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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 12:11 PM
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The Rude Pundit: Nine (or So) Ways to Celebrate the Centennial of Ronald Reagan
Yes, sir, it's time to break out the bowls of jelly beans and the VHS copy of King's Row. Check your horoscope to make sure it's cool because we gotsta, gotsta, gotsta have ourselves a big ol' Gipperfest this weekend. It's the centennial o' the birth o' the greatest President that ever Presidented in Presidentin' history. Ronald Reagan, motherfuckers. The man who knocked down the Berlin Wall with a single swing of his mighty dick while finger-fucking Margaret Thatcher and taking a shit on Grenada. He would have been 100 years old had he lived to see this coming Sunday, but who needs the birthday boy when you can have all the cake you want?

Fuck, yeah, let's drag his bones outta the ground so we can ground them up and freebase the dust so that we can shoot it straight into our veins so we can feel some of that Reagan morning in America high one more time, fuckin' A, that shit's like the finest heroin. You get that in ya and you feel that brief buzz, that warmth and delusion of goodness and rightness that tricks your brain into believing that the high is reality and reality is just the buzzkill. No wonder Republicans are addicted to it. No wonder so many Democrats wanna get stoned on it, too.

You can come up with your own ways to celebrate that don't involve shooting up. Like:

1. Go to Best Buy and max out your credit cards on the most extravagant, useless shit you can find, like 3-D TVs and smart phones that you can implant in your brain so you can only think in Google searches and text messages. Make sure it's expensive. Then, when you're tens of thousands of dollars in debt, make sure you die so that your kids have to pay for all of it.

2. If you're pissed off at your neighbor, but he's an ex-boxer, go to the local day care center and kick the asses of the children there. Declare that you win, even if no one knows what you were fighting for.

3. Do the following to the local homeless people: Take their coats and shoes. Punch them repeatedly in the stomach. Give crack to their kids. Pawn their shopping cart of possessions. Give the money to the richest family in town. When a homeless woman asks for a coat because it's cold, accuse her of being both lazy and a thief. And set her war-vet husband on fire.

4. When Jehovah's Witnesses come to your house, invite them in. Tell them that they can stay as long as they like. Tell them that you want them to be happy. Promise to bring all your friends over to meet them. And when you move out, tell them that, even if someone new moves in, they can stay.

5. If you have an STD, especially herpes, genital warts, and/or crabs, fuck people from the following nations: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chile, and, if you have time, someone black from South Africa. Do not tell them about your disease(s). Let them figure it out for themselves.

6. Ignore the illness one of your kids has. If it spreads to your other kids, blame the first child. If your spouse tries to take them to the doctor, divorce him/her.

7. When your favorite team wins the Super Bowl, convince everyone that it was because you bought their t-shirt. If anyone says that is a ridiculous assumption, call them traitors to the team.

8. If you have a job where you drive a bus or pilot a plane, one where the lives of people are immediately in your hands, beat your head against the wall until you don't know who you are or where you're going. Then go to work.

9. Gather your family. Tell everyone that they need to give a little of their money to support the household. Tell your kids that they are going to get less of an allowance so that the pain is spread evenly. Cancel Christmas for everyone but you. See #1.

(Bonus way to celebrate: Read the Rude Pundit's "tribute" to Reagan upon his death in 1994. It's the finest way to skullfuck the memory of the awful, cruel, incompetent puppet of a man who set the nation on its current path to doom and demise.)

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 12:14 PM
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1. That's pretty dark.
But then, so are Reagan and conservatism.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 12:23 PM
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2. A hearty Rec and Kick.
Also for the bonus. The list of REgan/Poppy/Haig White House crimes screwed the US for good.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 12:28 PM
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3. It's Necrogasm 2011!
Everybody on your knees, and thank the good lord above (or below) for the gift of Ronald Fucking Reagan.

My own anecdote from the era: I was tooling down I-5 in my 1970 VW Bug (naturally), and picked up a scruffy but harmless-looking hitchhiker. He only went a short way, as he was trying to avoid passing through the patrolling area of a local sheriff's deputy who had a hard-on for him. He detailed some of the hardships he'd been facing from the law enforcement community, and we both blamed the new President. He sighed and opined, "I just don't know how it all got so fascist so fast."

In more than a quarter century since, I still haven't heard a better epitaph for America.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 12:37 PM
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4. God I love this guy.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 03:08 PM
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5. The Gipper: Our quintessential national treasure that keeps on giving
;)
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:24 PM
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6. Ha!
marking for read
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 11:16 PM
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7. Thank you, Rude One!
Edited on Fri Feb-04-11 11:33 PM by Raster
My own suggestion in a previous post, which was deleted by the way, is to dig up his rotting corpse, drive a stake through it's heart and then piss on his grave.

Ronnie the Raygun WAS the instrument of destruction for the American middle class. A so-so actor, whose greatest role was playing a mediocre president.

And before the high and mighty hit alert, I lost most of my dearest friends to the plague called AIDS, including my best friend and long-time companion. Raygun was a scum-bag and a liar and the worst supposed President in my lifetime.

The last two years of his "presidency" were spent as a drooling mess in adult diapers. Yes, I said it. Fuck Raygun. Gee-Dubya put in a better performance as the village idiot.

"Ronald Reagan was the worst kind of evil, the kind that wears the mask of goodness and morality. He was like the affable grandfather who loved molesting his grandkids. Oh, how Grandpa smiled when he fondled us. Damn, how we didn't mind the finger-fuckings, how we didn’t care how many psychic scars Grandpa left us with as long as Grandpa smiled at us, said he loved us, and gave us candy to keep us quiet. But, Jesus Christ, how we must live with those barely repressed wounds, the damage that afflicts every step we take." Rude Pundit, 2004

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badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-11 12:17 AM
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8. The first one...the one with the credit card...
Anybody remember the commercial with the supercilious guy whining "Mastercard, I'm BORED!" and he goes and alleviates his boredom by charging a whole buncha shit?

That has really stuck with me...not just as a snapshot of The Reagan Years but of our whole societal philosophy.

We go out and buy a buncha shit...and then what? :shrug:

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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-11 12:13 PM
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9. K&R! Excellent! //nt
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-11 01:25 PM
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10. And this deserves yet another KICK!
If Jimmy Carter had won the Presidency, this country and it's citizens--all of them--would be much better off. As it stands, only the rich and powerful are better off. The rest of us are sinking fast. This is the true Raygun legacy.
:kick:
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