Thursday, December 08, 2011

Things That Say You're A Fucking Retard

1. You think that blocking K Street will do anything other than make people quite rightly despise you.

2. You're Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services.

3. You're Obama.

Other possibilities not excluded.

11 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

One of these things is not like the others, he sang like an effin' retard.

(A gleeful one!)
~

Landru said...

Singing that song is absolutely excluded from the list of signs of deficiencies.

Whether or not you're right, which is a much lengthier and wider-ranging discussion in which I am limiting my expression to things of which I'm pretty fucking sure.

BDR said...

They'd despise me with or without anyone blocking K Street, so pissing them off is bonus.

Landru said...

You are quite literally the very last human on this Earth with whom I would personally engage on this topic in public.

Landru said...

And furthermore, it grieves me quite a bit that I really can't say a fucking word about this in public without giving the appearance that I'm engaging with you personally or targeting you with my unkind words. I'm not saying I'm pissed at you about that or anything, because I'm not. It's an outgrowth of a generalization, and it's pretty much impossible to talk about #Occupy without overgeneralizing. I cannot say enough that this isn't personal.

BDR said...

First off, I hate fucking blooger comments - let me see if I can reconstruct the lost sentences:

I know it's not personal, and my comment was an attempt to capture in small the pluses and minuses of pissing off people.

Not pissing off people hasn't worked so well, and even if the majority of the people who are pissed are solidly pro-Corporate, for the first time in a long time people are debating whether Corporate is too shitty and that's pissing Corporate off (I don't think they're scared as some hold), which is a plus, and it's hastening Corporate's police state, which is a minus.

Overgeneralizing, as you say. It is complex and conflicted phenomenon, but it's fucking great for blogging material.

Landru said...

You're leaving out pissed-off people who are not inclined to be pro-greed, but who would still like to get the fuck home. Or wherever they're going. That's not just non-trivial, and I suspect it's fatal.

Jim H. said...

Jeebus H. Look what happens when the frickin' VW Uniteds season winds down. The hooliganism (I use that word proudly as a descendant of Scotsmen) spills out into the byways of the bloogosfere (that word however...).

Seriously, though, I would love to go to a match with the two of you, stand behind you in the LOUD section, and drink some beer and listen to the two of you go at each other about diving and refs and slacking and substitutions and such.

So, I'm a fucking retard.

Best (as ever),
Jim H.

Sasha said...

Now y'all say "thank you" because I didn't take over your nice little thread with a rant about the fucking Obama administration, Plan B, and pandering to those who hate you.

I love you too.

fish said...

1. You think that blocking K Street will do anything other than make people quite rightly despise you.

I don't know, this op/ed was in Forbes Magazine. The Forbes Magazine owned by this nutball.

The discussions are different now, just because of a few pain in the ass (mostly) kids. Sure they lose a few/gain a few for any particular action, but I participated in several large anti-war protests, one of them the largest global protest against war ever with multi-millions of protestors, and that did fuck-all to stop the war or even alter the dialog a fraction of an inch. A few thousand persistent pains in the ass have fucking Forbes Magazine saying we need to increase capital gains taxes.

I say go ahead, ruin my day and make my year.
YMMV

Landru said...

Thanks fish. You're a right guy no matter what Thunder says about you.

In my own perfectly imitable quibbly way, I'd say that a few thousand persistent pains in the ass have one guy at fucking Forbes admitting to math. Still not bad. Worth the tradeoff of tens of thousands of pissed-off commuters? Still not buying.

I've been intrigued by the many comparisons between #Occupy and the antiwar movement. Haven't yet had a thought conclusive enough to commit it to electrons, though. I lean toward wanting to make something of the parallel; still chewing. Maybe I'll swallow, or not.