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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on June 21, 2008, 11:47:01 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3494443 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3494443)
Journalgrrl (490 posts) Fri Jun-20-08 10:59 PM
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It is almost Too Much for ME to bear...
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Edited on Fri Jun-20-08 11:08 PM by Journalgrrl
How do the rest of you DO it?
How do you pretend that everything is A-okay and that it is just a matter of time before the election changes everything...
How do you get by when things from rice to gas to milk have tripled in the last year and wages have been stagnant for longer than I can remember...?
How do you tell anyone who is freaking out at this point - that we are just imagining it?
EVERY time I come here to DU, or the Media, everywhere I go I see more pieces of our constitution shredded and hanging in the wind... more of MY future and the future of my children forfieted because of some greedy bastard's game of RISK on a larger scale...
And I have to ask of you who would "pooh-pooh" me:
At what point DO you really believe that our freedoms are null & void?
At what point do we see the red flag and feel it in our gut and
Do we have to see it on our street to give the idea credibility?
How bad does it get before we take action?
How bad does it get before we try and get out before the borders are truly closed...or will it matter?
Movies like Red Dawn come to mind, except the occupying force is Blackwater...
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(part of these questions and an interesting debate of a similar nature here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... )
edit damn typos
They are certainly in a funk on the island today.
Texas Explorer (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:02 PM
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1. I can relate. I'm feeling nothing but dread and despair tonight. You're not alone. n/t
higher class (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:13 PM
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9. Yes, this is a very dark day. I will always remember a moment a few hours ago.
I've not heard a word of news for over eight hours and I turn on the Maddow show to hear that Obama is going to give George and the corporations everything they want on the spying on us racket. That minute will live with me forever. I just can't bare it. Our hope?
hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:02 PM
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2. I take it day by day.... use denial when I have to .... and
keep my BP under control by hugging my girlie pup. But, in between, I have my share of major depression and momentary panic, I must admit...
I wish I had the answers, believe me..
Journalgrrl (490 posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:05 PM
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4. Ya...just feels like the water is reaching the boiling point
in so many ways...what else do I do but TRY and enjoy the time we have that we still feel "safe" and still have food in the pantry...
this is seriously outta control, what DO we do now? How do we mobilize ourselves, much less others who are still asleep?
Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:10 PM
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7. I'm doing what I did during the Raygun years... hanging on by my fingernails....
ands praying for the voters to wake up and smell the coffee
and I keep moving on, moving ahead; inch by inch...
It has to change at some point, right? It can't get much worse.
Well; I guess it could but I don't want to "go there" in my head.
It's to ****ing scary. I survived Raygun... we'll both survive this.
Hang in there and keep posting here!!!
az chela (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:15 PM
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11. I am glad that I am old and wont have to be here
that much longer.I hate what this country has become
Maureen1322 (163 posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:22 PM
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15. I've been disappointed by politicians before. But today is different.
None of these mother ****ers care about what we think.
When I say none, I mean none.
Maybe tomorrow I will get some energy back, but tonight I am at
a loss.
AccessGranted (471 posts) Fri Jun-20-08 11:50 PM
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23. I Agree With You
And been feeling like that for a while and everybody laughs at me....tell me I'm a conspiracy theorist, paranoid, etc. Shit is really scary.
Psssst....they are right.
riverdeep (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-21-08 12:20 AM
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30. As far as America is concerned, it's over.
All empires die, it's just the way of things. There are predictable stages, and we're in the last. From the Romans, to the British, to the Vikings, to the Chinese, they all die, usually from the inside. Now, it's our turn. We had a good run, and we gave the world some important things. Now, the hope for humanity lies largely in the rest of the world, and I think they will surprise us, in a good way.
As far as Obama, did you really think they would let anyone near the power structure that would actually change it? It's a self-selecting process that filters out those individuals. It's no accident that the only two people who were actually for change, Kucinich and Paul, got almost no media coverage and were ridiculed when they did get it. Don't get me wrong, I'll pull the lever for Obama (although he wasn't my first choice), but I'm not delusional.
Xenotime (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-21-08 03:09 AM
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46. Agreed. The founders never meant for it to go this long.
I'm suprised the US hasn't merged with some other country.
I am laughing at all your stupid whining.
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How can I not?
How do you pretend that everything is A-okay and that it is just a matter of time before the election changes everything...
Because the closer we get to it, the more it looks like McCain will win after all.
How do you get by when things from rice to gas to milk have tripled in the last year and wages have been stagnant for longer than I can remember...?
Because that is not a true statement (gas hasn't been 1.50 in 7 or 8 years)
How do you tell anyone who is freaking out at this point - that we are just imagining it?
No it is very real. The very fact that 18 million people would vote for a woman whose sole qualification as POTUS is she was married to one and more than that would nominate someone whose sole qualification is he is Black pretty much tells us the US is, indeed, freaking out.
EVERY time I come here to DU, or the Media, everywhere I go I see more pieces of our constitution shredded and hanging in the wind... more of MY future and the future of my children forfieted because of some greedy bastard's game of RISK on a larger scale...
Other than not a single Constitutional item has been "lost." I give the same challenge I give all brain-dead Lefties: Tell me, in detail, exactly which Constitutional Right has been withheld from you, personally. One.
And I have to ask of you who would "pooh-pooh" me:
We do not just pooh-pooh you -- we laugh at you.
At what point DO you really believe that our freedoms are null & void?
When gunmen come to your home and take you away for your constant treasonous comments.
At what point do we see the red flag and feel it in our gut and
We are seeing it now with the democratic congress and the unqualified democratic nominee for POTUS.
Do we have to see it on our street to give the idea credibility?
Anywhere would be good. I defy you to show me one "lost right."
How bad does it get before we take action?
Not One Damn Dime Day.
How bad does it get before we try and get out before the borders are truly closed...or will it matter?
YES -- You are right, IT IS TERRIBLE! LEAVE NOW! HORRY BEFORE THEY START ROUNDING YOU UP AND CLOSING THE BORDER! MARSHALL LAW IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY QUICKLY! RUUUUNNNNNN!!!
Movies like Red Dawn come to mind, except the occupying force is Blackwater...
Wimps and pussies like the deinzens of DU would never be Wolverines -- they would be the sheep kept in the Drive in theaters andother holding places. But I would feel pretty good if Blackwater was available if your belove Cubans were to attack.
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Might as well send them the suicide pic with the razor going up and not across.
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Journalgrrl, if it gets any tougher, save the planet by killing yourself, will ya?
I mean, geeez . . . :mental:
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They are so damn narcissistic. It's always about how "I" am so depressed. Stop being so damn . Life will improve if you do...
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They are so damn narcissistic. It's always about how "I" am so depressed. Stop being so damn . Life will improve if you do...
Not theirs. They are destined to die. Alone. In the rain.
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They are so damn narcissistic. It's always about how "I" am so depressed. Stop being so damn . Life will improve if you do...
Not theirs. They are destined to die. Alone. In the rain.
I don't think it would be rain falling down on them but it would be a liquid.
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Hokay . . . Coach, Airwolf, splshdown, freedumb, H5s for all.
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It's just terrible!!!!111!!!
These are the people that want the USA to be europe and have $9/gallon gas and live in 400ft2 houses/apartments. Then when they get what they want they bitch.
BTW, it cost me $200 more to take my boat to the islands this year..WAHHHH
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How do you get by when things from rice to gas to milk have tripled in the last year and wages have been stagnant for longer than I can remember...?
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