Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

No one could have predicted…

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The words do not have to be perfect.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

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

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

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

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  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    … lawyer whose life fell apart after being at the 1/6 insurrection asked his dad to “pick up his house keys from his fiancée and remove his guns and gold …

    There’s a song in there somewhere, I reckon.

  4. 4.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: I went home with the waitress / The way I always do / How was I to know / She was with the Russians, too?…

    I’m the innocent bystander / Somehow I got stuck / Between the rock and a hard place / And I’m down on my luck, yes I’m down on my luck…

  10. 10.

    lowtechcyclist

    How much gold did this guy have? Interested in his definition of ‘rock bottom.’

    Also interested in how “God’s plan for [his] life” was for him to do something seditious and really, really stupid.

  11. 11.

    the pollyanna from hell

    I could learn a whole bunch of humility if all I had left was money and firepower.

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    I went on down to DC,
    Got caught up in a riot,
    Tell my daddy, get my guns and gold,
    Cause I ain’t keeping quiet.

    I lost my girl, I lost my job,
    Guess I’m just a chump,
    But I would do it all again
    Cause I’m a fool for Donald Trump.

  18. 18.

    trnc

    @Mo MacArbie: ​
     

    @Amir Khalid: Yes, it was a Warren Zevon song…

    Specifically, “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” which eventually became the namesake for a fellow top 10,000 blog.

  19. 19.

    Rusty

    Just more proof from the last years that consequences for actions don’t necessarily bring self reflection or a change in behavior.  It’s been personally enlightening the extent and the number of people that can sucked into lies, conspiracies and mass movements.  Reading history I always had this wonderment how many people would be part of these cults of personalities, strange religious movements, communist and fascist movements, and so on.  We are smarter than that now.  Well, we definitely aren’t.  When you refuse life saving medicine, including transplants to avoid taking a vaccine, then you are really in a world of delusion.  Same for fake election fraud and all the other falsehoods and conspiracies served up by the right wing media world.  To watch bright, well educated people get sucked in has been really disillusioning.  Goes to show my naivete.

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    @trnc:

     a fellow top 10,000 blog.

    Careful. It’s fashionable in some quarters here to hate on LGM, because they’re all Eeyores or something like that.

  22. 22.

    Brantl

    @Rusty: I haven’t seen anyone that was both bright, and well educated, sucked into this shit. I think it stands to reason that if they were well educated, they wouldn’t believe in this shyte.

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    @Rusty:

    Goes to show my naivete.

    I say this with love, so to speak, but yeah. The ability of large cohorts to believe evil/vile and obviously (to the rest of us) bullshit things, and use those things as pretexts to hate on, and do harm to, their fellow humans, has been around since “time remorial” (as Norm Crosby might say).

  26. 26.

    Ken

    @lowtechcyclist: Also interested in how “God’s plan for [his] life” was for him to do something seditious and really, really stupid.

    He didn’t name the god.  Maybe it’s one of those nihilistic Lovecraftian horrors, like Cthulhu or Nyarlathotep or Ayn Rand.

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    @hueyplong:

    “Off” as in “not credible,” or as in “fucked up”? I’m assuming the latter; if so, I agree with you. [Although not every nurse is a “high performer.” Fortunately, my wife is.]

  29. 29.

    Anne Laurie

    @lowtechcyclist: Also interested in how “God’s plan for [his] life” was for him to do something seditious and really, really stupid.

    There’s a subset of Christianists who use ‘God’s plan for my/your/their life’ as a shorthand for I’m not rethinking my priors, and if you attempt to make me do so, you’re just an atheist bigot.

    It’s like hugging a soggy diaper, because it might not smell great to *you*, but its familiarity makes them feel warm & contented.

  30. 30.

    Matt

    @Rusty:

    To watch bright, well educated people get sucked in has been really disillusioning.

    He thinks “God” “has a plan for him”; that’s a pre-existing condition known to cause folks to accept additional lies.

  31. 31.

    Professor Bigfoot

    @SFAW: the thing is, though, that by and large we engineers are well TRAINED, but not well EDUCATED.

    Back when I was an engineering undergrad, there simply was no time in the curriculum for philosophy or the humanities or examination of the human condition— ‘cause you’re not going to be tested on that, you’re going to be tested on whether PV=nRT or not.

    The best EDUCATED engineers tend to be pretty autodidactic.

    The number of white male engineers (who I actually liked and respected!)  who disappointed me terribly back in 2008 and continuing was… large.

  32. 32.

    SFAW

    @Professor Bigfoot:

    the thing is, though, that by and large we engineers are well TRAINED, but not well EDUCATED.

    I guess I agree. However, engineers are supposed to be able to think logically.

    Like my father (and mother and grandfather) before me, I will work the land I am/was an engineer. I was/am fortunate that my family was educated (in the classical sense), and that all the engineers mentioned above were liberal. It always appalls me when I run into engineers with SFB vis-a-vis political and social issues.

  33. 33.

    ...now I try to be amused

    Dude thinks he’s hit rock bottom and he hasn’t been arrested? Still, it’s nice to see him get the social opprobrium he deserved even in Texas.

    @Professor Bigfoot:

    The number of white male engineers (who I actually liked and respected!)  who disappointed me terribly back in 2008 and continuing was… large.

    I will never forget that Mohamed Atta (the leader of the 9/11 terrorists) was an engineer. It seems to me that engineers are  prone to intellectual and emotional rigidity. That can make them angry at the world, and an angry engineer has enough ingenuity to be dangerous.

  34. 34.

    MinuteMan

    @SFAW:

    I guess I agree. However, engineers are supposed to be able to think logically.

    The problem with thinking logically is figuring out what are the correct postulates.  Start with the wrong assumptions and logic can lead you to some very strange places.

  35. 35.

    Strypgia

    It’s dismaying but unsurprising that this doofus seems to have learned exactly SFA from his adventure, right down to lawyering for anti-vaxx twits and insisting that massive fraud took place despite no evidence in the entire time since. When Rudi f’ing Guiliani is the face on TV fronting for ‘massive fraud’, it’s not a hint that maybe you’re not following the brightest parade, buddy?

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