Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

This fight is for everything.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

In my day, never was longer.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Be a wild strawberry.

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  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    In the lined article they mention, “Darius Rucker is still around!” Since we were talking about the dBs lastnight (ok, I was, but there were a few others that lurve them) didja know Peter Holsapple plays/has played/will play/ will have played with him?

    Glad Duck Dunn, Steve Cropper, and the rest of the MGs getting some residuals on the playlist.

  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    What is it with Republican candidates and the failure to secure permission to use songs before blaring them at their rallies?

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne

    @dead existentialist:

    I think that’s the conclusion that pretty much every healthy adult comes to eventually. I worry more about the people who are still convinced their parents did absolutely everything right.

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    Yutsano

    I don’t know where the hell these people have been. Darius Rucker has been working out of Nashville for at least a couple of years. And the Hootie reunion keeps going the way of the Sasquatch, but it may yet happen.

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Any playlist that includes “Roll with the Changes” by REO Speedwagon, either sincerely or ironically, is a big load of fail. There are forces in the world with which one should not fuck about and things that one should just let rest.

  25. 25.

    GG

    I’m such a neo that I’m not sure if this will get me an “Oh, hey I’d forgotten that!” or banned, but in cheerful fuckit-ness, and because the Next commercial holiday* is already in the stores, I mention a song from ’08: “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama.”

    BJ seems to hate my links, but youtube.com/watch?v=EADUQWKoVek might get you to one version. The one I remember had music behind it, but the lyrics are super clear on this version.

    *I hope they haven’t invented another one lately.

  27. 27.

    Bruuuuce

    It’s sad to see the list include any U2 and no Woody Guthrie. That said, I guarantee it’s still light-years ahead of any honest Republican sountrack (i.e., one that represents their values and, if they have any, ideas).

  28. 28.

    lige

    Well at least the Republicans have Ted Nugent and Hank Williams Jr. – I wonder if anyone is playing the Nuge on the Michigan campaign trail?

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    @lige:
    Ted Nugent doesn’t seem like the Teabaggers’ kind of thing, music-wise. So I don’t know if his stuff is what Holy Shit Santorum would play to attract the crowds. A bit too wild, y’know?

    On the other hand, I’ve been listening to the songs off Wrecking Ball on the Springsteen outfit’s song-of-the-day streaming. So far, you could put pretty much any of those songs on the Obama playlist.

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    ds

    One of the stories in the BBC Panorama program Poor in America is about a ramusa.org/ expedition in Tennessee. As I saw the story of a person whose herniated abdomen was about to get gangrene and couldn’t affort to get an operation, I couldn’t help but think how these people incredibly always vote against their own interests.

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    samara morgan

    Tapper kinda skipped over ALL the bands that dissed Sarah.
    Bon Jovi, Survivor, Heart, Foo Fighters anmd the unkindest cut of all, Van Halen. Track Van Palin was NAMED after the band.
    In Game Change i wonder if they show the scene of a tearful Sarah refusing to read the headlines because she feared that yet another 80s hair band would shut her down.

  35. 35.

    boss bitch

    Pffffft….like any of you complaining about the list can come up with one where one group or another of Obama’s supporters wouldn’t also call it a fail.

    I’m being serious. I’ve seen the songs that some of you like.

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