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lyssie ([personal profile] lyssie) wrote2011-03-01 06:43 pm
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You know what scares me?

I'm bored. I'm watching Wheel of Fortune (and Jeopardy). Every. Single. Commercial. Break. has had a pro-Scott Walker commercial. Every single one.

eta: even worse is how I forget to type things in my head. ahem. Pro-Scott Walker means "Democrats want you to pay for their pensions! Oh, and raise taxes! But if they'd just come back, Scott Walker (JESUS) could solve ALL of Wisconsin's problems, so those LAZY LAZY union people get pwned. Oh, and we're firing 227,000 people if Scott Walker doesn't win."

And then Scott stomps his feet like a six-year-old.

(ok, the last was hyperbole)

It's fucking frightening how many millions of dollars are being spent on lying so that big business can stay in power.

(further to the eta, I finally saw a "Scott Walker is a lying idiot" commercial)

[identity profile] svilleficrecs.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
IDK if you're a Rachel Maddow watcher, but last week she did a *beautiful* breakdown about how this isn't just about stripping union rights, it's about an opening salvo in a nationwide effort to break the unions in order to break the back of the Democratic party.

It's disgusting enough that Walker is playing lie filled politics with his state's employees to destroy their bargaining rights, but it's straight up grotesque that it's (pretty obviously, especially after that prank call) being done for political purposes that have nothing to do with budgets or workers rights.

ETA: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/ Here's the link.
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
I shall watch that. RM is always cheering, and I do love her so. Thank you!

[identity profile] svilleficrecs.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
She's been doing some really great coverage of the Wisconsin situation.

[identity profile] svilleficrecs.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
actually, she's starting/talking about Wisconsin about right now.`

[identity profile] rosewildeirish.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
But they have to do that, yo. Because Scott Walker is now behind in the polls, and those filthy Democrats might win and take over with the next election, thereby bringing about the end of the world.

*edits cos there's no such thing as a Deomcrat*
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2011-03-05 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Bwah. The hilarious thing is that, at least in Wisconsin, I'm pretty sure the next election is going to swing round to being Democrat-won on every level.

[identity profile] alryssa.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
DON'T YOU GET IT LYSS, UNIONS ARE DESTROYING THE COUNTRY. I MEAN THEY CAUSED THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION IN 2008.

Only, you know, they didn't.

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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2011-03-05 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I KNOW. Sometimes, I wonder if I woke up and someone decided to pull a long, lulzy campaign on the republicans.

[identity profile] otherpervert.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
*pets your hair* Oh silly silly silly silly silly lyssie... Did you not hear that Scott Walker is the messiah?

He's just doing what the people want.

And, uh, just nevermind the thousands and thousands of people filling the streets in the capital - they don't know what's good for them.


Seriously though, equating Scott Walker to an ornery 6-year-old is probably the best analogy I've heard yet. Especially since his main rebuttals seem to be "Nuh-uh!" and "Because I don't wanna."
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2011-03-05 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
HE IS HERE TO SAVE US from prosperity.

I think the height of it was the bit where the senate voted to take their parking spaces away. BECAUSE, REALLY. We're facing a budget crisis, but DAMN if those democrats will get to park!

=D

[identity profile] foenix.livejournal.com 2011-03-02 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Just think of the other things all the money being spent on these waste of space ads could go for.
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2011-03-05 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That will just drive me to drink. ;)

[identity profile] scifiaddict86.livejournal.com 2011-03-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah American politics tend to scare me in general but the whole situation in your state is pretty wild right now.
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2011-03-05 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's hoping it manages to get resolved in some beneficial to people and not corporations way. :/
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[personal profile] amaresu 2011-03-03 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
I think someone needs to sit Scott Walker down and explain that when Fox News is calling you an idiot, lying liar, union busting, asshole then it's time reassess your position. Because it's Fox News.

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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2011-03-05 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
AHAHAHAH. YES.