You fuckers are idiots...

[TomInTib]

Almost all of my beloved Family of DUers have devolved into a circular firing squad.

The Dear Ones, the Ones I have grown to know and love, have turned into something that I barely recognize.

Whether nipping at the Achilles' or going for the jugular....

I hardly know you, anymore.

What the fuck has happened?

Good God, folks...

We gotta keep our eye on the road

And our hand upon the wheel...

Are we going to get back together, sometimes?

If not...

It really doesn't matter...

We stay like this...

They kick our ass...

Happened before...

It can happen again.

Please...

Let's work together.

Tom

[Maddy McCall]

1. Do you need a hug?

:pals:

[TomInTib]

2. I don't need no hug...

I am pissed off at the level of discourse around here.

[Maddy McCall]

Awww. Come on.

:hug:

[TomInTib]

14. OK, SweetHeart...

maybe just from you....

T.

[Maddy McCall]

37. See?

:hug: :hug: :hug:

:loveya:

[Jamastiene]

4. Aw, come on, let's all

:grouphug:

[Maddy McCall]

6. Huuuuuug.

:grouphug:

:pals:

:hug:

[Jamastiene]

15. Awwwww,

:hug:

:pals:

:grouphug:

:D

[InsultComicDog]

27. i can has hug

[InsultComicDog]

30. ...but wait!

[Maddy McCall]

31. HUG!

:hug:

:grouphug:

:pals:

[countmyvote4real]

40. TNT, thanks for a headline that provoked me to click.

You follow with much truth. I think you are thinking too far ahead. Old-timers like myself will be very obstinate once we have settled on a candidate in a primary, but we will reevaluate in GE.

AND special thanks to MM for diffusing this for now.

This is when I like DU.

peace

[knight_of_the_star]

3. I see you missed 2004

Nuf said

[emilyg]

33. So what?

We don't need to be hateful jackasses.

[Jamastiene]

36. Here you go.

:hug:

[TomInTib]

38. Damn right, emily....

We have spent way too much time tearing down, hating.

I have had it.

T

[thoughtcrime1984]

5. After the primaries, I'm sure it will be considerably better

Respectfully,

An idiot

[mcctatas]

7. I'm pretty sure that's offensive...

but lately, sadly, often true. I tried to make a similar point (more diplomatically, maybe that was the mistake:) ) recently, and I didn't seem to get anywhere. Hell the RNC can save millions on oppo. research if they find our little site (especially because whether you agree with them or not, most of the posts on BOTH sides are well researched and seemingly logical). Hope you have better luck. :toast:

[Jamastiene]

9. You need a

:hug:

[cbayer]

8. It's not going to happen this time.

We are just sharpening our minds and teeth. Like tiger cubs.

When the real battle begins, we will be ready.

I need to believe this.

[Jamastiene]

10. Sounds like you need

a :hug: too. :)

[cbayer]

18. Ahhhhhh! That's nice.

[billyoc]

11. It'll be all over soon. nt

[Jamastiene]

19. Get yer free big ol'

:hug:s while you can then. :hug:

[cbayer]

25. Kutjara needs one.

[Kutjara]

12. It's the ritual self-immolation of the Left.

Like some kind of reality-TV version of "Life of Brian," we're devoting so much energy to hating the "Judean People's Front" or the "People's Front of Judea," we've totally forgotten about the "Romans."

Look at the Spanish Civil War, most of the leftist movements in Latin America, the socialist movements in France, Germany, and Italy throughout the 20th Century. They all tell the same story: fraction, split, and descent into impotence. At one point in Spain, all the leftist parties were referred to as "taxicab parties," because the total membership of any one could sit comfortably inside a taxi.

The same thing will no doubt happen in places like DU, MoveOn, and the rest of the liberal "blogosphere." The future of the country will once again rest in the hands of the politically-unaware masses, because so-called progressives will expend so much of their energy infighting, they'll have little left for battling the real enemy.

[TomInTib]

17. Read my sig line, Kutjara

all you knead to know...

[Kutjara]

48. Indeed, Tom.

The only question now is, whose side will the fools be on come November?

[Jamastiene]

39. :D

:hug:

[Kutjara]

49. ...

:hug: :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

13. Do not mess in the affairs of dragons, because you are crispy and taste good in teriyaki sauce

[VenusRising]

16. You forgot this...

[KitchenWitch]

20. You are right!

:spray:

[VenusRising]

23. Nom nom nom.

:rofl:

[hfojvt]

43. Is that supposed to be the name of a sand dragon?

You only need to say it once, but you may need a different name because I think Nom was killed by the white gold wielder.

[VenusRising]

45. It's the noise a dragon makes while eating.

:rofl:

[hfojvt]

54. they don't do that in Pern

and here's Nom

http://www.amazon.com/review/RRCCYGPQH10VM

[TomInTib]

29. I got a Dragon on my bicep...

and a cocaine tree

She does her dance so rhythmically

She's crying and singing

And having a good time......

Don't that Cocaine Tree look fine?

[Jamastiene]

21. Shouldn't that be

You idiots are fuckers...



















:hide:
:P

[islandmkl]

22. you fight with your brothers and sisters....

then all of you gang up on the assholes who mess with you...in theory, anyway....November will tell.

[Maddy McCall]

26. I think somebody needs a hug.

:grouphug:

[cbayer]

35. Exactly. Kittens and puppies right now, that's all.

[bleever]

24. Tom,

I think there are people intent on making us think that "we" are like this.

But the "we" that I think of here is still steady, undeterred, and undistracted by all the others who want to dilute our sense of "we".

We will make it through this. It's the promise of "We, the People", and we will see it through, thanks to voices like yours that put the real "us" into the "we".

:thumbsup:

[TomInTib]

34. You and me and us, Buddy....

You know....

Tom

[hfojvt]

28. It's not the way it used to be

It never was.

DU has long had a large and/or vocal contingent that hates part or most of the Democratic Party. Before the primary war heated up, there was plenty of bashing and trashing of Pelosi and Reid over one thing or other.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/51

And circular firing squad? Have you forgotten the 8 day war? Over the Snickers ad? And another war in the lounge that is laughed about by some - over Olive Garden?

And what about the smoking wars that some people seem addicted to and light up once a week or so? Immigration? Tookie? Leopold? When has there ever been total peace between the Jets and the Sharks on DU? Only during the brief lulls.

[bleever]

42. Well, to be fair, when you're a Jet you're a Jet from your first cigarette

til you've turned into Archie Bunker, blaming the hippies and the Liberals for destroying the American Dream by letting the immigrants and welfare queens suck away the good life, while the rich keep buying enough government to make sure that the capital keeps flowing uphill.

[hfojvt]

46. so clearly, the Jets

have jumped the shark.

[bleever]

79. .

:thumbsup:

[TomInTib]

51. I don't know anything about any Lounge...

Or Snickers...

Or Olive Garden..

or smoking...

But Tookie? You mean the guy that fried (or whatever)? Who really gives a shit but his Mother (and I never seen any interview with her)...

And I trust in the Lord..
But I sleep with the Light On...

[cbayer]

32. Just for a laugh, Sandra Singh Loh today. (link)

Hillary in a Handbasket, Part Two: There Will Be Blood. It's funny. promise.

http://www.scpr.org/news/stories/2008/02/18/09_loh_life_hillary_2_0.html

[bridgit]

41. Ah! But Tom, "Ain't no call for "fuck you"..." "We are better than that, here."

I'm just toying, Dear, you know that...but I do I feel...somewhat justified after all, that many are now beginning to see how destructive/corrosive these toxic exchanges can be. Agreed here though in particular, "Let's work together." and why? Well, cause we need to and cause rust never sleeps :)

[TomInTib]

44. Are you throwing it back in my face?

Are you quoting me?

Well, how's about this, Woman...?

I love you, too...

And let's keep it like that.

We will fight on...

Side by side...

Because we are who we are.

Tom

[bridgit]

50. *eeeeeee!!!* I don't know from "throwing", but I will say this about that

Let's do this thing! Let's be better than they think (assuming of course that they do) we are :bounce: Peace & Love On'ya too, Tom

[Tom Joad]

47. i have to disagree. I think you got it backwards,

The idiots are fuckers! :P

[TomInTib]

64. Hey! Tom...

You always shine your own peculiar light...

Keep your lamp trimmed and burnin'...

T.

[Heidi]

52. !

[TomInTib]

66. Size is everything...

My thumb is actually longer than that.

And my cuticles are much better (a weekly manicure is a good thing).

[Heidi]

74. At the risk of taking your thread completely off topic, I'm more of a

wrist woman, but I do agree that the guy in the photo is at no risk of becoming a hand model anytime soon. :P

[mac2]

53. The media has whipped the country into a

senseless competition when the candidates are the same.

[Beregond2]

55. You...

You post something with the title "You Fuckers Are Idiots," and then have the gall to complain about other people's conduct here?

[TomInTib]

57. Yep...

Because I can...

[Redstone]

75. He has earned the privilege to do so. Maybe someday you will as well, and you'll get

the same kind of understanding that he's earned, which it appears you haven't noticed in the majority of the responses.

I guess you've never noticed that when someone comes into a community, it's a good idea for them to not try to jump onto a chair and start telling everyone else what to do right away, have you?

Redstone

[Emit]

56. Who you calling a fucker, idiot?... No, wait, who you calling an idiot, fucker?

:crazy:

:P

:hi:

Hey, Tom!

[TomInTib]

60. Hey, Emit....

Good to see you, Buddy.

I am sick and tired of all of this acrimony around here.

[Emit]

63. It's fucking insane

and very difficult to have any meaningful, intelligent discussion on the real issues facing the progressive liberal electorate, and the country at large. I had no dog in the race when Edwards dropped, so, mostly, I stay under the radar and stick to discussions that GD won't allow anymore because they relate too much to the Primary, but that folks here aren't into much. Most of my threads get tramped on by one camp or another or sink like a stone. It's akin to what DU would look like if we let Freepers post regularly.

Despite my criticisms, I hear where you're coming from. It's imperative that the Dems come out on top with this one. McCain is not an option. No Repug is an option, actually.

[TomInTib]

65. God loves you when you dance, Emit...

I was with your guy.

But he decided to sink like a stone...

No commitment, no subscrition...

We must cease to fight within and focus on the task at hand.

Tom

[LadyVT]

58. a voice of wisdom--totally true, but I fear it's gone too far

[casus belli]

59. "You fuckers are idiots....let's work together"....nice n/t

[TomInTib]

71. Goddamned right.

Kinda like PlayGround fights, when you walk off, friend and friend.

Like Eric Taylor breaking Rex Bell's nose and walking off, arm over shoulder, at Townes Van Zandt's funeral, thirty years later (you maybe would have to be a Texas songwriter to get it).

Tom

[casus belli]

72. You're an asshole. Let's be friends.

:)

[TomInTib]

78. It's a deal

Do you know anything about Texas songwriters?

Ask my Buddy, Redstone...

He will tell you...

Tom

[Jed Dilligan]

61. K/R just for the thread title

How you doin', Tom?

[TomInTib]

62. Doin' fine, Jed

But I have just about had it with the dirt-kicking on the headstones, here.

'bout to check out...

[Drunken Irishman]

67. Mean.

[TomInTib]

68. Mean?

By what definition?

Is this some new thing, like "Word"?.

"Mean", what?

[Drunken Irishman]

69. I was just shittin ya'.

[Redstone]

70. You been reading my mind again, compadre?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4625785&mesg_id=4625785

Redstone

[TomInTib]

73. Yeah, you're just better with words.

You put 'em together, I just lay 'em down.

Tom

[Redstone]

76. I'll mow 'em down, and you can stack 'em up.

Redstone

[bowens43]

77. We are trying to prevent them from kicking our ass

we just disagree vehemently on who is best suited to do that.