Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

In my day, never was longer.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Everybody saw this coming.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

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  4. 4.

    Exurban Mom

    I keep thinking about the scene from American President, where he says something like: “They are interested in two things, and two things only: to make you afraid of it, and tell you who’s to blame for it.” That is our country right now.

  6. 6.

    redshirt

    I am amazed the Repukes can get away with denigrating America so much and so often. Everything’s terrible! Of course, for political reasons.

    The minute the Repukes recapture the White House, Fox News flips the switch and all media turns USA! USA! USA! Love or it leave it LIBTARD!

  7. 7.

    Ruckus

    @efgoldman:
    I didn’t know this was a parliamentary government which could call special elections. My understanding is that if we want a president out of office early she/he has to be impeached by the house and impeachment approved/upheld by the senate. I guess that my lurnnun of history and goburment is all fucked up.

  10. 10.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @efgoldman: Zooks. :-( There’s enough stupid, silly stuff out there. I don’t need to add to it.

    It would be fun if the counter “broke” at 99,999 signatures. Seeing the Trump and the Teabaggers get upset by another phoney outrage-of-the-day would be fun.

    (Thanks for the pointer, though.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  11. 11.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Ruckus: Yup, it’s not Constitutional. I’m sure the White House will deal with it in an appropriate fashion, teh ol’ bitbucket.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    I’m getting a notice that the video on this page requires DRM software that Firefox does not support. Never seen the notice before—anywhere—just informing the powers that be.

  15. 15.

    Original Lee

    Meanwhile, the brave brave governor of Maryland says he doesn’t want Syrian refugees. Apparently his compassion is exhausted by letting Baltimore be a sanctuary city (although only with private money). He’s a Republican, natch.

  16. 16.

    danielx

    Y’know, there are other front pagers where I have to look at the byline to see who is writing the post. But I can always tell a Betty Cracker post immediately.

    I say this in total admiration.

  22. 22.

    EricNNY

    Afraid, irresponsible, wasteful. These are good words to start tagging to the Republican brand. Sells better than how we really feel: cowards, idiots, crooks. Small steps…

  25. 25.

    Betty Cracker

    @Steeplejack: Could be some fuckery on the part of MSNBC. I looked high and low for embeds elsewhere to avoid inflicting an MSNBC vid on y’all, but none of the usual suspects have it posted yet.

    Anyone following the standoff in Paris right now? Looks like the gendarmes may have cornered some rats. MSNBC correspondent Laura Haim has the most charming accent.

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    @efgoldman

    Might be that an add-on you have for FF is incompatible with version 42.

    Had a similar problem show up involving my cookie manager add-on after updating to 42. Add-on developer acknowledged there was a conflict but provided no fix yet, so disabled that one and installed another which was compatible with FF 42. Since then, no probs.

    Click Tools – – Add-ons – – Extensions and see if any you have installed are flagged as either incompatible or cautionary.

  28. 28.

    mclaren

    Turning away those Syrian refugees is a great idea. We need to keep out of America the next Steve Jobs, the next Gordon Moore, the next Richard Feynman, the next Nikoka Tesla.

    We all need to crawl under our beds and put a tarp over our heads and whimper in mindless fear. That’s AMERICA!

  29. 29.

    Ruckus

    @? Martin:
    I specifically like the Cruz statement about them coming with US passports. If not mistaken, you have to be a citizen of a country to get a legal passport from that country. So it might just be a tad difficult for a Syrian refuge to obtain a US passport.

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    @efgoldman:
    Was going to edit and add something like that, along the line of “Fucking morons, all of them went to college which means they probably know how to read. How much time out of their busy schedule would it take to learn how the government actually works. That might make their desire of dismantling it easier. Maybe college isn’t all it’s cracked up to be or they still offer degrees in basket weaving. No, that can’t be it, to get a degree in basket weaving they would have had to have made at least one basket and I don’t see one of them with the skill to do that.”

  35. 35.

    Ruckus

    @Ruckus:
    Let’s look at this objectively.
    Tdump must have a degree in comb forwards (different that comb over, much less crowded a major).
    Carson, well we are pretty sure he has some sort of a degree with some life sciences required, he did go to med school and held a license. Hasn’t seemed to stick with him very well.
    Let’s cut to the chase, they all majored in pants pissing.

  36. 36.

    David Koch

    Hillary Clinton ‏@HillaryClinton 12h12 hours ago

    We’ve seen a lot of hateful rhetoric from the GOP. But the idea that we’d turn away refugees because of religion is a new low. -H

    3,473 retweets 4,861 likes

  39. 39.

    Ruckus

    @efgoldman:
    That thing on his head is old enough to vote, why shouldn’t it have a degree?
    Looking at the Paris attack a different way.
    129 dead, 7 attackers = 18.43/attacker. More of course may come, many are seriously injured.
    Sandy Hook, 27 dead, 1 attacker = 27/attacker.
    And we did nothing about this, fucking nothing. No calls to attempt to keep this from happening.
    In 2013 the CDC reports that 11,208 homicides by gun, not counting legal shootings, suicides or injuries in this country. And we do nothing. Not a fucking thing.
    But some assholes thousands of miles away do the same thing and conservatives shit themselves. Is this a great country or what?

  41. 41.

    Ripley

    @NotMax: Zook was half baby, half dog, and all naked. It was weird.

    Thanks for the disturbing childhood memory, I live for those.

  42. 42.

    bluehill

    Have you seen this? Ironic.

    Republican state Rep. Tony Dale is concerned that Texas’ lax gun laws could allow Syrian refugees to launch terror attacks on American soil. .,,

    … There is no waiting period to purchase a gun in Texas, which has some of the least restrictive gun laws in the country. Starting in January, Texans will be able to openly carry handguns as well.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tony-dale-refugees-guns

  44. 44.

    Nate Dawg

    Looks like they caught (or killed) that little bitch Abelhammid Abaaoud. Hopefully wiped that sick smile off his smug face.

  45. 45.

    Mandalay

    @Ruckus:

    Sandy Hook, 27 dead, 1 attacker = 27/attacker. And we did nothing about this, fucking nothing…But some assholes thousands of miles away do the same thing and conservatives shit themselves.

    Win. I hope prominent Democrats shamelessly steal that from you.

  46. 46.

    mikefromArlington

    Any polls out that ask parents of small children if they have a bigger fear of right wing gunmen shooting up a school or a terrorist from Syria blowing up the mall on a Sunday?

  47. 47.

    Schlemazel

    We average about 2 Paris attacks a week from gun deaths here in the US. If only those cheese eating surrender monkeys had gun laws like ours they could have prevented the Paris attacks (ed: how does a handgun stop a suicide bomber?) and only had our regular drip, drip, drip of gun deaths.

  48. 48.

    mikefromArlington

    I’d go as far as saying it’s infinitely more likely to get gunned down on the street by a deranged right winger than a terrorist. Should we be denying right wingers the right to move about freely?

  49. 49.

    ? Martin

    @Ruckus:

    Sandy Hook, 27 dead, 1 attacker = 27/attacker.
    And we did nothing about this, fucking nothing. No calls to attempt to keep this from happening.
    In 2013 the CDC reports that 11,208 homicides by gun, not counting legal shootings, suicides or injuries in this country. And we do nothing. Not a fucking thing.
    But some assholes thousands of miles away do the same thing and conservatives shit themselves. Is this a great country or what?

    We did something. We loosened up gun laws. You are missing the key driver here:

    White person killing people = mentally ill
    Black person killing people = killing machine bred through black gene pool
    Muslim person killing people = evil incarnate sent by the devil (probably Obama)

    That white person is like being struck by lightning. It can’t be helped and when its your turn its your turn. But those other categories – well, they’re predestined to kill us so genocide is of course appropriate. Moral, even.

  50. 50.

    BGinCHI

    Parisians: We will go about our daily life and not let the terrorists win.

    GOP: Ahhhh! Helllp! Poor refugees are massing to take over all the Farm & Fleets!

  51. 51.

    Jim Parish

    Actually, there is a constitutional way to make Trump (or anyone else eligible) president quickly:
    1) The vice-president resigns
    2) The president appoints Trump vice-president, with congressional approval
    3) The president resigns.

    Pretty much the entire power structure has to agree on it, but it can be done.

  52. 52.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @? Martin:

    That white person is like being struck by lightning. It can’t be helped and when its your turn its your turn.

    No, No, No. You’ve lived in Commie CA too long; if you’re armed with an AK as Jesus intended you’d take out that crazy white guy before he got you.

  57. 57.

    tybee

    ditto but the forecast for the weekend does not look promising.
    did you see where the DNR will raise the troot limit to 14″ next year?

  59. 59.

    BobS

    Funny — ha, ha, although he seemed to stop short of US responsibility for creating those widows and orphans. But I guess that would have ruined the joke.

  60. 60.

    Sherparick

    @EricNNY: I kind of like that. The party that wets in its pants in the presence of 5-year old orphans.

    1. This hysteria, which actually goes back 10 years and covers White America’s anxiety about all the Brown brothers and sisters coming north (who knew ISIS and Al Qaeda had so many Spanish speaking Catholics and Evangelicals in their ranks?), is just that, hysteria, sprung from bigotry, and racism.

    2. The proximate cause of the hysteria is the story that at the site of one of the Paris attacks a Syrian passport was found. It appears that it was forgery or plant and that all the actual perpetrators were all French or Belgian nationals.

    3. Interesting story in Vox about the political situation that has evolved over the last 25 years where “war,” or at least aerial bombing, has become almost the “first” resort for not just the right wing fever swamps, for our political, media, and national security elite, despite the now over 50 year history that bombing guerrilla and insurgent conflicts is not a particularly effective way to defeat such organizations and entities. Also, the reaction likely in the U.S. when some idiot with a gun does a mass killing who happens to associated with an Islamist group. http://www.vox.com/2015/11/18/9751340/paris-attack-dont-do-stupid-shit

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    @raven

    The only real dust raised resulted from a certain someone’s hackles snapping to attention and defensively lashing out yet again about the rabble not internetting properly.

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