Bullies will Bully you until you FIGHT BACK.

[LaydeeBug]

They own the media, and call it liberal.

They dominate our airwaves, and say it's tilted in the Dem's favor.

They ushered in a foreign nation into our election process and are shrugging their shoulders, all "What? There's nothing to see here", and there are people on the very board who pretend we need to prove something to THEM.

They don't think DU was "big enough" to hack on election day by Russians.

We just aren't that important.

I'm going to take it even a step further: The GOP coordinated with Russia, and DU was just a small pittance to what they did on Election Day.

Just like Wheel Of Fortune, where they give you the R S T L N E in the word puzzle, the usual R S T L N E will come out here. First I was told that I can't prove Russia was behind the hacks.

When it gets proven that they were, where *are* these motherfuckers? MY guess is drinking a Moscow Mule, but that's none of my business.

Or maybe it *is*.

Then I get told that Melania Trump's speechwriter exists, and how dare I act like she doesn't. (aside: are people paying attention around here?)

Again, the usual R S T L N E ers will come along and try and say we should just write letters to our officials. Or to say that posting on it here won't make any difference. (aside: if we're so small and unimportant, and it is folly to post about it, imagine how much WORSE it is to be the one saying it makes no difference)

I have NO IDEA why people are afraid to speak the plain fucking truth in front of them. How many times does it have to happen before they will stop being the R S T L N E and start being the fucking exclamation point?

Or at least a fucking asterisk or something...

The people we're up against don't give a shit about rules. About laws. About truth. Don't believe me? Obama was born in Kenya. He is a Muslim. His wife is a monkey. Or Sista Soulja. Hillary killed four people in Benghazi. (I should have said Killary). Bill Clinton's penis is a Constitutional crisis. Hanging chads. Al Gore couldn't even carry his home state. (with no mention of how many were thrown off the rolls)

They. keep. doing. the. same. fucking. thing. over. and. over. and. over. and. over again and the R S T L N E always has the same remedy: lick your wounds, and hone your message. Make your win so big that they can't steal it...because the remedy isn't to call them out on stealing it...it's to gain a super majority...and if not a super, super majority. Oh, and don't call them out on the malfeasance, because unless they ADMIT IT, the ONLY thing we can do is hone our message...and even if they were to cop to it, we should just move on and love them.

I'm tired of bringing a knife to a gun fight. Or a fucking pen.

Since 2000 AT LEAST, we can chronicle the fucked up things these motherfuckers will do...the printed signs in minority communities where it says if you owe child support and try to vote, you'll go to jail...the hanging chads. The "oh, well we all have our preferences but you can't think that would mean we'd cheat or anything". Paid staffers being referred to as an angry mob on OUR AIRWAVES.

The greedia lies their fucking asses off and then the KGOPB just gets to have it both ways. When will you fight back?

When will you stop watching their PROGRAMS? When will you call their advertisers and tell them not one more penny while they spew this shit?

There's a REASON the righties won't play the ignorguration: they are WIMPS. They want to BE racist: they just don't want to admit it. Big and Rich are doing some sort of show on the outskirts of DC...like they don't want to get TOO close...they just want to you know...sort of...

Assholes.

Bullies.

None one fucking minute. Not one red dime. Not even one fucking CENT will I knowingly give these motherfuckers.

And no...I am NOT sorry that someone called The FLOTUS ELECT out on a plane. It's not my favorite, but she's an adult, and on the fucking payroll. It comes with the territory. Is it my favorite? No. Am I *sorry* about it? Absolutely not, and it's high time we start dishing as good as we've been served, or the strongly worded letters we could muster will only be useful as soft, absorbent pages for those motherfuckers to wipe their asses with. Think it's rude that I said that? Maybe wrong headed or inappropriate? Just LOOK at what they've done to the Constitution already!

They cheat. They. keep. cheating. And we keep acting like it's something we can't, or shouldn't, or there's a time limit on, or....gaslighting.

We need to say RUSSIA every day. We need to tell advertisers that we endorse AMERICAN products, and the ones propping up the Russian establishment will be boycotted.

We need to say CHEATED every day. Because they did. How many times do we have to have an 'after the fact' discussion about how they got away with cheating *this* time. Ken Blackwell? Hanging chads? Russian infiltration? Not in that order, but still.

FUCK THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS. THIS IS A COUP. AND YES, WE SHOULD CALL IT TREASON, BECAUSE IT FUCKING IS TREASON.

[Botany]

1. THIS IS A COUP. AND YES, WE SHOULD CALL IT TREASON, BECAUSE IT FUCKING IS TREASON.

BTW Trump had Ken Blackwell working for him during the election too.

[LaydeeBug]

2. Thank you. I can't tell you how many times I've been drug to the woodshed for saying that

and it doesn't surprise me at all about Ken Blackwell.

[LaydeeBug]

3. I left out ACORN...why is that they can take out our leaders with innuendo, but we can't tell

the truth about theirs?

[HAB911]

4. Well said.......n/t

[LaydeeBug]

34. thank you

[Squinch]

5. Kick. It's time we use their methods for the right reasons. Where they lie, we can easily

tell the truth, but we need to show just how frightening they are and not pull punches in the interests of reaching across the aisle. The aisle is a canyon and their reach consists of ruining lives and blowing the ground out from under all of us so their buddies can get that second or third billion.

[LaydeeBug]

6. That's the kicker here. We're playing politics, and they're playing war. nt

[Equinox Moon]

7. Thanks LaydeeBug!

Would you mind if I made copies of your post and mailed them to my representatives?
All my reps are Dems and I am very tired of their meekness. We demand they take actions to stop this madness.

I would also say, it is time "We The People" stop this madness. Our leaders are not doing it for us.

[LaydeeBug]

14. Go right ahead. We need to know that since they've run the media for the past 15 years

at LEAST, this shit won't be televised.

And, please know, that Hillary's right: we are stronger together.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

8. Truth!

Democrats have to stop being so nice. Where the flying fuck has it gotten us so far? The republicans own this country.

All the usual lines that are blathered throughout the years about including everyone, we should look at all sides, they really don't mean that it's just a tactic for compromise, we are the good ones we just don't think that way. Well guess what? It got us trump as president, a weasel in Ryan taking away the ACA, then attacking our social safety net.

We must fight as the republicans have for decades. They won, we lost, it works.

Since it's the season of football, a little analogy.
Team one wants to run every or most every play, they feel it will dominate the game. They run into a virtual brick wall the run defense of team two is stifling their running game. Every person watching the game will exclaim that it's time to change it up, pass, change your game plan.
We must see the faults of our game plan and pick one we know works.
It may feel strange at first but after a few plays really, really work it will feel more comfortable.

We cannot normalize any of the shit that they throw at us. We need to call it out, we have to hit them, then hit them again till their knees buckle.
It starts at the grass root level. Go to Democratic meetings in your area, stand up make your voice heard so more can join in and raise that single voice to a deafening roar.

We must win at all costs, in any way. This is war.

[LaydeeBug]

15. exactly. The other side is so lulled that they don't think anything's wrong

and honing our message rewards their travesty.

Russia all day long motherfucker.

[w0nderer]

9. kick n rec n/t

[pangaia]

10. Good work.. It is so obvious, is it not...

I expressed basically the same opinion as you, only with WAY, WAY fewer words, and got dumped on by a few... ummm.... well, let's just say 'a few', for "DESPISING Democrats!!"

"Why do you despise Democrats."

aarrgghh.. How dare you?

And all I said was OUR GUYS need to fight back?


Watch your back...

[LaydeeBug]

16. Don't I know it...

They make no bones about it that they're coming for me...

[hurple]

11. Ypu are

100% correct.

[LaydeeBug]

18. Welcome to DU, and thank you for the kind words. nt

[smirkymonkey]

12. Hear, hear!

[LaydeeBug]

35. thank you.

[Initech]

17. Shout it from the god damn rooftops! The GOP committed treason!

[LaydeeBug]

19. I can't even begin to tell you the mansplaining that happens over this subject.

and how DESPERATELY they try to change the subject.

Hone your message.

Lick your wounds.

[AmericanActivist]

20. Thank you for this. You're right they don't care about rules, laws or truth.

And it has been going on since at least 2000. And they do cheat. And Russia interfered. And it is TREASON. And they are bullies and you have to stand up to bullies.

[LaydeeBug]

21. You summed it up perfectly. Oh, and FUCK them

I will keep telling the truth.

No regrets.

[AmericanActivist]

22. Yes please do keep telling the truth I am right here with you I see

things the same way.

[LaydeeBug]

23. I am with you too...

and we really are stronger together.

[Eleanors38]

24. Learn to eruct on command, then blame it on some GOPer.

[LaydeeBug]

25. Thanks, but I'm not much of a belcher.

I can cuss them out though.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. BRAVO!!

[LaydeeBug]

28. Thank you!!!

[Paladin]

27. I'm with you, LaydeeBug---as usual. ;) (nt)

[LaydeeBug]

29. I appreciate that, because we are stronger together. nt

[LaydeeBug]

30. That's it! 50 unsolicited likes in one day, and I am starting to regain my faith a bit

It is going to be a LONG four years.

We've never been here before.

They literally run *everything*.

All media. The courts for the next generation at least.

The schools...which they will make even worse. Let's not forget that they want charter schools.

[Mike Niendorff]

31. Amen.

The time for argument is past. It's time for a fight.


MDN

[LaydeeBug]

32. good morning kick! :)