DUmmy Bennyboy, who failed in his attempt to leave home on a motorcycle in the dead of winter through the Rocky Mountains, is in despair.
He's going on four weeks in his diabetic hunger strike, and nothing is getting better.
Nothing, except the state has increased its payments to him for taking care of his own mother, for whom he's expressed hatred in posts at the DUmp.
One can hope that the Squeamish Carcinoma will eat his entire head off.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:26 PM
Bennyboy (8,884 posts)
I give up, we lost.....
the past week tells me that there is nothing we can do to stop the country from becoming another casualty of "Austerity". it tells me that whatever the corps want they get and no manner or amount of calls, petitions or whatever is going to change that. we, as a people are done.
We have oil companies in charge of the media. No Fly Zones. Police taping is illegal. No recording anything. except the Gov't recording you that seems to be okay.
Keystone is a done deal. Count on that one.
SS Chained CPI etc.
Not just Obama but Dem senators are on this very same bandwagon.....
I give up, it is not worth fighting anymore. Poeple don't care, tehy are not protesting, they are doing nothing.
You get the Gov't you deserve and that is EXACTLY what we have.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022657493Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:31 PM
Bennyboy (8,884 posts)
3. but no one seems to want to do anything
And I am not talking just politicians but the people. Whee is the marches on DC? Where is the demand for overturning Corporate Personhood? I mean some people are working that, I surely am, but it does not seem to be resonating with people.
If a four-week hunger strike by a diabetic DUmpmonkey doesn't change things, nothing will.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 09:35 PM
valerief (35,404 posts)
30. Bingo! Marches won't change anything. A mass work stoppage might. But how to organize that?
Impossible. We're all flailing in the pool. Some of us can swim, some can't. If we could reach out and grab another's hand, none of us would drown. But our eyes are full of chlorine and the 1%ers keep peeing in the pool.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:33 PM
Honeycombe8 (17,419 posts)
6. Part of the problem is...people voted for Republicans in Congress.
If there were more Democrats in Congress, none of this would be happening.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:40 PM
Egalitarian Thug (6,653 posts)
14. No, they didn't and that's another huge issue that is ignored.
More people voted for Democratic Representatives, yet the republicans hold the House, and you can find that same fraud in Statehouse after Statehouse all across the country. More citizens want Democrats running their state, yet republicans are holding the majority of offices.
All your Statehouses are belong to us.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 08:33 PM
Autumn (11,016 posts)
8. I don't deserve this. I have voted Democrat every election in my life.
I have donated, I have worked the phones, when I could walk I went door to door, I drove people to the polls I did what I needed to do. I protested since Vietnam, I've written letters, I've made phone calls, sent faxes.. I did my ****ing part. Maybe it's time to burn the ****ing tent down. That's the only way to get the stench of elephant shit out of it.
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 09:16 PM
olddots (1,355 posts)
24. I' ve been a pacifist all my life but this time I'm going to fight till I die .
This is a different kind of fight ---do it for nature if you don't care about the human suffering that will happen if we give up .
I'm worried. It sounds like this DUmmy may start an internet petition.