Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

This blog will pay for itself.

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

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

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  5. 5.

    TheMightyTrowel

    this little vid made my day. Huzza random starbucks nutter! You’re right! and I’m so glad you’re not afraid to shout a little truth to power!

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    Rick Scott looks like what I imagine cancer would look like if it was able to attain human form.

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    mclaren

    We need mobs of people lying down in the streets and blocking access to this prick’s mansion and shutting down the state legislature in Florida. Non-stop non-violent resistance.

    We also need someone in the White House with the balls to put thieving sociopaths like Scott in prison, where they belong. As CEO of Columbia/HCA, Rick Scott oversaw a company that was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud.

    One.

    Point.

    Seven.

    Billion dollars.

    In Medicare fraud.

    Why is this prick still walking around free and not in pound-me-in-the-ass prison???

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    Ruckus

    All she did was re-enforce to him that he’s doing what he thinks he should be doing. His understanding was that FL voters didn’t want a governor, he thinks they wanted a major fucking tool. So that’s what he is. Why she thinks he gives a fuck what women need or that he gives even one shit about anyone who lives in FL not named Rick Scott or his bank account is beyond me.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    Front page displaying Haider Bismil video, comment page displaying Rick Scott video on my set-up.

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    ? Martin

    Going to have to hit and run on this. But Slate and all, but not entirely wrong.

    What I can’t tell is whether Sanders simply doesn’t understand this, or doesn’t care. Maybe he thinks the only reason seamstresses in Vietnam don’t earn more is that they don’t have enough bargaining power, which while wrong would be empathetic. Or maybe he’s just more concerned about the wellbeing of a relatively small number of American workers than he is about the global poor.

    But if that’s the case, he should wrestle with the moral implications of that stance, which Vox’s Zach Beauchamp has explored in wonderful detail. Global trade has certainly hurt many American workers. But it’s also been the driving force behind historic declines in poverty. Chinese imports may have cost the U.S. as many as 2.4 million jobs from 1999 to 2011. But during roughly that same period of time, the World Bank notes that China lifted 290 million people out of extreme poverty.

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    BGinCHI

    Unfortunately this video misses the part where he tries to order babies’ blood and finds out all they have are fake coffee drinks.

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    Betty Cracker

    Ha! Not me, but I applaud my fellow Floridian for chasing the gubernatorial alien pod-person out of Starbucks!

    @rikyrah: Scott never got more than 49% of the vote. It was apathy more than an actual affinity for thieves that made him governor.

  19. 19.

    Zinsky

    That needs to happen more often. Public shaming can’t hurt, although I sometimes think these conservatives don’t know shame.

  20. 20.

    Mustang Bobby

    I think Scott went to Gainesville because he knew I was going to be in Tallahassee yesterday and didn’t want to run into me in the lobby of the Doubletree.

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    sherparick

    @Ruckus: It is depressing to realize that so many white people have their heads stuck so far up their asses that this guy, Scott, along with LePage, Brownback, Walker, Kasich, and Jindal were all reelected after disastrous first terms. It was if the voters said, “thank you” for that ass pounding, but I love it that you pounded the Black people and Brown people harder.

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    sherparick

    @Betty Cracker: But the apathy is just as good as voting for Scott. And still, 49% voting for this jerk! I intellectually understand it (declining relative living standards, declining real wages, and loss of wealth due to the housing bust motivate people to more strongly identify with their tribal identities and blame the “others” for their problems. But still, it is so stupid. For a similar asshole, Paul LePage’s war the poor of Maine still has not changed the fact that the paper mills have been closed and Maine has not found an industry to replace it other than minimum wage tourist service jobs.

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    Big Picture Pathologist

    @? Martin:

    I’ve heard this argument before, and it’s fair, but a lot of offshoring took place with tax breaks. That is not right. If the CEOs of these companies want to be generous with our jobs let them do so on their dime.

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    WaterGirl

    @Ruckus: Yeah, but I bet this video gets a lot of views and might just get the attention of people who haven’t been paying attention. Plus,it was cathartic!!!

    I, too, loved the “sweet” at the end AND I also loved how the shouting woman closed her laptop with such satisfaction when she was done. I wonder if she knew in advance that he was going to be in this coffee shop for a public appearance. Either way, I am so glad she did this.

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    PaulWartenberg2016

    Rick Scott won because 1) the Republican faithful are blinded by actual criminal and spiritual misdeeds, they just want to be led by people who will f-ck with liberals, 2) midterm voter turnout is miserable (out of 4.9 million registered Dems, only 2 million showed up?!?!), 3) Democrats went with centrist-leaning candidates in Sink and Crist who were, while capable political leaders, ineffective in stirring up progressive support. Even with the numerical advantages of having 500,000 more registered Democrats in-state…

  32. 32.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    Two notes:

    1) What the hell was Rick “No Ethics” Scott doing in a liberal enclave like Gainesville FL?

    2) What the hell was Rick “No Ethics” Scott doing in a liberal enclave like a Starbucks?!?!?!

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    Mart

    @Betty Cracker: Met sister and brother in law in FL just before he was first elected. Politics came up, and both of them, who vote mostly for Dems, said they were sitting this one out. They are both crooks, so what’s the diff? Ughhh.

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    Mel

    @WaterGirl: Yes! Imagine the grassroots power that would start to drive change if every community had a Cara Jennings in their corner.

  35. 35.

    Mel

    @Ruckus:
    While it’s true that he doesn’t care about her, or care about the issues she’s talking about, I think that’s not a reason for her to let an opportunity like that pass her by.
    Seeing someone having the courage to speak out so publicly might encourage others to do so as well.
    The more people we have speaking out in a very public forum ( and the video is being picked up by many national news outlets, from KTVU San Francisco to the Charlotte Observer to New York Magazine and New York Daily News), and the more people we have addressing specifics and facts, the better informed the general population becomes.

    If even one undecided voter or waffling Republican voter in that Starbucks (or viewing that video online) gets curious and decides to look for info beyond what Fox news and talk radio churn out, then her action is worthwhile.

    Democrats don’t need an even greater sense of hopelessness and apathy; the need is for MORE people shining a light on the specific politicians and policies that have been destroying our country’s social stability and infrastructure.

    Better “You took away our healthcare!” instead of “Meh. It’s terrible, but speaking up won’t do any good at all” any day, in my opinion.

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