Bullies don't stop until someone stands up to them

And the Republicans are the bullies at the schoolyard.

Give up lunch money today and they'll demand more tomorrow.
Try to talk reasonably and they'll curse and call you names.
Turn your back and they'll conk you on the back of the head.

We must stop caving in to these bullies.

Giving bullies what they want won't mollify them, it just makes them more determined to keep pushing us until they push us off the cliff.

The only way is to square your shoulders, stand up to them and then they'll back down like the cowards all bullies really are.

And it's past time that this is done.

a swift kick in the nuts

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I've used that before when I was young and it is very effective.

In college, I took Aikido for awhile and prefer it's philosophy of using the attacker's momentum of being off-balance to "help" them inevitably fall.

Either way, it starts with standing firm and not backing down.

the Obama administration has made insane screaming the new main stream and rationality is now the new extremism.

That's it, exactly!

Can we see Beck as a Senator, a President? WTF people listen to him? He ain't shit.

The screamers won by screaming insane rants.

Van Jones on tape calling Republicans "assholes" wouldn't play well come mid-term elections, or even the next general election in terms of garnering any moderate Republican votes that were to be had. I tend to think that's more the reason than Beck and teabaggers. It was right on, what he said, but not a smart thing to do at that sort of event.

As for the public option, there's so much noise around this, nobody knows what the truth of the matter is. I'm reserving judgement until Obama's speech on Wednesday.

seems to have played ok.

They change their tactics and they'll even gang up against anyone who threatens them, especially if they reach any level of authority where it isn't easy to deal with them in a confrontational way. They will lie and cheat and stab people in the back and slander them and ruin their reputations just to get rid of them.

Bullies will pick on the people who are the most professional and the hardest workers who might initially react by trying to improve or work even harder and trying to keep a low profile. But the bullies don't want that. They want to actually get rid of these workers because they are the most reliable. Bullies care only about their power, not about their jobs or professionalism. They will take credit for anything that goes well and they will spread lies about the people who really do the job. They kiss up and kick down although they'll give preferential treatment to those who kiss their asses no matter how incompetent their work is, and demote and discourage competent people and hound them until they can get them fired or the person quits.

So when faced with a bully you can confront them and make them back down, but that's temporary. They'll simply try a different tactic, which means you will have to constantly fight their power trips.

Bullies are interchangeable with sociopaths. They never change.

Your depiction of their operation is absolutely on point.

It is a constant fight and as they change tactics, we need to keep fighting.

and publicly lauds them as "close friends."

Why does it surprise anyone that this emboldens these people?

Wish someone who is truly a "close friend" would gently tell him to get over it asap.

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