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(D) Diana DeGette*
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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(D) Adam Frisch
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
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(R) Sergei Matveyuk
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July 12, 2015 09:48 AM UTC
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Well, bigotry, racism , and xenophobia IS an art form . . .
(. . . at least as practiced by these GOP schmucks.)
Expect to see plenty of Confederate banners at Trump (and likely a few other) campaign rallies.
Manure does attract flies, producing more maggots
Well Tanc isn't going to get elected to anything so he has to keep his D list rightie wacko celebrity alive by running his mouth. Think of him as to Trump as a middle school play is to Broadway. Bartels also has a fresh piece in today's Post on the extent of how baffled and annoyed the party grownups are by AG Cofffman's 3 month turn around on House and all the attendant shenanigans. My favorite quote:
Stansbery's piece is rife with literary allusions. Another is, speaking of Coffman:
Anyone want to cast that one?
Anyone want to cast Lord of the Flies? Of course I do. Even though I think it's more of a "Game of Thrones" melodrama.
I had to refresh my memory on the LotF characters.
House himself would be Ralph – the leader of the group, who tries to keep it "civilized'.
Coffman would be Jack – who leads a group in mutiny by playing on the boys' baser instincts.
Tancredo would be Maurice – a bigun who becomes one of Jack's key supporters.
Mizel would be Roger, a "A sly, secretive boy who displays, early on, a cruelty toward the weak and vulnerable."
Marilyn Marks would be Simon, "The visionary of the group. Given to fainting spells and spending time alone in the jungle, he is considered odd by the other boys."
You notice that I haven't cast anyone as Piggy, who dies in the novel. I've never seen the movie version. The one that "dies" in this melodrama would have to be Julie Naye, whose reputation, and probably livelihood as a Republican events organizer is completely compromised. Who can believe anything she says now?
** Awhile back, I cast characters in Game of Houses. The establishment Republicans are the Lannisters, the ruling family. The Tea Party folks are Stannis' faction. The Libertarians are the Tyrells. Becky Mizel is an obvious Cersei, Marks more of a Littlefinger/ Melisandre manipulator, and….that's as far as I'm going to strain that analogy. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have a Danerys, to fly in on a dragon and stop the wheel from spinning. I also don't know the Republican establishment well enough to pick a Tyrion, my favorite character in GoT. But feel free to chime in, unless you actually have a life and something better to do.
Nope. Chaps was born to play piggy! (Rush, if the company ever tours nationally.)
I didn't really expect anyone to rise to that challenge. But now you have. I read the book over 50 years ago and
probablymissed most of the allegory. According to the Wikipedia article on it, Piggy "is the most intellectual of the boys, frequently appealing to reason" and "Piggy has been described as "the only adult-type figure on the island"”. There's more, but that already eliminates anyone I can think of in the OutHouse circus. Perhaps there was a Piggy somewhere in the background, but if so he/she didn't succeed any more than poor Piggy did.Speaking as a Democrat, the combination of Coffmangate, Donald Trump and Tancredo is the best thing that happened to my party in a long time. Trump fo candidate!
Tank is gonna be the Donald's Sec of Homeland Security overseeing the building of the Fence.
My guess is that TT will want to hire the same group of guys who built his home theater??
they reportedly do good work, cheap!
All of this is irrelevant.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama is going to suspend the US Constitution and declare himself "President for Life™".
There will be no elections in 2016.
But, as a sop to Dimocrats, he will put Hills on the $20.
Trump gives voters a taste of his mad math skillz….he tweeted out a pic of the crowd at his Phoenix, AZ rally.
Only problem – the venue only holds 4100.
finally…a candidate (Trump) who reflects the true nature of the Republican party…
all about me…
all about money….
all about money for me….
Brian Sullivan of NBC, well known lackey for the billionaire set, says he doesn't see how "taxing a small percentage of Americans is going to help"…
really, Brian? How about giving a little tax relief to those who actually need it…the middle and working classes? If the billionaires and multi-national corporations were paying their share of the "cost of society", we just might be able to provide a quality education for all our children.
"Job creators", my ass. These wealthy fuckers are "misery creators"…nothing more.
and while I am ranting….
I have a suggestion for Tancredo and the guy holding up the "America is Full" shirt…
If both you assholes left the country, it would make room for two actual human beings to come and take your places..
it's OK….we won't miss you…
Yes, those incredible job creators: a thriving middle class with disposable income…
That was good. Usually I have trouble sitting through TED talks even though they are so short.
He's a ‘point-o-one’ percenter who thinks 'the pitchforks are coming…'
Well that's what generally happens in banana republics when the misery of the masses and the obscenity of the proportion of wealth, power and privilege sucked up by the tiny elite gets to a certain flash point.
I wouldn't worry though. This is America and our Joe Six Pack seems to be incredibly stupid, willfully ignorant and easily manipulated compared to the workers of other countries. Just wave the flag and call the pols who want to do something for him socialists, claim that the members of the tiny elite are his best friends and create good jobs despite decades worth of evidence that they do the opposite and he'll go right on voting against his own interests and his children's future.
Heck, I remember in 2010 they actually got Joe Six Pack to believe his taxes had gone up under Obama when they'd clearly gone down. The only tax break the elite and their GOP lackeys ever wanted to end was the only one that benefited Joe Six Pack; the payroll tax cut. They claimed we couldn't afford that one even though it put money directly back into the economy instantly while they defended their own breaks saying the money would be invested to create jobs. They never did. They put money into offshore accounts and other shelters that never did a damn thing for anyone but themselves. The wealth gap just ballooned faster and faster. Joe Six Pack bought it anyway, year after year after year, like Charlie Brown going after that football over and over no matter how many times Lucy yanked it.
It's like taking candy from babies. I'd like to see all the immigrants we can get and see them become voting citizens because they generally come from countries where workers have a clue.
Don't forget Joe the Plumber!
Damn. Pretty sure John McCain couldn't physically do that. But it does kind of capture how much he leaned on "Joe" for his working class bonafides during his 2008 campaign. Even though I don't like memes that imply political opponents are gay as an implied insult. And yes, I get that it would be a far greater insult to the two men, and that's why it's funny.
"Joe the Plumber", who wasn't named Joe, who wasn't a plumber, has been "reduced" to taking a union job at Chrysler, courtesy of Obama's rescuing the auto manufacturing business. No word on whether McCain still has a man crush on "Joe".
I didn't get gay from the picture, just a serious man crush (hey, we've all had one. After Obama's clemency announcement this morning…just saying') by the once-maverick McCain.
Just from an observers point of view…
I didn't take the sex part to be a "gay" thing kind of insult…I don't typically consider gender selection by human beings a topic for discussion any more..
the word it evokes to me is something like "cloying" and…well..something you would want to hit with a toilet plunger to get it off you.. .
I tend to approach these things from a schools frame of reference, which is probably not an appropriate frame for a free-wheeling political blog. In school anymore, kids are coming in curious and experimenting, and questioning their gender preferences. That's always been true, but now it's no longer a cause for shame, or an excuse for mockery and bullying.
So schools policy is that when a student volunteers, "Hey, I'm gay" or one of the other "alphabet soup" letters LBGTQ etc. , then it's OK to talk about that preference, discuss, gossip, etc. But if that self-identification isn't there, as teachers we squelch talking about anyone's sexual habits or preferences. We let kids "come out", protect them if they do, but don't push one way or the other.
This protects heterosexual students, as well, who used to be slut-shamed or pressured into being sexually active to prove something to someone.
I think that businesses that have sexual harassment policies do something similar. Anyway, that's where I'm coming from, and it's fine if that's not where you all are. I know I enjoy pushing the envelope a bit here, being risque without being actually vulgar. I wouldn't want that atmosphere to go away in an effort to avoid offending people.
Fortunately, it won't. I just don't have that much power.
So go for the nekkid McCain in the throes of a man crush. I'll just cringe, laugh, and move on.
That photo screams 'cringe' …
Well, it is meant as parody: "a piece of writing, music, etc., that imitates the style of someone or something else in an amusing way" or "a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation." Ergo, a famous Rolling Stone cover of John and Yoko morphed into John and Joe. Everyone's entitled to their own interpretation of it, of course, but I think it's helpful to highlight that context.
You just made coffee come out my nose, Duke! That's an even better visual than McCain standing on his front porch yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
Don't ask, don't tell
This is America and our Joe Six Pack seems to be incredibly stupid, willfully ignorant and easily manipulated compared to the workers of other countries –
That's because Joe Six Pack still believes that one day his ship will come in – be it some rich uncle he never knew of dies and leaves him a fortune, or his Powerball lottery ticket pays off, or he's in some catastrophic accident and Frank Azar gets him several million dollars. It's the American Dream.
They're willing to guarantee that the Bushes and the Romney and the Kennedy (in fairness, let's keep this bipartisan) descendants never have to work a day in their lives by getting rid of the estate tax (a/k/a "the death tax" in Tea Party Speak) because some day Joe Six Pack's unknown uncle, lottery ticket or catastrophic injury lawsuit may pay off and when that happens, he will benefit.
Yep. Pathetic. Especially since he'd be just fine if he hit the jackpot or found out he had a long lost rich dead relative even if he did have to pay a little more in taxes. The top .01 % wouldn't be looking to shelter all that extra money if they needed or wanted to spend more than they already do without it. The problem for them is they have more than they know what to do with but don't want to pay taxes anyway. I think it's a religious conviction. Their 11th commandment is "Only the little people shall pay taxes." Actually it's their first. The rest all move down a notch.
If Donald Trump had been a godsend economically, Atlantic City would be heaven on Earth.
It's not about money alone. You left out the racism part. The Donald can unify the two blocks in the modern GOP: the bigots and Wall Street. Now he just has to rope in the religious nuts and he'll have pulled the hat trick.
Trump's not particularly religious himself, but he'll still get nutso points for hating on Islam.
Absolutely. The social stuff, racism and bigotry have been the handiest tools for getting Joe Six Pack's vote. Those "other" people are taking your hard earned tax dollars (never mind Joe's probably only paying payroll taxes, the one's the Rs insisted be brought back up to pre-cut level, and nothing to nothing much in actual federal income tax after deductions) or, if the other is from south of the border, taking your jobs, committing all the crime along with black folks. Then there's the religious stuff. Joe won't vote for baby killers or Godless libs, wants prayer back in public school where it belongs but only if it's the right kind, thinks God wrote the constitution and so on.
Meanwhile the completely amoral greed heads on top can count on his vote to raise them up even higher and dig his own hole even deeper. I guess it's a matter of historical awareness. In the old world workers know better than to think the corporate elite wants to do anything but exploit them so they do a much better job of insisting on their piece of the pie. Even if they let xenophobes lead them into some bad decisions, you don't see them giving up their paid vacation, no tuition universities, universal healthcare and retirement benefits. Some of them may be bigots too but there's a limit to what they'll give up.
But Frank, You got 'em. You said "bigots". Bigots, Teavangelists, same thing