1) Yesterday was not a trial. It was a job interview for one of the most exclusive and prestigious jobs in America. The burden of proof is only and entirely on the applicant to demonstrate he’s the absolute best person for the job. “Innocent until proven guilty” doesn’t apply. You don’t know what the fuck you’re…

The red-faced bellowing and outright threats of score settling certainly aren’t filling me with empathy. 

If anyone needs help visualizing this guy as a belligerent and abusive drunk, an approximation is on basically every fucking channel right now.

Right now, the man the GOP has nominated for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is shrieking about shadow conspiracies and retribution. Just a model of sober-minded jurisprudence on display. 

I need to stop doing this because it ultimately doesn’t matter but...

And this thoughtless, vile cruelty is a big part of his brand and why a large portion of this nation likes him.

No one really cares what cops want to do, they care about what cops actually do.

ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people.

As a liberal, I don’t feel like I’m being owned enough. I suggest they keep literally playing with fire on their property, just to show just how strong-willed and patriotic they are.

The “bottom rail.” **snort**

“It makes it doubly sweet to know that we have been remembered in the erection of this beautiful memorial. The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when the facts…

Truth! And here is a link for anyone who doesn’t believe it.

Yeah, but “civility” and “heritage” or some shit.

From Julian Carr’s 1913 Silent Sam dedication speech:

The same fate awaits all traitors.

You can always tell the people who picked up their Looney Tunes fandom from boardwalk t-shirts circa 1995.

Marvin the Martian not being at least in the top five is a crime against humanity, and I demand a swift and savage retribution against those responsible.

Don’t selfishly turn me into political propaganda, complains the guy beaming in photo ops with a brutal autocrat.

I love the picture at the top.

Russia outperformed the sum of their talents and showed that they’re very much not frauds as long as we pretend they don’t have a sophisticated doping program.