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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post The Growing Campaign to Revoke Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize by Norman Solomon.
Oh, certainly Obama will never be part of the solution. But at least the Norwegians can stop being part of the problem.
(Taking away Kissinger’s “Peace” Prize wouldn’t hurt, either.0
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post Beverly Hillbillies, Updated
Welcome to Hell.
Or 21st Century Amerika, same difference. What’s really delightful is that there’s no feasible scenario to stop it, either. Cheers!
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Austerity’s “War on the Poor”: U.K. Edition. by TomThumb.
The U.K. is turning into a real hellhole, huh? If they don’t watch out, they could end up like…us.
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post President Shoves Supreme Court Marriage Equality Ruling Down the Memory Hole by davidl.
Margo, while you make some interesting points about the details in Verrilli’s brief, these would be easier for us to read if you would make your posts conform to the board’s standard (presumably by using the “reply” box, rather than copy-pasting them from whatever program you are using), so that your paragraphs do not appear [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Civil Unions and Democratic Party Wedge Issues by fairleft.
The argument is simple: if you don’t get to use the magic word “marriage” on your government paper, then you are by definition a second-class citizen. Whenever some right-wing nutbag comes up with a new way to limit some legal benefit to “spouses’ and deny same-sex partners because they are “only” in a “civil union”, [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Oh my goodness! A public employee got a decent salary! Let’s all freak out! by EveningStarNM.
With due respect, I think you are missing EveningStarNM’s point, which is not about whether or not Ms. Muranishi is “overpaid”, but about the disproportionate emphasis on this “scandal” and the agenda that the “outrage” serves. Yes, perhaps the salary should be smaller (although if we took all income earned in the US and pooled it and [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Oh my goodness! A public employee got a decent salary! Let’s all freak out! by EveningStarNM.
Yeah, and people might want to stay in government as a career, rather than gathering their credentials and “access” while making sure not to regulate future
bribe providersbenefactors *too* harshly. You want a public sector that does its job? Weirdo. I mean, $302,000 for running a county with a population of 1.5 million people? The [...] -
Vote Socialist commented on the blog post Drone Poll: Those Who Follow News Closely More Likely to Support Strikes Against Terror Suspects
The propaganda is working nicely, ja? Heil, Victory! Heil, Obama!
If only they could have polled based on the race/religion of the drone targets, I bet the approval ratings would be even higher. Of course, they could also have asked if the dronings of schools, hospitals and funerals to “strike at” “suspected terrorists’ met with Americans’ approval, but we wouldn’t want to trouble the sheeple with minor issues like that nice Mr. President deliberately murdering brown children or anything.
It’s like the old saying, “you get farther with a smile and sociopathic racist bloodlust than you do with just sociopathic racist bloodlust”. President Peace Prize, everybody! God bless Amerika!
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post ACLU Seeks Judgment on Whether US Government’s Secret No-Fly List Violates Due Process Rights
In February 2012, it was reported the No-Fly List had doubled from 10,000 people to 21,000 people in about a year. This was largely a result of a “new standard” that allowed the TSC to list a person that isn’t necessarily a threat to aviation.
My God. If only a Democrat had been elected in 2008. These fucking Republicans are such fascists…oh, wait.
“McCain would have been worse! Romney would have been worse! Jeb Bush would be worse! Obama is doing the best he can! God bless Barack Obama, ‘the most liberal President in 40 years’!!!” [/O-bots in overdrive]
Amerika, where a sociopathic serial-killing fascist is the “left” of the political debate.
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Robert Samuelson: “What Frustrates Constructive Debate is Muddled Pundit Opinion” by Dean Baker.
demands that President Obama rise to the occasion and insist that people accept lower benefits.
Coincidentally, *I* insist that Samuelson’s publishers rise to the occasion and reassign him to a job for which he’s actually qualified. Perhaps scrubbing toilets, given that he’s so adept at producing crap. Sure, the pay is less and the work is [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Two Myths. by TomThumb.
The crux of Stauber’s Counterpunch article, a quote from Barrett:
“What gets lost in all this faux movement politics,” said Barrett, “is any real challenge to the growing imbalance of social, political and economic power. Quite the contrary, the ultimate impact of their actions is to reproduce if not aggravate that imbalance. What we’ve got here is [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Beware of Google’s Mouthpieces About Google Glasses by Consumer Watchdog.
I had been so repulsed by the idea of constant advertising (because that’s what it would be) on my field of vision that I hadn’t even considered the privacy issue. Utterly repellent. But then, I’m no fan of the concept to begin with: “Tired of having to occasionally stop for 10 seconds to use your [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Mind blowing. First the Rand Paul filibuster, Now a Speech at CPAC for Breaking Up “Too Big to Fail” Banks by joanneleon.
You can’t help but wonder after this has happened for the umpteenth time that it’s because Obama *wants* his “Republican friends” (his words) to have that power over him, to appear to “force” him to do things that he really wanted to do all along (like gut the social safety net).
Dude, I “wondered” after the [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post The Cost to Destroy a Left-Wing Institution? For ACORN It’s Under $300,000, so far by spocko.
I certainly wish that there were a dedicated funding group providing resources to expose, discredit and destroy right-wing scum, but… 1) Who would report these stories? Certainly there’s no rabid press out there to push an anti-Corporate Media story the way the Corporate Media (in no way limited to Fox) pushes the “ACORN is EVOL!” [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post Attorney General Holder Claims Aaron Swartz Prosecution Was ‘Good Use of Prosecutorial Discretion’
I can not wait for Holder to be beaten and raped in prison. In a perfect world, this would lead the news every night, in a “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead” sort of way.
Bring back John Mitchell, Richard Kleindienst, Edwin Meese, John Ashcroft, Arturo Gonzales…hell, even A. Mitchell Palmer is looking pretty good right about now.
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul Filibuster Breaks 8 Hours
Ha! Ted Cruz’s “terrorist sitting at a cafe in Virginia” frame would be funny, if it weren’t so pathetic that Holder ducked it three times by saying “it wouldn’t be appropriate”.
Cruz says that his and Paul’s proposed legislation banning the assassination of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil absent an imminent threat should pass the Senate 100-0. It’s very rare that a Republican gets a “Duh!” from me, but yeah.
And now Cruz goes after the “but what about Seal Team Six? Didn’t they have a right to kill bin Laden?” deflection by saying that if bin Laden had been asleep in an apartment in Chicagoland, then no, sending in the drones would be wrong, even though he was Teh EVOL Osama bin Laden. And again, “duh!”
Sigh.
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul Filibuster Breaks 8 Hours
Paul calls Senator Dean Heller (R-NV), “the gentleman from Arizona”. Hey, it’s understandable; Heller’s a new guy. Maybe he should wear a nametag?
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul Filibuster Breaks 8 Hours
Ha! Now, Ron “not the former Giants running back” Johnson (R-WI) is using Paul’s filibuster as an opportunity to condemn the Senate as dysfunctional and denounce the filibuster in general.
So, apparently the Dems have an anti-filibuster vote among the R’s. But apparently they’re not interested in filibuster reform. What a shocker!
(Johnson is now making inane “Federal budget = family budget” deficit hawk silliness. But hey, if it prolongs the filibuster, I guess he can read the collected ‘Twilight Saga” into the record, if he wants.)
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul Filibuster Breaks 8 Hours
Pat “Sock it” Toomey points out that considering all the noise the Democrats have made about indefinite detention, that assassination is obviously worse.
Durbin follows by bringing up the “well, wouldn’t shooting down Flight 93 on 9/11 have been ‘using lethal force’? See, there are allowable circumstances!” nonsense. Sure, it’s a thorny problem…if you can’t tell the difference between active self-defense of innocents being threatened, and planned assassinations of U.S. citizens because they are allegedly “key figures” in al-Qaeda.
Paul says “we all agree you can repel an imminent attack…Overseas the standard seems to include people who are not actively engaged in combat…I don’t think that should apply in the United States.”
“Targeted killings of people in a restaurant or a house or a hotel is not something we can tolerate.”
“There are no exceptions to the 5th Amendment for American citizens on American soil.”
“I think that the 9/11 or Pearl Harbor [scenario] is a red herring.”
Damn I wish I could type faster. Or that Obama and his O-bots were not so damn evil.
Seriously, I hope there’s a transcript. Paul needs to be quoted at length here.
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul Filibuster Breaks 8 Hours
And yes, I’ve known Bernie Sanders was full of shit since that inane “Bernie-Buster” in 2010, when he spoke against the Obama-Republican tax deal for 8.5 hours but didn’t actually filibuster it. “I’ll act as if I were standing against the bill…without actually taking any steps to block it. Kabuki, Vermont-style!”.
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