Why’s he look like what would happen if Frodo Baggins did 17 tours in Apocalypse Now? That guy looks like George Custer got hit with Benjamin Button’s disease and he just carried on being a sociopathic war criminal. Also, who the hell names their kid like he’s in a spaghetti Western? “This is my toddler, Brisco Cain.…

Kind of a Sword in the Stone situation? “Whosoever punches this hate-filled, dumbass pustule onto the tarmac will be King of England President of the United States for eight years.”

Somebody’s got to carry on the family business.

I mean, his guy Giuliani did that in New York, didn’t he? As NYC-centric as he is, I wouldn’t be surprised if he views that as a resounding success, and wonders why it’s not happening everywhere.

All of this is inevitable, and the will of Mammon, the One True God. It is right that the wealthy should consume the poor, and it is right that they should be the last ones standing on a ruined planet. Such is the Divine Will of His Invisible Hand. /s

This is a bad take. Government can’t function that way. It requires some basic level of good faith and respect for the process. If we don’t have that (and it looks like we don’t where I live), then we don’t actually have a functional government. That’s been taken from us by the state Republican Party.

None of that matters if you don’t mind flat-out lying to political opponents. It’s a bit silly that they’d even quote Tim Moore, who is a known liar. This is probably the most blatant deception I’ve known them to undertake, but it’s Exhibit #5921 that the North Carolina Republican leadership will lie, cheat, or steal…

The first sentence is correct. The second discounts 1. the effect on turnout of off-year and special elections, which generally favors Republican voters; 2. the chilling effect on voting that things like election fraud can have; and 3. the fact that both of these are heavily gerrymandered “safe” districts for…

They also don’t really care if people get neonatal care or have water that won’t cause birth defects, so it’s tough to make a case that they really give a shit about them before they’re born, either. It’s just the woman deciding not to have the baby that they’ve got an issue with. 

You badly misread things, then. I’m not sure where you inferred a friendly tone as I was asking you to please stop misrepresenting people and cheapening the faith of others. But I did not mean to give you that impression. You’re a bigot. You’re a zealot ignorant of his own faith tradition. You’re currently failing in…

Oh my God, please finish up and disappear up your own butt. Take your bigotry with you.

Sorry, the actual thing you said was :

Speaking of obtuse. Read the whole sentence next time, not just the part you like:

Actually, let’s not discount one of the three of faiths based on the God of Abraham on the basis that it screws up your argument about one of the other two. The “God of the Bible” is triune within most (but not all) Christian sects, but not within either Judaism or Islam. There is also no cross or resurrection in…

Someone already nixed the idea of meeting with the Taliban that week and spending the following days yelling about how well he gets along with them, so I assume he’s planning to throw some sort of large party and parade to mark the occasion in the solemn and thoughtful way it deserves. They’ll probably play that one…

You really gotta expand that reading, chief.

Sure we can. Jesus upended large chunks of Old Testament and Jewish traditions dating back centuries, and we’re claiming to worship the same God. Even without agreeing that their doctrine is correct, you can acknowledge their intent to worship the same God. Presumably, you’re already doing that for Jewish doctrine and…

I mean, it is pretty easy to find out that Muslims explicitly state that their God is the God of Abraham and that they list Jesus as a prophet, yeah. So, their intent is to worship the same God.

THANK YOU. God, it’s just too easy if you use your tax-refund helicopter. My reach goal this year is to catch that weird, virgin Bachelor that ran off into the Mediterranean countryside. But no helicopter. I’m going on horseback with the 13th century Polish cavalry lance I bought from a museum in Krakow and my…

Really, you’d think “Using the same rules we were using last week” would be more efficient than having to scramble to justify why we’re stopping people who can normally just come on over for (probably) a couple weeks with no difficulty or special documents from getting to safety and reducing the emergency services…