Oh yeah? How Do *SnowWald* Worshipers Sleep at Night?!

[MannyGoldstein]

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Look people, I can't believe the ignorant crap I have to read on a supposedly "Democratic" site.

How do we sleep at night?

How do WE sleep at night?

How do YOU sleep, SnowWaldistas!!!

Sure, Operation Spy-On-Everyone violates the plain meaning of the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution, but the Constitution is not a suicide pact! Operation Spy-On-Everyone saved lives!

As Starship Cmdr. Keith Alexander, the former head of the NSA testified to Congress, the vital secret programs that SnowWald leaked to al Qaeda had stopped more than 50 terror plots cold!

More than 50!

Of course, that number was later found to actually be 0, not "more than 50", but that's NOT THE POINT. I realize that most of you in DU-land are members of the Lumpenproletariat and are thus as slow-witted as a sloth that's gotten into the ether stash, so I'll spell it out:

Just by the bad guys KNOWING that we had a secret program like this, we scared them from doing evil acts of Terra!

Now that they know we have a program, the game's over. We lose our children, our way of life, our precious bodily fluids, our humorous cat pictures -- all of it. Gone in an instant, thanks to Comrade SnowWald's treason.

I hope you Fourth-Amendment-Huggers NEVER SLEEP AGAIN, tossing and turning in tortured enhanced-interrogation agony, just as Snowden's Hawaiian neighbors did when he didn't smile at them. We'll watch our videos of your nighttime suffering, we'll hear your sleepy voices on your phone calls, and we'll laugh.

Regards,

Third-Way Manny

[20score]

1. Cracked me up!

[QuestionAlways]

20. To properly evaluate Ed Snowden

You must imagine Ted Cruz is President, or George Bush or Richard Nixon. How comfortable would you be with the NSA programs? To me Snowden is a hero.

[20score]

21. Me too. The very definition.

[reimaginethis]

51. Excellent point...

and I agree!

[billhicks76]

135. Jeb Bush Is Running It Was Announced By His Son Today

Obama and Hillary are puppets of the Bush led CIA/NSA. I can't believe Democrats let this happen...again. We have been corrupted. Who could've ever thought a member of that family could run again but like in 2000 it has been scripted with the help of turncoat fake Democrats. Who do you think posts all the Pro-NSA comments here? I have never met a single Democratic voter who supports NSA crimes.

[truebrit71]

2. Superb!

[KittyWampus]

3. Oh look! Someone knows how to use

bold lettering and blue links! BLUE LINKS!

[MannyGoldstein]

4. "Prosense, I am your father"nt

[nashville_brook]

6. i'm glad for my laptop that i wasn't drinking anything

when i read that.

[sheshe2]

9. Lay off ProSense nt

[MannyGoldstein]

19. I suspect that Prosense would find that funny

We were friendly.

[truebrit71]

29. Why?

[A Simple Game]

82. Does anyone know what happened to ProSense?

Victim of budget cuts? Prolific posting used up the budget earlier than expected?

No, I don't really care, just curious.

[nashville_brook]

86. heh heh.

i'm going with the interns revolted.

[A Simple Game]

89. Good idea, completly plausible, I hadn't thought of that one. n/t

[pa28]

114. Now now. Unemployment is a serious matter.

[Generic Other]

131. The bluelines were pinkslipped n/t

[A Simple Game]

139. That's a DUzy. OK, a minor one but a DUzy. n/t

[woo me with science]

150. Bwah!

[Logical]

94. LOL, Alert it. Simple. nt

[mindwalker_i]

12. Unexpected that was

But not entirely unfortunate.

[L0oniX]

15. *

[truebrit71]

28. That's funny!!!

[NealK]

33. Lol!

[sheshe2]

38. A Darth Vader Reference?

Nope~

http://rt.com/news/199204-darth-vader-ukraine-parliament/

You say below that you were friendly, really? Is that why you responded to all her threads and rec'ed them!? Oh wait, you never did.

That's a pic of ProSense....wrong color yet that is her screaming at Darth~

[MannyGoldstein]

40. Look, you.

[sheshe2]

57. ProSense response~

Manny you are covering my ass~

[Logical]

95. No, prosense would write a lot more and include 30 blue links. nt

[Fumesucker]

45. <snort>

[sheshe2]

50. Pat yourselves on the back!

You are just cracking up!

[AverageJoe90]

66. Aw, come on, Manny, really? nt

[Logical]

96. Any more info you want to post? Not sure what you meant. nt

[AverageJoe90]

100. To clarify.....

I really wish Manny wouldn't be so hard on ProSense. There are a few people on here who *do* deserve to be ridiculed.....but ProSense *definitely* isn't one of them.

[Android3.14]

75. Made me laugh out loud

Walking and quacking, the ducks are in a row.

[Jack Rabbit]

105. What kind of NonSense is that?

??

[Aerows]

132. That was hilarious!

[woo me with science]

149. ...

[RobertEarl]

5. Can I apologize?

For all my life I have thought and acted like the 4th was pretty important stuff.

I now see it was bad for me, us, you and everyone. Bad stuff.

It made some people in government tell lies. If it hadn't been for my support of this trashy 4th thing, they wouldn't have had to lie, they would have just told the truth, saying: "Screw you peons, we are big brother and there ain't jack you can do." Everyone would just feel so much better now and forever knowing that is just the Way It Is.

The 4th, I see now, has caused Master big problems, and I am so sorry to have made life hard for Master.

[Doctor_J]

10. well, if you're going to be a 21st ccentury democrat you better get over it

Also if you're against war, fracking, and free trade, oR in favor of public schools, unions, universal health care, minimum wage, and/or social security, you need to adjust your expectations. See, we have to get elected.

[RobertEarl]

17. You may be right, Doc

We should all just become republicans? Then there would be no arguments as we then would just trust our leaders and do whatever they tell us to do. Like in the Army.

Things would be such much simpler then. It would make all republicans happy, for at least a bit, and we could all live under one thumb, a nation undivided, with liberty and justice for the 1%.

This, of course, would be a whole new course for someone like me, but once I shed my democratic faith and belief, it should all come trickling down with ease.

I've never tried "bend over and take it", but for the sake of the union, maybe I should try it?

[jtuck004]

61. "we could all live" < Both need to change.

There is only one outcome on this course...

[rhett o rick]

97. Why be a REpublican when you can be a Democrat and conservative.

I wish it was as easy as Republicans bad - Democrats good. But that's a distraction pushed by the Ruling Oligarchs. The President can't have his nomination for Surgeon General, not because of the Democrat - Republican split, but because of the Progressive - Conservative split.

We don't all have to become Republicans per your idea, we just have to all become Conservatives. Republicans aren't allowed in DU but conservatives are.

Most of Pres Obama's appointees are Conservatives. The PTB are smiling.

[Generic Other]

130. I imagine Karl Rove in his cave rubbing hands with glee

He knows GOP is doomed by demographics, so flipping the Dems is his only strategy now. That's why Jeb is key. Rove hopes he can skim the Spanish vote and further the absurd fiction that the GOP has always been the party of newly immigrant Latinos from south of the border. Classic Rove style. He doesn't fight like a man, but like a street rat.

[rhett o rick]

134. Will the Ruling Oligarchs run Jeb against HRC?? They would be happy either way. Or will they

continue the, so-far successful, deception that the people will feel so much better if they choose HRC over some clown?

Interesting how some are thinking the Republican Party is dying while we worry about whether they will control both the Senate and House.

For the record the Democrats don't control the Senate now, the Conservatives do.

[Generic Other]

138. They are dwindling

They are old. They themselves are going to fall victim to their own voter suppression schemes. They have no money unless they are in the 1%, so the wolf will be at their door. They are dangerous around weapons, so they will shoot themselves. They refuse to be vaccinated, so they will further cull the herd. And some of the dumbest sincere ones will volunteer to go where their country sends them to die.

They are doomed. Only a matter of time. Maybe not this time. But who knows?

I didn't vote for no stinkin' Republican.

[scarletwoman]

7. I sleep well at night because thanks to the NSA, there are no Terrorists hiding under my bed.

I mean, there ARE these strange guys crouched down in my closet, which made me nervous at first, but then they explained that they were from the NSA and they were there to protect my FREEDOM(tm), so then it was all cool.

[RufusTFirefly]

25. Are you sure?? Did you check a second ago??

Eternal vigilance is essential! As for "probable cause"? Meh. Expendable.



This is America! Learn the rules!

[MisterP]

8. after that "Michael Moore defenders demand that we follow him 100% and we don't do anything

anything like that" thread, anything's possible

[GoneFishin]

11. Awesome.

[joshcryer]

14. Actually, it will lead to zero reforms.

And one of the leading Senators against NSA overreach, Mark Udall, is looking to lose his Senate seat in Colorado.

[tclambert]

16. O noes! They threaten our humorous cat pictures! Who will save us?

Without lolcats life would be unbearable. MAOIs can only go so far.

We must not allo-o-ow a humorous cat pictures gap. (See what I did there, Manny? I matched your Doctor Strangelove reference.)

[MontyPow]

18. It's kind of fun to watch people with no impact on life trash those who do.

Go out and do something good for humanity. It's easy to shit on others.

I just proved it.

[MannyGoldstein]

24. .

[MontyPow]

30. Never was a Greatful Dead fan.

[MannyGoldstein]

36. Based on the spelling, I believe you.

But seriously, they weren't for everyone. They were, however, probably for everyone taking hallucinogenics.

[MontyPow]

64. Did I really spell their name wrong?

That's embarrassing!

[marym625]

81. Not sure what you mean

I loved the Dead. I saw more concerts than I can count. Though not like a Dead Head number. And I never took hallucinogenics. They were just really, really good at those light shows and colors. And one time, during a drum solo, they actually made the band float over the audience at Alpine Valley. Was awesome!

[MannyGoldstein]

87. Spelled "Grateful Dead"

Not everyone who was into the Dead took hallucinogens... but I suspect that everyone who took hallucinogens liked the Dead, at least while they were tripping.

[marym625]

90. I was joking

Huge Grateful Dead fan. So, yeah. Know how to spell it and know what made the concerts even more fun.

Peace

[MannyGoldstein]

92. Got me, Third-Way Mary

Or would that be Straight-And-Narrow Mary?

[marym625]

98. Hey, I haven't claimed to be straight in YEARS!

I kinda thought the floating band would give it away

[adirondacker]

101. Too Funny!

You and Manny win the subthread of the week!

[marym625]

102. AWESOME!

Do we each get a cookie? I really want a cookie.

Thanks

[adirondacker]

103. I know what you DeadHeads are after...

Funny cookies will be out of the oven in 30 minutes.

[marym625]

104. Thanks!

I just love me a good, funny cookie. And it's legal because I have a headache. I swear.

Just love Manny. One of my favs. To know he's a Dead fan is just a plus.

[sabrina 1]

115. Would a pony do? Manny is always looking for his pony, well, that's what I am told!

[marym625]

118. OH! That's better! A PONY! Yeah, I want a pony

But we'll eat the cookies too. After all, they were already baked and everything

[sabrina 1]

129. Lol, sounds good to me! Manny gets his pony and we get the cookies.

[MannyGoldstein]

116. You could be Straight-And-Narrow Mary, and

I can be Other-Way Manny.

Or something like that.

(I have a feeling that I'm going to be in trouble for this post... )

[marym625]

119. WHY YOU!

On the contrary, I'm laughing my ass off, Other-Way-Manny!

How about I am Three-Way-Mary? Kinda combine everything

[MannyGoldstein]

121. Um,

[marym625]

123. what? What did I do?

Oh no! Now I've gone and ruined it.

[marym625]

120. That didn't work as well as I hoped

since you were already Three-Way-Manny. But I meant it differently than you did.

[MannyGoldstein]

122. Um...

[marym625]

124. does that mean we're back?

I really hope so!

[MannyGoldstein]

125. Of course.

I'm just goofing around.

[marym625]

126. Oh good

Because, I love ya Manny but I'm really just in it for the cookies. Well, now a pony!

It's okay, I like guys too

[marym625]

151. What a completely different du

Such a short time ago. Even the some of the people are completely different.

Was looking for something on Snowald and found this and 20score's post. Different world.

[MannyGoldstein]

152. Different people?

Does that mean you don't like guys too anymore?

[marym625]

153. Not to worry, three way Manny!

I love men and women equally. Differently, but equally

I meant the same people are acting differently. Silly boy!

We need a good dose of Three Way Manny!

Remember when people used to actually swear on du?

[marym625]

106. Sorry, I have to share a story

A cousin who is gay always had his business in the pride parade. One year he got tshirts for all his straight friends that had "Straight but not narrow" printed on them.

Another cousin, not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, said, "I can't wear this. " First cousin said, "why not?" Second cousin said, "because I'm not fat."

[Dont call me Shirley]

107. That was about the only way one could stay awake at one of their concerts

[grahamhgreen]

99. It's weird, but they have more fans now than when they were a band(~);}

[MontyPow]

110. I may have to give them a second listen.

[grahamhgreen]

111. Try skipping through these songs, might find one that

Catches your ear.

The thing people get hooked on is the variety of the notes each performer is playing. Kind of a jazz fusion type of thing....

Free streaming: https://archive.org/details/gd1978-07-08.sbd.miller.106070.flac16

[MontyPow]

113. Thanks for the link. Very cool.

[Enthusiast]

76. I love that song, Manny.

[Puzzledtraveller]

22. worry not Manny

it all ends January 20th 2017, no matter who wins.

[Hoppy]

23. Don't worry. When Hillary is president, you'll be safe a bug in a rug..

And it won't cost taxpayers one thin dime.

Corporations will pay for permission to spy on us but they will have to turn the useless stuff like terrorist threats to Hillary.

[AverageJoe90]

26. Well, I dunno, Manny.....

How do the deniers of collective whiteness privilege sleep at night?

How do Third-Way centrists sleep at night?

How do climate moderates sleep at night?

And how in the *hell* do the center-left Obamabot authoritarians sleep at night?

How *do* they sleep, Manny? How do they sleep? How DO they SLEEP, Manny? For the love of Manning, Coates, and Chauncey De Vega, HOW DO THEY SLEEP, MANNY?!?!?!?

/dramaking

With all joking, sarcasm, and ribbing aside, Snowden is, sadly, not the hero he's been made out to be. And neither is Greenwald. And neither is the entire intel community all rotten(though I think the NSA has more problems than it's worth salvaging, TBH, at this point.). It's all much more complex than that.....just sayin'.

[babylonsister]

27. Your agony is mine. Yep. nt

[RufusTFirefly]

31. Don't look now, but...

"I'm spying on you!"

Luckily, we've got special agents on the job

[MannyGoldstein]

34. That's Starship Cmdr. Alexander on the left?

Spittin' image.

And the guy on the top... wearing Groucho glasses as a disguise? Who's he foolin'?

[MannyGoldstein]

35. Ok, now I have to watch a Marx Brothers flick tonight

Can you pick one? I'm indecisive.

[RufusTFirefly]

37. I'm definitely a Paramount Marxist

"Duck Soup" is my favorite, obviously.
After that, "Horse Feathers" and "Monkey Business," although "Animal Crackers" is surprisingly good.

The photos (as if you didn't know), are from "Monkey Business" and "Duck Soup," respectively.

[MannyGoldstein]

39. Horse Feathers.

Haven't watched that in a while.

Saw Duck Soup a few months ago, along with my wife, who is Margaret DuMont. It's uncanny.

[RufusTFirefly]

43. Haha. Horse Feathers is a winnah!

(Your wife isn't in it though. You'll have to settle for Thelma Todd instead. I hope she won't mind.)

[SidDithers]

32. I imagine they sleep just fine...

happily dreaming about whatever it is that Libertarians see, when they close their eyes.

Sid

[RufusTFirefly]

42. Sid, as always, you rock!

As you obviously know, "Libertarian" is Russian for "Socialism."

[MannyGoldstein]

44. Proof positive!

Zombie Libertarian Greenwald preparing to bite the face off of Kshama Sawant, the Socialist member of Seattle's City Council.

[RufusTFirefly]

48. That Greenwald may be a hack, but he's a top-notch double-naught spy!!

[MannyGoldstein]

54. Oops, I'd forgotten the photo link

There now.

[RufusTFirefly]

56. Ah. Those Photoshoppers are getting to be awfully good, aren't they?

Shirley, you don't believe they were actually in the same room together?!

I'm sorry that I don't have any self-serving, recursive blue links handy, but at least I can use the official sign of Third-Way Authenticity:



Hope that's sufficient.

Swordfish!!

[Enthusiast]

77. Greenwald is just trying to infiltrate and bring in the Rand Paul people.

He does it all the time. I wish he would just stop it.

[WillyT]

46. And THAT Is The Problem...

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)

QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Link: http://www.bartleby.com/73/1593.html

And...

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

- Ben Franklin

Link: http://www.whatourforefathersthought.com/Quotes.html

[marym625]

52. Willy T, You took my quote

:hi;

[Skittles]

41. the Tigerbeat crowd again?

f*** those hypocrites

[Le Taz Hot]

47. Mastery!

[Jeff Rosenzweig]

68. Darn that autocorrect, huh?

Look what it did to the word "masturbation"!

[Le Taz Hot]

72. Don't ya hate it when that happens?

Welcome back, JeffR.

[Cryptoad]

49. Papa Paul and Comrade Snowden ~ 2016

[marym625]

53. OMFD that was hilarious!

After reading 20Score's post and all the arguments he won on it, this was perfect!

Haven't laughed that hard in a long time!

[zeemike]

55. That does it now I am really scared.

That part about the precious bodily fluids being lost got to me...Now I hate Snowden and Greenwald.
Freedom being lost is one thing but they will not get my precious bodily fluids....they will have to wring it out of my cold dead jonson.

[jtuck004]

58. Both eyes closed, surrounded by dogs. n/t

[KingCharlemagne]

59. Great stuff. That Alexander is a piece of work, isn't he? He's like a caricature or a figure out of

a bad B-grade 50's Sci Fi flick. Seeing and listening to his unctuous ass-kissing made (and makes) me want to

[whereisjustice]

60. If we don't let NSA read our children's email, the terrorists win. eom

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[woo me with science]

62. ...

[sheshe2]

63. Snort~

[Rex]

65. I would believe all worshipers sleep well at night.

That stuff about faith etc.. unless they are faking it.

[cherokeeprogressive]

67. What the Holy Fuck is a "SnowWald worshipper? "

[marym625]

83. check this thread

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And you'll get it.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025715144

when I first saw this thread, there was a link to in the OP. Not sure why that was removed. Kinda made this thread even funnier because you can see what Manny was referring to. He obviously agrees with 20score, as most do. Some of the replies on the referred to thread cracked him up. So he cracked us up.

[Jeff Rosenzweig]

69. Sublime. On any thorny topic like this one

there's nothing more helpful than a "Third-Leg Manny" squib.

[NanceGreggs]

70. Thanks, Manny!

Just when I think DU's shark-jumping days are over, you manage to dredge up an old, toothless "Jaws" wannabe - and jump it with gusto!

"Word Salad Manny" strikes again!

[MannyGoldstein]

78. Ouch.

That stings.

Such a finely-crafted riposte.

[malokvale77]

112. "Such a finely-crafted riposte."

Surely, you jest.

[Capt. Obvious]

144. She owes you an apology

[woo me with science]

148. ...

Imagine how scary "riposte" is likely to be...

[BuelahWitch]

71. No more cat pictures?!

[DeSwiss]

73. K&R

''We must declare war on war so that the outcome will be peace on peace.'' -- President Barack Obama, speech to the UN on September 30, 2014

- I'm sure George would have been appalled to know we're taking his novel as instructions and doing so, quite literally. He could sue for copyright infringement......

[hootinholler]

74. Having stayed away from those threads

They are now ripe for comedy gold.

I will mention one of the hidden replies was totally bogus to be hidden.

[albino65]

79. The idiot abides n/t

[ctsnowman]

80. Excellent!

[bread_and_roses]

84. ROFL - even better than usual (n/t)

[KoKo]

85. Recommend...

[rhett o rick]

88. We must be kind to those that don't want to be told the truth.

We should take a hint when they put their fingers in their ears and close their eyes and repeat "Greenwald is a Commie", over and over. There is a lot of badness in the world and some desperately cling to the idea that the stronger and secret'ier the Security State the safer they will be.

That know-it-all, Ben Franklin said, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” But what Ben isn't telling us is that maintaining our liberties is very hard and for some, apparently not worth the effort.

[sabrina 1]

137. There IS a third option to those who support the abuse of our liberties, they DON'T LIKE

the people having any power. So it is worth the effort to them to try to discredit those who value those liberties.

[pinboy3niner]

91. We take half a tylenol or half a bottle of whiskey at bedtime

Depending on our mood. I'm surprised the question even arises, because that's...unclassified.

[Skidmore]

93. Must be time to stir the pot again.

[Logical]

108. Truth hurts sometimes. nt

[emulatorloo]

109. Election day's coming up.

Better that DU focus on DU melodrama than GOTV

[awoke_in_2003]

117. I sleep

in a split king sleep number bed with independently adjustable bases. Oh, my number is 40

[LiberalLovinLug]

127. OMG! We'll lose our humorous cat pictures too!

That's it, you've convinced me Third-Way Manny. I'm now all for the NSA spy-on-everyone program. If they even find one evil kitty pic hater I will gladly sacrifice my 4th amendment rights. I've never alerted on a cute kitty pic so I have nothing to fear. I think anyone against this program must be cute kitty haters! I heard that Snowden himself likes to drown kitties in his little commie bathtub. We must safeguard our kitty pics at all costs!

[imthevicar]

128. This is a Joke Right?

Oh it's O,k, I almost thought you lost your mind Manny.

[Generic Other]

133. OK, I gave up all my rights

So where's my g-damn pony?

[RiffRandell]

136. Ambien. nt

[polichick]

140. lol

[woo me with science]

141. kickeroo

[demwing]

142. Manny, you should have your own website

Sort of a cross between The Colbert Report and The Onion.

With SC taking over for Letterman, there's fresh opportunity for a dude with your skills.

[MannyGoldstein]

145. Mannyscatpictures.com

Hmmm....

Thanks!

[demwing]

146. Your cat pictures?

or your scat pictures?

Cause there's a huge difference. I'm just saying...

[MannyGoldstein]

147. Good thinking.

Makes it the purr-fect domain name for me.

[Douglas Carpenter]

143. knr

[mrdmk]

154. Why not do a k & r, just for the good reading n/t