Payback will be a bitch!

[Cary]

November, baby. November.

No mercy.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Cary

Make it the winter of regrets to follow, show no mercy. Defeat the enemies of our Republic in 2018 and 2020. That is my mantra.

[peggysue2]

6. I approve . . .

of your message.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. May we drink from the skulls of Republicans

Or, maybe just hoist a long-necked beer bottle.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Show No Mercy?

What changes now compared to 84, 88, 92, etc?
We should have been no mercy for 33+ years
But, someone here wants to be positive!
How's that been working out?
This is get dirty, take no prisoners time!
Make THEM fear US! Fuck the high road!

[Me.]

3. You Can Show Mercy

and still distribute justice. We can do what we need to without following their example of being spiteful and vicious.

[Cary]

5. Conflict can be functional and constructive if managed well

I understand your point of view. Many times I have stated that if the radical left mustered sufficient functionality to stage its alleged revolution then I could follow.

By contrast you distort my message, which means to me that you aren't discussing these things in good faith. That only reinforces my belief that the radical left is dysfunctional and, like the radical right, subversive.

I originally wanted to challenge you to restate my position as I have actually stated it, in order to disprove my theory. Alas, I have less confidence than ever in the radical left.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I'm The Radical Left?

Your credibility just took a walk off the map, if you surmise me as radical left!

[Cary]

10. I see

So you're the judge of my credibility.

What makes you think you're not a radical leftist?

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Do You Do Stand Up?

You should! You're hilarious!

[Cary]

17. You didn't answer my question.

You deflected. You know who uses that tactic?

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Preposterous

I am an unabashed social liberal. Almost everything should be legal, what isn't should be noncriminal!
Economically, I'm a pragmatist. Want progressive taxation and am totally convinced (by paid econometric analysis, unlike you) the economics is demand side.
I believe in legislative, not revolutionary change! Always have, always will. Too much education to h
Lean otherwise.
Pragmatist! The opposite of far anything! THE OPPOSITE!
As to your credibility, calling me the far left is Occam's Razor. Look it up, junior! I'm slightly left by most objective standards!
You know nearly nothing compared to what you think you know.
You know NOTHING about me and you never will.
You're incapable of it!

[Cary]

32. Sure sure.

Your personal attack is persuasive.

<rolling eyeballs>

[Generic Brad]

11. Are you telling us to sweep the leg?

Go Cobra Kai on them?

[ProfessorGAC]

16. No!

Cheating isn't necessary
No more taking the high road in the face of the failure of that strategy.
We don't need to cheat to reveal monsters as monsters!

[regnaD kciN]

4. If we get elections...

(This thought courtesy of my former parish priest, who posted a call for the overthrow of the government on FB yesterday, convinced that Republicans will suspend any elections they fear they'll lose, and will install a hereditary monarchy for the Trump family.)

[crazycatlady]

9. Grab him by the midterms

[Drahthaardogs]

12. 11 months and counting down.

Karma is coming for you

[fallout87]

13. Hear Hear!!!!

[Initech]

14. I am looking forward to their demise!

[workinclasszero]

18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."

We can start by making filthy rich robber barons like the Koch's, Trump's and Mercer's pay some damn taxes!

[Cary]

19. I'm more eager to undo the environmental devastation

That's my priority.

[workinclasszero]

20. That's a good priority no doubt

As the Earth burns up and the USA officially doesn't give a damn about it.

[Cary]

21. The earth will be just fine

It's our species that will disappear. The earth will not miss us.

Our "intelligence" is just another adaptation and in this instance it appears destined to be the cause of our own extinction.

[workinclasszero]

23. True

Will it turn out that humanity was just smart enough to kill itself off?

And all for a dollar bill.

The cockroaches will rule the earth much more fairly than mankind ever did if it comes to that.

[0rganism]

22. good luck with that when the Kochs (and friends) have unlimited resources to spend on elections

higher taxes for the rich + reinstating some rational campaign finance laws are prerequisite to the long-term effort that will be required to undo the environmental devastation caused by this years' follies alone.

these are not isolated objectives -- rather, they are like fingers of the same hand. all the fingers must work together to perform something more than ineffective fumbling.

[OliverQ]

24. People are buying into the nonsense about the tax bill and economy.

Holiday sales were at record highs, which is going to give Trump a boost. This false sense of economic security is going to help the GOP and Trump next year.

[Cary]

25. Vote Democratic!

Leave the pro-#fakepresident propaganda to the cultists.

[Blue_true]

26. I agree.

Once we retake control of Congress and get rid of Trump in favor of a Democrat, our representatives should mercilesslously ram legislation through and pack the Courts with our Judges. Republicans showed us what they do with total power, we should not be shy about returning the favor in spades. And if their teabagger hoards come to Washington to riot, our hoards should meet them in the streets if necessary.

[Cary]

27. Definitely!!!

There is no reason to try to work with any of them. McConnell saying, the other day, that he hopes for bipartisanship in 2018 is just a sick joke.

[Blue_true]

28. The turtle sees what is coming.

He is trying to set up our side to adhere to rules of decorum that republicans totally ignored.

[Cary]

29. Poor turtle.

[Blue_true]

30. Hopefully turtle sent out to seas soon. nt