End the Liberal Voluntary Extinction Movement.…When the Republicans got a $350 billion tax cut in which 60% of the population would only get 8.5% of the tax benefits, while the top earning 1% would get the remaining 40%, they cut out a provision to prove a child credit to those making just above minimum wage. They saved 3.5 billion doing so. They could have saved the same amount of money if they had reduced the top rate to 35.3% instead of 35% for the first three years. They, of course, didn't do that, deciding to screw over poor kids rather than reduce the windfall for the wealthiest people in the wealthiest country in the world by a minuscule amount.
No reasonable explanation for that sort of Republican behavior exists except when you factor in character, and a character that displays dark pathology at that. It is the behavior of people who derive sadistic pleasure from punishing the weak, the poor, the hungry, even at the expense of children. It is the behavior of people who derive an orgasmic thrill from their own power and unfairness.
As I said, as twisted as it may be, it takes real conviction to hurt children simply for the mean-spirited hell of it.
…Some people may remember the "unpleasant" lunch held at the Book Expo at the LA Convention Center. What made it "unpleasant" was that Al Franken got in Bill O'Reilly's face and exposed O'Reilly to be a shameless liar, claiming on a number of occasions that O'Reilly's pre-O'Reilly Factor entertainment show Inside Edition won the Peabody Award. It didn't. It won a Polk award and that after O'Reilly had left the show. If you didn't get a chance to see Franken engage in some much need public humiliation of a pompous conservative pundit, you can see the video on C-Span's BookTV.org site under the heading
Book & Author Luncheon. Unfortunately, the lunch ended on a wussy note, the last questioner from the audience mildly chastised the panel because he says it "strikes me that this dialogue is good entertainment but on another level it concerns me for our republic." Well, considering that our republic is already fucked what with the 2000 election invalidated by a Supreme Court decision placing the loser in the White House, rampant Republican redistricting to render democratic voting bloc irrelevant, not to mention the FCC ignoring public outrage at further loosening the restraints on corporate media oligopoly, I hope he wasn't too disturbed by the unpleasantness. You see, the questioner wants "people coming together for constructive discourse that brings people together".
Jesus fucking Christ, where do we get people like this? "Constructive discourse"? Where the fuck has this guy been?
First, there's nothing unconstructive about pointing out the simply fact that Bill O'Reilly is either a liar or an idiot.
…These people don't need to be scolded, or persuaded, or convinced otherwise. They need to be destroyed. They need to be removed from the debate by pointing out their lies, dishonesty and mercenary attitude towards truth. It's not nice, it's not pleasant and there won't be a fucking group-hug afterwards. These pundit punks accurately reflect the thinking, or lack thereof, of the conservatives now in power and using that power to gut the social contract, whore the United States military for Bush's inner-circle of contractors and, in the process, kill a whole bunch of foreigners that the American people can't even bother to give lip service to caring about.
See Bill 'Reilly? See Ann Coulter? See the well-respected whores at the Washington Post and on CNN? They are not harmless. Every child screwed out of a dollar and every foreign child screwed out of the remainder of their natural life can thank these amoral bastards for their predicament.
…Remember: This is the America where people get arrested for wearing T-shirts, where people are harassed and threatened with arrest of flying the flag upside down. This is an America that doesn't give a great goddamn about your high road. Under the surface, of course, this is an American which may be aware that something is terribly wrong and is fighting like hell to avoid the cognitive dissonance between the American in print and the America currently in practice. The more "constructive discourse" you attempt with people that will should you down, offer bumper sticker slogans and question your patriotism, the more of a loser playing their game you are.
What this America needs is righteous indignation. This American needs to be shamed. This America needs a spanking. It won't be pleasant, it won't be nice and yeah, it won't always follow the high road. And maybe a life or two is worth the price of making an ad hominem argument or two. You think?
…This isn't a game. Liberals don't score points for enlightened loftiness. No one is waiting to study at the feet of sage liberals. These oh-so enlightened Liberals are not the Buddha and their copping the attitude of having "Buddha-nature" because they read
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and stink of patchouli doesn't give them the right to tell people how to fight for their very survival.
"Constructive discourse" my ass. People are getting screwed. People are dying. And some liberals still don't realize that this isn't a dialectic.
This is a knife fight. If Liberals can't fight for their own survival (and if they won't, then perhaps Liberalism deserves extinction) it would be nice if they could hold their nose and get over their prim dislike of unpleasantness and self-serving bullshit about "constructive discourse" in order to fight for other's survival.
jaHEEzuz! I almost couldn't stop.
