One President's Dream

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Friday September 08, 2017 · 11:38 PM PDT

2017/09/08 · 23:38

Our president dreams of restoring Uncle Sam to his former glory.

Our noble president’s humble image of Uncle Sam conferring with his neighbors about important matters of state.

Keep Calm...

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Wednesday May 17, 2017 · 7:42 AM PDT

2017/05/17 · 07:42

I really just wanted to post this meme, without any text, but it appears I am obliged to include text. Is there a way to post an image or meme without including text? I notice DK has a comics section...

San Diego Spies To Stalk From Street Lamps

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Friday February 24, 2017 · 8:23 AM PST

2017/02/24 · 08:23

San Diego is installing cameras and microphones in its street lights to monitor … well, everything and everyone. The images will be too blurry to identify anyone, they say. Just go on about your business and don’t worry about privacy. Oh, by the way, speaking of private business, we’ll be selling the video to them.

Full story:

timesofsandiego.com/...

Fuck You, Nate Silver

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Wednesday November 09, 2016 · 9:08 AM PST

2016/11/09 · 09:08

So now that that is done... Hillary was the best, most qualified person I have ever seen run for president, and she lost to the least qualified person I have ever seen. She would have made a great president, but looking back, she was a pretty awful candidate, wasn't she?

She had Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders giving her all of the direction she needed. She could have offered vision and hope the way Obama did, with the ideas Bernie proved were popular, but with a touch of neoliberal realism.

Instead she ran on fear, as the status quo candidate in a year where it was clear the status quo was anathema.

In a way I can't blame her: she was watching the same polls I did, the ones that gave her overwhelming odds of succeeding. I would bet she thought they proved what she was doing was working, but I guess we can't trust polls anymore, the same way we can't trust political advertising.

So again, I have to say: fuck you, Nate Silver.

Choose One...

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Friday January 29, 2016 · 8:33 AM PST

2016/01/29 · 08:33

It seems clear to me. The republican party impacts a far greater number than every other terrorist organization put together.

Obamacare For My Kos Thread

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Monday March 23, 2015 · 9:31 AM PDT

2015/03/23 · 09:31

Contest announcement for Photoshop experts.

Try adding a simple cape and fangs to this photograph of presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

If you manage to make him look sufficiently like Vlad The Impaler, you win a trip to Imgr to post your image and one upvote.

Add your entry to the comments and help me to implement Obamacare For My Kos Thread 2016.

Thanks to all entrants and remember to post your entry to social media, like one of those really easy quizzes that everyone earns a perfect score on, because it is incredibly easy.

White House Krugman Petition

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Monday January 07, 2013 · 9:06 AM PST

2013/01/07 · 09:06

I received an email from Danny Glover on behalf of MoveOn.org, asking me to sign a petition through SignOn supporting the nomination of Pulitzer Prize winning economist Paul Krugman for Secretary of the Treasury.

I wondered why I would want to give my personal information to MoveOn and SignOn, when I already gave that information to whitehouse.gov when I signed the petition to boot Texas and Louisiana's crybaby asses out of the country after this past election. PS I am from neither of those states.

So I just went to The White House's petitions web site and created the petition. As you likely know, if it gets 25,000 signatures, they will respond to it.

You can find it here. Tell your friends.

http://wh.gov/...

Function

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Saturday July 07, 2012 · 10:52 PM PDT

2012/07/07 · 22:52

I sometimes wonder about our priorities as an electorate.

I can deal with compromise. I won't complain too loudly that we extended the Bush Tax Cuts to get an extension of unemployment. How the president managed to negotiate a 13-month unemployment extension for a two-year tax cut is another matter, but still, I won't belabor that sore subject.

What I don't understand is why we allow our elected leaders to continue to run a government that cannot function.

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Thursday June 14, 2012 · 8:46 AM PDT

2012/06/14 · 08:46

I have long believed almost all conservatives hopelessly naive. Sadly, I have been coming across liberals who are even more so.

They speak of defeating Obama for not fulfilling the promises he never made. They want to see Romney ascend so that they can "better mobilize" against him.

They seem to be more interested in the fight than the prize.

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Wednesday April 25, 2012 · 1:21 PM PDT

2012/04/25 · 13:21

It's fun to laugh and poke fun at republican candidates, and I encourage everyone to do so. Just keep in mind that some of us are old enough to remember all the way back to Richard Nixon and beyond: a freaking cavalcade of inept clowns.

Yet they often win, and this time they have near unlimited access to corporate funding.

Don't underestimate them.

http://www.hulu.com/...

"Job Creators"

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Friday April 15, 2011 · 11:35 AM PDT

2011/04/15 · 11:35

So now rich people are "job creators," and if we cut their taxes the rest of us will be rewarded with jobs? It seems only yesterday that rich people were "the economy," and if we cut taxes we would improve "the economy."

Where is the democratic leadership on this? Trickle-down economics is a discredited theory, time and again.

This should be simple.

Clinton era - taxes on the rich went up, many jobs created.

Bush era - taxes on the rich went down, unemployment climbed.

What is so difficult about pointing this out, repeatedly?

The Election Cycle

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Tuesday March 29, 2011 · 3:58 PM PDT

2011/03/29 · 15:58

The only way a democrat can win the White House is by using uplifting and inspiring rhetoric. Fear-mongering and smears work well for the reactionaries because they suck the enthusiasm out of more moderate voters. If the conservatives do their job well, discouraged liberals stay home on election day.

Unfortunately, democratic, divided government inherently requires compromise. When our president compromises, his disappointed former supporters decide their president is a hapless failure, and anything else would be better than he. They stay home on election day.

The president's former supporters forget that, as PJ O'Roarke so eloquently stated, "the Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it."

The only way the democrats can win back the White House is with inspiring rhetoric that creates lofty expectations.

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Fuck You, Nate Silver

Choose One...

Obamacare For My Kos Thread

White House Krugman Petition

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"Job Creators"

The Election Cycle