Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everybody saw this coming.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

No one could have predicted…

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Consistently wrong since 2002

“But what about the lurkers?”

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Let there be snark.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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  4. 4.

    scav

    Well, they hadn’t explicitly alienated the “wrong” sort of Jews yet, had they? Everyone else has been targeted, why go down without a complete set?

  11. 11.

    Robert M

    All of the hideous anti-semitism aside, it does amaze me that feminist women are so consistently attracted to spineless beta males.

  12. 12.

    Monkey Business

    Yes! The Tea Party has finally fulfilled Poe’s Law, where their actual rhetoric has become absolutely indistinguishable from satire.

    This means they have to disband, right?

  17. 17.

    daveNYC

    Fuuuuu……
    Seriously, that’s fking it. If we don’t win in November, I’m going to get the hell out of the country. Being on their enemies list due to political views is one thing, but as soon as they start busting out the ethnic adjectives it’s time to dust off the passport.

    Yeah, I know they’ve been screaming blackity, black, black, black for decades now.

  18. 18.

    Jewish Steel

    Sandra Fluke’s boyfriend is…wait…a JEW!!!!

    Have Mercy! Why can’t they stick to their own kind?

    @BGinCHI: Grandpa?

  23. 23.

    Bnut

    What is this right wing obsession with “beta males”? I see that shit mentioned all the time on Hot Air. If you go read Brooks Bayne’s personal info on his site, he comes across as a fucking Renaissance man with a foot long vibrating dick of pure gold.

  24. 24.

    ReflectedSky

    @Robert M: That comment inspires me to actually click on the link to crazy, which I was going to skip. I was planning just to mention that my atheist Jewish husband is awesome.

  26. 26.

    MattF

    ‘…the typical Jewish variant of soshalism’. So, like… he’s a Trotskyite? Is that a problem?

  27. 27.

    trollhattan

    Even moar from the Republican War on Women(tm) (R) .

    In 1994, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act, which was a no-brainer for both Republicans and Democrats. Who wants to grab headlines as the party that is not against beating women? Well, no one, but in 2012, thanks in part to a canny bit of maneuvering by Democrats, Republicans are.
    __
    The act is up for renewal and, as the Times reports, it’s facing “fierce opposition from conservatives” in the Senate. The new version of the law contains expansions that violate certain principles that congressional Republicans feel they just can’t sacrifice.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/03/gop-no-longer-opposes-violence-against-women-act.html

  31. 31.

    New Yorker

    @Bnut:

    Fascists have always been obsessed with “effete” men, as well as Jews and “mud” races, so this shouldn’t be a surprise. The masks have completely fallen off the right. We should have seen this with the way the right applauded “The Passion of the Christ”, product of that noted sadomasochistic Jew-and-minority-hater Mel Gibson.

    I breathlessly await Jennifer Rubin explaining to us how Sandra Fluke is the real anti-semite.

  33. 33.

    Svensker

    Time For Your Counter-Top Inspection, Miss Fluke

    I don’t think it’s her counter-tops they’re gonna be inspectacatin’, if you know what I’m sayin’.

    If I call them Fucking Fascists will Sully faint?

  35. 35.

    New Yorker

    That’s not to say that their fantasies about “beta males” have any basis in reality. They just want to prance around in leather with bullwhips.

    The last month has seen the bloggy right turn into some weird mix of George Wallace, Charles Coughlin, and General Jack Ripper from “Dr. Strangelove”.

  36. 36.

    Zagloba

    I think my favorite part was “Jewish boyfriend’s grandfather’s purse factory was the target of a union organizing effort by Samuel Gompers, therefore Sarah Palin is automatically president and Obama has to live in a doghouse with the corpse of Jimmy Hoffa”.

  37. 37.

    ReflectedSky

    @Robert M: So now I’m back, having skimmed both pieces (read most of the LG&M piece with the handy block quote). What does this kid have to do with men being spineless and beta? What did I miss?

    As an added bonus re: my awesome Jewish husband, he’s also pro-Palestinian. We are careful not to discuss Israel at various gatherings, particularly those filled with elderly relatives.

  38. 38.

    jibeaux

    @Bnut: Maybe they feel all emboldened and manly by their fevered visions of someday standing up to their mom and her incessant demands that they “look for a job” and “quit eating all the cheetos” and “maybe pay some rent or buy some damn groceries for a change.”

  39. 39.

    trollhattan

    @Svensker:

    There are only so many Moore Awards to go around. But giving Andy a case of the vapahs is always a worthy goal.

  40. 40.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    Much like being a non-conformist, if you have to tell someone you are an alpha male, you’re not.

  41. 41.

    Tonal Crow

    Ah, another day in the Republican War on Women, the Republican War on Privacy, and the Republican War on Jews.

  42. 42.

    jibeaux

    @Robert M: You can always pay someone, if they just refuse to acknowledge your awesome spiny alphaness. Or I for one am not going to give you any grief about cardboard cutouts, if that’s more your thing.

  44. 44.

    scav

    @Robert M: They’re probably educated and observant enough to notice that alpha is often found at the front of asshole and beta of better.

  45. 45.

    SteveM

    @Robert M: Gosh, sorry we liberals aren’t all as manly and studlike as Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, Grover Norquist, and Ben Shapiro.

  46. 46.

    trollhattan

    @New Yorker:

    I breathlessly await Jennifer Rubin explaining to us how Sandra Fluke is the real anti-semite.

    I’m almost sure you’re making a funny, but as predictions go this is a pretty solid one. Sadly.

  47. 47.

    TooManyJens

    @Robert M:

    it does amaze me that feminist women are so consistently attracted to spineless beta males guys who don’t buy into stereotypical ideas of how men have to look and behave so as to differentiate themselves from those inferior women

    That IS hard to believe.

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    @SteveM:

    I’m going to find out if a neck-punching booth is a possibility at this year’s state fair. You’ve got a good starting lineup, right there.

    We’ll break all attendance records!

  51. 51.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Comrade Javamanphil: Precisely. Some of the calmest and least “alpha-like” guys I know are ex-Special Forces. Knowing you can walk into a room and kill anyone there with your bare hands conveys a certain serenity.

  53. 53.

    New Yorker

    @trollhattan:

    Apparently we to shoot past 7 billion people at an exponential rate so we can fight more viciously over ever-dwindling resources.

    Christ almighty, did Brooks for a second think that maybe a drop in human population might alleviate things like global warming or desertification or ever cause the price of oil to drop?

  55. 55.

    trollhattan

    @New Yorker:

    None of that crossed his evidently thick pate. He seems most concerned the wrong kind of people are the onlyiest ones making the babies.

    To which I respond, now does supporting public education seem like a good idea?

  56. 56.

    Brachiator

    Gawker is mocking the heck out of this vile stuff.

    Ooh, those Jews, so rich and so sozhulist, at the same time. And Muslim, too, probably. You can’t spell “Keynesian” without “Kenyans.”
    __
    Fun fact: These are literally the same Tea Partiers who accused Occupy Wall Street of anti-semitism.

    This whole thing over women’s hoohas is really turning into a Pap Smear.

  57. 57.

    Brachiator

    Dangit. Got moderated. Just wanted to point out that the Gawker is having big fun mocking this idiocy. It is gradually leaking out into other media sources.

  58. 58.

    gnomedad

    The new(?) winger obsession: stamping out Thoughtcrime. They are less worried about Fluke being influential as with her having heretical views. She must be crushed.

  61. 61.

    Barry

    @Bnut: “What is this right wing obsession with “beta males”? ”

    Freudian projection. Which explains all of right-wing propaganda.

  62. 62.

    Poopyman

    @Svensker:

    If I call them Fucking Fascists will Sully faint?

    Well, that’s not quite accurate. How about “Fascists Who Can’t Get Laid”?

  66. 66.

    AA+ Bonds

    Well, it will play among the Ron Paulers; it’s pretty wretched to see Greenwald scraping before the pogroms-in-waiting

    Then again, it’s a “point” that the Nazis were “to the left” of the Social Democrats on industrial coordination

  67. 67.

    AA+ Bonds

    @Bnut:

    Narcissistic supply fed to them by New Age swindler gurus; it has a lot to do with how right-wingers believe they can instantly be a scientist by reading half of a webpage

  68. 68.

    AA+ Bonds

    Barry has correctly identified the source: castration anxiety, which becomes ever stronger in the presence of a supremely potent father image built from today’s total awareness of the information flows that build society and that no individual human can even begin to grasp

    You will see among them the drive to reveal the fictional simplicity that they wish to will into reality, that’s why the gold standard, that’s why Jewish Trilateral conspiracies, etc., they wish to kill their father but their father can never die

  69. 69.

    Ozymandias, King of Ants

    @EconWatcher:

    Poor Bill Buckley.

    Bullshit. The man was a f**king bigot and a classist. He was responsible–either jointly or singly–for more damage to this country than most other people. Just because his vocabulary was pompous and his syntax was tortuous does not make him a good writer. And I have no fucking idea where he got that completely unplaceable accent but it only served to underline the fact that he was nothing more than a poseur.

    In other words: everyone needs to stop fellating his goddamn corpse NOW.

    There. I feel much better now.

  71. 71.

    PurpleGirl

    @Bnut: Do we know if Ms. Fluke is Jewish? If she isn’t Jewish herself, according to tradition, the children aren’t Jewish. The Jewish descent thing is matrilineal.

  73. 73.

    shortstop

    @New Yorker:

    The last month has seen the bloggy right turn into some weird mix of George Wallace, Charles Coughlin, and General Jack Ripper from “Dr. Strangelove”.

    Nice.

    @trollhattan: I’m not about to read Brooks, but is this just a thinly veiled “demographic winter” whine — i.e., white people worrying that brown people are outbreeding them?

  74. 74.

    trollhattan

    @shortstop:

    Bless his li’l lubrul heart, he takes the global perspective:

    For decades, people took dynamism and economic growth for granted and saw population growth as a problem. Now we’ve gone to the other extreme, and it’s clear that young people are the scarce resource. In the 21st century, the United States could be the slowly aging leader of a rapidly aging world.

    I don’t believe “other extreme” means what he thinks it does.

  75. 75.

    TTT

    @23: What is this right wing obsession with “beta males”? I see that shit mentioned all the time on Hot Air.

    Conservatives and the “Pick-Up Artist” community have enormous overlap zones in their sociopathy.

    Both groups love slut-shaming. Both groups REALLY love Social Darwinism and any pseudo-Darwinist justification that can be made for the “naturalness” and “rightness” of inequality, crime, and racism. And above all, both groups love to fantasize about punishing – often violently – anyone in their designated inferior groups who fails to show them the proper homage and subservience.

    The PUA community in its very brief (yet far, far too long) existence has already produced at least two renowned psychopathic violent criminals. I personally prefer “Gunwitch,” the PUA charmer who shot a woman in the face when she wouldn’t respond to his peacocking parlor tricks with the blowjob he was rightfully owed.

  76. 76.

    different-church-lady

    That poor chicken is gonna die from all the relentless wingnut fucking it’s getting.

    I mean, seriously guys, at least give the chicken a five minute break every couple of hours. Let the damn thing drink some water and smoke a cigarette.

  77. 77.

    different-church-lady

    @Tonal Crow:

    Ah, another day in the Republican War on Women, the Republican War on Privacy, and the Republican War on Jews their own election chances.

    When there’s fixin’ to be done, fixin’ will be done.

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