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Things are so fucked up right now in America. The atmosphere surrounding these health care town halls is evolving faster than the HIV virus on cocaine, and steroids. Last night we saw the first fights break out in St. Louis and Tampa, over proposed legislation to reform an inefficient, costly sector of the domestic economy. For a heartwarming account of the Tampa event, read the delightful e-mail Ta-Nehisi Coates received today! As for St. Louis, things went so well yesterday, violence-wise, that they’re all getting back together tomorrow to murder each other.
The above video is a recording of a telephone call that the SEIU received from a St. Louis lady today. She’s awfully sweet and polite, until the part where she threatens to shoot and kill members of the SEIU. Her comical last words after this gun-mob threat are, “Stop the violence.” C’mon, selfish mean lady, pick an ethos!
The nutsos are so mad at the way the SEIU treated them last night that they are planning to protest its Missouri headquarters tomorrow, at noon, and at least one purple Twitter protester is urging his comrades to fucking murder the shit out of everyone.
End the August recess right now and stay in Washington until Barack Obama signs a Democratic bill into law by whatever means necessary.
OOPS, TOO LATE, ALREADY FLOWN BACK HOME.
Anti-Health Care Reform Protester Encourages Physical Violence, Use Of Firearms [TPMDC]
SEIU Gets Threatening Phone Call: “You’re Gonna Come Up Against The Second Amendment” [Greg Sargent/The Plum Line]
Abe Simpson: “I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri!”
It’s official. 9 months in and I hate America again. Thanks healthcare!10
I volunteer to be shot first - can’t be as bad as all these angry old white people on teh interTube.
There may or may not be violence tomorrow, but I know one thing:
Scott Oskay will be watching events unfold from the comforts of his home.
Holy hell, there are literally no words. Are these people trying to drive me to misanthropy? It won’t work, I drink.
Murdering union members is WAY better than affordable health care. This IS America, isn’t it?
Stop the violence or I’m going to go all Dirty Harry Callahan on your ass.
Her irony detector must be on the fritz.
norbizness: I think he pronounces it “Mis-zer-Uh”.
Hey, SEIU, you union thugs — stop interfering with democracy. Nobody ever intended for janitors and hotel housekeepers to have any rights anyway.
Oh and José, don’t forget to straighten the fringes on my oriental rug tonight. I’m not paying you just the empty the fuckin’ basura!
Thank you Jim Newell! This is the repressed racists & they do have their pit bull jaws in something after the teabagging & birther debaucles. Well, they have unfortunately won this round if it is true what I heard on CNN. Apparantly, the town halls are being shut down in August. I don’t know if it’s because of above threats or what. But it looks bad that Congress did not stay in session in August to shut this Rovian tactic Insurance nonsense down & these second amendment crazies. I think the vacations need to stop & people need to start looking Teddy Roosevelt like. We are in charge aren’t we? Then we need to start acting like we’re in charge of this out of control situation. Paul Krugman says we are losing this battle today.
It just blows my mind how ass-backwards some people in this country are
oh, fuck it. if it’s time to throw down, i say let’s throw down. enuff of this pussy-footin’ aroun’ with the wingnuts, if they want a war, let it start here.
o wait a minnit — all them wingnuts what’s against decent healthcare, if they get a little shot up, who’s gonna pay their medical bills? have they thought of that?
(not to be inciting anyone to anything, let’s do be careful out there…)
Ok, where is the FBI on this shit? That is incitement, right there. RIGHT THERE. All they have to do is follow the URL back. Fuck me, I could do it.
Where! Is! My! Bottle! Of! Work! Scotch?!?!?!
The rapture really needs to happen. These people are bat-shit crazy. Usually I enjoy bat-shit crazy, but daaamn.
If they fucking reform healthcare, that’s it, I’m moving somewhere where they don’t have taxes or healthcare. Any idea where that is? Kuwait?
Tommmcatt: It’s in the bottom right-hand drawer, under the Victoria’s Secret catalogs.
Oh, so THIS was Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project. Gotcha.
These people live in Fox News alternative reality world.
Betcha most are on Medicare, Medicaid or are drunk.
Its all because a colored guy is boss.
NYNYNY: “I’m moving somewhere where they don’t have taxes or healthcare.” Try the Libertarian paradise of Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, it looks like Obama is too weak on this to have the feds scoop up the nutters.
I kept waiting for her exciting new offer to subsribe to Men’s Health, People, and Seventeen for the low introductory offer of $9.99 a month.
Though your single-payer’s bound and gagged
And they’ve chained him to a chair
Won’t you please come to St. Louis
Just to yell
There was a telling incident at a town hall held by Representative Gene Green, D-Tex. An activist turned to his fellow attendees and asked if they “oppose any form of socialized or government-run health care.” Nearly all did. Then Representative Green asked how many of those present were on Medicare. Almost half raised their hands.
Can we really fix the health care problem if we don’t fix the stupidity problem first?
Don’t threaten the labor thugs, or the
mobunion boss will have a dead horse’s head put in your bed. But really, using organized crime language for organized labor is a favorite propaganda pastime of the Right. I’m glad nonunion retarded white trash have picked up on this. I wouldn’t be surprised if lobbying firms were putting the “attack the union thugs before they murder you” message out there, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some credulous hick fuck played it out.Jesus fuck, what is wrong with these humans? I guess this is what happens when humans are fed a constant diet of lies, anger, and angry lies.
V572625694:
Those are copies of Freshmen, but thanks, I feel MUCH better now.
If Obama was actually a Nazi, Mr. Oskay would have just earned a free trip to Polish summer camp.
Scott Oskay better have an escape route planned…
NYNYNY: The place you are looking for is Somalia.
I’m beginning to rethink my position on targeted assassinations of terrorists, Mr. Beck, Mr. Hannity, Mr. Limbaugh, Ms. Taitz, Ms. Palin, et al.
Cry “Cheeble!,” and loose the Hamsters of War!
I have a question for the more medically gifted among us: Does there come a point where stupidity so atrophies the brain that it ceases to perform at a level to sustain even basic life functions?
And are some of these people showing symptoms of coming close to this level of atrophy?
Just asking.
SayItWithWookies:
They have all had a Faux News daily lobotomy. Would they all use the fire department if they had to? Do their kids go to school? Do they use the post office? Socialists!
Attend a Town Hall and experience the local E.R. first hand.
FIGHT you crazy bastards!
JFC, it is only the 8th. in another two weeks …
So, how many precious, precious, Republicans has Sen Max signed on? Are they in for killing off Granny? And are they pro-Nazi?
This Annie Oakley wannabe is clever. Calling all the way from Oregon to incite violence in St. Louis. DAMN YOU INTERNETZ!!!!
Ah, the tried and true conservative tactic “stop hitting yourself.” I’m sure right after making this call, ol’ Diane called up the school principle to rant about how anti-bullying programs limit our children’s god-given constitutional right to hate fags.
CrunchyKnee: Great idea. I forgot about the rapture option:
Dear Jesus, Please come back and gather up your flock of completely fucked-up retards and take them with you to heaven. Trust me, we would really, really prefer being left behind. Thanks.
I get to be shot second!
It appears that one of the main lunatics at Steve Kagen’s event is a GOP staffer.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/grassroots-protester-actually-gop-official.php
I guess the comment one of the editors made a few days back about the Brooks Brothers Riots was dead on.
FMA: Yes. That point came in November of 2004. Anyone who voted for Bush then is irretrievably stupid, to the point where they can no longer control even their involuntary bodily functions. I mean, Vitter doesn’t wear the Depends because he wants to - he has to. He’s really that stupid.
And yes, I am medically gifted.
slappypaddy: It’s OK because they all have their blessed, non-socialist medicare to take care of them!
But where did they go to high school?
Tommmcatt: To each his own — happy to help!
These slobs don’t deserve health care.
New plan: if you don’t want health care that’s fine, you can opt out and we’ll even prorate your taxes, but when you step into a hospital emergency room you better bring cash because they don’t accept American Express.
ATM is against the wall. There is an $18.00 convenience fee. Don’t like that? It’s the free market at work. You should have stopped for money before you got the hospital.
glamourdammerung: the nutters have to cross the bridge-too-far first before chessmaster O can shut them down. unfortunately, this probably means blood, etc.
or in other words, the rope is being played out, but they don’t yet have enough to hang themselves. they’re sure working on it, though, striding valiantly into ambuscade, eyes wide closed.
Whoever showed all those old white people how to access the internet should be shot. In a rhetorical, non-confrontational way of course.
You ‘tards make sure to wave your guns at the police, ’cause they’re union, too.
Hooray! It’s Weimar Berlin with the Reds (SEIU) and the Brownshirts (Teabaggers) fighting in public. Now if Glen Beck would only pen a march song and promptly get killed so the TB’s can have their own Horst Wessel Lied.
trondant: You mean…you carry?
THE KILLINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS!
Wait, that works..sort of..
Gawd, and I called W. a fascist for his “casted” and “scripted” town halls. Turns out he was doing us a favor by just shoving legislation down our throats and up our asses.
Tommmcatt: Somalia maybe? They have a really small (some would say non-existent) government that will let you carry any firearm you want.
If all these wingnutz were like the kid from Minnesota who refused cancer treatment because he loves Jesus we could drive health care costs down immediately. Also.
Oh for serious, we’re fucked. These are the weak, spineless, corrupt Dems. If they’ve learned nothing else the past 8 years they’ve learned to roll over & show their tummies to the bully republicans and to turn & run when they see a fight coming. Good-bye health care reform. Good thing so many people worked so hard to elect President Pussy last year. I guess it was too much to hope for some goddamn leadership for once in our lives.
My choice. My Wonkette.: Good one, and the morons will probably do it.
listen, the stupidz are everywhere. I work for the Fed gov’t and one of our moronic secretaries(who is really old) is blathering on about how we will lose our insurance if this plan goes through. “That’s true- I heard it on TV”. I also work with birthers(I’ve told that story here before- they haven’t mentioned it to me again since right before the election). Why can’t stupidity kill??? The world would be a much better place.
Second Amendment?? Sure, show these nuts just what the “well-organized militia” does in a lot of countries.
finallyhappy: where the hell do you live? and why don’t you get the hell out?
Is it too late to just let the south go now?
NYNYNY: Somalia has no functioning government at all, you could try that. Or the Bronx.
CrunchyKnee: This is the thing. I love me some completely batshit crazy, but these people are straight up scaring me. The crazy, it has become unhinged. They have been indulged too long by the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity and now they are actually acting on what these asswipes have been insinuating for the past twenty years. Also, the last time I had insurance was when I was sixteen, so I am getting somewhat annoyed with their fear of the socialism and whatnot because dammit I need some new glasses.
http://twitter.com/scotteo
[Name Scott Oskay
Location Albuquerque, NM USA]
“Shouldn’t say everything.“
*************
No, Scotty, keep talking. (BTW, Scottso, did yah know that you can twatter from inside a maximum security prison? Give my regards to the Isalmo-Muslims.)
Mr Blifil: At times the Second Amendment and the Third Leg dovetail quite nicely.
4tehlulz:
Scott Orly with that faraway Ted Kosinski-look: http://www.facebook.com/scott.oskay
I took a call from an angry person who insisted on recording the phone call (???), and then flipped out when I tried to get his name and address so I could find out if he was in the district. Their bizarre paranoia is what will quiet them.
hobospacejunkie: you got ‘em rollin’ the wrong way, it’s not their tummies they’re showin’
I’m actually kind of getting scared about this shit too, and I’m a pretty glib motherfucker. I really thought they were too fat and lazy to actually try any shit, but I guess having a nigra preznit is motivator for even the most lard-laden of racist shitbags.
Fuck, I really don’t want to fight in a Civil War. Do you think I’ll be safe in Nevada?
Can a group of Miami Beach Wonketeers force their way into Limbaugh’s studio throw pig blood or something on him? (Possibly honey & fire ants?) We need to fight back at the source.
Pouring salt over Glenn Beck’s face and then making him cry would also work.
S.Luggo: Maybe you should look at “Disbar Orly Taitz” on Facebook, also….
hobospacejunkie:
“Good-bye health care reform.”
Thank you! It is a disaster. I can’t believe the lack of leadership on this. He is letting these knuckledragging Neanderthals take control of the ship. Paging Teddy Roosevelt. Well, Faux News has raised Ronnie Reagan from the dead how many times?
That isn’t a Kozinski look - he’s jerking off while listening to 2112.
its time to fight back. its time to take back our country. its time get things started on the muppet show tonight….
Watch Bill Mahr tonight he’ll be having a cow over this. Where in the hell are our angry voices? And John Edwards got sunk because of what? Who cares? At least he was going to take Congress’s Health Care away from them if they didn’t pass it. You can’t give something this gargantuan with all the insurance company payoffs to Congress to parse over until the end of time. fugettaboutit. This isn’t the GD beer summit.
Gene Green the Dancin’ Machine (D-Tex)
Stop the violence, with guns, natch.
Irony. It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
What would the repugnicans do with 60 votes in the senate and control of the house?Town hall meetings teh.
Do any of these phone calls/twats/threats/etc. count as “fishy”? I know of a government-run email dropbox that (claims to) want to help.
I’m the kind of guy,
Who never used to cry,
The world is treatin’ me bad… Missouri!
johnnypantalones: Fuck NO, we ain’t safe in Nevada! Not in Rural NV, anyway, and I’m armed to my teeth! Ron white is right, you can’t fix stupid. Why do the stupid Californians come here to retire, instead of the smart, impossibly cool ones…
In a burst of probably-naive optimism, I just sent emails to my various representatives, saying “I know you’ve seen hordes of wild-eyed cretins protesting health care reform at town hall meetings. I just wanted to say that, though I do not feel like dealing with that whole clusterfuck, I really support health care reform and hope the whole thing does not go in the shitter because people on one side are more willing to wet their pants in public than the other.”
I wonder if it might help counteract the freakshow if many people sent emails politely expressing their views.
Or, if your representatives do not agree with you, you could write something much more hilarious.
Just a thought.
slappypaddy: Their chaplain will lay hands on them and shout “heal!”
Zhu Bajie
NYNYNY: “Welcome to the Third World, it’s the Best World of All….”
Zhu Bajie
Peggy Noonan: Health Care Protests Haven’t “Gotten Out of Hand”, Just “Plenty of Booing”
via FireDogLake:
Shorter Noonan: if the Democrats would stop dressing like slutty socialists, they wouldn’t get raped.
By the way, I don’t recall Nooners chiding W. when his allies were calling people “traitors” and “terrorist sympathizers” or “communists,” or hurling accusations that they hated America and our troops. Guess only certain concerned citizens deserve respect. The Teabaggers.
superfecta: Most haven’t finished the 3rd grade.
Zhu Bajie
Georgia Burning: If Obamarama were to institute mandatory universal military service, like in Israel, all these militia gun-nut types would shit two bricks.
Zhu Bajie
problemwithcaring: Well, it’s probably true that a lot of Americans want some kind of authoritarian oligarchy or autocracy disguised as a republic. Like Rome under the Caesars.
Zhu Bajie
johnnypantalones: I’ve assumed that economic collapse and civil war of some sort were coming for the last 10-15 years. If you’re really worried, come teach English in China, like have. It’s fun!
Zhu Bajie
Just for the record: I do not advocate using firearms against members of the SEIU.
Not my firearms, anyway: Ammunition is too expensive, and I don’t have an hour to spend cleaning all my assault rifles and pistols afterwards.
Anyway, cluster bombs work better on crowds. And you won’t smell like Hoppes No. 9 solvent for days afterwards.
ok, i’ve officially changed my position on this. the american people DON’T deserve health care reform. jesus balls this is fucking disgraceful.
Neilist: ha ha ha ha ha ha. That was so not funny. Oh, and fuck you.
debate bad. blowed up shit good.
Neilist:
Reverend Newell, can you bring out the ban-AK-47 and smoke Neilist? Please?
Lord Jesus do these idiots think they’re the only ones who own guns? Really? Because it’s practically a law that everyone in Texas own at least three, including the biggest flaming liberals.
Idiot woman.
Welcome to the new and improved America; where hope is not a strategy, despair is not an option and every Christmas, Wild Turkey comes in $300 decorative cans.
AKAM80TheWolf: as trolls go, Neilist could be worse. Fortunately, he spends more of the internet time that his mom allows him jacking it to midget fisting, so he’s not too much of a burden around here.
This kind of mindless bloodshed is old hat for Missouri: Birth place of Quantrill’s Raiders, The James Gang and this silly assed shit. These latter day goddamned fools will most likely shoot each other (I sincerely hope!)
It is so nice to live in a country where people are willing to kill over health care.
The sad thing is that most of the people on the right are good people, but they listen to Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity or Beck and don’t know that even they don’t believe their own shit. Beck twists the definition of “fascist” so badly that Obama is somehow one, and how can you blame people for being so afraid that they do stupid things.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: The sad thing is that most of the people on the right are good people, but …
I disagree. I won’t give the benefit of the doubt to someone who’s afraid of facts and prefers to rely on the dumb shit that oozes out of am radio. If you’re too stupid or lazy to do your own homework, then you don’t get a seat at the adult table.
Heywood Jablome: Yeah, these tards are “putsch”ing this thing way too far…
I’ll be here all summer recess! Try the demi-salted rodent penii! Tip your waitron!
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Wrong! Whatever happy corner of this country you live in must be one that is completely free of Right Wingers.
“Let me tell you about the [Right Wingers]. They are different from you and me.”
They’re the same bloodlusts who cheered themselves hoarse every time George invaded another helpless, unoffending little country. They simply love the idea of America leading the world in producing torture victims. They want armed racist groups to patrol the Mexican border, with authority to shoot anyone crossing on sight.
Go ahead and try to reason with then, but keep the motor running.
Gate these fucksticks off in a free speech cage, about 5 miles from any one of these town halls…
Oh, wait, we don’t do that kind of stuff anymore, right?
Anyone notice that when the wrote the constitution, they did not have town hall meetings to discuss it. Wouldn’t it be funny if all the terrorism laws they love were applied to them.
schvitzatura:Personally, I would prefer we just let the lemmings run off the cliff of their own ignorance, in particular their obvious ignorance of the criminal code in regard to conspiracy to commit assault.
Jesus weeps every time an old racist dies.
Meet us in St Louie, Louie…
Single payer
Premium free
Medicare for all
Big Pharma on diet
Zero insurance profit
No deductible & no co-pay
Off the table? Just like Impeachment was?!
Left and rights of passage, black and whites of youth.
Who can face the knowledge that the truth is not the truth?
Obsolete absolute.
Anthrax Intimidation.
JFK RFK MLK Malcolm.
Israel-first dual-nationals.
InfoWars on a PrisonPlanet?
A very RawStory on PressTV.
Whistle-Blower leaks multiply.
Beware the divide and conquer.
Both parties are corrupt to the core.
Honesty compassion conscience guts.
Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil?
Elite Ruling Class Greed or “public servants”?
Independents agree on more than we disagree.
AIPAC 9/11 Bankers Extortion Blackmail Bribery.
Wall Street Bailout Bill: Bush McCain Obama et al.
Poodles, Puppets, Sham debates, & Scam elections.
Has the Government & Propaganda Media lied to you?
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Chronic lying as career path, intellectual prostitution for paycheck.
DNC & RNC have both sold out the country in order to enrich themselves.
Future of a Nation that can not trust the Government & Propaganda Media?
Realignment of American Politics:
Anderson Baldwin Carter Choate Clemente Gonzalez Gravel Kaptur Kucinich McKinney Nader Paul Perot Sheehan Ventura
In all seriousness, and I know I may be “preaching to the choir” here… Why is everyone calling this health CARE reform? It’s health INSURANCE reform. HUGE difference!!! There will be no 6-month waits for anything– nothing will change except for the organization that pays the doctors!
CARCUNTZ!(tm)-R-Us: Because it’s the health INSURANCE industry that wants to frighten people, and not enough people currently CARE to make the distinction.
nader paul kucinich gravel: Good poetry. Charles Olson, with a touch of Stockholm Syndrome.
“All the _____ people
Where do they all come from ?
All the _____ people
Where do they all belong ?”
This is all bullshit.
Health care reform town halls are as necessary as “Would you like complete strangers to stop sticking hot pokers up your asses?” town halls.
And if the Dems were holding “Would you like complete strangers to stop sticking hot pokers up your asses?” town halls, the same bozos would show up screaming for complete strangers to be allowed to stick hot pokers up their (and our) asses.
In a country where some bro gets tazed for asking Senator Kerry an uncomfortable question, I am skeptical that this whole freak show isn’t staged, and not just by Dick Armey.
And no, I don’t really have a point.
Athar:
Distant Early Warning by Rush
Athar: Oh jesus, don’t encourage it. It’s utter nonsense, every single comment.
hobospacejunkie: I meant no harm, really. The style just reminded me of one of my favorite “Black Mountain” poets. I’ll say no more on the subject.
Well, “cold, dead fingers” it shall be then. Lets see how you feel about yer “right to carry” when you’re sprayed with NATO ball rounds, courtesy of your local National Guard heroes.
Advocatus_Diaboli: “[A]s trolls go, Neil could be worse”? Oh, PLEASE tell me how to improve!!!
And as to “jacking it to midget fisting”: I will, of course, have to defer to your obvious superior knowledge and expertise on this subject.
Unless you meant “midget fisting” as a description of the level of discourse in here.
AKAM80TheWolf: Hmmm. In a post on threats to quell protests, another liberal advocates silencing of unpopular opinion. See “midget fisting,” supra.
Neilist: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sick Puppy: “zzzzzz . . . .”
Personally, I don’t find your recounting of your sexual partner’s reaction to your last effort at “Romance” interesting.
But perhaps others in here do.
(Or was that the sound of the vibrator that he/she/it was using after you . . . lagged?)
Ya oughta see the real thing. Black guy beaten by black members of SEIU :
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=St.%20Louis%2Btown%20hall&hl=en&ned=us&tab=nv#q=gladney%2Bbeating&hl=en&emb=0
Oh yah — fuck SEIU, fuck ‘em in the heart. Union goon bastards! Fuck ‘em, fuck ‘em. fuck ‘em! This is the Al Capone shit my grandparents suffered. Not me — I’ll kill ‘em, before they beat me. Ain’t livin’ in no gangsta paradise.
P.S. FUCK ‘EM!
villageatrois: As stated in the other topic you put this in, it would be a lot more believable if the video did not contradict what was being said.
you know its a paultard op when they start talking amendments…dead give away
Voyou Charmant: Its okay because they aren’t real Americans.
villageatrois: Only hurt black guy I saw had a purple SEIU shirt on.
Your grandparents did not suffer any Al Capone shit.
Stupid ass cracker.
Yes I am white.