I'm in Austin for South by Southwest, and thought about slacking this week. But SusanG would've kicked my ass.
And there's some good stuff below.
Update: And it turns out that the first email is a fake. I knew it! Creative as hell, though.
Down on my knees.
It breaks my heart, Mark. It really does. Some of the things you say against this great nation...and the things so many of your bloggers here say. Your minions.
Is minions too strong a word? Perhaps it is, and I apologize if I offend you, Mark, I try to live my life by Christ's own words. To forgive, and be humble. How could I look at my own wife or little Dougy Jr. if I din't?
I don't know if you'd understand such things. Maybe you got a wife and kids, and maybe you really have come to think you're doing something special here, but I can't help but think it's more of a short bus special than the kind of special you probably think it to be.
And so I'm down on my knees here, man! PRAYING LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER! For your own life and soul! Praying to the one true God on high that you wise up and see the damage you're causing to the America that provides for the livelihood you enjoy...
But you spit at her. You spit at that beautiful woman, America, who only wishes to be the motherly, supportive figure who ensures your survivial and thrival. Get me? You throw a tantrum against that virginal queen, and it sickens me. I am literally moved to void my stomach sometimes when I fully comprehend the foulness of some of the thoughts that run through your head and the head of so many of your readers & writers.
It brings me down to my knees again, but not to pray this time, no. To clutch at my gut, and cry out for my nation. You may call me dramatic if you wish, Mr. Moulitsas, but theater ain't my own specialty. And I would say in response that your blog sure has its share of extremity, but I guess you knew that...
And on that note, I sign off, wishing you a long, pensive experience on the freeway home. May my words, lovingly directed from down on my knees with God, find their way to your head as you sail down the American freeway tonight, going home to the residence that that beautiful woman has provided for you.
Think about it, Mark...think about what America really means to you. Think about what it means to all of us regular folks out here just doing our daily thing. I've heard us referred to as "flyover country" somewheres...and it makes sense. We're probably an easy target at times, what with our racing and overalls and otherwise country ways. But we're people too, and lots of us mean real well.
Give us a chance. And give America a chance. She won't disappoint, I promise!
Your would-be friend,
Dougy P.
Shut up, this can't be real, can it? The return email address is "tea dangler". If it's a fake, kudos! Drop me a line with proof that this is yours (your return email address), and I'll send you a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com for a job well done.
It's the little details that make all the difference -- like anglicizing my name, because no one named "Markos" could ever truly love America. And I loved the part about America being a virgin.
In reality, she's kind of a slut, given how many countries she's fucked.
Health Care
You ignorant Fuck. You think most in the 'Real' world don't understand the difference between 'Reconciliation' of a budget bill and 'RECONCILIATION' as your twisted freaks see it??? Keep up exactly what your doin.......Great Job!!! Look towards Nov....
Reconciliation was designed ONLY for tax cuts proposed by a Republican president and passed by a Republican Congress ... NOT RECONCILIATION by Democrats as you twisted freaks see it! Is that so hard to understand?
YOU ARE A FUCKING NAZI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SIEG HEIL STURMBANNFÜHRER MARKOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAS IST DAS?!?!? THERE ARE STILL SOME PEOPLE LEFT WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM?!!????!!!!! LET'S CALL THEM TEABAGGERS AND PRETEND THEY DON'T EXIST!!!!! OR BETTER YET, LETS PUT THEM INTO INTERMENT CAMPS AND "REEDUCATE" THEM, NORTH KOREA STYLE!!!!! IS THAT YOUR FUCKING PLAN, YOU FASCIST CUNTRAG?!?!!! MY GRANDFATHER DIED FIGHTING THE NAZIS (EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FORM GERMANY) AND I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU NEO-NAZIS TAKE OVER MY COUNTRY!!!!!!!! I REFUSE TO ENROLL INTO YOUR NAZI WELFARE/"HEALTHCARE" PLAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THEN? ARE YOU GOING TO SEND YOUR STORMTROOPERS TO PURGE ME?!! ARE YOU GOING TO PUT ME INTO ONE YOUR DEATH PANELS?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REFUSE TOBE A PART OF YOUR FRAUDULENT "CENSUS" THAT COUNTS EVERY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TWICE IN AN ATTEMPT TO TAKE POWER FROM AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHAT THEN? ARE YOU GOING WATERBOARD ME UNTIL I ALLOW MYSELF TO BE COUNTED? AS WHAT? THREE FIFTS OF A PERSON BEACUSE I'M A REAL AMERICAN AND NOT A LEFTWING PUPPET WHO IS HERE ILLEGALLY? I REFUSE, MEIN HERR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I SECEDE FROM YOUR SOCIALIST FASCIST AGENDA AND YOUR SOCIALIST BIG GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL NOT BE A PART OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!! THERE WILL BE A TIME TO REBUILD, BUT NOW IS THE TIME TO RESIST!! GHANDI DROVE THE BRITISH TYRANTS OUT OF INDIA THROUGH PASSIVE RESISTANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND WHEN ALL AMERICANS JOIN TOGETHER AND REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE YOUR ILLEGAL NAZI "GOVERNMENT", YOU WILL BE SHAMED AND RENDERED POWERLESS!!!!!! YOUR NAZI COUP IS A HOUSE OF CARDS, SO ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO IMPRISON ME, GO AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL BE A HERO WHEN THE DENAZIFICATION BEGINS AND DEMOCRACY IS RESTORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! YOUR PRECIOUS SOVIET UNION FAILED BECAUSE IT WAS A FASCIST TOTALITARIAN SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WAS CRUSHED UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 THE THIRD REICH WHICH IS OBAMAS MODEL, ALSO FAILED BECAUSE IT WAS A SOCIALIST TYRANNY !!!!!!! EVENTUALLY OBAMA'S JUNTA WILL DEFEAT ITSELF AND AFTER THE 2010 ELECTIONS AMERICANS WILL AGAIN RULE THEMSELVES!!!!!!!!!
AFTER THE ELECTIONS???????!!!!!!!!!!!!?
NAZI TAXATION (I WORKED MY ASS OFF FOR MY FUCKING "CADILLAC HEALTHCARE PLAN" YOU FUCKING FASCIST THIEF!)? GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MANDATORY NAZI WELFARE? GONE!!!!!!!!!
NAZI HEALTHCARE RATIONING/FORCED ABORTION PLAN? GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ACHTUNG!!! YOU ARE THE FRONTMAN FOR THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST AMERICAN WORKER'S PARTY (AKA DEMOCRATS) AND YOUR AGENDA IS SLAVERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU WANT ALL AMERICANS TO BEG THE GOVERNMENT FOR SCRAPS OF FOOD AND OCCASIONALLY SOME HEALTHCARE (UNLESS SAVING THEIR LIVES IS DEEMED
"INEFFICIENT" IN WHICH CASE THEY ARE EUTHANIZED). YOUR GOAL IS AN ECONOMY RUN BY STALIN AND A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM RUN BY DOCTOR MENGELE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL NOT SEE ME WAITING IN YOUR MILE-LONG FOOD LINES WITH A NAZI RATIONING COUPON, HOPING FOR YOUR PERMISSION TO BUY A FUCKING TWINKIE THAT YOU HAVE NOT CERTIFIED AS SUFFICIENTLY "GREEN" (WHAT THE FUCK IS A "CARBON FOOTPRINT"???????). I WILL CONTINUE TO SEE MY PRIVATE DOCTOR AND I WILL NOT PUT MYSELF AT THE MERCY OF YOUR GOVERNMENT-APPROVED NAZI DOCTORS WHOWILL PROBABLY GIVE ME LETHAL INJECTION FOR BELIEVING IN FREEDOM (AS THE NAZIS USED TO DO)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNLESS YOU ALSO IMPRISON MY DOCTOR ALONG WITH MYSELF, FOR REFUSING TO DENY TREATMENT AS DICTATED BY DER SOZIALISTISCHE PROTOKOLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT DON'T WORRY, HERR MARKOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU AND REICHSFÜHRER OBAMA (CAN YOU SAY "ONE-TERM PRESIDENT"?) STILL HAVE ALOT OF TIME BEFORE THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS! YOU CAN STILL DESTROY A LARGE PART OF AMERICA!!!!!!!! HOW ABOUT REPLACING THE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A PINK SWASTIKA????!! OR MAYBE YOU BAN NASCAR AS BEING POLITICALLY INCORRECT??! OR YOU COULD DESIGNATE THE NATIONAL GUARD AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION?!!!!?!!!!?!! GO AHEAD, YOU CAN USE THESE IDEAS, I SURRENDER MY COPYRIGHT, YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE TO PAY ME IN YOUR FILTHY NAZI GOLD (STOLEN FROM WORKING AMERICANS)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FÜHRER!!!!!!!!!!!! HEIL OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
freejoiner72
Poor freejoiner, sitting at home, waiting for the stormtroopers to cart him off to the FEMA camp of his fevered fantasies ... yet no one shows up. There are few things more tragic than unfulfilled paranoia.
Screaming certainly doesn't seem to help.
markos
i saw you on ms(lsd) tonite. man are you one ugly looking fag! you know, i get ill when i listen to you faggot's talk about progressivism. that's not even what america is douche bag! it's a republic not a socialistic country like this little halfrican's trying to make it. you people are so fucked in the head. i think your mental patient's. and rush never said, he was moving out of the country. but he put's stuff out there cause he know's you dumbfuck's on the left will fall for it! dude, you sure you don't smoke poll. you really do look and talk faggy!! i wish we could have two america's. let's all you loon's go and tax & spend your way into oblivion. and we can just sit back and watch you destroy yourself. cause that's what that little nigger in the white house is trying to do! he has no clue what he's doing. liberal's love to spend other people's money. bu t the problem with that, is other people's money run's out too! i just wish we could have all you idiot's aborted out of the cuntry. you have so fucked thing's up now.
Yeah! Rush Limbaugh didn't say he was leaving the country! Rather, what he said was this:
I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.
Oops.
Reality isn't this guy's strong suit. Nor apostrophes.
You are not a liberal, your a corporate media pundit.
I am going to make this easy and clear, and somewhat short. I am upset that you had the audacity to attack two GREAT men with in 2 minutes. Dennis Kucinch and Ralph Nader are two figures in American politics that stand for what is right, not just a little right or kind of right....what is flat out right!
Kucinich is correct that this bill allows corporations and CEO's to continuously make profit off the consumer. Kucinch also has been pressing for a single payer, Medicare for all, if anything the centrist Democrats are the ones to blame for not stepping up to the plate. Kucinch is right when he says, "we are building on sand, your building on the privatization of insurance" "Insurance companies make money by not providing people with healthcare". Kucinch is right and I stand by him.
Now you also made a sly remark about Kucinch being "Naderesk", and continued by saying that Nader gave us the 8 years of George Bush. Wow, if you don't sound like a typical corporate media pawn. Nader did what he was allowed to do and was authorized to do by the U.S. Constitution; he had every right to run for office. The voters wanted him to run, and we voted for him. We were tired of the two party corporate system and wanted `real" change in 2000, 2004, and 2008 [...]
George W. Bush thanks you! And Rush Limbaugh thanks you too. He doesn't really want to move to Costa Rica.
Dennis Kucinich
Saw your comment of KO show this PM.
#1 Dennis has been right on every issue, popular or not.
#2 Dennis has something this country lost a long time ago...
principles.
#3 You will not be held accountable when Thousands of Americans will be forced to buy unregulated health care and are ripped off... You will still be online chattering about how everyone does it wrong.
#4 You would rather remove Dennis from office and have him replaced by an unknown... disregarding his years of accomplishments and service because YOU disagree with his vote.
You, my friend, have no track record, You have never made a hard decision, you have never had to take responsibility for your actions... You simply chatter...
I USED to visit your page regularly. But I see you are only interested in carrying water... not searching for the truth or understanding issues that are complex..
See Ya
Have a nice life
Accomplishments? Let's see what Kucinich's magic spine has accomplished:
A bill "to make available to the Ukranian Museum and Archives the USIA television program 'Window on America,'" a bill "to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14500 Lorain Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio as the 'John P. Gallagher Post Office Building" and a bill "proclaiming Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously."
That's in 14 years in Congress. Most congressmen name 5-6 post offices in that time span!
Your rant against Kucinich on MSNBC
Seriously- go fuck yourself. Your attacking Kucinich for being against this atrocious bill?
Go fuck yourself!
You probably still vote for democraps- you fucking clueless asshole. Please stop destroying our republic by supporting corporate whores.
Thanks.
Nader 2012!
Remember when SEIU, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, and pretty much every union began supporting corporate whores? They're now like, "how can we screw people over by further empowering our best-friend CEOs?" Then they go and hang out with their BFFs at the country club, sipping scotch, and sharing in their ill-gotten wealth.
I've got to admit that I really didn't see that coming.
But don't worry, Ralph Nader's magical spine will take care of that in 2012.
Daily KOS founder is an ignorant wimp for attacking Kucinich
It was good to see the founder on TV letting the viewers know that Mark M is a loud mouth who has his facts ALL WRONG! He is obviously bought and paid for by corporate interests and I will NOT waste my time reading his BLOG. Before he gets on TV and blasts and insults one of the rare honest, truth speaking Congressman on national TV, he should realize that ALL of America are NOT as dumb as hie is. HE IS A SHRILL TOOL THAT EXPOSED HIMSELF ON NATIONAL TV AS A BUMBLING LOUD MOUTH IDIOT WHO HAS NO BUSINESS CRITICIZING THE SMALLEST MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO HAS THE BIGGEST BALLS AND TAKES ON MORONS LIKE MIKE M AND RUNS FOR PRESIDENT AS HE TRULY CARES ABOUT THE STATE OF THIS SORRY SINKING SHIP CALLED THE USA, or a country known as THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD. I expect Mark M to bow down and kiss AIPAC's ass next as the other BULLY in the world, ISRAEL, gets unlimited US military aid to freely murder and massacre civilians with NO REGARD FOR ANY TYPE OF LAW. The rulers of Israel are worse than HITLER ever was!
Once I figure out who Mark M and Mike M are, I'll inquire into whether Kucinich's disproportionately oversized testicles are as magical as his spine, or whether he simply suffers from an embarrassing deformity.
But oooh boy, wait until this emailer finds out that Kucinich is a big sellout because he doesn't believe Israel is worse than Hitler!
Well, at least I hope Kucinich doesn't believe that.
Countdown
I happened to catch you on Countdown last night. I see that Daily Kos describes itself as "progressive." However, a true progressive would not have made the personally insulting remarks about Kucinich (and Nader) that you made last night. Your Republican roots are still there, because the healthcare bill is no good; it is a Republican bill now. It would be better if it didn't pass. Any real progressive knows that incrementalism only prevents real solutions. Kucinich was fighting the fight before you were born and you should return to your latin roots and show respect for those with more experience than you.
Incrementalism only prevents real solutions. So say the Kucinich crazies.
Tell that to people collecting social security. Tell that to people on Medicare. Tell that to Republicans who have incrementally eroded the ability of people to unionize over the past 80 years, or have gradually eliminated a significant tax burden on the wealthiest Americans.
Shit, as painful as it might be at time, incrementalism is the only way shit happens in this country.
Then again, Kucinich's magic spine, aided and abetted by his oversized testicles, didn't need incrementalism to name that post office. He didn't pass one bill changing the first name of the post office to "John", a second adding the middle initial "P", and a third bill getting the "Gallagher" into the name. Instead it was WHAM! Total progressive smackdown! DK showed everyone how it was done, while Republicans trembled in the opposition, fearfully casting their unanimous votes in favor of changing the name of the post office -- all at once.
Damn, it was awesome. You should've seen when that one congressman tried to negotiate the middle initial. "Might we consider the letter 'G' instead?" he meekly asked. dKuc was like, "I dont' negotiate with terrorists ... or Congressmen!" And so they stuck with that "P", because that P was perfect (and progressive!). And though corporate America fought him at every end, and though he faced a hostile Congress and president, Kucinich never wavered. And it was because of the force of his convictions that he was able to get that post office named.
His work done, Kucinich took the rest of his career off. Well, except to vote "no" on any further progress.
Message for Markos
Markos you are a pathetic piece of shit! You owe Dennis Kucinich one of the very few REAL progressives in congress an apology for your disgusting attack on him yesterday. Corporate suck up fascist sell outs like you make me sick and make me angry. GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU FAUX FAIR WEATHER PROGRESSIVE. YOU AND OBAMA BOTH CAN ROT IN HELL FOR ALL I CARE
Is it because I lack a magical spine like Kucinich?
Bottom line, what Congress has put together is nowhere near an ideal, but it's a framework that can be improved on, like social security, medicare, and pretty much every significant government program. If this was the end of the road, it would be a problem. Not as big as doing nothing, but a problem nonetheless. But it's not the end of the road.
We fought hard for a better bill, got improvements from the Senate bill, and now have to take what we can get. But the war isn't over. And this legislation, inadequacies and all, is the biggest progressive accomplishment in generations.
But for Kucinich and his partisans, it's either perfection or nothing. It's exactly why, like in 2007, I have no patience for the idiocy of Kucinich.