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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 12:54 PM
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Screw you, America
another rage piece, which seems to be the fashion lately to help concentrate our anger and dismay...the author is sure to direct his words to bush voters and not the red states in general, so breathe easy...overall, this is one of the better rage pieces i've seen, and i think it belongs here

http://www.providencephoenix.com/features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04259693.asp

Screw you, America
Sometimes the fish in the barrel deserve to die
BY CLIF GARBODEN

DON’T FORGIVE my anger. All this needs to be said. And I know that as soon as that stiff-faced to-the-manure-born right-wing lackey in the White House tries to appoint a 21st-century counterpart to Roy Bean to the Supreme Court in a few weeks, more people are going to wish they’d said it sooner. John Kerry fucked up. More important, America fucked up. And the people who fucked up the most — you infamous red-staters — are going to suffer along with the rest of us. To put it in lingo a NASCAR devotee would understand, "Y’all deserve a good talkin’-to."

John F. Kerry, you’re first.
In your befuddling concession speech, you actually called for unity and healing. Sounds good, clown, but can’t you even imagine for a second that the people who supported you so zealously for the past five months might just see that insincere gesture of good sportsmanship as a betrayal? See, unlike you pols, we voters actually believe in shit. We believe that George W. Bush and his henchpeople are a real threat to the survival of democracy. We believe that they’re killing people for profit. And we believe that they don’t have a goddamn clue about forfending terrorism on US soil.

That’s not a position gap; that’s an ideological gash. And it’s not going to heal, because, unlike you expedient professional truth-manipulators, I’m not prepared to meet the enemies of freedom halfway just because you lost the election. Your speechwriters might see the Bush administration’s failings as nothing more than convenient fodder for your campaign blather, but the GOP junta’s sins don’t go away just because decrying them no longer serves your ambitions. Last week they were the imperialist pigs who misled us into war and you were the savior. Now we’re the goddamn Getalong Gang?! Screw that. Fight back or shut up.

Now, the rest of you ...
A lot of us effete Easterners want to know: what the fuck is wrong with you?! You voted against your self-interest at every turn (you dumb-asses in South Dakota deserve special credit for voting out one of the most powerful Democrats in the Senate) and re-elected an ignorant cowboy who can’t be trusted to remember a lunch order, never mind run a country. What in the name of God ...?! Wait, it was in the name of God, wasn’t it? Rendered weak and ignorant by a spoon-fed climate of fear, you slack-jawed inbred flatlanders have sought refuge in the traditional twin towers of mindlessness — jingoistic patriotism and fundamentalist religion. God’s on your side. Like hell. Jesus loves us, dammit.

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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 01:04 PM
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1. Wow....
That is one of the better 'rage' pieces I've read this week...
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 02:25 PM
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2. Love it.
Sent it out. :evilgrin:
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 05:15 PM
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3. i'm pretty sure the author reads this board
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Mokito Donating Member (710 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 09:13 PM
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4. nt
:wow:
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progressivedancer Donating Member (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 10:59 PM
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5. whoa,
Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But then again reality hurts, oh it hurts.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 11:50 AM
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6. That baby just got e-mail to all the people I know with brains that
function.

This article is the closest description to what the 'election' of the bush* bunch really means to this country.
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piece sine Donating Member (931 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 12:19 PM
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7. I beg to differ...
Sure, it feels good to vent but articles like this will not MORE people to vote with us in 2008. In fact, while the writer vents, we bleed credibility and lose the "high road." It's find a find a single populist notion in all his bile. Where is the discipline and strategic focus our party needs to win in the future.
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DuckFan4ever Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 02:42 PM
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9. This guy is pretty wild....
I hope most DU'ers don't agree with this rage. This wont help anything.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 07:55 PM
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10. fully agree or not with the writer
it's still good to let the anger out through a suitable outlet...liberals on this board and everywhere else have had a LOT of personal and emotional investment in this race, only to see everything turn to shit
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Nimrod Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 12:29 PM
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8. LOL!
"Last week they were the imperialist pigs who misled us into war and you were the savior. Now we’re the goddamn Getalong Gang?!"

::still laughing::

I would say the author just dated himself.
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TexasChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-14-04 10:04 PM
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11. Dude, that's funny! He's right though! n/t
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