Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Bark louder, little dog.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Republicans do not trust women.

Books are my comfort food!

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

You cannot shame the shameless.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Stand up, dammit!

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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I am sick for a

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I am sick for a few days, and Will Warren cranks out some more gems at Unremitting Verse. Guess who he is talking about here:

My legacy needs tending, so I travel round the world:
The banner of philanthropy I always fly unfurled.
I teach my people history they really ought to know,
While guiding foreign policy in ways it ought to go.
I gaze into the future-I’m a quite astounding seer;
I’ve a sweet and even temper that is quite without a peer.
I love my fellow creatures-I do all the good I can-
Yet everybody says I’m such a disagreeable man!
And I can’t think why!

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Emily Jones beats up Norah

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Emily Jones beats up Norah Vincent. Both are Balloon Juice favorites, but for radically different reasons. Yeehaw.

** Update **

Miss Emily has inaccurately inferred that I insulted her in my previous comments. I meant that I like them both because Vincent is an unending source of banalities for me to poke fun at (although she did have a nice little rant about intolerance of the loony left a few weeks ago) , while I agree with a good deal of what Emily has to say- except her taste in movies. I apologize for being unclear.

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