Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

How stupid are these people?

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

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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

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

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

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

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

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Everybody saw this coming.

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I’m Not a Nice Guy,

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My favorite comment ever written about me:

After reading many, many of his posts, I’ve come to the conclusion that John Cole is not really a decent guy with an open mind, he just plays one on the ‘net. He’s been treated with extraordinary courtesy and respect here, and seems to return it with standard-issue freeper blather about the only real racists being Al sharpton and some other Democrats and how the Southern Strategy is a myth or doesn’t explain anything or something.

I have never said anything about Al Sharpton being the only real racist (he is a racist, however, as well as an established anti-semite, a liar and perjurer, a fraud, and a demogague- just not the only one out there), I never visit the Free Republic, and I have never said the ‘southern strategy’ was a myth. I also think I am a nice guy. Other than that, I agree with everything he has written.

This is what happens when you disagree with people who are so sure of their moral superiority, so convinced of their rightness, so convinced that they can merely stereotype their opposition or anyone who disagrees with them. They see precisely what they want to see, and delude themselves and slip farther into their own echo chamber. Irving Janis had a name for it. It was called Groupthink.

All of this, btw, has been prompted by me stating that the right thing happened with Trent Lott stepping down, and that it is just silly for the left to start inventing civil rights for the sake of partisan gain. I also mentioned that Patty Murray is an idiot. The most recent comment has labeled me as a ‘long-winded racist fool.’

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And People Take Advice From

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How awful. The mother of everybody’s favorite loudmouth physiologist, Dr. Laura, appears to have been murdered in her home. Her body has been rotting in the apartment for months, undiscovered, while her obnoxious daughter, the most odious of the family values mouthpieces, inflicts her cruel vision and disgusting version of pop psychology on demented listeners across the country.

Getting advice on family matters from Dr. Laura is as dumb as having racial sensitivity courses run by Trent Lott.

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Bush’s Kwanzaa Message Quit giggling.

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Quit giggling. I know the reason it is a text message is because he probably couldn’t pronounce Kwanzaa (or Nguzo Saba, for that matter). Here goes:

I send greetings to those celebrating Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa celebrates the traditional African values of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. From December 26th to January 1st, people of African descent gather to renew their commitment to these seven principles, known as Nguzo Saba, and give thanks for the blessings of family, community, and culture. Kwanzaa is also a time for Africans and African-Americans to honor their common heritage by participating in events based on early harvest gatherings called matunda ya kwanza, or first fruits.

Kwanzaa, tradition since 1966. Who do you think had the job of first explaining to Bush what Kwanzaa was, and that, yes, because of the identity politics of the country, he did have to make a message to people who celebrate collectivist nonsense like ‘collective work and responsibility and cooperative economics.’ What the hell is cooperative economics?

At any rate, Happy Kwanzaa.

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Let The Over-Reach Begin Lott

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Lott has stepped down, which means that I do not have to shred my registration card. I am glad they did the right thing, and I am glad we can move on. Except we can’t. The left is now, to use one of their favorite terms, ’emboldened,’ and we are going to have to weather a number of blatant acts of race-baiting and pandering in the next couple of months. They think they can now tar the entire GOP as racist, and they are going to be doing anything they can to claim every last Republican is a racist fascist. Check out these comments posted by readers of the Daily Kos:

The Dems should figure out some kind of civil rights bill to introduce and let’s see how these “all inclusive” Repubs vote.

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Let’s be “Perfectly Clear”. The only reason Trent Lott is resigning is because he got caught being too far out in public with his racist remarks. Other Republicans do the same things behind the scenes as President Clinton so aptly put it. The Republican Party is the party of racists and bigots, openly, actively, and behind the scenes. Let us Democrats say this loudly and forthrightly. It is the Truth.

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Some sort of civil rights bill needs to be placed in the hopper on the first day of the next Congress. This bill needs to be introduced w/ great fanfare. It needs to be one that the GOP really will not like but will not have the courage to openly oppose. Let’s put the “party of Lincoln” on the spot.

Civil Rights ain’t about civil rights, you see. It is about political gain. It is about keeping African-Americans voting for Democrats. It is not about the dream of a color-blind society, but rather the Orwellian “All animals are equal, some are just more equal than others.” And, of course, if you oppose any of their proposals, no matter how bad they might be, you are a racist- why you are no better than Lott, or David Duke. This is how they intend to hijack the dialogue, with demagoguery, race-baiting, propoganda, and name-calling. And they will over-reach.

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I went to go see

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I went to go see LOTR today, and guess what? Every showing is sold out. You know why? Because they gave precisely ONE FRIGGING SCREEN for what everyone knows will be the best movie of the year. One screen.

Have no fear, though. If you want to sit through 2 hours of sophomoric penis jokes, there are plenty of seats available for Rob Schneider’s The Hot Chick. An entire wasted screen for someone who can’t even spell funny, let alone entertaining.

Bastards.

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The dolts at the New Republic have me defending Ted Turner:

Five years ago, zillionaire Ted Turner was showered with praise when he announced he would give $1 billion to the United Nations by the end of the year 2002. Since then, in addition to constantly wringing his hands over the implosion of AOL-Time-Warner-General-Motors, or whatever it’s now called, Turner has bragged, bragged, bragged about what a great guy he is because of his incredible generosity.

Well, it’s now the end of the year 2002. Has he handed over that $1 billion yet? No. Turner has donated $500 million, half his pledge. But that was less than 15 percent of his net worth when he made the commitment, and far, far less than the great philanthropists of the past, such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, once gave relative to their net worth.

Turner’s current net worth, according to Forbes, is $2.2 billion. This means he could easily keep his word, give the $500 million immediately and remain filthy rich, instead of endlessly promising. But why should he follow through when the media strokes and lauds him as if he already has–while Turner keeps the whole bundle for himself like a run-of-the-mill selfish rich guy, cackling as he counts his gold?

Point Number One: I know you hate the rich, but you come off as supreme ass-pirates when you call someone a zillionaire for effect and then state his wealth a 2.2 BILLION.

Point Number Two: Is it any of your Damned business what he does with his money? Is it any of your business how he fulfills his promise? When did you give a billion to the U.N.? Is the U.N. bitching?

They are probably just pissed that it is a billion less for them to confiscate when he dies. Then the billion could be spent on some asinine social program and REALLY wasted (although it is hard to compete with the U.N. for waste).

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