Why not? She was the most factor in electing him in 2016Bankole: Is Hillary Clinton helping to elect Trump? https://t.co/yKgjoUeMnE via @detroitnews
— Another Nobody for #Bernie2020 (@laughingliberal) January 27, 2020
Hillary Clinton, even more than her minions, has completely eschewed any responsibility for her loss.
I am not the most self-aware individual, but even I see a serious need for some introspection here.
Liberals Say Sanders’s Acceptance Of Rogan Endorsement Sends Dangerous Message He Trying To Win Election
Truly, The Onion abides.
I should have included this with my last post:
Patiently awaiting the centrists to denounce Hillary Clinton for helping Trump win by saying Sanders is a worthless POS who no one likes.
“Putin must love this!” They will surely say.
— Matt Bors (@MattBors) January 21, 2020
Crackpot conspiracy theories get easy traction on the internet, [but] they’re less likely to do well in federal court.
—John Schindler, former NSA analyst, of the former NSC Chairman Michael Flynn’s defense team’s descent into tin foil hat territory.
It’s not surprising that his defense as gone nuts. They caught it from their client.
It would be hard to come up with a sentence more opposite to objective reality than, “the function of the intelligence community is to speak truth to power.” https://t.co/6z8Do4qHaF— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 17, 2020
This is not quite at the level of, “The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” but it is close.
Why shouldn’t Giuliani be a felon? All his best friends are felons. https://t.co/NyxxEMTjPC— Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) January 2, 2020
Dean Baker, yuo just won the internet.
Listening to Mitch McConnell talk about the decline of bipartisanship is like listening to Jeffrey Dahmer complain about the decline of dinner party etiquette.
— Al Franken (@alfranken) December 19, 2019
I wish that Al Franken was still in the Senate.
Yes, shooting people is barbaric. The civilized thing is to use a bone saw pic.twitter.com/R4uT3c31ux— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 6, 2019
Paul Krugman unloads a nearly toxic level snark on both Donald Trump and the House of Saud, in response the former’s obsequious Tweet about the Pensacola shooter, who was a Saudi.
The thing is, this was not some random Saudi tourist, it was a member of their military getting pilot training, so clearly someone in Riyadh seriously screwed the pooch with this guy.
Ukraine Crisis Put on Ice by Trump Staff Busy Working out How to Buy Greenland
Seriously, the stupid, it burns.
Bloomberg is polling off the charts with cable TV hosts who own four or more homes https://t.co/7vAe26bo2j— Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) November 8, 2019
Anyone who thinks that Bloomberg’s appeal extends beyond this demographic is engaged in political malpractice.
Taavi Kotka , former CIO of Estonia, on the low £100m price tag for being the most tech-savvy government in the world: “If you don’t use Accenture or McKinsey, you’d be amazed at what you can get done.”— Philip Salter (@Philip_Salter) November 4, 2019
The point is a valid one.
The fixation that governments have on outsourcing and consultants serves primarily to increase cost and to reduce effectiveness of government programs.
Just look at the Obamacare website.
Democrats Launch New ‘Listen Up, Hayseeds’ Campaign To Connect With Rural Voters
Unveiling the new nationwide messaging strategy after six months of planning and research, the Democratic Party launched its “Listen Up, Hayseeds” campaign Monday to win over rural voters. “Hey, you redneck simpletons, put down your whittling sticks, drag yourself away from the Cracker Barrel, and let us tell you how it is,” said a team of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on the debut commercial, part of a widespread advertising blitz that will be played at NASCAR races and monster truck rallies across the country.
Nostradamus has nothing on The Onion.
Honestly, We at Alphaville Can’t See What Could Possibly Go Wrong with Putting a New York Entrepreneur Who’s Never Held Political Office before into the White House.
Indeed.
The Taliban Don’t Have Video Games. so Why Are They so Violent, Us Wonders
Satire, of course, it’s Duffel Blog, but in satire, veritas.
Pay Andrew Yang $1,000 a Month to Get Out of the Presidential Race
Yang’s vision of society is truly dystopian, and his solution of $1000.00 a month fixes nothing.
WeWork Officially Files To Be The Last IPO
This S-1 filing is a word quilt made up of every bad idea from every IPO of the past five years.
I am used to IPOs for companies that have no path to profitability, but WeWork’s IPO documents admits that its CEO is literally looting the company.
This is a level of bald faced fraud that is extraordinary even by the standards of Silicon Valley.
Because they have way too much free time, and because they want to force their views on others, the Kentucky legislature pass a law requiring schools to prominently display the national motto, “In God we trust.”
In response, Fayette County Public Schools is hanging framed dollar bills.
Well played:
When Brittany Pike saw the back of a dollar bill framed at Lexington’s Athens Chilesburg Elementary School last week, she couldn’t have been more pleased.
Pike took a photo and posted it on Facebook Wednesday along with this message about Fayette County Public Schools’ response to Kentucky’s new law that requires the national “In God We Trust” motto to be displayed prominently at schools:
“This school year Kentucky began requiring schools to place “In God We Trust” in the building. I absolutely love living in a school district that wants to follow the law while also ensuring EVERY student feels welcomed back regardless of religious beliefs. Thank you so very much Fayette County Public Schools for simply posting a dollar with ‘In God We Trust.’ My kids don’t feel awkward or excluded for not believing in any God.”
Fayette Superintendent Manny Caulk said Wednesday afternoon that in complying with the new law, “all schools in our district have been provided a framed version of an enlarged copy of a $1 dollar bill to display in a prominent location.”
This is beautiful.
Let me reaffirm that this is a hoax, but it’s funny as hell:
BREAKING:In a major ethics violation, Kamala Harris’ iconic and memorable rainbow sequin coat she wore to San Francisco Pride was sewn together by truancy convicts in a California prison work camp, sources report. pic.twitter.com/MqliI2RD8D
— MSDNC (@MSDNCNews) August 4, 2019
Again, not true, but, as Stephen Colbert would say, there is a lot of truthiness there.
In response to Kamala Harris’s absurd proposal for college loan forgiveness, which provided for (only) $20,000.00 in loan forgiveness and required:
There might be 3 people in the United States who would actually qualify for this grant.
It might be 6 if you count the well-off parents who are pulling the guardian scam to snag undeserved financial aid for their kids.
In response, someone has written the Oddly Specific Kamala Harris Policy Generator, where you press a button, and get a randomly generated policy, like the following:
Yesterday, I announced that, as president, I’ll establish a basic income program for Atheists who open a spy agency that operates for 12 weeks in Comet Ping-Pong.
………
Yesterday, I announced that, as president, I’ll establish a high speed rail program for African-Americans who open a fire dept. that operates for 8 days in communities of color.
………
Yesterday, I announced that, as president, I’ll establish a military expansion program for firefighters who open a bungee jump that operates for 19 weeks in the Google App Store.
………
Yesterday, I announced that, as president, I’ll establish a tort reform program for Tea Party voters who open a buffet that operates for 10 days in their local tourist trap.
I am amused.
It’s hard to sum up what happened tonight, but most of it was a bunch of guys with no chance to win the Democratic nomination yelling Republican talking points at the people who can. It was like watching the seven dwarves offering Snow White a poison apple.
Steven Colbert is a f%$#ing treasure.