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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 04:43 AM Oct 2021

"This ain't no party ...

... this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around."

No one knows more about what is at stake than the January 6th Committee and those who support their efforts.

So stop pretending that they don't know, and stop spreading the RW propaganda that they're going to fold under political pressure, or that they are just going through the motions in order to appease Democratic voters by appearing to have done something that will inevitably devolve into having done nothing.

The January 6th investigative committee is comprised of people who were there - people whose lives were in danger, people who saw first-hand what an attempt to destroy our democratic government looked like - up close and personal. So stop pretending that you know more than they do, and insisting that your "I'll believe it when I see it" comments are anything more than an attempt to undermine the efforts of those determined to expose the truth.

I am sick and tired of the constant negativity. I am sick and tired of the we're going to lose no matter what we do attitude. I am sick and tired of the Trump's going to get away with it posts from those who are as drunk on the Kool-aid as the RWers they pretend to despise.

I stand with those who are standing up for our democracy - and I am not unaware of their political peril in doing so. I can only hope that their efforts are not in vain - and that those who believe in those efforts will not be undermined by those who prefer to believe that those efforts are a lost cause.

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"This ain't no party ... (Original Post) NanceGreggs Oct 2021 OP
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt Skittles Oct 2021 #1
Yep. -nt IrishAfricanAmerican Oct 2021 #2
Agreed. Concern is one thing, dooming is self-defeat before even starting. Does agitprop for RW. nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #3
Yep...you are correct...your opening line is classic ashredux Oct 2021 #4
I heard the song in my head when I read the line. Arkansas Granny Oct 2021 #5
Heads Talking...... ashredux Oct 2021 #6
Saying the quiet part out loud helps sarchasm Oct 2021 #7
Brava, Nance! babylonsister Oct 2021 #8
The history of efforts to investigate and or hold anyone accountable for past republican malfeasance CentralMass Oct 2021 #9
Then step aside we got this. denbot Oct 2021 #11
Who's we, and what exactly have "we" got? Magoo48 Oct 2021 #15
In my case, those who actually fought for this union and will never concede. denbot Oct 2021 #16
What the fuck are you talking about? Magoo48 Oct 2021 #22
Step aside ? What are you suggesting I'm standing in front of ? CentralMass Oct 2021 #19
Agreed. The Lucy and the football image comes to mind. FailureToCommunicate Oct 2021 #12
Fuck yeah! denbot Oct 2021 #10
100% LymphocyteLover Oct 2021 #13
K&R 2naSalit Oct 2021 #14
99% Roy Rolling Oct 2021 #17
Thank you, Nance. K&R Mister Ed Oct 2021 #18
The federal government should be on a 9/11 footing with the J6 attackers and we're not. uponit7771 Oct 2021 #20
I want to rec this 1000 times, Nance mcar Oct 2021 #21
So, it is dance to the music or leave? Chainfire Oct 2021 #23
I've had my hopes crushed so many times in the last 20 years that I can't help but to be Ferrets are Cool Oct 2021 #24
Soon as I saw the title, lark Oct 2021 #25
this ain't no mudd club, or C.B.G.B bigtree Oct 2021 #26
Hear, hear, Nance! Funny how I got here. Hortensis Oct 2021 #27

sarchasm

(1,012 posts)
7. Saying the quiet part out loud helps
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 06:35 AM
Oct 2021

ie. TFG was personally responsible … but man I wish contempt had bigger fangs. Bannon, et al. need to be drug in by the short hairs.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
9. The history of efforts to investigate and or hold anyone accountable for past republican malfeasance
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 06:57 AM
Oct 2021

doesn't provide much hope that it will be any different this time.

Magoo48

(4,708 posts)
15. Who's we, and what exactly have "we" got?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 07:43 AM
Oct 2021

Results build confidence. Experience advises keeping expectations low until results are in.

denbot

(9,899 posts)
16. In my case, those who actually fought for this union and will never concede.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 07:51 AM
Oct 2021

Again step aside, keep your Faux opinions to yourself. I have been here over twenty years, so another freeper inspired hide don't mean shit to me, "patriot".. LoL

Magoo48

(4,708 posts)
22. What the fuck are you talking about?
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 08:42 AM
Oct 2021

No one would would be more tickled than me if Bannon and the others spilled the truth and further action was taken as a result. I’m not Faux anything; what I am is a radical environmentalist whose lifetime of experience with politicians manipulated by corporate money is substantial.

I don’t know how your 20 years “here” somehow qualifies you as a guru, but apparently you believe it does. OK. Freeper inspired, really? All I know about them comes from references picked up here on DU over the years.

What inspires me is action. The committee took action; I’m waiting for the results.

Finally, patriot, not me in any contemporary sense of the word at all. I’m a tree hugging, saltwater and dirt worshiper to my bones and in my heart.

And, by the way, my opinions are simply that—as are yours.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,013 posts)
12. Agreed. The Lucy and the football image comes to mind.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 07:19 AM
Oct 2021

Color me only cautiously optimistic.
I've lived too long to think anything else when it comes to holding Republicans' feet to the fire.

Roy Rolling

(6,915 posts)
17. 99%
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 08:05 AM
Oct 2021

99% of us are sheep, there are very few real shepherds.

Unless you’re a shepherd, you don’t know. Stop the baaaaad predictions.

Because after all, it’s the predictions of doomsday that carry the infection of RW propaganda—that Democrats are weak.

Don’t indulge in the comfortably numb melancholy from forecasts of doom. Keep those predictions to yourself, please.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
20. The federal government should be on a 9/11 footing with the J6 attackers and we're not.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 08:18 AM
Oct 2021

I wish history and human behavior science agreed with the OP sentiment, democrats are TEXT BOOK under reacting to the situational threat the GQP poses on democracy right now.

Only 64% of democrats think the CONTINUED insurrection anti democracy voter laws enacted by the GQP is a problem.

There is no "GOTV" vote access and nullification laws, there's no place on earth historically and presently where brute force voting counters access and nullification laws.

We're looking like Spain circa 1938, the left then thought they could pussy foot around with a Trump like asshole and he became dictator.

Error on the side of putting them ***ALL*** in jail for a long time ... the J6 terrorist attack HISTORICALLY is a start not the ending.

mcar

(42,307 posts)
21. I want to rec this 1000 times, Nance
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 08:31 AM
Oct 2021

The "Dems suck" talking points are all over this place in the last few days.

lark

(23,097 posts)
25. Soon as I saw the title,
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:52 AM
Oct 2021

the rest of the line went through my head and there it is in writing.

This ain't no fooling around is so prescient and true, this is monumental, nation changing and has to be stopped NOW by full disclosure in public of the real truth of 1/6. This is an existential fight, no doubt about it.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
26. this ain't no mudd club, or C.B.G.B
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 11:59 AM
Oct 2021

...high on a hillside, trucks are loading

Everything's ready to roll.

rec.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
27. Hear, hear, Nance! Funny how I got here.
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 03:30 PM
Oct 2021

I was so irritated a poster's determined loserism, that I actually considered putting him on ignore. So I pulled up his posting history to make sure it wasn't just a bad day, and every thread I opened had drawn his kind of "sympathizers," but ones who made him look almost like a voice of reason. I had 5 of the worst sounding lined up one after the other, wondering where I'd hit bottom and whether to just give up and go make cocoa, when the history lead here to your thread.

Back to a world where comfort and hot cocoa, democracy and reconciliation bills, are real and not just tragic memories of what rich people have taken from them.

So, thank you, Nance. Cocoa it is, but I'll enjoy it a lot more now.



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