Pedro Picasso discusses football; gets into an argument

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7310304

Atman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Oct-04-08 01:01 AM
Original message

Hail Mary pass, my ass. It's intentional downing.
   
They got theirs. They already won, for all intents and purposes. They have all our money, they've crippled the country so that nothing can take place but war and servicing the debt they've piled up. They won't pay taxes, respond to subpoenas, or show the slightest respect for truth and the rule of law.

And we're letting them go home after the party, with Barack Obama left to clean up their mess. Ten years from now the money they've stolen will still be earning interest. Somewhere, though probably not in the United States. And much of the rest of America will be just beginning to see some light at the end of tunnel and getting their lives back on track.

McCain may actually want this job. Sarah *sigh* most certainly does...she never made it to Miss America, but this is almost even BETTER! But the top-tier Republicans (who really aren't Republicans at all, just uber crooks), don't give a rat's ****ing ass any more. They never planned anything more than eight years to get what they wanted, and we ****ing gave it to them.

They're going home now, fat and healthy, the rest of us decimated.

It's what they do. Hey, it's only business.

alcibiades_mystery  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Oct-04-08 01:06 AM
Response to Original message

2. Woohhh Woooohh Wooooohhhh
   
Bad if we lose, bad if we win.

Some assholes just can't be happy.

Atman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Oct-04-08 01:10 AM
Response to Reply #2

4. Some assholes can't. What's your excuse?
   
I'm ****ing thrilled, man! I'm working 14-16 hours a day actually getting Democrats elected, all over the country. I've donated to Obama -- the only presidential donations I've ever made. So you go be an asshole, fine. Last I checked, I'm still entitled to an opinion. It's one of the things I'm working those long days to protect. What are you doing?

Kerry4Kerry  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-04-08 08:07 AM
Response to Reply #4

16. You are entitled to an opinion...
   
...and others are entitled to opinions about your opinion.

Joe says the moon is made of green cheese. Mary says Joe is being ridiculous. Joe remains totally free to continue saying and believing the moon is made of green cheese. Mary never took that freedom away from Joe or threatened that freedom in any way -- she simply used the same freedom herself.

See how that works? It's almost like magic!

If you can't understand that simple reasoning, and are acting out yet one more example of that frequent internet phenomena of the inability to distinguish criticism from attempted censorship, you shouldn't be surprised when many of the opinions of your opinions are low.

Atman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Sat Oct-04-08 11:42 AM
Response to Reply #16

17. "the inability to distinguish criticism from attempted censorship,"
   
What about YOUR inability to simply read a post for what it is? I never, not once, said anything about censorship or anything like it. In fact, the other poster -- and you -- didn't really say anything, you just called me an asshole for expressing my opinion. That's nothing like censorship. It's just plain rudeness. The other guy obviously didn't have the slightest clue what I was stating, he just felt that I was somehow saying it would bad if we won. That's the stupidest ****ing thing I ever heard, and it doesn't have any basis in what I actually wrote. So, thank you for jumping in to come to his defense. Now I know of two self-important message board clowns who don't know how to read a simple paragraph.

Kerry4Kerry  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-04-08 01:20 PM
Response to Reply #17

20.  "Last I checked, I'm still entitled to an opinion"
   
Those are your words: "Last I checked, I'm still entitled to an opinion"

To claim, or act as if, your entitlement to an opinion is being challenged is to claim, or act as if, someone is trying to censor you or deny you your rights. You don't have to use the words "censor" or "censorship" to play that ridiculous game. Why even bring up your entitlement to your opinion except to imply that it is the entitlement to your opinion itself which is being challenged, rather than your opinion itself? To bring up your entitlement seems to me to either be an overblown reaction to criticism, or a deliberate rhetorical tactic to deflect criticisms of your opinions by trying to frame them as assaults on your rights.

I've given plenty of money to Obama's campaign and to other Democratic races too. I volunteered for Kerry in 2004 (hence my screen name) and after I'm done with all of the commotion in my life right now being between addresses, I'll be helping out again locally this time around.

We don't all have to be suffering from conspiratorial paranoia to be sufficiently motivated to work hard for this election.

Further, I never called you as "asshole" (not that I wouldn't be tempted now). You seem to read between the lines an awful lot, but badly. You guess that your adversary in an argument doesn't work as hard as you do for Democrats, you guess that since he seemed rude to you he might as well have called you an asshole, so you might as well make it sound like a factual assertion that you were called an asshole.

I suspect this way of thinking by rushing to judgment is exactly how you arrive at your opinions of how the whole world works, your OP included.

Does anybody know of any primitive with whom Pedro Picasso gets along?

[GOBUCKS]

I'm working 14-16 hours a day actually getting Democrats elected, all over the country.

This consists of sitting at long, long narrow tables, cheek by jowl with hundreds of other wretches, in a long, low metal building, not unlike a Tyson's chicken barn, lights on 24 hours per day. The DUmmy, with his countless $8.50/hr. fellows, stuffs circulars in envelopes for township trustee candidates in Ohio and city council candidates in New Mexico. But clients probably also include hair restoration clinics and bogus automobile warranty centers. Keeping the job is dependent on finishing a predetermined number of envelopes per shift. Hopefully a wet sponge is supplied by the employer to save wear and tear on the DUmmy tongue. I think this is how the DUmmy is getting democrats elected all over the country.

[franksolich]

This consists of sitting at long, long narrow tables, cheek by jowl with hundreds of other wretches, in a long, low metal building, not unlike a Tyson's chicken barn, lights on 24 hours per day. The DUmmy, with his countless $8.50/hr. fellows, stuffs circulars in envelopes for township trustee candidates in Ohio and city council candidates in New Mexico. But clients probably also include hair restoration clinics and bogus automobile warranty centers. Keeping the job is dependent on finishing a predetermined number of envelopes per shift. Hopefully a wet sponge is supplied by the employer to save wear and tear on the DUmmy tongue. I think this is how the DUmmy is getting democrats elected all over the country.

You're not far from wrong.

In fact, you're within a razor's edge of uncanny accuracy, sir.

[USA4ME]

Poor Pedro, he's not even bright enough to realize it was his own party's political correctness run amok that caused the financial troubles.

Poor, poor Pedro.

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