Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

The choice is between normal and crazy.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

This blog will pay for itself.

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

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

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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Happy You-Have-No-More-Independence Day, Repub Kamrades!

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Maybe they’re just testing out the… hotel mattress amenities for their Dear Leader, Lord Smallgloves…

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He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States;

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for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

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Thousand Dollar Car

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I think it is uniquely American, what with our hostility to public transportation outside of the big cities, that we force the working poor to buy rotten old cars to shamble around in. My best thousand dollar car was a $500 canary yellow 1979 Pinto that I took all over the West in the summer of 1989. It was still running when I sold it in 1994.

On this Fourth of July let’s remember the tenuous grasp on Independence our less than reliable friends gave us long ago.

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He has refused his Assent to Laws,

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the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

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that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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Potential NYC Meet-Up?

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From intrepid commentor NotMax:

Tis that time of year for the reluctant trek from Maui to NYC, so
putting out tentative feelers re: a meet up.

AFAIK at the moment open dates for me are from July 26 to August 5.

Thanks for your assistance with spreading the word.

Anybody in the area got suggestions as to venue, times, etc.?

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