(Source: benjaminldaniel, via political-cartoons)
“The Daily Show“‘s Al Madrigal on why no candidate “living, dead or fictional will ever satisfy the Tea Party”:
- Ronald Reagan: He “was a Hollywood Commie who raised taxes, grew government, and gave amnesty to illegal immigrants. That poor son of a bitch would get eaten alive by this crowd.”
- Thomas Jefferson: “The man cut up his Bible, loved the French, and had a well-documented case of jungle fever… Try again.”
- Superman: “Illegal immigrant.”
- Optimus Prime: “He accepted the auto industry bailout.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the best tweet of the night. Brilliant—and dead-on.
(Source: shortformblog, via inothernews)
"One day I play great, the next day I play awful, but this was the round of the decade. …Seven birdies, five bogies - two under."
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House Speaker JOHN BOEHNER (R- Ohio), caught on an open mic bragging about his golf game with Vice president Joe Biden before the President’s address last night. The Speaker hit the links during Congress’s five-week recess.
There, Republicans. Y’all play golf during an economic crisis, too.
(Source: inothernews)
"The President offered a date (for his jobs speech). The Republicans said ‘Could you move that date?’ And the President said ‘All right.’ Non-crisis averted! It’s the first installment of what I hope will be many in our new segment, ‘Tales Of Reasonable Accomodation.’"
— JON STEWART, on the media’s (and, admittedly, the blogosphere’s) obsession with “Speechgate,” “Speech Spat” and all the other “Tales of Manufactured Conflict,” on The Daily Show. (via inothernews)
(Source: tumblrtribune, via political-cartoons)
"What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward."
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GOP presidential hopeful MICHELE BACHMANN, not realizing the Soviet Union dissolved two fucking decades ago.
Then again, her unofficial campaign slogan is “Bachmann. Backwards.”
This is one of just a few onscreen graphics that Fox “News” actually put on the air.
I remember some asshole on here going on about how I was declaring “class warfare” because I thought things like universal healthcare were good things, things that would benefit our fellow men and women who — numbering in the tens of millions — go without such things.
So what the fuck is this, exactly? What is Fox “News” trying to prove here? That poor people aren’t actually “poor” because they have something in their homes that prevents essential foodstuffs like milk and eggs from spoiling?
That having things like a TV or a cellphone makes them, in words ACTUALLY USED ON FOX “NEWS” TO DEFINE POOR PEOPLE, “the takers,” “parasites” and “the moocher class”?
That a family of four making less than $23,000 a year is somehow getting away with something by literally being too poor to be taxed by the federal government?
Go fuck yourselves.
No seriously. Go fuck yourselves right now.
"George W Bush : Rick Perry :: Dick York : Dick Sargent"
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Agreed. It is the “other Darren”.
