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RHETORIC

I was reading Hitchens again. Damn me!

He has made some off the wall statements that really pissed me off.

Christopher is dying. At least that is how the NYT puts it.

He is growing back some hair....who knows?

(He memorably — a lot of what Hitchens has written merits the adverb — shot back that his antiwar critics were “the sort who, discovering a viper in the bed of their child, would place the first call to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.”) And he is dying of esophageal cancer, a fact he has faced with exceptional aplomb.

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Christopher Hitchens

Hitchens broke my heart when he backed our previous fascist administration.

But he had a point regarding our left-wing propaganda.

I mean there are those on the left who would feign concern for the snakes over our babies!

On the other hand...

Repubs never tell the truth.

They claim they are against killing babies and they would cut child nutrition programs.

They claim that they are against killing Americans and they wish for war every goddamn time. Oh Perry says we must get out of these wars and so does Mitt; but they are lying. Come on! George W said we should never get involved in foreign entanglements.

They claim that they are against killing and they cheer for murder in our courtrooms.

They claim that they are against killing and they cheer for the death of those without insurance.

They claim they are against killing and they cheer for taking health care away from the sick, sore and disabled.

They claim they are for family values and they would cut food stamps.

They claim that they claim....

I have a new idea for dems.

Let us match the propaganda that the devils hold so dear!

Let us put forth our own bullshite and maintain rules as the NAZI's do.

NEW RULES FOR DEMOCRATS:

1. Always refer to Republicans as Repubs. I mean they always refer to us as the Democrat Party as a play upon Demo and Rats. They shall now be referred to as the Repub Party.

2. Always stay away from the term Global Warming. It does not work! Instead underline the need for clean water, for clean air and for clean agriculture. Go ahead and show stats and pics of people dying in this country as a result of impure water and impure air and impure farm land adulterated by big bad corporations.

3. Never attack windpower as an energy source. Fuck the birds. Although I always liked the Byrds:.

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5. Quit screaming about pro choice. It does not work. We must hope that Roberts dies after convulsing on some dock as he falls in the ocean; we must pray that our Minority Member on the Court suddenly has a heart attack looking at porn on the internet as he eschews his ugly fat white wife, we must pray that Scalia eats some bad Italian sausage or simply opts for making millions on some reality show. That is all we got. The rest shall be taken care of by the states after folks like Walker are thrown out on the streets for graft and such.

6. Quit any discussion about sun-power disturbing the environment. Hell, everything disturbs the environment. I just farted and two pigeons on my window sill died.

7. Quit arguments that dogs and cats have equal rights. Jesus H. Christ; people are not going to vote for equal rights for dogs and cats. Hell a third of Americans do not wish to give Blacks and Hispanics equal rights! Besides it gets into this whole Gay problem with equal rights.

8. Do not, I mean do not, scream out that the death penalty should be abolished. Any sane person would wish that some arsehole who rapes and kills a 9 year old girl should be killed; and I mean immediately. We simply take the position that the death penalty should not be used indiscriminately—or rather discriminately against minorities. Hell, I feel that Wall Street management managed to kill thousands of people as well as millions upon millions of dreams. Kill them I say. Just do not kill them indiscrimately or rather discrimately. Let the courts sort it out BECAUSE YOU WILL LOSE ON THIS RIDICULOUS POSITION.

9. Do not jump up and down and scream that rich folks get better health care, better jobs for their children, better educational opportunities, better rides.....It has always been such and always will. Keep discussing the evils of the vanishing middle class. It sounds better.

10. Quit screaming peace all the time. We shall never have peace. The best we can do is to lobby for less war. It sounds better.

11. Quit ignoring debt. Keep screaming that the nation's debt is terrible and we need more money from money greedy bastard corporations. Scream that we must indict and go after the corporations who have killed so many folks and scream that we need to take away their assets for the damage they have done. I think that works. Center your concerns on no-bid contracts and corporate pigs like Cheney. Always picture Cheney and his contracts with Halliburton_

12. Constantly show pictures of the homeless in our slums. You do not have to say anything. A picture is worth a million words on MSM. Just keep posting the pictures.

13. Broadcast every single goddamn video or blog piece demonstrating graft on the right. It may do justice just to skip any narrative. Show Walsh in the courtroom arguing that he does not have money for child support, show Perry defending his slush fund and show thousands of pix and stats and graphs demonstrating proof that depict his real contributions from corporations seeking state aid.

14. Broadcast every single lie that any repub has ever said. That is quite a monumental job since repubs just lie every single day...but basically we need 1,000,000 mediamatters.org/

WE HAVE TO QUIT FUCKING AROUND PEOPLE.

THE END.