6/28/2018

When There Are No Rules and the Game Is Rigged, You Have to Fight Dirty (Part 2: Let's Go Low)

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Fighting dirty doesn't mean doing illegal shit. It does mean you might have to stretch laws and ethics to their breaking point. It defin...
6/27/2018

When There Are No Rules and the Game Is Rigged, You Have No Choice But to Fight Dirty (Part 1)

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Chess is a helluva game. It's meant to imitate war, of course, but in a civilized fashion. The best strategies are born of an instinct t...

Grappling with the Despair You're Feeling Over Kennedy Right Now (Or, More Accurately, the Despair I'm Feeling)

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Still working on it. I keep starting and stopping, deleting and revising, saying something terrible and then something sad and then somethin...
6/26/2018

Quickie: In 2010, Republicans Won Because of Incivility and Anger

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Let me take you back, way, way back, all the way to the ancient age of 2009 and 2010. A black Muslim man was uppity enough be president. E...
6/21/2018

Regarding Civility in Uncivil Times

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Last night, the New York Times posted an article titled "In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the T...
6/19/2018

The Cold Political Calculus of Taking Away the Children of Migrants

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We are at a moment in our history that demands action. It demands that people fuck shit up. We hope they do it by protesting, by voting, or ...
6/15/2018

Quickie: One Reason That Evangelicals and Other Churches Are Turning Against Trump on Immigration

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I'm on the road in the deep South (and there are shockingly few Trump signs so far), but here's a quick hit it and quit it for you: ...
6/13/2018

What Did That Dumb Orange Motherfucker Say Now? (Kim-Humping Edition)

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In his press conference Tuesday after he let Kim Jong Un ream his ass without even giving him a courtesy reacharound, President Donald Trum...
6/11/2018

On Immigration: This Is Who We Are Until We're Not This

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It just gets worse every time you take another look. A migrant to the United States can be rejected for asylum for myriad reasons. One of ...
6/06/2018

A #MAGA Guide to Understanding Why Separating Children from Their Parents at the Border Is Bad

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Let us say, and why not, that you are MAGA hat-sporting, AR-15-toting, illegal immigrant-hating regular ol' supporter of President Donal...
6/05/2018

Conservatives Finally Speak: "He's Acts Like He's a King"

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Finally, at long last, Republicans could take no more. Senator Ted Cruz said, "Undeterred, President Trump appears to be going forwa...
6/01/2018

Note to Racists: It's Not Racist to Call You "Racist"

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Let's get this out of the way early here so you can determine if you want to continue: If you voted for Donald Trump, you are racist. If...
5/30/2018

Puerto Rico Remains So Very Fucked (and the Rest of Us Might Be, Too)

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The unsurprising but still alarming number of dead from Hurricane Maria, as estimated by a study in the New England Journal of Medicine , is...
5/29/2018

Donald Trump Told You He Hates Families During the Campaign

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From the very beginning of his putrid political campaign, which now seems more and more like America's unforced death march, Donald Trum...
5/28/2018

Poem for Memorial Day

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"Ways of Looking at an IED" by Hugh Martin Notice that in both photographs of the artillery shells there is a wire leading from ...

Rude Pundit Patreon: Now With Rude Storytime

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Memorial Day is a totally inappropriate time to sell shit, but everyone else does it, so what the hell. Salute the troops by subscribing o...
5/24/2018

You Now Have a Patriotic Duty to Kneel During the National Anthem

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You see that up there? That's Major General Benedict Arnold's Oath of Allegiance to the United States, signed , in the middle of ...
5/23/2018

What Did That Dumb Orange Motherfucker Say Now? (Anti-Choice and Anti-Woman Edition)

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There is no way in hell that Donald Trump did not pay for or have others pay for multiple abortions for the apparent multitude of women he ...
5/22/2018

The Worst of All Possible Worlds: We Need Republicans to Act Against Trump

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I have been sitting here, drinking away the lunch hour(s), trying to figure out a way to encapsulate the hogpile of fuckery that has involve...
5/18/2018

Time to Do the School-Shooting Roundelay Again

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Hey, everyone, there's been another school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School, right near I-45, southeast of Houston, on the wa...