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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI can't even watch all the warmongers being trotted out
spewing the 'homeland' narrative.
Sorry I pass - I've had enough bombings for the looting and plunder of other nations.
Cheney must be orgasmic about now.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)fear fear fear - have the airstrikes prevented another 9/11
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/f/f4/20100830193250!The_Scream.jpg
arcane1
(38,613 posts)We're expected to believe that all these sleeper agents in the U.S. are ready to carry out attacks at any moment, yet they will immediately drop everything and fly to the middle east if we start bombing over there
warrant46
(2,205 posts)"Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue (The Angry American)"
By Toby Keith
Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shakin her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, its gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringin her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue
Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And youll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
`Cause we`ll put a boot in your ass
It`s the American way
malaise
(269,054 posts)but people are terrified and are so freaking gullible that it defies logic.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)tecelote
(5,122 posts)We're sheep.
Vattel
(9,289 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)shows how little our opinions mean to the media.
malaise
(269,054 posts)and ignored over 400,000 protesting climate change on Sunday.
They don't give a flying fuck about democracy or issues that matter to the 99%.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Democrats and Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. they are interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.
rug
(82,333 posts)and of course to make more money.
valerief
(53,235 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Waiting for Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy
valerief
(53,235 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)I'm shell shocked at the gullibility of so many people.
valerief
(53,235 posts)It's amazing the lies each new generation is able to swallow.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Say so long to what's left of the New Deal, no one needs it. Sanders has been begging people to get out to vote this year. But they won't listen to him, he's out of style. Why should he bother to run in 2016 to help those who can't stir themselves up enough to vote when he begs them to? He's a realist, not a sacrificial lamb for the indifferent.
I kept the faith and I kept voting. Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand.
~ Billy Bragg
There is more than one issue to vote on this year. But even Rand Paul has let down his leftist fans. He's already said he'd go all out against ISIS, if he is elected President. Say good bye to women and minority rights, to college loan relief, overcoming Citizens United and doing the right thing by immigrants and saving secular government. And enjoy a Koch run future.
2banon
(7,321 posts)Hell, I can't even listen to the radio anymore. KQED (SF NPR) for the pro-war propaganda, and KPFA to repeat what I already know. Grateful for Pandora!
J_J_
(1,213 posts)It's unbelievable that anyone is scared by those greedy morons.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... we've got a fresh set of liars singing along.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)It all coems down to Charlie Pierce's Three Principles of Idiocy:
1. Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings or otherwise moves units;
2. Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough;
3. Fact is that which enough people believe, Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it.
malaise
(269,054 posts)think
(11,641 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)I'm 62 and I've had enough. Stupid fucking greedy assholes.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Check out this cartoon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025577751
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:25 PM - Edit history (1)
Wall Street and Madison Avenue do war.
Don't miss this post by Octafish on selling the wars:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5578283
malaise
(269,054 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)doesn't it?
think
(11,641 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I cannot even believe they are saying it.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Just as the US was getting out of the middle east (for the most part) and considering cutting the bloated defense budget, this happens. WHat a coincidence.
malaise
(269,054 posts)I want to know what's going on here.
Where is Smedley Butler when we need him?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Keeping the racket going. Keeping people scared and easily manipulated.
Just because Obama is president doesn't mean that everybody is on the same page. Think of JFK.
malaise
(269,054 posts)I need to know what made Obama renege on his own position
calimary
(81,322 posts)Ironic and frustrating as all hell.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)I'm not very fired up for the mid-terms.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Something is wrong with this entire mess
calimary
(81,322 posts)They're COUNTING ON IT.
I hate it, too. I don't want to go through this again. I feel only slightly less horrible about it because it's not some fucking neocon or bill kristol type, or somebody needing to prove he's macho because he weaseled out of the draft awhile back, who's steering it this time. But there shouldn't even BE a "this time."
But dammit, I'm gonna get out and vote ANYWAY. Because I want to and I insist on it. Especially since I know I'm one of those voters they'd love to see staying home in some state of disgust or frustration. NOT gonna hand the bad guys an easy win, regardless!!!! Don't you do it, either!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)They're always in charge.
The key word the FR has used to successfully sum-up liberals of any stripe: "weakness."
They look good, like they're veritable genuises, but really, they know us better than we want to know ourselves, and play the same bis repetita tune with great effect. Everytime.
We are essentially cut off and static.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)realizes that Osama Bin Laden is still winning while assholes like him are still losing?
malaise
(269,054 posts)Men like him profit from war
calimary
(81,322 posts)Glad you're here! I'm assuming you mean the dick cheney? His first name, richard, shortens nicely and rather fittingly, dontchathink?
840high
(17,196 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)I've had enough.
salib
(2,116 posts)It really is a recipe for disaster this election season, as it is a recipe for malaise.
Same ol' same ol'. Definitely a recipe for malaise.
locks
(2,012 posts)was a headline for another story: "After six weeks of U.S. airstrikes ISIS has scarcely budged."
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)and be grateful for our help...and we really, really, will leave...this time...maybe...if the conditions are right...after a few...relatively few..years...decades.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT **Iraqis chant anti-American slogans on a bridge over the Euphrates River where charred bodies are hanging in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Wednesday March 31 2004. Enraged Iraqis in this hotbed of anti-Americanism killed four foreigners Wednesday, including at least one U.S. national, took the charred bodies from a burning SUV, dragged them through the streets, and hung them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River. (AP Photo
No photo its too graphic to post
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Horror-at-Fallujah-SAVAGE-ATTACK-Bodies-2772639.php (Link)
cwydro
(51,308 posts)But I do now.
I can't even watch the news. This is sickening.
mckara
(1,708 posts)bobduca
(1,763 posts)voting to hide anything that might point out the current (Neo-*) propaganda assault.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)It is sickening, all the more so because now we have no hope of a future without war. At least during the Bush years we had the hope of one day throwing them all out of office, gaining the WH, the House and the Senate. That was the ONLY thing that made all the bloodshed and torture and lies, bearable.
But what do we do now?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Assad and himself can Game of Thrones each other until one wins.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Cheney I had a visceral reaction to him. He was asked if he ever worried about the people who would be killed if we went to war. He didn't hesitate before responding 'No'! It gave me chills, because right then I knew we were dealing with a psychopath. Nothing I've seen since has changed my mind.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I am sick to death of them all. I will curse those responsible to my dying day.
Bertolt Brecht "The God of War"
"I saw the old god of war stand in a bog between chasm and rockface.
He smelled of free beer and carbolic and showed his testicles to adolescents, for he had been rejuvenated by several professors. In a hoarse wolfish voice he declared his love for everything young. Nearby stood a pregnant woman, trembling.
And without shame he talked on and presented himself as a great one for order. And he described how everywhere he put barns in order, by emptying them.
And as one throws crumbs to sparrows, he fed poor people with crusts of bread which he had taken way from poor people.
His voice was now loud, now soft, but always hoarse.
In a loud voice he spoke of great times to come, and in a soft voice he taught the women how to cook crows and seagulls. Meanwhile his back was unquiet, and he kept looking round, as though afraid of being stabbed.
And every five minutes he assured his public that he would take up very little of their time."
spanone
(135,844 posts)k&r...
suffragette
(12,232 posts)regime change in Syria.
There's an old army marching cadence that goes:
Here we go again, same old shit again, marching down the avenue, few more weeks and we'll be through
Except it's never a few weeks and we never seem to be 'through.'
ladjf
(17,320 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Sachs was saying we're getting ready to do the same thing that got us into all this trouble before, creating chaos. Haas said Sachs was being "naive" and Sachs said HE was.
It was great hearing a refreshing voice against this war chant on that program. Haas's argument seemed so tired...Sachs was wonderful. I'd like to hear more from him...
malaise
(269,054 posts)messing up the Russian and Eastern European economies.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)to watch from where I sit.
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)they stole it from the Natives. None of these guys will see combat, none of these guys will see even manual labor. Wake up the working class!
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)The hypocrisy, the moral bankruptcy, the propaganda, the lies.
I never thought I would see my party, or my country, come to this.
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)You'll be glad you didn't.