House Dems unveil new midterm campaign slogan

Posted by $ nickursis 5 years, 8 months ago to Politics
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I was tempted to put this in Humor...but it can be politics or Culture. Should really be "For the People (As long as we get our cut)", but really, doesn't "For the People" has such a ring of bad Sci Fi politics (Honor Harringtons People Republic of Haven used it) or Atlas Shrugged government control? It is almost an excuse, not a slogan, and has been used many times before to justify imposing their will, taking away freedom, controlling markets. I bet Maduro in Venezuela sues them for copyright infringement, I think he has been using it for the last few years as well...
SOURCE URL: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/18/house-democrats-midterms-campaign-slogan-730907


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 5 years, 8 months ago
    When me dino read that the initial message, "Better Deal," was openly mocked by some Jackass Party lawmakers, boy, did I enjoy one good long belly laugh.
    So the campaign slogan is "For The People," eh? How about "Power To The People" accompanied by a Commie-looking fist salute like I saw during the later 60s?
    The Jackass Party bosses will show the people who has the power should they get to take back the "crumbs" Princess Pelosi spoke of just before the economy took off.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 5 years, 8 months ago
    Every tyrannical socialist movement has started with those words "For the People." Implied in that slogan is that the people are helpless rabble who need the guidance and support of the more capable elite, who know what's best for all of us.

    The Democrat party is being eaten by fanatic socialists, primarily because the party has driven out any remaining moderates, most of whom fell as casualties of their grudging votes for Obamacare. Fiscal conservatives are also extinct in the party, demonstrated by the eagerness of the numerous presidential wannabes racing to the left, proclaiming they can promise even more "free" stuff than the other candidates. Economics is completely absent from their skill set.

    Behind every promise of ever more safety and security lurks diminishing liberty. Under "Democratic Socialism" individual freedom has to be curtailed to meet the goals of social justice, crushed by an ever more powerful government.

    The reason socialists are so opposed to individual ownership of guns is the possibility of a real resistance to the force of an overbearing state. Freedom of speech tenets are also to be restricted to only state-approved speech, lest opposition be encouraged. I believe the reason most media outlets have become mouthpieces for the left is out of eagerness to survive in a socialist environment. The MSM read the tea leaves of the Sandernistas socialists, and it scared some, and inspired others of equally delusional thinking.

    I hope that enough people ask themselves how realistic the Democrat vision is to deny them possession of the House and Senate this Fall. If not, America will grind to a halt, buried under fruitless impeachment investigations and presidential vetoes.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 8 months ago
      So, Doc, "The reason socialists are so opposed to individual ownership of guns is the possibility of a real resistance to the force of an overbearing state."
      Doesn't that illustrate the logic that assumes a Deep State would want to have the biggest, most emotional shootings they can, at a rate calculated to keep the idea of "guns are bad" in the sheeple mind, so that then their anti gun push is successful? Look at the discussion we had on Chicago, which is proof gun control is a fantasy, and that the next step is total confiscations of all guns because "we can't have good gun control with the criminals so total ban is needed to protect the people" thus achieving your premise?
      To that end, they generate big shootings to keep it in mind, when really there are very few, and perpetrated by people way past high school:

      https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/...
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      • Posted by DrZarkov99 5 years, 8 months ago
        I've resisted the false flag suspicion about some of these mass shootings to avoid being called a conspiracy nut, but given the uncovering of so much corruption at so many levels in federal law enforcement, it's hard not to give the idea credibility. I used to have some faith in some government institutions, having worked with truly honorable people in the bureaucracy, disregarding the dishonest ones I had to deal with. Unfortunately, I've recently realized that the only solution to clearing out the swamp may be to set fire to it. Trump is attempting to do just that, figuratively, but it's a gamble that he's betting his life on.
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        • Posted by $ 5 years, 8 months ago
          He appears to have a lot of good, solid protection, in the form of Q. NSA apparently did not go rogue like CIA and FBI did.
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          • Posted by DrZarkov99 5 years, 8 months ago
            It's ironic that most of us in the DoD community were uneasy with "No Such Agency" because they were very closed off from most of the rest of government agencies. Maybe a quarantine wasn't such a bad thing, since it seems the corruption has spread rather broadly. So far it doesn't seem the DIA has been infected, but that may be mainly because they have a somewhat hostile relationship with the CIA, based on what the military feels are unsavory combat events by CIA operatives.
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            • Posted by $ 5 years, 8 months ago
              CIA seems to have been a bad apple from the start, as it evolved out of OSS. I think they started with the warlike attitude of "no rules to war for us" and it continued into the cold war. They have, according to stories it is hard to confirm, dabbled in everything from drugs to mental manipulation, remote viewing and skunkworks. They dragged Howard Hughes in to Glomar Explorer story and then it seems, made up more lies on lies to cover up they did get the sub, but got very little of it, but a huge pile of radioactive stuff, that was buried on an island in SF Bay. Eisenhower seemed to not trust them, and Kennedy made the mistake of it. DIA seemed to be on the up and up, but it seems hard to know when people can swear to support the Constitution and then work to kill it.
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              • Posted by DrZarkov99 5 years, 8 months ago
                Some of the CIA thugs I've run across seemed envious of the KGB's ability to conduct its murderous "wet works." Who knows, maybe they saw a way to get that kind of power with the more authoritarian left in charge. When I was in uniform I was always a little unsettled when I discovered people I worked with did double duty as DIA operatives, but they generally were less "spook" than their CIA counterparts.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 5 years, 8 months ago
    This fits incredibly well with their socialist agenda. What remains to be seen is how many Americans will buy it in the face of economic prosperity not seen for 10+ years. The biggest factor in politics has historically been the economy - and its tough to make a case to return to the Obama years.
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  • Posted by DeangalvinFL 5 years, 8 months ago
    It is a powerful and appealing slogan.

    John Morgan, in central Florida, has used that slogan in all of his legal advertising and is immensely popular.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 8 months ago
      Uh, ok Dean, sure....I have never been much for the slogan thing anyways, even MAGA seemed kind of trite...
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      • Posted by DeangalvinFL 5 years, 8 months ago
        You may not be much for slogans, but many people are. Perhaps most people.
        Especially if they have a relevant theme to them such as a portion of "of the people, by the people and for the people".
        It is a simplistic statement and probably shouldn't be rightly uttered by the Democrats (nor Republicans).
        However, my point is that it is a powerful slogan, and will serve well the interests of anyone using it.
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  • Posted by AlfredENewman 5 years, 8 months ago
    Politics was a wise choice as while this article does have it''s humorous points it's really a tragedy which is not the least humerous. Culture would also be an injustice as the article would more properly be deemed anti-culture.

    As the old saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.

    "Democrats are in their best position in nearly a decade to regain control of the House largely because of an energized anti-Trump base seeking a check on the president. Midterms also historically favor the party not in control of the White House."

    Wishful thinking but based on an inability to actually face reality. Wonder if the RHINOs are going to finally cross to the party they actually represent?
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  • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 8 months ago
    They withheld the truth to cover up their true agenda. The whole slogan is
    "Chains and Enslavement For the People"

    As for Weber, he is the most unabashed biased multiculturist feminist in sci-fi. Virtually all his heroes are female or black or other non-white or a combination thereof. Virtually all his villains are white males. His love affair with monarchy is irrational rubbish, too.
    He does write very good space battles if you can manage to get through the hundreds of pages of molasses slow political intrigue and biased propaganda.
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    • Posted by AlfredENewman 5 years, 8 months ago
      Weber, not mentioned in the article at all. With no source reference to support the arguments implication, how does this apply to the argument?

      Is this somehow implying that the Dumbocraps are going to run as space aliens?
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      • Posted by $ 5 years, 8 months ago
        Weber was mentioned in my post as having used the same slogan in a Sci Fi series. Freedom, obviously has an interest in it. Sometimes posts will take their own road of free discussion, so this is the result. However, the I would not throw out the space alien theory too early at this point, they do have a declared pedeophile running in one state...
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 8 months ago
      Well, that is a good version of the "new" slogan. DW books are good fun reads very detaied, many plots and sub plots and he is clearly enamored with women as a main character, he does have a new Manticore series with a male main character, so maybe he has heard the same complaint...
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      • Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 8 months ago
        Weber's main male character in the recent series is a weak one who is continually overshadowed by the stronger, more admirable women characters. Its no accident that the 2 male characters are flawed and the women characters are oh so perfect. But he is damn good at writing battle scenes with inventive surprises.
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