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Hear, hear! I live in OP, and got ambushed by a campaigner a few weeks ago while out h2oing the flowers. He barely got the words 'Kris Kobach' out before I started laughing so hard it triggered every dog in the neighborhood. (And a good many outside of it.)Fast forward to a few days ago, I watched a campaigner across the street literally tiptoeing through my neighbors' yards/up front walks to hang Yoder pamphlets on their doors.I was curious after our pup went nuts as if someone was approaching our front door, and found one of his pamphlets that had a "sorry we missed you" handwritten on the front. There is zero possibility that he knocked/rang the bell, thanks to acoustics provided by all wooden floors we can easily hear both from every room in our house.

I honestly wish that this meant something..

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What “reasonably good program” do you have in mind?

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How is it a lie? Kobach stirs up illegal immigration hysteria among several hundred morons, helps them pass anti-immigration laws, and the Town pays him many American dollars defending those laws. Then the town spends a million dollars paying the ACLU’s legal bills. Clearly, illegal immigration is a burden on the taxpayers.

But I concede he lied by omission because, obviously, Kobach is also a burden on taxpayers.

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Thanks Dok. Your article leaves me asking "What Hell Town doesn't have a single Taco Truck?" Even Racists love a good taco.

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Don't judge.

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You know what they say, 'one man, one vote'.

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I'm so close to changing my user name to Taco Whatever.

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Taco Whatever liblez!

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That pretty well sums it up

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I wasn't ragging on Dok. I don't have a PHD in rhetoric or math, but I knows my percentages: e.g., the alleged 40% that is Trump's base. Now that there is your epic crisis of derp. IMHO, that percentage of derp is waaay worse than a measly 280 brown people. And please, don't ask me to prove my answer.

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IKR? I'd love for someone from that resistance genealogy crew to do that fuckhead Barletta's family tree.

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Those municipalities thought they were hiring him to create pogroms, not programs. Understandable mistake.

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But it's an article of faith:* Tax cuts always increase government revenue.* Unregulated capitalism will bring everybody out of poverty.* Going to war in Iraq was a good idea. Corollary: The people we drop bombs on and whose country we turn into a living hellscape will welcome us and will NOT join terrorist groups to kill American service members because U.S. bombs (now more explodey with the massive jolt of extra freedom!) killed his mother and two nephews.* There's a man in the sky who gets sooooo angry when men do sexy times with other men. GRRRR! Sometimes in his anger he destroys a couple of cities. Sometimes he sends a hurricane that goes up the asshole of the the United States, AKA "Florida." Some say he destroyed the Roman Empire because of all the boy-diddlin' the men Romans were doing. Seriously, if there were a god who had made an entire infinite universe he would be so far ahead of us that we would be to him as rolly pollies are to humans. Not many people are really spending that much time wondering if two boy rolly pollies are 69-ing like there's no tomorrow under the rose bushes in the back yard. And anyone who does wonder about that is SICK! TWISTED! * Republicans are the party of the working poor in the lower and middle classes and are working on their behalf. * The federal government is corrupt, inefficient and unable to do anything right. Elect us Republicans and we'll prove it!* Once everyone is packing two or three guns at all times when away from home no one will get shot by guns any longer and we will have the most polite and respectful society.* All Republicans are Christians, and the "right" kind of Christians to boot. All Democrats are gay, child-raping, socialist, baby-eating, communist, Muslim devil worshipers who get each other pregnant just for the thrill they get from killing a sweet baby in the womb.

I'm sure I forgot a few.

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"Cousin Puerto Rico" would be a citizen, anyway.

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Or one more exit down the interstate there's a Whataburrito.

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