First post as an "outed" agent

[Pretzel_Warrior]

Now that I am free from the shackles of my employment as a paid operative on this site, let me say I am lighting a candle for Ukraine and tying a yellow ribbon around my oak tree. We are in the first week of Ukrainian occupation by Ukrainian people.

It is my fervent hope the kind and beneficent leader, Vladimir Putin, can marshal Russian forces to restore peace and order to Kiev and free UkraInians from themselves.

There can clearly be no greater an enemy to the aspirations of people worldwide than the IMF. Mere tanks, gunfire, and prison camps pale in comparison to bank loans and financial liquidity for a country.

I amend that. Other than the United States, the IMF is the most dangerous organization threatening global peace.

Viva la Revolution!

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Thanks. We don't have enough stupid threads in GD.

[AverageJoe90]

2. LOL, man.....DUzy!

Good one, P.W.!

[HappyMe]

3. Holy crap!

[CJCRANE]

4. Since you mentioned the IMF...

IMF Paper: Wealth Redistribution Doesn't Hurt The Economy: IMF Paper

"WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Income inequality can lead to slower or less sustainable economic growth, while redistribution of income, when measured, does not hurt and can even help an economy, IMF staff found in a research study released on Wednesday."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024569717

[KittyWampus]

19. Keep fighting the good fight. I am glad you posted your OP. Sorry it sank….

it's probably my fault for posting in it.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

20. I meant to comment on that as well

Christine Legaard (sp?) has guided the IMF toward a more ethical stance on importance of income inequality.

That said, she is the Devil's Spawn and the IMF is an unholy amalgam of money, University of Chicago degrees, and Austrian accents.

[pampango]

5. Putin does not believe in foreign intervention to protect people from their government.

So the Russian army will not "restore peace and order to Kiev and free UkraInians from themselves". At least not without a vote in the UN Security Council which can be vetoed.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

8. Yes, the people of Georgia agree with you.

[1awake]

9. lol.. ty for the chuckle. nt

[pampango]

13. Yeah but Russia gave out a lot of Russian passports there and then came to the rescue of

the new "Russians".

Oh, I see what you mean. We'll see if Putin starts handing out a lot of Russian passports in Ukraine.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

14. I think Putin is within his rights to declare "take backs"

On the Crimean region as gift to the Ukrainians.

[pampango]

15. Perhaps but I'm not sure that international law recognizes the concept of territorial "take backs".

Imagine the hornets nest that international "take backs" would unleash.

[okaawhatever]

18. That was started years ago. Putin needs that Naval Base in a big way. From 2008 NYT:

http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/more-russian-passports-in-ukraine/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Also the Duma in Russia is supposedly voting on giving Russian passports to all ethnic Russians in Ukraine

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/163683/plans-to-give-russian-passports-to-ukrainians-spark-debate.html

[pampango]

21. "the Russian embassy in Kiev said reports that Moscow is distributing Russian passports in Ukraine

are “disinformation."

Your first link does not show Russia distributed passports to Ukrainians "started years ago".

I had heard there were discussions in the Duma about giving out Russian passports. That could give the world a new definition of national sovereignty. Governments now have to look at the ethnicity of each citizen to see if they can be trusted.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. You got outed? I had a conversation with a poster who claims to have identified a paid sock puppet

....working for the government.

Hopefully these folks doing the outing send this information to the DU admins.

Surely they should be aware of government agents paid to post on this message board!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

10. I outed myself. You remind me of a hit song

By Elvis Reagan

"A little less conservation, a little more business please."

[Cali_Democrat]

12. LOL...I edited

[ismnotwasm]

7. LOL!

[rdharma]

11. I doubt there will be any Russian intervention.

Despite what the American RWers are saying.

I think some folks are too influenced by bad movies.

[HappyMe]

16. Here's your theme song --

&feature=kp

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. !!!

[frwrfpos]

22. why would you admit that you are paid to post here?

The IMF has ripped off many countries around the globe with austerity riddled loans that force those countries to lay off thousands

Most of the economic output of Ukraine comes from the eastern part, which the population are fully supportive of Russia

[The Magistrate]

23. It is Called A Sarchasm, Sir

The thing you just fell into....

[frwrfpos]

25. sorry, i didnt get the sarcasm

[grasswire]

26. I'm not so sure about that.

A great defense against accusations is copping to them in a manner that appears to make it all a joke. I've known several people in my life who employed that device. And they were weasels.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

34. I'm deadly serious. I have stopped being a government infiltrator on DU

what you get from me going forward is pure, unadulterated progressive thought which I have been at pains to keep under wraps lo these many years.

[grasswire]

36. so how are you supporting yourself now? nt

[Jackpine Radical]

28. I think that crack just exposed a wide gap in…something.

But those berift of wit will no doubt continue to tumble into the crevasse.

[MADem]

29. Sarchasm!!!!

A word that is worthy of the Washington Post contest!!!!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

35. yep! I like it.

[Whisp]

39. The first time I heard that was here on DU by hobbit709

Sarchasm:
The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

I thought i was so good I wrote it down and am planning to make a little painting with that on it.

[MADem]

42. I love clever language and that just fills the bill for me! nt

[Number23]

38. That is absolutely a thing of beauty.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

24. I welcome you to the people's fight against

Economic hegemony and cultural imperialism.

[The Magistrate]

27. You Have, Sir, Found A New Corollary to Poe's Law....

"If you can't tell shit from shinola, don't order tuna fish in a French restaurant."

[Pretzel_Warrior]

33. lol. that is a good expression.

[Enrique]

30. i see your mission has changed

up to now you have focused on creating the impression that Obama supporters are unbearable, now your avatar shows that you are now doing it for Hillary supporters.

[SomethingFishy]

31. Look at Meeeeeeeeeeee!

[morningfog]

37. Wasn't getting enough attention from his last plea for attention.

[Egalitarian Thug]

40. He doesn't get why he doesn't get it. n/t

[Zorra]

32. (Shhh, you're just making things worse for us real RW plants!)

Agent Mike
Director, Third Way Damage Control
DU Field Office

[Jesus Malverde]

41. Were you paid by the post, word, link, or salaried? Does this job have a 401K?