The argument with Wattree before the Nazi comment was that his "irrefutable" truth that the GOP had done nothing good in 100 years was hyperbole and didn't help people take him seriously. And yes, Nelson Rockefeller was a pretty good moderate Republican (aside from Attica), as was...

Sigh. The criticism came before mention of the Nazis.The argument was that it was outrageous for Wattree to say that the GOP had done nothing worthwhile in one hundred years.People attacked the accuracy of his statement. Yet here you are defending Blackface, Vanilla children and that Obama is a...

I guess I am probably The Thoughtful One, at least when I am not posting the same thing time after time.  After time.

I can fucking use profanity if I want - what are you, Miss Manners?

Wattree can accuse people of being gas chamber building / black people lynchers, you can compare someone to a nurse intentionally infecting people with syphilis, but a curse word offends you? Different strokes for mad...

How does "blackface" refer to Obama's parents?

You're just free-styling, making shit up.

Re: doesn't grieve for black children, may be over the top, but you never discuss what the bases for these complaints are, just somehow West complains too mean and we must...

Funny.  Thanks, I needed that laugh.

  Well, I still think Obama wants to preserve assistance to the poor, and I believe his promises to prevent chained CPI from causing a cut in benefits. And he isn't cutting Medicare benefits, he's cutting reimbursements to hospitals and other providers.

Thanks for coming to...

And unfortunately, Shrub is my neighbor 30 miles to the east.  Ugh!  Thanks for the rant.

I will treasure this rant for the rest of my worthless existance. 

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I hereby render unto Trope the Dayly Comment/Reply/RANT of the Day for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me.

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I really have never cared...

By Rockefeller Republican, West was suggesting Obama was no huge liberal. I think West was being kind - Rockefeller likely wouldn't have gone for indefinite detention, nor this sequester showdown that's hurting social & health programs, or trying to cut Social Security benefits. In...

I understand we are going to see a lot more of him because his brother is hinting about making a run in 2016 for president.  There will be plenty of rewriting history of the Bush years in office to clear the field for Jeb.

I think both Wattree and Cornel West like to play a variation of The Dozens. It's an entertaining modus operandi to a certain point, then it grows tiresome. I also think it often becomes counterproductive after a certain point. But that's just me, and that is all I have to say...

This all kicked off over Wattree stating that the GOP has not done one single posiive thing in one hundred years. Wattree's statement ss deemed too outrageous by many. Along the way in the discussion on the board, the issue of Watrre's repeated commentary on Cornel West. West has...

Benjamin Ferencz, appointed by Telford Taylor as Chief Prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen Case at the Trials of War Criminals before the...

I openly admit a large bias against the GOP. As we sit and blog a number of Democratic Senators are heading out the door. There is little likelihood of Democrats taking over the House.

Am I hypercritical of the GOP? Yes. Do I think that in "the wide scope of things" this is...

Nitpick? 10x error you mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Find the most bullshit estimate of deaths, ten times that given...

Stop Making Sense.

  Although Wattree no longer wants to talk about statistics, others who are interested might want to check out UNICEF reports on Iraq. Although he says UNICEF has reported a disaster, they actually say that child mortality in 2010 was less than in 1990(perhaps it would be lower still if not...

I reminded of a time when Al Fraken was hosting a show on Air America. He had one recurring segment during which he would call on his long-time friends who happened to be  a ditto-head, and the two would discuss the latest rants from Rush.  During one of these segments, Al pointed out...

To be blunt, I really don't care what the GP did in the past.

Ok, so why are you telling me this? Again I didn't start this discussion. Wattree wrote a whole blog about the last one hundred years of the GOP that he reposted in the comment section here. Why didn't you...

Yes. I would toss into this that here in America there was the post WWII economic boom, a rise in living standards and income (along with a rise in technological improvements) that has few equals in history.  I would argue that the collective notion that one's children should have a...

However, Marty is a humble lonely loser who does not act out in violence but finds love and joy with another humble lonely loser.

Edit to add: Apropos of my most recent comment elsewhere on this thread, I am just reminded by...

You're loony. Nazis were an aberration.

They are leaving out bombings, of course.

Up until now, one could generally assume that if someone went over to that place where mass murder seemed like an appropriate solution to a situation, the impulse was to get a gun or two.  What we may be witnessing...

That was actually Paddy Chayefsky who "said" that, circa 1975-76.

If you check...

Someone once said almost 40 years ago:

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under...

Aaron,

I’m not going to nitpick with you, or be sidetracked by getting into a discussion on statistical analysis. That’s one of the biggest mistakes that this country makes when dealing with Republicans - we constantly allow ourselves to be distracted from the bottom line...

Another fantastic essay, Trope.  I also remember Falling Down as damned disturbing.  There was something about the way Douglas voiced rational complaints while acting so irrationally.  Sorry to hear about your troubles.  Hope you land in a better situation.

The SSRIs, I think, play in to alot of sudden, explosive and bizarre violence - especially in people with little history of it. That sort of thing, with folks like Adam Lanza, is a very new thing in our world. His dad even said he couldn't understand what pushed his son to do...

I've seen estimates of over one million Vietnamese killed, most during Johnson's presidency. I was against both the Viet Nam and the Iraq war. I don't see much difference between the two.

And torture was not at all uncommon during the Viet Nam war. Was it better when it was a...

Poetic license? Hard to get that impression when he called it irrefutable truth, unadulterated truth, asserted this was not a hyperbolic rant, and several time said he stands by every word in his comments.

The vast majority of the time I spend talking politics I trash the republicans and...

Issa is one useless politican.  Maybe California will finely dump him. 

RM,

I agree with everything you’ve said, except with regard to avoiding the comparison between the GOP and the Nazis. The similarity is not only real, but frighteningly compelling. Their propaganda campaign and tactics are identical, and their agenda is becoming increasingly more...

Indeed, Mussolini was a son of a bitch but he was no Hitler.  

I'm on the same page as you in that people who parse the things that dead Republicans accomplished and don't constantly yell about the evil being perpetrated by the current GOP are extremely naive. I think that there is simply no comparison betwen the Republicans and the Democrats. I...

Well, yes I do, RM.  Nazis were Nazis long before they killed one Jew. So we'd be foolish to believe that the Nazis were so exceptionally bad that they were an aberation, and we'd be even more foolish to believe that "it couldn't happen here." Bush...

Nicely done.

I think Falling Down was a very touching movie for many of us.  I remember it made me cry.  Not many movies do and they are usually the ones that feature some sort of ordinary human triumph.

The scenes that come most immediately to mind are of him...

I agree. Good post.

I thought that there was a major degree of poetic license with the statement about the GOP not having done anything worthwhile  in 100 years. I couldn't believe that people were documenting the things that the GOP had done in the past while pointing out how bad The GOP is today. It...

And the Michael Douglas character and all the real life persons that inspired him did their deeds without taking SSRI's. Unbelievable, I know, but it seems like just good old fashioned depression and related mental illnesses helped 'em do it....

Interesting finds from Dzhokhar’s Twitter account; thought I might as well include his comments on topic on your thread along with everyone else's:

“Never underestimate the...

A carbon tax is the only way we can save our mother.

I'm agreeing with PP here for once and I'm going to milk it.  RM, respectfully, if you don't understand the offensiveness of comparing American douchebag politicians to the Nazis, then you're an idiot--really, and if Wattree doesn't see a problem with it, then he...

This was also posted by Reuters this morning stating the WHO that this is "one of the most lethal."  http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/us-birdflu-china-idUSBRE93L0EF20130424...

Disagree - Chechens in particular chose high profile but often non-bloody kidnappings & commandeerings as way to highlight their situation. That the Russians...

    There was no more and no less of a message than in other terrorist attacks. For them, there were real enemies present; all Americans are the enemy.

How Toronto's Muslim Community Uncovered the Would-Be Train Bombers
"They focused on demonizing Western society....

Logistically possible doesn't equal, in this case, ideologically smart.

There's a lot of story to be filled in here--and even when/if we know everything, some of it might make far more sense to the attackers than it ever will to the rest of us.