Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

The words do not have to be perfect.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

T R E 4 5 O N

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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Okay, it’s Texas, where subtlety is probably a capital offense.

But does this mean we should look forward to November’s “Happy Day of the Dead, Hispanic voters! Let us remind you that Republicans *love* producing more dead people!” ads?

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  5. 5.

    feebog

    That is offensive on so many levels it is hard to know where to start. Let’s just go with gah… and leave it right there.

  6. 6.

    PhoenixRising

    Fort Bend County, Texas once liberated $188 from my wallet in the form of a citation for speeding. The process of searching my vehicle took 2 hours at the side of the road. I am not surprised by this. I’m appalled. But not shocked.

  7. 7.

    Roger Moore

    And to top it off, it appears they stole the graphic of Ganesha from somebody else and just slapped their extra messages onto it. They didn’t even bother to edit out the Zomato logo. It’s hard to get more Republican than that.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    Given how often Republicans insist that Jeebus is on their side and hates liberals, I’m not surprised that they would decide to branch out and start claiming that the gods of other religions agree with them, too.

  10. 10.

    Adam L Silverman

    Given that Cruz stated that if Beto’s elected then the latter will outlaw barbecue by legislation, this is almost the dumbest Texas GOP thing I’ve seen today.

  14. 14.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Well…Not to often you see minorities doing offensive caricatures of their own deeply held personally beliefs. I wonder if these dears realize “The Elephant” is the American Civil War as in “Seeing the Elephant”

  17. 17.

    Mainmata

    Ganesh is the Hindu god of wisdom, of course, which is, HAHHAHA, the utter opposite of the GOP and, especially, the Texas GOP, which specializes in rank ignorance, racism, misogyny, corruption and, of course, xenophobia.

    The Hindu response to this “ad” was very polite because they know that, in Texas, you can get shot for just about any reason or no reason.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    Brisket is brisketing in the Instant Pot. Plan is to use the same pot to make roast baby potatoes afterwards.

    One pot clean up is fantabulous.

  23. 23.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    To the night owls, a thread worthy of Pulitzer in Twitter storytelling:

    I overheard a young man on the train on the way home today, talking to another young man. Holding hands. In college, I guessed. About that age anyway. Much younger than I am.— Tucker Shaw (@tucker_shaw) September 18, 2018

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Haven’t been an observant to anything religious fellow since I was, oh, 5 years old. Also have practiced a regimen of preferably avoiding eating during daylight hours since 1964. No breakfast, no lunch.

    BTW, got a Florida story queued up for the morning thread, if I remember, as it will fit in there mo’ better.

  25. 25.

    jonas

    And speaking of holy days, years ago Jay Leno turned up a great “headline” blooper in a local ad circular: “We wish all of our Jewish customers a festive and joyful Yom Kippur!”

  26. 26.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Ganesh isn’t an elephant. He’s the son of the goddess Parvati, who was beheaded by Shiva (Parvati’s husband) and then given an elephant’s head as a replacement. So from the neck down, he’s just a regular diety guy.

  27. 27.

    jl

    Problematic, offensive, offensively hilarious, and dumb as a rock. Also dishonest, since the symbols of well-being and good associated with Ganesha are theh opposite of the mess that the GOP has become. Too clever by one tenth.

    It is empty posturing that the GOP tries and tries but always falls flat because so dishonest and superficial. This example is somewhere between Ryan trying to look like a gym bro with his cap on backwards getting ready to crush out some concentration curls on a gym bench, and Trump emitting a sinister smile over a taco salad.

  28. 28.

    jl

    @jl: I forgot ‘pathetic’. It’s like throwing an egg on a sidewalk on a scorching day, and persuading yourself it is a great ‘hot take’ and the fried egg will be delicious.

  29. 29.

    gene108

    I have too much outrage fatigue, at this point, to be offended.

    At least it is better than Pat Robertson and the like declaring Hindus are going to hell.

  31. 31.

    Sloane Ranger

    This is not only insulting, it’s patronising. To my mind that’s even worse. But whoever thought this up is probably a Christianist who thinks Hindus are a bunch of idol worshipping heathens whose votes, unfortunately, they may need at this time.

    Also brown skinned and, therefore, simple minded enough to believe that the fact that the Republican logo happens to be an elephant can be sold to them as some sort of sign.

  33. 33.

    Dan B

    @Dog Dawg Damn: Spent an hour reading this Twitter feed and the heartbreaking comments, many of which made me realize how many “straight” people need a place and a way to express their deep sadness and grief. I’ve got so many stories of losing friends and lovers in so many terrible flavors.

    Thanks so much and I hope you repost in a live post. Its why LGBTQ people fear Kavanaugh and so many Federalist types. It’s why I have a difficult time reading about refugees and young black lives taken and the horrors of Wahhabist and Christianist ideologies. It rings personal bells that are the daily manifestation of heartless beliefs.

  34. 34.

    EveryDayIHaveTheBlues

    I was a follower of Hinduism (technically, Sanathana Dharma) a while back, and this misguided attempt at cultural comity is the least offensive thing about the GOP in these times.

    They can still go jump off a cliff.

  35. 35.

    trnc

    @Sloane Ranger: Apart from the fact that it’s crazy offensive, which of these parts of the text scream typical GOP orthodoxy:
    – Think outside the box
    – Listen to others attentively
    – Cut off bonds of materialistic attachments
    – Giving and sharing (outside of the 0.1%)
    – None of the above

    Most of those are straight up punchlines in any Daily Caller or Fox News comment threads. Maybe the exception is “Look beyond what you see” as a way to ignore the cancer obviously caused by coal sludge, chromium, etc.

  36. 36.

    schrodingers_cat

    This flyer is tone-deaf and ridiculous more than offensive. Most South Asians, Indians included vote overwhelmingly D around 80% in the last election. Ganesha is the embodiment of knowledge and wit. Values foreign to Rs.
    @Roger Moore: IIRC Zomato is a restaurant review site. This image is clearly stolen.
    @<a [email protected]Roger Moore: ref=”#comment-7022049″>Adam L Silverman: Why the hell should I know anything about this
    @EveryDayIHaveTheBlues: Santan Dharma? Technically it means orthodox religion and I have never heard any Hindu describe themselves as such, including my husband’s strictly observant Tamil Iyer grandfather.
    Only place I have seen this term used is on Sangh friendly internet forums.

  39. 39.

    EveryDayIHaveTheBlues

    @schrodingers_cat: Didn’t know about the Sangh friendly internet forums. As a rule, I don’t dip my toes into the scum filled ponds of the internets… A long time ago, I was reading some Wendy Doniger (precisely because she seemed to enrage some of the more intolerant hindutva-types), and I came upon this term which seemed to me to be a more universal phrase for the faith.

    It is perhaps true that many people from South Asia vote for Ds, but it is appalling to me how many Hindus either work for this administration (Raj Shah, Ajit Pai) or approve of or are tolerant of their idiocy (eg: Tulsi Gabbard: you and I have discussed her before)

  40. 40.

    schrodingers_cat

    @EveryDayIHaveTheBlues:

    It is perhaps true that many people from South Asia vote for Ds,

    Perhaps? If you don’t believe me, here is reporting from NPR:

    According to AALDEF’s poll, Clinton’s support was closer to winning four-in-five Asian-American voters (79 percent) with just 18 percent for Trump.
    Clinton received her strongest support from South Asian-American voters, including those of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indo-Caribbean and Indian descent.

    but it is appalling to me how many Hindus either work for this administration (Raj Shah, Ajit Pai) or approve of or are tolerant of their idiocy (eg: Tulsi Gabbard: you and I have discussed her before)

    Tulsi is not of Indian heritage, her father is a Hare Krsna acolyte IIRC. Also, there are craven careerists among every group. Indians are not an exception to that rule or its bigotry against Muslims or the lure of tax cuts that motivates the folks that work for T. But statistically speaking over 80% of people of South Asian descent vote D. They also voted for Obama in huge percentages.

    .

  41. 41.

    Scott

    I find it amusing that the Republican outreach to other religions, especially Judaism is so clumsy. After all, most of the Republicans are Evangelicals and Fundamentalists who believe all these people are going to hell anyway.

  42. 42.

    EveryDayIHaveTheBlues

    @schrodingers_cat: I believe you re: D and Obama. Why would anyone want to vote for a party that so clearly demonstrates its hatred for anyone not rich and white?

    You are of course absolutely right that there are craven careerists in every ethnic group. I do think that there is a unique strain of Hindutva-focused idiocy that is admiring of the president. This is despite all of the evidence showing that he is a racist bigot who imitates and makes fun of their beloved prime minister. Sad!

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