Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

The revolution will be supervised.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Not all heroes wear capes.

Let me file that under fuck it.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    but, but they said Knickers. Someone earlier posted this and I responded that what appalled me was the laughter when the hourly worker walked out. That was sick.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness and become and honorary black person?

    One word: Blackface.

  5. 5.

    beltane

    Isn’t that the sh*t? I’m not sure what is worse, the performers or the audience. Everything conservatives touch turns to a combination Lawrence Welk and Klan rally.

  7. 7.

    cathyx

    The saddest part of this is that they thought this was entertaining. They wrote it, practiced it, and figured out what to wear.

  9. 9.

    joel hanes

    You can do better than that.

    Read Black Like Me (1961 by John Howard Griffin) for pointers, and then stock up on hair dye and the required cosmetics.

    Along with Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, this is one of the books I think every white American should read.

  10. 10.

    Benjamin Franklin

    I admit. I am a self-loathing caucasian. As Geo Carlin said “Watch out for those blue eyes…”

  11. 11.

    Felinious Wench

    My friends in high school nicknamed me “Semi-White Girl.” An excellent compromise.

    As for these…things in the vague shape of humans…they’re escalating in desperation. They’re about to be irrelevant.

  14. 14.

    Fwiffo

    I saw the title of the video and decided that I just couldn’t click the play button. I’m sure it’s worse than I can imagine.

  16. 16.

    Mark B

    Well, it was amateurish, horribly written, kind of racist and the audience reaction was pretty shocking. The lady [at least I think it was a lady] with the fanny pack rocking out was pukeworthy.

    Now excuse me. I need to go gather all of my track suits and burn them.

  18. 18.

    beltane

    Wonkette is the place to go for CPAC news. They actually have someone there taking these videos. I hope this person is being well compensated because you couldn’t pay me enough to be in the same room as these people.

  20. 20.

    Mark B

    @Fwiffo: It’s worse than anyone who hasn’t watched it yet could imagine. You made a wise choice.

    But it’s just an awesome trainwreck of suck. You know you want to click it.

  23. 23.

    scav

    Not going to click. I’m already wrestling with the shame of being a biped. Phytoplankton are looking rather admirable at the moment.

  25. 25.

    Violet

    What in the world was that hot mess? The woman in the back rocking out is hilarious. WTF has she been smoking?

    There are only a handful of people in the room and most of them are videoing this disaster. Why? Why would anyone want to video this? And what’s the stuff being projected on the screen behind them? Is that an actual music video? WTF?

  33. 33.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The thing is, these people are so far in the bubble that they have no earthly idea how this plays outside of it.

    It only reinforces every stereotype that they’ve been sucked through the space-time continuum directly from the Nürnberg Zepplinplatz in 1934.

  36. 36.

    ruemara

    I love making the only black guy–who is just there doing his job–walk away in disgust. I’m sure he’s voting GOP this November. And, JC, speaking ex-cathedra, we are aware that most whities are decent folk. We just don’t want you dating our daughters. Or rapping.

  37. 37.

    gogol's wife

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    Oh God, now I have to go back and try again. The second time I made it to 1 minute 30 seconds. You’re telling me it gets more interesting at 1 minutes 50 seconds? At first I thought they were trying to look like Harpo Marx, and I was puzzling over the symbolism of that when I realized that they were 18th-century wigs. Then they started their “moves.” I’m no expert on rap, but don’t these moves date back to early Run-DMC or something?

  40. 40.

    uptown

    Thankfully, I’m really white. You get used to the hanger ons who wish they were.

    BTW: at least we don’t kill each other because of tribal connections like many races around the world are still doing.

  45. 45.

    Baron Jrod of Keeblershire

    I’ve heard better rapping on mid-80’s cereal commercials.

    The fucker just drones. Exact same cadence and tone and speed for every word of a verse. This is obviously one of those assholes who saw half of a Snoop Dogg video once, declared “That near’s just talking! Any idiot can do that. Moar liek -C-rap amirite?” to the guffaws of his dipshit friends.

    Well, now his ridiculous video stands as eternal proof that no, it’s not just talking. Unless you suck.

  46. 46.

    JPL

    @beltane: I’m with you. It would have been nice to see the audience walk out but I guess that only happens in the magic land of pixar films.

  47. 47.

    Chris

    Really looking forward to the next time I have to listen to one of them simper about how those mean liberals keep calling them raaacist…

  48. 48.

    FuriousPhil

    Couldn’t do it all the way through.

    I’m now going to refer to the GOP as the Insane Clown Posse. Keep an eye out for their next single “F***in Condoms, How Do They Work?” and “Whitey’s Out of Work.”

  52. 52.

    JPL

    I saw it earlier when a BJ poster linked to huffington..but you definitely need to watch where the camera man/light man/hourly worker walks out and the audience laughs. hahahaha..assholesassholesassholes

  55. 55.

    JPL

    @Donald G: you don’t have to bad white guys with wigs doing inane rap songs and a worker walked out and they laughed. end of story.
    bad white guys can offend folks cuz they think they can

  60. 60.

    johnsmith1882

    who was the target audience for this? red tracksuit:’hey, you know who would really appreciate a rap? a room full of racists, that’s who!’ blue tracksuit: ‘get the powdered wigs. let’s do this.’

  61. 61.

    Chris

    @JPL:

    you don’t have to bad white guys with wigs doing inane rap songs and a worker walked out and they laughed. end of story.

    A black worker walked out in disgust when they used the word “n*gg*r,” specifically. And they’re all like “ahhh, come on!” at him.

  64. 64.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Wow… I have to join John in being ashamed of lacking any skin pigment. Disgusting isn’t descriptive enough for those fucking racists.

    Keep it up you fucking racist crazies, you’re representin’ the right!!

    I can see why conservatives hate librul Hollywood, they don’t make the racist shit that entertains them. Conservatives really need to build their own version of Hollywood, preferably in the South.

    They can call it Holywood.

  65. 65.

    JPL

    @Chris: that’s what I heard but they are saying they said knickers. they are definitely assholes so we can agree on that. I can’t believe the audience laughed. OK..I can be a PollyAnna

    also,too..why the f..k didn’t one white folk walk out…

  68. 68.

    CaseyL

    Ya know, assholes are hard-working sphincters, doing what has to be the dirtiest job on the planet. They do so for our lifetime, rarely if ever complaining, asking only that we eat a lot of roughage every once in a while to clean the place out real good.

    I really think they deserve better than to be the word we use to describe those clueless, hapless, pretty much worthless honkies.

  69. 69.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Charlie Pierce is there and that’s exactly how he described it: “a bubble.”

    Believe me, as someone who lives in the second reddest county in Misery, these people *love* their bubble. They’re skeeeered of anything outside the bubble. My wife calls is a Reverse Brigadoon effect.

  75. 75.

    MikeJ

    @Quaker in a Basement:

    Where is Chuck Barris when we need him?

    Fuck that, where’s the guy with the broom? Rather than a gong I’d prefer them booted in grand Apollo tradition.

    In fact, I’d love to see them perform that at the Apollo.

  78. 78.

    Montysano

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    No, really, skip to about 1.50 or you aren’t appreciating the full horror.

    Did I hear “ni66er”? I’m pretty sure I did, but that can’t be right…

    ETA: and if I did hear what I think I heard, the next thought is: all the major GOP candidates are speaking at this thing. Fucking nauseating.

  79. 79.

    Chris

    @MikeJ:

    Blut und ehre?

    “Blood and honor. Which would you like to shed first?”
    “We were only following orders!”
    “Blood then.”

  80. 80.

    scav

    @uptown: Still doesn’t make any real difference, unless you think killing blood relatives (actual or fictive) because of religious pretenses makes it all explicable and civilized because that is what you’re dancing around. Ironic in this of all threads.

  82. 82.

    Heliopause

    Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness

    The notion of collective guilt is why such things as slavery and genocide have existed in the first place.

    Oh well, back to square one.

  83. 83.

    Cassidy

    @uptown: Skip the foreplay and innuendo, dude. Are you trying to make a comment regarding the racial inferiority of brown people or am I misunderstanding you.

  87. 87.

    Comrade Mary

    @jeffreyw: You know, I’ve always respected but rarely been knocked out by Springsteen. (I fully expect that if I had ever been smart enough to catch him on tour, things would be very, very different.) But, damn, that was a good song and video. Nothing like a sinewy 63 year old delivering a strong message with powerful images — and hook — attached.

  90. 90.

    tweez

    There’s a special, magic liquid that you can drink that’ll make all your memories of that video disappear completely. It’s called BLEACH.

  91. 91.

    Hill Dweller

    @Violet:

    What in the world was that hot mess? The woman in the back rocking out is hilarious. WTF has she been smoking?

    With a fanny pack on, no less.

  92. 92.

    CaseyL

    @MikeJ:

    MikeJ! Yutsano and I are agitatin’ for another Seattle BJ get together. You up for it?

    Any other Seattleites here interested?

  95. 95.

    ChrisNYC

    You apparently missed the documentary about the President that started with — NO KIDDING — African people playing drums. The narration was “His father came from Kenya with the desire to change America…”

    Repulsive but I do like to smile to think of these people being terrified of Barack Obama, Columbia and HLS, Chicago power broker, Senator, etc etc. Reminds me of the Wonkette post during 2008 where they wrote, “A picture has emerged of Barack Obama in the traditional dress of his tribe — khakis and a polo shirt.”

  98. 98.

    Montysano

    @hamletta:

    @Montysano: No, it was “knickers.”
    —
    Get it?
    —
    That’s what cracked up the whole room. Really!

    They’re soooo close; they wanna say it so bad… and they will soon, I think. Gawd, what a freak show.

  99. 99.

    ABL

    Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness and become an honorary black person?

    I’ll bring it up at the next meeting.

  103. 103.

    beergoggles

    Too late, but u can celebrate the browning of America. I’m just bummed I was born half a century too early.

  105. 105.

    J.W. Hamner

    I don’t even like pro-basketball, nor NYC sports teams, but I feel like we should all try to become honorary Asians for Jeremy Lin.

    Though I admit there is some strong irony about people marveling at a Harvard grad making good. Thank the FSM that his basketball ability saved him from the investment banking hell hole!

  111. 111.

    boss bitch

    Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness and become an honorary black person? Something like a reverse racial draft?

    There are a couple of slots available: Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain’s.

  113. 113.

    middlewest

    A room full of white people shouting “knicker” at the only black guy really is the perfect distillation of everything conservatives think humor is.

  115. 115.

    celticdragonchick

    Charles at LGF is closely monitoring the outright racism at CPAC.

    Rick Santorum’s Dinner With a White Nationalist
    Racism goes mainstream in the GOP

    New polls show that Rick Santorum is now the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination.

    And today, Rick Santorum had dinner with an overt white nationalist. I wish I was kidding about this. The Republican Party is openly legitimizing white nationalism at CPAC; this is the year that overt racism went mainstream in the GOP.
    Bob Vandervoort, director of ProEnglish, is the former leader of Chicagoland Friends of the American Renaissance, an absolutely open white supremacist group that often held meetings with the Council of Conservative Citizens.

    I’m just stunned, really. The Republican Party is crossing the Rubicon at this year’s CPAC, dropping all the masks and proudly associating with the absolute dregs of America’s racist underground. Bad, bad craziness is loose.

  117. 117.

    Jimbo316

    @joel hanes: I was required to read “Black Like Me” as part of my high school curriculum (Pittsburgh). We live in a far different and more conservative era than the middle-late Sixties, in some ways. An amazing journey that book is.

  118. 118.

    ramalamadingdong

    I think a memo needs to be distributed to white peoples: whenever you think it is a good idea to “rap” at a gathering, it never is. Never. Unless your name is Marshall Mathers.

    This scene could be any annual or quarterly meeting at any corporation in the world. Happens all the time. And the white peoples think it is hilarious and innovative – every time.

  120. 120.

    JPL

    OT…Laura started us with Charlie’s Angels and she hasn’t posted recently. I would love to get in touch with her though. I need a dog sitter in Hendersonville if you are still around.

  121. 121.

    inthewoods

    As a white person who has been involved, from the production and performance side, in hip-hop for over 10 years – I can say that this is why I don’t tell any white people that I’m involved in hip-hop. Usually, when I mention it, I’m treated to some bad human beat-boxing followed by turning of a baseball cap sideways and crossing one’s arms while standing in a wide stance. It’s amazing.

    Now, all that being said, that shit is seriously horrible, and further prove that conservative don’t understand anything about humor or art. Painful. I do find it amazing that conservative attempt to use an art form which is so against everything they stand for. As a friend of mine once rapped “Who’d have ever thought you’d see white supremacists fight to be free men?”

    http://youtu.be/cV5WMeFDT_4

  123. 123.

    lamh35

    @ABL: @SiubhanDuinne:

    The BlackSnob called is “S.C.A.N”. She of course means it as snark, but it was delicious to read…

    WHO WE ARE

    …The Secret Council of American Negroes was founded in 1865 by former slave and American abolitionist, “The Lion of Anacostia,” Frederick Douglass. . Douglass is the preeminent, final word in Black American History. His life story is legend. And he believed in freedom for all. The motto of his newspaper, The North Star, was “Right is of no Sex — Truth is of no Color — God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.”

    Douglass formed SCAN at the end of the Civil War after President Lincoln’s assassination. The group was to be a secret shadow organization meant to monitor and promote black progress. Through money, guidance and education, SCAN has worked as an invisible hand setting the black agenda, guiding former slaves to salvation in fruitful, productive lives…

  126. 126.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Keith:

    You gotta wear shades? Or is the smelling of the chemicals?

    I’m mixing my 80’s pop references here, but y’all can figure it out, I’m sure…

  132. 132.

    Chris

    @celticdragonchick:

    I gotta say, if you’d asked me ten years ago which of those freaks was going to repent and come over to our side, Charles Johnson would not have been it. But hey, glad he saw the light.

  133. 133.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @celticdragonchick: Actually you are just seeing a taste of the future GOP. As the White race increasingly becomes a minority in a few decades. The GOP will become like the Afrikaner Nationalist Party of South Africa, a party dedicated to preserving White Heritage. You got National Alliance type infiltrating Young Conservative groups. Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance is the Stalking Horse that will take over the GOP.

  134. 134.

    JPL

    Since we don’t do open threads anymore, I’ll just cry my story.. My ex-step-mother-in-law is dying at the ripe age of 91. She had tia’s but that is not what is causing her demise. She refuses to be spoon fed. Sometimes it is just ready to say goodbye. Ten years ago after her back surgery, I stayed with her. I did the normal stuff, baths, wash, and food. Why putting away the laundry I found a gun. Of course that is a surprise in a house hold without guns so I ASKED her about it. She was so afraid of becoming her mother be kept alive with tubes that she was prepared.
    Now the gun was not for her because she had a magic potion but it for her dog. This is what I said..”F..k..put the dog in the vet and if you don’t pick her up, I will..
    Moral of the story is Marge we love you and we are so glad you are planning your own demise.

  135. 135.

    Polar Bear Squares

    Two things that tend to not go so well. Christian rappers (although PM Dawn did have some cool tracks but they don’t count cause they were DFBH — dirty fucking black hippies) and … conservative rappers.

    It’s like Australian country singers, permed out smoothed jazz artists and lip-synching pop stars. It’s bad. It’s always bad. It is absolute. It will never change.

    I had plenty of professors in college who thought hip-hop was a fad and lacked merit. I was always respond if it’s so easy why can’t you do it?

    Sigh. As if the tea party wasn’t lame and white enough …

  136. 136.

    different-church-lady

    I know this is hard for some white people to believe, but not all white people are alike.

  137. 137.

    Mark B

    @Linda Featheringill: I can understand the lyrics better on that rendition, but the why is the part which is hardest to comprehend. That’s a much better executed version, and they do a creditable job of imitating someone who can actually rap, kind of like a much less talented Weird Al. But the guys look like suck, and the other people appearing in the video look fucked up and bored. Hint: women in rap videos are supposed to be attractive. And ‘Glitches’? Srsly? That shit is wack.

  138. 138.

    BonnyAnne

    @CaseyL:

    I am, absolutely, at least in theory! In reality, I’m half-terrified of the idea of meeting people in meatspace, but hey. Isn’t that what the booze is for?

  139. 139.

    Cat Lady

    There’s something seriously wrong with these people. They’re occupants of humanity’s dead end, and good riddance to them.

  140. 140.

    JoyfulA

    John, do some genealogy. If you do enough genealogy, some real or rumored ancestor of color will turn up, and there’s your ticket out!

  141. 141.

    DanielX

    @beltane:

    And why not….I’ve always maintained that Lawrence Welk was really Martin Bormann with plastic surgery, taking revenge on the U.S. for winning WW2 by inflicting hideous champagne music upon us. Sounds right up the CPAC alley…

  142. 142.

    Ghost of Frank Zappa

    “Hey, you know something people? I’m not black but there’s a whole lotsa times I wish I could say I’m not white.”
    – The Mothers of Invention, “Trouble Every Day”, 1966

  143. 143.

    different-church-lady

    I realize not everyone can see it, but apparently Ron Paul has decided his new fund-raising slogan ought to make people think “There is no Paul but Paul.”

  147. 147.

    28 Percent

    I understand that the original script for John Adams included a Continental Congress Hip Hop number, basically an update of the song from the classic Broadway musical 1776, now entitled “Sit the Fuck Down, John,” but ultimately Paul Giamatti talked them into going in another direction.

    I’m becoming more and more convinced that the survival of the Republican party depends entirely on keeping most Americans completely unaware of what actually goes on in the Republican party. The freak flags, they are a’ flyin’…

  148. 148.

    beltane

    @JoyfulA: The best part of hanging around genetic genealogy forums are the white Southerners with their “Cherokee” ancestors who always, always turn out to have been African. Needless to say, most of them become quite nasty upon learning this; it doesn’t fit their narrative.

  149. 149.

    jrg

    That ‘nigger’ remark was staged. That scratch sound didn’t come from a real DJ using a real turntable.

  150. 150.

    Raven

    Trouble Every Day

    Frank Zappa 1966

    Hey, you know something people?
    I’m not black
    But there’s a whole lots a times
    I wish I could say I’m not white

    Well, I seen the fires burnin’
    And the local people turnin’
    On the merchants and the shops
    Who used to sell their brooms and mops
    And every other household item
    Watched the mob just turn and bite ’em
    And they say it served ’em right
    Because a few of them are white,
    And it’s the same across the nation
    Black and white discrimination
    Yellin’ “You can’t understand me!”
    ‘N all that other jazz they hand me
    In the papers and TV and
    All that mass stupidity
    That seems to grow more every day
    Each time you hear some nitwit say
    He wants to go and do you in
    Because the color of your skin
    Just don’t appeal to him
    (No matter if it’s black or white)
    Because he’s out for blood tonight

  151. 151.

    jenn

    @celticdragonchick: Yeah, he’s been doing a great job over there documenting the crazies. What I can’t understand is why haven’t I seen “REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES COURTING WHITE SUPREMACISTS” headlines in any mainstream media yet. Have I just missed them?

    I don’t want a “liberal” media, I just want a functioning one that realizes its mission is neither infotainment nor propaganda.

    Bastards.

  153. 153.

    Chris

    @jenn:

    I don’t want a “liberal” media, I just want a functioning one that realizes its mission is neither infotainment nor propaganda.

    No one wants a liberal media, except insofar as we want a media that reports the facts, and the facts have a tendency to confirm the liberal viewpoint.

  154. 154.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    OMG, the way Rachel ended her show today…lol! Go find it when it’s online, you have to see the end of the cocktail moment.

    There’s nothing like toasting the good things in America…

  155. 155.

    Cain

    @CaseyL:

    MikeJ! Yutsano and I are agitatin’ for another Seattle BJ get together. You up for it?

    Any other Seattleites here interested?

    What about a Portland Balloon-Juicers meet up? (I hate to use BJ, it isn’t something I want to advertise, people might look askance! ;)

  159. 159.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @jenn:

    I just want a functioning one that realizes its mission is neither infotainment nor propaganda.

    Their mission is to offer up ads to the widest audience they can find, no matter what content they must offer to lure that audience to.

    Never, ever forget that the audience is not the customer. The audience is the product that is sold.

  161. 161.

    Raven

    @Mattski: Probably the first rap song. It was written after Watts and I was in Inglewood when it went down and always remember it vividly.

  162. 162.

    CaseyL

    @MikeJ: @thalarctos: @BonnyAnne:

    Well, this weekend I’m already booked.

    How about next Saturday, at The Sazerac, downtown? Their happy hour runs 4 – 8, if we don’t mind boozing it up a little early. Let me know if that works for y’all, and what time we should meet.

    BonnyAnne: Some of us have already met in meatspace, and I can tell you we’re a very easy-going bunch.

    We’ll have to try roping in Yutsano, too.

  163. 163.

    Lyrebird

    @ruemara: WIN!

    Meself I am grateful to Weird Al (and Chamillionaire) for “white ‘n nerdy”… If in comes up in conversation where I work, though, I remind my students that I am ready to go to the mat to defend anyone else’s right to be as red ‘n nerdy, brown ‘n nerdy, etc etc as they like.

    Maybe this foul “performance” can become CPAC’s “m-c-c-” moment (like George Allen’s) and it will help them lose elections!

  164. 164.

    JPL

    When I moved to GA my neighbor was black and she was my friend. We went up to Forsyth County to see new houses cuz that’s what folks do.. We got lost and I had to go into a gas station for directions.. This was twenty years ago or more and I locked the doors of my car when I left.
    Moral of the story is that I protected her that story but they are big Repubs.

  165. 165.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Cain:

    Fuck! You guys have meetings??!

    How else do you think they formulate their agenda for world conquest? Through smoke signals?

  166. 166.

    inthewoods

    @beltane: Yeah I know but they’re still trying to use an art form I hold dear for something so completely ridiculous that I find it hard to hold down my dinner.

  167. 167.

    Tim in SF

    I can’t remember feeling more uncomfortable. I stopped it three different times before realizing I could watch it with the sound off.

    Sheesh. I may be white, but at least I’m GAY; I’m in a different world from those two fucking assholes.

  169. 169.

    Mike in NC

    CPAC is the annual convention for the fucking scum of the earth. How is that suddenly news to anybody?

  170. 170.

    Cain

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    How else do you think they formulate their agenda for world conquest? Through smoke signals?

    I need to get my indian brothers and get a meeting going.. you white people are on your own! We be meetin and doing that elephant god dance party thingee

  171. 171.

    SuzieC

    I love how the doughy white pantloads keep their large asses stuck in their seats, using their phones to participate in the “performance.” And the sole black guy leaves when they gleefully rap “niggers? Can we say Niggers?” That is pretty much the entire theme of the Republican Party in 2012. They want to be able to openly say the N-word and openly deny birth control to TEH sluts.

  173. 173.

    Montysano

    @celticdragonchick:

    Rick Santorum’s Dinner With a White Nationalist
    Racism goes mainstream in the GOP

    Santorum having dinner with someone like Bob Vandervoort is analogous to Obama having dinner with Farrakhan, but much worse, I think. Charles Johnson is dead on: it seems like a Rubicon moment.

  178. 178.

    honus

    @uptown: Uh, yeah, white Christian people don’t do that. Remind me of the last time a bunch of arabs or native americans or africans lined up and slaughtered each other by the hundreds of thousands or millions like white christian people who were essentially the same except for tribal differences like religion or language or customs did in the civil war. or WWI. or WWII.

  179. 179.

    BonnyAnne

    @CaseyL:

    shockingly, that’s the one day of the month I’m free :D And I’ve never been to Sazerac (Zig Zag is my stomping ground) so I’m up for the challenge. I may drag along my SO, though, just in case everyone else turns out to secretly be a Republican.

  184. 184.

    msskwesq

    @WereBear: I heard about the dating seminar on NPR this evening. One dating tip was to go to a gun range and practice shooting as a fun Valentine’s Day date. I kid you not!

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    piratedan

    @JPL: i’ve taken a few steps down that path, it’s why I now have four dogs instead of two. Also, hope you’ve contacted your local hospice group for help….

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    pragmatism

    That was staged. Poorly.
    I imagine that they’re congratulating themselves for executing their project and conclusively proving that “libruls are the real racists ’cause they took offense”. No really that’s their best idea. “No I didn’t say that. I clearly said knickers. It doesn’t even start with the same letter”. It’s not gonzo journalism to troll your own convention. Hunter thompson’s ghost wants to shoot himself out of another cannon after watching that.

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    Fwiffo

    Nope, not going to click it. I’ve gone this long without watching Star Wars Episode 3, revenge of Jar-Jar or whatever the fuck, I can not watch this too.

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    SmallAxe

    One of these douchebags is Dana Loesch’s, (of CNN “I’d drop trow and piss on the taliban too” fame) husband Chris. Classy couple right there folks.

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    SRW1

    That little gem jumped to the top of my growing collection of evidence that some people have a mutation in their embarrassment gene that renders it entirely non-functional.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    Nine seconds. I made through nine seconds and then I realized that I don’t want whatever happens on that video to haunt me for the rest of the day – or the rest of my life for that matter.

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    Another Halocene Human

    I love how they’re singing “America … don’t run away”. Kind of sums up most sane peoples’ reaction to White supremacists (almost wrote “whine supremacists”, same thing, really), not to mention how the majority of their attempted pickups go, also, too.

    Also how the dbag stage right tries to walk off flashing the peace sign but actually gives the crowd a two-fingered salute.

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