DUmmie FUnnies 01-18-05 ("Doncha miss all the old '60's radicals/activists?")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | January 18, 2005 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[franksolich]

But the pro-life movement is not the "right" sort of protest, to the DUmmies. And so the involvement of all these kids in that movement don't count.

[bray]

A few highlights of the "Flower" generation:

Drug & Alcohol addiction and overdose

Drug turf wars and killings

Explosion of Sexual disease

Explosion of divorce, abortion and single parent households

Explosion of Suicide Rates

10s of Millions murdered in Soviet Union, China, Vietnam & Cambodia, all hippie Utopias

We were wrong and we can never say sorry enough for the pain & death we caused around this Country and the World.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Not A Snowbird]

Chicago 7, Black Panthers, Weathermen, AIM, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman...

How could they leave out Patty Hearst and the SLA?

[jellybean]

It was a movement.

And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar. With feeling.

Groovy man...

[Not A Snowbird]

Also, the DUmmies are upset that Target, of all companies, is having really big special sales on Thursday.

Really? I might just have to wander into Target on Thursday and reward them.

[maryz]

Gawd how I miss the spirit of those days...I didn't love some of the extremism and violence of those days, but I sure miss the spirit of revolution, the expansiveness and breakthroughs of those times. The commitment to equality and the raising-up of all people. Revolution was in the air and we were bustin' through ALL the boundaries! Mini-skirts and flowers in our long hair, peace beads, Woodstock, The Pill, commonunes, natural foods, and all the rest...

Ah, yes -- I believe those were the days Howard Dean fondly recalled during the primaries, "when the country was united . . ."

[DJ MacWoW]

I'm a babyboomer too. I knew a couple of druggies into the hippie lifestyle for the drugs and sex. They had no ideals and were self-serving. I think the most telling thing I ever heard about that era was George Harrison saying that he went to Haight-Ashbury because he'd heard about the "Revolution" and all he found was a bunch of dirty, strung out people. His conclusion was it was all hype and no substance.

[maryz]

during a DUmmie discussion of "Not a Damned Dime Day,"

A local talk show (conservative) had one Jesse Gordon (?) and some woman on today talking about this. (They have a website notonedamndime.com. You can sign a petition and everything!)

The woman said they have 10,000 members nationwide. Let's see, what percent is that of 280,000,000+ people?

[Repub4bush]

Well, I guess they are the Reborn terrorists of the 21 century.

I was trolling over at the DUmp last night and found a scarey post on this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1501641

Here is the post:

Jackie97 (1000+ posts)

Mon Jan-17-05 09:18 PM

Response to Original message

23. Okay guys, let me put things another way.

Edited on Mon Jan-17-05 09:20 PM by Jackie97

I really didn't want to put it this way in fear of drawing attention to myself.

I fear that an assassination attempt could get made on Bush. I have no evidence or direct reason to believe that. It's just that I can't help but think that if anybody is going to try to kill Bush, it would be January 20th.

Now, ask yourself. Do you really want to be in the crowd of protesters if Bush gets wacked?

There are plenty of protests to fear going to, and I admire the protesters who go to every single one of them (ones for leftist ideas that is). I admired those who went to the GOP convention protest for example. However, I honestly believe that if somebody is going to make an attempt to kill Bush, it will be that day. You do NOT want to be in the crowds that day if that happens. I'm not talking about avoiding all dangerous protests. I'm not talking about becoming silent against Bush. I'm saying it would be a good idea to be millions of miles away from Bush on a day when he might very well be killed.

I have no evidence that this could happen, and I don't want assassination to. Imagine how bad the left would look if it did happen. Imagine the backlashes to our causes in general. The belief that this type of violence could happen that particular day just common sense. If anybody's going to try it, it might be that day. Do not go.

I forwarded this to a "Friend" ;)

[nina0113]

What's the deal about Obama?

[maryz]

The Rats do maintain a very strong bond with the 60's and 70's for the same reasons mentioned by the DUmmies, but they have no issues that morph with their nostalgia.

If you never caught Emmett Tyrrell's article on the connection between the 60s radical left and the current "blue state" mindset, it's very good: Sixties to the Finish

Actually -- speaking of DUers preferring to do nothing -- would we really rather they were all as ambitious and driven as Hillary?

[Flux Capacitor]

----Doncha miss all the old '60's radicals/activists? Chicago 7, Black Panthers, Weathermen, AIM, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and such. Please don't tell me they are all conservative republicans now.----

Hee hee.... no. Jerry and Abbie, not unlike your movement, have both been dead for years (one would think you'd do a better job of keeping track of your idols), and the rest of these clowns are well into their third month of smashing their heads into the walls of their respective crackhouses over yellowing newspapers that scream "BUSH WINS!" in twelve-inch type.

But if you want to look up your former comrade-in-arms David Horowitz, you'll find that he has indeed switched sides and is in an excellent position to tell the inside story about what a bunch of hateful losers the '60s detritus was and is.

Did anyone here ever read Rubin's "DO IT!" ? I've got it packed away somewhere, an inheritance from my father's McGovern days (Jimmy Carter sobered him up real fast). The book's hilarious; Andy Warhol meets Che Guevara. The pure arrogance of a rebellious generation that honestly never believed that any subsequent ones would someday rebel against it. I highly recommend it; there's no better reminder of who these scum were and continue to be.

-Dan

[Bones75]

"The woman said they have 10,000 members nationwide. Let's see, what percent is that of 280,000,000+ people?"

Doesn't even matter, most of those people don't have any money to buy anything any other day anyway.

Bones

[beckysueb]

If I ever decide to loose the bounds of rationality. Huh?!?!

[nina0113]

You can sign a petition and everything!

You can also "Select All", "Copy" and "Paste" the names, addresses and phone numbers of the signers into a Word document - it works out to about 300 pages.

[Darkwolf377]

"Gawd how I miss the spirit of those days...I didn't love some of the extremism and violence of those days, but I sure miss the spirit of revolution, the expansiveness and breakthroughs of those times. The commitment to equality and the raising-up of all people. Revolution was in the air and we were bustin' through ALL the boundaries! Mini-skirts and flowers in our long hair, peace beads, Woodstock, The Pill, commonunes, natural foods, and all the rest..."

This is the core of the DUmmie experience now--trying to flip a switch and get some juice flowing through the corpse of the 60's and get it to rise again. Look at those final words--this person can experience all of those things on his/her own, but "commonunes" are the core of it--he wants to live on a college-campus-like version of community, hanging out with similar people also living in the past, childlike and emotion-driven. This person is unhappy with his adult life and wants to retreat to those days of illusion, when they thought they were changing the world because they dropped acid.

I also find it funny how he longs for revolution without "some of the extremism and violence," which were what made people think there would be revolution--it's like longing for WW2 without the fighting. One is inextricably linked to the other.

"You know what? If some genie had visited me when I was young and guaranteed me a billion dollars by age 25, a Playboy Playmate of my choice for a wife, and genius kids by age 30 if I just sold out and worked for the likes of Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and the Bush family and voted Republican in every election for the rest of my life... …I'd tell him to get lost and I'll live my life my way... and in retrospect, wouldn't change a thing - not even all the lean years, and there were a lot of them. "

Gee, don't hurt your arm patting yourself on the back. Bragging that you wouldn't take an offer no one is making is a nice, cheap, no-risk way of making yourself look like a hero.

[beckysueb]

Good for you. Pray for W.

[aBootes]

I was born at the end of the age of Aquarius - January 1970.

Hm. Doesn't the Age of Aquarius actually start in something like 2034? And end about 2,000 years later?

[Kornev]

I'd really like these 'anarchists' put up with real anarchy. Guess what, 911 don't work anymore, and I'm going to take all you have and you may live or not.

These are very sick people that don't have any idea what they want.

[Flux Capacitor]

----I forwarded this to a "Friend" ;)----

I think we have mutual friends. ;)

-Dan