Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

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

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Petty moves from a petty man.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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  3. 3.

    Poopyman

    This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco,
    this ain’t no fooling around
    No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,
    I ain’t got time for that now

  6. 6.

    c u n d gulag

    LOL!
    Ohio State Senator Nina Turner has introduced legislation to protect men, “the greatest gender.”

    http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/ohio-state-senator-nina-turner-introduces-l

    I don’t think it’s quite as good as my idea of what to do if a man wants to take some V*agra – which is to stick a catheter-camera up his johnson until it shows him his ball-sack, with all of those potential babies swimming around in them, and asking if he’s prepared to pay for them to be raised and educated if they “get lucky” like he’s hoping to – but it’s pretty damn good!

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    Tears of the Wingnut (warning: RedState link):

    I want to stress a few things at this point. I think nominating a man whose favorables in his party and outside it lie so far south of the Mendoza line is madness. No sane person thought John McCain would win in 2008 except for the brief interlude between Sarah Palin’s premature unveiling (screw you, Steve Schmidt) and Lehman Brothers. No sane person believes Mitt Romney will win the Presidency, but he at least has the comfort of absolute nuts believing in him who are not bound to him by genetic relation or marriage.
    __
    I am not a huge fan of Newt Gingrich — for reasons so numerous it would take me days to enunciate them all — nor of Rick Santorum, though I admire the latter’s ardent devotion to the pro-life cause. Both are fellow papists, but both are frankly awful politicians and simply have no chance to even win the nomination.
    __
    Ron Paul is a gibbering little Nazi.
    __
    Having said all of this, it’s time to understand that we are wasting resources hating each other over four men who in a just world would not be allowed near turpentine unsupervised, let alone near the nomination of one of our two major political parties. We are wasting goodwill, we are wasting enthusiasm, and every time Mitt Romney opens his mouth about anything, really, far too large a portion of our party suddenly asks why we’re nominating Barack Obama for the presidency.

    Can’t you just feel the enthusiasm?

  9. 9.

    The Dangerman

    When is International Men’s Day, you ask?

    March 14th. It involves a steak and … well, I’ll let you google the rest.

  11. 11.

    Hill Dweller

    At the International Women of Courage awards ceremony, presently being hosted by the First Lady and Sec Clinton, reproductive rights, and men’s attempts to curtail them, has been front and center.

  12. 12.

    El Tiburon

    When is International Man’s Day, you ask? Every day but March 8. Open thread.

    Reminds me of when my wife* used to go so upset at the BET channel.

    “Where is the WHITE Entertainment channel?”

    I’d tell her, “Change the channel. Do you see all of the other channels other than BET? That is your White Entertainment Channel. You got about 500 of them.”

    *Due to my intervention, the wife is a reformed Republican. Also, too, I converted another old girlfriend from a died-in-the-wool Bush Republican to a dirty fucking hippie liberal. In fact, when I met the ex-girlfriend, within minutes she professed her love for W. and asked if I was a “fucking liberal”. But I worked my liberal mojo on her and now she tears her old conservative friends new a-holes on the Facebook.

  15. 15.

    TooManyJens

    @dmsilev: Sarah Palin’s premature unveiling? Didn’t they announce her like three days before the convention? And does anyone whose mailing address ends in “Planet Earth” think that was the problem?

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    International Women’s Day — a day observed in many countries, but not the US, commemorating an event that took place…in the US.

    (Maybe we’d better not mention anything about IWD. It might spur GOP state governments across the nation to double down on the War on Women.)

  21. 21.

    Poopyman

    @dmsilev: Yeah, it’s RedState, but

    …four men who in a just world would not be allowed near turpentine unsupervised, let alone near the nomination of one of our two major political parties.

    … is pure gold. There. I said it.

  22. 22.

    Culture of Truth

    four men who in a just world would not be allowed near turpentine unsupervised, let alone near the nomination of one of our two “major” political parties.

    fixed it.

  25. 25.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    the 2012 theme, empower women-end hunger and poverty, is leaving me wicked confused as to who is supposed to pay for lunch.

  26. 26.

    dmsilev

    @TooManyJens: I noticed that too. Yeah, her selection was announced the weekend before the RNC Convention, so unless the author was expecting a surprise reveal ten seconds before the VP-nominee’s speech, I’m not sure what he was objecting to.

  27. 27.

    Punchy

    within minutes she professed her love for W. and asked if I was a “fucking liberal”. But I worked my liberal mojo on her

    You’re a much better man than me. I woulda heard all of “fucking li…” before either clowning her into tears or buying her a Prarie Fire shot as a “goodwell” gesture.

    But I’m an asshole, so there’s that.

  29. 29.

    jibeaux

    @dmsilev:

    [Romney} at least has the comfort of absolute nuts believing in him who are not bound to him by genetic relation or marriage.

    The Romney campaign called, looking for names, phone numbers, and Benjamins.

  30. 30.

    Svensker

    A bunch of the wingnut contingent on/near my FB have posted “Yeah, when is Men’s Day? ! !” and “What About White History Month? ! !” hur hur hur.

  31. 31.

    jibeaux

    @El Tiburon: There are a hundred reasons to get upset at BET, but the actual presence of black people on it isn’t one of them. Good work mojo-ing the wimmens.

  32. 32.

    Linda Featheringill

    The well being of all children is interwoven in the situation of their mothers. And that affects all of us.

    So it would behoove humans to tend to the care of females.

    The well being of every woman everywhere is tied up with her ability to manage her own fertility. Women in general know this, as do the men who love them.

    And that is one reason why so many people are fighting tooth and nail to preserve access to contraception.

  33. 33.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    @c u n d gulag:

    I did check it and some lady senator is proposing a snarky equal treatment of men who need pecker hardening meds to highlight the double standard for wymen folk and the Transvag Wand of Freedom/wingnut. Unless I read it wrong.

    So like i said. Fucking wingnuts caused this madness. With their stupid twisted war on lady parts.

    These are all subjects best left to sex ed in pool halls across the land, and not for pervy peckerwood politicians to peruse for votes, or whatever they do it for. You can quote me on that.

  34. 34.

    jibeaux

    @Svensker: When I was a very small child, I once asked when Children’s Day was too. My parents have the expected answer, I thought about it and decided that was fair play, and thus I turned out liberal.

  35. 35.

    ThresherK

    Kansas St and Baylor are on the teevee. KSU’s nearly-illegible purple on black I’ve seen before, but Baylor’s “standing next to a traffic cone” look is a fresh hell.

  36. 36.

    danielx

    That link is full of WIN.

    In my observation the Republicans have always been better at motivating their base to get out and vote, insofar as they’ve needed motivation since 2008 to do something against that Black Man In The White House. This time around, the party was fairly well split before all the anti-contraception blathering reared its ugly head. (Publicly – I know it’s always been there in the background.)

    Now, thanks primarily to the dynamic duo of Rick and Rush, they’ve managed to create yet another split, and this one much more basic – as in most women, even most Republican women, saying: “Fuck you. We’re not going back there.” They can’t take it back, it’s right out there in the open. And to add the cherry on top of the sundae, those women on the Dem side who have been disappointed every day by Obama? Or women who have been too apathetic to vote because “they’re all the same and both sides do it”? If they stay home on Election Day 2012 because St. Ralph isn’t available for a protest vote – or if they stay home because it’s just too much trouble to get out there and vote – they have no one to blame when their access to contraception and other health care options is taken away from them. The choice could not be any clearer: if you have the XX chromosome, the Republican party will not treat you as an adult human being, they will treat you as a second class citizen. Period. Barack Obama is not the be-all and end-all*, but he’s not going to take away rights that women have taken for granted since Griswold v. Connecticut.

    *I do not approve of many of Barack Obama’s policies. But the alternative is too grim to contemplate, because the Republican Party as an entity has gone completely fucking crazy. Demented. Deranged. Maniacal. Looney tunes.

  37. 37.

    well paid replicant

    @dmsilev: I had to click through to read the whole article. While that was a gem, one of the commenters there wrote a reply that caused me to light a cigarette after:

    Some reasons why BHO will SOUNDLY beat BHO Lite (not exhaustive, by any means):
    1. More money, oragnization, and connections
    2. More attack/negative ad mechanisms, including the entire lib media fleet
    3. Biggest issues give-away: Romneycare/Obamacare
    4. BHO can out-debate Romney literally blindfolded (however many debate coaches Rombot goes through with his $$$)
    5. BHO has a charismatic presence, but when BHO Lite speaks, bring a pillow or send footage to America’s Funniest Home Videos containing all of his stupid, awkward gaffes or putrid attempts at “singing.”
    6. BHO, even without his teleprompter, sounds a heck of a lot more human and Rombot in his most “trees are the right height” form.__
    The point is, none of the other candidates (Newt/Santo) would have the vast arsenal of resources that BHO would have either . . . BUT . . . unlike Romney, both have credible CONSERVATIVE credentials they can stand on and fight back with. Romney, on the other hand, has no such credibility.

  38. 38.

    Brachiator

    When is International Men’s Day, you ask? Every day but March 8.

    Everyone should check out today’s google doodle in honor of International Women’s Day.

  41. 41.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    @El Tiburon:

    But. I was at a bar. And. Well. You know.

    Have some respect. I dated a bloody ACT policy analyst (think centre republican) *once* before running in loathing the other way. And then I found my current, semi-liberal partner.

    Wingers – guys, just say “no”. No matter what Mr Happy is saying.

  42. 42.

    Arclite

    When is International Men’s Day, you ask? Every day but March 8.

    So much win with this comment. So sad that it’s true.

  43. 43.

    jazzgurl

    International Men’s Day is November the 19th,every year. I I celebrated it in a workshop with boys in a high school last year.

  44. 44.

    BDeevDad

    The end is nigh!!

    Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and treated like alcohol because the government’s war on drugs has failed

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