I Done A Bad Bad Thing

I retweeted a Mock Paper Scissors thing, and I put a tag on it inviting the inference that there was something way more to the story than what it actually is, and that was a very shitty and Breitbart-ey thing for me to have done, and I apologize; and yes I'm really really really not sincere about that at all.  Fuck 'em.  Fuck 'em both.  Dig up Andrew Breitbart's dead moldy crumbling corpse, pack it in rancid lard and make Donald Trump wear it like a ski mask.

Donald doesn't go down - ex-wife #3 says what? https://t.co/bThL76SGTg

— Mike Roberts (@EvilleMike) December 12, 2015

No red states and no blue states - just the United States of Fuck That Guy.

My Own Little Echo Chamber

Corporatized News + InfoTainment = Neuter-Tainment. Sit back Be numb Do nothing

— Mike Roberts (@EvilleMike) December 12, 2015

Today's Quote

 

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." --H. L. Mencken

hat tip = Facebook pal LM-M 

But She's Not (Completely) Wrong Either

Politicians lie?  Really?  I don't think I want to believe she's just recently come to realize this harsh truth.  I'd also like not to think she's another one of the jokers who just pop up out of nowhere, claiming they've never been "political" before, and then we find out she's been working for the county GOP back home for the last 3 years or whatever.

Anyway, somebody seems to be trying pretty hard to sell us on the idea that Ms DeLemus represents a kind of spontaneous political combustion - like we're rebooting The Tea Party rollout from years ago.  Dunno enough about that yet, so I'll just stand over here and watch for a while.

It does look a lot like monsters of the id, though.  And maybe it is.  And maybe I'm just still hoping it's something else.

The Podcast

Just Creepy

To The Theater

Democrats waiting for @tedcruz and @realDonaldTrump to start running attack ads against each other are like: pic.twitter.com/cHRg4bIrON

— MATTY ICE (@MattyIceAZ) December 11, 2015

An Oldie

i mean @realDonaldTrump if you're so good at negotiating how come you couldn't get @DonaldTrump

— John Mulaney (@mulaney) August 20, 2015

That Scalia Thing

 Cristian Farias - Legal Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post

During oral arguments on Wednesday in Fisher v. University of Texas, a contentious affirmative action case, the conservative justice seemed to call their abilities into question.

"There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas, where they do not do well," Scalia said, "as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school ... a slower-track school where they do well."

Scalia was engaging former U.S. Solicitor General Gregory Garre, who is now representing the University of Texas at Austin as the school defends its ongoing consideration of race as one of many factors in its admissions program.

Pointing to a brief the court received before oral arguments, Scalia noted "most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas."

Garre tried to interject, but the justice continued. "They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that ... they're being pushed ahead­­ in classes that are too fast for them," Scalia said.

Standard GOP Logic.

• We elected a black guy President
• so we're Post Racial
• so there's no such thing as "racism"
• so if black folks are getting fucked over now, it must be because there really is something wrong with them 
• so I was right all along - we're just better than they are
• so it's OK to talk shit about 'em again

These people have no soul and no honor.

The next president will likely have to make at least one nomination for SCOTUS. At least one - possibly as many as 3 in two terms.  We don't need any more like Antonin Scalia on the court.

He Doesn't Actually Say Anything

Trump: "I have to do what's right.  And what's right is this: We have a problem. It's a serious problem. It's gotta be solved.  And people that are Muslim; that are friends of mine are so happy that I brought it up."

I have to do what's right.  And what's right is this: We have a problem. 

Why is anybody pretending that's some kind of policy statement?

The Larval Stage Of A Yam

Hey @Buzzfeed "mendacious racist" isn't the only accurate description of Trump. Here's some of our fave suggestions… https://t.co/oWxGkkaO8M

— @midnight (@midnight) December 10, 2015

Take The Higher Moral Ground

Here's a picture of "their" guys:

And here's what "they're" doing about it:

And here's a picture of your guy:

And what are you doing about it?

Today's Toon

And there's more at Democratic Underground

Whole Lotta Tweetin' Goin' On

The combination of message and face makes this a prize-winner (and my sentiments exactly) h/t@mikehudema pic.twitter.com/6AfL0IpPWq

— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) November 30, 2015

Tis The Season

...for everybody who needs a quick rebuttal for all those cranks who can't stop eye-guzzling DumFux News - waiting for the annual tradition of bringing the usual and customary crapola about how Obummer and Moochell are alla time slaggin' poor ol' Christmas (and various shit like that right there).

From whitehouse.gov:

Dirty Politics

O the Saturday nights @realDonaldTrump will have with his favorite model. #GOPdildo pic.twitter.com/gkbMPQAEfg

— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) December 5, 2015

Ok, fine, one last #GOPdildo for today on https://t.co/yj4XmJHoxs pic.twitter.com/kBpX9K2MRu

— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) December 6, 2015

Keep your damn government hands off my Pink Dragon says @RandPaul #GOPdildo pic.twitter.com/XgxJNBFInm

— Matt Haughey (@mathowie) December 5, 2015

You get the idea.

Today's Tweet

@TitusNation Thought you'd appreciate this. pic.twitter.com/nrtbV7fDOc

— Primrose MK (@PrimroseMK) December 9, 2015

Today's Pix

Thoughts On That Tweet

@Millennial_ @RethugWatch #RepublicanHypocrisy #ProlifeHyopcrisy @gop @bennydiego @TuxcedoCat @JohnFugelsang pic.twitter.com/p3zYZEN5cJ

— ThisHeartsOnFire (@JustAnotherRich) February 15, 2015

Maybe I'm reading a little too much into it, but given our national pathology where guns and violent tendencies seem to link up for some kind of wishful Danse Macabre, that thing on the back of that car - the thing with the red lettering - it says what it says because... 

"My barely-sublimated potential for psychotic behavior could manifest itself at any minute, in a rather explosive display of road rage, during which your 1st amendment right to express yourself on the public thoroughfare will get the fuck 2nd-Amended out of it, because I'm afraid I have very little for you to respect in terms of maturity and reason, so all I can think of is to compensate for it by making you fearful of what I might do because of my toxically unresolved Daddy Issues and the resultant deep-seated feelings of inadequacy regarding the size of my penis"  

...doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.

And oh yeah - this:

Menacing is the name of a criminal offense in many US states. The wording and degrees of the offense vary from state to state. It often consists of displaying a weapon to a person with the intention of threatening them with bodily harm from the said weapon, or of criminally threatening another, or otherwise putting them in fear of physical harm. Depending on state, degrees of offense range from a misdemeanor for first time offenders, to low to mid level felonies for offenders with a prior menacing charge. The tangentially related crime of "Menacing By Stalking" was introduced as a new charge in some states following the popularization of laws specifically targeting stalking behavior, in which a perpetrator adopts a long-term pattern of actions designed to frighten and harass a victim while still adhering to the letter of existing harassment laws.

Today's Winning Tweet

Upon seeing Ted Cruz's rise in the polls.... Donald Trump is cranking it up a notch! pic.twitter.com/luVZXOzN15

— All Things Flynn (@AllThingsFlynn) December 7, 2015