Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

White supremacy is terrorism.

No one could have predicted…

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

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

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

He really is that stupid.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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Now This Is How Its Done

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So, you going to send an Imperial Storm Trooper to the Senate?*

Which is to say that W. VA Gov. Joe Manchin’s web ads kick ass:

More here.  Fun.

*(Ahhh, Godwin…just can’t quit you, can I.  I mean really. We know who Palpatine was, don’t we.  And we know who the Sturmabteilungen were, right)

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  1. 1.

    Tom Levenson

    OK. This is annoying. I do what I do over at Inverse Square to hang a Youtube video up there, and it doesn’t work.

    So, anyone. What did I do wrong. Am I just a bad person?

  3. 3.

    MeDrewNotYou

    Awesome ad! I just hope the 1000 lasers aren’t manned by actual Imperial stormtroopers, or we’re totally fucked when the missiles come flying. “Only stormtroopers are so precise” my ass.

  5. 5.

    gbear

    Those ads were fun.

    I bet they even got permission to use the images (unlike the republicans who always appropriate songs and then get slapped by the artists).

  8. 8.

    Tom Levenson

    @freelancer: That’s what I thought I did. There is something funky in the url…and I’m too into watching my Giants to dig into it.

    So yup, I’m a bad person.

  15. 15.

    John - A Motley Moose

    The rifle is over the top. We complain when the goppers even mention the 2nd Amendment, yet here’s a Dem with a real rifle shooting his opponent out of the sky. I predict a real uproar on right-wing blog and media. Then, the left will pick it up too.

    Other than that, I loved all 3 ads.

  16. 16.

    Cris

    And we know who the Sturmabteilungen were, right

    I’m kind of proud that my four-year-old thinks the word “stormtrooper” refers to brown shirts, not white armor.

  18. 18.

    morzer

    Raese bears an alarming resemblance to Songbird John McCain, right down to the total ignorance of military and strategic reality.

  19. 19.

    p mac

    OK, that is some seriously funny shit.
    Why are they web ads? They should be playing at least the first one on TV. (Comedy Central would show them for free.)

  20. 20.

    morzer

    @p mac:

    They probably calculate that someone will show them on TV because they are funny and fairly cutting, which means they can save some money and get people to see them anyway.

  23. 23.

    Jude

    Technically, the stormtroopers were a German innovation from the first world war.

    So you’re Godwin-free on this one.

  24. 24.

    matoko_chan

    hey science-guy……do you take requests?
    the Liberal Gene.
    heres discover if you like it pre-masticated instead of raw.
    i think the implications for SNT (social network theory) and SBH (social brain hypothesis) are fascinating.
    :)

    warning– hyar thar be bioluddites.

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