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Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Consistently wrong since 2002

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

“woke” is the new caravan.

In my day, never was longer.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Celebrate the fucking wins.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Their freedom requires your slavery.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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  1. 1.

    Scott

    Mercy me, the poor sensitive soul.

    Surely, those godless Iranian heathens are inspired by the noble Christian white man’s endlessly impotent jerkery…

  2. 2.

    Comrade Stuck

    I expect they will soon erect a giant cross on the Capital steps and take turns nailing themselves to it.

  3. 3.

    JesterDel

    And my shouting at that jerk who cut me off in traffic yesterday is similar to storming the beach at Normandy. Inflated sense of self-importance, much?

  6. 6.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    I knew you couldn’t let this one pass by unnoticed. I actually went to Hoekstra page to check out the responses. This was my favorite.

    RT @amdreier: RT @delrayser Help hide @petehoekstra & johnculberson: Change your Twitter location to Washington DC and time to -6:00 GMT!
    about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

    For those who have not been following the action at Twitter #iran election, they had a bunch of people changing their account location to read Teheran +3:30 GMT to help hide Iranian protesters sending out tweets. (I know it wouldn’t help but that was one of the calls to action, as it were.)

  7. 7.

    JK

    Pete Hoekstra is an abomination.

    John McCain is an even bigger asshole however for joking about bombing Iran youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg during the campaign and now blasting Obama for not talking tough enough. Someone needs to tell McCain to shut the fuck up and go retire to his 12 or 13 homes.

  9. 9.

    Comrade Stuck

    @Svensker:

    It’s one of Cole’s “opposite days” which is about every day, it seems. The best ones come with declarations of “no more posts on this topic” followed by three days of non-stop posts on the topic.

  10. 10.

    Comrade Darkness

    AAARG. Wtf? What do these people do when mom isn’t around to wipe their ass in the morning? Grow the f*ck up before getting put in a position of power, please!!

    On another note, I just got a google ad in arabic at the top:
    اطلاعات دقيق، متنوع و مهم راجع به صلح و امنيت جهانی و نقش آمريکا

    cool, it’s a link to america.gov/persian

  11. 11.

    Maude

    Theory of the day:
    You know how the temperature in a room rises when there are a lot of people in it?
    It must be that when a lot of stupid people are in a room, the level of stupidity rises

    This is my day off from commenting.

  12. 12.

    Shinobi

    Soda spilled on my desk similar to what happened in 2005 when hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans.

  14. 14.

    JenJen

    Bwaaaaaaaah!! Speaking of which, when is the GOP going to drop some dope beats, like Michael Steele promised?

    And, speaking of dope beats, I know everybody wants to see my Dave Matthews Band cell phone photos from the front row last night. Right?

  15. 15.

    Betsy

    When I demanded that flight attendants provide me with Coke, rather than the Pepsi they proffered, I drew strength from the courage of my flying forerunners at the Battle of Midway.

  19. 19.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Betsy: Bwahahahahahhaha! Crack me the fuck up. I couldn’t moderate my own comment so I had to make a new one.

    This is what I mean about co-opting. GOP members are taking the Iranian revolution and using it to make meaningless political comparisons.

    They need to STFU until they can think of something productive to say.

  20. 20.

    gex

    @asiangrrlMN: Reminds me of a Douglas Adams paraphrase: if they don’t keep their mouths moving, their brains will start to work. You can see why they have to keep talking.

  21. 21.

    Andy K

    Those of you outside of Michigan should consider yourselves very lucky: This is Hoekstra’s last term in Congress, at least for the time being.

    Those of us in Michigan, however, will see him running for the governor’s office next year. Yay.

    BTW: Hoekstra is my dad’s Rep.. I’m pretty sure the old man voted for him. Thanks, dad.

  23. 23.

    SpotWeld

    The thing is, these Iranian protests appear to have more in common with the original Boston Tea Party than the Glenn Beck events ever could.

    Think they (the teabaggers) might be just a little bit jealous?

  24. 24.

    Bootlegger

    @Comrade Stuck:

    I expect they will soon erect a giant cross on the Capital steps and take turns nailing themselves to it.

    That would be bitchin’!! I’d buy the pay-per-view to that even if it went straight into their campaign coffers.

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    @gex: Yes. ‘Tis true. But, it’s better for us if they shut up. Besides, if they keep quiet for a month or two, maybe, just maybe, their brains will actually start to work.

    Maybe.

  26. 26.

    Englischlehrer

    The sad thing is that Democrats should be running away with this thing but it turns out that the Democrats are more like 2 major groups with a conscience for the evil conjoined twin that is only 2/3 separated from his brother Dem.

    I am so glad I don’t get American media daily, only from my news sites but it is insane that Pete Hoekstra gets invited to talk on news programs to discuss real issues to Americans.

  28. 28.

    Surreal American

    @JenJen:

    Bwaaaaaaaah!! Speaking of which, when is the GOP going to drop some dope beats, like Michael Steele promised?

    They have been all this time (depending on your definition of “dope”).

  30. 30.

    Joshua Norton

    Well, he may have a point. When I see Iranian students being brutalized in the streets by an authoritarian, theocratic regime, I DO think of Republicans…

  31. 31.

    Perry Como

    I have a feeling these Republicans are actually DougJ and he’s trolling all of us.

  33. 33.

    stacie

    These guys really must be devastated that ACORN isn’t knocking down their doors to grab their guns for Glorious Leader Hussein Obama’s jihad against American liberty. I mean really, House Dems on motorcyles were circling groups of House Republicans, beating them with electric batons? House Dems took to the gallery and opened fire on clusters of peacefully demonstrating House Republicans?
    I guess they should have filmed it on their cellphones or something. I totally missed that story.

  34. 34.

    BDeevDad

    ThinkProgress has a bunch of them including this beauty:

    “I wonder if there isn’t more freedom on the streets of Tehran right now than we are seeing here,” ripped Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the Rules Committee, to Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) at the raucous hearing.

  35. 35.

    gbear

    I love John’s day off from blogging, don’t you?

    It was either blog or get thrown out of the wifi coffee shop for screaming randomly at neighboring latte sippers.

  36. 36.

    Tonal Crow

    And the twits just keep on twitting. I cannot express how happy I am that so many GOPers have chosen to twit away their (very small) remaining reserves of credibility. I cannot wait until Palin figures out how to twit.

  37. 37.

    Andy K

    @JK:

    Pete Hoekstra is an abomination.

    Hoekstra beat out Guy Vander Jagt in the GOP primary in ’92, and it seemed like a breath of fresh air. Vander Jagt was corrupted through-and-through by lobbyists. I’ll give it up to Hoekstra for remaining pretty ideologically pure and uncorrupted, if wrong.

  38. 38.

    gbear

    @JenJen:

    And, speaking of dope beats, I know everybody wants to see my Dave Matthews Band cell phone photos from the front row last night. Right?

    Only if he’s under sniper fire.

  40. 40.

    jake 4 that 1

    Yep.
    Just like sitting in a comfy chair blogging about the war in Iraq is exactly like fighting in Iraq.
    Just like the being told to StFu when you make a racist/sexist/homophobic joke is exactly like living under a Nazi regime.
    Just like wanking off is exactly like sex with a real human being.

  41. 41.

    Comrade Dread

    “Yes, siree Bob, it sure is a hell on earth living here in America as a Republican.

    Cops pull us over all the time and harass us. We can’t catch cabs. And don’t get me started about the gangs of latte sipping patchouli smelling hippies in their tie-dyed hoods and Priuses chasing us down.

    And that’s before the Democrats started having their roving gangs of militia supporters beat and shoot at our supporters and the government whisked off our citizen leaders to prisons to be beaten and tortured.

    We shall overcome.”

  44. 44.

    strawmanmunny

    @BDeevDad:

    There’s some pretty funny responses and it looks like his twitter page is getting hammered with them.(at least I think it’s his page, as I have no understanding how this twitter thing works) lol

  45. 45.

    Legalize

    Yesterday I had to stand in line for almost 3 minutes to get my burrito.

    Just. Like. Iran.

  48. 48.

    Legalize

    There’s some goddamn gold in the comments at Hoekstra’s Twit thingy. Hard to pick the best because they are coming in so fast:

    booksnmore4you: I ordered a hamburger at the McDonald’s drive through this morning, which is similar to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

    Okay that’s enough. I’m abstaining from any more @petehoekstra jokes, much in the same way Gandhi would go on hunger strikes.

    Edit to properly attribute the second quote.

  52. 52.

    gnomedad

    @jake 4 that 1:

    @BDeevDad: John can show his support by turning Pam Anderson green.

    This would take the ad beyond tolerable to awesome. Again I say, cleek, where are you with a script?

  54. 54.

    jake 4 that 1

    ran through the sprinklers this morning, claimed solidarity with victims of Hurricane Katrina

    This incident proves we’ll never reach peak wingnut or peak snark.

  57. 57.

    Tax Analyst

    Bootlegger
    @Comrade Stuck:
    I expect they will soon erect a giant cross on the Capital steps and take turns nailing themselves to it.

    Expect to see the “crucified” Republicans actually standing behind a cardboard cut-out of a figure being crucified…sort of like their fillibusters. Also expect to see paper mache nails. You may also see Congressional Pages substituting for the actual elected seat-holders. But that’s alright really, because if you’re a page for a Republican congressman you’re probably used to getting nailed now and then.

  62. 62.

    chuck

    NOTHING more important than safety of our babies: Life’s most precious ingredient

    tastes like chicken. Also.

  63. 63.

    Jim-Bob

    I had sex with a woman who didn’t remember my name the next morning. Now I know how Mary felt after the Immaculate Conception.

  65. 65.

    Ash Can

    LOLZ! This is a hoot. No, they shouldn’t shut up. I needed a laugh, and these horse’s asses delivered. If they were to stop tweeting, the world would be missing out on quite a bit of comedy.

  68. 68.

    patrick

    Those of you outside of Michigan should consider yourselves very lucky: This is Hoekstra’s last term in Congress, at least for the time being. Those of us in Michigan, however, will see him running for the governor’s office next year. Yay. BTW: Hoekstra is my dad’s Rep.. I’m pretty sure the old man voted for him.

    my rep, too. don’t blame me, I voted for Bill the Cat.

    There’s no way he’ll win the Governorship. the Detroit/Ann Arbor area will make sure. the only repub I see with a shot in the general is Terry Lynn Land, or MAYBE (doubtful) Mike Cox

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