The Republican NewAge: Something I Never Counted On

That it's as racist as the Left, too, is interesting:

There is, I’m afraid, a touch of Occupy Wall Street about much of the Right’s insurgency — an unlovely propensity to believe that if a small group just wishes hard enough for a particular outcome, it will be able to achieve it.

The Secret:

They're all going to yoga class,...

Where Comedy, Sports - And Online Experience - Merge Into The Black Assimilation Story Without Any Laughter

 

"Pull on his dreadlocks. And these are not Occupy Wall Street dreadlocks, by the way. This is a black dude, this is straight-up racism, this is a hate crime. Because you are pretty sure your ex-wife used to fantasize about this guy doing similar shit to her. You knew it. 'Oh yeah - you want to do this to my wife?'

You'll never get a thicker boner than that angry, racist, jealousy boner. Veins are coming out of the head and nothing makes you crazier than when you get that boner and just JAM it in 'em like a fat salamander, and you ride - you get that porn angle where you bend your dick down, and do deep knee bends so you can look at the people. 

You have 55,000 people who are now out of their chairs, on their feet, chanting for YOU. They love you, they're like 'Fuck That Guy! Fuck That Guy!'"

"I'm not delusional. I know shit ain't gettin' any better than it was. People's feelings haven't changed. Laws have been put in place that make it harder to be racist, that's all. It's legislated. 

That's making racism go away? No. There's still white guys who hate black guys and there's still black guys that hate white guys. That's the way it is.  

It's basic animal nature - people enjoy, like animals, people enjoy hanging out with their own people more than they do other people's people. That's why, you'll have white guys with black friends, black guys with white friends type of thing. But for the most part, when you're going out, it's like, you're usually with your own people. You don't want some conglomerated, mulatto, MONGREL group of friends. Both races will be destroyed!"

All That Matters (Is What TMR Says Matters,...)

So Obama isn't taking Nicki Minaj's endorsement of Mitt Romney too seriously, saying he thinks she's just adopting another persona to sell records (I'm amazed he knew she does that) but what's important to me is how he's treating the issue more seriously than most of these other blogs that think they know what substantive issues are, while ignoring what happens in Rap altogether (Jay-Z came out against Occupy Wall St. this weekend - did anybody notice?) I'm not going to speculate why that is, beyond they mostly have awful taste in music, but it's a major *political* failing when so much occurs ONLY within that sphere.

And yes, how out-of-touch these other guys are, compared to TMR, is a MAJOR theme today because I think their readership numbers are an indication of the country's cluelessness, rather than a sign of it's intellectual sophistication, since they'll spend months on issues that fizzle to nothing, while I'll ignore them as not real to begin with - my point:

If you're not regularly reading this blog, you're missing out on a hell of a lot that is happening, whether you can appreciate it's immediate significance or not.

 That's my take anyway. 

YMMV,...

 

The Best Song By An Occupy Leader Ever Made,...

Alright, this is the latest song by The Coup, a group led by my friend, Boots Riley, who is also Oakland's Occupy Wall St. leader (he's currently not speaking to me because I told him to cut it out,...) I'm posting it because it's a pretty good song - not brilliant or anything, but catchy and fun - and also because my online homie, Ann Althouse, recently had some fun at Boots' expense, which resulted in the hillbillies dissing him so bad I was compelled (COMPELLED!) to defend him.

Even if he hates my conservative guts right now. 

Anyway, to further prove even wrong-headed political outlaws have worth, I present my friend, Boots Riley, and "The Magic Clap"...

"I'm Smarter Than You" (Because You're Stupid)!!!!

Ruminations On "That's When I Went 'What?'"

^^ Turn that piece of won't-embed-right bullshit off ^^

I still can't handle this Romney Rah-Rah at the Althouse, or anywhere else, right now. We face a moment of grave import and these fools have gone potty for the Mormon's "golly-gosh" routine, like they've forgotten humans are,…human,…or how life becomes one hell of a lot creepier after those "nice" people are screwing you - and you realize you let them.

Most don't report being conned. Which is still how the nation's handling it, repeatedly, and will probably go on doing so. (Occupy Wall Street is aware *something happened* but they've got no clue what, or who's behind it, which is why they come up with such lousy "solutions" like bogus scapegoat campaigns. Clearly on the road to conservatism,...)

Notice I DIDN'T say people will generally indulge in madness "and will probably go on doing so - until something bad happens". No, I'm over that. People will go on, as they always have, lying to themselves. If there's a barrier to it, they'll find a way 'round, but they must continue evangelizing their delusions. Like the one about there being some virtue in behaving superficially "nice". Let's hear it for the now-late Gore Vidal:

“I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”

Boy, and he made a lot of money, too - just like Romney! (I kid the trained seals,…) Another good one:

“There is not one human problem that could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”

Goddammit, why couldn't Vidal BE HUMBLE!? Because he didn't have to be - he was seen as "gay" (a term he hated, and rightfully so) resulting in few shackles put on him. Black people? Shackle City - but blacks and gays are the same. Needless to say, I'm still skeptical,...of everything. Sidetrack - all bold's are mine:

Race still matters in American life, and to the extent that it does, there is still work to be done in terms of improvement. But as Obama's own election and polls show, race clearly is not a deciding factor in presidential politics. Assertions that race is at the heart of - or even a contributing factor to  - Obama's rotten poll numbers is blame-shifting of the worst kind. Yet folks ranging from New York magazine's Jonathan Chait to Salon's Joan Walsh to the New York Times' Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd to many others are ready and willing to do so.  

Using racial animus as the go-to explanation for any real or imagined reversal of fortune for President Obama - remember when Slate's Jacob Weisberg implausibly decreed "Racism is the only reason Obama might lose" in 2008? - may comfort liberals now that the president's stimulus inarguably failed to energize the economy as promised, that his more-Bushian-than-Bush embrace of limitless executive power has alienated left-wing civil libertarians, and his recent statements about government's role in building the Internet and all business successes (but never, it seems, failures) have alienated many voters. 

But that comfort is purchased at the expense of being able to grasp an electoral reality that has seen voters evacuate the Republican and Democratic parties - and their cynical manipulation of rhetoric and reality - in record numbers. If conservative Republicans can't understand that fewer people want to associate with them because they lied when they said they favored a government that did less and spent less, nothing can save the party of Lincoln from eventual receivership. And if liberal Democrats can't fully grasp that voters are turned off not the color of Obama's skin but by the failure of his presidency, they too will continue to see fewer and fewer people marching under their banner.

BTW - that last Gore quote I used reflects no different "belief" than what any Mormon "prophet" would hold (“There is not one human problem that could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”) so,…cooool, huh? 

It seems to me fat gay people get a pass on behavioral lectures as well. They can be as fat as they want and all those "health" admonitions (the rest of us are force-fed) disappear. Gays can even be evil and it's like, completely understandable. 

Completely weird is what it is. Is Allen Ginsberg still alive?

"Are Migraines More Common Than Thought?" Yeah. Sorry. It's all I got,....