Friday, November 21, 2014

GREETINGS FROM OCCUPIED DC!

The atmosphere is tense here in Washington as the Tyrant ObamaHitler has sent his brownshirts into the streets in a show of force...

Yeah, it's a bunch of bullshit, but at least we have the pleasure of watching wingnuts try to make hay of it. My favorite in the Ray of Hope category so far is this post from Andrew Johnson at National Review:
Univision announced earlier this week that it would delay its broadcast of the Latin Grammys to air President Obama’s announcement to use executive action to grant legal status to immigrants in the country illegally. While some saw it as a politically calculated move by the administration to reach a largely Hispanic audience, some viewers weren’t too happy to see the president rather than their favorite celebrities.
Then Johnson showed dozens -- excuse me, a dozen (well, almost) -- tweets from fans who were disgruntled that the show had been delayed, and who will no doubt be surprised to find themselves on a GOP mailing list and being asked to contribute to a Stop Tyrant Obama and His Messicans drive.

UPDATE. I should have realized -- no one out-crazys Ophelia WorldNetDaily!


Oh God this is so great:
Ted Cruz said it best in a Wall Street Journal piece following Barack Hussein Obama’s State of the Union Address earlier this year: “Dictatorships are often characterized by an abundance of laws. When a president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore, he is no longer a president"... 
I would go one further than Cruz: Obama has never been my president. I have steadfastly refused to acknowledge him as such. He is undeserving of the honorific. To this day, I am unconvinced he is even eligible for office... 
But that’s a can of worms few want to reopen – besides Donald Trump and me... 
I hereby join Ted Cruz in declaring Obama is no longer president.
Alan Keyes is going "And I thought I would be the winner in any crazy competition! I better step up my game!" and driving nails into his own skull.

UPDATE 2. Robert Tracinski (best known as a rhapsodist for the softer side of Ayn Rand) at The Federalist:

The ironic thing is that the media and Hollywood types have always convinced themselves, as George Lucas did, that their villains were metaphors for George W. Bush or a cautionary tale about the evils of the right. But here we are, the Old Republic is being dissolved, and it’s their hero who is doing it. They find themselves on the side of the Empire. (Or the Alliance. Yes, I’m looking at you, Joss Whedon.)
I think they should stop using words at all, and just make videos of themselves playing with their nerd dolls: "Don't worry Princess Leia, here comes G.I. Ted Cruz to save you, psshew, psshew," etc.

UPDATE 3. OK, one more: J. Christian Adams at PJ Media:
Take some comfort in this: executives acting lawlessly is a transgression as old as human history. Charles I similarly ignored the law when he went so far as to dissolve a Parliament with which he disagreed. When he started running out of money to conduct his wars with France and Spain, he violated Magna Carta by imposing a forced loan on the monarchs without the consent of Parliament.
And then they cut his head off! Get it? Well, maybe one of those nuts who seem to drop by the White House with a gun every couple of days will "take some comfort" from that story.

283 comments:

  1. gocart mozart9:40 AM

    I dial it in and tune the station
    They talk about the U.S. immigration
    I understand just a little
    No comprende, it's a riddle

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  2. randomworker10:00 AM

    Stumbled over FOX Business last night. Neil Cavuto was interviewing some clown he claimed was a Democrat against the executive action. Wish I could find it! I was like when the fuck did I drop down the rabbit hole???

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  3. it's the hitlemperor's
    mexican
    overthrow

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  4. edroso10:12 AM

    Was it Mickey Kaus?

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  5. Chairman Pao10:15 AM

    Now there's a hypothetical ethnic cleaning we have to talk about around the Thanksgiving table?


    Thanks, Obama.

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  6. Megalon10:21 AM

    "I hereby join Ted Cruz in declaring Obama is no longer president."

    Don't start dreaming before you fall asleep guys.

    And wow, National Review got their hands on Obama's time machine and used it to bring the worst president in American history to the present to write columns for them! Hussein is finished now!

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  7. “Dictatorships are often characterized by an abundance of laws. When a
    president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore,
    he is no longer a president"

    So... dictatorships are full of laws, which are bad, but we're all about the rule of law, which is good, unless it's a rule of law to allow birth control benefits or gun registration, which is bad and can be ignored, but rule of law... is...

    nope, not gonna continue, best not to explode brain this early in the morning.

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  8. Mr. Wonderful10:26 AM

    "I have steadfastly refused to acknowledge him as such. He is undeserving of the honorific."


    "Furthermore, to advance this thesis, I have, in the privacy of my dwelling, held my breath until I turned blue. Me am persuaded that both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are in accordance with this strategy."

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  9. coozledad10:28 AM

    This mustache has never been my mustache. I have steadfastly refused to acknowledge it as such. It is undeserving of the honorific. To this day, I am unconvinced it is part of my face...



    I am going to open a can of worms with the top of Donald Trump's skull.

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  10. The "I'm a liberal, but" people seem to be coming out of the woodwork lately.

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  11. About the only thing Trump's skull is useful for.

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  12. Halloween_Jack10:37 AM

    The thing I love about all of this is Mitch McConnell threatening to obstruct anything Obama wants to do if he went ahead with his plan. Hilarious. When can we expect Government Shutdown II: Republican Boogaloo?

    Also, WRT anything that Alan Keyes has to say about Obama, ever:

    http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120422231048/adventuretimewithfinnandjake/images/8/86/U_MAD_BRO.gif

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  13. They're talking no more Presidential appointments, presumably including Surgeon General. Hopefully it'll be a mild flu year.

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  14. Chairman Pao10:39 AM

    I want to do an extended club remix of this comment.

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  15. coozledad10:44 AM

    Celebrity math.

    Alan Keyes x Lindsey Graham +Tom Coburn=

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXBaJfVr9us

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  16. randomworker10:53 AM

    Heh!

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  17. Martin Pollard10:54 AM

    I'm on a wingnut radio
    I'm on a wingnut, whoa-oh, radio

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  18. "He's not my president."
    "He's never been the president."
    "He's not even a citizen."
    "I carry my gun everywhere because of tyranny."
    ". . . resort to Second-Amendment remedies."

    Inevitably followed by "Gee, why are armed people taking potshots at the White House? I never said anything about shooting the president. And even if I did, well, can't anybody take a joke?"

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  19. Picking and choosing laws, or even making them up on the fly and not writing them down is A-Okay if the president is a Republican.

    The reverse also works: If the president is a Democrat, Republicans can pick and choose which laws they think he needs to obey--or they can just make up laws on the fly that they think he's broken. Or, in extreme cases (like when the president is a Democrats and Black), they can just look at the law as written and declare it's opposite day on that law forever (or until a Republican reclaims the White House).

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  20. Especially hilarious since their (now 4 weeks ago) whine-fest about how Obama has placed the nation in jeopardy by not having a Surgeon General because they've blocked the appointment.

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  21. Republicans are all for ethnic cleaning. They want Juanita making the beds, Shahwanna doing the floors, and Lee Chang in the kitchen.

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  22. Another gun-toter outside the White House, second day in a row:
    http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/armed-woman-arrested-outside-white-house

    I'm hoping this doesn't become a habit.

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  23. There was a rather impatient goat bleating in the background during the interview.

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  24. "Mickey! Come back to bed, honey!"

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  25. susanoftexas11:28 AM

    The Farah faucet opens!

    Experience more of Joseph Farah’s no-nonsense truth-telling in his books, audio and video products, featured in the WND Superstore.
    I envy him. He can churn out anything no matter how vacuous and still make a buck or two, due to the eagerness of his audience to be scammed. If you watch American Greed, very quickly you can see a pattern.
    Con: Give me money! I will make you rich!
    Victim-to-Be: Sure!
    Con: Thanks! I will now spend all this money on hookers, mansions, boats, cars, and wild parties that will get my name in the paper.
    Victim: But I trusted you!
    American Conservative is every bit as depressing.

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  26. susanoftexas11:35 AM

    (Or the Alliance. Yes, I’m looking at you, Joss Whedon.)
    It's always the Alliance that gets their spacesuits into a bunch, and never the libertarian planets with no laws that practice bonded servitude and slavery.

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  27. I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes
    with me virtually everywhere. But I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in
    the right to defend myself and my family — whether it’s from an
    intruder, or whether it’s from the government, should they decide that
    my rights are no longer important.


    --Joni Ernst, new wave responsible moderate Republican.

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  28. susanoftexas11:38 AM

    So if we see a government official carrying a gun and obviously up to no good, if not downright fascism, shouldn't someone act preemptively to protect us?

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  29. Damn. This was meant as a reply to Derelict.

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  30. redoubtagain11:54 AM

    For me it'd be Government Shutdown IV--Of Bread Lines We Want More.
    (The Democrats have never, ever shut down the government in all my years working there.)

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  31. glennisw12:01 PM

    Well, the other thing you gotta love about them is that they ALWAYS overreach. I'm betting the next 2 years is no different.

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  32. glennisw12:04 PM

    I like the WorldNutDaily headline "Exclusive" about Joe Farah. Who else would publish him?

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  33. Joseph Farah hammers BHO

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  34. But here we are, the Old Republic is being dissolved, and it’s their hero who is doing it.

    Oh yes, because that's exactly what it's like, you fucking massive wankburger.

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  35. Giant Monster Gamera12:30 PM

    Yet they are on the side of the government when it comes to Darren Wilson shooting Mike Brown.

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  36. Giant Monster Gamera12:33 PM

    I'm sorry. What was that about? I vaguely remember some sort of talk about some kind of disease, but that's all so October now.

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  37. Brother Yam12:38 PM

    I want to pour curry ketchup on the top of this comment

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  38. Gromet12:43 PM

    Good thing Brown wasn't exercising his Second Amendment Rights like Joni Ernst does, or Joni Ernst and all her Second-Amendment friends would be saying, "He had a gun, the police HAD to shoot him."

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  39. Gromet12:45 PM

    I want to warm myself under both suns of this comment.

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  40. Gromet12:59 PM

    Here's the question before the Republic: Which is the greater example of overreach?

    A) 100% refusing to act if you can't get 100% of what you want 100% of the time, even though no one actually took anything away from you or made you do anything, or prevented you from getting something, or changed your life in any material way, and your objection is entirely to a verifiably legal and much tamer than expected policy announcement in one area of federal jurisdiction; or

    B) Announcing temporary, modest relief from fear for 1 or 2 million human beings whose only crime is moving without permission, while stating you would much rather have your political enemies send you a bill you can sign?

    A lot of Americans are going to say B is worse! But give me a break, fellow Americans, you are just trying to be angry.

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  41. I wish I was in,
    Good old Cancun
    Roasting tons of wingnut loons.

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  42. BigHank531:03 PM

    Ted Cruz is already itching to take his mighty Government Shutdown out of his shorts to show the whole classroom, though I'm not sure why he expects everyone else to be delighted to see it. Timing is everything, though, and there's no way to guarantee a nice, short, headline-grabbing shutdown that doesn't really inconvenience anyone. I can't say if Cruz is a con man or a true believer or both, but a whole lot of the rest of the Tea Party caucus are fuckin' loons who believe that Social Security and the military will somehow work even better when they pry Uncle Sam's fingers off of them. They want a lot more than a campaign stunt shutdown, and I don't think Cruz has the juice to keep them from making him look bad.

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  43. Clearly you're suffering from Amerinesia, a condition that renders its victims unable to remember anything for more than a 12-hour news cycle. The disease is transmitted via cable television, with the FOX variety being particularly virulent.

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  44. gocart mozart1:05 PM

    We have never been at war with Ebola.



    Why does Obama want to spend our tax money on this Ebola non issue? Who cares about Ebola, what's the big deal?



    "Obama’s Ebola plans: A new boondoggle?"
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/12/obamas-ebola-plans-new-boondoggle/

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  45. mgmonklewis1:06 PM

    Shorter wingnut translation: Our side should always be in charge, even when we lose!

    [overturns checkerboard; stomps off to room; slams door]

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  46. gocart mozart1:09 PM

    Nuh uh, it's also a good dead squirrel habitat.

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  47. To Giant Monster Gamera--Brow never had any rights to begin with, as far as those assholes are concerned.

    Gromet: Brown was Black, which means police had to shoot him whether or not he was armed.

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  48. While some saw it as a politically calculated move by the administration to reach a largely Hispanic audience

    HOW DARE HE?! Doesn't this tyrant know that the only way to reach out to minorities is to talk about them indirectly?

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  49. gocart mozart1:13 PM

    When he raised his hands in surrender, he was flashing a gang sign.

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  50. mgmonklewis1:15 PM

    No, you misinterpreted the bleating. The poor goat was chained to the bed and bleating for help.

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  51. BigHank531:15 PM

    I think you misunderstand his audience. People buy Martha Stewart's magazines for a quick home-decor wank, watch Top Gear for a quick automotive wank, and indulge in romance novels or internet porn for an actual wank. Farah's marks want to fantasize about political turmoil and revolution and getting to shoot some of those people or maybe about jack-booted government thugs dragging them onto a black helicopter and forcing something down their throats, if you know what I mean and I think you do. And they're willing to cough up a few bucks for the thrill.

    The issue is when people can't tell the difference between their fantasies and reality anymore, and decide the actual fascists are a better bet than the imaginary fascists in their heads. Which we're going to pretty much spend every minute of the next two years watching....

    Okay, that is depressing. Time for a drink.

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  52. tigrismus1:17 PM

    Wow, I think that's a new record for switching from shitting the bed to complaining about the stink.

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  53. Amerinesia

    Stolen. *yoinck*

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  54. Who was it who babbled about how he was armed with his own bad self?

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  55. Or, as in Rand Paul's case, lecture them patronizingly about their history.

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  56. Charles I similarly ignored the law when he went so far as to dissolve a Parliament with which he disagreed.

    I bet dissolving the Congress will at least cross Obama's mind a few times in the next two years.

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  57. ScottRS1:31 PM

    There's an Archie Campbell routine in there somewhere...

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  58. gocart mozart2:07 PM

    "six-foot-four, 300 pounds, full of muscles"


    Was Brown shot because he didn't just smile and offer Wilson a vegemite sandwich?

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  59. susanoftexas2:11 PM

    Ha! I read (part of) a mystery with a conservative hero. He narrated how his students loved him and feminists melted before him. I didn't last long enough to see him take on the educational establishment but I assume it happened anyway.

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  60. And then announce he has done more for Hispanics than anyone in Congress because he has expressed Concern about the War Against Drugs and voters' rights.

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  61. susanoftexas2:13 PM

    His dad is nuts so I'm going with both.

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  62. I was thinking in the back of my head "Phyllis Schlafly", but Ben Stain? Yep, fucking dimbulb.

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  63. montag22:19 PM

    One of the funnier things about this is that with all the immigration hoopla in the wingnut peanut gallery, Der Pantload, in his disguise as an AEI fellow, is complaining about climate scientists having a vested financial interest in global warming (no mention in his comments that AEI got $3 million from some fat cat to try to bribe climate scientists to disclaim global warming or any recognition on his part that wingnut cash is the primary reason why he's not unemployed and on food stamps at this exact moment). Isn't that, like, last spring? It's lagging behind Ebola frenzy and Ebola is lagging well behind immigration conniptions.

    I know it's difficult, Jonah, but try to keep up.

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  64. The toppings contain potassium benzoate!

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  65. Another Kiwi2:28 PM

    Hey, you try writing in a Cheeto-coma! The intern had to rummage around in Jobergs "stuff I did before" file for literally minutes to find this!

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  66. I'll bet you're right about that. His political opponents squeal like stuck pigs no matter WHAT action he takes, so may as well get a few things done by executive order.


    What's the downside?

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  67. Now now, there is no conclusive evidence that the goats Mickey blows are unwilling. Let's not spread scurrilous rumors!

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  68. Another Kiwi2:30 PM

    Publishing is different from pooing, right?

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  69. KatWillow2:31 PM

    I really liked that song.

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  70. montag22:31 PM

    Indeed. That's the program. They insist on running things (even if they run them into the ground) whether they win elections or not. Funny, though, that the laws they like deny people the vote, gerrymander districts to their advantage, enable conservative billionaires to buy votes and otherwise improve their odds of winning stealing elections....

    When, exactly, does a political party become indistinguishable from organized crime?

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  71. Another Kiwi2:32 PM

    Provided they attack you with water balloons, you're Ok, Ms Ernst.

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  72. KatWillow2:34 PM

    “Dictatorships are often characterized by-


    Yeah, if that isn't the stupidest comment... and yet... they always top their stupid.

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  73. Another Kiwi2:34 PM

    "strong, scary self" fucking hell. The Adult Diaper Corporation thanks Mr Stein for his work.

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  74. Obama Dissolves the Old Republic

    I'd wonder how much more over-the-top these people can get, but that's akin to how high is the sky.

    I'd feel better if I though they didn't take themselves seriously, but they do. I'm sure they really are convinced that Obama doing what Bush and Reagan did before him actually is the complete suspension of all civil liberties, Congress being jailed, and the courts exterminated. Not equivalent--IS. In their warped brains, these things are actually happening right now.

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  75. Another Kiwi2:37 PM

    Dont forget the pivotal Dinner Party scene were the brave conservative defeats the oh-so-clever Alinskyist with an argument that has never been made so well before. About killin' bad folks.

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  76. Oily Taters: The MSM refused to show Obama's immigration EO speech, lest the offended masses march on Washington:
    regime
    networks: ABC, NBC, CBS, will not air Obama’s speech on immigration,
    they want this theft and treason to go in stealth, quietly, without
    people revolting, grabbing their guns and pitchforks and going after
    Thief-Obama and the regime

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  77. Another Kiwi2:38 PM

    Best not to mention Jeff "disolvin' republics" Davis around these numb skulls I suppose

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  78. montag22:38 PM

    "... conservative hero."


    I can see, right away, where the plot went wrong.

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  79. Another Kiwi2:39 PM

    Get yer torch and pitchfork, here! $39.99 for today only!

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  80. Probably because he didn't speak-a his language.

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  81. In some jurisdictions, depending on your color, flipping the bird at a police officer constitutes a capital offense. And for a crime this heinous, don't expect an attorney, a judge or a jury. The trial will be conducted in real time by the aggrieved police officer who will then have the discretion to appoint himself public executioner.

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  82. He only lead the armed insurrection against the United States because he loved the United States so much. As we know, the truest patriots love America, but want to destroy its government and kill most of the people who live here.

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  83. Megalon2:42 PM

    Amerinesia: The Derp Descent

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  84. That's bad.

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  85. FlipYrWhig2:44 PM

    True believer whose Daddy always told him that the reason the other kids didn't like him was that they were jealous. But he'd show them one day, because he was a special boy.

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  86. Jaime Oria2:44 PM

    I thought drawing oafish parallels between Stars, both War and Trek was der Pantload's beat. In any event, all together now: Nerrrrrrrrrds....
    (and I say that as a pre-internet, Star Trek's-been-off-the-air-well-over-a- decade proto-geek)

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  87. montag22:45 PM

    What I find immensely amusing about this is that Ernst also made a big deal of her role in the Iowa National Guard, which, IIRC, is part of that very same government she thinks is going to trample her and her family.

    So, when the Iowa National Guard comes to her front door, is she going to strike the first blow by killing herself?

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  88. Giant Monster Gamera2:48 PM

    They're competing to see who end up at the top of Peak Wingnut, before the entire thing collapses in an avalanche of bullshit.

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  89. Another Kiwi2:48 PM

    Faster Patriot, Kill, Kill!

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  90. montag22:49 PM

    Not at WorldNutDaily.

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  91. Another Kiwi2:50 PM

    She is gonna be sooo pissed off when she disobeys her curfews and such.

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  92. montag22:54 PM

    Ah, Orly Taitz, the Oracle of Orange County.

    Boy, has she got the celebrity bug, and got it bad.

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  93. I LOLed! I want to upvote this comment into oblivion!

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  94. Uppsy for Oily Taters!

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  95. Funny you should say that. Bad conservative writers really favor the thriller. It's a convention in thrillers for the protagonist to fuck every female character he meets, and the cons don't buck that tradition. The selection of ladies is telling, though - including lost of lefty stereotypes and "ethnic" women, as though to point out how even progressive ladies know who's got the goods.
    Ironically, the "libertine" novels produced by bad liberal writers are often a lot more tame. I'm not a fan of sex scenes, but those books might be more interesting if they author would swap out a scene of his characters discussing their sexuality and actually show something for a change.

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  96. montag23:12 PM

    Why am I reminded of this?

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  97. tigrismus3:17 PM

    climate scientists having a vested financial interest in global warming

    SHAMEFUL. They should have no financial ties to anything relating to the environment, like those nice oil companies.

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  98. Another Kiwi3:20 PM

    Shorter Farah: "You're not the boss of me. And probably not even my real dad"

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  99. montag23:20 PM

    Undoubtedly, Der Pantload is quietly fuming about how cheaply the fat cats are getting his services.

    Little does he know that he's being overpaid.

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  100. Not just his strong, scary self... but his strong, scary self on the marijuana! The marijuana, which gives one man the bloodthirsty vigor and quickness of three tiny, sleepy, silly men.

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  101. montag23:33 PM

    Yes, it's a little-known fact that the world economy was collapsed by greedy science professors, not bankers and hedge fund managers and multinational titans, who, as we all know, are virtuous and are doing Gawd's work.



    We all know how those tweedy academic types are attracted to serious bling, like $6000 shower curtains and gold wastebaskets, and overt narcissism like giving themselves $10 million birthday parties. It's a wonder they have any time left to spew their communist filth.

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  102. Kordo3:33 PM

    Even a five year-old has some respect for rules. These guys are just playing Calvinball.

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  103. “They didn’t present themselves or nothing and shot him. They didn’t identify themselves at all. They just shot.”

    Fucking asshole. What, he figured nobody'd mind because they were all neeeegros or something? What. The. Fuck.

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  104. From the wonderfulSpeak You're Branes site:
    Absolutely. That’s what scientists do for half their time, now that global warming has been proven to be the goldmine of a conspiracy everyone knew it was – they sit around reading comments on the internet, waiting for you to tell them what to do. Of course, the other half of the working day they’re sitting on solid gold dildos wanking onto £50 notes, so they can’t dedicate all their time to tending to your partially digested brain farts.

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  105. susanoftexas4:07 PM

    She was a smokin' hot feminist with kittenish ways, despite the fact that all feminists are ugly and rejected by men. She walked into his office and sat down in a chair in front of his desk. I can't remember if he offered her a snort from the bottle of rye in his desk drawer.

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  106. FlipYrWhig4:11 PM

    For a second I thought you were quoting. You can sort of hear a sax and a Bogart-ish voiceover.

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  107. susanoftexas4:11 PM

    Remember, liberal=libertine, for if nothing is Sacred, anything is possible. And pay no attention to the conservative lesbian cowgirls or man-on-4-legged-critter fantasy novels.

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  108. susanoftexas4:13 PM

    That is a mistake; when I read the book I heard nervous giggling and dusty obsolescence.

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  109. montag24:17 PM

    I pretty much agree with this assessment, but for one thing. It wasn't 2014 for the Dems to lose. It was 2010. They had a sweep of all the houses in 2009, and Obama then spent two years plumping for the Blue Dogs, and using Emanuel as his attack dog against his own people, and people such as Gibbs and Plouffe depicting the Progressive Caucus in the House as stoned potheads. He backtracked on a lot of campaign promises, essentially made his own bed by bending over backwards to accommodate the fuckwits among the Republicans--even though the Republicans were openly plotting his downfall the day after the 2008 election.

    His signature accomplishment, the PPACA, was fraught with not compromises, but rather, loopholes that made Republican outrage, lobbyist influence, lawsuits and electoral disadvantage an inevitability. The other signature effort, Dodd-Frank, was equally complicated, equally flawed and was virtually guaranteed not to solve the actual problems in the finance sector. And all this was happening as millions of citizens were in real pain due to the crash, and what they mostly got to see was the Fed and the administration throwing immense piles of cash at the banks, and lip service to those pillaged by the banks.

    No matter that the Repugs were going to do everything they could to discredit him. That should have been anticipated. He and the Dems had the wind at their backs in 2008, and there was a prime opportunity to tack away from thirty years of fiscal insanity and right-wing dominance of the narrative. Instead, we got a bunch of Clinton retreads and a lot more half-hearted and unsuccessful attempts at triangulation.

    In a two-party system, when the dominant party fails to respond to the public, the voters have no choice but to show their displeasure by voting for the opposition. The Repugs capitalized on that. But Obama's administration and his tactics made that capitalization possible.

    They just plain fucked up.

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  110. They swerved right when they should have gone left.

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  111. ScottRS4:21 PM

    "Tribble Mobility Scooter"

    (gleefully stolen from Bad Fiction blog at http://badfiction.typepad.com/badfiction/)

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  112. gocart mozart4:22 PM

    Me too.

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  113. gocart mozart4:25 PM

    SteveM at No More Mister Nice Blog makes a good point.

    Many of us warned that it would be dangerous to elect Republicans in
    this year's midterms. We were assured, however, that Republicans are
    perfectly safe and harmless as long as you don't
    (1) expose them to bright light, (2) get them wet, or (3) feed them
    after midnight -- especially the last one because they undergo
    metamorphosis from the gee-whiz aw-shucks Norman Rockwell patriots they
    were all through the 2014 campaign into grotesque, uncontrollably
    destructive gremlins.



    Well, apparently that's happened now: http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2014/11/republicans-party-of-gremlins-many-of.html#links

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  114. satch4:30 PM

    To be clear, when I said that 2014 was our shot, I don't mean that it was ours to lose, I mean it was one that, despite the odds, we had to win. Liberal pundits looking for a silver lining can say, "well, wait till 2016... we'll get our base out then like we always do for presidential elections, and the Pugs will be defending a bunch of seats, and THEN we'll show 'em!" Well, 2016 is two long years away... two more years of Pug bullshit and obstruction, and two years of Dems on the defensive, and by the time the presidential election gets here, voters will be scrambling to vote Pug just to make the noise stop.

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  115. gocart mozart4:32 PM

    He should have bleached his skin and then open carried an MR-15

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  116. davdoodles4:37 PM

    "Ted Cruz said it best in a Wall Street Journal piece following Barack Hussein Obama’s State of the Union Address"

    His middle name is "Hussein"? That sounds evil. And foreign.

    Let's hope they don't realise that "Obama" sounds something like "Osama".

    Shit-shit-shit. I my have said too much.
    .

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  117. YOU FOOL! THEY'RE ON TO US NOW!

    Quick, to the escape pod!

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  118. To many, stark warnings from Boehner and McConnell sound more like pleas
    to the president to avoid reenergizing the GOP's conservative wing


    Oddly enough (or not), this year's Values Voters Summit had Glenn fucking Beck as a voice of moderation; it looks like some of the prominent names on the right are starting to get a little scared of the fringe they've empowered with talk about secession and "Second Amendment solutions".

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  119. gocart mozart4:56 PM

    I'll just put this here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3JjyvQzSJI

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  120. If you think you can tame her, well just you try!

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  121. Wow, that video didn't take long to get nuked.

    "This video has been removed by the user."

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  122. BigHank535:02 PM

    Never underestimate the pack-animal instinct to suck up to whoever looks like they might wind up being on top next. Unfortunately none of these clowns has realized that the reward for being the best at polishing Ted Cruz's nutsack is spending eternity--or what will seem like eternity--polishing Ted Cruz's nutsack.

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  123. gocart mozart5:04 PM

    No, it was the poor blah people who crashed the economy because they exploited the nice bankers and forced them to give them mortgages they couldn't afford. This was history's greatest monster's evil plan hatched in '79 and set to go off 30 years later.

    The greedy scientists are the ones who devised the global warming hoax in order to cash in on the grant money cash cow.

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  124. gocart mozart5:13 PM

    "Glenn fucking Beck as a voice of moderation" The way things are going, in a couple of years Louie fucking Golmert will be the voice of moderation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H3dFh6GA-A

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  125. gocart mozart5:17 PM

    Rafael Cruz: Evolution Is A Communist Lie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKa2wXUO-0

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  126. gocart mozart5:26 PM

    Linking to LGM who links to Roy who links to Linker. Hope this doesn't break the internet or create a time portal or something.

    "Concern Trolling on Immigration"
    http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/11/concern-trolling-immigration

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  127. coozledad5:37 PM

    The church that produced it is trying to figure out how to get some cash out of it since it went viral. There's shamelessness, and there's reaching up your ass shamelessness.

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  128. TGuerrant5:37 PM

    Fox has such unshakable confidence in the blankness of its viewers.

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  129. smut clyde5:47 PM

    Jonah is really the best the oil companies could buy.

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  130. smut clyde5:51 PM

    Should note here that Charles I was completely within the law on the several occasions he dissolved Parliament; dissolving Parliament is what British monarchs do. It's a central part of the feckin' job description.

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  131. A smokin' hot babe, reminiscent of a chunky Reese Witherspoon. Followed by complete erectile dysfunction because she doesn't want to get pregnant on the first screw.

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  132. TGuerrant5:55 PM

    It continues to amaze me that Frito-Lay hasn't put out a product called Punditos for use specifically in the proximity of keyboards.

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  133. TGuerrant5:56 PM

    The tar sands of the intellect

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  134. Wasn't it Darth Cheney's wife who wrote lesbian porn?

    Ah! Them old-time family values! Write lesbian porn, have lesbian daughter, fight tooth and nail to keep lesbians from having equal rights.

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  135. Hey! Don't bogart the voiceover!

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  136. Not to mention the appetite of two or three 12-year-olds. ("Ring-Dings! Must have Ring-Dings!")

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  137. Buffalo Rude6:03 PM

    "Oily Taters". . . lulz.


    I'm totally stealing that.

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  138. It was a simpler time. A time of big boobs, and bigger breasts.

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  139. TGuerrant6:09 PM

    Let's just call him Barry - that sounds so friendly and Amurican.

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  140. montag26:13 PM

    In truth, it's kind of a multi-way tie between Doughy, Joe Barton, Mary Landrieu, and a host of others.

    One thing in common, though. They all came cheap.

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  141. M. Krebs6:15 PM

    I've just decided that they and their various peanut galleries are qualitatively indistinguishable from a gang of 11 year old boys having a farting contest. What cemented this conclusion in my mind is the picture here:

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  142. M. Krebs6:19 PM

    "Why must everybody laugh at my mighty Government Shutdown?"

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  143. Zack Budryk6:20 PM

    Hi my name is Liberty White'ness Freedom Individualism Way and I have short blonde hair (that's how I got my name) and icy blue eyes like limpid tears at our loss of freedom under the tyrant NObama and a lot of people tell me I look like Ronald Reagan (AN: if u don't know who he is get da hell out of here!)

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  144. M. Krebs6:21 PM

    Speaking of which, when oh fucking when will we be rid of the great leadership of Pelosi and Reid? Jesus.

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  145. M. Krebs6:22 PM

    The Farah faucet...


    Oh dear god I hope there's not a Goldberg equivalent.

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  146. M. Krebs6:33 PM

    Technically, isn't the National Guard a state-level organization? That would make it totally different in her little brain.

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  147. montag26:36 PM

    Funny thing. In this, Cruz says he knows science, because he's a scientist. However, elsewhere, he's been quoted as saying that "science is a Communist plot." If we accept what he says in both cases as true, then Cruz is himself a Communist.

    Maybe he's a self-hating Communist.

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  148. M. Krebs6:36 PM

    There you go talking sense. That no longer applies.

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  149. M. Krebs6:42 PM

    Or the La Brea Tar Pits, if you want to keep it in the good old English-speaking USA.

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  150. montag26:44 PM

    One can argue that it's only state-level, but, the National Guard's headquarters is part of the Federal government, its budgets, directives, training and supply of arms are under the DoD, and the President can mobilize them (and convert them to active duty) for Federal purposes at any time (which Little Boots proved conclusively when he ran short of soldiers for his various wars).

    So, sure, if there's an insurrection by hogs' testicles in Iowa, Ernst is right that that's the province of the Iowa governor, but if she thinks there's nothing allowable beyond that, she's crazy and stupid and disingenuous.

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  151. M. Krebs6:53 PM

    I'm beginning to wonder if they really do take themselves seriously. They pretend to, of course, but it's like the way that a 12 year old boy acts all serious when he's trying to deny responsibility for leaving a burning bag of shit on the neighbor's porch.

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  152. M. Krebs6:54 PM

    Little did we know that thirty years later it would be just the opposite.

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  153. Megalon6:58 PM

    That's a face that screams "you mad bro?"

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  154. billcinsd7:16 PM

    The Whoopy Godlberg cushion?

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  155. billcinsd7:40 PM

    my nervous giggling is usually accompanied by a dusty adolescence

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  156. susanoftexas7:40 PM

    The Goldberg Machine. You'll understand when you get to the end.

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  157. smut clyde7:41 PM

    And the Shorter version of Farah is "Nothing has changed... Obama wasn't really president before and he still isn't now".
    But with more exclamation marks.

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  158. The Goldberg Machine

    Them's fer Rubes.

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  159. ken_lov7:44 PM

    "in dark alleys in Bucharest, Americans will risk it all."

    "imposing a forced loan on the monarchs"

    "Magna Carta ... stands for the principle that the executive is limited by the law."



    WTF is J Christian Adams on about? The first statement is flat-out weird, the second is gibberish and the third is plain wrong.

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  160. montag27:52 PM

    "Because, Ted, it's not at all what you've advertised it to be."

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  161. billcinsd7:52 PM

    or perhaps the Goldberg Variations?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftlQ7OYgN28

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  162. billcinsd7:53 PM

    my nervous giggling is usually accompanied by a dusty adolescence

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  163. gocart mozart8:00 PM

    From http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/house-files-litigation-over-presidents-unilateral-actions-health-care-law ; The New lawsuit is here! and you can comment on the Boener Blog. My contribution:

    Stereotypical Conservative: "As the great Ronald Reagan would say, "There you go again!" calling out the Speaker for exactly what YOUR president is doing. Kindly correct your U.S, population estimate to 299,999,999 people, because I regard any effort to rein in this feckless renegade imposter a worthy cause. Incidentally Saul Alinsky would be proud of you for using his
    Rule #5 (ridicule) albeit rather clumsily."

    Gocart: "I hadn't realized that Alinsky invented humor. What a truly great man
    comrade Saul was for he has brought much joy into this world."

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  164. "imposing a forced loan on the monarchs"
    If you can't beat 'em in an expensive war, impose loans on 'em?

    Butterflies?

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  165. lefty stereotypes and "ethnic" women, as though to point out how even progressive ladies know who's got the goods



    The proverbial "hate-fuck".

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  166. KatWillow8:09 PM

    and Probiotics! Lots of them!

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  167. randomworker8:13 PM

    It takes the focus off of Raphael Eduardo Cruz Jr for sure!

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  168. davdoodles8:25 PM

    So... Joe Biden is the president now?
    .

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  169. Whoa, Tracinski is working Jonah's territory... I don't think this will turn out well...

    "My dear Robert, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day. But I have received a parcel of what passes for naked pictures of Sarah Palin, and I have my doubts."

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  170. montag29:06 PM

    "Better Call Saul!"

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  171. Why is this not getting infinite upvotes, you philistines?

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  172. susanoftexas9:25 PM

    It's like there's a video game hottie and then she takes off her mask and she's Reagan. First the shock, then the horrified silence.

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  173. I... I see your point....

    *massive Sanity score loss, begins gibbering and clawing eldritch runes into walls with bloody fingernails*

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  174. YNWA405159:32 PM

    "I didn't last long enough to see him take on the educational establishment but I assume it happened anyway."


    SPOILER


    Yup, and then he gets elected President . . .












    of the Universe.

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  175. satch9:49 PM

    And yet... this period in history reminds me of the old SNL skit from 1988 where Jon Lovitz as Michael Dukakis was debating Dana Carvey as George H. W. Bush, and after an extended monologue from Bush that made no fucking sense at all, ending with "Let me sum up. On track, stay the course. Thousand points of light.", Dukakis looks into the camera and exclaims "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy!"

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  176. Another Kiwi9:56 PM

    With the provisio that he was white.

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  177. JerryRich10:47 PM

    This is my favorite movie title, along with "Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS".

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  178. FlipYrWhig11:12 PM

    It's my prerogative #bobbyBrownBasilike

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  179. TGuerrant11:14 PM

    But this time, he's so hoping there won't be violence. But if there is, he won't be surprised.

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  180. Another Kiwi11:23 PM

    I love how he says "I'm looking at you Joss Whedon". Let's cross live to Joss Whedon's Fortress of Solitude to get his reaction... hello?...Is that you Mr Whedon?.. hello... Anybody? Well we seem to have a technical hitch there, back to the animal food trough (Kitson 1980s)

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  181. If we accept what he says in both cases as true, then Cruz is himself a Communist.Well, he did fight for Castro.

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  182. ditches her liberal date and leaves the dinner party with our hero.Chastely holding his hand, of course, since kissin' ain't allowed until the wedding.

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  183. First the shock, then the horrified silence.Or, for wingnuts, the aroused silence.

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  184. montag211:45 PM

    But, but, but... he said that he didn't know that Castro was a Communist! And who can we trust to tell us the truth if not Rafael Cruz?

    This is a guy that Fulgencio Batista would have given a medal and a sinecure, so, what are we to believe? M'self, I think his whole life is an exercise in deceit. And Ted Cruz is his father's son....

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  185. Ted Cruz said it best [...] "When a president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore, he is no longer a president"Okay, I've gotta give some credit to Cruz here. He's planning on running for the Republican nomination for President, yet here he is calling out Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush. My only concern is, do we have to renumber the other Presidents now?

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  186. AGoodQuestion11:51 PM

    Me three.

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  187. Tehanu11:51 PM

    "They find themselves on the side of the Empire"

    Uh, it's not us liberals who think Americans should be strutting all over the world, throwing little countries up against the wall just to show we can.

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  188. BadExampleMan11:55 PM

    More family-friendly than Oily Taint, I like it. Suitable for use at the Thanksgiving table.

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  189. AGoodQuestion11:58 PM

    When, exactly, does a political party become indistinguishable from organized crime?
    When they start using "shame if something were to happen to it" type threats. So yeah, it happened a few miles back.

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  190. AGoodQuestion12:02 AM

    Yet another case of a tool carrying a weapon.

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  191. AGoodQuestion12:08 AM

    Take some comfort in this: executives acting lawlessly is a transgression as old as human history.


    Of course to hear Adams tell it there hasn't been much of that kind of thing in the last 800 years. Certainly not in America, not until You-Know-Who.

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  192. davdoodles1:03 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAOUrxfzG9s

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  193. AGoodQuestion1:08 AM

    An argument that sounds like it would fool only the densest of the dullards, and yet here we are.

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  194. AGoodQuestion1:11 AM

    Oxygen to the brain being cut off would explain a lot.

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  195. AGoodQuestion1:14 AM

    Gromet: Brown was Black, which means police had to shoot him whether or not he was armed.
    IIRC, Ben Stein came pretty close to saying it outright.

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  196. Gabriel Ratchet1:42 AM

    Would it be irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!

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