tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1668842021688779464..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: They Built This -- UPDATEdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-37173118458691805572013-10-03T01:29:20.345-05:002013-10-03T01:29:20.345-05:00I just made the mistake of reading your comment se...I just made the mistake of reading your comment section, the same purile stupid ("Obamacare is the Heritage plan") that landed us in baggerville is still percolating. Tell that to the people signing up for health care for the first time in years. They don't give a shit. They now get medical care. Ya'll need to wise the hell up already. <br /><br />BTW, DG, your Anon peeps don't smell particularly kosher to me.kfreednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90083617705807579842013-10-03T01:18:27.597-05:002013-10-03T01:18:27.597-05:00DG:
"1.No matter how bad things get, no Cons...DG:<br /><br />"1.No matter how bad things get, no Conservative will admit to the simple fact that the GOP is performing exactly as they designed and built it to perform."<br /><br />So what? Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The fact that Republicans are RIGHTLY pointing at their own for this mess is enough to run with. Do what they do, collect it all and wave it in the faces of every right-wing loon you come across online and off: SEE??? Republicans are the problem. Republicans say so. Wall Street says so. The U.S, Chamber of Commerce says so. <br /><br />Finally! Get it? Let's get to it. You expecting an ingraved invite or what?kfreednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75928249223565322532013-10-01T21:58:22.719-05:002013-10-01T21:58:22.719-05:00Et al above:
There are two ways to play the Both S...Et al above:<br />There are two ways to play the Both Sides game: the way the media plays it and the way the purity patrol plays it. It's the same result: false equivalence. The media describes a fight where both sides are incapable of seeing the other's point of view, which is plainly idiotic. The PP proposes to describe a kind of orchestrated, hair-trigger-timing theatrics of the sort seen only in a Cirque de Soleil production, where near misses are just part of the choreography and any contact is aberrant.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22112063376792233972013-10-01T21:34:55.103-05:002013-10-01T21:34:55.103-05:00If the Malefactors, on average, are as stupid as Z...If the Malefactors, on average, are as stupid as ZRM thinks them to be, then how have they managed to hang on to their wealth and power, and even to increase both of those?<br /><br />If the answer be "hired brains", then at least <i>les aristos</i> are smart enough to know they need to hire people smarter than themselves.Monster from the Idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-11707637534099903242013-10-01T20:54:00.627-05:002013-10-01T20:54:00.627-05:00All Malefactors are low IQ semi-morons. Good to kn...All Malefactors are low IQ semi-morons. Good to know. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72524402828152205462013-10-01T19:57:16.241-05:002013-10-01T19:57:16.241-05:00Anonymous Anonymous said...
I remember when O...<i> Anonymous Anonymous said...<br /><br /> I remember when Obamacare was called the Heritage plan.<br /></i><br />Yeah, back when there was no chance it would ever pass.<br /><br />So, if these so-called Malefactors are all so pleased with the ACA, why did they fight hammer and tongs to deny it, successfully in the Clinton days and unsuccessfully now?<br /><br />Have you paranoid purity patrol types actually met any of these rich fucks? Do you think they could jump-start a Ford, let alone plan and execute such wide-ranging conspiracies as you posit?<br /><br />don't get me wrong, I realize they throw uncounted amounts of money in the vague direction of people they think will give them short term gain. But they are all basically like Steve Ballmer thinking the Zune is the future. The only thing they have going for them is scads of money; which is usually enough, true.<br /><br />But they aren't Bond villains, meeting weekly over a 30 foot long chrome table outfitted with electrocution chairs. They're dumpy balding white guys who inherited wealth. zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58193489019356339902013-10-01T15:20:19.700-05:002013-10-01T15:20:19.700-05:00I remember when Obamacare was called the Heritage ...I remember when Obamacare was called <a href="http://healthcarereform.procon.org/sourcefiles/1992_heritage_consumer_choice_health_plan.pdf" rel="nofollow">the Heritage plan</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-8268838277823073312013-10-01T07:37:46.225-05:002013-10-01T07:37:46.225-05:00Neo Tuxedo raises a good objection.
I would gues...Neo Tuxedo raises a good objection. <br /><br />I would guess that a preponderance of the Malefactors (I recognize they are not always monolithic) have decided that they can't get away with denying health care to us peasants altogether, so they chose to settle for the HC system friendliest to plutocracy. The Reptilians are supported by the minority of Malefactors (the Koch brothers come to mind) who still think they CAN get away with Full Metal Neo-Feudalism.Monster from the Idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64719334074622569062013-10-01T01:33:20.084-05:002013-10-01T01:33:20.084-05:00to put it yet another way, love may come in throug...to put it yet another way, love may come in through the eyes, but it is memorialized through the liver.<br /><br />Compound Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12754909356084772352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-54623745369076989092013-10-01T01:22:27.525-05:002013-10-01T01:22:27.525-05:00Please, don't get me wrong: My gut feeling is ...Please, don't get me wrong: My gut feeling is to hit Republicans with a baseball bat repeatedly, but looking at the histories, of say, nafta, cafta, and Obama's tpp; throw in peak oil and global warming, as well as our recent adventurism in the ME, and well, get real. This is NOT a story of republicans and democrats. It is a story of a species running up against the limits to growth, and once you swallow that, the indigestive process takes its own course.<br /><br />You'd like to focus your attention on partisan squabbles, but I, amongst growing numbers, don't buy it. Shit is fucked up and bullshit beyond your ken, apparently, or at least beyond what you'd like to admit.Compound Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12754909356084772352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67157512743647848492013-09-30T23:33:52.556-05:002013-09-30T23:33:52.556-05:00No doubt, both sides "do it," i.e., fuck...No doubt, both sides "do it," i.e., fuck average Americans, to different degrees. Sure, Republicans do the dirty deeds before Democrats, such as Clinton and Obama, write the playbook (e.g., financial industry), but the question that remains is, Why? Wherefrom "Reagan Democrats?" Wherefrom "Obama?"<br /><br />I think the following "American Thermidor" thesis by Stirling newberry cuts through both phony and sincere forms of partisan hackery considerably:<br /><br />http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/53403:stirling-newberry--american-thermidorCompound Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12754909356084772352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-46159869449098674212013-09-30T21:52:50.543-05:002013-09-30T21:52:50.543-05:00Where's Lumpy? I keep expecting him to show u...Where's Lumpy? I keep expecting him to show up and denounce ACA as a fraud because, deep in his heart, Obama would rather kill us all with drones.<br />Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85660175668784817422013-09-30T21:02:31.485-05:002013-09-30T21:02:31.485-05:00Edward Morbius' id skrev:
Why would the Malef...Edward Morbius' id skrev:<br /><br /><i>Why would the Malefactors not want the ACA, since it serves as a <b>crumbs-from-the-table</b>, corporate-friendly substitute for the single-payer health care which an actual left-wing populist party--something the Dinocratic Party is not--would support?</i><br /><br />Emphasis added because, to the extent I can understand their psychology without needing to take my brain out and throw it in the washing machine, I think that's why the Malefactors wouldn't want the ACA. It's still something, which is more than nothing and thus too good for poors.<br /><br />Also, anon, it appears to me that the Malefactors do in fact control both parties; they just don't have complete control of the Dems yet. (They have one of the largest stakes in the Repukes, and enough control of the Bought-and-Paid-For Media to steer the agenda for now.)Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-27357712919305252602013-09-30T20:23:16.772-05:002013-09-30T20:23:16.772-05:00And the Both-Sidesing continues!
DG is still rig...And the Both-Sidesing continues! <br /><br />DG is still right: The folks who have only despair and nihilism to peddle never seem to tire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-18900590428198697172013-09-30T19:31:04.197-05:002013-09-30T19:31:04.197-05:00Unknown--you seem to be assuming that the Malefact...Unknown--you seem to be assuming that the Malefactors don't want the ACA.<br /><br />Why would the Malefactors <i>not</i> want the ACA, since it serves as a crumbs-from-the-table, corporate-friendly substitute for the single-payer health care which an <i>actual</i> left-wing populist party--something the Dinocratic Party is not--would support?Monster from the Idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-70121497446328361632013-09-30T18:46:22.359-05:002013-09-30T18:46:22.359-05:00Nobody wants to be first, but everybody wants to b...Nobody wants to be first, but everybody wants to be second. And then they want to convince the rest of us that they were actually first. <br /><br />And, sadly, they usually get away with it.Frank Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11717740988326817494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53417771796596676142013-09-30T18:16:19.105-05:002013-09-30T18:16:19.105-05:00Unknown, don't bother with the name-morpher. H...Unknown, don't bother with the name-morpher. He's a Both-Sidesist of the worst sort and utterly refuses to realize that DG is talking about him as well when he brings up the stupidity of the Both-Sidesists.<br /><br />DG, you'll be pleased (I hope) to know that your name has come up quite often on other sites while discussing this very issue. You've been saying for years that these people are nuts and we small folks, at least, have been listening.Damian, Pink No Morenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66909763625866435532013-09-30T17:58:40.316-05:002013-09-30T17:58:40.316-05:00If the Malefactors controlled both parties there w...If the Malefactors controlled both parties there would be no fight over the debt ceiling or the budget or the ACA. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-16933255555476692082013-09-30T17:57:12.130-05:002013-09-30T17:57:12.130-05:00Keller's not just a couple of decades late to ...Keller's not just a couple of decades late to the concept of a radical right, his analogy is as muddleheaded as his judgment was giving Judy Miller free rein. Hoffman was a clown, a satirist whose larger purpose beyond the anarchist pose was to free the system of racist and capitalist corruption. Cruz wants to institutionalize bigotry and corruption and make self-government a figment, which makes him effectively the spokesman of the new Republican establishment. He's not an aberrant outsider trying to throw the bums out; he wants the bums to take over.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-42516106416857583372013-09-30T17:56:32.611-05:002013-09-30T17:56:32.611-05:00If the Malefactors had truly captured the Democrat...If the Malefactors had truly captured the Democratic Party, there would be no government shutdown; also, there would be no ACA.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300961605043014522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75652288718663172932013-09-30T17:52:59.013-05:002013-09-30T17:52:59.013-05:00Keller's not just a couple of decades late to ...Keller's not just a couple of decades late to the concept of a radical right, his analogy is as muddleheaded as his judgment was giving Judy Miller free rein. Hoffman was a clown, a satirist whose larger purpose beyond the anarchist pose was to free the system of racist and capitalist corruption. Cruz wants to institutionalize bigotry and corruption and make self-government a figment, which makes him effectively the spokesman of the new Republican establishment. He's not an aberrant outsider trying to throw the bums out; he wants the bums to take over.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300961605043014522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7659303772442924442013-09-30T17:05:10.325-05:002013-09-30T17:05:10.325-05:00(Back to an old favorite nom de Web.)
The good ne...(Back to an old favorite nom de Web.)<br /><br />The good news: The Dinocrats need only watch the Reptilians commit <i>seppuku</i>, remembering the wise words of Napoleon Bonaparte:<br /><br /><i>"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."</i><br /><br />The bad news: The Malefactors Of Great Wealth (aka "The 1%") no longer <b>need</b> the Reptilian Party, having captured control of the Dinocratic Party as well. <br /><br />Monster from the Idnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73136439023858219422013-09-30T15:57:53.942-05:002013-09-30T15:57:53.942-05:00Pamela: Indeed. Though "it's not their jo...Pamela: Indeed. Though "it's not their job" to report Rethuglican lies, is it too much to ask that they 1. State ACA is now law, and not a "bill"; 2) State that it was upheld by the Supreme Court? Of course, I would NOT expect them to state that the party who proposed the legislation won the Presidency by a resounding margin in 2012. That would hurt delicate Rethug fee fees and give them an excuse to compare themselves yet again to the Civil Rights marchers beaten in Alabama. And, DG, you have nailed it yet again. Thank you.Kathleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26893056203686860912013-09-30T15:19:49.730-05:002013-09-30T15:19:49.730-05:00Two things:
1. Fuck, you are a good writer. A craf...Two things:<br />1. Fuck, you are a good writer. A craftsman.<br />2. You are right. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-9701130535014727302013-09-30T12:18:54.919-05:002013-09-30T12:18:54.919-05:00If anything, the lying weasels of the MSM will hav...If anything, the lying weasels of the MSM will have to work a bit harder to make the CrayCray look sensible and intelligent.<br /><br />But that is, after all, their job. It might be STUPID, but they're going to do it!WereBearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17746779803342657146noreply@blogger.com