Thread: Anger as US conservatives hold Washington rally

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Kinda quiet here from the 'usual suspects', eh?

They are pooing their diapers as they watch what is unfolding and how badly obama has handled everything. Check out thinkprogress.org...a new site to collect the dem haters and welfare sucks.
One in six Americans on some kind of social assistance, Boonie! Look at the debt and deficit, consumer confidence, GDP, GOVT SPENDING.
Many dems and even more independents are realising how they got took -- hook, line and sinker. There is no base for them to fight from. Note how some folks here are back-pedalling and saying they never really liked obama...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Kinda quiet here from the 'usual suspects', eh?

Don't cha wanna show us the Fly Over, Glen Beck and his followers received?

Beck's a Mormon, good to know. A sect member.

That's why I wrote a while ago there aren't any (I should have said many) proper conservatives in the US anymore, they're all religious nuts or rednecks or borderline loonies or KKK or fucking bad nazi imitators.

A pity really.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Don't cha wanna show us the Fly Over, Glen Beck and his followers received?

The AP helicopters doing the crowd count or the flock of geese? I have both.

More interviews at the Glenn Beck rally. These people seem to get upset when you ask them questions to explain their positions. And when they give an answer, they are absolutely (Fox) clueless.

^ I didn't think so. They are polite, everyday folks who might not have the specifics on every issue, but not too bad. Definitely not any worse than liberals in a throng. Remember the poll of folks coming out of the polling station in 2008? Obama voters who knew nada about any leaders, only that Palin spent a bunch of money on clothes. Got one of interviews with Sharpton's marchers?
You should be careful about posting stuff like this, because there is always crap to shovel from the liberal side.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

They are polite, everyday folks who

...are scared and uncertain.

Man, you keep spouting the lamestream press rants. These people are angry.

Sure, most middle class Conservative folks are not rocket scientists who went to uni on affirmative action scholarships, and I think most welfare cases and high-school dropouts who are union members are lefties, as dictated by their union thug leaders.
Please post your sources for Tea Party funding. Most of it, as I know, is grassroots, you know, like obama's has been, outside of the millions sent by the unions, Soros and other lefty groups.
You love to belittle middle class Conservative folks who own small biz, like bakers, restaurateurs, lumbermen, etc, the backbone of America, who create jobs, lead good lives, are kind and charitable, and don't pontificate and live in ivory towers. We have many erudite folks on the Conservative side, too, but you just refuse to see them. You keep living in your little bubble world, SB. obama may have lofty degrees up the yinyang; his problem is that he cannot deal with the real world and he is an abysmal failure at leading the nation. He's feked the economy, he's feked foreign relations and US strength over enemies, he's feked employment and small biz, he's feked the deficit and the debt and can't even get a budget in place for the year. Nobody with a brain trusts or believes him anymore. He's real smart, huh? I bet every Tea Party supporter at least knows how to balance their cheque books.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

These people are angry.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

These people are angry.

Yes- it is a predictable function of being scared and uncertain.
Angry people are easily manipulated, which is why cynical elements- via religious, political, ethnic or nationalistic jingoism- try to stoke this. Anger itself is unfocused.
Peoples 'Hot buttons' are depressingly familiar when it comes to focusing anger and fear- the same as they always were.

I know many military officers who never saw combat. What a nice story about your past. Hope you didn't sell the house when your child granma was still in it.
Spew as you will, sb. We all know you backed the wrong US party and are now angry about it, hate Conservatives and anything to do with the war effort, and pretend to know everything about the US. Why not start an OZ thread and give us some views about your peaceful govt and totally non-racist, wonderful people.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Hope you didn't sell the house when your child granma was still in it.

No, I raped and murdered her first. What a Daft statement.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

We all know you backed the wrong US party and are now angry about it,

Wroong, I backed the right party- which is not to say I agree with all their policies either. If or when the GOP becomes conservative again, faces up to their mistakes, and actually produce some meaningful policies, that might change. But until such time-

Originally Posted by sabang

I didn't change- They did.

Oh, forgot to throw it in to the pot above, but remember I was vice chair of the conservative National Party in Sydney too. Some libbie.

Originally Posted by sabang

I was vice chair of the conservative National Party in Sydney too. Some libbie.

I read about them: get rid of the queen and become a socialist republic.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

I know many military officers who never saw combat. What a nice story about your past. Hope you didn't sell the house when your child granma was still in it.
Spew as you will, sb. We all know you backed the wrong US party and are now angry about it, hate Conservatives and anything to do with the war effort, and pretend to know everything about the US. Why not start an OZ thread and give us some views about your peaceful govt and totally non-racist, wonderful people.

There's a right party in the US?

You're a republican, so I wouldn't start getting all big headed about it. You back the party which produced the worst administration in US history. Well done.....

The main problem with the US is that it is essentially a 2 party system. That's not real democracy, you choose what you deem to be the least awful.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

double heh...

87k 300k+

ED SCHULTZ ACKNOWLEDGES THAT GLENN BECK GATHERED MORE THAN 300,000 PEOPLE!

Just awesome in a population of how many people...?

Way to go!

NIMH · The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America

Mental Disorders in America

Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1 When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.2 Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness.1 In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada.3 Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. Nearly half (45 percent) of those with any mental disorder meet criteria for 2 or more disorders, with severity strongly related to comorbidity.1
In the U.S., mental disorders are diagnosed based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV).4

^ A pity the Tea Party is messing it up a bit. The dems love it.

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Yes, Obama is having a tough time.....

But who made this mess Jet?

You know who....and the fact that you try to shift the blame tells me all I or anyone else needs to know about the right wing mindset.....

"Polite everyday folks" indeed....

555555 People are realising it wasn't so bad under Bush. And as I noted before, when did crap start hitting the fan? The last year Bush was in office when both houses were DEMOCRAT. I also believe that when biz knew it was gonna be a full house with obama in the WH, they pulled up stakes and money, coz they knew what was coming. Hope and change...hope by the losers for more govt freebies and chump change for biz via dem policies, regs and total incompetence in everything but SPENDING the PEOPLE's money.

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

There's a right party in the US?

You're a republican, so I wouldn't start getting all big headed about it. You back the party which produced the worst administration in US history. Well done.....

Beg to differ: I'd name Woodrow, Carter and soon, obama. No, I wouldn't say right party; better to pick the right leader. Bush kept the country safe (no terrorists attacks after 9/11, which was Clinton's fault, until obama, who can't even say muslim terrorist), avg unemployment of about 5%, strong foreign policy, and a good biz climate, besides being a prez who loved his country, not the enemies of it. Look at it now. Everything is a fekin mess.

Due to the election system, it's not proportional, it's winner- takes- all in each voting district.

Has it's advantages and disadvantages.