Slouching Towards Oblivion

Monday, May 21, 2018

Today's Tweet



Speaking Spanish, in a place where it's not expected(?), is now considered Probable Cause.


BTW - that was no accident. That agent didn't take that action on a whim, or because he was bored. His commanders told him that's how we do things now.

This is the Daddy State.

Today's Pix

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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Today's Tweet



Shade - nobody throws it better than the Brits.

ProLeft Podcast





Episode 441:



Guess which party's been wrong about practically everything.
We talk about Rudy Guiliani, at least one person who is "tired of winning," and a number of people who've discovered all of a sudden that Truth is important, like Rex Tillerson and Matthew Dowd. A surprising sincere apology in the wrong place, the "Democrats in Disarray" lie never dies, and a wake up call for conservatives on Medicaid and nursing homes.
At this point, where 30-35% of Americans are all set to riot - set to pull a Charlottesville on the streets of dozens of cities - the latest version (GOP 5.0) of New Conservative Republicans are wondering, "How do you sell truth to rubes who refuse to hear anything but Benghazi or Emails or Vince Foster or Troopergate or Pizzagate or Kenyan Usurper or or or?

But the real question - the one that driftglass and Blue Gal are spectacularly good at rooting out: "How did those gullible rubes get to be so fucking Gullibly Rube-ish?"

Thursday, May 17, 2018

A Sad Truth

So now, I'll never be able to hear Jumpin' Jack Flash without thinking of Cult45.

Everything that dickhead touches turns to shit.

A Short Reminder

From October 2015 - it's not like people weren't trying to warn us about what was coming.


Today's Tweet



It's more than just possible that both this asshole and our current POTUS could be the results of Wingnut Hate Media.

 

That kind of rant is not something that just springs into being from that guy's own internal dialogue - it's not organic.

It's a product of training.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Today's Tweet



Any less tragic and this shit ain't funny.