This is so exciting!
Good people are drifting in…let’s bring the member list to 10,000 soon! How can we make it more exciting? I know…let’s release our resident troll! Everybody loves a good fight! He can say something really negative to set the bait...something like calling Bernie Sanders a vile name. Big Troll loves to call people "pig". That ought to get their attention. Big Troll can use the MSM tactic of quoting another source who quoted Bernie ENTIRELY out of context. He can quote some fringe blogger- rw, leftie, don't matter. That'll get em and that way he won't have to do the hard work of making sure that what he is claiming is actually true (way better if it isn't and everybody knows it).
Then we can switch to "war is hell", and "imperialists are bad" and THEN get into purity of essence. Let's see if we can all get the knee-jerk bleeding hearts to bleed all over Bernie! That will be truly progressive and oh! so productive. We will demand purity of essence from Bernie and when he fails we can blame him for every war since Crimea and THEN we can blame him for the way we treated the Native Americans, the Japanese Americans, slavery, the Hay Market Massacre, Bloody Sunday and for syphilis, typhoid, neoliberalism, gonorrhea, polio, but not AIDS because that's on Reagan. Bet that they totally forget that they are saying all this under the banner: Bernie Sanders is a Pig!
SOMEBODY'S bound to react with another essay either defending Bernie Sanders or calling out the Big Troll or calling us out for standing around laffing and dissembling and yawning while Big Troll does his thing . Then we can ridicule them for being narrow minded, whitesplaining, thin skinned and BEST OF ALL whiningly impure! What a wonderful way to attract new members...good, pure, morally superior ones that will join us in beating the shit out of anyone that dares to respond to the Big Troll. If they won't join in, we could just use our insider imperialistic influence to get the dumb bastard banned (this works really well, as we know).
We can always argue that, after all, Big Troll isn't being a dick (that is against the rules), he's being a troll...he is being OUR troll. Then he can do it again! With any luck and enough dumb bastards we can keep this going for months. All in the name of free and open intellectual discourse. We should get to 10,000 good, pure, morally superior members in no time. And then we can get rid of these other assholes that were too cowardly to speak up. God, life is good!
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thrownstone,
when I come to caucus99, it is to be informed and delighted by the quality of thought and expression here.
I can honestly say that discussion here is lively and expansive. Even if I did cringe at the title combining the two words “pig” and Sanders”, I knew that there would be valuable reading and discussion that I could grow in understanding from. And because I am not so clear or set in my opinions around certain questions, I appreciate listening to the free and passionate perspective of others who make me think about what is significant, both politically and socially.
To Al …
Even if I sometimes find your perspective jarring in its radicalness, I appreciate your stirring it up. Like the agitation cycle on a washing machine, it helps to clean the laundry.
I found your responses sensitively measured and productive.
Where’s LaEscapee? Here’s a reminiscence for you of a song you posted for him on his banning.
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Thank you also to Johnny Cakes, and others for being here in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. It’s all so positively sustaining an approach to building something of real value.
Thank you...
dear one!
Signed,
Johnny Cakes
hope you never feel like the folowing 1st stanza JtC
because of running this site.
(NO way I'm calling you Johnny cakes man )
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With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Oh, come on dennis
you can do it!
Johnny Cakes
Johnny Cakes
Johnny Cakes
if johnny was my baby I would, but he's taken
so it just ain't right.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Hey dennis,
don't you believe in sharing!
sharing is always better in fantasy than reality
or maybe I've just been unlucky.
Though, there was the time ...........
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
There's plenty...
of Johnny Cakes for everyone, Dennis!
there was this gay guy at one job site i was on
he kept coming up behind me at my desk and rubbing my shoulders and saying how good looking I was.
you're starting to remind me of him JtC.
I'm flattered but a tad bit uncomfortable.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Heh...
did you check the link to see what Johnny Cakes are? My wife sneaks up on me like that all the time!
okay, I see, now I'm supposed to say Johnny cakes and honey
sounds great?
Wait... Janis!
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
If you think that's bad
Try being hit on by a drunk straight woman as a gay man. Some of them just can't imagine there's such a thing as a man who doesn't love physical attention
prog - weirdo | dog - woof
Sorry for your discomfort,
from the guy behind your desk.
Have some real comfort food ...
[video:https://youtu.be/pViAf58cue0]
Ahh, broke oven cornbread! Why din'tya say.
don't feel sorry, it's just the curse of the cute, you learn to live with it.
No seriously, if I had a nickel for every time I've been hit on recently, it would be the nickel I got in 2007 when the drunk neighbor girl said I was pretty hot for an old guy.
Broke oven cornbread huh?
Cool.
With their hearts they turned to each others heart for refuge
In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU
Your note came just as the sun
was setting over the mountain.
Thank you for all the coordinating and smoothing you do!
People who sit in glass houses...
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
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