Today's Tweet

Saddest thing I've seen for a while. It doesn't matter if they're only trying to manifest a little teenage rebellion, or they think they're doing it ironically, or anything else - this shit sucks, and the fact that it's become acceptable for a right fair bit of American society sucks even worse.

‘We just need n****rs gone’: Video shows Alabama kids wishing to put black people in ‘concentration camps’ https://t.co/nOSl7zQCQK

— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 4, 2019

Or Is It Southern Hipster?

The name of the game - as always - is trying to make it turn a profit.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing, but when it's all just about Co-Opting the thing, and putting your exclusive Brand on it, and smash-fitting into the centuries-old business model of Profit Über Alles and Niche Dominance, then it's destined for the trash heap where all fads and fashion go to die.

Cuz if we keep it in play, then we're all cool. If not, then eventually we've got a very few people running the whole show, and what the fuck is the point of that?

That said - keep your cool - gather info - postpone your need for the gratification of taking a giant dump on people before you know some of the details.

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Today's Tweet

Use your words - or - yeah - OK.

Woman employees take care of EVERYTHING https://t.co/pcCYExZxop

— zeldavross (@zeldavross) March 2, 2019

Today's GIF

If you're ever feeling small and unworthy, remember - this idiot believes down deep in his very core that he's innately superior to other people.

Try To Remember

Mark Meadows Showed Us The Six Stages White Men Go Through When Getting Called Out For Racism

They generally follow a pretty strict blueprint that's become achingly familiar.

David Dennis, Jr.

1.The Racist Act

2. Shock and Outrage 

3. “I Know A Black” 

4. “No YOU’RE the Racist”

5. The revelation that the person so outraged at being called a racist (though he was never called a racist) has more evidence that he is, in fact, a racist

6. The Big Shrug

And like a whimper, nothing happens. Because what really ever happens to white men who reveal themselves to be racist. They do all that crying because the r-word to white men is their N-word. Why? Because white men will never have to face something as deadly, painful and hateful as the N-word. When in the end “racist” is just a mild inconvenience. Nothing substantial really happens to them. Sure, they may get fired eventually but they’ll find more jobs with no problems. They’ll find bigger fan bases who embrace their racism. They get to keep their jobs as governors. They become presidents. They throw fits on national television and get coddled into feeling like everything is okay. They learn nothing. They don’t grow. They get to continue to hate us. And all we get in the end is a shrug. 

And that’s what happens when white men get called racist.

As a reminder, Jay Smooth from many years ago:

Today's Tweet

An idea whose time has come.

Ladies let’s start calling ourselves post-term fetuses so Republican lawmakers start considering our rights.

— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) March 1, 2019

Tracking "But The Democrats"

Ain't it funny how the phrase "but the Democrats" pops up mostly on AM Talk Radio, until it suddenly blossoms across the Liberal TV Machine every time the GOP (or Cult45) has a bad day.

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Today In Stoopid

Guns don't kill dicks. Dicks kill dicks - with guns - because they're dicks.

MARION, Ind. (WISH) - A man in Indiana accidentally shot himself in the genitals early Thursday morning when a gun slipped from his waistband, police said. 

While in the emergency room of Marion General Hospital, Mark Anthony Jones, 46, told police he was walking about 6:44 a.m. on a riverside trail when the gun began to slip from his waistband. He reached to adjust the firearm and it discharged.

"The bullet entered just above his penis and exited his scrotum," said a Marion Police Department spokesperson.

The gun was not in a holster.

Marion police said Jones did not have a license for the Hi-Point 9mm gun he was carrying. 

Grant County prosecutors will review the case to consider possible criminal charges.

Today's Iconography

At CPAC yesterday, via twitter (@maxwelltani):