Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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

In my day, never was longer.

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

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

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  1. 1.

    13th Generation

    I was literally choked up when I saw that on the feed last night, and that is an incredible story about the women who let him do it from her apartment.

  2. 2.

    geg6

    I’m still a little leery of what OWS is trying to do (or not do or whatever) other than get the media to pay attention (which may be enough, I’m not sure). But the Bat Signal is too fucking cool.

  4. 4.

    Nutella

    An interesting part of the symbolism is that the fairly grim public housing where they set up the projector is so close to the Verizon tower.

  6. 6.

    harlana

    anybody see the Rove meltdown in front of protesters (few days ago)? gonna check into it after i get off work.

    Rove: “who gave you the right to occupy America?”

  7. 7.

    Cat Lady

    This is the beginning of the beginning. The 99% toothpaste is out of the tube, and once something has been accurately identified and catchily named, the game changes. OWS is just taking its path, like water.

  11. 11.

    handsmile

    @13th Generation: (#1)

    The loudest and most sustained roar during last night’s march over the Brooklyn Bridge arose when those images appeared on the Verizon and other nearby buildings. That response to the images brought tears and hugs among the fellow protesters/strangers with whom I was walking.

    @harlana: (#6)

    Yes, do view the clip. Seems something must be working.

  13. 13.

    13th Generation

    @handsmile:

    I know from your comments that you’ve been active in the OWS.

    I truly hope that this is just the “beginning of the beginning.” Nothing happens overnight and nothing good ever comes easy.

  15. 15.

    catpal

    @13th Generation: I was choked up too. This is so great and the story of who did it and the woman and her family who let them use her apartment – they are awesome!

    “I can’t charge you money, this is for the people,” she said.

  16. 16.

    singfoom

    @handsmile: Cross thread post, but you asked me about Occupy Chicago in the other OWS thread.

    I have been to a couple GAs and marched several times. Unfortunately, my job has consumed my free time recently and I haven’t been in over a week. We don’t have nearly the number of people involved as there are involved in NYC and the space they’ve chosen to picket (Lasalle & Jackson) is an intersection in the financial district with not a lot of foot traffic.

    Personally, at some of the GAs I’ve been to, I think people are concentrating on feel-good minutae instead of practical actions, but that’s direct democracy for you, slow and messy. I’m trying to shore up my lack of ability to be down there much with material support until my schedule changes…

  20. 20.

    celticdragonchick

    For your listening pleasure, Folk/Celtic singer Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops singing “The Bottom 99 percent” song at Occupy Wall Street.

    Check out the other stuff from Rhiannon and the CCD’s. One of the best bands in North Carolina, specializing in rediscovering African American and Scots-Irish folk music traditions from the late 19th Century.

  21. 21.

    harlana

    @singfoom: i’m sure you saw lots of people pooping in the streets and on each other, as per Fox News. they, and Rush, seem to be a bit obsessed with this topic.

    all i have to say is, considering there are cameras everywhere, where’s the video(s) of people pooping in the streets? if such tapes existed, they would be running day and nite on Fox with the poops pixillated out.

  26. 26.

    harlana

    Eat it, King.

    You’re talking about a small number of people — you could probably get more people in a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday than you’ve got in Zuccotti Park.

  27. 27.

    singfoom

    @harlana: Yeah, no pooping observed in Chicago. One drunk asshole who started yelling and disrupted the GA a lot, cops got in his face because he was screaming obscenities…

    Otherwise, just normal marching and chanting and then discussion in the GAs.

  30. 30.

    Linda Featheringill

    Demands:

    ninedemands.com/petitions/dailykos

    9 demands of the 99%.

    These demands represent reform of the present economic system to give a little slack to the 99%. If the Powers That Be were smart, they would try to meet these demands.

    If these Powers are stupid, they won’t give in to these demands and will help set up conditions ripe for something more radical than reform.

  33. 33.

    singfoom

    @gocart mozart: Yeah, that shit is fucked up.

    “You get into the street, you deserve to be pepper sprayed.”

    I mean, if you plan on civil disobedience and you break low level laws, you should be ready to be arrested. That doesn’t mean that if you’re peaceful that you deserve to be pepper sprayed. That’s just awful.

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