Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

When we show up, we win.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Republicans in disarray!

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

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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  1. 1.

    Mike in NC

    Never heard of Tinder, but don’t glibertarians believe pretty much anything can be appropriated for personal use as long as nobody was killed?

  2. 2.

    JPL

    I wish the Supreme Court allowed cameras. That way, the public could see Scalia in action.

  8. 8.

    Morzer

    my take is that people go on Tinder wanting to get fucked

    Lucky for them that they can go to RandPac and get fucked without the burden of government lube being applied to their free real American nether regions.

  9. 9.

    MomSense

    @JPL:

    I’ve been singing How do we solve a problem like Scalia all morning to myself. If only I were as clever a lyricist as the Capital Steps group.

  10. 10.

    Belafon

    Relating this and the previous post: Would Democrats hold more offices if we held our candidates to the same standards the Republicans do?

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    I wish the Supreme Court allowed cameras. That way, the public could see Scalia in action.

    What’s he done? Thrown a cannoli at the Sol Gen? Shown up drunk? Thong underwear?

    I bet he turned in his decision already, didn’t he?

  14. 14.

    Mike J

    I would have thought the “we both know why we’re here let’s do this” attitude of grindr had more appeal for Paul.

  15. 15.

    Germy Shoemangler

    well, he didn’t steal the ™ from the Tinder logo, so I guess it’s okay. I think the tinder flame represents the eternal light of love in our hearts, while the flame on Rand’s logo means “burn this fucker down.”

  18. 18.

    Ryan

    “Supporting Rand Paul is something like the opposite of that.”

    Best thing I’ve read all week. Though Rand is like every other Republican insofar as we’re gonna get fucked.

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    @Belafon:
    You mean, might Democratic politicians win more elections if they pandered as much as Republicans do to ignorance and bigotry? If they were as petulant and rude to a sitting President? Or as wilfully incompetent in office? Quite possibly, I suppose.

  20. 20.

    Tommy

    Very similar. But as somebody that has spent their entire adult life around graphic designers I can say rarely is there anything “original.” Designers spend a ton of time looking at the work of others and sometimes you copy something and you don’t even realize you are doing it.

    My gosh, I just kind of supported and/or stood up for Rand Paul. I now need a long hot shower.

  24. 24.

    NonyNony

    I mean, I guess it’s kind of the same in that there’s a flame in both of them and they’re both kind of red. But the RANDPAC logo is clearly meant to evoke the Statue of Liberty’s Torch while the Tinder logo looks more like a candle.

    (See how the RANDPAC logo has the V shape under the flame, with the vertical bar as the guard on the torch under the flame? Statue of Liberty – also why they had to put it in italics because the A and the N wouldn’t make that kind of V shape in block print – even in italics the right-side of the A had to be mangled to get it into place.)

    I mean, not to defend Rand Paul or anything, but this looks more like bog standard political imagery than any attempt to be hip and cool with the kidz on the Internets.

  25. 25.

    Mike E

    Diane Rehm giving Bibi’s speech the village treatment… panel 3 to 1 ratio of giving the CW, par for the course. The elephant in the room left out of the conversation (I could have missed it): the ’03 Iraq blunder.

  27. 27.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    I’m on a tablet, so can’t research this myself right now, but….

    Rand’s logo reminds me of a stylized Statue of Liberty torch flame I’ve seen somewhere.

  31. 31.

    Bobby B.

    Tell them the font is Seventies Retro and Rand will change it toot sweet (History’s greatest monster! etc).

  32. 32.

    shelley

    I think the Olympic committee should sue him for stealing the Olympic torch. They’re a pretty litigious organization.

  33. 33.

    scav

    @OzarkHillbilly: The deafness speaks more to the qualty of the repetative verbal ticcing that passes for the songs / standards themselves.

    Also, there’s a torch song reference just lying around for someone to do something clever with.

  34. 34.

    The Moar You Know

    Who gives a shit? It’s Rand Paul, the least important human being ever.

    The elephant in the room left out of the conversation (I could have missed it): the ’03 Iraq blunder.

    @Mike E: You didn’t miss it. It’s been thrown down the memory hole. Never happened.

  35. 35.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    The Tinder logo demonstrates better graphic design, IMHO. @shelley: As to the flame, I’d love for the IOC to be annoyed. I’m petty like that.

  37. 37.

    NonyNony

    @geg6: Latest iteration of the “computer dating service” idea. This one uses crazy facebook algorithms to present you with profile pictures of potential dates – supposedly trying to match up your interests and friend graphs to their interests and friend graphs and present you with potentially compatible people. Has a reputation for being a “hookup” app, since the interface is basically you rejecting or expressing interest in people based purely on a photo shown to you.

    No crazier than most other computer dating service ideas that have been around since the 1960s, I guess. (I love it when people come up with crazy matchmaking algorithms and still end up with something that is roughly as reliable as the old “dating via the classified ads”)

  39. 39.

    kindness

    Never been over to Tinder. What is it a Grindr site for straights? Never been to Grindr either but I do know some who do. Oh Lord Google tell me….Oh. OK. Yea & no.

    That Rand would rip off a dating/adultery site is not all that surprising. I mean, has Rand ever had an original idea? No. No he hasn’t. How the hell did a self licensed Ophthamologist get elected to the Senate anyhow? Oh FSM, help me cope.

  40. 40.

    slag

    It’s all in service to his new campaign slogan.

    Rand Paul: He didn’t start the fire.

  41. 41.

    Mike E

    @The Moar You Know: “The speech makes the president’s argument before Congress more difficult.”

    /CW, courtesy of some NYT reporter. The columns, they just write themselves apparently.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    @JPL:

    I wish the Supreme Court allowed cameras. That way, the public could see Scalia in action.

    Audio of the argument in King will be released on the Court’s website on Friday. SCOTUSBlog seems to think that petitioners got beaten up pretty badly. RBG asked about standing, Kagan had a great hypothetical that spoke to the fungibility of exchanges actually run by a state and exchanges run for a state by HHS, and Kennedy came down hard on cooperative federalism. Kennedy came very close to saying that this case is controlled by the Medicaid-expansion part of the opinion in NFIB (which would prove that God loves irony).

  46. 46.

    scav

    That flat floaty thing is also just lying about, waiting to be interpreted as a stealth macron, a blatent subliminal attempt to woo the accented-‘mercans — or even possibly an elevation of the hyphenated ones! Rānd Rānd Rānd Rānd . . . .

  48. 48.

    Baud

    @JPL:

    He’s saying denying tax credits to he federal exchanges would destroy state insurance markets, which would be unduly coercive to states.

  49. 49.

    Roger Moore

    @Amir Khalid:
    I’m not sure about this. My suspicion is that the Republicans have more or less maxed out the asshole bigot vote, so the Democrats would be trying to steal the Republican base by adopting the same tactics. In the mean time, they’d be diluting their brand with the rest of the electorate. Basically, there are obviously enough asshole bigots to support one party, but I doubt there are enough to support both parties in a two party system.

  50. 50.

    burnspbesq

    @Baud:

    Yes, it is. It suggests that we could have a 6-3 decision for respondent, upholding the subsidies, with a pretty interesting lineup of opinions. Kennedy could end up writing an opinion, joined only by Roberts, based on cooperative federalism, with the four “liberal” Justices concurring in the result based on how utterly fucked up petitioners’ statutory construction argument is.

    So, the Moops aren’t allowed to invade Spain because it would offend the equal sovereignty of the Spaniards. Ohhhh-kaaaaaay.

    The usual caveat about the danger of predicting outcomes based on oral argument.

  52. 52.

    Baud

    @JPL:

    That was the constitutional ruling in the last case. Kennedy is analogizing by saying that denying credits would be just as coercive.

  56. 56.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Baud: @burnspbesq:

    I was pretty struck by Kennedy’s approach. I confess I was also rather surprised. I thought Kagan’s hypotheticals were dandy.

  61. 61.

    catclub

    @Baud:

    destroy state insurance markets, which would be unduly coercive to states.

    Of course, it is guaranteed issue, 80% repayment rates, and 26 year old kids, which is doing the destroying, so maybe a reason to throw out the entire law. ;)

  62. 62.

    brantl

    I have to disagree, I think supporting Rand Paul is a pretty good way to get fucked, in one meaning for the phrase, at least.

  65. 65.

    uila

    When I look at Rand’s logo, I don’t see a flame. More like his heinous wig flapping in the breeze. Is it just me?

  66. 66.

    Morzer

    @uila:

    I see a raised middle finger being given to America – the fuck-you-I-got-mine finger that libertarianism inherits from the invisible hand.

  67. 67.

    Diana

    “my take is that people go on Tinder wanting to get fucked, but it probably doesn’t happen as often as one thinks. Supporting Rand Paul is something like the opposite of that.”
    thank you. this is the kind of comment that keeps me returning to this blog …that, and the puppy+cat pictures….

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