Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

You cannot love your country only when you win.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Nothing worth doing is easy.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

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Open Thread: Rep Green Brings It

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I felt this was incredibly powerful.

I’ve been having a week…I won’t bore you with it. But I’m sure sad it’s not Friday.

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  1. 1.

    HinTN

    Have you, at long last sir, no shame. Brought down McCarthy, maybe it’ll wake up America. Nah ..

    ETA – Oh well, the vagaries of memory, “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

  4. 4.

    Another Scott

    Really excellent.

    It’s long past time that sensible people push back on those citing “God” this and “God” that for policies that damage the commonweal for the rest of us.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  8. 8.

    Just Chuck

    The only concept of shame these people know is that we’re supposed be ashamed for not being rich white christian males.

  11. 11.

    Barbara

    We live in a secular democracy and your personal rights should not depend on other people’s views on what God thinks.

  12. 12.

    mali muso

    That’s the kind of righteous anger I am here for.

    I’m also loving this FB post from my awesome House Rep Jennifer Wexton

    There’s a disgusting display of bigotry today led by the new House Minority Leader Majorie Taylor Greene (Q-No Committees).

    To every Trans kid & person out there, please know that you are loved and supported.

    I’ll be holding you all in my heart during our vote today.

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    Men who choose to discriminate against other people because they can

    That’s the GOP motto.

  17. 17.

    The Moar You Know

    There’s a disgusting display of bigotry today led by the new House Minority Leader Majorie Taylor Greene (Q-No Committees).

    @mali muso: No wonder you love her.  Three smackdowns in one twenty word sentence has to be some kind of world record.  I’m very impressed.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Mike J:

    An old anti-gay trope is “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”

    Who do they think did make Adam and Steve?

    People who wanted the first woman to be Stevie Nicks? :)

  21. 21.

    JanieM

    @Mike J:

    Who do they think did make Adam and Steve?

    Great answer to that question on a church marquee back in the days of “gay rights” and SSM campaigns in Maine (mid-90s and forward):

    “Last I heard, God made everyone.”

  22. 22.

    TS (the original)

    @mali muso:

    I will never understand why the majority of GOP legislation, state and Federal. relates to peoples bodies, sex and pregnancy. If ever there was a reason that they do nothing – it is because all they want to legislate relates to the above.

    For a so called advanced country so many elected politicians profess  views on sex that were out of date in the middle ages.

  23. 23.

    dmsilev

    Conservatives Have Weird Hangups, an eternal series:

    Our Cancelled Characters welcome a new hero today. Pour out some Syrup for Mr. Potato Head – he saved our lives, we are eternally grateful. ?? pic.twitter.com/pdgPstlw2C— Colton Duncan (@duncan_colton) February 25, 2021

    Click through for the image. Apparently ‘cancel culture’ has come for Paw Patrol.

  24. 24.

    Roger Moore

    @Another Scott:

    It’s long past time that sensible people push back on those citing “God” this and “God” that for policies that damage the commonweal for the rest of us.

    To me, the core principle should be that any rule made for everyone should be based on arguments and reasons that everyone can accept.  Not everyone agrees with them on what God says, even other people who believe in the same holy books, so that argument is BS.

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    I have a really happy story to share.  The Somali Bantu community in Lewiston, Maine was able to purchase a farm back at the end of the Summer.  It was an amazing thing to be even a very small part of.  Today The Guardian published a wonderful article about them.
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/25/somali-farmers-maine
    “We’re trying to re-create the lives we had”

    There are some beautiful photos.  Jackals will especially like the goats.

  28. 28.

    Baud

    Equality Act passed House.

    ETA: I can’t believe it’s not the Equity Act.  Sell outs!

    ETA 2: that’s in reference to some idiocy during the Garland hearing.

  29. 29.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Barbara: What Barbara said. I’m so tired of having to live by the whims of superstitious fools. I left the fundamentalism I was raised with in the early 80’s because I didn’t want to live by their stupid rules. Imagine my surprise when they took over one of the major parties and starting legislating their stupid rules.

  32. 32.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @Roger Moore: I once made a gay guy serving coffee in my local coffee shop crack up during a political discussion by saying that my pet housecat was running for office on an anti-feral-cat lifestyle platform.

    It’s easy (& very lazy) to run on bigotry.  Unlike actual policy, it doesn’t require you to know anything or do anything.

  35. 35.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Another Scott:  I’m sure it’s purely coinkydink that God hates the same people they hate.

    The good news is that the House just passed the Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to ban discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It would substantially expand those protections, including online retailers and transportation providers, for example.

    Bad news is that it’s almost certainly doomed in the Senate. Because filibuster. Just as it’s been since 2013,

    Also today, Rand Paul (R-Asshole) went on an absolutely vile transphobic rant at Dr. Rachel Levine’s confirmation hearing. Meanwhile even Republicans are pissed at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-No committees) anti-LGBT stunts, the latest of which was posting a transphobic sign outside her office — right across the office of another representative who has a trans daughter.

    Can I just say, I am so, so tired of my rights being used as a political wedge issue.

  37. 37.

    Baud

     

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    But Sen. Paul decided to rant about how gender affirming health care for transgender kids should be banned instead of left up to families and doctors.

    Very libertarian of him.

  38. 38.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @Sister Golden Bear: now you know why black people are a democratic voting block.

    Because sometimes you aren’t in a position to be able to choose whether your rights are “controversial.”

  39. 39.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Brachiator:

    There is a long history of people using God as a crutch to oppose change. 

    How does virtually everyone come to the conclusion that God is a reactionary conservative asshole? At some point, you have to put this on God.

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    @Just Some Fuckhead: 

    There is a long history of people using God as a crutch to oppose change.

    How does virtually everyone come to the conclusion that God is a reactionary conservative asshole? At some point, you have to put this on God.

    Isn’t that kinda like blaming the Tooth Fairy for cavities, or Santa Claus for the existence of naughty children?

  43. 43.

    E.

    Thanks for posting this. It’s astonishing to me how successfully the RWNJs have been able to monopolize patriotism and religion. I hope things like this help put an eventual end to that. I do think we need to start speaking out more forcefully against it. Like Green did.

  45. 45.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Brachiator:

    Isn’t that kinda like blaming the Tooth Fairy for cavities, or Santa Claus for the existence of naughty children?

    Is anyone blaming the Tooth Fairy for cavities or Santa Claus for naughty children? Because all the God-botherers I see are crediting God for their revanchist worldview.

  46. 46.

    J R in WV

    I see where the former coach of the US olympics gymnastic team (little girls division!) was indicted for multiple counts of sex crimes against the little girls in the program. So then he went out to a rest stop and killed himself — another Republican way to plead guilty when you don’t have the courage to stand up in open court and admit you were a sexual monster with little girls entrusted to your “care”~!!~

    I’ve always wondered why gymnastic competition looks like a Jr High affair — it’s because it is all about the sexual fantasies of gymnastic coaches and management! So sick! These little girls should be training at home, and not allowed to  compete until they’re at least 18! And they shouldn’t be allowed to be anorexic — you need to be healthy and eating plenty of protein and fresh vegges to become a competitor.

    Same for ballet dancers — they need to be allowed to have a healthy normal weight, not forced to maintain the weight & figure of a 14 year old girl!

    So sick what these adults put these little kids through!!!

  49. 49.

    Brachiator

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Is anyone blaming the Tooth Fairy for cavities or Santa Claus for naughty children? Because all the God-botherers I see are crediting God for their revanchist worldview.

    This is not true of all religious people everywhere.

  51. 51.

    Ken

    That is what that SNL skit last week was about:  black liberals telling white conservatives: you’re doing god wrong.

  52. 52.

    Josie

    @J R in WV: ​
      What is sick is the number of parents who look the other way and permit their children to be abused in all these ways. As the mother of a male dancer/gymnast, I was horrified at how some of the girls were treated in certain facilities. It is a parent’s responsibility to observe the activities of their children and move them to a proper environment if things are not done properly.

  53. 53.

    Brachiator

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    How does virtually everyone come to the conclusion that God is a reactionary conservative asshole? At some point, you have to put this on God.

    Coming back to this, you cannot blame an imaginary being for the bad things that people do.

  57. 57.

    Bill Arnold

    @VOR: ​

    God made intersex people. It isn’t binary male and female.

    And even when it looks obvious, it sometimes isn’t. An interesting essay:
    Kudzu and the California Marriage Amendment (Rick Moen, August 25, 2008, last updated October 21, 2018)

    The biggest problem is that laws like the California initiative will make the courts decide who is male and who is female — and all available decision criteria create unavoidable miscarriages of justice that will, or should, dismay initiative proponents.
    ..
    [sample]
    7. You’re a man with all the normal parts. You and your wife are having fertility problems. Genetic testing shows you to be “XX”, but with the sex-determining “SRY” genetic bloc also present on some non-standard chromosome, and thus producing male development anyway. (This is called “De la Chapelle syndrome.”)

  58. 58.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Just Some Fuckhead: 

    How does virtually everyone come to the conclusion that God is a reactionary conservative asshole? At some point, you have to put this on God.

    For every Christian who says things like that there is another who says the opposite. The Quakers were very early opponents of slavery for instance. And have you ever heard of Christian Socialism?

  60. 60.

    J R in WV

    Good friend and neighbor’s grandmother founded the Catholic Worker’s Party, which still has farms and communities scattered around the nation.

    A Socialist movement within the Catholic Church. There is a movement to make her a Saint, although her grandchildren oppose that movement. Very not racist/sexist, etc. Support gay folks, the whole liberal thing.

    Wiki: founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the United States in 1933. Its aim is to “live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ”.

  62. 62.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

     

    No. That isn’t the math and I’m not talking about just Christians here.

    You have research? And I’m not just talking about American manifestations of Christianity.

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