Good Monday morning, gentle people!
As the Freeperati contract away from reality like a slug from salt and retreat into their shrinking fantasy world where everybody thinks just like they do, and nothing's really been right in this country since Leave It To Beaver, it just gets weirder and weirder.
The insularity of this group has reached astounding new heights of late.
They used to proudly take every chance to proclaim that they only listed to or read "conservative"-approved news and opinion.
These days, that's just taken as read.
Lately, (as your humble narrator has observed here) even that's not enough.
LGF, FOX, the RNC, all the old standbys seem to be out to get them, and no slight (real or imagined) goes unnoticed.
As the crazy contracts into a tighter and tighter ball, I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't something in the "Peak Wingnut" theory after all.
And this singularity of stupid is planning a road trip.
Really.
I expect lights to be snuffed out in several towns when the kook caravan rolls through, sucking the intelligence out of the air as they drive through, encased in their own little bubble of dumbassery.
But in the meantime, let's suit up and open the first drum of mental sludge marked:
"We're all Saul Alinsky now!"
www.knoxviews.com ^ | 08/03/09 | R. Neal
Posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 4:22:31 PM by TennesseeGirl
Submitted by R. Neal on Mon, 2009/08/03 - 4:13pm.
From a memo re. "best practices" for infiltrating and disrupting town hall meetings on health care reform and energy policy:
• Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: "Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington."
• Be Disruptive Early And Often: "You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep’s presentation, Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early."
• Try To "Rattle Him," Not Have An Intelligent Debate: "The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down. Look for these opportunities before he even takes questions."
Freepers : "They're onto us!"
probably not too hard to “rattle ‘em” since it is impossible to defend the indefensible. Liberals cannot debate when the playing field is level. They loose(sic).
Unintentional irony alert!
"el_texicano" probably meant to say "Liberals cannot debate when I'm spraying spittle in their faces and shrieking 'DON'T KILL MY GRANDMA!!' at the top of my lungs."
0bama told us to “get in their faces!”
..."and I always do everything Obama tells me to."...
They are just setting the stage for Dems to claim that the meetings are being hijacked by extremists and stooges of the insurance companies while real Americans want Obamacare. Liberal CYA.
"They" being Bob MacGuffie from Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, of course.
Damn those sneaky liberals!!
Sounds like they’re afraid their tactics will be used against them.
Leaving the patent absurdity of that claim (otherwise known as the "He did it first" defense) aside, the embrace of boorishness is interesting.
The only thing I've seen on the left that even resembles what the teabaggers are doing at Town Hall meetings is the occasional shouting match between counter-protestors outside public events.
I have a feeling that if even one liberal activist had ever started screaming and squalling at any town hall event, that isolated incident would have been trumpeted at FR (and the wingnutosphere in general) before you could say "200,000 hits on YouTube".
We need to start carrying big clear plastic bags of feathers to the meetings, they’ll get the point!
Better yet, loaded handguns!
Then, a Freeper outs himself:
I left them a message - look for Ward Dorrity’s reply. That’s me.
You guys should know that to me, this is like pheromones to a horny tomcat.
You rats hate it when you have your own "Rules for Radicals" thrown back in your dirty little collectivist faces, don't you?
We're just getting started.
I have questions - and a video camera.
I reply:
If you're using Saul Alinsky's playbook, does that mean that you're hypocrites as well as thugs?
From Freeperville:
"Dodd came out later. I was furious
Dodd is getting health care now for his cancer that most Americans WONT be able to get under this plan.
He slowed down his car leaving while we chanted CHRIS DODD, SWIM TO CUBA or chanted DUMP CHRIS DODD
He motioned for me to go over, and I did NOT want to exchange greetings with him. I told him HE should get the same health care as the rest of us and how HE would most likely be denied his own surgery.
He tried to be friendly and ask questions and I refused, I told him he was destroying the country and he waved me off, looked disgusted and drove off.
Yeah, I was angry. Wish I wasn't so."
Go ahead - bring on the Sturmabteilung. It'll just make you look in public like the thugs you are in private.
Tommy
Oh, and by the way, Ward - if you're so anxious to "Go Galt", get off the grid, cash in (your company) Link... for the $5,000 it'll net you, and go live in Galt's gulch. Permanently. Quit using our roads, our parks, our police force, and anything else our bad old taxes pay for.
Freaking couch potato commanders from Freeperville give me the pip.
...how priceless is THAT?
From his consultation website - references:
"USGS - Geomagnetism Group, Newport, WA and Denver Colorado"
Did that nasty Federal Tax money burn your fingers when you cashed the check, Ward?
And lastly back to FR, just to give the new cast-iron irony meter a workout:
There goes..........annnnnother one!
More after the скачок, друзья !!
"After action"? Negro, PLEASE!!
A million servicemen/women just threw up in their helmets...
self | 08/03/2009 | RaceBannon
Posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 11:31:29 AM by RaceBannon
Just had an emergency Freep of Dodd, Delauro and Sebelius at Belmont Street in Hartford.
"Emergency Freep"?
"After Action report" on acting like a jerk in public?
Fascinating.
I guess your checking for dog poop in the gutter before rolling around in it could be considered "clearing land mines", then?
A Freeper posts a pic from Braveheart of the Scots pre-Battle Of Sterling, which prompts this response from BraveHard.
A better picture is when William Wallace bends over and shows Longshanks what a Scotsman wearas under his kilt.
Now THAT’s a symbol for how we feel about our government.
"This is the part I freeze-frame and masturbate furiously and joylessly to."
So anyways, we waited outside for Dodd, Delauro and Sebelius to re-appear
Dodd was cordial, hanging around outside, Sebelius scrambled into her car for a getaway, shirking away in the back seat
Delauro smiled at us as she walked back to her car while we shouted ROSA GO HOME
She laughed it off, rolled down her window to wave to us, I shouted out to her, laughing and smiling, HEY ROSA< YOU MISS YOUR ACTIVIST DAYS, DONT YA??
She got it, laughed with us and sped off
Dodd came out later. I was furious
Dodd is getting health care now for his cancer that most Americans WONT be able to get under this plan.
He slowed down his car leaving while we chanted CHRIS DODD, SWIM TO CUBA or chanted DUMP CHRIS DODD
He motioned for me to go over, and I did NOT want to exchange greetings with him. I told him HE should get the same health care as the rest of us and how HE would most likely be denied his own surgery.
He tried to be friendly and ask questions and I refused, I told him he was destroying the country and he waved me off, looked disgusted and drove off.
Yeah, I was angry. Wish I wasn't so.
But, it is true. What they are doing is intentional and destructive and will bankrupt us and I dont want to debate a tyrant.
I thought the cover story was all about how you're really there to debate, not disrupt?
Thanks for showing your true colours.
And speaking of true colours, I present, for your enjoyment - from that very debat......er, after-action report - RaceBannon!!!
Wups - wrong cartoon character.
Sorry.
Oh - here he is!
Ladies and gentlemen - I say you - the deeply serious and concerned Race_bannon.
Jesus Christ in a helicopter hat.
(yes, I stole it, and I'll use it until I come up with something better than that, or "Jesus Tits!")
And now The Atlantic jumps in:
The Atlantic ^ | August 5, 2009 | Jen O'Malley, Executive Director DNC
Posted on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:20:36 PM by Oldeconomybuyer
1. These disruptions are being funded and organized by out-of-district special-interest groups and insurance companies.
2. People are scared because they are being fed frightening lies.
3. Their actions are getting more extreme.
4. Their goal is to disrupt and shut down legitimate conversation.
5. Republican leadership is irresponsibly cheering on the thuggish crowds.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.theatlantic.com ...
Well, this thread is off to a promising start.
I woke up mid-January in the USSR.
And those Ukraine girls really knock him out....
As Rush said today on his show, "Prove it. Prove that one person at the town hall meetings are being funded by anyone" They can't.
Prove it.
On its website, Americans For Prosperity states that "AFP gets its support from individuals and corporations which share its vision." However, it does not disclose which corporations fund its operations.[17]
Kevin Grandia, of DeSmogBlog, who has researched funding the AFP states on his blog that
The AFP is the third largest recipient of funding from the Koch Family Foundations, behind the Cato Institute and the George Mason University Foundation. Before 2003, when the AFP was still named the Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, it received $18,460,912 in funding. 84% of that funding came from the Koch Family Foundations ($12,906,712) and the Scaife Family Foundations ($2,510,000). Koch Family Foundations is funded by Koch Industries. According to Forbes, Koch Industries is the second largest privately-held company, and the largest privately owned energy company, in the United States. Koch industries has made its money in the oil business, primarily oil refining. Presently, it holds stakes in pipelines, refineries, fertilizer, forest products, and chemical technology. Americans for Prosperity is also connected to oil giant ExxonMobil. According to ExxonSecrets, between the years 1998-2001, Citizens for A Sound Economy and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation received $380,250 from ExxonMobil.[18]
Media Transparency notes that Americans for Prosperity Foundation has received seven grants totaling $1,181,000 between 2004 to 2006. Grants to the foundation have included:[19]
- $1,000 in 2006 from the Roe Foundation;
- $50,000 in 2005 from the Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation;
- $5,000 in 2005 from the Armstrong Foundation;
- $125,000 from three grants over 2004 and 2005 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation; and
- $1,000,000 from the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.
2. People are scared because they are being fed frightening lies.
Prove it.
3. Their actions are getting more extreme.
Nowhere near as extreme as the liberals we learned them from.
That doesn't even work for traffic citations.
Too bad you didn't bother learning some simple compassion while you were supposedly cribbing from liberals....
4. Their goal is to disrupt and shut down legitimate conversation.
We don't want your socialized health care. End of discussion. (learned that one from liberal(sic) too. LOL)
5. Republican leadership is irresponsibly cheering on the thuggish crowds.
LOL I wish they had the stones to lead.
You know something?
The only people who ever read and quote Saul Alinsky are wingnuts.
When they cranked up this meme, I actually had to read up on who he was.
The failed policies of the 0bama administration have caused all this anger. Nothing else.
What policies would those be, then?
The policy of increasing TARP funding which slowed, if not stopped the economic free-fall?
The policy of appointing Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court?
The policy of not running around looking for new countries to invade?
The policy of adopting 2,500 new highway projects, which will put 260,000 jobs into the economy?
The policy of putting real money into education?
The policy of putting forests' protections back into place so they can't be clear-cut by Weyerhauser?
The policy of setting out to stop the spread of urban crime and gangs by funding the Byrne Grants?
Those failed policies?
Politicians do not understand that the MAJORITY of america is against them.
And last of all:
NBC26 ^ | 08/07/2009 | NBC26
Posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 12:39:00 PM by Dallas59
Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI) faced a “heated” discussion about health care at a town hall meeting yesterday, with people in the crowd who were heckling, interrupting, and filibustering him.
Let me guess - "I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left ME! And kicked me out of the car in the middle of nowhere, without even offering to take me home after I was done blowing them!"
Or, failing that, lie like the weasels you are.
Never forget, the media IS NOT your friend. No media, no how, no way. Leave media relations to the professionals.
Or, failing that, lie like former Schutzstaffel officers.
But I guess it is OK for them Dems to have plants.....they’ve been doing this for years....now, when the other side does it, they act like spoiled little boys and girls.....
"If the entire Democratic Party jumped off a cliff, would you jump off a cliff, too?"
See’s listed as having worked on republican campaigns in 2006 and 2008.
Before making statements to media, be aware that they WILL research you if you oppose socialism.
What is the affiliation of the reporter who did this hit piece??????
Let’s investigate them.
Or, failing that, lie like a meth-cooker with the police at your doorstep inquiring about the funny smell.
” Exactly. And what’s up with her saying she doesn’t pay dues to the GOP? “
“Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times...”
And I'm out of here - you guys play nice.
Is this thing on?
Tommy
Posted by: Tommy T | August 17, 2009 at 17:11
we're mostly left speechless by the gross lack of self-awareness and ignorance of irony displayed by the wingnuttus americanus and it's attendant subspecies the Douchenozzled Teabagger
Posted by: The Crapture | August 17, 2009 at 19:19