Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Republicans do not trust women.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

In after Baud. Damn.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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Samuel L. Jackson Calmly Discusses The Issue Of Democratic Voter Lassitude

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One more celebrity weighing in on the imperatives of this election: (Bleeped, but not entirely SFW)

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(Non-bleeped, unequivocally NSFW original here.)

In other news — I just this moment received an email from one Barack Obama, asking me to send money…to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.  I know this is pretty close to routine, but still, I take it as a good sign for both the presidential race and what’s happening down ticket that he’s extending the use of his network to support the rest of the party.  It isn’t a big thing, of course, but still a positive.

And yeah, I know this is another drive-by post, but work is still brutal.  TL;DR posting to resume…but when? I dunno.

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  2. 2.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    Clearly Jackson was type cast for this role, mainly because nobody can say “fuck” as well as he can. Nobody.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    @chopper: I believe the canonical form is ‘I am sick and tired of these motherfucking Republicans in this motherfucking Senate’.

    But yes.

  5. 5.

    scav

    And thanks for the promise of more extremely long posts to come at a date to be determined later. Entirely too much crap for everyone to deal with immediately but even the potential of a more leisurely and less fraught time is a welcome reminder. Damn.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    @jeffreyw: Ah, for the more innocent times of yore when Congressmen were simply morons instead of assholes. Mark Twain: “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

  13. 13.

    Upper West

    Best part is at the end (coming the day after Yom Kippur): “Paid for by the Jewish Council for Education and Research.”

    F^(%$k Sheldon Adelson!

  17. 17.

    1badbaba3

    When Obama gets the FEMA re-education camps going after the landslide, here’s hoping Sam gets to do all the announcements.

    Totally fucking awesome.

  18. 18.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    I can’t be the only one who immediately thought of this when I saw the start of that video.

    ETA: Clearly, I wasn’t.

  22. 22.

    sherparick

    To show the alternative reality that goes out on Fox News, we have Worst Person of Two Decades (Newt Gingrich) make the following unchallenged, outrageous comments on Faux News (I wonder what kind of myth he is dealing here).

    Here’s Newtie being a racist piece of work:

    http://thehill.com/video/campaign/258689-gingrich-obama-not-a-real-president

    “[Obama] really is like the substitute [National Football League] referees in the sense that he’s not a real president,” Gingrich told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Tuesday night. “He doesn’t do anything that presidents do, he doesn’t worry about any of the things the presidents do, but he has the White House, he has enormous power, and he’ll go down in history as the president, and I suspect that he’s pretty contemptuous of the rest of us.

    This is a man who in an age of false celebrity-hood is sort of the perfect president, because he’s a false president,” he said. “He’s a guy that doesn’t do the president’s job.”


    You have to wonder what he’s doing. I’m assuming that there’s some rhythm to Barack Obama that the rest of us don’t understand. Whether he needs large amounts of rest, whether he needs to go play basketball for a while or watch ESPN, I mean, I don’t quite know what his rhythm is, but this is a guy that is a brilliant performer as an orator, who may very well get reelected at the present date, and who, frankly, he happens to be a partial, part-time president.”

    Newt, perhaps he is not a racist, but he certainly plays one on TV.

    And to think he and Santorium came closest to acing Romney out of the nomination. And the Republicans wonder why they are losing outside the South.

  23. 23.

    amk

    A perfectly fine and true ad. Yes, even the pearl-clutching version.

    Tom you are a wuss just linking to the nsfw version.

  24. 24.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    My reaction (and obviously a lot of other people) to Jackson’s use of “fuck” is not unlike the voice of Richard Burton. Back in the day it was said folks could listen to Burton simply read names out of the phone book and be entranced for hours. Jackson could do the same thing as long as he librully sprinkled “fuck” in there.

    Yunno “Jim FUCKING Smith” or “Fuck Joe Jones” and so on. He’s got a great voice in a unique way I’ve never been able to describe. It reaches it’s apotheosis whenever he says “fuck”.

  25. 25.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @sherparick: Obama refuses to kiss the Republican ring, refuses to be a weakling on foreign policy, and is a black man ahead in the polls. Of course he’s not the type of president Gingrich expects him to be.

  26. 26.

    Tom Levenson

    @amk: Dude! I linked to the NSFW one, which I would have happily embedded if I coulda found the embed code on the site.

    Shorter: Feck off. (In the best possible taste of course, as Dame Edna would say.)

  34. 34.

    Randy P

    Oy. Just overheard at work. “People say Fox News is biased, but it’s actually very neutral.”

    How does a rational human believe stuff like that?

    @NotMax: Sorry, read too fast. Supposed to be working.

  35. 35.

    Shelley

    Even higher-ups pose a false equivalency between Fox News and MSNBC.

    Rachel Maddow is not, repeat not, any reverse image of Rush.

    Her opinions are grounded in truth.

  41. 41.

    dmsilev

    Heh. TPM:

    The Obama campaign released an ad Thursday that simply plays Mitt Romney’s remarks about ’47 percent’ of Americans without any additional commentary. As the ad replays his comments, it shows a series of pictures of American families, workers and veterans — all members of the approximately 47 percent of Americans who did not pay income taxes in 2011.

    I can just imagine the whining that is sure to soon emanate from the Romney campaign: “He’s quoting Romney’s words! That’s not fair!”.

  42. 42.

    artem1s

    Or it could be you’re Obama is the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth.

    The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m RMoney is the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.

  43. 43.

    amk

    @rlrr: In all likelihood, the fucker was telling them that they are all gonna die in the next ten minutes.

    @the Conster: A collective question mark asking ‘dood, wtf are you saying?’ ?

  47. 47.

    Randy P

    @rlrr: I think so. The same conversation included his experiences in Bizarro Spain, Canada and France which sound very different from the countries with those names that I’ve been to.

  48. 48.

    Dennis SGMM

    @dmsilev:

    I can just imagine the whining that is sure to soon emanate from the Romney campaign: “He’s quoting Romney’s words! That’s not fair!”.

    Any Ad That Uses Words I Actually Said Is A Falsehood.
    -Newt Gingrich

  49. 49.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Randy P:

    “People say Fox News is biased, but it’s actually very neutral actually confirms my view of the world.”

    That’s how they accept it.

  50. 50.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Randy P:

    How does a rational human believe stuff like that?

    Aw, c’mon. Which would you rather do; confront the fact that your president and Congress fucked over the entire country and then your doodz in the House did their best to keep it fucked up, or watch Fox news?

  55. 55.

    WereBear

    To some people, the appeal of Faux News and the pull of fundamentalism is the same: it is certainty.

    Frankensteinbeck said, a few days ago, that as a society we blame all kinds of things on anything other than the true cause: an abusive parent.

    In my experience, conservatives can have many different kinds of upbringings, but arbitrary, authoritarian, and senseless rule setting, with oversized punishment for the most tiny things, is a norm for them.

    So, they recreate it in their adult life.

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    Tom, love the title of your post. Perfect.

    I am a fan of your shorter posts, so you are at least making some of us happy. I see your longer threads and think “I’ll come back to this one later when I have more time”, but sadly, later often never comes.

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