Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

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

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

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

“woke” is the new caravan.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Come on, man.

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

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

The revolution will be supervised.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

So many bastards, so little time.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

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  1. 1.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    Brace for motherfucking complaints from motherfuckers about motherfucking Democrats being motherfucking uncivil to wingnut fucking motherfuckers.

  2. 2.

    HumboldtBlue

    These motherfuckers better recognize what is coming.

    Keep fucking with women and moms, keep fucking mocking them, ignoring them, you’re gonna find the fuck out.

  4. 4.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    If Beto could only win in Texas he’d be President. Texas is the only large state that consistently votes Republican and if all those electoral votes were his, that could mean that no-one need worry about Florida or even the rust belt.

  10. 10.

    Wag

    Truth hurts, motherfuckers.   Beto is coming for Austin and may well win.   To hell with the NRA and the GQP

  12. 12.

    Scout211

    That audience reaction was just great! He’s got some enthusiastic supporters there. Awesome.

  13. 13.

    kalakal

    Oh yes! That was just perfect. I love the audience’s applause. They’re really fired up, great to see

  14. 14.

    Citizen Alan

    I think it’s time we start openly talking about the dirty little secret regarding republicans and school shootings. Namely, that they are in favor of them. Every time there is a school shooting it is followed by a rush of gun nuts buying up all the ammo they can get because they’re terrified of liberals who try to pass gun laws.  This leads to an increase in profits for the gun manufacturers, which in turn is funneled through gun lobbyists to pro-2A Republican politicians who will fight tooth and nail against any form of gun control. Republican politicians PROFIT from school shootings.

  20. 20.

    dww44

    @Chacal Charles Calthrop: I’m old enough to remember when Texas was very Democratic. It can happen.  And this might be the year.  I’d vote for Beto in a heartbeat.  But, I don’t live in Texas, albeit my daughter did in the 90’s and early 2000’s.  Visited there when Ann Richards was Governor.  Last of a breed she was.

  21. 21.

    Villago Delenda Est

    We need more of this motherfucking shit from Dems.  They need to call out the motherfuckers with vim and vigor and vulgarity, because Rethuglicans are, by definition nowadays (not when I was growing up) the worst motherfuckers around.

  22. 22.

    LeftCoastYankee

    In Wingnuts’ small-minded worldview Polite = Tolerant = Scared.

    Beto’s not scared and ain’t standing for their shit, so why not make it clear as hell for these evil motherfuckers one and all.

  24. 24.

    Ohio Mom

    @Citizen Alan: School shootings also help to weaken the public school system, another Republican goal. Anything to push and scare families into private schools.

  25. 25.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Ohio Mom:

    School shootings also help to weaken the public school system, another Republican goal. Anything to push and scare families into private schools.

    Yup, that is another lever in the effort to deconstruct public education.

  28. 28.

    gene108

    @HumboldtBlue:

    More than just deconstructing public education, it’s the goal of the conservative movement to deconstruct all civil institutions that move people towards cooperation and tolerance.

    The idea that we all have a say in how society is run is anathema to them. In the name of “freedom” they want to strip us of our sense of civic engagement.

    Can’t go to a Fourth of July parade, there might be a mass shooting. Can’t support the library, there maybe books I object to.

    They want to remake society so we all act like crabs in a bucket tearing each other apart.

  29. 29.

    Chetan Murthy

    @gene108: I remember a tweet a few months before covid, with some conservatard claiming there was no example of a “public good” that actually worked.  No joke.  That’s their goal: that there be no public goods whatsoever.

  31. 31.

    gene108

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Saw an interview with one of the Koch brothers saying one of their goals has been to destroy the idea of public services.

    The example used was shifting police budgets from taxpayer funded to funded by fines issued, so I guess taxes could be lowered.*

    What worries me is this idea of no public goods will be ruinous for this country. The people advocating for it are dangerously attached to the both the idea that America must always be number one in the world, and they are never at fault.

    If they actually succeed in getting their entire agenda implemented, the U.S. will be in shambles and they’ll be looking for scapegoats.

    *EDIT: Remembering a bit better. People didn’t object to taxes because it paid for services like police, for example. Decouple services from taxes paid, and people start objecting to paying taxes and accept tax cuts as a positive, regardless of the services they may not receive.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    @gene108:

    They want to remake society so we all act like crabs in a bucket tearing each other apart.

    Some of these people want to replace the civic society with a Christianist theocracy. The theory is that we want tear each other apart if we do what the Baby Jesus wants us to do.

  34. 34.

    catothedog

    @Chetan Murthy:

    That was Margaret Thatcher’s bag of goods

    too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first

    Reagan was cut from the same cloth, and the rest followed

  35. 35.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Brachiator:

    The theory is that we want tear each other apart if we do what the Baby Jesus wants us to do.

    I suggest that their theory is that only those not among The Elect will get torn apart.  If you get torn apart, you obviously deserved it.

  41. 41.

    kalakal

    1. @HumboldtBlue: hells teeth, they really are batshit crazy as well as poisonous. How could anyone vote for that.? If they have their way the country will just disintegrate
  44. 44.

    patrick II

    @Citizen Alan:

    Not to mention profits from all of the police departments sa!es who have to weapon up to match school shooters.

    And then won’t go thru the door with an ar-15 waiting on the other side.

  46. 46.

    JaySinWA

    @NotMax: I just tried to report this, site feedback seemed logical, but it’s too geared to hardware/software issues. Maybe all caps email to JC? I think this is in WG’s domain but I think this is out of her timeslot.

  49. 49.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @danielx: Yes, pearls will be clutched over Beto’s saucy language, because one has to respect the right of some white boi asshole to take humor at the murder of children. Or something.

  50. 50.

    kalakal

    @Villago Delenda Est: yep, I used to work with a Libertarian, I could never understand why someone who kept wurbling on about freedom was in favour of policies that would result in feudalism and where he’d enjoy all the freedoms of a medieval peasant.

  52. 52.

    JaySinWA

    @kalakal: I could have sworn there was an article with this talking about low turnout. I can’t find it now. Maybe it was some other election, but this was an August election, the numbers i see were higher than what I remembered.

  56. 56.

    James E Powell

    @Leto:

    I would like to know the names of the several and see if anyone has a video of the service of the subpoenas.

  57. 57.

    SFAW

    @JaySinWA: ​

    Non sequiturs are us

    You must have a different dictionary from me.
    It may have been abstruse, i.e., not as obvious a joke as you’d like, but it wasn’t a non sequitur.​​​​

  59. 59.

    Citizen Alan

    @kalakal:

    He can’t imagine being a peasant. Somehow, somehow, he’ll end up being the guy who lives in the fancy castle with all the other serfs at his beck and call.  At heart, every Libertarian wants America to be “Somalia for White People” because every damned one of them thinks they’ll be the regional warlords instead of the poor schlub who dances when bandits shoot at his feet.

  60. 60.

    Citizen Alan

    @kalakal:

    He can’t imagine being a peasant. Somehow, somehow, he’ll end up being the guy who lives in the fancy castle with all the other serfs at his beck and call.  At heart, every Libertarian wants America to be “Somalia for White People” because every damned one of them thinks they’ll be the regional warlords instead of the poor schlub who dances when bandits shoot at his feet.

  61. 61.

    Citizen Alan

    @kalakal:

    He can’t imagine being a peasant. Somehow, somehow, he’ll end up being the guy who lives in the fancy castle with all the other serfs at his beck and call.  At heart, every Libertarian wants America to be “Somalia for White People” because every damned one of them thinks they’ll be the regional warlords instead of the poor schlub who dances when bandits shoot at his feet.

  62. 62.

    Citizen Alan

    @kalakal:

    He can’t imagine being a peasant. Somehow, somehow, he’ll end up being the guy who lives in the fancy castle with all the other serfs at his beck and call.  At heart, every Libertarian wants America to be “Somalia for White People” because every damned one of them thinks they’ll be the regional warlords instead of the poor schlub who dances when bandits shoot at his feet.

  63. 63.

    Citizen Alan

    Okay, that was weird. And I didn’t even get an Edit window I could use to delete the duplicate posts.

  68. 68.

    JWR

    Late catching up on everything, and watching all the TV news I could stand, was told only that Trump took the 5th, but not how many times he took the 5th.

    The deposition lasted four hours, and the only question the former president answered was about his name, Trump attorney Ron Fischetti told NBC News.

    A source with knowledge of the deposition said Trump took the fifth more than 440 times.

    Looks like he gave Michael Flynn a run for his “I take the 5th” money.

  73. 73.

    Steeplejack

    Motorbike guy across the street just departed again.

    I need to get some sleep. I’m driving to Rehoboth Beach (later) in the morning. Family reunion with Bro’ Man and RWNJ brother, who motored in from Las Vegas in his F-350 pickup with camper back.

  74. 74.

    ColoradoGuy

    @Steeplejack: An F350 carrying a 2500 to 3500 lb. camper. Unless it’s a diesel, that’ll be 8 to 10 mpg. Diesel, 14 mpg … maybe. One guess what he’ll be complaining about.

  75. 75.

    Jinchi

    @kalakal:  I could never understand why someone who kept wurbling on about freedom was in favour of policies that would result in feudalism 

    It took me a long time to realize that Libertarians were never talking about “freedom”, just the Darwinian freedom of the powerful to take from everyone else.

  77. 77.

    Baud

    Everyone’s talking about the cussin’, but I’m sitting here impressed that a Dem candidate can talk about gun regulations on Texas.

  78. 78.

    206inKY

    Makes me want to dig out my Beto 2020 yard sign. Highly recommend the HBO documentary on his Senate race.

  79. 79.

    lowtechcyclist

    @SFAW:

    Anti-Semitic motherfucker, I hope there’s a Hell, so you can burn there.

    Definitely time to call them out on their anti-Semitic dog whistles.  If they go all Soros, ask them why they believe rich Jews have no business in politics but they’re happy to take the money of the Koches and DeVoses and all those other nominally Christian rich people.

  82. 82.

    Matt McIrvin

    @kalakal: Libertarians generally think that if the government wasn’t keeping them down they’d be little lords or kings, because they’re so smart.

  84. 84.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud: I think it’s more “If it weren’t for big government liberals, Olivia Rodrigo would have to settle for me, whether she was into me or not.”

  87. 87.

    lowtechcyclist

    Is it just me, or are alleged libertarians being rather quiet about conservatives’ banning books, ‘don’t say gay’ laws, and all the rest of that?

  93. 93.

    Matt McIrvin

    @lowtechcyclist: If you ask them about this stuff they’ll say that keeping their money is more important because power flows from money. It’s very much like the philosophy of the type of Marxists who think the left should shut up about race/sex/culture issues and only concentrate on class war… but in reverse. (Mark “Zompist” Rosenfelder once noted that to obtain these people’s ideology you basically start with a really doctrinaire Communist and just take the opposite of everything.)

  94. 94.

    lee

    I’m attending a Beto Town Hall this Saturday in a fairly red county. It will be interesting.

  95. 95.

    The Moar You Know

    9/10.  A full ten would be awarded for capping it with “you sick fuck”.

    Laughing about a school of kids being slaughtered ought to be dealt with by immediate, involuntary transport to a mental hospital for a minimum 72-hour hold.

  97. 97.

    Mike in NC

    It’s sickening that a sociopathic piece of filth like Greg Abbott still dreams of moving into the White House and the media are behind him every step of the way.

  98. 98.

    Tony G

    @Citizen Alan: That is absolutely true.  Back in 2012 I was working in an IBM software support office in upstate New York — an area that, politically, might as well as been Kentucky or Alabama.  That year there were two of the worst mass shootings in our horrifying history — Aurora, Colorado and Sandy Hook.  Several of the “men” in my office loudly and proudly proclaimed after each shooting that they were going to buy more guns and ammunition “before Obama grabs their guns”.  These guys were intelligent enough to code and debug software, so they were not stupid in the conventional sense of the word.  They were — and probably still are — part of a death cult that probably includes white supremacy.  Suffice to say that I had nothing to do with them after work hours.

  99. 99.

    dww44

    @Tony G: There are just too many of these in the current iteration of the GOP stalwarts.  I’ve plenty of relatives like this and sadly, the women in their lives are of the same opinions.  If the women could be cleaved off, I think the demise/cleansing of this GOP might happen more quickly.  It’s gonna happen though, cause the average educated American will eventually  see though this crazy extremism and move away.  At least  that’s what I hope.

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