Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

People are complicated. Love is not.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Giving up is unforgivable.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Republicans do not trust women.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

So many bastards, so little time.

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Kids today are a tough nut to crack for corporate media pimps with a plutocrat-friendly political agenda to sell. My generation was easy — an improbably large portion of our cohort voluntarily read Ayn Rand’s master-race bodice-rippers. And those of us who came of age in the Gipper’s America and grew up to be politicians like Paul Ryan then wove those crackpot principles into public policy, exponentially enriching greed-heads like the Koch Bros. and hedge fund managers while despoiling the American dream for tens of millions. 

But try getting 140 character-consuming Tweeters to read one of Rand’s turgid, 10K-page doorstops. Nope. So the e-ville new media marketing execs gathered ‘round the conference table, twirled their pointy aging-hipster mustaches and brainstormed strategies to corrupt a new generation of impressionable yoots. And because they are morons, they came up with libertarian cats:



So much wrong. For one thing, the premise is an outright lie. Show me a domestic house cat, and I’ll show you a dole-accepting layabout. Pets are goddamn moochers! 

Anyway, fuck you, BuzzFeed Politics. If you want to conscript animals under Rand Paul’s banner and bamboozle millennials into voting against their own interests, at least have the decency to annotate cutesy anaconda pictures.

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  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Show me a domestic house cat, and I’ll show you a dole-accepting layabout. Pets are goddamn moochers!

    So are “libertarians”. They’re all freeloading assholes, totally unaware that fucking generations worked to provide the society the fuckhead motherfuckers take for granted. None are more oblivious to this than the IT glibertarians, who seem to imagine that the entire fucking internet just fell out of the sky one day, so they could surf it and bitch that brown people are lazy.

  4. 4.

    Another Holocene Human

    Okay, quick update to the discussion yesterday about freight coming into Port of Miami via Panama Canal.

    Florida East Coast Railway stated in an Op-Ed that they were sending a lot of empty cars northbound and would be happy to take on double stack intermodals on their existing freight capacity. So I guess they are expecting some uptick in container shiploads following the canal upgrade, either that or they’re kissing Republican ass.

    The reason for the letter was to disclaim the conspiracy theory going around that All Aboard Florida is a false flag to get govt monies/cooperation/land swaps/considerations for FECR’s freight operation. They wrote some confusing stuff about how AAF and FECR are separate corporations that use the same assets and, oh, have the same ownership, lol. I am pretty sympathetic to them and their enemies are pretty ridiculous, like Treasure Coast communities pissed the express train won’t stop in their town. Like jeez you had this freight line here all along and no passenger trains stopped here so what have you lost? Nothing! Except some pollution off I-95. That’s gratitude for ya!

  5. 5.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Villago Delenda Est: I hate IT people who snigger about Al Gore and inventing the internet and then derp about Tim Berners-Lee. No, you incredible fuckups, your preshuss internets would not be if not for Gore and others in the Senate. And WWW is not internets, [sic] apparently bigshot IT guyzzz do not know how to computer.

    I will comma splice for great justice!

    me + 1/2

  8. 8.

    JGabriel

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    So are “libertarians”. They’re all freeloading assholes …

    Libertarian Cats = Conservative Cats who think catnip and getting paid to give affection should be legal.

  9. 9.

    Keith G

    If not covered in previous threads here is a series of clips from President Obama’s turn on the Kimmel show. The guy has such great person to person chops. I will always wonder why during his presidency these amazing skills were not put to more use as a “Teacher-in-Chief”.

    Here

  10. 10.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    The 11pm news sez the Kenyan’s in town, we turned up the towns thermostat to make him feel at home.

  19. 19.

    raven

    @Baud: She seems to be a commentator, whip ass smart and she defended her sorority! “Princeton University and Theta, by the way”! I’m trying to catch her name.

  25. 25.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Cervantes: If we only had the “real birth certificate with the raised seal”.

    It’s probably on Hillary’s email server.

  29. 29.

    BruceFromOhio

    If you want to conscript animals under Rand Paul’s banner and bamboozle millennials into voting against their own interests, at least have the decency to annotate cutesy anaconda pictures.

    That would totally shave the cats ass.

    The seals could be trained only so far, I could never get them to put the seat back down and flush after using the potty.

  30. 30.

    Matt McIrvin

    I never signed a contract saying I couldn’t push this glass off the edge of the table. And I EARNED the kibble that appears in that bowl twice a day. I pooped in your shoe because incentives matter.

  32. 32.

    Mustang Bobby

    Seen in numerous places, including the Hemingway House in Key West, home to the famous six-toed cats:

    To a dog, you’re family. To a cat, you’re staff.

  35. 35.

    ThresherK

    The Catholic idiots in Connecticut are making their mark.

    Keep it classy, AmericanJihadis!

    (If you have a better word for them, please let me know. “Talibangelicals” doesn’t apply to Catholics, right?)

  36. 36.

    GregB

    The big libertarian I know lives in the family home that was left to him by his father who was a career military man.

    Inheritance is hard work.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    @WereBear: Libertarianism is a marketing ploy to lure in young white makes before they get married, buy a house in the burbs, become socially isolated, and become full fledged conservatives.

    tl;dr: it’s a gateway ideology.

  40. 40.

    Baud

    Speaking of libertarian dogma (via LGM)

    I know Arizona is run by a bunch of loons, but even I was surprised by the state completely defunding several community colleges. Although actually the real story is not the defunding from $7 million in 2015 to $0 in 2016, but from $45 million in 2011 to $6 million in 2012. The upshot of this is not the closure of the community colleges but rather their semi-privatization, as they move directly to serving the specific whims of corporations.

  43. 43.

    Kay

    My favorite Obama hire, well, him and Cordray:

    Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez will not run for Senate in Maryland, he told CQ Roll Call Thursday.
    Several Maryland Democrats have mentioned Perez, a Maryland resident who held public office there, as a possible Senate candidate following Sen. Barbara A Mikulski’s recent announcement that she would not seek another term.
    But Perez, who was the keynote speaker for the Calvert County Democratic Central Committee’s Louis L. Goldstein Dinner, said he has no interest.
    “No,” he scoffed when CQ Roll Call asked if he was thinking about a bid. “Isn’t there enough people running for the Senate?”

    Yes, which is why he should run for governor.

  48. 48.

    Betty Cracker

    Damn it. I just found out that my sister’s father-in-law, who was a sweet man, died in his sleep last night. He’d had some recent and ongoing health problems, but no one thought he’d be gone so soon.

    Still, if you have to go, he went out the right way — no hospital, needles, doctors or tubes. He had a big fat slice of chocolate cake last night, went to bed next to his wife of nearly 50 years and just never woke up.

  49. 49.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    So are “libertarians”. They’re all freeloading assholes, totally unaware that fucking generations worked to provide the society the fuckhead motherfuckers take for granted.

    Generations, how about the here and now. I have never meet a self employed Libertarian, most are government employes in one form or another. The biggest loud mouth glibertarian I ever meet is a IT worker for the FDA who bitches about government intrusion into his job on line when he isn’t playing WoW at work.

  50. 50.

    Mike in NC

    In 20+ years in the DC area, working for assorted Beltway Bandits on government IT projects, I encountered far fewer Libertarians than far-right shitheads who spent much of the day listening to Limbaugh, reading Coulter online, and generally denouncing the hated federal government.

    But they loved getting paid for the work they didn’t do.

  51. 51.

    Betty Cracker

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: True dat. Glenn Reynolds hoovers up tax dollars in the form of a state university paycheck, and I’m pretty sure the entire Reason staff subsist on wingnut welfare; that outfit can’t be a profitable concern.

  53. 53.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Mike in NC: Just about every RW troll I’ve ever encountered has either collected social security, been in a union (but didn’t like to talk about it) or inherited enough from grandpa to not have to do much in the way of work.

  54. 54.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @GregB: Conservative libertarian I used to work with lived in a house left to him by his grandpa, spouted racist bullshit in the office about lazy blacks, but spent eight hours a day basically delegating every last task and then sitting at his desk cracking his knuckles.

    At lunchtime, he’d disappear for two hours. He’d take long hikes in the woods behind the building. A few years later, when the layoffs came, it took the owner an hour just to find him (he’d been gone for hours during lunch).

  55. 55.

    Germy Shoemangler

    “Ayn Rand For Dummies” from dangerousminds.net

    —————————-

    “If one writes anything mean/true about Ayn Rand on the Internet, invariably the author will receive a litany of howling complaints from her fans (people who seem to have an awful lot of time of their hands for some… strange reason) in the comments. It’s absurd and hilarious to field dumb invective hurled at you by people that you have no intellectual respect for and that you will never, ever meet in real life, but dumping on Rand is a predictable impetus for attracting this sort of thing. Scroll down, I’m sure without looking that they’ll start to pile up like poorly punctuated turds under a rabbit cage before too long.

    The Randroids behave as if they’re defending the honor of a saint or a great literary or philosophical genius and not a complete lunatic who wrote the most turgid prose of any best-selling author of the 20th century. I understand their psychology well, for I myself was once a teenaged Ayn Rand true believer. Oh yes, I’ve probably read 99% of every word she wrote or that was publicly uttered by her during her lifetime. Not only did I have every Ayn Rand book, I owned every single copy of The Objectivist and The Ayn Rand Letter, kept in green leather binders. I owned all of her Ford Foundation speeches in pamphlets and on cassette tapes. In the 8th grade, I managed to track down her Playboy interview. This unlikely childhood collection, mind you, was amassed by mail order in the 1970s on money earned from mowing lawns. I was really into it, I’m ashamed to say. Could quote her chapter and verse… Then I discovered drugs, punk rock and girls and promptly forget all about Ayn Rand.

    Ayn Rand fanboys and girls are a unique bunch, and one trait that many of them—not all, but many—share is that by and large they are not… er… very literate people and Atlas Shrugged is quite often one of the few books they’ve ever read, so it shares an outsized place in their affections.”

  56. 56.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    He was great on voting rights and he took tons of shit for it from Republicans when he was at the Department of Justice.

    I listened to him when he made trips to Ohio in the 2014 campaign and he seems to have the ability to sell his Labor Dept training programs for displaced or under-employed workers without sounding like he’s a pissed-off CEO scolding the lazy and unskilled workforce, which. sadly, is how too many on the Dem side sound. Blaming working class people for the decline of working class fortunes is not a smart political approach. It’s also NOT TRUE, which should count for something.

  57. 57.

    msdc

    @Germy Shoemangler: Cue the obligatory John Rogers quote:

    There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

  58. 58.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Betty Cracker:

    Still, if you have to go, he went out the right way — no hospital, needles, doctors or tubes. He had a big fat slice of chocolate cake last night, went to bed next to his wife of nearly 50 years and just never woke up.

    He had his priorities straight. Condolences to all who knew this wise, sensible man.

  61. 61.

    Cervantes

    @xenos:

    Perhaps you mean Kisumu, and I’m not sure I’d say they are from there, exactly — and no, given the elevation, it’s relatively cool there.

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