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American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

In my day, never was longer.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

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

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

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  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Dude, just remember that the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom.

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    Jeffro

    I am sure it feels good to some people (ok most on the right) but can anyone explain to me why a functioning western democracy would want to abolish its tax collection agency?

  13. 13.

    danielx

    There will be a War On Christmas somewhere, and these guys will definitely want to have it involve bombing brown people in retaliation.

  14. 14.

    The Other Chuck

    @Jeffro: What on earth makes you think they want a functioning democracy? They’ve made quite blatant attacks on both “functioning” and “democracy” over the last couple decades in case you haven’t noticed.

  22. 22.

    The Other Chuck

    Starbucks is set to announce that anyone dissatisfied with the current cups for religious reasons will be granted a free Venti® coffee. Poured straight from the pot down their throat.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Doug!: You are getting to be like John. You don’t even read the blog anymore. What happened to you, man? You used to be cool.

  34. 34.

    schrodinger's cat

    @mai naem mobile: Wow, that statement is in poor taste.
    Hindus have used the swastika long before Hitler was even born. Hitler appropriated it. FYI there are key differences between Hindu swastika and the Nazi appropriated one. Diwali has already begun and I for one don’t need Starbucks to redesign their cups to celebrate.

  41. 41.

    SFAW

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    In your comment, “used to be cool” was not expressed in a “relative to Cole” context.

    Now, if you had written “used to be cooler,” that would have been (contextually) OK. For example, I used to be cooler than Ted Cruz. (I hope.)

  45. 45.

    Jeffro

    Jesus, Rand quit making sense here and there, please. (He’s pointing out the US isn’t omnipotent – a new concept to most of these clowns). My head can’t take it.

  47. 47.

    SFAW

    @p.a.:

    But genetically, ‘he’ was Jewish x and ?

    Well, Joseph was born Jewish, but after he got kicked out of med school, his parents disowned him, and he became a Scientologist.

    ETA: And by the way, can I interest you in a free personality test?

  54. 54.

    Jeffro

    Whoops, Kasich just gave Obama a little bit of credit…come on John, it’s time to be the right-most Democrat instead of the only partially, occasionally sensible Republican

  57. 57.

    Eric U.

    @Jeffro: You apparently haven’t heard of the 5 minute rule with Rand and his dad. They occasionally make sense for up to 5 minutes. Then things start to go off the tracks

  59. 59.

    Jeffro

    @Eric U.: well I hear you but I have yet to hear him make sense for five minutes straight – it’s more like one minute out of every five.

  61. 61.

    Anoniminous

    And now Kaisch says that he would destroy the tools China uses to mount cyber attacks.

    These people are IDIOTS

  63. 63.

    Goblue72

    @Jeffro: At the end of the day, a lot of this crap traces to the right wing nutjob beliefs of some Texas oilmen who dug some holes in the ground and had money shoot out, and now they think they are genius self-made men.

  64. 64.

    LookingForACanadian

    i’m very sorry if this has been discussed, but the B-J RSS isn’t working. i think the last post into my reader (Feedly/Newsify) was sometime yesterday. insert sad face.

  66. 66.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Omnes Omnibus: I hear it has to do with a new gig at work or something. Or maybe because he got married. Darn disappointing, whatever the reason.

  70. 70.

    Jeffro

    Cruz now railing against how
    Government looks out for the
    Rich…

    …up is down, down is up…

    … I think we had better consider a massive initiative to take the “low” out of low information voters.

  72. 72.

    SFAW

    @p.a.:

    When I get one, I’ll take the test.

    Funny, that’s approximately how we used to respond to them, when I was in college.

  75. 75.

    Ruckus

    @p.a.:
    Sounds about the same concept. But if results are what count, I’d bet that it’s possible to have more shit stuck in your hair than on a wall though so maybe Driftglass wins.

  77. 77.

    Redshift

    @Jeffro: The rule is just that they never talk for more than five minutes without saying something batshit insane, not that they usually get close to that five minute mark.

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    srv

    Republicans saying Dodd-Frank is too weak and no more bailing out Wall Street.

    Liberals…. chirping.

    It’s time to get rid of the FDIC.

  80. 80.

    p.a.

    @Jeffro: Don’t forget no matter what the mouthbreathers are told along those lines, what they hear is “you’re taxes go to welfare queens driving Caddys and bucks buying t-bones.”

  84. 84.

    Ruckus

    @SFAW:
    That’s not all that good of an answer though. They must not have been that far up in the organization or they would know to offer to build you one. For a price of course.

  88. 88.

    Jeffro

    @Redshift: speaking of bat shit insane where are all the Carson questions/grilling I was promised??

    Also, in the post-debate coverage for the undercard debate, Lou Dobbs was such an unbelievable knob-polisher for the Republicans it was, well, unbelievable. Could someone please hide his cholesterol meds, for the good of the country?

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    Peale

    @srv: that’s easy for them to say when the banks aren’t collapsing. But hey! They are probably against Algeria joining NATO and giving federal funds to host the Olympics in Chicago.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Anoniminous: I watched the first two episodes of “Agent X” and talked to people on the phone. “Agent X” wasn’t much, but I am sure it was better than the debate.

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    Renie

    is it just me or have these moderators gone completely soft so they are not criticized like the CNBC ones? there’s no push back at all on the crazy these guys are saying

  96. 96.

    Mike J

    Speaking of the debate, should I watch a bunch of people with the hands of rich people up their asses or should I watch the Muppets?

  102. 102.

    Renie

    idiots at drudge havepolled this way tonite: tRump, cruz, paul, rubio, carson, fiorina and good ole ?JEB last!

  106. 106.

    Ruckus

    @Anoniminous:
    Sorry about that.
    I figured that once your in the crapper, sinking and can’t see light above you any longer it really doesn’t matter that much.

    Also I know that you don’t have to hear the entire contents of someone’s brain to know they are fucking crazy. The highlights give you far more than proof enough.

  107. 107.

    danielx

    @Mike J:

    Speaking of the debate, should I watch a bunch of people with the hands of rich people up their asses or should I watch the Muppets?

    A distinction without a difference, although the Muppets are probably more articulate.

  109. 109.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    The whole thing about Mary Magdelene being a hooker isn’t anywhere in the Gospels, so they could just be pals.

    Most scholars who study early Christians nowadays will tell you that the contributions of women were suppressed, to the point that they’ve discovered that portraits of early church “fathers” were repainted with beards later on and were originally portraits of women. Junia was turned into Junius in later translations, because of course a woman couldn’t have been an important early bishop. Etc. So, heck, Jesus and Magdelene could have been sisters for all we know.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mnemosyne (tablet): I said nothing about her being a hooker. I posit that she was a high class escort/courtesan. I also am not judging – just saying that she have spent some time with JC to give him an image. The fact that her condo was paid for by someone in “God mode” means very little. ::rolls eyes::

  112. 112.

    catclub

    @Renie:

    there’s no push back at all on the crazy these guys are saying

    The whole point of the debate should be to find ways to distinguish the candidates. only pushback questions that get past the memorized answers do that. Without that the chaos will continue.
    This does not really benefit the GOP.

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