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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Bring on The Class Warfare: A Rant That Covers Anal Sex, Solid Gold Strap-Ons and Sean Hannity's Masturbation Habits

I spent a few minutes on Sunday, staring slack-jawed at the jackassery and mouth-turds produced by the Republican Presidential Primary Candidates during their stage show on ABC with George and His Voice That Is Really Not Good for Television.

When I wasn't holding down the vomit, I was wishing that some of those gun-owners in the audience would just pull one of their penis substitutes out and blast away at those small-minded fuckers on stage.

It was like watching a Hit Parade of Hatred with stupid sauce. Fear, fear, fear, others, bad, evil Democrats, terror, FEAR! God. Jesus Christ. Fear.

Contrast that to last night's gut wrenching Democratic forum with the AFL-CIO at Soldier Field in Chicago. Though most of the candidates were still sounding way too wishy-washy for my taste, there was a lot more substance there for the voting public to consume and ruminate over.

And Keith O. as the moderator was a nice bonus.

This debate covered real life issues and it was particularly poignant when the retired steelworker spoke about having his promised health care coverage cancelled and his pension cut.

Watching last night's forum made me realize that it's time for some good old-fashioned class warfare. I liked what Kucinich had to say. I liked what Edwards, Obama, Dodd and Richardson had to say, too. I like the bold statements. I'm sick of hearing that Americans are such pussies that we can't possibly make big, bold changes to anything because we might what? Go mute? Start eating our children? Set ourselves on fire while tap-dancing nude?

Enough with the cannot, should not, will not line of reasoning. I could fertilize the garden with that.

So while most of the Democratic candidates want to take baby steps toward fixing our nation's failing everyfuckingthing and the Republicans want to take giant leaps toward break everyfuckingthing that is for the common good, we're forced to accept this media meme that America can't possibly handle the changes required to get our energy usage and production house in order or that Americans don't want universal health care or coverage or that this nation is moving toward conservatism because as we're cavorting about in the bilge water that is our pop culture, we're all secretly dropping to our knees to pray for spiritual guidance about who will win So You Think You Can Dance?

Or maybe it's the illegal aliens who are consuming all of our pop culture. They're consuming our jobs and sanity, so why not?

Republicans root for war that kills, maims and destroys. But mention a class issue or take a populist position on something and you're accused of instigating class warfare like it's a bad thing.

Chew on this, though, wouldn't it be nice to have some common sense in play? How about some people who do regular jobs, making regular money , experiencing regular life in these United States of Debt and More Debt who could actually run for a federal office and win?

It's hard to imagine.

What the "debates" demonstrated to me was that the Republicans are fundamentally about taking out their cocks and waving them in the air to not only frighten the skin off the rest of us, but also to demonstrate to their frightened and insecure base that, as the Chris Matthews-Maureen Dowd meme goes, Republicans are the daddy party, see, because we have outies.

Democrats are the mommy party because they don't have outies, they have innies and they have Hillary.

I want to take bits and pieces of each of the Democratic candidates and roll them all together to make the perfect Democratic Candidate. Obviously, I can't do that so I'll have to learn as much as I can about their current policies and positions and their voting records. I'll take that information and add a mathematical formula that calculates which Candidate is most likely to tell the Right Wing to go fuck itself sideways and hard. And I will watch and wait to see which of them starts to pull closer to Hillary, the anointed front-runner, in the polls.

The media and the Right have such a boner for her to be the Democratic nominee for the general election. Sean Hannity's panties are moist with the idea that he can spend a whole year just pounding away at Hillary's image. Then they'll signal to him that his microphone is on and he'll wipe up and go on air to tell his mouthbreathing listeners that Hillary is going to take their guns away from them and sodomize the Baby Jesus with them with one hand while slitting the throats of corporate fat cats, setting fire to piles of tax dollars, anally raping Christian teens of both genders with her Chinese-manufactured solid gold strap-on, taking over hospitals with an army of smelly, homeless people, disbanding our military and selling the White House to NARAL.

And that's just on her first day in office!

Fuck yeah, it's going to be a long campaign season.

18 Erect Nipples:

Evil Spock said...

Evil Spock waited until the end for the sodomizing reference.

The GOP have the most inept contenders, and no one in there right mind would elect any of them to be president.

Unless Hillary is the Democratic candidate.

Hillary is qualified to be president, but she's not the best. Plus she'll galvanize the Right and actually bring their splintered faction back together.

Ideally I would love to have someone like Kucinich, but I'll settle for the populist Edwards. He may have had some missteps, but he's the guy I want in 2008.

Dr. Zaius said...

What a great post! I pretty much agree with Evil Spock, but I still want to see Pelosi in '07, Baby!

On your last line, "Fuck yeah, it's going to be a long campaign season," I imediately thought of this graphic. It kind of makes the message fun for the whole family!

Distributorcap said...

sean hannity's panties

you have burned the image of the day into my mind
and i cannot GET IT OUT!

hehehehehehehehe

pissed off patricia said...

One hell of a wonderful rant. I'm with you all the way.

While the Dems are at least talking about good ideas, the Repubs are fighting over which of them has known jesus the longest. Their candidates are strange people. There's not a one of them I would trust to bring my paper to me in the morning.

Spartacus said...

D-

You forgot to take your Ritalin again today didn't you?

I'm kidding, of course, but quite honestly, I think the problem is with the party system itself and this perpetual cycle of an electoral process we now have. Candidates from both parties are so beholden to monied interests (including Hillary, who received a donation from Rupert Murdoch) that I really have difficulty trusting candidates from any side.

Honestly, I think it's time this country had another constitutional convention and take a serious look at what works and what doesn't and reacquaint ourselves with this notion of democracy. It was never meant to be about positioning oneself as this candidate or that as if they were some product to be hawked in a 30-second ad. Do we need any more proof than George Bush to realize that our process is fundamentally flawed?

Sorry for the rant D. I like Keith O., too (moreso on SportsCenter than on CNN), and Sean Hannity makes ashamed of my fondness for anything Irish, but as I was reading your post, it occurred to me that our elections have become as much about the "color commentators" as it is about the "players". It left me thinking, "no wonder Olberman is such a good fit here."

Let the 2008 "Games" begin!

DCup said...

Evil Spock - It's coming, you know, the bumper sticker that we'll see everywhere if Hillary is the Dem cadidate....A vote for Hillary is a vote for Satan and higher taxes.

Dr. Z - Love the graphic!!!! Will have to use it....Thanks!

DCap - I owe you a mind-wipe. Sorry about that.

Pissed Off Patricia - Repubs are fighting over which of them has known jesus the longest....
I love it - it's the perfect description! And welcome to the blogroll!

Spartacus - You did take your ritalin today, didn't you? You focused in on some of worst ills of the process. The shallow and the craven. You're right, a part-time sports commentator is the perfect reflection of our political process.

Phydeaux Speaks said...

What Spartacus said!

We all need to work towards making a new Constitutional Convention a reality!

Good post, as always, DCup!

Joe the Troll said...

I haven't watched any "debates" yet. New Mexico has closed primaries and I'm registered DTS, so I can't vote in a primary. Thus, paying attention now would simply lead to a concussion, as I would undoubtedly bang my head against a wall repeatedly in sheer frustration.

pygalgia said...

Nice rant, but the media still has a lot of time to "frame" the eventual rethug nominee as "manly" and the dem as "swishy" (unless it's Hillary-then they'll go with another dynamic). And the general public, bless them, hates politics and only know what the media theme is. We've got a hell of a lot of work to do before election day.

Blue Gal said...

I think the title alone warrants a don't sugarcoat it award. Tomorrow. xoxo and thanks for linky, too.

Al Sensu said...

I could listen to Rush for hours -- never have, but I could endure it.

Hannity... I can't take a second of.

I think either he is asexual or a deviant of impressive proportion. Either way, I don't want to think about it please.

And that lapdog of his Colmes who probably sucks him off before every show.

Carla said...

Oh my gawd. Thank you so much for taking the thoughts out of my head and articulating them... in.such.an.appropriate.way! (and thanks to BG for the link here!)

Sherry said...

aaahhhh, i can see hannity now! ick!

Ricky Shambles said...

Brilliantly said! I cringe at the almost full year of single-candidate democratic deconstruction as the states backwards-sack race towards relevance and the drop of the ball.

al sensu - opposites to you; I could endure Hannity's postiche patriotism all week, but Rush's myopic idiocy for mere seconds. Rush Today: "You know what organic means? Feces. That's what it means." And I had to turn it off.

D, I love the voice, the politics and the personal stuff. I'll be back. Often. Thanks to BG for the always-wise direction.

Comrade Kevin said...

Great post.

I really wish it were possible for those of us in the Democratic base netroots to decide who gets to be the next candidate. As it stands now, I agree with you, it's nice to see the Democratic candidates being asked actual questions with substances than fluff.

It just goes to show you how desperate all Americans are for substantial change and not lip service. If it doesn't happen, then I think something drastic will occur. But then again, activists have been predicting something like that for years.

Once the inevitable recession hits, we really are going to have to resort to something major to save this country.

That's just my theory. Take it with as many grains of salt as you wish.

Mauigirl said...

Spartacus is right, we need a new Constitutional Convention to figure out a new way to elect a president. The system is broken.

Evil Spock is also right - Hillary is going to aggravate the right so much that it may backfire. And if anyone currently running for president on the Republican side wins in '08 I'll definitely have to move to New Zealand (because it's as far away as possible, and a pretty country).

Kevin Hayden said...

that Hillary is going to take their guns away from them and sodomize the Baby Jesus with them with one hand while slitting the throats of corporate fat cats, setting fire to piles of tax dollars, anally raping Christian teens of both genders with her Chinese-manufactured solid gold strap-on, taking over hospitals with an army of smelly, homeless people, disbanding our military and selling the White House to NARAL.

Finally a Hilary platform that'd make me vote enthusiastically for her.

BAC said...

Love the rant ... hate that the whole process started so early, and that the candidates will basically be selected by Feb 08!

There should be a law:
1) No campaigning for president until Labor Day of the year preceding the election!

2) The primaries must be spread out throughout the year, so that EVERYONE gets a chance to have a say in the selection.

3) The conventions shouldn't be pep rallies, bring back the excitement of not really knowing who the candidate will be until the roll call vote is taken.

And there should be another law. 4) Do away with the electoral college, and let the candidate with the most votes win!


BAC