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"Plato said, “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” And so, conservatives, you deserve the nation’s gratitude for being so horrible. There is no possible way people of reason can sit by and let you continue to gain power. Thank you for shaking America out of its apathy. Your constant screaming grates on our nerves, conservatives. But instead of winning us to your side it has set us against you. Every day, there’s yet another outraged right winger screaming on the television, on the Internet or on the radio. It no longer matters to us what you are screaming about, just that you are. That you are wrong is a given. Oh, what’s that? You need examples, conservatives? You don’t see how you’re wrong? Very well. You rage against the government, exclaiming how much you hate it while trying to gain that same power for yourselves. You claim to want smaller government while trying to get it involved in every American bedroom. You expect us to believe a woman cannot make reproductive decisions by herself, but want everyone to be subject to whims of the corporate world. You have shown us, over and over again, that American lives are not worth as much as the dollar. We see you explain why the schoolchild should not get lunch, why the sick and disabled must not get care, and why the poor are lazy. We see you tank the economy, blame someone else, and then cut lifelines for those you ruined with the decisions you can’t take responsibility for. Conservatives rail about wasteful government spending. But how many billions of dollars did you waste with your fruitless ACA repeals? How many more billions did you waste when you shut down the country when you didn’t get your way? The only thing the least productive Congress in history can do is throw loud, expensive, and pointless screaming tantrums. And what heroes you pick, conservatives! An old, white, rich duck call maker, railing against LGBT Americans. An old, white, rich, draft dodging pedophile former rocker, threatening to kill your president after calling him “sub-human.” An old, rich, white rancher, thumbing his nose at the government over fees he owes, rallying whack jobs with high powered firearms to his side to hide behind women until he reveals his blatant racism. You whine that you aren’t racists, but you laud them, and harbor hate groups in your midst. You cry that you’re sick of Bush being rightfully blamed for the mess the nation is in while you constantly scream it’s “Obama’s fault.” You moan about being vilified while spitting “Liberal” at your opponents like a swear word. You love to dish it out, but wail when you get it right back. Sarah Palin promotes torture and trivializes slavery, but if somebody calls her on it, they must be fired. Conservative media bellows hyperbole and misinformation all day and night, and yet demands the head of whomever talks back. A female country band speaks out against Bush’s war, and they get blacklisted for years. You oppose affordable health care. You oppose a living wage. You oppose helping the poor and the sick. You oppose stopping the companies who poison our water, our air, the very ground we walk on. You oppose logic, reason, and compromise. You oppose equal rights, civil rights, reproductive rights, while calling yourself ‘The Right.” You support tax cuts for the rich. Subsidies for corporations. Spending for the military even when the Pentagon doesn’t want it. Legislation of your religious beliefs, the First Amendment be damned. Oh, but you’re all about the Constitution, huh? You pick and choose from that storied document like you cherry pick your Bible verse. You wax poetic about our military veterans with tears in your eyes, and then you cut their benefits. We haven’t forgotten the awful mess you got us into in Iraq, for which you have never apologized. We watch you pound war drums for Iran, for Syria, for North Korea, for Russia, even against your own president. It’s been said that “War” stands for “We Are Right,” and as conservatives call themselves “The Right,” that’s a very fitting slogan for you. War on taxes. War on immigration. War on women. War on foreign powers. War on Washington. War war war. There is a hot coal of rage in our gut. If an angry voting base is a motivated base, then you may have just bitten off more than you can chew. Sure, you’re angry too – but you’re always angry. All this means is you have ticked off the rest of us. You know it too, don’t you, conservatives? That’s why you make it so hard to vote. That’s why you take away polling stations, issue ID restrictions, and gerrymander districts. You have to be afraid of the Electorate to do that. And with good reason. There are more of us than you. When we vote, we win. The volume of your opinions may be loud, but the volume of your numbers is not that impressive. - See more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/dear-conservatives-thanks-horrible/#sthash.qzZQDiST.dpuf"

4/30/2014 9:05:32 AM

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"You support tax cuts for the rich. Subsidies for corporations. Spending for the military even when the Pentagon doesn’t want it. Legislation of your religious beliefs, the First Amendment be damned. Oh, but you’re all about the Constitution, huh? You pick and choose from that storied document like you cherry pick your Bible verse. You wax poetic about our military veterans with tears in your eyes, and then you cut their benefits. "

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4/30/2014 10:00:57 AM

GOP Establishment Looks Set to Win a Bunch of Senate Primaries

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-gop-establishment-looks-set-to-win-a-bunch-of-senate-primaries/

4/30/2014 12:09:41 PM

http://mobile.rawstory.com/all/2014-05-02-alabamas-chief-justice-buddha-didnt-create-us-so-first-amendment-only-protects-christians#1

Lol wtf

He'd lose his job for this in another country.

5/3/2014 12:31:31 AM

So how is it that they are projected to do well in congress and senate as I have heard, or is that just propaganda BS?


[Edited on May 3, 2014 at 6:07 AM. Reason : h]

5/3/2014 6:03:42 AM

Mostly predictions based on the usual trends of midterm elections, especially during a Presidents second term. The problem is, if all they got is Obamacare-hate and Benghazi, it's not going to go well for them.

5/3/2014 11:19:26 AM

^ Benghazi is a 2016 strategy to take down Hillary (who I don't support).

5/3/2014 11:28:18 AM

^^ it's based on districting and polling too.

It's going to be a rough 2 years if the republicans capture congress. They would have 2 branches of government there, at a time when the biggest problem facing our country is the stagnant middle class wages. This isn't a problem conservatives care care to think about usually, when their presumption is that the people must just be getting lazier to generations past and the Canadians.

[Edited on May 3, 2014 at 1:40 PM. Reason : ]

5/3/2014 1:39:46 PM

i fucking hate Rachel Maddow, but god damn this is a good smack down of the Koch brothers
http://youtu.be/uh8O7tZ2GD4

5/6/2014 9:04:03 AM

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/washington/opposition-tea-party-now-all-time-high/thu-05082014-946am

tea party going down

5/8/2014 1:47:15 PM

Fox News’ psycho-social #Benghazi world: The right’s fear of facts and the “reality-based community”:

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/12/fox_news_psycho_social_benghazi_world_the_rights_fear_of_facts_and_the_reality_based_community/

5/12/2014 5:02:16 PM

Rick Perry is a piece of shit
Texas Says It Will Ignore Rules Designed to Prevent Rape of Minors in Prisons
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/10/texas-advocates-fight-prison-rape

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"Last month, Gov. Rick Perry penned a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, informing them that Texas refuses to comply with the 2012 guidelines Bruntmyer fought so hard to secure. “The rules appear to have been created in a vacuum with little regard for input from those who daily operate state prisons and local jails,” Perry wrote. Forget that PREA was signed into law by Perry’s gubernatorial predecessor, George W. Bush. Or that the U.S. Department of Justice consulted with states for nine years before issuing guidelines in May 2012 for how correctional facilities should come into compliance with the law. And yes, those consultations included multiple discussions with Texas officials. Perry’s own head of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Brad Livingston, wrote to the Department of Justice in 2010 applauding the then-proposed regulations: “[I]t is apparent the Department of Justice gave careful consideration to the comments submitted by many interested parties during 2010. The TDCJ has few issues relating to the proposed national standards.”"

rick perry is a coward who is happy to bend over for the prison lobby

5/12/2014 6:52:55 PM

Prison lobby? There is a prison lobby?

The fuck do we need a prison lobby for?

5/12/2014 9:34:19 PM

Bc prisons make money. Groups that make money hire people to protect their money.

[Edited on May 12, 2014 at 9:45 PM. Reason : B]

5/12/2014 9:44:53 PM

I never really saw Butner as a profit center.

5/12/2014 10:12:43 PM

you got some learnin' to do

5/12/2014 10:55:08 PM

The prison lobby is huge, private prisons are a multi-billion dollar industry, thank "conservative" privatization efforts for this. Texas in particular has the largest private prison in the world and

5/13/2014 6:40:32 AM

Good lord dude. ^^^ you really need to get educated on a few things. Did you think all the prisons were run by the gov? Prisons are big big business. Like 74 billion a year big

[Edited on May 13, 2014 at 9:25 AM. Reason : At least that's what the us gov spends on corrections]

5/13/2014 9:23:35 AM

You seriously didn't know there was a huge prison lobby?

Were you the one who didn't understand the influence of several large lobby groups have on america's drug policies? (hint: private prison lobbies are a big driving factor in this, as well as police lobbies, prison guard unions, and pharmaceutical and alcohol lobbies)

[Edited on May 13, 2014 at 9:43 AM. Reason : ]

5/13/2014 9:38:09 AM

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/13/rove-criticized-for-clinton-brain-damage-suggestion/

Quote :

""Thirty days in the hospital?" asked Rove, a Fox News Channel contributor, according to the report. "And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that.""

I hadn't heard about this before, and for all I know, he could be right.

5/13/2014 11:25:24 AM

Why would you even take anything Rove says seriously? I don't think she was even in the hospital for 30 days.

5/13/2014 1:40:15 PM

http://gawker.com/bundy-ranchs-armed-defenders-seek-welfare-to-sit-around-1574052982

Quote :

""I wanna be a fundme Ranger Live a life of made up danger I wanna be a hypocrite Ask for money and not do shit""

5/13/2014 5:18:04 PM

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/why-karl-rove-uses-dirty-tricks-they-work/370811/

5/13/2014 5:20:59 PM

^^^I don't, that's why I put it in the credibility watch thread. I was just saying though, he could be right for all I know, but I'll assume he's just scheming.

5/13/2014 5:21:50 PM

She was in the hospital for 4 days.

5/14/2014 2:41:46 PM

Hahahaha Carney went HAM when asked about Rove's comments on Hillary's mental health.

Quote :

"When asked about Rove at Tuesday’s press briefing, White House press secretary Jay Carney said: “Here’s what I would say about cognitive capacity, which is that Dr. Rove might have been the last person in America on election night to recognize and acknowledge that the president had won reelection, including the state of Ohio. So we’ll leave it at that.”"

5/15/2014 1:20:36 PM

The Plots to Destroy America
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/23/plots-destroy-america-251123.html

Quote :

"The fears about Agenda 21 are a prime example. The name refers to a nonbinding statement of intent signed in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush and 177 other world leaders. The idea was simple: Under the auspices of the U.N., those countries expressed their interest in managing urban development and land-use policies in ways that minimized the impact on the environment. At the time, mainstream conservative and liberal politicians considered the concept to be fairly inconsequential. No more. Extremist organizations latched on to Agenda 21 as an attempt by the U.N. and the “New World Order” to seize private property to advance the causes of communism and to crush all dissent. Death maps will be created to determine where people will be allowed to live, some of the theories go. Trees will be given the same rights as humans. Electricity companies will conduct surveillance on customers. By 2012, the Republican National Committee—overlooking that a Republican president had signed Agenda 21—adopted a resolution slamming the document as an “insidious scheme” designed to impose a “socialist/communist redistribution of wealth.” That language was toned down by the time of the Republican National Convention, but wild claims about Agenda 21 survived, saying the barely financed, unenforceable declaration was “insidious” and “erosive of American sovereignty.” Today, the Agenda 21 conspiracy is raised around the country when local zoning boards—many of whom have never even heard of the U.N. statement—attempt to adopt development plans that control willy-nilly construction while considering environmental impact. That Baldwin County proposal was felled by fears of Agenda 21. A highway construction project in Maine designed to ease traffic congestion was abandoned. Same with an oyster bed restoration plan in Virginia and a high-speed-rail proposal in Florida. The construction of bike paths—bike paths!—has been attacked by locals waving signs about sinister international conspiracies."

Agenda 21 nuts are some of my favorite nuts

5/16/2014 8:18:45 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/politics/mississippi-senate-primary/

5/28/2014 9:55:05 AM

Quote :

"Bashar al-Assad posts a letter of support from a Virginia state senator"

Quote :

""Whatever a person's view is of President Assad, he certainly has never exhibited the savagery of these jihadist groups fighting against him.""

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/05/27/bashar-al-assad-posts-a-letter-of-support-from-a-virginia-state-senator/?tid=sm_fb

5/28/2014 2:00:25 PM

Is that particularly controversial? I find it hard to support either side.

5/28/2014 3:54:53 PM

I mean, it's just shitty Texas, but wow at the GOP platform there. It's basically a suicude note. When the demos there start to shift in a decade or so, national elections are going to be brutal for the GOP... unless serious changes happen.

6/9/2014 9:56:54 AM

^ all they need is a simple grandfather clause to stop that...

6/9/2014 10:35:35 AM

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-louisiana-lawsuit-jindal-20140606-story.html

Louisiana signs a law that government can't sue oil companies for environmental damage, Art Pope is probably jealous

6/9/2014 11:58:33 AM

Cantor loses to a tea bagger in Va Primary. Ooops.

6/10/2014 8:14:24 PM

Who's the democratic opponent?

6/10/2014 8:30:40 PM

According to Rachel, they didn't run one...

6/10/2014 8:45:33 PM

Am I off or did the guy who basically was the ringleader of the anti-Obama house get voted off the island for not being anti-Obama enough?

GOP really fucking sucks right now as a legitimate entity.

6/10/2014 9:04:36 PM

Cantor was much too liberal.

6/10/2014 9:11:33 PM

I was mistaken. Apparently the Democrats do have someone on the ballet. Both candidates are professors at Randolph-Macon College.

6/10/2014 9:54:12 PM

^ You tune into Fox News on nights like this if you want your facts straight, not Maddow. Even though I had to watch a few minutes of her show prior to Fox News finally going live over taped O'Reilly. Luckily the NBA Finals game is a blowout so I haven't had to turn Fox News all night!

6/10/2014 10:24:58 PM

Quote :

"You tune into Fox News on nights like this if you want your facts straight, not Maddow. "

Bill-o and Megan Kelly credible? Dude you need to venture outside of the conservative bubble more. Maddow is not perfect, but really?

6/10/2014 10:44:18 PM

Was this a fluke or did voters legitimately like this guy's platform or what?

6/11/2014 1:56:33 AM

I'm sure MSNBC's news portion is just as credible as Fox's news portion. Both though have very obvious opinion shows, and I don't think either network tries to tell us otherwise. We know Hannity and O'Reilly are opinion shows, just like Maddow and Chris Matthew's show.

6/11/2014 6:42:35 AM

It's entirely likely that I was the one who was initially mistaken and not Rachel. I likely only picked up on how for a long time Democrats did not bother running anyone against Cantor. The Democrat in this race was chosen this past weekend.

In terms of surprise, it seems to the wider world that it was as Cantor was the establishment of the establishment who outspent the guy 25x over. To listen to him getting booed by his constituents, you may have seen his loss coming.

6/11/2014 7:18:32 AM

I don't support Tea Party candidates. They are the Ross Perots of the Republican party. I'm sure the guy that beat Cantor is going to have a harder time beating the Dem candidate come November. The guy only raised 200k for his campaign. This is going to be a route in December.

God I wish we couldn't tie money to campaigns.

6/11/2014 8:46:05 AM

as much as I don't like cantor... I think I like him more than new guy.

6/11/2014 8:50:10 AM

Get ready for another idiotic debt ceiling debate to freeze our economic progress!

6/11/2014 10:20:17 AM

Quote :

"I don't support Tea Party candidates. They are the Ross Perots of the Republican party. I'm sure the guy that beat Cantor is going to have a harder time beating the Dem candidate come November. The guy only raised 200k for his campaign. This is going to be a route in December. "

Ummm, I'm not sure there is a Democratic challenger in that district. Do you really think a district that decided Eric Cantor wasn't far right enough has a chance of electing a Democrat? This is all a result of the gerrymandering that occured in the wake of the 2010 election, chickens coming home to roost.

6/11/2014 12:30:17 PM

Quote :

"Ummm, I'm not sure there is a Democratic challenger in that district. Do you really think a district that decided Eric Cantor wasn't far right enough has a chance of electing a Democrat? This is all a result of the gerrymandering that occured in the wake of the 2010 election, chickens coming home to roost. "

There is a Democratic challenger, Jack Trammell.

And I'm not so sure that Cantor lost because he wasn't far right enough, or because of gerrymandering. I really think Cooter from Dukes of Hazzard played a significant role.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.html

6/11/2014 6:31:22 PM

Then allow me to rephrase for Shrike, do you really think a Democrat has a chance in a district where "Cooter" has a significant impact on the outcome?

6/12/2014 6:27:01 AM