The tipping point of the Rubicon on eschatology .

[thundley4]

nadinbrzezinski   (1000+ posts)               Mon Feb-14-11 10:30 PM
Original message
Many of us have asked, WHEN?
   
Well, I am here to tell you, we are near the point when people will have enough. The power elites are well on their way for the average, formerly middle class American, to realize he or she is truly WORKING CLASS. Forty years of successful propaganda have made many forget who or where they come from. These attacks on public employees will be the final straw.

Yes people we are near that point. The cycle of labor awakening is once again part of the landscape. People are waking up... next comes... action.

But what you are hearing in the Eddie show, are the early rumblings of that. It is like a volcano, that first spits smoke and ash, and you feel tremors under your feet. Those are the tremors, and the smoke and the ash.

But the time is no longer a far distant land. The anger I hear is real... and the waking up is also real...

Power elites do this predictably... so we will see...

But when is closer now

Nadin avoids the cliches.

tridim   (1000+ posts)             Mon Feb-14-11 10:45 PM
Response to Original message
3. The PTB really screwed up letting the Internet take hold.
   
Sucks to be them.

Really?  It keeps you DUmmies sitting there at your keyboards and off the streets.

nadinbrzezinski   (1000+ posts)               Mon Feb-14-11 10:46 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. These cyclical revolts happened BEFORE the internet
   
as well... in fact, you might make an argument that the Internet, in the US, serves as a safety valve, the same way the West served as a safety valve. (Turner theory)

Are you backtracking on the whole tipping point thing?

Recovered Repug (580 posts)             Mon Feb-14-11 11:27 PM
Response to Original message
6. So how close is close?
   
We talking a month? During the summer? By the end of the year? What do you consider "closer"?

24 business hours?

nadinbrzezinski   (1000+ posts)               Tue Feb-15-11 12:12 AM
Response to Reply #6
8. Within the next 24 months
   
which in historic terms, IS close.

Election time?  If Obama loses, we'll see something similar to the Watt's Riots?

Obamanaut (1000+ posts)           Tue Feb-15-11 08:18 AM
Response to Reply #6
34. 'Close' might be like the 'soon' in 'Jesus is coming soon', a 'soon'
   
that has been talked about for a couple thousand years

Ouch.

nadinbrzezinski   (1000+ posts)               Tue Feb-15-11 12:21 AM
Response to Reply #9
10. Who said anything about revolution?
   
YOU.

What you think though that we will not have some worker unrest? If you do, you have not been paying attention.

Workers can be replaced. Obama has made sure that there are too many unemployed waiting to snatch up jobs if workers strike.

[Carl]

It seems that this person has missed the news that the average citizen is sick of union nonsense.

[Ballygrl]

Skipping the OP's obnoxious rant and I just skipped to the sarcastic posts in reference to the OP.

[Ralph Wiggum]

People are waking up... next comes... action.

You DUmmies have been talking "action" since President Bush was elected....you're still not going to do anything.  Take to the streets?  Please.

The rest of us will continue going to work every day and you'll continue to bitch & moan on the internets (sic).

[zeitgeist]

tridim   (1000+ posts)             Mon Feb-14-11 10:45 PM
Response to Original message
3. The PTB really screwed up letting the Internet take hold.
   
Sucks to be them.

Paging Algore, Algore, pick up the red courtsey phone.   

No wait, lets just blame Booshhhhhhhh!!

[Wineslob]

These attacks on public employees will be the final straw.

No, DUmbass, they are indicative of the public distaste for all things Governmental.

[GOBUCKS]

nadinbrzezinski   (1000+ posts)               Mon Feb-14-11 10:46 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. These cyclical revolts happened BEFORE the internet
(Turner theory)

Oooooh! Turner theory! Is Turner part of the NDP, or Chicago School? I love it when know-it-all nadinbrzhzhzhzhski tosses off these casual references that pop up when she's copying something from Google. It completely confounds the DUmbasses, but they just need to learn the script, and understand the script, and then anyone can do what the world's foremost rotund authority and search engine pilot does.

[Karin]

It is like a volcano, that first spits smoke and ash, and you feel tremors under your feet. Those are the tremors, and the smoke and the ash.

  Padding the word count of the essay will not improve your grade.  Also, teacher can see right through the triple spacing and 2" margins. 

[njpines]

Skipping the OP's obnoxious rant and I just skipped to the sarcastic posts in reference to the OP.

I'm laughing at Obamanaut's sarcasm . . . he/she is probably on nad's "Iggy" list! 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Nadin, the vast majority of public employees consider themselves 'Middle class' at least, not 'Working class,' and their paychecks look like it's a justified opinion.  Their perspective on 'Working class?' - "We contract that shit out."

[Vagabond]

Obamanaut (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-15-11 06:03 AM
Response to Reply #29
31. Like a script that was referred to by the same OP in the countless
 Edited on Tue Feb-15-11 06:04 AM by Obamanaut
threads during the Egypt demonstrations.

Much mention of "there is a script to this", numerous times. A copy of the 'script' was requested, but it never appeared.

Along with many predictions of doom and gloom.

  0naught knows Nadine can't really defend her bs by doing anything other than more bs.

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-15-11 12:53 PM
Response to Reply #29
36. whoever ignored is
 refers to what I referred to the "script" of revolutions. I used the word script instead of dynamic, my bad. After all they do seem to have an internal dynamic that is very similar from revolution to revolution, If you learn the patterns, and recognize them, you too can read the direction of one as long as you have enough data to make the analysis. With Egypt we did... massive media coverage and all...

Methinks some people round these parts are actually envious of that ability and like to make fun of it. It is part and parcel of American anti-intellectualism and that pesky book readin' to be honest. Many of those who actually like to make fun, are now in that lovely ignored list, since I really do not have time for that idiocy. And what is even funnier is that they sill follow like loyal puppies, or actually cyber bullies, but that is another story.

Ooooh, those stupid, dumb, redneck, hick USians dat donna cotton to no reedin o books and whut not, huh Nadine?  Go screw yourself.  You don't know your head from a hole in the ground.  It doesn't matter how many books you have read when it is clear that you lack the wisdom and experience to understand the nature of the author's ideas and what happens in the the real world. 

You claim knowledge of the patronage system as some measure of your intellectualism.  I am not an intellectual, but I understood that's how the world works in most places very shortly after I started traveling.

You claim that Americans are cloistered and cut off from the rest of the world, due to oulr lack of knowledge of current events in Swaziland or what the capitol of some nothing country in Africa is.  The truth is that most people in Europe wouldn't know or care either, but that doesn't fit your condescending attitude towards people like me does it?

You claim knowledge of some script or dynamic that can be understood about revolutions, yet the only outcome so far in Egypt has been to hand power from a dictator to a general who now commands the exact same security apparatus as the dictator.  Elections are just around the corner, I'm sure.  Just as soon as the security situation improves.

Nadine, you are most certainly brown eyed.  Not from genetics, rather simply because you are full of shit.

[BlueStateSaint]

Ooooh, those stupid, dumb, redneck, hick USians dat donna cotton to no reedin o books and whut not, huh Nadine?  Go screw yourself.  You don't know your head from a hole in the ground.  It doesn't matter how many books you have read when it is clear that you lack the wisdom and experience to understand the nature of the author's ideas and what happens in the the real world.  

You claim knowledge of the patronage system as some measure of your intellectualism.  I am not an intellectual, but I understood that's how the world works in most places very shortly after I started traveling.

You claim that Americans are cloistered and cut off from the rest of the world, due to oulr lack of knowledge of current events in Swaziland or what the capitol of some nothing country in Africa is.  The truth is that most people in Europe wouldn't know or care either, but that doesn't fit your condescending attitude towards people like me does it?

You claim knowledge of some script or dynamic that can be understood about revolutions, yet the only outcome so far in Egypt has been to hand power from a dictator to a general who now commands the exact same security apparatus as the dictator.  Elections are just around the corner, I'm sure.  Just as soon as the security situation improves.

Nadine, you are most certainly brown eyed.  Not from genetics, rather simply because you are full of shit.

I've noticed that the ones that consider themselves the "most intelligent" in any group have very, very little common sense.  Nadin(e) certainly fits the mold.

[zeitgeist]

I've noticed that the ones that consider themselves the "most intelligent" in any group have very, very little common sense.  Nadin(e) certainly fits the mold.

I have ruminated on that same point many times as well.  Common sense,  so it would seem, is not so common among those with large amounts of book learning. <insert absent minded professor joke>

Here in P_town north some of the best and brightest have been going at each other tooth and nail over fluoride in the water.  This is most humorous to follow in the editorial pages when one knows the history of the writers. It is begging for a parody but none has surfaced to date.  When one compares the chuckle heads running the show here who have been drinking fluoridated water with their spring water drinking country cousins, well, lets just say Ripper(of Dr Strangelove ) may have been right, did you ever see a Ruskie drink anything but Vodka? (This debate began just before the CDC lowered the limit btw. in the LTE section) It is so much fun to watch libers fight. 

Seems one could make the same case for excess fluoride use in Massa-2-$hits having created Drain Bramage on a massive scale.  Low intellect and good teeth seem to go together.   Must watch those bodily fluids. 

[Carl]

Nadin suffers from the fatal idiocy of all the DUmp...they convince themselves that what they want is what everyone wants.
I don`t know all the issues and motivations of those on the streets in Egypt,most likely it is so varied that no one thing applies.

What they are not there for is a demand for DUmmy dreamed socialist Utopia but Nadin has no clue of that so imparts her desires on them.
Most of those protesting there would stone her or enslave her.

[Vagabond]

I have ruminated on that same point many times as well.  Common sense,  so it would seem, is not so common among those with large amounts of book learning. <insert absent minded professor joke>

My cousin resembles that remark.  Smartest one out of my generation, by my reckoning.  On the other hand she couldn't figure out that her homosexual, emotionally abusive, porn site operating, divorce minded, high school sweet heart husband was no longer her friend, or even a good man.  Then she drove herself $6K in debt in four months because she couldn't cook and anything she fed her kids just had to be pre-prepared.

[Tucker]

As an aside. She has 20. This is equal to 100.00 in donations. I believe she donated 100.00 to the DUmp and then gave herself all of the hearts. This is allowed and it makes sense as she doesn't have 20 friends. To prove me wrong, Nadin will get at least one more heart.

It's how I got my 4 hearts. Someone paid for my star and I then gave myself the hearts.  

[Ballygrl]

I'm laughing at Obamanaut's sarcasm . . . he/she is probably on nad's "Iggy" list! 

Obamanaut is a hoot!

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy Obamanaut has lots of company in being fed up with the know-it-all tubbyDUmmy nadinbrzhzhzhzhski. DUmmy BzaDem is espcially short tempered:

BzaDem  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-15-11 03:10 AM
Response to Reply #16
18. When one reads history, what is particulary instructive is how much unfalsifiable nonsense gets spewed about "rumblings" that never come to fruition.

Then again, for someone who appears to think that every new event is just more confirmation of their proposed theory, I don't think such history would really affect your prognostications.

DUmmy nadinbrzhzhzhski is not amused:

welcome to the ignore list. I have no time for willful ignorance...

BzaDem  (1000+ posts)        Tue Feb-15-11 03:26 AM
Response to Reply #23
24. "willful ignorance"
says the person who thinks the invasion of Normandy somehow proves any of the nonsense in their OP.

Obamanaut (1000+ posts)      Tue Feb-15-11 03:57 AM
Response to Original message
26. Oh good, another prediction of doom. Probably has a 'script', too.

cali  (1000+ posts)         Tue Feb-15-11 12:58 PM
Response to Reply #36
38. bwahahahaha. yes, yes. people who disagree with you and call you on egregious
errors are jealous of the ever so brilliant you. And we're anti-intellectual, to boot.

 

[franksolich]

Well, the way Nadine is upsetting the conventional primitives, I hope she's registered at Pitcairn Island by now.

[GOBUCKS]

See if you can guess what what the tubby know-it-all just googled:

nadinbrzezinski  (1000+ posts)         Mon Feb-14-11 10:35 PM
2. Yep, them are rumblings, that volcano is starting to show ash fumaroles.

 
If you understand the script, anyone can do this.

[chitownchica]

See if you can guess what what the tubby know-it-all just googled:
 
 
If you understand the script, anyone can do this.

Did you know we're all anarchists? Bet that was the word of the day on her calendar.

[Karin]

I don`t know all the issues and motivations of those on the streets in Egypt,most likely it is so varied that no one thing applies.

You know, this is so true.  That's why I don't think I made a single comment on Egypt.  This entire event cannot be encapsulated to an easy sound-bite or stupid internet post, as Nadin would wish.  We don't know how it's going to play out, and we don't know what the mob was thinking.  It's not as simple as a script. 

The DUmmies are getting good and fed up with her. 

[GOBUCKS]

You know, this is so true.  That's why I don't think I made a single comment on Egypt.  This entire event cannot be encapsulated to an easy sound-bite or stupid internet post, as Nadin would wish.  We don't know how it's going to play out, and we don't know what the mob was thinking.  It's not as simple as a script. 

The DUmmies are getting good and fed up with her. 

You just don't understand the script.

[Vagabond]

You know, this is so true.  That's why I don't think I made a single comment on Egypt.  This entire event cannot be encapsulated to an easy sound-bite or stupid internet post, as Nadin would wish.  We don't know how it's going to play out, and we don't know what the mob was thinking.  It's not as simple as a script. 

The DUmmies are getting good and fed up with her. 

But, but, but.....Nadine read books.....don't you see that makes her super special?

[Carl]

You know, this is so true.  That's why I don't think I made a single comment on Egypt.  This entire event cannot be encapsulated to an easy sound-bite or stupid internet post, as Nadin would wish.  We don't know how it's going to play out, and we don't know what the mob was thinking.  It's not as simple as a script. 

The DUmmies are getting good and fed up with her. 

Also remember that when we did take to the streets last year,town halls,political rallys,etc every last one at the DUmp called it fake,astro turf or some other dismissal.

The willful ignorance is staggering.