Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

I really should read my own blog.

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Andrea Tantaros crossed a line that should have caused her to be fired on the spot but, sadly, will probably earn her accolades from her right-wing community: calling for actual violence against Obama supporters. On her radio show today, the co-host of Fox News’ The Five said,“If you see any of those people (Obama supporters) today, do me a favor, punch ‘em in the face.”

If only this guy could keep shitting in diapers instead of shitting on the poor, the world would be a better place (via):

ON WEDNESDAY David Vitter (pictured), a Republican senator from Louisiana, proposed—and the Senate agriculture committee accepted—an amendment to the farm bill that would, in Mr Vitter’s words, “prohibit convicted murderers, rapists and pedophiles from receiving food stamps.”

It’s almost like he wants to give adult baby fetishists a bad name.

This thread is for outrage only, rather than the usual happy talk that seems to infect the comments at this blog.

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  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I barely know who these people are. I’ve seen Tantaros’s name here and there over the years, kind of a B-list Ann Coulter who could never figure out how to jump up on the list? Wasn’t “The Five” supposed to be Fox’s answer to Stewart/Colbert?

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    It’s fucking outrageous that the Astros refuse to spend a penny on pitching and are therefore doomed to another 2 years of 50-110 records.
    Aaarrgghh!!

  6. 6.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    Hippie Punching for God. Now with actual Punching.

  7. 7.

    Shakezula

    She would totally do the punching herself except, she has a thing, that she can’t miss. Freedoom!

    Re Tender Vitter – Is the same bill that will cut a shit ton of funding for food stamps for everyone?

  8. 8.

    Corner Stone

    It’s even worse that i just used “penny” and “pitching” in the same sentence and couldn’t come up with a decent pun.
    Dammit!!

  10. 10.

    Zifnab

    the co-host of Fox News’ The Five said,“If you see any of those people (Obama supporters) today, do me a favor, punch ‘em in the face.”

    Honestly, fuck it. Bring’em on.

    I look forward to the community outreach on behalf of FOX News viewers that randomly assault people for looking to Obama-supporter-ish. Nothing says political momentum like random acts of physical violence.

  11. 11.

    wenchacha

    How does a person get through life with that amount of animosity and aggression? What’s more, how can I possess some of that mean magic?

    I know bullies win lots of skirmishes, but I generally reserve my worst hatred for myself when I screw up. Like when I wreck a car. Two times in six months. I could use a little shot of outrageous self-importance with a splash of disgust for my lessers to get me over this big pile of self-recrimination. How the fuck did Vitter get over being the Diaper Man? Personally, I mean.

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Zifnab: I don’t know how I’d react if a seventy-something in a Hov-a-Round tried to get up to take a swing at me. I think I’d mostly be worried s/he would disconnect the oxygen tube with all that motion. I think I’d try to distract them from their rage with an early-bird coupon from Country Buffet or Cracker Barrel.

  15. 15.

    kindness

    The TeaHaddists really do want a new Civil War. In their tiny minds they figure they’d win because they have more guns.

    Takes more than guns to run this world.

  16. 16.

    kc

    “If you see any of those people (Obama supporters) today, do me a favor, punch ‘em in the face.”

    That’s cool. Then we can shoot’em

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    @SatanicPanic: Well, given the fact that of our 33 losses a good 50%+ have been lost after the starter left the game, I’m thinking we could spend a million or two on middle relievers.
    The other 50% have been lost in the first inning. So…ummm…squirrel!!

  19. 19.

    Mustang Bobby

    “prohibit convicted murderers, rapists and pedophiles from receiving food stamps.”

    Why is Vitter limiting it only to them? Why not say “convicted felons”? Is he holding out for folks who solicit so that someday, when his career is over, he can get his own T-bone steaks or something?

  22. 22.

    Suffern ACE

    @SatanicPanic: Yep. That’s the only thing keeping me upbeat as my team falls into the “Thank God for the Astros and Mariners or We’d be the Worst Team” cellar. At least they didn’t spend too much for their ineptitude like those Angels.

  24. 24.

    Shakezula

    @kindness: And the various Patriot Cells will join to make a giant Patriot Voltron without any unseemly squabbling and pissing contests over leadership and everyone’s communication gear will work perfectly and then, and then, the police/military will all join The Cause and not mow them down like rabid dogs. (Alternate ending, the police/military will be so wimpy they will refuse to fight).

  25. 25.

    Mandalay

    @Steve M.:

    To give Vitter the one bit of credit he’s due, he is working with Sherrod Brown on the hopeless cause of ending Too Big to Fail.

    Interesting. This part of the proposed legislation from Brown/Vitter looks like pure win to me:

    Our proposal also curtails the expansion of the government safety net for Wall Street by limiting taxpayer support to traditional banking operations. Under our legislation, financial institutions would be prohibited from transferring nonbank liabilities — like derivatives, repurchase agreements and securities lending — into federally supported banks that benefit from deposit insurance. This would ensure that the government safety net protects only the commercial bank, not the risky investment-banking arms of the megabanks.

    Better late than never.

    Let’s see which Congress critters show themselves to be the banks’ bitches when this hits the floor for a vote. My money is on the odious Schumer finding some bullshit reason to oppose it.

  26. 26.

    trollhattan

    On her radio show today, the co-host of Fox News’ The Five said,“If you see any of those people (Obama supporters) today, do me a favor, punch ‘em in the faceneck.”

    You’re doin’ it wrong, person I never heard of. Enjoy that bonus check from Ailes.

  27. 27.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    Face punching is showy and not that effective for amateurs. It’s a good way to start something and then have the cops and/or bystanders break things up before anyone actually gets hurt. If you want to debilitate someone the classic kidney punch is your best friend. It’s easily delivered while your target is telling the crowd how bad they are.

    Speaking as someone who boxed in the Navy and who lost a couple of teeth in honkey tonk brawls.

  28. 28.

    eemom

    Yesterday another driver flipped me off for no apparent reason other than my pro-Obama bumper stickers. These include a sticker with ROFLMAO designed to look like the Romtron campaign logo.

    Of course, I flipped him off back. And better.

  29. 29.

    max

    While I was wandering through Lowe’s looking for wood for planting boxes I had rather a strong urge to play ‘American Idiot’ by Green Day in the hope I might troll up a Limbaugh listener. I resisted. Guess I shouldn’t have.

    Higgs Boson’s Mate: If you want to debilitate someone the classic kidney punch is your best friend.

    I was always fond of the disabling kick to the kneecap or nut or stiff fingers to the solar plexus myself. (Been in a few brawls myself.)

    It’s almost like he wants to give adult baby fetishists a bad name.

    OK, so someone who committed a murder of some sort gets out of prison, can’t get a job, needs food so they go to try and get food stamps and gets denied. So the theory here is that violent crime will go down if ex-murderers/manslaughterers are desperate and hungry?

    max
    [‘You folks realize this just of method of poison-pilling or slowly grinding food stamps away to nothing, right?’]

  31. 31.

    Mudge

    About Vitter. Fortunately, murderers, rapists and pedophiles have people lining up to give them jobs so they can feed themselves. But more ironically, they were fed in prison, probably better than SNAP would provide for them.

  33. 33.

    Citizen_X

    @kindness:

    In their tiny minds they figure they’d win because they have more guns.

    That always kills me. And how many guns does a soldier carry? Oh yeah: one. What are they going to do, carry all fifteen of their guns?

    They have more guns than people. That’s a problem for them.

  35. 35.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @max:

    I was always fond of the disabling kick to the kneecap or nut or stiff fingers to the solar plexus myself. (Been in a few brawls myself.)

    I found myself unable to resist a left uppercut when my opponent went for the ” German karate Karate boots” line.

  38. 38.

    Felonius Monk

    I haven’t read it yet, but I came across a book recently with the title “The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class“. Apparently a sociological study of the growing class of people whom the author has given the label “The Precariat” – a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs, without recourse to stable occupational identities, stable social protection or protective regulations relevant to them.

    The author Standing argues that this class of people could produce new instabilities in society. They are increasingly frustrated and dangerous because they have no voice, and hence they are vulnerable to the siren calls of extreme political parties.

    Sounds like there are good times ahead — or not!

    Anybody read this book yet and have comments?

  39. 39.

    belieber

    lol….I have been hoping some right winger tried to take a swing at me. I have been going out of my way to confront them. What I have found without exception is that they are a bunch of cowards. Frightened little bunny rabbits that need guns to try feel safe in their own skin.

    All talk….that’s all they are.

  40. 40.

    Roger Moore

    @SatanicPanic:

    Spending money on pitching hasn’t really helped the Angels or the Dodgers.

    You do have to spend your money well. Spending any money on Ned Colletti has not gone well for the Dodgers.

  41. 41.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Nothing says political momentum like random acts of physical violence.

    It also says, quite openly, that we are fascists and we’re proud of that fact.

  42. 42.

    Matt

    Another day, another Faux Nooz flirtation with outright calls for brownshirt violence. And we’ve got THREE MORE YEARS of this shit…

  43. 43.

    GxB

    I got one for you Mr. Mix. So I type up a response to a comment thread and due to force of habit I hit refresh after proofreading to see how far the thread has progressed. On the pre-update site no problem, comment box still contains all the dross I just typed up. Post update: my words, my priceless, precious words that I spent the better part of 10 seconds contemplating are all gone and never to return – ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH! (rage included to stay on topic)

    In short, is there a way to bring back the pre-update, dross preserved through a refresh feature?

  44. 44.

    Corner Stone

    @Matt:

    And we’ve got THREE MORE YEARS of this shit…

    Ummm…did someone schedule an apocalypse in 2016 and not tell me?
    What would make you think it’s ever going to end?
    If Biden/Hitlery/Random D wins then they make money by keeping the meter at 11.
    If an R wins then they make money by keeping the meter at 11.
    In other words, the numbers all go to eleven.

  45. 45.

    Corner Stone

    @GxB: Arrrggghhh!!
    Open a window in a separate tab to see where the comments are. Dross protected.

  46. 46.

    Fort Geek

    Just the same old outrages, for me–Bush & company not in prison, being disabled sucks snake nuts, the space shuttles will never fly again, and the CAD project I’ve been tinkering with turns out to be all wrong and has to be scrapped: must be Friday.

  47. 47.

    Patricia Kayden

    @eemom: Are you in a red state? Around my neck of the woods (Southern Maryland/DC), there are so many pro-Obama stickers that the pro-Republican stickers stand out like sore thumbs.

    Once in a while I get a chuckle out of the “Nobama” stickers. And I really laughed when I saw a car with a “Do you miss me yet?” George Bush the 43rd sticker. I wanted to stick my head out of my window and yell “Hell Naw” to the driver.

  48. 48.

    JoyfulA

    @Mandalay: I wrote to my senators about this bill. I got a response from Senator Casey today that it’s gone to the Banking, etc., Committee, on which he is not, and he’ll keep my views in mind if the bill comes to the floor.

  49. 49.

    RepubAnon

    @Mustang Bobby: Wonderful – so criminals trying to go straight not only have real trouble getting a job, they also are desperate and starving. I guess Senator Vitter wants to see crime numbers go up…

  50. 50.

    Redshirt

    My Obama bumper stickers make me act like less of an ass while driving. I feel like I’ve got some PR responsibilities or something.

  52. 52.

    patrick II

    Taking food away from murderers sounds like a really great idea. We should also poke them with a stick and wait to see what happens.

  53. 53.

    serena1313

    The notion that people, who have already paid their debt to society, should be denied food stamps, even if it means they might starve to death, is utterly reprehensible, morally bankrupt and inhumane. [But not to worry their guns rights will be restored.]

    Going forward Vitter and his colleagues ought to be characterized as the arbitrators of all things concerning punishment & suffering!

  54. 54.

    Bob h

    My auto has Obama/Biden and MoveOn decals from the elections, and already attracts a lot of middle finger gestures on the highway. There are already people out there prone to violence.

  55. 55.

    Mike G

    “If you see any of those people (Obama supporters) today, do me a favor, punch ‘em in the face.”

    87th Mechanized Hoverround Corps, attack!

    These rightard moral cowards imagine all Obama voters are unarmed milquetoasts who will stand there passively while teatards unleash violence. They will find out the hard way that the “tolerance” they sneer at does not mean letting assholes walk all over you.

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