Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Second rate reporter says what?

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

We still have time to mess this up!

I did not have this on my fuck 2024 bingo card.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

Let’s finish the job.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

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

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

It’s the corruption, stupid.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

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

I really should read my own blog.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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Turns out Human Ham Loaf Erick Erickson is still making bank off the beanfests TBoggs once mocked as Tragic: the Gathering. Not drawing a whole lot of mainstream-media attention, which is probably as Erickson prefers.

And yet, Recrudescence: the Homecoming was only the second most pathetic political convo this weekend. Presenting: RoseBros 4Evahcon:


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  1. 1.

    Gemina13

    Are any of these people supposed to be intelligent adults? Because I’m not seeing anything remotely adultlike here, just a bunch of spoiled emotional toddlers getting ready to pout in corners.

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    Are any of these people supposed to be intelligent adults?

    *whiny voice* But Bernie would’ve won. Hillary’s a corporate whore. The primary was rigged against Bernie. Ewww!! Hillary.*whiny voice*

    Ok, seriously, fuck these people. We’re going to have to deal with these assholes again next year I see. Fucking wonderful. I really hope the Democratic nominee doesn’t get fucked again because of less people than pack Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on a football Saturday.

    Can’t these idiots get it through their heads that anything close to what Bernie is proposing (free healthcare, free college, unicorn butlers) will be more possible with a Democratic president than with the damn fascists?

    “But waaaahhh, (Democratic nominee that beats Wilmer like a rented mule again) isn’t pure enough for us!”

  3. 3.

    Pete Mack

    It’s too bad the Libertarian Party convention isnt happening now: you could have a trifecta of political onanism!

  6. 6.

    gwangung

    Um, wot?

    Either you expand national training or you massively fund local training using a national curriculum. There’s no debate about that.

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    @gwangung:

    Either you expand national training or you massively fund local training using a national curriculum. There’s no debate about that.

    Well, yes — Dana Houle does this for a living, which is why he’s not impressed, either.

    The RoseBros don’t, as he suggests, want to spend tedious weeks or months hanging around places where you can’t get a decent vegan double espresso. Especially if it means they’d have to listen to a bunch of mouthbreathing rubes who think Elizabeth Warren says some good things, and that even President Obama wasn’t Worse Than Trump. Nor do they want to waste their precious (trust) funds on paying those heartland wanna-bes to ‘organize’ their simple-minded neighbors. Let those people fund their own socialism, dammit!

  10. 10.

    My Side of Town

    The Dayton Police patrolling the Oregon district managed to kill the shooter in 26 seconds. While the shooter managed to kill 9 people and wound 26. I counted the shots. There were about 35 rounds fired from the rifle before the enfilade of pistol fire from the police.

    So much for citizen carry.

  11. 11.

    My Side of Town

    I also wonder if there was friendly fire from the police. There was so much of it, I couldn’t count the shots. It sounded like machine gun fire.

  12. 12.

    Aussie Sheila

    As one time member of the Communist Party of Australia, may I say to the DSA that ‘heighten the contradictions’ does not mean voting for fascists to ensure a social democrat loss. That is a Stalinist tactic that the last time it was tried brought about the defeat of the German organised working class, world war and genocide.

    Truly they are entitled and dangerous children playing with a politics about which they know nothing and care even less. Why don’t they get of their arses and go organise in the South. Or would that be like hard work? Honestly, like everything else in the US, just when you think they might be getting a clue, you come back to ‘wouldn’t know and won’t find out’.

  14. 14.

    Mr. Mack

    There’s a young fella I read, well he was young during the Bush years. He still is, in my opinion an important voice, he connects with younger people and many of my old activist friends are among his social media “friends.” But I am saddened that so many of his readers seem to have been plucked from the ranks of this myopic organization. They trash any thing connected with the Democratic Party, and they feel justified in spreading the worst lies about Hillary Clinton espoused by Alex Jones and others. Total purity party. I’m willing to overlook their ignorance, but not their refusal to learn about this Party and it’s accomplishments. It’s entitled and lazy. Do we really need them anyway?

  15. 15.

    Searcher

    So having recently participated in a local chapter of the Democratic Party updating it’s charter, the only grounds for kicking someone out of the Democratic Party was if they were an officer or held an elected position and they endorsed or provided material support to the opponent of a Democrat in a race. (And indeed, someone one level up at the county level was disciplined (but not ejected) for supporting his friend running on the Republican ticket.)

    If the DSA use a similarly structured constitution, this could be a subtle tell. If the DSA endorsed Warren, or any other candidate, and you were an officer in the DSA who was planning to send $$ to Trump or give a personal endorsement, you could find yourself facing disciplinary hearings.

    Maybe that’s more what they’re worried about than endorsing a non-Bernie candidate.

  18. 18.

    grubert

    @My Side of Town:

    I was just going to say.. what *is* the point of this post? It’s incoherent.

    (Edit)

    After reading some responses, it seems the topic is infighting in the Democratic party.. still not getting the point, other then random complaints.

  19. 19.

    socratic_me

    The point seems to be punching hippies while making fun of them for being splitters and arguing that the kids these days should just all stay home. Same as it ever is on our regular “Bernie supporters, amiright???” posts.

    ETA: I mean, we literally have someone arguing that DSA are the enemy and need destroying even as we make fun of them for not getting that Republicans are the real enemy.

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