PCIntern
PCIntern's Journal"Innaresting" perspective today...
So I know this guy really well for about thirty years: he pretends he's an independent but his presentation of "both sides" of any political argument goes like this: "I can't believe that the Republicans are doing ---thisthatandtheotherthing (fill in the blank) and the Democrats just sit by and let them get away with that and that they're gonna get away with that because that's what people want to hear or won't believe the truth or whatever. When you present the opposite side he says, "Don'tcha see? It won't MATTER to anyone."
Now in fact, this is unfortunately sometimes TRUE of us, BUT when he is faced with revelatory truths even years later such as "Gore never stated that HE invented the Internet - it was a more complex statement than that and this is what he actually said...", he just laughs and says, "It doesn't matter NOW, does it?" And when you 'accuse' him and his kind of spreading these untruths (read: lies) he says, "No I didn't: I was just repeating what everyone was saying at the time. I never SAID that it was TRUE or not."
Did I mention that he has a fair amount of money?
So Yesterday, he told me that what Bain Capital did was really really wrong. I retorted: yeah, but this was what was going on in those days and everyone sat around and, if you were a Republican, said that it was the natural order of things Capitalistic and that it was all perfectly legal and it was part of the New World Order and that if you complained about these things you were some sort of Commie bastard. Further, I pointed out that with few exceptions, Wall Street being the most notable film, and Barbarians at the Gates being one of the better made-for-TV shows, these arbitrage guys were being made out to be heroes in the media, taking home millions and billions of dollars without having to produce anything. Wonderment ensued. They were "heady" times. and the Republican establishment was gung-ho, so, I continued, where do guys like Newt and his ilk get off criticizing Romney when they were part of the cheering section. They're making themselves out to be like officers of the IWW for crying out loud.
His response was, surprisingly, an angry "NO! that wasn't the way it happened." I responded: "Oh really." I reminded him of the film Other People's Money with Danny DiVito and Gregory Peck which he and I had talked about contemporaneously. I said, "It was so common to put people out of work and close plants that they made a mainstream movie about it and by the time it came out, it was a cliche."
He said to me, "We'll have to agree to disagree." i replied, "No, you try to make me believe that you identify with my particular political view because you think that that's what I want to hear, but in fact, you're just trying to justify the Republican line which has led this country into deep recession, multiple unnecessary wars, and a horrifying political divide which toe the Country asunder. And you know what? You can stop now, because I've got your number and won't engage in this again with you. Look, just SAY that you like the Republican ideology and at least I won't get stupidly angry with you as an individual, because AT THE VERY LEAST, you're thinking that you're protecting your money and your interests although I'd disagree with even that assumption."
He just frigging laughed...didn't deny it for one instant. I'm all done with him politically.
If the election were held today...
there'd be a lot of surprised people out there.
This crap about "if the election were held today" is so fallacious that it is almost unnerving. If the 1968 election were held today, Nixon would lose, since he's both discredited and dead.
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a locomotive.
It is utterly and totally without merit to state that and CBS and these other shills should be shamed...they're NOT of course, but they should be.
Hey Ricky, you Dope:
No classes in America, huh...except maybe the middle class...
You moran: if there's a middle class then by definition, there's an upper AND a lower class...that makes THREE for starters...and if anyone knows any REALLY rich or landed-gentry-from-the-Mayflower-days, they CERTAINLY think that there's classes in America and the "Nouveau-riche", meaning anyone worth less than a half to two-thirds billion dollars EACH in a family of wealthy folk, is "lower-echelon" as far as they're concerned.
You're a divisive, angry, hate-filled, jealous, petty, sniveling, repressed, corrupt dimwit.
I was thinking the same thing when he said that...
as a Jew, I react poorly when someone says to me, knowing that I'm a Yid: "...so that was your come-to-Jesus moment." I want to say to them, "Actually, the two greatest carpenters of all time were Jewish: Jesus and Norm Abrams of This Old House, and right now, I don't need anything built, so I won't be calling either of them."
Two of my employees are hyper-religious Baptists, and I'm very very careful around them although their sects' dogmas prohibited them from attending my kid's Bat Mitzvah, since they're not allowed in' heathen' houses of worship which don't believe in Jesus as the Christ. But i'm the one who has to be careful, right?
I DO have a little fun around Xmas time, saying that Jesus was circumcised on New Years Day and stuff like that. Petty and childish, but WTH...
OMFG: Luke Russert is now an "expert" according to Chuckie Todd...
you know, the same Chuckie who didn't finish college who I guess is also an expert, since he tells you and me who the experts are: that makes him not only an expert but also a meta-expert.
Or as the Python group would say: Anne Elk.
This is all very bleurghry...at least we have another new word coined, to follow "Santorum":
bleurgh: v (intransitive and insensitive)
1. To refer to people of African-American Descent
2. To obscure (alternative spelling: blur)
Amazingly, Ricky used both meanings in context...stellar language skills.
Philly's all a-twitter about Santorum...no not THAT Santorum...
Since PA has only had one President, the pre-eminent James Buchanan, we
are just so excited about the prospect of Rick Santorum ascending to
the throne, that there are all kinds of articles in the papers about
his character and his credentials. You just have to go to Philly.com
to see articles such as The Santorum that America doesn't Know:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The-Santorum-that-America-doesnt-know.html?cmpid=124488459
or Santorum's Strong showing: what does it mean?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/136636808.html?cmpid=15585797
Lemme tell you: when he was "our" Senator, he was about the most
despised politician in the Commonwealth in my lifetime who hadn't
murdered anyone publically, at least. Andrea Mitchell, formerly of
Philly, never ceases to mention that he lost his election as a two-term
incumbent in my state of Pennsyltucky by 17 percentage points. In this
state whose political personnel are determined by the counties
surrounding Philly that is worse than a landslide: it's an utter
repudiation of the man. My guess is that if Nixon had run again right
before his resignation, he'd have put up numbers like that here.
Outside of the cities, we are in many cases, Klan territory. But I
digress.
There are so many home-grown stories about this guy, so many quotes and
video, that Letterman or Stewart could change their formats to "All
Santorum All the Time" and not lose any chance of getting laughs from
the audience.
It IS, however, vaguely frightening that he's even MENTIONED, much less
a front-runner at least this morning. Those of us who spent 12 years
shaking our heads are getting the neck muscles in practice one more
time.
Oh GAG! Who's the moran blonde lady on the overnight CNN coverage?
She's waving her arms all over the place and using phrases to describe campaigns like "bitter bitter chicken dinner" when she was talking aobut the McCain/Romney battle of 2008. She also alluded to the fact that she has a "small brain", which is obviously true...but my God...I haven't seen anyone like this in a long time...
On edit: answer below...UNBELIEVABLE!
Funny to watch Tweety try to find a Rethug in his coffee shop...
Most were voting for Obama when asked...one lady, missing most of her front teeth, was voting for Romney as was one reasonable-looking young lady, both liking Mittster b/c he was a 'moderate'. Tweety was frustrated...
So I woke up this morning (which is a good thing in itself), and this memory came FLOODING back...
When I was a kid I was an avid reader of the DC comics series and all of a sudden, I remembered this one Supergirl story when she, as Linda Lee, her alter ego (most DC women in the Superman series had the initials LL) was on this planet, of course, almost EXACTLY like Earth, and she was on the streets and some kid did something he shouldn't have and she really told him off in a great way, and wonder of wonders, there was a TeeVee camera on her and her dressing down/diatribe was broadcast all over the planet and she became the leading candidate for Supreme Ruler or whatever they called it there...those familiar with th DC Universe, as it were, get this immediately.
How ridiculous that seemed back in 1964 or whenever, but you know, hardly far-fetched now...you can watch your next ruler be chosen by a few comments he or she might make at a county fair or in a coffee shop.
Sometimes I wish I were Jay Garrick (the Original Flash - not the New Flash of the 1960's) and I could wear that neat metal hat and RUN THE HELL AWAY from all this...
Happy New Year to All!
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