Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Fight them, without becoming them!

In after Baud. Damn.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

When they say they’re pro-life, they don’t mean yours.

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

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

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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

People are weird.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, it’s door #2)

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The words do not have to be perfect.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

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President Obama Doesn’t Have a Diversity Problem. The Media Has a Boredom Problem.

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The narrative that President Obama has a problem with women or a “lack of diversity” problem is being driven by a media that doesn’t know what to do with itself now that the media-driven fiscal cliff nonsense is finally over, and it’s a bit too early to really dig in to what will soon be a media-driven debt ceiling countdown fiasco.

It’s a narrative that’s bullshit on many levels.

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  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    I do have to admit, I find it particularly … special that the same people complaining about Obama’s cabinet not being diverse enough are the exact same people who put the kibosh on Susan Rice’s nomination.

    I would call them hypocrites, but it’s even beyond that. Fucking disingenuous liars, perhaps?

  3. 3.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Tonal Crow:

    Listen you may have a problem with it but John, you know, the OWNER of this fucking blog, TOLD HER TO DO IT. You have a problem with it then take it up with John. Doubt you will though cause he would more than likely tell you to DIAF.

  5. 5.

    gbear

    Well they could spend a little national media time covering this ‘christian’ charter school that had their students perform unprotected asbestos abatement on a building they’re remodeling. Via Wonkette. Hope the fuckers who run this school rot to death in a dungeon.

  8. 8.

    Tonal Crow

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Listen you may have a problem with it but John, you know, the OWNER of this fucking blog, TOLD HER TO DO IT. You have a problem with it then take it up with John. Doubt you will though cause he would more than likely tell you to DIAF.

    So fucking what.

  9. 9.

    Machine-Gun Preacher (formerly Ben Franklin)

    When he stands tall wrt to Austerity and keeps the US safe from a Latvian Fate, diversity will be a direct beneficiary. That is all.

  12. 12.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Tonal Crow:
    So quit shitting on the living room carpet when you are at someone’s house party for gawds sake. It isn’t like you are forced to be here. John’s rules. You don’t like them? Quit knocking on the fucking door.

  13. 13.

    Tonal Crow

    @Machine-Gun Preacher (formerly Ben Franklin):

    When he stands tall wrt to Austerity and keeps the US safe from a Latvian Fate, diversity will be a direct beneficiary. That is all.

    Not to mention when he follows through on ratcheting down the War on black men Drugs. His words on Colorado and Washington give me some hope. Now I’m hoping he doesn’t change his approach, as he did on medical pot.

  14. 14.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    @ABL: the usual problems: conflict sells, ‘diversity’ is a simple thing for simple people to understand, the public won’t bother to tell the difference between a fake controversy and a real one.

    It works. Why should they stop?

  16. 16.

    quannlace

    And of course , the ultimate Media Masturbation, the Presidential campaign is long over. They’re probably sorry they can’t say ‘Mitmentom’ any more.

  17. 17.

    Ted & Hellen

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    John’s rules. You don’t like them? Quit knocking on the fucking door.

    Ummm…John’s rules are anyone can post in any thread they like. Get a life.

  18. 18.

    Tonal Crow

    @Machine-Gun Preacher (formerly Ben Franklin):

    I hadn’t heard he spoke up about the Western Secessionists. Was he crossing his fingers?

    It was very shortly after The Weed Rebellion was confirmed. He said something to the effect that he had bigger fish to fry than to prosecute pot smokers in states where it’s legal. We’ll see about crossed fingers.

  19. 19.

    Machine-Gun Preacher (formerly Ben Franklin)

    @Tonal Crow:

    Oh, that one. ‘It’s not a high priority”. I should have thought Swarz was a low priority, too.

  20. 20.

    Napoleon

    Hey whatever your name is, address what you think about the fact that Obama has proven that he is incompetent as a negotiator?

  22. 22.

    alex

    My favorite part of this controversy is the photo being used to illustrate a lack of women in thr cabinet literally has an unseen woman in the photo. Only her leg is visible.

  23. 23.

    General Stuck

    Cole should make me moderator for a week, and we’d be dining on sauteed troll liver. Or they could feed the Piranha in my bathtub.

  26. 26.

    scav

    We are truly blessed in having such a variety of important people that warp both space and time as everything and everythread revolves about their needs and interests.

  29. 29.

    Humble Lurker

    @Ted & Hellen: Weren’t you the one who stopped harping on John after he bought art from you? You’re the last person to be calling someone or heh-indeeding the calling of someone else a whore.

  34. 34.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    Okay, speaking of a media problem, the television is turned on and that awards show is playing. Because my wife, the least celebrity-driven person in town, has to watch this.
    Amy and Tina scare me. If I ran into two women like that at a party I guarantee hilarity, misbehavior and repercussions.

    So I’m going upstairs to read a book now.

    ‘night…

  36. 36.

    Donut

    @Humble Lurker:

    If we could upload pix on this blog, I’d post one of Nelson Muntz pointing and laughing at Tedd n HELEN

    I’m still waiting for this hot shot to run for office and fix all of the shit he flings poo over WRT to Obama. He obviously knows what all the best prescriptions are, both in terms of policy and in terms of politics.

    A beautiful mind, obviously. A shame it’s being wasted on the B-J comment threads. Oh well, broader humanity’s loss is this blog’s gain, I guess.

  38. 38.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Donut:

    Oh well, broader humanity’s loss is this blog’s gain, I guess.

    I think your math is off there.

  39. 39.

    taylormattd

    @Tonal Crow: Fuck off, you half wit. Jesus H. Christ on a crutch, Cole has repeatedly *told* her to do this; he wants her to link to her blog. My god you people are fucking dumb.

  41. 41.

    RaflW

    The Media Has a Boredom Problem.

    This is why “most Presidential scandals happen in the second term.”

    Not because White Houses get sloppy or stupid in term two (well, they may do that) but mostly because the journalists are bored by about year 5.

    What! The same boring a-hole who was Presinoodle last year is STILL Pres? Booooo-ring.

    Find me dirt!

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