Look Upon This Comment Of The Day And Weep, Ye Mighty
Okay, people, you can all just stop trying today. In fact, we might just as well take the rest of the week off until Kaili gets back from "vacation," because today, the internet has already been won in the comments on our Colorado IUD Success Story Must Die piece. As you may recall, since it was just a few hours ago, the story noted that Colorado's program to distribute birth control to young women had reduced both teen pregnancies and teen abortions by impressive amounts, which means that Republicans have to kill the program because that means teens are doing sex without life-ruining consequences, which just won't do.
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It's a shared award, seeing as how Alert Wonket Commenter "Skwerl King" gives us the set-up, and then Alert Wonket CommenterNounverb911 slam-dunked the puck right out of the park, like so:
Skwerl King: What's Bristol Palin's take on this?
Nounverb911: About $300K
Thank you, everyone, it's been a fine internet, but it is done for today and we are all going home now.
Update: We are informed by the Powers That Be that actually taking the rest of the week off on a Monday is not going to fly, no, not at all, not even with our heartfelt flattery ofthe new babby, who is ADORBS. So we'll see you again tomorrow in the A.M.
How does a "progressive" promote neo-confederate Ron Paul as a "principled" civil libertarian and continue to tour college campuses with white supremacists who regularly rub shoulders with fascists, promote fascist literature, and regularly meet with self-proclaimed neo-fascists who espouse the views of Hans-Hermann Hoppe and those like him? For example, just this past April: Glenn Greenwald, Ron Paul, Libertarian Cato Fellow Radley Balko event sponsored by Libertarian Jacob Hornberger's Koch-funded Future of Freedom Foundation: http://fff.org/2015/04/13/a...
Ahem: "Hornberger believes that 19th century antebellum slave-era America was “the freest society in history”. . . and after the LA riots, he offered this solution:
“the repeal of: (1) every law that takes money from some people and gives it to others; (2) all regulations that interfere with peaceful exchanges between consenting adults; (3) all drug laws; and (4)all compulsory-attendance laws and school taxes."https://pando.com/2015/05/0...
Radley Balko for those who aren't aware: http://shameproject.com/pro...
Does this sound like a progressive?
Greenwald: "George Bush is here in Latin America this week, visiting Brazil and Argentina, and the standard reports of the American media are trying to depict a handful of isolated, juvenile socialist-organized "demonstrations" as some sort of sweeping, popular mass protest against Bush’s visit, thereby suggesting, yet again, that the Administration’s policies are flawed because people in other countries dislike Bush. As usual, the truth is vastly different than what the U.S. media is reporting (see UPDATE below) .It is true that in this region (as is true for the U.S.), there remains a small, fervent band of left-wing fanatics with crazed enthusiasm for the worn-out, socialist/collectivist policies which have condemned millions upon millions of people throughout Latin America to poverty unimaginable to even the poorest Americans. These putative "mass demonstrations" in Argentina and Brazil are, in reality, nothing more than a few isolated spray-painting incidents of trite pacifist slogans in Brasilia, and a Cindy Sheehan-like "rally" of hard-core Socialists in Argentina led by an obese, Castro-idolozing, retired soccer player who found time away from his decade-old cocaine addiction to show up wearing an oh-so-clever t-shirt showing Bush's name spelled with a swastika."http://glenngreenwald.blogs...
I'm betting the 700 students in the UT Austin auditorium weren't tipped off to any of that (tip of the iceberg).
I hope you don't think I'm defending that. I'm not quite sure how we got on Greenwald, but I want to make it clear I don't agree with what you've posted above even coming close to what I'd define as a progressive position. Of course, I think of politics and belief as a circle, not a line, and it's possible to go so far around the circle you come around on the other side