I originally was going to do a joke thread that Conservatives should join the Democrat Party to the advantages of media and culture. But a more important subject has come up that I need to discuss.
On last night’s radio show AZ Old Dog, Eagle Soars, Osprey and I discussed the technological machine that is Organizing for Action. This machine which led to Obama’s re-election triumph in 2012 despite a bad economy. Yes the Democrats advantage with the popular culture and Media helped, but it was the technological advantage that really is the key to the Democrat’s strength. Now OFA is setting its sight on a new target, Texas.
Some on the blog scoff at the notion at Texas turning blue, do so at your own peril. Organizing For Action’s data mining techniques and manipulation of voters through slick messaging works. I saw first hand how in Florida they turned the once solidly Republican Cuban American vote, into swing vote that broke narrowly for Obama. They did through a combination of fear mongering by claiming Republicans were going to take away Dry Foot, Wet Foot and using bigoted words of people like Ann Coulter in emails. The result was Cubans got angry and scared of the Republicans and broke with a Party they have backed for nearly 50 years. It was dirty, but i worked.
Texas is currently solidly Red, but many from Blue States have move in. Although the Texas Republican Party does better with the Hispanic vote (35%-40%) than the party does nationally (27%), using the Florida blueprint of fear mongering and propaganda, OFA hopes to make them solidly Democrat. They also plan to target younger Texans who may not be as culturally Conservative as their parents. The trick OFA will use is to try to convince these younger voters that the Democrats are fiscally Conservative but Socially tolerant. They then will use Republicans like Santorum, who is OFA’s greatest asset, into shaming voters from voting Republican. I met people who really believe that on fiscal and economic matters that there is no difference than Republicans and Democrats. They vote Democrat because OFA has convinced them Republicans are hateful bigots. Republicans have never refuted any of these allegations, because they are not aware of what OFA is doing.
The man who is tasked with turning Texas blue is Jeremy Bird. Using OFA’s micromanagement tactics he pulled a surprise win for Obama in Florida. Now he is being given the resources to make Texas a Battleground state and then eventually a Democrat stronghold. He is the head of the OFA offshoot, Battleground Texas.
But who is capable of pulling just this scenario off? Enter: Battleground Texas and its senior adviser, Jeremy Bird.
Last month, Politico reported that Mr. Bird — President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign national field director — was in Austin, Texas to meet with local Democrats on Battleground Texas, “a large-scale independent group aimed at turning traditionally conservative Texas into a prime electoral battleground.”
In his early 30s, Mr. Bird is a current and future star of the Democratic Party’s awesomely effective campaign machine. As Mr. Obama’s field director, he revolutionized the effectiveness of the traditional field model, registering, among a great many others, 361,000 left-leaning voters in Florida, 156,000 left-leaning voters in Colorado and 96,000 left-leaning voters in Nevada. Not bad, considering Mr. Obama’s candidacy was no longer an historic first.
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“Bird wouldn’t play in Texas on a hope,” Vlytics partner Scott Tranter told TheDC. “He can pick his next job; choose his next salary. If he’s moving to Texas, it’s because he thinks he can win — and he’s proven that he can.”
Over his three presidential campaigns, Mr. Bird has been responsible for millions of door knocks and tens of millions of phone calls that didn’t simply target Democrats — they targeted Republican and undecided Americans that Mr. Obama’s data operation knew were likely to respond favorably.
“Our approach — using smart data, people-to-people organizing, and digital strategies and analytics — can win even the toughest of campaigns,” Mr. Bird said on a Tuesday conference call with reporters, “and we know it will work in Texas too.”
Indeed, Mr. Bird is at the cutting edge of the technological prowess that helped the Democrats so effectively defeat the Republicans in 2008 and 2012. The Wall Street Journal described his approach as “one part data and one part emotional connection. He keeps close track of which states are making their targets each day, but also preaches the value of relationships — between the campaign and its volunteers, and between volunteers and voters.”
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On Feb. 24, Mr. Bird retweeted a Huffington Post article in which Mr. Perry said that Texas going blue “is the biggest pipe dream I have ever heard.”
Mr. Bird added two words: “Love this.”
Tags: Battleground Texas, Data Mining, Jeremy Bird, Organizing For Action
Good morning Rodan. Do you ever sleep? First, can you elaborate a bit on ‘behavorial analysis’? Whose behavior, at what unit of aggregation, and what parameters are used as filters/flags, and/or tell us where we can find more info about it?
One thing I’ve noticed -- and I’m certainly not the first -- is that Democrats tend to be more amenable to joining groups while Republicans are -- well -- busy (ahem). That’s a real cultural difference that might need to be accounted for when designing a strategy.
Ok, my tea is hot and sweet and I’m moderately awake.
@ eaglesoars:
Like I said yesterday, ifthe Dems succeed in turning Texas Blue, we are doomed. There will be nothing to stand between them and total domination until the United States comes apart under the debt. That said, I don’t see it happening. OFA may have won the election for Obama, but Obama was a strong candidate. How many times did I say that the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT would be a formidible opponent? He had numerous advantages. OFA was only one of them. OFA will fare far differently in Texas than it did Virginia and Florida, where government gnomes in No.VA. and snowbirds in Florida helped to turn the tide.
Iron Fist wrote:
I know you are not sanguine about the possibilty, but still, I think you compare apples and oranges.
The apples are the northeast cultural influences in NoVa and among the people who move to Florida from the NE (the term ‘snowbirds’, btw, refers to people who winter in Florida, not necessarily to legal residents).
The difference in Texas is that the demographic flux is in the Hispanic population growth. A lot of people think that’s good for conservatives because of the historic religiousity, etc.
But that’s no longer true. It’s not that they are not religious, it’s that the infrastructure the Catholic church used to have to address their assimilation is a shadow of what it once was.
How’s Erica? send me another pic, m’kay?
Rodan, I think you’re confusing Swing State and Blue State. Texas is not going to go blue for at least 12+years. It could be a swing state a little sooner, but it takes time to become blue.
@ eaglesoars:
I’ll get my wife on that. Erika is wonderful! She is so sweet and loving! She has totally socialized with the other cats, and has adapted to life in our family well. And she is growing! She’s going to be a big, beautiful girl. Her father weighs over 20 pounds, and her mother about 16, so she has the genetics for size.
@ Iron Fist:
Morning.
This is the first of many posts on OFA. The first Black President thing help, but that is not what is at work here. The Democrats have created one of their local Party machines on a national scale. They can run a Local crackhead of any color and get the same result.
The key is manipulation and using stupid comments by certain Republicans about certain groups. OFA then shots out emails that this Republican said this about group XXX. This gets people pissed and then they send people door to door to reinforce their message. People are not voting for the Democrats, they are voting out of anger via manipulation against he Republicans.
AZ Old Dog is doing a technical posts about OFA. As a fellow Techie, this will scare the living daylights out of you. The more I read about OFA, the scarier it is.
eaglesoars wrote:
That is true. That is one of the problems with the current Amnesty plans. That sets on the path about another 12 million Democrat voters. That s just the Republicans surrendering on National Politics. I have to admit, I can’t figure the Republicans out. It looks to me like they are trying to committ electoral suicide.
@ Rodan:
Morning I’ve go t a doctor’s appointment this morning, so I won’t be around much until later. I’ll be really interested in seeing the technical writeup on OFA. I think they are formidible, but they are something we can counter if we have the will to do so. It is the will to do so that I am concerned about. It looks to me as though the Republicans are giving up.
Rodan wrote:
And have managed to ‘nationalize’ state races -- see Scott Brown/Elizabeth Warren (ok, it’s Massashootme, but still….)
Another thing I want to bring up -- last week Maxine Waters -- may her plastic surgeon sit at the right hand of the Creator -- was yammering about ‘the database Obama is creating that will know everything about everyone’. She wasn’t complaining, btw, she thought it was great.
What exactly is this database she’s talking about? I don’t know, but donuts to dollars, OFA will have it and it’s being developed w/taxpayer money.
@ eaglesoars:
The Democrats have infrastructure in Hispanic communities. This gives them a leg up on Republicans. This infrastructure allows them to develop personal relationships. In other words, Hispanics are hearing only one side of the story. OFA then uses comments by some Republicans to get them angry.
Look at how the Cuban Community flipped. OFA used a false rumor and created fear and anger. It worked.
This is beyond Hispanics and this is just one example. They did this with young voters and single women. Personal relationships and targeted manipulation was the method. This was enabled by Technology.
Someone on another blog pointed something out about the Republican party yesterday. This person had worked for the party at the local level. What the problem is, is that the Federal organization doesn’t talk to the State Organization, and the State Organization doesn’t talk to the local. There’s no co-ordination, no sharing of ANY resources, and no assistance come election time. The higher organizations look to the lower ones to just get out the vote. They EXPECT the lower groups to do it with only the resources that the lower group has managed to raise themselves.
The worst part is that all the higher levels think this is normal. No communications, no sharing of funding, nothing. Like it’s been said before they are now the Palooka Party.
@ eaglesoars:
We have a winner here! That is exactly what OFA is doing. Akins sunk many Republican Senate Candidates. Obama did not run against the real Romney, but an Imaginary Romney who was turned into a clone of Rick Santorum.
As to the Behavioral aspects, I wil do a separate post on that. I am doing research.
PaladinPhil wrote:
You got that. It stunned me how the Republican Party provided no resources to local chapters. The Democrats via OFA made sure thy had resources down to the local level.
@ Rodan:
OFA is not that radical. It is the 50 state strategy, like you said, started by Howard Dean. The Republicans should start the same strategy, if they want to win in the future.
@ Iron Fist:
Absolutely! This is not a lost cause and it can be mimicked.
Rodan wrote:
Let me know if I can help. It’s one of the few things I’m actually good at (other than an uncanny knack for choosing the slowest checkout line in the grocery store)
oh, btw, it turns out the ‘VERY senior’ WH slug who yelled at and threatened Woodward is not Valerie Jarrett but Gene Sperling.
theoutsider wrote:
Yup, OFA is a direct descendant of Howard Dean’s 50 state campaign.
@ eaglesoars:
I think they step on doo doo here.
Yes, I accept your offer of help. This is something people need to grasp.
Reminds me of when Hugo Chavez’s political opposition simply walked away and dissolved letting him have full reign. He had no whipping boy at that point and was fully responsibile for the results. The people had to suffer the consequences and from the Venezualans I spoke too over the years, its pretty bad.
OT: Is PJ Media screwing the pooch and going down the path of Chuck or is it my imagination?
@ eaglesoars:
Social media is collecting information about individuals and handing it over to the feds as it’s public domain, there are no privacy laws regarding the info people put out there about themselves.
Couple that with the new software regarding facial recognition, communication features and public security surveillance and we are in Orwell country.
Anybody that thinks Texas is “solid red” simply hasn’t been paying attention. There are huge and populous blobs of the bluest blue stuck in it. Austin, Houston, Dallas…
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Hiya Buckeye, how are ya!
Yes, but I found out last nite during the blogmoc radio call that some muckety muck from Google has gone to the dark side and joined OFA.
I’ll be using bing or Ask
Judge Napolitano was on Fox & Friends earlier saying that the Feds can now pick up the sender and recipient info from emails w/o a warrant. They only need a warrant if they want the actual verbiage.
Add to this the push to attach black boxes to new vehicles under the guise of better accident analysis.
Hope and change my ass.
People need to do a little research on the far-left curriculum being promulgated in the Texas schools by a shadowy outfit called CSCOPE. CSCOPE is working to ensure that the next generation of Texas voters is as far-left indoctrinated as any Chicago precinct.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Yes they are using Facebook now. I think that is wrong.
the long march…
I found the video of Mahvelous Maxine talking about Obama’s database.
(It does sound like she’s referring to OFA)
“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday. “That’s going to be very, very powerful,” Waters said. “That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that
@ Buckeye Abroad:
effin doppleganger.
whats up you?
Waiting at the airport last night, in the heart of Obama Ground Zero—the number of pro-Obama and pro-Obamacare bumper stickers I saw while in Chicago was deeply depressing—I started musing on the concept of “reparations” and on how the Administration is actively trying to demonize “old white men” from the Founders to today’s voters, to undermine the validity of the Constitution and to delegitimize the Republican Party as the party of “racists” and “old white men” whose opinions are ipso facto unworthy of serious engagement.
It occurred to me that we are wrong in thinking of “reparations” as demanded by the Left as being the pursuit of mere monetary gain. It is that, of course—but it is much more. The essence of “reparations” is not the money; it is the objective of ensuring that “white men”—who are considered irredeemably racist, regardless of how much “education” they are subjected to—should be as disadvantaged, and, more importantly, to be made to feel as disadvantaged and as subject to systematic prejudice—as today’s blacks, and black men particularly, believe blacks to have been disadvantaged in the pre-Civil Rights Movement past.
In short, when the Left talks of “re-making society” or “fundamentally transforming the nation,” they mean not merely the economic transformation away from a free-market society towards a socialist model, but are referring to a long-term revanchist agenda which involves imposing color and gender prejudice as a basic social norm, but as an inverted form of what they believe to have been the social norm for the bulk of American history.
Rodan wrote:
CSCOPE
they get it.
listen up yins. this is for real.
@ Mike C.:
That gives OFA a starting point.
@ eaglesoars:
Thanks for that!
eaglesoars wrote:
How did THAT happen? That was buzz’s post, not Rodan’s
eaglesoars wrote:
There’s a lot of overt and covert Leftism in CSCOPE, and there are a lot of Ayers-trained people and Ayers allies involved with it. Who is profiting from it, where the funding comes from, is not easy to find. Mandy was doing some searching about it on yesterday’s C2 afternoon thread.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Tell Mandy that when she gets some findings, to link it here.
I want to get all aspects of this Democrat Machine.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
She’s been working on that for about a week now. Ever since CSCOPE popped up in the blog news. Not a lot of information out there in the web. Which in itself is a little odd.
I’ve been digging a little deeper into the Politco post Roadan linked to. It quotes a guy named Scott Trantor from an org named Vlytics which is supposedly a political profiling org. Not much out there on Vlytics and what is does not impress.
Revenues un $100k and offices on Conn Ave in DC.
pfft. All their revs are going to rent, trust me.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Rodan wrote:
excellent. ofa scares me big. lets get this out.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
find me a socialist/communist society that did NOT need an ‘enemy of the people’ construct. What you’ve noted is true, but is just the means to the end.
@ coldwarrior:
This is very similar to a KGB Operation. Information manipulation and personal relations.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m good. Busy these days. How are you?
Judge Napolitano was on Fox & Friends earlier saying that the Feds can now pick up the sender and recipient info from emails w/o a warrant. They only need a warrant if they want the actual verbiage.
I think the NSA has been doing that for years anyway. If charges are filed, they would need to demonstrate how the evidence was obtained or it would be dismissed.
Rodan wrote:
Yup. I will never have a FB account.
@ Rodan:
Really?
Ok, this FEC doc shows that Romney’s campaign payed Vlytic a measly $3500+ and that its offices are now on G St -- less pricey than Conn Ave
coldwarrior wrote:
Hey bud. How are your girls? Everything ok?
I’ve been running ragged since the holidays, but its quieting down. Business trip to the US coming up-- haven’t been in CONUS for almost 3 years, so looking forward to it. Will try to swing two days in Ohio on the way out.
“The CSCOPE kids, they are friends of mine…”
—Barack Obama
@ theoutsider:
Absolutely. I have read on the KGB which ran circles on our CIA. What they did was study local culture, recruit a local leader and use information manipulation. It was brilliant.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
Oh, yeah, but they use ‘filters/flags’ algorithims that have to be approved. Hell, they were monitoring phone calls back during the Iranian hostage days and I know that because I was on a few that got mysteriously disconnected.
And then our phone lines went dead.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You are just realizing the inherit racism of the system? Where have you been?
If you want to use their racist contruct of society to look through, invert it and you will see that without white men, there is nothing to loot.
Let it burn baby.
just as an aside, comparing Google results with those of bing searching for CSCOPE -- you don’t see anything about CSCOPE controversy from Google. From bing it’s the first stuff returned.
@ Rodan:
That is total bullshit, and you know it.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
let me know. i’ll buy ya lunch.
*big news on the special thread*
dont leave here, just keep an eye there…mmmkay?
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
My point, such as it is, is that most people look at the whole issue of “black reparations” as being a debate over money—but that the money issue is merely a surface distraction.
The long-term objective, which is coming out very clearly now with the across-the-board demonization of “racist white men” from the Founders to the NRA to everything in between, is to “niggerize” (to use Toure’s term) white men and to make of them an underclass. The impulse for revenge in the black community, and the hatred of this society by the Left in general, is that broad and deep—and it is a mistake not to recognize it.
@ Rodan
How is it BS? Care to explain?
The KGB was a very successful operation. Why not emulate it? I wish my side did.
@ eaglesoars:
Very interesting!
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
come and see the violence inherent in the system!
the funniest thing ever
CSCOPE, a controversial school curriculum, reportedly in use by approximately 70% of Texas school districts will be the subject of a review by the Senate Committee on Education 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in Hearing Room E1.028 at the Texas State Capitol.
That would be Jan 31 of this year.
@ eaglesoars:
the weevils begin.
relentless, never resting
@ eaglesoars:
Why is the Texas republican Party allowing this?
This agenda is why OFA has moved in. There is fertile ground for them.
Rodan wrote:
They’re not. That’s why they held hearings.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
(old) white men should establish their own “special interest group” and claim minority status. If only 60 percent of the US-population is white than only 30 percent of them white men. If you subtract Demoncratic voters only 15 percent are those (old) white men. This would qulifiy them for the status of a minority group with special rights.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
My point, such as it is, is that most people look at the whole issue of “black reparations” as being a debate over money—but that the money issue is merely a surface distraction.
Sorry, I’ve had this topic discussion in more than one cirlce. It is a false construct, a lie, to wield against politcal enemies or to garnation votes. They-vs-us mentality for the LIVs to divide and conqueor.
Or as I simply stated to former black colleagues, “my ancestors didn’t come back from the Ohio infantry regiments they were assigned to free you. What do I and my people get? Nothing?! F’ck you. Your lucky to be alive so STFU.”
“Reparations” is nothing but vote buying and graft. I, any many men like me, do not give a damn what the left believe and will call them out everytime. White guilt is manufactured, but that is all but depreciated at this point.
Guggi wrote:
Old White Men
—apologies to Stephen Foster and “Old Black Joe”
Gone are the days when America was strong
Gone the days when public schools taught right from wrong
Gone the days of freedom that we enjoyed then
I hear “progressive” voices sneering, “Old White Men”
They’re coming, they’re coming, to stripmine cash again
To fund programs with what they take from “Old White Men”
Why do they seek to take what I’ve worked to own?
Why do they seek to reap where they have not sown?
Preferring to upon government depend
And sneering at maxims of thrift from “Old White Men.”
They’re coming, they’re coming, to stripmine cash again
To fund programs with what they take from “Old White Men”
Will they e’er learn that “free stuff” isn’t free?
That the price paid for “free stuff” is your liberty?
Or will they just demand more handouts again,
Be supported forevermore by “Old White Men?
They’re coming, they’re coming, to stripmine cash again
To fund programs with what they take from “Old White Men”
If anyone wants to read about how the KGB took over indigenous civil-rights and independence movements, there are a lot of very good and depressing books on the topic. “The Sword and the Shield”, the VERONA papers, “The Black Book of Communism”, and on and on.
Here’s how the KGB took over Mozambique, for instance.
Great economic news! GDP did not contract in the 4th quarter, it expanded!
U.S. economy grew 0.1% in fourth quarter
CNBC says the economy is great!
Consumer spending was more robust by comparison, although it only expanded at a 2.1 percent annual rate.
Because household spending powers about 70 percent of national output, this still-lackluster pace of growth suggests underlying momentum in the economy was quite modest as it entered the first quarter, when significant fiscal tightening began.
However, data on retail sales and from the housing market has suggested a tax hike enacted in January did not deal a big blow to households. Incomes have grown for U.S. families who have also made inroads in reducing their debt burdens.
@ Zimriel:
I read those books. The more I read about OFA, the more I read about that model.
@ coldwarrior:
Almost 30 years ago the crew from HS I rode around with could recite verbatim the whole script to that movie. I probably still could.
let me know. i’ll buy ya lunch.
I’ll hold you to it. We’ll drop you an email if it pans out.
Ahem, the article I linked just said “Soviets”, not “KGB”.
One of the great eyewitness reports of how Soviets took over local democracy / libertarian movements is George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia”. Orwell was on the front lines of POUM, the liberal / libertarian party, which chose to join the Spanish Republic. The leadership of the Spanish Republic was basically Leninist; they were a pretty disgusting bunch. Meanwhile the Soviets were there just to take over the Republic, at which task they had succeeded just before Franco kicked them out.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
The ‘Pigford’ settlements come to mind
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
While I agree with you that “reparations” is a bogus issue; that its immediate purpose is vote-buying and graft, and that no such thing is “owed,” I believe you are missing my essential point—that the vote-buying and graft are merely the current, surface feature of a much more pernicious ideology. The long-form objective is to re-create Jim Crow in an inverted form, with “white men” filling the “scapegoat class” role. The revanchist ideology of the Left goes much deeper, and is aimed far more structurally, at the society than the mere financial details of the present “reparations” demand.
If you truly wish to “call out” the Left, you must realize that there is a long-term objective behind their present actions.
@ Zimriel:
I know, just that the Tactics the Soviets used the KGB implemented during the Cold War.
Many people do not undertand how close Spain was to being a Soviet State.
@ Zimriel:
Sword & Shield is great, the VERONA papers are interesting but a bit of a slog and The Black book is too friggin expensive
I would recommend Red Horizons about the Ceausescus by their intelligence officer who defected Ion Pacepa. He’s due out with another book Deception which I think is a bit late.
@ eaglesoars:
Here is another. This one is from 02/21/13 (you may already have seen).
Ten shocking lessons a huge Texas conglomerate has foisted on public school students
Rodan wrote:
must be the housing boom
@ Dolphin:
I had not seen that! Today is the first I’d heard of CSCOPE.
Rubio really is an
idiotDevious on Foreign Policy.None of the rebels are friendly to the US. I am going to shoot him an email. He needs to stop listening to the Wilsonian/Arab agents liars.Arm them to kill each other!
eaglesoars wrote:
Me too. Scary sh!t.
@ eaglesoars:
Another good one was the World Going our way. It was about the KGB’s activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
@ Dolphin:
That ties in with OFA. All this is related.
Rodan wrote:
send it.
each bullet is aimed at a muzz.
no lose situation.
@ coldwarrior:
You know, I did not think of it that way.
@ coldwarrior:
I updated what I wrote!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
If you truly wish to “call out” the Left, you must realize that there is a long-term objective behind their present actions.
Maybe, but me thinks that paradigm will not last long on the ground. I’m not sure where you are going with this topic, but I haven’t had to put up the US-race-all-the-time obsession. They hate whitey. I’ve known that since I was a kid as the race riots weren’t just in Detroit. I think there are other issues coming down the pipe that is going to completely change the landscpae anyway, so all the leftists well laid and financed plans will come up zilch.
@ Rodan:
Our stars never really seem to shine very bright when the glasses come off do they?
You guys make it really hard for me to stick to my desire to not comment on political threads, just shows how really weak I am!
eaglesoars wrote:
The KGB had kind of a …knack for it:
Oh, that KGB, KGB
Learn how they worked to undermine—VERONA
Working at subversion, subversion
Working at it all the time—VERONA
Never gonna stop, give it up
Make capitalism go bellyup
For the sake of the communists
Read, read, read, yes do
Read read read read VERONA
@ buzzsawmonkey:
For me the best thing about VERONA is that if finally buried -- no -- entombed -- the Rosenbergs.
Ok, it’s time to get my pert little butt in gear. Rodan, check yer mail.
@ Tanker:
Check my Update. Coldwarrior brought up a good point. ARm them to keep the killing going.
On another note, I am going to do more OFA posts. Technology is the problem, not messaging nor policies.
The more I read about OFA, the scarier!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
O/T relevant to a conversation we previously had.
Tawana Brawley served with court order to pay man she accused of rape in 1987
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
mine were the molly mcguires in the coal mines in pa, then they worked in the steel mills.
the faux slave blacks dont get much traction from me and mine.
we have no time for the professional victim class.
eaglesoars wrote:
hey now!
Tanker wrote:
its all good.
@ Zimriel:
…and the Soviets took with them all the gold reserves from Spain. Franco couldn’t make it public because otherwise the whole economy would have crushed.
@ Zimriel:
viva franco.
@ coldwarrior:
Who, rumor has it, is still dead…
“I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not.”
But Sequester, we are broke!
@ Buckeye Abroad:
@ coldwarrior:
My point is merely that the “fundamental transformation of society” that Obama and the Left are aiming at is to do two things: first, to pull off the remarkable feat of falsely defining “white people” as a monolithic group, then making the subgroup of “white men” the same kind of scapegoat minority Jews were in Nazi Germany, while building up a coalition majority of “victim groups” whose ills can be blamed on the supposed actions of this minority. There are opt-out provisions for some “whites”—women, as “gender victims,” homosexuals as “sexual orientation” victims, even some men, if they are union members or sufficiently progressive—but even these will have an inferior, middle status, like “coloreds” under South African apartheid, on the basis of their “whiteness.”
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
ok.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
You know the Democrats are doing the White male things to push Republican buttons?
Its a trick.
Mike C. wrote:
true.
let me amendment my comment then
viva falange!
John McCain needs to start naming the black racists in Congress. And stick them with the label.
@ coldwarrior:
Fe a La Felange!
darkwords wrote:
My Friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rodan wrote:
Of course.
I’m not white. I’m Celtic. And my wife is Anglo-Norman. And that’s what I put down on the last census forms. Many other questions (we got the long one) I answered with “None of your damned business” or “Ask the IRS.”
Rodan wrote:
Remember, though, it is not just the Republican buttons they are pushing. For 30-40 years now—which means for the entire lifetime of many voters—”racist” has been the worst thing you can be, and “white racism” has been constantly invoked in schools and in political discourse. “Sexism” has been a close second, and “homophobic” hard on the heels of those two.
The
DemocratsLeft is pushing the “white male” thing in order to constantly reinforce that to be Republican, or to be conservative in any way, is to innately be, and/or be allied with—and certainly to be accused of being—racist, sexist, and homophobic. You don’t want to be those terrible things, do you? Then avoid that Party of the Evil Racists, Sexists, and Homophobes. Do not listen to them. Reject anything they say out of hand, because they are innately Racist, Sexist, and Homophobic—and you will be called that if you say anything that even sounds like what they say. Do not say—do not even think—anything that sounds like it could have been said on Fox News. Do not even cite to Fox News, because a fact is not a fact if Fox says it.That is what conservatives, and the ever-clueless Republicans, are up against.
Rodan wrote:
Goes along with their impending downgrade of our military. Take their ammo, rations, and medical supplies and give them to the asshats they will have to engage again at some point.
I like the ammo side though, as long as they have ammo to kill each other the fighting will continue. Assad saw the stick up the butt treatment given to the Libyan Col, and doesn’t intend to go that way. Where does he go? What choice does he have, but to continue to fight!
@ Tanker:
Yup!
New Thread.
Rodan wrote:
True but ultimately irrelevant. Hispanics tend to hate the elites that run their home countries. Those elites are white. Voting against the Republicans is a symbolic vote against them. Leeching off whites i.e. “goodies from government” is a symbolic blow against them. You cannot turn Hispanics until you smash this cultural dynamic.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Or like whites under the current South African regime.