Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

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

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

In after Baud. Damn.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

The lights are all blinking red.

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Bill Russell on Ted Kennedy

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I’m watching the MSNBC coverage of the funeral and a lot of it is quite nauseating — “Teddy was a regular guy, most liberals aren’t”, etc. etc.

But Bill Russell, the great former Celtics center, described Kennedy perfectly (quote below approximate):

Coming from an Irish-Catholic background, Ted knew what discrimination was. And he decided that the people who had discriminated against him and his family weren’t going to be his role models.

That’s exactly it. The tragedy of American politics is that people who are shat upon too often aspire to get to a position where they can shit shit on others. People whose grandparents were called “micks” and “wops” are all too happy to call today’s immigrants “wetbacks”, people whose grandparents were poor white tenant farmers are all too happy to look down on people whose grandparents were poor black tenant farmers.

Not so with the Kennedies, whatever other flaws they might have.

Update. Here’s the interview with Bill Russell, thanks to commenter jfxgillis:

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Friday Night Open Thread

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I’m off to a friend’s house for cuban sandwiches, so I will be away from the intertrons for a while, so here is an open thread for you.

I think I am also making a command decision and no longer subjecting myself to anything from libertarians. I simply can not read Reason or McCardle or any of these guys anymore. They are as batshit loony as Red State, and there is no point wasting my time. Instead, I am going to my happy place:

icanhasgalt

I feel better already.

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