I know it shouldn’t surprise me, and yet somehow it still does. These fuckers will say and do anything because they have no shame.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Optimism opens the door to great things.
I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.
In my day, never was longer.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
No one could have predicted…
… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Battle won, war still ongoing.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
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Flying Fox
I’ve got a friend at Harvard Law right now actually. He’s told me some amusing stories about Constitution Law. Something about Con Law professors, they turn out to be the ones you tell crazy stories about twenty, forty years on.
Scott S.
I don’t even understand what they’re trying to say there. “She wrote a thing in college, therefore blarg?”
I also hear there are UN troops hiding in the salt mines in Utah. We gotta impeach someone over that shit, yo.
butler
I’ve seen this one before. Pretty standard wingnut approach: throw enough moldy word salad at the wall and see if it sticks.
Ash Can
Sarah, I believe you would be the expert here on this: Just what are those people ingesting?
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Ash Can:
I’m not sure, but I suspect it was something mouldy from the bottom of the refrigerator.
Deen
OMG! The Socialism will time-travel from the 30s to team up with Sharia and destroy the US!
c u n d gulag
‘She replaced Constitutional Law with International Law classes?’
OH NO SHE DIN’T!!!
I bet Clarence “Oh, You Mean THAT Joint Tax Return?” Thomas is laughing his pants-less ass off under his robe over this.
Conservatism means making mole-hills into the Himalaya’s!
EconWatcher
Rule of thumb: Any mention of sharia law in connection with the U.S.=nutjob.
carolus
Say, isn’t Alan M. Gottlieb a convicted felon?
Why, yes, yes he is:
You really have to be a bigtime crook to get a felony rap for tax fraud.
Davis X. Machina
Sharia…
She’s that woman TBogg keeps posting animations of, right?
Ash Can
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: What refrigerator? The one at the Russian Mafia Biotoxins-R-Us lab? It’s hard to imagine any kind of mere mold being that noxious to the nervous system.
the fugitive uterus
these jerkoffs are not going to make me google this load of crap in order to debunk it. i’ve done enough of that over the past decade or so and i’m not wasting any more time and energy on debunking lie after lie.
rikyrah
you really should never be shocked.
Ash Can
@carolus:
In which universe do “good character” and “felony tax fraud” go together?
Punchy
I’m impressed that Elena can advance Sharia Law and be a lesbian at the same time…
Middlewest
Her devious plan to destroy America through recusing herself has unfolded perfectly.
arguingwithsignposts
Fucking Jonah Goldberg is on NPR pimping his bullshit book – ack!
4tehlulz
Is this the whitey tape?
Disgruntled Lurker
@Punchy:
It’s 8:30am, but I’m almost certain that was the most genius I will encounter today.
arguingwithsignposts
Over five minutes of that dumb-fuck legacy hire babbling on!
beltane
Oh dear, wingnut word salad tossed with a picture of a scary Mooslim guy. I’m so scared I’m going to have another cup of coffee.
gaz
This thing is so ugly it will only appeal to 27%ers.
why give it space? It adds nothing to any discussion. It’s just pulp propaganda for the wingnuts. The kind of thing your crazy uncle forwards to you.
Who cares?
4tehlulz
It would be bad is someone went all Timothy McVeigh over this, but it would be justifiable.
/SteveinDC
gocart mozart
K-Thug asks a question on Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/t1ygb/iama_nobel_prizewinning_economist_and_new_york/
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Brachiator
@4tehlulz:
Close to it. And somewhere out there are the inevitable wingnut pundits swearing up and down that there are college papers by Obama titled “How I Plan to Destroy the United States When My Commie Cell Gets Me Elected President.” Papers co-written by Ayers and dedicated to Rev Wright.
Also, too.
gbbalto
The good Saudi Prince is also a co-owner of Fox News. Wonder why they didn’t mention that?
gbbalto
The good Saudi Prince is also a co-owner of Fox News. Wonder why they didn’t mention that?
Jack
Does this mean the a-holes at Ameripac are going to stop watching Fox News as well? Because Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is the second-largest shareholder of News Corp, after Rupert Murdoch.
gbbalto
The good Saudi Prince is also a co-owner of Fox News. Wonder why they didn’t mention that?
Roger Moore
@Ash Can:
You need to read up on ergot, then. Not nice stuff.
lacp
@gocart mozart: I missed the question.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@gaz:
Sometimes the crazy needs to be brought out for inspection and mockery.
gocart mozart
@lacp: I was exactly wrong. I should have said, answers questions on reddit
TG Chicago
You have to admire their efforts to shift to Overton Window. They’re painting Kagan as a far left menace even though she’s closer to the center than Justice Stevens, whose seat she took. And Stevens was nominated by Gerald Ford!
Stuff like this is ridiculous on the face of it, but it’s part of the larger effort to ensure that Democrats can never nominate someone as far to the left as Scalia is to the right.
That’s what they really want, and they seem to be getting it.
jibeaux
@Flying Fox: So, you’re saying that after Elena Kagan left, they reinstated Constitutional Law classes at Harvard Law School? WHEW! What a relief!
RalfW
Lest we think they’re on the fringe, here’s their wall of shame.
“Scores of candidates from coast-to-coast have received direct and indirect support through AmeriPAC:”
Sen Connie Mack (R-FL), Rep Harold Volkmer (D-MO), Rep Bill McCollum (R-FL), Sen Slade Gorton (R-WA), Rep Lamar Smith (R-TX), Rep Barbara Vucanovich (R-NV), Rep David Dreier (R-CA), Rep Bob Dornan (R-CA), Sen Trent Lott (R-MS), Rep Newt “Tiffany” Gingrich (R-GA), Sen John “Gramps” McCain (R-AZ), Sen Spence Abraham (R-MI), Sen Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Sen John Kyl (R-AZ), Rep Jack Metcalf (R-WA), Sen John Ashcroft (R-MO), Sen Bill “Quack” Frist (R-TN)
Chyron HR
What’s the big deal? Even The Liberal Glenn Greenwald says that Kagan hates the Constitution.
karen
@gbbalto:
Exactly.
But this is yet another GOP superpac for Romney.
dr. bloor
Pfft. Pro grifters pushing a message designed to separate the 27 percenters from their money. Substitute “Satan” for “Kagan” and it reads like stuff Grandma used to get in the mail from Billy Graham.
Bulworth
And AmeriPAC is who?
swordofdoom
Back in college in the 1970s, I wrote a paper for a poly sci class on the Italian Communist Party under Berlinguer. And one of my best friends was in the same high school graduating class as John Hinckley Jr. So, using this, ahem, logic, I’m a commie who plotted to assassinate Reagan.
300baud
@Ash Can:
Among any current Republican, I presume. Given that government is bad, government spending is worse, and taxation is theft, it would seem like a moral duty to cheat as much as possible.
Mike Jones
Just a question for clarification: Did this come as an email (or attachment to one)? It doesn’t seem to look like the typical page format for AmeriPAC’s web stuff.
Ben Cisco
@c u n d gulag:
Composed entirely of pink salt.
Ben Cisco
@c u n d gulag:
Composed entirely of pink salt.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Mike Jones:
It was a Redstate email.
Catpause
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It’s that damned “legalese” that saves neo-cons from the gallows.
burnspbesq
@carolus:
“You really have to be a bigtime crook to get a felony rap for tax fraud”
Not necessarily. The case against you has to be really strong to get stuck with the felony charge, though. Plea-bargaining down to a misdemeanor for filing false returns is pretty commonplace if there are problems with the case for evasion (pedantic note: there is no such crime as “tax fraud”).
burnspbesq
@Ash Can:
“In which universe do “good character” and “felony tax fraud” go together”
Why, the Republican Universe, ya big silly.
JasperL
I think we’re splitting hairs, but…
Sec. 7206. Fraud and false statements
(2) Aid or assistance
Willfully aids or assists in….which is fraudulent or is false as to any material matter, whether or not such falsity or….fraud is with the knowledge or consent of the person authorized
…
shall be fined not more than $100,000 ($500,000 in the case of a corporation), or imprisoned not more than 3 years…
And as to the mailer, I’m on the email list of a bunch of far right conservatives and get stuff this insane regularly. What’s shocking is the guy who sends it to me is a long time (40 year) law partner with a prestigious local firm who is very well regarded.
I’ve pointed out to him many times that the stuff he sends is untrue, false, has no basis in reality, and he doesn’t much care. It’s true *enough* even if the details are false. She’s a lib and a socialist and someone who shouldn’t be on the bench, and whether she in fact ended constitutional law in favor of studying Sharia law is irrelevant.
chopper
@Scott S.:
what’s even funnier is that this is the same garbage they threw against the wall during her confirmation hearing. it didn’t stick then either.
second verse, same as the first.
Roger Moore
@Ash Can:
In one where “good character” is a euphemism for “light skin”.
catclub
@arguingwithsignposts: But the characteristic ignorance shines through. ” …and on Fox news they never actually say ‘Government is the problem.'”
Will take zero minutes to debunk. If I had the energy to bother.
The Republic of Stupidity
On the other hand…
If this is all they can think to vomit up, innit kinda a tacit admission of having nothing truly meaningful and substantial to offer?
Just more of the same mindless drivel they’ve been spouting for years…
danimal
I’m very concerned about Justice Kagan, and I think we should all do our part and elevate this issue into national prominence. Call your congressman and demand that conservatives lead the way and impeach Justice Kagan. Our country depends on good conservative leadership making the tough decisions; decisions such as impeaching a SC Justice for shut up, that’s why.
Lurking Canadian
I suspect that even at Harvard, any University president who turned down a $20 million gift, no matter the source, would be run out of town on a rail.
Ruckus
Isn’t the gentleman in the picture the fellow that Bush was kissing and holding hands with?