May 2, 2013
Recent Polls Demonstrate Why We Are So Fucked

A recent poll of 863 registered voters, conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson (which also happens to be one of the Rude Pundit’s nicknames for his penis) University’s Public Mind showed that 44% of Republicans believe “that an armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years…” [N]early half of Republicans think that they might have to take up their AR-15s of freedom in order to go to war with their government? Man, a bunch of people are living in the kind of fantasy land where their giant beer bellies are seen as sexy and that the greatest threat in the world comes from a black Kenyan in the White House…

We are so very fucked because Americans are so fucking dumb, especially the Americans belonging to one particular political party. When a large number of a nation’s citizens are more willing to entertain armed insurrection than providing health care for the poor, well, it’s pretty goddamn hard to make the case that we’re the Greatest Country in the History of Everything.

(Source: diadoumenos)

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April 24, 2013
"As soon as you crack your knuckles and open up a comments page, you just canceled your subscription to being a good person."

— Louis C.K. (via nedhepburn)

(Source: hotdoorknobs, via brooklynmutt)

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January 27, 2013
"Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That’s my position. I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet."

— Sam Seaborn - The West Wing (via fickenscheiss)

(via mustachioedmoose)

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January 20, 2013
"In my life, I have never voted for a president with the expectation that he will selflessly serve the public interest, and that he never will take his own political viability into account, and that he will fulfill all my expectations, or even most of them, or even half of them. This is not because I am apathetic. This is not because I am stupid. This is because I am no longer seven-years old."

— Charles Pierce, Esquire  (via politicalprof)

8:33am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Za6UjxcCQ_uj
(Notes: 300)
  
January 15, 2013

(Source: shefinallygetsfit, via crossfittinhawaiiantexaschick)

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January 15, 2013
Politicalprof: Crowd sourcing a revolution ...

politicalprof:

So, at the risk of drawing the ire of the FBI, a question:

—can anyone name a single case in which a stable liberal democracy degenerated into an authoritarian dictatorship (the kind always invoked by the gun loonies when insisting that taking away assault rifles will make it easy for the…

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January 12, 2013
Politicalprof: The difference between climate change skeptics and gun control skeptics (who are often the same people)

politicalprof:

—Because climate change is slow and uneven, climate change skeptics can’t imagine a future in which climate change transforms our lives into dystopian forms despite vast amounts of evidence suggesting it’s coming.

—Meanwhile, gun control skeptics can’t see anything but an extremely improbable…

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(Notes: 88)
  
January 12, 2013
"We loved with a love that was more than love."

— Edgar Allan Poe  (via larmoyante)

(Source: larmoyante, via nonreductivesoul)

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January 12, 2013

fuckyeahcrossfit:

It’s a commercial but it’s a good commercial. Patrick Willis, NFL

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January 12, 2013
An Online Converstion About Gun Control
Left-winger: We need to reinstate the assault weapons ban and ban these high-capacity magazines.
Right-winger: You can't ban all guns and repeal the 2nd Amendment libtard!
Left-winger: No one is talking about banning all guns or repealing the Second Amendment.
Right-winger: Cars kill more people than guns. Why aren't you LIEbruls talking about banning all cars, huh? Why the inconsistency?
Left-winger: Again, no one wants to ban all guns. As for cars: They are not designed solely to kill -- as guns are -- and they are necessary to society. Your analogy is flawed.
Right-winger: The Founder Fathers wrote the 2nd Amendment to protect America from communists like you!
Left-winger: 1) You mean the FOUNDING Fathers. 2) I'm not a communist. 3) Communism didn't exist at the time of America's founding. 4) The Second Amendment is not absolute. [Provides link to non-partisan scholarly article about the Second Amendment's history and limitations as established by the Supreme Court.]
Right-winger: OBUMMER is a dictator! We need our guns to protect us from his commie tranny you comunist.
Left-winger: I think you meant "commie TYRANNY," not tranny, and again: I'm not a communist. Neither is the President. Nor is he a dictator -- or did I miss the part where he canceled the election, declared himself President for life, had Mitt Romney executed, and started "disappearing" Republican members of Congress after shutting down Fox News? Further, do you really think a bunch of gun nuts like you stand a chance against a state-of-the-art trained, armed, and equipped military force supported by satellites, drones, and tanks? [Provides a link to an article quoting political scientist Azar Gat, who explains why even well-armed counter-insurgencies against tyrannies always fail.] Your reason for "needing" a gun to fight a tyranny is moot. It's also moot because no one is talking about taking your guns away from you.
Right-winger: [Copies and pastes an eight-paragraph rant, written by a right-winger that other right-wingers pass around to each other via email, about the Second Amendment. The rant heavily plagiarizes a Wikipedia article.] Hah! Refute that you communst gun-graber. You can't repeal th 2md Amedment!
Left-winger: Again: I'm not a communist, no one wants to repeal the Second Amendment, and your own plagiarized article actually proves that the Second Amendment is not absolute. So does my article: [Again provides link to non-partisan scholarly article about the Second Amendment's history and limitations as established by the Supreme Court.]
Right-winger: We need our guns to protect us from commies like you!
Left-winger: [Flags every single comment made by Right-winger as spam, then blocks him.]
9:41pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/Za6UjxbdlWOH
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