The "Professional Left"... Where Do I Collect My Paycheck ???

[WillyT]

Haven't seen one in over 40 years.

[markpkessinger]

1. I want mine, too! n/t

[WillyT]

3. I Gotta Think... I'm Pro Bono...

[pkdu]

9. I'm pro all of U2.

[WillyT]

13. LOL !!!

Knew THAT was coming.

[pkdu]

18. I may be slightly less " left" than you on this one Willy , but I respect the argument.

Actually , in US politics I'm practically a communist on most issues.

[JHB]

43. The "Professional Left" seems to have deadbeat sugar daddies. n/t

[Rex]

2. Down the hall, first left

the room next to the unicorns and across from bigfoot.

You know who uses that term? Same people that worked so hard to make the word 'liberal' a bad word among the populace.

One can only imagine why...

[WillyT]

5. Dammit... The Unicorns Took It Again...

[Rex]

8. I hear they owe the leprechaun a pot of gold

so no paycheck for U!

[HangOnKids]

7. But you must stop your hyperbolic tantrums first

Those stop the magic pony from showing up, and make your parents cross!

[Rex]

10. Never! I am emopolywoggonna do it!

You betcha!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

19. Are they anything like "hyberbolic gnashing of teeth"?

Hissssssss...

[HangOnKids]

21. Holy Fuck that is hard on the enamel!

Snakes have teeth? Who knew?

[sabrina 1]

17. THIS is so true:

You know who uses that term? Same people that worked so hard to make the word 'liberal' a bad word among the populace.

I love it when they reveal themselves! Saves so much time and effort!

[sabrina 1]

4. First rule of Left Politics. When someone exposes themselves by using the old stupid packaged

phrases thought up by Right Wingers and the Third Way (is there a difference btw) for Democrats, that should be viewed as a very good thing. No more guessing as to who is pretending to be a Dem. It often explains why you might have felt that certain people never seemed to be actual Democrats to you.

We should really start a thread some day listing all these stupid phrases, such as 'Concern Troll' 'Professional Left' etc. all phrases and words invented, ironically by Professional Political Operatives. I actually had the misfortune to get to know some of these idiots when I first started out on political blogs. I assure you, you don't want to know these people, they are not just stupid, they are nasty. They are paid 'professionals' and they populated liberal blogs starting back in the early Bush years. Everyone who encountered them knew there was something wrong. I don't know what they were being paid for because all the did was to alienate everyone they met and never changed a single mind, well actually, they probably turned a lot of people OFF what they were trying to sell.

Stupid and nasty as these morons were, what is even worse is that a number of people adapted their ridiculous words apparently thinking it makes them sound smart or something.

I like it when I see someone resort to the use of these words because it makes it easier for me to recignize who I am dealing with and saves a lot of effort and time trying to talk to them.

I also know I am on the right side of an issue when someone using these ridiculous, childish phrases to attack 'the left' emerges from the shadows.

[WillyT]

11. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

[HangOnKids]

15. Emoprog how fucking cute is that?

Sounds like Elmo on dope, but the professional leftist are apparently there. How sweet.

[sabrina 1]

22. The 'professional' operatives have always been there.

The standards are low though. To succeed it is necessary to update material, using old material identifies them for one thing, and it's stale, musty, like an old, empty neglected house.

If I were to spend my time thinking up ways to attack a political group, I sure wouldn't be using old, jaded phrases that were paid for long ago but used so often to no avail they are like an old, rag that was never very useful in the first place.

But then, I wouldn't be doing that because I can defend my views. These old tactics are generally intended to provide people with material to use when certain policies are indefensible and to try to defend them would useless. It's an interesting phenomenon, I first noticed it about 12 years ago on a political blog when I thought all the Right Wingers were one person because they all used the same words and phrases to attack Democrats with. It was amazing and then someone explained to me they were using packaged language delivered to them by Rush et al, or in newsletters etc.

When the 'left' counterparts, using almost the exact same words and phrases to attack the Left, began to emerge around 2003 it was obvious they had decided to emulate the right wing because as one of them said 'it works'. Works? Lol, we mostly laughed at them. Maybe that was the result they wanted, to be laughed at, in which case I suppose they were right.

[HangOnKids]

26. You have just summed up my talk with my 11 year old yesterday

Her peers who roam in gangs befuddle her, and speak in a language she does not get. I hugged her tight and told her to be happy that she does not get the nonsense. Those kids are getting stale material from their parents.

[sabrina 1]

47. You're a good mom.

That was very good advice

[Rex]

16. Lord knows the center and right of center can never be at fault.

You know things are shitty when they have to resort to blaming the Left for their fuckups.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

20. Master puppeteers with the easily manipulated at the end of their strings.

And they're all proud of it.

[HangOnKids]

23. Ahh 2 Year Olds Are Proud Of Their Poopy Too

I have seen enough of that shit as the Mom of 4.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

29. I just cleaned out the litter box...

so I hear ya! Perfect timing, what with tonight's round of Crap Blogs shared, and shot down, on DU...

[sabrina 1]

25. Yep, but do they really think this is effective? It couldn't be less so, even when people were not

really aware of the tactics all it did was to alienate people even more. Now that everyone knows, how that the words and phrases are so worn out, it has zero effect at all, other than it's probably good for a laugh to see people actually think they are impressing anyone. What is most glaring about this is that they cannot defend what they are trying so hard to defend.

I think we should have a list of these phrases and words somewhere so that anyone new to this recognizes them when they see them and don't waste any time scratching their heads wondering why any 'democrat' would be defending things no dem should be defending.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

28. Oh, like a Crap Blog Glossary?

The bingo card created by (sorry, forget the name) is a good start!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Too bone tired to even ask...

(For real...)

[Union Scribe]

12. I heard the itty bitty kittehs from that other thread

are supposed to be handling payroll. Of course it's hard to type or sign checks with paws, so naturally there are going to be some delays.

[WillyT]

14. NEVER... Let The Kitties Handle Payroll

They've turned my sweaters back to yarn.

[Union Scribe]

24. Well that's kinda like the kitty version of recycling

[HangOnKids]

27. The Itty Bitty Kittens Are Passive Aggressive Fiends

Pretty pix of kitties, trying to make a nasty snarky post look cute is soooooo last year. My kittens ruined my leather couch and I am sure my poutrage is just over the top.

[Summer Hathaway]

30. Pay checks are handed out

every Friday afternoon, at the back of the DU Junior High cafeteria - a place you seem to be more than familiar with.

Those who distribute the checks are usually set up right next to the Poutrage vending machine - ya can't miss 'em!

[Number23]

39. heh

The braying in this thread is... something, ain't it? I mean has the phrase "a hit dog will holler" EVER been so perfectly illustrated?

[Summer Hathaway]

40. Not only does the hit dog holler

it actually pretends to have some bite.

[JDPriestly]

31. I've never been paid a cent, not for all my years of work as a volunteer.

Wonder what they are talking about. A phrase that refers to nobody or maybe a very tiny number of people. It's just Fox News lingo. Sounds. Clanging. Consonants and vowels. But no meaning.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

32. That's what I'd like to know! n/t

[Comrade_McKenzie]

33. You mean you can get paid for not being irrational? In America?! nt

[Union Scribe]

37. Indeed, the Left is not irrational.

Glad you've come around.

[demmiblue]

52. PPR'd

[Zorra]

54. Yay! nt

[progressoid]

56. Ha!!!

[Union Scribe]

62. Wow, did you see their last hurrah?

I sincerely hope they find a way to be less hateful because that must suck to live with thoughts like that.

[RILib]

34. that Democratic President, Richard Nixon

I assume this is about the recording? I especially like this comment:

“They were bugging our headquarters, quite a Nixonian move,” Mr. McConnell said Tuesday at a news conference. “This is what you get from the political left in America these days.”

[Webster Green]

35. I'm still waiting for my checks from George Soros.

As a matter of fact, I'm still waiting for my free Obama-phone.

WTF?

[dtom67]

36. I do not think that the "professional Left" post was from a third way follower....

I believe it was posted by someone who believes in the Presidents' virtue to the point of idolatry.
When Bernie Sanders first started warning about chained cpi, I was a firm believer that the Democrats were free from the 1% money machine. Now that I have started watching the EU, the central banks as well as American current events, I am starting to wonder if we really ever had a Democracy at all. Anyways, I no longer think of the Party as a sacred cow.

Some, however, do not want to hear any dissent. They do not like finding themselves in the role of an apologist for the man they think of as unimpeachable. They will even go so far as to tell you that the cut isn't a cut. Gee, I hope the GOP doesn't read that. "hey, you offered me a cut that wasn't a cut! "
The real problem here is that it should be easy to do the right thing and raise the cap on ss and cut military spending. But we are ruled by the Rich. Because of them, millions suffer every day. Because of them, we will one day sow the seeds of our own extinction.
All because we have not evolved much, politically.
We still are ruled by Lords and Ladies, but they no longer have to do the dirty work. They can buy politicians and remain anonymous.

Oops, gotta go back to work....

[graham4anything]

38. I wish I had the assets Ralph Nader and Ron Paul has.

Considering where all the money had and his buddy Ron Paul have obtained in campaign finance dollars and considering Ralph hasn't actually worked a day job in how many decades now...
and in these harsh economic times

Ralph is the 1/2 of 1% in his own asset accounts.

Isn't America wonderful?

One can rail on negatively for 40 years about this and that, and live like, well, actually BE a millionaire in the good old USA (cue in the old Chevy commercial from the 1970s).

Laughing all the way to the bank, the old $$$Ralph$$$Nader$$$way.

Ralph, we hardly knew ye.
It's easier to take a dive and stay down than to contribute.

Ralph, and Ron sitting in a tree
$$$$$$$
First came Ralph
Then came Ron
Then came millions in their garbage can

What a cottage industry it is.

cue in Brewer and Shipley's One toke over the Line for a little background music

or to unfortunately paraphrase Kermit
It is easy being Green. Green Money that is. Green is the color of both Ron and Ralph's assets.

Some play to win
Some play to lose
Ralph and Ron got the $$$$$ to prove
(with apologies to Danny O'keefe).

[raouldukelives]

51. I'd trade them for Bloombergs.

The sheer amount of AGW deniers and anti-climate change sciencce he has personally funded through Wall St must be staggering.
Don't drink big sodas but profit from third world slavery, war, fracking and the destruction of our limited enivornemnt.

[former9thward]

58. Where is you link to your charges against Nader of being "rich"?

I have asked you this before and was met with silence. According to the mandatory fiscal disclosure report that he filed with the Federal Election Commission in 2000, Nader said he owned no car and owned no real estate directly in 2000, and said that he lived on US $25,000 a year, giving most of his stock earnings to many of the over four dozen non-profit organizations he had founded.

Hmmm. Founded four dozen non-profit organizations. I would say that is four dozen more that you have.

[graham4anything]

59. Wish I had 25% of what he has.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/ralph-nader-net-worth/

Ralph Nader Net Worth
Random Celebrity Profile
How much is Ralph Nader worth?
$4.2 Million

Politician Ralph Nader may not be famous for his estimated net worth of approximately $4.2 million dollars.

[former9thward]

60. Good you can live on $25,000 a year like he does.

And give away the rest. Let's see you do that. Maybe you can get your friend Bloomberg to do that. Of course he couldn't go down to his place in the Bahamas every weekend like he does now.

[SwissTony]

41. I was part of the rent-a-mob during the Vietnam war.

I was apparently being paid to protest. Unfortunately, the generous man handing out the money was always around the next corner. I could have used the money.

[JHB]

42. Geez, with all this talk, I'm going to plug "The Professional Left Podcast" w/Driftglass & Blue Gal

As seen (well, more like read) at Crooks and Liars.

Attribute the name to Gibbs, definitely anti-"centrist" but also addressing electoral necessities (I.e., not in any "sit it out" camp)


Available on iTunes and Stitcher Radio. NSFW

http://professionalleft.blogspot.com/

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/

http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com/


And on-topic to this thread: HEY GEORGE SOROS! YOU'RE LATE WITH THE CHECKS (again)!

[LWolf]

44. Let me know when you find out. nt

[xchrom]

45. is there a human resource department we can complain to? cause i haven't seen one either. nt

[hobbit709]

46. You and me both. I figure I'm owed at least 45 years worth of back pay.

[Armstead]

48. The check is ion the mail.....Ooops we killed off the Post Office. nevermind.

[datasuspect]

49. The "Union Thugs" took them

[99Forever]

50. Yep...

... and I'm thinking, where's my backpay?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

53. Really! I never knew I could get paid for this!

If I had known that those radical left groups were recruiting DU posters and paying them big bucks, I'd have signed up and I'd have been able to retire by now!

[Zorra]

55. The professional left needs to unionize. If they're going to screw us repeatedly,

we should at least get paid for it.

[Blue_Tires]

61. +1

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

57. We used to get them from the Kremlin, or Havana, or Beijing..

when we were Reds, Pinkos, and/or hippies.