Occupy OTF

[Technomancer]

Maybe this one will work:

...but who says we're not just stuck in the first 5 minutes, where Patrick Swayze is wondering where all the paratroops are coming from?

See! What'd I tell ya?!

Sometimes even <I> can't believe what pu$$ies Hollywood collectively are.

Good grief, I don't know why they'd even bother at that rate. :/ I assume the Cubans will still be co-starring?

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Oh, btw, thanks to the T party (i.e. out of state corporatist groups), a new GOP Senate seat is up for serious contest by the Dems that hasn't been seriously contested in over 3 decades. I feel bad that the sane Republicans are being rail-roaded so badly though... RIP Richard Lugar's political career. :/ Perhaps comrade Obama can offer him a position after the re-election?

[jmervyn]

Good grief, I don't know why they'd even bother at that rate. :/ I assume the Cubans will still be co-starring?

From what I recall hearing, it's not much more than a bit part. I can barely imagine how screwed up the final product is going to be, given their bowing so deeply at the altar of Political Correctness already. I mean, seriously, the North Koreans are eating boiled grass, shoe leather, each other, and dirt (in a pinch). They're going to invade America?

thanks to the T party (i.e. out of state corporatist groups),

Huh? I mean, I know you're all Hoosier all the time, but I thought Mourndock is kinda-sorta the opposite of corporatist? As in, just because the Occupiers are a wad of Maoist and Stalinist buffoons doesn't mean the Tea Party is all in the pool for politicos being in bed with big business. Lugar has been a fixture of the Senate so long I'm surprised half the streets and public buildings in Indianapolis aren't named after him.

I feel bad that the sane Republicans are being rail-roaded so badly though... RIP Richard Lugar's political career. :/

So you're really supportive of Progressivism/Communism, i.e. ruled in an arbitrary manner by an unaccountable elite. Sorry to have mocked what you apparently take seriously...

Perhaps comrade Obama can offer him a position after the re-election?

Erm, didn't work out so well the last time, I hear.

[jmervyn]

AAARRGGHGGHHHH Double post monster bit me!

[Technomancer]

No, the Tea Party isn't corporatist, but the money groups parading around as the Tea Party are nothing but. I saw dozens of ads over the last few months, and only 2 (the quantity 2) ads were actually from the Mourdock campaign, the rest were OoS SuperPAC ads. It's nice to know the people of the state actually get who they want, instead of who they're told to want by the "coastal elites". [/sarcasm] I thought Republicans believed in things being local. I guess Michigan's "Dictatorship for you if we don't like how you run your town" law kinda spoils that lie though.

I don't like the idea of people in power forever, but to replace someone who does a good job with budding lapdog isn't the best way to go about it. Oh well, it may not even matter come November if the seat goes to the moderate Republican (read: Indiana Democrat) named Joe Donnelly.

[jmervyn]

No, the Tea Party isn't corporatist, but the money groups parading around as the Tea Party are nothing but.

Unlike all the Soros PAC astroturf types you applaud, to be sure.

I guess Michigan's "Dictatorship for you if we don't like how you run your town" law kinda spoils that lie though.

See above. If you're laughably ignorant enough to think that Big Labor and other New Left power blocs aren't about as proto-fascist as America gets, then it's not worth further discussion. Just like Steve, you're wailing about the EEEEBILL VRWC while ignoring the oppressive mainstream Left.

I don't like the idea of people in power forever, but to replace someone who does a good job with budding lapdog isn't the best way to go about it.

Ok, so riddle me this - your claim is that somehow Big Righty plotted to throw out a decent, honest pol. Presuming that Lugar could be considered such (and he wasn't nor couldn't), exactly how does it profit Big Righty to dump an establishment GOP candidate? Lugar is little different from Specter, or Kennedy - he's one of the oligarchs, and he assumed this job was his just desserts.

When John Kerry laments your defeat and Jonathan Chait claims your defeat may cause Gov't to fail... why pretend you're a Republican, much less Conservative?

Peggy Noonan also stressed family ties when making the case for sending Lugar back to the Senate: "What Washington needs is sober and responsible adults." Noonan didn't disclose who the children were in this relationship.


But it is the sober and responsible adults who have accumulated a national debt larger than the country's economy. There are two ways to demonstrate one's sobriety and responsibility in Washington: to be as supportive of druken sailor-style fiscal irresponsibility as possible or to be as timid as possible in opposition to it.

[Technomancer]

I guess it's just a romantic notion of a bygone time when political opponents were considered opponents and not existential threats. I guess it will just take the conservative base throwing their little temper-tantrum over losing their country (to the majority! Pshaw!) and nominating a bunch of reactionary blow-hards that can't win generals. When they fail to take the WH / senate and lose (or nearly lose) the House as a result, they'll have to do some soul searching or go extinct.

Growing pains.

[jmervyn]

I guess it's just a romantic notion of a bygone time when political opponents were considered opponents and not existential threats.

Yeah, I have to agree with you there. I mean, calling your opponents "the enemy", urging violence against them, equating the President or even his wife to Hitler/Satan/animals... what horrible, malicious, EEEBILLL people those "right wingers" are!

Plus those "Teabaggers" are so destructive! And expensive!

ProTip - you might need to study up on your history. A unilateral media squelch against the minority party has not been the norm in the U.S., nor has civility.

When they fail to take the WH / senate and lose (or nearly lose) the House as a result, they'll have to do some soul searching or go extinct.

Uh huh. Well, let's see how that goes, shall we? After all, 2010 was such a resounding victory for the Democrat Party, I'm certain 2012 will be as well... Maybe we won't even make it that far.

[BobCox2]

Occupy protests are about the 99% vs the 1% and fairness

and that's just not going to change without armed and organized revolutionaries
No way are protests making a change.

[krischan]

I think that belongs into the Dharun Ravi thread.

[jmervyn]

No need to muddy that thread; there's plenty of thread-appropriate outrage like this:

He stood up, single-handed and unarmed, against a violent Occupy Wall Street mob. He followed hundreds of masked Black Bloc thugs for six city blocks, yelling at them to stop smashing car windows and storefronts. He's a former Google employee with a day job in real estate who runs his own innovative taco delivery business. He's been hailed as a "hipster hero" by residents desperate for someone--anyone--to stand up to the madness after months of politically protected mayhem. Until now, he's been known merely as "the guy that loves his neighborhood." Meet Dustin Boyer, the guy who saved San Francisco.

Or if you're trying for the inequitable treatment aspect, something like this:

A PHILADELPHIA JUDGE said Wednesday he was convinced that a disabled, retired Marine was being attacked in the moments before he fatally stabbed a man last October, but he concluded that the stabbing was still a criminal act rather than self-defense.