I too get caught up reading the controversial flaming threads and overlook the ones that may provide some useful information.

Hey, nowadays somebody alerts on everything, so I figured I'd get it out of the way.

Hey, we all get sucked into the silliness here.

You're walking a fine and don't you forget it!

Always enjoy seeing you around the board, Spitfire.

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the party's representation of workers and little people. Rec for those who still use it to discuss issues

page, with the point being that it was covered in stupid posts, one of which was (admittedly) mine. It was quite a funny setup, bravo once again WillyT! Anyway, one of the posts on that page was from HOF where members were making fun of people in GD: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125545591 Need I say more? Doesn't matter, because I'd rather not.

Check the recommended box.

But I look at the Greatest page and it's rife with fawning pictures of the president and first lady, vanity posts ("Yes! Misogyny Is Real!!", "Thanks, Mr. President", "Cut the crap&quot . I think it's a way of keeping their fingers in their ears when the true story of the "recovery" and other issues come up. Around 40 DUers, probably mostly BOGers, have me on ignore, while I have almost no one. Since our party is the only hope of salvaging the country, declaring Obama "the most productive and liberal president in the history of mankind" and tuning out Race To The Bottom, All Of The Above, Fracking, Offshore Drilling, TPP, KXL, and any other bad news is unhelpful. And the fluff posters are the ones who keep telling us that November is the most crucial election in 30 years.

Well, then let's fix the party so it will win.

They have gone so far right that they can count on republicans to vote with them.

but that is where we are going. The party changes every 75 years or so, the process started with Reagan.

planned, he stuck his thumb in the eye of the left with Rick Warren. He didnt have to do that, but it was a message heard loud and clear. After getting elected Pres Obama no longer needed the left. He started courting the right of center with his appointments of almost all conservatives. Some even Bush people. But Ms. Clinton-Sachs may face a public that is tired of Wall Street dominance. But I think it's too late for her to try to court the left. She has cast the die and now she has to lie in it.

Will money win in 2016 or THe People?

And what about the 2014 election? Can you imagine those idiots in charge of the government? I mean, it's bad enough.

Maybe the president would appear on TV and say, "Elections have consequences." Then he could sign every piece of GOP legislation that came up the pike. Seems like we've see this before.

A few days ago a second republican friend told me she would vote for Clinton over just about any repub candidate. I asked her which repub candidate would win her vote over Clinton & she thought for a moment & said, "I can't think of a one, right now."

I asked in another thread, if TPP passes, do we even need Congress, SCOTUS or POTUS?

We're in a major crisis and it's like, "Yay, kittehs!" Not that I don't like kittehs.

Not only that but large numbers of the rural ignorant heavily armed dufuses would believe almost anything a charismatic leader told them. The stage is set. It ain't lookin' good.

Our country's (and even much of our Party's) attitudes toward labor are shameful. This is not in question. But the blame certainly doesn't lie with some imagined strawman of a Social Justice Warrior.

Yes, some people are far too dismissive of class issues, and should be ashamed to call themselves progressives (assuming they do). But what of those who dismiss anything to do with race or gender and insist that only class matters?

K&R

because of the poo that has been thrown at them in the past. Some have stopped posting altogether.

I cannot post links from the device I'm on.

You are not important to me, just amusing.

NanceGreggs.

for the 2014 firestorm... the report itself has a few good nuggets, but not for here. I have been told repeatedly that San Diego news does not matter. It is like it is happening in another country.

Also working on one on the NEBR report to the President and income inequality, again, not for here. Been told plenty of times that does not matter...

But fuck it, they get hysterical over an article full of expletives dealing with Iraq and Chenney. But not about Iraq or Chenney, just the language... MY GOD, the Language, think of the children!!!!

that one on the after action is bound to even annoy my boss. But one of the footnotes was like not missable


One of those situations where the myth is like 180 from the reality.

And I am tempted to name a few but they know who they are...and I try to make a point of thanking them often.

A lot of them no longer post much here because of the toxic attitude of some...who want them to STFU and be outraged about things that don't mean shit in the long run.

So my hats off to them and may the live forever on DU.

babylonsister and kpete. Yeah, I'm talkin' to you.

It's nigh-on ten years I've been haunting this website, and one of the things that remains the same is this: if I see either of your names in the byline, then I know it's a post worth clicking on and reading.

I've seldom taken the opportunity to express my appreciation, but for all you do, here's to you.

and many others but these are folks who always deliver news not just snarky punchlines.

No offense meant to Cali ...we need more like her on DU.

I almost broke my first computer!

Very telling.

Regards,

TWM

normally i am very serious. we need good quality topics to stay atop.

on the weekend with my kids home. But if you look at the threads you'll also find an absence of many of the subject matter trolls (Monsanto anyone?). Weekends may be our best chance to have discussions without the paid troll distractions.

dance on the heads of pins (on certain social issues) while we approach extinction.

& we've decided to party like it's 1999. I can't explain the insanity any other way. Our leaders, if you can even call them that, are focused on building their cushion as big as they can for the fall they know is coming.

Fourteen replies to a thread on our dying oceans, here http://www.democraticunderground.com/112771094 but 110 for a thread titled "A silent thread for the word 'fuck.'"

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