Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Let’s finish the job.

This blog will pay for itself.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

This really is a full service blog.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The words do not have to be perfect.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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  2. 2.

    J R in WV

    sekond?

    YES!!!  Almost as good as last….

    Hope ya’ll understand that joke…

  4. 4.

    Lyrebird

    Wow, can we give Mr. Beutler and that offensive donkey’s behind who called So Carolina Dem voters low info for not preferring Bernie the same time-out? But they don’t get to talk to each other either, since they are so high on their own opinions?

    “Channeling Dem leaders I imagine”… HE IS A DEM LEADER MR BEUTLER.
    That’s Chairman Thompson to you!

  5. 5.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    So apparently, according to the Texas Medical Association, they’ve gotten reports of Texas hospitals refusing to do pregnancy care such as abortions for ectopic pregnancies. Which means, that innocent women will die. Ectopic pregnancies can never be viable. I am beyond so fucking pissed right now. Make the Republicans own this; they’re all murderers

  6. 6.

    Lapassionara

    Hello. I filled my gas tank yesterday for just a bit over $10.00. Why isn’t the press talking about falling gas prices?

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Lyrebird: I used to be a big fan of Brian Beutler. trump broke his brain, I guess. Now he retweets Will Stincel, which to me is pretty much the propeller beanie of Left Twitter.

  10. 10.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I remember him. I was wondering why I hadn’t been seeing him quoted here. When did he become such an idiot?

    Also, AL, what ever happened to Bob Schooley? I remember you quoted his tweets a lot

  11. 11.

    Baud

    Is every one of those assholes a white male liberal?

    I wonder how much fascism it’ll take to get them to stop analyzing Dems’ body language.

  12. 12.

    Another Scott

    @SiubhanDuinne: Or neither!

    So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

    It’s one of those koans, isn’t it??

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  15. 15.

    bbleh

    @karen marie: Study after study shows us that Americans are just consistently wrong
    about their political opponents, and consuming political media makes it
    worse.  Translation: “*I* am the problem!”

  17. 17.

    Lyrebird

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Now he retweets Will Stincel, which to me is pretty much the propeller beanie of Left Twitter.

    Ha ha ha… Thank you for that image. Nothing against propeller beanies of course.

    So thankful for Anne Laurie and WG and everyone here at John Cole’s play and kvetch house.

  20. 20.

    frosty

    @Gin & Tonic: I don’t get why rich guys like Oz don’t relax and enjoy their money instead of jumping into something they know nothing about.* Fetterman’s social media staff are flaying him. And I am here for it!

    * TFG is of course the poster boy for this. 

  22. 22.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: well, there is Liz Breunig, the forced-birth trust fund socialist

    Moment Meeter. @agraybee 6h
    Blue checks finally distancing themselves from Liz Bruenig is part of a larger social trend of people who thought abortion was safe suddenly realizing they have to rethink their priorities.

    Suddenly your weird little friend who loves Bernie and makes you nine-course meals isn’t so cute, huh.

    Now wait until you realize her feral husband isn’t worth all the bad charts he makes.

    Feral is a good word for Matt Bruenig

  25. 25.

    Gin & Tonic

    @JeffH: I know he was, but when Oz name-checks one of the two big tourist cheesesteak places, and *they* are having none of it, that’s really sweet.

    Dude probably wouldn’t be able to find his way to Reading Terminal Market.

  29. 29.

    bbleh

    @Gin & Tonic: The old gods and the new be with Lt. Gov Stonecold, but as the horrible example of TFG teaches us, for all its artificiality, do not underestimate the influence of a long-standing TV “personality” on, ahem, less-informed voters.

  31. 31.

    Glidwrith

    @Baud: Maybe if they’re mewling at my feet, begging for mercy. I’ve got damned little left in me for these asses.

  33. 33.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Mike in NC:

    The guy really is a snake oil salesman through his show; I always see him on the supermarket tabloid covers; “Dr. Oz’s Miracle Keto Gluten-Free Diet will help you lose 50 lbs in a Week!” Another quack foisted on us by Oprah, the other being “Dr.” Phil, whose entire schtick revolves around him being a conservative scold. I recommend looking up Big Joel’s Dr Phil videos on YT

    It’s almost sad, considering Oz is a legitimate cardiologist, it’s just that he’s using medical credentials and reputation to endorse fake medical BS

  35. 35.

    Cameron

    @Gin & Tonic: Can you imagine the blood bath when Fetterman’s actually able to campaign again?  Wish I could get back to Pennsylvania for a few weeks this fall.

  36. 36.

    HumboldtBlue

    @pat:

    Wait until you read the story about a woman who had an abortion to save her life from an ectopic pregnancy and then returned to the doctor four years later in tears demanding to know why the doctor did not do a  re-implant (of whatever the collection of cells is in an ectopic pregnancy, my ignorance could not be more complete)  because she had been captured by the forced-birth science deniers and utterly mislead.

  37. 37.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @HumboldtBlue:

    returned to the doctor four years later in tears demanding to know why the doctor did not do a re-implant

    ….I’m pretty sure that’s not possible, right?

  41. 41.

    lamh36

    Good evening BJ.

    Coming off lurking a bit to say thank you all for the words of condolences and encouragements after the death of my sister.

    It really meant a whole lot to me and I even shared the blog comments with my remaining sisters.  We really appreciated them all!

  45. 45.

    HumboldtBlue

    @lamh36:

    Nice to see your name again, have some more love from the North Coast. Are we to consider you a lurker now?

    Cuz Water Girl had you earlier with a lurker thread.

    @Geminid:

    He thinks it’s the Stepstone State.

    Ba-dum-tssh!!

  48. 48.

    HumboldtBlue

    @phdesmond: ​ 

    i think it’s fair to call the ectopic creature a “feral zygote.”

    That’s a rotating tag. I’m not sure in what space it should be a rotating tag, but it should. ‘Cause that’s good.

  49. 49.

    Mallard Filmore

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): 

    according to the Texas Medical Association, they’ve gotten reports of Texas hospitals refusing to do pregnancy care such as abortions for ectopic pregnancies. Which means, that innocent women will die.

    Texas is also suing against the Biden administration’s directive that abortions MUST be done to save the life of the mother.

    The GOP finally has their Death Panels. GOP politicians.

  52. 52.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I say we take off and nuke the Village from orbit.   It’s the only way to be sure.

  53. 53.

    Lyrebird

    @lamh36: Good evening to you!  You are amazing, and I hope you keep getting so much support as you adjust to such a profound loss of someone also utterly amazing.

  54. 54.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @lamh36: We’ve all missed you, while realizing you have had so many things on your plate.
    And let me add my condolences to the others—even at a remove it’s hard to think of your family, as close as you all are and as enthusiastic about life and adventures as you have seemed from what you’ve shared over the years, lessened by such a loss.

  55. 55.

    apocalipstick

    @pat: Ah, they’ve written into law that the possiblity must be entertained. It can’t happen, but you’ve got to spend time verifying what you already know.

  58. 58.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ​I’m pretty sure that’s not possible, right?

    I’d love to ask one of those forced-birthers why the bazillionaires that fund them, and their overly-flush megachurches, haven’t gone all-in on developing technology that would permit the routine, safe and highly effective removal of gestating cells (ectopic and other nonviables as well as routine) from one woman and their implantation into the womb of another woman who either wants a baby (but can’t have one in the standard manner) or is willing to surrogate-mother one for a reasonable sum. That ought to be a slam-dunk for medical science & if they’d started even a decade ago they might have the technology by now.

    So why didn’t they do it? Because the point isn’t to “save the unborn child” but to punish those “sluts” by forcing them to carry the baby to term and then either having to support it or to give it up so that some nice whitebread fundanazi couple can raise another kid as cannon-fodder for the culture wars.

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