March 13, 2014

sheds light on another phenomenon we see at DU

For many, this "if this happened under Bush" test doesn't apply.

IF THIS HAPPENED UNDER BUSH, 100% of DUers would be correct to make posts like "Recovery? it's a jobless recovery!" or "Yeah, jobs, but they're crappy paying jobs" or "The stock market is a casino" and "What the stock market is doing says nothing about our economy" or "Unemployment numbers are improving because long-term unemployed aren't being captured" or "Real unemployment is much higher."

BUUUUUUTTTTTTTT...this Obama, and now for many, these sound arguments no longer apply.

We're seeing the same phenomenon being played out with Snowden and Greenwald right now, as well.

Pathetic

March 12, 2014

and as if rolling over pre-911 wasn't bad enough (because fighting after...

...would tear the country apart when we needed to fall in line) it got worse!

and when we took office in 2009, Pelosi rolls over immediately and says BushCo gets carte blanche on crimes against humanity.

Is this not the dumbest fucking Party ever?!

March 12, 2014

Nader! Nader! Nader! for 13 years

I had no idea this happened

March 12, 2014

MSNBC is a news organization

They became went all Fox News in their Obama cheerleading prior to the 2012 re-election. I've pointed this out several times over the past couple of years, all MSNBC hosts stopped reporting objectively (read critically) about the Obama administration and grabbed pom-poms. There was a time when callers would tell Ed Schultz that he was so critical of Obama and he would be to blame for Obama not being re-elected. Rachel, too. I used to have the utmost respect for her. Now, meh. She traded integrity for pom-poms. Somehow, in some way, all MSNBC hosts got the same message at the same time.

Remember when Rachel was THE best???

(from 2009)

(from 2010)
Rachel on Obama capitualating:
"If you went into the negotiation not wanting cheese, you got a pizza with extra cheese and a side of cheese."




Very, very sad what happened to this journalist

March 11, 2014

Rs learned a long time ago that all they have to do is say...

..."free market" whilst rigging the markets to their benefit; say "fiscal conservative" whilst wrecking the economy; say "jobs! jobs! jobs!" whilst blocking every attempt to create jobs, etc..

Media sponsored doublespeak.

They win!

March 11, 2014

I was thinking the same but didn't know where to post it

Turns out, even to DUers, being partisan trumps searching for the truth.

Just like Obama during the lead up to 2008, y'all had me fooled.

March 11, 2014

TOTALLY Disagree

Can't possibly disagree more!!!

The president, as mouthpiece for "we the people", can speak directly to all Americans. Right now, do Americans really know what Sanders and Warren are saying behind closed doors? Absolutely not! Make one of them president, and now everyone will get to hear what progressives have to say. Ask most people, they don't even know what the progressive movement is!!!

March 11, 2014

History I learned just last week (re: plutocrats)

What I knew:
The Baron Robbers -- most notably Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Carnegie -- owned the last half of the 19th century and early 20th century much like today's plutocrats. Labor unions were only starting to emerge in the late 1800s.

What I learned:
A populous but immensely eclectic Democrat -- pro-labor, anti-banking, anti-railroads, prohibitionist, creationist -- William Jennings Bryan, emerged in the 1890s who had the plutocrats in his crosshairs. Fearing an end to their empires, the intensely combative plutocrats got together and financed a swiftboat-like attack campaign against Bryan which helped their pro-plutocrat candidate, William McKinley, win in 1896. In the meantime, progressive Republican and anti-plutocrat, Teddy Roosevelt, emerged and the plutocrats feared him. The plutocrats decided the best way to control Roosevelt was to have McKinley make him his VP running mate in 1900. The theory was, as VP, Roosevelt was no longer relevant and no longer presented an obstacle. McKinley was re-elected and it appeared the plutocrats had won. During this time, however, in the midst of great human suffering, anarchist groups began to emerge. In September 1901, McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist. Roosevelt, a "Trust Buster", assumed office of the president and the plutocrat's gamble backfired.


Wow! that's crazy!

Hopefully, that's a pretty accurate account. I guess I get a :paper bag: for not having learned this before the age of 47 (of course, I could have learned this 35 years ago and just forgot

March 4, 2014

Thanks for that!