tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7432020814210207497..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: Out in the Alley a Dead Horse is Beatendriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32607772892342341212013-10-03T01:09:56.382-05:002013-10-03T01:09:56.382-05:00@Demian If the right is spouting bullsit, we storm...@Demian If the right is spouting bullsit, we storm the comment sections, Twitter feeds, reddit, facebook, whatever the hell, with constant corrections. If they can do it, we can do it. My Twitter feed is on fire daily doing just that. People are pushing back. Enough with the defeatist victim act. Whining can be done in private. Get mad already or get out of the way. Too many people who have no fucking idea what's upon us are going to suffer if a whole lot of somebodys who DO know don't get off their arses.kfreednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66021222280988084882013-10-03T01:00:05.979-05:002013-10-03T01:00:05.979-05:00Well, we first pull our noses out of Libertarian a...Well, we first pull our noses out of Libertarian arseholes (they are NOT progressives, for the eleventy millionth time). <br /><br />We start working together for a change, give the emotarians the boot, and instead of jumping on every distraction and fake scandal offered up by Libertarians LIKE GLENN GREENWALD and his BFFs the Fraud Pauls, we tell them where to shove it. <br /><br />We STOP taking up the crusade of every dipstick Tea Bagger faking victimhood. The IRS scandal comes to mind. The NSA busllshit that you now know is a mess of deliberate misreporting is high up on the peeve meter for many of us. The round the clock Obama-bashing from the left which the baggers convenietntly pick up and wave in the faces of independents and dems (SEE????) can be knocked off for once. <br /><br />Massive blowback is in order. Push back, howl bloody murder, GOTV now. We get these tea bagging fucknuts out of office, ASAP.<br /><br />Get up, we've got work to do. <br /><br />If you can't do that, then you might as well curl up under the bed in a fetal position and good riddance. <br /><br />I'm fucking tired, too. Too fucking bad.<br />kfreednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-38517689960115074182013-10-02T11:08:30.135-05:002013-10-02T11:08:30.135-05:00Honestly, 1793 redux is the only thing that will a...Honestly, 1793 redux is the only thing that will actually clean up the problem.<br /><br />Very radical, very unserious, and very true.Cinesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14996950964848333121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-68584298480391555202013-10-02T04:47:41.944-05:002013-10-02T04:47:41.944-05:00Commenting further on the instant spin, Bobby Jind...Commenting further on the instant spin, Bobby Jindal issued a paid tweet saying that "the dysfunction in Washington is the fault of President Obama." (Link available on request, don't bother, you've seen plenty like it.) In case anyone needs help with that nuanced judgment thing. Demianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404922139147704633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59299447083758025502013-10-02T04:16:42.704-05:002013-10-02T04:16:42.704-05:00Regarding nuanced judgments, no way. Yesterday aft...Regarding nuanced judgments, no way. Yesterday after some discussion of the documented (self-documented, actually) GOP intransigence with representatives of the voting class with whom I work, one of them forwarded an email piece about how millions have been unemployed since Election Day 2008 and nobody gave a damn, yet a few public sector employees get their checks held up and we're all to pieces. There's a picture of Heath Ledger as The Joker for some obscure fucking reason, perhaps because they couldn't find the 'shop of Obama as The Joker. So the internet's already awash with the familiar, specious, Goebbels-like material. Demianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404922139147704633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-74025100165105371642013-10-02T00:35:42.183-05:002013-10-02T00:35:42.183-05:00What Kathleen said...What Kathleen said...blackdaughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05554233110211227532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5997022552656829132013-10-01T19:48:43.257-05:002013-10-01T19:48:43.257-05:00it's kind of scary, though, to think that my l...it's kind of scary, though, to think that my little single-shingle professional services life is now more viable than most of the gubblement.<br /><br />Thanks, Republicans! not to mention the Both Siderists that make it all possible!zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-45993179212828443402013-10-01T14:36:28.701-05:002013-10-01T14:36:28.701-05:00Driftglass, ignore Anon 1:57. You are still in you...Driftglass, ignore Anon 1:57. You are still in your glory days. And I still seek the respite you described. I so need your blog, and LGF and Cesca and Spandan and SmartyPants - you all keep me going and give me a sense of "home". Blogs have saved what little sanity I have left. Thank you so much, Driftglass. Kathleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55831573354879883892013-10-01T13:57:56.206-05:002013-10-01T13:57:56.206-05:00That driftglass used to be a hell of a writer. Tha...That driftglass used to be a hell of a writer. Thank God for Mr. Pierce.<br /><br />Lately all you seem to do is write about yourself and your glory days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59134207679436629142013-10-01T13:20:56.550-05:002013-10-01T13:20:56.550-05:00I've had a few days like that over the last co...I've had a few days like that over the last couple of years. The frustration wells up inside you when you see insanity playing out right in front of everyone and no amount of shouting into the wind seems to have any effect. <br /><br />Even when there is some glimmer of hope from something like OWS or the election of Obama, it turns to dust when those things are either ignored or perversed by the forces of inertia or are far less than they promised to be.<br /><br />We either give up or we keep going. What's it gonna be?JerryBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30042450705474488852013-10-01T12:54:42.173-05:002013-10-01T12:54:42.173-05:00We just got the word that we have six months of fu...We just got the word that we have six months of funding stacked up and that USAID and the State Department (the agencies we contract for) are OK for a while as well. USAID has funds that should last a few weeks, and State has a ton of non exempt people anyways.<br /><br />Other people here in DC are not so lucky as to have funds socked away from multiyear projects. On the plus side the traffic is good, for a change. And the building is deader than usual which means I can go back to playing Outlast on the 200inch screen with the 3d projector in our conference room.... err... monitoring the network.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69778549871571033122013-10-01T12:13:41.519-05:002013-10-01T12:13:41.519-05:00It's definitely not both sides, because Republ...It's definitely not both sides, because Republican demands for raising the debt-limit are essentially <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-s-dangerous-debt-limit-demand-a-christmas-tree-of-conservative-goodies" rel="nofollow">the implementation by the Obama Administration of their full agenda</a> from the last election that their candidate lost.<br /><br />That our arms are tired and our horses are gaunt is a good example why I've come to the conclusion that whatever is going to happen will happen, and it probably won't be good. But if there are people who still want to "do something", then I certainly recognize that the source of that impulse certainly isn't all bad. But it could just end up resulting in further frustration.Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69567893705186714222013-10-01T11:56:15.574-05:002013-10-01T11:56:15.574-05:00There may be no way to dislodge the morons of the ...There may be no way to dislodge the morons of the Tea Party, because they're firmly ensconced in so-called "safe" gerrymandered districts.<br /><br />But there are a large number of not-quite-so-radical or even moderate Republican congressmen/women in more representative swing districts who are vulnerable to a OFA onslaught of Dem challengers with campaign platforms that might be attractive to voters in those districts.<br /><br />Time to flip those districts to Dem representation.<br /><br />Another thing Dems could do is mobilize RIGHT NOW a number of free-to-move young folks into those so-called "safe" districts, register as voters according to all the restrictive new requirements, and turn those districts to a more representative moderate lean (surprise!).KaJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11043005602676549904noreply@blogger.com