Daily Kos: Australia Pwns Georgia Republican Teen on Twitter

It's a sad day when an entire country mobilizes against you and your idiotic tweet on Twitter. But that's what happened to 18-year-old Kristen Neel when she tweeted a Donald Trump-esque rant that was so stupid she had to delete her account. Follow me after the jump where hilarity ensues.

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All class, this guy.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

Why? Because Republicans are trying, for the third time since he took office, to use economic blackmail to achieve a goal they lack the votes to achieve through the normal legislative process. In particular, they want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, even though the nation can't afford to make those tax cuts permanent and the public believes that taxes on the rich should go up -- and they're threatening to block any deal on anything else unless they get their way. So they are, in effect, threatening to tank the economy unless their demands are met.

Mr. Obama essentially surrendered in the face of similar tactics at the end of 2010, extending low taxes on the rich for two more years. He made significant concessions again in 2011, when Republicans threatened to create financial chaos by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. And the current potential crisis is the legacy of those past concessions.

Well, this has to stop -- unless we want hostage-taking, the threat of making the nation ungovernable, to become a standard part of our political process.

"Ciao to all friends of Beppe Grillo's Blog and good luck! I really believe that the force of change is going to be stronger than the resistance of the established power groups.
My name is Elio Lannutti, and I'm the President of Adusbef {Association of Clients of Financial Institutions}. Beppe Grillo contributed the preface to one of my books: "La Repubblica della Banche" {Republic of Banks}, I took part in the first V Day, the one about cleaning up parliament, collecting the 350,000 signatures that since then have gone unheeded. Beppe Grillo has even come to the Committee for Constitutional Affairs to draw attention to the inaction on that law, but nothing has happened. I'm an independent senator with Italia dei Valori and above all I have taken part with Beppe Grillo in so many general assemblies of shareholders, from Torino to Telecom, so many shareholders meetings where there was an action against "tronchetto dell'infelicità" (Beppe Grillo's nickname for Marco Tronchetti Provera).
This lot are taking action against Beppe Grillo, and with the increase up to 42.5% there's an "anti Grillo" action. It's not possible to have an "Anti Grillo" law! Laws are made to promote governability, in the interests of the country, but not against Grillo.
I've felt fear when I've heard things with my own ears, (then the inconvenient things have been removed from the minutes of the meetings). I'm not a member of the Committee for Constitutional Affairs, however every senator can attend all committees and I went along to listen. There were senators that once said: "We were thinking of increasing the lowest limit for access to parliament from 4% to 5% when began this law for, let's say, creating an "anti Grillo" block", These were the actual words. "Currently however the percentage vote for Grillo is around 30% we have to get equipped to make it as difficult as possible for Grillo to get into government", because if we still have this electoral law the MoVimento 5 Stelle will become the top party, with the majority premium, it'll get to govern the country! Thus this is the situation.

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There's a climate of fear, of terror in relation to the "clean lists", with the possibility of having a "clean Parliament"! With the possibility, as Beppe Grillo says: "See you in Parliament. It'll be a pleasure." It's not just a wish, but it will be a reality with the elections in April. I often tell my colleagues, that Beppe Grillo will cause the exodus, using Fornero's way of speaking, of 80% of the current Parliament.

to quote helen... 'hee hee'

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