Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

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

The choice is between normal and crazy.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

You cannot shame the shameless.

Second rate reporter says what?

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

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  1. 1.

    SFAW

    am I crazy or is this one of the most poetic songs every written?

    Why do you believe the two are mutually exclusive?

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    Big Baby DougJ

    @Jewish Steel:

    I don’t know their other stuff. White people singing tunelessly over a static beat isn’t usually my thing and I’m afraid I’ll be disappointed. But this is, to me, one of the great songs ever.

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    dr. luba

    Love, love, love this song. Heard it once several years ago and had to track it down. Found it on a roots collection, and played it so much I know every note by heart. Not sure why, but this song is hypnotically attractive.

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    RossInDetroit

    Brett and Rennie Sparks must be seen live to be appreciated. American Gothic at its weirdest and most compelling.

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    Winston Smith

    This is a great song, but I think Metric’s “Grow Up and Blow Away” is more poetic. It’s something about the combination of a sweet-sounding song and really depressing lyrics.

    On YouTube.

    If she weren’t writing in blood
    She’d bring him her jokes
    A new liver
    And a shovel for the mud
    If he were not knee-deep in mud
    He’d bring her his drugs
    He’d get her a typewriter

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    Tom Hilton

    My first thought was that the redwood forest wouldn’t have “giant dripping leaves”–dripping, sure, but Sequoia sempervirens is a conifer, and not so much with the leaves, much less giant ones. Then I thought yeah, but there could be understory stuff like laurel that has good-sized leaves (and we can chalk up “giant” to poetic license). So I guess it’s okay.

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