Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

This blog will pay for itself.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Consistently wrong since 2002

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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Something is Happening Here But You Don’t Know What it Is

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I was off the Internets for most of yesterday, so I checked out some front pages to see if I missed anything.

Here’s the New York Times.  Mitt Romney is so fascinating that he gets two stories.  He’s beating Obama’s fundraising on Wall Street, if nowhere else, since Obama raised more than 5 times what Mitt did during the last cycle.   And did you know he’s a Mormon?  Things are also happening in Senegal and Iran, people are climbing mountains faster, and bank fees are going up.  That’s it — all the most important news from yesterday, in the judgment of the nation’s paper of record.

I guess if you wanted to know that something else big happened in New York, you’d have to pick up a copy of the Daily News.  And even the conservative New York Post gets it.

I’m disconnecting again, but I’ll be back to check comments later.  Maybe one of you guys can explain why I’m supposed to pay money to subscribe to a paper with this kind of news judgment.

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In My Book of Dreams

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ED Kain has been reading the 53% blog so you don’t have to:

After this young woman’s father was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he was told by the doctor to take it easy since he’s a manual laborer. Yet he went back to work full-time, working 12 hours a day, six days a week. She writes, “The cancer still grows. That is the American dream.”

Perhaps a spirit of bipartisanship will cause the 99% blog and the 53% blog to merge, since they both are making the same point, albeit inadvertently in the latter case.

ED also debunks an asinine photo purporting to show the hypocrisy of the OWS protesters because they’re all wearing clothes created by corporations and using corporations’ products.

You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not seeing these stupid diversions catching on, in part because OWS is actually making enough of their own news to occupy the tiny amount of bandwidth the MSM provides them.

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Playing right into our hands

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Bloomberg is changing city rules about the use of parks so that he can evict protesters from Zuccotti Park.

This will generate more attention for the Occupy Together movement, which is viewed favorably by 54% of Americans.

Get involved with your own local Occupy Together movement. It’s in 1500 cities now. The Facebook page for Occupy Rochester now has over 1000 members and your local group is probably numerous as well.

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Embolden this

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An interesting poll:

Just 17 percent said they were following the protests “very closely”. Independents — at 19 percent — were keeping the closest eye on the “Occupy” efforts while just 12 percent of Republicans did the same.

And an idiotic analysis:

Both businessman Herman Cain and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich critiqued the “Occupy Wall Street” protests during Tuesday night’s debate in New Hampshire; Gingrich said that a portion of the protesters were “left-wing agitators who would be happy to show up next week on any other topic”. (He also noted that a portion were “sincere middle class people”.)

Of course, defenders of the relevance of the “OWS” protests will, rightly, note that it remains very much in its infant stages and that many big things in politics once started off quite small.

True enough. And with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden both mentioning the protests in high-profile forums last week, it’s possible that in a few weeks time these numbers could look very different.

But, today they don’t. And that fact will embolden conservatives.

So in other words, a poll showing a surprisingly uniform (if not all that high yet) amount of interest in the protests across parties will embolden conservatives to Newt Gingrich to continue to describe the protests fairly accurately: as a mix of people who go to a lot of protests (I wouldn’t use the word “agitators” obviously) and middle-class people who don’t usually go to protests.

Also too, it’s simply ridiculous to discuss the comparison with the teahadists without mentioning the fact that Fox News practically invented the tea party. It’s hard for people not to know about something when it’s on the tube 24/7. Let’s compare this to the percentage of NFL fans who are forced to follow that Whitney show, while we’re at it.

Back to the interest among independents…John tells me “Every time someone mentions independents I want to kick a puppy”. But I see it differently here: Democrats have not done enough for the working class. Yeah, that’s partly because Republicans have impeded their efforts. But if you’re not a particularly political person and you hear Democrats wanking about debt reduction and cutting your Social Security at time when you’re out of job, I can see why you might think neither party gives a fuck about you while at the same time being interested in movement that does give a fuck about you.

Poll after poll shows that there’s plenty of real Applebee’s-going Americans who hate the banksters. If the Occupy Together movement truly takes off, it will be in large part because of unions. If there’s a hard-hat riot this time, it won’t be the protesters the hard-hats attack.

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