tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post542141673551937872..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Quotation of the DayLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-72365584680962398022008-10-23T00:47:00.000-06:002008-10-23T00:47:00.000-06:00Amen to Drifty. He or she nailed it. We've had 28 ...Amen to Drifty. He or she nailed it. We've had 28 years of Reaganism dominating America's political and cultural realities, and the result is... what? Well you know that. We took the greatest goddamned nation on the planet and we fucking spent it broke under the influence of those right-wing nutballs, who were all about, "don't worry about the future, borrow and spend today, you'll never have to pay!". Well you just can't keep a modern economy going without a modern *non-corrupt* government to make sure it doesn't go off the rails, and you can't have a *non-corrupt* government unless you're willing to *pay* for the goddamned thing, without that what you got is Mexico with better roads, with everybody in government having their hands outstretched and shit not getting done because interfering with shit like Halliburton electrocuting our troops and feeding them cockroach feces filled food will cut off your motherfucking bribes. But nooo, the Reganism deal was "hey, we don't have to pay for government!" and the stupid fucking bastards that are the American public <I>bought</I> that pile of reeking feces fair and square, and the conservative movement was right alongside them all the way saying "yay! we're drowning government in the bathtub!" <BR/><BR/>And so we are where we are today, our industrial infrastructure destroyed, our health care system a shambles, and our economy turning into a pumpkin at midnight. 28 years of that toxic Reaganism bilge. Sully might still worship Saint Reagan. But man has to be known by his results. And the results of Reaganism have been a national disaster that is still unfolding and everybody's still in denial but pretty soon nobody's going to be able to be in denial, when we have food shortages because farmers can't get credit to put their crops in the ground, when we have fuel shortages because the Fed is printing dollars with all the abandon of a Weimar Republic and nobody wants to take the worthless toilet paper anymore in payment for their oil, when we're motherfucking freezing in the dark even... and even then, the stupid-ass motherfucking Reaganauts are <I>still</I> gonna say it's the fault of anything other than their incompetent failure of a governing philosophy that is responsible for the disaster, and a significant portion the stupid-ass American public will nod from under their piles of blankets as they shiver and agree that it's all the Democrat's fault.<BR/><BR/>50% of people are below average. Them's the facts. And, unfortunately, average just don't seem to be too damn smart nowdays...<BR/><BR/>-- Badtux the Rude PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-87094034609138915462008-10-19T16:21:00.000-06:002008-10-19T16:21:00.000-06:00Driftglass is truly a genius polemicist.Driftglass is truly a genius polemicist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-17332549655154412102008-10-19T14:38:00.000-06:002008-10-19T14:38:00.000-06:00Sullivan is one of the few conservatives that I ca...Sullivan is one of the few conservatives that I can read without retching, although his pro-religious gyrations and genuflections get me close.<BR/><BR/>I enjoy busting Sully's chops--I wrote a long piece on his book <A HREF="http://www.cognitivedissident.org/2007/06/andrew_sullivan_the_conservati.html" REL="nofollow">The Conservative Soul</A>--but I've never written anything as blistering as this quote.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to you, driftglass has just gained another subscriber!cognitive dissidenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09184238731569028494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-75275746223986553502008-10-19T12:43:00.000-06:002008-10-19T12:43:00.000-06:00[P]erhaps he'll go the rest of the way.Perhaps; no...<I>[P]erhaps he'll go the rest of the way.</I><BR/><BR/>Perhaps; nothing is certain. But I'm not holding my breath. <BR/><BR/>"Honest, Dad! Bail me out <I>one more time</I> and I <I>swear</I> I'll get my shit together."Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-71769085700149908012008-10-19T12:19:00.000-06:002008-10-19T12:19:00.000-06:00Yeah, I think that Sully's problem is linked to hi...Yeah, I think that Sully's problem is linked to his unwavering religious faith - he simply can't see beyond it (and doesn't want to). Though sometimes I wonder if he's had at least enough intellectual honesty to get this far (be a conservative who sees Bush for what he really is), perhaps he'll go the rest of the way.DBBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805375811782552873noreply@blogger.com