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Bad News for... Revolution
« on: November 27, 2012, 04:54:21 PM »
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Bad news for those wanting revolution.
Here on DU it appears more of us are painfully aware of how bad things are for so many people in the current economy. Of course many can't really relate on a personal level but at least the effort is made.

And while it is fun to dream about a glorious revolution where the uber-wealthy are made to pay, the poorest among us see some justice and economic equality is less remote as a possibility...I'm here to tell you we are ever so far away from the much touted breaking point many here seem to think we are rapidly approaching.

Take a look around friends....look at the money that is spent out there every single day. How many millions of dollars do we spend each weekend at the movies? At bars & restaurants? How much is spent at sporting events? Let's think about all the cheap & useless plastic crap bought each and every day...really. Go to your local Wally World or dollar store or Target or whatever and really LOOK at what folks are buying.

I contend that a great deal of what the masses get suckered in to spending money on every single day is completely un-necessary.
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2012, 04:58:11 PM »
DUmmy JNelsonnumbers only buys necessary materiel, like hammers, and sickles, and high top work boots.

Then he goes home and waits for his next government check to buy some nails, and wrenches, and stuff.

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2012, 05:10:36 PM »
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87. That we are even discussing revolution reveals that it is already occurring.

Of course it will not be due to 100% of any population becoming involved. It comes from just enough of them becoming involved, and it is said that 10% is the genuine tipping point. We are already there.

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94. I don't want chaos or fighting in the streets ala' Greece, etc. I'm too old and am disabled.

Not appealing to me. I know that we can win this through simple force of numbers. Look at what's happening to Rush Limbaugh. The same thing has begun to happen to other unacceptable aspects of our world, thankfully.

Something is happening to Rush...I missed that.
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2012, 05:15:53 PM »
Something is happening to Rush...I missed that.

Yeah, what's the bad news on Rush?

Anybody know?
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2012, 07:29:26 PM »
Soooo.... their guy wins re-election and *THEY* want a revolution?  ::)
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2012, 07:30:45 PM »
Yeah, what's the bad news on Rush?

Anybody know?

The DUmmies probably think Rush was put on suspension since he wasn't on the air yesterday or today.  Poor kiddos will be upset when they hear his voice tomorrow though.   :)
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2012, 08:43:55 PM »
Yeah, what's the bad news on Rush?

Anybody know?
Well, he went deaf, and he's only making $50 million a year.

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2012, 08:51:27 PM »
Obama won. They are not happy with that?  :lmao:  :mental:
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2012, 10:42:02 PM »
Soooo.... their guy wins re-election and *THEY* want a revolution?  ::)

Hitler was elected and then the fascists got violent against their enemies.

Obama's reelection has emboldened them.
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2012, 09:12:52 AM »
Sure Dear Leader won.  But the primitives are already starting their "He's willing to sit down and negotiate with the Repigs and the grand bargain and didn't we radical libs put him in office and we want him to kill the conservatives and he should only be listening to us because we got him elected twice" routine they did 4 years ago.

Julie is as stupid as they get over there, but even she realizes her dreams of the new USSR won't happen in the next 4 years.

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2012, 09:23:37 AM »
The Revolution has been postponed......massive number of DUmmies are getting on the disability gravy train now that Obama won.
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2012, 09:49:40 AM »
The OP is actually right, despite the suck level of the economy, the US has never been farther from revolution.  What we are in is more like the decline of Rome, where the Citizens were provided bread and circuses to deflect them from worrying about how the place was run, while all the outlying sources of wealth were gutted and exploited to maintain the welfare class, until finally there wasn't enough coming in to sustain it.
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2012, 10:25:42 AM »
Revolution is the last thing a useless DUchebag should be wanting. It will be very bad for them, poor, women, children, minorities, and stupid liberal whites will be hardest hit...literally.
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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2012, 11:43:12 AM »
The OP is actually right, despite the suck level of the economy, the US has never been farther from revolution.  What we are in is more like the decline of Rome,...

I agree.  And with that realization, we are much better able to prepare ourselves and our children.  On the other hand, the libs believe somehow the magic panacea of higher taxes and expanding gov't control over citizens daily lives will always provide for their freebies.  The shocked look on their faces and the weeping and gnashing of teeth when it all falls apart would be something I'd love to witness, though I doubt it will be in our lifetime.

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2012, 11:52:02 AM »
I agree.  And with that realization, we are much better able to prepare ourselves and our children

How do we do that?






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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2012, 12:00:43 PM »
How do we do that?

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2012, 12:02:11 PM »
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2012, 03:03:48 PM »
There is a disruption in the DUmp lately.  I just ran across another barn burner thread over there were they are going at it hammer and claw about the progressives and third party politics. 

I am not going to post it as a separate thread here but I will say it is woth a look for those intereted in primitive political thought (or what passes for it at the DUmp)

Link and a teaser below:

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Would a progressive third Party help the Democrats more than the Republicans?
Because with the support of the third Party coalition, neither Party could get a majority to pass anything. Also, it would tend to pull the Democratic Party more to the left. Would that be such a bad thing?

Before we hit the alert button, maybe we should think of the advantages of third Parties? Not only the aforementioned but also, they could be more representative of the voices of the people.

Unless, of course, you think the two-Party system is doing just fine and our Democrats are looking out for our best interests? Personally, I am not so sure about that?

If you think this is unacceptable to discuss, then go ahead an alert it. 


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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2012, 03:09:21 PM »
I read the title of this thread and thought the TV show was being canceled.
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« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2012, 08:45:34 PM »
How do we do that?

Too much to mention, but some simple things to start would be learning to plant a garden for your own food.  Most kids today are like mine, too glued to the computer, their smart phones, and video games.  But real life won't be like Farmville.  Learning how to live off the grid and become self reliant will be important.  People living in the inner cities have no idea how to plant and harvest.  They'll starve.

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2012, 11:35:08 PM »
The OP is actually right, despite the suck level of the economy, the US has never been farther from revolution.  What we are in is more like the decline of Rome, where the Citizens were provided bread and circuses to deflect them from worrying about how the place was run, while all the outlying sources of wealth were gutted and exploited to maintain the welfare class, until finally there wasn't enough coming in to sustain it.

Actually considering the decline in actual voters in this election, it was mostly uninspiring. Nothing on the federal level changed. The House stayed the same. The Senate stayed the same. However, and you DUmmies should be very, very concerned about this: at the state and local level it was a shellacking almost rivaling 2010. Those are the ones who will gain experience and then move up to the federal level. These are Tea Party candidates. You see, we're being smart about this. No fly-by-night candidates, no hip and trendy messiahs...solid candidates building a reputation with the people who will be voting for them when they move to the federal level. Suck on that you flesh eating maggots.

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Re: Bad News for... Revolution
« Reply #21 on: November 29, 2012, 03:16:57 AM »
Too much to mention, but some simple things to start would be learning to plant a garden for your own food.  Most kids today are like mine, too glued to the computer, their smart phones, and video games.  But real life won't be like Farmville.  Learning how to live off the grid and become self reliant will be important.  People living in the inner cities have no idea how to plant and harvest.  They'll starve.

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I don't see a downside here.   :-)
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« Reply #22 on: November 29, 2012, 03:33:40 AM »
I don't see a downside here.   :-)

Nor do I.

And because the primitives are always whining about saving the planet overburdened by surplus population, well, that would help.
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« Reply #23 on: November 29, 2012, 09:24:15 AM »
*sees Frank with the most wondrous garden in the world, all because of a pile of ancient pig crap.*
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« Reply #24 on: November 29, 2012, 11:05:04 AM »
Too much to mention, but some simple things to start would be learning to plant a garden for your own food.  Most kids today are like mine, too glued to the computer, their smart phones, and video games.  But real life won't be like Farmville.  Learning how to live off the grid and become self reliant will be important.  People living in the inner cities have no idea how to plant and harvest.  They'll starve.

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Not intirely true.

Watching the old documentaries of the days of the depression, people raised roof top chickens and gardens on the roofs of abandoned buildings. They did a grand job of it, fed themselves and the neighborhood, became a comunity project.

I believed this was a survival method of 70 years ago,   WRONG once again.

Amtrack down the east coast from Boston  to DC.  Some of these city's were much like one would find in a war zone.   All these abandoned buildings with air conditioners and satellite disks in the windows.  People lived there ????  Then to the roofs that had been turned into gardens and the big coops for chickens, hutches for raising rabbits and the inclosure's for raising pigions [Doves] or what ever one calls them on a menu.

Really surprised me to see all this in the worse place one could expect Americans to live. This was like a sci-Fi movie of the destruction of our city's, yet never loose hope, there are things going on in the inner city's that are beyond what anyone would expect.