Trevino's "Tacitus"

So, "A Tiny Revolution" has two posts.

One introduces us to this group "The 53%" and compares the stoops showcasing themselves in it to the Roman-worshipping prisoner in "Monty Python's 'Life of Brian'" which is pretty funny.

In the second post, he points out how "The 53%" (of people who make enough to pay taxes and who differentiate themselves from those of their fellow 99% who aren't billionaires through this awesome achievement) is the brainabortion of "Red State's" Erik Erikson and Josh Trevino, communications director for the right-leaning Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Trevino used to host a right-wing discussion board called "Tacitus." I used to post there under the pseudonym "smartz." That's why my e-mail is "smartzeethwap." ("smartz" was the pseudonym of a late-night computer trivia contestant at a bar I was in once. Around about midnight we all noticed that "smartz" wasn't answering any questions. We looked around and found some guy passed out at the bar using the trivia game box as his pillow. We tried yelling at him: "Smartz! Wake up! You're missing the game!" to no avail.)

"Tacitus" was pretty good in that you weren't allowed to use profanity and you had to provide sources for your claims if challenged. It ran during the lead-up and first couple of years into the bush II war on Iraq (which was based on lies).

I suspect that the reason Trevino took it down was because so many bright, articulate right-wingers were documented believing all the stupid drivel about Saddam's WMDs and predicting what a roaring success the occupation (which turned out to be an evil clusterfuck) would turn out to be. Mustn't leave evidence of one's own titanic stupidity and ignorance.

Anyways, it appears Trevino hasn't learned his lesson. He'll eventually have to take down his "53%" thing to, as more and more of its posters sink into economic penury.