I happened across this absolutely horrible Buzzfeed article about Markos' new polling project.
It's a bootlicking, brownnosing, sycophantic article that you shouldn't read on a full stomach.
That being said, way down deep in the article I found this gem.
It's not a new idea that Trump's tweets are used to distract the public from his awful policies.
It's also not a new idea that Trump's tweets distract from specific policies. Consider this Mashable article.
Even I, your humble opinionated bastard, am now truly amazed.
The response that my Poll is generating is truly mind boggling.
Long term members are lecturing me about the proper form of diaries, telling me I have no context for the poll and basically admitting that life is good inside the bubble.
They don't know what Pelosi said today. Really? Guerrilla Demorats? They don't know?
Here's the link
When reality sucks, and your elected officials are crap where do you go?
The Lord of the Rings (cause its reality, I guess)
From "The Lord of the Rings," A Speech for Our Times
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/22/1717861/-From-The-Lord-of-th...
Much as I'm loathe to give them any attention, this one is beyond the pale, even for hillbots. And found courtesy of one of my other friends raising a stink about it, to quote her. "Male privilege must be defended! ---We're beginning to understand the extent of what they have to lose. Power defends itself by seeking more power. hmmmm"
(attribution, imgur, from The Powerful Hampster, 4Chan Reddit) https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/5tkifk/centrists_are_a_danger_to...)
Even after repeated purity purges, they are still having these diaries in the wreck list:
Enough With the Circular Firing Squad
I'm truly ashamed of some folks here.
Both of these were "shame on your for wanting Pelosi fired, just because she's incompetent."
They are preditable, so I won't link to them.
Borrowed from another's FP article, with a few minor modifications.
Yeh, yeh. Who gives an f, right?
However, last month the Democratic mouthpiece Huffington Post proclaimed Daily Kos Is Back.
So for the purposes of historical accuracy, I decided to discover the truth.
Plus, Markos' declaration of "go the fuck away, or I will make you go away" yesterday inspired me.
Every once in a while I get an itch that wants to be scratched.
It's similar to driving by a car crash and craning your neck to see if there is any blood and gore. We all do it, even if it doesn't reflect well on us.
In this case "my itch" is to check out the wrec'd list of TOP to see what sort of horrible, mangled, car crash of a diary landed there.
I'm not proud of this urge.
