Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Bark louder, little dog.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

No one could have predicted…

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

You cannot shame the shameless.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

The willow is too close to the house.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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  1. 1.

    Herbal Infusion Bagger

    Why, he lay down on the concrete to talk with that woman! Lazy public employees slacking off on the job, I tellya.

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    She probably had a nickel on the Bills.

    Or all the salt fell off of her weck roll before she could eat it.

  4. 4.

    ? Martin

    So, our taxpayer dollars are being spent on some fat looter to sit on the side of the road and chat with random people.

    I bet Putin doesn’t put up with that shit.

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    @ranchandsyrup: You can literally see the piles of money beneath his fleece. He could have thrown them down for her to land on.

    Plus, how many people on that bus were late to pick up unemployment checks?

    Thanks Obama.

  9. 9.

    Bubblegum Tate

    He took away her freedom and demanded that she do what HE wanted her to do as an AGENT OF THE GOVERNMENT!

  10. 10.

    BGinCHI

    @? Martin: I assumet that it’s obvious we think the dude is a fucking hero for doing that, despite him and others who work hard every day getting shit on by the right for not being corporate takers.

    How many people have jumped off bridges because of financial institutions?

  12. 12.

    Arclite

    Apparently this guy didn’t get the Death Panels memo.

    Guy’s a fuckin’ hero. Damn, I hope I’m that brave if I ever have that situation.

    Godammit, now I’m tearing up. Fuck you Cole. =D

  13. 13.

    Arclite

    @grass:

    Does politics really need to be injected into a thoughtful deed?

    New here? You may have noticed, this is a political blog.

  18. 18.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @grass: Yes, because every time a union member does something less than stellar, the right trumpets it far and wide. When a union member does something good, it should get publicity as well.

  19. 19.

    grass

    @Arclite:
    Not new at all, just comment rarely.

    It just feels like “SEE DEMOCRATS SAVE LIVES, A REPUBLICAN BANKER WOULD HAVE PUSHED HER” takes away from the sweet gesture that guy did. It’s just a little cheap.

  20. 20.

    MomSense

    @Violet:

    A bus driver pulled over when he saw a woman standing on the outside of the railing about to jump off the overpass onto 198 ( a local route). He spoke kindly to her, helped her over the railing and back to the sidewalk, and then sat with her until the police came to help. He was so sweet and humble about it that he made me tear up.

    /team union thug fuck yeah!

  21. 21.

    Cassidy

    Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is still missing in that liberal utopia of Russia. Maybe Snowden can leak that info.

  25. 25.

    Ash Can

    If only she’d had a gun. Then she could have gotten the job done right away, and no one on that bus would have been delayed or inconvenienced. Why do you all hate the Constitution?

  27. 27.

    SatanicPanic

    @Ash Can: Are you suggesting that suicide is easier with guns? Because that’s gun grabber talk. If someone does want to commit suicide they’ll do it anyway, with something just as easy, like a fork. Why do YOU hate the Constitution?

  28. 28.

    ruemara

    @grass: You can’t eat a goddamn veggie burger or believe that pets should be raised humanely without it being fucking political.

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    @Cassidy:

    Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is still missing in that liberal utopia of Russia. Maybe Snowden can leak that info.

    Seems unlikely, as it doesn’t fit the Greenie narrative that the United States is the only country on earth that has ever violated anyone’s civil rights.

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    Fuck thee, WP. I’ve used that nickname for a certain despicable person dozens of times, and you just now realize that it also describes a formerly widely used drog?

  34. 34.

    russ

    You should know it just struck me that I am very happy that millions of my fellow citizens will have health care.
    It is just such a momentous event.

  35. 35.

    replicnt6

    @Cassidy:

    Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is still missing in that liberal utopia of Russia. Maybe Snowden can leak that info.

    Jesus fucking Christ on a cracker. You should have gone with something more like “I bet bus drivers in Russia don’t stop people from jumping off bridges. Maybe Snowden can leak that info.” You know. For some vague tangential relationship to the actual thread. You’re like a dog with a Snowden-bone in his mouth.

  36. 36.

    Mark B.

    Hell, I’m sure the reason she felt like jumping was because she was having trouble logging in to healthcare.gov. It’s ALWAYS Obama’s fault.

    Anyway, this bus driver is not a follower of the Ayn Rand gospel. If he were, he would have made the woman pay him for talking her off the ledge.

  37. 37.

    LanceThruster

    At least when he’s in the throes of desperation because someone looted his pension fund, he can hope that someone will reach out to help him.

    Contracts are forever unless the MOTU want to renege on them.

  38. 38.

    feebog

    The guy will be lucky not to get a suspension for delaying his bus route. Seriously though, sitting down on the sidewalk with the woman was a great touch.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    @russ:

    As one of those millions, thank you! Now I just have to get all of us to Jan 1 healthy and accident free.

    It is momentous. You don’t realize what a big deal it is until something happens in your life and you find yourself without. There is a constant worry and stress that stays with you all the time.

  41. 41.

    Herbal Infusion Bagger

    @LanceThruster:

    Contracts are forever unless the MOTU want to renege on them.

    Hey, slashing the pension of someone who worked all their life and is relying on that pension for the rest of their life is NOWHERE near as serious as denying the AIG guys who blew up the economy their bonuses.

  43. 43.

    J

    @grass: in case you haven’t noticed, we live in a country where hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually attacking the idea of public service and slandering public servants.

  44. 44.

    Herbal Infusion Bagger

    @ranchandsyrup:

    He could have constructed a soft landing with his gigantic pension,

    That’s the thing that gets me about discussion about public-sector pensions. The unfunded portion of public pensions is feckin’ chump change compared to the miserable shortfall individual 401k’s and IRAs present, but the failure of defined-contribution retirement is, aside from Atrios’ efforts, almost completely unnoted in the press. Corporations got themselves almost completely off the hook of providing for their retirees, and shifting immense risk to their employees, and the MSM’s response is…crickets.

  45. 45.

    Soonergrunt

    @grass: Nobody has suggested that a Republican would have pushed her.
    …
    Which fact doesn’t detract from the fact that it’s true.

  46. 46.

    Rob Patterson

    Here is the story from our local paper, where the bus driver describes how he identified with the woman’s despair. He was honored at the Bills’ game Sunday (speaking of the Bills. And despair. )

  49. 49.

    Smiling Mortician

    Sort of OT, but I was quoted in our local daily paper the other day as a “union activist.” When the reporter called me to ask whether I thought the article was accurate and fair (imagine! a reporter doing her job and caring about it!), I said, “Well, next time I’d like to be identified as a union thug, if that’s OK with you.”

    Just thought I’d share that.

  50. 50.

    SteveinSC

    If that guy was any kind of a job-creating, entrepreneurial capitalist instead of grabbing on to the white woman and loafing on the job, he would have gone out and inherited a department store.

  51. 51.

    Cassidy

    @replicnt6: so mentioning Snowden bothers you, but a young lady disappearing in an abusive penal system in a country with gross human rights violations doesn’t even elicit a response? Says quite a bit about you.

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