Rule #1 of Skin's DUmp Club: Don't talk about the primaries

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10138037

Uh oh.

Tue Jan 17, 2017, 02:01 PM

Star Member Skinner (62,869 posts)

The 2016 Postmortem Forum Will Close on Friday 1/20
As you all know, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as our next president this Friday, January 20. With this in mind, it is time for DUers to stop fighting about the 2016 presidential election and start coming together to face the threat of a Trump Presidency. I know this news will be a disappointment to the small minority of DUers who REALLY REALLY REALLY want to convince the rest of us that Hillary Clinton and/or Bernie Sanders is totally the worst thing that ever happened EVER, but the rest of us will be relieved to put an end to the infighting.

Here's what's going to happen:

The 2016 Postmortem forum will shut down.
It will be saved as a read-only archive so we can go back from time-to-time and remind ourselves how pointless and annoying these arguments really were.

We will bring back the "Don't keep fighting primaries" rule.
You may remember that before the November election we had a rule against re-hashing the Democratic primary. Now that the postmortem period is over, that rule is going to come back. For the record, here is the text of the rule:

Don't keep fighting the last Democratic presidential primary
Regardless of whether you supported a winning candidate or a losing candidate, do not prolong the agony of the last Democratic presidential primary by continuing to pick fights, place blame, tear down former primary candidates, bait former supporters, or do anything else to pour salt on old wounds.

Why we have this rule: Most of our members want this to be forward-looking, friendly community that is focused on creating a better future for our country. Continuing to rehash old fights that have already been resolved is divisive and counter-productive.

If you read that rule and think to yourself, "For ****'s sake, how will I be able to insult supporters of Hillary Clinton and/or Bernie Sanders NOW?!?!?!" then you are precisely the person this rule was intended to thwart. I am already pre-ignoring your impotent howls of protest.

The impending Trump administration is going to be an unmitigated disaster for America. Let's come together here on DU to fight it.

[Delmar]

Response to LiberalLovinLug (Reply #22)Tue Jan 17, 2017, 04:33 PM
Star Member mopinko (47,309 posts)
58. we are done re-evaluating the past.

that would be the point.
in the end it depends on the juries. if you post is newsworthy, and not just a rehash, it will likely survive.
or like your mama told you, if you cant say something nice dont say anything at all. manners, it is about manners.

i approve of being done w the navel gazing, and galvanizing for the fight ahead. the fight of our lives.

Response to mopinko (Reply #58)Tue Jan 17, 2017, 10:19 PM
Star Member LiberalLovinLug (5,234 posts)
82. As the old saying goes

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Call it navel gazing, but I hardly think it is in the best interests of moving forward a party by putting blinders on and doing the same thing over and over. That is called insanity. And to Democrats, that is called losing.

Put on your blinders and do as you're told, shitgibbon.

[franksolich]

Oh my.

I hope dear old Big Mo isn't going to expect too much, demand too much, of herself.

She has a problem with holding onto grudges for, like, forever, and so it's going to be hard for her to follow the rule about not going over ground that's already been gone over.

[fatboy]

The big question on my mind is what will Hop-a-long Bob do with his life once the postmortem is shut down?

It's going to be bad for him.

[Karin]

I am already pre-ignoring your impotent howls of protest.

Is that any way to talk to paying customers?

Skins has to treat them as if he were a stern schoolteacher...plenty of strict rules and putting the children in their place. 

[VelvetElvis]

The big question on my mind is what will Hop-a-long Bob do with his life once the postmortem is shut down?

It's going to be bad for him.

It will be a time for him to do some sole searching and bring his feelings to heel.
And resume his role as an arch liberal, to boot.

[franksolich]

Is that any way to talk to paying customers?

Skins has to treat them as if he were a stern schoolteacher...plenty of strict rules and putting the children in their place.

Well, they are his people, after all; Skins knows better how to treat them, than we do.

He of course treats them with utter contempt, which they deserve.

We can't do that, because our natures rebel against treating people that way.

[jb2u11]

The big question on my mind is what will Hop-a-long Bob do with his life once the postmortem is shut down?

It's going to be bad for him.

He's just going to have to pick himself up by the boot strap and move on I guess.

[Carl]

Well, they are his people, after all; Skins knows better how to treat them, than we do.

He of course treats them with utter contempt, which they deserve.

We can't do that, because our natures rebel against treating people that way.

I wonder how many primitives grasp the utter hatred skins has for them.

[franksolich]

I wonder how many primitives grasp the utter hatred skins has for them.

Primitives tend to be rather crude, insensitive people, so I suspect most, if not all, of them fail to notice that. 

I mean, these are people who thought Bozo and Moochelle cared about them, despite all the evidence to the contrary that was slapping them in their faces.

[CollectivismMustDie]

Wow.

Skins may as well have come out and said "On behalf of the party everyone here will double down on everything that got us here, and I made a rule to make it so."

What fools, all of them.




CMD

[USA4ME]

They'll return to their former "Bush is Hitler" mode, just substitute Trump for Bush. This is looking like a "first 8 years of Skin's island" re-do. No doubt they'll revert to the old standard talking points, but hopefully some of them will emerge with new and entergetic forms of expressing their political insanity that hasn't already been done and worn out a billion times.

We'll see if they're up to the challenge.

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[miskie]

It will be a time for him to do some sole searching and bring his feelings to heel.
And resume his role as an arch liberal, to boot.

 

[Ptarmigan]

The first rule of DU is: you do not talk about the primaries.

The second rule of DU is: you DO NOT talk about the primaries.

[Ralph Wiggum]

2004 was similar.  Lots of DUmmies had screen names supporting different candidates.  But then the kumbaya clowns had to rally behind Kerry.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Wow.

Skins may as well have come out and said "On behalf of the party everyone here will double down on everything that got us here, and I made a rule to make it so."

What fools, all of them.




CMD

Good news, comrades!  The camp commissar has decided you will conduct a special storm assault on your work objectives rather than foolishly give convicted wreckers and lackeys their undeserved bread ration.  Ourrah Stalina!

[Karin]

It will be a time for him to do some sole searching and bring his feelings to heel.
And resume his role as an arch liberal, to boot.

I can NEVER get a foot joke in edgewise, everybody gets there before me.   

[thundley4]

I can NEVER get a foot joke in edgewise, everybody gets there before me.   

The first thing you have to do is get your foot in the door.

[BlueStateSaint]

The first thing you have to do is get your foot in the door.

Or, a toehold, at least . . .

[docstew]

The first thing you have to do is get your foot in the door.

If someone tries to close it on you, you need to kick it down.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I can NEVER get a foot joke in edgewise, everybody gets there before me.   

The longest journey begins with a single step.

[BlueStateSaint]

The longest journey begins with a single step.

Or 'hop,' in ol' Bob's case . . .

[DumbAss Tanker]

Or 'hop,' in ol' Bob's case . . .

Or, 'And then falling over.'

[BlueStateSaint]

Or, 'And then falling over.'

That, too!  H5!