February 24, 2015
"Walker, can I 'modestly' kick you in the nuts?"
As the nation turns its eyes to Scott Walker, I thought I'd start a new series, rerunning some of my old photographs that open a window to the past to give you something of a feeling for the abuse the man took back in 2011.
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Hey, it was for the children.
I get the impression that Althouse has been permanently alienated by the tactics of the rabid Wisconsin Left.
Good God. You are pathetic.
"garage mahal said...
Good God. You are pathetic"
OK, Mr. I Tappa Kegga.
@Kcom - Nihil perpetuum est.
Hey, Garage think one of your signs is in the series: "Please don't teabag our children."
Those were the days. The good old street theater days.
Ahhh, the Schadenfreude is delicious.
These sort of protests - they called them "demonstrations" in the 60's - are so passe, so trite and so off-putting they do the opposite of what the participants intend.
It's makes them look foolish and old.
I'm hope someone walked up to Mr. Leftist Beard and kicked him in the nuts.
That's what passes for "reasoned discourse" among the DemCong.
Pathetic losers.
Only sign that would make sense is an "I'm With Stupid", with arrows pointing in all directions.
This kind of thing could even alienate the NPR crowd, or at least cause a change in tactics.
Puppeteers and candlelight vigils are preferable to union thuggery, group hate-objects and rent-a-mobs (don't know if they were bused-in for Walker).
The social protesters must keep things looking respectable for the suburbs.. the Sharptons, totalitarians, Communists and crazy true-believing zealots can't be too far out in front without some damage...right?
When they are, notice how contentious things get in our political discourse.
Moral high ground is often claimed but rarely earned and/or its claimed there is no moral high ground, just progress...
...inevitable, unquestionable progress.
Do they still wear patchouli oil? or is that something left in the 60's.
Just wait until it's these protesters' turn to have to sign an oath that President Scott Walker loves America and is a good Christian.
Hey, look at all those smiling folks, not realizing that they are killing their own union with their tactics.
The issue is that everyone knows that the demonstrations are bought and paid for by Big Money fat cats. Add to it that Unions have made it clear that they don't give a shit about anybody who is NOT in a union. They grossly miscalculated how much power and influence they actually have. When the electorate stands up against them, they lose.
As I have said in the past, if the unions hadn't been actively telling everybody else not with unions, to go fuck themselves, Scott Walker would not have won that battle.
Scott Walker is what happens when overly entitled unions refuse to compromise in a meaningful way that is tangible to tax payers in being a good deal for them.
PE Unions did this to themselves with their thuggery, goonery and tantrum-like antics.
They earned it.
And let's say you're a Detroit union boss, forcing membership on your members while feeding on bailout money and making things that people don't want much anymore.
What exactly, of value, are you adding to the world?
Even the sugar daddies in D.C. will quit you like a bad habit if you can't bring 'em the votes anymore.
Rules in a knife fight?
Butch Cassidy
To grant madisonfella a point he/she made in another post:
I am sure that quite a few of these union people are decent people in most ways and I'd be just fine with them as neighbors.
But, when they essentially tell their neighbors "Fuck You; Pay Me, you greedy Nazi asshole" on TV day after day, night after night, the likely response is going to be the opposite.
Their neighbors might even still smile and wave in greeting and still be good neighbors, but they won't vote for what the unions want want.
See, the unions forgot that their non-union neighbors are nice guys too, even when they don't agree.
That's why I say the unions did it to themselves.
But, when they essentially tell their neighbors "Fuck You; Pay Me, you greedy Nazi asshole" on TV day after day, night after night, the likely response is going to be the opposite.
Exactly. Can't say it better myself.
Mr. lefty, union, protestor guy has no 'nuts'. He has a sign only since he self-neutered himself.
If you want to revisit those days, be my guest, but we used to worry about your (Meade and yourself) safety. The city of Madison can mobilize hundreds if not thousands of rabid libtards in a moments notice. And boy do they love to create signs!
There must be something I don't understand about protests. I would think, if I were organizing one, the goals would be (1) get public recognition of an issue that may be off people's radar, (2) embolden likely supporters, so they know there are many others on their side, and (3) sway the opinions of those in the middle.
So why does it seem so many protests these days have highlighted the obnoxious (idiotic, offensive signs that could not possibly make someone support your cause if they weren't already in the tank), the disruptive (blocking roads, which will make commuters hate you no matter what your cause is) and the assinine (breaking laws getting you nothing for your troubles but a jail record)? How can so many people realize this works against them?
This isn't a partisan thing either--I've been repelled by protests that support things I agree with, and I can't imagine my reaction is an outlier.
I, for one, approve of a swift, polite kick to the nuts of those who so intensely deserve that, such as the supporters of the corrupt Democrat-Union alliance that Walker broke down in your fair state.
And when they ask "Why did you kick me in the nuts?" they should be kicked in the nuts again, before they can get back up, as a lesson to the others.
@Brando--Because it's not about accomplishing the (sensible) goals you outline. It's about a public, primate display of the depth of loyalty one has to one's Tribe and its religious tenets about good and evil and us vs. them.
I, for one, approve of a swift, polite kick to the nuts of those who so intensely deserve that, such as the supporters of the corrupt Democrat-Union alliance that Walker broke down in your fair state.
And when they ask "Why did you kick me in the nuts?" they should be kicked in the nuts again, before they can get back up, as a lesson to the others.
2/24/15, 9:58 AM
This!
I can't think of a reason that these protesters wouldn't want their message relayed to a national stage. It's a win-win!
The best response is victory. "Winning!"
Good God. You are pathetic.
Any bets that he's not referring to the dude with the sign?
"But, when they essentially tell their neighbors 'Fuck You; Pay Me'..."
"Fuck you, pay me" is a line from Goodfellas. Very fitting.
Brando,
You're not seeing what happens before the protest, which is often making an ideal like equality for some cause or other virtuous, nay righteous, and thus worthy of action. This process draws lines over and claims to make sense of the world, defining friends and foes, good and evil...making and imparting value judgments, and is usually guilty of confirmation bias etc. There's usually some kernel of truth.
Here in Seattle there was a woman on the local NPR station who was simply an activist against Chinese toy exports. Was she a doctor, a scientist, a lawyer, even a politician? Did she at least do decent research? Travel to China?
No. Just an activist who during the interview didnt even have much useful nformation...just a lot of concern for the 'community' and didactic talking down to the listening audience.
That's the pre-game stew for a protest as most have occurred in this country, especially since the 60's and demonstrates plainly why the usual Leftist ideals and ideology are based in envy, engage so easily in groupthink, promote collectivism, make virtuous activism all of which needs constant enemies and runs aground on the rocks of human nature and reality.
Here in Seattle there was a woman on the local NPR station who was simply an activist against Chinese toy exports. Was she a doctor, a scientist, a lawyer, even a politician? Did she at least do decent research? Travel to China?
She sounds about as qualified as some of the contributors to the UN Panel on Climate Change's reports.
Climate change workers of the world unite!
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