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52m ago
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Trump’s stupid Bible and his stupid Jesus-less Christianity are perfect for America’s Christ-less Christians, and a godless Christianity devoid of caring for the stranger and the poor is exactly what they’ve been waiting for. He’s the messiah AND a very naughty boy! (Amanda Marcotte at Salon)
Ashli Babbitt, the Horst Wessel of January 6 (deep cut, Amanda). (Salon)
Trump’s pathetic stonks. (Timothy Noah at The New Republic)
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16h ago
We guess somebody pulled the “oh shit” alarm over at Fox News and said it’s time to focus on what really matters: scaring the shit out of the half-dead, chairborne white racists who constitute their viewership and the Republican base. Sean Hannity, being one of the stupidest people on the network — y’all have heard what Rupert Murdoch really thinks of him — answered the call. It’s entirely possible the monologue below is something Hannity believes in his heart. He’s just not the brightest boy.
But here you go. Joe Biden is going to take away the air conditioner in your backyard and the stov ..read more
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16h ago
Nicole Shanahan, future vice president
This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that his running mate would not be any of the 87 names he tossed out there in recent weeks but rather Nicole Shanahan, an attorney and “avid surfer” who, so far, has donated lots of money to his campaign, including spending $4 million on that Super Bowl campaign ad that Kennedy had to apologize to his family for. She was also the “creative force” behind that ad.
Like RFK Jr., Shanahan say that she is not an anti-vaxxer, just that she wants to have conversations about vaccines.
Via The New York Times:
She said ..read more
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17h ago
Video screenshot, Twitter
As has become traditional with any significant news event, Tuesday’s crash of the container ship Dali into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore prompted rightwing kooks across the internet — and your television! — to offer any number of conspiratorial takes on the disaster. It was obviously a “cyberattack,” according to rape advocate and alleged practitioner Andrew Tate, leading Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones to agree “Looks deliberate to me.” Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo speculated that the “wide-open border” was to blame, although she didn’t say what ..read more
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18h ago
Photo by Cosmic Timetraveler on Unsplash
Right-wing white American Christians have a love affair going with Putin’s Russia and Orbán’s Hungary, countries they imagine are utopian societies for white Christian nationalists like them. It amuses us because, like so many things they believe, it’s built on a lie. The authoritarian dictatorships that have seized power in those countries are projecting that image abroad, but average Russians and Hungarians don’t give a shit about religion.
Last year when Tucker Carlson was in Hungary bouncing on Orbán’s lap and telling audiences Americans hate Hung ..read more
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20h ago
Credit: Chemist4U
When it comes to diabetes, the United States not only has the highest rate of all developed nations, we also charge people the highest rates to not die from it. For years, insulin manufacturers charged Americans outrageous prices simply because they could. Now, thankfully, those prices have gone down, with pharmaceutical companies agreeing to a $35 price cap after the Biden administration capped the cost for seniors on Medicare — but the price of insulin pumps is still pretty high (even, I have just learned, on AliExpress, which does not seem like a great place to get an in ..read more
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21h ago
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT for Lieberman - Connecticut), the centrist one-time Democrat who as Al Gore’s vice presidential pick in 2000 became the first Jewish American to run on a major party ticket, has died at the age of 82. After that campaign and a failed bid for the presidency in 2004, Lieberman’s politics became increasingly conservative, and he was even under serous consideration as John McCain’s running mate in 2008. Most of us here at Wonkette will remember him as the guy who killed the public option in Obamacare, as well as for his support for George W. Bush’s Iraq War long af ..read more
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21h ago
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a new motion to vacate to fire weak and failing Christian extremist Speaker Mike Johnson from his brand new job, so that’s hilarious. In this Republican majority that keeps getting smaller by the day, the legislative Crossfit terrorist from Cowfucker Acres, Georgia, might end up with one major accomplishment, and that’s making Democrat Hakeem Jeffries the next speaker. (She says she won’t take the blame if that happens. She clearly wasn’t raised well enough. Politico is full of juicy quotes from Republicans who hate her, by the way, if you’re into that ..read more
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23h ago
Rough year, bro? (Not Ari Melber, he looks dashing as always.)
It’s the update nobody saw coming!
Yesterday, we learned that the man who had accused CPAC’s holy and blameless white-haired patriarch Matt Schlapp of drunkenly groping his dick — “pummeling his junk,” in the lingo of the complaint — had mysteriously and suddenly dropped his sexual assault lawsuit against Schlapp, plus his defamation lawsuit against Schlapp, Schlapp’s wife Mercedes, CPAC, the American Conservative Union, this one other Schlapp idiot Caroline Wren, etc.
It had all been one big misunderstanding! It wasn’t groping ..read more
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1d ago
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Well if Paul Manafort is going to rejoin Trump post-prison, Sen. Ron Wyden thinks we should all see what he was up to with the KGB! (Wyden)
Sure sounds like the Baltimore-busting Dali’s parent company has safety issues o.O (Common Dreams)
Send this to everyone. Joe Biden should be getting waaaaaay more credit on student loans, this shit is fantastic. Don’t take our word for it, look how mad Heritage is, at SAVE, just one of the prongs in his multipronged approach. SAVE is:
extremely generous to borrowers, requiring only nominal payments from mos ..read more