Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Everybody saw this coming.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

No one could have predicted…

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

It’s a doggy dog world.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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

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

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

We are aware of all internet traditions.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

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Occupy Central (Hong Kong): #Umbrella Revolution

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Yeah, it’s the middle of the night for most BJ readers, and the middle of the afternoon over in Hong Kong, so let me indulge myself. The South China Morning Post is still liveblogging, here.

… Since Monday morning, Hongkongers have had the very novel experience of walking along streets empty of traffic, as much of Central and Admiralty remain completely closed to cars.

Low pollution has proved to be an unexpected but welcome side-effect of the protests, with Environmental Protection Department data showing that air quality in all the affected areas was far better than on a normal weekday…

NBC, Monday evening [warning: autoplay video]:

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong set a Wednesday deadline for a response from the government to meet their demands for reforms after spending another night blocking streets in an unprecedented show of civil disobedience.

A brief statement from the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement said it had set an Oct. 1 deadline for the city’s unpopular Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to meet their demands for genuine democracy and for him to step down as leader of Hong Kong. It said they would “announce new civil disobedience plans same day.”…

Wall Street Journal‘s ChinaRealTime liveblog here.


(This is actually from last night.)

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  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    Given what the authorities there are like, this is not going to end well. Like Tienanmen Square, or like the uprising that this song was originally written about.

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    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Amir Khalid: Tend to agree this won’t end well. Anyway, what’s with all the signs with funny lines on them. Don’t they write in English like the Lord intended? Looks like chicken scratchin’ to me.

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    mikej

    @NotMax: I particularly don’t understand posting tweets that are nothing but links to other things and add nothing themselves. You actually wind up with less information about the link since they all use URL shorteners.

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    Calouste

    That building is not the Chinese embassy in The Hague btw, that’s the Peace Palace, home of the International Court of Justice.

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    Tokyokie

    @Amir Khalid: I agree. This won’t end well. And PRC goons freak me out to the extent that I don’t want to e-mail a friend who’s over there teaching at a college to see how he’s doing for fear of getting him into trouble.

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    Iowa Old Lady

    I have a friend in China who says that last night, mainland China blocked Instagram and all the pics on Weibo (China’s twitter) because of the HK situation.

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    AnonPhenom

    Interesting how the Hong Kong Occupy movement is getting support from the establishment in the West. Like all the democracy movements if they’re ‘foreign’, they’re fine…if it’s happening here though they’re just a bunch of malcontents and lazy losers.

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    Mike in NC

    You have to wonder how close people like the Koch brothers are tied into the Chinese leadership. Maybe we could start a boycott of WalMart, where 99% of their crap is made in Chinese sweatshops.

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    BobS

    @AnonPhenom: That “support” in Hong Kong includes nearly a half-million dollars in 2012 (numbers aren’t available yet for 2013) from the NED — the kinder, gentler CIA — by way of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

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    PJ

    @BobS: Don’t these Hong Kong protestors realize that they are just stooges for the NED’s efforts to destabilize the PRC? They couldn’t actually believe in something like democracy themselves . . .

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    Paul in KY

    @Amir Khalid: I agree. Unfortunately, you kill 10,000 people & their rulers don’t think that is very many (when you have population of 1.2 billion).

    Those are some very brave people over there.

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    Sondra

    I don’t read Chinese, but from the one English sign they do appear to be able to spell correctly. Unlike our own teapartiers who cannot spell at all and who have no worthwhile cause for which to demonstrate in such hugh numbers.

    I also cannot think of a single occassion when the teabaggers demonstrated that they got maced.

    The people in Ferguson got tear gassed and our own Occupiers got pepper sprayed, but teaparties? Nada.

    Maybe it’s because only 10 of them actually show up. Or maybe it’s because when they do show up they are in electric medicaid tumbrells?

    At any rate, good luck to these bravo folks and more power to them. More power for the people all over the world – including here.

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