Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Republicans in disarray!

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Let there be snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The revolution will be supervised.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

After roe, women are no longer free.

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  1. 1.

    gene108

    I wonder how many male college Republicans have, do, or wish to engage in sex with “sex-crazed” co-eds on their campus?

    Of that group, how many want to marry said “sex-crazed” co-ed and/or father children with said “sex-crazed” co-ed?

    I’m guessing many want to get laid, few want to wait to get married and most don’t want to be someone’s baby-daddy.

    Amazing how the crazies have full control over the Republican Party, to the detriment of the Party rank-and-file.

  3. 3.

    Frankensteinbeck

    ‘Want’? Yes. ‘Have been avoiding because it’s electoral poison?’ Also yes. This is Obama’s ultimate political martial arts move, driving his opponents so mad with hate that they do something stupid. And then something stupider. And then something stupider than that…

  4. 4.

    Soonergrunt

    You have to remember, Doug, that they aren’t reaching for the under-25 set. Hell, they’re not even reaching for the under-30 set. But this plays well with their last constituency, older white people, and particularly older white men. The slut shaming goes to the whole “society is on the verge of collapse due to the libertine morals of the younger generation/minorities/women voting/etc, zomg!” thing that culture warriors thrive on. Since they see themselves as the last bastion of all that’s decent, this kind of thing will play well. Bonus points because it allows them to moralize about the younger generations without having to deal with the fact that their granddaughters are part of that generation. They are protecting their precious, innocent little girls from sluts and whores like that, after all.

    I’d also note that any young people who are voting republican at this point are people who were ALWAYS going to vote republican.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary

    @gene108:

    I wonder how many male college Republicans have, do, or wish to engage in sex with “sex-crazed” co-eds on their campus?

    Well, if any of them resemble a chunky Reese Witherspoon, their, umm, spoons will wither …

  6. 6.

    cathyx

    It seems that it’s all sex all the time with republicans these days. Is this how they get their jollies?

  7. 7.

    PeakVT

    If the Republicans want to take a stand that basically alienates every woman who ever had sex outside of marriage, I’m good with that.

  8. 8.

    Violet

    OT: Someone may need to check on Cole

    The Pittsburgh Steelers have decided to release wide receiver Hines Ward after 14 seasons.

    Link

  9. 9.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    I’m a little bit surprised about the wingnut freak-out against Sandra Fluke.

    I’m not. It’s what they do. Someone spoke out in public against their craziness, and this is what follows. It’s worse when the speaker is a woman or nonwhite, of course.

  12. 12.

    Short Bus Bully

    I fully support getting more “sex crazed coeds” into the news. This will be right up there with REEFER MADNESS! if the GOP continues down this alley.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Mary

    Aaaaaand — Mitt supports the Blunt bill.

    The Blunt amendment, which is scheduled for a Senate vote on Thursday, would permit employers to deny coverage of birth control or other services they deem morally objectionable.
    __
    Romney’s position had been brought into doubt after tweets from a local TV station reporter suggested the candidate had objected to the proposed bill. The candidate’s campaign released a statement saying, “Regarding the Blunt bill, the way the question was asked was confusing.”
    __
    To clear up any confusion, Romney himself weighed in, telling radio host Howie Carr, “I didn’t understand the question. Of course, I support the Blunt amendment. I thought he was talking about some state law that prevented people from getting contraception.”
    __
    But team Obama didn’t buy his explanation, accusing him of a “flip-flop” and fiercely denouncing his ultimate position.
    __
    “In one hour, Mitt Romney showed why women don’t trust him for one minute. It took little more than an hour for him to commit his latest flip-flop. Even worse, he ended up on the wrong side of an issue of critical importance to women,” said Stephanie Cutter, the deputy campaign manager of Obama For America.
    __
    Cutter said Romney is “in a race to the bottom with Rick Santorum to see who can pander most to the far right-wing.”

    Shorter Mitt: “I was for roundheeled sluts before I was against them.”

  17. 17.

    Jager

    These bastard’s forefathers were the reason “For Prevention of Disease Only” was printed on Army issue rubbers during WW2.

  18. 18.

    Violet

    do Republicans really want to campaign against sex-crazed co-eds?

    Well of course they do. Just like they campaign against The Gays, all while having secret gay sex with various guys they meet on Craigslist, like when CPAC is in town.

    What they say and what they do are not the same thing. They’re happy to sleep with sex-crazed co-eds, those that aren’t secretly gay anyway, but they won’t admit it in public.

  20. 20.

    gene108

    @Soonergrunt:

    You have to remember, Doug, that they aren’t reaching for the under-25 set. Hell, they’re not even reaching for the under-30 set. But this plays well with their last constituency, older white people, and particularly older white men.

    I’d go with the under-60 crowd. Folks born after 1952, were 18 by 1970 and probably were on the vanguard of getting their freak on outside of marriage.

    Sure some of them are rabid right-wingers, who just hate Obama to be haters, but there’s probably a large chunk of them that remember screwing around in the 1970’s.

    If their male, they may have daughters and realize the problems daddy’s little girl will have. If their women, they probably realize how bad this would be for most other women.

  23. 23.

    pragmatism

    said the same thing in cole’s thread. the anti-slut platform is not a winner. because i’m a complete and total hypocrite, i’m objectively pro-slut until my daughter becomes of age a teenager a tween a pre-teen wait, let me think about this some more.

  24. 24.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @Maude: Betcha old white man dream of sexy college girls.

    They do indeed, or should I say, *we* do. (though I’m not all that old yet.) There are different responses to it, though – I’d say most commonly nostalgia and bitterness, and either is possible whatever the interaction you had with “co-eds” in your youth. It’s all about how healthy your attitude is today.

  26. 26.

    butler

    I’m a little bit surprised about the wingnut freak-out against Sandra Fluke.

    You are? In the past month these people have come out against birth control, college educations and the freaking Girl Scouts. Targeting an actual liberal woman who dared to contradict them in public was an easy call for them.

  27. 27.

    WyldPirate

    If you outlaw sex-crazed co-eds…

    College Republican males will fulfill Rick Santorum’s greatest fear and resort to man-on-dog action?

  34. 34.

    Davis X. Machina

    Nookie is a positional good, one whose value is mostly (if not exclusively) a function of its ranking in desirability by others, and one that cannot be created, only redistributed, in opposition to material goods, which can be created with time and effort.

  37. 37.

    pragmatism

    @John Cole: i know he doesn’t have as much history as ward, but will you be upset if m. wallace goes in free agency? i know i would be. he can come to my donkeys and not catch many balls from timmy tebow if he wants.

  38. 38.

    patrick II

    Cole yesterday:

    C’mon, wingnuts, quit nancying around and just call them sluts.

    DougJ today:

    I’m a little bit surprised about the wingnut freak-out against Sandra Fluke.

    Master Kan (to Cain)

    When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave.

  40. 40.

    hrprogressive

    These are the same people who rail against homosexuality like it is literally destroying the planet, and then come back from exotic vacations with “rentboys” or they were outed doing coke off a male hooker’s ass or something.

    So the idea that these lunatics would campaign on a “Sex = Bad” platform in 2012…really doesn’t surprise me.

    I think they’re in for a rude awakening if that’s the case.

  42. 42.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Linda Featheringill:
    There’s something to that. My father is of the tea party generation and has had long-time friends that turned to its madness. He claims that they’re angry because they’re the generation that saw the hippies, Vietnam, and especially the end of segregation in their formative period. They felt helpless in a world where the rules were yanked out from under them and bad people (you know, like blacks) were rewarded and praised. This anger has festered in them their entire life, and it’s finally being vented without control. The sexual revolution IS one of the ways the world left them behind forty years ago.

    EDIT – Note that he has no sympathy for this hate, it’s only what he sees going on in people that he’s known since way back then. Trying to talk sense into them led him very quickly to the discovery that they’re not interested in sense. They’re just angry, and anything they say is the result of that anger, not the cause.

  49. 49.

    danimal

    Just so we’re clear, contraceptives are used by a wider variety of women than “sex-crazed coeds”, right? As is, a married woman, a virgin or an ‘irregular’ woman (sorry-don’t have the right medical terminology down) may need contraceptives alongside the “sex-crazed coeds.”

    And the GOP is calling them all sluts. Brilliant politics.

  54. 54.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    So these teaparty puritans were left out of the fun and games of the 60s and 70s? I don’t remember there being that many of our peers who held themselves aloof from it all.

    Of course, they might have been there and I just didn’t even see them. Which is one reason they’re angry.

  55. 55.

    cathyx

    @Frankensteinbeck: I read a response to all this madness that is based on men losing control of women when birth control became available. When women didn’t have birth control, they needed men to help financially when they had children. When women started using birth control, that opened up huge opportunities for women to not marry or to not be straddled down with many children.

  59. 59.

    Mike in NC

    @butler:

    In the past month these people have come out against birth control, college educations and the freaking Girl Scouts.

    Can GOP talk about enacting “Prohibition v2.0” be far behind? After all, their nominee will be a Mormon teetotaler, and it was such a huge success before!

  60. 60.

    Geoduck

    @Mike in NC:

    Can GOP talk about enacting “Prohibition v2.0” be far behind?

    We’ve already got it, with drugs, especially marijuana. The same old beats, right down the line. People go right on using it, criminals make all the profits and law-enforcement runs amok.

  61. 61.

    Jager

    @Raven: Back in the “Good Old Days” of the fifties my little home town dumped raw sewage in the river. My grade school pals and I canoed past one of the outlet pipes and we were surrounded by a sea of rubbers. No wonder my Mom was so adamant about not swimming in the river!

    Pro Kits are still available for collectors,
    http://www.hayesotoupalik.com/images/DSCF1198.jpg
    Along with various assortments of rubbers-for the prevention of disease only!

  63. 63.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    to be fair, there is no prejudice against the doors that can be considered irrational. if you heard them for the first time today(i know its impossible with all the ceaseless boomer nostalgia) you would have to think they were a parody band along the lines of weird al yankovic.

  68. 68.

    Violet

    @Jager:
    I had no idea those even existed. Once you think about it it’s obvious, but I guess I’d never thought about it. Fascinating.

  73. 73.

    Laura

    @danimal: That’s something I pointed out elsewhere. I’m hearing a lot of anger from women, and I think a lot of it has to do with the married, heterosexual, “good” women realizing that the GOP thinks their sluts. And that’s pissing off a lot of women who wouldn’t necessarily get involved in feminist issues.

  75. 75.

    Schlemizel

    @gene108:
    Born in 52 myself – didn’t get laid until I was 21 – not from lack of trying but nerd is a powerful copulation prevention device. Yet I some how do not hold it against college age girls today or expect them to be any less interested in recreational entertainment of the physical variety than the boys.

  76. 76.

    Soonergrunt

    @Linda Featheringill: Not exactly–just that it plays well with the old white conservative crowd that has checkbooks.
    There’s also the younger conservative male set who get to pass judgement on the women who aren’t having sex with them, as well as the younger conservative female set who are primarily interested in slut shaming the young women who are having more fun than they are.
    But yes, it’s primarily playing to older males.

  78. 78.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Frankensteinbeck: But most of them were involved in, or at least dreamed about, things that involved a pair of fur lined handcuffs, two goats, three cocker spaniels, and a cattle prod wielding little person in a gimp suit.

  80. 80.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    do Republicans really want to campaign against sex-crazed co-eds?

    Next best thing to bombing third world peeps.

  81. 81.

    Citizen_X

    Consider who’s leading the Anti-Sex Brigade: whiny, sanctimonious little Ricky Sexfroth, the Altar Boy-Buggering Conspiracy, and Rush Fucking Limbaugh. In other words, some of the most repulsive specimens of rightwing maledom available. And they’re going to go to war against the purported “sex-crazed coeds?” Good fucking luck, losers.

  82. 82.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @SenyorDave:
    Yep. You practically quoted him. They’re living in the world they were warned about growing up, where a black man can be your boss (and the president, EVERYBODY’S boss!) and gays serve openly in the military, and young women run around wearing skin-tight pants with bare midriffs, and those are the modest ones, not the rebels! And if you accuse someone of communism, nobody younger than you gives a flying fuck anymore! They’re completely freaking out.

  84. 84.

    Schlemizel

    @Marcellus Shale, Public Dick:
    No, I think The Doors would fit right into the emoprog stuff with just a few adjustments.

    I happen to think People Are Strange does a pretty good job of mixing music and words to create a mood. Light My Fire was raw sex in a way that was not common before.

  85. 85.

    The Moar You Know

    I’m not sure how generational this is. I came of age in the eighties. I think it’s the same everywhere, every time. There are plenty of dumb motherfuckers, you all know ’em, who can’t get laid to save their lives. Sure as shit, you look at those strangely pathetic men and women now and they vast majority of those are now Republicans.

  87. 87.

    Egg Berry

    Wow. Check this out at Lawyers, Guns and Money:

    The dice recommends where partners should caress or kiss each other, if they have run out of ideas in their long marriages. (Hands, as scandalous as that is, is one of the recommendations.)
    __
    Customers can buy the dice separately, or in a “romantic evening package” that comes with raunchy underwear, massage oil and a book called “Theology of the body – blessed by John Paul II.”

    There’s much more at the link.

  88. 88.

    Soonergrunt

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well, and I want EVERYBODY to know that I am ONLY GUESSING here, but when I was a surgical tech, I wore size 8 gloves on top (outside) of 8.5 gloves. Since my glove size was right about an 8, putting the smaller gloves on second made both pairs easier to get on and also made them fit very snugly which made for better tactile feedback. This was common practice amongst thos of us who had to put latex (gloves) on a lot.
    Perhaps, and again, I’m ONLY GUESSING you fricking pervs, but that might have something to do with it.

    Also too, it’s your misfortune to be newly single right as the economy is improving in an election year, and hating on the ghey isn’t working for them anymore.

  89. 89.

    RossInDetroit

    I’m a little bit surprised about the wingnut freak-out against Sandra Fluke.

    The question this raises is how do we get them to do it a lot more. This is poison for the GOP and they just can’t stay away from it. How can we get them to double down, amp up and crank the slut shaming to 11? They’re completely out of control and all they need is a red cape waved in front of them to go galloping off a cliff at top speed.

    It’s marvelous.

  90. 90.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    @Schlemizel:

    i have trouble imagining the doors fitting in with the metal side of emo, i could see them going more in a fleet foxes direction.

  93. 93.

    Shana

    @pragmatism: I graduated high school in 1977, so I was right in the middle of all that fun, pre-AIDS, and had at least my share of sex. What I’ve told my daughters, both now in college, is that no matter how casual you think it is, sex always means more than you think it does. That, and several conversations over the years about sex and relationships, has given them what I think is a more measured attitude about sex than I had at their age.

  94. 94.

    RossInDetroit

    @Shana:

    I graduated high school in 1977, so I was right in the middle of all that fun,

    Also class of ’77. It used to be you could tell a lot about a person by how old they were in 1967. If you were 17 to 22 years old the Summer of Love probably hit you pretty hard one way or the other. I don’t think there’s been a comparable breakthrough event that defines a generation (or part of a generation) since.

  95. 95.

    RossInDetroit

    @Egg Berry:

    Stand aside and watch. Seriously, you think Prick Sanatorum and Rush Limpballs need a push?

    They’re so completely out of control I was hoping Obama or someone would come out in support of contraception and make all their crania explode. Some of them have gone so nuts there’s no turning back.

  102. 102.

    pragmatism

    @Shana: Excellent advice. Thanks. My wife and I spoke about it and she put me at ease as she already had a plan along the lines that you mentioned. Have a good night!

  103. 103.

    danielx

    Given various articles I’ve read over the past few years, wingnut and fundie attitudes towards sex are something strange anyway. You know – wetsuits, wide stances, Senators wearing diapers, crystal meth and rentboys, all that good shit. So their freaking over the prospect of young women having non-procreational sex, and worse, having the audacity to actually enjoy it….is pretty standard.

  104. 104.

    Pseudonym

    People, people, people. You are all misunderstanding this. It’s not that sex is bad. It’s that free sex is bad. You have to be punished in one way or another: unwanted children, STDs, birth control prescriptions, bar fines, escort fees, loveless dead-end marriages, rape…

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