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1 mr.fusion  Jun 25, 2015 7:45:14am

I went over to HotAir to engage in a little schadenfreude….open calls for revolution and violence in the comment section as you can imagine.

It is time that someone formed an IRA like group that conducts operations against all those who violate the constitution or uphold said violations.

Only fear can make people act. People like Roberts are cowards and don’t have any honor and therefore will never uphold their oath to the Constitution. Thus, they need to fear consequences for violating that oath.

Monkeytoe on June 25, 2015 at 10:27 AM

[…]

Time for a Conservative Revolution

Oil Can on June 25, 2015 at 10:28 AM

2 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2015 7:49:42am

Roberts has saved the GOP from itself. GOP politicians will rail against the ruling in public and breathe a sigh of relief in private. Obamacare is here to stay, at least until we can replace it with something better.

3 Chez Ko Pe  Jun 25, 2015 7:59:54am

re: #1 mr.fusion

They should be careful; that door swings both ways. (Naturally, when they do it, it’s “patriotic;” when the other guy does it, “terrorism.”)

4 b.d.  Jun 25, 2015 9:38:13am

Bless their hearts.

5 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2015 9:38:27am

Ben Shapiro seems to be responsible for about 75% of these unhinged tweets.

6 Joe Bacon  Jun 25, 2015 9:38:41am

My, my, my. The Asses are Out-Hole-ing themselves while I’m ROTFLMAO at them!

7 iossarian  Jun 25, 2015 9:39:29am

Hmm… “Red State Rising”…

*thinks: I’ve heard that before*

*checks on red state*

*confirmed: not risen yet*

*sets reminder for 2016*

8 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 9:42:34am

JONATHAN GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER!!!!!11

9 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2015 9:43:34am

re: #2 aagcobb

Roberts has saved the GOP from itself. GOP politicians will rail against the ruling in public and breathe a sigh of relief in private. Obamacare is here to stay, at least until we can replace it with something better.

Like someone said in my Facebook feed this morning, if SCOTUS struck down subsidies, the GOP would be looking ‘like the dog who caught the car.’

Heh.

10 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 9:43:45am

re: #1 mr.fusion

I went over to HotAir to engage in a little schadenfreude….open calls for revolution and violence in the comment section as you can imagine.

[…]

But, but Ben Shapiro says the real revolutionaries are the Leftists in their Leftist enclaves.

/

11 thecommodore  Jun 25, 2015 9:44:08am

As someone who has health insurance for the first time in decades because of the ACA, I am grateful for this decision.

They’ll have to pry my Obamacare out of my cold, dead, fingers!!!1!1!1!1!!11!!

12 CriticalDragon1177  Jun 25, 2015 9:44:19am

Vicious Babushka,

Oh my God the horror, the Supreme Court actually ruled in favor of something Obama wanted, again!

Its inevitable now, America is going to become the Soviet Union! We need to exorcise our 2nd amendment rights! The only rights that really matter! Get your illegal and soon to be illegal guns before its too late!

13 Iwouldprefernotto  Jun 25, 2015 9:44:39am

And the stock market is up today. I love this brand of communism.

14 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 9:45:27am

re: #8 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

JONATHAN GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER!!!!!11

15 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 9:45:35am

Obama has destroyed the Republic a thousand times over according to TCOT.

Yet somehow we’re all still here, no wingnuts in FEMA jails, stock market booming.

16 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 25, 2015 9:46:39am

All these morons talking about how ACA violates the Constitution don’t seem to understand that the SCOTUS just ruled on it. You know… just as the Constitution says it’s supposed to on matters like this.

17 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 9:47:31am

re: #16 GlutenFreeJesus

All these morons talking about how ACA violates the Constitution don’t seem to understand that the SCOTUS just ruled on it. You know… just as the Constitution says it’s supposed to on matters like this.

The real true judges of the Constitution are wingnuts.

18 darthstar  Jun 25, 2015 9:47:36am

TAA just passed the House too. When I grow up, I want to be a lame duck president.

19 scottslemmons  Jun 25, 2015 9:48:10am

These wingnut tears are a fine vintage!

20 Mike Lamb  Jun 25, 2015 9:48:52am

I love the tweet from Cruz. Uh, Theodore, we already had that referendum. It’s why Obama received 4 more years…

21 withak  Jun 25, 2015 9:48:55am

OT on the new front page, Charles: The article blurbs don’t appear to respect the WINGNUT markup tags.

22 Franklin  Jun 25, 2015 9:49:47am

re: #12 CriticalDragon1177

Vicious Babushka,

Oh my God the horror, the Supreme Court actually ruled in favor of something Obama wanted, again!

Its inevitable now, America is going to become the Soviet Union! We need to excessive our 2nd amendment rights! The only rights that really matter! Get your illegal and soon to be illegal guns before its too late!

Spelling and grammar check out. Try harder next time :)

23 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 25, 2015 9:50:11am

God forbid Ben or any of these rubes should have a very bad health scare… but I can’t help but think of the form they have to fill out. Just one question on it.

Do you approve of ACA?

[ ] YES
[ ] NO*

*You must pay MSRP in cash out of your own pocket right now

If any of them were given a choice, they would without hesitation, pay ACA prices for any procedures.

24 CriticalDragon1177  Jun 25, 2015 9:50:55am

re: #19 scottslemmons

These wingnut tears are a fine vintage!

25 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 9:51:22am

re: #20 Mike Lamb

I love the tweet from Cruz. Uh, Theodore, we already had that referendum. It’s why Obama received 4 more years…

I couldn’t read down that far. What did he say?

26 scottslemmons  Jun 25, 2015 9:51:59am

I gotta say, I’m enjoying the meltdown plenty. But if SCOTUS rules the way I’m kinda expecting them to on gay marriage, you’re gonna be able to hear the screaming clear out by Pluto.

27 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 9:53:08am

Some of these wingnuts are bad at math.

And also complaining about too high healthcare premiums.

28 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 9:53:31am

re: #26 scottslemmons

I gotta say, I’m enjoying the meltdown plenty. But if SCOTUS rules the way I’m kinda expecting them to on gay marriage, you’re gonna be able to hear the screaming clear out by Pluto in the Andromeda Galaxy.

FTFY.

29 CriticalDragon1177  Jun 25, 2015 9:53:47am

re: #22 Franklin

Spelling and grammar check out. Try harder next time :)

I wrote “excessive” Instead of “exorcise” by mistake, but I fixed it. So does that still count?

30 withak  Jun 25, 2015 9:55:26am

re: #26 scottslemmons

I gotta say, I’m enjoying the meltdown plenty. But if SCOTUS rules the way I’m kinda expecting them to on gay marriage, you’re gonna be able to hear the screaming clear out by Pluto.

I hope the same, but I fear the backlash, which could become violent.

31 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 9:55:38am

LOL the history web page that contains the Declaration of Causes of Secession has a Confederate flag in its logo.

I think they should redesign the logo to show the guy with the US Flag knocking it on the ground.

32 Franklin  Jun 25, 2015 9:55:57am

re: #29 CriticalDragon1177

I wrote “excessive” Instead of “exorcise” by mistake. So does that count?

+1 for excessive, -1 for not using IllEagle.

33 allegro  Jun 25, 2015 9:56:07am

The only sad thing about this - and it really is terribly sad - is seeing how many horrible, sick in the head people we are surrounded by who seem to actually believe that health care for millions of people is a bad thing. Bad enough even to scream about tyranny and call for revolution. It boggles.

34 Ace-o-aces  Jun 25, 2015 9:56:38am

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro seems to be responsible for about 75% of these unhinged tweets.

Ben Shapiro has taught me that a Harvard Law degree must by easier to get than I have been led to believe.

35 Teukka  Jun 25, 2015 9:56:40am

re: #30 withak

I hope the same, but I fear the backlash, which could become violent.

Same here. Also, would any actions against the backlash be successful?

36 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 25, 2015 9:56:52am

All these GOP politicians flipping out about ACA… How about they ditch their own government-run healthcare plans as a sign of protest?

37 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 25, 2015 9:57:36am

re: #34 Ace-o-aces

He actually has a degree from Harverd. It was a typo.

38 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing  Jun 25, 2015 9:57:38am

And just think, gay marriage in the dock!

39 Joe Bacon  Jun 25, 2015 9:58:27am

re: #26 scottslemmons

re: #26 scottslemmons

I gotta say, I’m enjoying the meltdown plenty. But if SCOTUS rules the way I’m kinda expecting them to on gay marriage, you’re gonna be able to hear the screaming clear out by Pluto.

Oh you got that right! The sound from the wing nuts will be so loud that the New Horizons Probe will hear it!

40 Mike Lamb  Jun 25, 2015 9:58:50am

re: #25 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I couldn’t read down that far. What did he say?

Any candidate that is not willing to turn the 2016 election into a referendum on Obamacare should step aside (or something very similar).

41 Iwouldprefernotto  Jun 25, 2015 9:59:23am

re: #39 Joe Bacon

Oh you got that right! The sound from the wing nuts will be so loud that the New Horizons Probe will hear it!

they will think they are being probed…

42 Eventual Carrion  Jun 25, 2015 9:59:42am

re: #1 mr.fusion

I went over to HotAir to engage in a little schadenfreude….open calls for revolution and violence in the comment section as you can imagine.

It is time that someone formed an IRA like group that conducts operations against all those who violate the constitution or uphold said violations.

Only fear can make people act. People like Roberts are cowards and don’t have any honor and therefore will never uphold their oath to the Constitution. Thus, they need to fear consequences for violating that oath.

Monkeytoe on June 25, 2015 at 10:27 AM

[…]

Time for a Conservative Revolution

Oil Can on June 25, 2015 at 10:28 AM

[…]

That jihadist sounds angry.

43 darthstar  Jun 25, 2015 9:59:53am

I have to say, most of the people responding to President Obama’s tweets aren’t exactly what I would call stable. And each of these gets archived, so they can tell their grand kids that they once wrote to the President and the kids can look those tweets up.

44 scottslemmons  Jun 25, 2015 10:00:27am

re: #30 withak

I worry that the GOP is going to be turning to violence more and more often, but I also worry there’s not any way to stop them at this point, aside from giving them a Sarah Palin presidency. :/

re: #36 GlutenFreeJesus

Of course, they could actually afford to do that. Unlike their constituents, your average GOP politician is rich as Croesus.

45 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:00:35am

re: #33 allegro

The only sad thing about this - and it really is terribly sad - is seeing how many horrible, sick in the head people we are surrounded by who seem to actually believe that health care for millions of people is a bad thing. Bad enough even to scream about tyranny and call for revolution. It boggles.

In their world premiums have gone up, millions have lost health coverage, ISIS members get healthcare, etc.

46 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:00:41am

re: #24 CriticalDragon1177

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47 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:01:04am

re: #43 darthstar

Bryan Fischer, is that you?

48 Ace-o-aces  Jun 25, 2015 10:01:53am
49 CriticalDragon1177  Jun 25, 2015 10:02:17am

re: #38 Rev_Arthur_Icantbreatheing

And just think, gay marriage in the dock!

Hurry, get your guns, we need to defend ourselves against sodomy! Buy as many guns as fast as you can! The gays are coming! The gays are coming! The greatest threat to civilization since…. civilization! We’re going to have to hurry before Obama passes gun laws that resemble those in any other country!

50 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:02:19am

Some of the funnier reactions to the statement from POTUS and VPOTUS:

Heh.

51 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:02:46am

re: #42 Eventual Carrion

It is time that someone formed an IRA like group that conducts operations against all those who violate the constitution or uphold said violations.

Was it only just last month when TCOT was getting the heebeegeebees in response to a burning CVS?

52 darthstar  Jun 25, 2015 10:05:34am
53 withak  Jun 25, 2015 10:05:55am

re: #33 allegro

The only sad thing about this - and it really is terribly sad - is seeing how many horrible, sick in the head people we are surrounded by who seem to actually believe that health care for millions of people is a bad thing. Bad enough even to scream about tyranny and call for revolution. It boggles.

Not only that, but some suffer from such ignorance and/or cognitive dissonance, they live in a world where Obamacare is tyranny, but Medicare is a God-given right up there with the 2A.

54 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 10:06:43am

re: #43 darthstar

I have to say, most of the people responding to President Obama’s tweets aren’t exactly what I would call stable. And each of these gets archived, so they can tell their grand kids that they once wrote to the President and the kids can look those tweets up.

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I think those Tweets may be coming from pornbots out of Russia.

55 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:07:19am
56 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 10:07:22am

I’m a reasonable person, also passing for a ‘libtard’ at times, and I don’t see why the positive consequences of Obamacare can’t be seen as worthwhile even if it violates every economic, social, and political principle one holds. Unless those principles applaud poor people dying.

57 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 10:07:37am

re: #53 withak

Not only that, but some suffer from such ignorance and/or cognitive dissonance, they live in a world where Obamacare is tyranny, but Medicaid is a God-given right up there with the 2A.

No, Medicaid is evil, Medicare is the God-given right.

58 darthstar  Jun 25, 2015 10:07:40am
59 De Kolta Chair  Jun 25, 2015 10:09:15am

re: #39 Joe Bacon

Oh you got that right! The sound from the wing nuts will be so loud that the New Horizons Probe will hear it!

Quite a **coincidence** that New Horizons is approaching Pluto right now!!! Wake up shapeshifting lizard sheeple!!!11!

60 withak  Jun 25, 2015 10:09:18am

re: #57 Timothy Watson

No, Medicaid is evil, Medicare is the God-given right.

Thanks, was thinking one and typed my mother.

61 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:09:47am
62 Ace-o-aces  Jun 25, 2015 10:09:59am
63 darthstar  Jun 25, 2015 10:10:19am
64 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 10:11:15am

re: #57 Timothy Watson

No, Medicaid is evil, Medicare is the God-given right.

Actually…

65 Archangelus  Jun 25, 2015 10:11:19am

So is the wingnut meltdown still underway? :)

66 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 10:11:20am

re: #14 Dr Lizardo

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So what is this “Gruber” conjure-word they keep derping and why should we care?

67 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:11:51am

re: #55 Kragar

That’s gold, Jerry, Gold!!

68 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:12:21am

re: #65 Archangelus

Finally, we’ve been waiting.

69 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:13:12am
70 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:13:40am
71 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:14:03am

re: #66 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So what is this “Gruber” conjure-word they keep derping and why should we care?

Jonathan Gruber from MIT was one of the architects of Obamacare (and Romneycare) and he said things wingnuts thought meant stuff that overruled the stuff actually written in the legislation.

72 scottslemmons  Jun 25, 2015 10:14:05am

re: #56 wrenchwench

All they care about is politics. Nothing else matters to them. If the Democrats passed a law that gave everyone on the planet a bucket of gold coins, immortality, fantastic sex, and a magic pony that pooped Glocks, they’d hate it to the ends of the earth. If the Republicans passed a law requiring everyone to get shot in the head, they’d praise it to the heavens. All they care about is politics, not the country.

73 Mike Lamb  Jun 25, 2015 10:14:05am

re: #33 allegro

The only sad thing about this - and it really is terribly sad - is seeing how many horrible, sick in the head people we are surrounded by who seem to actually believe that health care for millions of people is a bad thing. Bad enough even to scream about tyranny and call for revolution. It boggles.

It’s not even health care. It’s access to health care. Access that in nearly every instance is being paid for by the affected person.

The fact is, you’re talking about people that think they are paying for other people’s insurance or that it is religious persecution that an employer would have to allow an employee to purchase contraception (let that sink in again—that it’s religious persecution if an employer can’t dictate how an employee spends his/her wages).

And it can all be distilled to partisanship—Obama can’t be allowed to have a positive legacy. Sure, they have worked themselves up into such a froth that they believe the bullshit arguments of the broccoli mandate or that ACA was intentionally written to prohibit federal subsidies, but that’s just real life Constanza-ism (“Remember Jerry, it’s not a lie if you believe it.”). It all comes back to not allowing the Democrats/Obama to have a lasting political impact.

74 Ace-o-aces  Jun 25, 2015 10:15:02am

Seriously, I’ve got some free time coming up. Can somebody help me build a bot that does that?

75 Archangelus  Jun 25, 2015 10:15:23am

re: #68 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Finally, we’ve been waiting.

Sorry about that - the line was long, and there was a small riot when Michael Jackson was trying to get away with it all… /

76 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 10:15:41am

Backward state progresses a little:

77 #FergusonFireside  Jun 25, 2015 10:15:44am
78 bubba zanetti  Jun 25, 2015 10:17:42am

re: #74 Ace-o-aces

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Seriously, I’ve got some free time coming up. Can somebody help me build a bot that does that?

Kind of like Robot J. McCarthy?

79 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:18:17am
80 mr.fusion  Jun 25, 2015 10:19:01am

more from HotAir:

Suddenly, all this debate about the Confederate Flag and the War Between the States is starting to sound very relevant.

There Goes the Neighborhood on June 25, 2015 at 12:01 PM

[…]

Since the decision was announced, the beginning words of the Declaration keep repeating in my head: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to disolve the political bands which have connected them with another, … .”

polarglen on June 25, 2015 at 11:59 AM

[…]

after the rest of us conclude successfully with the Second American Revolution, don’t try to sneak back across the border.

davidk on June 25, 2015 at 12:18 PM

81 b_sharp  Jun 25, 2015 10:19:23am

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Ben Shapiro seems to be responsible for about 75% of these unhinged tweets.

Chuckie envy is doing terrible things to Ben’s mind.

82 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 25, 2015 10:20:02am

re: #55 Kragar

lol

83 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:20:23am

re: #80 mr.fusion

Since the decision was announced, the beginning words of the Declaration keep repeating in my head: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to disolve the political bands which have connected them with another, … .”

don’t let the doorknob hit you on the way out

84 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:21:09am
#Scalia is nothing but a partisan right-wing troll. #ACA #SCOTUS #Obamacare #pjnet #caring

Scalia’s dissent is pretty fucking embarrassing, even by right-wing standards. A new low has been found….amazing.

85 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:21:20am
86 b_sharp  Jun 25, 2015 10:22:05am

Two questions:

1) Have wingnuts started believing that their hyperbolic rhetoric is the literal truth?

2) What was my second question? I forgot.

87 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 10:22:23am

re: #64 The Vicious Babushka

Actually…

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I was going for the KEEP THE GUBERMENT’S HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!!1! meme.

88 Ace-o-aces  Jun 25, 2015 10:22:31am

re: #78 bubba zanetti

Kind of like Robot J. McCarthy?

Something like that. But I’m thinking more along the lines of a bot that replies to every mention of NAZIs or Hitler with something like “Commies too!” or “Don’t forget about those dirty Commies!”. I’ll work out the details later.

89 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:22:41am
90 mr.fusion  Jun 25, 2015 10:22:55am

re: #56 wrenchwench

I’m a reasonable person, also passing for a ‘libtard’ at times, and I don’t see why the positive consequences of Obamacare can’t be seen as worthwhile even if it violates every economic, social, and political principle one holds. Unless those principles applaud poor people dying.

I think that if anything positive comes from something that they think is in polar opposite to their principles it simply means that their principles are meaningless

91 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2015 10:23:20am

re: #86 b_sharp

Two questions:

1) Have wingnuts started believing that their hyperbolic rhetoric is the literal truth?

2) What was my second question? I forgot.

1) Yes.

2) Do I like pie?

You’re welcome.

92 Khal Wimpo  Jun 25, 2015 10:23:43am

Sort of a sorbet, to cleanse the palate:

It seems that the mountain lion roaming the eastern Santa Monicas has had a cub. The rangers have set up motion-activated cameras, and caught the little family having a picnic.

Tug o’ war over the tasty bits.

I’d like to somehow gin up a meme to connect this to the topic of this thread, but to be honest, after the last few weeks of being depressed over the persistent ugliness & stupidity of the human race, it just lightens my mood to see wild critters surviving and looking feisty, even in the midst of an urban area of 20million+ in SoCal.

93 #FergusonFireside  Jun 25, 2015 10:23:50am
Gawker won its lawsuit against the F.B.I. on Wednesday when a federal judge in Florida ordered the bureau and the Executive Office of United States Attorneys to give the media company evidence related to an F.B.I. investigation into Hulk Hogan’s sex tape.

As a result of the ruling, evidence related to the recording—evidence that was discovered during a now-defunct F.B.I. investigation—could find its way into Hogan’s invasion of privacy suit against Gawker.

capitalnewyork.com

94 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 10:24:03am

re: #89 Kragar

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(Off-topic: I love John Noble, we need him on American television more since Fringe finished up.)

95 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 10:24:07am

re: #71 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Jonathan Gruber from MIT was one of the architects of Obamacare (and Romneycare) and he said things wingnuts thought meant stuff that overruled the stuff actually written in the legislation.

Thanks. Is he related to Emmanuel Goldstein Saul Alinsky?

96 b_sharp  Jun 25, 2015 10:24:20am

re: #91 Romantic Heretic

1) Yes.

2) Do I like pie?

You’re welcome.

Thank you, but I’m sure my second question was longer than that.

Hmmm.

97 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:24:20am

OT, but this made me laugh out loud:

98 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2015 10:25:02am

Ladies and Gentleman…The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Can it be any fucking clearer?

99 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:25:25am

Has Rush Limbaugh started packing his bags for Costa Rica yet?

100 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:25:50am

Ted Cruz, Soooper Genius:

101 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2015 10:26:23am

re: #86 b_sharp

Two questions:

1) Have wingnuts started believing that their hyperbolic rhetoric is the literal truth?

2) What was my second question? I forgot.

I say you’d have to ask them, but then you’d need a large pry bar to get their heads removed from being firmly tucked up inside their asses.

102 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2015 10:27:09am
103 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 10:27:10am

re: #100 Lidane

Ted Cruz, Soooper Genius:

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104 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2015 10:27:31am

Yeah, I’m with everyone here who can’t wait to see the reaction from these cretins when SCOTUS makes gay marriage legal in all 50 states. Nothing, NOTHING, makes these fruitcakes freak out more than gays. I read about how many of them plan to go Orval Faubus when the gay couples show up at the clerks office for their marriage certificate. Please proceed, wingnuts. You’ll make the millennial vote as reliably Democratic as the African-American vote.

105 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 10:27:36am

re: #90 mr.fusion

I think that if anything positive comes from something that they think is in polar opposite to their principles it simply means that their principles are meaningless

Which could be the proper conclusion.

106 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:28:20am
107 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2015 10:28:51am

Also, thank you, Justice Roberts for basically saying, “enough of this shit, the Moops did not invade Spain!”

108 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 10:29:06am

re: #98 ObserverArt

Ladies and Gentleman…The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Can it be any fucking clearer?

As an aside, the Articles of Confederation were more promptly the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.

To quote Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, “It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?”

109 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2015 10:29:50am

re: #106 Kragar

I dunno. The Russian 2nd army at Tannenberg was pretty great.

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110 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2015 10:30:02am

re: #106 Kragar

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“Greatest that ever took the field”? The US Armed Forces called, Ann, they’d like a second opinion.

111 De Kolta Chair  Jun 25, 2015 10:30:40am

BREAKING — “I’ve become addicted to conservative tears, ” Justice Anthony Kennedy admitted to SCOTUSblog this morning, “especially those of Sicilian heritage.”

112 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:31:19am
113 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:31:46am

re: #106 Kragar

Only because North had more men and Grant a butcher and Confeds were stabbed in the back…

114 Jenner7  Jun 25, 2015 10:32:07am

Listening to Rush this morning was delicious. I bet Hannity will be even better.

115 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 10:32:34am
116 BadgerB  Jun 25, 2015 10:32:56am

Not ‘leet’ enough to figure out how to embed tweets but this was at the top of the list when I first opened the page….

“Not General Cusswords @yaycapitalism
All these Democrats bending over backwards to justify the SCOTUS decision. No surprise. They did that w/ Brown vs Board too… #tcot

Wow, just…..

117 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 10:33:31am

re: #114 Jenner7

Listening to Rush this morning was delicious. I bet Hannity will be even better.

Oh, I’m sure. Hannity’s gonna lose it - and perhaps even more so if SCOTUS rules favorably on SSM.

118 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:33:36am

re: #112 Lidane

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How’s retirement, Steve?

119 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:35:01am

Freeperville is going apeshit crazy:

TREASON!
by PROCON

How many of these 6 (Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan ) are HOMOSEXUALS ?
by Yosemitest

Stick a fork in the Republic.
by AU72

FAGGOT “Marriage” WILL be NEXT!
by US Navy Vet

Costa Rica …. I’m hearing it over and over.
by LibsRJerks

SCOTUS is irrelevant.
by dware

120 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:35:23am

Ted Cruz is currently doing his best Don Quixote impression on the Senate floor:

121 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2015 10:35:29am

First Republican support for the Confederate flag totally collapsed. Followed by word that Hillary’s poll numbers are still as healthy as ever. Then today the latest chapter in the quixotic quest to bring down the ACA came to a close with a crash. And come Monday, odds are gay marriage will be upheld in all 50 states.

No wonder the wingnuts can never seem to speak in anything less than barely-restrained rage.

122 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 10:36:32am

re: #116 BadgerB

Not ‘leet’ enough to figure out how to embed tweets but this was at the top of the list when I first opened the page….

“Not General Cusswords @yaycapitalism
All these Democrats bending over backwards to justify the SCOTUS decision. No surprise. They did that w/ Brown vs Board too… #tcot

Wow, just…..

Copy and paste the tweet’s timestamp. thus:

123 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2015 10:36:54am

re: #120 Lidane

Ted Cruz is currently doing his best Don Quixote impression:

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Hey Ted, we had a referendum in 2012, remember? YOU LOST!

124 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:36:56am

re: #120 Lidane

Ted Cruz is currently doing his best Don Quixote impression on the Senate floor:

Why wasn’t 2012 a referendum, Theodore?

125 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:37:33am

re: #120 Lidane

Cruz “mark my words, following election of 2016-the referendum we’ll have, this chamber will return 2017 2021 & we’ll repeal all of Obamacare”

126 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 10:37:55am

re: #124 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Why wasn’t 2012 a referendum, Theodore?

HURR HURR 2014 REFERENDOM Y IS TEH TYRANT STILL PRESIDENT!!!!!!

127 allegro  Jun 25, 2015 10:38:28am

re: #94 Timothy Watson

(Off-topic: I love John Noble, we need him on American television more since Fringe finished up.)

He was in the first two seasons of Sleepy Hollow. He may show up there again.

128 De Kolta Chair  Jun 25, 2015 10:38:29am

re: #106 Kragar

Goldie Taylor @goldietaylor

Patriot Ann Coulter Says Confederate Army the Greatest That Ever Took The Field

___________________

“Now, I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant’s superior as a general. I doubt that his superior can be found in all history.”

— Robert E. Lee, 1885

129 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 10:39:18am

re: #119 Dr. Matt

I hope Costa Rica works out for them.

130 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:39:32am

re: #129 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I hope Costa Rica works out for them.

And that socialist healthcare.

131 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2015 10:39:58am

re: #120 Lidane

Ted Cruz is currently doing his best Don Quixote impression on the Senate floor:

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That’s three tweets that are misses.

Ted…You’re out!!!

Lidane…I was going to ask earlier. Is it tough working in your office today? Do you have to constrain any expressions on your face?

132 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 10:40:44am

re: #127 allegro

He was in the first two seasons of Sleepy Hollow. He may show up there again.

Yeah, I need to grab the Blu-Rays for that show, a friend is a huge fan, but I haven’t had time to sit down and watch it.

133 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2015 10:43:06am

re: #122 wrenchwench

Copy and paste the tweet’s timestamp. thus:

General Cusswords @yaycapitalism

All these Democrats bending over backwards to justify the SCOTUS decision. No surprise. They did that w/ Brown vs Board too… #tcot

1:12 PM - 25 Jun 2015

Oh my! Pissed off since 1954. No way to go through life.

134 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 10:43:15am

re: #122 wrenchwench

135 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:43:53am

re: #128 De Kolta Chair

___________________

“Now, I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant’s superior as a general. I doubt that his superior can be found in all history.”

— Robert E. Lee

From the Battle of Shiloh:

Late that night tough Sherman came to see him. Sherman had found himself, in the heat of the enemy’s fire that day, but now he was licked; as far as he could see, the important next step was “to put the river between us and the enemy, and recuperate,” and he hunted up Grant to see when and how the retreat could be arranged. He came on Grant, at last, at midnight or later, standing under the tree in the heavy rain, hat slouched down over his face, coat-collar up around his ears, a dimly-glowing lantern in his hand, cigar clenched between his teeth. Sherman looked at him; then, “moved,” as he put it later, “by some wise and sudden instinct” not to talk about retreat, he said: “Well, Grant, we’ve had the devil’s own day, haven’t we?”

Grant said “Yes,” and his cigar glowed in the darkness as he gave a quick, hard puff at it, “Yes. Lick ‘em tomorrow, though.”

136 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:44:16am

re: #131 ObserverArt

Lidane…I was going to ask earlier. Is it tough working in your office today? Do you have to constrain any expressions on your face?

Actually, no. It’s been easy to smile today just because the office dogs have been playing up a storm. The newest hire brought her dog in, so there’s a new friend for the pups.

It also helps that we’re up to our eyeballs in work for The Client Who Shall Not Be Named so people are too focused on work to derp.

137 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2015 10:45:10am

re: #134 No Country For Old Haters

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138 palomino  Jun 25, 2015 10:45:40am

re: #9 makeitstop

Like someone said in my Facebook feed this morning, if SCOTUS struck down subsidies, the GOP would be looking ‘like the dog who caught the car.’

Heh.

That is definitely a strange turn of phrase. Probably a “be careful what you wish for” analogy.

If the Court had gutted Obamacare, Republicans would celebrate, but then have a big political problem on their hands. They would have to come up with some alternative, because “let’s go back to the status quo before Obamacare” isn’t too popular with big chunks of the electorate. And it would appear somewhat callous towards millions who would lose coverage. But the gop isn’t likely to be able to pass any health care legislation that does even a fraction of what Obamacare achieved. Most Republicans oppose health care reform on ideological grounds. They always have. So any legislation they could get passed would be really watered down by comparison, and not help cover anywhere near as many people.

But given the Court’s actual decision, the gop can just continue with the hollow “repeal and replace” mantra, suggesting that their not-yet-existent replacement would be much better than the ACA. That way they don’t have to actually articulate any specifics. They can just talk about the vague idea of some great plan, when there really is no plan.

139 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 10:46:38am
140 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:48:00am

It’s amusing watching the wingnuts pile on Roberts on a 6-3 ruling. Math is hard: If Roberts dissented, the ruling still would have been a 5-4 win for the ACA.

141 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:48:04am
142 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2015 10:48:40am

re: #141 Kragar

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That’s a healthy way of disagreeing with someone Todd.

143 Jenner7  Jun 25, 2015 10:48:47am

So, are we going to hear about SSM tomorrow or Monday? I’m kinda hoping for Monday, I’m having surgery on my foot tomorrow and I don’t want to miss anything.

144 Eventual Carrion  Jun 25, 2015 10:49:38am

re: #80 mr.fusion

more from HotAir:

[…]

Since the decision was announced, the beginning words of the Declaration keep repeating in my head: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to disolve the political bands which have connected them with another, … .”

polarglen on June 25, 2015 at 11:59 AM

[…]

And what comes to my mind is the preamble of our constitution (you know, what the supreme court tests laws against):

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

145 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 10:50:10am

re: #142 HappyWarrior

That’s a healthy way of disagreeing with someone Todd.

He’s very stupid. Starnes is one that I’m sure is not just grifting the rubes. He’s a legitimate dumbass.

146 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 10:51:06am

Man, the wingnuts are going ‘splodey all over the place:

NO TRUE CHRISTIAN!

Haha.

147 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2015 10:51:24am

re: #145 No Country For Old Haters

He’s very stupid. Starnes is one that I’m sure is not just grifting the rubes. He’s a legitimate dumbass.

I think so too. Remember his diatribe about the rainbow being ruined by gays. The man ain’t healthy.

148 Jenner7  Jun 25, 2015 10:52:08am
149 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:52:10am

re: #141 Kragar

When the public schools tell students that our Founding Fathers were a bunch of terrorists: Send the hornets, Lord! Clear the field! When a teacher tells a little boy he can’t pray over his meal: Send the hornets, Lord! Clear that field! When the Pentagon tells them to take down a cross on a Christian chapel: Send those hornets! Clear the field! When the Supreme Court says they know better than God: Send the hornets, Lord! Clear the field!

And, when the president says that America is no longer just a Christian nation: Don’t send the hornets, Lord. Send the mosquitoes and the gnats, and the bumblebees and the lightning bugs and the cicadas! Send every critter you got, Lord! Clear the field!” - See more at: rightwingwatch.org

I bet Starnes soiled himself a bit from that meltdown.

150 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 10:52:29am

re: #146 Lidane

Man, the wingnuts are going ‘splodey all over the place:

NO TRUE CHRISTIAN!

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Haha.

151 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 10:53:01am

If SCOTUS hands down a ruling affirming marriage equality, it will be Derpageddon.

152 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2015 10:53:15am

re: #146 Lidane

Man, the wingnuts are going ‘splodey all over the place:

NO TRUE CHRISTIAN!

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Haha.

And Inholfe has how much of a science education? Must suck knowing you’re being called out for being too backwards by the Pope, Jimbo.

153 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 10:53:37am

re: #149 Dr. Matt

I bet Starnes soiled himself a bit from that meltdown.

Probably, but he can always go out and buy a new pack of Depends. Hopefully, though, he was wearing his brown pants.

154 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2015 10:53:46am

re: #144 Eventual Carrion

And what comes to my mind is the preamble of our constitution (you know, what the supreme court tests laws against):

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Beat ya! And I used even larger bold type.

re: #98 ObserverArt

: )

155 allegro  Jun 25, 2015 10:54:13am

re: #143 Jenner7

So, are we going to hear about SSM tomorrow or Monday? I’m kinda hoping for Monday, I’m having surgery on my foot tomorrow and I don’t want to miss anything.

I’m hoping for tomorrow to make Saturday night’s Houston Pride parade a celebration worthy of the history books.

156 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:55:05am

re: #155 allegro

I’m hoping for tomorrow to make Saturday night’s Houston Pride parade a celebration worthy of the history books.

I’ll be Downtown Houston for wedding Sat night! Look for me….tall, White, male, in a suit.

157 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2015 10:55:33am

re: #129 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Why would the Ticos want these clowns? The country has no military and has set aside a huge amount of land as natural preserves. It’s the most hippie country in Latin America.

158 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2015 10:55:47am

re: #140 Dr. Matt

It’s amusing watching the wingnuts pile on Roberts on a 6-3 ruling. Math is hard: If Roberts dissented, the ruling still would have been a 5-4 win for the ACA.

They expect Kennedy to side with the liberal justices, they’ve grown used to that. But Roberts was supposed to be a reliable conservative vote, the guy who always sided with whatever the GOP wanted. So when he sides with the former on cases like this, the wingnuts see it as a betrayal.

159 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 10:55:50am

re: #151 The Vicious Babushka

If SCOTUS hands down a ruling affirming marriage equality, it will be Derpageddon.

They’ll have to increase the Greater Wingnuttia Butthurt Level Alert System warning level from ‘Massive’ to ‘Derpageddon’ or ‘Core Meltdown’.

160 #FergusonFireside  Jun 25, 2015 10:56:07am

re: #143 Jenner7

So, are we going to hear about SSM tomorrow or Monday? I’m kinda hoping for Monday, I’m having surgery on my foot tomorrow and I don’t want to miss anything.

I want the day to be in memory of Senator Pinckney, so yeah. Monday will be fine.

Good luck on surgery.

161 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 10:56:37am

re: #143 Jenner7

So, are we going to hear about SSM tomorrow or Monday? I’m kinda hoping for Monday, I’m having surgery on my foot tomorrow and I don’t want to miss anything.

Good luck with the Sx.

But, I have to admit I hope it comes down tomorrow. It would be a perfect way to cap off a week of complete and utter disasters for the right-wing.

162 allegro  Jun 25, 2015 10:57:47am

re: #156 Dr. Matt

I’ll be Downtown Houston for wedding Sat night! Look for me….tall, White, male, in a suit.

Look out the window then because for the first time the parade will be going down the heart of downtown.

163 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2015 10:58:10am
164 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 10:59:43am
165 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2015 11:00:02am

re: #163 Charles Johnson

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Yeah what.

166 Jenner7  Jun 25, 2015 11:00:17am

re: #160 #FergusonFireside

Yes. I don’t want to miss his service either. Dang foot! Thanks Obama.

;)

167 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2015 11:01:13am

re: #164 Kragar

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another pastor that thinks about gay sex way too often for a well adjusted supposedly straight man.

168 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 11:02:32am

VICTORY!

169 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2015 11:04:03am

re: #115 wrenchwench

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Geez. Now where’s he gonna find a new wife when it’s time for him to trade in the old one?

/half

170 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 11:04:05am

re: #168 Lidane

VICTORY!

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171 Jenner7  Jun 25, 2015 11:04:58am

Hundreds Attend First Funeral For Charleston Church Shooting Victims

huffingtonpost.com

Ethel Lance and Sharonda Coleman-Singleton…

172 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 11:05:22am

What the absolute fuck:

173 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:05:55am

re: #168 Lidane

VICTORY!

A very important decision the justices made that the lamestream media seems to be ignoring.

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174 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 11:07:31am

re: #172 Lidane

What the absolute fuck:

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What the fuck?!

Hey, Pat - here’s a suggestion for you:

175 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 11:07:40am

re: #172 Lidane

What the absolute fuck:

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176 Franklin  Jun 25, 2015 11:08:27am

re: #172 Lidane

What the absolute fuck:

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Made it as far as “black on black crime” and closed my browser tab. Going to make coffee now. Fuck Pat Boone.

177 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 11:08:44am

My granddaughter was bored so she made a paper doll & a bunch of outfits for it:

178 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2015 11:08:45am

re: #172 Lidane

What the absolute fuck:

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179 Franklin  Jun 25, 2015 11:09:32am

re: #174 Dr Lizardo

What the fuck?!

Hey, Pat - here’s a suggestion for you:

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Video

That video may be the second greatest thing that I have seen today, behind King v. Burwell.

180 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 11:10:58am

*mic drop*

181 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 11:12:33am
182 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 11:14:01am

re: #181 Kragar

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183 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 11:14:20am

re: #180 Lidane

Heh. That could explain why Scalia’s dissent was so pissy.

184 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 11:14:26am

FLASHBACK: “Mean Jean” Schmidt Wigs Out thinking Supreme Court Struck Down Health Care Reform

I can watch this on loop over and over and over…..

185 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2015 11:15:50am

re: #181 Kragar

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“Diverse”? 13 different flavors of shit?

186 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2015 11:16:08am

re: #182 No Country For Old Haters

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Hag? Classy Dinesh.

187 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 11:16:59am

re: #185 Targetpractice

“Diverse”? 13 different flavors of shit?

It’s all the same shit, just candy-coated with 13 different colors.

188 Jay C  Jun 25, 2015 11:18:00am

re: #128 De Kolta Chair

___________________

“Now, I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant’s superior as a general. I doubt that his superior can be found in all history.”

— Robert E. Lee, 1885

Not sure whether it adds or subtracts from Gen. Lee’s assessment of Gen. Grant’s military talents, but since Lee died in 1870, one has to assume that he had spent his first 15 posthumous years in diligent study….

189 De Kolta Chair  Jun 25, 2015 11:21:22am

re: #172 Lidane

What the absolute fuck:

190 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2015 11:22:50am
191 freetoken  Jun 25, 2015 11:22:58am

Since CCJ invoked the Hogan sex tape thing, this bit of news from yesterday may be of interest:

Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Lawsuit Update: Gawker Wins Lawsuit Against FBI, Confidential Emails Made Public

[…]

On Tuesday, before the hearing, the New York Observer became the first outlet to report on the most interesting of the documents released in filings from the FBI side in that suit a few weeks ago. The big one was a letter from the FBI to David Houston, Hogan’s attorney, which stated that the evidence the FBI had collected included:

* Settlement agreements and a transfer of copyrights.
* A check for $150,000 from Houston’s firm made out to Hollywood attorney Keith Davidson.
* A black DVD case containing three DVD-R discs, which are labelled “Hogan 7-13-07,” “Hootie 7-13-07,” and “Hootie.” Per the Observer article, “Hootie” was a nickname that Todd “Bubba the Love Sponge” Clem, Heather’s then-husband, used for Hogan, then one of his best friends.

[…]

Thing is, Terry Bollea (Hogan), by going after Gawker, has dug himself a deeper hole, because now Gawker has everything.

I wonder what will happen when Gawker’s lawyers get to do some discovery in whatever suit CCJ brings against them.

192 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:23:28am

re: #181 Kragar

If by “frenzy” Dish is referring to the utter joy we’re getting from spiking the football over the ACA and SCOTUS, again, then, wait, whut?

193 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 11:23:38am

re: #128 De Kolta Chair

___________________

“Now, I have carefully searched the military records of both ancient and modern history, and have never found Grant’s superior as a general. I doubt that his superior can be found in all history.”

— Robert E. Lee, 1885

Uh, is that quote for real? Lee died in 1870.

194 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 11:23:46am

re: #172 Lidane

What the absolute fuck:

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My Surprised Face—Let Me Show You It
195 freetoken  Jun 25, 2015 11:24:20am

re: #190 Charles Johnson

Just wait till Monday.

196 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:24:22am

re: #188 Jay C

Not sure whether it adds or subtracts from Gen. Lee’s assessment of Gen. Grant’s military talents, but since Lee died in 1870, one has to assume that he had spent his first 15 posthumous years in diligent study….

Did some of my best studying when I was dead.

197 meteor  Jun 25, 2015 11:24:28am

re: #5 Charles Johnson

I bet he’s still drunk from before.

198 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 11:24:31am

re: #190 Charles Johnson

199 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 11:24:43am

re: #188 Jay C

Not sure whether it adds or subtracts from Gen. Lee’s assessment of Gen. Grant’s military talents, but since Lee died in 1870, one has to assume that he had spent his first 15 posthumous years in diligent study….

Lee was President of Washington College after the war until his death, and the college was renamed Washington and Lee College, and later, Washington and Lee University.

200 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:25:00am

re: #184 Dr. Matt

FLASHBACK: “Mean Jean” Schmidt Wigs Out thinking Supreme Court Struck Down Health Care Reform

Rep “Mean Jean” Schmidt Wigs Out thinking Supreme Court Struck Down Health Care Reform

I can watch this on loop over and over and over…..

Whatever happened to mean jean?

201 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 11:25:42am

re: #193 Timothy Watson

Uh, is that quote for real? Lee died in 1870.

Could be a typo & Lee said that in 1865.

202 meteor  Jun 25, 2015 11:26:00am

re: #19 scottslemmons

I’m ordering a case.

203 Kragar  Jun 25, 2015 11:26:13am

re: #190 Charles Johnson

204 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 25, 2015 11:26:20am

re: #190 Charles Johnson

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Don’t they do that every day?

205 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 11:27:22am

re: #187 The Vicious Babushka

It’s all the same shit, just candy-coated with 13 different colors.

They seem to think they’ll all be running against Hillary Clinton in November 2016, and the more candidates they have, the more their vote will pile up. That’s all I can come up with as to their reasoning.

206 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 11:27:30am

I kind of don’t get Amazon & Apple pulling Civil War themed games unless it’s because they know the fans of these games are playing the South to win?

Even so it’s just a game, are they also pulling WW2 games?

207 Mike Lamb  Jun 25, 2015 11:27:57am

re: #163 Charles Johnson

Well, this jackass also thinks there was something called “Reagan’s Southern Strategy”, and that county voting results somehow mean it wasn’t successful even though Reagan won every fucking southern state except for Georgia.

209 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 11:28:28am
210 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:29:07am

re: #172 Lidane

What the absolute fuck:

OK, but in fairness, Pat Boone’s been dead for years. This is zombie Pat Boone. So lighten up a little.

211 freetoken  Jun 25, 2015 11:29:21am

re: #146 Lidane

Remember, to many fundamentalist Protestants, the Papacy was the Antichrist, or the False Prophet.

212 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2015 11:30:21am
213 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:30:27am

re: #205 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

They seem to think they’ll all be running against Hillary Clinton in November 2016, and the more candidates they have, the more their vote will pile up. That’s all I can come up with as to their reasoning.

Wait…that’s not how it works?

214 Kilroy01  Jun 25, 2015 11:30:27am

re: #193 Timothy Watson

Uh, is that quote for real? Lee died in 1870.

books.google.com

Here is where it is from.

215 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 11:30:51am

re: #209 wrenchwench

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216 Lidane  Jun 25, 2015 11:30:55am

re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

I kind of don’t get Amazon & Apple pulling Civil War themed games unless it’s because they know the fans of these games are playing the South to win?

Even so it’s just a game, are they also pulling WW2 games?

Yeah, pulling the games is weird. I don’t understand that at all.

Game companies have had to deal with scrubbing all Nazi insignia and flags out of anything before they sell their games in Germany, but we don’t have laws like that banning the Confederate flag. There’s no reason for American game makers to scrub the flag from games set in the Civil War.

I mean, I get that a business gets to decide which products they will and won’t sell, but I’m scratching my head at that. It’s an overreaction, IMO.

217 De Kolta Chair  Jun 25, 2015 11:31:07am

re: #193 Timothy Watson

Uh, is that quote for real? Lee died in 1870.

D-OH! I really shoulda checked out the dates before quoting from this 1914 source, Year Book No. 13 of the Oneida Historical Society:

books.google.com

Thanks much for the correction, Timothy!

Signed, Lazybones McGee

218 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:31:29am

re: #205 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

They seem to think they’ll all be running against Hillary Clinton in November 2016, and the more candidates they have, the more their vote will pile up. That’s all I can come up with as to their reasoning.

Um, 16 is greater than one, libtard. Don’t you here well?

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219 freetoken  Jun 25, 2015 11:31:58am

re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

Corporations - remember they are people too - can over react.

Yeah, who cares if there are Civil War games with Confederate elements.

In my mind, there is a big difference between historical fantasy and racist intentions.

For many young people today, the Civil War might as well be the Peloponnesian War. It’s just something that happened a long time ago that they have to study in history class to pass a test.

220 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2015 11:32:01am
221 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:33:19am

BREAKING: 3 SCOTUS Justices rule against Obamacare—again.

Developing story……

/

222 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2015 11:33:35am

NWS confirms Saturday tornado in Bristow, Manassas

A small tornado tore through a swath of Bristow and Manassas city during Saturday night’s severe storms, according to the National Weather Service in Sterling.

The tornado was 100 yards in width and traveled 2.1 miles between 7:27 p.m. and 7:32 p.m., the weather service said in a statement Tuesday. Its maximum wind speed was 85 mph.

That was a mile and a halfish away from me.
Scary.

223 Eventual Carrion  Jun 25, 2015 11:33:56am

re: #176 Franklin

Made it as far as “black on black crime” and closed my browser tab. Going to make coffee now. Fuck Pat Boone.

It’s a good thing we don’t have white on white crime.

224 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2015 11:34:30am
225 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jun 25, 2015 11:36:25am

re: #221 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

BREAKING: 3 SCOTUS Justices rule against Obamacare—again.

Developing story……

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Lamestream media unfairly hypes “6” votes for Obamacare.

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226 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2015 11:37:21am

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

Amazon is still selling this book

Harry Turtledove’s has written a lot of alternative history fiction, in one series, an Adolf Hitler composite ends up ruling the South, so definitely not sympathetic to the South.

227 freetoken  Jun 25, 2015 11:37:22am
228 No Country For Old Haters  Jun 25, 2015 11:37:53am
229 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2015 11:37:54am

re: #138 palomino

That is definitely a strange turn of phrase. Probably a “be careful what you wish for” analogy.

If the Court had gutted Obamacare, Republicans would celebrate, but then have a big political problem on their hands. They would have to come up with some alternative, because “let’s go back to the status quo before Obamacare” isn’t too popular with big chunks of the electorate. And it would appear somewhat callous towards millions who would lose coverage. But the gop isn’t likely to be able to pass any health care legislation that does even a fraction of what Obamacare achieved. Most Republicans oppose health care reform on ideological grounds. They always have. So any legislation they could get passed would be really watered down by comparison, and not help cover anywhere near as many people.

But given the Court’s actual decision, the gop can just continue with the hollow “repeal and replace” mantra, suggesting that their not-yet-existent replacement would be much better than the ACA. That way they don’t have to actually articulate any specifics. They can just talk about the vague idea of some great plan, when there really is no plan.

My plan will cut taxes, reduce the deficit, cover people with pre-existing conditions, and lower premiums and deductions. I call it the “Unicorn farting Rainbows Healthcare Act.”

230 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2015 11:37:56am
231 Mike Lamb  Jun 25, 2015 11:38:14am

re: #224 Charles Johnson

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Addled nutcake sounds delicious.

232 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 11:38:30am

re: #225 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Lamestream media unfairly hypes “6” votes for Obamacare.

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Heh.

I’m bracing myself for the absolute wingnut derpaggedon if the Supreme Court affirms SSM.

It’s going to be beyond epic. To paraphrase Stilgar from the movie Dune, “Usul, we have derp the likes of which even God has never seen.”

233 The Vicious Babushka  Jun 25, 2015 11:40:22am

re: #226 Timothy Watson

Harry Turtledove’s has written a lot of alternative history fiction, in one series, an Adolf Hitler composite ends up ruling the South, so definitely not sympathetic to the South.

I read Guns of the South and it’s a pretty fun read.

The South Was Right! is just plain stupid revisionist shit.

234 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 11:41:42am

re: #230 wrenchwench

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I don’t know…are there any statues of Maj. Gen. Stand Watie, Cherokee chief and last CSA General Officer to surrender, that can be taken down first?

235 De Kolta Chair  Jun 25, 2015 11:43:02am

re: #188 Jay C

Not sure whether it adds or subtracts from Gen. Lee’s assessment of Gen. Grant’s military talents, but since Lee died in 1870, one has to assume that he had spent his first 15 posthumous years in diligent study….

Lee won his greatest battles while dead. I found that out during a google search, just like I how found the date of that Robert E. Lee quote!

236 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 11:44:30am

re: #235 De Kolta Chair

Lee won his greatest battles while dead. Like the date of that quote, I found that out during a google search!

Here’s the book in question at the Internet Archive.

237 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2015 11:48:18am

re: #190 Charles Johnson

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Or at least the stupidest possible thing until SCOTUS rules on marriage equality tomorrow or Monday.

238 plansbandc  Jun 25, 2015 11:50:20am
239 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2015 11:50:28am

Perhaps it’s time for the SCOTUS to take up the meaning of: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state…”

240 meteor  Jun 25, 2015 11:51:08am

re: #237 aagcobb

Can you believe the craziness that’s going to erupt on that day? Look for several radio hosts to be dragged, frothing at the mouth, out of the studio.

241 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 11:51:49am

re: #240 meteor

Can you believe the craziness that’s going to erupt on that day? Look for several radio hosts to be dragged, frothing at the mouth, out of the studio.

Presumably because they’ll have had a stroke.

242 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2015 11:53:14am

Patrick Macnee has just passed away at the age of 93. RIP.

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243 freetoken  Jun 25, 2015 11:55:56am
244 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 11:58:15am

Let’s Get Drunk On Republican Obamacare Tears, Together!

And poor Antonin Scalia was so angry about the majority decision that he proclaimed in his dissent, “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’” We would comment on this, but banana dust intriguingly parses our kleptomaniac vertebrae. Moist colander prevails! Justice Scalia needs to ask himself: Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like? Truly, we say, armadillo.

245 De Kolta Chair  Jun 25, 2015 12:01:27pm

re: #242 Dr Lizardo

Patrick Macnee has just passed away at the age of 93. RIP.

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246 Tigger2  Jun 25, 2015 12:04:08pm

re: #181 Kragar

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247 CriticalDragon1177  Jun 25, 2015 12:21:27pm

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

Amazon is still selling this book

I’ve heard about that book. It sounds incredibly stupid, especially when you consider the fact the South really did fight to maintain slavery and Lee would have had a hard time convincing his fellow confederates to abandon slavery and racism.

The Confederates win the Civil War with aid from South African time travelers in this unconvincing “what-if” tale. Using a time machine, Andrew Rhoodie and his cadre of white supremacists from A.D. 2014 join the rebels and supply them with AK-47 assault rifles. Rhoodie’s “America Will Break” brotherhood hopes to foster a haven for slavery and extreme racism that will last into succeeding centuries. Thus armed, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s troops are soon victorious, and Lincoln agrees to divide the nation. Lee wins political office in the South, and, ironically, becomes both a proponent of emancipation and a foe of the bigoted visitors from the future. Turtledove ( Krispos Rising ) might win over some Civil War buffs through his knowledge of historical figures and events. But stilted dialogue, slack pacing and thin characters diminish the book’s appeal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. —This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

While that might make an interesting twist, it isn’t really plausible, given how union literally had to force them to abandon slavery and how the white Southerners were determined to find away around 14th amendment, and thus the Orwellian “separate but equal,” nonsense. At the very least, had the South won, slavery would have lasted much longer, and racism would most likely be much stronger today.

248 William Lewis  Jun 25, 2015 12:33:41pm

re: #239 Dr. Matt

Perhaps it’s time for the SCOTUS to take up the meaning of: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state…”

This court did. Twice. They expanded gun ownership both times.

District of Columbia v. Heller and (especially) McDonald v. City of Chicago where the 2nd Amendment is incorporated to the states via the 14th amendment.

Be careful what you wish for; you might get it.

249 KerFuFFler  Jun 25, 2015 1:14:53pm

re: #84 Dr. Matt

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Scalia’s dissent is pretty fucking embarrassing, even by right-wing standards. A new low has been found….amazing.

Agreed! It is the intellectual equivalent of giving the opposition the raspberry.

250 piratedan  Jun 25, 2015 1:41:47pm

re: #110 Targetpractice

you’d have to concede what Patton did with the US 3rd Army was also pretty impressive

251 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 25, 2015 1:51:56pm

re: #250 piratedan

you’d have to concede what Patton did with the US 3rd Army was also pretty impressive

If “General” can extend to Naval officers, I would nominate Chester Nimitz. How many others would have the political courage to essentially ignore the feint on the Aleutians and throw it all in at Midway on the say of a few pointy-headed codebreakers?

252 piratedan  Jun 25, 2015 2:05:02pm

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

it’s alt fiction and is hardly sympathetic to the South, honest. Actually it could be classified as SF as it posits that time travelling apartheid south africans support the cause of the South with automatic weapons.

Weird stuff to be sure


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