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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 02:47 PM Nov 2013

wanker of the day: "Jonah Goldberg is kind of a dick about other people’s misfortunes"

Like you, leading conservative thinking person and re-interpreter of word meanings, Jonah Goldberg, enjoys a good belly laugh, a guffaw, a hoot and a holler, a shit and a giggle. And being the jolly sort that he is, he has a remarkable capacity for finding the funny in the most unlikely situations. No, it’s true! Take, for example, the problems that people are having with attempting to acquire government-supported health insurance for their families at a time when insurance companies and conservative legislators are doing everything they can to drown their hopes in a bathtub:

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the unraveling of Obamacare.
First, the obligatory caveats. It is no laughing matter that millions of Americans’ lives have been thrown into anxious chaos as they lose their health insurance, their doctors, their money, or all three. Nor is it particularly amusing to think of the incredible waste of time and tax dollars that has gone into Obamacare’s construction. And the still-unfolding violence that this misbegotten legislation will visit on the economy and our liberties is not funny either. This very magazine has been downright funereal about the brazen and unconstitutional seizure of one-sixth of the economy, and rightly so.
But come on, people.

If you can’t take some joy, some modicum of relief and mirth, in the unprecedentedly spectacular beclowning of the president, his administration, its enablers, and, to no small degree, liberalism itself, then you need to ask yourself why you’re following politics in the first place. Because, frankly, this has been one of the most enjoyable political moments of my lifetime. I wake up in the morning and rush to find my just-delivered newspaper with a joyful expectation of worsening news so intense, I feel like Morgan Freeman should be narrating my trek to the front lawn. Indeed, not since Dan Rather handcuffed himself to a fraudulent typewriter, hurled it into the abyss, and saw his career plummet like Ted Kennedy was behind the wheel have I enjoyed a story more.


Well, sure, who doesn’t initially think the whole insurance mess must be terrible and awful and confusing for people who are deeply concerned about taking care of themselves and their families … but then: LOL! Mary Jo Kopechne. BOOM! Amirite?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/15/jonah-goldberg-is-kind-of-a-dick-about-other-peoples-misfortunes/
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wanker of the day: "Jonah Goldberg is kind of a dick about other people’s misfortunes" (Original Post) phantom power Nov 2013 OP
'kind of' a dick? He's a massively swollen yet impotent one. CurtEastPoint Nov 2013 #1
I don't think Democrats can over-emphasize the fact that... phantom power Nov 2013 #2
He's a lazy thinker, a shitty writer, and a lying liar on wingnut welfare. n/t Orsino Nov 2013 #3
Jonah is my "favorite" piece of shit. immoderate Nov 2013 #4
liberalism itself- that part of his rant is funny Johonny Nov 2013 #5

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
2. I don't think Democrats can over-emphasize the fact that...
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 02:57 PM
Nov 2013

The Republicans don't want the ACA to fail because they think they have a better idea. Sociopathic tools like Goldberg prove every day that Republicans want it to fail so the 99% can get busy fucking off and dying.

 

immoderate

(20,885 posts)
4. Jonah is my "favorite" piece of shit.
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 03:01 PM
Nov 2013

And forgive my hyperbole. By favorite, I don't mean I like him, I'm implying that he achieves a higher level of "shittiness" that most other pieces of shit you might encounter. It's a recognition of superior smelliness and distastefulness, that ordinary shit does not achieve.

--imm

Johonny

(20,674 posts)
5. liberalism itself- that part of his rant is funny
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 03:32 PM
Nov 2013

What liberal thinks ACA is a liberal ideal system for medical insurance for a population... pretty much none. It is the best adjustment of the current system that could pass this moran's crippled congress. That it doesn't work isn't a failure of liberalism, it is yet another failure of his free market solves all problem idealism. That he doesn't understand that is very funny. He is yet another conservative unhappy that 30 years of his propped up conservatism doesn't work, but unable to understand what we have now IS CONSERVATIVE policies in action.

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