Rant Salad - 5/7/2008
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.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I have gotten quite the chuckle out of Operation Chaos. Brad borrowed my car and switched the station to talk radio because he listens to Luciano and Markley. Since this is a new stereo, I had no idea how to get it back to the FM without causing a multicar pile up so I had to listen to Rush and his Operation Chaos rantings until my next stop so I could look at the stereo and change it back. He really thinks this is all his doing and he is all powerful and mighty. Good Republicans, and there are a few, are trying to fix the fuck ups and rebuild the party instead of trying to destroy the Democrats. Rush gives them all a bad name.
BTW I’m an independent and not taking a side. I think things are so fucked right now that it will take more than the next presidential term or two to repair all the damage.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:52 am
EBB –> Good For You!!
There are so many people who bristle at the notion of a “good” Democrat or Republican it is terribly sad. This huge division in our national family is almost heartbreaking at times. Even good friends and family will frost over if you say anything the least negative about their party or candidate. It will probably take a generation to get over it and I hope that is not too late. You know what they say about divide and conquer …
May 8th, 2008 at 7:49 am
You’ve got it all wrong - the purpose is to prolong the fight until both candidates are so damaged neither can win. Of course, with the MSM so totally in the bag for Barry…..
May 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Of course there are good ones, but I’ve got nothing to say about them. We disagree and that’s that. It’s the scumbags that I have a problem with, so those are the ones I rant about.
Heh, I know it seems like I hate all republicans, but I don’t. However, I think it’s evident that a vast majority are either hopeless dumbasses or severely misled. I know, the Left has its share of crazies too. But with how amazing far the politics in this country have shifted to the authoritarian right, it’s very difficult to find a truly “centrist” Republican, especially when true centrists are called the “left-wing fringe” by the extreme right wing.
Then again, relative to the position of the right, a person with solid conservative views looks like a centrist. But no, I don’t hate the right, I feel bad for them. I think they’ve all been made into suckers, and the elite class is laughing at them.
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Actually Vonster, if you listen to Rush as often as I do, you’d be less prone to buying his gradual changes in rhetoric. Originally, it was to get Hillary nominated. That’s a fact and you can look it up. When it became apparent that she wasn’t going to get the nomination, they changed their story to say this is what they wanted all along.
Pff. More proof that these people can’t be reasoned with. They’re incapable of admitting they’re wrong, even on things as trivial as the goal of their little crackpot plan. Instead, they just lie and pretend they were “all in on this together and this was the plan all along and pff you don’t know what you’re talking about if you believe otherwise.” Sad.
As for Obama, yeah Von. The ABC debates really proved that. McCain has done all kinds of dumb shit since he got the nomination, not to mention flip flopping on every god damn issue under the sun. Where’s the outcry against him? Or, does he have the media in the bag too?
May 9th, 2008 at 7:14 am
From the first time I heard him talk about it, the purpose was strictly to extend the nomination battle to bloody up the Democrats. provide citation otherwise.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Your memory can not possibly be that short-term.
To answer your request: no. That would require me to pay for a subscription to Rush Limbaugh and then listen to 3 grueling hours after 3 more grueling hours of his crap to find where it was. That’s just something I’m not willing to do over a claim that other media and commentators with that kind of time and resources are now reporting on as well.
I’m at work and thus cannot access streaming video, but I believe you can find it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23908634
May 9th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Well that didn’t work but I personally wouldn’t trust the fever swamp that is the home of Olby to tell me about Limbaugh…
May 9th, 2008 at 9:11 am
It’s okay, trust isn’t essential. His statements can actually be referenced for consistency and have a tendency to be legitimate most of the time, though after admitting to being a Limbaugh listener, I understand why you’d be cautious. :D
May 9th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Listener not dittohead. I sometimes find him ridiculous too.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:36 am
You just scored ten thousand points.
Quid pro quo, sometimes I do agree with him. Yesterday, for instance, he was talking about gas/jet-fuel prices. He said eventually we’ll get to a price the market cannot sustain (he used $200/barrel as an example). While I disagree with his almost religious faith in the invisible hand of the market (and the unending insistence that it’s the Democrats’ fault, even though prices were high prior to 2007), he’s right about the breaking point: If the market can’t sustain it, it won’t last.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
You’re a legend in your own mind! Just a shame, you have so much of it all wrong!