Haven’t seen a Hungarian autocrat take an L like that since Louis II thought he could handle Suleiman the Magnificent at Mohacs in 1526, amirite! ...
I'm sorry but "Peter Magyar" sounds like the one Hungarian kid at hogwarts. Not a real person. Sorry. Might as well vote for Janos Goulash. Laszlo Paprika. Jozsef Budapest. ...
Three (OK, four, but I'm deferring one for its own post) illusions that have been killed off for good by the disastrous Iran debacle, and musings on society as a gray market casino where cheating is encouraged because the bettors are only ripping one another off.
If you've been on the fence about subscribing, this is a good one to take the plunge on. It's all of $2, half the cost of a PBR. ...
Even if the strait reopened, which it hasn't, and the war ended, which it hasn't, there's a backlog of 1000+ ships waiting to get through Hormuz, major damage to oil and gas infrastructure, and a supply chain disruption (especially for fertilizer) that will take months to unravel in the best case scenario.
Today's big "market rally" was just hopium, poor reading comprehension, and shorts covering in a trench coat. It won't last the week. ...
We won’t really feel the satisfaction of a complete narrative arc until we see tomorrow morning’s inevitable story about a new Polymarket account called “whitepwr_wifeleftme69” who signed up at 4 PM today and made $6 million ...
John says:
Perhaps the saddest thing about this so-called "Tea Party movement" is that none of these rubes even remembers what the original Boston Tea Party was for. It was protesting the taxation-without-representation of the English colonies because the colonists had no say in the laws that were made regarding them from England and yet were taxed just like (and in many respects more than) everyone else. So they threw the tea in the harbor rather than be taxed for it.
This new movement is just a bunch of pretentious jagoffs that are angry that their taxes are going up some 3%. Many of them aren't even affected by it. And they're sure as hell not driving their SUVs and pickups into the water.
But then, modern Conservatism is mostly about puerile grandstanding rather than anything meaningful.
Nick says:
I've been waiting to see a form of protest lamer than "Million Strong" Facebook groups. Thanks, teabaggers!
comrade x says:
Having acquired the label " teabaggers", I doubt the tax protesters are going to get very far.
On a related funny paranoia note, a co- worker who has been brainwashed into a conserv-o-tron is going to one of these rallies and is hoping they have adequate security in case ACORN tries to " disrupt" the collective conservative circle jerk.
No kidding. He is really concerned about that.
A mind is a terrible thing to taste…
OliverWendelHolmslice says:
I'm wondering how the media will cover the dozen or so people that show up to these rallys come Wednesday. I'm betting that in an attempt to skew the playing field back towards the conservatives, they label them "massive polulist protests" and give them disproportionate coverage and endless editorials. Never mind the fact that there were worldwide protests of truly massive proportions against the war in Iraq that flew completely under the media radar.
Maybe the authorities will show up and write them all up for littering. An appropriate and humiliating end for such a half-assed protest movement.
At the very least, Wed night should be a great night to watch Rachel Maddow
j says:
Man, even Krugman put these people in their place! Ouch!