Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The revolution will be supervised.

In my day, never was longer.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Everybody saw this coming.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Let there be snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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  4. 4.

    MikeJ

    Someone was asking a few threads back about a Seattle meetup in honour of BGinChi. I was unable to answer ’cause I don’t know the status. Is Herr inChi around to tell us more?

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    I had read the transcript, but I hadn’t seen the video. Wow, Obama seems angry, or wound up, or something. It’s a different speaking style than usual. He never talks that fast!

  6. 6.

    vestigial

    Wait, did Obama just say the Ryan plan was to have us all pay for the wealthiest Americans to take year-long global cruises on our aircraft carriers?

  9. 9.

    MikeBoyScout

    Let’s just say it, shall we?

    Obama/Biden are on FIRE.

    The video feeds of their speeches these past two days can bring the landslide, and they’re just getting started.

    Thanks Gekko/Galt.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    @MikeBoyScout: The whole campaign. Press secretary Ben LaBolt had this tonight:

    Governor Romney’s comments tonight seemed unhinged, and particularly strange coming at a time when he’s pouring tens of millions of dollars into negative ads that are demonstrably false.

  13. 13.

    Allen

    @Anibundel:
    I was having a curried chicken sandwich which my oldest cat took an interest in. As she is rather long-haired, I thought she would make a good napkin. She is now busy de-currying herself.

  16. 16.

    Anibundel

    @Allen: I tried to spritz the kitties off the counter. Trouble(the back one) ran. Sir EatsALot sat his ground, scrunched his face and determinedly tried to wait until it was over.
    He is now licking his drenched patches and looking at me resentfully from the cat tree.

  18. 18.

    Karmus

    I know I’ve become cynical. I never thought I would feel so good about a president.

    Obama has not done everything to my complete satisfaction, but when it comes to having an overall plan, and executing in the face of the most absurd obstacles–

    I’m just downright proud of the man. It makes me sick that so many people appear unable to see past their own hate in order to perceive the quality that seems so clearly evident to me.

  19. 19.

    suzanne

    I won’t be calm until after this election is over. I’m relatively young, but the first election in which I voted was the stolen one, and I have no confidence that FSM will smile on me again.

  20. 20.

    JCT

    We have finally successfully melded our 5 pets – 2 beagles and our big male cat from NYC and the two young females from AZ. Doing surprisingly well with some dust-ups between the kittehs, the dogs are becoming quite adept at breaking up the mayhem by barreling into them.

    The alpha female kitty from AZ screams like she is being drawn and quartered when the male puss messes with her though.

    At first I had all the cats in a trailer – that didn’t go too well!

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    @Hypatia’s Momma: Meanwhile, the Family Policy Institute of Washington is campaigning against marriage. Makes you wonder about their members. Uh, not their members. I don’t care about those. They can do whatever they like with their members. They just seem a little *too* interested in what other people are doing with theirs. Members.

  24. 24.

    Hill Dweller

    @MikeJ: Running for President has become brutal. It is a grueling schedule, with unending pressure and scrutiny. A young man would have a very hard time enduring it. At 65, with no real experience participating in a campaign of this length, Willard has to be feeling it.

    Couple that with Willard’s past tantrums when not getting his way, and I can see him getting more and more unhinged if things continue going badly for him.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    It seemed pretty clear in 2008 that Obama seemed got energy from speaking with crowds and that it was the opposite for HIllary Clinton – it seemed like it drained energy from her. Sounds like Willard is in the latter category. Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack: Okay, now that’s funny!

    He may not be a self-hating Jew, though, since he now wants to pay his respects to the Holocaust martyrs. What a turnaround of perspectives.

    Still, you made me laugh out loud.

  29. 29.

    The Thin Black Duke

    Y’know, if Romney was a human being instead of an obedient tool of the Borg Collective, I might feel sorry for him. Not.

  31. 31.

    mai naem

    Charlie Pierce has a piece on Rmoney being in Ohio with a coalminers with an accompanying pic. Granted that its a pic catching a single moment but the body language of the miners to me comes across as a cross between apathy towards a pol and just plain naked hostility towards Rmoney.

  32. 32.

    scav

    @Hypatia’s Momma: Imagine being an Auschwitz survivor and watching your grandson’s ascendant career and saying nothing. Pretty much not being able to say anything. That’s got a certain horror to it.

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    @mai naem: Wow. Romney needs to get a pok-er face.

    What I find fascinating in that photo is that Romney actually seems to feel the antipathy of the miners. I would have expected him to be oblivious.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    @Hypatia’s Momma:
    How are you enjoying Kampung Boy and Town Boy? There are no finer evocations of Malaya/Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s. If you’re discovering Lat for the first time, you should also look out for the collections of his cartoons for the New Straits Times, starting with the equally classic Lots of Lat and Lots More Lat.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    @mai naem: My reply to you is still in moderation. Apparently I mentioned a special game of cards that people often play for money. FYWP.

    Wow. Romney needs to get a p0ker face.

    What I find fascinating in that photo is that Romney actually seems to feel the antipathy of the miners. I would have expected him to be oblivious.

  39. 39.

    Hypatia's Momma

    @Amir Khalid:
    I love them and I’ve been anxiously waiting for FirstSecond Publishers to bring out the third autobiography (“Mat”). I’ve read them several times because they are great re-reads.

    Two years ago, I found a copy of Lat as usual at a Friends of the Library sale but haven’t seen any of his other work since. One can find these things on Amazon but that’s not affordable right now.

  40. 40.

    RadioOne

    the GOP is poised to draw new attention to Obama’s foreign policy skills by releasing a 22 minute video attempting to swift-boat Obama’s claim that he ordered Bin Laden’s assassination. According to someone from Seal Team 6 and other advisers from the DoD, not only was Obama not really interested in making the decision, he actually worked hard to impair the whole operation itself.

  45. 45.

    Catsy

    @RadioOne:

    According to someone from Seal Team 6

    And right there is where I call bullshit on their bullshit.

    I strongly doubt anyone who’s actually from Seal Team 6 would be talking about it–least of all in a way that badmouths the CIC.

  46. 46.

    Hypatia's Momma

    @MikeJ:
    I really do not get this right-wing fascination with the sex lives of fully consenting adults. Other people’s sex lives are not only none of my business but are also boring (to me).

    The mirror-side of that would be the various fandom obsessions with shipping and slash fan-fic.

  47. 47.

    Hypatia's Momma

    @WaterGirl:
    I’m glad he was able to take that in and make amends to others. Maybe not full amends but it’s a start and a good thing.

  48. 48.

    NotMax

    @Catsy

    According to someone from Seal Team 6

    Big, big difference between that and someone from Seal Team 6 who was actually present at the time.

  54. 54.

    Yutsano

    @Catsy: If they’re AD no way in fucking hell are they talking, especially shit about the CIC. And if they’re retired they don’t know shit about what happened.

  55. 55.

    Hill Dweller

    @Catsy: There is a wingnut former Seal Team member turned state legislator(Montana?) that was starting a superPAC to go after Obama. This might be the same guy, but I suspect whoever is attempting this will end up looking pathetic, especially after the head of JSOC has said such glowing things about the President.

  57. 57.

    NotMax

    Here’s some info. “Not political,” my Aunt Fanny.

    A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives is set to launch a media campaign, including TV ads, that scolds President Barack Obama for taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and argues that high-level leaks are endangering American lives.
    __
    The OPSEC group says it is not political and aims to save American lives.…
    __
    The president of Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Inc, Scott Taylor, is a former Navy SEAL who in 2010 ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for a congressional seat in Virginia.
    __
    Following the film’s release, OPSEC’s spokesmen said, the group expects to produce TV spots on the anti-leak theme that will air in a number of states, including Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, North Carolina and Nevada – key battleground states.  Source

  58. 58.

    Hill Dweller

    @NotMax: If it is the same wingnut who recently released a stupid statement informing the public he was forming a SuperPAC, I don’t think he was in any way involved with the OBL operation.

    It’s probably a wingnut billionaire’s shameless attempt to use a former SEAL turned ambitious politician to slander Obama.

  60. 60.

    Calouste

    Weren’t those leaks traced back to informatin shared in a number of House intelligence committee meetings, and wasn’t the only House member to attend all those meetings Michele Bachmann?

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @Allen: Yay. I didn’t know that onions are a big problem for kitties until my kitty was dying of kidney failure and anemia. Even foods with onion salt are bad. He LOVED cheese goldfish – would try to stick his head in the bowl if I was eating them – and cheese goldfish have onion salt. Who knew?

    So I have been left wondering if I inadvertently contributed to his disease, and I am super careful about what i give my kitties now.

  63. 63.

    AxelFoley

    @RadioOne:

    the GOP is poised to draw new attention to Obama’s foreign policy skills by releasing a 22 minute video attempting to swift-boat Obama’s claim that he ordered Bin Laden’s assassination. According to someone from Seal Team 6 and other advisers from the DoD, not only was Obama not really interested in making the decision, he actually worked hard to impair the whole operation itself.

    Gonna be hard for them to dispute this:

    http://static.infowars.com/2012/04/i/general/Situation-Room-phony-bin-laden-raid.jpg

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