Nads as a quick note for us

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nadinbrzezinski (136,147 posts)

Just a quick note as to why people at times do not vote


forget the ignorant, against their own best interest and the rest of the lovely talking points people throw here. They are lazy and quite frankly insulting.

I will tell you this people who at times work two to three jobs and worry their sons, and it is chiefly their sons, will be alive at the end of the day, or will be able to come home from the corner store with the gallon of milk, or that they will be able to go to the local fast food place and come home, You want to know why they do not vote?

Their concerns, their needs, their feelings, their live experience is constantly ignored or minimized, or disappeared from the larger conversation, if it even made it to the conversation.

Then they at times hear but if you voted democratic all would be better... care to tell me what party O'Malley is with? How about the current Mayor of Baltimore? Any wants to tell me about my city council member representing some of our most challenging neighborhoods? Actually the three of them? Yes two of them are Democrats (and they are women to boot, and one of them is African American). The third is a hispanic male but democrat. (Never mind these are non partisan offices, but they have not been in reality for a decade or more)

Yet, city hall is yet to fully listen to these potential voters. We tell them that they should try to work within the system and with the system, but we hear it regularly. It is very much independent of party, because the political elites, in both parties, despise the poor. "They don't care, they don't listen."

That phrase summarizes many long conversations over the last two years.

We see it here. We had a thread on the use of the world Thug, which for anybody who has been paying attention, over the last three years, the move to use that word to replace the world ****** by RW politicians, it is a new dog whistle, has been obvious. Yet, some posters here keep denying it. You are doing to that particular poster, and the rest of the folks who happen to be minorities, or those of us who are minorities just not AA, that yes it has happened, your ignoring them feels the same way as my local members of the city council ignoring those potential voters.

Or for that matter the current administration in Baltimore. Yes, they might be making some real changes, we have that problem here, and the local paper might not be reporting it This is what the Mayor said in the morning. Or they might not be doing as much as she thinks they are doing. I am not there, I cannot judge, but in several field interviews from MSNBC reporters and others talking to locals, just like Ferguson, it feels as if I were standing at the park in Mt. Hope talking to local activists and neighbors. The feeling is clear, people do not feel that the folks they at times have elected actually care.

And it is beyond a feeling. There are many studies, that show that if you are black and poor, less if you are hispanic and poor, you will have a hard time getting listened to by politicians. You become a punching bag though. Whether it is by being called welfare queen, or thug, or whatever is the neologism to come in the future. I

And no, I will not blame any of my locals who work three jobs and have no time for this silliness for not voting. I know the few who have seen actual good results from pols will be very reliable foot soldiers. But they are far from the majority. As they say, perception is reality.

Though this is more than just perception on whether city hall helps them. Here you go... and if you must ask why people are pissed off... well this is one of the many interlacing causes.

http://www.demos.org/stacked-deck-how-dominance-politics-affluent-business-undermines-economic-mobility-america

http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/economic.pdf

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/why-are-the-poor-and-minorities-less-likely-to-vote/282896/

There is a lot more But I will leave you with this. Many posters here are quite clueless as to how people live or the few opportunities they have, or why they worry.

That is a word salad with extra dressing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026598101

[obumazombie]

There is a lot more But I will leave you with this. Many posters here are quite clueless as to how people live or the few opportunities they have, or why they worry.

There is only 1 well informed reporterette.
Everyone else is clueless.

[GOBUCKS]

whatever is the neologism to come in the future.

Nutcase nadin has a new word of the week. She's posted it four times today, though she has no idea what it means.

We remember how she went through "meta", and "parenteral", and at least a half-dozen others that she read somewhere and thought she could use to make the other DUmmies envious of her wisdom.

It's nice to have her back at the DUmp lectern, preaching to her congregation of lunatics.

[CC27]

Nutcase nadin has a new word of the week. She's posted it four times today, though she has no idea what it means.

We remember how she went through "meta", and "parenteral", and at least a half-dozen others that she read somewhere and thought she could use to make the other DUmmies envious of her wisdom.

It's nice to have her back at the DUmp lectern, preaching to her congregation of lunatics.

What happened to crunchy?

[98ZJUSMC]

Good Lord.....the headache started before the first paragraph was done.

Even taking into account the complete lack of expositionary skill, that screed of ridiculous makes absolutely zero sense to those of us used to it.

Yeow...... 

neologism

psychology :  a new word that is coined especially by a person affected with schizophrenia and is meaningless except to the coiner.

Well, that fits.

[FlippyDoo]

Nutcase nadin has a new word of the week. She's posted it four times today, though she has no idea what it means.

We remember how she went through "meta", and "parenteral", and at least a half-dozen others that she read somewhere and thought she could use to make the other DUmmies envious of her wisdom.

It's nice to have her back at the DUmp lectern, preaching to her congregation of lunatics.

If you forget "climactic", "Rubicon", and "for ****'s face" I'll have to say that be retardant.

[GOBUCKS]

nadin gives a lesson on how to make friends and influence people:

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:49 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,159 posts)
19. It went over your head

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:02 PM
Star Member Thinkingabout (12,278 posts)
21. No, not voting did not go over my head.

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:04 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,159 posts)
22. I am sorry that it did go over your head

Congrats.

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:34 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,159 posts)
13. What I usually tell folks when they ask for my opinion

as a reporter you mostly listen... is... vote.

[FlippyDoo]

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:34 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,159 posts)
13. What I usually tell folks when they ask for my opinion

as a reporter you mostly listen... is... vote.

Bless her heart. Her grammar makes me look like a grammatical Einstein.

Suffice it to say, my mind could be occupied by all of the dog whistles.

edit one more time: What minority group is she supposed to be a member of?

[JakeStyle]

She represents the Lolipop Guild.

[miskie]

Mu understanding is that the Nadin screed above is a teaser for her upcoming novel 'Waiting for Supperman'.

[dane]

Nutcase nadin has a new word of the week. She's posted it four times today, though she has no idea what it means.

We remember how she went through "meta", and "parenteral", and at least a half-dozen others that she read somewhere and thought she could use to make the other DUmmies envious of her wisdom.

It's nice to have her back at the DUmp lectern, preaching to her congregation of lunatics.

When she gets on her weight reduction/diet soap box, one can usually count on seeing 'set point' or 'set point theory' several times.

It's always a fun read, how the 'body knows what weight it wants to be'.  Gain a few pounds, it's a new 'set point' the body picked.

[Carl]

I will tell you this people who at times work two to three jobs and worry their sons, and it is chiefly their sons, will be alive at the end of the day, or will be able to come home from the corner store with the gallon of milk, or that they will be able to go to the local fast food place and come home, You want to know why they do not vote?

Piss off you ignorant,idiotic,repulsive piece of colossally stupid shit.
No one has to worry about their safety if they don`t do moronic and illegal crap.

Just FOAD you bloated,illiterate mutt. 

[GOBUCKS]

It's always a fun read, how the 'body knows what weight it wants to be'.  Gain a few pounds, it's a new 'set point' the body picked.

Yeah, she has the physique of a jack-o-lantern, but twice a year she gets weighed and she and her doctor declare that to be her ideal weight.

When you think about it, everything about nadin is ideal. She is the quintessential DUmmy.

(Also, within the next hour she will google the word "quintessential" and nod her head in agreement.)

[Carl]

Yeah, she has the physique of a jack-o-lantern, but twice a year she gets weighed and she and her doctor declare that to be her ideal weight.

When you think about it, everything about nadin is ideal. She is the quintessential DUmmy.

(Also, within the next hour she will google the word "quintessential" and nod her head in agreement.)

Are you suggesting that google does not have to contact nads to get the definition?

Heathen

[obumazombie]

What happened to crunchy?

It arced into the meta rubicon.

[JakeStyle]

Response to upaloopa (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:19 PM

nadinbrzezinski (136,192 posts)
3. Well you have little patience

and I am just telling you the way it is in poor neighborhoods and minority communities. And there is a solution to it where people will actually feel they have a stake, LISTEN to their needs.

We actually walk those streets and talk to people who happen to be working two to three jobs, and who worry about their sons.

I notice you are coming to me from a movie. I am coming to you from the streets. The reality right now is quite different from a hollywood script, as good as the movie was by the way.

People who are living pay check to pay check, or at times worst than that, and have to take loans from sharks, and plead with their elected officials, who ignore them, well after years of that, in some cases decades, they give up.

I recommend you try to have those conversations and leave Mississippi Burning on the DVD player.

I expected nothing less though.

The only voices that she is listening to are the ones in her head.  The idea that she and her goofy husband are walking the streets of San Diego ghettos interviewing strangers is ****ing ridiculous.  She knows that she is full of shit, that's why she gets so defensive when anyone questions her.

[obumazombie]

What's cousin nadin doing now...


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rxWPEdYCnI[/youtube]

[GOBUCKS]

Nutcase nadin does it so we don't have to.

She's a noble lunatic, risking the Good Rig, the iPhone, the voice recorder, and the photog vest to troll the projects.

Press card = instant respect

[GOBUCKS]

Nutcase continues the dialogue, educating and impressing the DUmmies with her greatness:

Fri May 1, 2015, 02:45 AM
nadinbrzezinski (136,209 posts)
61. More than they are getting ignored at the moment

But I could fill pages here, with those conversations. Why listening to the reporters from Ferguson and now Baltimore, I turned to my husband we both nodded in understanding. Some of the neighborhoods in Baltimore sound like my local neighborhoods.

Must be the Ebonics.

Thu Apr 30, 2015, 09:27 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,209 posts)
49. But that is why people really do not care for this thing called votiing

I wrote this at my paper... an analysis piece,

Fri May 1, 2015, 11:01 AM
nadinbrzezinski (136,209 posts)

I get it, trust me, I get it.

Nutcase headed for the L.A. ghetto!!

Fri May 1, 2015, 01:25 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,209 posts)

 But shoot, I might one of these days try to get the trust in South East LA and find out...

[98ZJUSMC]

She represents the Lolipop Guild.

nadinbrzezinski (136,209 posts)
61. More than they are getting ignored at the moment

But I could fill pages here, with those conversations. Why listening to the reporters from Ferguson and now Baltimore, I turned to my husband we both nodded in understanding. Some of the neighborhoods in Baltimore sound like my local neighborhoods.

Ay.... 

[GOBUCKS]

I turned to my husband we both nodded in understanding.

The last time she did that, she and an imaginary nuclear sub captain were loading up on canned milk to survive the radiation from Fukushima. It was during her parenteral days.

[GOBUCKS]

If you forget "climactic", "Rubicon", and "for ****'s face" I'll have to say that be retardant.

Dictablanda.

[FlippyDoo]

Dictablanda.

As a GOBUCKS fan, I've always been pleased to view us sort of as equals in the study of nadinology; however, it now appears that I was wrong. Maybe I missed it. Maybe I've just crammed so much nadinese into my brain that some had to be deleted to make room. Regardless, I must admit that I had to nadin her use of dictablanda. In this case I have to say that you get it.

On the plus side, while nadining her use of the word I found the discussion below. I can't remember if it has ever been brought over, but it is a virtual cornucopia of nadinism.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023104129

It has...
1) mind f*cks (otherwise known as psyops)
2) silly me
3) I hate to say it
4) Suffice to say
5) Suffice it to say
6) mind f*ck 101
7) some of us get it
8) group dynamics 101
9) Have a good day
10) ignore list
11) textbook example
12) Yup
13) Taking it to the streets
14) Catch-22
15) dictablanda
16) turn key tyranny
17) *plunk*
18) oh
19) ancient propaganda technique
20) It is kind of funny

and many more. In addition to the above we learn that she was involved with debriefing victims of Iran Contra in Mexico and we get to see the rare nadin apology.

[franksolich]

Curse you, Flips.

I went to that link and read the whole entire thread, and now my brain's non-functioning.

[FlippyDoo]

Curse you, Flips.

I went to that link and read the whole entire thread, and now my brain's non-functioning.

It is sort of an undiluted dose. While I think it is a must read, I probably should have put a warning label explaining that it shouldn't be read if you intend to do anything productive with your mind afterward.