"Money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money" -- Kander and Ebb (Cabaret)
You'd think it's all about money, wouldn't ya? But you'd be wrong.
It's the facts, stupid!
It's the substance, stupid!
It's the truth, stupid!
Despite the rapid rise of Der Super Pacs, the 24/7 spew from the pundit putzery and the thoroughly bored billionaire Geppettos making their pinheaded Pinocchios dance long after the music has died, will the infusion of all that money really --REALLY-- distract the awakening public from the increasingly outrageous and desperate shenanigans emanating from the right-wing corporate GOPhuckyourselves?
After years of failed trickle-down approach to everything from economics to morality, the right's previously proven pudding has besmirched everyone's bibs, laps and plastic covered couches to the point where even true believers are getting sick of the mess.
But don't tell the money gushers that.
Oh, everyone knows they hate the masses and look upon them as easily swayed chattel. And hell, that's proven to be the case. There are and will always be slavishly compliant folks who trust the obscenely monied regardless of the mayhem they sometimes wreak.
But one cannot handle toxic materials for long without it leeching into their own marrow and they are now feeling the effects. Their actions belie their boasts as they leap-frog from one faux issue to the next, down roads we've all been before. It's as if they have become so distanced from the reality their decade of disastrous dominance has created, they can't even remember history: even slaves revolt; that despite dumbing down the public, making them dependent on planned obsolescence, wresting humility, mercy and common sense from them through relentless distraction and fear, they are glassy-eyed with their latest hoarding of wealth, like cartoon Croesuses, and can't feel the rumblings beneath their feet. Or, they're just ignoring them.
A day doesn't pass when someone from the organized right (let alone the anonymous individual cyber-berserkers) says or does something so patently offensive that it's a miracle any real conservative still in possession of sanity and sense -- and they are out there! -- doesn't just move to another country altogether. The right-wing characteristic of unflinching fealty no longer serves the party or the country and the tragic results are clearly to be seen. There simply is no amount of expensive lipstick that will pretty up that pig of a corrupted ideology anymore.
Money does make the world go 'round. But without a country full of healthy, educated, secure, united, hopeful people to make it, save it and spend it wisely, then really, what the hell good is it?
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I've long contended whether in politics or religion, Steven, 'they' (the far right) deny so many simple facts when it suits them, and alter so much of their own reality when it offends them, the ability to recognize hypocrisy in themselves or others often seems lost. Either that - or more folks than can logically be imagined are consummate practiced liars without conscience. (Any other kind would obviously lose sleep.) Unfortunately, there's also just as likely a large number that have eventually realized they've been sold a bill of goods by the greedy, but would rather continue on a path of convenient self-deception than admit the many hours 'they' wasted listening to limbaugh or beck.
It seems a bit generous and forgiving of their careless driving perhaps, for the Meastro of 'wise-ass'. But then, my old self could also have drawn unflattering connections - concerning belief in make-believe vs. reality and the clinical definition of 'psychosis' (but I chose not to?).
Oh yeah, here's to cutting off one's pseudonym to spite unemployment; er ...or something like that.
AKA - NoFactsJustTruth
Every time I read a line like "thoroughly bored billionaire Geppettos making their pinheaded Pinocchios dance long after the music has died", or, "the money gushers", my mind immediately imagines the wonderful images those words might inspire from him.
On a side note, I just have to share a great quote from a discourse I had on one of the other stories on AOLPost this past week.
The back-story is; while debating the potential pitfalls and merits of the Occupy Movement, an opponent of the movement was trying to propose that "unlike the Civil Rights Movement" which he argued had a "specific goal and agenda" right from the start (which he cited as the Rosa Parks incident), the Occupy Movement lacked any specific goals or agenda, and was simply a "disorganized mob".
In rebuttal, I noted that his knowledge of the history of the Civil Rights Movement was horribly flawed, citing specific events that predated Ms. Parks protest, and the many events that led up to her historic stand and the resultant protests that coalesced around it.
To which he replied with one of the all time great Right Wing retorts I've ever seen:
"your continual insistence on bringing in non-essentÂial facts. . .on a message board is laughable."
FACTS? We don't need no stinking FACTS!
Gotta love it!
Facts? They are so annoying sometimes. ;-)
It's the substance, stupid!
It's the truth, stupid!"
i watch fox & friends every morning with my cheerios.
It"s just the stupid, stupid!
And Joe offered a comment similar to one that I've used for years answering these religious zealots, when he talked about how he would never burn his own children in H. Especially only for the "sin" of rejection.
I tell 'em that I can think of very few people I would sentence to an eternity in fire, so I refuse to believe in a God less merciful and forgiving than I am. Drives 'em crazy, lol!!!
Oh, and that HAIR!!! How could he believe in an omnipotent being, who would "bless" him with such a ridiculous mop? :-)
yes, a cruel god indeed, lol.
anyway, keller is reduced to begging on youtube, so i say, job well done.
"***FEBRUARY FINANCIAL UPDATE: With just 9 days left in the month, we still need to bring in $37,000 to cover our basic monthly operational costs. I am asking you to take a second and seek the Lord what HE is calling you to do to help me this month. For some, it may be a gift of $5, others $50, others $100, and still others $1,000 or more. The Bible teaches to give according to your ability to give. All I ask is that you pray, and be obedient to give as the Lord purposes in your heart. Thank you for your prayers and sacrifce as we bring HIS Truth and salvation through faith in Jesus to the lost and hurting masses." -bill keller liveprayer
so very sad, lol.
The only thing is that even the stupidest of Americans may be starting to see how ridiculous and desperate they are and so maybe voters will start to open their eyes and finally see these corporate hoes for what they are.
Thank you, Steven.
I'm encouraged by the situation in Wisconsin, where all the corporate money pouring in to help the corrupt Governor there keep his job, seems to be for not. Over one million Wisconsinites said it's time for him to go, and the recall was and is totally grass roots.
For all the money Romney poured into Florida, all he could muster was 8% of the vote from a republican base in which half those registered stayed home. And it's the same in all the other primary states so far. Your "expensive lipstick" analogy is quite right.
And now the Pubs are attacking women's rights and birth control????? They just infuriated the biggest voting block in the nation! Hades hath no fury like a woman having her contraception denied by some condescending GOP politician. Try buying your way out of THAT ludicrous campaign-year foul-up, Republicans.
".... freedom of religion is being attacked by your socialist buddy in chief. "
That's "comrade in chief," to you, Kams. ;-)
We "socialists/communists" are very sensitive to what labels you Tea Baggers attempt to place on us, as we try to wrest this nation back from the corporations to the PEOPLE the Founding Fathers actually intended it to belong to.
Returning it to the people, who deserve compensation for all they have contributed to this nation's greatness.
The only place you'll find religion in this dynamic, is in the corporate Republican Right's misuse of it's followers in order to fulfill their greedy agendas.
You can always change your mind, Kams. But first you must free it.
those poor christians, always so persecuted. boo hoo.
well, i didn't get the luxury of reading kams comment, but i have a response ot her anyway.
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven...."
so Kams, the sooner you get to heaven, the better, (for all of us)
LOL.
Semper fi
History lesson time.
2/14/2011, Obama proposed a fiscal 2012 budget of 3.73 Trillion.
GOP says no way.
Everyone proceeded without a budget and they passed 3 spending authorization bills that effectively are the budget.
The result: Spending for 2012 is 3.78 Trillion. (50 Billion more than Obama's request)
Most of the people in Red States cant add big numbers. That is the GOP's political cover.