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You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

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

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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

I really should read my own blog.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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Somehow, I’m sure that this is good news for Mitt Romney:

Cameron ‘claimed Britain is united against Mitt Romney’

David Cameron described US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney as having the “unique distinction of uniting the whole of England against him”…

It seems that Mittens is a uniter, not a divider.

How about a late night open thread…

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  3. 3.

    brent

    Actually it really could be good news for Romney. Americans don’t really like when foreign politicians go after our people, even when they are obvious idiots like Romney.

  5. 5.

    Brachiator

    I guess that Anglo Saxon solidarity thing is not quite working out for Romney.

    On the other hand, there is a sidebar story noting that Barclays Bank has raised $1 million for Mittens, with more coming from a quiet Mayfair fundraiser.

    The oligarchs are going all in for Mittens. Whatever will they do with themselves if he loses?

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    Of course, it’s easy being president in the middle of nowhere.

    Willard can be president of Freedonia. And Baltic Avenue.

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    @kindness:
    Scary good. When the offense is clicking they’re like a hot knife through I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. And defense…their championship teams all were build around superior defense.

  13. 13.

    mazareth

    Couldn’t hardly happen to a more deserving person/android. Got nothing in the way of snark tonight. Time to cue up episode 7 from season one of Game of Thrones and knock back a Central Waters Oktoberfest or two…

    Mazareth out!

  14. 14.

    BGinCHI

    Fucking Rahm.

    So the CTU needs to make sure everyone (26,000 teachers) is on board with the offer and Rahm is seeking to use the courts to keep the “children from being held hostage.”

    Fuck you, Rahm. You are as responsible, if not more responsible, for the strike, and everyone in the city knows it.

    I will not vote for that asshole again, ever. I don’t care what happens from here on out. This is unacceptable.

  16. 16.

    D0n Camillo

    @Brachiator:

    The oligarchs are going all in for Mittens. Whatever will they do with themselves if he loses?

    I have some suggestions, not that they’d listen.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    @BGinCHI: I was just in CHI and it was awesome to see how everyone, everyone, I interacted with hated the teachers.
    I kept correcting their Fox News talking points but it never seemed to matter. If I heard “16% raise” once I heard it 50 times.

  20. 20.

    D0n Camillo

    Mitt’s Olympics gaffe was the moment when I knew for certain that he was going to lose. I am trying to remmber the last time I have seen such an unforced error on the part of a presidential candidate. Gerald Ford’s “There is no Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe” comes to mind. These plutocrats don’t seem to do very well when they’re on a level playing field and can’t get by on their wealth and connections.

  21. 21.

    BGinCHI

    @Corner Stone: The offer is 3 years at 2% 2% 3%. You know, big fucking dollars.

    Just pathetic.

    I don’t know anyone who is against the teachers here. Who the hell did you talk to? Were you at the Trib the whole time or a Country Club?

  22. 22.

    David Koch

    Awesome. Looks like Black Metrosexual Abe Lincoln is gonna drag Warren across the finish line.

    Undecideds for MA-Sen support Obama over Romney 76-2. Warren may have room to grow in last 7 weeks:

  24. 24.

    LanceThruster

    Mitt the Bloody Twit
    Gets No Love From Brits
    Can’t Stop Seeing If Foot In Mouth Fits
    Campaign In the Pits
    Too Clueless To Call It Quits
    Ann Left Picking Nits

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    @BGinCHI: It was stunning. I kept correcting the guy who repeated “16% raise” but it didn’t matter. He just kept answering loudly with, “Who the hell gets a 16% raise??”
    I had another guy who said his team hadn’t received a raise last year, and “in this economy? Give me a fucking break!!” of course he didn’t mention that his team all make six figures to start with.
    Apparently there is a “Lake-something” ISD around there where the “average” teacher salary is $106K?
    In any event, just really awesome times.

  27. 27.

    piratedan

    as things get desperate for Mitty and the gang, lets keep our fingers crossed that no one take a shot at the Pres or his family. With this 2nd amendment remedies crowd, I tend to believe that they are capable of damn near anything, although they tend to pick on folks who don’t or can’t fight back.

  28. 28.

    BGinCHI

    @Corner Stone: Well, stupid assholes who work in teams are famously open-minded, so I don’t see how you couldn’t talk some sense into him. I’m sure he was otherwise brilliant in his assessment of film/art/literature/wine/choke pr0n.

    Any district, or “team” of teachers who average over 100K are in a posh suburb or the figment of a douchebag’s imagination. There might even be overlap there.

    Next time you’re in town come down to the real city and I’ll buy you a falafel and a craft beer.

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    @BGinCHI:

    Any district, or “team” of teachers who average over 100K are in a posh suburb or the figment of a douchebag’s imagination. There might even be overlap there.

    You just made this personal. My niece is a freshman at Stevenson. My brother and sister-in-law pay through the fucking nose for quality schools. Go fuck yourself.

  33. 33.

    Geoduck

    @Short Bus Bully:

    As a Seahawks fan I really wish they didn’t, but alas you are correct.

    You’ll live a happier life when you internalize the fact that the Seahawks are going to end up losing. It’s what they do. One year they had to go all the way to the Superbowl to do it.

  35. 35.

    trollhattan

    @David Koch: In a sane world it wouldn’t be remotely close–the smart lady would beat hotpants boy like a rented mule. Add that it’s in Massachusetts and it should be two mules. Boy, I hope she pulls it out.

  36. 36.

    Warren Terra

    @David Koch:
    I was just trying to work out my best use of that meme. Best I could up with was “I guess this means Mitt’s Churchill gambit was a bust.”

    But seriously, how flipping tone-deaf do you have to be to mess up a goodwill visit to the Olympics? All Mitt had to do was smile and say he hoped the London Games were as wonderful an experience as the 2002 games in Salt Lake City. What a tool.

  37. 37.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @burnspbesq:

    WTF brought THAT on?

    Go back and read what BGinCHI said. He’s talking about the guy imagining the high teacher salaries, not any teachers.

  38. 38.

    GregB

    I think I am going to start asking my wingnut friends why the GOP is trying to throw the election.

    No one can be this incompetent accidentally.

  42. 42.

    Yutsano

    @Geoduck: It’s best to just expect mediocrity and then go pessimist if/when they do well. It makes life just so much saner. Same attitude with the Mariners. I think we need a hockey team.

  43. 43.

    Corner Stone

    @BGinCHI: Where…um, where should I go to find the real city? Is there a locket or something worn on a necklace of a lovable scamp I have to locate first? Even though they may or may not be aware of the power the keepsake represents?

  44. 44.

    ? Martin

    @redshirt:

    And cue the Wingnuts hating on the UK. Specifically with WW2 references and how America (them) saved their ass.

    Come on – they’re not going to do that.

    They’ll claim Romney won WWII. Retroactively. And had he been president in 1939 – Hitler wouldn’t have dared invade Czechoslovakia.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    @David Koch: At dinner tonight, my mostly non-political friend (independent) mentioned that he had caught a few minutes of a convention speech by a really intelligent, sensible, articulate woman with glasses.

    After a few questions from me, we figured out that it was Elizabeth Warren.

    HIs final comments:

    “I really liked her… She made a lot of sense. I would vote for her.”

  48. 48.

    cat48

    Mitt is Desperate. Just saw an article at Reuters that said he’s talking to Hispanics & will promise IMMIGRATION REFORM. Guess he doesn’t have enough angry white folks to win.

  51. 51.

    karen marie

    @brent: Obama gets way more points on that basis. Romney merely has the scorn and derision of all England (and Scotland, Wales and Ireland?) while Obama has Bibi threatening WWIII.

  52. 52.

    Suffern ACE

    Cameron will regret that when president Romney decides that an erratic nationalist leader like him isn’t worth the trouble and we decide to back the breakaway Scots Republic in their independence movement. Once heathrow is closed due to our no fly zone, he’ll regret backing the wrong candidate.

  54. 54.

    jwb

    @cat48: Mittwit maybe should have thought about this before he whacked Perry on immigrants in the primary. I have to say I’m enjoying his implosion and watching his slow realization that he doesn’t know what the fuck he is doing. His staff have to really hate him to be turning on him already in September.

  55. 55.

    GregB

    Mitt’s implosion continues apace.

    Here’s a stunning compilation of Mitt Flops.

    Forward to your Republic friends and depress the base.

    Link.

    Let’s not forget the Obama Camp probably has some heavy political artillery yet to fire.

  56. 56.

    Suffern ACE

    @jwb:it’s a combination of hate and the fact that the herd panics at the slightest provocation. There are so many grifters in that crowd who’ve been trained to piss their pants at every minor thing that I bet you couldn’t find a set of cooler heads within a mile of the Boston office.

  59. 59.

    Yutsano

    @? Martin: I think that attention only applies to attractive royals. The best part is that isn’t gender specific, although the obsession with Harry is the full Monty.

  60. 60.

    J R in WVa

    @Corner Stone:

    Lake Forest is a north suburban community where the houses are antique mansions as opposed to McMansions… probably an average annual income of multi-millions. So I’m not surprised they hire PhDs to teach K-12, not at all.

    But it doesn’t have any thing to do with Chicago schools at all.

    A beautiful place, hard to imagine that it’s still as I remember it from visiting in the early 1970s, but I’m sure it hasn’t changed since the 1920s.

  61. 61.

    Chris

    @Suffern ACE:

    Cameron will regret that when president Romney decides that an erratic nationalist leader like him isn’t worth the trouble and we decide to back the breakaway Scots Republic in their independence movement. Once heathrow is closed due to our no fly zone, he’ll regret backing the wrong candidate.

    Damn, now I kind of hope Francois Hollande pisses him off too, and then if he becomes president, maybe he’ll take Corsica off our hands while he’s at it…

  63. 63.

    Nellcote

    @karen marie:

    (and Scotland, Wales and Ireland?)

    PBO and Michelle O’Bama had a very successful trip to the homeland AKA Ireland. Gave a speech to a hugh crowd in the streets.

  64. 64.

    Chris Grrr™

    @GregB:

    Let’s not forget the Obama Camp probably has some heavy political artillery yet to fire.

    Inconceivable.

    Unless you remove the “probably”.
    They have ammo to spare.

  65. 65.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Chris Grrr™:

    The guns will probably remain silent, or appear to be silent, because the self-inflicted explosions over on the Mittens side of the lines are deafening.

  66. 66.

    TG Chicago

    @patrick II: Yeah, that’s the thing. I’m not wild about either Netanyahu or Cameron getting involved. But Netanyahu’s actions are direct while this stuff is coming through Harvey Weinstein. I don’t much care what Weinstein says Cameron says.

  67. 67.

    AA+ Bonds

    Cameron is a Tory and so what Cameron means is: British bankers are united against Mitt Romney, as are the bankers of every country except the U.S., because the debt ceiling crisis demonstrated that a Republican Congress with an obedient Republican President will wreck global finance, capital flows, currency markets, etc.

    It is simply an accident that the British elite (who speak through Cameron) agree with Britons at large on Romney, although rest assured Cameron’s statement is (accidentally) true

    What astounds me is that at least part of American finance seems willing to take a short-term Romney cash-out in tax breaks and deregulation in return for a not-much-longer-term financial crash based on Republican policies

    It really does not fall in line with their long-term or even medium-term material interests and that is disturbing to me

    two possibilities:

    1) Paul Krugman and Karl Smith have both done posts recently on their blogs exploring how when they talk to folks in finance, they keep running across some common wacky Ron Paul type ideas about monetary policy and QE in particular. As in, some people in finance have decided that all of economics to date is bullshit and have thrown in with the goldbug types (monetary policy can only hurt, fiscal policy can only hurt, the best policy is rampant lawlessness, etc.)

    This may go a lot deeper than just QE, and we may be seeing the economic impact of an ideological logjam in American finance akin to the medieval European guild system’s belief in ideal prices, in which case it will be cleared quickly, if not necessarily cleanly, because of its bullshit nature and the opportunity of others to profit off of stupidity and sluggishness in one part of the world

    2) There is always the possibility of a conspiracy or understanding between American investors and right-wing American politicians to self-harm and suspend business as usual until the Republicans have full power, at which point they will all start acting like long-term-greedy bankers again with no interest in tanking the global economy – a theory favored by some Democrats that I really doubt, and that would just raise more questions as that sort of action is not in their material interest as individuals either, although I suppose enough coordinated pushback from certain large actors could prevent any defectors from realizing gains

    . . . . it is honestly almost enough to make one a Marxist, as American pro-Romney capitalists are acting as though they have detected a looming ceiling on ROI in general and desire desperately to cash out

    Of course, we also have to factor in Weinstein as a filter but I honestly think that if Cameron isn’t saying this out loud, he has to be thinking it, because it’s true

  68. 68.

    balconesfault

    Who knew that the unique Anglo Saxon relationship that Mitt was referring to was the one that existed between the US and Great Britain in 1812?

  69. 69.

    Schlemizel

    @BGinCHI:
    I know it was highly unpopular around these parts to criticize the Rahm when he was CoS but I think you guys in Chicago are getting a pretty good view of the real guy now. Had he settled in a redder place I could easily see him in place of Eric Cantor. Bright, reasonable looks, driven, manipulative and having nor core beliefs that could not be jettisoned with ease but a vague sense that our betters deserve more attention from our government

  71. 71.

    RaflW

    Rode the bus from Venice to the airport the other day, and this very nice British woman and I chatted. She’s got to be fairly well off as she owns a flat in Venice a couple 100 meters from the Grand Canal that she visits 4 or 5 times a year, and a place in London.

    She asked me about the election and I said I was cautiously hopeful that Obama would win. She said she certainly hoped so, she could not imagine Romney being president.

    Since this is mustache-level insight, I declare with full self-satisfaction that all rich people in England hate Mitt Romney.

  73. 73.

    Carl Nyberg

    @BGinCHI: You voted for Rahm Emanuel for Mayor of Chicago? Why?

    This guy was consistently a tool when he was in Congress. It was pretty widely known.

    And when Emanuel was Chief of Staff to Obama, it was even more widely known.

    I’ll grant you it was less than an exceptional cast of opponents.

    Gery Chico–the most competent alternative, but pretty clearly a continuation of Daley’s policies and a non-starter with CTU members

    Miguel del Valle–the most progressive alternative, but woefully ineffective at fundraising and the campaigning seemed never to break out to a wider audience than Harold Washington era holdovers and a sliver of the current activist community

    Carol Moseley Braun–she forced the more viable Black candidates out because she had nothing to lose.

    Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins–a credible showing for someone who had not held elected office before, but she failed to make the case that she should go from community organizer to Mayor w/o holding some elected office first.

  74. 74.

    BGinCHI

    @Carl Nyberg: You know, in the clear light of day, I’m not sure I did vote for Rahm. I think del Valle, actually. That I can’t remember is not a grace note for me….

  75. 75.

    BGinCHI

    @burnspbesq: Jesus Burns, did you read what I wrote?

    I think highly paid teachers are worth every penny. I know teachers at Stevenson and places like it.

    It wasn’t what I was talking about. Aim before you shoot, please.

    I’m going to write this off to Liverpool having no wins yet this season. Grumpy bastard.

  78. 78.

    shortstop

    @BGinCHI: I voted for del Valle as the best of the alternatives presented, not because I thought he would win. Seriously, not trying to give you a hard time, but you don’t know who you voted for?

  79. 79.

    Carl Nyberg

    @shortstop: You make it sound like he forgot which faith tradition he was raised in.

    “I’m pretty sure we believed in God. Monotheism sounds familiar, but I’m not sure there was only one. It seems like there were other people I was expect to know about too. I was more focused on sports, school, my friends and girls, y’know?”

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