Developers are Crabgrass : Fear and loathing at a Republican rally. Live impressions by one who survived service in Balkan combat areas. Only a handful of rabid zealots, but ---

Friday, November 06, 2009

Fear and loathing at a Republican rally. Live impressions by one who survived service in Balkan combat areas. Only a handful of rabid zealots, but ---

The Sixth District's "Blue Man in a Red District" blogger, Hal Kimball, and his wife were in DC yesterday, and he posted a few brief stream of consciousness thoughts on what he saw. Hal served in the Balkans, in armor not infantry, but with that as a background - his impressions are clearly of a revulsion that had to have permeated things to raise such strong thoughts in one who has seen a war zone situation -- the impressions are quoted in the sequence posted:

Landed in DC! We now have an hour to get our bags, get to the hotel, and to Bachmanns Capitol event!
Posted by Blue man at Thursday, November 05, 2009

At the capitol south metro stop...theres not enough hand sanitizer anywhere to clean this level of crazy up....
Posted by Blue man at Thursday, November 05, 2009

This rally ia absolutely nuts. Bachmann, Jon Voight, Cliff Claven and now Mike Pence. WHOLE LOT OF CRAZY HERE...wow!
Posted by Blue man at Thursday, November 05, 2009

Steve King says he can see Americans as far as the eye can see....um.....I see maybe 5000 here. Thats what the Capitol Police dude said...
Posted by Blue man at Thursday, November 05, 2009

"lets thank Michele Bachmann for her leadership"

crazy meter is pegged.

no amount of showers will rid me of the dirty feeling i have now
Posted by Blue man at Thursday, November 05, 2009

Should 5000 ticked off and crazy folks keep 48 millon that need help from getting it?
Posted by Blue man at Thursday, November 05, 2009

No time stamping on the posts, but the sequence is clear. And that last post pretty much nails things into a frame, gives a perspective. A handful of crackpots, vs. millions facing true hardship. And we know on which side of that divide Michele Bachmann stands. She and Fox made that clear in advance.

So. Venom aplenty, but a very, very, very low turnout that must have been disappointing to Michele Bachmann and the tubthumpers she's used at FOX, but one suggesting that the real truth in things is that the teabaggers and their thing earlier sapped the interest of the short attention span knuckle draggers that otherwise would have been there mixing it up with Michele Bachmann and her ilk. Bless them for their inability to retain much of anything over a few weeks' span, never mind history, in their untidy little thought zones. They let the loud lady's expectations fall short. Too bad. Too very, very bad, that it should happen to the likes of our Sixth Congressional District fact-manufacturer, Michele Bachmann.

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That Bachmann-GOP garbage, and the most unfortunate shootings at Fort Hood, real news of a sad kind but unlike the manufactured hate mongering Kimball witnessed.

For coverage of that, Aubrey Immelman, here, has a lengthy analysis including a repost of MSNBC coverage, here; also NY Times coverage, this link.

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Well - Ms. Bachmann, the fact is that another crazy, this one not wanting to leave long standing ongoing stateside military duty for an Afghanistan tour stole your headline thunder.

A small possible suggestion of how to court yet another headline is offered in the best of intent and bipartisan spirit, as is your due, in the following post, below.

_______UPDATE________
Dumpbachmann has an interesting "official" DNC Dem's response to the mischief of Bachmann and others; it is short and worth having a look. It rings very true to me.

The DB post includes a reader's comment linking over to Think Progress exposing the entire thing as pure astroturf, (lobbyists reportedly paid and promoted to stage the thing). For all we know lobbyists probably wrote the scripts too and it had not a hint of real grassroots except for the few at the dancing end of the strings with the lobbyists hands on the working, behind the curtain end.

Very noteworthy, Think Progress reported the crowd as 4000. Blue Man was off at estimating it at 125% of the Think Progress number. Either way, a sorry showing by a handful of nuts.

_______SECOND UPDATE________

image source, here

Which one's Michele? Which end of the strings is hers?

Another DB comment finding things about the dog and pony show extremely offensive, this link.

Is there anything there to disagree with? It hangs together as true, for all I have seen of Michele Bachmann.

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

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MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.