Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

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

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

The revolution will be supervised.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

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

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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Joe the Plumber Wants to Start Shooting Mexicans at the Border

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Because what we need in this era of mass shootings and gun-toting nutbags is for some idiot running for Congress to encourage self-appointed border patrollers in Arizona to act like murderous assholes:

At two separate events in recent days, Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher has proposed to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting.” 

Wurzelbacher first made the remarks during a campaign rally for Arizona Republican state Rep. Lori Klein on Friday, according to video published by Prescott eNews.

“For years I’ve said, you know, put a damn fence on the border, going to Mexico and start shooting,” he insisted.

Wurzelbacher then repeated the remarks at a so-called “Patriot Rally” with Klein on Saturday.

“I’m running for Congress. How many congressmen or people running for Congress have you heard, put a fence up and start shooting? None? Well you heard it here first. Put troops on the border and start shooting, I bet that solves our immigration problem real quick.”

Klein refused to condemn Joe the Doucherocket’s call for border violence, but that’s not surprising coming from a woman who thinks that Hispanic students eschew education for thuggery, and who likes to point her pink gun at people’s chests.

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Rep. Steve King thinks diversity is stupid, and wants you to speak English, dammit.

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Diversity is destroying the very fabric of our society.

Rep. Steve King held a press conference today after a hearing on his bill to make English the official US language. He seems thinks that the bill will help us speak with a “common voice,” and that those of us who champion diversity and multiculturalism are ruining everything.

You can laugh. I did.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Thursday that diversity has never been America’s strong suit, so lawmakers should pass his bill to make English the official U.S. language in the name of unifying the nation.

“One of the great things about America is we’ve been unified by a common language. That common language, of course, is English,” King said during a press conference on his bill. “Our language is getting subdivided by some forces of the federal government. It is time to speak with a common voice.”

King talked to reporters just after the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on his measure, which would require all federal government communications, including voter and ballot materials, to be conducted in English. His proposal would also nullify a Clinton-era requirement that federal agencies provide interpreters for non-English speakers for certain activities.

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Scalia, the Second Amendment, and the Right to Bear Hand-Held Rocket Launchers

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Antonin Scalia is doing a publicity tour for his book or his ego or whatever, and stopped by Fox News Sunday to say some really stupid and dangerous things about how the Second Amendment might limit “frighting” — carrying a huge axe just to scare the shit out of people — but may not limit anything that can be held in your hand — like a rocket launcher.

Yes, that’s right — a fucking rocket launcher:

WALLACE: What about… a weapon that can fire a hundred shots in a minute?

SCALIA: We’ll see. Obviously the Amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried — it’s to keep and “bear,” so it doesn’t apply to cannons — but I suppose here are hand-held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes, that will have to be decided.

WALLACE: How do you decide that if you’re a textualist?

SCALIA: Very carefully.

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Conspiracy Nut Alex Jones thinks the #AuroraShooting was Staged by Obama

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Alex Jones — whose name is practically synonymous with “9/11 Truther” — is known for being one beer short of a six-pack, so it’s unsurprising that he thinks the Aurora shooting was planned by Obama.

Strap on your tinfoil hats, people, and keep your arms and legs in the vessel at all times.

We’re taking a trip to Crazytown, population: Alex Jones.

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The Libertarian Menance

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Commenter Captain Howdy sent in a gem of a blog post from a Republican candidate for Congress who is incensed that “Ron Paul Libertarians” have taken over her local nominating convention and won’t allow prayers or the Pledge of Allegiance. Here’s a taste:

When I then mentioned that Chris Fields had been advocating, to our Republican college youth, the legalization of pot smoking, this brought loud, lengthy cheering and clapping, and then the announcement that my time was up. I mentioned that President and General George Washington did not advocate pot smoking and that if he did, we probably would not have won the American Revolutionary War.

This is what is going on in your Republican Party folks.

The whole thing is worth a read, if not for the part about the clown in a flag suit, then for the obligatory Nazi reference.

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Abercrombie & Fitch and the ‘Ni-CLANG! Brown’ Pants Affair

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A&F found itself in a bit of hot water today after The Internet found out that it was selling “nigger brown” pants in the UK.  Except they weren’t really, so you can uncream your Twinkie.  (I need to point out that A&F still sucks for trying to turn teenage girls into sex objects.)

I actually laughed when I clicked through to the fake Abercrombie website advertising “nigger brown” cargo pants. Maybe I’ve just hit my fuckery limit this week or something.  I think I’m in some kind of waking coma.

In any event, turns out that Abercrombie doesn’t have control over the website selling ni-CLANG! brown pants, which is being run by some Chinese cats who really need to update their translator software:

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Open Thread

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So it looks like Mittens won both, and I fail to see how this race is anything but over, much to my chagrin. Hopefully Santorum will stay in to keep making Romney lurch wingnuttier, but that is just a personal dream.

I had one of my all time favorite dinners tonight- a crockpot full of cabbage, potatoes, carrots, some onion, and a ham hock, no seasoning other than a little pepper and a bay leave, just simmering all damned day. So good. I make it all the time, sometimes with a ham hock, other times with corned beef, and I just adore it. My food snob friends accuse me of eating like an Irish pauper, but I think it is just some of the finest eats out there. And other than the fat from the ham hock, it has to be pretty healthy, I think. What is your favorite “poor people’s” food? Got any good recipes?

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