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sellitman

(11,605 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 09:17 AM Jun 2014

The best rant I've ever read. Period

This beats all! It's on the Prisoner swap.

All I can say is wow!

Negotiating with Terrorists:

Cut <Are we really going to do this?

Is this what it’s finally come down to, is it really?

Look at yourselves, you silly selfish bastards.

Look. At. Yourselves.

Go on, do it, find a mirror and look into your own dead zombie eyes and see the empty void looking back.

This revolting, disgusting display of hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy, is this what we’ve finally become?

Are we now so filled with foul bilious hatred, are we now so consumed with soul-destroying fear, do we now despise our own selves so much that we would actually protest the return of one of our own? Is that it?

Is that what we’ve become?>>

More:

Link:

http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/06/negotiating-with-terrorists.html?m=1

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The best rant I've ever read. Period (Original Post) sellitman Jun 2014 OP
It Really Is This Simple. He still is one of our own. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #1
It's so apparent sellitman Jun 2014 #2
Its Democrats vs Lobbyists. They just call themselves Republicans. misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #3
Absolutely agree. Wright has hit it OUT OF THE PARK!! lamp_shade Jun 2014 #4
I saw that earlier today, and I have to agree! The_Commonist Jun 2014 #5
Awesome piece. freshwest Jun 2014 #6
That is an absolute must read. Thank you. LoisB Jun 2014 #7

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
1. It Really Is This Simple. He still is one of our own.
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 09:35 AM
Jun 2014

America sent him there. America brings him home.
Dead, alive, sane, insane, hero or deserter.
I don't know what actually happened to cause him to exit his post.
Neither does the media, the President nor the Generals who command this soldier.

Thanks for the Post

sellitman

(11,605 posts)
2. It's so apparent
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 09:42 AM
Jun 2014

No matter what President Obama does the crazies on the right will find a way to turn it into an attack.

They make my skin crawl

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
3. Its Democrats vs Lobbyists. They just call themselves Republicans.
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:00 AM
Jun 2014

They are the true threat to this Nation.

The_Commonist

(2,518 posts)
5. I saw that earlier today, and I have to agree!
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 11:27 AM
Jun 2014

I often find myself reading the first couple of paragraphs of a rant like that, to get the gist, and then moving on. I read every word of that one, and it was amazing.

Naturally, my favorite section was this one, which applies to just about everything:

"Oh, I get it. I understand that frightened people become more and more irrational, especially when they are allowed, encouraged, to feed incestuously on each other’s fear. And I get that they are afraid. I can see it in their faces, I can hear it in their voices. I get that they’re afraid of change. I get that they’re afraid of the future. I get that they’re afraid of the past. And I get that they’re afraid of the present. I get that they’re afraid of losing power and privilege and prestige. I get that they’re afraid of their capricious and childishly vengeful god. I get that they’re afraid of different races and different cultures and different accents and different religions and different sexual orientations and different viewpoints and different politics. I get it, they’ve screamed their small fears over and over and only a dead man could possibly miss it.

"I get that they are so consumed with rage and so filled with naked hate and so programmed with their diseased ideology that it poisons their minds like a computer chip submerged in acid.

"I get that they are so utterly terrified of the world that they piss themselves in abject fear at the mere thought of going to the grocery store without a goddamned gun stuck in their pants like an extra oversized prick."

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