I'm sittin' here with a big fat grin on my puss...

[mopaul]

Call me a sadist, but I'm enjoying the bad news that's been stacking up for w, especially in the last few days and hours. You may rightfully accuse me of taking glee in his misery, and in the fact that folks are finally wising up and seeing the monster in his true form.

My mother always said, "Never kick a man UNLESS he's down". I am salivating over the bad easter weekend bushco is having.

I can't get this stupid grin off my puss though, watching it all come unraveled and imploding like the twin towers.

Happy Easter georgey

[Union Thug]

1. I'm with you...

I'm taking great pleasure in his pain. Bring it on, indeed

[displacedtexan]

3. Have a shot of Schadenfreude on me!

I'm buying!

[paranoid floyd]

13. Schadenfreude

schadenfreude \SHAHD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.

I love that word. I just wish I could revel in it more but the image of all the needless deaths keep appearing in my mind and then I'm taken over by sadness and anger.

I'm a Canadian and obviously cannot vote, so please, do the world a favour and oust this criminal pResident. You are the leaders of the free world and I am getting scared that the neo-cons will steal another one. Those of us who are not citizens of the US and who believe in all that is good can only stand by while this election is fought. Get the word out + get the vote out = get the imitator out. Like father, like son. One term only.

[annagull]

14. Welcome to DU paranoid floyd!

Believe me, we are all working to get this pResident poseur out of the White House. We won't let them steal it again.

[Lisa]

26. or as George W. would put it "shady Freud"

"You Canuckistanians is always thinkin' about sex!"

Welcome to DU, paranoid floyd!

Lots of us Canadians here ... lending our support to our good neighbours in the south. (Most of them didn't want Bush, remember!)

[NMDemDist2]

42. welcome floyd :hi: EOM

[newsguyatl]

2. hehe, i like your mother.

[rumguy]

4. grin on your puss?

what the hell does that mean?

[RapidCreek]

38. A smizizle on his fazizal

yo

RC

[brokensymmetry]

5. I suspect you'll do a lot of smiling.

I imagine there will be a short lull in Iraq - followed by much more violence.

And the economy may limp its way to November...but I wouldn't bet on it.

I truly believe we'll get back the White House and the Senate. And maybe the House as well....

[Daisey Mae]

6. I'm grinnin too

Look at Novak duck and weave.... They are in complete denile.... It is still everyone else's fault . No I don't think so......Now it is all the Commissioners fault.....I think they will be blaming Elvis before it is all over..... The PDB was no history essay as liar Rice tried to fool us into beleiving.....Like its title indicated, the PDB had to do with UBL attacking us in the US.....There is a word for her that rhymes with witch....

[sspiderjohn]

7. mixed feelings -- why do folks have to die for gwb to be exposed?

nt

[Karenina]

11. Are the dead bodies

already piled up like cord wood not enough?
My neighbor left a copy of Die Tageszeitung... Iraq is becoming a killing field with a big o'l pic of Ami soldiers REFLECTED IN A VEHICLE MIRROR...

[Schroman2002]

8. April

Don't get to opptimistic, or pessimistic, for that matter.

It is April.

[VolcanoJen]

16. Keep telling yourself that.

It's gotta be tough watching Dear Leader get knocked down for four terribly bad weeks in a row.

Don't get too pessimistic, Schroman. I know you're bummed, and the last week has been really chipping away on your likely view of Bush the Protector, but it's only April, and Rove still has plenty of time to steal the election for you guys.

[Schroman2002]

17. last I looked it WAS april

If saying that it is April, and that it is very early, makes me a right-wing conservative, then I guess I am.

[VolcanoJen]

20. No, the fact that my nuances went completely over your head...

... makes you a right-wing conservative. :D

[0007]

39. .....and that bad `O April 19 is coming due too

Wonder what fate awaits?

[Vickers]

18. Yes it *is* April...feel foolish?

Yer backin' the wrong horse, cowboy!

[Jackpine Radical]

31. April

is the cruelest month.

Sorry--somebody had to say it.

[alittlelark]

41. I am optimistic

that my mental spell - checker works!!!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. And keep kicking them until they stop moving.

[jab105]

10. DON'T DO THAT!!

Bush's misery is at the expense of HUNDREDS of people's lives!!!!!!!!

do NOT let our own feelings dictate that you should feel ANYTHING except for sadness about what is going on...

I'd give anything to not be crying every time I turn on the news...

[calimary]

22. That's why so many of us wish we didn't have to wait til November.

I'd love to join you in the grin department. But I'm way too suspicious. Unless his various "brains" (Rove, Karen Hughes, Tom DeLay, and who knows what other dirty tricksters trying to put the fires out) decide to give up, we're still up to our jawbones in this. The Bad Guys will NOT give up without a fight, and even when they do lose, they'll be dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House, clinging to every curtain and carpet with the last of their filthy fingernails. I will enjoy a jeroboam (sp?) of gloat in November, when Kerry's new title is President-elect. I will have TWO of them on Kerry's innauguration day.

For now, unfortunately, these weasels still have plenty of wiggle room and plenty of tricks up their dirty little sleeves. I don't trust 'em at all. THEY, too, still have til November. I'd love to grin and enjoy it, but I don't want to celebrate too soon.

[mopaul]

27. i hear ya

i just grin so rarely, it makes my face hurt. i'm pessimistic too, mainly because when they are in deep shit, like now, awful things tend to happen. and even if we win the election, they can still play holy hell on the world, no matter who's in the white house.

[calimary]

37. Understand completely, mopaul.

In fact, I was out doing kid-stuff for hours and missed the release of the PDB AND William "bush-toady" Schneider's postmortems on it. Now that I've seen this stuff shaking down (and unlike with the usual Friday night newsdump, THIS is just in time for all the Sunday talk shows) I frankly AM tempted to start smiling. But it IS still April. Even so, I'm glad their nice, long Easter vacations (while our kids in Iraq are getting pounded) have been up-ended.

First Thing Monday Morning, everybody! Take Action!

Please note, here, The World's Greatest Lists of Media Contacts - not one but TWO of 'em - in the following thread:

LINK:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1380003

[NMDemDist2]

43. Correction "EASTER" Sunday talk shows

many many have other things to do tomorrow and most of them are probably the swing voters we need.

[calimary]

45. I dunno -

This is too explosive to leave alone. Big news just cannot be avoided. They're gonna HAVE TO deal with this. Easter or no.

I've been in several newsrooms where pre-taped programming had to be scuttled at the last minute because something bigger came along. This is beyond big. Besides, if the New York Times headlines its front page (as I've seen elsewhere around here that it will) "bush Knew," then there's absolutely no way they can avoid it.

This is the eight-THOUSAND pound gorilla in the room. They could ignore an eight-hundred pound gorilla. But not an EIGHT-THOUSAND POUND one.

[kdmorris]

23. Thousands of people's lives

But, yes, I have to agree. As much as I WISH I could take pleasure in Bush's bad ratings, I'm too sad and angry to do so. He's having a bad day, but thousands of people are still dead, thousands more are wounded and many more than that are alive, but wish that they were dead, too. We've destroyed the lives of so many people and that can never be undone.

Bush has to go, but I can't take pleasure in his bad ratings or anything else. It's just too sad. I can have hope that it's the beginning of the end, but I can't seem to smile about much, despite trying to step away and take a break every once in a while.

[Ladyhawk]

35. Hell, just having him as president has hurt a lot of people.

As a disabled person, I'm shaking in my boots.

I've never hated anyone like I hate Bu$hCo. He's poured misery on the entire world. Many have paid with their lives.

[annagull]

12. It's the best day since "Bush Knew!" day

Remember that day? The media were all over it, all you heard from morning to night "Bush Knew!"
Now that we have the PDB, we can see he knew and did nothing.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

15. Prepare for all the Vietnam crap: 'Dissent is killing our boys.'

We are going right back into continuing the civil war fought at the conventions in 1968.

Both sides will blame the other for our troops' deaths and losses.

From my posting archive, here's how losing Vietnam led to the rise of our current neocon fascism:

Around 50% of Americans still think Bush* is trustworthy! Given that everything he's said publicly for years has been a lie, why is this?

Perhaps because Americans have been raised to believe that they:
1) live in a democracy.
2) compete in free markets.
3) share equal opportunity for all.
4) see their government spreading democracy and protecting the innocent around the world.
5) inherited the status of Best in Show Among Humans in 1776, 1945, 1991 and 2003 by winning the Revolutionary War, WWII, and both Iraq Wars I and II.

These are all lies taught to American children in school and then reinforced every day in movies and on TV for the rest of their lives. There is a well defined historical narrative that describes America as the strongest and most virtuous moral force in the world ever.

So surely the President of these United States must embody all that is good about our country.

I call this Superman-Jesus-in-a-Cowboy-Hat Syndrome. Ronald Reagan fit this movie-role-as-national-identity perfectly for many Americans who didn't realize that he was a senile figurehead for a cabal of murderers who successfully portrayed the poor as lazy thieves and secretly armed terrorists against foreign governments in the name of Christian compassion and democracy.

Here is how Americans have been led down the path to a Master Race group-think that accepts as both inevitable and just that domestic policy should be eugenics and foreign policy, imperialism:

Ever since the US lost the Vietnam War, the social atmosphere here has been very similar to post-WWI Germany. The hyper-nationalist German people were told in the summer of 1918 that they were winning World War I. But in the fall, they were suddenly informed that they had lost. They were stunned and angry as the victorious Allies raped them economically and their orderly society imploded into chaos. They looked around to find who among them had betrayed them and robbed them of their much-deserved victory over their inferiors. They demonized, assaulted, and killed Jews, labor unionists, socialists, Gypsys, and homosexuals.

The same poisenous scapegoating climate bloomed in the US after Nixon was disgraced and the Vietnam War was revealed to be a quagmire of atrocities which had also ruined the economy. The Republicans have cleverly exploited this petulant atmosphere of entitlement denied to bring us to where we are today, mired in a culture war against liberals, feminists, blacks, homosexuals, and dangerous Middle Eastern foreigners, pretty much the same targets as the Nazis.

Ever wonder why 'liberal' became a swear word? Now you know. It is the Republican power structure’s synonym for ‘Jew.’

In fact, there is a name for this late 20th century fascist movement brought into the early 21st century:
Dominionism.

It is an alliance between Christian fundamentalists, Cold Warrior Fascists, and the Military Industrial Oil Complex, just like the rise of the German Nazis who, by remarkable coincidence, were also financed and supplied in their day by many US corporations, including George W. Bush's financier grandfather, Prescott Bush.

It all rather makes sense, doesn't it? Military and financial powers work hand in hand to reinforce and protect each other by keeping people starving and fighting each other over worthless things like flags and uniforms. Meanwhile, the powerful swell up like ticks on the blood of the people they fool into doing the fighting and reward them with not much more than parades, plaques, and brass bands.

Some Americans see through this and have evolved past nationalism and racism but lately it seems that a majority have not. And there is an alliance of media corporateers and fascist politicians who are determined to prevent Americans from finding out how this scam works. If you have figured out anything about life in America, consider sharing it with your fellow Americans so we can all evolve a little faster.

[Character Assassin]

29. Yawn.... Are you through yet?

It is an alliance between Christian fundamentalists, Cold Warrior Fascists, and the Military Industrial Oil Complex, just like the rise of the German Nazis who, by remarkable coincidence, were also financed and supplied in their day by many US corporations, including George W. Bush's financier grandfather, Prescott Bush.

Wake me when you're through with the predictable pablum, won't you?

Thanks.

[Beetwasher]

32. I'da Thunk This Was a Pretty Big Wake Up Call

but it's your perogative to keep sleeping.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/images/04/10/whitehouse.pdf

[Character Assassin]

34. This in nothing like VN yet, and it's not even remotely close to a...

'wake-up call'.

But you can keep attempting to bring irrelevant and breathless analogies to bear, if it amuses you.

Iraq is not Vietnam.

Stupid people are not smart people.

Up isn't down, right isn't left, and, last I checked, in isn't out.

[thebigidea]

50. Aww, why are you so defensive?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

40. Predictable? Unfortunately yes. Saw it from 1919-1945. I hate reruns, too.

Thank you for your detailed discourse...ahem.

Perhaps you are fixated on Vietnam as a unique historical event. My emphasis is on the domestic commonalities such as public opinion and framing of issues.

Ever heard of Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, Ken Lay, Ollie North, George H.W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Perle, Leo Strauss, Oliver Poindexter, Dick Cheney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.?

I think you have.

I can also recommend 'Hitler: A Study in Tyranny' by Alan Bullock.
And another good one is 'Hegemony or Survival' by Noam Chomsky.
Another good Chomsky is 'Understanding Power.' Very comprehensive.

Because this is the key to understanding politics-
power protects power and gives not a whit for morality. Hence the pathological amorality of corporations. And nation states behave as corporations, not as the sum total of the words to their national anthems.

The US is the world's largest corporation and is highly fascist. Look up the definition of the word and also do a Google search on the psychological study of the 'authoritarian personality.' This is something that was studied after WWII to find out how people could support something so murderous as fascism.

Power has a vested interest in keeping people divided, fearful, and ignorant using all those -isms we've become wary of.

Upon doing the research, you will find that the fearful, hating, conservative mindset that is related to the 'authoritarian personality' is rampant in the American population.

Here. Check it yourself. Take this 'Fascist Receptivity' test constructed in 1950 to measure many personality traits that might be precursors to accepting fascism. What is your 'fscale'?

http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

Just in case you actually care about what you or I post here.

[mopaul]

30. DITTO!

bookmarking this one. very clearly layed out

[PfcHammer]

19. kickem when they're up, kickem when they're down

[spooky3]

21. Darn...$40 million in negative ads down the drain...

Newsweek poll has Kerry up 50-43, versus 48-48 in the last poll.

[BillZBubb]

25. Not to be a pessimist, but!

I think his $40 million did him some good. Everything Bush* has touched has turned to shit, but Kerry still can't get more than 50 friggin percent? If he can drive Kerry's negatives like this, he can still steal this election.

There are so many ignoramuses out there who will vote for the lying horse thief they know (Bush*) rather than the guy Bush* tells them is a lying horse thief (Kerry). They'll buy the negative ads even though Bush* is a proven liar and Kerry is not. Sad, but true.

[spooky3]

36. But remember that there are still a lot of people out there who have

not been directly, personally adversely affected by * (or who don't realize that they have). They have good jobs and aren't worried they'll lose them, enjoy the low interest rates, got a few $ back from the tax cuts, and have no kids overseas, or in danger of being sent overseas. They are scared about security, scared about gays, scared about women and/or blacks competing with them for "their" jobs, etc. You are not going to reach many of these people no matter what--and they may be 30% of the electorate. But others like them now support * because they think he is protecting him from what they are scared of. Eventually they will see that he is not doing anything to protect them and is actually making things worse. But it will be a slow transition for this group.

[leesa]

24. Hey! He's having a grest time..catching fish, clearing that eternal brush

tooling around in his gas guzzling pick-up, having his gun-loving friends over for some shoot-em-up! Heavan on earth.

What are you talkin about?

[diamond14]

28. the nixon-shuffle could still occur...there's still time for that..,..

here's the shuffle...it keeps power in the hands of the reTHUGlicans, actually worked for nixon train-wreck...

first, the VP needs to be replaced...cheney is a big time liability, in very poor health....for nixon, first they got rid of Spiro Agnew, who had stolen money from poor people's housing (HUD), plea-bargained the scandal on condition that he resign....so, first, they get rid of cheney..he retires for 'poor health' and everybody feels sorry for the old sick guy....so that leaves a wide-open VP place....bill frist?...this could all be done in a week...the laws allow the pResident to 'appoint' a VP...anyone he likes....

next, the pResident appoints the new VP...for nixon, that was Gerald Ford...

then, the pResident calls it quits (or at least decides not to run for re-selection)...but it's better if the pResident resigns like nixon did...then the VP steps up immediately, running for top spot with all the trappings of a President (AF1, SS, Rose-Garden speeches, WH web page, etc.)...Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency after nixon resigned....

then, the newly selected President...selects a new VP...for nixon, Gerald Ford selected Nelson Rockefeller, a filthy rich man who was not even holding a political office at the time of his selection to VP...just another spoiled rich guy who wanted to play as the VP...

then, the new pres/VP team runs for election in November....that was the only part Ford FUBARed, with TWO selected offices, the American people had just gotten real sick of reTHUGlicans and voted the whole cabal out...

they might try this nixon-shuffle, but they'd have to move quickly....maybe cheney's heart gives out during his current asian trip to get the ball rolling....

[mopaul]

33. stop it!...you're frightening the children

and me too. they are wicked enough to try it, i don't even want to think about it. my grinning stopped hours ago, and now i wonder why i ever did. it felt good while it lasted.

[mellowinman]

44. Here's another treat for you:

http://www.ariannaonline.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8802

[powergirl]

46. nanny nanny boo boo

As my 4 year old says. I love it.

:evilgrin:

[Cleita]

47. Easter is about spring and newness and resurrection and all

that jazz. It's really about change and about new life rising from the ashes. Let's hope * is dead and a new beginning is here for us.

[uncle ray]

48. i was thinking about posting something similar yesterday but reconsidered

but as the facts come out today more and more, i think it might be time to dance in the shitrain.

it is actually happening. what most of us have believed for the last few years, but had little solid facts to go on, much speculation and fantasy, and lots of ignorance and non belief...now is being brought to light with facts straight from the administrations mouth, horses mouth that is happened to be, along with the fact that even freepers can see that we might have slightly over reacted to the mutilating of a couple of mercinaries.

even "little" things like saturday night live tonight...condi calling cheney "mr president" several times, in addition to all the REALLY obvious slams on the administration...all the media is ready for this to happen, i couldn't believe just a few weeks ago that they might have been waiting for the right time to be effective, but that might be the reality, bush is vulnerable now, and they are ready to go for the kill! of course i base that opinion on more than SNL! but did you see weekend update?

and it might be time to pimp the new acronym...DNOP...it fits in perfect to their current story. don't wanna be swatting them flys you know.

i almost wish i was near family to hear the easter sunday discussions.

[Piperay]

49. Your mother sounds alot

like the way my mother was. :thumbsup: :-)