US politics

Doin’ the Rand Paul Curb Stomp

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I could never watch American History X because some kind soul spoilered the horrific curb stomp scene in it, in which a skinhead forces a victim to lie prone on the ground biting the curb, then kicks him hard in the back of the head. Now, thanks to the Rand Paul campaign, we can finally watch a pg-13 version of that scene:



The victim in this case is Move-On volunteer Lauren Valle who was leafletting in front of a Rand Paul campaign meeting, while the perp is “the Rand Paul for Senate Bourbon County coordinator Tim Profftt“. Apparantly Valle’s shocking display of political disagreement and blatant liberal propaganda activities made this guy and his friends see red. Rand Paul is supposed to be on the libertarian end of the Republican spectrum, but based on his supporters’ behaviour straight out fascism is a more accurate description.

Tea Party morality

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Matt Taibbi gets to the core of it:

This whole concept of “good welfare” and “bad welfare” is at the heart of the Tea Party ideology, and it’s something that is believed implicitly across the line. It’s why so many of their political champions, like Miller, and sniveling Kentucky rich kid Rand Paul (a doctor whose patient base is 50% state insured), and Nevada “crazy juice” Senate candidate Sharron Angle (who’s covered by husband Ted’s Federal Employee Health Plan insurance), are so completely unapologetic about taking state aid with one hand and jacking off angry pseudo-libertarian mobs with the other.

They genuinely don’t see the contradiction, much in the same way that some Wall Street people genuinely can’t see the problem with their company, say, taking $13 billion in bonuses in the same year that they accepted $13 billion in state bailouts. You wave a pitchfork at them with little post-its of the relevant figures taped to the ends, and ask them to confess – and they can’t, because they literally don’t see your point.

The politics of envy indeed.

QotD: the decline of America, as evidenced by Terry Jones

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Almost a decade of the War on Terror and some fucking hick “pastor” from bloody Florida is able to hold the country to ransom with his nazi book burning stunt. Says Jamie:

I suppose it could be argued for various reasons that they had no choice, but if anything that’s even worse news from the American perspective. They’ve reached the demagogue event horizon: the most obvious vulgar chancer thrown up by the whole War on Terror nonsense is taken with absolute seriousness by people who everybody else is supposed to take seriously.

It’s the logical outcome of a process in which the rightwing of America has been allowed to make itself more and more shrill withou adults stepping in and saying enough is enough. On the other hand, there have been loons like this all through American history; they just couldn’t be interviewed on CNN before.