Q: How many progressives does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Change it? Fuck that noise. We’ll just buy a new house!
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If I snap up all their dark houses, change the light bulbs, and resell the houses at a profit, they’ll denounce me as a fatcat living at the expense of the downtrodden.
However, if I start a “nonprofit” to snap up all their dark houses, pay some local students dirt-cheap wages to change the lightbulbs, and sell the “improved” houses to the local affordable housing authority, the NPR tote-bag crowd will host a big dinner to applaud my efforts at improving inner-city neighborhoods.
See, you only get credit if you abuse underprivileged youth.
Yeah… easy decision when your new house is bought by the taxpayers.
Squid, you nailed it. My cynicism has increased.
Slogan of the new Progressives: We Won’t Be Happy Until 100,000,00 More Of You Fuckers Are Dead!
Buy a house? Fuck that. Get a government grant and default, baby. Free money! Free healthcare! Free, free, free…
Dangit, this bill is so darned expensive, it would have been far cheaper to send those 16% who think we need MORE GOVT in health-care to CUBA:
” 59% oppose the Democrats’ health care bill, while only 39% favor it.
* 70% say the federal budget deficit will go up under the Democrats’ health care bill; only 12% believe it will go down.
* 56% say the bill creates “too much government involvement in the nation’s health care system,” 28% say about the right amount, while 16% say not enough.
* 62% say they’ll pay more for medical care under the Democrats’ health care bill.
* 47% say they and their families will be worse off under the Democrats’ health care bill; 33% say things will be about the same, and only 19% think they’ll be better off.”
That’s only four years of oppressive taxes, total stagnation and crushing unemployment? No problem! In the meantime, lets paint the barn and put on a show, gang!
Of course! Because after the four years, we will start putting on band-aids and pretending this is only a superficial health care problem.
Fucking dumbasses.
Fucking dumbasses all the way down.
More dumbasses:
We’re elbow deep in stupid.
Uh, Jeff,
Shouldn’t that be, “…in the Hizzy“? I mean, I’m no hip-hop-lingo expert, but that’s how I always hear Schtu on ESPN employ that turn of the phrase.
But I guess that Schtuart Scott could be as tragically un-hip as I. I mean, he does have a racial advantage though…
And I guess even wondering all of this makes me a RAAAAAAAAACIST! anyway.
Hizzy is slang for hizzouse, Bob. Jeff’s just using the formal construction.
I thought it was flippity-floppity-floop now…
“A: Change it? Fuck that noise. We’ll just buy a new house!”
A: Change it? Fuck that noise. We’ll just make you buy me a new house! And then we will burn it to the ground! And make you buy me another one. And again and again and again.
Fixed it for you.
Thanks Squid, for straightening that out for me…
I used to be “with it”, but sometime I wonder what exactly “it” is anymore!
I spent a lifetime defending the nation from external threats, only to see thise from within make more headway that those from without ever did…
I wonder how many “Frank Marshall Davis” types there were surreptitiously insinuating moles into our society; because we all knew it was going on in academia, but the sacred cow of “Educate our Children!” could never really be scrutinized, just have more money thrown at it.
“That’s only four years of oppressive taxes, total stagnation and crushing unemployment? No problem! In the meantime, lets paint the barn and put on a show, gang!”
So there is some way you see to avoid the coming “four years of oppressive taxes, total stagnation and crushing unemployment” B Moe? Some — dare I say — “practical” alternative that will remove the evils before they fall? You have a program of action to offer making Kristol’s ballotbox chase pale to insignificance?
Or is this expression more akin to one who has witnessed an awful car crash clapping hands to cheeks and crying out “Oh no! How awful!”
I fear it’s more than elb*glub* *gleep*.
This is sorta off-topic but I’m not sure where the correct thread is. I’m heartened to hear someone like LTC John contemplating public office.
More please and tell us where to send a donation or how we can volunteer.
You all need to know that the Tea Partiers are religious fanatics who worship Glenn Beck and George Washington idolatrously:
And this journalist is more “discriminating”? More?
And these are the ONLY people in the country who perceive a cultural or spiritual crisis. The ONLY ones.
“St. Glenn Beck” mostly teaches the history of the progressive movement and has the audacity to cite original sources. And the if the U.S. Constitution — including the 10th amendment — isn’t “American scripture,” then what is?
Noah honey? You live in a bubble if you think that prayer vigils and God talk are “abnormal” or “surreal” or that progressive = gradual communism is “amateur political history.” Glenn got that formulation straight from the horse’s mouth. What’s your enligtened definition?
Yes, one thing you can say about Glenn Beck, his views on the Founders and what Classical Liberalism means is tewtally out in, ahem, left field. He actually believes that stuff and refuses to get with the program.
Maybe you should explain exactly why what Glenn Beck says about progressivism and the Constitution is incorrect or misleading instead of clutching your pearls at seeing religious fervor about our Founding principles.
Frum Forum. Figures.
You have a program of action to offer making Kristol’s ballotbox chase pale to insignificance?
I don’t really see, “Golly gee, fellers, we outta try to win the next election” as a plan. It is some more of the incredibly obvious plattitudes that I alluded to earlier.
I think the Republicans should be stirring shit like their lives depended on it, because it does. Organizing protests, suing anything and anybody that moves, and supporting all the States that are trying to fight this.
Q: How many progressives does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Change it? Fuck that noise. We’ll just have you guysbuy us a new house!
Elections have consequences bitches!
And deriding Kristol as a dumbass is going to help? I don’t see it, sorry. Maybe the message he recommends “Repeal!” is wrong, but his piece isn’t as simple as you cartoon it “Golly gee, fellers, we outta try to win the next election”. He doesn’t say “be sure to do nothing but what I recommend here”. He doesn’t say “don’t organize protests” “don’t sue the government” “don’t support the States”.
Progressive: “Gimme one of them ‘New Houses’ with cheese.”
Mickey [D]: “You want messiah with that?”
Progressive: “Yeah, an’ supersize it again.”
He doesn’t say a lot of things sdferr, that is my fucking point. What he does say is don’t despair, we will get them in four years. That is completely out of touch with the reality many of us are facing. If you are in a position to wait, fine, I am happy for you, but get the fuck off my ass if I disagree.
@18, dicentra: …what is this i don’t even.
I really wish I had a mind left to make coherent comments on this kind of nonsense anymore, but the poisonous state of the dialogue is at the point where all I can do is gape. People seriously say this stuff? Seriously?
I’m not on your ass because you disagree B Moe (in fact, I don’t think I’m on your ass at all). Not at all.
Kristol isn’t against you. Or is it that you think he is against you, that he wants some ill to befall you? Is it that you think I want some ill to befall you?
Or is Kristol wrong to recognize that Obama is going to be in office and acting on us all for the next two years plus?
Is he wrong to take up an historical metaphor that’s been bruited about lately and attempt to improve upon it? And for this he’s a dumbass?
I mean, where you said this:
I could hardly agree more. Here you have the question we all face, Kristol included. And that is the business we should be about. Together. Which, the electoral approach just seems a sensible part of any strategy we will craft. And as obvious, then obviously to be dealt with first among any list of objectives. But nothing says we stop there.
Comment by geoffb on 3/22 @ 2:53 pm #
Progressive: “Gimme one of them ‘New Houses’ with cheese.”
Mickey [D]: “You want messiah with that?”
Progressive: “Yeah, an’ supersize it again.”
Progressive: “Oh by the way, the guy behind me in line, he’s buying (whisper: I think he is a Christianist Republican).
frumpy sees gnostic teachings
Raise your exemptions to eliminate paycheck withholding. Then don’t pay your taxes. Don’t even file. They can’t arrest everybody.
Of course, if too many people are afraid to anger the IRS it doesn’t work.
The more you hear about this bill, the worse it is.
The “fines” don’t kick in until 2014 and then they are a whopping $95 or 1% of your income. Since pre existing conditions are covered, it is in your economic interest not to get insurance and just wait till something bad happens. Literally you could get in an accident, then buy insurance. Or get cancer, then buy insurance.
There is no real penalty for doing that (other than that nominal fine above).
And do illegals have to buy the insurance? No one really knows. There is no mechanism for that. I suppose they could pay the fine too and just get insurnace if they get sick.
our enemies can smell our doom
our little country stepped in the little president man’s bear trap yesterday and it better be ready to chew off a leg I think cause otherwise it won’t survive the night
Frum should be told in no uncertain terms that no one much gives a fuck what he thinks anymore, and that we kinda wish he’d just go suck a cock.
Somewhere a new Kafka is aborning.
But Jeff cock sucking is exactly what I am proposing for conservatives. That way Rahm and his gang don’t beat you up as bad in the Congressional showers.
Well, anyway, cock sucking worked for me. You can follow your own principals. Just don’t hit me.
5. Comment by DarthRove on 3/22 @ 1:14 pm #
Slogan of the new Progressives: We Won’t Be Happy Until 100,000,00 More Of You Fuckers Are Dead!
See, that’s where you’re wrong. Somebody’s needed to do shit and clean up.
That’s why they’re always referring to “the productive class.” Know your place, drone. And stay out of certain lairs in the hive.
29. Comment by mojo on 3/22 @ 3:32 pm #
Raise your exemptions to eliminate paycheck withholding. Then don’t pay your taxes. Don’t even file. They can’t arrest everybody.
Of course, if too many people are afraid to anger the IRS it doesn’t work.
I’m in. Fuck it. Been time to catch up on my reading anyway.
33. Comment by Jeff G. on 3/22 @ 3:49 pm #
Frum should be told in no uncertain terms that no one much gives a fuck what he thinks anymore, and that we kinda wish he’d just go suck a cock.
Using whatever is left of my empathy, in understanding people’s motivation, I would say somewhat in Frum’s defense that it seems that seeing the writing he has meekly chosen to be a boot rather a face. I’m not saying I agree, but I understand.
I call dibs on this pussy’s throat.
That’s cause Obama keeps letting them in the front door after he tracked it in all over the place.
Thought? From them? That’d be upsetting their mental applecart. Deep though, self-analytical critical thinking, and awareness about reality isn’t conducive to their little bubble-like worldview.
Gosh! Glad they’re our betters!
Frum should be told in no uncertain terms that no one much gives a fuck what he thinks anymore
If you’re referencing my #18, that was posted at Frum’s place but it was written by a flunky named Noah Kristula-Green.
The comments to that post aren’t encouraging, but not surprising either, given the location.
As for the attacks on Glenn Beck, they’ve got several memes out there:
Glenn doesn’t believe a word he says; he’s just doing this for the money
Glenn is a religious fanatic
Glenn hates Jesus
They’ll come up with more ways to discredit him, but they all steer away from his point-blank accusations (which are similar to the ones in Liberal Fascism, which he used to read on the air): Today’s progressivism is a cancer, it’s got its roots in Marxism and eugenics and the Weather Underground, and Obama and his team are doing their best to turn us into a progressive thugocracy.
Disprove it if you can.
Charles can disprove it, dicentra. By waving his hand at it. So much “radicalism.” So much paranoia.
There’s no plan behind progressivism. That’s conspiracy thinking.
Please, stop it. You’re embarrassing Charles, and the rest of the intelligent and urbane conservatives.
Please, stop it. You’re embarrassing Charles, and the rest of the intelligent and urbane conservatives.
They also scatter like chickens when you waive your arms.
…but they aren’t as much fun to f*ck.
Starting in the Spring of 1968 a “discussion” (quotes because, unlike today with the internet, this was carried on by letters and articles in various papers of the “underground press” and in talks at political organizing meetings or just over some coffee) on the Left of, where do we go from here.
The entry of RFK in the Presidential race as a candidate expressing the view that America should disengage from the Vietnam War meant to the radical left that their main political tool was now being pushed by a Major Party candidate. Still useful perhaps, but of declining value to them. The discussion was to find the next issue. The next big useful thing.
Many ideas came to be discussed. Everything from immediate armed revolution to becoming the future teachers of the coming generations so as to remake them into being the citizens of the society that was envisioned, the Utopia. What we now look back at and call “the long march through the institutions” was born then.
The basic idea was that everyone should follow their own path to the end that all envisioned. Do nothing that would hinder others following their paths. Lend support when possible. The goal was the thing, victory, not who did what or how it was achieved.
That is, or can be, a winning strategy in any political struggle where there can be an identifiable common goal.
Don’t expect too much from Frum. He’s a trust fund baby who lost his clue.
“I think the Republicans should be stirring shit like their lives depended on it, because it does”
Well, to be fair, Micheal Steele started a website called “fire Nancy Polosi”. It doesn’t really have any plan other than, you know, voting against her, but dammit, it’s a fine website!
never fear, the RNC is all over this thing…
“fire Nancy Pelosi”Taking back the House would have that effect.
The basic idea was that everyone should follow their own path to the end that all envisioned.
IOW, everybody’s got their own row to hoe, and don’t be freakin’ if the next guy uses a Mantis tiller while you do it by hand.
I kinda feel that way about the light in the stairwell at my house. God knows how they got up there to put a bulb in that fixture..