Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

We will not go back.

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Occupy Santa Rosa

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Granted, they’re all a bunch of soshulists wastoids out there, but this still impressed me, from reader and commenter Mwangangi:

We had a turnout of about 2,700 people [roughly 2% of the entire population of the city].

I like this pic:

I like it because it’s true. Not too many of the important changes of the past 200 years (and let’s not kid ourselves, things have gotten better in most ways) came about, not because David Gergen, Tom Friedman, and some billionaire made it happen, but because a bunch of dirty fucking hippies took to the streets (or worse).

Update. Something went nuts in the comments here, I think, and word press starting eating everything. I closed them as a result.

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  1. 1.

    Calming Influence

    Yeah but dirty fucking hippies wouldn’t have streets to take to if billionaires hadn’t invented them.

  5. 5.

    Jenny

    Rick Perry’s wife broke down in tears and said at a campaign event, “We are being brutalized by our opponents, and our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him, because of his faith.”

    You go girl, keep painting Romney as a Christian hating cultist. I love winger fratricide.

  9. 9.

    Boudica

    @Jenny: I’ve been waiting for a front pager to do a post on Anita Perry and her pissing and moaning. “They’re being mean to me!” “And our son had to quit his job to campaign for his father!”

    The victimhood is strong with this one….

  11. 11.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    Can you provide a link to the picture so that it shows up on Facebook? I love torturing my conservative friends with this kind of stuff.

  13. 13.

    Calming Influence

    Her (daypack / napsack / bookbag) marks her as a (high-school /college) student, therefore unserious.

  15. 15.

    piratedan

    @Jenny: geez, they’re saying bad things about my husband! Nevermind the fact that they’re all true! We’re being persecuted for being persecutors and its simply not fair, after all we’re religious and white and everything!

    I’m sure those people on death row in Texas prisons that you refuse to give a second chance to, feel the same way…..

  17. 17.

    jo6pac

    but because a bunch of dirty fucking hippies took to the streets (or worse).

    You’re welcome and now we need everyone else to support the young ones that are in the streets today.

  18. 18.

    maya

    Wha? Is Rick Perry running for that new cabinet position – Archbishop of Corporate Oversight? For a few dolla he’ll over look anything.

  19. 19.

    Calming Influence

    “Thank ‘A’ protester”?!? Which protester are you talking about?!? Can she name me the protester that brought about the minimum wage?!?

    [I didn’t think so…]

  20. 20.

    Calming Influence

    Steve Jobs invented the transistor, the printed circuit board, and the cell phone touch screen, so he deserved all the money in the world.

  23. 23.

    andynotadam

    I was in Santa Rosa yesterday and it was a really nice crowd. Also at Occupy Sonoma on Friday night there were several hundred peaceful people and no police presence. One favorite sign said, “I couldn’t afford a banker, so I got this sign instead” carried by Kathy from local favorite Mexican food emporium Juanita Juanita.

  24. 24.

    Alison

    I haz a sad. I live in Petaluma (about 15 miles south of Santa Rosa) and I really wanted to go to this – I figured it would turn out to be bigger than people expected, and I’ve really wanted to be a part of the whole goings-on in a more tangible way than just following tweets and watching Maddow.

    Alas, illness/disability makes this sort of venture basically impossible for me. Which is funny (in that ha ha kill me way) because my illness has made my overall life suck in so many ways over the past year, a big one being financially. I’m on SDI and my prospects for being able to go back to work anytime soon are decidedly not good…but at the same time, my chances of getting any sort of assistance beyond the one year of SDI (which runs out in March) are just as not-good. If we had universal health care and better social safety nets, I’d be less worried. But we don’t have those things, largely because of the influence of the 1% motherfuckers.

    I mean, I guess that’s all sort of random, but whatev. I was there in spirit, I guess.

  25. 25.

    Don Pratt

    As a long time protestor, beginning years ago after the neglectful death of a child in a refrigerator dumped outdoors with the door on…I thank Occupy Wall Street for raising so many questions ranging from economic injustice to wars.
    Here is a web page with the most profound sign I have seen in our Occupy Lexington (KY in support of Occupy Wall Street) demonstrations.
    http://www.barefootandprogressive.com/2011/10/homeless.html

    And…
    “Mountatintop Removal is Kentucky’s Ongoing Gulf Oil Spill!”

  27. 27.

    Jeffrey Kramer

    Not too many of the important changes of the past 200 years… came about not because David Gergen, Tom Friedman, and some billionaire made it happen….

    The double negative there actually reverses your (very good) point.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    If Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison were alive today, they’d be disparaged by the MSM as DFHs. Especially that lecherous blogger Franklin…

  36. 36.

    Mike G

    “We are being brutalized by our opponents, and our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him, because of his faith.”

    Yes, because being an evangelical Xtian is such a handicap in the Republican Party. Do Repukes have any sense of shame whatseover?

  40. 40.

    AA+ Bonds

    It’s a good point. It was a combination of leftist rabble-rousers and trade unions that got us the life Americans have come to appreciate as theirs.

    Of course, the right will say that what that middle-class life means is that we’re no longer competitive with China for labor, and so the best thing would be for Americans to return to 14-hour-workdays for ten-year-olds and jobs that poison us to death with industrial chemicals.

    That’s fine. They can keep on saying that. In fact, with an election coming up in 2012, I heartily encourage them to share all their supposed Harsh Economic Facts with American voters.

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