Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:34:35 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 11/11/24 08:14, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:11:46 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
 

On 11/10/24 20:29, Titus G wrote:

On 9/11/24 08:26, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
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      And yet we have American citizens who did not know that
Biden had dropped out and did not know that Harris and Walz were
the candidates of the Democratic party. As shown by search engines
queried on Election Day.

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George Carlin said that Americans only vote for the waiters who will lie
to get your tip whilst serving up the same old shit from the same old
kitchen. Those using the search engines knew which group of waiters they
wanted, the Democratic party in this scenario. It didn't matter whether
it was led by a dithering old pedophile succumbing to something like
alzheimers or a non-white female who froze in mid-speech when the
tele-prompter failed. Perhaps these people had switched channels
whenever political crap appeared on tv or perhaps they had read the
published policies of both the Republican and Democrat Political Party
Manifestos, (as, of course, have all rasfw readers, here), and made a
serious choice based on their findings and trust that those they elected
would fulfill that trust.
(Brief pause whilst I roll around on the floor laughing.)
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If Idi Amin or [Insert favourite corporal here, Marines Ineligible],
stood for President for YOUR party, (after, of course, the published
policies of both the Republican and Democrat Political Party Manifestos
had been studied), would you vote for that other group of waiters?
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      Americans prefer games to the duties of citizenship,
one of which is to stay well informed as to political matters.

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There are far too many vested interests who profit from you being ill
informed. Wouldn't it be better to develop a skill in life as did The
Player of Games, (Iain M Banks), who was manipulated into achieving
political ends by devious means.
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      bliss

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Well the corporal I am thinking of ingratiated himself with the
elder statesman of his nation as well as the Corporate Interests and
the Military. It seems their are parallels, some what askew, but the
story line is still there.  Before long the elder statesman was out
of action and the former corporal rose to lead his nation into
infamy and war, while he pretended that the projects begun under
a more liberal administration were his ideas.

 
I believe he also had the Brownshirts
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung], which were both larger
and more disciplined than any "militia" existing in the USA today.
 
So the parallel fails at the critical point: no large disciplined
group of thugs designated as Republican Party security to carry out
Trump's will.
 
IOW, no "oomph" in the streets. As the failure on Jan 6 showed. 1000+
protestors tried/convicted/plead out, only -- what? 6? -- militia
members.

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One of the promises (yes he is poor at keeping promises)
made by the ineligible candidate was to pardon everyone involved
with January 6. As for the Republican thugs sorry they are MAGA
thugs and must include the Proud Boys and other brands of politial thuggery.

But not enough and not organized enough and not disciplined enough.

What they mostly are is a small number of boasters with big mouths.

And some of them, like the group that wanted to abduct-try-execute
their governor are pitifully under-resourced.

Not even close to the Brownshirts.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"