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Schaffkopf, My father gets

Resistance — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:40:33 +0000

In reply to Sheepshead in place of

Schaffkopf,

My father gets mad, because I don't get the trump out of the way..

Sheepshead in place of

SleepinJeezus — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:19:27 +0000

In reply to Eau Claire has kinda reached

Sheepshead in place of checkers, and we gots heaven! Love it!

Yeah. I really like David's

kgb999 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:12:58 +0000

In reply to You are spot on kgb Here is a

Yeah. I really like David's stuff - and I really like the attention to detail he puts into his footnoting (not enough to *emulate* mind you). He probably is a good candidate for driving the short-attention-span set into fits of mindrage. To use the currently discussed device the *other* way it is apropos:

[tl;dr: tax the rich SOBs to increase revenue and keep grubby corporatist hands off of public radio]

I'd say you could get that out in around 3 seconds.

You are spot on kgb Here is a

Resistance — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:30:37 +0000

In reply to It was kind of cute when you

You are spot on kgb

Here is a good article and much work has gone into it, except I suppose this too, will be considered by some, TLDR?

Unless you could put it into a 15 second soundbite?

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/turning-down-radio-slice-budgetary-slice-9288

Love this, Stardust. Thanks.

Ramona — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:39:36 +0000

In reply to All struggles for freedom

Love this, Stardust. Thanks.

Brew. Quit being such a punk,

quinn esq — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:18:52 +0000

In reply to I am a Democrat, that's who I am

Brew. Quit being such a punk, willya? There's no need for this. Labour has been taking beatings for 30 fracking years, and YOUR ideas on how to run the Democratic Party have been in charge. While the "progressives" have been miles from power, on anything. So first thing you need to do is OWN THE GD MESS WE'RE IN IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Which means, I really can't fathom your attempt to position yourself as the embattled outsider, it's such a pathetic maneuver, after preaching responsibility and accountability and all that other centrist cant to the working class, lo these many years.

And now, one of those incredibly rare things comes along, and old labour shows it has some remaining twitch fibre and a bit of muscle. Something which - even if it's never heard from - I believe we really really really need to help keep people from all being crumbled down to individual units and their incomes reduced to dirt. And it's only in one state, and the next national election doesn't hang on it, and yet... what do we see from yourself and some of the other geniuses here?

THEY COME IN AND THINK THEY NEED TO SPEND TIME CRAPPING ON THE DEMOCRATIC SENATORS AND LABOUR! It's a bad joke. It really really is. In the midst of a brawl between labour and the bosses, the bosses having won for 30 years solid, you, you little twerp, think now's the time to go on and on and on about the 1980 and 1984 elections, and the deep racism of labour, and how so many voted Republican.

You have no clue on TIMING, I'll say that.

And then you PERSONALIZE your attacks, with the Tailgunner Joe stuff? Look, Brew, you have to be beyond fucking insensitive to say shit like that. That's a bit more than calling a black man an Uncle Tom. For many people - liberals and progressives and such - and including real life people at this site whose families got hurt - that's in precisely the same real life league as cheering on JFK's assassin.

And then you have the nerve to announce that YOU'RE the one creating jobs, by financing commercial construction? And you don't expect a kick in the balls? When it's FINANCE, and certainly finance related to COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE that has put these very workers on the hit list?

But when called out on it, you start CRYING ABOUT HOW YOU'RE HURT, AND HOW OUR TACTICS ARE ALL DIRTY.

Get a grip on where you are in life, and who your allies are. I don't actually give a rat's if you're in finance. Fine. I got lots of friends in it, life is complex. I also think you got a good brain, and probably lots of good intentions. But what the fuck are you doing, launching attacks on these people at this time? Jeeeezus, because they're carried away with excitement, and really pretty pro-worker right now? And you come in like it's your job - and Trope's and Genghis' etc. - to cool them down, and be a cooler heads? IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS THEY'VE BEEN LOSING DO IT YOUR WAY, AND YOU'RE ACTUALLY, PHYSICALLY, IN YOUR LIFE, ON THE SIDE OF THOSE BENEFITTING MOST FROM THE CHANGES. MAYBE IT'S A MOMENT TO.... PAUSE.

Shorter: Are you completely without tact, timing, and any sense of political grace?

Come ON man, I know you're truckloads better than this.

At bottom.

quinn esq — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:12:29 +0000

In reply to "And yes. It's people Just.

At bottom.

Eau Claire has kinda reached

quinn esq — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:56:56 +0000

In reply to Indeed! LOL!Maybe brewmn can

Eau Claire has kinda reached mythic status for me after all this. It's like some beautiful mirage, like how you'd imagine a Beer Éclair would taste, if you lived in the sky.

"Aaaaaaaah. So beautiful. So refreshing. Eau Claire."

And if I ever get to Eau Claire, we're going drinking, Sleepin'. We can invite Brew down from Chicago. Whip his ass at checkers. Buy him rounds, get him all likkered up. Make him buy us the expensive imported stuff. Like.... Molsons. Maybe Moosehead.

I have a dream....

Pssssssst! (Brewmn is the

we are stardust — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:38:38 +0000

In reply to And T-Mac? You know how I'm

Pssssssst! (Brewmn is the attorney! He may have reiterated it endlessly, but I forget....)

Indeed! LOL!Maybe brewmn can

SleepinJeezus — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:31:08 +0000

In reply to Dude. You just made the

Indeed! LOL!

Maybe brewmn can buy her a beer in some shit-hole like Eau Claire. I know just the place! LOL!

dagblog - Comments for "I am a Democrat, that's who I am"

﻿Schaffkopf, My father gets

Sheepshead in place of

Yeah. I really like David's

You are spot on kgb Here is a

Love this, Stardust. Thanks.

Brew. Quit being such a punk,

At bottom.

Eau Claire has kinda reached

Pssssssst! (Brewmn is the

Indeed! LOL!Maybe brewmn can

Schaffkopf, My father gets