Displaying 19,231 To 19,260 Of 19,504 Comments It’s Getting Ugly Out There Folks Totally agree. The concern though is, when they discover that even such extremist and racist attacks don’t work to improve the image of the GOP…is the next step encouraging or applauding violence? What will the followers do? More abortion clinic doctors shot? Federal buildings bombed? Assassination attempts? We have to be vigilant and prepared. And Rush, Beck, O’Reilly, Hannity, etc., any who encourage such things should be the target of federal prosecutions. Free Speech ends long before calls for violence against innocent people. » Posted By AdLib On September 18, 2009 @ 2:09 am I think they’d be happier to go a bit farther back, to when the Earth was flat. Once it got round, things really started to go in the wrong direction for them. » Posted By AdLib On September 16, 2009 @ 1:28 pm DCTVixen, you are hereby officially invited to relocate to Cali whether or not your state secedes from the Union. Unfortunately, the state of California is in a financial bind and cannot afford to pay for your relocation at this time. They will however provide you with a welcome basket consisting of a “Kindergarten Cop” DVD, a complimentary Botox injection and a part on a reality show. Just their way of saying, “Welcome” and “We really need your tax dollars!” » Posted By AdLib On September 16, 2009 @ 1:22 pm Watch a little of the video and you’ll see poor, white, poorly educated southerners whose lives haven’t turned out to be the fantasy promised to them by corporate society. Life sucks for them. They may not be wealthy, they may not have ever lived outside of a trailer park, they may be unskilled labor working at minimum wage (if they even have a job) but at least they had one thing that made them feel good about themselves. They’re white and being white made them superior to them blacks and latinos and Chinamen. Then a black man who is smarter, better educated and better off than them becomes the most powerful man in the nation. “It ain’t fair! That’s all I had to feel good about myself! You can’t take that away from me! What am I gonna do for my self-worth now? I’ll get even with you for blowing up my desperate delusion! Nigerian socialist Muslim Hitler!” The video shows this class of people, most are from the south. What do you think they mean when they tearfully cry, “I want my country back!” Yeah, the country they want back is from the 1950’s when black people spoke in soft voices and got out of your way and smiled at you because you were white. That’s when being white was enough. Now it’s not and they feel cheated, their parents got to have that racial superiority and now Obama’s election has torn that away from them. These southern wackjob racists want secession? PLEASE SECEDE!!! Get away from the well adjusted people in this nation, in-breed and become an Idiocracy in the south. You have my blessing! Ignorant Southern Racist White People Untie! Whoops…I was spelling like you do on your signs when you protest, make that “Unite”! » Posted By AdLib On September 15, 2009 @ 10:34 pm Nellie, You’re very welcome! I’m going to send out an email to all members to fill them in on all the new updates and functions of the site I’ve made recently but just decided to set this up right away. I am right with you on that, the true “elitists” in this nation look at the people gobbling up their propaganda as total fools and rubes, they literally look at them as if they are some lower form of life. Actually…they might have something there. » Posted By AdLib On September 15, 2009 @ 10:18 pm I remember under other Dem presidents, the right whipped up their “base” and there were more terrorist acts and hate crimes. When “they” feel that their race and religion is in control, they get greedy and smug. When they don’t, they get hateful and violent. Welcome to what used to be The Republican Party. » Posted By AdLib On September 15, 2009 @ 5:02 pm KQ, thanks for the video! Whew! I’m with DCTVixen, it’s stupefying to listen to these people…and consider that they are parents and fast food workers. It is telling of course that southern accents were predominant and their opposition to Pres. Obama continued even after their phony issues were disproven. Again, it’s not about the issues, those are just excuses for hiding their prejudice. » Posted By AdLib On September 15, 2009 @ 5:00 pm Journalistic Integrity: IS the truth really out there? TD, what a fantastic selection of Bill Moyers episodes. Every time I watch an episode I say to myself, this is truly the best show on television. I hope people who haven’t seen the videos you included watch them, they’ll be happy they did. Here’s another great guest and episode, Colonel Andrew Bacevich on the damage to our democracy under Bush’s Imperial presidency. He was Republican but couldn’t abide what was happening. This is one very sharp and clever man who knows the military and politics inside out.
» Posted By AdLib On September 15, 2009 @ 5:21 pm Right with you on all the above, t-d! Along with Bill Moyers having the most thoughtful and insightful show on television about our society, he is the last of that generation of trusted and conscientious journalists. Now we’re in a time where comedians are the most trusted men in news. Kind of funny, actually. But thank goodness we have them! » Posted By AdLib On September 15, 2009 @ 7:28 am Congrats Kev! Hope we helped! Now write, damn you, write! » Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2009 @ 10:35 pm Hey all, as we just learned, this is a very secure post, we could hardly get to it! Again, Suzy has quit The Planet, she can’t read or reply to any other comments here. Questinia, you’re the doctor. Do you think some of these FRTers are clinically delusional? » Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2009 @ 7:04 pm Just to be clear, that didn’t and wouldn’t happen here at The Planet. We put the highest value on respecting and protecting the Freedom of Expression of all of our members. All members are always welcome to cross post anywhere they want. » Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2009 @ 10:54 am Read My Lips: No Pubic Option! Fixed! » Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2009 @ 10:57 am I think it goes to the thought process of these types. They aren’t educated enough to come to conclusions through critical thinking nor understand the benefit. These are the same people who fry Twinkies and make a meal out of them. The way they make decisions is based on, “Does it make me feel good? If it does, it’s good.” And having someone who seems as much a dimwit as they are as president makes them feel better about him than someone they totally can’t relate to. Sadly, there’s a long world history of populaces that are turned against the educated by cynical leaders who demonize the educated. Such “leaders” know how much more power they have when their nation is dominated by mindless mobs who can be so easily distracted from interfering with ruling their nation. These “leaders” just push the big buttons in the simple minds of the ignorant: fear, prejudice, hatred, insecurity, and the side shows of Gay Marriage, Abortion, Tea Bagging take the focus away from their ongoing thefts of national wealth and democracy. These ignorant folks are rubes at the circus who get ripped off by the carnys yet go home happy, thrilled that they were able to buy magic beans for just the cost of everything they had. » Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2009 @ 10:43 am I’ve got an idea, let’s put Glenn Beck on a melting ice floe, wait for the teabaggers to mindlessly follow him onto it then push it out to sea. » Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2009 @ 12:13 am LOL!!! Very nicely done! If I could put torn, stained t-shirts and racial hatred on brain damaged lemmings, you’d never be able to tell the difference. I wish I was wrong about this but based on the utter lunacy and mindless hatred over imaginary issues, I just don’t think this is about the issues you so cleverly describe. I don’t think these inbred misfits, these human viruses, care about whether what they’re screaming is true or not. I missed the teabagger sign saying, “Dum is the Knew Smarte!” That’s one of two things this is really about. Poorly educated white people are pissed off that the president who they felt they could have had a beer with and beat at tic tac toe had to leave office. Of course, the second issue is that Pres. Obama has never attended a Klan meeting. This is all a Confederate Flag planted on Astroturf. September 12, 2009: Racists, the toothless and Big Pharma unite! In other words, The Republican Party is seceding from being a major party. » Posted By AdLib On September 13, 2009 @ 12:09 am Wow. Brilliant, moving, clever, poignant, funny, compassionate, reverent…a truly remarkable piece, Questinia. And thank you for your sacrifices and your sharing your talent, skills and compassion to help so many at a time when you must have been fighting off some powerful fear and shock yourself. As I witnessed in the Northridge quake and Katrina, disasters do bring out in many a remarkable empathy and connection towards their fellow human beings. It’s that humble and transcendent trait in people that usually just lives in fiction and history…a society that is truly caring about each member. But it does exist in reality and your powerful and inspiring example only underlines that. It’s too bad that it takes tragedy to detach ourselves from the provincialism, self-absorption and other superficial things that cause us to be so insulated from our fellow human beings, both in our communities and around the world. Still, when it occurs, it reminds us of what noble and admirable creatures human beings can be and what we can aspire to be in good times as well as tragedies. » Posted By AdLib On September 12, 2009 @ 1:21 pm We love you too and you know this is one place where everyone can feel free to speak their minds. » Posted By AdLib On September 12, 2009 @ 11:44 pm I look at corrupt leaders in politics, religion, whatever as believing first in their own power and profit and in the ideals they espouse last. Think of the unending examples of Republicans, televangelists, etc. As you and K7 say, I think the ones who truly believe least in what Republicans preach are the top Republican politicians writing and preaching their positions (the rank and file are far more genuine in their beliefs…or far more brainwashed) and I think the ones who believe least in Christ and his teachings are the religious “leaders” who use the fear of hell and damnation to manipulate their flocks into obedient sheep that enable the Republican agenda (and goes against their own interests). » Posted By AdLib On September 12, 2009 @ 7:35 pm I can’t believe it either, 8 years ago…when America had a communal nervous breakdown…and Repubs are still having it today. At least most Americans have recovered by now. » Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2009 @ 7:08 pm My proposition is that Wall Street PURPOSELY uses inflated and arcane structures that they know will eventually implode because that’s the only way to have a gold rush that exponentially increases the money they can make. I don’t know that most progressives are looking at the financial issues right now, I think there is a laser focus on health care reform right now. When that is hopefully accomplished, then we can move everything with financial reforms to the front burner. » Posted By AdLib On September 12, 2009 @ 11:41 pm After 9/11, I felt smacked in the face with an unpleasant reality. Americans as a group are no different than a group of any other nationality, including Nazi era Germans. This IS NOT to say Americans are the same as Nazis, just that ALL societies are inherently weaker than one would imagine. It is sad but true, any society could slide into voluntarily handing away their freedoms and supporting a tyrant to lead them if they are desperate or frightened enough. On the other hand, there are always a section of the population that is morally grounded and will not stand by silently, sometimes at great personal risk. Only a portion of those who voted for Obama did so because of principle, many were just following the pendulum swing and had voted for Bush the last two times. I think the key is to recognize that we have a temporary “popularity” among the morally mutable. We need to take advantage of this window of time to fix the destruction wrought by Bush and accomplish the necessary things that this and future generations will need to live in a positive, humane and constructive society. » Posted By AdLib On September 12, 2009 @ 11:22 am I don’t know, KQ, bubbles are endemic to our capitalism-for-profits/socialism-for-losses system. What message is sent to those who gambled the most with the economy and people’s savings and mortgages? You’re too big to fail and if you risk everything and lose, don’t worry, the U.S. government…taxpayers that is…will take care of you. I agree that there won’t likely be a repeat of the derivatives of “liar loans” but like the dot com fraud and the junk bond fraud, I am confident there will be another fraudulent bubble cooked up by Wall Street to create an obscenely rich frenzy that suckers in the middle class to further juice money out of them. In fact, word is that Wall street is salivating at doing the same derivative tactic with buying up life insurance policies from the elderly…for a fraction of their face value. The one fly in the ointment is that if Obama signs health care reform, then people may live longer which spoils their con. My beef with Huff is that the day after Pres. Obama hits a home run and pushes health care reform ahead, they slam him on not accomplishing reforms on financial institution regulation. WTF? How many loaves of bread and fishes is he supposed to create at a time? Since WWII presidents have tried to pass universal health care, this Pres looks to be on the road to doing it and the response is, “So? What about reforming the financial industry which decades of presidents have failed to do? Fuck HuffPo and fuck those in the MSM who continue to set such a ridiculously high bar for Pres. Obama to jump over in a scant 8 months as president, ya know what I mean? » Posted By AdLib On September 12, 2009 @ 11:05 am I second KQ’s applause, well written and well done. There is a nobility ascribed to Americans from the WWII era, we even call them “The Greatest Generation”. There was a lot of sacrifice, true patriotism and strength. And they face a far more powerful foe and threat to our democracy and the world. 19 brainwashed ideologues (no, I’m not talking about Senate Republicans) use our free society to launch an awful attack but kill themselves in the process, and under the leadership of Bush, the country falls apart in hysteria. As you say, will future generations look back and call our generation “The 2nd Greatest Generation?” Not in a million years. I don’t blame today’s Americans fully though many can’t avoid responsibility for their irresponsibility in re-electing the failure of a human being that was Bush after having witnessed how awful he had been. But Bush and his Admin do deserve most of the blame. The nation was looking for our leader to march us forward in a meaningful response and all he did was cut the ceremonial ribbon at a new nation-sized Walmart. As a generation, we will not be remembered well UNLESS we use the opportunity of the Obama presidency to right wrongs and set things right. » Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2009 @ 6:50 pm Thank you Nellie! Everything I wrote was from memory. My memory is typically not always a steel trap (I’m not great remembering the names of people I meet for the first time and can’t necessarily tell you what I did one week ago from today) but when it came to the series of outrages that followed 9/11 with Bush as President, the travesties burned themselves into my mind. Looking forward to your thoughts and perspective on 9/11 and the aftermath. » Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2009 @ 12:33 pm Cheers tyler-durden! It’s almost surreal to think back a scant 4 years ago, when Bush had done most of these horrible things and stole the election from Kerry (OH was rigged), taking office with that smug frat boy sneer, “I earned political capital in this election and I intend to use it.” HEY, BUSH…IDJIT! You’re not supposed to boast about political capital because that in itself is spending it! That’s the equivalent of picking up a girl for a first date and bragging to her that you’re stronger than her and are going to force her to get drunk and have sex with her when she’s incapacitated. And how did that work out for Bush? The main use of his “capital” was to be spent on privatizing Social Security and putting the retirement money of America’s elderly…and those eventually reaching there…IN THE STOCK MARKET! Can you imagine what horror this nation would be going through today if he had succeeded? There are around 40 million Americans over the age of 65 right now and what would the state of the nation be like today if the majority of them couldn’t afford housing, utilities, clothes and food. Their welfare comes first but secondarily, how would that have magnified the destruction of the economy with 40 million Senior Citizens not having money to spend? Man! I don’t think this country would ever have been able to recover if Social Security had been privatized and Seniors had lost most of their income. Republican policies seem to be fuses for blowing up this nation and we have to keep blowing them out. » Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2009 @ 12:04 pm Thanks KQ! You bring up one connection that is too often ignored even though it is so obvious. How much better off would our nation be today with $2 trillion less spent in Iraq and the over 4,000 American lives lost and tens of thousands of wounded? The record Stimulus could have been tripled. Or the bailouts to the banks could have happened with a big portion left. He crippled our economy and made this recession far worse with his fucked up war, just another Bush dividend. As you say, there was a singular historical moment after 9/11. The world could have been brought together to reduce terrorism and cooperate on global warming, human rights, alternative energy…it could have been an amazing time in human history. Instead, it was flushed down the Bush toilet along with New Orleans, American lives in the military, the budget surplus, the economy, I could go on and on. And it is an insult to those who were killed on 9/11 and the rest of the nation, an embarrassment and a humiliation that a hole in the ground remains where terrorists struck our nation. For shame. » Posted By AdLib On September 11, 2009 @ 11:47 am So I guess this means Van Jones gets his job back now, right? I hope you’re right. The Repubs only have as much power as the Dems in Congress and Pres. Obama give them. I really liked his strong rebuke of hateful Repubs in his speech, though he was focusing on their attacks on health care reform. What I would love to see is him step up to take on with full force the hatred that has become acceptable in so-called political discourse. Call the Repubs out for it then each additional outburst of “You lie!” or “Socialist!” will make those people even more humiliated as Joe Wilson obviously is. Shame the haters, that’s good for the environment of discourse and good for American politics. » Posted By AdLib On September 10, 2009 @ 10:35 pm What amazes me is how Dems respond to such witch hunts by doing just as their enemies want and Repubs keep the Rumsfelds and the Gonzales’ in their positions of power no matter how valid the complaints against them are. When Bush was president, the public was to be ignored and Repubs lauded Bush for his “strength” in not caring about the polls or what the people wanted. Now, the predictable hypocrites pile on Pres. Obama’s people and snarl until the Obama Admin responds as they’d like. This is no way to run an Admin. The Repubs naturally want to undermine Obama and his Admin…THEY’VE PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED IT! They and their lemmings should be ignored. They lost the election, they should not have influence over who is in Obama’s Admin. This is Pres. Obama’s main problem. He cares. He cares what people say or think no matter which side of the aisle they are on. This is not a completely bad thing but when your opponents are solely intent on your failure and the destruction of your presidency, you have to turn your back on them and turn towards th e citizens and majority of Americans. Van Jones should not have been sacrificed in this way, it was a mistake (and set a precedent which is now continuing) and Pres. Obama needs to recognize this. » Posted By AdLib On September 10, 2009 @ 8:40 pm You can gouge me with overdraft fees, but please don’t give me health insurance! I’m right with you on that. If you look at the MSM and even HuffPost, the media has a huge stake in keeping the discourse as emotionally charged as possible because it means clicks on the internet and eyes and ears in the media. IOW…money. Also, the five corporations that own all major media have other interests in keeping the public distracted from the real issues at hand. If people recognized just how damaged our democracy is and how overpowerful corporations are, they might just rise up and press for much more severe changes to the status quo. I’m actually very disappointed that in the wake of the economic crash, it appears that the window of opportunity to strongly reform corporate power and behavior in this country has closed. It seems like it’s all going back to the way it was before. How can that be? I will give Pres. Obama a bit of a benefit of the doubt, that he’s been avoiding other conflicts until health care reform is passed. But once that happens, I sure hope to see him reforming the rest of the corporate world as his health care plan would do to the insurance corporations. » Posted By AdLib On September 10, 2009 @ 10:20 pmComments Posted By AdLib
who base their whole careers on preaching a narrow dogma that defines “good people”. They pronounce a vote for certain candidates or issues as “what loyal family values Americans” or “what loyal Christians who want to get into Heaven” must believe in and support with everything they’ve got.
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