This is a stupid article

[giandujakiss]

How the Tea Party Won the Deal

[S]ince the economy collapsed in 2008, only one grassroots movement has emerged in response, and it’s been a movement of the right. Compare that with what happened during the Depression. In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency and launched the hodgepodge of domestic programs that historians call the first New Deal. By 1935, however, he was looking warily over his left shoulder at Huey Long, whose “Share our Wealth” movement demanded that incomes be capped at $1 million and every family be guaranteed an income no less than one-third the national average.

At the same time, the Townsend plan to guarantee generous pensions to every elderly American had organizers in every state in the union.

[Obama], unlike FDR, [] ran into a grassroots movement of the right. Historians will long debate why the financial collapse of 2008 produced a right-wing populist movement and not a left-wing one. Perhaps it’s because Obama didn’t take on Wall Street, perhaps it’s because with labor unions so weak there’s just not the organizational muscle to create such a movement, perhaps it’s because trust in government is so low that pro-government populism is almost impossible.

Whatever the reason, it was the emergence of the Tea Party as the most powerful grassroots pressure group in America that laid the groundwork for Sunday night’s deal.

Umm, grassroots? The Tea Party movement was bought and paid for by the Koch Brothers, with extensive support from Fox News. There was no equivalent left wing grassroots movement because there was no equivalent left wing figure spending millions to create "citizen" front groups, and no equivalent left wing propaganda news channel to loudly encourage protests and participation.

Hey, look - it's a video of literally the two happiest creatures on earth:

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[mswyrr]

Awww. That is one gentle, loving doggie! One often sees humans playing with dogs like that (gentle teasing, playful awareness of how to keep the fun going safely) but it's weird/endearing to see a dog so... thoughtfully romping with a baby human. Nose lick, dash off, dodge just close enough, dash off, lay down, dash off again. I know absolutely nothing about dog breeds, but collies must be verrah smart. Or possibly it's herding instincts? IDK. ADORBS.

[giandujakiss]

I know nothing about dogs, but the comments at YT also suggest it's a herding thing? Dunno. I think it's hilarious that herding dogs will also herd babies and small children. What an awesome way to get an extra babysitter.