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Oh they love their Robert Byrd mythology. Here's a man who so profoundly renounced his earlier years, saying over and over "I was wrong, and I can never stop apologizing," who raised thousands for an MLK memorial, who worked so closely with the NAACP that they gave him a 100% grade, who became an ardent civil rights advocate, and somewhere in those later years, posed for a fucking picture with Hillz. But they love their utterly false version in which somehow Hillary is buddies with a KKK leader---even though, right in front of their eyes, the orange demagogue IS buddies with the KKK, as well as neoNazis, white supremacists, racists, bigots, and misogynists. It's such wickedness.

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Only failures and losers, with absolutely nothing else to value in themselves, choose--rather than bettering themselves, or educating themselves, or getting a useful set of skills, or just not hanging around with Hell's Angels and tattoo artists--to value ONLY their skin color. And here, of all places, a country that flourishes and grows by our diversity. I'm pretty sure they all use iPhones, invented by the son of a Muslim immigrant, and Google, invented by a Russian-born immigrant American, or YouTube, invented by a Chinese-born American and a German-born Bangladeshi. They are pathetic, ignorant, limited weaklings, who can't face their own self-induced failures.

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And yet, somehow, Mel Brooks made me, an old-school feminist, laugh at "You said rape twice" "I LAHK rape."

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And it's so pathetically obvious that a RNC or Trump or Putin operative sent the hateful Mateen there. Of course he wouldn't be a Hillary supporter--it was a plant. Assholes.

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Well, look at them. They've got nothing else except their own corrosive failures and stupidity. Of course they'll defend it.

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Trimming 100-ft-tall trees in super hot weather with only a rope to hold them on the branches!

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And Steve Bannon's name anagrams out to limp-dicked fat loser! Amazing!

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And so it evokes... uh... what? Something communist sounding, maybe? Because their guy isn't cozying up to the ur-Communist, parroting his revanchist aggressive agenda as "foreign policy," appearing on Kremlin TV to spout anti-American propaganda, and seems to owe shady Russian interests millions of dollars?

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I have an all-purpose campaign button. It says, "Don't vote for stupid."

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I grew up on a farm in the 60's. The neighbor hated two things in this world, and two things only: Niggers and Commies. He got his subsidy check every month, and, by God, he deserved it.

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Don't forget the robe part. You try anything in just the hood, and you might get shot.

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Opioid Induced Constipation?

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That should be tattooed on Trump's penis, except it wouldn't fit.

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Also, looking him up on wikipedia, he was tried on federal charges in 2011, which means Obama's DOJ is partially responsible for sending him to jail. I'm not sure how much stronger a condemnation they need if "spend 30 years behind bars without parole" is not enough for them.

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Holy shit-burgers, I once worked for a pun-loving man and that was one of his favorites ... thought it was original ... never heard it anywhere else ... before now ... leave it to Wonkers to bust another myth ... still love the joke though ... use it everytime I eat the pizza ... or feel the need to take someone else's Lord & Savior's name in vain (what's vain about it, anyway?)

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The depth of the cognitive dissonance and willingly ignorance is truly breathtaking.

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