tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post3725120430534993588..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: The GOP campaign of violence, and why it won't workBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-72932786853574598742009-08-09T11:38:55.151-07:002009-08-09T11:38:55.151-07:00They might have made more ground by parroting fals...They might have made more ground by parroting false right-wing talking points forcefully, but peacefully. Hell, George W. won one election and kept his Presidency alive by doing nothing more than repeating stupid fallacies while failing the country over and over and over...<br /><br />It's the violence that brings their stupidity to light. This country has an abnormally high tolerance for stupidity, but violent and stupid together is a combination that is too scary for REAL Americans to tolerate.<br /><br />And of course for a beautiful example of stupid, you have to just LOVE the elderly right-wingers who are violently screaming that the government keep their hands of their Medicare. DUMB ... AS ... STUMPS.LFChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723708514119454447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-62395439556900583822009-08-08T23:41:31.872-07:002009-08-08T23:41:31.872-07:00As you point out, these people are farking stupid ...As you point out, these people are farking stupid and cannot answer questions with logic. But pointing out their illogic only enrages them further. I have seen this when I reasoned logically with paranoid schizophrenics or people in the middle stages of dementia (i.e. the ones who were still capable of responding to speech.) It might be the psychiatric equivalent of Godwin's law (is that the one about bringing up Nazis in a political argument?), but I see the same characteristics in reich-wingers as I do in people who have been clinically diagnosed as insane or demented.<br /><br />What it boils down to is that the Right's base is people who are so stupid that they believe this shite. There are a lot of them, but how much political or economic power do they have? If your army depends on gullible idiots, that's not an effective force. You wouldn't want to be the boss of a bunch of babboons. Unfortunately, what they have is the power of irrational violence. Politics as berserkergang...Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-83411783859393265632009-08-08T09:23:16.130-07:002009-08-08T09:23:16.130-07:00Yeah, I keep asking the Deathers, "Where are ...Yeah, I keep asking the Deathers, "Where are the bodies? Why do the people in these countries with 'socialist' healthcare live so much longer than Americans if 'socialist' healthcare kills the elderly?" They go back to sputtering talking points and nonsense, they literally cannot answer the question, because it completely conflicts with what they "know" because their Party commissars on Hate Radio or Faux News told them what to "know". <br /><br />I don't know who created the term "Deathers" for those who support a system that kills over 20,000 Americans per year due to lack of care and spin imaginary conspiracies to attempt to derail reform of this system. But it's a pun on the term "Birthers" for the Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists. All these losers have today is imaginary conspiracies and violence, much as they imagined that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and NAACP were part of a Communist conspiracy to destroy America as part of their justification for violence against civil rights workers. They have no reason, no logic, for their positions, just a fear of "other" that is leading them into irrational and violent acts. We will have to see what happens, but I will tell you this: I was pessimistic about the chances for health care reform passing before the Deathers started their mob violence. But now I know we've won. Maybe not this year with HR3200, any more than Little Rock 1957 led directly to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But when the Deathers literally have nothing left but violence, it is only a matter of time.<br /><br />- Badtux the Righteous PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-82817851676446637392009-08-08T04:34:06.633-07:002009-08-08T04:34:06.633-07:00"Deathers" -- that's good! Did you c..."Deathers" -- that's good! Did you come up with that?<br /><br />What I want to know is, how long will it take before some right-wing terrorist sprays gunfire at a health care forum? That would be SO Repiglickin -- killing people to prevent them from having government life care. (Which, as all reichies know, is a plot to kill old people and babies. That's why there are none of them alive here, under the socialistic medical system bequeathed to us by Joe Stalin and propogated by tje small-frog fascist John Howard, amongst others...)Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-88971042057642742612009-08-07T07:57:26.496-07:002009-08-07T07:57:26.496-07:00Oh my God , I can not wait till the gas and pepper...Oh my God , I can not wait till the gas and pepper fog starts to fly like whiffs of refuse from the dump . I was living in Berkeley in the late 60's , I saw cops cracking heads under the gas clouds . I heard the way the other side talked with disgust about the protesters . Well , these guys have no better way in sight they have nothing new to propose , no 'mandate' . Turn loose the hounds I say ! Right winger protest jingles to come . Where's my old peace button , I want to wave it in front of them before the cops haul them off .<br /> an aging w3skiw3skihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13993709956954374919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-48650754915589274312009-08-07T06:38:13.658-07:002009-08-07T06:38:13.658-07:00It seems to me that the GOP and the special intere...It seems to me that the GOP and the special interests are going to win this one again (or if the dems win, it will be a Pyrrhic victory). While the majority wants health care, the support for the democrat's proposals is low. Logically, that does not make sense unless you consider the fact that the FUD is working.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-38315152961526658742009-08-07T06:18:35.841-07:002009-08-07T06:18:35.841-07:00Love you, BT!
Keep speaking out and telling the t...Love you, BT!<br /><br />Keep speaking out and telling the truth about the violent rightwingers.<br /><br />It's the only defense that works.<br /><br />SCirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-75462115461824379442009-08-07T01:30:11.333-07:002009-08-07T01:30:11.333-07:00The amount of money being poured into the oppositi...The amount of money being poured into the opposition, it does worry me. But if violence is what they are already resorting to, then they have lost, praise jeebus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com