Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

In my day, never was longer.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Books are my comfort food!

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

I really should read my own blog.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: The Fragile Snowflakes of the Federalist Society

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This week’s #WATB Award goes to the Federalist Society, for attempting to salve its wounded fee-fees by cancelling an irreverent law student, because free speech only applies to the Right kind of speech.

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No naughty words, no outrageous claims — just a collection of facts & observations!

Murphy the Trickster God protect Mr. Wallace, but I’m thinking this will be a starred point in his CV for the kind of employer best suited to make use of his talents.

‘Stanford’ is taking the hits on social media — not that it doesn’t deserve what it gets — but let it be noted for the record that the Federalist Society is not only evil, but also risible.

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  1. 1.

    RepubAnon

    Fortunately, Stanford backed down once a civil rights organization pointed out that under California law, private universities must grant students the same First Amendment protections as public schools. As this was obviously a parody protected by the First Amendment, Stanford will let the student graduate.

    Funny how a top law school was not aware of controlling law.

  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    Are the people in the Federalist Society wankers, WATBs, or both?

    Don’t they teach you in law school the art of not drawing attention to something you want to go away?

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    Aww….the poor baby bitchasses.  Why don’t they go suck Dump’s ass for comfort?

    Or better yet, go whine in the comments on Dump’s bigliest tremendous blog.

  4. 4.

    HumboldtBlue

    @RepubAnon: ​ 
    I’ve been following this since it appeared, and what’s so damning about it all is that even the most simple-minded of us recognized protected speech immediately. That’s what so shameful for Stanford.

  5. 5.

    StringOnAStick

    All Twitter users should take Popehat’s advice and continue to drag the Federalist Society well into the next century.

  6. 6.

    Kent

    This has been an amusing episode.  And the parody he wrote was clever and funny as hell.

    But seriously folks.  Of all the people in this country facing injustice, some young white Stanford law school graduate getting a 12-hour hold put on his diploma can’t be in the top 1-million even

    But yeah, drag the Federalist society and Stanford through the mud.  The both deserve it.

  10. 10.

    SFAW

    “Dank meme”? Fuck that shit. The last person I saw use that was tovarishch* Jill Stein, back when she was still semi-relevant, but before she gave the election to The Traitor. Why doesn’t Jeong also say “All REET, Daddy-O!!”?

    Sorry, it’s just another of my pet peeves.

    *I don’t know if there’s a feminine conjugation (so to speak) for “tovarishch.”

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Danielx:

    Once again, wondering why “fuck those guys” is not a rotating tag line. 

    Too vague with all the shitstains these days?

  17. 17.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Considering the Federalist Society are billed as the serious adults and intellectuals of the Right and some collage kid can get up their nose this easily that they lash like someones crazy uncle at a family dinner pretty much shows they are running on empty now.

  19. 19.

    SFAW

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Punch-fascist-shit-in-the-fucking-face memes?

    Sounds good, whether memes are included or not.*

    *NB to SubaruDianne and Steve in the WTFKW**: Yes, I realize including the “or not” following “whether” is not grammatically correct.

    ** I’m not ignoring all the other jackal pedants***, of course

    *** Or pedantic jackals, I guess

  23. 23.

    Jay

    So, tomorrow and the few next weeks should be “fun”.

    Corporate has started hanging the performative LBGTQ and Trans flags, for Pride Month.

    I am hanging an empty chair with a red shawl up, in support of the missing and murdered women and children,

    with orange painted baby shoes, for the T’kumloops Septememic mass graves at the Kamloops Residential School,

    got all my arguments ready to shut down Corporate, or make it Media.

    Wish me luck. The Swawassen people commute all the way to Burnaby store, to avoid the racism at the White Rock store.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SFAW:

    Sounds good, whether memes are included or not.*

    *NB to SubaruDianne and Steve in the WTFKW**: Yes, I realize including the “or not” following “whether” is not grammatically correct.

    The “or not” following “whether” isn’t always redundant. In this case, you’re fine. PASS.

  34. 34.

    Cathie from Canada

    One thing I thought was weird was that the notice from Stanford withdrawing the disciplinary action against the student wasn’t from the Law School Dean, or from the Stanford Academic Vice-President.  Instead, it was from an assistant director in their Public Relations department.

    Hmmm.

    I worked in university administration for 30 years. This smells like the disciplinary action itself was just an attempt by their corporate public relations people to mollify a big donor or a member of the Board of Governors.  Pretty sleazy.

  36. 36.

    Mary G

    Teen came home from work with his diploma! He couldn’t stay for the ceremony, but they let him come and get it this afternoon.

  40. 40.

    mrmoshpotato

    @HumboldtBlue: “How are you seriously asking that question, you fucking imbecile?  Have you had your head up your ass since January 18th?”

  41. 41.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Ruckus:

    Well they can’t do that any longer. 

    I know.  And…

    Sorry.  Cried my tear ducts dry from laughing.

  42. 42.

    SFAW

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    SD, I luvs ya, but I think you’re worng in this case.

    [My “reasoning”: the “memes are included” is the “A” statement, and “or not” is the “not A” statement, thus rendering it redundant vis-a-vis the “whether.” Had it been a “whether A or B” type of statement, where “B” and “not A” are different/unrelated/dissimilar, then I’d agree.]

    [Why, yes, I DO have too much time on my hands; why do you ask?]

  43. 43.

    Edmund Dantes

    @RepubAnon: controlling law that they were the first ever case of all the way back in the dark ages of 1994-1995 (which they lost).

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