DUmbasses discuss why they are abject failures, end up blaming you

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Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:31 PM
Original message
how come when we had tens of millions of people peacefully protesting the war.....
 ...and the bush admin, we couldn't get the chimp to come on tv and talk about stepping down? what were we doing wrong?

Tens of millions?

Berkley, CA is that large?

Warren Stupidity  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:32 PM
Response to Original message
1. we didn't stay in the streets
 our demonstrations were carefully controlled weekend strolls, theirs are general strikes.

villager  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:36 PM
Response to Reply #4
7. Everybody went back to work -- money still flowed to the ruling elites

Here, let me correct that for you:

Everybody went back to the welfare line -- money still flowed out of the productive.

Fixed for accuracy.

vim876 (22 posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:33 PM
Response to Original message
2. The army...
 ...wasn't on our side.

Dig the sig.

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:34 PM
Response to Original message
3. We didn't stay there for eight days 
 and counting.

Maybe if they were offering two-for-one drink specials...

...I'm just throwing that out there.

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:36 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. yes....that was definitely the difference.
 we were pissed off, but we didn't have the desperation that the egyptians have. we won't home to our big screen TVs and SUVs and crap every night.

**** it all! We have the freedom and economic power to buy shit we want and enjoy it!

It's horrible that I can go to work, feed my family, educate my children and play with them on the weekends without fear of rogue cops, brazen criminals or power-mad invaders interrupting it all and for that I sold my soul!

I'm a horrible, horrible bunny!

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:38 PM
Response to Reply #6
10. Well 
 I had a job, and rent to pay. Never owned an SUV.

Were you at those protests? Why did you go home?

a traitor's got to trait!

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:48 PM
Response to Reply #10
22. yeah, i was in the same boat as you.....i didn't have a big screen tv or SUV either......
 ...I was generalizing and talking about joe 6-pack, not about you or me.

I went to every protest in Austin and Houston when I lived in those places.....I went home for the same reasons as you. Like I said, we were not as desperate as the egyptians.

Ah, the ol' "against their best interests" argument rears its ugly rear.

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:35 PM
Response to Original message
5. How many days will you stay in the streets? 
 Oh and also, how many deaths are you willing to take?

It's not the same when some hippy chokes on his own vomit because he OD'ed.

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:37 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. had we done what the egyptians are doing, and had we taken a death toll....
 ....do you think bushco would have budged?

leftstreet  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:39 PM
Response to Reply #8
15. No
 We're mounting a death toll every day from lack of healthcare in this country, and our 'betters' aren't doing a damn thing.

 

OK anal crumb.

Every poor person you pass and do not directly help will be counted as 1st degree homicide with malice aforethought.

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:40 PM
Original message
Those are invincible deaths, 
 these would not be.

"invincible deaths"

She's smarterer than you.

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:39 PM
Response to Reply #8
16. It depends, but long term, yes 
 Alas Americans are NOT hungry or desperate enough.. so far we are doing navel grazing. Go ahead, ask your neighbors, do an informal poll... how many of them actually know there is a small revolution afoot.

 

Unless she means the midgets are rioting.

cali (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:38 PM
Response to Original message
11. we didn't have tens of millions in the streets here in the U.S.
 god, I hate hate hate revisionist history.

Enjoy your stay freeper concern troll.

arcane1  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:39 PM
Response to Original message
13. Speaking of which, there's an anti-war protest on March 19th n/t

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 09:51 PM
Response to Reply #13
24. i'd be there if i could!
 i live in costa rica now.

no military here.

 

You don't even live here, you ran away, but you want to castigate those who do.

And the reason why CR doesn't have a military is because the US all but guaratees its security.

Xithras  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 09:59 PM
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25. The largest protest against the Iraq war was February 15, 2003
 That was the Global Day of Protest, which had been promoted in activist circles around the globe for weeks leading up to the protest day. This is officially recorded by Guiness as the largest anti war rally in all of human history, and involved around 3-10 million people (depending on the numbers you believe).

In the United States, protests took place in about 225 cities and towns. Even using the self-reported head counts of the organizers themselves, total turnout nationwide was somewhere around 1 million people. That's 1/300th of the U.S. population.

The protests themselves were innefectual anyway. Not only did the protesters all go home at the end of the day, but they pulled permits and protested in exactly the way the government ordered them to. When the city of New York told protesters that they could protest in place, but could not march, they dutifully obeyed. When they were told to clear the streets, they cleared the streets.

Americans protest, but we don't DEFY. That's the difference. When the governments of Egypt and Tunisia told their people to go home, the people refused. When they threatened them with arrest, the protesters ignored them. When the governments started shooting, the protests simply swelled in size and ferocity. The people would not be dissuaded from their goals.

Americans don't do this. We keep our protests on the sidewalks, confined to the routes and free speech zones approved by the government, and dutifully obey every order the PTB give us. While protesters elsewhere in the world hurl rocks and firebombs, and charge police barricades, we play with giant puppets and get sidetracked with Mumia whine-fests. I attended a planning meeting for an anti-war protest in the SF Bay Area in 2005(?), and the biggest concern for the organizers at the meeting was whether they would have enough PORTA POTTIES to comply with their permit. Seriously.

Americans are sheep.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x324007

[formerlurker]

Um, they aren't calling for an uprise and overthrow of our government on Skinner's site are they? 

[Randy]

Um, they aren't calling for an uprise and overthrow of our government on Skinner's site are they? 

Yes, but only as long as someone else does it, they're to busy. 

[GOBUCKS]

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 04:31 PM
Original message
how come when we had tens of millions of people peacefully protesting the war.....
 ...and the bush admin, we couldn't get the chimp to come on tv and talk about stepping down? what were we doing wrong?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x324007
What he really means is "why couldn't we loot all the stores like the Egyptian rioters?"

Warren Stupidity  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:32 PM
Response to Original message
1. we didn't stay in the streets
our demonstrations were carefully controlled weekend strolls, theirs are general strikes.

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 04:36 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. yes....that was definitely the difference.
we were pissed off, but we didn't have the desperation that the egyptians have. we won't home to our big screen TVs and SUVs and crap every night.

The DUmp's resident plagiarist stirs from his drunken stupor:

WilliamPitt  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:38 PM
Response to Reply #6
10. Well 
I had a job, and rent to pay. Never owned an SUV.

Were you at those protests? Why did you go home?

Pitt's cute when he pretends to have a job and pay his own rent.
I'll bet that's news to DUmmy Raven!

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 04:48 PM
Response to Reply #10
22. yeah, i was in the same boat as you.....i didn't have a big screen tv or SUV either......
 ...I was generalizing and talking about joe 6-pack, not about you or me.

Uh, DUmmy spotted dick, you may have missed it, but "joe 6-pack" overwhelmingly supported President Bush. "Joe 6-pack" was never on the sidewalk with you smelly misfits.
 

DUmmy know-it-all nadinbrzhzcsczhcshski, from her vast experience, instructs her fellow DUmmies on revolution:

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:35 PM
Response to Original message
5. How many days will you stay in the streets? 
Oh and also, how many deaths are you willing to take?

leftstreet  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:39 PM
Response to Reply #8
15. No
We're mounting a death toll every day from lack of healthcare in this country

DUmmy leftstreet misses the whole point of an uprising: looting.


DUmmy spotted cat laments a lost opportunity to loot retail stores:

Gato Moteado  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 04:39 PM
Response to Reply #9
12. yes, we had the numbers during the protests.....
 ...but we were decentralized and our protests weren't long lasting enough.

cali (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:38 PM
Response to Original message
11. we didn't have tens of millions in the streets here in the U.S.
god, I hate hate hate revisionist history.

DUmmy cali apparently missed the 10 Million DUmmy March. She has really been quick to call out her fellow DUmbasses lately.

cherokeeprogressive  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 05:23 PM
Response to Reply #11
30. You have to admit, it makes you laugh. Doesn't it make you laugh?
It makes me laugh.

sufrommich  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:39 PM
Response to Original message
14. " tens of millions ". When did that happen?

Well, tens of thousands then.
 

spanone  (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-01-11 04:40 PM
Response to Reply #14
17. never....

Okay, okay, tens of dozens.

cali (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:40 PM
Response to Original message
19. I hate to break this to you, but the majority of Americans supported his stupid ****ing war

This is the part DUmmies just can't get. Those damn Muricans supported President Bush, and love America. DUmp democrats just can't believe it.

Xithras  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 04:59 PM
Response to Original message
25. The largest protest against the Iraq war was February 15, 2003
In the United States, protests took place in about 225 cities and towns. Even using the self-reported head counts of the organizers themselves, total turnout nationwide was somewhere around 1 million people. That's 1/300th of the U.S. population.

On the same day, three million bowled in organized leagues, nine million went to the movies, and thirty million listened to Rush Limbaugh. Sorry, DUmp.
 

jwirr  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-01-11 05:20 PM
Response to Original message
29. We could hardly get the tv to show what we were doing if I remember
 correctly.

 
Well, DUmmy jwirr, no one was interested in what you were doing. A handful of homely lunatics on the corner, waving anti-American signs, doesn't draw much of an audience.

[formerlurker]

Yes, but only as long as someone else does it, they're to busy. 

LOL.

When I say "we"  I don't mean "me."     

[Randy]

Dupe

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,54875.0.html

+1 on your take on it.

[dandi]

The problem with a mob trying to depose an elected President, other than the obvious law enforcement and military hurdles you'd have to overcome, is that pesky half of the electorate who wouldn't take too kindly to you trying to forcibly eject the person they voted into office. That's not even counting the ones who didn't vote for him but still believe in the rule of law regardless.

You DUmbasses don't think we'd just let you waltz in and turn the Oval Office into a crash pad unmolested, do you?

[USA4ME]

Has anyone on Skin's island figured out that Egypt will be trading one figurehead for another, and that as long as the military holds the reigns over there essentially nothing will change?  I doubt it.  It's like that leader in Yemen; what did he control?  Maybe 12 city blocks or less?

.

[Duke Nukum]

What's with all the navel grazing?   The navel is always greener on the other side of the Rubicon.

[GOBUCKS]

You DUmbasses don't think we'd just let you waltz in and turn the Oval Office into a crash pad unmolested, do you?

They've pretty much done that, haven't they?

[AllosaursRus]

The problem with a mob trying to depose an elected President, other than the obvious law enforcement and military hurdles you'd have to overcome, is that pesky half of the electorate who wouldn't take too kindly to you trying to forcibly eject the person they voted into office. That's not even counting the ones who didn't vote for him but still believe in the rule of law regardless.

You DUmbasses don't think we'd just let you waltz in and turn the Oval Office into a crash pad unmolested, do you?

These ****in' morons think that those who are too lazy to vote or don't get involved in the electoral process must agree with them by default. Nothing could be farther from the truth!

I got news for you idiots, better than 60% of the people in this country would kick your ass if you tried to shove your bull shit down their throats! You asshats actually believe your own polls. The sampling of which is decidedly so skewed to the result your left wing moonbat journalists want them to show, that their only purpose is to influence the lefts talking points to the point of absurdity!

If they actually conducted any of these polls in a fair manner you would find we would wipe the streets of you lunatics in a fashion that would make your pointy little heads spin into orbit!

Actually, you are very fortunate most Americans are so busy living their lives and raising their families, they refuse to pay attention to a bunch of left wing, drug induced lunatics, whinin' that they need their poopy diapers changed!

You morons do not want to wake up Joe 6 Pack from the slumber of goin' about his daily life. If that ever happens, you will soon find out just how small a minority you really are!

[catsmtrods]

They didn't mention how well the Tea Party protests worked?

[JohnnyReb]

They didn't mention how well the Tea Party protests worked?

Not the same...the Tea Party actually had a crowd.