.

    The Other Chuck

    Know what would be a good addition to the pie filter? One that also filters responses to trolls. Can’t get them all, but it should work on least the ones using the reply button.

  71. 71.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    The Honorable Republican Senator from Puerto Rico was displaying his economic prowess and showing his approach to dealing with the American economy. Notice there was no lube mentioned?

    At least he’s honest about it.

  72. 72.

    TenguPhule

    In other FAIL news.

    Derf still can’t read a chart. Markets are still down for the year post Debt Debacle.

  76. 76.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @WaterGirl: OMG, you are both so right. For fucks sake people stop feeding the troll. If you starve them of attention they go away.

    Here is your step by step guide to dealing with trolls:

    1. See troll’s name
    2. Skip reading comment.

    Rinse and repeat until offending troll dries up and goes away. Remember it only takes a drop of attention to keep around.

  77. 77.

    PIGL

    @BerkeleyMom: Well I am straight as pretty much straight goes, and I the amount of time in the day and night I spend thinking about straight sex is beyond unseemly in a fat, middle-aged fcuk such as I. Thus, I find your argument 100% compelling if 0% logical.

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