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Silly Hobbit, tricks are for the elite ruling class establishment

Representation? That’s for election speeches or primary debates. Then, once in the DC club, it’s do as we please for 2-6 years, after which we’ll rely on voter apathy, widespread media malfeasance, an incurious public, redistricting, gerrymanders, IRS intimidation, voter fraud, panders, and name recognition to hopefully get re-elected.

Just as the Founders and Framers envisioned!

Remember: what later today will sound like applause is really just the sound of 70 or so Senators taking turns hammering nails into the coffin of our once great American experiment.

Well, not all of the sound. Some of it will be Schumer and Reid tap-dancing atop the crumpled remains of the Constitution.

74 Replies to “Silly Hobbit, tricks are for the elite ruling class establishment”

  1. dicentra says:

    to hopefully get re-elected.

    And if they don’t make it into office, the can get a sweet sinecure. Just like Bob Bennett!

  2. cranky-d says:

    I didn’t know there were crumpled remains left. I figured it was a few stray tatters blowing around in an empty alleyway.

  3. Blake says:

    I was thinking a little more graphically: “The Constitution is getting hard to read, what with all the brown smears and such.”

  4. EBL says:

    That explains the smell Blake.

  5. William says:

    Sure glad that there’s no consequence to their actions.

    Thanks modern wimpy American culture! Have some more pie! Don’t worry, I wasn’t talking about the Math kind.

  6. dicentra says:

    Levin interviewed VDH during his first hour, and it was really good.

    Though next time maybe VDH won’t “wonder” why the GOP is acting like a pack of jackals.

  7. newrouter says:

    levin “the republican party is imploding”

  8. palaeomerus says:

    Part of me wants to puke. Part of me wants to drop out and read comic books and eat more pizza ’till the fig crushers come to the grotto.

    ‘Fuck it.

  9. palaeomerus says:

    Meanwhile the biggest problem our country thinks it has to face is whether Paula Dean said the N word and likes creepy old southern weddings too much to not be the beating heart of the KKK.

    We are so fucked.

    The idiots have no idea that they are idiots. Grasshoppers mocking ants a’fore the winter. Ecclisates was right. Place no faith in the works of man for they passeth away. Man cannot wrestle with depravity without the help of the spirit. We ARE beasts.

  10. Place no faith in the works of man for they passeth away.

    Including empires, civilizations, philosophies…

    Constitutions…

  11. newrouter says:

    this what “thug democracy looks like”

    The Backwards Trial: A George Zimmerman Prosecution Primer

  12. LBascom says:

    Including empires, civilizations, philosophies… Constitutions…

    Take a Midol Kevin.

  13. palaeomerus says:

    You’ll be lucky to have willow bark tea methinks.

  14. newrouter says:

    Fourth, the technique of exercising power in traditional dictatorships contains a necessary element of improvisation. The mechanisms for wielding power are for the most part not established firmly, and there is considerable room for accident and for the arbitrary and unregulated application of power. Socially, psychologically, and physically, conditions still exist for the expression of some form of opposition. In short, there are many seams on the surface which can split apart before the entire power structure has managed to stabilize. Our system, on the other hand, has been developing in the Soviet Union for over sixty years, and for approximately thirty years in Eastern Europe; moreover, several of its long-established structural features are derived from Czarist absolutism. In terms of the physical aspects of power, this has led to the creation of such intricate and well-developed mechanisms for the direct and indirect manipulation of the entire population that, as a physical power base, it represents something radically new. At the same time, let us not forget that the system is made significantly more effective by state ownership and central direction of all the means of production. This gives the power structure an unprecedented and uncontrollable capacity to invest in itself (in the areas of the bureaucracy and the police, for example) and makes it easier for that structure, as the sole employer, to manipulate the day-to-day existence of all citizens.

    link

  15. newrouter says:

    BETWEEN the aims of the post-totalitarian system and the aims of life there is a yawning abyss: while life, in its essence, moves toward plurality, diversity, independent self-constitution, and self organization, in short, toward the fulfillment of its own freedom, the post-totalitarian system demands conformity, uniformity, and discipline. While life ever strives to create new and improbable structures, the post-totalitarian system contrives to force life into its most probable states. The aims of the system reveal its most essential characteristic to be introversion, a movement toward being ever more completely and unreservedly itself, which means that the radius of its influence is continually widening as well. This system serves people only to the extent necessary to ensure that people will serve it. Anything beyond this, that is to say, anything which leads people to overstep their predetermined roles is regarded by the system as an attack upon itself. And in this respect it is correct: every instance of such transgression is a genuine denial of the system. It can be said, therefore, that the inner aim of the post-totalitarian system is not mere preservation of power in the hands of a ruling clique, as appears to be the case at first sight. Rather, the social phenomenon of self-preservation is subordinated to something higher, to a kind of blind automatism which drives the system. No matter what position individuals hold in the hierarchy of power, they are not considered by the system to be worth anything in themselves, but only as things intended to fuel and serve this automatism. For this reason, an individual’s desire for power is admissible only in so far as its direction coincides with the direction of the automatism of the system.

    Ideology, in creating a bridge of excuses between the system and the individual, spans the abyss between the aims of the system and the aims of life. It pretends that the requirements of the system derive from the requirements of life. It is a world of appearances trying to pass for reality.

    link

  16. Whom have I accused of lying about me?

  17. palaeomerus says:

    I once was lost, but still am lost, Was blind and still am blind.

  18. cranky-d says:

    Perhaps it was your wildly uncontrolled temper.

  19. newrouter says:

    If ideology is the principal guarantee of the inner consistency of power, it becomes at the same time an increasingly important guarantee of its continuity. Whereas succession to power in classical dictatorship is always a rather complicated affair (the pretenders having nothing to give their claims reasonable legitimacy, thereby forcing them always to resort to confrontations of naked power), in the post-totalitarian system power is passed on from person to person, from clique to clique, and from generation to generation in an essentially more regular fashion. In the selection of pretenders, a new “king-maker” takes part: it is ritual legitimation, the ability to rely on ritual, to fulfill it and use it, to allow oneself, as it were, to be borne aloft by it. Naturally, power struggles exist in the post-totalitarian system as well, and most of them are far more brutal than in an open society, for the struggle is not open, regulated by democratic rules, and subject to public control, but hidden behind the scenes. (It is difficult to recall a single instance in which the First Secretary of a ruling Communist Party has been replaced without the various military and security forces being placed at least on alert.) This struggle, however, can never (as it can in classical dictatorships) threaten the very essence of the system and its continuity. At most it will shake up the power structure, which will recover quickly precisely because the binding substance—ideology—remains undisturbed. No matter who is replaced by whom, succession is only possible against the backdrop and within the framework of a common ritual. It can never take place by denying that ritual.

    Because of this dictatorship of the ritual, however, power becomes clearly anonymous. Individuals are almost dissolved in the ritual. They allow themselves to be swept along by it and frequently it seems as though ritual alone carries people from obscurity into the light of power. Is it not characteristic of the post-totalitarian system that, on all levels of the power hierarchy, individuals are increasingly being pushed aside by faceless people, puppets, those uniformed flunkeys of the rituals and routines of power?

    link

  20. LBascom says:

    Do you have any thoughts of your own newrouter, or can you only cut and paste? maybe a synopsis of your own with the link, or is that taxing the grey matter beyond reason?

    Never mind, why not just post a few more thoughts of others. Reagan of example!

  21. cranky-d says:

    Someone has the grouchies.

  22. newrouter says:

    kinda of interesting that an anti commie from 1978 commie czechoslovakia has more to say than the orangeman in 2013?

  23. newrouter says:

    “Do you have any thoughts of your own newrouter”

    you are an idiot is one.

  24. LBascom says:

    Gee Kevin. I guess you didn’t read the accusation, then the revelation (posted by geoffb) that made the accuser into a liar. You know, before you took sides with the liar.

    oh yeah, virtue will win out for the right! Uh huh!

  25. newrouter says:

    “, or is that taxing the grey matter beyond reason?”

    have you read “the power of the powerless” by havel? are you able to discuss it in contemporary terms? or are you just an barackyhole?

  26. newrouter says:

    “or can you only cut and paste? ”

    i find other folk more eloquent than me faggot/lgbt/loser

  27. LBascom says:

    Sure newrouter, I’m an idiot for not staying anonymous like you.

    But we can count on you when the tyranny gets REALLY serious, right?

    Uh-huh!

  28. LBascom says:

    Haven’t read Havel.

    Obviously you’re a better man than me!

  29. newrouter says:

    “I’m an idiot for not staying anonymous like you.”

    are you dickhead from nh?

  30. newrouter says:

    “Haven’t read Havel.”

    why not?

  31. LBascom says:

    Too bad Havel didn’t use the handle. “newrouter”, I’m sure he would have been taken more seriously!

  32. newrouter says:

    “Do you have any thoughts of your own newrouter, or can you only cut and paste? ”

    ofa troll. there be opps at irs clown

  33. LBascom says:

    Yeah, I’ve been called a dick, just not to0 my face. People are very brave anonymously I’ve noticed.

  34. newrouter says:

    “Too bad Havel didn’t use the handle. “newrouter”, I’m sure he would have been taken more seriously! ”

    you are an idiot. you denigrate havel trying to denigrate me. the ? why dickhead?

  35. LBascom says:

    Yes, the IRS is scary. Best you hide.

  36. newrouter says:

    i’ll do it too your face pay the air fare clown up front

  37. LBascom says:

    Yeah, like it was Havel who I was denigrating…

  38. newrouter says:

    oh yes on line i’m to assume ” LBascom” is “real”. you are too stupid!!11!!

  39. LBascom says:

    Tell the IRS hero, not me. Oh, and the NSA, EPA, ATF, and all the rest. I don’t give a shit about you. Climbing on me is damned near rape.

    Faggot.

  40. newrouter says:

    “Yeah, like it was Havel who I was denigrating”

    well discuss his ideas that i posted you effin’ idiot

  41. LBascom says:

    You tell me the thoughts of Havel you are interested in, your own words. Maybe I’ll engage you with mine. As is, cut and paste is mindless BS from a computer program.

    Not worth my time.

  42. leigh says:

    I like newrouter’s cut ‘n’ pastes. Often they lead to a lot of information.

  43. LBascom says:

    Yeah, never mind. Keep fooling yourselves, the last straw is always the next one, and the revolution will be fought tomorrow by those too timid to use their real names ‘cuz of todays chance of persecution.

    Also stalking.

    Wolverines!

  44. LBascom says:

    Snowden is a fucking God in a pasture of fleas.

  45. newrouter says:

    “Not worth my time.”

    dickhead alive

  46. newrouter says:

    the “LBascom” sucks faggot dick tonight. also licks lesbian vagina. for queersters.

  47. palaeomerus says:

    Wow. Dogshit heckling and bitterness are the new hotness. Deez nootz y’all! Theocratz! Inevitable!

  48. newrouter says:

    ” Reagan of example!”

    simple: big effin gov’t bad clown

  49. LBascom says:

    sucks faggot dick tonight. also licks lesbian vagina. for queersters.

    Never mind me, I’m just a silly Hobbit.

  50. palaeomerus says:

    I must be pissin’ in the river the wrong way.

  51. newrouter says:

    “Yeah, like it was Havel who I was denigrating…”

    no someone mentioning the clusterfuck that havel was describing – clown.

  52. newrouter says:

    “Never mind me, I’m just a silly Hobbit.”

    seek and destroy ain’t smart obot

  53. newrouter says:

    “LBascom”

    are you nsa. irs or ofa?

  54. LBascom says:

    Snowden should have used some kinda handle like “deep throat” instead of his true name. He would probably be a hero today!

    ‘Cuz of the honor in modern America.

    \Yeah, I’m drunk. Fuck ya’ll if’in you don’t like it…

  55. newrouter says:

    “LBascom”

    disparages peeps who think the fed gov’t is too big. effin obot.

  56. newrouter says:

    “\Yeah, I’m drunk. Fuck ya’ll if’in you don’t like it”
    you go incoherent

  57. LBascom says:

    I’m HLS newrouter, be scared. Be very scared.

    Physic! Suucker…

  58. LBascom says:

    Bet you wish you woulda said you were from Oregon now, huh nancy?

  59. serr8d says:

    Ants and grasshoppers fighting over winter food storage? Ants always win. I’ve seen ants carrying grasshopper pieces in conveyor lines, moving those minutely-cut bits underground to storage. Brings to mind the ‘Community Organized’ army of OFA carrying the carci of stupid GOP ‘moderates’ through their ranks. Mindless moderate GOPhoppers never even realize they’ve been savaged, pieced out and used as fuel.

  60. serr8d says:

    Paula Deen, a maroon. Spent years pushing sugar cooking, high-carb Southern meals that finally netted her Type 2 diabetes, the worst kind. There’s the reason she should be laughed off any public stage.

  61. serr8d says:

    Though next time maybe VDH won’t “wonder” why the GOP is acting like a pack of jackals.

    This should’ve happened right after McCain lost. Instead, we allowed the elites to regroup, and they shat out Romney. Now they are waltzing about like headless chickens, not knowing just how much their essential base hates ’em, and how little support they will get when they come knocking for donations.

    Starve the GOP moderates and let the ants strip their bones.

  62. serr8d says:

    Trifecta! Who’s that hockey guy celebrated for his triple plays? Not being a fan of male ice skaters who skate with sticks and have mastered the fine art of sucker punching, I’ve not bothered to remember his name.

  63. LBascom says:

    We are fucked as a people supposedly consenting to our governance.

    As of 9/11/ 01, we are a people subject to our rulers, who are dedicated to keeping us safe. From that perspective, everything else has flowed. Homeland security, healthcare, immigration, everything. We are subjects under the care of our so called “leaders”. Live long and prosper!

    Language? HA! Pretend we are a free nation of individuals participating in free market capitalism! The illusion will do you good!

    It will still be an illusion, but hey, hide behind your mask,. you’ll be OK!

  64. palaeomerus says:

    “serr8d says June 24, 2013 at 11:13 pm
    Paula Deen, a maroon. Spent years pushing sugar cooking, high-carb Southern meals that finally netted her Type 2 diabetes, the worst kind. There’s the reason she should be laughed off any public stage. ”

    If only our nation had a courageous and civic minded Mayor Bloomberg like figure to save us from the menace she poses to us all with federal fines, surtaxes, insurance regulations, law suits,and other various penalties.

  65. LBascom says June 24, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    I saw somebody get hysterical about other people’s opinions. If that was the first time you ever had people say things about you you’d rather they hadn’t, you’re probably not mature enough for Midol.

    it’ll be quite helpful to you though, once you reach puberty. In about ten years or so.

  66. “palaeomerus says June 24, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    Part of me wants to puke. Part of me wants to drop out and read comic books and eat more pizza ’till the fig crushers come to the grotto.

    ‘Fuck it.”

    That. All I can look out for now is me, and mine.

  67. Hadlowe says:

    The options have always been three, and are usually invoked sequentially.

    1) Civil discourse. This is becoming impossible in an era controlled by the twin mothers Kardashian and Wasserman-Schultz.

    2) Galt. This happens eventually in an autocracy anyway, as the productives realize that they are holding up the leeches and just stop holding. This is when the autocrats rediscover the virtues of slavery in service of the grand vision.

    3) Blood. As any parent of a 14 year old can tell you, people don’t like being forced to work, and they will work very hard to avoid the force.

  68. leigh says:

    Serr8d, the Paula Deen non-debacle (to my mind) is something we should be paying attention to. She is being crucified for something she said in private. The admission she made to using Quentin Tarantino’s favorite word, was made in a deposition about a sexual harassment case her brother has gotten her roped into because she is a majority (51%) share holder in his restaurant.

    In other words: she’s the one with the deep pockets and we don’t like “her kind”. *sniff*

    The Food Network’s message boards are being crushed by her supporters.

  69. LBascom says:

    Scribe of Slog (McGehee) says June 25, 2013 at 5:06 am

    Hysterical? Riiiight.

    Here’s what happened. Leigh made false allegations about me (not to mention calling me nasty names) that were proven false. Leigh never retracted, and not one person said squat to her about it. Plenty, including you, felt it necessary to talk shit to me for defending myself however.

    On the bright side, your school yard taunts about maturity made me laugh. Not hysterically though.

  70. leigh says:

    Lee, I didn’t lie. I compressed several incidents that had taken place over many months into one post for the sake of brevity and the simple fact that no one gives a shit about it except you. I know I certainly don’t.

    Don’t you have a job to go to? Home repairs to attend to? Or are you planning on sitting around smoking, boozing and brooding about shit on a blog? I’m not going to tell you my name, not because I think YOU are a stalker, but because we aren’t the only ones who read this blog. I have related on this very blog an incident in which I was attacked and nearly killed in my home. I am not going through that again. Certainly not to satisfy a foolish curiosity of yours.

    I can’t read minds, but you seem to resent that people don’t seem to hate my guts the way you do. That’s stupid. I have said before that I like everyone on this blog, some more than others. I have tried to understand you and following this last in a series of stunts of yours, I don’t care anymore. I don’t dislike you, I just don’t care.

  71. LBascom says:

    You flatter yourself by imagining I care enough to feel anything toward you leigh, much less hate. I treat you no differently than anyone else here.

    And I don’t care whether you give your name or not, I was making a point about anonymous people engaging in character assassination against those that aren’t anonymous. Are you trying to instigate hatred toward me, hoping I can experience a stalker like you claim to have?

    And yes, you did lie. And I find the people I’ve been blogging with for six or seven years are more stressed by my defending myself than lies being told about me.

    Oh well.

  72. leigh says:

    Suit yourself.

  73. palaeomerus says:

    “You flatter yourself by imagining I care enough to feel anything toward you leigh, much less hate.”

    Okay, I get that you’re pissed off about something but that is practically Dr. Doom shit there. You were doing the whole “take a Midol Kevin” not long ago. Well, put some Ice on it Pam. Sheesh. I think the fire done burned plenty hot fer a while already. The point has been made and the grievance aired. Squash the beef and move along.

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