I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought of this when I heard “Jindal Gap”.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
The revolution will be supervised.
“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.
Innocent people don’t delay justice.
Fear or fury? The choice is ours.
Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’
Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.
When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.
It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.
JPL
It’s the republican plan, let em die..
dmsilev
Given the Republican obsession with Precious Bodily Fluids, it’s fair.
Karen in GA
No more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops. Depending on the breaks.
Eric U.
I just watched Strangelove last night. I wish the footage of Sellers in the Slim Pickins role and the food fight in the war room was still around.
I noticed the binder Turgison had that was supposed to be a list of targets ranked by “megadeaths.” I’m guessing there were some other pretty entertaining props in the war room.
Amir Khalid
It seems to me that the Democratic party should be quite happy to have one Bobby Jindal fewer than the Republicans do.
Violet
From the Noisemax headlines on the right:
Wow. I know wingnuts lie to themselves and everyone, but isn’t the whole point of conservatism to keep things the same? You know, not change? Now they’re denying their entire political and social theory. Okay….
And…
I don’t think any kind of marinade could make Rand Paul palatable.
schrodinger's cat
I find the so-called centrists and moderate Republicans even more loathsome than troglodyte Republicans like Jindal. They want the same things that Tea-party people want but are more sneaky about it. David Brooks is a prime example of this breed. As if one Brooks was not enough, NYT has decided to add another Brooks to its roster of contributors to the op-ed page.
Mike in NC
Both the NY Times and WaPo have led the way in fluffing the odious Jindal as a “different” (i.e., swarthy) kind of Republican superstar.
schrodinger's cat
@Mike in NC: How do the birthers like him?
Belafon
@Violet: You’re correct, except you’re not really using the same terms that Will is using. Will is supporting reactionaries, those who would like to take us back to a simpler time, say the early 1920s, when blacks feared whites, women couldn’t vote, and the wealthy controlled everything. They may have almost completed the last, but those damn progressives are keeping the country from realizing the other two.
NotMax
@belafon
Have to go back further than that. The election of 1920 was the first in which women in all the states could vote.
Will, Rove, Ailes, and others make no secret of their affection for the McKinley administration (1890s).
Elizabelle
The Empathy Gap.
The Compassion Gap.
dr. luba
@Violet: Will was using this meme to point out that Social Security is an antiquated program (that, one assumes, should be changed or gotten rid of). After all, it was put in place in 1935. NINETEEN THIRTY FIVE!!!??! Would you drive a car from 1935? Etc., etc.
Because old stuff is only good when it benefits the 1%, presumably.
Violet
@Elizabelle: No, I think they need to make it personal. The Jindal Gap. The Corbett Gap. Etc. Every state Governor running for re-election who didn’t take the Medicaid expansion needs to have his or her name attached to that gap.
satby
@dr. luba: I think Violet’s right, Will is bringing the incoherence every time he’s on the TeeVee; to imply that conservatives embrace change is absurd and a complete turnaround from his previous shtick. Pure Cleek’s law at this point.
David Hunt
@Elizabelle: Nah, we’re winning those.
The Sociopathy Gap.
Roger Moore
@Violet:
Will is just trying to cover for his acceptance of the DH. He should have been forced to turn in his conservative card the moment he declared that the designated hitter was a good idea.
Violet
@dr. luba: Did Colbert point out how old the Bill of Rights is and that precious second amendment? Or maybe the Emancipation Proclamation?
Linnaeus
Looks like King County Prop 1 is headed toward defeat. Seattle area folks, here’s the bus cuts Metro is proposing. Ain’t pretty.
rikyrah
38 Republican lawmakers support lawsuit to end Obamacare subsidies
By JAKE MILLER CBS NEWS April 23, 2014, 11:16 AM
38 Republicans members of Congress signaled support Tuesday for a lawsuit from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., seeking to end federal subsidies for lawmakers and congressional staffers who purchase health insurance through Obamacare’s exchanges.
Under the health care law, lawmakers and some of their staffers are required to purchase insurance through the exchanges. Because the initial business exchanges only catered to small businesses, not entities as large as Congress, these lawmakers and staffers were forced to enlist in the exchanges for individuals.
Despite the fact that they were purchasing coverage through the individual market, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) ruled last year that they could continue to receive the same subsidies available to those who receive coverage through their employer.
Democrats and supporters of the law said the rule kept the playing field level, helping protect lower-paid congressional staffers from having to shell out more money for health insurance than employees of any other organization. But opponents of the law have said the rule reeks of special treatment — a carve-out for those who wrote the law but don’t want to live under it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/38-republican-lawmakers-support-lawsuit-to-end-obamacare-subsidies/
rikyrah
@Violet:
I agree.
Attach it to those Governors.
Schlemizel
@Violet:
Will is of course correct in his own way. Liberals hate the change being offered by Will’s owners. Blacks, women, Hispanics etc to the back of the buss and excluded from possibilities. That is a huge change that Will’s owners want that liberals oppose. The return to company towns, powerless workers, Victorian standards of worker safety and employment rules, those are the changes Will is pimping and liberals oppose. Destroying the social contract of America, again liberals oppose that change.
So really, liberals are terrified of the change Will speaks of lovingly. But we will always have baseball.
rikyrah
W-T-F-?
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KKK group to launch neighborhood watch in Pa. township
Klan says program aims to alleviate concerns over criminal activity, but police dismiss move as publicity stunt
April 22, 2014 9:00PM ET
by Philip J. Victor – @philjvic
A Pennsylvania chapter of the Ku Klux Klan plans to launch a neighborhood watch program in response to what Klansmen say is growing concern among community members over increasing criminal activity, the leader of the white supremacist group told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.
“People who are wanting to commit criminal activity… should beware because the eyes of the Klan are on them,” warned Frank Acona, imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights.
Members of the organization, which describes itself online as “unapologetically committed to the interest and values of the white race,” distributed flyers in Fairview Township on Friday that featured an image of a hooded Klansman above the words: “You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake.”
The flier also encouraged local residents to call into a 24-hour “Klanline” to report “troubles” in the neighborhood.
The idea to launch the program in Fairview Township — a community of just under 17,000 residents, most of whom are white — followed a recent spate of vehicle break-ins that Acona said could indicate that police were too “overwhelmed” to respond.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/22/kkk-pennsylvanianeighborhoodwatch.html
WaterGirl
@rikyrah:
Holy fuck. This is being dismissed by the police?
“You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake?” I guess maybe if you are lily white, and you have no conscience. Maybe the justice department can get involved.
Bob In Portland
The New York Times admits that it was fed false propaganda by the State Department regarding Russian special forces in eastern Ukraine.
I’d also note that the torture/death of Volodymyr Rybak and its subsequent announcement as a casus belli by interim President Olexander Turchynov looks suspiciously like the Kiev coup government is trying to create yet another false flag operation. Rybak was a member of the Party of Regions, deposed President Yanukovich’s party. Eastern Ukraine is one of the areas of Ukraine that voted heavily for Yanukovich.
Turchynov, founder of the Fatherland Party, is no friend of the Party of Regions, nor are the Right Sektor “national guards” stationed near Slavyansk, where there was a shootout between the RS and civilians manning a checkpoint in the wee hours Sunday morning.
I still think it will be very difficult to get anyone except the Right Sektor thugs to shoot at fellow citizens, but apparently Turchynov is trying hard to start a civil war to impress handsome Joe Biden.
SFAW
@Eric U.:
I thought there was supposed to be no fighting in the War Room.
@NotMax:
Well, that must be during moments of weakness, because I’m not aware of any desire they might have for a functioning (semi- or otherwise) democracy. Maybe back to those halcyon Southern days before the War of Northern Aggression? Maybe even pre-Runnymede?
Gin & Tonic
@Bob In Portland: Bob, do your fucking homework yourself, for once. The Volodymyr Rybak who belongs to the Party of Regions and was head of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) until 22 Feb is not the same Volodymyr Rybak whose body was found tortured and drowned. The dead Volodymyr Rybak was a local official in Horlivka, in Donetsk oblast, and a member of Batkivshchyna (Fatherland.) Why would Turchynov have a political ally killed?
Your ignorance of actual Ukrainian events and current politics seems unbounded.
I’ll note you seem quite unconcerned about the kidnappings of journalists in eastern Ukraine, including Simon Ostrovsky.
John M. Burt
I taught a history course called “The Cold War and Stuff”, about the post-WW2 period.
I showed my middle-schoolers Dr. Strangelove and told them, “This is EXACTLY what it felt like: like we were at the mercy of a bunch of dimwitted lunatics who were liable to kill us all at any moment.”
What a shame, though, that the released version didn’t include the pie fight.