It's become fashionable to create a Hoboken political movement, so GA's decided to start one (now that Ravi Bhalla killed Reform).
Born is The Reform Persistence.
Like the name?
Other options: The Reform Assistants, The Reform Pestilence, Ghost of Reform Past, Reform the Next Generation, Reconstituted Reform...
As you can see above, branding a political movement requires an image. Mine is particularly compelling: a thumbs-up smiley face in Hell. For you optimists, there's a rainbow.
It's working! Here's proof of The Surge: check out the window signs in Church Towers!
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| Reform Persistence surge: a window sign infestation in Church Towers |
You may ask (now that I lead a surging Reform Persistence): are my motives charitable or self- aggrandizing or both or neither?
Answer: a little bit of this, and a lot of that. Mostly that.
Mind you, my new political movement is not about me; it's about you listening to me. That's why you're important. The only reason, actually. Without you, there's no me. And you will listen!
Because I am angry! My anger is contagious. And like the clap, mostly incurable.
I will build The Reform Persistence into an angry dozen. We will march. And when we are done marching we will rest in Starbucks. I will drink a latte.
Believers, you can trust me because I'm as objective as I am morally superior, with the wisdom of Solomon-- Dwek, that is. I am never wrong.
Once you have joined The Reform Persistence, you will want a Reform Persistence t-shirt, hat or button. Check back later, The Reform Persistence Stop-n-Shop is under construction.
Lastly, The Reform Persistence slogan:
"If you must persist with Reform, try the Reform Persistence today!"
Who's with me?
(Pssst....if you're not with me, I'll post a shitty picture of you online.)
love it, where do i sign up? :))))
ReplyDeleteThank you for creating this movement.
ReplyDeleteHoboken is entering a new era, with dawngone. There there is a real need for a new fictional movement so that we can continue to try to discredit the new administration with lunatic theories proven to be true through our superb and objective investigative reporting of things that we heard while talking to each other. It's vital that this movement remain serious and never digress into immature and unproductive nonsense.
The first mission of our new ReformPersistence swill be to continue imply that we have "proof" people associated with Ravi Bhalla were behind the racist flyers attacking Ravi Bhalla. With all due respect to the Hoboken PD, it's probably time to bring in outside help on this investigation given the HPD's failure to act on the powerful evidence developed by our crack investigative reporters as shared in strict confidence to the thousands of subscibers to our movement's exclusive Premium newsletter.
Thank you for setting this in motion, and keep up the good work! We can't have our beloved City explode like a pink_nova.
Thank you numbers. We must all persistently advocate, inform and educate. That is the whole point of our movement. The core message of our Persistence is that City Hall is occupied by an unelectable individual with no executive or math skills who sold the City out to NJ Transit and who stole the election by calling himself a terrorist and saying all kinds of mean things about his opponents must be persistently repeated.
ReplyDeleteIt's inevitable that when our movement becomes successful, others will hijack it for their own unpersistent ends, just as Mayor Zimmer hijacked our reform movement and turned it into good government instead of the marketing label for a power grab that it was always intended by us to be. However we stand ready to meet this challenge head on by changing our movement's name to the REAL persistence when the time comes.
Through our persistance we will Make Hoboken Great Again!!!
As Jimmy Dugan would say: Avoid the clap.
ReplyDeleteFor anyone willing to peruse 411 these days (which sadly seems a lot less icky now than some of the alternatives), you may find some entertainment in reading "before" and "after" takes on characters like Belfiore and Ramos, who were viciously trashed when Mason was against them and then suddenly became heroes and endorsed candidates post-whatever. The precedent and parallels are uncanny.
ReplyDeleteThe transformation is complete.
There appears to be some strange objections being raised to the use of the name "HobokenPersistence." The three members of our group have convened a focus group consisting of the three of us, joined by the many voices swirling around in our heads.
ReplyDeleteAs a result, I'd like to suggest we change our new movement's name to "HobokenPersistentDemagoguery ."
Thoughts? No matter what name we choose, our movement must persistently advocate, inform and educate the thousands of incredibly gullible and stupid low information voters who voted against our candidate, who would have been unanimously elected if we counted only Hoboken's 2500 high information voters.
I'm okay with that! "HobokenPersistentDemagoguery" or "HPD" for short. Oh, and speaking of the HPD, it's about time (according to numerous unnamed sources and voices in my head) the HPD were removed from the "Terrorism" flyer investigation so OJ can find the real killer. Thoughts?
DeleteWe have already begun our persistent advocacy for that. We have also begun persistently informing, educating and advocating about Union Dry Dock while persistently failing to mention the damage caused by our leadership's decision to play politics with the issue before the election.
DeleteFisher, Brice, Gardiner, Soares 2021. Make Hoboken Great Again!
It's really Fisher's site. That's where that incongruous new name came from. Her screen name. She doesn't want to be labeled "the resistance" in case something good happens.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure she's happy that the alt-right stuff will now be limited to the comments rather than the basis of articles. MSV will remain the bomb-thrower (with his "evidence" that Bhalla made the anti-Bhalla fliers).
"Advocate" and "Resistance" will be the "reasonable centrists" (although they won't challenge crap like the "Bhalla made the fliers" lunacy or insist that the "evidence" be turned over to the HPD for the good of the city. Not honest enough for that.)
But they'll "reasonably" give John Allen a chance to prove he doesn't belong in jail. It's not quite "innocent until proven guilty." More like guilty but you get to say a few words on your behalf on the way to the guillotine to see if the mob is impressed.
I'd say let it die. Apart from insight into Fisher's "thought process" and seeing whether MSV can do to that blog what he did to his own, it belongs to the past.
tiff's thought process was clearly on display on her Facebook page throughout the campaign, and it played a not-insignificant role in costing jen the election.
DeleteFair point. But one of the drawbacks of being that good at math is you tend to be horrible at strategy. So she doesn't know not to say things like #anyone but Doyle and tip her hand that she's leaning toward Ruben. It will save you the time of watching the meeting and reading her latest "Here's What I Hate About Jim Doyle This Time letter to the editor.
DeleteMost of the people I know who are good at math, are also good at strategy. So if she is poor at strategy, I'd suggest she is bad at math - or at least bad at understanding the concepts underlying the math.
DeleteThe Suez contract was a perfect example of how bad they all were all at math. Not one of the people complaining about that contract really knew WTF was going on. They all fixated on the liabilities (and there was more than one there) and none had either a solution for getting rid of them or preventing them from growing further. They just played politics w/ the liabilities and used it as an excuse to trash Zimmer w/o understanding the source of the liabilities and made no real effort to try and fix the underlying contract. Nope, they just played politics and pulled some fanciful notion of "going out to bid" out of their collective horse's asses as if that would somehow fix things.
News flash guys, you ain't saving 20% on a contract like that by going out to bid b/c utility service is not a commodity product like computer terminals, servers and all the other IT stuff your blogging procurement expert was used to buying back in the day when he had a day job. You folks all need to stop taking advice from people not in the field, who can't get jobs or who haven't worked in a real job for many years. Those people have nothing but bad ideas. And another hint for the idiots that keep trotting out the "go out to bid" idea - go look and see which company has the water contract for the surrounding communities.
Last point - anyone who hates Doyle but leans toward Ruben is just bad news all around. So if that is how that CC member rolls, that is a pretty scary thought.