Racist Pig Rush Limbaugh: “Uncle Toms for Thad”

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LIMBAUGH: I wonder what the campaign slogan was in Mississippi the past couple days - “Uncle Toms for Thad?”

‘Cuz I thought it was the worst thing you could do, as an African American, and vote for a Republican, worst thing you could do, but somehow they were made, uh, er, they were made to believe, uh, that votin’ for old Thad… uh, THAD would be fine and dandy. And, and why? Well, ‘cause they were told that Thad’s done a lot for uh, black people in Mississippi.

Now, uh, it must be the first time they’ve been told that.

Nine percentage points. Insider Republicans in the Senate bought nine percentage points, eight or nine percentage points from the black Uncle Tom voters in Mississippi.

Well, isn’t that what they call Clarence Thomas? Condoleezza Rice? They call them Uncle Toms. They’re Republicans. These guys that voted for Thad — Uncle Toms for Thad?

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289 comments
1 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 11:37:27am

I doubt this spew will end Rush’s radio career, but it should. The man is a vile bigot and is unworthy of any support.

2 dog philosopher  Jun 25, 2014 11:37:35am

incoherent rage

3 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 11:37:41am

Racism is just boiling up out of the right wing base today. It’s revolting.

4 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 11:37:48am

THAT’S NOT RACIST!

5 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 11:38:13am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Racism is just boiling up out of the right wing base today. It’s revolting.

Feature, not a bug.

6 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 11:38:14am

This is stupid and sick even for Rush Limbaugh.

The “Uncle Tom” charge would only apply if black democrats who voted for Cochran in the primary also voted for him in the general. Somehow, I think that is most unlikely.

7 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 11:38:32am

Does ‘Snerdley’ still work for him? Rush is going to have to give him another raise to keep him around.

8 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 11:39:08am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Racism is just boiling up out of the right wing base today. It’s revolting.

They’re sicker than I am. I’ve only got a fever and chills, with some aches and pains, while Limbaugh and Co. are sick in the head.

9 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 11:39:10am

That’s not racist. It’s satire.

No. It. Isn’t.

Rush is letting his inner racist flow. Feel the hate rise from deep within the bowels of the GOP’s id, ego, and superego.

This is what the GOP has become. A seething mass of hate.

10 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 25, 2014 11:39:43am

I guess the dogwhistle broke, so they are using bullhorns instead. Also…just how effed up is it that Cochran tried to use a Jim Crow law to intimidate black voters?? Mississippi….where everything 1950 is new again!

11 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 11:39:43am

re: #1 Dark_Falcon

I doubt this spew will end Rush’s radio career, but it should. The man is a vile bigot and is unworthy of any support.

Very true. Also true is that Rush Limbaugh is easily the single most influential RW leader who is not an elected official or GOP party executive.

12 team_fukit  Jun 25, 2014 11:40:14am

Sour grapes. Black people voting against a neo-confederate has been a time honored tradition of Southern black suffrage.

13 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 25, 2014 11:40:44am

re: #9 lawhawk

That’s not racist. It’s satire.

No. It. Isn’t.

Rush is letting his inner racist flow. Feel the hate rise from deep within the bowels of the GOP’s id, ego, and superego.

This is what the GOP has become. A seething mass of hate.

Watch them go “No true wingnut” when that hate finds a logical endpint in violence.

14 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 11:40:45am

re: #9 lawhawk

That’s not racist. It’s satire.

No. It. Isn’t.

Rush is letting his inner racist flow. Feel the hate rise from deep within the bowels of the GOP’s id, ego, and superego.

This is what the GOP has become. A seething mass of hate.

There’s no ‘inner’ about his racism. In fact, I think his bowels are on the outside, too.

15 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 11:40:57am

Rush sounds confused….

16 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 11:41:21am

re: #10 Aunty Entity Dragon

I guess the dogwhistle broke, so they are using bullhorns instead. Also…just how effed up is it that Cochran tried to use a Jim Crow law to intimidate black voters?? Mississippi….where everything 1950 is new again!

How did Cochran do that?

17 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 11:42:44am

re: #14 wrenchwench

There’s no ‘inner’ about his racism. In fact, I think his bowels are on the outside, too.

Nah, he’s not racist! he likes Herman Cain and Ben Carson!
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18 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 11:42:56am
19 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 11:43:43am

re: #18 Kragar

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“History begins tomorrow.”

20 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 11:44:33am

re: #17 GeneJockey

Nah, he’s not racist! he likes Herman Cain and Ben Carson!
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I HAVE A FRIEND, WHO HAPPENS TO BE BLACK.

21 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 11:45:20am

re: #18 Kragar

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Instead of Operation: CHAOS, Cochran’s campaign to turn out black voters should be called Operation: MAINTAIN SANITY.

22 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 11:46:06am

re: #17 GeneJockey

Nah, he’s not racist! he likes Herman Cain and Ben Carson!
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He also likes calling them ‘Uncle Toms’ and attributing it to libtards.

23 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 11:46:15am
Cuz I thought it was the worst thing you could do, as an African American, and vote for a Republican, worst thing…..

Drugbaugh thinks he speaks for Blacks now?

24 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 11:46:53am

re: #21 Dark_Falcon

Instead of Operation: CHAOS, Cochran’s campaign to turn out black voters should be called Operation: MAINTAIN SANITY.

As if.

25 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 11:47:20am

re: #20 Gus

I HAVE A BEST FRIEND, WHO HAPPENS TO BE BLACK.

FIFY

26 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 11:48:47am

re: #20 Gus

I HAVE A FRIEND, WHO HAPPENS TO BE BLACK.

Yeah, he works for me, but we’re friends! Just like those Mexican guys on the loading dock! And they all say I’m not racist, so there!

27 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 25, 2014 11:49:13am

How dare blacks vote in an open primary!

28 dog philosopher  Jun 25, 2014 11:49:58am

‘Cuz I thought it was the worst thing you could do, as an African American

proof, i suppose, that the republican party is ‘color blind’

30 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 11:52:15am
Racist Pig Rush Limbaugh: “Uncle Toms for Thad”

Both sides do it ©

31 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 11:52:47am

Police seize ‘Pastafarian’ man’s guns for taking firearms license photo with colander on his head

Although the man did as a joke, police didn’t think it was funny, but maybe that’s the joke.

Guy Albon, 30, is a “Pastafarian,” or a practitioner of the satirical religious movement Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So when he went to have his firearms license photo taken he wore a spaghetti colander on his head as part of his religious garb.

When local law enforcement found out they confiscated his guns and ordered him to see a psychiatrist, Australian media reports.

“The law stipulates you can have something on your head… but you have to have your entire face uncovered and if the headgear is being worn it has to have some religious significance,” Albon said. “I thought, ‘I’ve got this one in the bag’… it was an absolute scream.”

While Albon said he was in compliance with local laws, two uniformed officers appeared at his home and seized two rifles and two handguns, saying they’d return the firearms once a psychiatrist deemed he was safe to have weapons.

Albon later passed his psychological evaluation, but police said he had to retake the photo without the colander.

32 nines09  Jun 25, 2014 11:53:44am

How does this Lord Of The Toads still have any sponsors?

33 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 11:55:35am

re: #30 Dr. Matt

Both sides do it (c)

Not this bad, nuh-uh. This level of hate this widespread is unique to to the Right at this time.

It gives me no joy in saying that, but I cannot deny it and so must tell the truth.

34 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 11:56:16am

re: #32 Nines All The Times

How does this Lord Of The Toads still have any sponsors?

Hate sells.

35 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 11:56:40am

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

Police seize ‘Pastafarian’ man’s guns for taking firearms license photo with colander on his head

I don’t get why people do this. What is he protesting about? That Juice & Muslims & Sikhs should not get to have ID photos wearing a kippah/skullcap/turban?

36 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 11:57:04am
37 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 25, 2014 11:57:05am

re: #1 Dark_Falcon

I doubt this spew will end Rush’s radio career, but it should. The man is a vile bigot and is unworthy of any support.

Rush was clever in the tactic he pioneered of innoculating himself from bigotry charges by attacking his critics and accusing them of bigotry. IN the army, we called this sort of thing “Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter accusations.”

In a horrible fashion, police departments who kill or injure innocent bystanders have started doing this as well. The toddler who was hideously and critically burned by a flash grenade in a SWAT raid in Georgia two weeks ago (the target of the raid apparently did not even live there, and nothing was found in the raid) is a case in point. Police across the country have uniformly blamed the mother for the 3rd degree burns to her child, and suggest the family used the toddler as a human shield while absolving themselves of any blame for not bothering to check if the guy they wanted even resided at the house, much less whether any children were present. The family in question was staying there with relatives after their house had burned down in Minnesota…but that does not matter when the police need to smear the victims in order to deflect a massive lawsuit.

A similar case in NYC is n the legal system now where Andrea Rebello, a senior in college, was taken hostage by an armed intruder in her apartment. A lone officer entered the apartment without backup and tried to shoot the gunman who was holding her. He shot and killed Andrea instead (through the face). In response, the NYPD attacked her sister, her finacee and other family members in an investigation that tried to frame them as conspirators who invited the gunman in as part of a bad drug deal. Her fiancee stopped talking to the police completely and directed their questions to a lawyer he retained. The family has filed a massive wrongful death suit…and cop forums have mocked them as money grubbing cop haters. (funny how losing your daughter/sister/fiancee to a cop bullet and then being accused of setting her death up will do that to you.)

38 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 11:57:45am

re: #35 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t get why people do this. What is he protesting about? That Juice & Muslims & Sikhs should not get to have ID photos wearing a kippah/skullcap/turban?

He just did it as a joke.

39 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 11:58:10am

re: #38 Dark_Falcon

He just did it as a joke.

Where is Teh Funny?

40 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 25, 2014 11:58:45am

re: #16 Dark_Falcon

slate.com

41 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 11:59:18am

More news from the mostest freedomly place on Earth

42 nines09  Jun 25, 2014 11:59:44am

Rush Enablers with emails.

43 klys  Jun 25, 2014 12:00:08pm

re: #35 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t get why people do this. What is he protesting about? That Juice & Muslims & Sikhs should not get to have ID photos wearing a kippah/skullcap/turban?

He’s mocking religion in general.

44 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:00:14pm

I’m just going to place this here.

45 nines09  Jun 25, 2014 12:00:55pm

re: #34 Dr. Matt

Hate sells.

To the right crowd it does. Sales are up today I take it.

46 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:01:27pm

Ha!

47 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:01:35pm

re: #37 Aunty Entity Dragon

Rush was clever in the tactic he pioneered of innoculating himself from bigotry charges by attacking his critics and accusing them of bigotry. IN the army, we called this sort of thing “Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter accusations.”

In a horrible fashion, police departments who kill or injure innocent bystanders have started doing this as well. The toddler who was hidiously and critically burned by a flash grenade in a SWAT raid in Georgia two weeks ago (the target of the raid apparently did not even live there, and nothing was found in the raid) is a case in point. Police across the country have uniformly blamed the mother for the 3rd degree burns to her child, and suggest the family used the toddler as a human shield while absolving themselves of any blame for not bothering to check if the guy they wanted even resided at the house, much less whether any children were present. The family in question was staying there with relatives after their house had burned down in Minesota…but that does not matter when the police need to smear the victims in order to deflect a massive lawsuit.

A similar case in NYC is n the legal system now where Andrea Rebello, a senior in college, was taken hostage by an armed intruder in her apartment. A lone officer entered the apartment without backup and tried to shoot the gunman who was hilding her. He shot and killed Andrea instead (through the face). In responce, the NYPD attacked her sister, her finacee and other family members in an investigation that tryed to frame them as conspirators who invited the gunman in as part of a bad drug deal. Her fiancee stopped talking to the police completely and directed their questions to a lawyer he retained. The family has filed a massive wrongful death suit…and cop forums have mocked them as money grubbing cop haters. (funny how losing your daughter/sister/fiancee to a cop bullet and then being accused of setting her death up will do that to you.)

Most people will abandon their principals in order to avoid a major lawsuit. They’ll pretend that something they preached since they were in college is now evil if it means avoiding ruinous legal liability.

Sorry I have to say it that way, but its true. People willing to be honest when honesty threatens to ruin them materially are fairly rare.

48 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 12:01:38pm

Queen of Derp

49 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:02:57pm
50 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 12:03:49pm

re: #33 Dark_Falcon

Not this bad, nuh-uh. This level of hate this widespread is unique to to the Right at this time.

It gives me no joy in saying that, but I cannot deny it and so must tell the truth.

It was meant as sarcasm because every time some RWNJ spews something like this, the librul MSM chimes in with: Both sides do it ©

51 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 12:05:09pm

re: #43 klys

He’s mocking religion in general.

It seems he is targeting Jews, Muslims and Sikhs in particular because of the headwear thing.

52 Aqua Obama  Jun 25, 2014 12:06:08pm

Just thought I’d let you guys know, the guy who wanted to stone gays in Oklahoma finished 3rd out of 5 candidates.

53 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 12:07:14pm

re: #49 Gus

Whoa.

Ted Rall’s definition of “a guy with a lot of integrity:” someone who publishes any hateful spew he comes up with.

“I loved working for Paul Carr. I had complete editorial freedom,” said Rall. “When I wrote stuff that he disagreed with, he not only posted them without comment, he promoted them. I thought, ‘Here’s a guy with a lot of integrity.’”

54 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:07:37pm
55 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:07:50pm

re: #40 Aunty Entity Dragon

slate.com

I knew about those poll watchers but you made a critical error”

re: #10 Aunty Entity Dragon

I guess the dogwhistle broke, so they are using bullhorns instead. Also…just how effed up is it that Cochran tried to use a Jim Crow law to intimidate black voters?? Mississippi….where everything 1950 is new again!

The assholes who sent out the poll-watchers were supporting McDaniel, not Cochran. And look who they had on their team:

Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, a political action committee that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars backing Mr. Cochran’s Tea Party opponent, State Senator Chris McDaniel, said in an interview on Sunday that his group was joining with Freedom Works and the Tea Party Patriots in a “voter integrity project” in Mississippi.

The groups will deploy observers in areas where Mr. Cochran is recruiting Democrats, Mr. Cuccinelli said. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department official and conservative commentator who said he was advising the effort, described the watchers as “election observers,” mostly Mississippi residents, who will be trained to “observe whether the law is being followed.”

After nearly 42 years in Washington, Mr. Cochran is facing a dire political threat from Mr. McDaniel, a former radio talk show host. Under state elections law, Democrats may vote in the runoff if they did not vote in the Democratic primary on June 3.

“The laws in Mississippi are unusually open to poll watching from the outside,” said Mr. Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general. “We’re going to take full advantage of that and we’re going to lay eyes on Cochran’s effort to bring Democrats in,” he added. “And of course, if they voted in primaries, that’s illegal.”

56 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 25, 2014 12:08:06pm

re: #47 Dark_Falcon

Most people will abandon their principals in order to avoid a major lawsuit. They’ll pretend that something they preached since they were in college is now evil if it means avoiding ruinous legal liability.

Sorry I have to say it that way, but its true. People willing to be honest when honesty threatens to ruin them materially are fairly rare.

It’s worse when it is done by a government entity with life and death powers. I cannot imagine the anguish and rage of being held at gunpoint by a SWAT team while your child is screaming in the next room with a massive burn wound that exposed his ribcage and took most of the skin off his face. She was not told for hours how serious the injury was…and now she is being blamed for it in national media by the police. Better still are comments I saw where officers “humorously” suggest the kids nickname should be entered into gang databases now to save time.

All because they needed a place to stay while their home insurance was being handled after a fire…and because police looked for a guy who bought 50 bucks worth of meth and didn’t even live at that address.

57 klys  Jun 25, 2014 12:08:31pm

re: #51 Pie-onist Overlord

It seems he is targeting Jews, Muslims and Sikhs in particular because of the headwear thing.

Possible? Sure. But most folks I know who advocate for the Flying Spaghetti Monster are doing so to point out what they see as the absurdities in religion as a whole.

58 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 25, 2014 12:08:50pm

re: #55 Dark_Falcon

I knew about those poll watchers but you made a critical error”

The assholes who sent out the poll-watchers were supporting McDaniel, not Cochran. And look who they had on their team:

My bad.

59 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:09:31pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

Whoa.

Ted Rall’s definition of “a guy with a lot of integrity:” someone who publishes any hateful spew he comes up with.

Sirota seems to get fired a lot.

60 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:10:03pm

re: #58 Aunty Entity Dragon

My bad.

It’s OK, as these things happen. I just wanted to make sure the blame was placed were it belonged.

61 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:10:36pm
62 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:11:01pm

re: #59 Gus

Sirota seems to get fired a lot.

I don’t think his man-crush on Glenn Greenwald helps him alot in the real world.

63 Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 25, 2014 12:11:11pm

BBL.

64 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 12:11:40pm

Sirota is frantically following up on the resume that he sent to The Intercept months ago.

65 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 12:11:58pm

re: #51 Pie-onist Overlord

Yeah, that guy sounds like a Dudebro.

Good and Bad News Here:

Good News: Mom’s parent’s sent over some information of Genealogy. I have ancestry from 2 Revolutionary War soldiers, and 1 Civil War-Union soldier.

In addition, they have offered to pay for more schooling for me on GIS. Though, that would require me getting a job that doesn’t shift schedules every 2 months.

Bad News: On the Muslim Matrimonial site I was at, I was blocked by someone when I told them I was Autistic. :(

66 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 12:14:01pm

re: #65 The War TARDIS

In regards to help on classes, it is likely because I am the most stable person on their side of the family who talks to them frequently.

67 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 12:14:18pm

re: #61 Gus

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Key passage:

Those of you who know me know I’m always interested in new projects and challenges, so please do not hesitate to call me to brainstorm and chat (and I’m always around to help out on anything you may be working on).

The rest of it is ‘I’m so busy, I’m taking some time off…’ smoke and mirrors.

68 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 12:14:58pm

re: #49 Gus

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I never clicked again on Pando after I heard that they hired Rall, now I can again.

Sirota is Sirota, he is what he is but I wish him no ill. Dudebro’s gotta eat.

Maybe Glenn can hire Sirota, that way we’ll never have to see his writings again.

69 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 12:16:41pm

DOCTOR BEES

Youtube Video

70 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 12:20:11pm
71 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 12:20:34pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

You know, I do understand how important bees are.

At the same time, I don’t want to be near them. They sting me alot. They must think I am sort of flower.

72 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 12:21:40pm

re: #70 Kragar

73 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jun 25, 2014 12:22:05pm

It’s also a total misuse of the phrase. An “Uncle Tom” is a black person who’s perceived by other black people as being overly subservient to white’s who are in a position of power. That doesn’t at all match up with “Black people voting in the GOP primary for the guy they hate less.”

74 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 12:22:36pm

re: #61 Gus

Facebook!

75 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 12:23:06pm

re: #70 Kragar

Must be a graduate of Glenn Beck University.

76 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 12:24:20pm

re: #75 Dr. Matt

Must be a graduate of Glenn Beck University.

Or Liberty University.

77 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 12:25:52pm

Ball argued that the state could not be a claimant under common law, but he said government prosecutors unlawfully did so in nearly every criminal proceeding.

“There’s no claimant,” he said. “The state’s not allowed to be a claimant, yet they do that every day. If you don’t rebut it, then that means you consent to it, and they move forward with it and they subjugate you to it.”

Ball argued that Americans had loaned out their sovereignty to public servants, but they reserve the right to take it back.

“So when that governor, that sheriff, doesn’t do his job, we can go take them out of office,” he said. “We don’t have to wait for an election.”

He didn’t explain how that worked, but in another video posted online, Ball argues that individuals can escape police questioning by insisting officers fill out a form.

79 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 12:29:23pm

re: #77 Kragar

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Please proceed, PAG.

And STFU, Limbaugh, you rotten bag of wind.

80 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:30:07pm

Filed under the things Snowden doesn’t talk about that happen in Russia:

Surveillance video shows Russian cops trying to check murder suspect as luggage (VIDEO)

CCTV captured two Russian police officers trying to check a comatose murder suspect as luggage on a flight back to the station.

Officers Fedor Moroz, 41, and Yuriy Koudinov, 45, dragged Sergei Kozhemyakin, 36, out of the Balabanovskaya City Hospital’s intensive care ward in Kaluga Oblast. They transported the unconscious murder suspect to Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, where they tried to persuade flight staff to declare him as luggage and place him in the luggage hold, Daily Mail reports.

The airline staff said no, so the officers handcuffed Kozhemyakin to a chair in the departure lounge and waited throughout the night for another flight.

At some point, Kozhemyakin, who was believed to have ordered the murder of a mayoral aide in 2008, had trouble breathing. Airport officers tried to take Kozhemayakin back to the hospital, but both Moroz and Koudinov refused.

Kozhemyakin died as the officers argued amongst themselves.

Although, at least the Russian government did take some action:

Moroz and Koudinov have since been fired.

81 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 12:30:14pm

re: #77 Kragar

Damn you!

82 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 12:30:49pm

re: #77 Kragar

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“Private Attorney General”?

Is that like being a Grand Poobah or something?

83 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 12:31:51pm

What are the odds that Ted Rall and David Sirota got fired because they’re egomaniacal narcissistic assholes?

84 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:32:24pm

re: #77 Kragar

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Logical question to ask of this fool Ball: Then how can someone who murders a person who has no close friends or family be punished? Does that person simply ‘not count’?

85 Aqua Obama  Jun 25, 2014 12:32:25pm

Regarding Rall, I used to think the events of the last decade tossed him over the edge, but I picked up on of his early books, and by god, does that guy have a lot of issues to work through. The guy is carrying so much personal resentment it’s a wonder he keeps getting regular gigs.

86 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 12:35:33pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

What are the odds that Ted Rall and David Sirota got fired because they’re egomaniacal narcissistic assholes?

“We have to let you go. A quick google search revealed the two of you are insufferable douchebags.”

87 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 12:36:12pm
These guys that voted for Thad — Uncle Toms for Thad?

Dear Abby, Dear Abby …
My feet are too long
My hair’s falling out and my rights are all wrong
My friends they all tell me there’s nothing I lack
But I’m sad and confused cause the President’s black
Signed Tea Party

Tea Party, Tea Party
You have no complaint
You are what you are and you ain’t what you ain’t
So listen up Buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood

88 thecommodore  Jun 25, 2014 12:37:33pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Racism is just boiling up out of the right wing base today. It’s revolting.

Unbelievable.

89 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 12:38:16pm

I think I’ve figured out why today’s RW outrage seems more shrill than usual.

The votes of black people in MS are not supposed to matter. That they have apparently made a difference in this Senate primary is intolerable for the wingnuts.

90 S'latch  Jun 25, 2014 12:39:03pm

So, Rush Limbaugh is calling the African American Democrats who voted for Thad Cochran “Uncle Toms.” He’s just spewing hate at them. He’s calling them “the black Uncle Tom voters in Mississippi.” That is about as overtly racist as you can get—a white Republican calling black Democrats “Uncle Toms” because they interfered in his Republican Primary.

91 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 12:39:16pm

re: #59 Gus

Sirota seems to get fired a lot.

I’m not so sure this is his or Rall’s fault. It appears that Pando wants to concentrate on technology and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley, if you read about it elsewhere.

Not that there isn’t enough tech and entrepreneur fawning news out there. And those types piss me off almost as much as Greenwald.

When they can start eliminating poverty and really work on equalizing opportunities for everyone rather than enriching their libertarian selves, I’ll be more impressed.

We put a man on the moon 45 years ago and I don’t remember any of those folks becoming billionaires. They did it for the country, not for enriching themselves.

92 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 12:39:34pm

re: #55 Dark_Falcon

I knew about those poll watchers but you made a critical error”

The assholes who sent out the poll-watchers were supporting McDaniel, not Cochran. And look who they had on their team:

Told ya Cuccinneli was a scumbag.

93 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:39:46pm
94 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 12:40:55pm

re: #93 Gus

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Those radical gay rights groups./ But yeah to Collins credit, she’s not a bigot on this issue and is honestly may be one of the few if any sane GOPers left in the SEnate.

95 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:40:56pm
96 S'latch  Jun 25, 2014 12:41:23pm

re: #87 jaunte

Sombody call John Prine.

97 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 12:41:47pm

re: #95 Gus

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lolwut. Yeah let’s emulate Saudi Arabia on church and state. That’s such a great idea.

98 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:44:04pm

re: #93 Gus

Deleted. Oops.

99 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 12:44:08pm

re: #95 Gus

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I’d like to think that there’s an absolute level of batshit crazy beyond which the wingnuts cannot go - sort of a barrier wall.

And every day, to a mix of abject horror and Olympian bemusement, I find I’m mistaken in thinking that.

100 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 12:44:36pm

re: #98 Dark_Falcon

Hillary Clinton endorseing a Republican is a risk for her and for Susan Collins. It might helps Sen Collins win moderate votes or it might cause her to lose in the face of GOP disgust with the Clintons. It also might hurt Hillary with Dems who find her endorsement of someone from the other party intolerable.

I’d not have expected this sort of bold stroke from HRC. Let’s see how it works out for her.

HRC- Human Rights Campaign not Hillary Rodham Clinton.

101 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:44:44pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

Told ya Cuccinneli was a scumbag.

And you were right about that.

102 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:44:55pm

re: #98 Dark_Falcon

Hillary Clinton endorseing a Republican is a risk for her and for Susan Collins. It might helps Sen Collins win moderate votes or it might cause her to lose in the face of GOP disgust with the Clintons. It also might hurt Hillary with Dems who find her endorsement of someone from the other party intolerable.

I’d not have expected this sort of bold stroke from HRC. Let’s see how it works out for her.

Human Rights Campaign. I made that mistake when I first saw it. :D

103 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 12:45:21pm

re: #101 Dark_Falcon

And you were right about that.

Known it for a long time unfortunately. His state senate district was where my grandparents lived before my grandfather passed away.

104 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:46:03pm

re: #100 HappyWarrior

re: #102 Gus

Thanks, Gus. Post deleted.

105 Second Class Citizen  Jun 25, 2014 12:46:04pm

re: #77 Kragar

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Shocker. They are birthers.

106 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 12:46:47pm

re: #78 Dr. Matt

And I’m the Kwisatz Haderach. I am the word of God. Even Emperor Shaddam IV knew better than to cross me. ///

Dafuq. These people are a menace. They think that they’re above the law or worse, that they can impose their weird view of the law on everyone else.

But the fact that the feds haven’t swept in with the black helicopters and sent Bundy and the nuts off to FEMA camps should be proof that the government isn’t as competent or dangerous as the right wings and sovereign citizens make it out to be. And that incompetence is actually allowing these folks to engage in illegal activities for far longer than they should otherwise be allowed.

107 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 12:47:09pm

So many nuts out there. So little squirrels.

108 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 12:48:29pm

re: #73 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

It’s also a total misuse of the phrase. An “Uncle Tom” is a black person who’s perceived by other black people as being overly subservient to white’s who are in a position of power. That doesn’t at all match up with “Black people voting in the GOP primary for the guy they hate less.”

Thank You. I was going to post Rush has no feel for the term and he is of the wrong persona to use the term.

But, that means nothing to him and to his audience. They don’t know shit anyway. Just another dumb day is Rush land.

109 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 12:48:46pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

What are the odds that Ted Rall and David Sirota got fired because they’re egomaniacal narcissistic assholes?

re: #86 Kragar

110 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 12:50:13pm

Wind and rain here; outside chairs and cushions blown down the sidewalk and I’m not going after them. : )

111 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jun 25, 2014 12:51:05pm

with his show and popularity on the decline, he must feel free to just let it flow as never before. It’s not as if he is short of cash and worried about losing sponsorship income at this point.

It continues to amaze me how such a financially successful individual like him cannot resolve his own sense of overwhelming personality-defining sense of white male entitlement with his pathetic and internally sad clown martyrdom.

112 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 12:52:07pm

re: #106 lawhawk

And I’m the Kwisatz Haderach. I am the word of God. Even Emperor Shaddam IV knew better than to cross me. ///

Dafuq. These people are a menace. They think that they’re above the law or worse, that they can impose their weird view of the law on everyone else.

But the fact that the feds haven’t swept in with the black helicopters and sent Bundy and the nuts off to FEMA camps should be proof that the government isn’t as competent or dangerous as the right wings and sovereign citizens make it out to be. And that incompetence is actually allowing these folks to engage in illegal activities for far longer than they should otherwise be allowed.

Heh.

The cool thing about being a private English language teacher? Being able to introduce yourself to Arabic-speaking students as “Muad’dib”, which means “educator” and is also used to refer to a private tutor.

MWAHAHAHAHA!!!

113 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 12:52:28pm

re: #104 Dark_Falcon

Thanks, Gus. Post deleted.

And you as well, HW.

114 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 12:53:23pm

re: #89 EPR-radar

I think I’ve figured out why today’s RW outrage seems more shrill than usual.

The votes of black people in MS are not supposed to matter. That they have apparently made a difference in this Senate primary is intolerable for the wingnuts.

It’s not just that, IMO. Blacks are supposed to be lazy, low-info voters (tack on as many additional negative stereotypes as you like), but the fact that they went out and voted proved that they are neither.

So now the right has to double-down on the racism and attribute blacks’ ability to make a difference to some perceived character flaw, e.g. it was only greed for government “handouts” that got them to overcome their laziness (or take your pick of any of the others).

To do anything else would mean they’d have to face their darkest, most terrifying fear—the one they’ve been in denial about since 2008—that America has changed and minorities can indeed swing elections.

115 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 12:55:56pm

re: #113 Dark_Falcon

And you as well, HW.

Not a prob.

116 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 12:57:47pm
It’s a fiasco: embarrassing for Pando Daily and for me as well.

rall.com

Pando Daily is fine.

117 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:58:19pm
118 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 12:59:29pm

I’m getting the feeling the Dems can count on the African American vote turnout come this fall. The Mississippi vote last night showed me they are paying attention and that is in a southern state where they may feel they don’t have a lot to vote for.

Maybe the turnout this fall will not be too bad. Hopefully others are watching and ALL people on the Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Sensible/Practical side of politics will turn out and surprise the Republican Tea Party thinking they are going to take back the senate.

119 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 12:59:37pm

heh

120 theliel  Jun 25, 2014 1:00:55pm

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

I’d like to think that there’s an absolute level of batshit crazy beyond which the wingnuts cannot go - sort of a barrier wall.

And every day, to a mix of abject horror and Olympian bemusement, I find I’m mistaken in thinking that.

Peak Wingnut is a Lie.

121 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 1:01:05pm

I love it when dudebros feud.

122 theliel  Jun 25, 2014 1:02:12pm

re: #121 Charles Johnson

I love it when dudebros feud.

I don’t know. I think we’re up to 3 popped collars simultaneously here - that’s into douchebro territory.

123 Kid A  Jun 25, 2014 1:03:24pm

re: #121 Charles Johnson

Dude-on-dude violence isn’t as much fun as tea-on-tea violence.

124 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 1:04:05pm

re: #123 Kid A

No, but it is still very fun.

125 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 1:04:30pm

All of this is Obama’s fault.

All of it.

//

126 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 1:05:23pm

re: #121 Charles Johnson

I love it when dudebros feud.

127 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 1:08:21pm

re: #107 HappyWarrior

So many nuts out there. So little squirrels.

Just point. They’re there. Lots of them.

128 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:08:41pm

Paul Carr worked for The Guardian Media Group and is, by his own admission, a “dismal failure” by being fired from any job he ever had.

So, I guess it’s probably more of a curse to get hired over at Pando than good luck.

129 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:11:04pm

Oh my.

Rep. Charles Rangel, seeking 23rd term, holds off strong challenge to win Democratic primary in New York - @AP
Read more on bigstory.ap.org

130 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 1:11:24pm
131 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 1:13:03pm

re: #130 Kragar

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Moose in the headlights!

132 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 1:15:24pm

re: #15 Bulworth

Rush sounds confusedstoned….

If not on pain killers he’s stoned on hate, or both.

133 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:16:32pm

See, this is supposed to be huge news.

Medium hires journalist Steven Levy to be editor in chief of new technology hub - @medium
Read more on medium.com

Wake me up when there’s a cure for cancer.

134 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 1:17:14pm

re: #130 Kragar

She has just realized the truth about herself!

135 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 1:17:45pm

re: #26 GeneJockey

Yeah, he works for me, but we’re friends! Just like those Mexican guys on the loading dock! And they all say I’m not racist, so there!

And it’s not like I’d fire them in New York minute if I even suspected them of getting above their station.

136 gwangung  Jun 25, 2014 1:18:48pm

Generally, when a white person calls a black person an Uncle Tom, they are, at best, tone deaf, at worst, outright racist. You are goddam presumptuous in deciding FOR black people who is and who is not an Uncle Tom to them.

Oddly enough, it’s something Rush has in common with Ralph Nader

137 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 1:19:55pm

I heard Tammy Blair from Tea Party 911 is all pissed off at what happened last night and basically stated the Republican can just forget the Tea Party as their base.

Hahaa. What’s that even mean…you are going to vote Democrat? Or, are you and sister Sarah and others are going to band together and form a real Tea Party and do what it takes to be recognized as an actual American political party instead of riding on GOP coattails and astro-turf money?

Good luck!

And Johnny Big Bonehead Boehner…are you watching? Hello…you guys may have a Tea Party problem much larger than you think. Not that it couldn’t happen to a better bunch.

Good luck to you too!

This fall’s political programming just got better.

138 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 1:21:13pm

Sanity break time.

Winnie the Pooh as only the Russians can do it!

Wherein the delightful children’s tales and Disney films become an existential drama worthy of Chekov filled with incomprehensible Russian barking on the meaninglessness of life, birthdays and missing tails!!

Youtube Video

139 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:21:29pm

re: #137 ObserverArt

I heard Tammy Blair from Tea Party 911 is all pissed off at what happened last night and basically stated the Republican can just forget the Tea Party as their base.

Hahaa. What’s that even mean…you are going to vote Democrat? Or, are you and sister Sarah and others are going to band together and form a real Tea Party and do what it takes to be recognized as an actual American political party instead of riding on GOP coattails and astro-turf money?

Good luck!

And Johnny Big Bonehead Boehner…are you watching? Hello…you guys may have a Tea Party problem much larger than you think. Not that it couldn’t happen to a better bunch.

Good luck to you too!

This fall’s political programming just got better.

They actually think they can form a new party. Hey, I’m not the crazy one. But they really do think that if they nominate “true conservatives” everywhere, the American people will flock to their message.

140 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 1:22:07pm
141 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 1:22:23pm
142 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:22:45pm

re: #136 gwangung

Generally, when a white person calls a black person an Uncle Tom, they are, at best, tone deaf, at worst, outright racist. You are goddam presumptuous in deciding FOR black people who is and who is not an Uncle Tom to them.

Oddly enough, it’s something Rush has in common with Ralph Nader

To go with that, it always did ignore me when Bill Maher and or Michael Moore said Obama needed to act more “blacker.”

143 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 1:22:47pm

A “true conservative” 3d party would doom the GOP

I wish them godspeed.

144 piratedan  Jun 25, 2014 1:23:04pm

re: #59 Gus

comes with being a professional dickhead

145 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:23:22pm

re: #140 Kragar

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You know, Virginia GOP, this wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t nominated that lunatic Cuccinneli and his friends for governor, lt governor, and AG.

146 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 1:23:41pm

re: #138 Dr Lizardo

Heh. There are lots of cool Soviet cartoons.

147 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:24:27pm

re: #143 Kragar

It’s not “conservative”, it’s reactionary.

148 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 1:25:10pm

re: #139 HappyWarrior

They actually think they can form a new party. Hey, I’m not the crazy one. But they really do think that if they nominate “true conservatives” everywhere, the American people will flock to their message.

Please proceed.

Maybe we should all send them encouraging letters, emails, comments on blogs, and tweets asking they do what needs to be done to file as a recognized U.S. political party.

A couple of elections cycles and that just might be the end of that!

149 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:25:17pm

“True conservative” or as you better know them fascists.

150 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 1:25:40pm

So Boehner is suing the POTUS. I thought the GOP hated lawsuits, courts, torts and legal stuff? I guess IOICYAR

151 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:25:51pm

re: #148 ObserverArt

Please proceed.

Maybe we should all send them encouraging letters, emails, comments on blogs, and tweets asking they do what needs to be done to file as a recognized U.S. political party.

A couple of elections cycles and that just might be the end of that!

I certainly wouldn’t complain if they want to cut off their nose to save their face.

152 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:26:15pm

re: #150 Bulworth

So Boehner is suing the POTUS. I thought the GOP hated lawsuits, courts, torts and legal stuff? I guess IOICYAR

Only when it’s a member of the Democrat party doing it.//

153 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 1:26:24pm

re: #95 Gus

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Holy Shit!

Well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later.

154 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:27:36pm

A “new party” would just mean that the old grifters are being replaced with the new grifters. Although Palin is trying her best to keep her hand in, she’s yesterday’s news, too.

155 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:27:58pm

re: #153 Romantic Heretic

Holy Shit!

Well, I guess it had to happen sooner or later.

The only thing that surprised me that this was another crazy Oklahoma GOPer. It’s a different dude than the due who advocated stoning the gays.

156 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 1:28:37pm

re: #146 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Heh. There are lots of cool Soviet cartoons.

I actually like the Soviet “Vini Puh” better than the Disney versions.

157 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 1:29:18pm

Wait. Wut?

158 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:31:05pm

re: #157 lawhawk

Wait. Wut?

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What the fuck is this.

159 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 1:31:06pm

The big asshole.

160 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 1:31:08pm

re: #156 Dr Lizardo

Have you seen any Saakyants cartoons? Try this one:

Youtube Video

161 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:32:27pm

re: #159 Gus

The big asshole.

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Says the clown who has passed countless repeals that he knows will fail. Fuck off Boehner and actually do your job for a change rather than being the Tea Party’s Professional Crybaby.

162 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 1:32:44pm

re: #123 Kid A

Dude-on-dude violence isn’t as much fun as tea-on-tea violence.

Less collateral damage though.

163 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 1:32:48pm

re:
#159

Dude who shut down the gov says what?

164 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 1:33:48pm

re: #157 lawhawk

I can’t get enough of this ‘defense’ of the KKK:

“I know we have a bad name, but it’s not that way no more,” he insists. “When was the last time a black or Hispanic got hung on a tree?

165 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 1:34:17pm

re:
#161

the Tea Party’s Professional Crybaby.

haha. yup

166 Lancelot Link  Jun 25, 2014 1:34:25pm

re: #146 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Heh. There are lots of cool Soviet cartoons.

I’m a big fan of Nu Pogodi.

167 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 1:35:01pm

re: #159 Gus

Boehner’s “lawsuit” lacks merit, and the facts show that Obama’s far more restrained in his use of EOs than any President since Cleveland. It’s less than any recent WH occupant, but it comes down to hating every last action the President takes.

168 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:35:05pm

Really Boehner. How many job bills has your body passed? Oh yeah. And how many pointless repeals or as you call them reach around to my paranoid base of Obamacare have you done? Got a lot of nerve asshole accusing POTUS of not doing enough on the economy when you’ve been wasting your time doing all you can to fend off any future challenge to your speakerhood with symbolic crap that we all know doesn’t accomplish anything.

169 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 1:35:51pm

re: #157 lawhawk

This KKK assclown is quite the legal eagle as well:

He claims that he’s being persecuted for his religious beliefs. “We are a conservative Christian group,” he says. “My rights were infringed upon. I can’t believe in what I want to? This has infringed on my First Amendment rights. It’s reverse discrimination.”

170 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:36:28pm

re: #169 EPR-radar

This KKK assclown is quite the legal eagle as well:

Man the KKK are such liberals./

171 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:36:53pm

re: #157 lawhawk

Wait. Wut?

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The Klan and/or Nazis have always been in Philly. There was a Nazi group that operated out of the back of a corner grocery store in Kensington when I lived there in 1972.

172 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 1:36:53pm

re: #140 Kragar

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In regards to my earlier comment about the GOP having to fall back on illegal methods, that took less time than I thought.

173 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 1:36:55pm

Hmmm. What happens if some Tea Party types learned a lesson last night and start to vote Democrat to dump some Republican so they can try to install their own candidates come next elections? Or do it out of pure spite to get the bums out of the GOP for the hell of it.

Not that it will happen…but then, who the hell knows the thinking of a PO’d Tea Party when they are outraged by not getting their way.

Anarchy in the USA!

174 gwangung  Jun 25, 2014 1:37:32pm

re: #142 HappyWarrior

To go with that, it always did ignore me when Bill Maher and or Michael Moore said Obama needed to act more “blacker.”

Seriously. It’s not for THEM to say that.

Goddam patronizing, when a white person decides they can be judge of who’s blacker or more Asian than though. It’s irritating enough when a POC does it, but…..

175 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 1:37:36pm

re: #168 HappyWarrior

176 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 1:38:18pm

re: #160 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Have you seen any Saakyants cartoons? Try this one:

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Video

Wow. That’s really good. Thanks.

177 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 1:38:45pm
178 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:38:57pm

re: #174 gwangung

Seriously. It’s not for THEM to say that.

Goddam patronizing, when a white person decides they can be judge of who’s blacker or more Asian than though. It’s irritating enough when a POC does it, but…..

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to MBF or anything like that but it is a huge huge pet peeve of mine when white anyone liberal or conservative try to speak for minorities and then use demeaning terms. Moore/Maher aren’t as bad as Limbaugh obviously since Rush has made a career out of race-baiting.

179 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jun 25, 2014 1:39:09pm

re: #154 Justanotherhuman

yesterday’s news, yes. Even worse for her is that she continues to age. This is something the right wing cannot tolerate in a female. As her looks diminish slowly every year, so too will her support.

Just witness the continuous fembot factory at Faux News at the first sign of any sort of wrinkles on their female hosts, anchors, and talking heads.

180 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 1:39:49pm

re: #169 EPR-radar

This KKK assclown is quite the legal eagle as well:

He could be the AG of the US just like the sovereign citizen clowns.

181 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 1:40:28pm

Like Boehner can say anything about arrogance and incompetence.

Fool. Look in the mirror Orange Man.

182 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 1:40:47pm

re: #166 Lancelot Link

I’m a big fan of Nu Pogodi.

I’ve seen that on Czech television. Cool.

183 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 1:41:01pm
184 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 1:41:18pm
185 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 1:41:25pm

re: #176 Dr Lizardo

And this one is even more psychedelic:

Youtube Video

186 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 1:41:40pm

re: #149 HappyWarrior

“True conservative” or as you better know them fascists.

I find them more similar to Bolsheviks. They are revolutionaries who are motivated by economic determinism, for the most part, who represent a small minority.

Even more amusing their economic determinism is Marxist in nature in that they believe that capitalist economics works the way Marx and Engel said it does. Their only difference from Marxism is they think this is a good thing, and that they, who regard themselves as bourgeoisie, will win the inevitable class war.

187 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:43:05pm

re: #183 Gus

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The repeals of Obamacare? Which of course Boehner is also behind.

188 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 1:43:14pm

Typo in the featured twit address. Ooops. Only a few billions of dollars to work with here, I should give ‘em a break.

189 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 1:43:20pm
190 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 1:43:37pm

re: #183 Gus

The point of the frivolous lawsuit is simple enough. It will be fodder for the impeachment circus if the GOP wins the Senate in 2014.

191 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:43:58pm

re: #186 Romantic Heretic

I find them more similar to Bolsheviks. They are revolutionaries who are motivated by economic determinism, for the most part, who represent a small minority.

Even more amusing their economic determinism is Marxist in nature in that they believe that capitalist economics works the way Marx and Engel said it does. Their only difference from Marxism is they think this is a good thing, and that they, who regard themselves as bourgeoisie, will win the inevitable class war.

I don’t entirely disagree with you there but I liken them to fascists due to their extremeness when it comes to God and Country. You do however make some excellent points about how paradoxically they do resemble Bolsheviks.

192 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 1:44:39pm

Here in the Czech Republic, we have Krtek, from the cartoonist Zdeněk Miller of Kladno.

Youtube Video

And Krtek is very much a Czech cultural icon.

193 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 1:44:47pm

re:
#189

So? What is Lerner hiding?

/

194 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:44:56pm

re: #189 Gus

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1986? Really Issa………….

195 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 1:45:12pm

Stand back. Issa is about ready to blow.

It won’t be pretty.

196 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 1:47:39pm

re: #189 Gus

Issa feels the need to up his game in the “Biggest Tool in the House GOP” competition, in view of Boehner’s stupid lawsuit.

197 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:48:20pm

re: #196 EPR-radar

Issa feels the need to up his game in the “Biggest Tool in the House GOP” competition, in view of Boehner’s stupid lawsuit.

Seriously, it’s almost as if there’s a competition in the GOP to see who can be the biggest clown on any given day.

198 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 1:48:46pm

re: #44 Gus

I’m just going to place this here.

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Lol.

199 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:49:17pm

“Okay, Issa, I raise you one presidential lawsuit for not doing enough on the economy.”
“Not so fast Boehner, I’m going to demand Lois Lerner hand over emails from 1986.”

200 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 1:49:34pm

re: #185 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

And this one is even more psychedelic:

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Video

Nice. Trippy….sort of in the Ralph Bakshi way.

201 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 1:49:48pm

re: #136 gwangung

Generally, when a white person calls a black person an Uncle Tom, they are, at best, tone deaf, at worst, outright racist. You are goddam presumptuous in deciding FOR black people who is and who is not an Uncle Tom to them.

Oddly enough, it’s something Rush has in common with Ralph Nader

Blacks only think that because they’re stuck on the Democratic Plantation because of all the free stuff!

202 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:50:45pm

Only the well-off “Googlers”. The tech wizards are becoming the newly seasoned capitalists just like the old ones, some with even more money than their predecessors.

The first guy was obviously a bit off his nut, but the first one protesting the evictions of tenants and the snapping up of properties had a real point.

Google spokesperson after protesters interrupt I/O conference: ‘Thousands of Googlers call the Bay Area home, and we want to be good neighbors. Since 2011 we’ve given more than $70 million to local projects and employees have volunteered thousands of hours in the community’ - @verge
Read more on theverge.com

203 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 1:51:52pm

Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto blasted Republicans on Wednesday for preparing to file a federal lawsuit challenging the executive actions of President Barack Obama. During an interview with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Cavuto belittled the effort as “an enormous waste of effort” and “a political football,” suggesting that President George W. Bush used similar executive authority.

The segment devolved into a shouting match, with Cavuto laughing off Bachmann’s indignation about Obama’s use of executive powers.

“You just said it, congresswoman, we might not get anywhere,” Cavuto exclaimed in frustration. “Maybe Republicans are within their rights, maybe the president is within his rights.” As Bachmann sought to defend the suit, Cavuto accused her of “conflating issues and being silly.” “Where was your rage when Democrats were going after President Bush on the same use of executive orders, because I think you knew then that that was a waste of time then and I think you know in your heart of hearts this is a waste of time now,” he exploded.

204 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 1:51:58pm

re: #197 HappyWarrior

Seriously, it’s almost as if there’s a competition in the GOP to see who can be the biggest clown on any given day.

That’s what passes for statesmanship and leadership from GOP elected officials and other leaders of the US right these days.

205 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:52:35pm

re: #201 GeneJockey

Blacks only think that because they’re stuck on the Democratic Plantation because of all the free stuff!

Ah yes the “plantation” because you know loyalty to a political party due in large part to that party actually trying to understand the issues important to your community is just like slavery. The GOP decided it wanted the angry white vote in the 60’s and hey that’s okay but don’t be upset at blacks if they resent your party for pandering to Jim Crow.

206 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jun 25, 2014 1:52:50pm

re: #51 Pie-onist Overlord

It seems he is targeting Jews, Muslims and Sikhs in particular because of the headwear thing.

My guess is he’s simply making a general point about the subjectivity involved in religious faith and its symbols. That’s what the entire Pastafarian thing is about, so that’s likely his point as well. A driver’s license engagement with authorities doesn’t offer much more than a headgear opportunity.

207 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 1:52:57pm

Rall and Sirota got fired?

Where’s me popcorn?!?!

208 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:53:05pm

re: #203 Kragar

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If I’ve lost Caputo. I’ve lost Middle Wingnut America.//

209 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 1:53:16pm
Cavuto’s real rage came out in response to Bachmann’s suggestion that Republicans in Congress should simply defund the executive branch. “Think about what you’re saying,” he screamed. “Defund the executive branch? Congresswoman! If Democrats had said to you, ‘we’re going to defund President Bush,’ you would have laughed at them and so you should have been.”
210 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:53:20pm

re: #195 ObserverArt

Stand back. Issa is about ready to blow.

It won’t be pretty.

Darrell “Mr. Creosote” Issa.

Youtube Video

211 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:53:36pm

re: #207 Varek Raith

Rall and Sirota got fired?

Where’s me popcorn?!?!

Wonder why Rall went. Never was a big fan of his due to his mocking of Tillman without knowing anything about Pat.

212 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 1:55:25pm

Defund the executive branch?
What in tarnation is she babbling about?

213 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 1:56:08pm

Bachmann is Gabby Johnson including the beard part.

214 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 1:57:04pm

re: #212 Varek Raith

Defund the executive branch?
What in tarnation is she babbling about?

Minnesota word salad.

215 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 1:57:30pm

re: #203 Kragar

GOP civil war Act I, part III:

In which Malicious explains to Stupid that Stupid’s excesses are going to damage the cause.

216 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 1:58:31pm

re: #188 wrenchwench

Typo in the featured twit address. Ooops. Only a few billions of dollars to work with here, I should give ‘em a break.

[Embedded content]

It’s called buying your way into power.

217 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 1:59:00pm

re: #209 Kragar

While on the one hand, I’m glad Cavuto read Bachmann the riot act, on the other hand I say, “You created this, Fox News. You own it.”

218 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 2:00:27pm

Michelle Bachmann is still in Congress?

Will our suffering never end?

219 Kid A  Jun 25, 2014 2:01:59pm

re: #159 Gus

And the replies to that tweet are not going well for Boner.

221 Testy Toad T  Jun 25, 2014 2:02:34pm

re: #218 Bulworth

Michelle Bachmann is still in Congress?

Will our suffering never end?

Suffering ends January 2015, thank the Gods.

222 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 2:02:43pm
223 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 2:02:51pm

Dick Cheney is still talking?

224 Egregious Philbin  Jun 25, 2014 2:03:24pm

I just heard Hannity, he claims it is against the law to vote for someone in the primary that you don’t intend to vote for in the general election. Oh my sides! And, just how does this oaf figure he is going to quiz all those voters and discern their intent? This is the comedy story that writes itself.

225 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 2:03:38pm

re: #200 Dr Lizardo

As the last thing for today, I’d recommend this take on Ray Bradbury from the Soviet Uzbekistan of the year 1984. The compression quality is unfortunately shitty, but if you can overlook this, you will probably enjoy it.

Youtube Video

226 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 2:04:39pm

Wisconsin Republican donor busted for voting 5 times in Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election

A Wisconsin insurance executive and Republican donor was charged with voting illegally more than a dozen times in four elections.

The Journal-Sentinel reported that 50-year-old Robert Monroe was caught as a result of an investigation into a possible illegal voting by his son in Waukesha County. But after his son denied requesting an absentee ballot from his father’s address in Shorewood, suspicion turned to Monroe.

A complaint claimed that Monroe voted five times in Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) recalled election. He also was accused of voting illegally in a 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a 2012 primary, and the 2012 presidential election.

227 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 2:06:22pm

There’s a lot of creepy stuff happening on Twitter, following the John Schindler mess. I’ve blocked several accounts that started following me, after checking their timelines and seeing them raving about Schindler.

It’s beginning to look like some kind of organized libertarian dudebro hit list.

228 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 2:06:46pm

re: #224 Egregious Philbin

I just heard Hannity, he claims it is against the law to vote for someone in the primary that you don’t intend to vote for in the general election. Oh my sides! And, just how does this oaf figure he is going to quiz all those voters and discern their intent? This is the comedy story that writes itself.

Oh really?

“Great American” Hannity Again Delighted That Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos Disrupted Primary Process

As I have previously reported, self-styled “Great American” Sean Hannity was full of bullyboy glee that Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos (Limbaugh’s plan to prolong the primary process and bloody Obama by urging Republicans to cross over and vote for Clinton) may have adversely affected the primary process in Indiana. On last night’s (5/20/08) Hannity & Colmes, Hannity repeated his approval and made it clear that he admired such undemocratic mischief.

Last night, Hannity told a panel of pundits discussing the results of the Kentucky primary, “I am a big supporter of Rush’s Operation Chaos, which I thought was brilliant radio and very entertaining, and I think it’s actually played an impact on some of these races.”

230 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 2:08:42pm
231 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 2:08:48pm

re: #227 Charles Johnson

There’s a lot of creepy stuff happening on Twitter, following the John Schindler mess. I’ve blocked several accounts that started following me, after checking their timelines and seeing them raving about Schindler.

It’s beginning to look like some kind of organized libertarian dudebro hit list.

The Glennstapo

232 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 2:09:54pm

re: #227 Charles Johnson

There’s a lot of creepy stuff happening on Twitter, following the John Schindler mess. I’ve blocked several accounts that started following me, after checking their timelines and seeing them raving about Schindler.

It’s beginning to look like some kind of organized libertarian dudebro hit list.

Beware of beautiful people suddenly taking an interest in you.

//

233 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 2:10:19pm
234 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 2:11:21pm

re:
#229

A real hero and macho-man, and good Christian man, that Rush.

/

235 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 2:11:44pm

re: #233 Gus

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32 WARSHIPS.

236 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:11:48pm

re: #224 Egregious Philbin

I just heard Hannity, he claims it is against the law to vote for someone in the primary that you don’t intend to vote for in the general election. Oh my sides! And, just how does this oaf figure he is going to quiz all those voters and discern their intent? This is the comedy story that writes itself.

So Sean are you going to arrest Rush because he encouraged your party’s voters to do just that six years ago or was that somehow different you pathetic hack? Get over it. McDaniel lost because he was a pathetic pos like you.

237 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:12:38pm

re: #230 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Seriously, I’d love for one of his guests to ask him what makes this different especially considering Hannity was doing it in regards to a presidential election.

238 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 2:12:39pm

Don’t want this to happen?
Don’t have open primaries.
Simple.

239 klys  Jun 25, 2014 2:12:46pm

re: #202 Justanotherhuman

Linked in the comments on the Verge article is actually a very well researched piece on some of the housing issues Silicon Valley is facing as a whole, including the mess that Prop 13 has made of much of CA.

Without the ability to rely as heavily on property taxes, city governments throughout the state had to favor office and retail development over housing in order to boost sales taxes. It may have even accelerated the homogeny of suburbs as smaller city governments had to cut deals to attract “big box” retailers to boost sales tax revenue, crowding out independently-run stores.

It also created a lock-in effect as California property values soared, creating a bigger gap in property taxes on newly-sold properties and ones that homeowners had held onto for a long time. That rigidity further enhanced the political power that NIMBY-ist homeowners accumulated in suburban city councils throughout the state.

240 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:13:04pm

re: #229 Pie-onist Overlord

Rush attacks “Teaching For Tolerance” bookstore after they decline to sell his book.

I wouldn’t even sell Rush’s book as toilet paper or rolling papers.

241 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 2:13:48pm

re: #225 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

As the last thing for today, I’d recommend this take on Ray Bradbury from the Soviet Uzbekistan of the year 1984. The compression quality is unfortunately shitty, but if you can overlook this, you will probably enjoy it.

[Embedded content]

Video

Soft Rains Will Fall is one I’ve long considered one of the greatest animated short films of all time. It’s absolutely brilliant.

242 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 2:13:51pm

re: #227 Charles Johnson

There’s a lot of creepy stuff happening on Twitter, following the John Schindler mess. I’ve blocked several accounts that started following me, after checking their timelines and seeing them raving about Schindler.

It’s beginning to look like some kind of organized libertarian dudebro hit list.

Which increases my suspicion that the photo supposedly of Schindler’s penis is either a fake or was released via hacking.

243 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 2:14:16pm

re: #240 HappyWarrior

I wouldn’t even sell Rush’s book as toilet paper or rolling papers.

It would be horrible toilet paper. As for rolling joints, why would you want to contaminate good weed?

244 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:14:27pm

Gotta wonder how Cochran feels right now.

245 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:15:01pm

re: #243 Pie-onist Overlord

It would be horrible toilet paper. As for rolling joints, why would you want to contaminate good weed?

Ha indeed but I’m saying I wouldn’t even sell it as such not for personal use.

246 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 2:15:18pm

re:
#233

Yeah but in Obama’s case the 147 have to be multiplied by 6 and that equals 882 and that equals 923!

Checkmate, Libtards!!1

///

247 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:16:11pm

Really though if Rush wants to know why he’s regarded the way he is. He may want to look at himself and his career. Not exactly a shining beacon of tolerance are ya Rushie? You’re just a modern day Father Coughlin.

248 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 2:17:32pm

Operation Chaos

249 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:17:45pm

Thing that makes the crossover crying the most humorous is that McDaniel apparently did it himself in 2003. Varek’s right. If these guys have a problem with open primaries. then change your state law to reflect that. Otherwise STFU and deal with the fact that other people can and wlil vote in your primary especially if they don’t want a neo-confederate fuckwad as their senator.

250 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 2:18:05pm
251 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 2:19:52pm

re:
#250

Unskewed!@!1

252 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 2:20:07pm

For the love of all things holy, can we please open up those FEMA Camps already?

253 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 2:20:52pm

re: #244 HappyWarrior

Gotta wonder how Cochran feels right now.

He’s just glad he won, I’d wager. He’s likely sitting at home resting, having dismissed would-be interviewers with instructions to “get off my lawn!”.

254 Flying Squirrel Girl  Jun 25, 2014 2:21:00pm

re: #201 GeneJockey

Because giving tax breaks to the wealthy doesn’t cost anything and isn’t in exchange for their votes.

255 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:21:03pm

re: #252 b.d.

For the love of all things holy, can we please open up those FEMA Camps already?

If they did open, the wingnuts would complain about them being too inefficient.

256 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 2:21:33pm

Sadly, I’m about convinced the FEMA camp rumors are lies. At best exaggerations.
/

257 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 2:22:21pm

re: #203 Kragar

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I see somebody’s going to be out of a job shortly.

258 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 2:22:31pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

If they did open, the wingnuts would complain about them being too inefficient.

I’m hoping they take that one dipshit’s advice and all move to Russia so they can be “free”.

259 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 2:23:11pm

re: #251 Bulworth

re:
#250

Unskewed!@!1

Republican math.

260 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 2:23:45pm

re:
#253

He’s also probably still wondering, “WTF”? “I’ve done a lot for this state, I’ve been pretty severely conservative, and suddenly the mob hates me.”

261 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 2:23:46pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

If they did open, the wingnuts would complain about them being too inefficient.

[drudge siren] LINES AT FEMA CAMP PROCESSING CENTERS TOO LONG, ONLINE FEMA CAMP REGISTRATION WEBSITE CRASHES 1ST DAY [/drudge siren]

262 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 2:23:51pm

I think Michelle Bachmann needs to go through some kind of therapy to help pray the dumbass away.

263 Kid A  Jun 25, 2014 2:24:47pm

re: #250 Gus

You mean American Stinker?

264 dog philosopher  Jun 25, 2014 2:25:06pm

how copious the flood of bitter wingnut tears is today

curiously it tastes so sweet and almost nourishing

265 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 2:25:52pm
266 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 25, 2014 2:26:11pm

WTF? Do they need to start classes on how to use a toilet?

267 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 2:27:06pm

re: #262 ObserverArt

I think Michelle Bachmann needs to go through some kind of therapy to help pray the dumbass away.

Were that to succeed, I’d regard it as a miracle sufficient to make me rethink my atheism.

It wouldn’t be as entertaining as seeing Bryan Fischer disappear up his own rectum on line TV, but in some ways curing Bachmann’s stupidity would be a more impressive feat for the almighty.

268 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 2:27:30pm

re: #263 Kid A

You mean American Stinker?

Given their Uncle Sam on the toilet…

269 Kid A  Jun 25, 2014 2:27:31pm

Insanity just said that Reagan was the Tea Party before the Tea Party. Reagan was a union leader, legalized abortion as governor, saved Social Security, raised taxes eleven times, cut and ran from Beirut and attacked Grenada, and signed into law “amnesty.”

270 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 2:28:13pm

re: #250 Gus

The EO list is eminently fact check-able, every EO is published in the Federal Register.

That AT thinks they can gin up some huge number that belies the reality shows just how far into an alternative universe the right wing is going in their hate of the President. It knows no bounds.

271 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 2:28:30pm

re: #265 Kragar

Rove, you’re supposed to be one of the less-stupid Republicans. So why are you suggesting that any (D) calculations about senate control have ever assumed anything other than a (R) senator from MS in this cycle?

272 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 2:29:05pm

re: #267 EPR-radar

Were that to succeed, I’d regard it as a miracle sufficient to make me rethink my atheism.

It wouldn’t be as entertaining as seeing Bryan Fischer disappear up his own rectum on line TV, but in some ways curing Bachmann’s stupidity would be a more impressive feat for the almighty.

Oh, I didn’t say it would work. But it would get her off the streets for a bit of time. And the more time we don’t have to hear her the better.

273 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 2:29:41pm

I love how they emphasize their “thinking”. If you don’t praise yourself, no one will. /

274 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 2:29:42pm

275 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 2:29:42pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

If they did open, the wingnuts would complain about them being too inefficient.

THESE LAZY FEMA GUBMINT WORKERS ARE ONLY EXECUTING US AT THE RATE OF 1,500 PER DAY! WE TOLD YOU GUBMINT WAS INEFFICIENT!!

276 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 2:29:46pm

re: #252 b.d.

For the love of all things holy, can we please open up those FEMA Camps already?

The year for their opening would have been 2012, when i was still doing defense and government conferences. The camps would have lent themselves to a conference with topics like “How to distinguish between dangerous militia types and posers”, “Proper equipment for gun grabbing raids” and ‘Communications strategies to keep the sheeple in the dark.” I could have had three very good months of sales.

/Almost entirely kidding.

277 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:29:49pm

re: #265 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Hahaha yes Karl the Democrats are hyperventilating about a seat that they were surprised came into play when the nutcases in your party thought a neo-confederate for your nominee would be a swell idea. If you want hyperventilating, maybe you should make a stop over at Fox News or TP HQ if you’re still welcome at either.Tell me Karl, does living in a false reality hurt?

278 EPR-radar  Jun 25, 2014 2:29:54pm

re: #269 Kid A

Insanity just said that Reagan was the Tea Party before the Tea Party. Reagan was a union leader, legalized abortion as governor, saved Social Security, raised taxes eleven times, cut and ran from Beirut and attacked Grenada, and signed into law “amnesty.”

He was also a gun-grabber as CA governor.

279 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 2:31:00pm

re: #265 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Ask turdblossom there if he’s taken a gander at Free Republic lately. Then remind him that’s the GOP base.

280 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 2:31:17pm

re: #269 Kid A

Insanity just said that Reagan was the Tea Party before the Tea Party. Reagan was a union leader, legalized abortion as governor, saved Social Security, raised taxes eleven times, cut and ran from Beirut and attacked Grenada, and signed into law “amnesty.”

NOt to mention worked with that damn Tip O’Neill. But Reagan is whatever they want him to be. Everyone from wingnuts like Hannity to the few sane GOPers left claim Reagan as their own.

281 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 2:32:23pm

Oh, you guys are talking about the real Ronnie Reagan. Not St. Ronnie. Things changed when he was canonized. Big difference.

282 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 2:32:31pm

re: #269 Kid A

Insanity just said that Reagan was the Tea Party before the Tea Party. Reagan was a union leader, legalized abortion as governor, saved Social Security, raised taxes eleven times, cut and ran from Beirut and attacked Grenada, and signed into law “amnesty.”

Those goons only know REAGAN!!1, as I’ve said before. They do not know the real Ronald Wilson Reagan and if they did they’d hate him as a “limp-spined RINO”.

283 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 2:34:33pm

re: #282 Dark_Falcon

Those goons only know REAGAN!!1, as I’ve said before. They do not know the real Ronald Wilson Reagan and if they did they’d hate him as a “limp-spined RINO”.

Along with Bob Dole, Richard Nixon, and let’s not forget Dwight D. Eisenhower, nowadays Ronald Reagan would likely be regarded as a RINO if he emerged on the political scene as a fresh face.

These TP’ers are not conservative - not by a damned sight. They are blatant reactionaries.

284 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 2:40:35pm

re: #239 klys

I see Charlotte is in the top 10 in income equality rise. I lived there most of my life, but now, after living here for the last 15 yrs, could never afford to move back. A similar apt to what I have would cost double.

What else happened in the last 15+ yrs, though, to make this income equality shift? Charlotte became the 2nd largest banking center in the US. Wealth has become the arbiter of where people live and it’s simply not working in large urban areas.

285 Bubblehead II  Jun 25, 2014 2:44:16pm

re: #238 Varek Raith

Don’t want this to happen?
Don’t have open primaries.
Simple.

Didn’t work so well here in Idaho. Hell, Gov. Otter (R) was encouraging Dems, Libertarians, independents, etal to register Republican so they could vote for him and then vote for whomever they wanted in the general. This didn’t overly surprise to many people as Otter was adamantly against a closed primary.

286 J A P  Jun 25, 2014 2:49:07pm

re: #266 NJDhockeyfan

Once when I was in grad school, I walked into the ladies’ room to find the walls of the stalls smeared with feces. I tried to find a reasonable explanation for how this could have happened, but couldn’t. Fortunately, there was another restroom in the building.

Pretty obviously, it isn’t a question of whether or not people “know” how to use a toilet. I imagine they probably didn’t know how to address the situation.

I take a bizarre sort of consolation from this sort of thing. Behind closed doors many people are far crazier than I.

287 sagehen  Jun 25, 2014 4:07:15pm

re: #269 Kid A

Insanity just said that Reagan was the Tea Party before the Tea Party. Reagan was a union leader, legalized abortion as governor, saved Social Security, raised taxes eleven times, cut and ran from Beirut and attacked Grenada, and signed into law “amnesty.”

Mustn’t forget… as gov, balanced the state budget by giving 1/3 of penitentiary inmates early release. And bragged about it in his reelection campaign.

288 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jun 25, 2014 7:20:38pm

I will bet that when Rush Limbaugh dies, the funeral will be barren, empty of any outside grievers. The coffin will be lowered in a stark, lonely ceremony with nary a weeping individual in sight. Only the vainest attempts at tearful and totally superficial sorrow by direct beneficiaries of his monetary largess will be on display, quickly forgotten as the spending $$$ spree begins.

Good riddance, Rush Limbaugh. I don’t know if I will outlive you. But I can only hope I do to witness the complete lack of any and all sincere sorrow directed towards you as are gone from the universe and your hopefully rapidly decaying carcass rots into worm food.

289 De Kolta Chair  Jun 26, 2014 8:27:52am

“The average Limbaugh listener is rural and sixty-nine. The country is changing in a lot of ways, and what those people are fed is a steady diet of grievance and anger.”

— Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s chief strategist in 2008, quoted in The New Yorker, June 2, 2014


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