Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

We still have time to mess this up!

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Let there be snark.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

People are complicated. Love is not.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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  3. 3.

    SRW1

    I think Spain – South Korea will have a winner because it will be in the interest of both teams to go for it should the game still be a draw fiveteen minutes from time or so.

    That means Sweden’s hopes rest on Brazil giving Costa Rica no more than a goalless draw. As I said yesterday nervous watching for Sverige.

  4. 4.

    Randinho

    @HinTN: I’m an hour ahead of the default time zone for this site, so I schedule the posts to post five minutes before the game starts. Noting that this game started at 7 EDT, I set the post to publish at 6:55. Oh well.

  6. 6.

    MomSense

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    My middle son just came home from work and asked me who I was rooting for. When I said Brazil he decided Costa Rica. My youngest is also rooting for Brazil and there is so much trash talk going on right now.

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    OnkelFritze

    Well, I’m rooting against Brazil in BOTH games. Anybody watching the Copa America?

  10. 10.

    OnkelFritze

    @Randinho: Hey, nothing personal about Brazil, but I do live in Colombia. As far as the Women’s WC is concerned, I’d much rather see Costa Rica advance instead of Sweden. But as long as Spain – South Korea stays tied, it’s a moot point anyway.

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    SRW1

    So Sweden scrapes through. And if I understand this right, they will have the pleasure of playing Germany in the next round.

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    Randinho

    Gol de Colombia tambien!

    Futbol or futebol wise, Onkel Fritze, I have precious little invested with Brazil. I pull for Cruzeiro principally because most of my wife’s family pull for Atlético Mineiro, who have probably the most thoroughly idiotic and annoying fan base in the country: homphobic and deluded. Cruzeiro has won four Brazilian championships, two Copas Libertadores and four Brazilian Cups. They have never been relegated, one of five teams (Flamengo, Santos, São Paulo and Internacional are the others. Atlético has won one of each and has been relegated to the second division.

    Yet the Atlético fans act as if Cruzeiro is the inferior team. I am also very tired of the constant victimization you hear about in the public. There are still people who believe Brazil sold out and lost the 1998 WC Final, without considering the possibility that France, which surrendered two goals the entire tournament, one on a pk and that Brazil arrived at the final, stumbling, gasping and wheezing, having given up seven goals going into the final. A little humilty and a return to some basics would go a long way here.

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    OnkelFritze

    @Randinho: Humility in Brazilian football? If not now, then when? After last year, that should come a lot easier.

    Anyway, Colombia really needs a win after Sunday’s suckfest v. Venezuela.

    Here in Colombia, my hometown team Deportivo Cali has just won the Championship, but they play it every HALF year which makes it difficult to take seriously. All the Colombian internationals play in Europe anyway.

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    OnkelFritze

    @Randinho: LOL. They do have some weird names here. My wife has an uncle who actually is named ‘Lover’. No kidding.

  19. 19.

    Randinho

    It drives me crazy, too, because I believe that Brazil would benefit from a non-Brazilian coach. Pep Guardiola comes to mind .

    Yet whenever I mention that to friends or family here the arrogance takes over. The fact is that Brazil produces great players, but the coaches are truly bad.

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    OnkelFritze

    @Randinho: Seems to me as if Guardiola is the kind of coach who really needs to work with his players on a daily basis. Don’t know whether he even would want to coach a national team.

    I have the impression that here in South America people are a lot more focused on indvidual players as opposed to the team effort (except Argentinia maybe). It’s the key to Pekerman’s great sucess here in Colombia that he has formed a team insulated from that kind of thinking.

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    Randinho

    The other problem with Brazil is that there are 180,000,000 coaches. I admired Felipão when he refused in 2002 to put Romário on the team for the WC. He took a lot of heat for it.

    Guardiola is good at nurturing talent and that is desperately needed.

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    OnkelFritze

    Yes, but you really need to have everybody pulling in the same direction, not just the head coach. After sucking really hard in the 2000 and 2004 Euros (and reaching the 2002 WC final with that team was basically a freak occurence), Germany instituted a completely new system where every pro team was obligated to run their own schools according to set standards. And all of that was closely coordinated with the national youth teams. The success of that we can see now.

    If Brazil could do anything like that, they probably would win the next 10 WCs in a row.

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