Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

How stupid are these people?

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

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

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

In after Baud. Damn.

Let there be snark.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    Reggie Bush has a bum ankle, Michael Bush a bum shoulder. Anyone know how George and any number of 70’s female porn stars are doing?

  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Nemo_N:

    Captain Obvious is obvious.

    Captain Obvious also, obviously, is not employed by one of the MSM corporations, who require you to not be so blunt, although that doesn’t explain why Joe Scar still has a job after that amazing double face palm of the other day, accompanied by a “Sweet Jesus!”

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    At this point, if Mitt should, post-debate, zoom up to, say, a 27% chance in Nate Silver’s estimate, expect him to crow about a 50% increase in his standing.

    As Barbie once opined: “Math is hard.”

  7. 7.

    BGK

    I’ve spoken of the Real Men of Genius at my job before. That’s the name we Big Pants People have given to the immature cubicle ferrets outside our offices. They’re all overgrown boys with an average maturity-age of 15. They’re currently swapping wife/S.O. stories. A married one is lamenting how his wife isn’t “putting out” because he’s a slug when it comes to household chores. Another is practically flailing because he’s not “getting any” from his long-time girlfriend, and won’t for another month, because of her recent back surgery.

    I post this here because longing for the release of death only goes so far.

    I ask, meekly, the Baby Jesus: “what have I done to deserve this sh!t?”

  9. 9.

    Geeno

    @Dork: Wasn’t the lead there like 11% last week? Trends are trends, and you can’t hide them without constantly shifting your formulas.

  11. 11.

    BGK

    Also too, I’m mightily impressed at how quickly the R messaging machine has beamed the latest talking points into the branes of the faithful. The Fox News-watching oldsters at the gym this morning were animatedly discussing how badly the big polling orgnaizations were in the tank for “Obummer.” Last week they were dutifully screeching “makers and takers” and “earners and burners” like some species of parcticularly awful parrot. I do worry that, at their age, the whipsawing doublethink updates are going to give them strokes.

  15. 15.

    weaselone

    @BGK:

    The Fox News-watching oldsters at the gym this morning were animatedly discussing how badly the big polling orgnaizations were in the tank for “Obummer.”

    This particular item almost causes my ears to start bleeding. Fox’s own sponsored polls agree with the “liberally” biased polling outfits.

  16. 16.

    jibeaux

    @BGK: It’s wrong of me, but the verb I feel thinking about those guys’ health isn’t “worry”.

    At least I don’t have to work with guys more worried about a sexual slowdown than their girlfriend’s back, though, so there’s that.

  18. 18.

    peach flavored shampoo

    The Fox News-watching oldsters at the gym this morning were animatedly discussing how badly the big polling orgnaizations were in the tank for “Obummer.”

    Cannot count the number of times some smokin hot chick walks by me at the gym, jumps on the treadmill, and turns on Fox News. Suddenly, she’s not hot anymore. Sucks that hotness gets intertwined with perceived intelligence, but that’s just how my brain rolls.

  19. 19.

    Violet

    I really like her voice. Thanks for the link. Sort of reminds me of early Tracy Chapman. But not quite…

    @BGK:

    I’ve spoken of the Real Men of Genius at my job before.

    I thought you were talking about a band. If that’s not a band name it should be.

    Those guys sound like assholes. I’ve encountered those types before. One, who worked for a large international corporation at a fairly high level of responsibility, referred to his pregnant, similarly-employed wife–while we were all at a business dinner (including his wife)–as “his little insurance policy.” Little wonder she left him when he took up with the maid or nanny or whoever.

  21. 21.

    Violet

    @scav: I have no idea. I was sitting across the table from her when he said that. She was so pregnant she was about to pop. Had the baby about ten days later I think. She shot him a look like, “WTF? You asshole!” I caught her eye and tried to send a sympathetic, “Men are pigs” look, but I think she was just too humiliated by the whole thing to want anyone to acknowledge it.

    I think she stuck with him because of the baby. Of course when he started cheating with the nanny or maid or whoever when the baby was born, she was out of there.

    He was such a jerk I have no idea why she married him in the first place. She could have done much better.

  22. 22.

    Jay in Oregon

    @Culture of Truth:

    “I like kitties and puppies and little animals.” – Vladimir Putin

    …thrown together and baked at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, and served with garlic butter and lemon.

  23. 23.

    Schlemizel

    Ex-QB Jim McMahon is reporting he has early dementia

    Good thing they had the official refs when he played or someone could have really gotten hurt!

  24. 24.

    peach flavored shampoo

    as “his little insurance policy.”

    I dont understand what this means. That her death brings him money, or that the incoming kid would likely keep her from divorcing him, or what?

  27. 27.

    BGK

    @peach flavored shampoo:

    Cannot count the number of times some smokin hot chick walks by me at the gym, jumps on the treadmill, and turns on Fox News. Suddenly, she’s not hot anymore. Sucks that hotness gets intertwined with perceived intelligence, but that’s just how my brain rolls.

    I’m definitely in the same boat with regards attractiveness and conservatism.

    Single ladies my age are in painfully short supply at my gym, and only one of the younger regulars is a Foxhead. In fact, my usual workout partner/oogling object shares my lefty enthusiams, and we’ve started openly mocking the oldsters. Neither of us has what one would say is a quiet voice, and we both enjoy the death rays beamed our way.

  28. 28.

    BGK

    @Bobby Thomson:

    I see you are not familiar with all beer commercial traditions.

    Yep, blatantly stolen without attribution. What A-B said with a lowbrow blue-collar irony, I say with caustic cynicism.

    Also too, our RMoG are co-ed. The one woman, however, is a militant libertarian, gun-fetishist, ex-Hoboken-hispter, and lesbian. She comes in at noon, so she didn’t participate in the conversation. I’d be really interested, in a strictly anthropoligcal way, how she would’ve participated (hint: it would’ve neither elevated the conversation nor brought a feminist perspective).

  29. 29.

    Pongo

    Loved that TBogg post when it was an original and it’s still as good today. Why didn’t “You don’t live there. Grow the fuck up’ become a bumper sticker?

  31. 31.

    Violet

    @Bobby Thomson: Oh, no, I’m not. I don’t watch enough sports to watch very many beer commercials. Thanks for the update. Still sounds like it should be a band.

    @peach flavored shampoo:

    I dont understand what this means. That her death brings him money, or that the incoming kid would likely keep her from divorcing him, or what?

    It was in a discussion of jobs and how his wife had a great job as the same Multinational Corporation, or something along those lines. It’s been a few years so I can’t remember exactly. But the implication was that if he got fired, his wife had a great job and made tons of money so could keep him in the lifestyle to which he was clearly wishing to become accustomed.

    It just came across as completely dickish, no matter how you interpret it. She was miserable at the dinner (no idea why she came because she didn’t work in the department), and kept having to get up to go to the bathroom. For him to refer to his hard-working, visibly uncomfortable, very pregnant wife as an “insurance policy” was just a completely dick move.

  36. 36.

    Nemo_N

    OH SHI-! Nethanyahu just pulled a chart in the shape of a bomb during his UN speech! Oh boy, war should start any time now!

  37. 37.

    danielx

    @Pongo:

    I’ve forwarded the link to that piece half a dozen times. It still brings tears of laughter to my eyes when I read the reactions. My personal favorite being “that’s SO mean…but true”.

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