Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

T R E 4 5 O N

When I was faster i was always behind.

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

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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

Petty moves from a petty man.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

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

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

He really is that stupid.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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SOTU And Respectability Politics

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Just because you have a platform, doesn’t mean you should always use it. We’re looking at you, actor Anthony Mackie:

“Like my nephew wanted to grow dreadlocks. I’m like fine, I’ll sit you down and I’ll watch The First 48 with you and everybody you see on that show, that’s doing something wrong, they’re black dudes with dreadlocks. So, do you want to be seen as part of the problem or do you want to be an individual?”

Ah, yes. Those respectability politics that work so well. Just ask Don Lemon.

Team Blackness also discussed the State of the Union both before and broke it down after President Barack “I have no more elections to run. I know because I won both of them” Obama set the room on fire.

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  1. 1.

    slag

    So, do you want to be seen as part of the problem or do you want to be an individual?

    Not exactly the most logical set of choices.

  3. 3.

    Buddy H

    It isn’t dreadlocks that set off alarm bells in my mind, it’s guys that look like Scott Walker or Ted Cruz. They remind me of every crooked car salesman, middle manager and insurance salesman I’ve ever had to deal with.

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    Arclite

    On that Obama zinger: The GOP can go fuck themselves if they’re complaining. They asked to be zapped by clapping happily that Obama is not eligible to run again. They brought a knife to a gunfight and got shot.

  6. 6.

    Older

    “Pressed up against the wall cause you was wearin’ locks”

    Oh, you mean that all that “yellin at the cops” had absolutely nothing to do with it?

    I do, actually understand the problems that young black men may have with the police. Not as well as some, because I live where things aren’t as bad as they are in some other places. But maybe better than some, too, because I have raised both black and white sons. Believe me, I taught all of them not to react to the police as enemies.

    My experience has been that cops don’t really like young men much. I suspect that they suspect all young men of being the kind of young men they were, when they were young men.

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