If you can stomach it, check out this rant at the Daily Kos. Here’s the opening:
For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink.
And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor.
Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know this…
You need to drink up.
And quickly.
And heavily.
Because your time is limited.
Real damned limited.
So party while you can, but mind the increasingly loud clock ticking away in the corners of your consciousness.
The clock that reminds you how little time you and yours have left.
Not much more now.
Tick, tock.
Tick, tock.
Tick.
Tock.
I know, you think you’ve taken “your country back” with this election — and of course you have always thought it was yours for the taking, cuz that’s what we white folks are bred to believe, that it’s ours, and how dare anyone else say otherwise — but you are wrong.
You have won a small battle in a larger war the meaning of which you do not remotely understand.
‘Cuz there is nothing even slightly original about you.
There have always been those who wanted to take the country back.
There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude.
But they lost.
And so on.
Silly ranter. Doesn't he know?
We drink Slurpees.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseZzzzzz. . .
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude. But they lost."
In modern times, such people include Obama and his clique and his czars. The top-down governance they view as progress has already failed around the world.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat color is the sky in their world?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLove those tough guy pretensions in his rhetoric.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou know what makes progressives so scary? Their hyper-gullibility.
I know a lot of conservatives -- most of them are not wealthy. I also know quite a few rich people -- most of them are flaming progressives.
But hey, I don't want to harsh the buzz of the haters.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude."
In other words, Democrats.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIs that Joy Behar guest posting over there?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Lighten up, Francis." - Sgt. Hulka
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLet's see...It seems the Narcissist-in-Chief throws a millionaire's party just about every weekend. He dines on Kobe beef in the White House. He had a 2009 adjusted gross income of $5.5 Million. In the last two years, he's spent enough time on golf courses to qualify for a PGA Tour card. He's tied up traffic for six-figure date nights. Now he's chartering an armada and jetting off to Mumbai at a cool $200 mil a day (OUR money, by the way).
And I'm one of the rich folks.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJonah - I wish someone polled how many people actually truly honestly believe the Joy Behar / Chelsea Handler / Cox-Arquette "they want to bring back slavery" meme. I'm seeing it more and more, and at first I thought it was rhetorical excess (like Obama's "enemies" and Ed Schultz' "evil people"), but it seems like some people really believe it's an imminent threat / policy goal.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBHO's fidelity to his "base" such as this "progressive" is exactly what increases his odds of being a Carter-esque one-termer.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseUnhinged does not begin to explain the pathologies exhibited here.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOkay, so if he thinks the upper middle class sips PBR with their pinkies in the air what on earth is this guy (presumably middle or lower middle class --like me) drinking?
Seriously, what is he drinking?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSo, the narrow little souls over at Kos are fussed - the Empire has struck back. It must be some show inside their tinfoil-clad heads (you start to understand why so many artsy folks are hard left - there's a lot less drama in the brightline logic of conservative thought).
There *are* a goodly number of these folks, though; and if anything, their positions have hardened. Which begs an interesting question:
What if this doesn't get resolved?
Jonah and his fellow pundits seem to be painting 2012 as America's Thunderdome - 2 men enter, one man leaves, and the nation makes a definitive choice on what America will be.
But what if we're really, irrevocably split as a nation between two completely incompatible models of governance. Will a large chunk of our population simply "give in" to the other?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAsk not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.....Maaaaaannnnnnn!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMy first thought was Obama was now posting on Kos under the name Tim Wise.
Anyway, rich white people give 2-to-1 to democrats. They vote 2-to-1 democrat. Wall Street loves democrats.
Somehow, the party that gets all the rich guy votes and all the rich guy money is the party of the little guy. The party riding to power on the vote of the little guy is the party of Thurston Howell III.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"But what if we're really, irrevocably split as a nation between two completely incompatible models of governance. Will a large chunk of our population simply "give in" to the other?"
We did. The statists have dominated policymaking for generations. All the conservatives could do was stick their feet out the door to try to brake the runaway truck. Sometimes we slow it but mostly we get hurt.
If elections are just about who gets to operate the patronage machine then we've disenfranchised those who reject the patronage machine as theft. Progressives tend to see injustice everywhere except where it really is.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhen the hard left loses, they rave and rant. When they win, they rave and rant and gloat. They need to believe in something positive.
By the way, based on sales at our small burger shack, young people are beginning to develop a taste for Pabst Blue Ribbon. Their grandfather drank it, and they are beginning to think it's cool.
Like limited government.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMy response to Tim Wise, calibrated to roughly his level of discourse:
LOL UMAD BRO?
I think that about sums it up.
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