From the Blaze (h/t Pablo) and Naked Emperor News:
Cloward-Piven 2.0.
What we’re witnessing is an organized attempt at initiating a soft coup in the United States by way of a socialist cabal. Michael Medved might not like to hear this; Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg likely won’t, either — concerned, as they both are, about the “rightwing” “bash Obama” industry (which isn’t helping “the folks”); Jeb Bush surely doesn’t, if such a revelation means that his standing on stage with Obama in the swing state of FL to burnish his “pragmatic centrist” bona fides then looks like either betrayal of conservative principles, or a real lack of discernment and judgment; and of course, the establishment GOP, who has built its entire political strategy on the idea that Washington is and always will be business as usual (and it is — for them) probably want to skip this as well.
But those of us who met the election of Barack Obama with cries of opposition knew what was coming — all one had to do was bother to look — and we reluctantly pushed the GOP back to power in November to fight the attempt by the left to finish its takeover of our country.
We are not “extremists.” In fact, it is we who are the realists, willing to see just what it is that is happening here. If ObamaCare is not defunded, and if the weak GOP leadership in the House is unable to leverage their purse powers against the EPA and other bureaucratic agencies that have become an unelected enforcement arm of the Executive, this country will be fundamentally transformed — just as Obama promised.
It just is.
The time for burying our heads in the sand, or playing the kind of political game that has the GOP backing candidates like Mike Castle, has long passed.
It’s put up or shut up time.
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update: OUTLAW!
The Working Man? You’re looking at him, bitches. He’s about had it with you.
Pablo – unless you’re workin’ for the gubmint, you’re no Working Man to them. Time to move to more cash wages, trade-for-services economy. What a glorious future we have ahead of us once Al Franken is in charge of the InterNets and “the revolution will not be televised” or blogged, or emailed, or…
This is going to come to tears for sure.
I’m more and more convinced that it will also come to blows.
God help us.
Everyone I know at the “street level” — my delivery drivers, local service providers, general man-on-the-street persons — know what’s afoot, from the gross socialization of the land to the folly of pretend money to the trainwreck that is government everything. ‘Course, I live in a red county in a red state.
They just don’t know what to do about it. It’s unpleasant to do unpleasant things to correct all this unpleasantness.
Sometimes you have to take a stand, even Mr. Medved if it upsets your neighbors on Mercer Island, WA.
See, that’s one of the first thing we’re gonna have to clear up, me and the unemployed dishwasher/aspiring union extortionist. The working man is the one with a job, the one that does productive things for remuneration.
Rome burns to the accompaniment of Obama Caesar’s fiddle, and instead of objecting, we have people complaining about the tune.
It’s put up or shut up.
That’s always struck me as a false dichotomy, because if you’re doing one, you’re necessarily doing the other. Assuming that “put up” means “put up with” and not “put up your dukes,” in which case I’m totally off.
Back on track: Ungovernability.
Seems to me that can work both ways.
Someone once said “republicans have the fighting spirit of sheep” or something like that.
I believe the source of “put up or shut up” comes from the world of commerce, where a buyer would endlessly haggle, looking for any perceived flaws and talking down the product in an attempt to lower the bidding price. Eventually, an exasperated seller would say “put up or shut up,” meaning that the prospective buyer could put up the money for the product, or leave. Think of it like “take it or leave it.”
In this case, it means that the Tea Party has given the GOP every chance to do right, and it’s past time for them to take the initiative we’ve given them, or else shut up and get out of our way.
Glenn Reynolds made an off hand remark a couple of years ago that went something like: “Years ago, Beck would have won a Pulitzer for his reporting on events.”
I find it interesting that Beck is dismissed and derided, yet a lot of things Beck bring out eventually wind up being widely reported.
Strange how that seems to work out, isn’t it? It’s almost like MBM has become complacent and lazy.
Semantic confusion over the meaning of ‘putting up’ is but one reason why I have always preferred ‘shit or get off the pot’.
I was going to try to apply some logic to these progressives, but really, I don’t think it’s possible. They are idiots, but even so, they cannot be ignored because they have an agenda that’s in opposition to liberty.
As I always understood it, “put up or shut up” is a variation of “money talks, bullshit walks.” Never any doubt.
The phrase “put up with” is fully self-contained and loses all meaning if you remove any single word. Try “up with” or “put with” — they evoke “put up with” just as effectively as the “put up” in “put up or shut up,” which I’m pretty sure is “not at all.” ;-)
Obama is blocking oil exploration here, but promissing the Brazilians we will help them develop their oil safely and buy it from them.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html
Say what?
The only Brazilian oil we should be oogling is on the Copa Cabana.
Being “progressive” means freedom from the shackles of logic and reason.
Joe,Obama is blocking oil exploration here, but promissing the Brazilians we will help them develop their oil safely and buy it from them.What “behind closed doors” campaign promise is being fulfilled here?
No, I am not kidding.
Damned html fail.
Joe,
What “behind closed doors” campaign promise is being fulfilled here?
No, I am not kidding.
Everyone I know at the “street level” — my delivery drivers, local service providers, general man-on-the-street persons — know what’s afoot, from the gross socialization of the land to the folly of pretend money to the trainwreck that is government everything.
The awareness is definitely growing, JHo. I’m in true-blue St Paul, and even my cow-orkers fresh from the government sector are starting to recognize that the jig is up. The latest was Marky-Mark Dayton threatening to shake down everyone making more than $150,000 a year. A bus driver married to a school teacher can make that kind of money, and the governor’s explicit claim that they are “rich” and “part of the problem” and need to pay their “fair share” has a lot of them spooked. I mean, when most people think about soaking “the rich,” they’re thinking about the rich-rich. People like, for instance, department store heirs who went into politics because they weren’t qualified for anything else.
Back on topic: I realize I’m totally bipolar when it comes to this issue, but lately I’ve had trouble escaping the conclusion that this is all going to end in fire. The linked article doesn’t help. I mean, hearing Mr SEIU say stuff like
kinda puts a song in one’s heart, until one realizes that they’re saying this in the context of going down in a blaze of glory. They know what they want, and they know they can’t get it by the usual means any more. So, given that “by any means necessary” is the first page of their playbook, they’re going to get what they want through chaos.
Well, they’re going to get something in the chaos, but I’ll be damned if they get what they want. And I’ll be doubly-damned if they bring about what the Chicago machine wants. Bear in mind: just a few short years ago, the Proggs were darkly insinuating that there would be no election, because Bush would declare martial law. What is it we’re always saying about projection?
Spiny: The oil industry in Brazil is Soros’ owned and invested Petrobras. Answer your question?
put up or shut up, shit or get off the pot, money talks and bullshit walks
I always liked “fish or cut bait” myself.
I don’t think the progressives are ready to declare martial law any time in the near future. Their plan is still to create enough people who are dependent on the government for their survival to insure that they continue to be elected. They may have already succeeded, but if not, they can still get there. Then, they can continue to be in power even as they rotate in one new figurehead presidency after another.
Also, I don’t think the American people would accept a declaration of martial law, though I’m not sure what the response would be.
A very relevant one wasn’t so much behind closed doors. I’m sure he’s mentioned on the down low that this one was bullshit.
[…] George Soros funds leftwing activism in this country. Leftwing activists have taken over the Democrat party, leaving it a “progressive” party that hides behind the less benign “liberal” designation. The leftwing activists in power show their gratitude toward Soros by making him even wealthier — and he shows his gratitude by funding the leftist organizations that we know to be plotting a kind of soft coup. […]
even my cow-orkers
See, I never even knew that cows required orking, let alone on such a regular basis that there’d be people employed in the field. Huh. Learn somethin’ every day!
The GOP old guard gets their chance for 2 years – not that I expect them to make use of it. But demonstrating their utter lack of feck will finally get them booted and replaced with less thoroughly co-opted folks. And more of the Dems will go down, mostly in the Senate, I’d think.
Failing that, I think, we’re fucked.
I hope you’re right, cranky. I just see this unholy alliance between the spoiled children who want to force me to keep them in candy, and the guys who crave power at any cost. The former seem plenty eager to riot in the streets, and the latter seem plenty eager to encourage them. I fear that it ends with people paying protection money, the Chicago way.
I find it interesting that Beck is dismissed and derided, yet a lot of things Beck bring out eventually wind up being widely reported.
Hot Air hasn’t picked up on this yet. Neither has The Corner, AoSHQ, or Insty. Which is exactly what Cassandra Beck expects anymore.
It’s almost like MBM has become complacent and lazy.
Try “complicit.” As in down with the program. Thick as thieves. In for the penny AND the pound.
Pablo – yes, productive. Like “paying a fair and equitable amount” of our dishwashing wages to make certain there is social justice in this world. And cowboy poets. Yodeling in the Nevada wasteland don’t come cheap.
Once the progs win and own, like, everything, including a crashed economy, academia, public schools, doctors, and trans fats, will they have any prog-bucks left for NPR or Oliver Stone movies? Or will the pernicious influence of lefty culture no longer be needed? I see they can save big bucks by plowing all that lefty propaganda money into, you know, mayo sandwiches for evryone. Or Cool Ranch Doritos.
Spiny: The oil industry in Brazil is Soros’ owned and invested Petrobras.
Soros pulled out after Beck exposed his involvement last year, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t reinvested through proxies. Heaven knows he has thousands.
Really?
Because I can see most of my family responding to “fork over the money or we riot” with “burn your own homes all you want; come near mine and you’ll discover the wonder of nature that is a sucking chest wound”.
What Pablo said.
#27
No Mr. Squid. They wanna street fight. I’m not shy.Lets dance.
Blake posted on 3/22 @ 9:12 am
Which is why, I think, Beck and others may be building a better media. I think this Fox/Beck wedge (the left is reporting) is a sign that things are actively moving in that direction. The left appears to see/hope Beck leaving Fox is a sign of Beck failure. Not me. I see it in the same sense as the Big sites. A fresh look at information. Whether they expand in the online news media, where the current trends lead, or attempt to challenge the MSM on TV remains to be seen. Whatever they do, I doubt it will be anything “traditional”. I expect it will make the establishment on both sides equally uncomfortable. At least, that is my hope.
Note the obligatory references to “the system” and “disrupting the system.” Very abstract and impersonal. Very theoretical, like something learned in class. And “revolution” always sounds better without those messy practical details. It reminds me of the scene in Die Hard 4, where the young hacker babbles something about bringing down “the system.” To which, McClane replies: “It’s not a system, it’s a country. You’re talking about people. A whole country full of people, sitting at home, alone, scared to death in their houses…”
Do you really think Minnesotans would put up with that? I’ve only lived here since 1995, but my impression is that they wouldn’t. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit, though.
Di, he also is a substantial investor in the French bank that own the paper on those endeavors. Gets it coming and going.
dicentra,
I think it’s complicity through complacency.
Perhaps not Minnesotans in general, but the Twin Cities would fold up like a couple of lawn chairs. They barely made it through the RNC; why risk a repeat (or worse) when they can just cave in and make concessions? Mayor and Council say “We need to raise business taxes.” Chamber of Commerce say, “Whatevs, dudes, just keep the rock-throwers away from our storefronts.” Pour the money into whatever the Proggs want, with enough siphoned to the cops to keep them on board.
Not that far-fetched, if you ask me.
I think that wedge is wishful thinking. Beck is building a better media, but he’s taking a lot of cues from the master, who has become something of a mentor to Beck, Roger Ailes. Others may collapse the old media, but it was Ailes that cracked the foundations. The Beck/Fox relationship is highly symbiotic, and they work very well together.
[…] thanks! Now a Memeorandum thread with more blog commentary by Kathleen McKinley at Right Wing News, Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom and Jeff Dunetz of Yid With Lid.Category: Economics, New York, Terrorism, UnionsComments […]
I don’t understand the significance of this recording. Didn’t the whole critique of the 2009 bailout from both the left and the right boil down to the idea that all the big banks should be allowed to fail. Wasn’t this a point on which Paul Krugman and Glen Beck agreed? But I shouldn’t be so harsh. Certainly, right-wing bloggers like Jeff should be given credit for identifying another bogeyman to be afraid of. Maybe he should change the name of the blog from Protein Wisdom to the “I’m So Scared/Help Me Please!” blog.
Fuck you, fat assed greasy fucker, ric caricature. Fuck you.
Shame on you, JD! That’s no way to welcome back our old friend Ric!
I rely on commenters like Ric to remind me that the Left is chock-full of neutron stars — dim, dense bodies that warp everything near them. Without people like Ric, we might take for granted that people know the difference between letting risk-takers suffer the consequences of their actions, versus taking them out directly. Without people like Ric, we might not have the opportunity to point out the fundamental difference between “taking action to save” and “taking action to destroy,” and how the lack of one is not equivalent to the presence of the other.
Things that we assume should be obvious, things like “tearing down America to save Wall Street is wrong, but tearing down Wall Street to destroy America is worse,” would go unstated without lesser lights like Ric to remind us that victims of public schooling lack not only the means to perform critical analysis, but also the fundamental knowledge on which to base such analysis.
Thank you for returning, Ric, and for reminding us of all the things we take for granted. Don’t mind JD — he’s just feeling a little impatient today.
Hmmm. “Be allowed” vs. “actively undermine.” Yup, almost identical.
I’m amazed your university hasn’t been sued for intellectual malpractice and the petitioners awarded summary judgment based on any single one of your blog comments.
By the way, what’s with the macho-sounding taunts? Sound’s almost weenie man-ish.
Perfesser Caricature, if you weren’t so funny, you’d be an absolute goddamned pants-wetting moron. Which, I’m not ruling that out.
Ric,
I read your response to a teacher about the Wisconsin budget crisis. You’re a dishonest academic hack, on a good day.
Look, Ric, you academic quack, go back and read the source material. (the original bill you claim is a “tax cut”) The bill gives tax credits to businesses that hire people. If a business doesn’t hire, no tax break.
Gad you people are stupid. You think you can spout your stupidity and not be called on it?
Okay, Ric, I read your post on GW Bush.
I have plenty of problems with Bush policy, but as for GW being a weenie man?
GW Bush flew one of the most dangerous fighters every built, the F-102. Dangerous to the pilots, that is.
What fighter aircraft did you fly, dickless weenie boy Ric? And, I’d like to see you, Ric, keep up with GW on a mountain bike. I’m sure that would be a hoot.
Seconded.
“Certainly, right-wing bloggers like Jeff should be given credit for identifying another bogeyman “
No, pretty much the same old bogeyman.
Shouldn’t you be safe and sound in the benevolent governments warm embrace, free from the fear of that bogeyman? What do you care about Jeffs concerns?
Is it because he makes scratchy noises under the bed?
Caric calls us all racists in 5… 4… 3…
I would think the purpose behind the rics of the world is to shut us up by making us feel “weak” because we’re concerned about people who desire to undermine businesses, such as the progs in the video.
That won’t work here, ric. We’re interested in shining the light of reality on everyone. You’ll never figure that out while you have your ProggieShades™ on.
Fuck you, fat assed greasy fucker, ric caricature. Fuck you.
Seconded.
All in favor of the motion from the good gentleman from Indiana, say “Aye”
So some dirt bag hippy talks big in front of a mangy group of lice ridden dead-heads? This guy sounds like one of those pussies that would advocate for violence all from the safety of the back of the crowd.
meh
I had forgotten that Ric was the genius behind the “weenie boy” rant. Paraphrasing: “My political adversaries respect straight-talking, honorable, confident, charismatic gentlemen. They look on Gary Cooper in High Noon as some kind of role model, though they have trouble living up to that ideal.”
Man, I remember how that criticism stung! I mean, bad enough that people like me treat honor and integrity as virtues, but to fail to live up to the hype? I mean, what kind of monster fails to live up to his ideals?
I will grant that in hindsight, we might have been a little unfair when we cast Gore and Kerry as wooden, insincere, and unmasculine. In my defense, I hadn’t yet seen the photo of Obama riding his bike, so I lacked perspective on just how bad it could be.
Bring back the spirit of the Hard Hat Riots. Wall Street Brokers AND Union construction workers working together beating up marxists in the streets! Good times.
Unfortuneately it would seem that the unions decided to join the marxists. Somehow I don’t see the IT community rising up to take their place. Unless it’s in a video game.
No, not a dirtbag hippy. At least not the hippy part. This guy is a player, and this has been his game for a while.
Antillous,
The IT people would simply hack a couple of cell phone towers and the email systems of SEIU and put them out of commission.
Kinda hard to organize without cell phone service and email these days.
No need to get out in the streets and get dirty any more. Once you eliminate the ability of SEIU and OFA to bring in a crowd, the locals will be enough to beat down the dozen or so that show up.
I think ric might be looking for more blog traffic for himself.
Or perhaps he’s just poking the bees’ nest to see what happens.
Nest, hive, whatevs.
I think I’ll work now.
Yeah — “nest mind” just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
“Yeah — “nest mind” just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.”
Tell that to a guy dating a 30 yo woman.
o_O
moore
i’m so hungry, feed me please!
(greasy fast food, preferably.)
Lee, I can think of a few adjectives for one’s mind in that situation, but nest isn’t one of them.
Filthy, maybe.
Lee’s bragging again… .
Personally, I like the idea of a thousand masculinities blooming and all of them able to recognize women as equal selves and citizens.
Brought to you by the big Mac guzzling greasy haired fat ass douchenozzle ric caricature.
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He does not know to fix a belt for over 8 months, and then, does not know how to use a fucking cell phone.
I guess after 3 comment in 16 posts during the entirety of 2011, caricature was getting lonely. Or, Yelverton passed out, and passed the baton to yet another 8th tier hack.
Sweet Holy Christ:
If that is not a nitwit, then I don’t know what a nitwit is.
Still looking for Daddy to bail your ass out, for which you’ll hate him anyway. I’m not the least bit surprised that in days long gone by, your Daddy beat your ass. Waaaaay back then, that’s how they used to make men. Pity it didn’t take.
Ric Caricature only aspires to be a wiener.
The Corner’s got it now, and all the commenters are less than surprised at what they hear, except for a few who naively think that the SEIU would never undermine their own members’ 401Ks. They all got set straight.
I think it’s complicity through complacency.
No, it’s active complicity: they have had no reason to be complacent since the Internet began to encroach on their turf and their ratings plummeted.
I know these people: they’re giddy with anticipation at the thought of the right people finally being put in absolute charge so that the world can be set aright. They’ll still be first up against the wall, but they’re too delusional to take that into consideration.
Oh, and Caric?
You’re slipping. Sophistry requires a degree of plausibility, a “hook” that you can snare the gullible with. You didn’t even get THAT.
Transcript here for those who prefer reading.
These people are genuinely dangerous. Not misguided, but actually evil.
He heard a belt squealing for 8 months and did nothing about it. That is one of the saddest things I’ve heard in a while. I could have fixed that when I was 13.
Even better, cranky, is that he was waiting to have it diagnosed after it failed 8 months later. Has he opened the hood of a car? I think not.
Demanding that college professors are functionally literate might be a good place to start.
It is hard for me to believe I have been over-estimating Caric’s intelligence, but apparently I have.
It would be waaay funnier if Stephen Lerner hadn’t visited the White House four times in the last two years.
http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/03/stephen-lerner-visited-white-house-4-times-in-2-years-will-justice-department-investigate-plans-for-economic-terrorism/
Also, if they get enough mortgagees, students, city governments, etc to stop paying the debt payments, ka-boom! And then where will all your 401K’s be, eh?
Down the toilet, that’s where. Speaking for myself, the Department of Justice should have this guy arrested, tried for terrorism and attempted overthrow of the government, convicted, and imprisoned for 20 years.
Speaking for the Obama administration, “What guy? Never heard of him.”
Crap. I missed Caric’s visit.
Stupid work.
Pablo, you’re a legend. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard anything on the same level as the mysterious belt episode before.
Oh Good Allah, caricature is dummerer than a sack of timmahs.
He’s some sort of proto-Yelverton, isn’t he?
Trailblazing slack-jaw. Inspirational drooler.
Hero.
Trailblazing slack jaw. Inspirational drooled.
Brilliant.
I only observed, bh. JD waded in and found that shit. He’s your huckleberry.
Yes. I think I messed that up because the added quote from Caric had me laughing with your following comment.
Gold star for each of you. Minus one gold star for me. Minus 1,342 for Caric.
Sort of related to Caric: I had a surge of bad flashbacks upon seeing the name Gordo @ 77. Thank god it was a different Gordo than that mail order bride having nut job of old.