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2017-05-07 Fifth Column
Some of the far left are tired, throwing up their hands in frustration.
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Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Shipping all these people to Venezuela for 6 months would solve an awful lot of problems. A shock course in fundamental economics.
Posted by phil_b 2017-05-07 04:24||   2017-05-07 04:24|| Front Page Top

#2 "for six months or so"
That implies you want them back....?
Posted by Richard Aubrey  2017-05-07 06:40||   2017-05-07 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 implies you want them back

I dunno. At the rate things are going in the glorious Bolivarian empire, 6 months may amount to LCt50 for the average American snowflake...
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-05-07 07:38||   2017-05-07 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Wouldn't work at all, they'd just claim it "wasn't true socialism" and leave after a week. It takes more than empirical evidence to sway convictions like that. The No True Scotsman fallacy is the savior of the intellect of every socialist. You need an emotional appeal to even begin to persuade a mental fortress of iron like that.
Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-05-07 07:42||   2017-05-07 07:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Debbie from Sane Progressive

Hah?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-07 08:23||   2017-05-07 08:23|| Front Page Top

#6 It's like 'Military Intelligence'.
Posted by Pappy 2017-05-07 09:01||   2017-05-07 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Huh?

Yep, Pappy, that's right from oxymoron central,

I've heard that China has lots of empty new cities. Maybe Donald can work out a deal where we fill one of them up with Debbie and her cohorts.

China is real socialism isn't it? They can bring their own little Red Books.
Posted by AlanC 2017-05-07 09:04||   2017-05-07 09:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Many other activists have thrown up their hands and quit because they feel like they have no way to fight back.

I don't believe it for a minute. The left is like the Talibunnies, ISIS, and AQ; they have an unending supply of "useful idiot dupes."
Posted by JohnQC 2017-05-07 09:19||   2017-05-07 09:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Poor Debbie! 196 counties in the world and she has the bad luck to be born in an "idiot shit" country. You can tell it's an "idiot shit" country because no one wants to move here. Our foreign service officers regularly prowl the streets of Jakarta and Nairobi saying "Hey! Anyone here want an American passport?" and not getting any takers. But good news, Debbie -- if you plan your escape carefully you'll be able to slip past the paramilitary police into Mexico or Canada. Go for it, girl! Make a break for it now! We'll somehow survive without you.
Posted by Matt 2017-05-07 09:23||   2017-05-07 09:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I like how she decrys the suffering and death over the centuries but all her allegorical references are from the last ten years or so. In other words, references from within her lifetime. Not at all well read. Now, I'm tired of pointing out the obvious. HEH!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-05-07 10:19||   2017-05-07 10:19|| Front Page Top

#11 my frustration exhausts everyone around me, so why bother?

Hint: it's not your "frustration", idiot
Posted by Frank G 2017-05-07 10:27||   2017-05-07 10:27|| Front Page Top

#12 #9 plan your escape carefully

Hysterical fiction there, kitten!
Now, "so many things are forbidden"
That, not to be targets
For rabid Ofmargarets,
We'll doggedly stick to our knittin'.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-05-07 11:31||   2017-05-07 11:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Lord knows why (my head still hurts from trying to read that while watching the Milo thing), but I'd like to see the rant. A comment suggests Ms. Lusignan "accidentally deleted" it, and that another post (Saudi defense contracts!) had mysteriously vanished (PR people must have a name for these events, no?). Anybody have non-FB linkage to either?
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-05-07 11:50||   2017-05-07 11:50|| Front Page Top

#14 "...real leaders like Kshama Sawant..."

Oh, gawd--the author must be another Seattle-area lefty loon. Sawant is an avowed socialist on the Seattle city council who is constantly screaming about "worker's rights", the $15/hour minimum wage, and for the "resistance" to keep demonstrating and blocking traffic at the drop of a hat.

If you can stomach it:
Recent Sawant articles
Posted by Dar  2017-05-07 12:24||   2017-05-07 12:24|| Front Page Top

#15 heh - nice, Dar
Posted by Frank G 2017-05-07 12:36||   2017-05-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#16 From the comments at Caucus99Percent:

"The wall is meant as a barrier to we the 99percent. It's constructed of wealth that's mortared with the blood sweat and tears of the working class.

The base of the wall aligns horizontally, whereas we confront and tear at each other in a linear fashion upon collision, as it is intended."

Does anyone know what they're talking about???

Posted by Frozen Al 2017-05-07 12:55||   2017-05-07 12:55|| Front Page Top

#17 Kshama shaming? Really? How can you not love a socialist interviewed wearing a gray pvssy hat? Okay, so I'm easily amused.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-05-07 13:10||   2017-05-07 13:10|| Front Page Top

#18 Maybe if we were on the right drugs.
Posted by gorb 2017-05-07 13:12||   2017-05-07 13:12|| Front Page Top

#19 Eventually it always seems to come to either collapse or violence. In the case of the latter, I know where I would place my bets.




I added width=550 so it stopped breaking the Burg.

--trailing wife at 1:40 p.m. EDT

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-05-07 13:13||   2017-05-07 13:13|| Front Page Top

#20 re #16 on that wall thing

Where upper class workers, forlorn, dwell
(in college!), I guess they read Cornwell:
Mnemonic didactics
Of rancor, vile tactics,
Sharp language of them that ain't born well.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-05-07 13:34||   2017-05-07 13:34|| Front Page Top

#21 I always thought of Sawant as a Obama wanna-be. Basically being a community organizer agitator.
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-05-07 13:51||   2017-05-07 13:51|| Front Page Top

#22 #16 Frozen Al--I assume that this is from some experiment with all the monkeys at keyboards trying to type out Shakespeare...this excerpt is one of the rejects.
Posted by Tom 2017-05-07 14:09||   2017-05-07 14:09|| Front Page Top

#23 Many other activists have thrown up their hands and quit because they feel like they have no way to fight back.

Does that mean they'll, like, get jobs and start minding their own business?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-07 15:25||   2017-05-07 15:25|| Front Page Top

#24 Those on the left spend most of their life protesting or being against something. It's like the old '60's saying: "What are you protesting?" The retort was "What've you got?"
Posted by JohnQC 2017-05-07 17:01||   2017-05-07 17:01|| Front Page Top

#25 Wahhahahaha #19, a true classic.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-07 17:46||   2017-05-07 17:46|| Front Page Top

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