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- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
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– A brand new social strata – the Cleveland Maumau.
This is economic value that all community organizers create.
Time for some creative destruction to be employed.
Obama : the noisy confused twerp’s candidate for 2012. Because you’ve already shit your pants once. Why clean up? Just drop another dook and get used to the warm squishy itchy new reality of your pants. Also, why not sell your son’s expensive new sneakers and donate the money to Obama’s campaign? C’mon, he’s totally passing out free phones n’ shit. Romney? Romney probably wants to send your phone over seas. And I hear he fired his dog or something. And he has a garage in his elevator. He SUCKS!. Bad!
Meet the 47%.
Meet the community organized.
I stood in line at the grocery store yesterday while a black woman gabbed away on what appeared to be an Iphone 5, while paying for her groceries with EBT. Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article about 2 weeks ago, in which he referenced helping a lady at a Best Buy with a brand new big screen TV and noticed she had an EBT/SNAP card on her key chain. These people think that “equality” means having the same stuff that people who actually studied and worked hard and saved do. Its sickening but its the ultimate outcome of the way our society is changing. No longer is it equal opportunity but its all about equal outcome, whether a person puts in the work or not.
No longer is it equal opportunity but it’s all about equal outcome, whether a person puts in the work or not.
If only there were somebody who could explain how debasing language with stuff like “equality of outcomes” and “social justice” and “fairness” leads inevitably to dependency and tyranny. I’ll bet a guy who could lay out those arguments would be hugely influential…
Mrs. Darth frequently sees patients who want her to write a scrip for OTC drugs like Motrin so Molina (the Ohio version of Medicaid) will pay for it. Because otherwise, they say, they can’t afford it. Unless she’s been beat down already, she declines while noting their sparkly new smartphone, recently balanced nails, $200 kicks, and the second of four packs of smokes they’re working on today.
Wanna get Mrs. Darth going? Say something like, “the ‘entitlement mentality’ is just a myth” in her hearing. It’s fun. Get popcorn.
This morning I heard the jock straps (millionaires, most of them) on the local Sports Talk show weighing in on how out of touch Romney is with the aveage American; that he hasn’t a clue, that’s he’s dangerous, that the only votes he cares about are from the “country club” types.
Why?
Because Romney said that the single greatest athlete of the 20th century was Jack Nicklaus.
A golfer? I mean,seriously, a golfer! How out of touch can he be? I mean, geez, if you’re going to pick a golfer it’s got to be Tiger, right?
This is of what passes for logical thought in the land.
Doomed we are. Doomed.
Like the American Revolution, rational thought is reactionary — Bad Shit need have already happened in order to provoke and invoke it.
The American Revolution was tenuous. Risky. Could have failed. But back then they had a whole continent to work with a third of a world away and little creaky wooden ships that sailed against them at a few knots.
We ain’t got none of that now. Now corruption and madness move at the speed of light and there ain’t no new hunks of open land.
Welcome to the United States of Detroit. You can homestead a bit of it for chickens and apples where and when the law doesn’t reach. Balkinization is reactionary too, as will be the invention of commerce and trade in the 21st Century in America. And probably in some cases, the wheel and electricity.
Tiger is indeed amazing. But it won’t be until near the end of his career before you can compare him with Jack.
Never mind that Romney said that about Jack at a campaign rally near Jack’s hometown, with Jack present. In a city where everybody knows Jack and there are several streets, buildings and other facilities named after him.
Julia’s aunt can run a minor faction of marauding homies with that phone, in their two converted Corollas burning homemade ethanol and sporting naked steel rims out where the rails weeded over in what had been the greatest manufacturing center in the nation — if not the world — back when she was born.
Thing is she’ll never know the difference. Or if you teach her, care.
So, he’s gone from “He gonna pay my mortgage, he gonna put gas in my car” to “ObamaPhone”? Talk about a downgrade…
So, if cell phones were included in the “Universal Service” in 2008, then these aren’t “Obama Phones” .. rather these are “Bush Phones” !!!
Funny how they don’t blame Bush for this one.
“ObamaPhone® — it’s not just a smartphone, it’s TheSmartestPhoneEver!™”
Fine print: “All advertising claims about ObamaPhone® carry an expiration date.”
Rush says that she was an SEIU shill paid $11 an hour to follow Romney around and shout slogans while he’s in town.
Community Organized.
Does the ObamaPhone® work in all 57 states?
Dial One to slow the rise of the oceans.
Dial Two if you want another Cash for Clunkers program, or just want to spread some of the wealth around.
Dial 3 for ‘surgical bankruptcy’ proceedings.
Dial 4 to request kinetic military action.
Dial 5 to prop up an exiled would be Honduran dictator, inform someone that they did not build something, or grumble about people bitterly clinging to God or their guns and being suspicious of the outsider.
Dial 6 to measure your tire pressure and shut down a coal plant or deny coatal drilling rights to a domestic energy producer.
Dial 7 if you want to fund a failing solar energy compnay
Dial 8 if you want an aerospace company trying to build a facility in a non right to work state to be slapped down by a supposedly non partisan labor relations board
Dial 9 if you are worried about the rising prices of arugula at Whole Foods.
Darth, I can back up Mrs. Darth’s story with an anecdote of my own: I worked for a brief amount of time in a convenience store. Every single time I told someone with an EBT card they couldn’t pay for cigarettes, booze, or whatever with their EBT card, somehow, the customer always came up with the cash.
I think this is more about phone company lobbies and crony capitalism.
Pay card phones are cheap as shit, anybody can afford them. This is the phone companies making paying customers subsidize premium service for people who can’t afford that.
Separating fact from fiction about the ObamaPhone
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Obama phone
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Obama phone