9/24/2022

The Gnawing Anxiety That Trump Will Get Away With All of It

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I can't get past something when it comes to the multiple crimes of Donald Trump, who really was president (something I still can't f...
9/16/2022

Graham and DeSantis Tried to Own But Got Owned

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You know what's darkly hilarious or perhaps hilariously dark or maybe not hilarious at all and just plain dark? I'd bet that Lindsey...
9/09/2022

Abortion Rights and the Lie of "Reaching Across the Aisle"

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Democrats make ads all the time about how they are willing to work across the aisle with the opposing party. (I know some Republicans do, to...
9/05/2022

A Poem for the Laborers

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" Waitress "  by Dorianne Laux (Chosen because Laux is an amazing chronicler of the working class and also in memory of Barbara E...
9/02/2022

Dark Brandon Ascending: Random Observations on a Patriotic Speech

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1. There are a few criticisms to be made about President Joe Biden's speech in Philadelphia last night. For instance, when he said, ...
8/22/2022

Ron DeSantis Is Not Your New Trump, But He Is a...

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Cunt. He's a cunt. If I put that in the title, someone would report it somewhere, but we're all presumably adult(ish) here, so I...
8/14/2022

What About Those of Us Who Want Donald Trump Prosecuted? Talk to Us, Media

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If there's one thing that runs through most political coverage of just about anything, it's that something is only good if Republica...
8/09/2022

Note on Democratic Groups Helping Trump Republicans Win Primaries: So?

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In one of the great "tut-tut" pieces in a while, the Editorial Board of the New York Times (motto: "We're partly respons...
7/30/2022

I Haven't Disappeared

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I know shit's been non-existent the last couple of weeks, but I've been in the UK (and continue to be) for some personal time. I...
7/14/2022

An Observation on the Nature of Extremist Fucknuts at the January 6 Committee Hearing

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One thing that jumped out at me while watching Tuesday's televised hearing from the January 6 Committee into the insurrection of fucking...
7/10/2022

This Fucking Shirt (Updated)

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I wanna talk about this fucking shirt I saw today. I was at the Jersey Shore (yeah, your jokes are right and wrong, depending on the beach) ...
7/01/2022

The Supreme Court Tells the 21st Century to Go Fuck Itself

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This session, the newly-ripened conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court of the United States decided it was time to lift up their ro...
6/24/2022

The Supreme Court vs. the United States, Part 1: Alito Loves Fetuses, Hates Women

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You will never love anything as much as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito loves fetuses. That skeevy, creepy motherfucker is all about the ...
6/17/2022

Call It What It Was: An Assassination Attempt on Mike Pence

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I have despised Mike Pence longer than most of you, even before he was that fuckin' conservative prick in Congress from 2001-2012, even ...
6/11/2022

Liz Cheney Is Trying to Save the House She and Her Father Built and Other Observations on the 1/6 Hearing

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On Thursday night, the Select Committee on the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol finally, after far too long, frankly, made its cas...
5/31/2022

Uvalde, the Southern Baptist Church, and the Murderous, Traumatizing Failure of Conservative Ideology

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What do you do when your belief system allows for the murder and rape of children? What do you do when the things that the leaders you trust...