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Aren't You Sick of the Lies? (Original Post) agent46 Sep 2013 OP
You've Woken Up...Now What? cantbeserious Sep 2013 #1
"True response-ability" radiclib Sep 2013 #7
This video is so perfect for now. Yes, some are taking the time snappyturtle Sep 2013 #9
Yes we all are. DeSwiss Sep 2013 #2
It's funny how we use the image of a sheep as fasttense Sep 2013 #44
You're right. DeSwiss Sep 2013 #46
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, deutsey Sep 2013 #3
Mario Savio on the operation of the machine agent46 Sep 2013 #4
I wonder 2naSalit Sep 2013 #5
Beyond Sick of It SamKnause Sep 2013 #6
check her other vids out stopthemandess8 Sep 2013 #8
Being Sick Of The Lies Can Be Bipartisan cantbeserious Sep 2013 #11
She carefully avoided mentioning the bushes fasttense Sep 2013 #45
We're all Americans - we have a commonality agent46 Sep 2013 #15
+1 cantbeserious Sep 2013 #32
Underground City Beneath The Denver Airport MrScorpio Sep 2013 #10
She's been ratfucked... nebenaube Sep 2013 #23
HAARP causing tornadoes in OK, KS, MI MrScorpio Sep 2013 #12
I'm sick of right wing nuts like this lady. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #13
I'm Sick Of The Lies, Hypocrisies And Duplicities Fed To Us By Both Parties cantbeserious Sep 2013 #14
I'm sick of RW nuts like this lady too! rdharma Sep 2013 #16
24/7 we are being lied to agent46 Sep 2013 #17
Yes it was heartfelt, but politically motivated. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #35
Pattie Brassard IS NUTS! nt rdharma Sep 2013 #18
Yeah but in this video agent46 Sep 2013 #19
So is a broken clock twice a day! nt rdharma Sep 2013 #20
LOL agent46 Sep 2013 #21
This cuckoo clock is for staying the hell out of military action in Syria! rdharma Sep 2013 #22
Where is the love, bro? agent46 Sep 2013 #24
Come on...... stick with sane folks. rdharma Sep 2013 #25
Actually agent46 Sep 2013 #27
I'll stick with the Crazy Rhubarb Lady rdharma Sep 2013 #29
Because it's all political dinner speech, the moment you go from WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #37
Love it. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #36
I don't like this video. To call the President names and insult snappyturtle Sep 2013 #26
Be honest agent46 Sep 2013 #28
Don't you think America has been terribly dumbed down over the last couple of decades? I do. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #39
A sick person, should not be drunk and drive at the same time. Nt Sand Wind Sep 2013 #30
Your point is? agent46 Sep 2013 #31
Take your meds. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #41
That's uncalled for agent46 Sep 2013 #42
A sick person should take their meds instead of self medicating. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #48
Wonder if she was just as "sick" back in 2003 when she Surya Gayatri Sep 2013 #33
Back in 2003 agent46 Sep 2013 #34
How old are you? I am 53. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #40
What's all the hostility? agent46 Sep 2013 #43
I think this post is propaganda. I apologize for the hostility. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #47
This woman is trying... Cheviteau Sep 2013 #38
I would rather watch alien crash landing videos. Quantess Sep 2013 #49
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
2. Yes we all are.
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 08:01 PM
Sep 2013
- We're waking up and it's scaring the shit out of 'em too. Any other time the bombs would've already been dropping. But they see we're not falling for their shit this time.

K&R

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
44. It's funny how we use the image of a sheep as
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 01:22 PM
Sep 2013

a silly animal that passively follows the crowd.

As a hair sheep shepherd, I must say my sheep are not that passive nor do they follow quite as willingly as would make my life easier.

Sheep are a lot more intelligent than people give them credit for and a lot more willful.

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
3. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious,
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 08:12 PM
Sep 2013

makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

Mario Savio

2naSalit

(86,795 posts)
5. I wonder
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 08:47 PM
Sep 2013

who this woman is, though it doesn't matter all that much. I hope this goes viral and people actually do speak up. Personally, I am not only sick of the ling, I'm tired of being ignored and elbowed into oblivion by the sheeple.

Thanks for posting this.

SamKnause

(13,110 posts)
6. Beyond Sick of It
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 09:02 PM
Sep 2013

Yes, I am sick of the lies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am disgusted by the hypocrisy and arrogance.





 

stopthemandess8

(8 posts)
8. check her other vids out
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 09:43 PM
Sep 2013

I went on her Youtube page most of her videos are anti obama , anti gov ,anti-liberal

here is an example of one of her many other vids :



 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
45. She carefully avoided mentioning the bushes
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 01:26 PM
Sep 2013

who started a lot of the crap Obama is just continuing.

Where was she when the bushes were destroying America and authorizing torture?

Well I guess better late than never.

agent46

(1,262 posts)
15. We're all Americans - we have a commonality
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 10:43 PM
Sep 2013

This was posted on my facebook feed. I listened. I don't agree with everything she says but as an American she has a voice. In this video she's articulate and I share her feelings in many ways. I wanted to post it here because she could be any of us.

Maybe we should only consider the voices of people whose interests and beliefs we approve of? That's basically just tribalism.

WCLinolVir

(951 posts)
13. I'm sick of right wing nuts like this lady.
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 10:19 PM
Sep 2013

Who actually quote The Daily Caller. With such esteemed guests as Alan West.

 

rdharma

(6,057 posts)
16. I'm sick of RW nuts like this lady too!
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 10:54 PM
Sep 2013

Although I agree that we shouldn't get involved in Syria. The rest of her babbling is paranoid RW BS!

agent46

(1,262 posts)
17. 24/7 we are being lied to
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 10:55 PM
Sep 2013

Lied to by marketers
Lied to by criminal corporations
Lied to by politicians
Lied to by religious leaders
Lied to by bosses
Lied to by conspiracy theorists
Lied to by mainstream media news
Lied to by racists
Lied to by gun lobbyists
Lied to by judges and lawyers
Lied to by tv and radio ads
Lied to by the NSA, CIA, DHS
Lied to by political pundits
...and so on

These days I don't blame people like this woman as much as I used to. For some reason I was born with a pretty good bullshit detector so I never fell for the conspiracy stuff. But like everyone, I've fallen for my share of lies too here and there along the way.

Basically though, I'm sick of the culture of lies and so are a lot of other people. I thought this was a great heartfelt rant. That's the point here, I think.




WCLinolVir

(951 posts)
35. Yes it was heartfelt, but politically motivated.
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:12 AM
Sep 2013

Where is her outrage for all the others?? She reads the Daily Caller. She seems to focus on O. And I don't agree about the conspiracy theorists. Too many anomalies connected to be merely chance.

 

rdharma

(6,057 posts)
22. This cuckoo clock is for staying the hell out of military action in Syria!
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 11:25 PM
Sep 2013

And I don't feel the need to justify my opinion by citing nutjobs.

agent46

(1,262 posts)
27. Actually
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 11:56 PM
Sep 2013

Last edited Tue Sep 3, 2013, 12:36 AM - Edit history (1)

The only effort involved here was I posted an impassioned v-log by a woman I never heard of but thought it was rather dramatic and heartfelt. She could have been an aunt or a neighbor. I saw it as a creative piece, not some kind of political dinner speech.

I don't usually get too involved in trying to convince people of anything these days. I just post comments, impressions, personal reactions and other representative tidbits of my awesome wisdom and humor. Nothing important, really.

Why not appreciate the video at least for its colorful provenance?

WCLinolVir

(951 posts)
37. Because it's all political dinner speech, the moment you go from
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:16 AM
Sep 2013

casual conversation to posting your video online with intent. Provenance? She lives in her car apparently.

snappyturtle

(14,656 posts)
26. I don't like this video. To call the President names and insult
Mon Sep 2, 2013, 11:49 PM
Sep 2013

the listeners intelligence is OTT. imho

agent46

(1,262 posts)
28. Be honest
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 12:01 AM
Sep 2013

Don't you think America has been terribly dumbed down over the last couple of decades? I do.

Look at the clip of Mario Savio I posted above. You don't see average Americans stepping up and speaking thoughtfully and persuasively like that anymore.

She's having a conversation with the America in her head. That's obvious. I'm not insulted by it. Also, she hates the president. I don't. You don't.

But I have in the past.

WCLinolVir

(951 posts)
39. Don't you think America has been terribly dumbed down over the last couple of decades? I do.
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:27 AM
Sep 2013

I do and your post is one reason why. Just because we cull the statements out of context doesn't make them palatable. Talk about a play right out of disinformation land. Maybe that's why we are becoming so dumb.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
33. Wonder if she was just as "sick" back in 2003 when she
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 07:29 AM
Sep 2013

and everybody else were being force fed an overdose of deadly lies.

agent46

(1,262 posts)
34. Back in 2003
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 08:33 AM
Sep 2013

The paranoia was only a few years old then. Hard to say how these things develop. Who knows what happened to this woman?

Infowars and Prison Planet were still largely subterranean embarrassments as opposed to the obnoxious mainstream disinfo distractions they've become. The racists were just beginning to become bold again and crawling out from under their rocks. Fundamentalism in America was still just a "wtf experience" for most of us. The banks had yet to strip us clean. A lot more of us still had decent wage jobs and all of us were still stunned by the 9/11 catastrophe, the neocon drumbeats of generational war and the roll out of the new surveillance state.

That was a long time ago. A lot has happened. This woman is now a war horse of fear and media folklore.

To be honest, I feel for her now that I know a little more about where she's coming from.

WCLinolVir

(951 posts)
40. How old are you? I am 53.
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:34 AM
Sep 2013

They've been lying since I was born.
"Who knows what happened to this woman? "
Probably spent some time in a psyche ward. Was kicked out. Now lives in car and posts videos at free Wifi sites.
"That was a long time ago. A lot has happened. This woman is now a war horse of fear and media folklore. "
Puh-leeze! She reads the Daily Caller. And thinks it's news she can count on!! Two strikes against her.
"To be honest, I feel for her now that I know a little more about where she's coming from."
REALLY? Where is she coming from? What is her background? Have you done a psyche eval?

agent46

(1,262 posts)
43. What's all the hostility?
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 01:05 PM
Sep 2013

> I'm 56.

> She's coming from paranoia, low information and possibly homelessness.

> Where are you coming from?

Cheviteau

(383 posts)
38. This woman is trying...
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:26 AM
Sep 2013

...to pass herself off as having some intelligence. Doesn't work for me. Couldn't get through the whole video. For the record, I'm not much on getting involved in Syria. I can voice my opposition without getting into name calling and painting the president as a dictator...or some such crap.
This is straight out of a newer and improved right wing playbook. Faux intellect at its worse.

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