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I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

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They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

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  1. 1.

    TenguPhule

    Ross Douthat calls pro-choicers Nazis.

    Next up, Skinheads will call Black People racists.

  4. 4.

    Valdivia

    Kilgore who is back (thankfully!) has a great post on this today. I have always loathed Chunky BoBo. Today I remembered why.

  6. 6.

    jrg

    No way I’m getting off the boat to read musings on eugenics from of an imbecile who opposes voluntary birth control. No. Fucking. Way.

  11. 11.

    TenguPhule

    AMC has a cool documentary about the Wizard of Oz on.

    Not even the Wizard can find Doughy Pantload a brain.

  12. 12.

    burnspbesq

    We’ve been hiding the truth from you, Cole, because we weren’t sure you could take it, but it’s time you knew.

    Ross Douthat’s public bio is a lie.

    He’s actually the secret love child of Tricia Nixon and …

    LOWELL GEORGE!

    He’s brain-damaged because all the drugs Lowell did affected his sperm.

  14. 14.

    David Koch

    @TenguPhule: That’s a neat story. Who knew Uncle Jed was gonna be the Tin Man until aluminum paint caused a near fatal lung reaction.

  16. 16.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    We’re a big tent of atheists, Muslims and communists. I think we can accommodate the pro-choice Nazis.

  17. 17.

    MattF

    If even a genetically deficient person like myself can see where Douthat pulled a switcheroo in his argument, why can’t he see how obvious it is? Excuse me for asking.

  18. 18.

    suzanne

    I feel like getting knocked up just so I can have an abortion on Ross Douthat’s front lawn.

  20. 20.

    Cap'n Magic

    Another passing of minor note: actor Frank Cady (Hooterville’s General Store owner Sam Drucker)

  22. 22.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @suzanne:

    I feel like getting knocked up just so I can have an abortion on Ross Douthat’s front lawn.

    I’d volunteer to sex you up but the Preznit made me gay.

  23. 23.

    jl

    Irving Fisher, proto Nazi eugenicist, developed the debt deflation theory of economic recession following a financial panic.

    You know who else defended the proto Nazi eugencist Fisher theory of debt deflation theory (besides Keynes, who was bi)?

    Coincidence? I think not.

  24. 24.

    Mike in NC

    Ross Douthat calls pro-choicers Nazis.

    If only that sorry shit hadn’t been shot down by the chunky Reese Witherspoon chick…

  25. 25.

    Soonergrunt (mobile)

    @suzanne: please, please, PLEASE tell me that you look like a chunky Reese Witherspoon! Cause then you could holler out stuff like “Ross! You did this to me, you bastard! Cause that would be fucking EPIC!

  26. 26.

    cat48

    That’s nice Ross. He’s probably trying to distract everyone b/c I read on Cnn this weekend that Nuns have gone on tour & are in the streets to protest the Ryan Budget. If they come to my town, I’ll be in the streets with them.

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    O/T but this is too freakin funny. It looks like Raw Story actually does post fully sourced pieces sometimes:
    Peter King: Drones ‘carry out the policies of righteousness and goodness’
    ““I’m not concerned [with the casualty rate]. My belief is that when you’re in war — and we are in war — the idea is to kill as many of the enemy as you can with minimal risk of life to your own people. As far as the civilian casualties, every one of those is tragic.”

    This is who you’re allied with. Peter Fucking King.
    The irony. She is delicious.

  28. 28.

    TenguPhule

    We’re a big tent of atheists, Muslims and communists

    You forgot the gay socialists and self hating jews.

  30. 30.

    rikyrah

    @jrg:

    No way I’m getting off the boat to read musings on eugenics from of an imbecile who opposes voluntary birth control. No. Fucking. Way.

    amen

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    That Obama, sheesh. He is one bloodthirsty sob. I wonder what this poor sap knew that he shouldn’t?
    Kenyan minister killed in crash
    “George Saitoti, Kenya’s internal security minister, dies along with five others in helicopter crash outside Nairobi”

  37. 37.

    cathyx

    @Raven: @cat48: Thanks guys. It was completely out of the blue, healthy one minute and dead the next. The vet said that it’s not uncommon for cats to have this affliction and people don’t usually know they have it. We didn’t. His brother may have it but I don’t want to know if he does.

  38. 38.

    Raven

    @cathyx:

    We who choose to surround ourselves
    with lives even more temporary than our
    own, live within a fragile circle;
    easily and often breached.
    Unable to accept its awful gaps,
    we would still live no other way.
    We cherish memory as the only
    certain immortality, never fully
    understanding the necessary plan.
    — Irving Townsend

  40. 40.

    Raven

    Somewhere Over the Rainbow was cut after the first run because it wasn’t dignified for an MGM Star to sing in a barnyard.

  42. 42.

    cathyx

    @Raven: That’s what I was telling my daughter, but of course not in such eloquent words. We will always outlive our pets(hopefully), and it’s better to have loved and lost than to never to have loved at all.

  43. 43.

    Jewish Steel

    Guys! Guys! Come on!

    You’ll frighten the Reasonable Republicans back into hiding.

  45. 45.

    Citizen_X

    @Corner Stone: IRA terrorist sympathizer Peter King say what about civilian casualties? “Sorry, dead Belfast marchers. Forces of righteousness and goodness and all that, eh wot?”

  46. 46.

    Boudica

    As to the OP, while I didn’t read Douthat’s piece, I thought the readers’ picks responses were great!

  47. 47.

    Raven

    @cathyx: I thought Joe Biden’s words a couple of weeks back have a wide application”
    “There will come a day, I promise you, and your parents, as well, when the thought of your son or daughter or your husband or wife brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye,” Biden told the military survivors. “It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner or later. But the only thing I have more experience than you in is this: I’m telling you it will come.”

  48. 48.

    jl

    The Christian elite’s pre-Enlightenment commitment to purging out the “impure”, defined variously as spiritually or intellectually adventurous free thinkers, those with unconventional sexual identities or practices, and the promiscuously inclined, is a story that defies easy stereotypes about progress and enlightenment, EXCEPT I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. On the one hand, these religious fanatics tended to be WASP grandees like Cotton Mather, ivory-tower dwellers and privileged have-mores with an obvious incentive to invent spurious theories to justify their own position.

    But these same religious fanatics were often political and social lunatics and paranoiacs, advocates of social repression, partisans of state violence, critics of due process. “They weren’t sinister characters out of some darkly lighted noir film about Nazi sympathizers, but ministers, kings, pillars of society, and family men.” From King James I to Cotton Mather, to founder of the Peoples Temple, Jim Jones, fears about “sexytime” and “loose wimmins” were common among self-conscious religious snoops, who saw the quest for better fun times as of a piece with their fear of shit getting out of control.

    This fanatics’ fascination with sex and fun largely ended with the Enlightment and the horrors wrought by the Inquisition and the 17th century which burnings.. But while the West has discarded the theory of the witchunt era, the practice urged by Savanarolo and others, the elimination or ostracism , through careful snooping, probing, pestering and invidious discrimination against women, has become a more realistic possibility than it ever was in the 17th century.

    I’m not saying a head of state will come to watch your torture for witchcraft, or that you will be burned at the stake or pressed to death as a witch or a warlock, or that you will be poisoned in a mad fit of paranoia by your trusted cult preacherman, or that state police will convict you of murder and lock you away forever if anything at all happens to a blastula in the womb of you or your loved ones that has a 50 50 chance of surviving to birth , but…

  53. 53.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    @suzanne: “I feel like getting knocked up just so I can have an abortion on Ross Douthat’s front lawn.”

    That idea is so full of win. Too bad my bits came out all wrong. Sometimes I wish I had a uterus. =(

    In the spirit of solidarity, I’ll bring the coat-hanger and the digital camera, okay? =)

  55. 55.

    Bex

    @cathyx: That happened to one of my kittehs, but his sibs are going strong six years later. One of them got depressed after her brother died, but pulled out of it. You might want to watch your kitty’s brother for signs of hiding and not eating. The vet really tried, to the tune of medicine and a sonogram (!) which showed nothing, but the cure was lots of pets, snuggles and attention. I’m sorry for your loss.

  59. 59.

    jl

    BTW, is Douthat not aware that abortion, the practice of exposure and other triaging of resources to newborns and children based on their perceived fitness has been with us for thousands of years, in cultures all over the world? In fact, pretty much up to the recent medical advances that allowed severely premature newborns to survive?

    Ignorant, stupid, or dishonest, one or more of those apply.

    These brutal authoritarian nitwits and lunatic prudes want to throw science, progress, enlightened understanding of reproductive health and are advocating policies that will kill women and children. Simple as that.

    Edit: I have to admit, though, that anyone who would turn down a chunky Reese Witherspoon for dumbtwit reasons has earned my eternal contempt. So, I admit to being prejudiced against this goofball.

  61. 61.

    Patricia Kayden

    What does Douthat have to say about anti-choicers who killed Doctors providing women with abortion services? Are they Nazis?

  62. 62.

    gbear

    @cathyx: So sorry about the sudden loss. Sympathies to you and the surviving kitty.

    @Boudica: That’s how I read it too. I went straight to the reader’s comments.

  63. 63.

    suzanne

    @cathyx: Hugs. :( I lost one last year to what the vet thought was the same thing. It always hurts to lose them, and it hurts especially hard when they’re young. Keeping you and your family, human and otherwise, in my heart.

  66. 66.

    asiangrrlMN

    @cathyx: I’m so so sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences. I almost lost my Shadow a few months ago to a freak ailment – so I can sorta relate. Your kitteh is beautiful. Hugs to you and your other critters.

    Douchethat can DIAF. Slowly. Painfully. One cell at a time. Fucker. I wish I could spontaneously have an abortion AND a spite baby just to cram them both in his face.

  67. 67.

    Egg Berry

    @jl:

    Ignorant, stupid, or dishonest, one or more of those apply.

    all of the above.

    IIRC, Doubthat was a pentacostal before he was a catholic. He seems to have brought a lot of tendencies along with him.

  68. 68.

    Steeplejack

    @Raven:

    Did that iPad fix work for you? I was at a friend’s house today and confirmed that the iPad browser has an “Open in new tab” thing if you press and hold a URL, but I didn’t get to go to the Times site and run through enough documents to trigger the block-mo-tron.

  69. 69.

    jl

    @Egg Berry:

    I got to know Pentacostals pretty well over the years. Long story, but never mind that now.

    Douthat seems too intolerant, sour, and narrow to get along well with Pentacostals. And I wonder if his conversion was to Catholicism or Jansenism (assuming that the humbug bigshots in the RCC understand the distinction anymore).

  70. 70.

    cathyx

    Thanks everyone for your sympathies. I shudder to think how John will do when this happens to him. I know that I’m not even half as close as he is to his pets, and probably most of you, and this is hard to get through for me.

  71. 71.

    Cacti

    Hmmm…weren’t the actual Nazis very “hearth, home, and have lots of Aryan babies?”

  72. 72.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Too slow. I want him burning on a stake then right as most of the skin has blistered but he is still alive douse him in ground glass and vinegar. Then watch the blood seep out from the thousand holes.

  76. 76.

    suzanne

    O/T, but so funny.

    I was looking for vegetarian grilling ideas, and I came across this one, which was linked to by CNN. It describes some cheesy stuffed peppers as “large veggie spliffs of gooey goodness”. I’m STILL laughing. However, I’m also TOTALLY gonna try it. LMMFAO.

  81. 81.

    Roger Moore

    @cathyx:

    Thank god it’s wine o’clock, cause I need some to read that crap.

    Did you say “Whine O’Clock”? That’s the perfect time for a Douchhat column!

  82. 82.

    Schlemizel

    @Patricia Kayden:
    No! Those brave men and women who hide in the shadows to shoot womens health workers or slink in under the cover of darkness to hide bombs and those who harass and threaten women are the God inspired freedom fighters!!

    Wonder if SUlly has an award for this douchebag? Probably not in this case

  86. 86.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Douchehat is a one man argument for arenas filled with hungry lions to toss idiots like him into.

    With side bets on which lion will barf him up first.

  88. 88.

    karen marie

    @cathyx: I am so sorry for your loss. I had a cat, age 7, die suddenly two years ago. Vet speculated that it was a stroke. Mr. Mittens, with no warning, had a massive seizure and keeled over. Was it similar with your cat? Since he died, I’ve become militantly anti-overweight cat. Vet said him being 27 pounds probably contributed to his death.

  90. 90.

    karen marie

    @jl:

    or that state police will convict you of murder and lock you away forever if anything at all happens to a blastula in the womb of you or your loved ones that has a 50 50 chance of surviving to birth , but…

    Haven’t several states recently passed laws to do exactly that?

  93. 93.

    PurpleGirl

    @cathyx: Sorry you lost your kitty.

    A friend had to include plans for his parrots in his will because usually parrots will outlive their owners. However, both of his parrots got sick and died young (for a parrot).

  94. 94.

    cathyx

    @karen marie: That sounds like my cat. The vet said that the blood clot can go to the back legs, like in my cat and he was paralyzed, or to the brain or an arm. My cat wasn’t overweight, but it won’t matter if they have that heart condition. That’s what will kill them.

  96. 96.

    Johannes

    @cathyx: I am so sorry for your loss. His life was richer for your presence in it, and I hope that is some comfort.

  97. 97.

    Heliopause

    Interesting that half the comments are “sorry for the loss of your cat” and the other half are “what’s an appropriate torture for Ross Douthat?”

  99. 99.

    Donut

    Oh fuck it. I’m reading that awful piece and by the third ‘graph Douthat is already all twisted up and mired in the worst kind of sophistry, and I had to make myself stop skimming ahead to try to figure out what the fuckimg point is. His thesis, such as it is, is fucking obscure, to be generous, and so shrouded in jargon and generalizations, he makes my three year old’s favorite books (Lego Star Wars) look deep. How the FUCK does this guy get paid to write? I hate it when front pagers link to the Times columnists. Makes me a little crazy.

  100. 100.

    PurpleGirl

    @Heliopause: Douthat is a pompous ass who gives us much pain and agita.

    Our animal companions give us much love and joy and are, no doubt, much more intelligent than Douthat.

  101. 101.

    mattH

    @ Douthat

    Fuck your fucking shit. My cat hacks up hairballs with more coherency.

    How the FUCK does this guy get paid to write?

    Privatization of the Fairness Doctrine. Mind you, this is the best they could come up with at the NYT. Proof that the private sector doesn’t always do a better job.

  103. 103.

    bjacques

    @jl: Yeah, I noticed that too. He really went after Fisher. Douchehat is destined for the Inferno, Eighth Circle (Fraud). Dante famously noted 10 pockets (bolgia), and Chunky Bobo could end up in Pocket 6 (hypocrites) or Pocket 8 (Evil counselors).

    But I have it on good authority that two more pockets have been added in the last couple of decades, for intellectual hacks (#11) and concern trolls (#12). The intellectual hacks are force-fed their own books, crap them out and have to eat them again. Concern trolls wear an eternal expression of worry. They also have a hundred hands and wring them all the time.

    Douchehat will end up in both places.

  104. 104.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    THE current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine includes

    I stopped right there.

  105. 105.

    qwerty42

    Ross Douthat calls pro-choicers Nazis.

    I’ll overlook the article with its preposterous statement. I assume, though, he also identifies how the Pro-Choicers had a “Night of the Long Knives”, and were would they be without the burning of the Reichstag? And what, exactly, does that mean for Pro-Choice? And we can’t overlook the Pro-Choice equivalent of the Nuremberg rallies, which would be …? And the Kristallnacht? And the German Insurance companies? Or, and I’m just reaching here, Ross has no real idea of the Nazis, Pro-Choice or much of anything. These are all just words to him. They have no meaning, at least none that he understands. I had thought he at least knew better than that.

  106. 106.

    J R in WV

    @cathyx:

    It is so sad when our furry friends pass even sooner than we expect they will. I feel for your loss. And what a very pretty friend.

    Not very long ago my best friend dog, Step Aside Clyde went on a morning ramble through the woods, as he did most every day the weather was decent, and never came home. He was 11 or 12, way too young, saw his Vet regularly, and all that, and I miss him still

    But as others have said, far better to miss them when they’re gone, than never to have loved them at all!

    Best wishes for you and your remaining furry friends!
    JR

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