Respect Authority

So. Let’s talk about new beginnings. Barack Hussein Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. The bartender asks, “Where did you get that from?” And the parrot says, “Argh, the Middle East, there’s a whole bunch of Muslims down there!”

This Tuesday is kind of a big deal… to say the least. Although, admittedly, less of a big deal than that Tuesday in November, this one is more symbolic in its importance. It is the last day George W. Bush will be President. Really just try to wrap your mind around that. I was fucking fifteen years old when he was elected — I am a different person today than I was all those years ago, and yet George W. Bush was there the whole time. If America didn’t have such an infuriating bastard of a president through my “rebellious” years, would still I be the same bitter, whining pothead I am today? …Probably, but… whatever.

For fucking eight years we’ve all walked past the shoddy “Not MY President” t-shirts, heard countless jokes about the man’s stupidity, saw numerous documentaries about his administration’s handling of 9/11, blah blah blah. He was our Stalin, our Mussolini. And I guess in those terms, it really wasn’t all that bad and I guess America is a pretty okay place to live after all. Read More ›

"You know the difference between you and me? I make douchey shirts look gooood."

Once marginalized as an uppity Internet liberal truth Nazi, the perennial correction of the talking point “9/11 led to the Iraq War” finally scored a victory.

Today, the independent Senator from Vermont - Bernie Sanders - wrote to his local Smithsonian and got them to change the caption under the official Bush portrait.  The original caption read:

Bush found his two terms in office instead marked by a series of catastrophic events: the attacks on September 11, 2001, that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq…

…and the Smithsonian in response to the complaint decided to “delete ‘led to’”. 

Bravo, Smithsonian.  Thank you for making historical accuracy cool again… and also making sure two words don’t mislead 22nd century scholars - who will only have your ruined collection to piece together pre-apocalyptic history.

[TPM Election Central]