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

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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  3. 3.

    Mark S.

    Is Michele Bachmann gunning for Secretary of State?

    Why would you normalize trading with a country that sponsors terror? There’s reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you’re 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don’t want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. This would be foolish.

    If any of that made sense, it would be terrifying.

  5. 5.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Mark S.:

    And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran

    Is this like a missile co-op or something?

    “You can use the missiles, but only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and every third Saturday.”

  7. 7.

    JPL

    @Mark S.: omg…

    If in fact there is a nation who is compliant with all of the rules ahead of time and they’ve complied with the United Nations on nuclear proliferation, if they fire against the United States a biological weapon, a chemical weapon or maybe a cyber attack, well then we aren’t going to be firing back with nuclear weapons,” Bachmann said. “Doesn’t that make us all feel safe?“

  8. 8.

    beltane

    @Mark S.: Is she saying that missile sites in Iran are now only 90 miles from Florida because Cuba is also 90 miles from Florida, and there might be Muslims in Cuba which would bring Iran and its missile sites there?

    Also, can Michele Bachmann see Ahmadinijad from her bedroom window?

  9. 9.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Related to recent discussions about voting machines and the protests on Wall Street, the NYT has what is actually a pretty good article about global disenchantment: As scorn for vote grows, protests surge around the globe. (I posted this below in the voting thread, but it’s worth trying to catch more eyeballs – beats anything the Mustache of Understanding has written in years)

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    PurpleGirl

    Geographical nit pick — Cuba is not 90 miles off mainland Florida. It’s 90 miles off Key West/the Florida Keys, an archipelago which lies south and west of the mainland.

  12. 12.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Alex S.: possibly related, but I really wish there was a way to see the artist/song of youtube video people were linking to. first, i don’t want to get rickrolled, but second, it would be nice to know what genre you’re about to be listening to, or if it’s going to be a speech by some politician, whatever.

    That’s not a gripe, necessarily, but, well, i guess it is. :)

  14. 14.

    Svensker

    Mistermix, look what you’ve done to that nice Finnish couple. They would NEVER listen to music like that. We Scandihoovians are yust insulted.

  16. 16.

    Punchy

    Geographical nit pick—Cuba is not 90 miles off mainland Florida. It’s 90 miles off Key West/the Florida Keys, an archipelago which lies south and west of the mainland.

    Goddammit, I come here to swear and see what Sullivan thinks, not to learn stuff. But learn stuff I just did.

  22. 22.

    peach flavored shampoo

    But:

    If the US had a Cabinet post for Secretary of Dog-catching whistling, Michele Bachmann wouldn’t be is very qualified

  23. 23.

    Senyordave

    @Ash Can: Tonight is the start of Rosh Hashannah which leads into Yom Kippur. If anyone ever needed to forgiveness it would Eric Cantor. I’m Jewish, but if cantor represented jaudaism I would no longer be Jewish.

  27. 27.

    Amir Khalid

    Saw Johnny English Reborn today. Stars Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English. Most entertaining movie I’ve ever seen of its kind — think of a James Bond/Mr Bean mash-up. I never laughed this hard at any 007 movie. Oh yeah, it also has Gillian Anderson in it, and she’s very very British, so that’s a bonus.

  28. 28.

    JGabriel

    When’s the next GOP Presidentin’ Debate?

    I think we need a list of possible offensive audience reactions for placing bets. For instance, at the next debate will the audience applaud:

    1) Police macing young women just for the hell of it?
    2) Torture?
    3) Taser abuse?
    4) Shout out “Let the bitch die!” in response to a question about back-alley abortions?
    5) Boo a black fireman who asks a question about unions?
    6) Boo an eight year old girl who asks a youtube question in Spanish?

    And so on …

    .

  29. 29.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Senyordave: #22

    I’m Jewish, but if cantor represented jaudaism I would no longer be Jewish.

    I understand that. I was raised a southern fundamentalist and I sure as hell don’t want some of those guys to represent me!

    [I now classify myself as a spiritual agnostic: Something probably exists but I don’t know what it is.]

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @PurpleGirl:

    Geographical nit pick—Cuba is not 90 miles off mainland Florida. It’s 90 miles off Key West/the Florida Keys, an archipelago which lies south and west of the mainland.

    Michele saw Cuba from the condo she and Marcus rented on Key West one year

  32. 32.

    FlipYrWhig

    @JGabriel: It’ll get super M.C. Escher-level meta. At a future debate one of the moderators will ask about outbursts from the audience at previous debates, whereupon the audience will explode in a pandemonium of booing and threatened violence that puts Philadelphia football crowds to shame.

  34. 34.

    singfoom

    I’m convinced that Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is brilliant marketing and that he will win more straw poll / crazy debates.

    The plan will also destroy the economy, but I’m just a librul soshalist or something anyways.

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne

    Does anyone else have a feeling that Bachmann fell asleep halfway through Thirteen Days and mistook the resulting dream for reality?

    I think that happens to Bachmann a lot, frankly.

  38. 38.

    Ash Can

    @harlana: What slays me is that it’s aid requested for the earthquake. Not to belittle the pain-in-the-ass nature of having to fix a house that’s been declared structurally unsound, but at least the damned thing didn’t burn up or float the hell away.

  40. 40.

    JGabriel

    @FlipYrWhig:

    At a future debate one of the moderators will ask about outbursts from the audience at previous debates, whereupon the audience will explode in a pandemonium of booing and threatened violence that puts Philadelphia football crowds to shame.

    I don’t think we could actually get the GOP debate audiences to boo Santa Claus and throw snowballs at him.

    But we might be able to get them to applaud video of a snake eating a puppy, if we told them the snake belongs to David Koch and the puppy is Nancy Pelosi’s.

    .

  44. 44.

    FlipYrWhig

    @JGabriel: Santa Claus is a blatant social engineer. No free toys just because the kid is “good.” Stop picking winners and let the market decide!

  46. 46.

    joes527

    @singfoom: OK. Ignore EVERYTHING else about 9-9-9. 9% federal sales tax? How does he see that working? Federal + State + local sales tax adds up to 20+% Or is he just assuming that the States and cities can just suck it?

    I am not fundamentally opposed to a Federal sales tax, but without addressing what total sales taxes add up to, and what this does to states and cities … this is just a shell game.

  47. 47.

    JGabriel

    Hey, wasn’t Sarah Palin supposed to announce whether she would join the presidential race by the end of September?

    Palin, who has said she plans to make a decision about the race by late September, will not announce a presidential bid Saturday.

    Guess that late September decisioning that was supposed to happen didn’t. What a shocker.

    ETA: @hilts: Thank you.

    .

  49. 49.

    singfoom

    @joes527: Oh sure, I think it’s complete bullshit, and it makes no sense. All I’m saying is that it’s brilliant marketing, like BUY 1 GET 1 FREE.

  50. 50.

    peach flavored shampoo

    Michele saw Cuba from the condo she and Marcus rented on Key West one year

    I believe her husband Marcus would feel riiiiiiight at home in Key West, if ya know what I mean.

  52. 52.

    geg6

    Had a very successful evening going door to door for America Works (the real name is America Wants To Work; had to change it from the original because there’s some corporation called “America Works,” but we still use it when talking because it’s easier to say and more succinct). We were in my own area in suburban Pittsburgh, a community that sees itself as “aspirational” and solidly middle to upper middle class (and not the GOP’s or media’s definition of those). Amazingly, these people were eager to sign our petition to Congress and a large percentage were willing to sit there and hand write a letter to our congresscritter while we (my college-age partner in the endeavor) waited. Spent 3 1/2 hours, went to 40 homes, got 36 signatures, and were asked into 22 to explain what we were doing with 20 of those writing letters.

    All I can say is that I’ve canvassed and phone banked for candidates every election since 1976. This is one of the most favorable receptions I’ve ever received. I was amazed. I talked to some about the Wall Street protest and showed them some stuff about that on my iPhone. Can’t say that anyone was interested. Their take was similar to mine. It’s very nice and all that young people are getting involved, but doesn’t seem very effective. They, like me, think letters to congresscritters and voting in 2012 were much more effective and realistic ways to effect change that will actually make middle class and working class lives better. They all wished them well, though. Several, happily, did mention WI and OH, though. People are paying attention. Even the ones who are currently comfortable seem to be very aware that their situations could turn on a dime. And the American Jobs Act was VERY popular, as was the Buffet Rule. Very.

  55. 55.

    singfoom

    @geg6:
    Thank you for all your hard work on America Works.

    One can simultaneously support the crowds out in NYC and also support letter writing to your Congress people. I’ve even done it myself before. It’s not an either/or proposition.

  57. 57.

    scav

    And on other fronts, where are the nerds anxiously following the first shots in the < insert deep movie-voice-over voice >Great Tablet Wars that will outlast generations< /insert deep movie-voice-over voice >

  60. 60.

    burnspbesq

    @singfoom:

    Think for a second about how this is going to play out.

    The auctions will be rescheduled. Next time, there will be a police presence. Some unknown number of demonstrators will get beaten up or arrested, or both. And the auctions will proceed after the demonstrators are dispersed.

    Now tell me what has been gained.

  61. 61.

    geg6

    @singfoom:

    People like the unions around here. And this AFL-CIO effort is a good one. The letter writing was new wrinkle and just way better than just signing a petition. I’ve been surprised how many people are willing to do it if you ask them after explaining exactly why they should and how effective actual letters are with congresscritters. It was easy to get involved and they don’t ask a ton of my time (about once a month or so).

  62. 62.

    MikeJ

    @burnspbesq: What they should be doing is what was done during the dust bowl days. The neighbors would show up, bid one dollar, and if need be make sure that no outsiders were able to get close enough to bid. That actually accomplished something, at least for a little while.

  63. 63.

    burnspbesq

    It occurs to me that if I had enough money (raised, perhaps, through a MoveOn-style organization), I could show up at foreclosure auctions and bid, and if I were the successful bidder nothing would stop me from turning around and selling the house to the owner that was foreclosed for my cost, with me holding the loan.

    It’s a fucking inefficient way to modify mortgages, but as political action it has certain attractions.

  64. 64.

    singfoom

    @burnspbesq: People have spoken their mind in public about bullshit that is going on?

    If they’re willing to put themselves on the line, then bully for them.

    What’s the problem with it? What has been lost by them doing that? And why would you have a problem with them asserting their rights to assemble and speak their mind?

  67. 67.

    burnspbesq

    @MikeJ:

    The reason why my idea works and yours doesn’t is that mine doesn’t require people to be willing to go to jail in order to succeed.

  68. 68.

    joes527

    @MikeJ: yeah I saw that in a movie too. I have no idea whether that ever actually happened, but I the flaw with this plan is the terms of auctions in real life usually include minimum bids. That and the whole “make sure that no outsiders were able to get close enough to bid” thing.

    Good luck with that.

  69. 69.

    burnspbesq

    @singfoom:

    “why would you have a problem with them asserting their rights to assemble and speak their mind?”

    I don’t, but you and I both know that this is going to end up as a line from a Don Henley song.

  70. 70.

    singfoom

    @burnspbesq: Well, then let them do their thing. I don’t know how super effective it is, I’ll give you that, but I think doing anything at this point to say fuck you to the bankster class is a good thing.

    I can only hope it keeps spreading. You have people doing shit like this AND people working within the system as it stands, and something might actually move….

  71. 71.

    Suffern ACE

    @Mark S.: So Cuba is going to give over its sovereignty and risk having Hezbolla start a war with the US from Cuba. I’m imagining a meeting where Raul Castro says “This plan is crazy…but it just might work.”

  72. 72.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Linda Featheringill:

    The right wing is saying that Perry is a liberal? A closet liberal?

    I gather that was the point of Dickie Cohen’s column yesterday. Perry’s blithe indifference to whether or not one or two of 256 executions he’s overseen might have included a wrongly convicted person didn’t seem to affect Dickie’s belief that Perry has a big warm fuzzy secret heart.

  74. 74.

    piratedan

    differences between Republicans and Democrats: pithy saying No. 37…..

    Democrats believe that being elected to public office means that they are there to serve the people

    Republicans believe that being elected to public office means that the people are there to serve them.

  77. 77.

    Linda Featheringill

    @singfoom: #70

    I don’t know how super effective it is, I’ll give you that, but I think doing anything at this point to say fuck you to the bankster class is a good thing.

    I agree. And I’m pleased that the “kids” seem to have figured out who the enemy is. That is a start.

    And I suspect that this movement will point out to lots of young people the difference between the top 1% and the rest of us. Can’t hurt.

  78. 78.

    Svensker

    @Ben Cisco:

    Not that the GOP “Wanna Be Presidentin’ Express” needs any more clowns in the car, but they ought to take a look at this guy.

    He did the classic new non-apology though: “If anyone was offended by my remarks (of calling blacks “aborigines”) then I’m sorry.”

  79. 79.

    Calouste

    @Mark S.:

    I’m pretty sure someone on the Bachmann campaign just slightly rewrote an early 1960s speech about the Cuban Missile Crisis, slipped it into Crazy Eyes’ speech and is now ROFLMAO at the trick they pulled on her.

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