Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Let there be snark.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

This fight is for everything.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The willow is too close to the house.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Me too. Die Mannschaft have four World Cup stars over the Deutscher Fussball-Bund badge on their shirts; the Slovakians have none over their FA badge. Plus, something tells me the Germans haven’t hit top gear yet.

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    Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enough to Be Andy K Again)

    I’m with the two of you- not just ’cause Boateng just put Germany up.

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    Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enough to Be Andy K Again)

    @SRW1:

    Certainly not Tottenham supporters. They know the first half is much, much too soon for a goal.

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    SRW1

    Benching Götze for Draxler was a good decision. Draxler looks much more dangerous. Maybe Löw has accepted that Götze really isn’t better than Messi.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    Mario Gomez makes it a two-nil halftime lead for die Mannschaft. Class will tell.

  14. 14.

    Runt

    Kudos to the Germans for going for that second goal in a tournament where so many teams focus on defending. I can’t really blame them if they appear more laid-back in the second half, though.

  15. 15.

    SRW1

    I thought the Bavarian national spot was ‘Fingerhakeln’. Apparently, Müller can also do it with his foot.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    @Amir Khalid: Germany never hits top gear until some Brazilians foolishly take the field against them, and then they cruise like a Porsche on the Autobahn.

  23. 23.

    SRW1

    Now if Germany could just somehow uncork Müller’s goal scoring they might have all pieces for the puzzle.

  24. 24.

    Yutsano

    @Amir Khalid: I’m just curious: is being fluent in English helping you with German? I understand Malay isn’t that hard for Westerners to grasp except the total lack of cognates.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    @Yutsano:
    I think it does help. I find Romance languages much harder going. Malay is easier in some ways than European languages (no tenses, no gendered personal pronouns, no word for “to be”) but harder in others (nuances of register can be very tricky).

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