Ingredient: Frustration
People who don’t understand what a web browser is and need to be told which cord is the power cord shouldn’t own a computer, let alone work on one. I waste at least one hour of every day dealing with some idiot who is incapable of grasping basic user operations on a PC, yet still got hired to work from home. Sometimes there are multiple idiots who take large portions of my time, but every day there’s at least one who should quit their job and sell their PC, then apply for welfare. I don’t mind paying the taxes to keep people like this from unnecessarily raising my blood pressure.
Ingredient: Patronization
Have you ever had to put up with someone who thought they were the shit, then deal with it by simply tolerating their presence and occasionally humoring them in their delusions, but are flatly unimpressed overall? At what point do you shatter their illusions by pointing out they’re not all that important?
Ingredient: Chagrin
The Huffington Post and other news sources are finally talking about what I’ve been bitching about since at least March. The right wing is involved in yet another vast right-wing conspiracy. Every conservative I’ve met who admits listening to Rush Limbaugh gives the same stock answer. It consists of several parts:
1) Acknowledgement: “Yes, I listen to him…” There’s no point denying the obvious. If you identify yourself as a conservative, chances are, you listen to Rush Limbaugh.
2) Downplay: “…every once in awhile…” They’re saying “look, I may listen to him but it’s not that big of a deal.” Here they try making it seem like he’s not their main/sole source of news. C’mon, there’s also Faux News and conservative bloggers!
3) Street Cred: “…but I don’t agree with everything he says.” In other words, “I arrive at my own conclusions.” An attempt at making themselves seem like independent-minded free thinkers, like Rush tells them they are. This is probably because they’re often accused of not thinking, and simply downloading their opinion directly into their brains from whatever the mouth on the radio says.
Of course, we know this is all bullshit. They’re nothing but mindless, brainwashed hacks. This becomes especially obvious when they start pledging their allegiance to that butterball. “I’m a loyal soldier.” “It was an honor to follow your orders.” Read about it here. Don’t get me wrong–the rest of us knew this to be the case the whole time. It’s just funny that they’re finally admitting it so openly. Maybe I ought to write a book about it. “See, I Told You So” sounds like a good title, eh Rush?
The primary hijacking that has been going on has a name: Operation Chaos. Their goal is to get Clinton nominated as the Democratic candidate because they think she’ll be easier to defeat in the general election. Alternatively, they see themselves as benefiting by prolonging the primaries and letting the Dems tear themselves down, which is what has happened.
Rush Limbaugh has played his “poor me” fiddle when the rest of us condemned him for attempting to subvert democracy. But in truth, that’s what this is. What his little “Operation Chaos” amounts to is fraud. The result is the selling of the right’s dignity and honor, if they had any to begin with.
Ingredient: Observation
As soon as I saw that Clinton won Indiana by a whopping 2%, I knew she’d never leave. After reading the Dumbaugh article, I knew for certain why she won. It’s the same reason she won in Texas and Ohio by many estimates. Clinton knows this. The super-delegates know that people are voting for her for this reason, and have no intention of voting for her in the fall… yet still they sit on the bench, refusing to play. Pretty god damn sad if you ask me, especially since the circumstances are obvious: Republicans are scumbags, therefore Clinton remains in the race.
I also think that’s a real testament to the electability of Barack Obama. Even though these scumbag Republicans are coming out in droves to hijack the election and fix the results, Clinton is STILL losing.
Superdelegates, get your shit in gear or fuck off to the world of political irrelevancy along with John Edwards.
