Is PUMA a real group or just a label like RINO....

[dano81818]

can't tell if these people are actually organising or just wanted to give themselves a cute name.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I have been wondering the same thing myself

[Marrah_G]

2. it's more like a label

especially here, where it is used by a few select people to bash people who supported Hillary in the primaries.

[dano81818]

5. lets not go down that road again.... all pumas are now gone from DU

or at least they are supposed to be...

[Marrah_G]

11. Bingo

[BeatleBoot]

3. I think it's more a creation of folks here at DU

They need a bogey man, a straw man to tear down, if you will.

They need someone to scream at saying: "You are not in my tribe!"

It makes some feel better about themselves.


It's called "Tribal Mentality".

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Did you forget the sarcasm tag?

A creation of folks at DU? Really?

[JohnnyLib2]

6. Soc. 101

Thank you.

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[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. 'And remember that it is for ever..."

'And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you have undergone since you have been in our hands -- all that will continue, and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive.

This drama that I have played out with you during seven years will be played out over and over again generation after generation, always in subtler forms. Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible -- and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord. That is the world that we are preparing, Winston. A world of victory after victory, triumph after triumph after triumph: an endless pressing, pressing, pressing upon the nerve of power. You are beginning, I can see, to realize what that world will be like. But in the end you will do more than understand it. You will accept it, welcome it, become part of it.'

[WeDidIt]

14. Political Action Committees are real

Look up PUMAPAC.

[JeffR]

17. See response #9

before you blow any more smoke about this.

[Growler]

18. epic fail

[Zero Division]

8. It's an actual PAC (political action committee).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_United_Means_Action

[johnaries]

9. It's a real group, with their own website

http://www.puma08.com/

I don't think they are as large a group as they like to pretend. Also, I personally think about half (or more) are Republican Trolls.

[DJ13]

12. Its an undercover GOP operation designed to cause unrest

That some Democrats are fooled into joining shows how easily some people can be manipulated, and how an idiot like Bush "wins" twice.

[WeDidIt]

13. It's a REAL group (PAC)

Political Action Committees are REAL groups.

[Starry Messenger]

16. I think a du'er nailed it yesterday.

Calling it fan fiction.

MPK

[Egnever]

15. At this point I think its just a fantasy

[Lisa0825]

19. It's a group that vastly overestimates

its numbers and importance.

Check out this review of their "convention."

http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/the_truth_about_puma_conference_08_you_cant_spell_conference_without_c_o_n

:rofl: