Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

This really is a full service blog.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

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

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

A tremendous foreign policy asset
 to all of our adversaries.

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  1. 1.

    mrmoshpotato

    Fuck the entire GOP into the Sun. (That’s not a typo or autoincorrect.)

  2. 2.

    Baud

    The GOP knows only Dems have agency. That principle is the secret ingredient to minority rule.

  3. 3.

    Jerzy Russian

    I am trying to figure out who is the biggest asshole discussed in the various tweets (Ron Johnson, Mitch McConnell, and Lauren Boebert make compelling cases). If assholeness were a finite quantity, then someone would have to be the biggest asshole. However, if assholeness is unbounded, then they all can be the biggest asshole. It looks like the latter case applies here.

  4. 4.

    debbie

    Except Abbott didn’t sound at all livid when he said he was livid. He sounded more like he was reciting a line in a school play.

  6. 6.

    different-church-lady

    We absolutely DID ban planes for two weeks, until we figured shit out.

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    You know what else we did? We put a bunch of restrictions on what people could bring on planes and made them go through security procedures to keep them from using planes to kill people. YOU DUMB CONGRESSIONAL FUCK.

  8. 8.

    CaseyL

    It would be nice if the various political talk shows simply refused to put any GOPers on. Yes, the thanatophiliacs could still go on Fox, but barring them from “respectable” media would, perhaps, indicate to the general public that the GOP is no more a legitimate political party than, say, the American Nazi Party

  9. 9.

    Baud

    ‘@different-church-lady
    May 29, 2022 at 5:18 PM

    I think ATF Precheck sounds like a good name for a gun control program.

  11. 11.

    Gravenstone

    Abbott and his ilk know that cops lie. They just don’t expect to be the ones lied to! Well, fuck you very much “Governor”.

  12. 12.

    Spanky

    I’m afraid that if I caught one of these fuckers out in public I might turn felonius.

  14. 14.

    Kay

    Beto O’Rourke
    @BetoORourke
    Governor candidate, TX
    38,000 Texans had their license to carry denied, revoked, or suspended over the last five years because law enforcement deemed them too dangerous to carry a loaded gun in public.
    But thanks to Greg Abbott’s new law, they don’t need a license to carry anymore.

  15. 15.

    JPL

    ‘@debbie, the way for her to lose was in the primary with crossover votes. As much as I would like a democrat to win the seat, they won’t.

  16. 16.

    debbie

    ‘@JPL: I know. Hope springs eternal. She’s very busy talking today, something about growing fake meat in “peach tree dishes.” My head hurts.

  17. 17.

    Dangerman

    No, we didn’t ban planes. We just restricted who could get on them. Ya know, you ignorant fuck, it was called a no fly list.

    I propose a no gun list. Easy peasy. And fuck you.

  18. 18.

    Mike in NC

    The NRA has deep pockets and owns most of the Republican Death Cult, from the Fat Orange Clown to Moscow Mitch to Loonie Boebert.

  22. 22.

    cain

    My only solace is that they all sound like loons to all the gen Zs – I mean honestly, porn is the reason why some kids spend 15k in ammo and guns and shoots little children at a school?

    Even then they claim mental health – they’ve managed to reduce funding for all of it. So whose fault is that?

  23. 23.

    Gin & Tonic

    My dear wife and I have Global Entry. You apply, make an appointment months in advance at a designated TSA facility, pay $100, go there, get photographed and fingerprinted, wait weeks while they run a background check, and eventually get your card. I don’t recall, but probably 3-4 months. And this is just to not stand in a long line when entering the US. If it took that long to buy a gun, I wouldn’t mind at all.

  24. 24.

    Geminid

    Boebert might not make it past her primary June 28. Her opponent, State Senator Don Coram, is appealing to disaffected Republicans and to Unaffiliated voters, the largest block in the CO 3rd CD. The latter group gets two ballots in the mail and can return one or the other either by mail or in person. There are reports of 3rd Disyrict Democrats reregistering as Unaffiliated in order to vote against their motormouthed representative.

    Boebert won by 6 points in 2020, but redistricting has made the district more Republican. The June 28 primary is probably the best chance to knock Boebert out. Coram would certainly be an improvement. His Republican critics accuse him of being too willing to work with Democrats in the Colorado legislature.

    The 72 year-old Coram looks like rancher, but he’s actually a hemp farmer. He’s been accused of promoting legislation that would favor the industry and himself. In a debate last week Boebert tried to accuse Coram of acting in this matter with ulterior motives, but it came out of her mouth as “alternative motors.”

  26. 26.

    Sure Lurkalot

    ‘@debbie

    The Mange got like 70% of the vote in the R primary. The D winner (Marcus Flowers) got only 3,000 more votes than Mange’s challenger.

    She’s an embarrassing ignoramus but of course, the real problem is the voters. She will no doubt hold that seat for as long as she likes.

  27. 27.

    sukabi

    The more the repubs talk about their “solutions” and excuse the gross incompetence and cowardice of the local cops the angrier I get…

    Thought Abbott and Cruz were the worst but then Coryn goes and opens his yap….grrrrrrrr

  28. 28.

    Geminid

    ‘@Sure Lurkalot: No Democrat has finished closer than 25% behind in Greene’s Georgia 14th CD since it was created in 2011. It’s a “corner” district, with Alabama its western border and Tennessee its northern boundary.

  29. 29.

    Suzanne

    ‘@Geminid
    “It’s a “corner” district, with Alabama its western border and Tennessee its northern boundary.”

    I cannot accurately convey my visceral reaction to reading those words. I’d be scared to do so much as stop for gas in a place like that.

  30. 30.

    Soprano2

    Speaking of assholes, I saw John Ashcroft today. He was leaving the place we went to have breakfast as we were coming in. A bunch of people were with him, I assume his family. It’s not every day you can say you saw a former Attorney General of the U.S.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    ‘@Dorothy A Winsor:
    Porn doesn’t make you want to kill people. In fact, it induces exactly the opposite impulse, if you know what I mean.

    As an outside observer I’ve been watching Democrats and Republicans tangle over gun control for decades. I have never understood the latter group’s entrenched belief — which they well know is indefensible — that the right to possess and carry firearms trumps all other rights AND the obligation to be responsible with them.

  32. 32.

    RaflW

    I would readily donate to an organization that ran ads accusing Bill Cassidy of equating the Uvalde students with feral pigs.

    The claim would have a far cleaner line of connection than 90% of GOP blather about Democrats and “socialism” or “wokeness.”

  34. 34.

    redoubtagain

    ‘@Suzanne

    “pocket borough”

    Up I-75, past the remains of carpet mills. . .

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