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figaro commented on the blog post Conservative Activists Shut Down Talk of Keeping Parts of Obamacare Within 30 Minutes
And here’s your response to my Primary Obama bus ad campaign back in April of last year. http://my.firedoglake.com/figaro/2011/04/12/primary-obama-bus-ad-campaign-goes-live-in-d-c/#comments
shekissesfrogs April 12th, 2011 at 4:14 pm 11
This is a really good idea.LOL …
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figaro commented on the blog post Conservative Activists Shut Down Talk of Keeping Parts of Obamacare Within 30 Minutes
The reason conservatives are successful seems simply a matter of Republicans fighting for their ideals and holding their representatives accountable. No brain surgery there; no eleven dimensional chess. They primary lesser candidates and they withhold their votes and money if they don’t tow the party line. That is why Republicans fear their base.
The Democrats, on the other hand, are so fearful, they will vote for someone worse than Bush in order to prevent a scary Republican from winning. If I’m betting on a fight, I bet for the guy/gal who is willing to throw a punch, not the guy/gal running around the ring trying to avoid getting hit and crying “Why can’t we all just get along?”
We used to hear a lot of talk here at FDL about the importance of primaries but when the time came to put up or shut up, FDL shut up–no talks of primaries for Obama, no push to bring third parties into the main stream discussion, just silence.
Most stories about Republicans on FDL mock their emotional, irrational, animalistic nature. Democrats are supposed to be superior to these baser instincts. Well guess what? Emotionality, irrationality and animalism are all very effective tools when it comes to politics so get over yourself.
If you want change, have the balls to fight for it. Tap into that animalism and emotionality for once. Primary them, withhold your vote, withhold your money, withhold your support until they comply–throw the damn punch!
Until progressives are willing to walk the talk they will remain a sideshow to be mocked by Obama and the Democratic leadership. There is no excuse for being outsmarted by the right-wingers. I couldn’t be more disappointed in my fellow progressives for being so clueless as to how to rectify the problem. Get smarter. Throw some punches and stop whining.
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figaro commented on the blog post Lawrence Lessig Testimony on “Open Source Dividend Prizes”
What a wonderful thing to read today. Thank you Dr. Lessig. As a lifelong scientist it is refreshing to see something proactive coming out of congress to deal with these issues. Your words were beautifully constructed.
I loved the little slam on congress at the end. It must be a wonderful feeling to speak in front of that audience and have the opportunity to make such a pointed and valid criticism in your summation. Speaking truth to power is intoxicating.
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figaro commented on the blog post Gay Donors Begin Boycotting Obama Campaign Over Anti-Discrimination Executive Order
It can be said credibly that LGBT fundraising has replaced Wall Street as a vein of support for the Obama campaign; that’s not really an overstatement.
This is a ridiculous statement. I’m going to need evidence. In what universe is Wall St. pulling back from donating to Obama? He has been their biggest protector. And in what universe do gays have the political funds to match Wall Street?
Please elaborate on where you are finding evidence that LGBT funds are replacing Wall Street funds. I can’t imagine this being even close to the truth and if it is then gay people have a hell of a lot of money to donate to a homophobe … and clearly their donations are misplaced.
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figaro commented on the blog post Keystone XL East? Enbridge’s Line 9 Tar Sands Pipeline
I’ve been proposing a new strategy to my local enviro groups but they are not interested in facing reality. They prefer the feel good methods of public protest over more time-consuming approaches like consumer choice aggregation.
Consumer choice aggregation is on the books in five or more states across the country and we are forming non-profit energy buying agencies that promote local solar roof power and other green alternatives instead of foreign tar sands oil. We are providing much needed competition to our local energy monopolies who rely mostly on coal and oil and we are forcing prices to be lowered by these monopolies while increasing green energy availability to consumers.
California is a leader and Marin County has a CCA up and running successfully with San Francisco coming online sometime this year. The best way to stop tar sands oil pipelines is to decrease need for oil based energy. Look into CCA formation for your state and stop wasting time trying to get the politicians on board. They aren’t and they never will be. Time for citizens to change the way power is provided in America so we can stop all the wars for oil.
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figaro commented on the blog post The Ever-Expanding Surveillance State That Has Grown Under Obama
Too late to bitch about it now. The time to fight was over a decade ago and the Democrats did their usual spinelessness crap with most progressives joining the chorus to support the Patriot Act.
Many of us decried the FISA vote and telecom immunity but we were extremists who had not understood Obama’s good heart. Pragmatism was Sesame Street’s word of the day.
Many of us called and wrote to chairman Genakowski of the FCC to stand up for net neutrality but we were not joined by our fellow progressives who thought we could revisit this issue later.
Now, we have progressives telling us we must vote for this Obama. I’m glad I don’t own a gun. Progressives have ruined this country.
No, I’m not bitter.
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figaro commented on the diary post Lockdown–The Coming War on the General-Purpose Computer, and What It Means for Us by stewartm.
This was really fascinating. Thanks so much! Rec’d.
I’m glad I’m old. I don’t want to be around for this brave new world we are creating.
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figaro commented on the diary post TN: I Can Haz Creationism! by kyushukev.
Thanks for your kind reply.
That is a really sick and twisted bill. How do these people look themselves in the mirror? Kind of makes me want to go “Bully” some of them. :)
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figaro commented on the diary post TN: I Can Haz Creationism! by kyushukev.
This post is really hard to understand. I’m not up on what’s going on here and I’m not a fan of going to links to find out.
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figaro commented on the diary post Atrios’ Lament: America in the Age of Wankers by Scarecrow.
All of this is our own damn fault. We vote them into office. Vote third party this election–watch Obama lose–watch the next Dem pres. candidate kiss our asses for our vote. If they don’t follow through then vote third party again–watch them lose–and the next Dem pres. candidate will follow through on progressive promises. This [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post This Is A Test by Michael Cavlan RN.
Yes, it is certainly becoming quite clear who are the real progressives. I never would have guessed that the idiots who voted for GWB twice would have an equally idiotic and tribal component in the Democratic party who are going to vote for Obama twice. One can try to claim the Democrats are smarter and [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post This Is A Test by Michael Cavlan RN.
Hey Michael, From what I can tell from your writings, you are in a dark place now. You have put yourself out there to make a difference and the rest of us are letting you down. I have been in that place and I have finally found my way to the other side through acceptance [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
I know you are angry, and justifiably so, but understand that I am not the problem. There was no direction from FDL for me to put a disclaimer on my posts and they still have not issued any directives along these lines. As for Teddy, I am a firebagger from way back and have been [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
Jane could have directed them to me and I would have set the record straight. I was kept in the dark and had no way of knowing any of this was happening. I think the correct response to Democratic bullies is to put them in their place and explain how justified this primary Obama campaign [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
Here’s the primary Obama bus ad campaign on myFDL.
http://my.firedoglake.com/figaro/2011/04/12/primary-obama-bus-ad-campaign-goes-live-in-d-c/
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
I’m the guy that did the bus ads and it was not through NPA although they did promote it. I actually did it here on FDL but got very little interest as Jane had already declared that a primary challenge was a waste of time. I did not pay for the bus ads, it was [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
That’s curious. Perhaps there is something happening with the software. I’m on an iMac and the post disappeared from the rec list within an hour after I discovered it and I posted early on so I’m guessing it was up two hours tops for me. It has not been up since that time and every [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
It is shameful to me to see people I once respected cutting down a poster for his perceived lack of journalism skills. We are all trying to contribute ideas here and we don’t all have journalism degrees, not that those are worth anything anymore. Here is an FDL member making his best effort to bring [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
Michael announced ahead of time what he was going to be doing. Did it ever occur to anyone at FDL to contact him and say that DDay would be handling the interview so as to maintain the level of journalism for which this site is known. I’m sure Michael would have been thrilled to step [...]
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figaro commented on the diary post Michael Cavlan Exclusive Interview With Rocky Anderson by Michael Cavlan RN.
Don’t despair. We’ll make our points the best we can for as long as we can and then we can voice our opinions at the ballot box. They can silence your voice but they can’t silence your vote. I have a suspicion that they are using a site policy that describes the mission of FDL [...]
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