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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Eliminationist Rhetoric
Kulturkampf: A Definition
Some knowledge of German is quite nearly mandatory for those who study military history. I borrow this particular German word because of its history and applicability to the study of politics as the continuation of warfare by other means. Which … Continue reading
Individuality Under Assault
Via David Neiwert at C&L: CNN offers a disturbing look into the rhetoric of the Hutaree militia. Neiwert does a good job dissecting it all here, but there’s one aspect that I don’t think gets enough attention: the Fight Club-like … Continue reading
Paranoia Is Not An American Value
Via Dave Neiwart at Crooks & Liars, here’s a video the Hutaree militia made in which they overthrow a United Nations command post (presumably after Teh Obamanon™ brings in the UN to keep civil order after Teh Global Socializms™ inspire … Continue reading
You Don’t “Coordinate” Zombies
Dale Robertson, the self-proclaimed “founder” of the tea party movement, speaking of teabag terrorism in the Washington Times yesterday: “These people could be anybody. I wouldn’t put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there,” Mr. Robertson said. “They’re trying … Continue reading
Morning Awful
Palin’s “hit list” for November. With people throwing bricks through office windows and cutting gas lines, you’d think she wouldn’t up the ante on eliminationist rhetoric. But then you would be a rational person, which she decidedly isn’t.
Peace Through Superior Firepower
Orwell said that pistols and rifles were inherently democratic weapons. What he meant by the statement is that a pistol makes a five-foot tall female state trooper as deadly as anyone else. So when the guardians of democracy come under … Continue reading
Morning Awful
There’s a fantastic analysis at Salon about Stack’s nemesis, Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which removed that protection from certain “technical personnel” — specifically singling out those who provided services as an “engineer, designer, drafter, computer … Continue reading
Morning Awful
Dear Tea Party spokesperson: While your name is still unknown, by saying that a sitting Senator should be “hung” you have not only engaged in eliminationist rhetoric, you have managed to offend the English language. A person is not “hung,” … Continue reading
Morning Awful: “And Yet It Melts”
Among random crap on Twitter, I found a gem: the so-called “American Voice” website contains anti-intellectual hate speech. The problem, according to “Mr. Silence Dogood Houston, Texas” (once again invoking the rule that wingnuts lack an irony gene), The more … Continue reading
The Eyes of Elimination
Gregory Girard, the creepy-looking dude to the right, is a tea party wingnut. Massachusetts authorities have arrested him for assembling a weapons cache that included military grade weapons, explosive devices including tear gas and pepper ball canisters, camouflage clothing, knives, … Continue reading
Dear Richard Thompson
Sir: I have just learned of your statement in the Michigan group’s lawsuit attempting to undo the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act. I should like to repeat the pertinent passage here, in which you claim there is “no need” to … Continue reading
