Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

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

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

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

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

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

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The revolution will be supervised.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

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

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

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

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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Cheney-Quayle ’20

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Who gets the first interview, Jenna or Luke?

Attorney and investor Ben Quayle (R) may not have the experience in elected office that many of his GOP rivals for Arizona’s 3rd district seat do, but he’s blowing them out of the water in fundraising.

Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, raised $550,000 since launching his campaign in mid-February, no doubt assisted by his family network.

That sum is likely to make him one of the top funded non-incumbent House candidates in the country for the first quarter.

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Confederate History Month: Open Thread Deadline

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I had some grand ambition when I woke up this morning about a post that tied the Republican Confederate Party celebration of Confederate History Month to the almost automatic way that wingnuts and neo-Confederates turn to the rhetoric of violence and then to real violence as their first lines of defense whenever they feel that they are losing an argument.

Face it, they are just prone to violence.

Anyway, that post will wait for a day when deadlines at my day job did not overtake me.

‘Deadlines’, by the way, is a term that comes from the Civil War and the barbarity of the Confederacy. In my work, I’ve always had “deadlines’, but sometimes they were soft. Every project always has a firm actual end date when the work must be done. I call those real end dates the Andersonville Deadline. This is why:

[a report on the Andersonville POW camp]…used the term to describe the line over which prisoners were forbidden to go. In it, Bowie wrote: “On the inside of the stockade and twenty feet from it there is a dead-line established, over which no prisoner is allowed to go, day or night, under penalty of being shot.”

You know, Andersonville was such a high point of the Confederacy, I am surprised that Sonny Perdue left it out of Georgia’s slavery free celebration of CHM.

Oh well, CHM open thread time.

Cheers

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A Very Religious Open Thread

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I’m beat down. Why are Mondays so long, even when you don’t accomplish half of what you wanted to do?

And I learned today that saying you have no use for religion whatsoever really upsets people. I’ll have to say it more often, then- I have no use for religion, I have no use for religion, I have no use for religion. I couldn’t care less what others believe in, and I’m never going to tell you what to believe in, but apparently that courtesy can not be returned by even our religious liberal friends. I’d also like to repost what Aimai said:

You know what would be really great? If all the fantastic (and they are fantastic) liberal/left Christians would spend five minutes a day writing angry letters to the Christian right wing about how unchristian they are instead of complaining to atheists about how much bad press you all are getting from the overt bad actions of your co-religionists.

As I noted, the reaction from some of you when I said I have no use for religion was so bizarre, you’d think I was raping kids, gay-bashing, trying to force all taxpayers to fund student groups that gay bash, trying to deny vaccines that prevent cancer to girls because they might have sex, helping the spread of AIDS with idiotic anti-condom crusades and failed abstinence only nonsense, denying people the possibility of medical cures because I have some fetish about a semi-meiotic glob of cells, dictating what women can do with their vagina, trying to make people stupid by denying basic science, and so on. All I did was say I want no part in religion. I’m not even putting up a fight over the overwhelming religious influence on my government, because I like the days off at Christmas and Easter and it is nice to see the majority of the country at least pretending to be happy. I even like Christmas carols and Gospel music! And I’m not throwing stuff in people’s faces like PZ Myers and the communion biscuit stuff- but you should really look at the amount of in your face stuff you religious folks push on other people.

I’m not your enemy, and I realize a lot of people find deep meaning and solace in God and your respective religious institutions. I’m just not one of them, and I just want to be left the hell alone. I don’t care what you believe in until you try to force it on me through the government. Then I’m gonna fight back. And what’s more American than that? It’s almost like the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights states just that!

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