It's Gloating Time in Liberal Land!

[mopaul]

gloat:

to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight <gloat over an enemy's misfortune>



i know, i know, it's not appropriate or fashionable to gloat, and some may pee on my gloating parade saying, 'not so fast', or, 'not so gleeful please', but i take my pleasure where i find it.

after 5 nightmarish years, don't begrudge me a little gloating over dubya's magnificent fall from grace.

[Tesla]

1. I allow myself a little snicker sometime.....

especially when someone that Iknow that voted for him turns!!!

[malaise]

2. I'm with you on that

After Cindy and Katrina I said Bushco will drown in the fetid waters of NOLA. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. No matter what evil they attempt from here, it is over.

[bluestateguy]

3. I'm not a nice person

I want to wait until things get even worse, and then sneer and lecture people with a big fat can of some "I told you so".

[Skittles]

4. not gloating here

sickened by the cost

[Swamp Rat]

7. Yes

Where is my New Orleans?

[Skittles]

10. I tell you Swamp Rat

for the rest of my days those images - of people pleading for help that never came, children without food and water - they will stay with me always......there is no explanation....I will never, never understand it.

[Swamp Rat]

13. ... and I felt helpless to save my people.

I was lucky enough to make it to a motel room in Memphis only to see PEOPLE THAT I KNOW, dying right in front of my eyes on TV. Meanwhile, Michael Brown was worried about his dinner and Bushler was strumming a gitfiddle... It was and still is surreal... and I yet do not know what is real anymore. The disaster continues for us and it's playing with my mind.

I must, at least, do something with a photo of Michael Brown. :mad:



edit: I didn't mean to piss on your parade mopaul... let me do a little dance with ya!

[Skittles]

14. I actually screamed at the TV

they're gonna install democracy in Iraq but they can't get that scared little girl off that bridge in LOUISIANA ???

[MoJoWorkin]

8. Agree with you, Skittles. Too many dead, too high a price----

We were right, big deal. It will bring NOT ONE of the dead back. It will bring NOT ONE squandered dollar back. It will bring NOT ONE ounce of all the damage done to this country back. We must pick up the pieces---no time to gloat. Standing steadfast and tall(continuing to speak out and NEVER letting up) however, is NOT gloating.

[Skittles]

12. it's not enough to be right if you cannot convince others

for whatever reason, we failed to do that

[Walt Starr]

5. Schadenfreude, darling Schadenfreade

Thank you for all the joys and pain.
Picture shows, second balcony,
Was the place we'd meet,
Second seat, go Dutch treat,
You were sweet.
Schadenfreude, darling, Schadenfreude.
Save those lies, darling, don't explain.
I recall Central Park in fall,
How you tore your dress,
What a mess! I confess
That's not all.
Schadenfreude, darling, Schadenfreude.
Thank you for walks down lovers' lane.
I can see hearts carved on a tree,
Letters intertwined
For all time; yours and mine,
That was fine.
Schadenfreude, darling, Schadenfreude.
Thank you for seeing me again.
Though we go on our sep'rate ways,
Still the mem'ry stays
For always, my heart says
Schadenfreude. Wiedersehen. Schadenfreude.

:evilgrin:

[Telly Savalas]

6. 1 in 6 American children live in poverty.

47 million Americans don't have health insurance.

We're still engaged in a pointless and unjustified war.

Etc., etc.

Anybody who thinks we have anything to gloat about needs to reconsider their priorities.

[Crankie Avalon]

9. To be honest, a lot more needs to happen than just polls...

...showing him at 34%. He and his friends need to be brought to justice. It's not right that they still get to walk around at liberty (and spew more of their lies in public forums, no less).

[Mechatanketra]

15. You damn skippy.

One of the biggest carcinogens rotting the heart of this country is a basic lack of vindictiveness towards crooked cops (metaphorically speaking). The most extreme force of the justice system should be reserved for those who attempt to hijack or subvert its powers against the people's interests.

Resignation wasn't enough for Nixon; at the end of the day, the man's people tried to rig an election, and he essentially rubberstamped that after the fact by covering up for them. He should have gone to jail. He should have been ruined in public life, not treated like an ousted CEO.

At the end of the day, Gerald Ford extended the coverup, by blocking prosecution of a man who not coincidentally put him in that chair. Maybe it was entirely innocent, and he was just misguided. But he should have at least been thoroughly grilled in the public eye, and the pardon's constitionality challenged as a conflict of interest. (Did our Founders really intend for a corrupt administration to be able to use Presidential powers to defend their racket?)

Scandal and public apology wasn't even close to enough for Reagan; at the end of the day, he sold weapons to an enemy nation (and he did it to circumvent the law after America's duly elected legislators slapped his wrist already). In other words, treason for the sake of felony. He should have spent the rest of his life in jail, not lauded as "one of our greatest".

And so it goes. In this case: the Iraq War Resolution placed in Bush the authority to call out the troops if Iraq was a threat. That Iraq was not a threat is now an incontrovertible fact, and always would have been such a fact to those in the administration. Hence, Bush signed away American lives knowing he didn't have to, and after defrauding Congress repeatedly to get his hands on the IWR in the first place.

To clarify this in legal terms: Bush committed a felonious act (conspiracy to defraud Congress) that he knew would inevitably result in the loss of lives, and displayed an extreme indifference to human life in doing so. In most states, that's legally First Degree Murder (under the felony murder rule), and I'll bet dimes to dollars it rates a death sentence in his home state. While I don't believe in the death penalty, I absolutely and completely take this situation that seriously. The man is a criminal of the most grotesque kind, and it is in no way a happy day if we just happen to defeat his would-be successor while he walks off into the sunset still a free and wealthy man ... let alone just one day's bad polling numbers.

I'll gloat if/when he's in jail. Not a day earlier.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. It's only going to get worse for W the longer he's stays in denial.

In the process he's dragging the rest of the GOP down with him. But they can't break their old habits. They react to everything as if they were at the height of their popularity. Their only plan is to smear the critics and stay the course. It worked fine as long as the country was divided equally but now their down to less than 40% approval. When you call 60% of the American people radical or impugn their patriotism you only invite your demise.
So while gloating may be in order I'm saving my gloating up for one really good gloat when the whole GOP is thrown out on their collective ass.
:popcorn:

[Mutley]

19. Me too.

The word "mandate" will be very active in my vocabulary about this time next year.

What can I say? I'm not always a good sport. :D

[mtnsnake]

16. Enjoy it, mopaul, but remember...moderation is the key!

Hey if anyone deserves to gloat it's us, and we surely haven't had many opportunities. Make that any opportunities. Then again, we've still got a ways to go before we can REALLY gloat. When that day comes, I'm gonna be in Gloat City. In the meantime, have a great and gloating weekend!

[LunaC]

17. Schadenfreude!

"pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune" or "shameful joy."

[madokie]

18. I gloat good

[ismnotwasm]

20. It goes beyond gloating

I take a vicious vicarious pleasure at every bit of bad news for that asshole and his asshole cronies BECAUSE of the cost.
We're not even close to getting rid of him-So I'm happy at every article I read that paints his true colors, every poll that seem to indicate America is waking up--just a little. Every ugly stuttering word coming out of his mouth that shows him for the fool and tool he is.
When I can sit next to conservative/libertarian at work and have a civil conversation on what a complete and utter failure bush is, and how he is ruining the country (this guy other than that, is unbelievably full of shit)I have hope-just a little

I want the bastard in prison. I don't even like the concept of prisons, but I want him in prison. My loathing for him and his administration is bottomless. My pleasure at any indication at his fall from grace is bittersweet.

I still live in the twilight zone denial sometimes of who in the FUCK is running our country? How in the HELL did this shit happen? How in the FUCK did they let that happen to New Orleans?
But I know, I know. Sometimes, God help me, I wish I didn't know.

[Just Me]

21. Oh, oh, oh,....I would NEVER begrudge ya' some gloat!!!

We've been forced to witness a lot of horrible shit! We have certainly earned some gloat!!! :bounce:

[Mad_Dem_X]

22. I agree - we need to

enjoy whatever positive things come our way, no matter how small they may seem.

[lonestarnot]

23. Ever taking a flash pic of a toilet in the dark?

Optical affect is a glowing toilet, that keeps on glowing and glowing and glowing. (from wild party days in the 70's)

24. Reverence for life - sayonara Cheney n/t