http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4020841#4026496Oh my.
arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 12:34 PM
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The draconian measures make sense now, Homeland Security, Blackwater, Patriot Act etc.
They fear a revolt when the system completely collapses. A collapse that by and far is looking more and more manufactured everyday. Concentrate all the wealth, smash the system, rebuild it in some kind of dystopian anti-New Deal fashion. We've been had folks. The corporatists are waging war against the American system and they are traitors. They destroyed the manufacturing base, which is a destruction of the unions and the labor movement, a key component of the left. They have destroyed any industry regulation which translates as wholesale warfare against the environment and the consumer. They have destroyed our education system and taken over the media and the airwaves which makes it easier to govern a populace whose only concerns are Britney Spears and NASCAR. They have created a war against an undefined enemy in a far off land and use terrorism as a trump card to do anything they want, something straight out of George Orwell's '1984'. They have bought all of our elected officials. They own Congress, the Supreme Court and the Whitehouse. If you think you are living in a "free" country, you are sorely mistaken. We've been duped folks. We are all slaves. Bought sold and paid for by Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Coke-Cola, Disney, Genral Electric, Phillip Morris, Halliburton etc.
Pedro Picasso must've been on lunch break when he posted this, away from his job stuffing inserts into envlopes for political mailings. One wonders if Pedro Picasso uses a lunch-box, and what sort of sandwiches the wife prepares for him, and puts inside little plastic bags.
Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 12:57 PM
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14. "A collapse that by and far is looking more and more manufactured everyday."
Bing-****ing-O. All one has to do is check back to statements coming out of BushCo from the very beginning. The "drown it in bathtub" comment by Norquist, and the interviews in which they were saying that sometimes it takes catastrophic pain to bring about real societal changes. When you go back before the war distraction, before terra-terra-terra, before there was anything but an oft-vacation Crawford pinhead keeping the seat warm, this is what the talked about. This is the vision they were laying out for the country. They weren't hiding it. We just weren't listening.
Once again, Bush and Company get what they want and no one does anything to stop them, or punish them after the fact.
Then Pedro Picasso posts late at night, probably having arisen from sleep with a bad case of gas from his lunch.
Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 01:19 AM
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76. "What election?" is right. And what do you think FISA and all the signing statements were about?
BushCo, the administration (as opposed to George W. Bush, the puppet president), never intended for another for or eight years. They didn't need them. They've done exceedingly well for themselves. Part of our problem is US, being mere peons who don't make a brazillion dollars.
The uber rich running the joint -- hell, running everything, -- have absolutely no concept of what is going on the world of "real people" and the very heartland they claim to embrace. It's pure bullshit.
Why do you think BushCo has been so resistant to raise taxes during wartime, while their cronies have received insane no-bid contracts and their war profits go through the roof? They can afford not to care. They feathered their nests with OUR money, they raided the treasury and bled off every last cent they could get their slimy mitts on because they were planning ahead. You gotta give 'em credit, Republicans tend to be patient. Evil and patient. It's a bad combination.
They figured out that they had to get the courts in line (Gonzalez has never even answered a subpoena), get the media in line (they simply bought 'em all), pay off everyone possible and silence the rest. From there, it was easy. Everyone important is bought and paid for. Bush used his unitary powers, unfettered and unchallenged even under a Democratic legislative branch, to make sure that he and his, will never suffer, no matter how long this economic meltdown lasts.
That's why he's been so opposed to taxing the wealthy. The dividends they've earned, the villages they've pillaged, it's all been to build their buffer when the "underclass" revolts. They'll be safe behind they're compound walls, with their wholly owned media subsidiaries tell us that everything is all right.
There's other colorful primitives at this bonfire:
yibbehobba (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 05:54 PM
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33. I didn't think I'd see a stupider post on here than that shit this morning...
...rejoicing over the supposed 900 deaths from Ike, but I was wrong. This is stupider.
And then a non-primitive inhabitant of Skins's island speaks:
liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-17-08 09:32 PM
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45. There was actually such a thread here this morning? Are you freaking kidding me? That is beyond sick and disgusting.
And then the sick and disgusting primitive pops in, to lie:
Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-18-08 01:08 AM
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69. Give us all a break here. No one was rejoicing and you know it.
