It's past time to end the "pony envy"

[MADem]

53. If you don't understand it, I urge you to read it again.

We didn't pay seventy seven grand in taxpayer money for Jackie and Caroline to ride their horses. That's the bottom line.


We did pay that for Annie's horse. Our tax dollars paid for her little hobby--and it's a "business" like I'm an astronaut.

She WAS comparing the Kennedys to the RMoneys--don't say anything bad about Annie's horse, look, look at Jackie! Look at Caroline! Be quiet! Don't say anything! Criticizing them is .... BAD.

Not everyone has to like what others like, and if they want to make fun of it, so what? I like stupid shit that other people don't like, but I'm not so damned insecure that if someone makes fun of, say, my love for vintage television programming, or my enjoyment of classical Persian food, that I'd need to retreat to a far corner and cry about it. Don't like it? Fine--all the more for me.

I'm tired of being lectured to not hurt the feelings of Imperial assholes who possess no redeeming social values--fuck them AND that horse they rode in on.

The thread title "It's past time to end the pony envy" suggests first, that we are "envious" of Annie's horsies in every barn and caddies in every garage--I find her consumption conspicuous and if I had her dough I would give most of it away, so there's a Big Fail. And then we're scolded with examples, oh, look at the "Good Democrats" on horsies.

I didn't see Jackie or Caroline fielding horsies or riders at the Olympics so they could "write off" their expenses.

Bullshit is what I call--the premise of this thread is crap, and I'll keep crapping on Annie in her thousand dollar tee shirts and her dancing horse if I so desire.

You can ignore me if my differing opinion offends, I won't mind! To each his or her own, I say!