Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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  3. 3.

    Alexandra

    Not bad, but according to the National Journal:

    Rick Perry is “looking especially presidential—gray suit, burnt-orange tie, and, at 64, still the best head of hair in politics”.

    And:

    “He’s got the ruggedly handsome face, the slightly wicked smile, and enough silver creeping into that hair to make him look distinguished.”

  4. 4.

    Botsplainer

    By cable TV standards, the show, which is shown four times a week, is jarringly nonpartisan, for the simple reason that she and her co-hosts — the Reason magazine editor in chief Matt Welch and the entrepreneur Kmele Foster — are openly contemptuous of both parties.

    If I hunted down Draper and curb stomped him to death on a New York street in broad daylight, would anybody care?

  7. 7.

    Botsplainer

    Robert Draper is a contributing writer for the magazine. He is working on a book about race and murder in Washington.

    Gee, I’m sure it will be full of dudebro nuance.

    Free Ed Snowden, man.

  8. 8.

    jl

    Shouldn’t have thrown away my uncle’s old torn up moldy leather motorcycle jacket.

    If I had that, I could put that on, and be an OUTLAW! An outlaw for liberalism. Damn it. If only…

  10. 10.

    jl

    @Botsplainer: But not equally contemptuous of where each party wants to take society (except for the secksytime).

    Or, maybe they only talk about the secksytime and drugs. Might be a pretty good show then.

  11. 11.

    jl

    @Alexandra: Glasses? But what about the glasses?

    Edit: and when they mentioned his head, I suppose it was important to focus on the hair to the exclusion of, you know, other heady type stuff.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    Ron Paul is Nirvana? Rand Paul is Pearl Jam? Ted Cruz is the Stone Temple Pilots? What the fish is this woman smoking?

  17. 17.

    GxB

    @Alexandra: Swoon! Well, that seals it, I’m Gay for Rick ’16!

    @DougJ:

    He never lost his head.

    Well his family apparently did, but it’s okay as it was a near head.

  20. 20.

    El Caganer

    I’m waitin’ for my man
    Flash drive of Bitcoin in my hand
    He’s never early
    He’s always late
    He only goes by Uber
    So you always gotta wait.

  21. 21.

    SarahT

    “Nick Gillespie is to libertarianism what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit” – I may never stop vomiting.

  22. 22.

    Botsplainer

    The C.E.I. is a 30-year-old organization that routinely sues federal agencies, often when new and onerous regulations are posted in the Federal Register.

    Somebody tell me where Draper lives, please….

  23. 23.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    There’s five Cinderellas and some leather drags
    I almost fell into my mug

  26. 26.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Is “just shoot me; kill me now” an overreaction? Should I just drink heavily instead, as tomorrow is not a work day for me?

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    Kiss the boot coat of shiny, shiny leather
    Shiny leather in the dark

  29. 29.

    Pee Cee

    Kennedy spent most of the Bill Clinton ‘90s as MTV’s most vocal Republican, but then she soured on the G.O.P.

    Yet she’s “excited” by Republican Ron Paul, Republican Rand Paul, and Republican Ted Cruz.

  35. 35.

    Botsplainer

    @Pee Cee:

    Yet she’s “excited” by Republican Ron Paul, Republican Rand Paul, and Republican Ted Cruz.

    But they’re all about the most fundamental liberty of ordering society the way you want it to be, the bestest liberty of all!

    Wolverines!!!

  36. 36.

    Botsplainer

    @Mike J:

    Little Nick never once gave it away
    Everybody had to pay and pay
    A hustle here and a hustle there
    New York City’s the place
    Where they said, “Hey, babe,
    Take a walk on the wild side.”
    I said, “Hey, Nick,
    Take a walk on the wild side.”

  37. 37.

    Donut

    Christ almighty on a Popsicle stock, I could not get even 1/3 of the way through that awful piece of shit article.

    Fuck. That.

  38. 38.

    M31

    LOL, the title of the article was “Has the Libertarian Movement Finally Arrived?” and as always, the answer to any question in a headline is “NO”.

  39. 39.

    beth

    On the afternoon that I showed up to chat with the longtime libertarian writer and editor Nick Gillespie at the posh Washington offices of Reason, just off Dupont Circle, a dozen or so staff members were hanging out in the kitchen, drinking Green Hat gin

    .

    This explains a lot.

  40. 40.

    different-church-lady

    There’s a completely different Lou Reed quality that I wish Gillespie had. See if you can guess what it is…

  43. 43.

    angelfoot

    I think, more accurately, libertarianism is to Nick Gillespie what rock ‘n’ roll was to Lou Reed. Which is just so very, very sad.

  45. 45.

    Pee Cee

    We’re doing exactly what free minds and free markets allow you to do. Part of why I’m a libertarian is that if you restrict people less, interesting stuff happens.

    Why yes, when you remove those pesky environmental protection restrictions on, say, the local chemical plant or resource extraction operation, interesting stuff happens!

    I mean, massive fish kills are interesting, right? People lighting their drinking water on fire is also pretty interesting. And that thing in West Virginia with 300000 people not having drinking water was certainly interesting.

    LIBERTY!

  46. 46.

    hells littlest angel

    Yes, because he’s a brain-damaged snob who spent the last 30 years of his life churning out self-important crap.

  50. 50.

    Suffern ACE

    @Pee Cee: I was thinking more in the lines of “we ‘re free to do what we want at our big gala. So let’s do Flashdance! That ‘ll be fun!”

  51. 51.

    Pee Cee

    @Suffern ACE:

    A bunch of 40-something libertarians trying to recreate Flashdance flies straight past “interesting” and right to Lovecraftian horror. There are some things that man was just not meant to witness.

  52. 52.

    JenJen

    Oh, fuck you, DougJ! This?? This is the way you return? I’m legit retching.

    Jesus. I didn’t need to know about this. I avoid Gawker and Bill Maher on purpose.

  53. 53.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @M31: Most people grow out of their tendency to libertarianism at four or five. These assholes are all cases of arrested development.

  54. 54.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Botsplainer:

    But they’re all about the most fundamental liberty of ordering society the way you want it to be, the bestest liberty of all!

    The guy at the top always has unlimited freedom.

    The price for that one individual’s unlimited freedom is slavery for everyone else.

    But hey, it’s good to be the king!

  55. 55.

    cmm

    Nick Gillespie is to politics what Creed is to rock and roll, the quintessence of douchebaggery.

    Fixed.

  58. 58.

    Kay

    It’s really crappy political analysis. I could do the exact same thing the writer does, except write a piece promoting liberalism with it.

    Instead of Amash and Paul, I’d use Keith Ellison and Elizabeth Warren. I could do BETTER. I could use Sherrod Brown instead of Elizabeth Warren because he’s from a swing state. Now I have liberalism spreading to swing states! :)

    The whole theory is based on one Cato poll, Amash and Rand Paul. Amash’s district is in western Michigan which is increasingly a wingnut bastion.

    The only reason “liberal” Polis from Colorado meets with the libertarian-leaners in the House (Amash) is because Polis is a committed public education privatizer, and so is Amash. Big deal. Privatizing public education isn’t a new idea or a particularly “libertarian” idea. Jeb Bush is the leader. Hardly a radical.

    There’s also a glaring omission in the piece, and it’s privatization. The “libertarians” in the House don’t do anything to “shrink” government. They simply sell off pieces and privatize government. It doesn’t get any smaller when you contract it out. In fact, it probably gets BIGGER because once it’s privatized everyone has an incentive to keep it growing and the money flowing to contractors.

  59. 59.

    chopper

    Gillespie is to libertarianism as Lou Reed is to rock, if the only record Reed ever put out was Metal Machine Music.

  62. 62.

    Paul in KY

    @cmm: I think you are libeling Creed, to lump them in with Gillespie. Creed has some problems, but they are much more competent in their work than Gillespie.

  65. 65.

    kindness

    That Times article has a whole bunch of bullshit loaded into it parading as fact. Look at Kennedy for instance. Suggesting both Republicans and Democrats are the same is jingoistic stupid. Reason Magazine? Doesn’t Reason accept discrimination because there should be no laws restricting people’s practices?

    Sorry but no sale. Libertarianism has appealing ideals but in practice it morphs into the same injustice Republicans fight for every day. Maybe that is why so many ‘Libertarians’ are Republicans in liars cloths.

  67. 67.

    danah gaz

    Oh come on. He’s not nearly as racist and misogynistic as Gavin McInnes. Now there’s a *real* libertarian**.

    **There’s actually no such thing as a “real libertarian” because real libertarians are called anarchists and ergo they are anti-capitalist – since capitalism requires a state.

  68. 68.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Nick Gillespie is to libertarianism what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit

    You got to love how they drape dead people over themselves. No chance of Reed commenting on how a conservative magazine editor is just like him.

    Of course the cynical might note that as part of his stage persona Reed pretended to be a gay drug addict, so maybe the parallel is Gillespie is pretending to be a 20 something youthful free spirit and not a middle age hack for the establishment.

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