A post marred by gratuitous cursing and excessive alliteration (i.e., more of the usual)
Orange you glad Speaker Boehnerer decided to dabble in Newtian physics? Physic in the sense of a good laxative, and I think just about everyone’s agreed by now on who needs to be purged from our body politic. Boehnerer needs to go. The party of let’s-change-the-rules when we’re in charge needs to go. Eric Cantor needs to be bound, beaten with iron rods and then dropped down a well, preferably one that’s part of the aquifer for a gated community. A pox on all their castles.
Obama doesn’t get a pass, either. 36,000 Twitterers have unfollowed the O-ster in recent days, myself included. My only regret is that we never hooked up on Facebook, so I can’t unfriend him but I take comfort in knowing that Harry Belafonte keeps biting O’s bony ass.
Deal? Do you still even give a micro-fraction of a flying fuck? Every deal mentioned to date fucks us and feeds Wall Street. [Note: I erroneously blogged the other day about some justice for Madoff victims, but Joe Nocera points out just how heinously selective that justice is going to be.]
What’s left? Ratchet up the rhetoric and start calling them all cunts? Which, in the British sense, they all are but that doesn’t take you to 11, which is the minimum appropriate setting for outrage these days. Spelling cunt with a k won’t get you there either, not even with swastika sprinkles. Fookin’ prick-faced, Goebbels-eating, Himmler-fellating, auto-prostate massaging kunts? Even if you graded that on a social promotion curve it doesn’t get you to 12. No, what we need is a shockproof outrage meter that dials all the way up to leventy-seven which, in base Pi, is the number of the beast. Don’t believe me? Try dialing it and see if a Koch brother doesn’t pick up the phone. Or, more likely, Jon Kyl in a French maid’s uniform.
In short:
This is the least best of times, the most fucked of times, the stage rage of Cantor, the faux mage of Obama, the epoch of delusion, the bebop of collusion, the season of Light, the season of the bitch, ohhhhhhh noooooo, the season of the witch.
Crocked or loaded, take your pick, it’s not going to get any better between now and November 2012. Not when GOoPers are running around comparing public education with Nazi Germany.
Check on the lack of debt ceiling progress here. Click it as many times as you like, you’re never going to find what you’re looking for.
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Matt Yglesias reminds me why I don’t like the way he thinks. Overpaid at $175,000 a year? What are you really saying Matt? That people with normal jobs can’t ever get paid well no matter how well they master their field?
I have no trouble with a wage scale that would range from $20,000 a year to a quarter-million dollars a year with $20k the new minimum wage and a quarter million the wage a lot more Americans would earn if only we realized that no one on this planet is worth millions of dollars a year. (OK, maybe some people are worth way more than others, but glory should count for something and if we didn’t overpay them at the top, maybe we’d appreciate them a little more and might actually let them know it but why have a parade down Main Street for someone who owns Main Street?)
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Serious stuff:
Michael Massing: It’s Time to Scrutinize Fox [because they won't stop until we make them stop] [seriously, make them stop]
Power Trip: FDL interviews Amanda Little
James Glick on How Google Dominates Us
emptywheel with video of Anthony Romero sitting next to Alberto Gonzales, and David Cole next to John Yoo
Thom Hartmann on CEOs and jobs [video with scary stats about our "insane trading policies"]
More video: It Gets Better [non-preference based version for the sometimes GLBT but often not socialists]
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Etc.:
Breaking: oldest image of Jesus ever discovered (apparently he had a nose like a pig and horns)
Kelsey Grammer plays Rahmbo in his new premium TV show (silly wingnuts: we hate Rahm too!)
Daily Caller smokes some hash tags
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Another new end of post category. Collect them all.
I’ve seen better pictures of Jesus on tortillas. Plus, weren’t these downgraded from “maybe for real” to “probably a forgery” several months back? Didn’t pay much attention to it because there are so many better pictures available:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hYlGKlBm7CU/SXVrIUfgXGI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/cLeM9aNqfMQ/s1600-h/The_Head_of_Christ_by_Warner_Sallman_1941.jpg
http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/toke_of_the_town_portraits_made_with_roaches/
Can it be that all this posturing and palaver is just a cover for another big shakedown of we peasants? I don’t believe I trust anyone in Washington right now to tell the truth or to do the right thing.
**** “I think just about everyone’s agreed by now on who needs to be purged from our body politic. Boehnerer needs to go.”
****”Eric Cantor needs to be bound, beaten with iron rods and then dropped down a well, preferably one that’s part of the aquifer for a gated community”
Such hostility Wege. WTF man? You really need to channel that energy into your art or drug use or both toped off with some really cool sets that will come to you when your rage peaks.
******“Deal? Do you still even give a micro-fraction of a flying fuck?”
Ahhhhhhhh…Now there we go! I don’t think I could have expressed that better myself even if I were on a coherent rant. The sooner this house of cards finds the breeze the better I say.
Keep an eye out for those peace loving anarchist bicycle kids I think they almost got the replicateor figured out and they are developing some seriously fun computer science skills. I am seriously starting to get up hopes for those little fuckers.
Go team A of the Bicycle Riding Youth Union we need some new talent. No worries we are all trying to get the fuck out of the way of the world too!
I have decided to only type with one hand and only one finger of said hand after midnight from now on as that personal restraint might blessedly keep your delicate audience from “suffering” through another one of my rants via a set and keep your comment section nice and tidy and embedded bed bug free. So to speak.
Thanks for your gentle guidance on the subject.
For those of you that were looking forward to a set. You are out of luck. Go pound sand and kick your self in the ass again for voting for Pres Armani O dude. Just what the fuck were you all thinking?!
Wege one of these days you are going to have to set yourself free with the banner. I will back off on that pen and paper thing but that banner deal of yours you have to set it free man.
The A team of the Bicycle Riding Youth Union needs some orbit like inspiration not the same old shit via some seriously tired social/historical references and candidates.
Relax there is no way I can make it over a page with my new personal restraints.
What Steve says in this post:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_07/extortion_politics_a_new_form031209.php#comments
And the comments are loaded with great pile-ons.