Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

People are weird.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

In after Baud. Damn.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

People are complicated. Love is not.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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  5. 5.

    Comrade Luke

    As long as you’re getting banned, why not go after this person too:

    @NYCVixen: Once again the crowd shots at the #DNC are a cross between a welfare office, LGBTQ center and attendees at a Memphis block party. #DNC2012

    As opposed to the white out in Tampa last week.

  18. 18.

    d0n camillo

    I remember reading how Welch had intervened to have NBC declare Bush the winnder over Gore becuase he thought the former would be better for the economy. We really are living in his world then, the fucker.

  20. 20.

    Mary G

    Is that your real last name? Everyone is shedding anonymity on the blog this year.

    Now go to Reuters, where they have a story that Obama has failed to get any bounce from the convention. Seriously.

  24. 24.

    LanceThruster

    @Comrade Luke:

    @NYCVixen: Once again the crowd shots at the #DNC are a cross between a welfare office, LGBTQ center and attendees at a Memphis block party. #DNC2012

    Or…the university where I work.

    just sayin’.

  26. 26.

    BGinCHI

    Let’s also be clear. The Baby Boomers are not, not the solution to the current problems of this country.

    Young people are not going to be fooled by rich assholes just because they are rich.

    Nostalgia is dead if you are under 40.

    /I’m over 40, so I know what I’m saying.

  27. 27.

    spiffy

    Jack Welch needs to go the fuck away. And I agree with whomever said it wasn’t him typing out the tweets. That’s what underlings are for – like the guy who cleans Jerry Jones’ glasses.

  28. 28.

    LanceThruster

    @Mary G:

    Now go to Reuters, where they have a story that Obama has failed to get any bounce from the convention. Seriously.

    More like he cratered the RobbMe/Lyin’ 2012 campaign.

  37. 37.

    joeyess

    banned for telling the truth?

    That’s alright. I got this from CNN today after complaining that that fat ginger of an excuse they call an analyst Erick son of Erick son of Erick..

    I first sent them this:


    General comments    : I would like to know why you hired and continue to employ the despicable excuse for a human being and otherwise repugnant pundit Erick Erickson.
    His “vagina monologues” comment about the Democratic National Convention on twitter has no place in our national discourse, (other than somewhere as useless and trite as twitter) let alone his presence be given a platform on your broadcast as some kind of “analyst”. He’s crass and deplorable. I would also like to mention his outburst regarding former SCOTUS member Justice Souter in which Erickson suggested that the Justice had sex with goats.
    It is this level of nonsense that makes me avoid anything that CNN broadcasts. Lose him, gain a viewer. Keep him and I tell everyone I know, meet, and converse with that CNN is not worthy of their viewership. I am very persuasive.
    Thank you.


    Shortly received this:

    Hello, Joseph,

    Thank you for taking time to share your opinion with us regarding CNN contributor Erik Erickson. It is very important to us to hear from our viewers, and we value constructive criticism as much as positive feedback.
    We understand that the viewing public wants CNN to be accountable to their concerns, which is why Viewer Communications exists. We are a vehicle for your voice to be heard in the editorial process.
    Your comments will be part of tomorrow’s viewer response report, which is made available to our news division and senior management.
    Thanks again for continued interest, and your feedback regarding CNN, as we work to provide you the best programming possible.
    Sincerely,
    Lola
    Viewer Communications Management

    I have no idea what any of that means and it probably means nothing, but it felt good.

  41. 41.

    1badbaba3

    Holy shit man, that old fuck is likely to send his GE flying monkeys to kill the blog: front pagers and readers, friends and families, pets. Where will it end, DougJ? Where will it end?

    Nicely done Ensign Crusher. Nicely done.

  42. 42.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @BGinCHI:

    Nostalgia is dead if you are under 40.

    Not really. You should hear some of them talk about how great 90s music was.

  43. 43.

    LanceThruster

    @BGinCHI:

    My new ‘hood is supposed to be pretty red demographically (the immediate vicinity), but the wider area is wonderfully diverse. The people not “white bread” like me are, as Biden once remarked “clean,” in the unremarkable sense (regular people). Many people came to the region to escape inner city crime and for affordable housing. I swear, almost every person I meet (mostly in the local stores) could be the focus of corporate training videos. They’re well-spoken and polite naturally without any sense that they’re putting on a facade.

    I like it here very much.

  46. 46.

    LanceThruster

    @1badbaba3:

    Holy shit man, that old fuck is likely to send his GE flying monkeys to kill the blog: front pagers and readers, friends and families, pets.

    Bring it. Let’s dance.

  47. 47.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @joeyess:

    Your comments will be part of tomorrow’s viewer response report, which is made available to our news division and senior management.

    We make a report. Nobody reads it.

  50. 50.

    LanceThruster

    @Tim:

    I’m just going to go out on a limb here and say wishing for another’s death isn’t healthy.

    Damn straight. Wish in one hand, spit in the other, and see which piles up first.

  52. 52.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @BGinCHI: Who said I hated them? I’m just pointing out that the U40 crew have their own nostalgia, just like everyone else.

    Besides, everyone knows the 80s had the BEST music. ;)

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’ve never been able to find it, but I swear Welch was on Tweety in ’06, fairly whimpering about how he couldn’t understand how everything had gone so wrong, when President Bush made all the right decisions! He really looked Grampa Simpson.

  62. 62.

    JoyfulA

    I read his Twitter feed. He deserves worse than what you wrote. He’s a poor excuse for a human being.

  63. 63.

    Ronzoni Rigatoni

    @joeyess:”I have no idea what any of that means and it probably means nothing, but it felt good.”

    You might be surprised. I was a Union guy with a Federal Union in Miami for many years, and my letters to the editor, as well as inside info to reporters, got many an asshole transferred to Nogales or worse.

  64. 64.

    Cain

    @BGinCHI:

    @arguingwithsignposts: I’ll tumble for ya.

    Do you really want to hurt me

    If he mananages to do that, “it would be a miracle”

  65. 65.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @joeyess:

    Your comments will be part of tomorrow’s viewer response report, which is made available to our news division and senior management.

    “Made available”. There’s the tell.

  66. 66.

    LanceThruster

    @BGinCHI:

    From the San Gabriel Valley (Los Angeles basin) and moved to the high desert because of white neighbor off-roader kids with rumbling modified exhausts and insanely loud boom stereos and connections to corrupt police (their parents have something to do with the fire dept.).

  67. 67.

    BGinCHI

    @Cain: Ironically, in the 80s we partied like it was 1999.

    But in 1999 we only partied once in a while, and then it was forced and some of us didn’t even show up.

  69. 69.

    BGinCHI

    @LanceThruster: Wow. Imperial Valley? Mojave? Palms?

    I go out there a lot. Love the desert but not sure about living around there. Community not much in abundance….

  70. 70.

    Cain

    BTW I can’t believe how much Obama’s kids have grown up. Sasha is going to break some hearts I suspect in a year or two. Of course, if the guy can get past Michelle. :-)

  73. 73.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Wow. Gampy Welch is really a goon
    Jack Welch ‏@jack_welch

    Saw 2016 movie this weekend…provided perfect background for watching this weeks show in Charlotte
    On MTP…Gingrich a giant debater.Predict he will not be seen again on traditional Sunday Shows until after election

    and the winnah:

    On MTP Janesville plant closing date fact check error continues..Truth is plant was closed in 2009

    Of course, there never was a business so Galtian and free of gov’t spending as GE.

  77. 77.

    LanceThruster

    @BGinCHI: Just west of Palmdale. Bought the place from a lawyer friend who moved his family to New Zealand (he said the US laedership and voters were getting “meaner and stupider” and he didn’t want to be around for the meltdown).

    Was living in my father’s house when he remarried (was my home on and off for 50+ years) but my sister has moved in.
    These punks ruined the place but I was the only neighbor who spoke out. My lasting revenge is to call the sheriff on their illegal fireworks block party every 4th of July (my last words to them were “hope you like shitty fireworks”).

    Funny thing, I’m still in Mike Antonovich’s district (that sucks). I thought he could help on the noise disturbance issue but when all was said and done, nothing really changed. My suister thinks they’re not that nbad, but she doesn’t realize that to get them to the point they’re at, took a hell of a lot of holding their feet to the fire.

  82. 82.

    Yutsano

    @BGinCHI: Malia has basketball genes. I haven’t heard if she has any interest, but her uncle HAS to be making at least some kind of suggestion about it.

  83. 83.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @BGinCHI:

    I’m 22 and I’m all about nostalgia. I like my generation’s politics (mostly), but I hate its pop culture, or lack thereof. What the fuck kind of fond memories am I gonna look back on, pop-culture wise? Katy Perry? Michael fucking Bay? Annoying Orange?

  84. 84.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Yutsano: Malia has more of barack’s angular features. Sasha looks more like Michelle, imo.

    I have noticed that with families with two or more children – one looks more like the father and one more like the mother. Not sure why that happens, but it seems more than coincidence.

  86. 86.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Spaghetti Lee: Pop culture frequently sucks. In the 80s, the shit they put on MTV mostly sucked, except for the late night shows like 120 minutes and whatever that show was with peter zaremba.

  89. 89.

    Anne Laurie

    @? Martin: Well, seems she was desperately searching for attention. Sadly enough, that’s only about the fourth or fifth worst solution she could’ve hit on for her problem…

  90. 90.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @LanceThruster:

    Bringing back Toonami was the first good decision Adult Swim made in years. I like Aqua Teen and Sealab, but there’s a pretty high crap-to-good ratio on that block.

    As for the other two, I’m familiar with them but don’t watch them. They don’t look funny. Oh, as far as cartoons go, if anyone brings up My Little Pony I will fucking SHANK THEM.

  92. 92.

    Comrade Luke

    Apparently this is Anthony, from Opie & Anthony.

    @AnthonyCumia: Why are the polls so close if Obama did all these amazing things the past 4 yrs and Romney wants to destroy everything that’s good? #DNC2012

    I’m really, really rooting for a blowout. I want to rub their faces in it.

  93. 93.

    Death Panel Truck

    @Spaghetti Lee: You were born 30 years too late. I still remember the day I bought my Back in Black cassette in the summer of 1980. I had a green 1971 Dodge Demon 340, and my buddies and I drove around listening to that tape and smoking dope all day and half the night. I was 17, and it was a great time to be alive.

    I’m sorry you missed it. ;)

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    @arguingwithsignposts: I completely agree that it often seems like one child in a family got all of the dad’s genes and the other got all the mom’s.

    Funny thing is, I was just having this conversation with someone this morning, and we both agreed that it was the younger one, Sasha, who seems like Barack and Malia who seems like Michelle.

  95. 95.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    This is the guy who said he’d happily build a factory on an aircraft carrier, and float it around the world to wherever the cheapest labor sources were. This as he filled his pockets with defense dollars. Clearly a true patriot.

    I’d call him a harbinger of the Galtian parasites who came after him, but they don’t even bother to build the factory.

  96. 96.

    MattR

    @Comrade Luke: Wish I tweeted so I could respond with “If you haven’t realized that many Americans are dumb and misinformed, you’re part of that group”

  98. 98.

    Pinkamena Panic

    @Spaghetti Lee: I will love and tolerate the shit out of you. That said,

    Bringing back Toonami was the first good decision Adult Swim made in years. I like Aqua Teen and Sealab, but there’s a pretty high crap-to-good ratio on that block

    THIS. Toonami Faithful represent!

  100. 100.

    ellie

    Hahahahahaha! I had to click on the Follow button for that Tweet so you can’t get banned. I’m following you!

  104. 104.

    Cain

    How old is Malia, she can’t be more than 14 or 15. For her to be that tall at that age.. jeezus.. that’s just crazy tall. Her sister is going to be as tall too I suspect.

    They both look like wonderful kids who do not care about politics. :-)

  105. 105.

    ruemara

    @Spaghetti Lee: You got to give Regular Show and Adventure Time a shot. I was totally not going to do it, gave it a toss, now I’m completely into it. Love them. Try it, you know you’ll like it

  106. 106.

    slag

    Jesus Christ, DougJ. What were you thinking? I mean, getting banned from the NYT for the murder-suicide comment was totally worth it because it was funny. This is just stupid and makes you look like a lunatic. Try harder next time, please.

  107. 107.

    mai naem

    WTF Doug, I decide to go watch all the stuff I missed earlier this evening and you run a post about the tweets of Mr. Human Turtle Jack Welch? I cannot stand this mofo who’s made hundreds of millions of $$$ off this country, this mofo whose corporation aggresively used every freaking tax loophole so they don’t pay any taxes and then had the brass to complain about high corporate taxes???? That Jack Welch??? The same Jack Welch who was getting free sports tickets and free use of the GE corporate jet as part of his retirement package until his ex-wife to be released details of this agreement. Yeah,, Jack’s just a regular mini-me Newt Gingrich. Anyhoo, Jack comes on Morning Ho every so often. I believe the reason MTP’s hosts are so Republican friendly and Democratic unfriendly because of Jack Welch. Yeah, corporations are people, according to Jack.

  108. 108.

    CaliCat

    Doug – best tweet ever! Sometimes the gloves just need to come off so you can go fight club on their ass.

  109. 109.

    R-Jud

    @Cain:

    How old is Malia, she can’t be more than 14 or 15. For her to be that tall at that age.. jeezus.. that’s just crazy tall. Her sister is going to be as tall too I suspect.

    She’s 14, and pretty much every girl is done growing before age 16. I went from 5’4″ to 5’10” between age 12 and 14, but only grew another 3/4 inch after that.

    I hope she’s a little more graceful than I was at that age, because I remember icing a lot of bruises. Being tall usually means having giant flipper-feet that trip you up.

  110. 110.

    Stentor

    Fuck Jack Welch in the ass with the National Debt.

    He had the stupidest fucking workplace philosophy that it has ever been my displeasure to hear or read, namely that the lowest 10% in any company should be fired on an annual basis; that cocksucker should be hoisted up on a chain by his twisty bits & each one of his pubic hairs plucked out with a pair of rusty tweezers.

  114. 114.

    Concerned Citizen

    @CaliCat: It was a great tweet. The only downside for me is I went and read that horrible feed. What an asshole that guy is.

  115. 115.

    Nemesis

    Its embarassing to watch CNBC constantly felate this partisan asshole. He aint yer boss anymore.

  116. 116.

    The Moar You Know

    hurry up and die, you incontinent impotent sociopath

    I haven’t laughed this hard in the morning since I was a little kid. You’re a national treasure, Doug.

  118. 118.

    The Moar You Know

    He had the stupidest fucking workplace philosophy that it has ever been my displeasure to hear or read, namely that the lowest 10% in any company should be fired on an annual basis

    @Stentor: After Bill Gates left, that jackhole Steve Ballmer implemented this at Microsoft.

    The results have been disastrous.

  119. 119.

    Redleg

    Fuck Jack Welch. He’s a hack who thinks he knows everything about the economy because his tenure at GE was lauded by the business “press.”

    Jack has gotten too smart for his own good. He is pretending to knowledge and insight that he doesn’t have and can’t have because he hasn’t done even a cursory scan of the situation we’re facing. Just the same ol’ b.s.- more tax cuts for the wealthy and less regulation for business.

  121. 121.

    Larkspur

    @BGinCHI:

    Let’s also be clear. The Baby Boomers are not, not the solution to the current problems of this country. Young people are not going to be fooled by rich assholes just because they are rich…..

    This seems non-sequiturish if you meant it to refer to Jack Welch, who was born in 1935.

  122. 122.

    NobodySpecial

    Jack Welch is the guy who’s dumb enough he thought Bob Nardelli was a competent executive and foisted him off on several companies which suffered painfully as a result.

  129. 129.

    Haydnseek

    Excellent job, Doug. Wholeheartedly concur. Never let anybody tell you that wishing for terrible things to happen to someone is a bad thing. When Breitbart died, the champagne flowed like water, or maybe it was free-trade coffee, we being all librul and all…

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