Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

We will not go back.

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  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Baud: Sometimes I think that too, but then I realize I have ethical bones in my body that would club me senseless if I tried.

  3. 3.

    scav

    Why “Vice-Presidential Timber” Is A Standing Joke

    Works better when you hear it.

    Vice-presidential Timmm-bberrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

  8. 8.

    Timurid

    I still have fond memories of the No Labels team and their brilliant performance at Munich in 1938…

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    Amir Khalid

    I’m impressed that anyone at all would pay US$100 a year to follow the comings and goings (and even the thinkings!) of Sarah Palin. I can learn for free more than I want to know about her. This woman is truly a business genius, and she ought to be holding public office.

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    dmsilev

    Well, Holy Joe did give us the phrase “three-way tie for third place” (translation: “fifth”), so he did at least _one_ useful thing in the last couple of decades.

  23. 23.

    Schlemazel

    @Mustang Bobby:
    just a podcast/web thingy, not a real channel. but yes, I think this was first mentioned in the documentary “Idiocracy”.

    The list of great men who were VP may not be long but it does include some people who should not be sullied by association with the likes of Liberman or Palin
    TD Roosevelt, HS Truman, LB Johnson, HH Humphrey.

  26. 26.

    JPL

    The NY Times has an article and video about the attempted deportation of two generals tied to the atrocities, especially the murder of four nuns in El Savador. I had no idea they were allowed political asylum here. link

    Bush I gave they asylum but the video reminds you what a right wing hero looks like, St. Ronny indeed.

  28. 28.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’ve been seeing whack-a-doo Sheryl Atkinson is all over the internet trying to shill her Benghazi nuttiness, so I clicked on the Newsmax story to see what the fuck she’s gibbering about. Apparently she’s stuck on whether or not he “called it terror”. She’s even more pathetic than I thought.

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    RE No Labels: if they did indeed endorse Tea Partier Mr. Cory Gardner for Mark Udall’s Colorado Senate seat, which Gardner won, they have shown their true colors. Ugly, stupid colors at that.

    All I need to know about “No Labels.” More likely, no authentic values.

    I hope Colorado will have severe buyer’s remorse.

    A lot of states did in 2014. The Republicans still won. Disturbing.

  32. 32.

    JGabriel

    Iraq News is reporting that al-Baghdadi is dead.

    Haven’t seen any other major sources reporting it yet, but it looks legit.

    He couldn’t have died before the election? It might have helped.

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @MomSense: I saw the other day that Cleese has a memoir out, I’m looking forward to that one. Definitely one to be listened to, I think.

  34. 34.

    dmsilev

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Have you seen the bit where she claimed that secret government hackers had hacked her computer, and her evidence was watching the cursor in a Word document delete some text? The rest of the world looked at that and responded “You’ve been hacked by a stuck delete key. Clean your damn keyboard already.”

  37. 37.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @JGabriel: and the last (known) American ebola patient has been released from the hospital.

    I share @Elizabelle: ‘s contempt for No Labels and their Gardener endorsement, but I really think it was the ISIS propaganda in his commercials, along with his bland but friendly, TV newscaster media image, that put him over the top. And ebola hysterics contributed to the sense of malaise that I imagine decided a lot of lo-infos to vote R.

    On a somewhat related note, I wandered in to a dusty corner of the internet the other day and learned that Joe Piscopo (he was SNL for a couple of years, did a decent Sinatra and followed Eddie Murphy around) is not only still alive, but is hosting a right wing radio show in New Jersey. He blathered something about ISIS being a threat to us all! and declared his love for Rudi 9/11.

  38. 38.

    dance around in your bones

    Hey, whatever happened to Political Surreality”?

    After all the hassle I went through to pie the mofo (Durian topping was involved) (been out all day, maybe missed the fireworks).

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    @Amir Khalid:

    I’m impressed that anyone at all would pay US$100 a year to follow the comings and goings (and even the thinkings!) of Sarah Palin.

    You have to admit that her thinkings won’t add very much to the volume of material to cover. Her blatherings, OTOH, could use up an awful lot of attention that could be used for more valuable pursuits, like memorizing the 1969 Baseball Encyclopedia.

  40. 40.

    gogol's wife

    @JGabriel:

    NOTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED. Stopping a depression didn’t help, reducing the deficit didn’t help, cutting the unemployment rate and the number of uninsured people didn’t help, killing Osama bin Laden didn’t help, we never have to ring bells in church for dead service people any more and that didn’t help, NOTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED. Obama is just a bumbler in the media-brainwashed public eye. Someone just said this to me tonight, someone with a Ph.D. in history who should know better. And now, according to the front page of the New York Times, the Republicans have a good shot at the presidency. Yes, let’s give it to them again to see what toilet they can flush us into that some Democrat has to get us out of. Except this time it might not be possible.

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    nellcote

    LaPalin has bad marketing skills. Exclusive video of that Palin Family Brawl would have been a real money maker.

  42. 42.

    Baud

    @gogol’s wife:

    I agree. Booman, who I like, thought it might have helped if the president made his statement about net neutrality before the election. It wouldn’t have made a bit of difference.

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    Mongo like trend here.

    Democratic Rep. Ami Bera has pulled to within 530 votes of Republican challenger Doug Ose in the race for suburban Sacramento’s 7th Congressional District.

    Ose, who finished Election Night with a 3,011-vote advantage over the freshman lawmaker, has seen his lead contract again nearly a week after polls closed Tuesday. The margin stood at about 2,000 votes since the last counting Thursday, when nearly 80,000 ballots were left across the county.

    http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article3727753.html#storylink=cpy

  49. 49.

    Gin & Tonic

    @gogol’s wife: NOTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED.

    Indeed. PBO could have hand-carried al-Baghdadi’s severed head onto the set and dropped it into Sean Hannity’s lap and it would have been too little or too late or insufficiently deferential or something.

  56. 56.

    Gin & Tonic

    Taking advantage of this OT to drop this here. I know the combination of an NRO article by George Weigel about an aspect of Catholicism is like a trifecta of suck around here, but he interviews major-archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who is an extraordinarily learned and thoughtful man, eloquent in a half-dozen languages. The UGCC is a primarily western Ukrainian institution, as such more supportive of Ukrainian self-determination than some factions of the Orthodox church, and was directly involved in providing (apolitical) moral support (in the true sense) to the Maidan protesters. A couple of his thoughts below. If you’re willing to brave the source, the entire interview is well worth reading.

    WEIGEL: Is it possible for Ukraine, essentially unaided, to resist continuing pressures from Moscow and its allies in the Donbas?

    SHEVCHUK: It’s very difficult, but it is possible. We have been resisting these aggressions for almost a year. Our people understand very clearly that no one will come to defend us, that no one else will underwrite our existence, and that no one from the outside is going to reconstruct our country. We understand that. But it is also crucial for the world to understand that Ukrainians are giving their lives for European values today, values that Europe itself is getting less and less able to bear witness to and defend. To support Ukraine today means to support democracy and a stable international security system.

    Today, Ukraine is fighting, not only for its own freedom and dignity, but for freedom and dignity as such: freedom and dignity not only in Europe but elsewhere in the world. This struggle is for our freedom and for your freedom. If the West, in its negotiations over Ukraine, takes into account only economic matters — if money again prevails over human dignity and freedom — then the great Western powers will have betrayed their own citizens and the cause of human dignity. And “European Union” will be an empty word.

  61. 61.

    Shana

    @NotMax: Yeah, such a good jew. He’s a member, or was I guess, since he’s no longer in DC, at the synagogue with the rabbi who’s been arrested for putting spy cams in the mikva at his shul.

  62. 62.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @gogol’s wife: He’s blah.

    End of discussion.

    Whatever he’s accomplished, whatever he’s done, he’s blah. And Dems have a pattern of not bothering to vote in midterms, so the racist garbage wins.

  63. 63.

    dance around in your bones

    @Baud: Gawd, Baud – didja miss the whole fuckup ?

    Here’s the thread

    As is my usual luck, I have found a really tranquil place until I get the total hip replacement surgery. Bummer is that I ran out of my pain meds and doc won’t give me any more until refill date.

    I admit I was taking too many, but the stress of losing the job, plus the constant pain from my fractured hip, plus MISS THANG! drove me to distraction.

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    NotMax

    @JGabriel

    Yeah, that’s been the reporting for quite a few days running now in Iranian-backed or affiliated press in Iraq, but essentially no place else, so view it with a very jaundiced eye.

    More widespread reports from international sources without so much inherent baggage have carried multiple stories of his being injured and spirited back to Syria for treatment.

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