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Jon73 commented on the diary post So it is Nine Eleven Redux! Hold on by elisemattu.
Don’t worry–I try to use the thing as little as possible!
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Jon73 commented on the diary post So it is Nine Eleven Redux! Hold on by elisemattu.
Recommended. I share your fears, elisemattu.
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Jon73 commented on the diary post Boston Bombing Blame….Whom? Protecting us? Complete Failure. by Synoia.
Ironcomments: “…how much faith can anyone put into what will be the official narrative given to us by these clandestine agencies.”
Zero, as far as I’m concerned. That we’re going to get a bullshit story and further assaults on our civil liberties is an absolute certainty.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Republican Party Overwhelmingly Seen as Out of Touch
Yes, it’s going to be very hard for people to consciously accept the fact that the Democratic Party sacrificed Social Security. At this point, I don’t know what it’s going to take for a majority of us to stand up and say enough is enough–I’m starting to think there’s no line that can’t be crossed, and that people will opt for clinging to an ever more absurd and untenable illusion no matter how badly they’re treated.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Republican Party Overwhelmingly Seen as Out of Touch
Broken record. Go write a diary and get it out of your system instead of muddling every discussion with the same nongermane response.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Republican Party Overwhelmingly Seen as Out of Touch
I guess it still hasn’t dawned on the Democratic base that its own party is about to yank the social safety net right out from under it.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Jobs and the Economy: Issues Regular People Actually Care About
There’s gonna have to be a LOT more civil disobedience before they even think about listening to our concerns. We might be dissatisfied, but we aren’t reacting.
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Jon73 commented on the diary post Breaking: Obama Justice Department serves Oregon officials with warrant seeking the identities of the state’s medical cannabis patients by acmerecords.
Look at O’s track record on this issue. I do blame him.
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Jon73 commented on the diary post Breaking: Obama Justice Department serves Oregon officials with warrant seeking the identities of the state’s medical cannabis patients by acmerecords.
We all knew that the Obama administration wasn’t going to leave this thing alone.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post 2.3 Million Strong Petition Opposing Obama Budget Dropped Off At White House
You’re being disingenuous–Obama has been pushing for cuts to Social Security and Medicare for years. Tell me the date of the Catfood Commission’s first meeting, mulp. (Hint: it was well before the 2010 midterms.)
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Americans Care About Job Creation Not Deficit Reduction
I worry about that, too, should people ever stand up in great enough numbers to be perceived as an actual threat. And it may come to that eventually, but I find it difficult to imagine it happening in my lifetime. We’re frightened and bewildered and generally upset, but we don’t seem to be angry.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Americans Care About Job Creation Not Deficit Reduction
I’m not sure what sort of response you’re looking for. I’m not arguing that people aren’t woefully confused/misinformed/out to lunch or that they don’t vote against their own best interests–I’m commenting on the results of the poll as described in the article.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Americans Care About Job Creation Not Deficit Reduction
I wouldn’t look forward to a lot of belly fire in the near future. Decades of propaganda knocked that right out of people.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Americans Care About Job Creation Not Deficit Reduction
Now, if only we could make Washington care about what we think. Anybody got a few million dollars to throw around?
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Jon73 commented on the diary post Upon Becoming My Own Earworm by OmAli.
“I didn’t see what Kelly said, but I know that Kelly is a good person.” Maybe he was at one point. I’ve only been here since last summer, but the Kelly Canfield I’ve seen is a mean-spirited, hectoring troll all the time, and he’s gone out of his way to be nasty to elisemattu, wendydavis [...]
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Jon73 commented on the blog post GOP Still Demanding Full Repeal of Obamacare
Just a little garden variety political posturing. Republicans hate a law that gives private insurers 25 million new customers and favors Big Pharma by prohibiting drug reimportation? Yeah, sure they do.
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Jon73 commented on the diary post Upon Becoming My Own Earworm by OmAli.
Bullies typically absolve themselves of responsibility. Nothing is ever their fault, they never attacked anyone, they were just being their naturally charming, vivacious selves. I don’t care who your friends are. And whatever’s making you such a miserable shit, that thing you use to justify–in your own mind–such disgracefully childish behavior? I don’t care about [...]
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Jon73 commented on the diary post Upon Becoming My Own Earworm by OmAli.
No one should cut dumb, belligerent, shrieking bullies any slack. Period. I’m deeply disappointed in FDL.
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Jon73 commented on the blog post Sebelius Acknowledges Some Will Pay More Because of the Affordable Care Act
But…but…the law still requires fast food restaurants to display calorie counts! (In a discussion of the Affordable Care Act last night, this was actually proffered to me as consolation for the lack of a public option. Three years later, people are still denying reality and talking up “all the great benefits!” of the ACA.)
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Jon73 commented on the diary post Bradley Manning’s Nobel Peace Prize by David Swanson.
Agreed: no one deserves the NPP more than Bradley Manning. The fact that the reaction of so many Americans to his heroism is one of disgusted outrage says a lot about the United States, and none of it is flattering.
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