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oh my god
How did this man even get to be an official candidate? Seriously? I can’t even
Apparently living off the grid, off the land and without government assistance is now a crime that can land you in jail and cause you to lose your home.
Government officials across the country are forming so called “nuisance abatement teams” to intimidate people into giving up their land or conforming to the governments demands and hooking back into the grid. Counties across the country are actually jailing people for living the way they want to live.
I was alerted to this video by a reader and was troubled and sickened by what the poor people in the California Desert are being forced to deal with. From being threatened with jail time if they don’t hook back into the grid to being thrown in jail because the county didn’t like the look of their homes, the people in the deserts of Los Angeles County are being terrorized by their government.Fuck. this.
Jon Stewart tells it like it is. A great clip. If you haven’t seen it, WATCH IT.
*APPLAUSE*
This may be the best thing I have ever watched in my entire life.
I generally prefer Colbert to TDS, but when Jon brings it, THAT SHIT IS FUCKING BROUGHT.
OH MY GOD I HAD SEEN PART OF THIS BUT I JUST WATCHED ALL OF IT AND OMG I LOVE YOU JON STEWART
Oh my god. This is one of the best takedowns I have ever seen. Ever.
MAKE LOVE TO ME, I CANNOT EVEN
Would you like to know how easy President Barack Obama is making it for you to vote?
The Obama campaign released an embeddable voter registration form that you can insert into any of your websites, including tumblr.
I don’t think you guys understand, President Obama is letting you get registered to vote from tumblr.
This must be what life was like for The Jetsons.
Yeah, this is pretty rad.
This show is the only one that almost makes me want cable TV. As a friend of mine said on FB… it’s sad that we don’t have this quality of reporting in the real world.
Romney is (as far as we know) not the steel-cold sociopath that Nixon was. I’m not comparing the two men personally. In that way they’re quite different. Nixon, who grew up poor and fought his way into higher society while developing sharp distrust and raging hatred for Jews and elites, embodied white middle-class revenge far more naturally than Romney does. He’s too dorky and entitled to really seethe with that hatred, go to sleep with it and wake up with it, the way Nixon did.
And yet, different as they are, their campaigns, their appeals, are undeniably similar: Nixon led, and Romney is now leading, a vengeance campaign against an Other America, an America their supporters despise. Romney’s is a campaign that seeks to win, that can only win, by dividing the country into an “us” and a “them.” I confess that I’ve been genuinely shocked by the baldness of Romney’s lies about welfare and Medicare and about the way he’s racialized this campaign. I guess that’s precisely because, whatever he seemed, he did not seem sinister like Nixon. And he may not be. But he is clearly a man who will do and say anything to be president.
With Romney’s likability at record lows, Republicans appear to have given up on getting America to like their candidate. Instead, they’d rather divide and conquer like it’s 1968.
(via Michael Tomasky on How Tricky Mitt Romney Is Aping Richard Nixon)
Really, I’m serious, thank you, Todd. I raise my teacup to you. I can see why the GOP is pissed at you; your remarks on “legitimate rape” have created a worst-case scenario situation for conservative candidates, many of whom are being called on the carpet right now to answer for their extreme positions on reproductive rights. They would have preferred to have been able to skate by without commenting, allowing them to work the best of both worlds with their base.
