tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post777532590498018315..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-78978489542188896912014-04-17T09:56:20.482-04:002014-04-17T09:56:20.482-04:00Thanks -- fixed now.Thanks -- fixed now.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50976412574939638402014-04-17T09:47:16.933-04:002014-04-17T09:47:16.933-04:00Nit pick
"behind the attempt to require Bund...Nit pick<br /><br />"behind the attempt to require Bundy to enforce the law"<br /><br />s/b "behind the attempt to require Bundy to FOLLOW the law"Joey Blauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00185289301820663520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-87514515345253495052014-04-16T08:13:10.564-04:002014-04-16T08:13:10.564-04:00What an ignorant stooge, bobo, and dim/nit/half/f*...What an ignorant stooge, bobo, and dim/nit/half/f*ck-wit you are, Placeholder!<br /><br />I hope they pay you well for kissing their asses, and then powdering them.<br /><br />But you may have missed a spot, polishing the Koch Brothers knobs with your tongue (NTTAWWT!!!).<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-91752334290410270522014-04-16T07:43:59.121-04:002014-04-16T07:43:59.121-04:00Yeah? And the prison Bundy's currently incar...Yeah? And the prison Bundy's currently incarcerated in is where precisely? And the injuries he's sustained at the hands of the authorities include what exactly? Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-80333945862749617162014-04-15T17:18:32.549-04:002014-04-15T17:18:32.549-04:00I think the left needs to place much more emphasis...I think the left needs to place much more emphasis on economic issues -- but <i>not to the exclusion of social issues.</i> There isn't a quota on what we can ask for. The right certainly doesn't say, "Choose abortion <i>or</i> guns <i>or</i> tax cuts <i>or</i> killing Muslims." Why do we have to choose? <br /><br />The problem isn't that we prioritize social issues, it's that we win sometimes on social issues, but we <i>never</i> win on economic issues. In large part this is because our pols don't even try, terrified as they are to sacrifice fat-cat cash. Also, there are few economic activists who fight the way the civil right movement fought -- by focusing on issues rather than elections. (That's how the gay rights movement used to fight, too -- both the civil rights and gay rights movements fought issue-oriented campaigns despite the fact that both parties were far to their right. They fought until they won some.)<br /><br />We need a popular, bottom-up economic rights movement. Ideally, slipping-from-the-middle-class and poorer white people would be part of it, or at least sympathetic to it rather than hostile to it, just because white people are still the majority in this country. But I don't see that happening in my lifetime.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-24358902162601886502014-04-15T16:02:21.746-04:002014-04-15T16:02:21.746-04:00Geese Howard: I'm gonna make a wild guess that...Geese Howard: I'm gonna make a wild guess that you're a guy, and probably a straight guy. Suffice it to say that it's harder for people who aren't straight guys to be as dismissive of basic human rights as you are.Tom Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17575511424823512042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75792664025435196872014-04-15T16:01:03.034-04:002014-04-15T16:01:03.034-04:00It should be noted that the actions of these peopl...It should be noted that the actions of these people with weapons and calls of violence against the US Government is against the law. Want all of this to stop and stop fast. After all of these people leave their little rally pick each and every one of them up when there is a safe opportunity. Try them and then escort them to a border to leave the USA that they seem to despise so much. Use our laws to defeat them, that is why they are on the books. Raymond Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07414122272640069517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50323262629813714812014-04-15T16:00:15.876-04:002014-04-15T16:00:15.876-04:00There's another reason they're rallying ar...There's another reason they're rallying around Bundy: one of only two things conservatives really believe in is the entitlement (of some people) to externalize costs. A deadbeat rancher standing up for his God-given right to fatten his cattle on the public dime? Hell, throw in a buncha guns (the <i>other</i> thing conservatives believe in) and you've got a ready-made conservative hero.Tom Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17575511424823512042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-79005090764718725782014-04-15T15:41:48.511-04:002014-04-15T15:41:48.511-04:00Placeholder,
They actually ARE a problem. They sp...Placeholder,<br />They actually ARE a problem. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars in election years, making sure that their lackey's are elected.<br /><br />Unlike the Conservatives boogyman - George Soros, who may have contributed a lot of money 10 years ago, but a lot less since then.<br /><br />And unless you're worth a lot of money, you're a fool and rube for people who use you.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-6458259524689320062014-04-15T15:16:35.287-04:002014-04-15T15:16:35.287-04:00The only way to combat this has always been for th...The only way to combat this has always been for the left to give up social issues.<br /><br />Point out that Wall Street bankers farmed out their jobs to China and got rich off their tax breaks. And then used the money to force gay marriage through New York and thus the nation. Point out that the tax breaks and not going to restore a Christian nation, but to free the nation from the church especially on the sexual and cultural issues those Wall Street bankers love so much.<br /><br />That's the ONLY way anything is going to change. It's also why I have no faith in the left. We can't be the party of New York cultural/social/sexual values and not end up working with the people we hate economically. Turning the economy around means destroying our rich allies that let us win on cultural issues.<br /><br />We need to pick one, and stop pretending we give a flying fuck about the other... and it's going to end up being social issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65636993714968444412014-04-15T14:27:50.347-04:002014-04-15T14:27:50.347-04:00"So it's not out of fear that prominent c..."So it's not out of fear that prominent conservatives urge this on -- it's out of a sense that it's a team-building exercise: today, anarchy, tomorrow, a vote for the straight GOP ticket."<br /><br />JAYZOOOOOOOOOS!!!!!<br /><br />Terrifying, but oh so true, Steve!!!<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com