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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:24 PM
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The awesome competence of the Bush regime
Those who call the Bush mob "incompetent" make a fatal error. On some unconscious level, they seem to think that these criminals somehow share any of the goals of decent human beings, and have therefore "failed" to produce good results. But that, of course is the idea that motivates the Bush crime family: to produce evil results that happen to enrich their own class.

The situation in Iraq for example is not the result of "incompetence." It is all according to plan, which was to destroy that nation.

Over and over we see the awesome competence of the Bush regime in accomplishing their radical plans - at every stage very much thanks to the enablers who run the Democratic Party, and who have smoothed the way for the Bush mob in each of their following accomplishments:

Stealing Election 2000.
Trillion dollar giveaway to the rich, intentionally plunging the country into deficit.
9/11. Exactly as desired.
Stealing a sum specified as "2.3 trillion dollars" from Pentagon assets.
Repealing the Bill of Rights in the USA PATRIOT Act.
Getting dozens of other countries to pass their own PATRIOT acts.
Invading Afghanistan. Exactly as planned, years in advance.
Funnelling trillions more legally into the Pentagon.
Establishing a Homeland Gestapo.
Instituting Rule by Fear, color-coded no less.
Railroading the idiot Congress into approving the war in Iraq.
Accepting the assassination of Wellstone by whatever lower-level operative delivered it.
Stealing Election 2002.
Establishing "Total Information Awareness" and getting away with it, even after departure of Poindexter.
Invading Iraq. Killing untold thousands.
Getting the Iraqis into a civil war, with the intent of making sure that country never recovers.
Covering up 9/11.
Using 9/11 as an election device and excuse for everything.
Stealing Election 2004.
Using Katrina as the opportunity to empty out New Orleans and test out long-standing "civil disturbance" doctrines.
Pushing through two right-wing Supreme Court appointments without a filibuster.
Rewiring Americans overnight to believe Iran is now the enemy.

Wow! What a list! A veritable juggernaut of competence.

The Bush mob (almost) always get what they want, and the Democratic "leadership" (almost) always helps them when it counts. Yes, they had to take a loss on the first attempt to steal the entire Social Security fund, but there are many opportunities yet to come.

Yes, it's all at a time of awesome crisis to US-based capitalism, so much of it looks jerry-rigged but so what? It's not like the Bush mob invented the crisis of capitalism. So far, they're getting away with a particular plan to thrive in that crisis, by plundering everything, whether nailed down or not.

Competent at what they do, which is what they've always done: pillage and plunder.

And those who call them "incompetent" sadly serve to excuse and enable their crimes.
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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:26 PM
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1. They're liars, criminals, and traitors
and should be treated as such.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:26 PM
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2. I have made this case many times myself.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:26 PM
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3. Amen. K&R
16+5=2006

NGU.


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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:33 PM
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(dupe)
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 01:51 PM by JackRiddler
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:33 PM
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5. Sorry ClassWarrior, I don't get either reference.
Could you explain 16+5 and also NGU? Thanks.
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:36 PM
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6. 16 House + 5 Senate seats = Dem Victory 2006
And NGU is Never Give Up, my personal motto since 11/03/04.

NGU.


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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:36 PM
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7. NGU = Never Give Up; 16 = House seats; 5 = Senate seats; 2006 election
:shrug: Why be explicit when we can be obscure? :silly:
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:39 PM
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9. Awww...who doesn't love a catchy tag??
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 01:40 PM by ClassWarrior
:patriot:

16+5=2006

NGU.


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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:31 PM
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4. Amazing what a cult can do
It's not that people support Bush - they believe in him.

I think "Living Colour" sang about it best:

The Cult of Personality
Look into my eyes, what do you see?
Cult of Personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality

Neon lights, A Nobel Price
The mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your T.V.
I'm the Cult of Personality
I exploit you still you love me

I tell you one and one makes three
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I'm the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality

Neon lights a Nobel Prize
A leader speaks, that leader dies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set you free

You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You me power in your God's name
I'm every person you need to be
I'm the Cult of Personality

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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:39 PM
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10. What astonishes me is that there can be a cult of personality
built around someone with such a defective personality. This guy looks like a chimp, acts like a pissed off frat boy and has the charm of a lizard (with apologies to lizards) yet so many see his bumbling, fumbling ineptitude and think he's a conservative JFK (who, in fact, was a REAL conservative).

I keep hoping I'll wake up.
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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:43 PM
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11. It's that whole "I could have a beer with him" line of reasoning
If you can call it reasoning.

I wouldn't choose a surgeon using that criteria, why the hell would I choose the leader of my country in like fashion?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:39 PM
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8. Don't forget 'Plame'... wiping out the Brewster, Jennings & Assoc NOC ...
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 01:39 PM by TahitiNut
... eliminating a network of intel sources that impeded "free enterprise" arms dealers and the HUGE profits in nuclear proliferation.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:43 PM
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(dupe)
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 01:51 PM by JackRiddler
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:43 PM
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12. So easy to forget...
Well, if we get on that level, there are literally hundreds of individual smear and hit jobs they pulled off.

But you reminded me of something BIG I forgot:

Enabling the Wall Street plunder of America. 9/11 and its hysteria (and the destruction of the SEC at Building 7) successfully distracted away from 200 plus ongoing securities fraud cases. In the end, we get an Enron trial and a few other high-profile trials, but think of all those who got away to plunder more later...
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:45 PM
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13. That's not competence. That's brazenness.
A bulldozer crushing a sapling does it not through competence but through force.

Competence is a virtue. This is not a virtuous crowd.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:54 PM
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15. You're right.
My point: Those who attack the Bush regime as "incompetent" because of the horrors it has wrought are in effect excusing criminal behavior as merely stupid behavior. It matters not whether they are competent or incompetent; they are criminal, that's what matters.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:58 PM
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16. You make a good point. Clearly the Bushists are doing exactly as they
please. It's clearly not just bungling that accomplished all of those crimes you listed in the original post. But it's not competence either. It's what in Yiddish is called disparagingly "chutzpah"--otherwise known as gall or nerve.
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:53 PM
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14. Dubai deal = Soc. Sec. II (?)
Seems like it is.

At 34% (or less) "for" (2/3 "against"), ("never had") mandate is long gone up in fumes...
Can't do anything. They're toast. Unless... ("tera! tera! tera!")??
Their Lie$ don't work anymore.

2006 hurricane season in less than 4 months.
Will it be less "damaging" than last year?
Sure hope so, but (sadly) it's not likely...

Never give up.
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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 01:59 PM
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17. I totally agree with this post and think that it makes some very
important points. It feeds right into their hands when people disseminate the myth of their incompetence. This is nothing to sit back and chuckle about, but rather a frightening stealth attack on our way of life that need to be dealt with by serious and intelligent people who are planning and strategies very carefully! Thanks for a great post! K&R
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neweurope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 02:13 PM
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18. I agree. Nothing to add.
Recommended :yourock:

----------------

Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!
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Twist_U_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 02:27 PM
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19. Stupid like a fox....... great post nt
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andyhappy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 02:28 PM
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20. bush is a moron
...the clown prince who is manipulated by the likes of cheney and rove and rumsfeld and all those creepy think tank people that really run this country.

I think this is why it works...because Bush really believes all the stuff he talks about!

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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 03:22 PM
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21. The point being, it helps the RW cause when we call him one.
Stupid or not, what he represents ISN'T.

16+5=2006

NGU.


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RazzleDazzle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 09:04 PM
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23. Oh, c'mon. No he doesn't.
His BODY LANGUAGE shows he's lying. In a speech or a press conference he gets petulant and irritable in making his point. You know that's a LIE he's putting out, and usually a rather well-demagogued one at that.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:09 PM
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25. The pause'n'smirk is revealing.
At the end of every sentence, in most of his speeches, he leans down, nods his head, pauses and smirks. The body language of the gesture is crystal clear: Did they buy that? Did that go over? Did I get away with it? Lookee here, I'm getting away with it. That worked. I fooled'em. They don't see I'm just reading it off a page. They don't get it when I'm lying.

This was afflicting him throughout the first years and only rarely did he have it under control or manage to look credibly solemn.

But alas, what we see and what certain chumps see who desire heroes and delusions is two different things.
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catzies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:48 PM
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26. I see what you see.
It's almost like he doesn't bother to hide the routine any more.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 07:19 PM
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22. Exactly! K & R
Edited on Tue Feb-28-06 07:23 PM by glitch
especially this line
"...they seem to think that these criminals somehow share any of the goals of decent human beings..."
big mistake when dealing with sociopaths.

edit to add: and that goes for their pathetic minions in the media parroting their praises, too.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-28-06 11:05 PM
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24. da evening kick
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 06:07 AM
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27. Deliberate incompetence = competence
A novel strategy. Makes sense if you're insane.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 07:24 AM
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28. A resounding success!
They have achieved everything they set out to do. And their "base" is most heartily gratified.
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:09 AM
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29. Especially when you consider
"The base" is not the "Christian" chumps who think Bush is God but the high-cash scams that sucker them ("religions" in name only) and, of course, above all, the oil companies, Lockheed, Boeing, Searle, Halliburton, the Enron banks (who got off entirely), Gilead, Carlyle, the off-the-books government tentacles, the drug lords, the arms dealers...
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 10:09 AM
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30. Especially when you consider
"The base" is not the "Christian" chumps who think Bush is God but the high-cash scams that sucker them ("religions" in name only) and, of course, above all, the oil companies, Lockheed, Boeing, Searle, Halliburton, the Enron banks (who got off entirely), Gilead, Carlyle, the off-the-books government tentacles, the drug lords, the arms dealers...
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 08:48 PM
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31. next evening kick...
& Thanks for the recommendations people but it's sad that all those on this site who place misguided faith in the regime's "incompetence" are nowhere to be seen defending (or refining) their views.

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