Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

This fight is for everything.

Republicans do not trust women.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Let there be snark.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

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

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

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

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Ready On Day One

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To bomb the wrong people:

Senator John McCain’s trip overseas was supposed to highlight his foreign policy acumen, and his supporters hoped that it would showcase him in a series of statesmanlike meetings with world leaders throughout the Middle East and Europe while the Democratic candidates continued to squabble back home.

But all did not go according to plan on Tuesday in Amman, Jordan, when Mr. McCain, fresh from a visit to Iraq, misidentified some of the main players in the Iraq war.

Mr. McCain said several times in his visit to Jordan — in a news conference and in a radio interview — that he was concerned that Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq. The United States believes that Iran, a Shiite country, has been training and financing Shiite extremists in Iraq, but not Al Qaeda, which is a Sunni insurgent group.

Mr. McCain said at a news conference in Amman that he continued to be concerned about Iranians “taking Al Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.” Asked about that statement, Mr. McCain said: “Well, it’s common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran. That’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.”

It was not until he got a quiet word of correction in his ear from Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who was traveling with Mr. McCain as part of a Congressional delegation on a nearly weeklong trip, that Mr. McCain corrected himself.

“I’m sorry,” Mr. McCain said, “the Iranians are training extremists, not Al Qaeda.”

Will someone break it to Hillary that her new BFF and experienced candidate of choice can’t find his ass with two hands?

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The Invisible Handout

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Yay, unfettered capitalism:

Bear Stearns, pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by what amounted to a run on the bank, agreed late Sunday to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for a mere $2 a share, narrowly averting a collapse that threatened to cascade through the financial system.

The price represents a startling 93 percent discount to Bear Stearns’ closing stock price on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.

Bankers and policy makers raced to complete the deal before financial markets in Asia opened on Monday, as fears grew that the financial panic could spread if Bear Stearns failed to find a buyer.

The deal, done at the behest of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, punctuates the stunning downfall of one of Wall Street’s biggest and most storied firms. Bear Stearns weathered the vagaries of the markets for 85 years, surviving the Depression and a dozen recessions only to meet its end in the rapidly unfolding credit crisis now afflicting the American economy.

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The companies said that the Federal Reserve would provide special financing in connection with the transaction and that the Fed had agreed to fund up to $30 billion of Bear Stearns’s “less-liquid assets.”

Bailouts suck. The GOP should do something about welfare moms with widescreen televisions and Cadillacs.

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