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calimary's JournalThe only problem with that is - he'd just go somewhere else and metastasize there, too.
Like when you spray for roaches or have your home tented by the exterminators. You really don't get rid of them. The pests just go somewhere else. OR, they just find a different way to get back into your house and resume their business as usual. Getting the gas giant OFF of KFI didn't get rid of him. He's still around. And unfortunately, he's still around HERE (on AM radio in L.A.). He just got moved to a different station. But he hasn't been stopped. He hasn't been silenced. He hasn't been muzzled. He hasn't been made to GO AWAY. And he sure as hell hasn't had his eyes opened to see the REAL reality instead of the phony-ass "reality" he and his ilk have made up so living in the USA will feel somehow more comfortable to him, and more in his own image and likeness. He's still around. And he can still do damage, eating away at the foundations of what made America genuinely great.
They start eating away at the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Where the plaque says "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, your wretched refuse from your teaming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me." That's the kind of foundation they're resolutely trying to eat away. They don't really want the America we all grew up learning about. They don't REALLY want that. They want some utopian Bronze-Age reality where everything is actually like it was on TV at Beaver Cleaver's house. All white people. EVERYBODY Stepford-pleasant and compliant. Mom stayed home making cookies with her shirtdress and pearls and nice vacuum cleaner that she was proud to get for Christmas and never asserted herself, but always deferred meekly to her husband. Kids were harmless, cute, freckle-faced, mischievous little scamps who goofed up sometimes but never that badly. Father always knew best, and only he had the job outside of home (unless, of course, he was Ozzie Nelson, and then he never left the house either). For heaven's sake, Donna Reed's TV husband was a DOCTOR!!! There was always plenty of money, and nobody got fired. Nobody drank. Nobody got drunk. Nobody got drunk and beat their wives. No kid got into drugs or was molested by either dad or nice harmless Uncle Joe. Nobody got horribly ill and it bankrupted the family. Nobody protested anything unjust, because injustice - WHAT injustice? No attack dogs or fire hoses were ever unleashed on anyone. Hell, even the weather cooperated! AND certainly nobody EVER even got bugs and had to tent the house.
When some of these baggers yammer and whine and sob from the back of the room at the town hall meeting that "I Want MY America BACK!!!!", THIS is what they want. At least this is what they THINK they want. They want 1950s-TV-Sitcom-America. Which was total fiction back then - as it still is now. But they've deluded themselves and allowed it to cloud their thinking and reasoning, with their trusty friends among the limbaughs and Pox Noises and brietbarts and newsmaxes and other insanity clones to back it all up and reinforce the genuinely fractured fairy tale and reassure them that it's all true, true, true.
It's sad, really. Pathetically sad. It's their "reality" that they all made up and bought into because it was way more comfortable and palatable than the actual one. Unfortunately for the rest of us, WE have to deal with that "reality" too.
Welcome to DU, snowgypsy!
Glad you're here! Evidently they've received all kinds of subsidies. The fee per cow/calf pair is like a dollar-and-something. That compares to $16-and some otherwise. The Federal Government (i.e.: you and me - all us taxpayers, that of-the-people/by-the-people/for-the-people thingie) subsidizes those fees by almost $15 bucks per unit. Has for a long time. You deal with the feds on this, you save almost $15 bucks per unit. He's gotten these subsidies for HOW MANY years? Twenty-some-odd years? Twenty-some-odd years in back fees that he's refused to pay and mooched off us taxpayers for that many years? 'Cause he wants and feels ENTITLED to free stuff? 'Cause he's some fantasy "sovereign" entity or some such bullshit that he made up to excuse his own greed and selfishness and cheapskate-ism and love of pure anarchy?
sean, sweetheart, YOU climbed into bed with him. Now he gets to fuck you!
YOU did this all by your widdle self! NOBODY held a gun to your head and made you embrace him. You did that all by your widdle self. With bells on and brass bands and Pox Noise bells and gongs behind you. You wouldn't have listened to us anyway, even if we warned you away from it. Hell, some of us actually DID warn you away from it. But as usual, you take what WE say with a grain of salt the size of bunny's racism. You pay attention to what WE say - not at all. You heed OUR warnings and advisories - not at all. OUR words have no merit with you. OUR views on things don't count with you. Too bad for you, then, that WE are the ones who invariably turn out to be - um, dare I say it - "right"!
And ironically enough, these are the same people who profess to hate those who "want free stuff."
Well, whaddya call THIS asshole, 'eh? Seems to me cliven bundy certainly wants free stuff. For heaven's sake, he feels ENTITLED to it!
EXCELLENT!!!
YOU climbed into bed with him, randy-boy. Now he gets to fuck you!
But as we've seen, there's plenty more evidence of him being too dumb to be a Senator. Where does one start, really?
Embarrassing, isn't it!?!
As long as everyone knows his/her place.
My husband now regularly refers to 'em as the republi-KLAN.
Mine too! ROFL!!! But these are ALL good. Actually, TERRIFIC is more like it!
Just desserts. How do they taste? Like crow, maybe? Like egg on yer faces instead of in yer mouths? I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE the smell of republi-CONS self-immolating in the morning!
Hey assholes, YOU climbed into bed with him. Now he gets to fuck you!
Welcome to DU, chrisstopher!
Glad you're here! I love those faces! How can you read a kids' book to a kid and not make some faces? And use funny voices, too? You just start getting into it and that's what happens!
And more power to that! I hope he has most of 'em waking up every morning and the first thing
they do is reach over to grab the bottle of Maalox. I had one job in which I found myself doing that. It was so frustrating and adversarial, with so many upsetting and disruptive elements in it every day that after awhile it just started eating me from the inside. My stomach started bothering me all the time. So I got a bottle of chewable Maalox tablets and set it on my bedside and that's what I'd do every morning for a brief time - until I stopped a moment and realized what this was doing to me, and more important, what this was TELLING me. As in - it was telling me "HEY, YOU: It's time to find another job and QUIT this one! 'Cause it's just not healthy for you to keep doing this kind of thing every morning!" It got to the point where it became an automatic - I'd hit the Maalox bottle, first thing, without even thinking. And soon enough I got this little nagging thing in the back of my brain that said "you need to STOP this. It's not good for you. You can't be doing this every single morning. This is BAD."
I finally got another job and quit the first one. And guess what happened? My stomach calmed down. The problem went away. And so did the Maalox bottle.
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