Blogmocracy in Action!
Guest post by: Mars!
Here we are in the midst of the standard post-election navel gazing that always seems to occur. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. What good does it do anyone to keep retreading all these same paths over and over again? Yes, discussion helps us to gain insight and paves the way to solutions, but the blame game does nothing but satisfy our enemies.
The number one question that keeps getting asked over and over again, what can we do to keep this from happening again? How can we engage the electorate by the time 2014 rolls around? This is not as impossible as they try to make this sound. There are people out there who will tell you it can’t happen. Well, guess what. These people are the solution. Our best bet right now is to gain control of the media. Instead of flushing money into PAC after PAC, we need to have our big money people start buying up these failing newspapers, get one of the big three alphabet networks, get their own entertainment channels. Music, movies, television, nothing should be out of question. There are a number of strong conservatives out there in all these areas, the problem is that they are spread amongst so many liberals their voices are not heard.
It turns out that I’m not the only one thinking these things. Here’s just a couple of articles that have popped up since I’ve been planning mine.
While the right’s ability to access mass audiences has increased substantially in recent decades with the advent of talk radio, cable television, and the Internet, its audience reach is still tiny compared to the hundreds of millions who consume news generated by the liberal mainstream media.
It is true that the audience share of these supposedly objective outlets has decreased in recent years, but that hardly means they have lost their ability to persuade people, especially with working journalists now ever more willing to throw their self-styled proclamations of objectivity to the wind.
Or this one:
Uncool conservatives need to re-engage pop cultureCulture matters. It’s the fertile ground where political seeds are planted and votes harvested.
When ethnically diverse, Hollywood actress Stacey Dash tweeted in favor of Mitt Romney last month, conservatives flocked to her defense as the left besieged her with ugly and vicious taunts. Yet she shouldn’t have had to endure this concentrated rage. The reason a moderately successful actress became the focal point of a pop culture backlash is because there aren’t enough conservative celebrities to disperse the hate.
Conservatives know they’ve been routed in the pop culture wars, and judging by the intense embrace of the few celebrities in Hollywood that skew to the right, conservatives also understand the importance of victories on this turf. Various websites often run “Conservatives in Hollywood” slide shows because the creature is so rare (for the liberal version, just go to IMDb.com, the cast of any movie). Based on the intensity of leftist attacks on conservative celebrities, the left understands how important it is to defend this ground.
The cooler president won Romney kinda sorta got the pop culture gap when he declared he liked Snooki during his appearance on Live! With Kelly and Michael, but the objective isn’t to see the garbage in pop culture and yell, “Me too!” (and come across as phony in doing so). The object is to create your own culture and ridicule the absurdity of the existing culture. Most people like to feel clever, smart. In the know. Being in on a joke makes people feel good.
This isn’t going to be easy and it isn’t going to happen overnight. The fact remains we have ceded the media battleground. AM radio is our domain, it shouldn’t remain thus. Glenn Beck sees this his GBTV, now BlazeTV started as an internet channel and has now moved onto DISH network. Herman Cain has his own internet channel now called CainTV. This is a good start, but we aren’t going to get to the people on the middle unless we are in their face every night on one of the big three networks.
People have said over and over again, where is our Stephen Colbert? Well, I believe we have him or at least one person that can begin to get us some ground in that area.
Ladies and gentlemen presenting Alonzo Rachel.
Conservatives, Win the Culture and You Win the Country
And one that needs repeated over and over
For an even more sarcastic take on things we have Scott Ott
A very Colbert/Stewart kind of delivery.
There are more, the Politichicks at www.politichicks.tv, Victoria Jackson (formerly of SNL), Janine Turner, etc.
We also have the talent in the documentary business. Look at Dinesh D’souza, Mike Wilson, Alan Peterson, James O’ Keefe, and anyone Andrew Breitbart trained.
We have the talent, now we need the outlets. Feel free to discuss other people we could put forward. We need to hit everything, music, tv, movies, documentaries, and paper media. We have radio and we have books. (Conservative books consistently hit the top spots on the NYT Best Sellers list.)
And for everyone who asked for a ringtone, here’s a couple MP3′s.
The stuff is out there. Now to get it where people can see and here it. And add to it, build our label. The product will sell, it’s the medium we are using that isn’t working.
-Mars
Tags: Mars, pop culture
We lost, we need not get into conspiracy theories. Too many fools looked at the past four years and said to themselves “Hey I’d like another”.
President Obama,
Clinton Prosperity Requires Clinton-Sized Government
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2012/11/19/non-partisan-not-chance-worst-cnns-election-bias
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/19/msnbc-did-no-negative-stories-about-obama-or-positive-ones-about-romn
A couple of other conservatives that would fit the bill: Dennis Miller and Scott Baio.
Speranza wrote:
WTF where did I promote a conspiracy theory? What part of we need to get some media control is a freaking conspiracy?
@ Mars:
My guess that was in agreement
waldensianspirit wrote:
Ok, I’m just a little tired today. Sorry speranza, I misread it.
Excellent post Mars…yes the media is a huge problem..it is just mind-boggling how many people still believe it.
Right, as well start boning up on how to win and where. First, “How to take back your government” Second for fun, Expanded Universe for some good essays and how to “play them out with music”.
We have culture, we just have to learn to use it to the maximum effect.
BTW I apologize, some of the formatting for this article did not come out right. Several portions are not my own writing, they are quotes from the article.
I think Zonation hit on something you kept hearing “fairness” instead of “freedom” out of the democrats…”Freedom” from Romney…apparently “freedom” doesn’t hit the note it should with Americans. They will know the definition again though when they don’t have it.
@ Mars:
articles linked.
@ PaladinPhil:
Hey PaladinPhil…the culture we have is swirling down the toilet. When every thing is okay and nothing is wrong we have a problem.
Oh wait…turkeys need civil rights now ….yep that is what I call hitting nearly rock bottom.
Speranza wrote:
very true but I can’t help but wonder just how many of them were not legally eligible to vote?
granted it might not have been enough to change things but even 1 is 1 too many.
@ brookly red:
Obama’s gonna send his pizza nazis after you!
waldensianspirit wrote:
oh pluuuuze the don’t even pretend anymore… http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/20/illinois-moves-grant-licenses-illegal-immigrants/
Mars wrote:
I was not referring to you. I was making a general comment. Chill.
China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World in Just 90 Days (Updated)
That’s 5 floors a day!
What are you going to do, Trumka?
Speranza wrote:
Yep, got that belatedly.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/growing-narrative-dem-rep-says-attacks-on-susan-rice-really-just-a-racist-witch-hunt/
More from our enemies the media. Also contains proof MSLSD is corrupt all the way to the top.
waldensianspirit wrote:
big deal, all they have to do is pile up our IOUs…
@ brookly red:
You have to admit the media played a huge part in obama being re-elected. They pushed every lie there was about Romney and did everything they could to shore up obama. I mean there are people who thought obama is a centrist! For heavens sake! Romney was the radical.
Don’t know how to reach these types of people but apparently they didn’t believe that:
a. Obama is going to raise taxes
b. Obama is going to really do some damage concerning our ability to create our own energy..no they don’t believe obama is going to shut down all those coal plants. Nor did they believe he is cutting down leases in the Gulf. When I told them just a few weeks ago 35 leases were cut in the Gulf..they didn’t believe me. Why? Hell if I know for one I live on the Gulf and told them well apparently you didn’t get the memo because even the newspapers were reporting the cuts in the leases.
c. They honestly believe we need to pave the way on Global Warming and Green energy even though no other country is going to follow and pouring money we don’t have in these companies is not excatly a smart move when we don’t have the money to pour into them. But they think it’s a smart and good move..someone has to be guiding light to the world.
d. They don’t believe obama did anything wrong concerning Benghazi…how they can believe that I honestly don’t know. If you critique obama for the Benghazi mess they say it’s like blaming George Bush for 9/11 and if you bring up facts like D.C. was watching this unfold in real time via drone..they say no one can know that..same they say when you mention the many times the embassy asked for more security …no one knows that!!!!!!!!
e. They think obamacare is good..never mind where the money comes from to fund it. It’s going to be good. Uhmmmmm..I say get back to me in a year.
f. They honestly thought there was a “war on women”. How? Beats the hell out of me.
g. Romney ran a really negative campaign
h. The Republican propaganda was getting on their nerves (no they didn’t look into anything that was being said..because a bunch of people said obama was going to take our guns and guess what they say we still have guns [uhmm it certainly wasn't from lack of trying and oh obama is still going to go after that in his second term.]
i. Obama really cared more about the American people than Romney did. Okay how they think obama cares more is beyond me.
j. They know little to nothing about Fast and Furious
k. They think obama can’t get anything done because it’s the Republican’s fault…whoa nelly…it’s obama who doesn’t want to work with the Republicans but nevermind that..they will believe what they want to believe.
Now if you notice I didn’t mention anything about “free stuff” …I’m talking about the obama voter who is working and doesn’t want free stuff.
@ Mars:
No problem.
Mars wrote:
/well she is a racist witch…
An update on the low turnout myth:
Speranza wrote:
Of course they did, throw out your TV and let them starve.
brookly red wrote:
Heh.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Thats some very interesting info. Once again we have been lied to. By people on our own side too.
Keep in mind, one of the reason my wish list up there probably will never happen is simple. The elites in the republican party are just as dedicated to the status quo as the dems are dedicated to destruction.
@ brookly red:
Hey, brookly—did you see my post earlier about the Obamacare provisions that are going to impact pizzerias?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fk-em-just-kill-yourself-kim-kardashian-jon-levitz-face-backlash-death-wishes-for-defending-israel/
Another reason we need control of the media. Read the comments given to Kardashian and Lovitz at your own risk. They are bad.
Lily wrote:
Seems to have been a big shock to Susan Estrogen.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
It’s going to be a big shock to a lot of people who voted for obama for one obamacare is one massive tax.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
maybe they can just pull a Denney’s and add a surcharge…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
It’s getting worse. I just heard Hobby Lobby (a christian company) has been ordered by a federal judge to offer the morning after pill as part of it’s health plan.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/happy-violence-disease-land-theft-thanksgiving-msnbc-anchor-thinks-so//
The press is the enemy. O’s reelection has given them permission to completely be themselves. Of course MSLSD doesn’t need permission.
Mars wrote:
I note that even Jon Lovitz—who, I presume, is at least nominally Jewish—doesn’t seem to realize that Israel didn’t “buy the land in 1948.”
The creation of modern Israel began, not in 1947-48, but in 1882, when the land was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Those first efforts at settlement mostly failed, but the effort got a big lift when Theodore Herzl started the more-organized Zionist movement after witnessing the outpouring of antisemitism by French mobs during the Dreyfus Affair (1894-96).
Tel Aviv was founded by Jewish settlers in 1909. The Bezalel School of art was founded in the Land of Israel in 1906.
The State of Israel had its foundations laid for some 60 years before the state actually came into being. And the state of Israel, itself, is no more than thirty years younger than all the other independent states in the region—and, indeed, older than some of them.
The notion that Israel is the neighborhood upstart is utterly false—and too many pro-Israel partisans, alas, do not realize this.
Mars wrote:
She folded like a house of cards when confronted. At least Jon defended himself..but he needs correction the land for Israel was bought before 1948 if I remember correctly.
Lily wrote:
See my #34.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/msnbc-anchor-tells-israeli-ambassador-hamas-rockets-rarely-do-damage/
Press drone dares to tell Israeli ambassador how to defend themselves, or not for that matter.
If MSLDS is considered a “legitimate” news network why is Fox ridiculed?
They have to have the ability to frame the conversation removed.
Mars wrote:
it’s a shame those pills don’t work on elections…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
@ Lily:
Kardashian is a well known lightweight.
Lovitz tried, but when this stuff isn’t taught anymore and the press doesn’t talk about it. (Has anyone here seen a History Channel program on the founding of Israel? I haven’t yet. It may have been done, but it sure hasn’t been rerun.)
@ brookly red:
Or Ann Dunham wasn’t a part of a pilot study and not in the placebo part either
Mars wrote:
throw out your TV, and let them starve. I am serious don’t complain unless you are willing to do what needs to be done.
I can’t throw out the tv. Haven’t had one for 26 years
waldensianspirit wrote:
right fucking on
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Just read it. I remember that the land was bought before WWI and you stated that is so. At least my memory isn’t going.
waldensianspirit wrote:
San Francisco will be happy to send you a TV, or a nudist, or an inflated-scrotum man.
Mars wrote:
There is a documentary on the founding of Israel but you will have to buy it..it certainly isn’t on the History Channel or any channel for that fact on the TV.
brookly red wrote:
They won’t starve. The middle will support them and we will continue to lose.
We have to take the battle to their battleground. I’ve detailed what needs to happen.
As their insanity continues it becomes more vital we take some of the MSM for our own. Eventually we can have enough that we can’t be marginalized. Especially if we control one of the alphabet networks.
Pulling our head into our shells cedes the argument and allows them eternal domination.
Mars wrote:
No they will not starve….plus it is handy to know what the propaganda is so you can at least refute it. Otherwise you can’t counter-attack the lies and misinformation.
Mars wrote:
if 50 million people cancelled their cable subscriptions it would end their domination.
If you are not part of the solution…
Lily wrote:
Land was purchased for the purpose of eventually creating the State of Israel right up to independence. Much of the land in what is now Israel was owned by Arab sheikhs who were absentee landlords, and who were happy to soak those stupid would-be settlers by selling them arid land or malarial swampland.
The settlers planted eucalyptus trees to drain the swamps, and invented drip irrigation to make the arid land productive.
Many of the “Palestinians” who yap about “their land” which their fathers worked were, in fact, families of serfs or tenant farmers who did not own the land they worked, by the way.
BTW, for what it’s worth, my family and I went to Israel in 1961 (back when Jordan still held the Old City) and stayed with friends of my parents in Jerusalem. The house they now own was, back then, rented from the Arab owner. They were not able to purchase it until the mid-’70s. It’s a magnificent house, by the way; 14-foot ceilings, balconies on all four sides, a small bit of land—anyone who has been to Jerusalem knows what a prize such a place is.
@ brookly red:
At the least be able to pick only the channels paid for instead of how they are lumped together. Hopefully new media will soon remedy that
waldensianspirit wrote:
/oh look! that one came from a school yard in Gaza… Ooooh and that one came from the orphanage…
brookly red wrote:
That’s just not going to happen…ever. Unrealistic. So if that isn’t going to happen what is plan B?
Also, Red Dawn comes out tomorrow. I’ve talked to some of the people online who had input into that film. Unless they are filling me with bs, it’s going to be a pretty damn patriotic film. (Probably not as good as the original though). Just so everyone knows it was originally supposed to be China as the aggressors in the new film. They sent troops to the US to defend their investments.
The writers also wrote the game Homefront. Watch this video and tell me they are any fans of O policies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4L40TdPlkk
Doubt this will work. For some reason I have lost the ability to grab embed URL’s from youtube/
waldensianspirit wrote:
and not buying their sponsors products helps, but only if you e-mail them and tell them why.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I’ve taken a couple surveys this year. That is actually something that the satellite and cable providers are considering now. A pay per channel package instead of these stupid package deals.
So, someone like me would never even have to see all these damn sports channels or leftist news channels, or Oprahs network.
@ waldensianspirit:
Oh but wait…if Israel defends itself OMG! THEY ARE KILLING CHILDREN!!
/////////
Sickening the way the news is reported in this country of ours.
Lily wrote:
there is no plan B you accept defeat or fight to the death.
@ brookly red:
Dumped it a year ago, never looked back.
/galt
@ Mars:
The link worked…is Homefront a movie???
It is far more realistic that with pressure we can get some of our big money people in the party to put money into buying failing papers and grab a mainstream network, than it is to dream that somehow out of the blue 50 million people are going to give up television. Also boycotts aren’t particularly effective and aren’t really a tactic we use. I much prefer buycotts.
Lily wrote:
/actually I support our funding of Planned Parenthood in Gaza… I mean those poor people shouldn’t be punished with children.
CynicalConservative wrote:
right fucking on
brookly red wrote:
Defeat isn’t an option. So …there is always a Plan B.
Lily wrote:
Actually it’s a game. But a lot of the elements in it will be in the new version of Red Dawn that releases tomorrow.
(By the way anyone know what happens when the bad guys in your film are the Chinese? China buys out your distributor, demands you change the enemy, and then shelves your movie for several years hoping you’ll just drop the whole thing.)
@ Mars:
So in the new Red Dawn it’s the North Koreans who are the enemy? Funny because the North Koreans are so under-fed that I doubt they could take over South Korea.
Mars wrote:
look if you can’t live without them it’s OK, I understand… Me? if they want me to let them into my home they can go to hell.
Lily wrote:
Oh no? the south has food, can you think of a better motivator ?
You know I really, really are not happy with the fools that voted this fool back into office. Turkeys deserve their civil rights and now this…insanity.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/20/obama-labor-departments-observes-transgender-day-of-remembrance/
Mars wrote:
and knowing this you will still buy the game?
@ Lily:
PIMF…AM NOT HAPPY
/darn keyboard.
brookly red wrote:
True it might be a good motivator…but the problem is the South is well fed so they already have an edge on the Norks.
Lily wrote:
/”don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone?”
@ brookly red:
I think he is talking about the Red Dawn movie not the game Homefront.
brookly red wrote:
Not the game, the movie. Personally I can’t afford a movie. But regardless of China owning the company now, it’s still supposed to patriotic.
@ Lily:
Yeah, not sure how the Norks are the villains in the movie. In the Homefront game it took them a long time to become a world power. And took many years of Obama type policies to turn us third world. (Economic collapse, disintegration of the infrastructure, etc.)
@ Lily:
According to whom?
Sorry, but left-wing bureaucrats don’t get to tell Americans what to “celebrate.”
@ brookly red:
Lily wrote:
the army of the north gets all the food, and they don’t worry about political correctness. And besides if the Chinese feed them wtf is O gonna do about it?
Lily wrote:
I remember, I remember
Where once my balls did hang
And yes, I remember too
That I once had a wang
But the LGBT Lobby
Told me I was “transgender”
And I should trade my male plumbing
For a lady’s pudenda
So off I hied to the doctor
And took me some hormones
And then the doctor relieved me
Of my big, bad cojones
@ Lily:
The North Koreans could do a lot of damage to Seoul with artillery and missiles, but in the end, it would end up being a turkey shoot for the South Korean and US forces.
Lily wrote:
China invested heavily in MGM around the time it was supposed to release. The company was pressed into changed the villains, (Inside info from the filmmakers) they finally got MGM to give up distribution rights and it is now being released by a different company. However, they decided to keep the bad guys the Koreans in order to be allowed to get the Chinese market. (Apparently China is big money for movies now.)
lobo91 wrote:
Apparently under obama they do…when will people get fed up with this crap? I thought it was after 4 years of obama..but apparently I was very wrong.
CynicalConservative wrote:
CC, you left the damn thing at the curb on trash day and some dumb ass Dem picked it up, subscribed to cable/CNN and voted for Obama November 6th.
/wallflower
lobo91 wrote:
Yep well fed military against ill-fed military …not much of a brainer there.
lobo91 wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
and if a million or 2 or 10 Chinese jump in?
@ Lily:
I’d like to see an opinion poll on that topic.
Pretty sure that outside of San Francisco, the main response would be “WTF is ‘transgendered’?”
Mars wrote:
and I don’t support Hollywood either they may hang me but it won’t be by the rope I sold them.
brookly red wrote:
Well there you have a situation…I was leaving China out of the equation but yeah N.Korea is China’s little lap dog..what will O do..nothing. Same ole same ole. Blame it on a video…yeah let’s run with that.
@ brookly red:
I seriously doubt that they’d do that. If they did, it would just add more targets.
This isn’t 1951. Human wave attacks aren’t going to cut it against modern weapons.
lobo91 wrote:
Oh I’m pretty sure some people know even outside of San Fran….very strange is my answer. No I’m not a bigot ..just an observation.
@ Lily:
The Chinese have no interest in getting into a fight with us. If North Korea invaded the south, I doubt that the Chinese would be all that supportive.
@ Calo:
Shit happens.
/galt
lobo91 wrote:
Jeebus! the Chinese don’t have modern weapons? hell they could just stop exporting iPhones and we would bend-over like the whores that we are.
@ Lily:
I don’t think there’s much support out there for people’s “right” to pretend to be a different gender.
Lily wrote:
It is not “bigotry” to observe that the attempt to normalize a mental pathology is socially destructive.
@ brookly red:
Not in any significant quantity, no. Same goes for the Russians. Sure, they show off some new plane at the Paris Air Show, and everyone is all impressed.
What nobody realizes is that they only built a dozen of them.
lobo91 wrote:
Really? all they have to do is feed them… and while we are tied up there they just take back Taiwan… do you really think an Obama administration has the balls to stop them? Really?
lobo91 wrote:
You are probably right.
@ CynicalConservative:
Library time.
Back to my book.
/wallflower
@ brookly red:
If it’s that simple, why haven’t they done it already?
lobo91 wrote:
There isn’t…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I have come across a person who had this done …there is most certainly some mental issues going on. Big time.
@ Lily:
I’m pretty sure that the current generation of Chinese leaders would really like to go back in time and shoot whoever decided to support those whackjobs in the first place. North Korea has been nothing but a liability to them.
Lily wrote:
China has had to pull the reins on the Norks more than once.
I do agree, China is not exactly our enemy. They have different (and similar) goals to us, and they do conflict, but we aren’t truly enemies. They are definitely market opponents though.
lobo91 wrote:
why should they ? they don’t need to fight us as long as they continue to buy us…
Lily wrote:
I can also attest that most bi-sexual and lesbian women seem to be more than a bit bipolar.
Lily wrote:
Hell, even the gay lobby doesn’t really support them. They just include them in their demands in order to make themselves sound more numerous.
@ Mars:
Yes it is true.
lobo91 wrote:
Which makes it so stupid to have a special day for them. I know lets get really diverse and have a special day for psychopaths too. Don’t want to leave anyone out now do we?
Lily wrote:
A very good friend of mine, from some thirty-odd years ago, went through the procedure. Nice person. Was a lovely, if feminine, man; as a “woman,” he was something like a cross between Loretta Young and Zasu Pitts.
The sad thing was, he was not really at home as a “woman” in the larger society—but as a “woman,” he had no real place in the gay-male society in which he had formerly been at home, either.
Lily wrote:
Well, to bring it back to my original article. How long does anyone think it will be before they start putting transgendered characters on their primetime programming? Think how it went with gay characters. Now gay characters amount to a higher percentage of tv characters than they exist in the general public.
It’s a perception shift long-term plan.
lobo91 wrote:
Not so much for the (minimal) numbers. It is to make the nominally more mainstream wackos in the gay subculture look more “normal”—and, more importantly, to use the “transgenders” as the stealth shock troops to legalize same-sex marriage through the court system.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
you speak of her in the past tense ?
brookly red wrote:
We haven’t been in touch for some long while.
Mars wrote:
well yeah, as long as you allow it in your home, I could care less about prime time programming, well other than that it pays my bills.
OT. I just saw that To Kill A Mockingbird is on AMC right now and started watching it for the umpteenth time. The last time I watched it (about a year, or so ago) I was online with me bloogies and NoThreat2U mentioned that she had never seen it. I convinced her that it was a “must see” and we watched it together, with back and forth commentary and input from the other blogmocats. Anyhoo, just a neat memory of a friend who has left us.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled thread.
Over ‘n out……
brookly red wrote:
Once again you miss the point. This has nothing to do with me or you. This has to do with ever having a chance at winning elections again. Hell, I’m basically homeless. I can’t afford movies or a tv subscription. You choose not to have one. The fact remains you are a minority in this country. And those people vote, they vote with what the press tells them. The only way to get out of this mess is to control the message, the only way to do that is to control the medium. You can continue to claim the high ground, but repeating that you don’t have a tv doesn’t add anything to the conversation. This is about getting to the people that do own televisions, read papers, listen to music, go to movies. Which is the majority of this country.
Now that the media has completely allowed themselves to go into the pocket of the libs it’s time to stage a media takeover.
The left always bitches about the big money people on our side, well now it’s time to bring their worst nightmare to life. Get the big money people to stop giving money to useless PACs that tell them the same losing strategies every election cycle. Take a chunk of the media and talk to the people in their own home. Imagine how much more villainous the evil Koch brothers would be as msm moguls. But, the more we control, the harder it becomes to pain the republicans as fringe lunatics and out of touch. Right now we have less than half a dozen outlets. If we were to gain at least one MSM channel, a few national papers, a movie studio or two, a record label, things like that, then we would become the voice of the people rather than a marginalized group.
As it stands we have AM radio, Fox News, and a couple book publishers.
That isn’t enough.
huckfunn wrote:
That’s a good memory. Hold on to it.
@ Mars:
Great post!
@ huckfunn:
She was appreciative of the friendships and support she had on this blog.
Rodan wrote:
Thanks everyone.
I was hoping this would have posted when more were available though. Put a lot into this one, but appreciate everyone who has been here so far. Anyone have any ideas of media that I have missed? Computer gaming, android/windowsphone/iphone apps?
Mars wrote:
well the way I see it it comes down to tens of millions of mes & yous
we can do this but you gotta be all in.
huckfunn wrote:
If I understood that correctly I am very sad…
brookly red wrote:
I’ll give you that my friend. Lol.
Mars wrote:
no quarter for the enemy.
@ brookly red:
I wouldn’t give you a dime for them, much less a quarter…
@ Mars: A idea that sticks will get repeated. You have to view your political thought as the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean.
You affect just one person in the thread and help them elevate their thought and they will repeat it in some manner in a blog or in a personal situation.
Like reading a good novel gives a person an emotional education without all the suffering.
Everyone is a student or teacher one day and a teacher or student the next day.
@ lobo91: My two cents is that we push Gaza into Egypt like so much play dough.
I remember the pun overnight threads at LGF. One can tell that blog is no longer intelligent.
Gingrich and Trump slapped the media around. Romney’s advisor’s didn’t and played McCain part II
Interesting out of that.
Hurricane Katrina GWB says good job Brownie and the media goes bonkers.
Hurricane Sandy and Christie says good job Obama and the media goes bonkers.
The Dems were and are remarkably successful at demonizing the “enemy”
That would be people like us. My community organizer friend asked ME a year ago “What IS the Tea Party?” I told her it was just regular Americans living in flyovercountry. She has no understanding of the dark side in the people she supports.
They feel quite entitled to their own facts without having any.
Great post, Mars. Good luck in finding work!
The Civil War era slave is to the Democratic party
as the modern welfare recipient is the modern Democratic party.
It’s a direct lineage.
The only true way out of slavery for a black person is to vote Republican and establish an individuality not defined by a democrat. or withdraw from the system completely and lose the power of the voice.
A person is always a slave in some fashion as long as they vote big government democrats.
@ darkwords:
It’s difficult to back away from your friends and/or family, which is what it takes sometimes to form a newer identity. We are pack animals.
Obama voter Lindsay Stone. I suggested tolerance to her earlier but looking at her picture she looks like a bad joke.
@ darkwords:
I think I have been so busy trying to keep up with real life stuff that missed this pic.
I’m not going to pollute this thread with a string of bad language for Miss Lindsay’s obvious lack of decorum for our troops.
Instead, I’ll just say good night.
darkwords wrote:
As a vet I’m willing to give her a chance to make up for it. She’s young and stupid. She does, however, do good work for people who need it.
She just needs to learn what is and isn’t appropriate.
yenta-fada wrote:
And that’s the whole key. We have the talent, we have people with money, and we have people with the knowhow, so why the hell aren’t we doing this yet?
The most difficult part of all of this is the alphabet networks. You have NBC owned by General Electric, ABC is Disney, and CBS by I guess itself or Viacom.
I would say CBS is the most vulnerable to a buyout. And some of their programs are a good fit with a conservative view.
ABC might be vulnerable if Disney overreached with its Star Wars and Marvel purchases lately.
NBC could come up if O’s energy policy does any damage to GE.
Interesting how all the celbrities with big social issues to advocate for then go silent during the gaza/israel where. Where are Alec Baldwin, Cher, Madonna, Babs now?
@ darkwords:
In the past when these people have spoken up they are always on the wrong side.
@ Mars:
And, my 16 year old daughter is young and stoopid as well
But, I can’t imaging her flipping off a deceased veteran.
Why should I give Lindsay a pass? Why is she so special and who is she?
@ 143 Calo: Since the world is so media driven maybe this a needed objective lesson for those who don’t know how to behave at a cemetery.
@ 142 Mars: I would be interested to see if the opininated celebrity came out as anti Israel.
Calo wrote:
In that girls mind she wasn’t flipping of a deceased veteran. She was flipping off a sign. It was a running joke with her and her friend. There’s another pic of them smoking under a no smoking sign. It never crossed her tiny little brain where they were or what she was actually doing.
She’s a nobody. But, the job she works is one I’ve done. She works for shitty pay taking care of disabled adults. She’s also got a pretty good chance working that job to learn how big of a mistake she made voting for the won.
And I never said give her a pass. I said give her a chance to make up for it. Manual labor usually makes an impression. If she lives in an area have her work with the cleanup team or maybe use her talents to work with a homebound vet. There are many options for her to learn what she did.
darkwords wrote:
I don’t have the links right now, but a crap load of them did back during the gaza flotilla crap or whatever it was called when the terrorist scum tried to bring weapons to the paleosimians.
@ 146 Mars: The only thing is I would question her character. If she can be a better person out of this then very good. If she moves the other direction then the criticism is justified. I don’t really believe in pouncing on people because they are naive or stupid. If they are malicious yes. watch for the copy cat photos now. Those will be malicious.
I had a relative in an institution for awhile and the caretakers went out of their way to humiliate and be cruel to the relative. they asked for a smoke and the attendant made them stand in a corner with their mouth open while they played a game of toss the cigarette into the patients mouth. It’s a low paying job. It attracts actual people who have a calling to help others and also it attracts people who can’t find work and aren’t qualified to help the disabled. Most of these places are still places to dump people. So yes, if she was a quality helper of the disabled I would give her a pass. She probably also then respects the deceased and was just making fun of a sign. I didn’t look into her situation very deeply.
darkwords wrote:
If this organization is the type I think it is, they don’t have that kind of behavior. It’s mostly in home care and assistance to people with a moderate level of disability. Abusers don’t last in those jobs because the clients report them quickly.
If it is more of a grouphome situation she could be about anything short of physical abuse. Physical abuse gets caught quickly in the frequent checks by the nurses. If it is a nursing home type situation all bets are off.
I agree, the true test of character is where she goes from here.
The copy cats deserve the worst punishments they can imagine.
To sum up, if the company is what I think it is an independent living organization. She would help people get to and from appointments, help them with accessibility issues, help them find employment, and help with household tasks to a lesser degree.
Not totally a shitty job, but the pay is far below what it should be for the responsibility involved.
@ Mars:
No pass, sorry.
And, don’t even ask me to defend my position.
I won’t put out that much personal information on a blog.
@ darkwords:
Most of these places are still places to dump people.
Calo wrote:
I never said give her a pass. Already said that twice.
There are some amazing nursing homes. There are also some criminally negligent ones. I’m proud that you were working one of the good ones. And knowing you I can bet that they would have gotten an earful if they weren’t.
Mars wrote:
That’s a feature not a bug.
Their role in the great scheme of life is to misinform the uninformed. Very useful idiots…
@ Mars:
Yes, we can agree here.
It’s the group homes that sometimes go rouge.
It’s a complex situation that deserves a second look.
And, i agree, the wages are not commiserate for the responsibility of the job.
@ 151 Calo:
Offense at what specifically? I have been in the dregs of mental institutions and dealt first hand with mental issues for years. Bureaucrats, doctors, nurses, lawyers, social workers, all types. I’ve been in places where nurses and doctors looked the other way because it made their job easier. Helping the mentally ill means going beyond the boundaries of the existing help climate. Broaden your horizons and learn to take offense less. IT will help everyone out.
Go to any of these places and you will see people looking for love and not finding it because they are different and society rejects them out of hand. Clinical treatment helps them stabilize but falls short of accurate treatment.
It’s in those scenarios you find the saints and sinners of helping people.
@ darkwords:
Yes, thank you Darkwoods for your kind words tonight.
I’ll be at that place tomorrow. Stabilizing my son’s treatment for his profound depression and suicidal ideations at all of 17 years old.
Call me a sinner.
I spent years with my Grandmother trying to place my Uncle with mental retardation in California. In fact, my kid is named after a home she started in the Bay Area called Serra Center.
http://Www.serracenter.org
darkwords wrote:
Being a former Navy man, I have no respect for this cunt.
Macker wrote:
Being a fellow former Navy man, I’d recommend her for a proper blanket party.