Whenever asked how we ended up in this s@#tshow, I always say something like this

[maxrandb]

Last edited Tue Oct 2, 2018, 01:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Well, you see...

President Obama didn't fix all of America's problems within a week of taking office, and even had the gall to not deliver ponies as demanded.

We decided that the way to make America "more progressive" was to sit out the 2010 Mid-term election (A CENSUS YEAR), and allow unhinged racists with tri-corner hats and Medicare provided "My Scooters"...screaming like banshees for 14 months about getting "gubmint out of my Medicare", to take over 65% of all State Legislatures and Governorships, as well as a majority of the Federal Government House and Senate.

Then, we sat back as a racist fucking orange circus clown spent the next 14 months demanding to see the first African American President's Birth Certificate. We never showed up to protest at the studios of ...NOT ONE SINGLE one of the 1,500 Hate Radio stations, (MANY BASED ENTIRELY WITHIN THE CONFINE OF 80-20 BLUE TO RED CITIES), who spewed racist birther shit 24/7.

Then, it became perfectly normal for CBS, NBC, ABC, the NY Times, the WA Post, and of course Faux News to present the entire racist birther shit as nothing more than a "he said-she said" issue.

Then we gleefully watched "Game of Thrones" and wondered how people could allow such a fucked up...but totally entertaining...leadership structure take hold in Westoros.

Then we got busy with our kids and our lives as our newly empowered T-baggers drew state and federal congressional districts that looked like a sheep fucking a housecat...we expressed a little bit of concern when all of these "snake swallowing a shriveled penis" districts ensured our new overlords could win 45% of a states voters, while getting 86% of its representation...coincidental, of course.

Then we nominated a fantastic candidate, and one that was probably the most qualified ever to serve as President, but all anyone wanted to talk about was some "scandal" about some "email" bullshit...except for some of "us"...who preferred talking about how "our wonderful, started from nothing and worked her ass off to get where she was, truly historic candidate, was just EXACTLY THE SAME as an orange colored, racist freak-show, carnival barking, used-car-powered-by-snake-oil selling, serial unwanted pussy-grabbing moron".

Then, just to ensure we went completely through the Looking Glass and were using the broken shards to slit out wrists, we enabled the party of the "orange colored, racist freak-show, carnival barking, used car, snake oil selling, serial unwanted pussy-grabbing moron", to be the only check on his power.

There's something in there about some Russians doing some shit, but truly...THIS SHIT SHOW IS ALL OURS.

and that's the story of "How we ended up in this shitshow?"

[strangedaysindeed]

1. Yup

spot on!

[Danascot]

2. Excellent!

Compares favorably to The Ferret. I would love it if you wrote more.

[ck4829]

3. And it continues even to this day...

We don't want to confront power.

I remember saying a way to protest Trumpcare would be what if nobody paid medical bills if they increased (And they have for me, I'm sure everyone else too)

The responses I got were stunning... "I don't want to make my health insurance company upset"

That's the idea though.

[OhNo-Really]

4. I still dislike Ed Schultz for tellimg ppl to NOT VOTE in PROTEST. Where is Ed now?

Oh shoot

Ed Schultz, Conservative Talk Radio Host turned Liberal passed away a few months ago at age 64. I missed that news until this moment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ed-schultz-conservative-talk-show-host-transformed-into-a-liberal-dies-at-64/2018/07/05/537638e2-8074-11e8-b660-4d0f9f0351f1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.725607f8c978

Rest in peace, Ed.

[HipChick]

9. Was going to say..

6ft under..

[agincourt]

5. 100% spot on

I need to find the dumb and dumber ejection seat button somewhere, this ride gets old.

[MadDAsHell]

6. You mean "the gall to not deliver ponies AS PROMISED."

Healthcare debates, televised on CSPAN, involving doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmacies, patients, medical device makers, etc. was not a pony demanded, it was a pony PROMISED by candidate Obama. While the ACA did some good things, it ultimately was virtually identical to every other bill: everything of substance (e.g the billions in industry giveaways) were negotiated behind closed doors. The only information the American public ever got about those incestuous meetings were books like America’s Bitter Pill.

A public option, again, was not a pony demanded, but a pony PROMISED.

Unkept promised are not our fault; they’re the fault of a campaign too eager to get elected.

Those broken promises burned us big time.

[krkaufman]

8. promises

See also NAFTA. Promises to renegotiate, but never done. At least The OSS went through the motions of renegotiation, regardless of the merits of the final agreement.

And those promises broken cost Dems plenty in the Rust Belt.

[maxrandb]

11. Please take that right wing bullshit somewhere else

There were hundreds of hearings in dozens of committees over almost two years to debate and mark up the ACA. This backroom negotiations bullshit comes right from Freaker Republikkk.

You can say you don't like some, or didn't get all, of the provisions you wanted, but you can't say it wasn't one of the most transparent and open processes in the history of legislation.

I'm sorry if you believed that right wing bullshit and are now feeling shame that you helped elect this racist circus clown and ensure that other racist pieces of shit are the only "check" on his power, but that doesn't give you the right to lie about the ACA.

I understand that it's hard to look at this shit show, see thousands of children ripped from their parents and locked away in cages, see a rapist ascend to the supreme court to take our country back to 1840, see an orange shitgibbon exchange love letters with a homicidal maniac, watch as every environmental rule is rolled back, watch immigrants that have been in the United States since they were 2 rounded up and deported...I know it's hard to look at all that and more, and have to say to yourself; "I BUILT THAT"... but that doesn't mean you get to lie about the ACA.

[krkaufman]

7. see also

Garland denied even a hearing; historic democracy-breaking obstruction ... and the primary reason The OSS is in the WH.

Oh, plus ‘Comey’ and ‘Comey 2: Email Bugaboo’ ... especially the latter.

[smirkymonkey]

10. K&R

And bookmarked!

[ismnotwasm]

12. Exactly

[Ms. Toad]

13. Hope you'll change your first paragraph in future recitations.

LGBT individual were repeatedly and falsely accused on DU of demanding ponies (and of handing the 2000 election to Bush because and of refusing to wait patiently in the back of the bus until it was out time to suggest that ponies (i.e. our civil rights) would be nice, thank you very much)- so using that phrase is questionable, given the context of it use on DU.

Compounding that is that in the first week (actually the first moments) in office, Obama spit in the faces of the LGBT community by inviting a blatant homophobe to share the inaugural stage with him. (And again, we were based for demanding ponies.)

So I can't even get past your first paragraph without gagging.

[maxrandb]

15. Please...

Believe it or not, your post is the first time I've ever heard anything about demanding ponies being somehow connected to the LGBTQ community.

My child happens to be gay, so please spare me the lecture on support for the LBGTQ community.

Democrats, progressives and liberals need to STOP this.

I'm an allie! I'm on your side. Were I to ever get elected to office, there'd be no stronger an advocate for the basic human rights of the LBGTQ community.

We need to stop nitpicking at each other.

I've been married to my lovely bride for 39 years now, and there are some things she does that annoy me. I'm sure she'd say the same of me, but you can't get hung up on that shit. Together, we make a great team because we don't lose sight of the big thing...WE LOVE EACH OTHER DEARLY.

If I could ever say that my old man gave me any good advice it was this; "don't expect anyone to fulfill your every need, you'll only be disappointed and you'll drive that person crazy"

That's an important thing to remember. Do Democrats piss me off at times? Sure. Do I wish they would fight more? Of course, BUT, I also know that with Dems in the majority, we wouldn't have a Confederate racist as Attorney General. We wouldn't have a idiot billionaire heiress who can't tell her ass from a hole in the ground as Secretary of education. We wouldn't have a person who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and thunder is the angels bowling as chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology... do I need to go on????

We should all ask a simple question; Are we willing to die on that hill??

Unless it's life or death, most hills aren't worth dying for.

In 2016 a bunch of us thought every hill was worth dying for.

We ended up with Donnie Fungus Dick as leader of the Free world, and crazy racist fuckwads as the only check on his power.

Something tells me that my use of the ponies reference doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world in comparison.

[EffieBlack]

14. That noise you hear is the sound of a mic dropping

Boom