calimary
calimary's JournalI wake up this morning and already I'm depressed.
I'm just amazed at human greed.
"Those who voted for Christie, et all, were not poor and disenfranchised but those who wanted to share in the spoils of such a system."
What's the long game here? Is ANYBODY on our side trying to strategize long-range? Is ANYBODY on our side trying to build for the future? Is ANYBODY on our side NOT simply assuming the youth and the Latinos will break for us so let's just take 'em for granted?
Damn what a dismal morning. I genuinely fear for my country. By the time anybody wakes up and takes this threat seriously, it won't be a threat anymore - it'll be a done deal, and reversing it might well be impossible. I don't want to live in an America that's turning into The Handmaid's Tale. And I'm afraid that's where we're heading.
Ahh... isn't that nice. Big belligerent loutish bully with his big insulting mouth open.
Man you're so appealing, christie.
NICE, Mira! Brava!!!
Thank you for ALL of us!!!!!! Good work saving at least one more soul! REALLY appreciate your sharing this salvation saga - it oughta perk everybody up around here! Little by little. Like I tell the band every so often - Stack the Legos. Stack the Legos. Just keep stacking the Legos.
Welcome to DU, yourmovemonkey!
Glad you're here! Aren't these wonderful? Dang! California Peggy - you made art there! So glad you posted them here! We get cool stuff here ALL THE TIME, yourmovemonkey, and you're in for a long-running treat! That is, unless you've been lurking here for awhile, in which case you already know!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE these!!!!!
MAN I wish we could airdrop these leaflets by the thousands all over red districts!!! They plant shit about our guys all the time. We NEVER give 'em a taste of their own medicine, do we? Too bad.
Seems like our side always wants to lose pretty.
Oh... but, but, but, we CAN'T play rough like they do! It'd make us no better than THEM!!!
FUCK THAT, okay???? JUST FUCK THAT!!!!!!! You know what? Pulling that shit makes them WIN. And I want to WIN.
Because if you lose, you get squat, and I have had it up to HERE with congratulating myself that but, but, but, at least WE fought FAIR. BULLSHIT. I don't give a crap about "fighting fair." SCREW that. If we have to fight dirty in order to win, then so be it. THAT is the game. And THAT is how it's played. Until we're in a different kind of game - where both sides freely and willingly agree to play fair, I don't think we should waste any more time playing fair. WE play fair, and THEY play dirty and win and then they say "hey, THANKS, CHUMP!!!"
Well, I think we've got people on our side who are just as smart and devious as the best they've got, and I think we oughta beat them at their own game. It does NO GOOD AT ALL to "take the high road" and then pat yourself on the back as the loser and congratulate yourself for the consolation prize of playing fair. FUCK THAT. I don't care if it's not a clean win. Just as long as it's a WIN.
Please remember, in politics, it's NOT how you play the game. It's if you WIN. And if you don't WIN, you don't govern. You don't get to set the agenda. You don't get the subpoena power. You don't get to lead. You don't get to decide what comes up for a vote. You have to cope with somebody else as committee chair and whatever agenda THEY have. All that morality stuff is for Sunday school or catechism class. It's not for the political arena. I'm just really surprised that our team hasn't learned that by now.
Hey, I wish it were different. But as long as we face the adversaries we have, we're stuck with this way. And THANK GOD for oppositional research. DON'T TURN YOUR NOSE UP AT IT because it involves digging up dirt on the bad guy. It helped save us from a mitt wrongney presidency (thank you young Mr. Carter for being well-connected enough to have friends who found that stealth-recorded 47% video!!!). And WHERE'S OUR ANSWER to that scheming sneaky little schmuck james o'keefe? WHERE are OUR mud-slingers and back-bench bomb throwers? Some people out in cockeyed voter land think that's the sign of balls and backbone. No wonder they laugh at us and all our Pollyanna teammates and other cavers and capitulators.
Well, anybody on OUR side doing that to HIM?????
The only thing these guys understand is scorched-earth. WHEN are our guys gonna start fighting fire with FIRE, rather than with crumpled wads of paper? Actually, our guys should start fighting fire with NAPALM.
Not anymore. They're all doing it the chuck todd way now.
He's given it legitimacy. After all, HE'S hosting "Meet the Press" now. So he's enjoying the best revenge, unfortunately. Hopefully that's a temporary problem.
SO COOL!!!!
And dammit, I can hardly take my eyes off your little vids in your sig line, grits!
They still make me laugh out loud!
Welcome to DU, usspicard!
Glad you're here! I WISH we had mass use of magical spells (also known as the use of words to manipulate people). We don't. We have the best ideas but the shittiest ways of pushing them, describing them, meme-ing them, FRAMING them. The bad guys have shitty ideas but they are MASTERFUL at communicating. They can make any steaming pile of Ebola-infected shit sound like a bouquet of flowers, long enough to fool enough voters, and also KEEP them fooled into thinking that sweet fragrant bowl of comfort-porridge they've been serving over the term of office - is just another steaming pile of Ebola-infected shit.
I'm STILL stunned by the CONS who had the nerve to state that their abusive, intrusive anti-woman agenda that includes forcible insertion of hard plastic dildo-shaped rods into the vagina or mandatory ultra-sounds (sounds like state-mandated RAPE to me, frankly) - is "HELPING women."
HELPING WOMEN??????????????
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