Forum Post: (R)epelican't shenanigans in the States.
Posted 11 years ago on May 14, 2012, 6:28 p.m. EST by shoozTroll
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Not happy with keeping Washington in a lock down, the (R)epelican'ts have been very busy in the States.
They don't like being caught, so fire the guy that catches you.
And these are JUDGES!
In recent years, three of the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s four conservatives were charged with ethics violations by the Wisconsin Judicial Commission — Justice Annette Ziegler for presiding over cases involving a bank where her husband was a director, Justice Michael Gableman for running a misleading campaign ad, and Justice David Prosser for allegedly grabbing a fellow justice by the neck. In the wake of these charges, all four of the court’s conservatives voted in a party-line vote not to reappoint the chair of this commission:
If you can't have Jesus? You can settle for a Mormon, as long as it's a (R)epelican't Mormon.
Televangelist Pat Robertson may think Mormonism is a cult, but he has given his most vocal endorsement of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney yet because “you don’t have Jesus running.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/14/pat-robertson-vote-romney-because-you-dont-have-jesus-running/
And of course we must be able to fire gay people because it's a matter of "choice".
Sounds like a neolibertarian to me.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/14/482200/lankford-fired-gay/
I thought about you as I was reading this book:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/413586/may-02-2012/jonathan-haidt
Yes, the truth is a very liberal idea.
That and of course, all of things posted are also very real.
The book is about how humans deal with cooperating with strangers by forming artificial tribes. Then they rally around their own team to fight the other team. It's a survival instinct. True intelligence is revealed in people who are able to look beyond the conventional wisdom of their own tribes to deal with reality as they see it.
If you're going to participate in Occupy, then shouldn't you be trying to transcend the traditional Democrat/Republican dichotomy, so that you can focus on identifying with the tribe of the politically powerless in the fight against the political corruption that perpetuates the rule of a tiny percentage of the population? Or is this just an Obama rally from your point of view?
I guess the question would be how do YOU deal with the realities that I presented.
Whether or not you believe, doesn't make them them any less true.
Wave that flag, tribesman. Rally those troops. You're perpetuating the status quo by allowing yourself to be distracted by a false dichotomy, when the bigger issue is the ability of money to corrupt politicians from both tribes. The enemy is the system itself, not the red flag or the blue flag.
How wonderful for you that you've found yet another way to deny the truth.
Yes wave your flag high!!
The truth will remain.
The truth is we need a better society, not another Wall Street President.
Think about all of the money and time and energy that Americans are going to waste over the next six months on choosing between two candidates who are roughly equivalent. Think of the opportunity cost of investing all of that in a false choice between two tribes, rather than in working together to change our political system for the better.
See the thing is.
Ya work with what you have.
Give me an option on the ballot that says:
I reject these candidates for office. Leave the office vacant until a representative of the people is brought forward. No legislation can be enacted until the office is filled by the peoples choice.
I remember in the 70's reading an article in Readers Digest asking why isn't NOTA on the ballot. NOTA - NON OF THE ABOVE
I have always thought that a choice for none of the above would be a good thing as eventually the people putting up candidates would have to present a real choice sooner or later - or the process would have to be changed to get the true candidates in front of the people.
They don't want to give you a real choice ........ just a choice from the candidates that they've bought.
“What better way to enslave a man than to give him the vote and tell him he’s free.” -Albert Camus
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The choices seem vastly different until you look past what is being said and what is actually being done. At that point, they are about the same. All political double talk and no real change. Just bones and red meat thrown to the tribal bases.
Yes, exactly, and the election is a distraction from the issue that really matters: the ability of money to corrupt our political system. The election is that corruption in action, and anybody who puts all of their energy into fighting for one side or the other is actually fighting to perpetuate that system. Obama was the first major party nominee since 1976 to reject public campaign financing, in favor of private contributions. Those contributins are the bribes that corrupt our system at all levels. Obama is using a super PAC this year too, which eliminates transparency. Fighting for either side is fighting for the status quo.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/common-ground-one-way-forward-there-should-be-no-c/
Seems a lot of us agree on that.
...and unfortunately a lot just can't look beyond rooting for one team or the other.
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That will come in time my friend.
That will come in time.
Meanwhile, what I've posted is no less true.
Knowing truth does not make your strategy for dealing with the truth correct.
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Perhaps, but you're denial makes your strategy even less so.
A trip here can be useful from time to time.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
I have yet to find a supporter on the perceived "right".
A trip to the moon can yield knowledge to, but why waste precious rocket fuel on moon dirt.
What in the World does the moon have to do with judicial ethics and misconduct?
That's just misdirection.
You say misdirection, I say strange sense of humor.
I suppose you would have actually had to have read the OP and followed the links.
The real question is. Why didn't you?
I read the title. Republicans bad. got ya. figured that out a while back. Still ain't going to make want to vote for Obama. But it is a nice piece pointing out what shits the R's are. Twinkle points for that.
I say you're just avoiding what was posted.
I will take that you agree with what those judges did and what Pat said.
I honestly have no idea what your talking about now. What judges? And who is Pat?
Technology discovered/developed to do such things means advancement that can be used here at home/earth.
It is a huge expenditure of money - it is not all a waste.
Drats. To subtle, I see. Okay, 'moon' was code for http://www.michaelmoore.com
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Romney likes to keep it in the family.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/politics/ties-to-romney-08-helped-fuel-equity-firm.html?_r=1
There's nothing like even more nepotism.
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