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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichael Savage says he's willing to die in uprising against Obama's reparations
Right Wing Watch story hereFrom the article:
Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage wondered on his program last week whether President Obama will implement reparations for slavery in his last year in office, pledging to wage an armed rebellion against the nonexistent plan.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Almost wish Obama would to it call his bluff.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)an imaginary one.....for real wars, that is what deferments were for.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)sub.theory
(652 posts)I remember when these same liars got off talking tough about how they'd totally laugh off being waterboarded. And then they chickened out. This is exactly the same. It's all talk from chickenshit man children who never expect being made to put up.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)"Who is going to stop Obama from destroying our country? The Republicans in Congress won't. The Supreme Court won't. When will a lone patriot who is willing to sacrifice himself to save this nation stop this tyrant?"
My question: When will a conservative hate radio station stop this insane treasonous asshole?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)to having a few more pages added to the dossier the Secret Service is no doubt keeping on him.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)And nothing happens. Fuck Code. He needs to be in jail.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Like all chicken shit conservatives, he wants someone else to do the dirty work. Goading his listeners to attack a sitting president. Pure evil.
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)He is trying actively to incite someone to violence. Why isn't the secret service knocking on his door? How about the FBI?
There were peace activists in 2002 that were actively infiltrated by the FBI and all they were doing was baking cookies and going to protests. This sack of crap is trying to call on people to assassinate the president! He should go to jail for this.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)Every day you can turn on the radio anywhere in America and hear someone angrily riling up people to believe that the government is coming to get them, that they'd better fight before it's too late, that the brown people and the undocumented are destroying the country, that all government aid programs are really intentional theft that is going into liberal's pockets. That's a summary of just a few things I heard Mark Levin say two days ago, but there are literally hundreds of these same type of voices on the radio.
And radio is what tons of working people end up listening to as they commute. I think it must be a contributing factor to all the rage and violence that goes on
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)keep us distracted from the truth of what is really going on.
Bernie Sanders is committed to busting up the media and banking oligarchies, ending the revolving door, and instituting Publicly Funded Elections. This is the ONLY things we should be talking about and fighting for! Fixing these things will solve most of our problems because it would return Representative Democracy and stop the ability of the Plutocrats and corporations from controlling us! No other politician has been as clear on doing this and we probably won't see another for a long time. That is why getting Bernie elected and having millions of committed Americans at his back demanding these things is so important. If we don't stop corporate control soon, climate change will be the death of us all!
I know, sounds to crazy for some, but it is the truth. Corporations control almost all aspects of our Democracy and they will never address climate change in any realistic manner. Bernie is dead right when he says it will take a political revolution to accomplish this, but it can be done if enough people realize what is going on and commit to doing something about it.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)Republican patriots sacrifice other people. First mention of them having to do their own heavy lift on something like that, they start making excuses, looking for scapegoats and/or start spreading lots of money around, hoping to find a Sucker to do the work FOR them.
discocrisco01
(1,666 posts)The levels of bitter resentment and anger that consumes conservatives is beyond me. I just found this quote on a conservative Christian website
"Anger can become sinful when it is motivated by pride (James 1:20), when it is unproductive and thus distorts Gods purposes (1 Corinthians 10:31), or when anger is allowed to linger (Ephesians 4:26-27). One obvious sign that anger has turned to sin is when, instead of attacking the problem at hand, we attack the wrongdoer. Ephesians 4:15-19 says we are to speak the truth in love and use our words to build others up, not allow rotten or destructive words to pour from our lips. Unfortunately, this poisonous speech is a common characteristic of fallen man (Romans 3:13-14).
The conservative Christian is supposed to be free of anger and is supposed to love. Yet, all that I see in Savage is bitter and angry resentment because he feels that white people are losing control of the nation and that the country no longer will have an ethnic pure Caucasian majority.
Mr. Savage and his ilk need to learn the concept of letting go and accepting the new normal. Unfortunately, his ilk will continue to spew anger, rage, and bitterness on the airwaves until they go to the grave.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)BainsBane
(53,066 posts)If they have to dig up this old canard. I would have thought they'd be busy with Cuba, Iran, and the commutations of sentences of non-violent drug offenders.
Zambero
(8,965 posts)Like waterboarding. Too bad (for his credibility) that he reneged on it, still insisting that it wasn't really torture.
GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)...for whatever "cause" he is willing to die for.
He has my support, 110% all the way.
Freedom of Expression, baby.
trueblue2007
(17,238 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Senator Tankerbell
(316 posts)I hope the Secret Service investigates him.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)...AFTER he'd been trained to fly a plane that wouldn't see combat in anything less than World War III.
Oneironaut
(5,524 posts)He would just continue to whine and slip into irrelevancy. He's the type that wants everyone else to do stuff for him.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)That was easy.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Savage "argued that the State Department had sold America down the river to Iran, a reference to the recent deal allowing Iran to escape international economic sanctions in exchange for downscaling its nuclear program falls."
Savage "took on trade treason (TPP) in a broadcast."
Right-wing radio host Michael Savage, furious at the encyclical (on the environment), called the Pope "an eco-wolf in pope's clothing" and "a stealth Marxist in religious garb," claiming that Francis will put Catholics "in chains" and is reminiscent of "the false prophet in Revelation, an ecumenical spiritual figure directing mankind to worship the Antichrist."
What will hurt America more? Good relations with Cuba or Iraq? asks talk radio host Michael Savage.
This guy is a regular fountain of right-wing 'wisdom'.
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)Two megalomaniacs so egotistical they would cause heads to explode after they listened to their vitriol
Vinca
(50,303 posts)sub.theory
(652 posts)If Obama won reelection. We all saw how he totally went out guns blazing when Obana easily won.
It's all talk with these chickenshits. We could give them a giant stockpile of weapons and armor and nothing would happen. They'd never fire a shot. They're gutless. It's just tough talk entertainment for their hate crazed audience.
The people I actually worry about are those listening at home and taking it seriously. The Dylann Roofs of the world.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)It looks like it's going to be a busy last year...
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)Depending on the sequence in Obama's Day Planner, I imagine that'll make a difference in how their "armed rebellion" goes.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)I'm happy to pay for war, I'm happy to pay for expensive drug tests for people on welfare that only nets one or two people at most, I'm happy to pay for the costs associated with a degraded infrastructure, I'm happy to pay for failed abstinence education programs, I'm happy to pay for the raises of politicians while the wages of the poor and working classes remain stagnant...
But...
I
WILL
NEVER
GIVE
ONE
CENT
TO
REPARATIONS!!!!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)You seem very happy with a lot of actual misguided right wing policies, and very upset with one proposed left wing one.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)The more one thinks they don't need a , the more it actually is needed I guess.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)ck4829
(35,091 posts)First I sound like a crazy right winger then I sound really angry, it's not me.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)and pretty damn funny too
treestar
(82,383 posts)It is amazing but three are DUers who will take it straightly every time!
City Lights
(25,171 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)It's like me saying that I would be willing to die in the fight against the Daleks.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)But I might be for them if it allows Savage to make this sacrifice! I'm all heart!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Adminstering them would be awful.... Establishing eligilibity difficult, and they would be hugely expensive and divisive. Also, I consider them to be a pretty ineffective way to facilitate social and economic change. I would rather see money put against job training and government funded infrastructure and jobs programs. I think these programs should be targeted at AA communities, and also some traditionally deeply impoverished areas, like Appalachia, but with a definite eye toward traditionally disadvantaged AA communities.
I haven't really heard of a reparations plan that inthought was worth anything, or practical.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)... I don't think we owe something to those victimized. I do. I just want it to be something that will really help them in the long run. But hey, I'll listen to any proposal.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)who never got a dime: Tulsa.
america is (mostly) full of shit on this issue, and has always been...always some excuse. but i do like your idea of investing in poverty-stricken areas.
sub.theory
(652 posts)Once that box is open there will be no closing it again. There will be no end to people claiming that they deserve reparations because someone now dead did something to their ancestors. I understand the reasoning behind why some progressives want to try and make certain amends for slavery. It's a noble idea, but one that would be disastrous in practice. Are the Irish going to be given something for their ancestor's suffering? Are the Italians? What about the Native Americans? Are the Japanese Americans? Will Mexican Americans? You see, where does it ever stop? It's a bad, bad idea to open this box...
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)nor did the living victims of the Tulsa riots. there has ALWAYS been one reason reparations were never paid. it is the same reason then as it is today.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)by killing himself.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)And we'll do the reperations afer he's dead?
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)which is about exactly as likely.
But if they don't try it I get credit for scaring Pence away with my brave defiance!
Something like that eh?
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)out, claimed we all misunderstood.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)I'd love to see him in jail for fighting government forces. Unfortunately, there will be no reparations and he damn well knows it so the whole thing is totally fake.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)....and his little dog too.
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)Other than continue to excrete through his mouth.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt
packman
(16,296 posts)of being on the "DO NOT ADMIT" list of foreigners barred from entering the United Kingdom. They have him tagged as a hate monger and an undesirable. I knew there was something I admired about the English.
Hey, what about Sean Hannity and his promise to be water boarded and what right-winger conservative mouth was it that said they'd leave the country if Obama was reelected?
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)We're waiting...
jalan48
(13,883 posts)This is all so confusing.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Would he get a severe headache for a nickel? Ingrown toenail for 7 cents? Kidney stone for 8 cents? Hemorrhoids for 4 cents?
Brave, dedicated to the cause, guy.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,276 posts)we stole from the slaves. Why, that would be downright un-Murican! We deserve to steal all the free labor we can get our grubby hands on!
Enough of this blowhard idiot.
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)Seriously, I am tired of such toxic human beings spewing lies so constantly. There was a time where people like Michael Savage would be comitted to institutions.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)LeftinOH
(5,358 posts)just to watch him 'fight' big tough "Reparationist" actors.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)In the first place there is no way in hell any President could push such a misguided act through Congress.
George II
(67,782 posts)....cowering in a corner somewhere, whimpering "help me!"
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Attributed to General George Patton Jr
Except that guy actually stood up for his country, vs Weiner, who prefers the Donald Trump school of bravery.
cindyperry
(151 posts)he be drinking the idiot water what a asshole trying to start something where there is nothing
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts). . .we shouldn't get in his way. But make sure he doesn't drag innocent people down with him.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)He is a propagandist. And the crap he spews sinks in with a percentage of his listeners.
Lying on-air should be against the law. Starting with Savage and Fox News.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)And he can take his fans with him.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)With the large black population in the Southern states, reparations would amount to a multi-trillion dollar transfer to the states of the Old Confederacy. I love pointing that out to my fellow Southerners and seeing there racist brains get tied up in knots.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)They have wild imaginations. They are just looking for a reason to be angry and communicate threats in every direction. Usually, those are the biggest wimps around too.
I'm still waiting for that Texas preacher to set himself on fire. The coward backed out and said he didn't mean it after gay marriage was legalized. Before that, he was threatening (promising) to set himself on fire if it was legalized.
All of these types talk a big game, but push comes to shove and they are the biggest wimps around and will outright hide. And they certainly would never put themselves in danger, hurt themselves, or die for anything.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)are doing it solely for the $$$ and couldn't give a shit less about the psychos their lies might incite to homicide/suicide.
NickB79
(19,258 posts)Stewart skewered them superbly a few days ago: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/stewart-obama-youre-running-time-confiscate-guns-throw-people-fema-camps-video/
Their core audience is so far down the rabbit hole they've come to believe this shit with their heart and soul.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)I on the other hand will boldly put my life on the line when the Alien Insect Overlords from Neptune try to take our women...
What?!... Really??!!... When did they??!!!... From where??? Oh, well... Triton... that's different.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)for everyone's benefit. stupid POS of white privileged ......!!!!!!!!!!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Affirmative Action and Welfare will be ended by Reparations. The plan for Reconstruction was for the freed slaves to have their own land, communities and rule. For themselves, not anyone else. Nothing to fear there.
White Americans have their own. They don't have to fall for demagogues. Do what is equal, what is fair, and be done with it.
As for those who rave against the Minimum Wage increase, I won over a Teabagger with the argument that it ends Welfare, Food Stamps and Medicare. Because with a good wage, one doesn't need to go to the government and beg for what their wages should pay for.
I ended up with, "Do you think low wage workers want this hassle? Don't you think they'd rather pick their own food at the store and pay for their own medical care of choice? Not live at the behest of the state??" That sealed it for that bagger.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/05/1282352/-Minimum-wage-hike-would-cut-food-stamp-costs-beyond-Republicans-dreams
This is conservatives in America prolonging what they say they don't like by fighting what they consider wild-eyed liberal plans. Liberals and progressive are about good governance and freedom, which all could enjoy more of and more peace by just letting people be to live their lives. Everytime the oppressed are denied independence by proper payment, it creates more government intrusion in their lives and that of others.
JMHO.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)until after all the guns have been confiscated.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)....... from a guy who didn't serve in the military.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)feel bitter that he raised their hopes with his empty grandstanding.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Nitram
(22,877 posts)Betty
(1,352 posts)Like that monk did years ago? That would show he's serious, and not a trash talking coward.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)..without ever implementing reparations, taking all their guns, instituting Sharia Law federally or the other predictions they have been railing on and on about on hate radio?
Will they admit they were wrong?
Naw, who are we kidding....they'll just do a quick bait and switch...look over here, evil Hillary (but hopefully Bernie), she will force all American men to live under her Women's Lib Femanazi dictatorship! Oh...also take all your guns.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)since he has so much of a death wish...
LeftishBrit
(41,210 posts)they would very likely be treated as a potential terrorist/ supporter of terrorism, and at the least, placed on a no-fly list.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I'm willing to pay up to $50 for decent seats.
47of74
(18,470 posts)...just like Ted If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year. Nugent.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)uprising against a fascist corporate government ? Probably not.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Russian Jewish American Michael Alan Weiner whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Michael is "passing" for "white" in his role as a seller of fear and hate. You can read more about Michael here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Savage
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)take anyone with him.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)to "jail the antiwar movement" and critics of Bush. He had a petition calling for it on the front page of his website.
But the minute his party loses the White House, he suddenly changes his tune on rhetoric.