That guy's such a phony, bloviating braggart asshole who flaunts the blood money he's made from his fealty to Wall St. No wonder the douchebag RW owner hired him.

I've challenged him plenty of times in different ways, that his Neoliberal bullshit would get his ass kicked in less than 5 minutes, were he to try the 1% apologist crap he writes on TOP on any street corner from which he derives his dopey moniker from. There are a few who I've relished reaming the asses of, including dhoning, Tuffie, Trix, etc. but none more than the tough-talking phony.

I went back to TOP last night for the first time since I left in April, just to see the reception DD's essay had gotten, and regretted it. More to the point, the willful ignorance and blind partisanship made me appreciate the warmth and generosity of spirit here more than ever.

Here's a few of selections from my greatest BBB hits:

The first was a response to his chronic mockery of Bernie's use of the word "revolution," which was the gist of a speech MLK made about economic inequality, another issue he cluelessly disparaged, just as his Dead Leader did when he remarked, "blah blah oligarchy." (I edited out the long passages of King's speech for some brevity).

The second was a response to his farcical "diary" taking Bernie to task for "not looking presidential" when he gave his economic speech at Georgetown (to a fascist Neoliberal that means covered in red, white and blue, like at the DNC, where we heard prescribed chants of "USA!USA!USA!). Guess he wouldn't have a clue then, to why Bernie and Nelson Mandela were the only two invited guests to a White House black tie function who showed up separately without wearing tuxedos. This gesture of solidarity with the working man and rejection of the self importance of elected officials I'm sure flies right over the heads of Economic Terrorists of Wall St fanboys like BBB and his lame crew at TOP.

Every time I read your garbage I get an image of a Neoliberal water boy coming off the sidelines eagerly, to refresh the big boys who play games with our lives. One clearly wonders if your greatest ambition in life is just to join the Big Club yourself?

Seems like nothing would please you more than to rub elbows in the cigar bar and talk about your portfolio with the assembled Get-Rich-Quick disciples of the “free market” and other bootstrap-pulling up Worshipers of the Rich.

You’re just one, but a ringleader though, of the Somnambulant Neoliberal Cabal here, verifying that yes indeed, there will be no chance of the pitiful careerists in your brethren of Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.

On his birthday maybe you should get a little more familiar with MLK’s post-I Have A Dream, sanitized, Santa Claus-ed legacy and his radical revolutionary vision. Smirk all you want, but Economic Inequality was one of the main thrusts of his last few years.

Consider this a “gift,” from a fellow NYC resident:

"And this reveals to us that the most striking thing about the story of Rip Van Winkle is not merely that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution. While he was peacefully snoring up in the mountain a revolution was taking place that at points would change the course of history—and Rip knew nothing about it. He was asleep. Yes, he slept through a revolution. And one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution…

First, we are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood…

....And to this day thousands of these very persons are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies every years not to farm. And these are so often the very people who tell Negroes that they must lift themselves by their own bootstraps. It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps…

Poor people are forced to pay more for less. Living in conditions day in and day out where the whole area is constantly drained without being replenished. It becomes a kind of domestic colony. And the tragedy is, so often these forty million people are invisible because America is so affluent, so rich. Because our expressways carry us from the ghetto, we don’t see the poor....

And this can happen to America, the richest nation in the world—and nothing’s wrong with that—this is America’s opportunity to help bridge the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. The question is whether America will do it. There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will.

In a few weeks some of us are coming to Washington to see if the will is still alive or if it is alive in this nation. We are coming to Washington in a Poor People’s Campaign. Yes, we are going to bring the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. We are going to bring those who have known long years of hurt and neglect. We are going to bring those who have come to feel that life is a long and desolate corridor with no exit signs. We are going to bring children and adults and old people, people who have never seen a doctor or a dentist in their lives.

We are not coming to engage in any histrionic gesture. We are not coming to tear up Washington. We are coming to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty. We read one day, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." But if a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.

We are coming to ask America to be true to the huge promissory note that it signed years ago. And we are coming to engage in dramatic nonviolent action, to call attention to the gulf between promise and fulfillment; to make the invisible visible…
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "We ain’t goin’ study war no more." This is the challenge facing modern man.

Let me close by saying that we have difficult days ahead in the struggle for justice and peace, but I will not yield to a politic of despair. I’m going to maintain hope as we come to Washington in this campaign. The cards are stacked against us. This time we will really confront a Goliath. God grant that we will be that David of truth set out against the Goliath of injustice, the Goliath of neglect, the Goliath of refusing to deal with the problems, and go on with the determination to make America the truly great America that it is called to be.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be as a people, our destiny is tied up in the destiny of America."

Political Revolution.

On poverty, corruption in politics, police brutality, a broken criminal justice system, the bank's strangehold over our lives, monopoly corporate control over all our resources, failing education system. The triple evils of racism, militarism and capitalism. Martin Luther King Jr vowed to take them all on.

Socialism is the only humane and dignified answer. Only through compassion and empathy will we be able to survive together, in a brotherhood of man.

We. Not me.

It’s not all about you. Or me.

Wake up brother.

thirty three and a third brooklynbadboy
Nov 20 · 09:29:06 PM

Clinton vs. Trump will be the political equivalent of Dancing With The Stars meets Survivor celebrity spectacle, with the two well-known figures enmeshed in a fight to the death of trying to out-tough talk each other into the White House (caveat: I’ve never seen more than a minute of these shows and may be mixing them up).

By the end of October 2016 Hillary will be promising major battalions of Army, Air Force and Marines to be lined up throughout the Mexican border, simultaneous bombing campaigns on four different continents, stripping away all welfare programs to make way for austerity, promising a return to her husband’s Three Strikes policy in order to appease fear-laden white voters with tough-on-crime/law and order promises and of course, more cabinet positions for the savvy Economic Terrorists who have cut $30 million worth of checks to the family.

The possibilities for ugliness, venality, crassness, dystopia and mind-numbing pandering in that scenario are endless.

At least they had a good time together at Trump’s daughter’s wedding though. And there’s sure to be lots of American flags every time she’s on stage. So you should feel more assured than having had to suffer yesterday through Bernie’s grumpiness at Georgetown where he dared not to be swimming in red, white and blue, forced to explain over and over how the system has been hijacked by wealthy interests.

When the Neoliberal ringleader running interference for the oligarchs BBB wasn’t predicting with full confidence his wet dream of Monarchy in America resulting in the 2016 race of Bush vs. Clinton Redux, he was defending our own Uber-Capitalist/Cold War Warior against their World Wrestling version when it seemed his prognostication would be way off. 

Coal mining (if there is any reason to have it at all) should be done by T-800 terminators and no humans. Terminators don't get black lung.
Of course, all Hillary had to offer was jobs at Wall-Mart for the grandmothers of ex miners, that was the Democrats' losing strategy in coal country. Bernie would have offered construction jobs rebuilding roads and bridges and laying new railroad tracks, "but the construction companies would just import mexican laborers like the railroad companies imported Chinese in the 1870s" - so Kentucky, Tennessee, and W. Virginia were pretty likely lost anyway, at least in 2016.

He's a piece of work from is icon on up.

It is all he talks about.

would rather not have to pay fo some damn "bronze plan" - they'd rather have food.
I know, there's always Medicaid, but that's "charity".

are making Dan Aykroyd look articulate.

Damn, had to sign in to rec that!

And it is hard to believe that anyone not paid to say so/utterly brainwashed could object to the notion of anyone holding a non-upper-management job ever having had a decent life, although I have no idea which applies in either of the examples Bob Johnson provided.

a nasty, mean entity these days. Mark Selfa argues that it's always been that way. Here's my nuanced review:

https://cassiodorusblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/book-review-selfas-the-...

both on the Rec List for an extended time yesterday, Bob Johnson's still on the Rec List even now.

There's not much else I agree with Bob Johnson about, but these diaries were works of beauty.

Kos is the Trot turd that swings fascist in later years.

If anyone ever reads the "raised by narcissists" subreddit you will recognise the red flags he throws off.

Do please allow me to support your excellent point while providing our fellow c99ers an alternative to plunging headlong into the reddit wilderness. The characteristics of Kos (and those who resemble him in these respects such as Denise Oliver Velez and Brooklyn Bad Boy) we agree are so vile and repugnant are listed rather nicely in an anonymous comment posted to Lisa E. Scott's blog, and which I quote below:

Characteristics of Injustice Collectors

1. Injustice collectors are never wrong. How is it possible that they are never wrong? It's simple: They are always right.

2. Injustice collectors never apologize. Ever. For anything.

3. Injustice collectors truly believe they are morally and ethically superior to others and that others seem incapable of holding themselves to the same high standards as the injustice collector does.

4. Injustice collectors make the rules, break the rules and enforce the rules of the [community]. They are a combination of legislator, police, judge and jury to those they consider their subjects. They forever banish from their kingdom any subject they deem disloyal, and only grant clemency if there is sufficient (in their eyes) contrition.

5. Injustice collectors never worry about what is wrong with them as their "bad" list grows. Their focus is always on the failings of others.

6. Injustice collectors are never troubled by the disparity between their rules for others and their own expectations of themselves. Injustice collectors rationalize their own behavior with great ease and comfort.

7. Injustice collectors have an external orientation; the problem always exists in the world, outside of themselves, and in their view, the world would be an acceptable place if their rules and standards were followed at all times.

8. Injustice collectors do not have a capacity for remorse, empathy or guilt.

9. Injustice collectors scoff at the idea of therapy, therapists, self-help books, and other tools used by people who struggle to live with them.

10. The phrase "walking on eggshells" describes life with an injustice collector.

11. The IC (injustice Collector) will prey upon your weaknesses to frame all issues in their terms.

12. IC's will always cry foul when you are 'mean' to them and accuse you of being nasty when you are confronting them with their negative behavior.

13. They are titanically insecure and cannot trust anyone. All relationships they have, even with their own parents and children and trustless and must be reinforced by subordination over and over.

14. They can only strengthen relationships through imprisoning their mates and banning behaviors and other relationships. Friends and family are a huge threat to the IC.

15. They must repetitively revisit situations where you service them, give in to them and agree with them. They will over time shrink your world to a small plot of empty activities that only they like. They are terrified of travel, meeting new people, understanding new concepts and paroling you from any punishment they have previously 'convicted' you of.

16. They do not care about you at all, they care about aggrandizing themselves with you as an assistant producer.

17. They will occasionally do something for you, but if you are not completely brainwashed, it will be a negative experience for you in the end. Example is throwing you a birthday party. I guarantee you will not have fun at your own party.

18. They will force you to choose between them and other things you like or love. The more you choose them, the more they will make you choose them over and over. They do not understand the concept of loyalty at all.

19. Hypocrisy is their modus operandi for debating and arguing with you. Everything they say about you is true about them. (aka Projection) It makes it so you try to 'win' fights by getting them to agree with you, which they never can because their whole position is false.

20. Your life will disappear into their lives. Your hopes and dreams will fade, even in your own mind. You will eat what they want, you will watch what they want on TV, you will vacation where they want, or not at all.

I think I might register at Lisa's blog just to keep this comment alive -- as it needs to be, eternally.

A nasty, spiteful, bitter little man.

In very deed. A fact which took me by surprise at first, but no more. You don't work as hard as Kos has and spend the cash that Kos has spent establishing yourself as a limousine "liberal" asshole by accident. Yet that's exactly what he has done, "in spades", as the saying goes.

Now one thing I WILL be happy about is watching DK pin wheel slowly into the ground.

From your keyboard straight to Cat's eyes! Yet, I fear not so. There are enough limousiners out there to keep DK in business indefinitely, I fear. And enough of BBB/DOV's ilk alone, alas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Moulitsas

Here's the interesting passage:

Moulitsas was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Salvadoran mother and a Greek father. He moved with his family to El Salvador in 1976, but later returned to the Chicago area in 1980 after his family fled when threats were placed on their lives by communist insurgents during the Salvadoran Civil War.[2]

And here's the reference:

"About Daily Kos". Daily Kos. Retrieved August 27, 2009.

Those commies. Anyone want to guess what Markos Moulitsas was doing in El Salvador between 1976 and 1980? I guess he's "ex-CIA" too...

You may have given a few people food for thought.