Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

I really should read my own blog.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

People are complicated. Love is not.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

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With little commentary, I present this, Del. Azinger (R-Wood County), explaining why he voted for the WV RFRA pro-bigotry bill:

I got nothing. Well, this:

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  2. 2.

    peach flavored shampoo

    Having trouble remembering what iconic law might have passed in 1965….something about voting…..something about minority voting…..nah, he couldn’t be this blatant, right?

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    I have no idea what that man just said. I’m not even sure if he managed a single grammatically complete sentence in two whole minutes.

  6. 6.

    Germy

    He’s an elected official? He sounds like someone who wandered into an open mic to complain about trees on his property.

  7. 7.

    cynthia ackerman

    I don’t think he understands that Jefferson had a very secular reading of the Bible in mind, and that Jefferson meant for knuckleheads like this to absorb the secular wisdom in the Bible rather than reflexive idiocy.

  9. 9.

    Chip Daniels

    @peach flavored shampoo:
    No way!

    It was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution!

    That precipitated America’s disastrous involvement in a land war in Asia, which, as everyone knows is only slightly more insane than going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  11. 11.

    Svensker

    Yup, the natives hated Columbus because he believed in God. Also, if God told Chris he could get to the Indies via heading west from Europe, God was playing a little ol’ joke on Chris. And plus also, let’s ignore the Jefferson Bible that Tom wrote, when he took out all the Jesus miracles. And ignore the fact that Tom Paine was a passionate atheist.

    Ignorant bigot.

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I was taught a Biblical world view… with a yard stick and a pointer and an Encyclopedia Britannica and…. I always kind of wondered why they never used the Bible?

  22. 22.

    walden

    Voting Rights Act of 1965….yeah, some people still have a problem with that, go figure….
    LBJ is quoted as saying “this will lose us the south for a generation” — and I guess this guy is the generation.

  25. 25.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    Kentucky Representative Mary Lou Marzian (D-People’s Democratic Socialist Kenyan Sharia Republic of Louisville) offered up this gem this week in the General Assembly:

    AN ACT relating to prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction.
    WHEREAS, erectile dysfunction treatments include Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, and
    Avanafil; and
    WHEREAS, other medications for treatment of erectile dysfunction include selfinjections,
    urethral suppository, and testosterone replacement; and
    WHEREAS, alternative treatments for erectile dysfunction include penis pumps,
    penile implants, blood vessel surgery, and psychological counseling; and
    WHEREAS, complications resulting from erectile dysfunction can include an
    unsatisfactory sex life, stress or anxiety, embarrassment or low self-esteem, relationship
    problems, and the inability to get your partner pregnant; and
    WHEREAS, risk factors that contribute to erectile dysfunction include medical
    conditions such as diabetes or heart conditions, tobacco use, being overweight, certain
    medical treatments, medications, psychologic conditions, drug and alcohol use, and
    prolonged bicycling; and
    WHEREAS, erectile dysfunction treatments can cause serious side effects such as
    an erection that will not go away and lasts more than four hours, sudden vision loss in one
    or both eyes, and sudden hearing decrease or hearing loss; and
    WHEREAS, the most common side effects of erectile dysfunction treatments are
    headaches, flushing, upset stomach, abnormal vision, stuffy or runny nose, back pain,
    muscle pain, nausea, dizziness, and rash; and
    WHEREAS, erectile dysfunction treatments may affect the way other medicines
    work, and other medicines may affect the way erectile dysfunction treatments work,
    which could cause side effects;
    NOW, THEREFORE,
    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
    SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 311 IS CREATED TO
    READ AS FOLLOWS:
    UNOFFICIAL COPY AS OF 02/11/16 16 REG. SESS. 16 RS BR 1687
    Page 2 of 2
    BR168700.100 – 1687 – 4248 Jacketed
    A health care practitioner shall:
    (1) Require a man to have two (2) office visits on two (2) different calendar days
    before the health care practitioner prescribes a drug for erectile dysfunction to
    him;
    (2) Prescribe a drug for erectile dysfunction only to a man who is currently married;
    (3) Require a man to produce a signed and dated letter from the man’s current
    spouse providing consent for a prescription for erectile dysfunction; and
    (4) Require a man to make a sworn statement with his hand on a Bible that he will
    only use a prescription for a drug for erectile dysfunction when having sexual
    relations with his current spouse.

  28. 28.

    WarMunchkin

    I don’t speak in the language that he speaks. Guess I need to learn English like all of the other real ‘Murikans, and not that fancy doohickey language they speak in European countries like England.

  29. 29.

    patrick II

    His attempt at logic befuddles me. People hate Columbus because the Lord put it into his mind that “It would be possible to sail from here (Spain) to the Indies? And as a result this country went on the wrong path in 1965?

    Also, if you’re going to pick a Lord inspired quote from 500 years ago as a demonstration of how we went wrong, it would help to pick one where the Lord got it right. Chris ended up in the Americas, not the Indies as he was “inspired to do”

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel

    O/T but holy crap, just heard that two girls were killed in a high school shooting in Glendale, Arizona.

    My grand-niece is a high school student in Glendale, AZ.

    Good thoughts, everyone.

  31. 31.

    boatboy_srq

    @Amir Khalid: For everyone who thinks the US education system broke only recently, he’s the poster child for It’s Been Broken Since 1970 At The Latest.

  32. 32.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    Kentucky Representative Mary Lou Marzian (D-People’s Democratic Soc!alist Kenyan Sharia Republic of Louisville) offered up this gem this week in the General Assembly:

    AN ACT relating to prescription drugs for erect!le dysfunction.

    WHEREAS, erect!le dysfunction treatments include V!agra, C!alis, Lev!tra, and
    Avanaf!l; and

    WHEREAS, other medications for treatment of erect!le dysfunction include self!njections,
    urethral suppos!try, and test0ster0ne replacement; and

    WHEREAS, alternative treatments for erect!le dysfunction include pen!s pumps,
    pen!le implants, blood vessel surgery, and psychological counseling; and

    WHEREAS, complications resulting from erect!le dysfunction can include an
    unsatisfactory sex life, stress or anxiety, embarrassment or low self-esteem, relationship
    problems, and the inability to get your partner pregnant; and

    WHEREAS, risk factors that contribute to erect!le dysfunction include medical
    conditions such as diabetes or heart conditions, tobacco use, being overweight, certain
    medical treatments, medications, psychologic conditions, drug and alcohol use, and
    prolonged bicycling; and

    WHEREAS, erect!le dysfunction treatments can cause serious side effects such as
    an erect!on that will not go away and lasts more than four hours, sudden vision loss in one
    or both eyes, and sudden hearing decrease or hearing loss; and

    WHEREAS, the most common side effects of erect!le dysfunction treatments are
    headaches, flushing, upset stomach, abnormal vision, stuffy or runny nose, back pain,
    muscle pain, nausea, dizziness, and rash; and

    WHEREAS, erect!le dysfunction treatments may affect the way other medicines
    work, and other medicines may affect the way erect!le dysfunction treatments work,
    which could cause side effects;

    NOW, THEREFORE,

    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

    SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 311 IS CREATED TO
    READ AS FOLLOWS:

    UNOFFICIAL COPY AS OF 02/11/16 16 REG. SESS. 16 RS BR 1687
    Page 2 of 2
    BR168700.100 – 1687 – 4248 Jacketed

    A health care practitioner shall:

    (1) Require a man to have two (2) office visits on two (2) different calendar days
    before the health care practitioner prescribes a drug for erect!le dysfunction to
    him;

    (2) Prescribe a drug for erect!le dysfunction only to a man who is currently married;

    (3) Require a man to produce a signed and dated letter from the man’s current
    spouse providing consent for a prescription for erect!le dysfunction; and

    (4) Require a man to make a sworn statement with his hand on a B!ble that he will
    only use a prescription for a drug for erect!le dysfunction when having sexual
    relations with his current spouse.

  33. 33.

    singfoom

    Yeah, actually giving rights to those who just had them in writing was totally where we went off the rails. Asshole.

    A giant asshole as a legislator. How new and novel.

  34. 34.

    boatboy_srq

    This one may be elected, but others like him seem to be everywhere these days. Casually house-shopping in outer NoVA, I stopped into one new development to look around. One agent there, when she learned where I am now, said she grew up in the same community “when it was a nice place” (i,e. before it’s segregationist incorporating documents were struck down and Those People began moving in). Her companion though the community was well placed because there were two Walmarts in easy driving distance. Walmarts. And the homes START at $600K. I left thinking they’d helped me to no end with my home search: they’d convinced me that community was NOT someplace I cared to live.

  35. 35.

    Mike in DC

    1965 was the year of the civil rights act and voting rights act, and the beginning of the Great Society. Impossible for him to be referring to anything else.

  36. 36.

    boatboy_srq

    @Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: Well, [cough] speaking as a no-longer-young, non-cisgendered, (currently) unmarried person, while I appreciate what the legislation is trying to do, I’m not exactly thrilled that should I need those meds I’d have to find a husband first. OTOH, the number of wingnut males taking same for their recreation (and the subsequent slvt-shaming) who would be sorely inconvenienced by this does freude my schaden enough that I could survive the inconvenience.

  37. 37.

    boatboy_srq

    @WarMunchkin: Is it just the two of us, or does wingnutsery require either learning Ahmurrrcan™ or forgetting everything we ever knew about English sentence structure?

  38. 38.

    gene108

    @Russ:

    I want to know right NOW! who iz hating on Kris Columbus.

    His contemporaries grew to hate his guts and had him jailed.

    He was a shitty human being, but apparently a competent sailor.

    His brutality as governor of Hispaniola led to his demise at the hands of the Spanish, who got sick of his shit.

  39. 39.

    Matt McIrvin

    @cynthia ackerman:

    I don’t think he understands that Jefferson had a very secular reading of the Bible in mind, and that Jefferson meant for knuckleheads like this to absorb the secular wisdom in the Bible rather than reflexive idiocy.

    There’s a whole trutherist movement devoted to “debunking” that. David Barton is the central figure.

  40. 40.

    delk

    Democrats who voted FOR RFRA (16 of 36):

    Bates (D-Raleigh)
    Blackwell (D-Wyoming)
    Boggs (D-Braxton)
    Campbell (D-Randolph)
    Eldridge (D-Lincoln)
    Hicks (D-Wayne)
    Lynch (D-Webster)
    Marcum (D-Mingo)
    Moye (D-Raleigh)
    Perry (D-Fayette)
    R. Phillips (D-Logan)
    Reynolds (D-Cabell)
    Rodighiero (D-Logan)
    Shaffer (D-Preston)
    P. Smith (D-Lewis)
    P. White (D-Mingo)

  42. 42.

    Felonius Monk

    No Child Left Behind obviously left one behind. Shouldn’t at least an authentic G.E.D. be a minimum requirement for public office?

  43. 43.

    Matt McIrvin

    @boatboy_srq: I grew up in outer NoVa. In the mid-1970s it was super-white, wingnutty and fairly racist. My old neighborhood is a rainbow now, though. Lots of East Asians and Middle Easterners.

  45. 45.

    YellowDog314

    @cynthia ackerman: The “quote” from Jefferson is a fake that gets repeated on certain blogs and in certain writings. My followup question to the delegate would be “To which bible is Jefferson referring? The King James version or Jefferson’s own version that contains only the New Testament minus all miracles, supernatural events, and the resurrection?” Jefferson attributed those additions to the authors, whom he called “ignorant.” I guess the answer would be Jefferson’s bible, since we don’t want our children reading material written by ignoramuses.

  48. 48.

    Xenos

    @gene108: Columbus was so violent, murderous, and greedy that it scandalized the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. Ponder that for a bit.

  49. 49.

    Interrobang

    Was that supposed to make sense? I’m not actually sure he finished making any particular point. Maybe I’m just not on enough of the right kind of drugs?

  50. 50.

    Gene108

    @Mike in DC:

    I remember reading stuff, growing up in the 1980’s, that America was great, but then “the kids” started doing drugs, had free sex, moved away from God fearing beliefs and so 20 years later families fall apart via divorce or wedlock births, crime rates became high, once great cities were hollowed out husks of their former selves, etc.

    In theory he can be referring to everything from Miranda rights to hippies to integration to feminism, etc.

  51. 51.

    Brachiator

    So, the Deity told Cristoforo Colombo that he could sail to the Indies, but dd not tell him anything about those continents in his way? What a joker.

    1965 was the year of the civil rights act and voting rights act, and the beginning of the Great Society. Impossible for him to be referring to anything else.

    maybe he’s referring to the Beatles. “Rubber Soul” was released in 1965.

  54. 54.

    Renie

    He most have taken The Sarah Palin English 101 course. I have no idea what he even is talking about.

  56. 56.

    Brachiator

    @YellowDog314:

    Bob Dylan went electric at Newport in 1965. That might be his reference

    Yes, that might be it!

    Or the release of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme in February, 1965. This hurt the hearts of people who thought that the only real jazz was Dixieland.

  59. 59.

    Emperor Snapper

    @cynthia ackerman:

    Also, the Jefferson “quote” he references is BS. The first sentence is apparently wholly invented, and the rest was apparently from a quote by Noah Webster, long after Jefferson’s death, relating something Jefferson had said to him. It is amazing how many historical quotes used by right wingers are falsely attributed or simply false.

    Of course, even if Jefferson had said those words, it doesn’t make them any more true.

  63. 63.

    Talis

    “The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.” (fake) Jefferson never said that.
    I figure the Mullah Of the Right Wing Christian Taliban is getting his talking points from serial liar, theocrat and fake constitutional expert David Barton.

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