Stupid Republican idea of the day

*Right-wing Rafael wanted to fit in
with the White Anglo-Saxons back in New England
He was stuck in a boarding school for a long while
so he changed his name to Ted and now he never smiles

Oh, right-wing Rafael, right-wing Rafael
He’s living in a hell of his own makiiiiiiiiiiiiiing*

I can’t be the only one for whom “Beto” implies "The Worst"—that is, Gilbert Hernandez, most surrealist of cartoonist famiy Los Bros. Hernandez.

I understand that the court is not without sympathy, and would be willing to allow Mr. Kobach to carry a substitute comfort totem such as a blankie or a stuffed animal.

Wait, is Kobach the guy who was picked to head up the WH task force on voter fraud?

One and the same.

Maybe he could use a therapy peacock.

Ted Cruz’s Humon Logic that this is “humor” and “having fun”.

Yes, yes it is. But dude, wtf? Is this Humon Narcissism? Make the commercial attacking your opponent for something you yourself do, ultimately be about you?

Trump supporters caught on camera threatening to burn down leftist book store.

Those people are basically outliers. This incident does not deserve mention, because it only feeds them and people like them with sweet little sprinkles of legitimacy and makes the boundary inliers feel like this kind of puffery is acceptable.

There are a lot of assholes in the country. I am not a fan of looking at assholes, especially scummy ones. We have to stop giving air to this shit.

Not to mention: being outraged by the presence of a lefty bookstore in *Berkeley *is like being outraged by the presence of snow in Alaska.

I think that guy went way out of his way to be a dick to somebody.

Or it was some strange false-flag marketing campaign.

I suspect it is easier for an actor to play a moron than to play a person of respectable intelligence. Or maybe it is a delightful challenge to them.

That thought crossed my mind as well. It might be Poe’s law coming to get me, but this seemed a bit too much on the nose.

That thought did occur to me.

Ryan Bundy is running for Governor of Nevada.
States' Rights Rancher Ryan Bundy To Run For Nevada Governor | HuffPost Latest News?

Oh fun.

I’m sure that could go swimmingly. Like Cal-exit, but with a traitor rather than a russian at the helm.

Really, 250? That’s it?
On the plus side…

This is where we insert the Obama ‘Please proceed’ meme.

I’ll start my own state, with blackjack, and hookers!

Steve Bannon, attempting to stay relevant, tells far-right French “Let them call you racist.”

So, nationalists of different countries don’t see the conflict of interest when talking to each other. When an American nationalist who would by extension oppose French migration to the US tells French people it’s OK to be xenophobes, that would by extension mean they should resist his American influence.

But his French counterpart Marine Le Pen seems to think that any country that rejects outsiders are part of the same brotherhood. From BBC News:

Just so it’s all white.

*When sending out his drawings failed to bring him joy
Cruz found a new way, the people to annoy:
He said, “I’ll be a Pubbie not named Rafael!
And I’ll win on a platform of ‘Fags Will Burn in Hell!’”

Right-wing, right-wing Cruz-er, he’s not named Rafael!
Right-wing, right-wing Cruz-er, never call him Rafael!*