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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 05:51 PM
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Joe Six Pack here. And Joe ain't believing this crap.
Joe don't believe the election in California is getting hijacked.
Joe don't believe electronic voting machines are a political thing.
Joe don't believe in the diversity/adversity thing.
Joe don't believe in numbers that can and do create power.
Joe don't believe that this country can possibly make wrong decisions.
Joe is really happy with status quo.

Joe believes that LAW will protect him.
Joe believes that taxes are wasted.
Joe believes that goodness amongst fellow Americans will prevail.
Joe believes that Democrats are a bunch of perverts.
Joe believes that elections are always fair.
Joe believes that when you say "fair and balanced" it's the truth.

This "Joe" has proplems with all of that.

Psychoblues

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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 05:54 PM
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1. I'm confused. Is this a double negative?
Do you have 'proplems' with the litany of the above RW talking points? Or does Joe--i.e. you--believe the opposite?
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 05:57 PM
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3. May I supply the missing tag
</satire>
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:02 PM
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7. That's not the issue. I'm talking logic.
Edited on Wed Aug-20-03 06:03 PM by FlashHarry
Here it is again:
First, he says:
Joe Six Pack here. And Joe ain't believing this crap.


He elaborates:

Joe don't believe the election in California is getting hijacked.
Joe don't believe electronic voting machines are a political thing.
Joe don't believe in the diversity/adversity thing.
Joe don't believe in numbers that can and do create power.
Joe don't believe that this country can possibly make wrong decisions.
Joe is really happy with status quo.

Joe believes that LAW will protect him.
Joe believes that taxes are wasted.
Joe believes that goodness amongst fellow Americans will prevail.
Joe believes that Democrats are a bunch of perverts.
Joe believes that elections are always fair.
Joe believes that when you say "fair and balanced" it's the truth.


Which is all very interesting, if it's satire. But then he goes on to contradict himself:

This "Joe" has proplems (sic) with all of that.


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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:28 PM
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12. Not meant to be satirical, Karl
Exposing truth never is.

Psychoblues

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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:44 PM
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16. Now I'm even more confused!
If this wasn't meant as satire, do you mean that you actually believe all that crap? Or are you saying that Joe Sixpack does, and you are also 'Joe Sixpack,' but a different kind of Joe Sixpack?

Help me out here!
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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:50 PM
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17. It's all art, or didn't you know, FlashHarry?
Do you have a specific question? I can get away from the games for you.

Psychoblues

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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:02 PM
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6. Grammatically incorrect?
Is that your problem?

Psychoblues

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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 05:55 PM
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2. DOES
Joe Blow?
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Sterling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 05:58 PM
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4. In this case
I would say yes. This whole thread blows.
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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:05 PM
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8. Considering the blowing you've done here in DU, Sterling
I consider that a compliment. Can or can't you dig it?

Psychoblues

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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:22 PM
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10. Nay, I think he just drinks, works, listens and votes.
Joe is as American as can be.

Psychoblues

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DisgustipatedinCA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:01 PM
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5. Regarding Joe
Joe sounds like an utter idiot. If Joe doesn't like the "diversity thing", if Joe thinks I'm a pervert because I'm a Democrat, and if Joe really thinks that "fair and balanced" is what it purports to be, well, Joe can bite me.

Joe's vote just isn't worth it. If he's truly that goddamned stupid, the Republican Party might be just the place for him.


HOWEVER

In the real world, I don't think there are THAT many Joes. There are some, sure, but mostly, there are lots of people who have been hoodwinked. And they're intelligent enough to recover, once they have the appropriate information in hand. I believe that's starting to happen very, very slowly.

In the same way that you wouldn't try to teach differential equations to a 4-year old, I wouldn't bother trying to set a genuine "Joe" straight on the American political scene. Joe probably won't show up on election day in any case.
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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:12 PM
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9. Hoodwinked, that is a very magic word.
We are all "hoodwinked" daily. That is 'zactly what I'm trying to convey here. Getting intelligent enough to tell the difference is a personal decision, not a congenital one. Too many "Joe's" avoid the definition.

Psychoblues

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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:27 PM
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11. And the Republicans are the only people who have tried to reach Joe
for the past thirty years.
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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:30 PM
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13. You have a point, QC.
Psychoblues

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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:32 PM
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14. Do you mean Lieberman.....or "Joe Six Pack."
I didnt' get from your post which it was........
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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:40 PM
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15. I wasn't talking about Leiberman.
I can only suppose you have a significant problem with Leiberman. There are hundreds of threads here in DU considering Leiberman. This is not one of them.

But since you have brought his name up, I can say that I voted for him, with Al, once and I would gladly vote the same ticket again. I would go further and say that I consider alternative votes (Republican or otherwise) rather naive and self-defeating. But I'm just Psychoblues.

Psychoblues

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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:53 PM
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18. PB.....it's the "Red Stuff" that does it.....stick with the White Z or
White.........Do you get my drift?
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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:57 PM
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20. You're above my head, KoKo.
I do the amber stuff. What else is there?

Psychoblues

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Pocho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 06:55 PM
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19. WELL, JUAN CAGUAMA BUYS IT HANDS DOWN
and so do most by far of the Joe Sixpack's that I've associated with. Both groups however also know from experience that they get screwed no matter which side wins. There are a whole lot of Joe's and Juan's out there just waiting for a bold populist leader who doesn't hedge his message signaling he is on the political take. The republicans have ignored those Joe's and Juan's except for the some the chant of a racist stance could sucker. It's too bad the democrats have chosen to fearfully follow along and fill republican boots while looking more to the money than what once was their constituency.

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Psychoblues99 Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-03 07:03 PM
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21. Pocho, they really DON'T know
The screwees have yet to recognise the screwers. Didn't the election/appointment of the village idiot teach you anything?

Psychoblues

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