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"You Don't Get To Go Around Saying that You're Speaking For The American People".. (Original Post) Cha Oct 2013 OP
K&R Change has come Oct 2013 #1
thanks Change! Cha Oct 2013 #5
Kicked n/t SamYeager Oct 2013 #2
Thank you, Sam! Cha Oct 2013 #6
You tell them, Cha! freshwest Oct 2013 #3
Speaking right to boner and Cha Oct 2013 #7
Spot on, my dear Cha! sheshe2 Oct 2013 #4
So Righteously True, she! Cha Oct 2013 #8
Soookay Cha! sheshe2 Oct 2013 #9
I know.. you set it up and Cha Oct 2013 #13
I'm not sure if Gene Wilder could ever do any wrong, that's how much I adore him. IrishAyes Oct 2013 #11
Wilder is adorable, Irish! Cha Oct 2013 #14
I think I've probably seen stage left Oct 2013 #52
Where da white wimmen at? Submariner Oct 2013 #53
LOL!!!! stage left Oct 2013 #55
and my absolute favorite stage left Oct 2013 #56
love this! AND the OP BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2013 #54
someething about having your own propaganda channel/network yodermon Oct 2013 #10
How's this yodermom? Cha Oct 2013 #15
k and r niyad Oct 2013 #12
I am not an "American People!" coldbeer Oct 2013 #16
Exactly coldbeer.. It makes my skin crawl Cha Oct 2013 #17
Sentiment understood CB. Rebellious Republican Oct 2013 #18
You're my kind of Republican! coldbeer Oct 2013 #48
Themselves and a shrinking share of the electorate. calimary Oct 2013 #31
K&R! highplainsdem Oct 2013 #19
They are not referring to you or me Rain Mcloud Oct 2013 #20
Yes, they're the "real" American People, Cha Oct 2013 #22
Re:Two Graphics;Just for the record,i am ashamed of Roscoe P. Cornpone Rain Mcloud Oct 2013 #29
When they open their mouth the phrase is Mira Oct 2013 #21
Exaclty Mira! I don't have a tv but Cha Oct 2013 #24
And.. fadedrose Oct 2013 #23
It's right out of their frank luntz playbook, fadedrose.. And a lie.. Cha Oct 2013 #26
Excellent post Cha! yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #25
Mahalo, yuiyoshida! Cha Oct 2013 #27
hontoni means yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #34
Hell yeah! TxDemChem Oct 2013 #28
Precisely.. we are the American people out here that Cha Oct 2013 #30
Thank you (in my best British accent) TxDemChem Oct 2013 #35
And when polls suggest that the vast majority of Americans are AGAINST your position on point Oct 2013 #32
Yeah, it makes you look like sociopathic narcissistic robobots.. Cha Oct 2013 #33
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #36
You're Welcome, Joe.. thank you! Cha Oct 2013 #38
EXACTLY! Tigress DEM Oct 2013 #37
Ya think, Tigress! I like your sig line.. the Cha Oct 2013 #39
Yeah, now that he's listening again! Tigress DEM Oct 2013 #40
I'd say it differently... ljm2002 Oct 2013 #41
Well said, ljm.. it goes along nicely with the Graphic! Cha Oct 2013 #44
Thanks! n/t ljm2002 Oct 2013 #46
Or pretend you're an American ailsagirl Oct 2013 #42
Or pretend you even Cha Oct 2013 #45
They're so revolting (hah-- no pun intended) ailsagirl Oct 2013 #66
Getting to me, too, ailsagirl.. Cha Oct 2013 #67
Oh, BIG K&R! great white snark Oct 2013 #43
They get up in the morning to Fundraise off of stopping Obamacare, snark Cha Oct 2013 #47
Now if only the idiots who soak their brains with right-wing hate talk would hear this. gtar100 Oct 2013 #49
They must mean the American people who bankroll them dougolat Oct 2013 #50
Zactly, doug! Cha Oct 2013 #63
Hear, hear. stage left Oct 2013 #51
Awesome, Cha! Mahalo! Arugula Latte Oct 2013 #57
Hey Arugula Latte! Cha Oct 2013 #64
K&R KansDem Oct 2013 #58
K and R! Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2013 #59
K & R Scurrilous Oct 2013 #60
Exactly, they're all about HYPE bucolic_frolic Oct 2013 #61
That's sad, bucolic frolic.. Cha Oct 2013 #65
Good to see OWS alive and well. Rex Oct 2013 #62
k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Oct 2013 #68

Cha

(297,296 posts)
8. So Righteously True, she!
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:47 PM
Oct 2013

Don't make me post our Gene Wilder/Willy Wonka rant again.. lol can't help myself..



h/t napkinz

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
11. I'm not sure if Gene Wilder could ever do any wrong, that's how much I adore him.
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:55 PM
Oct 2013

And lordy, how he did love his Gilda. That was so precious.

stage left

(2,962 posts)
52. I think I've probably seen
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 01:10 PM
Oct 2013

everything Gene Wilder is in. I especially loved him in Blazing Saddles. And Cleavon Little. I adored Cleavon Little. So, so funny.He died way too soon.

stage left

(2,962 posts)
55. LOL!!!!
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 02:58 PM
Oct 2013

And this exchange
Cleavon--Are we awake?
Gene, hanging upset down out of his bunk--Are we....Black?

stage left

(2,962 posts)
56. and my absolute favorite
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 03:27 PM
Oct 2013

Gene, consoling Cleavon.....What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

yodermon

(6,143 posts)
10. someething about having your own propaganda channel/network
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:54 PM
Oct 2013

to influence public opinion would apropos, but can't get it pithy enough to fit.

coldbeer

(306 posts)
16. I am not an "American People!"
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 10:08 PM
Oct 2013

Democrats are not "American People". When Newt came out with "I promised the American People" in
1994 he never promised me anything. It nauseates me to hear these Republicans talk about the
"American People" because they are referring to themselves.

coldbeer

(306 posts)
48. You're my kind of Republican!
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 09:39 AM
Oct 2013

It really makes me feel good that so many DUers share the same
sentiment about the "American People".

I just did a practice 10k and am enjoying a cold one!
Saturday's are great! College football!!!

I would like to send this thread to Rachel Maddow.
She would call out the "American People for us.

Thanks Cha

calimary

(81,308 posts)
31. Themselves and a shrinking share of the electorate.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 12:11 AM
Oct 2013

They're already a minority party. And steadily declining. Thank Heaven!

Encouraging thread about the trend in Virginia. Polls showing GOP support dwindling so seriously that it's described as "collapsed" in Virginia as that gubernatorial election draws near. Well, counting California, that's two states. Hoping that's a trend that catches on!!!

 

Rain Mcloud

(812 posts)
29. Re:Two Graphics;Just for the record,i am ashamed of Roscoe P. Cornpone
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 11:52 PM
Oct 2013

AKA Lyndon B Johnson,the moniker was the Kennedy's secret name for him behind his back.
That graphic speaks to the pessimism of a corrupt politician who brought himself up from a poor texas dirt farmer when the dead and infants went to the polls to vote for him.
Johnson had lots of experience exploiting people,namely the poor immigrants in Los Colonias.
Before i get you thinking that the man was an irredeemable reprobate,while he exploited their parents,after he worked out in the brutal Texas sun all day,he held classes at night teaching the people of Los Colonias to read and write.

There are many parallels in character that can be drawn between Johnson and say Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond but what set Johnson apart from his racist brotherhood is that he worked to advance the good of all Americans,Thurmond and Helms worked to advance only Conservative values.
They ministers of hatred seem to have succeeded.

Mira

(22,380 posts)
21. When they open their mouth the phrase is
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 10:42 PM
Oct 2013

part of the first two sentences. Always. Very little makes me more angry.

Cha

(297,296 posts)
24. Exaclty Mira! I don't have a tv but
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 10:54 PM
Oct 2013

I've read it and know they're robotically using their Frank Luntz/George Orwell framing in hopes no one notices they're speaking for No One except their creepy selves and those pulling the strings. In boner's case it's how he can hang on to his Weeper's job while herding a bunch of teabagger klanners.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
23. And..
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 10:46 PM
Oct 2013

you don't get to go around and say you are speaking for your party either...

Ask Boehner and McConnell how they feel about the moron Cruz.

Oh, wait, sorry, any Republican can speak for that party, and they do, and contradict each other all the time..

but you can't speak for all Americans.

Cha

(297,296 posts)
26. It's right out of their frank luntz playbook, fadedrose.. And a lie..
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 11:20 PM
Oct 2013

they Frame it so those who don't know better think these sociopathic leaders of the republicons, who are cowering to the teakochs, are actually speaking for America.

It's mind bogglingly Warped and I'm so glad this Graphic was made to show why they Don't Get To Do That. Viral It!

Cha

(297,296 posts)
30. Precisely.. we are the American people out here that
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 12:05 AM
Oct 2013

he was Shutting Down. We're not freaking Masochists!

Cha

(297,296 posts)
33. Yeah, it makes you look like sociopathic narcissistic robobots..
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 12:17 AM
Oct 2013

Oh wait..!

good point on point!

Cha

(297,296 posts)
39. Ya think, Tigress! I like your sig line.. the
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 01:34 AM
Oct 2013

"historic landslide" guy is who gets to speak for "The American People"!

















ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
41. I'd say it differently...
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 02:10 AM
Oct 2013

...Republicans don't get to say they speak for the American people when the American people just spoke loud and clear by re-electing the President with a 5 million vote margin, while at the same time sending more Democrats to both the Senate and the House.

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)
66. They're so revolting (hah-- no pun intended)
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 08:29 PM
Oct 2013

All we can do is hold on tight. This roller-coaster is really getting to me.

great white snark

(2,646 posts)
43. Oh, BIG K&R!
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 02:20 AM
Oct 2013

Not only do these douchenozzles think they won the election they actually think stopping Obamacare is some kind of mandate. They speak for an ever shrinking group of cretins.

You, however, can speak for me any day Cha. Thanks for this post.

Cha

(297,296 posts)
47. They get up in the morning to Fundraise off of stopping Obamacare, snark
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 02:37 AM
Oct 2013

wishing.. if only they could do that as easily as they Shut Down our Government and blamed it on Obama. They're scared to death of it

Long Live Obamacare.. may it keep gettting stronger and help people on into the next Century, great white

gtar100

(4,192 posts)
49. Now if only the idiots who soak their brains with right-wing hate talk would hear this.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 11:59 AM
Oct 2013

The noise factor in their heads prevents them from hearing what is so obvious to the rest of humanity.

dougolat

(716 posts)
50. They must mean the American people who bankroll them
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 01:05 PM
Oct 2013

And the folks being lead around by the nose by 1% bullhorn.

stage left

(2,962 posts)
51. Hear, hear.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 01:05 PM
Oct 2013

K and R. They don't speak for me or my family, Cha, because they don't make any sense. Never have. Never will.

bucolic_frolic

(43,177 posts)
61. Exactly, they're all about HYPE
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:16 PM
Oct 2013

Corporate Madison Avenue Spin Doctors

It's the only way they stay in office. Without Faux Nooz
they would have been extinct 20 years ago

If democracy ever breaks out in this country, they're kaput!

And as for Obama, their hatred is all about race. I have family
that lives in the Faux-Evangelical Bubble. They won't admit it's
about race but it is. They HORRIFIED that OBAMA is giving
Obamacare to blacks! And they're not well off, they're just
being used for their support at the voting booth.

Cha

(297,296 posts)
65. That's sad, bucolic frolic..
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:25 PM
Oct 2013

fox truthers.. "Everything they say is true&quot quote from my ex husband to my son). I might hate Pres Obama too if I believed all of the fox bullshit.

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