tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3183382806673413389..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: Unregulated Capitalism Gone Wild Revisited driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71426283246156256442016-12-14T22:34:26.970-06:002016-12-14T22:34:26.970-06:00It doesn't take a dose of corn field liqueur t...It doesn't take a dose of corn field liqueur to realize,<br /> Republicans have come to rule from the throne of, "do what I say, not as I do".<br /><br />I understand that Ayn Rand (her superior self) succumbed to socialism by willingly and conscientiously seeking out social security. When age caught up with the only money maker most women were allowed to utilize in her day. Sure there were speaking gigs. A shallow well indeed.<br />But her written works roe in value after her fantasies of a royal life for her at the expense of everyone else took a path of the masses of whom she despised.<br /><br />With her death brought the interest of the wealthy to inflict some form of insulation<br />from the pitchfork band of Gypsy masses. Who met their level of tolerance for indignant rule by those who felt their position in life meant the end to black slavery brought in slavery of all chatel.<br />Does anyone really think Ayn Paul Rand Ryan treats his family by his good book. No not the Bible, Atlas Shrugged. You think his kids will pay for their own college education, tutors, health care? If they aren't good kids, Daddy Ayn Ryan won't gift them with a socialist Christmas present?<br /><br />Did you notice the largest Anti-Randian act in our time around 2007 when the rugged individualist Capitalist Wall Street Masters of the Universe put on ayn Rand's old dress she wore when she embraced Social Security. Did Ayn Ryan put up the conservative fight and holler from the urinals of FOX News against that act of Socialism to the Wall Street Banks? Oh, the banks went to the front teller window of the Fed while many businesses as "harley Davidson" went around to the back of the Fed 9at night ) where the drive thru is.<br /><br />There are many cures for Ayn Rand. Some antidotes come in doses.<br />One such dose. Simple, harmless, no harmful side effects and inexpensive. No prescription required.<br /> <br />Read;<br />"How to Work for an Idiot Boss" (survive and thrive without killing your boss) <br />Author--ohn Hoover.<br />Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30587148529157858332016-12-14T14:39:39.607-06:002016-12-14T14:39:39.607-06:00Rand was the antichrist. Ryan is her false prophet...Rand was the antichrist. Ryan is her false prophet. Trump is the beast. <br /><br />Fuck it--if we can't beat the Christopaths, let's appropriate their bullshit eschatology. Sandmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00234681315035379874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-79838078019256428082016-12-14T13:56:14.908-06:002016-12-14T13:56:14.908-06:00The funny thing is, not even the most ardent Randi...The funny thing is, not even the most ardent Randite objectivists want their own bullshit to come to pass. Because they are smart enough to know A) how much the U.S. Government is responsible for their wealth and security and B) their claimed "ideal" is a double edged sword wildly swinging in the dark. <br /><br />Taken to its logical end would force all the Greenspans, Kochs, Pauls, etc. to invest vast sums of their fortunes just to hold their own social-economic positions in a world where one misstep would send a former giant naked and unarmed down among the unwashed masses with long memories. Think of it like the fortunes of families in Renaissance Italy. <br /><br />What any Randite really wants is just a socialist government for and by rich (preferably white) people. Like, Czarist Russia...funny that... <br /><br /> trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32615232217089661652016-12-14T13:33:18.398-06:002016-12-14T13:33:18.398-06:00I wish all these folks would proceed to just Go Ga...I wish all these folks would proceed to just Go Galt already.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00419611536641492148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88261012578479657112016-12-14T12:30:12.950-06:002016-12-14T12:30:12.950-06:00"by what inconceivable standard can it be cla..."by what inconceivable standard can it be claimed that the broadcast airwaves are the property of some illiterate sharecropper who will never be able to grasp the concept of electronics, or some hillbilly whose engineering capacity is not quite sufficient to cope with a corn liquor still"<br />By what ability do those assholes with cash, but not necessarily any understanding of the science behind, well, anything, have the right to purchase blocks of broadcast airwaves?<br />It's this kind of utter bullshit "philosophy", that money makes right (exactly equivalent to "might makes right") that makes objectivism so incredibly reprehensible. <br />I worked with this kid (and I mean kid: 22 years old, green as grass and thought he could teach people who had been doing the job for 30 years how to do their jobs. He didn't last long). This kid went on about how if you could monopolize the water supply, then it was your right to do it and charge all the freight will bear. Or if you developed a cure for cancer, then you should be able to charge millions/cure because you deserved it. I asked him, well what if your mother needed the cure, and she couldn't afford it? He hemmed and hawed, but eventually said (paraphrasing because in my incredulity, it slipped from my mind), I guess she'd die, and I'd be sad, but that's the way it goes.<br />It's a good thing for him that my mother was still alive at the time. If someone said anything like that to me now, I might have some harsh words for them. And a baseball bat for their knees.<br />Objectivism is the attempt to morally justify utter selfishness. Its arguments are puerile filth, with only a modicum of an attempt to dress it up beyond, "I got mine. Fuck you." It's the perfect drug for the NPD types that infest the GOP.<br />Unfortunately, they've got the trifecta, so Ayn Rand gets to be the spiritual leader of the land for the next few spins around the sun.<br />We deserve the meteor.<br />duquesne_pdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741121985491756399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-88961502084604266002016-12-14T12:09:37.353-06:002016-12-14T12:09:37.353-06:00How long until the Trumpkins merge with the Kochto...How long until the Trumpkins merge with the Kochtopus? How long can the Kochs' principals hold out against the promise of lower taxes and deregulation? If they supported the neocons, surely they can come around to this.Schuylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04617336427688498745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72547969330133308352016-12-14T11:47:00.495-06:002016-12-14T11:47:00.495-06:00If only those St. Petersburg Bolshies hadn’t taken...If only those St. Petersburg Bolshies hadn’t taken daddy’s pharmacy and put an end to Alisha Rosenbaum’s super-privileged life as an indulged teenager, she would never have ended up in Hollywood (via Chicago where relatives took her in and loaned her money she never repaid because - FREEDOM!). And we would all have been spared her new Hollywood name and her indulgent fantasies about how if you just take the governor off the steam engine you can really let that bad boy rip!<br /><br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49903966764763672582016-12-14T11:12:43.432-06:002016-12-14T11:12:43.432-06:00"by what inconceivable standard can it be cla..."by what inconceivable standard can it be claimed that the broadcast airwaves are the property of some illiterate sharecropper who will never be able to grasp the concept of electronics, or some hillbilly whose engineering capacity is not quite sufficient to cope with a corn liquor still"<br /><br />Apparently, however, the White House is their property.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.com