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Politics It's Not Enough That He's A Nazi Who Wants To Euthanize Old Folks And Turn Everyone Else Into Socialist Zombies
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:39 PM
No... Now President Obama wants to kill Sarah Palin's Down syndrome baby with his "death panel." Says Sarah Palin:
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
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Can we just ask what the fuck is she on and leave it at that? Has anyone checked the rye flour for fungus lately? There's something not quite right going on here.
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Welcome to political messaging. This is what conservatives, by their very nature, excel at, and progressives, by our very nature, struggle with. It's easier to stir fear; takes a much more nuanced message to inspire progress.
Make no mistake; we are making progress. But, that message, the one Palin is wielding? That message works. And, I fear we are in no position to counter it.
Make no mistake; we are making progress. But, that message, the one Palin is wielding? That message works. And, I fear we are in no position to counter it.
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I told you she would wave her retard in everyone's face and scold like the harpie bitch she is. Her appeal is to the brain dead religious fanatics that are dying out because their children are fleeing them. Fuck you and your fucking lies Palin!
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What. The. Fuck.
What must it feel like to you your whole worldview be driven by the fear of the irrational?
What must it feel like to you your whole worldview be driven by the fear of the irrational?
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Wow. Let's try that again. "What must it feel like to have your whole worldview be driven by the fear of the irrational?"
That's better.
That's better.
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What do you do when your political opponents talk like crazy people? How do you counter that kind of mind-boggling stupidity?
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She's beginning to lose her shock value.
Ideally, six months from now, she'll be screeching nonsense like this and people will be all "Sarah WHO?"
Ideally, six months from now, she'll be screeching nonsense like this and people will be all "Sarah WHO?"
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@9: Reply, "You're only talking like this because you lost an election, your husband is cheating on you and you're getting a divorce. We understand. Psycho."
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Wow, is she talking out public health care or the system we have now, because it sounds a lot like the system we have now to me.
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Clearly a lunatic, beyond any possible doubt. And yet, there are still millions of people who support her "message" and see her as the salvation of our country. How is this possible? What are we missing?
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AAARRRRGH Ifuckinghatethisshit! I hate that she said it, I hate the fact that people will believe it even more. These fucking people...they are the true enemies of a democratic society. Refusing to have informed, reasoned debate with your opponents, treating propaganda and speculation as fact, using fear as the only measurement of a policy's worth...these are the things that will destroy our country.
I don't know what we should do when our opponents talk like crazy people, because I'm not crazy, so my mind doesn't work like that. I guess just keep on repeating "Shut the fuck up, you're lying!" over and over again? Don't know if that's effective, but it feels good, and we do know that dumbshit crazy conservatives are receptive to loud voices and accusation.
I don't know what we should do when our opponents talk like crazy people, because I'm not crazy, so my mind doesn't work like that. I guess just keep on repeating "Shut the fuck up, you're lying!" over and over again? Don't know if that's effective, but it feels good, and we do know that dumbshit crazy conservatives are receptive to loud voices and accusation.
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Sarah, dear, maybe you haven't noticed, but no one cares what you think.
Love your hair, you had some darling little outfits during the campaign, and no one wears a pair of waders like you (Hotcha!) but the fact remains: No one cares what you think. (Well, maybe Lord Basil, but he's not well.)
So be a dear, and head on back to that big welfare state up north. Next time you're in Seattle, make sure not to call.
Love your hair, you had some darling little outfits during the campaign, and no one wears a pair of waders like you (Hotcha!) but the fact remains: No one cares what you think. (Well, maybe Lord Basil, but he's not well.)
So be a dear, and head on back to that big welfare state up north. Next time you're in Seattle, make sure not to call.
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her mindless minions love this crap, it makes no sense, it's 180 degrees from reality and it pokes fun at & stokes fear and distrust of the mean scary socialist black guy "president" man.
the queen of la-la land has spoken to her subjects.
the queen of la-la land has spoken to her subjects.
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"...so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
Wait, I thought that was how private medical insurance works. A system that is not based on one's 'level of productivity in society' is nothing but pinko soshlizum.
Why is it that I can no longer tell what it is that batshitcrazy populist nutjobs are lobbying for?
Wait, I thought that was how private medical insurance works. A system that is not based on one's 'level of productivity in society' is nothing but pinko soshlizum.
Why is it that I can no longer tell what it is that batshitcrazy populist nutjobs are lobbying for?
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It's obvious that none have you have READ THE BILL. This health care legislation is Barack Hussein Obama's enabling act. Once this goes through, look for conservatives to disappear left and right, including Sarah. I admire her courage in speaking out against this potential Marxist Fascist death machine that will leave the government in complete control of our lives, and enforced homosexuality in our schools.
If there is an election in 2012 (no real guarantee of that, is there?) I'll work every minute of every day to ensure that she is elected.
If there is an election in 2012 (no real guarantee of that, is there?) I'll work every minute of every day to ensure that she is elected.
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Wow, she's right - that WOULD be an evil system! Good thing that isn't in the plan. Crisis averted!
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"Once this goes through, look for conservatives to disappear left and right, including Sarah."
Now that would be a plan I could get behind. Who needs single payer if all the conservatives are disappeared?
Basil, be sure to tell me who you want to leave your caftans and Star Wars figurines to in case you, well, you know.....
Now that would be a plan I could get behind. Who needs single payer if all the conservatives are disappeared?
Basil, be sure to tell me who you want to leave your caftans and Star Wars figurines to in case you, well, you know.....
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@26, Perhaps you can quote the part of the bill that enforces homosexuality in schools. I want to make sure the language is specific enough. Life would have been so much more grand if my high school had fifth period gay orgies instead of P.E.
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@17 - I'm inclined to do what Brain Baird said on Rachel Maddow last night, laugh. Go to the town halls, go to the protests and anywhere else you might be confronted with these lizard people and their idiocy and laugh in their face, public ridicule is a surprisingly powerful way to shut people up.
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As bat shit crazy as Palin is, there are way too many in this country who voted for W TWICE that have drank the kool aid and buy this verbal diarrhea hook, line and sinker. I have family members that think Palin's a political genius and buy the socialist BS tag the right are painting on Obama. Palin knows this, which is why she's so restless in her efforts to maintain attention in the media. She's clearly gearing up for a 2012 campaign for the White House - this is only the beginning.
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Could Lord Basil and Loveschild possibly be the same person? Surely TWO people of that mindset don't actually exist - do they?
Enforced homosexuality in schools! I wish!
Enforced homosexuality in schools! I wish!
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switzerblog @ 27 -- But ya gotta admit, a Death Panel is a great premise for a reality series.
Or a SciFi series for that matter.
Or a Harry Potter sequel.
Where is Vincent Price when we really need him?
Or a SciFi series for that matter.
Or a Harry Potter sequel.
Where is Vincent Price when we really need him?
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Dear Sarah,
You are more retarded than Trig and no one has euthanized or aborted you yet.
Thank you,
Y.F.
p.s. Lord Basil is Mr. Poe. I'd put money on it.
You are more retarded than Trig and no one has euthanized or aborted you yet.
Thank you,
Y.F.
p.s. Lord Basil is Mr. Poe. I'd put money on it.
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Tell Sarah to stop running for KC Exec.
Oh, wait, that's Susan ... sorry, hard to keep all the evolution-denying anti-science anti-America birthers straight.
Oh, wait, that's Susan ... sorry, hard to keep all the evolution-denying anti-science anti-America birthers straight.
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Seattle needs Down Syndrome babies to boost price of Vulcan condos and to ride light rail.
Come to Seattle.
Escape the Death Panel.
Ride LINK.
Come to Seattle.
Escape the Death Panel.
Ride LINK.
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If gubmint health care truly leads to euthanizing seniors, wouldn't we already be doing it? Every senior citizen of this nation has been receiving gubmint health care for decades now, I have yet to hear of any of them standing before "death panels" or being euthanized.
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Please consider that there are liberals out there that have had a sibling with Down Syndrome (she passed away due to a heart condition common among people with Trisomy 21) reading Slog. They are Pro-Choice, they hate Sarah Palin and her inane banter, but they also feel some of the comments above border on being a little insensitive to the developmentally disabled community.
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@28 - I have guns. The Obamaniacs will have to fight house to house to get me. And since conservatives are, by definition patriots, most of us are pretty well armed. Thank God the 2nd Amendment allows for militias to be formed at this kind of tyranny.
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Before we pay a trillion dollars for this "Death Panel" thingie, shouldn't we whack a test subject with it to see if it even works or not?
How about Orly Taitz, for starters?
How about Orly Taitz, for starters?
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I'm surprised nobody pointed out that this is the scum who, not one month ago, said that the media should respect our troops by not "making stuff up".
But then again, you probably all remember that. It's not like the people who talk about Reagan as if Iran-Contra never happened.
But then again, you probably all remember that. It's not like the people who talk about Reagan as if Iran-Contra never happened.
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I was thinking of redoing my basement in death panel. Now I think I'll just go with more of an oak finish.
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OMG ... she is parading her downs syndrome baby around for political gain ... still.
"Look at my Downs Syndrome baby! I'm an expert on the human condition and compassion!"
It's almost funny how much of a circus she creates.
"Look at my Downs Syndrome baby! I'm an expert on the human condition and compassion!"
It's almost funny how much of a circus she creates.
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@47 - You may have guns, but do you have cruise missiles, UAV's, submarines, tanks, C4, attack helicopters, napalm, and nuclear bombs? No, you don't, and don't think for one second that you or anybody else will last one hour in an armed insurrection against the US Government. Didn't you learn anything from what happened in Waco?
But please, by all means keep pounding your chest and stamping your feet like you were for the last eight years while your neocon idols were secretly funneling your "hard earned tax dollars™" into their cronies pockets and paying mercenaries to smuggle guns into a war zone to arm the very people we were fighting.
But please, by all means keep pounding your chest and stamping your feet like you were for the last eight years while your neocon idols were secretly funneling your "hard earned tax dollars™" into their cronies pockets and paying mercenaries to smuggle guns into a war zone to arm the very people we were fighting.
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Oh Super Jesse, don't mind Basil: He's not well. He's lived in the same mildew-ridden basement apartment on Capitol Hill since 1977, and doesn't get out much. His "guns" are a set of ornamental flintlock pistols that came off of a bicentennial wall plaque from Sears.
He's harmless, really. And sweet, in an odd sort of way. He makes his own caftans on the sewing machine his grandmother left him. They're really the only thing that he's comfortable in, what with his chafing problem.
He's harmless, really. And sweet, in an odd sort of way. He makes his own caftans on the sewing machine his grandmother left him. They're really the only thing that he's comfortable in, what with his chafing problem.
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So this "death panel", is it like Survivor and the panel votes people off of life or can we text in to some number to vote?
I mean hell, this could be awesome entertainment!!
I mean hell, this could be awesome entertainment!!
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No kidding Catalina, he's a pretty obvious troll, I just really felt like pissing all over that ridiculous meme that somehow our 2nd amendment is there to allow people to arm themselves for a revolution. Because if that were the case, judging by the fact that it's pretty illegal to own any of the hardware I listed above as a private citizen, we've pretty much given that right away already.
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Thinking is hard - that's why Palin and her ilk are having so much success in attracting audiences of sycophants who will resist to their dying breath reading or watching anything that deviates from their chosen path of stupidhood. Whoever said "don't confuse me with facts" (from a yesteryear comedian) was absolutely in mesh with these knee-jerk reactionaries who are willing to sink the boat they are riding in just to make their pointless point.
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Palin will say anything to stay in the spotlight even if it is furthering Republican lies about healthcare reform. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
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Folksy kitsch will only get you so far, particularly when you aren't bright and your message is essentially negative.
People like Coulter and Malkin, annoying as they are, can stay in the spotlight because they are educated and can at least hold up their end of an argument. Sarah never interacts with people, she just blabbers out prepared remarks in that horrid voice and leaves.
Outside of politics, I really don't know what she can do. I don't think she has the talent or the temperament for radio or TV, outside of reading the news or editorials, and she'd need a ghost writer with the patience of Job to push out a book. But since she really hasn't done much with her life, what would she say? It would be like me writing a book.
Personally, I think Palin is McCain's revenge on the GOP for the shoddy way they treated him when he ran against Bush. I don't know why people don't get that.
People like Coulter and Malkin, annoying as they are, can stay in the spotlight because they are educated and can at least hold up their end of an argument. Sarah never interacts with people, she just blabbers out prepared remarks in that horrid voice and leaves.
Outside of politics, I really don't know what she can do. I don't think she has the talent or the temperament for radio or TV, outside of reading the news or editorials, and she'd need a ghost writer with the patience of Job to push out a book. But since she really hasn't done much with her life, what would she say? It would be like me writing a book.
Personally, I think Palin is McCain's revenge on the GOP for the shoddy way they treated him when he ran against Bush. I don't know why people don't get that.
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Catalina, I think it goes without saying that a book about your life would be far more entertaining and insightful than Sarah Palin.
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"Personally, I think Palin is McCain's revenge on the GOP for the shoddy way they treated him when he ran against Bush. I don't know why people don't get that."
I always suspected McCain sabotaged the 2008 election on purpose. I think perhaps he was hiding something in his medical records and realized he'd not live out the term and therefore have his revenge when 'President Palin' took over....or that the Palin & the 'Real Americans' of the Republican party would so outrage the American voters with their incompetence that Obama would win by a landslide. Either way McCain wins and the GOP loses.
I always suspected McCain sabotaged the 2008 election on purpose. I think perhaps he was hiding something in his medical records and realized he'd not live out the term and therefore have his revenge when 'President Palin' took over....or that the Palin & the 'Real Americans' of the Republican party would so outrage the American voters with their incompetence that Obama would win by a landslide. Either way McCain wins and the GOP loses.
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You forget, Doldo, that all of us who are armed WON'T be shooting at the government forces, should that dark day ever arrive. You "Guerrilla" forces, may find yourselves hunted by both sides.
Just sayin', ASSHOLE......
Just sayin', ASSHOLE......
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@63
If you think that 1000 average American conservatives put together have as many balls,or brains for that matter, as a single Viet Cong soldier, you are wrong.
If you think that 1000 average American conservatives put together have as many balls,or brains for that matter, as a single Viet Cong soldier, you are wrong.
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Catalina Vel-DuRay @60, thank you for your theory, far more plausible than any that I've dreamed, as to how Palin got tapped for veep.
Until then, I've only imagined some maroon-cloaked Bilderberg agent Jedi mind-tricking Rove as he was walking into some smoke-filled planning event.
Until then, I've only imagined some maroon-cloaked Bilderberg agent Jedi mind-tricking Rove as he was walking into some smoke-filled planning event.
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If the mainstream media was so damn liberal, or for that matter held this country to high and not low standards, she would have never been taken seriously enough to fly as McCain's VP candidate. But no.
Now she is a star for the hateful, paranoid extreme christian right and we have to deal with this bullshit, her working to further polarize this country. And she is never going to go away. She is going to be with us all our lives because apparently her extremist, America-hating, rape victim-despising, mean, vengeful, resentful, anti-intellectual, scandal-ridden past is not awful enough to deflate her popularity and status. Thanks a lot McCain, thanks a lot to our mainstream media that would lend credibility to a house plant if it were controversial and entertaining enough
Now she is a star for the hateful, paranoid extreme christian right and we have to deal with this bullshit, her working to further polarize this country. And she is never going to go away. She is going to be with us all our lives because apparently her extremist, America-hating, rape victim-despising, mean, vengeful, resentful, anti-intellectual, scandal-ridden past is not awful enough to deflate her popularity and status. Thanks a lot McCain, thanks a lot to our mainstream media that would lend credibility to a house plant if it were controversial and entertaining enough
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Lord Basil, you have guns? Are they made of plastic and squirt water? Is that how you're going to take down tyranny? Somehow I don't see that happening. Wouldn't that kind of get in the way of your full time job trolling slog?
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Basil can hardly take down his murphy bed, let alone tyranny.
Just treat him with therapeutic courtesy, and you'll have him eating out of your hand. Just make sure you wash well afterwards.
Just treat him with therapeutic courtesy, and you'll have him eating out of your hand. Just make sure you wash well afterwards.
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ummm... i may not agree with her position...but the ignorance and hatred of some of these posts baffle me. Calling her kid a retard and talking about putting her and her kid down?? Way to spread the love and acceptance people! wow. Is that what the liberal party stands for?
Makes me want to listen to her more, if the other side can't make a point without vulgarity or just plain ugly evil opinions. Obviously none of you know anyone that has an extra chromosome and is still a functioning member of society. I think everyone who posted on this must be about 12 years old....well, maybe not...even children aren't that cruel...idiots
Makes me want to listen to her more, if the other side can't make a point without vulgarity or just plain ugly evil opinions. Obviously none of you know anyone that has an extra chromosome and is still a functioning member of society. I think everyone who posted on this must be about 12 years old....well, maybe not...even children aren't that cruel...idiots
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this side of the conservatives is really sad and hopeless. They let politics ,not human wellbeing and justice rule their agendas. They say and do the most outrageous,cruel,unfair carteless things and then have the nerve to point fingers if a "liberal" gives them a taste of their own medicine(which is really lowering yourselves so please refrain or you're just letting these types beat you)
As liberals we can't lead by following a desperate regressive example. We must,by example, show them the way foward. What a wonderful thing to help the PROGRESS not only of our country,but humanity also,by being in the rigth side of the argument.
As liberals we can't lead by following a desperate regressive example. We must,by example, show them the way foward. What a wonderful thing to help the PROGRESS not only of our country,but humanity also,by being in the rigth side of the argument.
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