I damned well AM ...

[MannyGoldstein]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by William769 (a host of the General Discussion forum).

I am a Liberal, and am damned proud to be labeled as such.

By all means, bludgeon me with it; it hurts so good!

Regards,

First-Way Manny,
Liberal.
Liberal, Liberal, Liberal.
Flaming, screaming, confessed Liberal.
Damn! You bet!

[GP6971]

1. Kicked! n/t

[pinboy3niner]

2. Love it! A 50 Shades of Manny thread!

[msanthrope]

4. I tried including Manny on my 50 Shades thread.....it got locked! nt

[MannyGoldstein]

19. Sounds like it was a traumatic experience. nt

[msanthrope]

32. Actually....the thread was a blast. But I understand you took offense....

you should have PM'd me.....I would have taken your line down.

[MannyGoldstein]

33. IIRC, you understand incorrectly

I first saw that thread after it was locked.

[msanthrope]

35. Yes.....as I noted previously, your complaints to a Host were influential

in getting any appeal to unlock and edit (in order to address your discomfort) quashed....

You aren't denying you complained, right? And you aren't disputing that Hosts cited your complaints, right?

[MannyGoldstein]

36. I don't recall complaining that my name was there

I do recall thinking that it was a pretty bad idea for a post.

Why can't you just own that it was a dumb idea? I had a post locked yesterday that wasn't the brightest thing I ever posted (although it was far less dumb then some other things in the same vein that didn't get locked).

[msanthrope]

41. Well....you didn't really answer my questions, did you? I can understand

why you wouldn't want to.

Manny.....as Trumad's brilliant threads proved over the last few days.....if you cannot laugh at yourself, then your humor falls flat.

It was a great idea....it got tons of recs, people were laughing, and it survived a jury......but since YOU thought it was a bad idea.....that's why you contacted the Hosts?

[BeanMusical]

47. Trumad, brilliant?

Well as much as I like the guy I wouldn't call him Steven.

[msanthrope]

51. Trumad managed to post no less than 6 brilliant satire threads, in a row, all

surviving jury alerts......all pointed and funny. That's pretty fucking brilliant.

[BeanMusical]

53. Wow, I'm impressed. Really. Stephen Hawking never achieved such brilliance!

(that was the Steven I was talking about in my previous post but don't tell anyone)

[zeemike]

60. I guess there is no accounting for taste.

But I read 2 of them and they did not seem brilliant or very funny to me, but I guess it was to him...and you too I see.

[sheshe2]

62. I laughed!

You said I would just post Obama pics to 50 shades of grey~

Since I never read or wished to read the book. I would have.



And still will.



I know I do more than that, you know I do more than that. It made me laugh at a time I needed one. Just like this thread tonight....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026346522#top

It's fun and we all need laughter and light, msanthrope.

[BeanMusical]

76. So Trumad is Obama's twin?

Well I have to admit that all those pictures of trumad are very professionally made, with the rain and all those artifices that we use in photography these days. Oh, I never told you that I was in the photography business some years ago? Sorry, sometimes I talk too much and other-times too little about my private life. Err, were was I? Oh, yes, tricks! To manipulate people. Well I'm sorry to disappoint you but your thread needs reworking, it's a little, well, no, a lot amateurish but hey, at least it's not you who took these pics. And I'm still stupefied about trumad looking so much like Obama, wow, small world indeed.

[MannyGoldstein]

80. LOL

I guess that one of us misunderstood what you wrote:

"you should have PM'd me.....I would have taken your line down."

[msanthrope]

82. I can't edit a locked thread, Manny...which was made clear to the Hosts whom

you complained to. I offered to remove the reference to you so the thread could go on......but apparently that wasn't enough appeasement.

Had I been in your shoes, I would have laughed. ..and joined in.

[BeanMusical]

43. That hearing is not getting better, mmm?

He said, about your thread being locked, locked I said, so he said: Sounds like it was a traumatic experience!

I can repeat what I just said if you didn't get it the first time. You're welcome.

[zappaman]

38. That was a fun thread!

Too bad some anonymous party pooper shut it down with the help of their anonymous buddy/host!

[BeanMusical]

52. Fun thread?

I missed it, was it in the Lounge?

[joshcryer]

59. Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026190179

Still annoyed I didn't get a mention.

[BeanMusical]

66. Wow, it's the mother of all callouts!!!

[sheshe2]

68. I didn't see it as a call out.

My name was there, I thought it as funny as all get out. Dawg. I needed a laugh. I have been through so much sadness in my life the past few months. two members of my family died less than two weeks apart. One on Thanksgiving Eve.

I needed a laugh, otherwise my heart would have broken from grief. Msanthrope gave me that.

50 people didn't see it that way, I am sure more would have had it not been locked.

[BeanMusical]

72. "I didn't see it as a call out."

Well the hosts did.

[sheshe2]

74. No sense of humor from some people here.

[BeanMusical]

75. You can say that again...

[joshcryer]

71. I found it nice and charming.

Those who got offended likely had thin skins and can't take lighthearted joking.

[msanthrope]

84. Or maybe they think theirs is the only shtick that doesn't stink. nt

[Number23]

69. That is an AWESOME thread!! So cute! So funny! And soooo damned TRUE

The itchy alert finger and the DRONES!! Droning (endlessly and incoherently) about drones (and EEEEVERYTHING else)!

It's a month old but I just rec'd it!

Haven't seen Magistrate, Robb and a few others she mentioned in a long time though....

[BeanMusical]

73. I though that you were all for drones?

[msanthrope]

83. I was still adding people when it got locked. I would have added you.

It was all fun and games......until the party poopers showed up.....

[SidDithers]

93. I missed that thread...

it was awesome.

Can't say I'm surprised at who the locking host was, though.

Sid

[Old and In the Way]

3. Victim

Ok, alert Mannybots!

[JI7]

5. LOOK AT ME

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Why?

Are you in distress?

[Rex]

20. .

[MannyGoldstein]

25. Hubba-hubba

Orange goggles. Pretty hot.

[BeanMusical]

48. She seems disappointed.

[Rex]

7. Well at least you are not trying to divide people up with your OP.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. I prefer to go straight to the conquering

No dividing foreplay.

[Rex]

11. Genghis Goldstein

Man of action.

[MannyGoldstein]

15. Crap.

I hope the laughter didn't wake up our son.

[BeanMusical]

50. Tere's a mini Manny?

[BeanMusical]

49. Austin Goldstein: International Man of Mystery!

And the sequel: The Manny Who Shagged Me. And also...

[pinboy3niner]

12. Some advice...

[MannyGoldstein]

16. ???

Who gave you my picture?

Damned iCloud.

[pinboy3niner]

31. I have a fifth sense...

[bluedigger]

46. I told the admins DUMailAll was a bad idea, but do they listen?

[madfloridian]

8. ...

Me, too...just not as brave.

[Rex]

9. Batman?

[Bobbie Jo]

13. Awesome!

Me too!

Does this mean you have evolved?

Copycat threads are fun!

[BeanMusical]

58. Yes, copycat threads are fun!

And water is wet. What's your point, dude?

[Bobbie Jo]

78. You first

dude.

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[Old and In the Way]

14. Kick, cuz you support progresives!

You have never said a negative thing about Republicans, but I respect your efforts to get the most unelectable Democrat to play in the primary. That takes a
lot of hard word and dedication. keep up the diligemt effort!

<alert - Poster was supporting Democrats >

[MannyGoldstein]

18. Ok. Let's settle this with a spell-off. nt

[Old and In the Way]

23. you are the bestest speller on DU Manny!

And the awesomest supporter of any non-runnining Democrat I know!

Sorry, MG... hope this doesn't get an alert. We both want to see not a Republican in the office in 2016, right?

[MannyGoldstein]

24. Best looking

You forgot that I'm also the best looking. That deserves an alert, fer sure.

[Old and In the Way]

28. I'll bet you are a handsome man, Manny!

In the Ronald Reagan / Ralph Nader / Mitt Romney attractiveness.-sense But maybe you look more like Elizabth Warren?
( alert - not saying MG is not handsome, he may be the best looking male/femake on this board....but we really have no way of knowing who is what here, do we?)

[BeanMusical]

55. Get a room!

If you wanna have hot sex with someone who looks like Raygun or Romney please spare us the sight!

[zeemike]

64. Thread winner.

[MannyGoldstein]

92. Not for me.

[marym625]

17. K&R!

Hi a Liberal. I am also a liberal. A long haired, hippie type, nearly pinko, bisexual that believes in the Constitution, oversight of the government, freedom of the press and speech. I know that the government works for me not the other way around. I believe in separation of church and state, equality for ALL and keeping those in power in check.

Mary Mathieu

P.S. You forgot three-way-Manny

[MannyGoldstein]

22. I'll bet there are some other Liberals like us

Who are PROUD to be labeled.

Well stated, Mary!



(I can't forget that which I've never experienced... unless I totally forgot it. Which would be unfortunate.)

[marym625]

45. I know there are

Many that are proudly labeled liberal.

Oh, you forgot?

[BeanMusical]

61. You know the old saying:

If you forgot it, you definitely WERE in the 60s! Congrats man!



I wish that I didn't remember it too!

[hrmjustin]

21. I am a liberal as well.

[lovemydog]

26. I am a human being!

[closeupready]

27. Me, too Manny - libby libby liberal!! All the way.

[MannyGoldstein]

30. And do you hate that label? nt

[closeupready]

37. It's the label I love to hate!

Or hate to love...? Anyway, on some level, I love it!

[zappaman]

29. Me too!

[840high]

34. Liberal kick

[BeanMusical]

39. You're a what?

[MannyGoldstein]

40. Hey! I've been to the Corn Palace! nt

[BeanMusical]

44. Lol! +1

[Rex]

57. Ohhhh....Corn Palace...

I thought you typed...Porn Palace...

[MannyGoldstein]

79. Damn you!

Now "they" know our code.

[SoapBox]

42. Love it.

[mikehiggins]

54. me too

hoping for Rahm to go down in flames

[joshcryer]

56. The word liberal has never been an insult here.

Now "liberal" on the other hand...

[Rex]

63. going to eat green eggs and ham?

Will you eat them on the road? Would you share them with this toad?


Toadzilla is hungry!

[BeanMusical]

67. Well this toad is obviously malnourished, poor thing.

Yikes!

[Scootaloo]

65. I used to be a liberal. Then I caught the leftism.

[stillwaiting]

86. Funny thing is I bet your values and beliefs haven't changed during this "transition". nt

[Scootaloo]

87. A few have, in fact

Mostly though it's just been further refinement and extrapolations. Economics took a big shift, as did views on foreign policy.

[stillwaiting]

88. Interesting. I've gone from liberal to "far leftist" and not much has changed in my beliefs. nt

[Scootaloo]

89. well, is that self-appellation, or what others call you?

[stillwaiting]

91. I'll use both now to describe myself (with an explanation attached).

I have just recently embraced the term "far leftist" since so many within my camp seem to think of me as such.

In reality, my views are NOT held by many in the Democratic Party leadership anymore (or the Democratic Senate for that matter).

So, I'll use both to describe myself to others now which serves as an opportunity to describe just what has happened to the Democratic Party, why we haven't seen any progress economically for so many over the past few decades, and the awakening that needs to happen if we ever hope to begin to see economic progress for the masses.

Some will see me as a liberal. Others (Many) will see me as a far-leftist today, and that is why things will continue to get worse for most.

[deutsey]

90. Same here

The more the country has shifted to the right, and the more I have educated myself about my working-poor background and the history of what's considered "the left" (which reaches back way beyond the origin of that phrase during the French Revolution), the more I identify as a leftist (democratic socialist, basically).

[DeSwiss]

70. K&R

- There.

[RiverLover]

77. Proud Liberal, checking in!

[Martin Eden]

81. Manny, how can we be sure you're not ...

... only posing as a liberal but are actually a RW troll whose intent is to divide Democrats thereby making the Left a less effective political force? How do we know you're not really Better Believe It in disguise?

[99Forever]

85. K&R

[William769]

94. LOCKING.

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