There's almost nothing the DUmmies like more than apocalyptic threads. When they really get going, they can make gloom-and-doom know-it-all nadin sound like a giddy Pollyanna. They love these end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it threads, because they've been losers all their lives, and would rather see everyone else suffer than to work to improve their own sorry lots.
So, while most of America is relatively happy, confident, and optimistic, let's see how the DUmmies view the future:
DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 11:36 AM
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It IS a painful time. We can't ignore what's happening, it will be hard to stem the tide against us
as selfish as this may sound, I am glad I am in the fourth quarter and maybe at the two minute warning in my life. I cannot imagine how my beautiful Daughter will manage over the next 50 years if the RepubliCorp party succeeds in destroying this Country. I'm not going to go into a long rant, others here do it better than I. It's just sad that we've come to this. Wide eyed, you betcha (as the queen grifter would say) and weakly, yup worse that I would have ever predicted.
Try and have a nice weekend. The news everywhere stopped being good a long time ago. Do things that make you happy, we are no longer in control.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1315235Well, this DUmbass has told us many times that he suffers the effects of traumatic brain injury, so no one can expect him to have a normal outlook. Surely the rest of the DUmp isn't looking forward to the apocalypse
Uh oh:
seabeyond (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 11:39 AM
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1. i am up there enough i dont know when, can be anytime. tomorrow, 3 decades, BUT
i will be in grocery store and get the total, see how much stuff cost and say... damn
at least i am dying and not going to have to live this. you kids, you have to live it. i so feel for you
i dont know how the young ones, making so little, make it
Webster Green (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 11:48 AM
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3. Indeed.
I'm happy to be in the "4th quarter" as well, as this ****ing planet is turning into a real shit-hole, due to the strangle hold on wealth and power that the regressives have achieved.
Well, I think this "shit-hole" will be vastly improved when it's no longer inhabited by DUmmy Webster Green.
ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 11:58 AM
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6. i am 38. I have three kids. I tell you... I worry for them. 3 girls.
And with the assault on the rest of us as well as on women in particular I worry for my daughters and their future. I wish I could save some money for them. They'll be lucky if they have our house to split up when my husband and I are gone. Part of me gets the urge to flee to somewhere sane where they will have a chance. But part of me wants to fight. It seems like such a tough fight what with so many people who think the thing we are fighting about is whether public workers should be getting pensions or not.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 12:06 PM
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9. the best thing you can do for your daughters is teach them skills
Sewing, gardening, working with tools, simple home repair, putting up foods, etc. Make them experts.
Pie shops. Freeloading. Imposing on friends and relatives.
And chickpeas. 55-gallon food grade drums full of chickpeas. And 55-gallon drums full of kerosene.
grasswire (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 05:48 PM
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Some of the things that are going to be needed are ways to live that don't require electricity. Hand sewing. Drying foods.
A girl can take a lot of pride in being able to live like it's 1860s on the prairie! Build a fire, chop wood, find clean water, cook simple foods, gather hay to stuff a mattress, mend a shirt, etc.!
A little farmette on the prairie. Careful, though, you can't shoot Indians anymore.
But hold on to that cable modem.
FirstLight (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 12:16 PM
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11. right there with ya...
I worry sometimes that I should be teaching my kids more about survival than talking about college, because college and the 'norm' we grew up with is crumbling fast...
Keep those kids indoors, out of the poisonous mist falling from the chemtrails, for God's sake, don't let them drink milk.
indepat (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 12:07 PM
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10. Being in the 4th quarter-century of our lives, we hear you and but cannot but wonder what
kind of RW country and society our ggrandchilden, grandchildren, and daughters will face. Hopefully one of those generations will do what is required to have a government, of, by, and for the people, wherein the rule of law is re-established, corporate criminals are held accountable, and imperialistic global hegemony is discarded.
RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-17-11 01:48 PM
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19. I hear you.
I wonder if my grandsons will ever really understand what America was.
Can you imagine how they whisper to each other about grandpa being crazy?
Eddie Haskell (272 posts) Sat Jun-18-11 01:05 AM
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24. Gonna die soon anyway.
Why not go out fighting?
A keyboard commando, ready to go out firing 40 words per minute.
