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babylonsister

(171,066 posts) Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:56 PM Jun 2013

Diversion: a gop game

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Diversion: a gop game (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2013 OP

K & R Scurrilous Jun 2013 #1

Yes indeed - Mrs. Lib and talk about this nearly nightly rurallib Jun 2013 #2

Yep. But we're too busy bashing Dems. Disheartening. nt babylonsister Jun 2013 #3

and outside of DU people are just trying to hang on to their jobs rurallib Jun 2013 #4

I thought the Democrats agreed with the Republicans on ACORN, the IRS and NSA? Fumesucker Jun 2013 #5

Before last November, the GOP/corporate media story line was that Obama is a far left disaster. mn9driver Jun 2013 #6

Certainly working, if this place is any indication... Historic NY Jun 2013 #7

Snowden Job: The Media’s Scandal Fever Is Helping Republicans Hide What You Need to Know Cha Jun 2013 #8

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)

1. K & R

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:59 PM

Jun 2013

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

2. Yes indeed - Mrs. Lib and talk about this nearly nightly

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:09 PM

Jun 2013

And while they divert, there is their behind the scenes relentless drive to privatize, to punish the poor, to steal the treasury and to tie church and state together, to bring back racism, and sexism and make all but the very rich second class citizens.

babylonsister

(171,066 posts)

3. Yep. But we're too busy bashing Dems. Disheartening. nt

Reply to rurallib (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:13 PM

Jun 2013

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

4. and outside of DU people are just trying to hang on to their jobs

Reply to babylonsister (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:16 PM

Jun 2013

or are consumed with sports or TV or who knows what. By the time they wake up, their unions are gone, their pensions are gone etc.
It amazes me how few know anything about ALEC while ALEC is just killing the middle and lower classes.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

5. I thought the Democrats agreed with the Republicans on ACORN, the IRS and NSA?

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Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:18 PM

Jun 2013

mn9driver

(4,425 posts)

6. Before last November, the GOP/corporate media story line was that Obama is a far left disaster.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:39 PM

Jun 2013

Obamacare, deficits, etc. That didn't work out so well. He was reelected and the Democrats are still way too popular compared to the Republicans going into the 2014 midterms. They've been trying to change their unsuccessful narrative of the last 5 years and sap the enthusiasm of enough center/liberal voters to keep them home next November.

And they very well may have succeeded, if the latest polls and reading DU is any indication. Apparently Obama is now a steel fisted, jack booted Big Brother who knows what porn sites you visit and is gonna tell your mom. Whatever works, I guess.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

7. Certainly working, if this place is any indication...

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:49 PM

Jun 2013

the pukes will win more seats.

Cha

(297,241 posts)

8. Snowden Job: The Media’s Scandal Fever Is Helping Republicans Hide What You Need to Know

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:58 PM

Jun 2013

There is a divide among Americans whether or not “whistle blower” Edward Snowden who leaked “breaking news” that the NSA uses ‘PRISM’ to “collect data directly from the servers” of Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook and other online companies, and carefully included the phrase “direct access” that implied the NSA took time to listen in, or monitor, Jimmie’s phone calls, emails, and text messages to his sweetheart across the country. The only problem with Snowden’s story was that the government did not have “direct access” to anyone’s accounts through direct server access,” a claim vehemently denied by Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, the Washington Post, New York Times, and even The Guardian that first published Snowden’s claim.

However, the calls for Edward Snowden’s capture and arrest for treason, or his sainthood as a whistle blower exposing a several years-old intelligence agency practice are little more than distraction from some real damage being leveled on the American people by Republicans in Congress and state legislatures. The important issues affecting the American people are being ignored and it is not because they are happening in secret, but because Americans need outrage, a scandal, or reason to distrust the government while real damage is covered over by the mainstream media and it is unclear if it is because an African American is President, or because Republicans will be exposed as Wall Street, religious-right, or corporate servants that if Americans knew about should incite rioting in the streets.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/06/17/snowden-job-medias-scandal-fever-helping-republicans-hide.html

Mahalo babylonsistah~

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