Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

I'm still trying to decipher this post I saw from a Republican on Facebook:

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU
 
Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:01 AM
Original message
I'm still trying to decipher this post I saw from a Republican on Facebook:

"Obama would rather take care of welfare leeches then do something worthwhile! Many people don't know what the progressive movement is if you look in the dictionary theres a picture of Obama hence the progressive movement!"

Maybe somebody else could take a stab at it.

:wtf:

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
HubertHeaver Donating Member (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:03 AM
Response to Original message
1. I'll pass
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:04 AM
Response to Original message
2. Haiti maybe?
This was the meme floating around on FB in the wake of the earthquake...

America: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children
going to bed without eating, elderly going without needed meds, and
mentally ill without treatment - yet we have a benefit for the people
of Haiti on 12 TV stations. 99% of people won't have the guts to copy
and repost this. I DID..

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Lesleymo Donating Member (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:12 AM
Response to Reply #2
5. I used to love my friends
until we all got facebook accounts and I discovered that most of them are morons
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:26 AM
Response to Reply #2
10. No (or at least not the whole thing). Even before Haiti there was a weird...
..."he's gonna take your hard-earned money and spead it around to...you know who...for their votes" that left one wondering "what decade are you in?" The "you know who", of course, was straight out of Reagan "welfare queen" imagery or vintage 70s and 80s right wing talk radio (classic Bob Grant, and others like him).
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:41 AM
Response to Reply #2
15. I saw that a few times on my Status Updates page...
While someone else pointed out that it's true, my issue with it was that there are poor people in this country who are still better off than the people of Haiti are. It's one thing to be dirt poor, but quite another to be dirt poor and have one's entire world devastated by a natural disaster on top of it all.

In any case, I suspected that the very people who were running around posting that thing were probably the same sort who would not help anyone...even fellow Americans. So I posted a link on my FB page to a site with information on donating to help victims of a crisis taking place right here in the US.

I have over 100 people in my contacts (friends) list. Only ONE clicked the "like" button.


So much for that one...

sigh...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:05 AM
Response to Original message
3. All One! Dilute! Dilute! OK!!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Kitty Herder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:15 AM
Response to Reply #3
7. LOL
Edited on Tue Feb-02-10 10:18 AM by Kitty Herder
Apparently, I'm not the only one who is reminded of Dr. Bronner's whenever I hear Republican rhetoric that makes no sense. It's word salad.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:38 AM
Response to Reply #7
14. Word salad for sure.
Robin Williams would call it a "vowel movement."
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:43 AM
Response to Reply #3
16. Never heard of that stuff before... now I want to watch the movie.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:44 AM
Response to Reply #3
17. I used to love that stuff
Can't find the peppermint scent anymore, though.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:11 AM
Response to Original message
4. They wrote "hence" so they must be really smart n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
ComtesseDeSpair Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:14 AM
Response to Original message
6. Reminds me of this one I was trying to decipher last night...
"All Obama has done is spend more money the defict with his health was in friggin trillions"

I notice that, in both cases, there is a lack of commitment towards use of the period. Regardless of what either of these people are trying/failing to say, they're wrong. Their lack of grammatical correctness just hammers the point home more explicitly.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:16 AM
Response to Original message
8. Sure. I'll solve it for you. The person who posted it is a moron.
If we posted every moronic Facebook message here on DU, there wouldn't be enough bandwidth on the planet to hold it all.

Morons post moronic statements. It's that simple.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:19 AM
Response to Original message
9. Translation: Black Progressive = Welfare Leech... Black President = End of World as We Know it.
They are not going to get over it.

As much as they'd hate any Dem, they double hate that he's a BLACK Democrat in charge of the country.

Me, I fuckin' love it.

:P
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:52 AM
Response to Reply #9
18. Also, that he's much younger than most of them. The "upstart."..LOL...n/t
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:56 AM
Response to Reply #18
20. Yep. You can't get much more "uppity" than running for President of the United States...
And then WINNING!!!!

:rofl:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:27 AM
Response to Original message
11. I wouldn't even think twice before I defriended anyone who invaded my space with that nonsense
Not only that, but I would block them from ever contacting me again. Hope it's not a relative.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:31 AM
Response to Reply #11
12. It was a friend of a friend....
....so I can say I have no direct connection to that.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:37 AM
Response to Original message
13. There's no point in trying to make sense of this.
It contains only nonsense. Just some idiot who thinks poor people deserve to starve.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:54 AM
Response to Original message
19. The biggest welfare leech is the military.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 10:59 AM
Response to Original message
21. I'd rather he do something about those welfare leeches (corporations) too.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 11:12 AM
Response to Original message
22. Word salad.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Sat May 04th 2024, 01:25 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC