Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

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

So many bastards, so little time.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

When we show up, we win.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

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

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

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Michael Tracey will always be known as the large young dude who whined about Rep. Maxine Waters shoving him, just brutally, behold the violence inherent in the system. So he’s not afraid to somersault out at the head of the Horseshoe Politics clown parade…



More and more people are talking about this!!!! (Who funds the Federalist?)

The Alt-Right / Alt-Left Co-Prosperity Sphere reboots! Next step: At least Trump wasn’t a warmonger, unlike the filthy Democrats, on this “we” can all agree…

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  1. 1.

    HumboldtBlue

    Sweet Jesus spanking Nancy Reagan’s ass while Casper Weinberger changes Ronnie’s pants, Tom Nichols is here.

  3. 3.

    Jerzy Russian

    There are some seriously stupid people on Twitter.

    Also too:  What war did Jimmy Carter start?  What war did. Ford start?

  14. 14.

    Jerzy Russian

    @JustRuss:   Also Twitter magnifies the Stupid Rays that these people emit.  Twitter at its very core is built on a stupid idea, and it did not get any smarter over time.

  15. 15.

    Jay

    Rioters admitting to the FBI that they didn't vote in November while also admitting to attacking the Capitol to overthrow other the votes of people who did is so on the nose it feels like screenwriting— Adam Rawnsley (@arawnsley) January 22, 2021

  22. 22.

    Jay

    After our BX+Queens district became the most COVID-hit in the country, I spent much of last year working on an issue that was devastating our families: funeral costs.We finally got it done.People will soon be able to get COVID funeral costs reimbursed.https://t.co/KeYsVbr8js— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 22, 2021

  26. 26.

    Edmund Dantes

    I mean I wore a condom and she was on birth control, and she didn’t get pregnant or any stds. Total waste of time and effort.

  28. 28.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Kent:

    The Libya revisionism floors me.  It is presented as if the United States unilaterally invaded a stable country and we are still imbedded in an Iraq-like quagmire.  In real life Obama agreed to honor NATO obligations when they begged us to start the bombing campaign when the Arab League begged them to intervene in the civil war.  Obama agreed only because doing so would prevent a credible threat to massacre a city of 300,000, and we got out as fast as NATO (led by France) could take over, exactly because we didn’t want to be involved.  All of that is just… forgotten whenever the topic is discussed.  It drives me nuts.

  29. 29.

    Jay

    New: A @HuffPost tally finds 21 state & local GOP officials at the Capitol rally that became an insurrection- 2 have been arrested- 13 blamed violence on “antifa”- includes a QAnon guy; militiaman; & a man who said “the only good Dem is a dead Dem.” https://t.co/iYHanCjY3G— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) January 22, 2021

  30. 30.

    Redshift

    @Jerzy Russian: I read a fact check of this idiotic claim, in the Post, I think. It starts with equating starting American involvement in a war with “starting a war,” which of course it isn’t, but it’s still not true even if you accept that.

  32. 32.

    Jay

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    there was no “credible threat”,

    outside and domestic actors just copied the “Dubya Dubya Me Too” playbook to “stampede” the US into taking the lead, against a regime that has been a “storybook villain” since the Cold War.

    the LNA is now propped up by Putin, Wagner, Egypt and the UAE, while Turkey backs the GNA, and the EU “blockaide”, blocks nothing.

    https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/22/africa/libya-trench-russia-intl/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

  34. 34.

    DMcK

    @Jay: Speaks to my lazy layman’s opinion of NATO: ostensibly a Cold War pact of anti-Soviet solidarity, but hopelessly entangled in Europe’s disgraceful colonial history. Plus the old saw, “NATO = “Needs America to Operate”

    ETA: this admittedly poorly informed opinion in no way endorses the previous admin’s extortionist attitude towards our European allies.

  36. 36.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    speaking of horseshoe politics clown parade

    Taibbi supported…. wait for it…. the cops during the summer police riots.

     

    Matt insisting that morality of cops is complicated.
    policing is “one of the few jobs available to working class, non college educated people.” cops are the real working class!

    — Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) July 24, 2020

    Matt literally mentions The Wire to show how stats regimes are bad but cops are good.
    what a farce.

    — Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) July 24, 2020

    he’s concern trolling about the 1619 project saying that it shoudln’t be in schools because most americans don’t look at their history in that way. total white identity dogwhistle.
    — Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) July 24, 2020

    I never liked Taibbi. Ever. That said, he was on the far left, but his love for all things Russia, including Putin, radicalized him over Russiagate to where he now attacks Bernie and supports white identity politics.

  42. 42.

    Baud

    We were not at war with Iran before Trump.  Or does killing Sulemani not count as an act of war anymore.

     

    ETA: That said, Trump did focus more on killing Americans.

  48. 48.

    Ramalama

    @John Revolta: Marcy Wheeler holds a special dagger in her heart against the trifecta of Tracey, Aaron Mate, and Glenn Greenwald. And she shitcans them pretty regularly on her twitter feed…though I haven’t seen anything against him in the past couple of days. But she’s been busy reading even more court documents.

  51. 51.

    J R in WV

    @NorthLeft12:

    Is it too much to ask for the Trumps to learn how to speak and write English?

    All available evidence tells us, Yes, yes, it is too much to ask for the Trumps to learn how to speak and write English !!

  52. 52.

    Don P.

    I saw the pro-Trump position on this mocked (on Twitter?) by someone as “Donald Trump was excellent because he kept the US involved in the exact right number of wars.”

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