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calimary's JournalBut ayn rand IS their god. That's exactly who they worship.
When they're not on their knees to grover norquist, that is.
All she ever did for the world is offer a well-published and disseminated justification for selfishness. She's their wet dream of all time because she gave them cover, and validated their love of selfishness, elevating that whole notion and giving it a kind of "legitimacy."
And all he is - is an asshole. Asshole of the RNC, but still an asshole.
That's where their talking points come from - out through their asshole. Their asshole named limbaugh.
WOW! "it's like getting your news from the town drunk."
NO FREAKIN' KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, thank you Gary Trudeau! Just gave us a new slogan! It'd look awfully good on a bumper sticker, don't you think?
But then again, with such "leading lights" on there as gretchen carlson and steve doocy, it's hard to tell if they're drunk or just embarrassingly stupid.
Standing there with you, Jester Messiah!
Fuck 'em. Let's fight this war. And let's WIN.
And I don't want to just win. I want to beat the snot out of 'em. Example: rick santorum. Had his ass and both sides of his mouth handed to him in his home state the last time he ran for reelection. Something like an EIGHTEEN POINT margin. It didn't stop him from trying a comeback for the Big Prize, of course, but that utterly glaring loss followed him everywhere. None of the pundits forgot it, and it kept getting mentioned over and over and over, all the time. Somehow it just kept getting brought up somewhere in the discussion. Hung around his neck like a concrete albatross.
Oh yeah - and I've seen this item on Facebook, liked it intensely, and happily shared it to my page!
"Black Adder" is one of my husband's favorite DVD series EVER.
Mine, on the other hand, is "The Thin Blue Line." More than a few times I've actually pissed him off because we'd be watching it late at night, he'd have fallen asleep, and then the show would made me laugh out loud so hard that I'd wake him up!
We played the "Mr. Bean" DVDs for our kids and really enjoyed how we COULD do that - it's scathingly funny AND still clean enough for kids. One time we gave a "Mr. Bean" DVD set to my son's best friend for I think either his 7th or 8th birthday - the kid's whole family got into it, with great relish!
HA! I was thinking - "wonder if it's Cory Booker..."
And presto-change-o, there he is!!!
I think he's a sure bet. I've thought that since the first time I saw him on TV somewhere. I was stop-in-my-tracks impressed. And that's exactly what I thought - I bet he's gonna be president someday. Felt it again when he got all that coverage for heroism during that fire, and he was so selfless about it! And then I thought - "... and I'm DAMN glad he's OURS! 'Cause he IS gonna be president someday and I'd hate for somebody that sure-fire and appealing to be one of the bad guys!"
Holy Crap.
"Thank goodness that we value those people too."
What isolation chamber has she been living in? "...we value those people too"????? Hey, Bubble Girl, have you looked at your party's policies toward the 99%? Toward poor women? Single heads of households? Working-poor women? Women having to support children AND elderly parents? Good HEAVENS, there are multiple categories!!!!!
Sheesh!!!!
She has NO clue whatsoever!!!
What I heard from many Edwards supporters here, during that time, and appreciated, was
his focus on the issue of poverty. I didn't study this closely because I was in other camps - Hillary's and as the primary season went on, Obama's.
But Edwards supporters were greatly moved, and very touched, by his emphasis on poverty in this country, the "Two Americas" he spoke about so often.
Even as I gravitated toward Obama, I admired that, too. And when Edwards' campaign collapsed under the weight of his Strumpet Eruption, it kinda broke my heart a little bit, too - as it ABSOLUTELY did many of theirs. Because no one else was making a big deal about poverty in his or her presidential campaign. Oh, sure, it'd come up in discussion in both the Clinton and Obama campaigns. But it wasn't a central issue. It wasn't one of the first things out of their mouths. Edwards made it a pillar of his campaign. And that voice - advocating for the poor - was silenced with this damn Rielle Hunter misadventure.
And I still think that's a damn shame.
BEST ADVICE of the season, Demit!
Let's figure out an end-run around all the voter laws. Take note of all those who might need special help or special processing - special paperwork, WHATEVER. Let's help them get it done, jump all the hurdles, pay any fees - I'd love to know if there's some Democratic clearinghouse for donating so that poor people and fixed-incomers can get whatever paperwork they'll need, even if they can't afford it themselves.
REMEMBER, PLEASE!!! We have to win. That's the ONLY way we can turn back this voter suppression. That's the only way we can build a lasting firewall against further encroachment upon a woman's right to choose. That's the only way to guarantee that the poor still have a voice at the ballot box - and to protect that most basic American right. And on. And on. And ON.
Outthink them. Be proactive. Try to anticipate their next move, and/or how to head off their next move.
These bastards seem most adept at being like a fast-moving cancer - metastasizing and poisoning everything they touch. They're pretty damn good at setting fires EVERYWHERE, seemingly faster than we can even spot them, much less put them out. They're keeping us busy - like my karate teacher always talked about, using the "parable" of the guy who held out through a sparring tournament just by jabbing. Just kept 'em busy. Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab - over and over, coming from every direction, overwhelming and non-stop. Til the opponent tired out and started making mistakes. Keep 'em busy. Time for US to do that to them, for a change. Keep the attacks going, large and small, long and short, day and night, from every direction, in every department, on every playing field and even some that don't exist. Just Everywhere.
Yep. ALWAYS be on watch. ALWAYS be on guard. NEVER trust 'em for an instant!
NEVER trust 'em. NEVER take their word for it. NEVER believe them even when they cry "uncle" and promise to stop and give it up and go away and pick something else to fight about. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!!!!
And I would go so far as to say, sickening as the idea is, we have to start thinking like they do. If we're going to outwit them and outstrategize them and outmaneuver them, we have to start trying to think the way they do.
WHERE would we move something that we had to make it look like it had been done away with? Where should we hide it? How should we conceal it? What should we call it now, so it slips and slides easily under the radar? What sounds good - like "Americans for Prosperity" or "American Crossroads," or some lofty-sounding, benign-sounding, easy-to-stomach sloganeering? What soothes the opposition into thinking the coast is clear and the danger's past - and so then they think it's settled and they roll over and go back to sleep - while WE KEEP WORKING?
I think we HAVE TO think that way. We are up against an enemy that won't give up until they get what they want, and then go for more. Never dreamed that here in America there would be efforts to take away the right to vote? Never imagined that, once the Supreme Court said Roe v Wade was settled law, that the opponents would concede defeat and stop fighting? I had a staunch republi-CON fellow karate mom once sneer at me - "meh, it's NOT gonna happen. S'NOT gonna happen" when I voiced my concern about the safety and security of a woman's right to choose (which, btw, she supported). I said - "oh yeah? Wanna bet?" I warned her that the bad guys weren't gonna stop and that it was absolutely at risk, and that they'd keep going to deny women that right as much and as hard and as far as they could. She laughed at me and said I was getting all worked up about nothing because it just simply wasn't gonna happen, that everything would be fine and I should stop worrying about it. And look where we are NOW.
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