They really DO want this to be all about them

After considering, I think I’d rather be in Iran than in the House with Hoekstra.

Bad visual, Jesse, reallllly bad.

Owww ... brain bleach ... owwwww.

Except the Iranians don’t have the #h8rapepelosi tag.

That’s a bad case of martyr envy Hoekstra’s showing there.

And now he knows how Joan of Arc felt
Now he knows how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her Roman nose and her teleprompter started to melt ...

With apologies to The Smiths

Republicans seem like the kid who really wants to be a rebel but is so scared of his own shadow that doing anything actually rebellious is out of the question, so they pretend what they are doing is really out there.

Do the doodles show Reagan as a zombie, though?

I often wonder what it would take to get Americans off our lazy asses and into the streets protesting like that?  The only time we take to the streets is when our professional sports team win a major game. 

Wow.  That is a really depressing thought. 

We are so doomed.

Maybe he thinks that Iranian protesters are literally just using Twitter to protest?

They really DO want this to be all about them.

That’s because everything is all about them.  A tragic consequence of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

I often wonder what it would take to get Americans off our lazy asses and into the streets protesting like that?

Teabags, apparently.

——
T.V. is the place where the pursuit
of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television . . .
——

I often wonder what it would take to get Americans off our lazy asses and into the streets protesting like that?

Telling the country that you plan to pre-emptively invade another country on the absurd grounds that it is hiding WMDs and that it’s leader was a 9/11 conspirator seemed to get a few hundred thousand Americans out onto the streets on February 15, 2003.

Unfortunately, the protests did nothing to avert that war from taking place, but don’t say a lot of us didn’t try…

DTG in STL: Unfortunately, the protests did nothing to avert that war from taking place, but don’t say a lot of us didn’t try…

Indeed, and people wonder why nobody seems particularly motivated to go out and protest anything around here. I’m going to quote SteveB’s comment over here:

Most of all what people want from an “opposition” is that it be effective. In every country that has ever had a revolution, millions of people show themselves capable of doing many things that are not “fun” - including marching on armed police - because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that those actions will accomplish something. What American marches on Washington today with any expectation that it will accomplish anything? We march out of a sense of moral obligation, out of habit, because our friends are going to, but never because we expect a result.

Note that this was written last month, before the folks in Iran started marching on armed police.

@BadKitty

People in this country have a long history of putting their lives on the line and taking to the streets to make their demands heard.

March 7, 1965

August 26-29, 1968

July 6, 1892

Lots more, but these come immediately to mind.

Dear Congressional Republican Caucus,

God, could you fuckers whine a little louder?  ‘cos I really don’t hate you enough yet.  You losing some committee chairships due to losing a goddamn election (two now) is exactly the same as people being beaten and disappeared and killed for protesting the government that actually took their votes away?  Of course, your idea of oppression is not getting to beat up fags and brown people and Jews without the risk of going to jail, so I guess I don’t really have a point here.

Love,

k0

Apparently Twitter users who read this tweet started mocking Hoekstra almost immediately.

Dear god, this idiot is my congressperson.  Jerry Ford & Paul Henry wept . . .

We march out of a sense of moral obligation, out of habit, because our friends are going to, but never because we expect a result.

Yep, all that trash burning, Nike smashing, tear gassing and peper spraying of city councel members (who were stopped for driving while black) was just habit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JXPIBsxdk0
MAJOR RIOTS IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON OVER THE WTO

Oh, and suspension of the Constitution by Mayor Nickles.