I’m not saying it would have been smart for Barack Obama and Harry Reid to lead radical protest marches, but it would have been smart of them to see it as beneficial if someone was doing so. The dynamic in the House GOP where the Tea Party caucus sometimes annoys John Boehner but also repositions him as a moderate and reasonable guy and gives him leverage in the process.

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But Team Obama didn’t want progressive groups to put people in the streets back when he was powerful and prestigious enough that such protests could have given him a commanding position in the center of American politics.

I do love the idea that it's up to President Obama whether or not lefties stage mass protests. As if people are standing around waiting for the go-ahead from the fucking party leadership before they go march in the street.

"Hmmm... I think what I need here is a rowdy leftward foil to play against. Somebody put those hippies in the streets, stat!"

Hooray, It's Blasphemy Day!

OFC

Megabat vs. Microbat

A list of common misconceptions

What I did on my 21st birthday:

Jesus Jones opened.

Which is the true king of cheeses?

I can never resist a parody poem challenge. Even if it's not directed at me.

So, a bit of the old Prufrock, dressed in the clothes of a political hack:

Let us go then, go and lie,
To the people; the press supine with tight shut eyes
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, with fatuous half-truths and deceits
The fact-checkers in retreat.
Through the ballrooms and lobbies of Washington hotels
And dim-lit restaurants with oyster-shells:
No one challenges our tedious arguments,
Our cynical intent.
Nobody asks a probing question….
Oh, do not ask, “That’s not true, is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

In the green room the interns come and go
Talking of Marco Rubio.

etc., in your imagination

Let's listen to Blondie!

You're welcome!