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Twits on Twitter 0

Twits who gather at the mountain.

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Punditry in Perpetuity 0

Nate the Neo-Con NItwit:  Neocon pundit who is always wrong about every thing but does not go away.

Via Kos.

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

If the truth is not on your side, make stuff up. It’s the Wingnut Way.

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Helm’s Derp 0

Voice:

Via Job’s Anger.

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Helm’s Derp 0

Texan bearing

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Helm’s Derp 0

Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un and the interstate highway was still a dream, we would occasionally get caught behind an Army convoy on two lane roads.

It would seem endless, but it was but a blip compared to the cavalcade of crazy in Texas.

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Facebook Frolics 0

The Right trolls hard.

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There Are None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See 0

Farnsworth is not quite so charitable as Peter St. Onge.

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Hoist on His Own Petard 0

Essential to teabaggery is denial for any responsibility for the public good or for contributing thereunto, because those contributions take the form of taxes (at least until teabaggers discover they are part of the public).

This case is sad, but it’s not at all sympathetic.

Via Balloon Juice.

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All the World’s a Plot, and All the Men and Women Merely Plotters 0

Tony Norman explores the magnetic powers of conspiracy theories. A snippet:

If you believe that Mr. Obama is the illegitimate son of Malcolm X and was adopted by Mau Mau revolutionaries in his native Kenya, schooled by Marxists throughout the Third World, personally mentored by Saul Alinsky and finally given a white family of mushy liberals from Kansas as cover, then fearing a Jade Elm 15 invasion isn’t much of a stretch.

Ironically, those most concerned about Jade Helm 15 aren’t remotely bothered by the militarization of the police or by what’s happening in large swaths of urban America. They aren’t suspicious of the takeover of the political process by corporate interests and plutocrats. Their anxieties are much more exotic and unlikely. They’re not particularly open to a counter narrative that involves anything less than a supernatural villain whose plans can be leaked in advance on the Internet.

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The March (and April and May) of the Zombie Lies 1

In related news, Leonard Pitts, Jr, peers from the ramparts of Helm’s Deep and sees the attacking forces of Sauron stupid, the army of the zomebies zombie lies of wingnuttery.

“Twenty years ago,” I wrote, “the idea of anti-government resistance seemed confined to a lunatic fringe operating in the shadows beyond the mainstream. Twenty years later, it is the mainstream, the beating heart of the Republican Party. And while certainly no responsible figure on the right advocates or condones what he did, it is just as certain that McVeigh’s violent antipathy toward Washington, his conviction that America’s government is America’s enemy, has bound itself to the very DNA of modern conservatism.

”That’s the argument conservatives found “hateful” “sickening” and “dishonest.”

So it is, depending upon your religious outlook, a fortuitous coincidence or superfluous evidence of God’s puckish sense of humor that a few days later comes news of conservatives accusing the federal government of trying to take over the state of Texas.

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Helm’s Deep 4

Jim Wright tries to figure out the terror in Texas. A snippet:

This right here, this drooling lunacy, this mental illness, is the state of America. This is what talk radio and reality TV and Budweiser fueled NASCAR has done to the gene pool.

This, right here.

I’ve been putting it off, talking about Jade Helm, because it’s just so stupid, just so utterly fucking stupid even for the twitching under-medicated paranoia that passes for Republicans nowadays. But I see I can’t evade it any longer.

Read it.

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Flagging Interest 0

This news item shall certainly incite rabid wingnuttery:

The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal Monday by high school students in Morgan Hill who were barred from wearing American flags on their T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, a year after an angry confrontation between flag-waving Anglo and Mexican American students.

Never mind that the U. S. Flag Code forbids wearing the U. S. Flag (see the complete Flag Code at the link–those who stridently claim to revere the flag and the republic for which it stands might do well to read and abide by it):

(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free.

I reckon that, in Wingnut World, disrespect is the highest form of respect.

Or something.

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Rand Gestures, Just the Vax, Ma’am Dept. 0

Rekha Basu spotlights a (yet another) disconnect in Rand Paul’s reasoning. Here’s a bit:

Rand Paul said a curious thing when asked, in reference to the measles outbreak across 14 states, if government should require parents to vaccinate their children. . . .

“States don’t own the children,” declared Paul, who is considering a run for president. “Parents own the children.”

No, we don’t own our children. From slavery to child sexual abuse, the notion of owning another human has led to nothing good. Legally, we’re responsible for our kids and their care, feeding and safety until they’re old enough to take care of themselves. But they are autonomous human beings, which is why, unlike property, there are laws and standards governing what we can and can’t do to them culled not just from individual whims and wishes, but from knowledge of child development, mental and physical health and education.

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Swampwater . . . 0

. . . produces swamp gas, even in Dubai, which, as far as I know, has no swamps.

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Truth and Truthers 0

The fellow who stole memorial signs from playgrounds honoring the dead in the Sandy Hook school shootings and who also claimed that the killings were a hoax and never happened has been apprehended, thanks in large part to Chez Pazienda and The Daily Banter.

He is not alone in his trutherism (sp?), in his ability to disavow facts because he doesn’t like them.

You realize, of course, such people are nuts.

Realize also that considerable resources, including

  • Fox News,
  • the wingnut thinktank complex,
  • ALEC,
  • the New York Times as long as it keeps hacks like Ross Douthat and David Brooks on its payroll,
  • the “main stream media” as long as it gives Cal Thomas, Charles Krauthammer, Megan McArdle, Christine Flowers, and their like paychecks (Google them yourselves–I’m not providing links), and
  • the rest of the “vast rightwing conspiracy” (for naming which Hillary Clinton was mercilessly reviled, but which exists nonetheless–too sophisticated to meet in smoke-filled rooms, but meeting the essential definition of “conspiracy,” that is, “coordinated”) .

are devoted to nurturing their nuttiness so as to undermine our polity.

Both sides don’t do it, and, until and unless the media stop pretending that they do, we will continue to be doomed.

Yes, I’m fed up. My country is being sold down the river (you will pardon the expression but it is most apt) and no one is paying attention.

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Sex Fiends 0

My daughter was a Girl Scout.

If she had had to deal with this level of whackjobbery when she was eight or nine or ten years old, I would have been seriously annoyed.

Wingnuts are obsessed with sex and are determined to force that obsession on the rest of us, rather keep it in the privacy of their bedrooms, as discrete persons do.

Via Eschaton.

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Old Tea, New Bags 0

Mr. Feastingonroadkill explicates the blend.

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Cruzing to Godwin’s Law 0

Words fail me.*

Honest to Pete, these people are nuts.

If this keeps up, Sandisk will rename their Cruzer.

Full Disclosure:

I have two Sandisk Cruzers. I might just fire up Parted and change the label to something else. “Sandisk Too Stupid for Words” comes to mind.

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*I try to use profanity sparingly in these electrons, but, really, now, it’s becoming a challenge.

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Alex Jones: “He’s a Kook, but He’s Our Kook” 0

The TWiB gang critiques Alex Jones’s appearance on the BBC.

Wait for the meltdown.

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