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horrible and it boggles the mind that he is the republican candidate for presidency this year but at least he is as horrible on the outside as he is on the inside now somebody like mike pence somebody who can wrap true horridness in such a reasonable demeanor who can put down tim kaine with a subtle amused shift of the eyebrows who can deny truths not with risible bombast of a trump but with a soft dismissive oh that s nonsense while practically reeking of dignified mid western authenticity now there goes a politician who makes my blood run cold luckily for us the dems seem to be running an unusually tight and disciplined campaign this year despite groaning through his debate performance i now recognize that tim kaine had a mission to accomplish and he did it to get as many hits in against trump as possible that can be packaged in ads later pence got the tactical victory consensus is that he won the debate handily to the degree that there is consensus but the strategic advantage went to the dems who were able to put together a killer ad that juxtaposes pence s genial denials with footage of trump saying the exact thing thank goodness for donald trump now pence just made both himself and his candidate look extra despicable imagine how bad somebody who found themselves nodding along to pence in the debate and thinking maybe donald isn t so bad feels right now after seeing that ad to be sure the fact that trump was nominated at all is troubling it signifies that the rightwing reactionary id has gained a tremendous amount of power extremists always do well in times of malaise just look at the uk where brexit passed in a referendum and corbyn became labour leader in the same year wtf the time we most need a steady hand is almost always ironically when the center cannot hold and despite the recovery america still feel topsy turvy to most americans it appears that a burgeoning financial sector cannot undo on the way up the damage done by a devastated one on the way down thank goodness for donald trump we really lucked out with him really it s sheer dumb luck that he fell into the goldilocks zone of awfulness the right flank of the america have become unhinged enough to nominate him but we as a nation are not so far gone as to actually elect him hillary doesn t have obama s advantages of being an inspirational and authentic communicator we might not have gotten the president that we needed if the republicans have gone with a less batshit candidate i would see donald s stubborn resilience in the polls less as an indication of his popularity and more as the american people s natural inclination to vote for a change of party after eight years in a widely misinterpreted article about professor lichtman s keys to the white house lichtman basically showed that hillary clinton would have had an uphill battle against a generic republican candidate due to structural factors such as succeeding a 2 term president from your own party i saw that article passed around a lot on facebook as omg trump could win when really the takeaway should be anybody but trump would probably walk away with it but he is so awful that the professor who correctly predicted every election since 1984 thinks trump could break his system so no i don t fear trump 2016 i don t even fear mike pence 2020 as he is now forever tainted by the donald i fear somebody like mike 2020 i fear that the republicans are going to try and truthhole their capitulation to an awful know nothing bully like trump and that they might get away with it in four years time but for now thanks to trump we re in all probability going to get four years of hillary plus considerable downticket coattails if it s clear trump is going to lose as the weekly standard drolly puts it it s one thing to disgrace oneself for a winner but not for a clear loser posted by wayfarer at 9 55 pm 4 comments saturday february 26 2011 wisconsin today i took half a bottle of crappy merlot i had hanging around grabbed my guitar and took the dogs in a tow and headed to the park i sat by the river and played and singed and screamed and i wrote a song about the protests in wisconsin i really don t know why i caught this fervor intellectually i know why unions can be a bad idea and how when you assume a perfectly competitive market they meddle with the efficiency of the market etc etc but when i see the videos of the protests i see ordinary people fighting together fiercely for themselves their families and for each other and i could not not be moved if i feel brave enough i might just record it later update done i know the world s not black or white but that won t stop me from telling wrong from right i m not in a union but i gotta choose sides between the fat cats and labor it s not hard to decide so i ll stand with the teachers stand with the firemen stand with the nurses stand with the common man i m going to wisconsin x4 when we join our hands it s about more than bread it s about dignity it s how we hold our heads we re in the depth of winter but no matter the weather we ll stay warm if we stay together so preach it to your father preach it to your mother preach it with your sisters and your brothers i m going to wisconsin x4 spoken i m not really going to wisconsin i m all the way in taiwan but i m sending you crazy cheeseheads all the love like the world sends you pizza from ian s and in the end we re all one world and one people so people where ever you are please do what you can do what you can go take a stand so find them on twitter friend them on facebook like them on youtube do what ever you can do open your eyes we ll never be free unless we stand in solidarity doesn t matter if it s egypt or usa you gotta stand up if you ve got something to say i say go go ohio go afl cio minnesota i love you too seiu keep doing what you do i ll stand with you if you stand with me we ll stand together set the whole world free x3 i m sayin union x4 go to wisconsin don t let the tea partiers have all the fun go to wisconsin show them how a peaceful protest is done go to wisconsin it s the first battle now the war has begun go to wisconsin please stay strong until our rights have been won posted by wayfarer at 6 54 am 56 comments thursday december 02 2010 behind the lols ireland forced to take eu bailout this piece on the irish bailout is very close to my heart why first of all we explained the irish banking crisis with leprechauns and riverdancers illustrating economics and international relations with crude national stereotypes is an nma specialty but the real reason is because i got to slip in a reference to father ted my favorite television sitcom of all time i love how many of the youtube commenters are mad about the broad use of oirish stereotypes yet there is simultaneously suspicion from others that this piece isn t really made in taiwan because the specificity of the cultural references especially the one to father ted seriously we live in a globalized world people folks move around and cultural products move around there s nothing inauthentic about it anyhow father ted best show ever every episode is gold but the clip linked below which contains the relevant reference to the animated piece is as good a place to start as any down with this sort of thing the talented mr battlepanda also a big fan of father ted contributed a fine portrait of father jack for the occasion labels behindthelols economics ireland tv posted by wayfarer at 12 10 pm 1 comments monday november 29 2010 hu obama battle rap hi guys long time no blog see i have been too busy over the past year bringing you the lols as a part of the nma team but this is something i have to share with y all on the ol battlepanda blog because being a blogger is how i first got interested in politics and started paying attention to economic issues and international affairs and all that good stuff without this blog i would never have written the hu obama battle rap u s china currency rap by angelica oung richard hazeldine emily wu with music by shen yi and action zero hu obama we re both superpower economies caught up in a battle over monetary policy hu for social stability we ve got to export obama and we re sick of being the consumers of last resort obama times are hard in the u s a listen up hu i ve got something to say help us out you know what i m talking about the rmb s too low without a doubt now i ain t sayin you re a currency manipulator but you ain t lettin the yuan float float protectionism ain t cool it s understood an undervalued yuan inflates the price of us goods my dogs in the imf are on my side we ll wag our fingers til you do right until then won t you get some sense and stop beating up on nobel winning dissidents hu shut up fool you spin ain t genuine if the rmb goes up your exports still can t win from the mao to the deng to the jiang to the hu you think you can keep on telling us what to do and the nobel peace prize ain t all that son even you ve got one and what have you done now the shit s gone down i m gonna make it rain norway get ready for a smorgasbord of pain you re the one to blame for the great recession so don t come round looking for concessions you re in no position to call me a sinner without bretton woods you d be argentina nma anchor girls they re not enemies but frenemies with co dependent economies for stability china s gotta export and the us is the buyer of last resort obama that s right we re the world s reserve currency in times of uncertainty they all want usds so what if our fiscal picture s discombobulated the world s resources are dollar denominated and we paid with ious so if what you say is true when the dollar crashes what you gonna do and won t you learn to make toys without lead i bought your bargain kibbles and now trixie s dead we re through with being polite we re getting ready for a fight ma man timmy g is gonna set you right go timmy go timmy go timmy go timmaaaaaaay hu it s a trade war fool forget your guns and rockets we ve got it where it counts and that s money in our pockets don t talk smack cos china s striking back we re gonna keep stacking those wal mart racks soon the dollar will be out and the yuan will be in nothing will will stop the dollar s long term downward trend but since for now employment is our top concern we ll keep the yuan cheap until the economy turns don t try to stop us it ain t realistic don t believe me read the statistic capitalism is socialistic if you do it with chinese characteristics nma anchor girls sing x3 some of the lyrics were slightly different in performance i ve given the lyrics as it was written posted by wayfarer at 6 56 am 1 comments friday july 23 2010 sarah palin animated sometimes i love my job posted by wayfarer at 2 35 pm 0 comments monday february 08 2010 incoherence of republicans feature not bug don t try and appease the american people don t try and pander to their policy preferences don t try and guess at what direction they really want america to take deep in their hearts because they themselves do not know jacob weisburg of slate makes the point rather harshly but well anybody who says you can t have it both ways clearly hasn t been spending much time reading opinion polls lately one year ago 59 percent of the american public liked the stimulus plan according to gallup a few months later with the economy still deeply mired in recession a majority of the same size said obama was spending too much money on it there s nothing wrong with changing your mind of course but opinion polls over the last year reflect something altogether more troubling a country that simultaneously demands and rejects action on unemployment deficits health care climate change and a whole host of other major problems sixty percent of americans want stricter regulations of financial institutions but nearly the same proportion says we re suffering from too much regulation on business that kind of illogic or if you prefer susceptibility to rhetorical manipulation is what locks the status quo in place at the root of this kind of self contradiction is our historical nationally characterological ambivalence about government we want washington and the states to fix all of our problems now at the same time we want government to shrink spend less and reduce our taxes we dislike government in the abstract according to cnn 67 percent of people favor balancing the budget even when the country is in a recession or a war which is madness but we love government in the particular even larger majorities oppose the kind of spending cuts that would reduce projected deficits let alone eliminate them nearly half the public wants to cancel the obama stimulus and a strong majority doesn t want another round of it but 80 plus percent of people want to extend unemployment benefits and to spend more money on roads and bridges there s another term for that stuff more stimulus spending with all this in the background weisburg warns ominously that the politicians who will thrive are those who can best call for the impossible with a straight face like scott brown the newly minted senator of massachusetts someone who wants to call himself a deficit hawk while pushing tax cuts labels polls republicans slate posted by wayfarer at 4 53 am 4 comments my site feed email me at battlepanda at gmail dot com the blue team brad plumer the carpetbagger report combing the sphere crooked timber digby electoral math ezra klein glenn greenwald the jewish blog kung fu monkey left in the west liberal avenger liberals without cynicism mark kleiman matthew yglesias michael stickings peripetia republic of t riba rambles rox populi signifying nothing slant truth steve gilliard tbogg unfogged the red team andrew sullivan the cunning realist balloon juice red or blue obsidian wings art of the possible the stealth of nations the belgravia dispatch duck of minerva a fistful of euros the washington realist the mid east s 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