Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

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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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