Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

We won’t go back.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Bark louder, little dog.

T R E 4 5 O N

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

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The Joe Soptic Ad is Gutter Politics, but the Romney Welfare Ad is Business as Usual?

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On the pants-crapping currently going on about the Priorities USA ad, I am throwing my hat into BooMan’s ring:

The only thing I’ll say in the ad’s defense is that we take attacks like that all day long from hate radio and Fox News and the rest of the Mighty Right-Wing Wurlitizer, and I don’t see Anderson Cooper getting his knickers in a twist about that too often.

The factual liberties in that ad are actually a bad idea because it makes it a lot easier to make the “both-sides-do it” argument. The inaccuracies are unnecessary. And if you don’t think his story packs enough punch when told straight, find someone else whose story requires less tweaking. The Bain Capital story doesn’t require any embellishment or exaggeration, so we shouldn’t undermine the power of our message with embellishment and exaggeration.

Here is the real story. Regardless of how many people Mitt Romney laid off when he owned Bain Capital, when he was the governor of Massachusetts he thought that no one should die because they didn’t have employer-provided health care. And he did something about it. But he has totally disavowed that philosophy. So, decisions made by Bain Capital cost a man his job and his health care, which ultimately meant that his wife delayed seeing a doctor and didn’t have any insurance when she found out that she was sick with cancer. Romney had a solution for that problem when he was governor, but he has no solution for that problem now.

Precisely.

Also, too:

[Holy crap you’ll have to click this link to read the rest! Whatever will you do? Click? Refuse to click? Click and then complain about it in the comments for the umpteenth time? Either way, I am responsible for degrading this fine establishment and you should email Cole about it. ]

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  2. 2.

    jl

    As I said in previous thread. if you are a chickenshit, you cannot confront the bullying tactics that the GOP and Mitt use.

    So, this election will provide a good set of tests for which pundits are chickeshit losers and which are not.

    It amazes me that the issue of whether there is any truth behind a hard hitting GOP or Democratic ad seldom enters these chickenshit analyses in any significant way.

    Chickenshits spend their time posturing and gaming their own analysis, and dithering, in order to avoid confronting the bullying tactics of the GOP and Romney.

  4. 4.

    Soonergrunt

    I moved my post so as not to interfere with this or DougJ’s, both of which are quite good.

  5. 5.

    AnotherBruce

    I think I’ll complain about clicking on that link because I’m too lazy to click on that link even though complaining about clicking that link will be more effort than actually clicking on that link.

  6. 6.

    jl

    And before I catch PC objections, I apologize to chickenshit, which if properly handled, is a worthy substance with many uses in this world.

    I just can’t think of a better term now.

  8. 8.

    LanceThruster

    You almost had me there, ABL. I waved my cursor over the embedded link you provided, but then remembered in the nick of time that doing so was the absolute worstest thing that could happen, EVAH!

    Just thought you should know you’ve got to get up pretty early in the morning to pull one over on me.

    Nothing personal.

  9. 9.

    Steve

    Since Anderson Cooper is the target of this quote, didn’t Anderson Cooper give Newt Gingrich a hard time about the false welfare ad, to the point where Newt finally had to admit that they have no evidence Obama is actually doing any of the things they accuse him of?

  11. 11.

    Comrade Mary

    [Holy crap you’ll have to click this link to read the rest! Whatever will you do? Click? Refuse to click? Click and then complain about it in the comments for the umpteenth time? Either way, I am responsible for degrading this fine establishment and you should email Cole about it. ]

    I HAVE DECISION FATIGUE AND YOU’RE NOT HELPING!

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    that shows you how much this ad is hitting the mark.

    not only against Willard, but the entire GOP Philosophy of the past 30 years.

  13. 13.

    scav

    Well, I remembered to bring the lace doilies to set underneath the daintily cut watercress sandwiches for victory, but I seem to have forgotten the Darjeeling. Can anyone help? She’s here ever so often.

  14. 14.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @scav: She’s in traction in the hospital. Apparently, some miscreant slipped a pea under her mattress.

  17. 17.

    Valdivia

    @ABL:

    I love reading you and always follow to read the whole thing, would be great (a girl can dream no?) if when we clicked the page would appear in another tab so we can read there and still keep the present tab where it is. I know, I am a pain in the ass. Easier to read on an iPad that way while I am spending the day in the hospital.

  18. 18.

    Randy P

    @ABL: We’re having the same day then, because your “Holy crap” link made me LOL and then killjoy compounded it.

    I’ve been having increasingly grumpy phone calls with a contractor all day, repeating the same requirements 20 times with less and less patience. I’m afraid a less than professional snideness may have gotten into some of the email chain.

  19. 19.

    RossinDetroit

    admittedly, i am a tad cranky today.

    Fixd. And good for you. The dems need a good cranking to get them going.

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    Here’s the other thing: it’s not like Reid is saying that Romney is a secret alcoholic, or a gay drug addict, or something like that. He’s saying that he’s been told that Romney didn’t pay taxes.

    Have we really reached the point where pointing out that a really rich person may be using shady methods to hold onto those riches is worse than claiming that someone is a non-citizen who illegally ran for president?

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne

    @Valdivia:

    I know how! Instead of just clicking on the link, click and hold, and the iPad should give you an option to “Open in New Page.” Click on that, close it when you’re done, and the B-J page will still be open and waiting for you. You can have something like 12 pages open at a time, IIRC.

    That is, unless ABL has done something fancy to disable that ability, which would seem to be well beyond her HTML skillz.

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    Yes, the Soptic ad is gutter politics. Yes, the welfare ad is business as usual.

    Gutter politics are business as usual for Republicans. Democrats are forbidden to engage in gutter politics.

    Did you change you address without giving notice? Because you clearly didn’t get the memo.

  27. 27.

    ABL

    @Valdivia: That I can do. When I use WP for iPad, I can’t seem to figure out how to link so it appears in a new tab. I will look into that. I’ll just figure out what that extra bit of HTML is.

    See? I’m totes reasonable.

    ( Sometimes.)

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    @ABL:

    The target attribute specifies where to open the linked document. Use _blank to open the linked document in a new tab or window. (I think it defaults to tab. That may depend on your browser.)

    Example:

    <a href=”http://www.angryblackladychronicles.com/” target=”_blank”>Holy crap! That site!</a>

    should get you this: Holy crap! That site!

    N.B. FYWP may do some weird shit where it doesn’t allow the opening of a new tab. Let’s give it a whirl . . .

  31. 31.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    Man, I really hate FYWP. It’s really hard to show HTML in it, and the FYWP rules are different in composition and editing. Hopefully this butchered example will give you enough of an idea to go on.

    And it appears that FYWP does knock out the target attribute, at least for us peons. It might work for you, since you have the double-secret front-pager decoder ring.

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