Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Republicans in disarray!

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

When the time comes to make an endorsement, the pain of NYT editors will be palpable as they reluctantly whisper “Biden.”

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Let me file that under fuck it.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

The lights are all blinking red.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

You cannot shame the shameless.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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  3. 3.

    Keith

    Question: what is the thing that Meatloaf will not do?

    Let Gary Busey use his paints.

  4. 4.

    Gin & Tonic

    Here is a fascinating graphic highlighting New York city’s stop-and-frisk policy with its success (or lack) in turning up guns. It’s fascinating both from a policy perspective — showing that the most guns are found in areas where stop-and-frisk is not practiced — and from a data analysis and presentation perspective. Zoom in and you can move around the city block by block (helps to know the city a bit.)

  5. 5.

    BGK

    It’s getting a little frustrating that the President is supposed to make a campaign stop in town this coming Friday, and there’s still no information. Not about tickets, not even the venue. Not even the party hacks know anything. I understand some of that is security-related, but there was a week’s notice for his 2009 visit (which, true, was Presidential and not campaign-related).

    Anyone who’s been to a recent campaign event – is this normal?

  6. 6.

    superking

    I’ve never understood why people didn’t get this song. It’s pretty clear if you listen to the end . . .

  8. 8.

    Carnacki

    My favorite meatloaf is made in muffin tins because everyone in my family likes the crunch bits. My favorite Meat Loaf song is Bat out of Hell.

    “…like a sinner before the gates of heaven I’ll come crawling on back to you.”

  12. 12.

    Warren Terra

    I like the Literal Video version of that music video.

    In a more political vein, I’d like to see some good use made of the following:
    1) Ed Gillepie says Romney isn’t responsible for Bain’s actions from 1999 to 2002, because Romney “retroactively retired”.
    2) When Romney wanted to run for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002, it was discovered he hadn’t been paying taxes as a Massachusetts resident – and MA residency is required to run for governor. So Romney paid his back taxes, and “retroactively” became a Massachusetts citizen.
    3) It’s being speculated that Romney paid little or no taxes in 2008 or 2009 – too little to (politically) qualify to run for President. Maybe ha can fix this with a little retroactivity, too?

  14. 14.

    gelfling545

    Well just last week my daughter speculated that it was go to Chuck E Cheese with a significant other’s 2 pre-schoolers. She also declined the privilege.

  17. 17.

    John

    Question: what is the thing that Meatloaf will not do?

    Answer:

    That.

    Alternately:

    Forget everything, see that it’s time to move on, screw around (sooner or later).

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    @Meg:
    Right on, score one for the little guys. Now let’s see whether they actually pull him from the NPR Rolodexes.

  20. 20.

    Karen in GA

    Hose you down with holy water if you get too hot? Oh, no, wait, he would. How would it work, though? Does the priest bless a hydrant, or…?

  25. 25.

    Less Popular Tim

    Not really related, but what I’ve never been able to figure out, is: What is the way that the Backstreet Boys don’t ever want to hear you say you want it?

  29. 29.

    JR

    Mr. Loaf will never…

    …forget the way you feel right now.
    …forgive myself if we don’t go all the way tonight.
    …do it better than I do it with you (so long, so long).
    …stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way.

    And he won’t…

    …forget everything…and see that it’s time to move on.
    … be screwing around.

  35. 35.

    El Cid

    He won’t build his own business, because somebody else will?

    He won’t build roads and bridges?

  38. 38.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    TRUMP “Meat Loaf, should I run for President?”

    LOAF: “Absolutely!”

  39. 39.

    Schlemizel

    I always had an image of the singer of this song all trussed up in black latex chained to a a post with a ball gag, butt plug and hamster all inserted as necessary.

  40. 40.

    MCA1

    Join Mitt’s ticket

    Actually, isn’t this what Mitch Daniels was singing all last Fall?

  41. 41.

    jp7505a

    Rush continues to lead us into that brave new reality of GOP world. Seems the villian in the new Batman move is named BANE, hence it is part of the librul plot to attack Mittens. Never mind that the character was developed for the comic version in 1993, the Hollywood liberals knew when they made the movie that it would be released in time to embarrass poor Mit.

    When I first heard this on a new report my reaction was the ONION must be at it again, but the GOOGLE has a number of hits on Rush and Batman.

    I think it is time to move to an unihabited desert island

  43. 43.

    tworivers

    What is the thing that Meatloaf will not do?

    Bowl on Saturday. His reasoning is as follows:

    “Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don’t work, I don’t drive a car, I don’t fucking ride in a car, I don’t handle money, I don’t turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don’t fucking roll!”

  46. 46.

    GxB

    @El Cid: Yeah, he just does a leveraged buyout and sells off the assets for profits…

    Wait a second, that would be MittLoaf.

  47. 47.

    AkaDad

    He’s never gonna give you up and he’s never gonna let you down.

    Edit-Dammit, Soonergrunt beat me to it.

  51. 51.

    Another Halocene Human

    I’ve always hated that damn song.

    Anyway, since this is an open thread, just found this on youtube Martin Luther King — Poor People’s Campaign. It’s MLK ranting about how the US government subsidized white farmers in the west and midwest while leaving, over the course of a century, blacks disenfranchised and without support. It’s interesting because what did Breitbart use to vilsack Shirley Sherrod? Whitey paranoia over Black demands for reparations. And once again it was something pulled out of context, a greater context in which even in the 1980s the US government was giving funds to white farmers and denying them to black farmers.

    Like “gubmint hands off my medicare” this is rooted in a deep paranoia of the thief that what is stolen will be stolen back.

    While I’m not in Mass right now and following only at a distance, I wonder if Warren will lose because of the resentment of white New Englander who still fear the ghosts of the Algonquin peoples whose stolen lands they enjoy. They didn’t–quite–wipe them all out. I have seen New Englanders blow into a fearsome rage when confronted with the descendents of the people they murdered and robbed. It’s fun in Boston to make fun of ignorant racist white southerners, not so fun when the shoe is on the other foot, innit? Most Native Americans I have known in Massachusetts were living in poverty or very close to it. Their lands are among some of the most tony real estate in the country. They can’t even get approval to site a casino in rural Mass, as the Mohegans were able to do in CT. (I believe they had a small reservation, however.)

    When you destroy a people they’re supposed to stay destroyed, not keep hanging around and getting in your face.

    This is the damned part of human nature.

  52. 52.

    Geoduck

    @Uncle Ebeneezer:

    “A pterodactyl was a flyin fool Just a… – I thought Id break in and tell you what a pterodactyl was. Well, it was sort of a stork lookin bat with sharp teeth that cruised around lookin for… say, we havent changed a bit, have we cats?”

  54. 54.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Less Popular Tim: FUUUUCK! I. HATE. THAT. SONG.

    The most offensive, inane shit Britney Spears and her ridiculous family ever pulled had NOTHING on that song. No, not even K-Fed.

  55. 55.

    MosesZD

    The four things he says he will never do are:

    forget the way you feel right now
    forgive myself if we don’t go all the way tonight
    do it better than I do it with you, so long
    stop dreaming of you every night of my life

    It’s all in the song.

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