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2004-11-22 Fifth Column

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Posted by Warthog 2004-11-22 11:41:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Awriiiight! Street theater, rabble-rousing, astrology, giant puppets, pink tanks! Woohoo! What more could a looney want! Come one, come all! All Blue State screechers and secessionists, be there or be square! Don't miss out! They will be lots of sex, drugs, and speechifying!

Public Service Announcement: All Rantburgers, please leave the area. Thank You. Targeting coordinates, please...

Posted by .com 2004-11-22 12:41:45 PM|| 2004-11-22 12:41:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Note that, after the public sector unions and George Blofeld-Soros, this freak show is the most influential fund-raising organization the Democrats have. Their problems go a lot deeper than they think.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 12:55:39 PM|| 2004-11-22 12:55:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Left is clinically insane. Really, In Marin this weekend there was a gathering of what even the local lib rag referred to as a "gathering of conspiracy theorists". The problem is they have the backing of several local politicians who are moving forward with a lawsuit to nullify the election results, and of course we all get to fit the bill. The pols are Jim March, Bev Harris, and California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. They are targeting Diebold, but the goal is to overturn the Ohio results.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-11-22 12:59:00 PM|| 2004-11-22 12:59:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting times we live in. I believe the Democrats will fragment in two within the next four years. It's obvious that the intra-party divide is greater now than at any time since the summer of 1968. Only Watergate prevented a crack-up then, and I doubt that Bush will hand them a similar opportunity this time.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 1:06:50 PM|| 2004-11-22 1:06:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 No wonder we haven't heard from Cyber Sarge in a while.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-22 1:12:13 PM|| 2004-11-22 1:12:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Figure he's holed up in his bunker, Mrs D? Lol! Think we should form a rescue team and extract him? I hope he stocked up on essentials...

Posted by .com 2004-11-22 1:22:24 PM|| 2004-11-22 1:22:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Beware their piercings. Show up in the damndest places.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 1:32:41 PM|| 2004-11-22 1:32:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I think he's working undercovers.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-22 1:43:22 PM|| 2004-11-22 1:43:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Good grief! - I thought this was a Scrappleface article, but it's at the actual site!

A snippet:

This was the fourth MoveOn party hosted by Camila Aguilar, 44, a writer, "rabble-rouser" and astrologer, and she said she had to turn away hundreds who wanted to come.

Sitting in circles under a canopy of leaves from a family of Australian umbrella trees named Rup, Ruppert and Ruppie -- and newcomer tree Bruno -- the activists planned.

Unreal!

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-11-22 2:32:15 PM|| 2004-11-22 2:32:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Boycott the ATM machines from companies that manufactured the voting machines. Now THERE is a reall action plan that will get results!

This outfit is a piece of work. Keep up the brilliant ideas, folks. I think that you are on to something. Self-marginalizing units.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-22 3:02:59 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:02:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I like it when these douche bags have their little "goat rodeos." They amuse me beyond belief.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-11-22 3:04:03 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:04:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Supporters of the national progressive organization, MoveOn.org, gathered at more than 1,680 house parties across the nation Sunday night to participate in a national online conference and determine what they should do to move beyond the whining and into action after the election defeat...

Haaahahahahahaaa, even the Chronicle admits that these guys were/are whining about their lot.

Sorry kids, but you reap what you sow.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-22 3:14:37 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:14:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Astrologers and conspiracy theorists? Could the moronic convergence between the so-called left and high-end fringe pop-culture be any more obvious?

Oh, well, the UFO industry kept them running in circles and out of the political loop for 50 years, much better than could have been expected.

We'll just have to invent something new to divert their authoritarian impulses and to occupay passes for their minds.

It probably never occurred to these nimrods that the UFO culture originated less than a year before the establishment of the State of Israel (summer, 1947).
Coincidence?
Bwuuuwaahaahaaaha!

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-22 3:20:58 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:20:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Er, "to occupy what passes for their minds."

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-22 3:22:08 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:22:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks for the comments, but I am still safe from that rabble on the left coast. I was just spent after the election and had to take a break from the political arena for a few days. I am gearing up for 2006 to help the Republicans reclaim the State House in California. There is a proposition to make the election districts more reflective of the electorate. After we change the districts, the Dems will be lucky to get 1/3 of the State House and probably 1/4 of the State Senate. Suffice to say all is well.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-11-22 3:24:26 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:24:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 OK for all yuz folks, but I gotta live and work with these tin foil wearin', volvo drivin', moonbarkin' A-Wipes...and they are the majority in these parts. Everyday at work the discussion is the same.....how Bush stole the election. Cheeeezus K Reist!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-11-22 3:31:50 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:31:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Have some fun with 'em, Rex. Make 'em freak with rumors and FUD. Spread disinformation. Suggest they watch FOX so they can catch the coming invasion of Venezuela. Let them in on Bush's plans to eliminate the postal service.

Tell them that Rove's next demographic target group is african-americans and that Bill Cosby has told Ken Mehlman he wouldn't mind being Condi's running mate.

Give them the number of the nearest French consulate and tell them France has offered instant EU citizenship to any American who can demonstrate presecution by religious fundamentalists.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 3:48:12 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:48:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Tell em where they can sign up to particpate in the Guardian's campaign to influence the 2006 midterm elections.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 3:49:13 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:49:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#19

Sitting in circles under a canopy of leaves from a family of Australian umbrella trees named Rup, Ruppert and Ruppie -- and newcomer tree Bruno -- the activists planned.

Some said they need to go out and adopt cities in the red states...."

Hmmmm. A clue, moonbats: Naming the trees you meet under is not likely to help your street cred in Redland.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-22 3:49:43 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:49:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 If any other DC area RB'ers are interested, I'm organizing an undercover infiltration of a local Moveon meeting...my theory is that chicks that dumb can't possibly be ugly...

Posted by mjh 2004-11-22 3:50:33 PM|| 2004-11-22 3:50:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 my theory is that chicks that dumb can't possibly be ugly...

Reality will shatter your theory. I know from experience, wimminses who participate in this madness don't like men as a general rule; you can find carpet munchers and the like there if you are into that sort of thing, but trust a man of experience. Wimminses of the left is fugly.

Posted by badanov 2004-11-22 3:59:29 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-11-22 3:59:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 I had the most fun ever after the election. One of my LLL co-workers regurgitated the story from the Daily Kos about some counties that were predominantly Democrat voting for Bush. I listened contently on how the machines had been rigged to vote only for Bush, Haliburton was involved, and the NAACP was âhot on the trail.â He was positively glowing about the impending election turn around (in his mind) and how the recount would surely place Kerry ahead of bush in Ohio and Florida. Later that day Kerry came out with his statement to calm the moonbats and my poor guy was crushed. A married man of three was almost in tears over the fact that his party had lost the election! I would have told him to grow up but I didnât want to listen to his wail any more than necessary. Frigging girly-men!

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-11-22 4:00:52 PM|| 2004-11-22 4:00:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Thanks lex...good ideas all. The Postal Service thingy is great but they've already bitten on that one. LOL! However, the EU citizenship ploy has legs... heh heh.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-11-22 4:11:38 PM|| 2004-11-22 4:11:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Lex, Rex

You're definitely on to something.
Karl Rove's secret minions (us, the LGF lizardoids, Indy-borg, etc.) should redouble our efforts to promote seriously paranoid conspiracy theories and similar disinformation among left-conformists.

The more seriously these ideas are taken, and the more extreme they are, the farther the believer is from any viable ability to influence the real world or, indeed, from any desire to participate in the real world.

For example, the lunatic David Icke has thousands of fans who believe that reptilian overlords from the 4th dimension are conspiring with the world's governments to kidnap humans for their food supply. Many conspiracy theorists support Icke's contention that this "livestock" is being held in a secret facility beneath the Denver airport.
What chance does someone who believes this have of taking effective action on public issues? Why would they even want to, since speaking out will get them included in the next roundup?

With their aura of cultural elitism, moral authority, and corageous opposition to perceived power, these kinds of ideas appeal to the left media-conformist mindset. They also dovetail nicely with drug-culture paranoia. The existing left conspiracy theories are extreme enough to provide a simple lead-in for theories paranoid enough to take believers right out of the process.

It helps that a large part of the scientific community, Richard Dawkins and The Lancet for example, have gone over to the far left, as have a significant portion of the organized skeptic movement. Being on the same side as the conspiracy wackos will hinder their customary role in rebutting paranoid conspiracy theories and produce internecine conflict when they try.

Some skeptic organizations are mere shadows of their former selves, in fact, thanks to the cognitive dissonance of adhering to an ideology that directly contradicts their declared principles of logic, reason, and objectivity.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-22 4:37:27 PM|| 2004-11-22 4:37:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Actually in view of the Chile episode, probably best not to play the Venezuelan invasion card. Stick to domestic issues involving evangelicals and Halliburton and such.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 4:41:52 PM|| 2004-11-22 4:41:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Agreed....I'm leaning toward the evangelical ploy. The peanut gallery here is already predisposed to this..

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-11-22 5:11:50 PM|| 2004-11-22 5:11:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 Hallelujah, Brother Rex!

Posted by Seafarious 2004-11-22 5:14:37 PM|| 2004-11-22 5:14:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 ROFL!!! Man am I glad youze guyz are on the same side as meez! Phreakin' scary lot, you are!

Posted by .com 2004-11-22 5:30:28 PM|| 2004-11-22 5:30:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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