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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

I really should read my own blog.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Let there be snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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Tears of a banker

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I can’t get enough of this stuff (via):

One of the guests raised his hand; he knew how to solve the problem. The president had won plaudits for his speech on race during the last campaign, the guest noted. It was a soaring address that acknowledged white resentment and urged national unity. What if Obama gave a similarly healing speech about class and inequality? What if he urged an end to attacks on the rich? Around the table, some people shook their heads in disbelief.

I apologize in advance for calling these clowns pansy asses.

Update. This is a little mean, but somehow of a piece with the above:

But after a few months it became exhausting. They have big egos and are big babies…..I can’t trust any of them. They’re all liars. Some nicer or cuter than others, but all liars.

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  1. 1.

    BGinCHI

    Lacking in empathy coming in just above lack of brains for those people.

    No sense of history, no experience of struggle, no fellow-feeling.

    Now, can we have some proper class warfare? Maybe a national day of violence against the rich? At least then they’d get the “pain” part.

  3. 3.

    MattF

    One may recall that in the not-so-distant past it would be taken for granted that any very wealthy person was a thief. Now, was that fair? Well, um, yes, actually.

  4. 4.

    jwb

    @AxelFoley: The only thing that is saving us at this point is that a large portion of our overlords are exceptionally stupid about everything except making money.

  6. 6.

    Jewish Steel

    I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the quantity of their capital, but by the content of their character.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Around the table, some people shook their heads in disbelief.

    I take some small comfort from that, but the guy who said that idiocy was probably the one at that table who will be sending money to SuperPACs.

  8. 8.

    Svensker

    But after a few months it became exhausting. They have big egos and are big babies…..I can’t trust any of them. They’re all liars. Some nicer or cuter than others, but all liars.

    Yeah, but they kill what they eat, so it’s OK.

  10. 10.

    c u n d gulag

    Instead of asking Obama for a speech, how about at the next dinner-meeting of you Wall Street baboons tycoons, you have Mayor Bloomberg sing “Let’s Get it On” to you during the cocktail hour in a dominatrix outfit, holding a velvet whip, instead?

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    These people need a close encounter with a blade dropped from overhead.

    Perhaps their children will learn from their mistakes. Perhaps.

  12. 12.

    satanicpanic

    I’m organizing freedom rides for the wealthy. Anyone with an income $500k/yr or above can join us. We’ll be visiting poor neighborhoods to demand that the wealthy get equal treatment before the law. That their children get to attend the same public schools that the rest of us do. Many of the wealthy have been locked out of the political process, so we’ll be registering them to vote. Sympathetic non-rich are encouraged to join. Any volunteers?

  15. 15.

    Valdivia

    I have memories of going out on blind dates with these a-holes when I lived in nyc. Gah. And too early to start drinking to drown them.

  18. 18.

    MattF

    Speaking of life among the financially astute, there are two interesting items on the NYT business page:

    http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.html

    One, near the bottom of the page, on municipal bonds is in the ‘It wasn’t dishonest or unethical or illegal, and we promise not to do it anymore’ mode and the other is the column by James Stewart on the collapse of a famous law firm.

  19. 19.

    kdaug

    @MattF:

    One may recall that in the not-so-distant past it would be taken for granted that any very wealthy person was a thief. Now, was that fair? Well, um, yes, actually.

    Get a rope.

  20. 20.

    Smiling Mortician

    @Jewish Steel: And I have a dream that one day the tears of the banksters will well up and live out the true meaning of their greed.

  21. 21.

    Davis X. Machina

    There’s a strong forelock-tugging gene in us. The Folks in the Big House have always had supporters — and some of them can be persuaded to do their killing for them.

    The ancien regime owed its survival – survival long enough to become ancien in the first place — to more than superb tailoring.

  23. 23.

    lamh35

    for you brief but cute viewing pleasure, POTUS arriving in Ohio a few hours ago. He was disembarking from AF1, but wait, he forgot someone and had to go back..

    http://youtu.be/Vss6WI3-MAk

    BTW, I didn’t realize that I could livestream from my IPAD. Or is that just the cutting-edge tech used by OfA. I don’t think I’ve always been able to livestream CNN or whatnot.

  25. 25.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @kdaug: Combining the blinding stupidity of that first comment quoted with your recommendation puts us all on notice that there’s more than one way to play “Rope-A-Dope”…

  26. 26.

    Valdivia

    @lamh35:

    was it you who linked to the plans of the Romney camp to disrupt the rally for Obama today by circling his bus and whatnot?

    I see from the images that they have a hugely packed stadium, wonder how the disruption is working out in the face of a real candidate instead of the idiots they had in the primary.

  27. 27.

    andy

    Wall Street- well supplied with entitled, overpaid douchebags and lamp posts. Manhattan, being an island, is not unexpectedly also marvelously supplied with rope as well…

  29. 29.

    Brian R.

    If Hollywood weren’t run by corporate whores of a different stripe, they’d realize that the perfect idea for a reality show would be one in which you let ordinary Americans get some form of revenge on Wall Street assholes.

    Ideally, they’d be hunted for sport, but that might not fly with the FCC.

  30. 30.

    Corner Stone

    I know I’ll be crying a river:
    “For an example, look at Lockheed Martin, where some 8,000 employees got pink slips in the last two years. Chief Executive Officer Robert Stevens received $21.9 million in fiscal year 2010, according to the company’s April 2011 proxy statement, in part because he took the cost-cutting actions quoted above,. By two estimates, from financial research firms Obermatt and GMI, at the time of the proxy, Stevens was one of the most overpaid CEOs in the U.S.”
    Stevens went on to make $25.4M last year even though company earnings were down. After the layoffs.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-04/when-your-401-k-provider-doesn-t-vote-your-interests.html

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    @Brian R.:

    Ideally, they’d be hunted for sport, but that might not fly with the FCC.

    I say we use drones to hunt them down. Perfect irony.

  37. 37.

    the fugitive uterus

    well they just got their answer with the President’s first official campaign speech just now in Columbus

    i’m no Obamabot, but it’s good stuff. Michelle made me cry, as she often does.

    President still speaking . . .

  38. 38.

    the fugitive uterus

    oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments!

    FORWARD! 2012!

  39. 39.

    the fugitive uterus

    seeing Romney lying face down in the dirt with little cartoon tiretracks across his back

  41. 41.

    Mike G

    @Davis X. Machina:

    The Folks in the Big House have always had supporters—and some of them can be persuaded to do their killing for them.

    The Uppers have always cultivated an authoritarian lickspittle element of the working class who will readily stomp their compatriots to curry favor with the powerful.

    “I can hire half the working class to kill the other half” — Jay Gould

    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gives it to.”
    — Irish proverb

  43. 43.

    Corner Stone

    @Steeplejack:

    Clients have figured out that much of what lawyers do is a commodity that can easily be outsourced far more cheaply.

    Been saying this here for a few years now.
    Although Dewey was an outlier in how it did guaranteed payments. Just another example of the extraction economy.
    Lots of little people just lost everything, but the partners still earn 7 figures.

  44. 44.

    forked tongue

    Wall Street Escort Wishes She Could Tell Clients: “You’re Really Small And You’re Bad In Bed”

    But– but– I read in Ayn Rand that financial titans were huge-bonered uberstuds.

  45. 45.

    Chuck Butcher

    But after a few months it became exhausting. They have big egos and are big babies…..I can’t trust any of them. They’re all liars. Some nicer or cuter than others, but all liars.

    I wonder how many pols and reporters have the same sentiments…

    Same line of work?

  46. 46.

    El Cid

    Every day when I wake up I commit myself to finding at least one small way in which I can make a rich person’s life better.

  47. 47.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    @DougJ, Head of Infidelity:

    Whenever I hear the stuff about global time zones and business I always think of Rob Lowe as the crazy Hollywood superagent in Thank You for Smoking.

    “When do you sleep?”

    “Sunday.”

  48. 48.

    Procopius

    They’re all liars. Some nicer or cuter than others, but all liars.

    I made the mistake today of clicking on a link to some loooooonnnnggg story about the problems the Dems are having meeting their quotas for donations. I couldn’t finish it, of course, but the reasons the asshats gave for why they wouldn’t donate were pathetic. And as the woman quoted above came to realize, you can’t believe them anyway. They’re holding back now to try to get more leverage (cheap bastards) but in the end they’re going to contribute to the Robama because they are going to see that Obamney doesn’t have a chance of being elected, or it’s too close to risk not having the insurance, the donation. The hell of it is that I believe Obamney doesn’t even NEED the huge war chest he’s creating because he can get all the free air time he wants and the negative ads aren’t going to mean a thing because the people who hate him already hate him and aren’t going to change.

  49. 49.

    Procopius

    @Procopius: Whoops! I meant to say the Robama doesn’t need the huge war chest, not the Obamney. I have a hard time keeping them apart.

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