Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

In after Baud. Damn.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Books are my comfort food!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The willow is too close to the house.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

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SHARE UPDATE BURNS OREGON! CHRISTIANS THE BATTLE TRUMPET HAS BEEN SOUNDED TIME TO RISE! CALL TO ACTION SEND IN THE TROOPS TO STAND WITH US IN BURNS OREGON!

Posted by Blaine Cooper on Sunday, January 17, 2016

Just to ram the point home: if I were those guys I’d think long and hard about the story of Nadab and Abihu. False prophets do not usually achieve happy endings. A sheepish withdrawal is by far their best outcome…which would let them get back (continue) to fleece their flock.

But I’ll say this: those big horns are not that easy to blow. Kudos for that at least.

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  2. 2.

    JPL

    Buzzfeed has the transcript of Sarah’s speech.. link If I were brave, I’d try to recite it aloud.

    Looking around at all of you, you hard-working Iowa families. You farm families, and teachers, and teamsters, and cops, and cooks. You rockin’ rollers. And holy rollers! All of you who work so hard. You full-time moms. You with the hands that rock the cradle. You all make the world go round, and now our cause is one.

  9. 9.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Off topic but I wanted to say that it is hilariously funny that of the prisoners we swapped with Iran to get the 4 Americans back, not one of them has gone back to Iran. So we get ours back and give up absolutely nothing in return.

    I keep waiting for a Republican to explain to me how Obama sold us out with this horrible no good deal. Maybe Trump. He’s all about making deals.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    @JPL:
    Sarah is clearly trying to Gish-gallop incoherence at a speed beyond even Tina Fey’s capacity to parody it.

  13. 13.

    SFAW

    What is it with these morons? Is a group including the FBI, CIA, Army Rangers, SEAL Team Six, Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, Steve Rogers, Gandalf, Aragorn, the Seven Santini Brothers, and Cletus Spucker planning to storm the compound? If not, then what’s with the idiotic “battle trumpet”?

    I swear, sometimes I think Ted Cruz had the right idea re: carpet bombing — just the wrong location.

    That those assholes are not grease spots is the strongest argument ever that there is no such thing as a just and vengeful God. Got that, you stupid fucking Dominionists?

    Sorry. Sometimes I just get so tired of reading about assholes like these guys.

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    Snyder apologized.

    APOLOGIZED?

    Muthaphucka, you permanently poisoned THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE…

    and you APOLOGIZE?

    PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.

  20. 20.

    gogol's wife

    @BGinCHI:

    When I saw Jethro Tull (KCMO, prob 1970 or so), the opening act was Steeleye Span, and somebody stole their costumes before the concert! There was a mournful announcement by the road manager, more in sorrow than in anger.

    I blame my tinnitus on all that stuff.

  21. 21.

    rikyrah

    G-T-F-O-H

    Criminal enterprise, from beginning to end.

    …………………………………

    THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/16

    Remorseful Snyder apologizes to people of Flint in state address

    Rachel Maddow reports on the latest developments in the Flint, Michigan water crisis, including the mayor of Flint visiting the White House, the federal government sending a Health and Human Services official to help coordinate the response, and Governor Rick Snyder apologizing to the people of Flint in his State of the State address.

  23. 23.

    kc

    While we snark, these heavily armed white men have seized a national wildlife refuge, held it for weeks, evicted the employees, rifled personnel files, damaged property, and are now openly planning to do the same thing elsewhere.

    With ZERO consequences.

    This shit is not funny.

  24. 24.

    BGinCHI

    @gogol’s wife: In 1996 or 97 I saw U2. The opener was Los Lobos.

    When they came out they didn’t really look right, or something was up. After 2 or 3 songs they exited the stage.

    Turns out Los Lobos had some transportation problem and couldn’t make the show, so U2 got some sombreros and serapes and played the only couple songs they knew in disguise.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    @raven: Semi-funny story. I was friends with a guy who went to Columbia Univ back in the late 60’s and sang with the a cappella group that was the incubator for them. So his friends were splitting off to do this doo wop thing, and he said doo wop? There’s no future in that. Couple of years later they were raking in the dough and he was kicking himself.

  29. 29.

    raven

    @Gin & Tonic: Very funny. It’s like Tom Joiner. He was in an early version of the Commodores and his mom and wife told him to get away from that Lionel Ritchie!

  30. 30.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @gogol’s wife:

    I blame my tinnitus on all that stuff.

    The day after an Emerson Lake and Palmer concert, a buddy of mine went in for his West Point physical and just plain flat out failed the hearing part of it. After explaining he was allowed to come back in 2 weeks and passed it the 2nd time.

  32. 32.

    Davebo

    @OzarkHillbilly: The two freed from Houston have strong ties and I’m not at all surprised they chose to stay. The charges were BS to begin with.

    Just glad we aren’t paying the $200 a night each it cost to keep them in the federal detention center.

  34. 34.

    Snarkworth

    If the Oregon crowd is joined by some Buddhist and Christian monks, we’ll have Rama Lama Ding Dong.

  35. 35.

    Mobil RoonieRoo

    @kc: I’m starting to see the lack of response in a different light. TPM has an interesting take on it that kind of makes sense. Josh pointed out that their cause is slowly being eroded the more people hear and see what they are doing and they keep recording themselves committing various crimes. Over time they are hanging themselves and they will continue to lose support so their eventual arrests will be a non-story.

    That is one view I’ve read and I am beginning to hope that is what the government is going for.

  36. 36.

    Immanentize

    The cub scouts at the refuge are Jewish?? Are they trying to sho how far they will go to appropriate cultures? First native american land, now the monotheistic call to the new moon?

  40. 40.

    buckydoc

    @Amir Khalid: And plus, she blew what was supposed to be her mic-drop moment. She orated:”Right-wingin, Bitter-clingin, proud clingers of our God and our religion and our Constitution.”

    But wouldn’t it have scanned better as “Right-wingin, Bitter-clingin, GUN-SLINGIN, ANTHEM-SINGIN….??”

    I think she’s losing it.

  41. 41.

    Steve in the ATL

    @BGinCHI:

    In 1996 or 97 I saw U2. The opener was Los Lobos.

    When they came out they didn’t really look right, or something was up. After 2 or 3 songs they exited the stage.

    Turns out Los Lobos had some transportation problem and couldn’t make the show, so U2 got some sombreros and serapes and played the only couple songs they knew in disguise.

    As an employment lawyer, I find this deeply troubling.

    As a Los Lobos and U2 fan, I find this effing awesome.

  42. 42.

    dedc79

    @Mobil RoonieRoo: I’ve been hoping the feds would move in and arrest all of them, the sooner the better. That said, if the end result is that (1) people stop paying them any attention at all and (2) they leave not because they were forced to, but because their lives there become so miserable and boring and then (3) they are all arrested one by one and (4) they are appropriately charged with a number of federal crimes and serve significant jail times and pay significant penalties, that would be even better.

  43. 43.

    Germy

    @OzarkHillbilly: I remember back in the ’90s a man sued Barry Manilow because his ears wouldn’t stop ringing after attending one of Barry’s concerts. I think it was settled in court that Manilow had to donate several thousand dollars to a hearing institute.

  48. 48.

    Immanentize

    @Steve in the ATL: I went to a bar in Syracuse, New York in 1981 with my then-girlfriend, paid 3.75 each at the door, got to drink free beer for an hour — all; to see U2 on their Boy tour. They only knew thirteen songs, so they had to play three of them again ending with I will follow for the encore. Bono liked to sing on tip toe and barefoot back then. Someone stole one of his sneakers, but the crowd made the guy return it. My friend, Michelle, took the play list. Years later she contacted U2’s “people” re the song list and they told her it wasn’t authentic. Believe me, they had no roadies to produce those lists that night. I hate those “people.”

  52. 52.

    Germy

    @gogol’s wife: When I sit in the waiting room of my auto mechanic, I browse all the hunting magazines. The back pages are all full of dubious tinnitus “cures”.

    Charles Darwin kept a journal, and every morning he’d describe the severity and tone of his tinnitus.

  56. 56.

    Germy

    @gogol’s wife: Exactly.
    I remember hearing a story once, a guy told his sister-in-law “everyone has tinnitus” and she replied “I don’t!”

    A week later, he saw her again, and she said “you bastard!”

  58. 58.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    Letter to the editor of the Oregonian.

    Oh, and I’m pretty sure the Bundy Cosplayers think they’re invoking the battle trumpets of the Jaredites and the Nephites.

  60. 60.

    ribber

    Why am I recalling Tom Hank’s character in The Ladykillers trying to relate to the Bible proclivities of his landlady with talk about “blowing the shofar” and she’s having none of it?

  64. 64.

    theturtlemoves

    @Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: LeGuin is one of my favorites. Saw her speak at the Eugene library a couple years ago. Don’t necessarily share her distaste of eReaders, but understand it. I do agree with her that this will keep going as long as the feds continue to just let them come and go at will, as I doubt getting told last night repeatedly and loudly at a public meeting in Burns to “get the hell out of my county” by multiple community members will sway them from their righteous path. Who can stand against them when God speaks to them and all that.

  68. 68.

    Frankensteinbeck

    ‘Please! Oppress us! Where’s our siege? Where’s our deadly shootout? How are we going to inspire a race war like this? You could at least try to starve us out! That’s dramatic, right? WHY DOES NO ONE RESPECT US?’

  71. 71.

    Enhanced Voting Techinques

    “I’m starting to see the lack of response in a different light. TPM has an interesting take on it that kind of makes sense. Josh pointed out that their cause is slowly being eroded the more people hear and see what they are doing and they keep recording themselves committing various crimes. Over time they are hanging themselves and they will continue to lose support so their eventual arrests will be a non-story”

    What they are trolling for is a government over reaction like at Waco so they can claim to be martyrs. The second they are arrested they will make it all about the arrest and pretend that none of this happened.

  72. 72.

    Barry

    @SFAW:”That those assholes are not grease spots is the strongest argument ever that there is no such thing as a just and vengeful God. Got that, you stupid fucking Dominionists?”

    They don’t want justice.

  74. 74.

    Miss Bianca

    @gogol’s wife:

    Their *costumes*? Dang, as long as no one stole their voices…Maddy forever…

    Ian Anderson produced one or two of Steeleye’s albums, as I recall…

  77. 77.

    Julia Grey

    @Ramalama: wow. pretending to be the cover band of an opening act. how low can you go?

    Pretending to BE the opening act of their own show? Awwwww-some.

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