tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post1122312164361770551..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: "...the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."FDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-19104326298434718072016-10-27T06:48:43.733-07:002016-10-27T06:48:43.733-07:00We've spent most of the past eight years batte...We've spent most of the past eight years battening down against Republican obstruction. I'm sick of it and yet Congressional Republicans are already promising to gin up "investigations" on Day One of a Clinton 45 presidency. That's my point; these chicken-fuckers are gonna keep fucking that chicken. They could care less about the majority of their fellow Americans that voted against them and their agenda.<br /><br />That's not a republic, except in the "banana" sense. And that's what they'll bring us with this political onanism, Paul Ryan's toxic gift.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-71109338335897092782016-10-25T17:57:32.968-07:002016-10-25T17:57:32.968-07:00Hola, Chief,
You’re over-reacting to Khans' cr...Hola, Chief,<br />You’re over-reacting to Khans' criticism. I don’t know the man except in the superficial sense of what his web postings have revealed. It’s common for men who have risked their lives in combat to believe that the experience somehow validates their opinions. Flying helicopters in a war zone, or whatever else Khahs endured, does not translate as political acumen. On the contrary, such experiences tend to have a regressive effect. We batten down.<br /><br />Paul Podunk Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-71599608993654624832016-10-20T17:49:54.462-07:002016-10-20T17:49:54.462-07:00AND the R's have no intention and haven't ...<i>AND</i> the R's have no intention and haven't since 1992 of allowing the D's to do anything about (to use just this example) income inequality. You name it; removing the Social Security cap, increasing the top marginal rates, not eliminating the estate tax, raising corporate taxes, minimum wage increases and/or basic income insurance, nixing the carried interest deduction, corporate executive pay...there's no aspect of the New Gilded Age that the GOP is not determined to pursue AND no resistance to that ethos that is is not determined to obstruct.<br /><br />That has nothing to do with bad election journalism or elections, period. It's polar opposite politics and the determination of the "conservative" side to destroy the function of civil government rather than let that government act in ways that it dislikes.<br /><br />Over at MilPub P.F. Khans whined that saying this was "unpersuasive and meanspirited".<br /><br />I'll tell what's fucking meanspirited; being told by "conservatives" that because I don't agree with their policies that I am a traitor, unAmerican, a Defeatocrat, a dhimmi who is living in a woo-woo fantasyland.<br /><br />I'm fucking sick and tired of hearing a bunch of fucking feudalist cosplayers tell ME that I'm the one living the antiAmerican fantasy. If telling them that THEIR intentions to return my country to 18-fucking-90 is unacceptable and vile and the real "antiAmericanism" is "unpersuasive and meanspirited"? Well, sofuckingbeit. These sonsofbitches need to know that it's time that they don't get to define what's "American".FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-45018367035222904402016-10-20T15:01:02.376-07:002016-10-20T15:01:02.376-07:00Read the whole thing. And while I agree with a lo...Read the whole thing. And while I agree with a lot of what he says, I think he misses the point. "Elections" are the result, not the cause, of the national divide. Look at just one issue; say income inequality for example . And the problem I see isn't that "the process drives us apart". It's that D's have internal disagreement on how to roll back plutocracy. R's <i>deny that it's a problem</i>!!!<br /><br />That's not a process problem. That's a fundamentally-incompatable-worldview problem. That's my point. Yes, bad journalism makes our electoral system worse (as does FPTP voting) but the larger problem is a large minority unwilling to allow anyone who doesn't share their politics to govern.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-3613678068146482102016-10-20T13:07:55.937-07:002016-10-20T13:07:55.937-07:00Read Taibbi? He was on the Daily Show last night
...Read Taibbi? He was on the Daily Show last night<br /><br />The Money Quote<br /><br />>>Anyone who takes a close-enough look at how we run elections in this country will conclude that the process is designed to be regressive. It distracts us with trivialities and drives us apart during two years of furious arguments. It's a divide-and-conquer mechanism that keeps us from communicating with one another, and prevents us from examining the broader, systemic problems we all face together.<<<br /><br /><br />http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-fury-and-failure-of-donald-trump-w444943<br /><br />bbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com