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This blog will pay for itself.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Not all heroes wear capes.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

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

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

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

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Independence Day Planning Open Thread: Get Your Tee Now!

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Of course, his minions will do their best to protect Lord Smallgloves from knowing about this. But when the MAGAts are faced with the conundrum of choosing between ‘defending Dear Leader’ and ‘supporting Our Sacred Military’… well, if it’s actually possible for heads to explode, Garden State Fireworks and Fireworks by Grucci may have some competition on the National Mall!

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  1. 1.

    H.E.Wolf

    I haul out my Norman Rockwell “Rosie the Riveter: T-shirt every July 4th. This is the image in which she’s stomping a copy of Mein Kampf underfoot, and wearing her “V for Victory” button on the bib of her overalls. Very a propos during this administration.

  2. 2.

    sukabi

    Countdown til drumpf and co. sign an executive order renaming the USS John S. McCain.

  4. 4.

    Barry

    “But when the MAGAts are faced with the conundrum of choosing between ‘defending Dear Leader’ and ‘supporting Our Sacred Military…”

    They will choose to sh*t on honorable veterans every day of the week.

  6. 6.

    A Ghost To Most

    @Catherine D.: This. I plan on wearing my DBT Dance Band of The Resistance shirt.

    If you’re ever in Golden on the 4th of July, try to catch the fireworks there. The surrounding mountains do wild tricks echoing the reports.

    Eta If we still lived near DC, we damn sure wouldn’t go down for the show

  7. 7.

    MattF

    I’m very irked that Trump will be dropping a turd in front of Abraham Lincoln on the 4th of July, but… what can you do?

  8. 8.

    Martin

    But when the MAGAts are faced with the conundrum of choosing between ‘defending Dear Leader’ and ‘supporting Our Sacred Military’… well, if it’s actually possible for heads to explode

    Considering that an Oregon state legislator has teamed up with militia groups and threatened to kill police (putting a bit of a dent in that whole ‘Blue Lives Matter’ argument) because they don’t want to vote on solar panels, I think it’s safe to say that the military is pretty fucked in this competition.

  9. 9.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    @Catherine D.: IIRC, the ship was named after Senator McCain’s father and grandfather who were both Navy Admirals.

  12. 12.

    EthylEster

    @Catherine D. wrote:

    I just wish I gave a shit about any of the McCains

    Actually I am quite happy not to give a shit about them.

    I can’t forget the scene in an old Baghdad market in 2007 with a closeup of the Senator wearing a bullet-proof vest telling reporters how safe it was in Iraq and saying the media was failing to report improving security conditions. A bigger picture showed that he was surrounded by military police and troops.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    @Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    This warship was originally named after John S. McCain, Sr., and John S. McCain, Jr., both admirals in the United States Navy. John S. McCain, Sr. commanded the aircraft carrier USS Ranger, and later the Fast Carrier Task Force during the latter stages of World War II. John S. McCain, Jr. commanded the submarines USS Gunnel and USS Dentuda during World War II. He subsequently held a number of posts, rising to Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command, before retiring in 1972. These men were, respectively, the grandfather and father of Senator John S. McCain III.

    On 11 July 2018, at a rededication ceremony, Senator John McCain was added as a namesake, along with his father and grandfather. Source

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    debbie

    I hope none of his supporters are stupid enough to rip up the shirt in front of the vets selling them.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Has Megan started shrieking that as JOHN MCCAIN’S DAUGHTER! ! ! ! (did you know she’s his daughter? and he was a POW War Hero? The family don’t like to talk about it) she objects to this politicization of her father, the US Senator and Presidential candidate whose eulogy she used to lambaste the President she thinks is good on policy but vulgar?

    (slightly OT: I’m not deeply invested in “Who funds the Federalist?”, but is there enough Hensley Budweiser money for that? The number $100M was tossed around in ’08, and that was before the stock market took off)

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    Another Scott

    @A Ghost To Most:

    Eta If we still lived near DC, we damn sure wouldn’t go down for the show

    We live in NoVA, and I’ve seen the fireworks from sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It’s a pretty good spot for it.

    But it’s almost always ungodly hot, with little if any breeze, and after the first few rounds of shells there’s a bunch of smoke that obscures seeing the rest of the show.

    This year several of the Metro stations on the Blue and Yellow lines are being rebuilt until sometime in September, so us getting down there this year would be a major ordeal. If we actually wanted to go again.

    It’s much, much better to see on TV, if you actually want to see it. Being down there for the event is fun, once or twice, but it’s a strain under the best of circumstances.

    Donnie wanting to turn it into a Nuremberg Rally, disgracing the Memorial, and the Metro issues, all could easily cut into attendance this year. Here’s hoping…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    Ruckus

    I get the concept of the USS John McCain t shirt.
    But my memory goes back a long time and still works reasonably well. I really don’t want to wear one even if it causes shit for brains to stroke out.
    Maybe any tool in the box that gets the job done, but this just doesn’t seem like the right one.

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    Ruckus

    @zhena gogolia:
    That’s just one line on the list. I mean it showed how much he actually cared about the job but still it’s only one line. And as far as I can remember he had one positive line on the list, one of his last votes, the one where he basically told McConnell to fuck off.
    I will defend him slightly for the USS Forestal fire. People complained that he walked away rather than fight the fire. In 1967 that was what he was supposed to do. It was after that fire when the navy figured out that on board ship, everyone fights fires or everyone can die. Before that it was only the damage control rate that was trained and supposed to do that. But on the Forestal there weren’t enough men and they couldn’t get them to the fire even if there had been. And of course the men at the fires didn’t know what to do. At least the navy learned. After that we all went to firefighter school and damage control school for a brief but reasonable exposure to fire and how to put it out on a ship. And we had two small fires on board my ship while underway. They got put out fast by the nearby crew and with little trouble because everyone was trained.

  28. 28.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Maybe it’s just me, but I have this funny feeling that if enough attendees within shouting range of the podium at the Neureichsparteitagsgelände an der Potomac started chanting

    JOHN! MC! CAIN!
    JOHN! MC! CAIN!    **

    as soon as he opened his piehole, it might work up old Agolf into a cerebral aneurysm right then & there.

    **NB: Same cadence as “U!S!A!”

  34. 34.

    Jay

    NEW: Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents have been leaked, revealing how Trump’s team team ignored a host of "red flags" about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government. https://t.co/3QENUBwUIt— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) June 23, 2019

  37. 37.

    J R in WV

    @H.E.Wolf:

    Wife has a great Tee, Rosie making a fist with her arm cocked, and the slogan is:

    A woman’s place is in her UNION!

    Which my wife is for many years now, and me too!! CWA the both of us, since her union needed to amalgamate with a larger group.

    Twitter and Facebook are both fascist stooge web sites… all I know to say about them.

  38. 38.

    Mo MacArbie

    Oh, there’s a fish called a gunnel. I see a submarine called the Gunnel and I wonder, “Where the hell are the gunnels on a submarine?”

  39. 39.

    Shana

    @Another Scott: We’re in NoVA too and wouldn’t go if you paid us. I’m not real big on crowds, or heat, or hanging around for hours before a big event.

    We’ll also be on a cruise from Barcelona to Lisbon celebrating Hubby’s and my 60th birthdays earlier this year. Of course we’re also missing the debates but I suspect we’ll be able to hear how they went.

  42. 42.

    Mo MacArbie

    Hadn’t heard that specific usage, but rather the rim of the boat in general. But then canoes don’t mount much firepower.

  45. 45.

    brantl

    @Catherine D.: Seconded! John McCain disobeyed orders to get shot down, crashed four planes (1 that belonged to him (civilian), the other 3 belonged to the Navy) by hotdogging, and set an aircraft carrier on fire, by hotdogging, as well.

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