Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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

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

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

If you’re looking for someone who’s young and athletic, go watch a fucking movie.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The lights are all blinking red.

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

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  2. 2.

    NotMax

    The drooling dummkopfs anxiously awaiting publication of Unca Dearest by Huey, Dewey and Louie.

    //

  3. 3.

    Jay

    @NotMax:

    given the appropriation of Disney(TM) property, the Mouse’s lawyers need to get off the fence and pick a side.

  6. 6.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Disney owns ABC and they were (imo) the 2nd worst “but her emails” offenders, behind NYT.  Now the monster they helped create for corporate tax cuts has turned on them.

     

    who coulda known

  7. 7.

    Starfish

    BITCH THE COMPANY THAT MADE SONG OF THE SOUTH?!?! IS DOING "WOKE PSYOPS!"DO YOU HEAR YOURSELVES— A Shady Dame From Seville (@SorayaMcDonald) April 8, 2022

  8. 8.

    Starfish

    Between this behavior and Republican U.S. Representatives asking various people “What is a man?” how far are we from them just flinging poo at people testifying on the floor of the House?

  10. 10.

    Frankensteinbeck

    It’s all about permission for violence.

    Dude, have you met any assholes and bigots?  Sure, it’s about permission for violence.  Micro aggressions, not some strategy to cause terrorist events.  They want their asshole thrill of getting to end any debate with calling their opponent a groomer.  They love it.  They LOVE it.  They’re in hysterics of joy over getting to be that publicly obnoxious.

    It harkens to their desire to turn the clock back to when they could and did beat gays to death and nobody cared, sure.  That’s not at all the kind of “Would someone rid me of these meddlesome gays?” you’re talking about.  This is about the thrill of being insulting.

  11. 11.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Adding:  Thank the sun pony for the incredible Republican talent for self-owns.  “Okay, Groomer” is the ultimate bad faith argument, slap-in-the-face insulting, a zinger they can throw out and not have to worry about actual debate.  It is hitting the rocks in widespread cultural use because when they throw it out they’re getting universally replied to with “Tennessee Republicans are making it legal to marry children, you sick pedos.”

  13. 13.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    It is hitting the rocks in widespread cultural use because when they throw it out they’re getting universally replied to with “Tennessee Republicans are making it legal to marry children, you sick pedos.”

    Lately for some reason, this oldie has been on my mind:

    Last time I saw Marie she was wavin’ me goodbye
    With “hurry-home” drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
    We were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
    She tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

    Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
    Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
    Marie is only six years old, information please
    You got to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

  16. 16.

    lowtechcyclist

    @NotMax:

    Speaking of L’il Abner, in the late 1960s, Al Capp, who had become a bit of a reactionary by then, added a student protest organization to the strip: S.W.I.N.E., short for Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything.

    It may not have an appropriate moniker yet, but for some time now it’s been the wingnuts who have been wildly indignant about nearly everything.  And now that they’ve lately become seditionists, it strikes me that the acronym wouldn’t even need changing.

  19. 19.

    lowtechcyclist

    The Russians hit a crowded railway station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine with a ballistic missile. At first they were boasting about it, then tried to claim that the Ukrainians were doing this to themselves. At least 30 dead, at least 100 injured.

    Just one more damned war crime.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Meh, the real point if this Disney Crap is so everyone’s crazy uncle will have something to scream about at their niece this Memorial Day.  Not that it does doesn’t preclude a mass shooting from the some rando who takes it to 11.

    On the other hand we will likely be seeing video of someone in a Mini Mouse costume being tortured live on Russian TV before this is over.

  25. 25.

    lowtechcyclist

    @satby: @lowtechcyclist: the singer is singing about his child after a divorce, which was widely understood at the time.

    I’ll have to take your word for it. I heard it on a Statler Brothers album, completely, um, divorced from any commentary.

  27. 27.

    Kay

    @debbie:

    Dominion and Smartmatic can show damages. Those companies contract with states and counties years ahead of time so they can show cancelled contracts or how they weren’t considered for contracts because of Fox and others smearing them. Smartmatic says they lost 2 billion dollars, for example. They’ll have to show that.

  32. 32.

    SFAW

    @eclare:

    I freaking live in Memphis.

    High up on a hill?

    ETA: To show you how un-hep I am, I heard Chuck’s original version long before I heard Johnny Rivers (or any of the other pretenders) sing it.

  33. 33.

    Kay

    @debbie:

    Disney will probably have a great year- all the pent up demand of the pandemic, low unemployment, people spending like crazy. The far Right boycott isn’t even going to make a blip. It’s to threaten them- to push them back into line and force them to align with far Right politicians. DeSantis is a thug – “nice theme park you got there, shame if something happened to it”. It’s not something a lawsuit can fix.

  36. 36.

    Kay

    @debbie:

    Agreed. It’s awful. The thing about content produced for kids is it’s also designed to appeal to their parents. It operates on two levels- little kids see things to keep them engaged and there’s another embedded level for their parents, so it’s interesting and engaging for them too. Disney really has two sets of customers- small children and their parents. The parents are not 65 years old- they’re 35. They expect to see gay characters or black or brown heroes or all the other things conservatives object to.

    A lot of this seems to me to be “I demand that everything stay the same as it was in my childhood, teenage years or college experience”, where the speaker is either middle aged or late middle aged. They just don’t have to the right to demand that the culture they came up in remains frozen there. Successive generations get to make changes – it’s theirs. That’s the deal.

  37. 37.

    SFAW

    @SFAW:

    High up on a hill?

    High up on a RIDGE, moron.

    I mean, I can hear Chuck’s voice singing it in my head, and I still didn’t “play it through” to get the lyrics right.

    I guess I’ll use the excuse that the other voices in my head were drowning him out.

  38. 38.

    trnc

    Gotta be head spinning to be a Republican base voter. They were supposed to get really mad just a few months ago when the Seuss family took a couple titles out of print. And today they’re on the verge of organizing bonfires purging all Disney products from the life of the volk.

    Of course, we know how they avoid the head spinning – roll with it, cognitive dissonance be damned.

  39. 39.

    ThresherK

    Josh Marshall’s “Blew up in their face” sounds very Beltway Inbred, and rather ignorant of the heckler’s veto concept.

    This leads me to my eternal question for our press corps: Exactly what has to be accomplished by any opponent of the right-wing puke funnel for it to be called a victory?

  40. 40.

    TonyG

    @Kay: That’s right.  The parents of kids who are into Disney stuff were born somewhere between the mid-eighties and mid-nineties.  They are not the Fox News demographic.  Also, the people who are pushing this “boycott” seem to think that everyone lives in the same bubble that they do.  I’m pretty sure that if you gathered 10,000 parents of kids who are into Disney and asked them what they think about “Disney grooming” the vast majority would have no idea what you’re talking about.

  43. 43.

    satby

    @Kay: Don’t be painting middle aged or older people with such a broad brush. Most of them are fine with gay rights. It’s a minority, mostly fundie evangelicals and it includes a lot of young haters who have been raised in a church-homeschooled bubble. Cawthorn, Boebert, et all are not middle aged.

  45. 45.

    lowtechcyclist

    @satby: It was also written at a time when, in rural America, especially in the Southeast, a pregnant 12 year old and the guy who knocked her up might find themselves in a shotgun wedding.  Even if the guy was over 18.

  47. 47.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, I guess if I don’t think of Jethro Tull’s “Cross-Eyed Mary” as being >18, that’s on me too.

    Things have changed in a good way over my lifetime when it comes to societal attitudes about sex between adults and minors.  That’s progress.  But the progress was necessary!  There was a time when sex between adults and kids was regarded as merely gross rather than criminally wrong, the subject of jokes rather than court cases.  I’m glad we left that era behind, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist

    ETA: Remembering the past as it was, rather than whitewashing it, is digging a hole?

    Go keep company with the anti-CRT crowd.

  51. 51.

    kalakal

    @SFAW: Chuck’s is the version I hear in my head.

    Though I’m very partial to Lonnie Mack’s instrumental version, man that guy could play

  54. 54.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    @lowtechcyclist: Because I don’t think “Memphis, Tennessee” is about a pedophile…..?   Prenez un grip.

    That’s fine that you think that.  I’m not telling you what’s right or wrong for you to think.

    Now tell me what you meant by “If your mind goes to anywhere but that Marie is the singer’s daughter, that is on you.”

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @lowtechcyclist: If you are so jaded and cynical that your mind automatically turns to a dark reading of those lyrics, that is a issue that you need to work out.

  56. 56.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Omnes Omnibus: What ‘dark reading’ are you referring to

    ETA: I think your jumping to conclusions and assuming I’m thinking darker thoughts than I am is an issue YOU need to be working out.

  58. 58.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Omnes Omnibus: Look in the mirror.  You’ve never asked me how I interpreted this, other than Marie not being the singer’s daughter.  You’ve just assumed, and you know what that does. Only in this case, it just makes an ass of you, because that’s what you’re being in this thread.

    So I’ll tell you.  When I first heard this song at the age of eleven, my mental image was one of their basically playing house; sex wasn’t exactly on my radar.

    Later on (like my late teens and on from there), looking back on this song and being aware that there were plenty of child brides in that area and era (early teens and sometimes pre-teens), I assumed that the songwriter took that reality and was exaggerating for humorous effect, making the girl six years old instead of 12.

    So you can kindly go fuck yourself with all your talk about my issues and dark thoughts.  You’re the one who was reading shit in, not into the song, which you can interpret any way you damn well please, but into me.  And that’s what makes you an asshole.

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