2012 Defined By Two Sentences

Our biggest tasks r 2 defeat the two ideological pillars of capitalism: 1) that we have to pay our debts and 2) that we have to have jobs

— Tidal (@occupytheory) December 28, 2012

“You get nothing,” the president said. “I get that for free.”

Glenn Reynolds described the latter quote as “An entire governing philosophy in one sentence,” but there’s plenty of magical thinking to go around for everyone these days.

Update: Regarding the Tweet at the top of our post, “replace ‘capitalism’ with ‘adulthood’ and all becomes clear.”