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Title: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: franksolich on May 30, 2008, 09:09:45 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3361053

Oh my.

The large-proboscised primitive, the one who locked up his cat without any sanitary facilities, and got all upset and bent out of shape when the poor cat did a number one on him.

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Cyrano  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 09:08 PM
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What’s wrong with America?
   
Why is George W. Bush still occupying the White House?

Why are Bush and Cheney still walking around free?

Why does anyone still consider the Republican Party a respectable entity?

Why are we aware of how our democracy has been trampled and still doing nothing?

And who would have believed that these questions would even have to be asked?

Many have said, “This is not the America I know.” So the question I ask myself every day is “Why am I/you not doing anything about it?” Yeah, I know, the police and military will stop us. Even so, other countries have refused to put up with this shit. Why are we putting up with it? What's wrong with America? What's wrong with us?

Oh my.

That last question begs an answer, but the internet isn't large enough to hold descriptions of what's wrong with the primitives on Skins's island.

The bobbling primitive, always in pursuit of free housing:

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bobbolink  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 09:11 PM
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2. Why doesn't anyone give a shit about homeless people suffering and dying?

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KSinTX  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 09:12 PM
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3. I see what's right with America ... we're about to flip the page and get some sh*t done for the people. It won't be overnight, but lordy it won't be at our expense either.

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old mark  Donating Member  (279 posts) Fri May-30-08 06:35 AM
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28. I really hope you are right
   
I have certainly had enough shit, and I believe things will be different if not overwhelmingly better with Democrats in power.

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bean fidhleir  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 06:39 AM
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29. "things will be different if not overwhelmingly better with Democrats in power"
   
Why? It wasn't in the '60s, when the Dems *owned* the government. All we got was bandaids.

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tom_paine  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 07:44 AM
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38. You are wrong. The difference is the DIFFERENCE now. Nixon was a saint compared to Bush.
   
And also to McCain, as he will be a clueless Reaganesque figurehead and the whole thing will be run by the Bushies out of the basement, as it was during the last half of Reagan's term.

Compared to what McSameasBush has in store for us, a few bandaids seem like blissful paradise, indeed.

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bean fidhleir  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 07:46 AM
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40. So? LBJ was a saint compared to Clinton. So why would you suppose we'll get something better than Clinton rather than something worse?

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Thothmes  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 07:59 AM
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41. A saint that got 38,000 Americans and several million Vietnames killed in an unnecessary war based on lies. Some definition of sainthood.

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tom_paine  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 08:43 AM
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43. You beat me to it. Not the same analogy by a long site.
   
LBJ was a saint compared to Bushler, because at least he tried to do quite a bit of good (Civil Rights Act, student loans, Great Society, etc) and succeeded in most cases. Also, LBJ was not intent on destroying the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Tiny distinction there.

But throw in Vietnam and LBJ, still a saint compared to Bushler, though less of one, and Clinton was a saint compared to LBJ.

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bean fidhleir  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 09:30 AM
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44. "Clinton was a saint compared to LBJ"
   
How short your memory is!

Whose policies killed at least a *HALF-MILLION* Iraqi kids and uncounted adults? Who ordered the bombing of the alShifa pharm plant in the Sudan, resulting in uncountable indirect deaths and shortened lives? Who sat around while crimes against humanity were committed against the Bosnian Muslims? Who pushed for corporate control of the world's trade and the evisceration of unions in the US, costing countless lives and suffering? Who presided over the shredding of the safety net, blighting who knows how many lives? Who increased the grip of the police state? Who's going to go down in history as a DINO?

It's a big bonfire, most primitives squibble-squabbling rather than answering Oscar Wilde's original question.

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BeHereNow  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 10:42 PM
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8. You mean to tell me that you didn't know about "Operation Lobotomy?"
   
Ever since the early fifties, the procedure has been performed on all duh'murikans at birth.

Isn't that obvious by what they consider "entertainment" and "news?"

Or "candidates" and "elections?"

DU has a small minority of people on which the operation was clearly not successful.

The rest are in GDP, thinking another corporate candidate will save them.

Is franksolich the only one here who thinks the begone primitive, like the dysgynaecological Kansas school teacher, might be helped with Lydia Pinkham's Special Vegetable Compound for Female Complaints?

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KG  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 07:36 AM
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37. americans believe in fairey tales.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: jukin on May 30, 2008, 10:18:09 AM
The Jukin Institute predicts that the democrats in power will result in massive damage to the economy and that the DUmbasses will be hurt the worst as they are at the bottom.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: JohnnyReb on May 30, 2008, 10:43:38 AM
While they're asking all the childish "Why" questions, I might as well ask one too.....Why aren't you DUmmies in the camps where you belong?
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: Bondai on May 30, 2008, 12:06:06 PM
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Is franksolich the only one here who thinks the begone primitive, like the dysgynaecological Kansas school teacher, might be helped with Lydia Pinkham's Special Vegetable Compound for Female Complaints?

I was thinking more like a boot to the face......much more satisfying.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: Chris_ on May 30, 2008, 01:18:17 PM
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KG  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 07:36 AM
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37. americans believe in fairey tales.

Yeah, like the fairy tale that socialism is a good thing and can work.
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: FlaGator on May 30, 2008, 01:53:45 PM
Why do libs ask rhetorical questions that if there were actual answers they either wouldn't believe or couldn't understand them?
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: dandi on May 30, 2008, 03:47:39 PM
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Cyrano  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu May-29-08 09:08 PM
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What’s wrong with America?

Look in the mirror.

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While they're asking all the childish "Why" questions, I might as well ask one too.....Why aren't you DUmmies in the camps where you belong?

Heh. When I first glanced at that I thought it was a riff on the old RFK quote (who was paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw):

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

Which would be changed to:

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of DUmmies being sent to camps, and ask why not?"

 :-)


 

Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 30, 2008, 04:32:04 PM
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KG  (1000+ posts) Fri May-30-08 07:36 AM
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37. americans believe in fairey tales.

Really?  I didn't know that "Heather Has Two Mommies" had made it that big!
Title: Re: Oscar Wilde asks primitives what's wrong with America
Post by: USA4ME on May 30, 2008, 10:29:17 PM
The Jukin Institute predicts that the democrats in power will result in massive damage to the economy and that the DUmbasses will be hurt the worst as they are at the bottom.

You are correct.  In believing that a Dem WH and Dem Congress will be utopia, they will foolishly conduct themselves as though things are A-OK, while those of us who know they're headed for a trainwreck will prepare and be in a position to take advantage when things turn around.  It happened most recently in 93 & 94 when the economy went flat under the Dems, which created 95 and the Republicans being seated in Congress, of which conservatives rode the wave to economic prosperity while libs were left watching.

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