I inadvertantly infiltrated a Rethug event this past Sunday.

[arbusto_baboso]

Let me explain.

Both my wife and I are civil servants. Last Friday, my wife found out about an event for public sector employees being sponsored by Elton Gallegly's office. Now, I hate Gallegly's tiny race-baiting heart with the heat of a thousand suns, but any event that shows gratitide for civil servants, well.... I'm there, since we get so little. Besides, it included a free ride on the Fillmore and Western Railway and a BBQ tri-tip lunch, all free of charge.

Turns out the whole thing was a Gallegly campaign event!

Let me tell you it was tough to sit quietly listening to ultra-righties tell all the nasty jokes and run down all the people, programs and ideas that we DUers value. And let me state categorically that all of the horrible nightmarish thoughts we have about how stomach-churning it would be to be in such company are well-founded.

And yet, what my wife and I basically feared more than anything was being found out. We felt like infiltrators. Spies if you will. We were sweating like whores in church. It was especially tough the TWO times Gallegly shook my hand. ( And should anyone think I should've spoken my mind, let me remind you we were on a moving train, and these were Republicans... )

Now? Well, I see it this way. Either Gallegly was using his own campaign $ to fund this, in which case, fuck him we got him to spend his money on US. Or, he was using taxpayer $, in which case we were frickin' entitled to this!

I've seen the other side folks. It's just as ugly as we believe it is.

[arbusto_baboso]

1. I HAD a rec for this. Someone unrecced? Really?

How could anyone but a 'Thuglican find this objectionable?

[xultar]

3. Why get all hot and bothered. Good threads make it anyway. I bet if

Y'all quit stewing on it who ever it is will stop. But since u can't let the shit go you make a great target. You have to admit you guys are pretty funny.

[arbusto_baboso]

10. How about this. Keep the unrec function but REQUIRE...

a post explaining why the DUer unrecced it. I'd be okay with that. When someone explains to me what they have a problem with, I may not agree, but I can respect it.

[xultar]

11. First I liked your op. But why does it matter. I've old people why I unrecced and gou

tons of lip for it. In the scheme of things good posts are the ones that spark discussion regardless of recs & unrecs.

Basically recs and unrecs don't mean shit.

You guys have got to let it go and give it a rest.

[arbusto_baboso]

15. SHHH! Here's a secret....

When you whine and bitch about someone unreccing your thread, you get a whole bunch of "sympathy recs" from others to offset things.

A large part of my indignation is to boost the thread.

[tblue37]

18. I think people complain about unrecs as an excuse to post another

comment on their own thread and thus kick it.

[arbusto_baboso]

19. That too. I freely admit it.

[inenemyterritory]

48. who cares about "unrecs"

this is a discussion board. You will never get 100% approval so WTF cares?

[LanternWaste]

16. I have to admit that an unrec...

I have to admit that an unrec re: this particular would pique my curiosity.

(I also think the humor comes from both sides rather than one...)

[rucky]

2. But how was the tri-tip?

I miss Pollo Norteno

[arbusto_baboso]

8. Pretty decent. I live not too far from Pollo Norteno. n/t

[DesertFlower]

4. i can only imagine how you and you're wife felt.

:eyes:

[arbusto_baboso]

9. We bit our tongues until they bled. n/t

[DesertFlower]

13. my husband works for a large

international computer company. been with them 41 years. whenever there was a company event he worried about what would come out of my mouth. one year his manager had a xmas party. hubby and i are both atheists. we don't celebrate xmas. his manager said to me "are you all ready for xmas"? i said "as ready as i can be". we couldn't wait to get out of there.

[arbusto_baboso]

14. Yes. When people assume you are "one of them"...

The strangest things pop out of their mouths.

[DesertFlower]

17. the xmas thing really bugs me.

how do they know i'm not jewish or muslim?

[Nay]

26. They don't know--they just don't care. And they think you should

convert anyway, cuz yer a heathen.

:P :P :P

[Hekate]

29. They're just wishing you happy holidays in their native tongue. Look at it that way.

Don't worry. Be happy.

The Goddess tells you so. ;-)

Hekate

[TxVietVet]

32. AMEN.

I live and work in Wisconsin. AM hate radio blasts the city 24/7 365. The white folks here are just as racist as I've met down south. One thing though, you call them on their racism and they buckle.

[glitch]

20. That reminds me of a response a couple I knew would make when people asked when are they having kids

"We're trying!" even though neither wanted them and he'd had a vasectomy.

[Hekate]

30. My BIL used to say "We're practicing! A lot!"

:evilgrin:

[LiberalAndProud]

5. So you're okay with a Gallegly campaign event funded by tax dollars.

Alrighty then.

[arbusto_baboso]

7. No, I'm not.

But if he's gonna do it (and most do), then why shouldn't I, a taxpayer, get something out of it?

[Urban Prairie]

6. It is likely uglier than we could ever begin to imagine

if only the hardcore RW were to realize all of their hopes, wishes, and desires becoming fulfilled.

Tens of millions in the US alone ultimately would "regrettably" (but necessarily) perish, and most conservatives would not even bat an eyelash, even if it resulted in tens of thousands of their own ideological kind being sacrificed on the altar of "personal responsibility" as well.

It would be much like the systemic genocide of millions of native Americans, but probably in a much shorter period of time, occurring over several decades, instead of several centuries.

[arbusto_baboso]

12. And it would wind up looking like a combination of....

the Handmaid's Tale, Dickensian squalor and The Matrix.

[Canuckistanian]

21. Are you a federal civil servant?

Because this "event" sounds like a violation of the Hatch Act.

[arbusto_baboso]

25. No, County.

And yes it does sound like a violation of the Hatch Act.

And if I reported it, do you think it would ever be investigated?

[ohheckyeah]

22. I must be too stupid to be afraid

because I know damn good and well I would have challenged the comments.

[newtothegame]

23. Wow, kind of a desperate post. nt

[Hekate]

31. You don't know Elton.

[Ramulux]

24. Elton is a piece of shit

I live in the 24th and I fucking hate that guy. However we have a great candidate with Tim Allison, he has a lot of support in the business community and is much more liberal than I would have expected a dem in this district to be. Anyone in this district should be doing some volunteer work for his campaign, at the least get some brochures and walk around your neighborhood.

[catzies]

41. It astonishes me to no end that we cannot vote him out. I'm in the 24th too.

This is a wacky district but it galls me that we are probably stuck with him until he retires. Good thing he hates the Stricklands, who I detest more than I detest him. And thank God McClintock moved up north.

[Ramulux]

42. Everyone hates the Stricklands

even republicans. But yeah, this district is a trip, its been trending democratic for like a decade but there is just too much big business here, whether its defense companies or pharmaceuticals like Amgen which is like its own little town in Newbury Park. There is just too much money moving in and out of this district. I mean seriously, Westlake is like a mini Colorado Springs.

[catzies]

43. Yes, and yet Westlake has Henry Waxman. And to the north, Lois Capps.

We have been so screwn.

[Enthusiast]

27. "It's just as ugly as we believe it is."

I've seen it too and you are right.

[Hekate]

28. So you've got Elton Gallegly? You have my sincerest condolences. We are blessed with Lois Capps.

Aside from your report the most memorable thing I've ever read about Gallegly is the SB Independent's years-ago assessment of him as "a right-wing spitwad."

Was the tri-tip BBQ good, at least?

Hekate

[arbusto_baboso]

38. It was decent.

[bos1]

33. Why wimp out? can't stick up for your beliefs? don't know how to politely disagree?

There's a definition of liberal that involves being unwilling to take your own side in an argument.

[arbusto_baboso]

39. You have a lot of courage on a bulletin board, don't you?

I sincerely doubt you would've behaved ANY differently from how I did.

[bos1]

49. Wrong. I've discussed things with Repub in-laws face to face. Also plenty of threads here...

...talk about people's successful discussions with right wingers. Could it be that this bulletin board has affected your ability to have a discussion with people face to face?

[enuegii]

34. Well, I'm glad you got something out of it on the taxpayers' dime.

Oh: "you're welcome"...

[GETPLANING]

35. I met TX Governor Rick Perry last year

I know exactly how you feel. I just smiled and marveled at how he reminded me of a used car salesman.

[bbgrunt]

36. interesting that people who are supposedly public

employees are so republican. Unless they are political appointees, then they must be extremely ill-informed about which side of the bed is buttered.

[Hekate]

45. A buttered bed is a slippery slope LOL

"Interesting that people who are supposedly public
Posted by bbgrunt
employees are so republican. Unless they are political appointees, then they must be extremely ill-informed about which side of the bed is buttered."

[ooglymoogly]

37. Excellent; Only suggestion; Would have used Ice cubes in Hell. nt.

[catzies]

40. HOLY CRAP I AM IN GALLEGLY'S DISTRICT

Absolutely cannot stand him. :puke:

When his office was in the Big Tower in Oxnard he ended up with me in the elevator alone all the time because I was on the 17th floor and he was on the 18th.

He has a smarmy little grin and a look that says, "Don't you know who I am?"

I do, but I won't acknowlege you, you little Karl Rove's toady, turdblossom turdfruit.

[GreenTea]

44. I've been saying it for many years about the lying slimy republicans - but very few really

want or can really believe what truly lying, hateful greedy, manipulating elitist corporate racist diabolically slimy republicans really are - Republicans are narcissist selfish people who really believe that they are better than others, especially people of color.

Republicans also believe (taught & teach) that this country really only belongs to them - That money the more someone has, the more the republicans worship that person and believe that person are even better people, no matter how diabolically that person got their money and who they fucked over to get it.

These are republicans, shallow people, selfish as the day is long, born with all the characteristics of sociopaths, egotistically believing that only they deserve all the benefits, that they are special and will anything to make sure they get what they want....Fuck everyone else, habitual liars are who they are - money is their god - hating and ridiculing people who are different is their pleasure.....

Republicans NEVER ever accept responsibility for their fuck-up or their lies or their intentional diabolical deeds - They ALWAYS point their finger at others, that some else is to blame never them - They lie and lie, distort & smear. They will never change, it's easier to blame others.

Republican ideology is all about greed - fuck the have nots, the less fortunate - it's everyone for themselves - take lie and steal, then deny it all and blame others.

You don't believe this to be true?

[LibDemAlways]

46. I am "represented" (haha) by Gallegly as well.

I was redistricted out of Brad Sherman's territory some years ago. Gallegly's the lowest of the lowlife. There was once a thread on DU devoted to how he threw a group of Dems out of his office. He's a smarmy SOB, but the clueless Ventura county bottom feeders keep re-electing him anyway because of the R after his name. Bunch of morons out here. How horrible that you ended up at a fundraiser. I would have choled on that tri-tip.

[Joanne98]

47. It's amazing how many Republicans are living off the public teat!