Since we CAN'T stop the maniacs, we should brace ourselves

[mopaul]

since no one has a logical plan for stopping the war maniacs on their march toward chaos, we might as well admit defeat and prepare ourselves for a royal fuckover of historic proportions. we need to re-adjust our values and our lives to fit theirs now.

we must learn to live with someone listening to your phone calls, and spying on our emails, and we must learn to live in fear as a way of life, not just a passing fad. the new america that the maniacs are preparing for us will be a very different place than it was for our fathers. it will be harsher, meaner, coarser, and broker, and we must cease all the resistance and surrender to our overlords who are vastly superior to us.

the new america will have many pitfalls and upheavals, but to be good citizens we must conform, adapt, adjust, get in line and shut up. they know what's best for us, we are mere children and our fate lies in THEIR hands so we'd damn well better learn how to like it.

prepare to give up your adult children to war(s), prepare to lose your homes and cars and savings, prepare for a total economic meltdown and martial law. prepare for the worst, because the worst is in the white house and it's coming to your street.

after it's all over and we're cleaning up the mess, we'll wonder collectively why no one stopped the maniacs, but by then it'll be far too late.

[tavalon]

1. Don't worry

The whole system will fall apart anyway once the nukes start falling. No more snooping on our calls if there is no phone system. No need to shut up when no one will hear us anyway.

[Greyhound]

7. But we'll still have the internet

:rofl: :sarcasm:

[tavalon]

16. Good one

No, I have no illusions on that one.

[Chipper Chat]

2. Why do I feel this way also?

My democrat pompoms lie tattered on the floor; my Rudy Vallee rah-rah megaphone is broken. My team has lost so many double-overtimes by 1 point. I still have breath in me, but I'm gasping fast. My liberal ilk is disappearing. The bush-machine is too powerful. Obviously nothing can stop it. Not even Saint Kerry and Saint Reid. Alas.

[mopaul]

6. all is lost

but really, i'd rather just give up than fight, and i'm thinking of becoming a lobbyist

[Chipper Chat]

8. I'll call a friend of mine in Houston today.

Maybe we can snag a job working for DeLay.

[mwb970]

22. We have the numbers and still can't win.

There are far more of us than them. Polling shows that the American people agree with the liberal, non-Bush position on every issue.

The latest presidential poll shows 58% of the public disapproves of the president's job performance. But nothing changes.

Wonder why? We have Truth, Patriotism, and the public on our side, and all they have is the White House, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, most of the statehouses, the corporations, the churches, and the media.

[yurbud]

3. still work within system but prepare to work around it too.

That's how I do things at my job. When I need to do something, I look to see if there's an easy way to do it within the system. If not, I work around the system, maybe break some rules or take money out of my own pocket.

On a couple of issues like energy, if we wait for the government, especially the federal government, to do the right thing, we will literally die. If you live someplace cold like the the Midwest, it will be a race to see if you starve or freeze to death first.

Slap a solar panel on your roof or if you live on a farm, put up a windmill (or both), figure out ways to be independent energywise and with food too if you can.

I have a feeling that we will get close to the edge of absolute catastrophe and people will see where we are going and make the necessary correction quickly--then act as if things have always been the new way.

It happened with the switch from whale oil to kerosene lights and from kerosene to electricity, just as it did from telegraph to telephone.

We just haven't hit the tipping point yet.

All Bush is doing is accelerating the process.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. It is amazing how many party foot soldiers follow the admin's every lead

Those who in the last century would have been ready to rise in anger at the slightest whiff of oppression are nodding their heads in unison and bowing at the feet of GWB in light of domestic surveillance.

If the big three had even given hint of closing plants and devastating entire towns, it would have been met with cries to the White House to at least DO something.

Lobby scandals that have no comparison in our history are being dismissed as business as usual, and this president has yet to wield a veto pen against the corporations who are the new custodians of our treasury.

The country is divided to be sure, but I believe it's the Republican faithful who have divided it by holding party victory at every level above preservation of the republic. Democrats just seem to me to want a return to some semblance of moderation.

Giving up however, is to resign to desperation, depression, and destitution.
The political spectrum is swept by a pendulum, and when it reaches it's furthest limits to the right the momentum back toward the center will be unstoppable. Resistance to that rightward swing is key, only 37% of Americans are pushing it in that direction.

For now, they have the assist of powerful men who's glory days are in the wane.

[DanCa]

5. I blame Right Wing radio for the mind control.

Imagine listening non stop to the Right Wing Crapoloa 24 -7. It's got to have some sort of adverse affect on ones psyche.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. I agree.

Fifteen-plus years of that twisted, lying Limpalls . . .

I've seen college-educated men absolutely drooling with hatred because of his outrageous lies.

And these were guys with good jobs, nice homes, nice families . . . pleasant in every way except DON'T MENTION POLITICS OR YOU'LL GET SPRAYED WITH KOOL-AID!

Unbelievable. Didn't their parents ever teach them to think for themselves?

[JohnnyRingo]

25. I agree wholeheartedly

I have a friend who listens to that crap. I can always tell when he's channeling Limbaugh.

Last week he took Rush's latest rationale for a test drive by telling me: "Impeaching Buxh would be bad for America because we inpeached the last president, and two in a row would reflect poorly on the office and America".

I'm sure it didn't sound nearly as convincing coming from a lunchbucket Republican as it did from the "golden microphone", but he does connect with these people.

It's all part of the dumbing down of America.

[AtomicKitten]

9. Oh, god. please say it isn't true.

This is really depressing, especially if you have children.

I'm waiting for Al Gore to don a cape and save the day.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

11. Don't be . . .

. . . depressed, friend. There's still some hope. Fitz is gonna give 'em fits.

And, BTW, your pogo-stick diety gave me the first laugh of the day!

[AtomicKitten]

13. thanks for the glimmer of hope.

My son turned 18 in time to vote in 2004. What a horrible time in politics, eh? I just feel so strongly we owe our kids a better world ... and this ain't it!

But, you're right, I'm praying it'll be Fitzmas soon and often.

[Ohio Joe]

12. I'm sorry but...NO

There are an overwhelming number of things that are just plain wrong in the world today.

I don't have all of the answers... I don't even know for certain that the what I think are answers would work.

I don't have the resources to fix the things I believe I know how to fix.

I could go on forever about the things I don't know and can't fix but I will never admit defeat and never stop trying. I will not lay down and die and I will never stop trying to make the world better for everyone.

The only way 'can't' will be is if one does not try.

[M155Y_A1CH]

23. Welcome neighbor!

Glad to see ya! :hi:

[Ohio Joe]

24. Thank You

I appreciate the warm welcome :)

[bananas]

14. I've got a seat belt in my Lazy-Boy and IV full of Vodka

I'm ready for anything.

[Greyhound]

15. This is a joke, right? n/t

[bigtree]

17. I've already collected my library records and forwarded them to the FBI

along with a key to my home with dates and time I'll be away.

I now speak more slowly and clearly on the phone so our NSA patriots don't have any trouble getting every word.

In fact, I'm practicing my frog march, because I just know I can't stop my traitorous subversion. The second I step out of line I'll do my patriotic duty and arrest myself and several of my neighbors for letting it happen.

[mopaul]

18. now you're gittin' with the program

cspan callers agree, it's o.k. to spy on me!

[Algorem]

19. gonna make North Korea look like Funkytown

[lonestarnot]

20. Nope I for one will NEVER surrender!

[mopaul]

21. WE DEMAND SUICIDE BOOTHS!

it would be so much easier and cost effective

[Deja Q]

26. That would be more compassionate, wouldn't it?

[babydollhead]

28. you can always chew your own veins. n/t

[katinmn]

27. Yep. We are on our own. House will not consider "I" (sez my D Rep)