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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: I_B_Perky on June 28, 2014, 11:33:57 PM
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The OP:
stevenleser (18,940 posts)
There should be an annual DU convention.
I was checking this thread out http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025163044
and thought how nice it would be. We could alternate areas of the country, always having it someplace that is not too expensive.
I think someplace warm during the winter for the first one...
The link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025165091 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025165091)
Not a bonfire yet... more like a small campfire... might grow or not.
I'm wondering if this does happen, will there be donations asked for?
Now indulge me here for a second...
cyberswede (16,360 posts)
1. Love it!
Great idea!
Me too also! Lots of fun when dummies get together.
Wait for it....
stevenleser (18,940 posts)
3. I'm liking my idea more and more. We could invite folks like Bernie Sanders, Warren, Hillary, etc.
to speak, we can have break out sessions on LGBT rights, feminism, Latino and African American rights, the economy, etc., with experts in all of those things come talk to us.
Every night, fun icebreaker get togethers.
Hmmm. Liking this more and more!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Like really? Really? :lmao: :lmao:
Is the dummie the only insane one in the thread?
cyberswede (16,360 posts)
7. Have it in Iowa or New Hampshire, & I bet presidential contenders would come...
Plus, hotels & convention centers are probably less expensive in those states.
Nope!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
What a hoot!
Bunch of nothing next:
Katashi_itto (4,912 posts)
2. Have it here in New Orleans!
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Sat Jun 28, 2014, 11:19 PM
Star Member stevenleser (18,940 posts)
4. The big easy!!!! I love it!!! nt
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Sat Jun 28, 2014, 11:20 PM
Iggo (26,458 posts)
5. That ain't the worst idea.
bet a whole lot of us are way nicer in person.
Bet it would be worse.
The California Piggy chimes in:
CaliforniaPeggy (109,347 posts)
6. I would almost surely participate in this, my dear stevenleser!
I've been to several meetups, and they are always fun.
It would be great to meet folks I haven't already met, and to renew the ties with those I have!
Dunno if it will grow into a bonfire. Might, might not. Hell I might show up as one of my moles.
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Hell I might show up as one of my moles.
I'd attend as two of my moles, and alternate appearances- wear Groucho glasses and a rainbow fright wig for one, and a cheap Jean-Luc Picard bald wig and a set of buck teeth for the other.
Although, it would be fun to attend dressed as "your favorite DUmpmonkey". Any suggestions?
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It would be just a smaller version of the freakshow conventions the national democrat party puts on.
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CaliforniaPeggy (109,347 posts)
6. I would almost surely participate in this, my dear stevenleser!
Cal, who wants you to call him Peg, is looking for a hookup. He confused steven the lesser with stevenumbers, who would hit it.
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Iggo (26,458 posts)
5. That ain't the worst idea.
bet a whole lot of us are way nicer in person.
I'm betting otherwise.
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Invite Hillary... :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Hillary doesn't show up for less than $225,000.00.
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guess I won't burn my mole just yet. I just have to show up now.
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I'm trying to imagine the event.
Nad's putting "iggy" stickers on people, the Klams "screeching" at stevenumbers for daring to look at them, Pitt mumbling and stumbling drunk, etc.
If someone could get video of it, they might have a youtube hit on their hands.
It's never going to happen though, it would require effort to organize, and none of the DUmmie's strike me as effective organizers.
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Skinner would have dibs on the wine cooler
and T-shirt booths.
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The "I'd like to go but I don't have transportation /money/ weed/ permission from my probation officer/ weekend passes from the psych hospital" excuse coming in 3...2...1...
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You have to admit, a DUmp convention would be a great opportunity for stevenumbers and Lamond to troll for some DUmmytail.
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Back when Randi Rhodes was a bit more popular (!) and had a sizable forum, there were occasional fan group meetups, and I actually attended one at Tequila Jacks, way back in 2005. I was either BantheGOP or DestroytheGOP, I forgot what I used back then, in the Randi Rhodes forum. After all, this was during the time of Bush's 2nd reelction, with the Iraq war.
Anyway, I turned out to be the life of the gathering. Everyone there was a leftist, but they had met NOBODY with as extreme leftist views as Ban (or Destroy) the GOP. More specifically, I actually not only had positions, but actually told them HOW to do it. I have read (and internalized) Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, so it was very easy to thread a narrative on how to destroy capitalism, render the Constitution meaningless in its present form with specific elimination of the 2nd and 10th amendments, eliminating state control in favor of a centralized federal taxation focus. I even ventured into actually changing the name of the "United States of America" to the "Progressive American Democracy."
It was a blast, playing the part of a radical in front of approving idiots. I left the party at the appropriate time, cycling away on my 10-speed to a chorus of waves ("I abhor giving Haliburton one red cent in oil profits!" I think I said).
Obviously, one can't be as eccentrically crazy as I portrayed at a DUmmie-fest, but it still can be interesting.
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I hear that mini-tacos always draw a crowd.
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panader0
18. More seriously, yes there should be more meetings
It occurred to me that DU members could set up a bank to help other members-
Idiots who don't have two nickels to rub together are going to give to each other enough to bring others along.
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Bluenorthwest
36. An idea whose time may have come. I nominate the City of Detroit.
Because Detroit has suffered so under Republican policy and corporate greed.
:rotf: :rotf:
That primitive is one funny faggot.
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cyberswede (16,360 posts)
7. Have it in Iowa or New Hampshire, & I bet presidential contenders would come...
They would come for the mini tacos.
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I hear that mini-tacos always draw a crowd.
:hammer: Damn it
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I say they do throw it and we show up also :popcorn:
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I would love to crash that. Don't know how much of the shrieking harpies I could take though, or the LOOK AT ME I'M GAAAAAAYYY crowd.
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I would love to crash that. Don't know how much of the shrieking harpies I could take though, or the LOOK AT ME I'M GAAAAAAYYY crowd.
Chief S itting Bull
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Bluenorthwest
36. An idea whose time may have come. I nominate the City of Detroit.
Because Detroit has suffered so under Republican policy and corporate greed.
My mole is going to second that nomination, just as soon as someone over at the DUmp sugests that Skinner provide subsidies to cover costs.
Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #36)
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:50 AM
stevenleser (18,971 posts)
39. Even though I would prefer someplace warm, I like this idea too.
And I think convention type space there is inexpensive. It should be added to the list of possibilities if we do this.
Steve the lesser is hip to Detroit. I hear that the convention rates at the historic central train station are reasonable. The DUmmies can help in the restoration effort while they are at it. Allow free admission for those who bring a case of spray paint. Get LFR to be "Art Director".