I'm glad you gave the Albigensians the recognition they deserve, but let's not neglect the Marcionites, Valentarians and Arianians. Without them would there have been an Albigensians or Saul Alinsky?
*sigh* It seems like only yesterday he was our little Virgin Ben, a fresh-faced bigot in knee-pants and training wheels at Piece Of Shit School. Now he's a Full Professor at Prager University. My how fast they grow! Just like some tumors. Sunrise, sunset, eh? And since Trump has shown that even a wretched, irredeemably unqualified scumbag can be elected to the highest office in the land, do we dare to expect even greater things for the Elfin Shitstain? Well, just think: in a few days, our little Ben will be old enough to run for president! Listen to the sound of this in your head: "President Shapiro", "President Shapiro", "President Shapiro..." I'm sure little Ben does.
What tickles me to know end is the utterly moronic scare tactics the Right uses regarding Saul Alinsky, whose "Rules for Radicals" are about as commonsense and non-threatening as anything you could imagine. Mostly that humor is best weapon to use against reactionaries. Which has proven to be true ever since Alinsky died in 1972. And the Right hates it.
I find it interesting that the Right has to dig deep to find rather obscure Leftys to parade around a boogeymen. Until Rightwingers started screaming about him, very few people had even heard of Saul Alinsky. But if you just absolutely have to have that scary character, someone who's been dead nearly half a century will have to do.
Happily, we Leftys don't have to go to such lengths. Donald Trump fills the front pages every freaking day, with Mitch McConnell at his side to remind everyone just why Republicans suck so badly.
I love how these RW Twitter troll-types "great thoughts" all sound like something you'd hear on a barstool at 1:55 am in a bar entirely populated by lonely dudes who have all been kicked in the head by a donkey (maybe even the same donkey).
This was almost Dreherian in its repressed, passive aggressive and absurdist argumentation. But you really captured Little Ben very well indeed, especially the self-referencing to his books and other writings. I was chuckling throughout.
Well now I've read that the twitter account that posted the AOC video as "bad" was a fake conservative account and that no REAL conservatives criticized AOC for this video.
Friday perfection. We're not worthy.
Just remember, if you choose to remain bitchy, pleeeaaase don't whip me too hard.
That's so much like Ben's actual one-handed typing, I had to recheck that I was reading Roy!
Close to the bone, Roy, but " Shapiro supports a ban on abortion, even in cases of rape and incest..." is the knife blunt enough?
I'm glad you gave the Albigensians the recognition they deserve, but let's not neglect the Marcionites, Valentarians and Arianians. Without them would there have been an Albigensians or Saul Alinsky?
Definitely an upvote for "Albigensian" -- given that I'm a grouchy medievalist.
"Felicula corripite eas. Novit enim Praesidens qui sunt eius."
*sigh* It seems like only yesterday he was our little Virgin Ben, a fresh-faced bigot in knee-pants and training wheels at Piece Of Shit School. Now he's a Full Professor at Prager University. My how fast they grow! Just like some tumors. Sunrise, sunset, eh? And since Trump has shown that even a wretched, irredeemably unqualified scumbag can be elected to the highest office in the land, do we dare to expect even greater things for the Elfin Shitstain? Well, just think: in a few days, our little Ben will be old enough to run for president! Listen to the sound of this in your head: "President Shapiro", "President Shapiro", "President Shapiro..." I'm sure little Ben does.
I . . . I just . . .
No! I will NOT upvote this! Too much horror. Too MUCH horror!
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"...one of The Left’s classic fear and intimidation tactics is humor."
Now you tell me. All this time I could have been scaring and intimidating people, wasted.
Oh, it wasn't wasted, believe me.
"...one of The Left’s classic fear and intimidation tactics is humor."
So they combat that with sermon #656 from the Right (Wing) Reverend Kissup Kickdown.
What tickles me to know end is the utterly moronic scare tactics the Right uses regarding Saul Alinsky, whose "Rules for Radicals" are about as commonsense and non-threatening as anything you could imagine. Mostly that humor is best weapon to use against reactionaries. Which has proven to be true ever since Alinsky died in 1972. And the Right hates it.
As they say, a scalded dog yelps.
I find it interesting that the Right has to dig deep to find rather obscure Leftys to parade around a boogeymen. Until Rightwingers started screaming about him, very few people had even heard of Saul Alinsky. But if you just absolutely have to have that scary character, someone who's been dead nearly half a century will have to do.
Happily, we Leftys don't have to go to such lengths. Donald Trump fills the front pages every freaking day, with Mitch McConnell at his side to remind everyone just why Republicans suck so badly.
It's why Leftist racketeers don't threaten shopowners with vandalism, but instead with treating them to a few shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade.
The Leftwing mob wires car bombs so that when the target turns the ignition, Monty Python's "Cheese Shop" plays.
This was in Roy's retweets. I admit I never cared much for Ringwald as an actor, and don't know
anything about her personally, but this is pretty fucking cool.
https://twitter.com/MollyRingwald/status/1081044069579718657
That is outstanding!
I know!!!
I was amazed at how I reacted to it.
The mashup of TBC and AOC is eyeopening. Obviously she studied that film in detail while planning to turn America socialist with dance ;-)
Should be "Thirsty Ben" now.
I love how these RW Twitter troll-types "great thoughts" all sound like something you'd hear on a barstool at 1:55 am in a bar entirely populated by lonely dudes who have all been kicked in the head by a donkey (maybe even the same donkey).
How many donkeys in bars do you people in Jew Jersey have?
Jersey's really more known for having an ass in every bar...
donkey:ass
potato:potatoe
This was almost Dreherian in its repressed, passive aggressive and absurdist argumentation. But you really captured Little Ben very well indeed, especially the self-referencing to his books and other writings. I was chuckling throughout.
Thanks! I try, and I admit a higher degree of difficulty here, as his adenoidal mosquito voice repels my attention.
Oh man. I wish we would have let the "attacks" based on that video go on much longer.
Well now I've read that the twitter account that posted the AOC video as "bad" was a fake conservative account and that no REAL conservatives criticized AOC for this video.
I really wish twitter had never existed.
Andrew McCarthy at National Review is giving himself wiggle-room! From the comments to the article:
" I am reasonably confident that the bottom line will be that there is no criminal collusion case."
Wow, even Trump's defacto external defense lawyer here is giving himself quite a bit of wiggle room now. I guess Mueller is doing his job...
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/mueller-probe-trump-russia-collusion/