DailyKos NAILS it!!!

[GarySeven]

Everyone should read Dailykos on a daily basis - and everyone on DU should read DailyKos tonight. Tonight, a poster named Hunter has written a profound statement of Democratic principles as contrasted to what has been exposed as the rotten, disgusting thuggery and proto-fascism that now infests the core of the Republican Party.

In response to a Conservative blogger who dares to warn that we who gloat over DeLay's fall are - are you ready for this? - flirting with CIVIL WAR in this country, this poster rip's him a new one:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/29/181822/366

"And as for the audacity of Democrats speaking up during this process... the redfaced, flatulent fury with which you declare Republicans off-limits to that which you so gleefully hurl yourself...

Welcome to the world of the politics of personal destruction, you tubthumping, chin-jutting, Bush humping gits. Welcome to the nasty and partisan world that Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Hugh Hewitt, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, and a legion of insignificant lowest-rung toadies like yourselves nurtured into fruition daily with eager, grubby hands, and now look upon with dull-faced faux horror."

It is terrific and I commend it to you my brothers and sisters!

[knowbody0]

1. GarySeven

wonderful, powerful, and inspirational.
thanks. im sharing this tomorow.

[Lindacooks]

2. I swear, repukes are like two year old children.

Apologies to two year old children, of course.

They remind me of a 'friend' who played lots of practical jokes. He emptied a salt shaker on my food, then sat back and said 'don't do it back'.

[unrepuke]

11. Of course not. Paybacks must be much badder bitches!

[beam me up scottie]

3. That was beautiful.

Thank you.

Wow, 490 replies!

[Guaranteed]

10. That busted me up, laughing HARD nt

[beam me up scottie]

14. It's a great source of

creative insults.

I'm going to loudly "discover" this in my freeper infested office tomorrow.

That way I have a good reason to email it to all of them.

:evilgrin:

[shaggy1974]

4. Just for the record

It's not Kos' post, but it is a good one.

[GarySeven]

6. Good point - I will edit it.

[political_invader]

5. thanks for sharing

:kick:

[kentuck]

7. A great way to call someone an asshole !

"Mark... may I call you Mark? I feel when someone has shown me the insides of their own rectum, we're pretty much on a first name basis... I have some words for you."

[chalky]

8. Hey! They're talking about it on Malloy!

n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

25. Yep!

It was great!

[Fovea]

9. Bang

I wouldn;t slam a screen door that hard.

Wonderful polemic.

[Hailtothechimp]

12. Proud to be the fifth recommendation for this thread.

Hunter was in a zone with this one. Well worth your time.

[The Traveler]

13. Foolish the neocon

If bringing justice to Tom Delay and the other pillagers of the American dream and doul will prompt civil war, I say bring it. Class war has been going on for a long time. Grover and his maggotty friends long ago declared it and have long waged it.

Heh. Grover and his crew like to talk about survival of the fittest. I wish that pudgy little momma's boy were in this room right now ...

Though capable of any savagry to fulfill their abstract vision derived from a philosophy of greed, wimps like Grover are essentially cowardly weiners divorced from their own souls. As Lenin observed, "When it comes time to hang the West, a Capitalist will sell me the rope." Grover is that sort of a capitalist.

I am a man of the West. I am an American. And I say Grover and his magotty friends are traitors to the American vision, because they would glady sell us out and provide the rope. Such men will ever be my enemy, and to them I swear eternal enmity.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. Hear hear!

We've won before and we can win again!

[beam me up scottie]

15. Recommended!

:applause:

[AuntiBush]

16. I Kindly, Disagree. We Shouldn't Give Them What they SO Want.

Ignore, and they'll go away. I wouldn't take the bait. Let them hang themselves on they're own. They got us in this mess, leave 'um in it.

They're in their last, desperate throes, and begging for a fight.

I say "turn the other cheek," and they'll have NO ONE to debate with. Can't argue with the wall. Hm. Then again, these volatile types could.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. Sometimes you can't ignore

Sometimes you have to fight back. Not fighting back is what got us in this mess in the first place!

[GarySeven]

29. Maybe, but ...

the poster's point is that the genie is out of the toothpast tube. The only way to stop the rancor and hatred conservatives have unleashed is to build a backfire. Until conservativism is destroyed, intelligent and reasoned political discourse is impossible in this Republic. So long as they succeed in dividing us, we are open to attack from the foreign enemies they have either made or who covet our resources. No, I'm sorry, but we must move against them in a fundamental, savage way - and in the process, stay focused on the fact that we are doing the nation a service.

If you want an analogy, think of someone with an unpleasant task to do, yet sets upon doing the job with grim dispassion. Like, say, an exterminator.

[annabanana]

61. "Until conservativism is destroyed" - uh

We had very little to do with the destruction of conservatism...

The first second a neo-con called himself a "conservative" is when THAT ship sailed...

[noahmijo]

30. They cannot go unpunished we're not talking payback for minor things

we're talking because we never stood up hard enough against these criminals they got to get away with robbery and murder.

Play their game and LIE like they do? ABSOLUTELY NOT I refuse to do that.

But take the facts and shove them in their face to the point of knock-out THAT is what the current times call for over and over again untill they pack up and go home.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

66. I would say that if turning the other cheek hadn't only emboldened them

Like all bullies, they are cowards.

I wish the Dems had realized that in 1992 and not given into them one inch.

[Catherine Vincent]

17. ROTFL!

"Mark... may I call you Mark? I feel when someone has shown me the insides of their own rectum, we're pretty much on a first name basis... I have some words for you."

[zoeb]

18. my favorite line

about how the Repukes are crashing and burning:

This is the world of the Republican Party, split open like a rotting pumpkin.

Five years of rotting has got to be in the Guinness book of Records for American politics.

[Pachamama]

34. LOVE the "Rotting Pumpkin Analogy" - w/ seeds connected of the $$ strands

And I especially love this statement:

"You poor, hollow, blood-painted clowns"

Yep, that is the best description of these sick puppies who call themselves "Republicans for Bush"....

[zoeb]

91. incredible description

This was great writing by Hunter!

[ClayZ]

19. Wow!

Yeah, THAT!


:kick:

[Spike from MN]

20. An absolute classic smackdown. Recommended! n/t

[bobbieinok]

21. super simplistic question....how do I view the comments??

there's a list of possible displays......all the ones I've tried so far come up with 'this display not possible here'

[GarySeven]

31. Try this ...

and scroll to the end of the piece.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/29/181822/366

[texpatriot2004]

22. I don't read Kos daily anymore, not since after Nov. 2, 2004 but

this is an awesome piece. Thanks for posting it.

[longship]

23. Malloy just read the bulk of this on the air.

Hunter nails it here. What a wonderful rant!

Recommended.

[raysr]

42. Peggy Noonan

son, according to Malloy who called us out for a civil war!

[longship]

43. Son, or some other close relative.

Mark Noonan.

Anyway you look at him, he's a douchbag.

[nonconformist]

24. That was great!

I love this line:

Your party has set aflame the entire political landscape, and now, once burned, you warn sternly from the branches of a burnt-out tree about "playing with fire".

[political_invader]

26. duplicated nt self delete

[radwriter0555]

32. blogsfor bush could use some education from real democrats... not spamming

by any means, but perhaps a more learned approach to the daily BS they're shoveling out.

http://www.blogsforbush.com/

Enlightenment is a good thing, when done politely.

[In Truth We Trust]

33. Kick and nominated- great read folks!

[ruggerson]

35. Hopefully

this will be read far and wide. What a beautiful piece of justified rage. A gem.

[NMMNG]

36. Exquisite. Simply exquisite

:applause: :patriot:

[Pooka Fey]

37. Whoa. Now you're talking.

Nominated.

[Hello_Kitty]

38. Damn Skippy!!

I wish every Repug would read this. Not that they'd understand but at least they'd get it through their dull little heads that not everyone is drinking the koolaid like they are.

[countmyvote4real]

39. Everyone MUST read this.

This is the passionate opposition that I want from my elected officials (and news readers). Run, Hunter, run… for office that is. BRILLIANT response!

[Carla in Ca]

55. I just read it...twice

I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.:smoke:

[pacalo]

40. The corruption has been ignored by the corporate media for 4 years.

It's no wonder the freepers have a misbegotten sense of reality & righteousness.

[mark11727]

41. I haven't tasted anything that good in years...!

Hit me again, barkeep!

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. This...

Welcome to the world of the politics of personal destruction, you tubthumping, chin-jutting, Bush humping gits. Welcome to the nasty and partisan world that Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Hugh Hewitt, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, and a legion of insignificant lowest-rung toadies like yourselves nurtured into fruition daily with eager, grubby hands, and now look upon with dull-faced faux horror.

...is the best insult I've seen since Graham Chapman screamed "You vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!" at Michael Palin in the Argument Clinic sketch.

:applause:

This classic screed doesn't need another nomination. But I'm doin' it anyway.

[Tuesday_Morning]

45. Damn that felt good!

thanks!

[Pam-Moby]

46. Just wonderful.

I need to start reading at DailyKos more often. Thanks

[PATRICK]

47. A rant of beauty,

a thing of truth. To think back in one's younger days you could chase one of these infuriating jerks back to Mommy or paste him in the smirking kisser. Now we have to release our dangerous blood pressure with prose fireworks, drawing upon truths cast into the gutter and imagery struggling to match their hellish caricatures of humanity.

Why can't we get that out of our pitiful pudding faced pundits who are paid, after all, to entertain with some degree of class and verve?

Nothing quite so fires the poetic art as truth.

[countmyvote4real]

53. Unfortunately, truth like beauty seems to be in the eye of the beholder.

Hunter’s response was an eyeful. And yet, they still won’t get it because they can’t accept that their rules of war/confrontation/debate/whatever might be used against them. I don’t care or give a fuck.

They defined and legislated the terms of this bed, so they let them lie in it. I hope that it will be in a prison cell. With good behavior he might get hot tub privileges. (Ha! I taunt the option of hot tub privileges because I don’t think there is yet an option for that, but it could probably happen before the 2006 election comes to pass.)

Bless Delay’s mother fucking heart.

[info being]

75. We're debating for the benefit of the undecided on-lookers

You can't change the mind of a raving, fuming moron...but you can point out the nature of the raving, fuming moron for any on-lookers who may be nearby.

That is why the anti-war movement is going to change things. There enough on-lookers.

[ReadTomPaine]

48. Yes, nicely said.

I'm surprised some of the more conservative dems here on DU haven't started criticizing this piece already.

[electron_blue]

73. I wouldn't consider myself the slightest bit conservative, but

I still don't like this piece. I don't like the implication that we, now, are going to be just as immoral, corrupt and infantile as the Republicans.

I can appreciate, though, that this is mainly venting and I do love a good vent every now and then.

[bloom]

79. I don't like the suggestion

that this is the "world of the politics of personal destruction" - as if Democrats are manufacturing faults in people to set up and destroy.

I don't see how this compares in any way what the Republicans did with their Swift boating of Kerry, and their character assassinations of Hillary and Bill or more recently what they have going against Cindy Sheehan.

What is happening with Delay and Frist - is the law and the courts holding them accountable - as they should be.

[TankLV]

96. If that is what you took away from the piece, then you don't know how to

comprehend what you've written.

Nowhere in the article does it state anything even remotely what you blindly assume! NOWHERE!

I am completely and utterly sorry for you.

[BuyingThyme]

49. kcik

I wish I could write like that.

[ngGale]

50. Damn, that was good....

B-) Way to go...

[Historic NY]

51. Wow....I wish I could get the words together to rant like that.......

I went to the blog and they deleted his post......every Democrat needs to see this.

[assclown_bush]

52. Loved the image of the giant foam hand. recommended n/t

[gulfcoastliberal]

54. Thanks for that. Fucking awesome! n/t

[lady lib]

56. Phenomenal rant! And I love his follow-up comment:

Update <2005-9-30 1:25:38 by Hunter>: -snip-
Tune in next week, when my next post, "Why Scott McClellan Should Be Put In A Cardboard Box Full of Infected Monkeys", will be read by James Earl Jones at the Sydney Opera House.

http://armando.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/30/01434/0478

:rofl:

[Autonomy]

57. BAM! He nailed that guy. :)

recommended

[nadinbrzezinski]

58. Civil War, that is waht they want

that is what they will get... they are so close to what they desire, a fascist state... and like sand it is going away...

mark my words, this country is now atomized and if there is a civil war, or rather when there is one... the shooting will be started by dimwits like Mark... who will go crying to their mommas when we respond... in kind.

And there are days I think it is unavoidable, that or a hot revolution.

[Raksha]

59. Thanks for the link.

That's absolutely one of the best rants I ever read!

[Rockholm]

60. Too Many Big Words. Cliff Notes Version?

You fucking republicans are reaping what you sow. You sow shit you get shit. Eat dirt scumbags.

[cassiepriam]

62. WOW. Fantastic. A must read, eom

[tandot]

63. "...suck at your teats of scientific ignorance ...

...in the name of religion, racism in the name of freedom, and corruption in the name of the New World Order"

Kick-ass post. LOVE IT!

Recommended!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

64. F'n A!

[Ganja Ninja]

65. Mods: There at least two or three threads on this article and ...

two of them are on the greatest page. This really belongs on the front page.

[Lisa0825]

68. Absolutely!!!!

This was fantastic!!!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[second edition]

67. Tell Kos to be fair to John Kerry and not so biased and I will go

read Daily Kos.As it is now over there, it's a bunch of misinformed attack dogs ready to pounce on anything Kerry. I happen to admire the man and I don't expect agreement, but a little respect for his accomplishments would be nice along with accurate commentary.

[IndyOp]

71. I gave up on KOS when Kos himself declared that 2004 election

was not stolen and that anyone who dared discuss such a possibility was a tin-foil hatter. Discussion boards are supposed to be for responsible discussion, if I contributors back up their assertions they should be allowed to post.

I am not virulently anti-Kos - he often has some good observations on the Majority Report.

Still - I resent the position he took last November which stiffled communication and action.

[formercia]

69. Make my Liberal fucking day.

[Sparkman]

70. GREAT summary and Greatest assault, this rhetoric will soon be a FELONY!

[Stand and Fight]

72. Absolutely BRILLIANT rant!

I eagerly recommend this thread!

[dogday]

74. Excellent Response

He threw down the gauntlet and it is about time the Republicans see this world for what it is.

[Gregorian]

76. I'm off to get some marshmallows, now.

And may I be the first to say-

Sore Loserma...

_{I'm not even the gloating type. But after all we've been through, and after reading such a perfect slamming work of art. Well, I guess they knew it was coming. Didn't they? DIDN'T THEY!}

[Spiffarino]

77. "Get used to the world you have created..."

I want more from Hunter. She/He has the soul of a poet:

Get used to the world you have created, and the stench your worshipped heroes have unleashed.

Nectar.

[tom_paine]

78. Fantastic, amazing wonderful RANT!

Having the additional benefit of being 100% TRUE!

[Lori Price CLG]

80. 'flirting with CIVIL WAR' -- Bring it on f*ckers, bring it on! n/t

[Mr_Spock]

81. How's a taste of your own medicine - you redneck morons!

hehe - they ain't likin' the new game they invented eh?

[Gregorian]

82. I've changed my mind on this.

My first reaction was "Sore Loserman". And of course, a lot of us THINK what this poster SAID. It's ok to think it. After all, if only you could read my mind. And knowing what we know, and within the context which we are in, the comments made are beautifully cathartic. However. However, I just read Obama's post on Kos, and I have to agree with his calmer head. And it's not something I like to do. I want to come out swinging. But we're not alone. And we do have to build coalitions. And creating enemies is really easy. Ask me, I'm good at it.
Obama picked out a quote from our friend Paul Simon- "disagreeing without being disagreeable,".

Are we not civilized? Forgive me, I'm thinking Devo here. Haha. But really, let us not stoop to the level of what republicans have become. As good as it feels, and as deserving as we are, we can rise above and be stronger in doing so.

Everyone knows how we want to slam republicans with a proverbial baseball bat. Let's be bigger. It's the harder road. The better road.

[MrMickeysMom]

93. I'll get to that right after

I make happy little sounds watching a few criminals be frogged marched.

Indict, Impeach, Imprison...

Yeah..:D

[trekbiker]

83. all I can say is WOW!!!! incredible. and right on target

[nomatrix]

84. The Elephant in the room

Not a single mention of this.

VP gets away with everything.

Great link to everything they don't want to see.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

[Shredr]

85. I have never cheered to loud, sitting at my little desk!

Thanks for sharing that.

Swift boats. Aluminum tubes. Niger uranium. "Mushroom clouds". Whitewater. Rush Limbaugh.

Vince Fucking Foster.

Brilliant.

[krkaufman]

86. Disagree with one thought within the rather spectacular rant

In the Delay, Frist and Abramoff indictments and investigations, the Republicans are NOT meeting the world that they created -- in that these investigations are not a result of the politics of personal destruction.

Each of these investigations, from what I can tell, are simply a result of basic investigative and law enforcement efforts. NONE of what I've heard regarding these investigations rise more than a pebble towards the mountain of hate that was the "Whitewater" witchhunt.

As for the politics of personal destruction, I don't see any value in it. I feel we need to retain something of ourselves that differentiates us from the soulless Right. All we need to do is know what we believe, and stand firmly in support of it.

[tlsmith1963]

87. Read it Yesterday

And it kicks ass! Send it to all those idiot Repubs who keep sending you e-mails when you don't want them. They'll just *love* it...heh.:evilgrin:

Tammy

[derby378]

88. I wouldn't call it a "statement of Democratic principles," but...

On the other hand, it sums up beautifully what these traitors have been doing to our beloved country for the past five years. Well done.

[shadowlight]

89. nice n/t

[mirrera]

90. Felt so good I wanted a cigarette after! n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

92. Christ, that was great. I can sleep tonight and...

feel energized in the morning...

:kick:

[MADem]

94. Sounds like the George Galloway effect is taking hold

"You're a drink-soaked former-Trotskyist popinjay," to Hitchins was the opening salvo in a war of words that cut like the sharpest of knives.

And ya know what, when we choose to use words, we win. We're far sharper than they are, as a group, and we know the spelling of words like HUGE and MORON. We also do much better at punctuation--!!!1!!1!1!.

En garde, all feckless whiners!!! We'll beat ye to death with our thesauruses!

[TankLV]

95. Oh. My. God. That was INCREDIBLE!

I haven't read anything that good in a long time!

I've copied and saved it for posterity!

It is so spot-on on so many levels!

It should be REQUIRED READING in all our schools and places of government!

[Kurovski]

97. Beautifully written:

"You used the ashes of one of the great liberal cities of America, New York City, as war paint for your own sick, racist dreams."

This is why I cringe when I see folks wanting to be "nicer" or more civil with these nasty folk we now must face. They don't understand anything else.

Their daddys smacked them so often, abuse looks like love, and love, weakness.

This is how it is in America right now. So talk tough, talk true.

Call a liar a liar, but know your facts to call them out.

[sepia_steel]

98. That

is beauty.