YUP

Tom Tomorrow

The Fourth Estate

from here

Unctuous

With its upper west side gravitas, and centrist patina, this program is far more regressive than anything on Fox.

Democrats are antisemitic.

Right-Wing Dumbasses Are Mad at Obama...

...because American conservatives have a talent for combining stupidity, venality, and desperation in truly exceptional ways.

Ta-Nehisi Coates:
The Foolish, Historically Illiterate, Incredible Response to Obama's Prayer Breakfast Speech

Dickhead

Scott Walker (Bag of Kochs)

Ratfucking in Wisconsin.

Moron

Rand Paul (KY)

Of course, he's an anti-vaxxer, in addition to a hundred other vaguely libertarian positions—all essentially designed to deceive oneself and others.

Having lived in Louisville for a few years, one becomes familiar with this type of charlatan, a product of what I call the Kentucky bubble—low-grade intellects developed within a low-stakes environment.  

Asshole

Jim Webb

Good job douchbag.

Hint:
White identity politics, essentially running to create the Democratic Tea Party.
What could go wrong?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bill Moyers interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Moyers and Company

Very astute capture of our collective problem—our collective legacy. America's DNA is polluted with violence, hatred, and fear. Decades of institutional racism will not simply disappear—the reflexive denials will only compound and extend the injustice.

It will not just go away.

Fuck You Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, and John Ashcroft (and of course George W. Bush)

Senate Torture Report

...and all the apologists in our exceptional media.

Just. Fuck. You.

Yay! Facebook

h/t Crooks and Liars

BOOM!

Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

Chris Rock, 2014

Yes, it fucking is...

h/t Joe Veix
(and digby)

Nutshell

The short history of modern American politics is as follows:

Conservatives poison the public well with paranoia, bigotry and plain bugfuck insanity while sabotaging the government on purpose to gain political and economic advantage.

Liberals point out that poisoning the public well and sabotaging the government are, y'know. bad things.

Centrists clutch their pearls until their palms bleed, and then blame their stigmata on both sides being equally unreasonable and mean.

from driftglass

Conservatives Win

Tom Tomorrow

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Nope...he's not scary enough...(white).

Why Not?

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

This alley runs to the farm on the hill
Where the nights are wild and the petrol spill
Firestone Freddy and Molotov Jack
Their shadow goes but it soon come back
Striking sparks in floods of oil
No name no flag for mother soil
You can guarantee she`ll burn tonight
`Cos England keeps the household white

Ahh...1986, Thatcher, Reagan, Mike Tyson, and before BENGHAZI!, just BEIRUT! (yet, strangely, not quite as shrill).

Wolverines!

I get what informs this movie—class warfare of the economic variety—the haves and have nots.

But I'm rather certain that our rightward leaning neighbors will equate Tilda Swinton with Obama.

When will they secede, and is there anything I can do to help?

Yet, I do want to see this movie.

p.s.
Of course Digby nails it...

 I wouldn't think American rich people would enjoy this movie except for the fact that they persist in believing they are just salt of the earth, regular folks and will probably identify with the rebels. It's one of the United States' greatest delusions: everybody thinks they're middle class ...

 

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