2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe best rant I've ever read. Period
This beats all! It's on the Prisoner swap.
All I can say is wow!
Negotiating with Terrorists:
Cut <Are we really going to do this?
Is this what its finally come down to, is it really?
Look at yourselves, you silly selfish bastards.
Look. At. Yourselves.
Go on, do it, find a mirror and look into your own dead zombie eyes and see the empty void looking back.
This revolting, disgusting display of hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy, is this what weve finally become?
Are we now so filled with foul bilious hatred, are we now so consumed with soul-destroying fear, do we now despise our own selves so much that we would actually protest the return of one of our own? Is that it?
Is that what weve become?>>
More:
Link:
http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/06/negotiating-with-terrorists.html?m=1
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)America sent him there. America brings him home.
Dead, alive, sane, insane, hero or deserter.
I don't know what actually happened to cause him to exit his post.
Neither does the media, the President nor the Generals who command this soldier.
Thanks for the Post
sellitman
(11,607 posts)No matter what President Obama does the crazies on the right will find a way to turn it into an attack.
They make my skin crawl
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)They are the true threat to this Nation.
lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)I posted it on facebook.
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)I often find myself reading the first couple of paragraphs of a rant like that, to get the gist, and then moving on. I read every word of that one, and it was amazing.
Naturally, my favorite section was this one, which applies to just about everything:
"Oh, I get it. I understand that frightened people become more and more irrational, especially when they are allowed, encouraged, to feed incestuously on each others fear. And I get that they are afraid. I can see it in their faces, I can hear it in their voices. I get that theyre afraid of change. I get that theyre afraid of the future. I get that theyre afraid of the past. And I get that theyre afraid of the present. I get that theyre afraid of losing power and privilege and prestige. I get that theyre afraid of their capricious and childishly vengeful god. I get that theyre afraid of different races and different cultures and different accents and different religions and different sexual orientations and different viewpoints and different politics. I get it, theyve screamed their small fears over and over and only a dead man could possibly miss it.
"I get that they are so consumed with rage and so filled with naked hate and so programmed with their diseased ideology that it poisons their minds like a computer chip submerged in acid.
"I get that they are so utterly terrified of the world that they piss themselves in abject fear at the mere thought of going to the grocery store without a goddamned gun stuck in their pants like an extra oversized prick."