Another Tuesday rolls around and it is time to clear more news type links from my Chrome window. Still wish Chrome had tab grouping like Firefox does, but for now, I am enjoying it simply not crashing as much or as hard too much to consider switching back.

My bookmarks bar disappeared recently, and I had to go hunting through the menus to find out how to bring it back, but it was not too hard to find. Still, not cool, Chrome. A web user without their links is like a modern person in a blackout : suddenly, you realize you don’t know how to do anything any more.

On to today’s news, which today has a theme : Bad News For The One Percent. See, things are going badly for the One Percenters and their (poorly) chosen candi-bot Mitt Romdrive. Mittens’ gaffes keep getting more and more egregious and offensive (and hilarious) and the long delayed forces of public accountability are catching up with them while we still, technically, have some democracy left to use against them.

That was clearly not the plan at all.

I mean, check this out : megabanksters like Barclay’s and JP Morgan are being investigated about their shady financial dealings with criminal enterprises.

I am quite happy to hear it. There has been anarchy at the top levels for far, far too long, ever since Ronald “government is the problem” Reagan rode into Washington, DC with a mission to really filthy up that town. Myself, I am an law and order kind of person, and have no sympathy for the criminal class who, as all black hearted villains do, hate law, order, police, and the very notion of anyone telling them “no”.

So I am glad that the regulatory systems their despise like a toddler hates their nanny have not been permanently removed, just weakened and bypassed, like the Mongols bribing their way through the Great Wall. As with the last Great Depression, poverty has a way of eroding away that vital connection that makes the middle class identify more with those above them than those below, and that means they are perfectly willing to turn on the people they used to aspire to be, and bring them down to their level instead. If they can’t move upward, they will bring you downward.

And I have through for some time that, to the Personal Jet Set, there is no distinction based on how you got the money. They simply accept criminality as a price of being rich, and so they figure a billionaire druglord and a billionaire corporate CEO are more or less just as much criminals. So why not get even richer laundering people’s money? We’re all part of the same club anyhow, right?

Well, not for long, pal. Turns out, the law applies to you no matter how long you pout and hold your breath. You are still citizens, and that means you are bound by the law.

I know. It just isn’t fair, is it?

And their precious, precious Rom-bot is not doing too well either. Secret video (oh how I love you) taken at a swanky private political function shows the Romdroid saying things like that he does not think the Palestinians want peace, and that the 47 percent of Americans who do not pay federal income taxes are basically a bunch of entitled freeloaders who expect the world to be handed to them and are basically a bunch of useless welfare moochers.

Because as we all know, there is nothing worse than a bunch of people who think the world revolves around them and have never had to work a day in their life, isn’t that right, One Percenters?

After all, your boy Mitt worked hard for everything he ever got, right?

So boom goes any remaining vestiges of populist support Mitt has. And with that, goes even more of his support from American conservatives. You just cannot come out and say “Hey, fuck nearly half the country, am I right?” and expect to win the election. At least some of those people have to actually vote for you.

Did I mention that this dreaded 47 percent includes 20 million senior citizens? Yup. Sure, take a crack at old people, Mitt. Tell all the people to tell their elderly parents that are on Social Security that they are a bunch of mindless feeders and Mitt Romney does not want their vote.

I mean, it is not like senior citizens watch a lot of Fox News and Florida is a key electoral battleground. Oh wait… yes it is. It is exactly that. Oops!

Speaking of Fox News, they recently got punked by someone claiming to be a ‘former Obama supporter’.

And the real story is not that it happened, but that it was ridiculously easy. All the fellow had to do to get on the air with Gretchen Carlsen was to email Fox News that he was, indeed, a former Obama supporter and that was it. No vetting, no verification, not even the most basic of fact checking, like for instance, checking out the many ways they could have proved that the young guest was not even of voting age when Obama was elected in 2008.

Thus, it is the perfect sting for proving that Fox News does not give a shit about the truth and will believe absolutely anything that agrees with their dominant narrative.

Of course they do not fact-check. Facts are the enemy, why encourage them? If you fact-check, you might find out that something you really wanted to be true is not, in fact, true, and that would make you all disappointed and sad, and place you on the slippery slope towards verifying all your beliefs, and you are pretty sure that would only make you even more sad, and worse, confused.

Thus, they will remain extremely vulnerable to this sort of thing, something we in the reality based community should seek to exploit as much as humanly possible.

The idea is to force them to choose between two equally deadly (to their delusions) options :

1) Agree with a liberal
2) Actually think about what they say and do and believe.

Either way, they lose.