Shockingly, slush and hannity, tag team blowhards that they are, stayed pretty close as far as topics go…for the short period of time that I could listen in today. Mush referred to me, that is “liberals” or “democrats” as the enemy.
I am now the enemy.
One sentence later he said that the democratic party was the terrorist party.
Interesting approach.
But I have to say, yawn, a little old.
He kept going on and on about how the left is full of hate, venomous lies and despicable acts of anti-security, anti-American propaganda.
All the while the image just kept coming up in my head of this fat drug addict sitting behind his microphone spitting while hysterically waving his arms and turning multiple shades of magenta.
Caused a bit of a giggle, have to say.
He couldn’t understand how conservatives could actually justify “punishing” their congress-people, their president by handing everything over to the dems.
Makes no sense.
Then he said that the dems are being ignored. What about all their misdeeds during this time? Why were they getting away with it, and republicans weren’t? After all…it is harder for the conservative representatives to work with a conservative president than it is for conservative reps to work with a democratic president.
Medic! Oxycontin, stat!
The guy is delusional.
That was spun so hard that I actually got a little vertigo…a little nauseated.
Where on earth did that come from?
Is that right?
It is harder for people on the same team to work together than people on different teams?
Hard shake of the head.
Nope.
Still doesn’t make sense.
Then he launched into this tirade about the middle class being discontent even though Forbes had come out and said that they were better off than their parents.
They did a comparison between now and the 60s.
That’s right.
The 60s.
And we are doing FAR better…even when adjusting for real-time wages, income, etc.
But the malcontents in the middle.
Always bitching and moaning.
And why do they bitch and moan?
Because now, says lush, they have the internet, and they can look up what other people are making and they are getting jealous. They have access to other people’s salaries and they are dissatisfied that others make more. That and the fact that if they don’t attain the self-projected income they have set, even if it is off by a measly 1%, they’re unhappy.
The economy is flourishing, he says, hammering the table!
Oooook…oxygen please.
It is hard to believe that you are doing better when your energy bill has quadrupled. That might not be a big deal to you, crush, but to us it is crippling. It is hard to get joyous when you are paying over a third more for less groceries. It is hard to get gleeful when college grants, scholarships and funding are dropping like the proverbial mosquitoes after the bug sprayer truck rolls through the neighborhood. It is difficult to be tickled when you are literally buried by medical bills which are not covered by your primary or your secondary insurance, both of which you pay premiums out the ass every two weeks from your paycheck. When your paycheck has remained stagnant, but everything else has gone up, it is kind of hard to stomach your bringing up how much better we are doing than those living in the 60s. And are we only talking economics here or are we talking about quality of life in relation to our environment because it has seriously deteriorated.
You see, brush, we live here…in the real world…where we don’t have “people” to run around taking care of things for us. Where we don’t get millions of dollars from untold sources to do their bidding, to write books that glorify false opinions and “facts”.
And that’s fine.
Not all of us want to be rock stars, actors or actresses, or even famous.
Some of us don’t like the idea of the trade off.
The trading of your privacy for celebrity.
I am happy where I am with my man, my kids, my friends, my family, my neighbors, doing what I do. I don’t envy people with a lot of money. I just don’t appreciate some fatass prick telling me that I should be happy with the fact that we, at any moment, can be rendered financially destroyed by a medical emergency, that I can be arrested because I speak out against violence against animals, children, or something else that corporate America doesn’t want to have interrupted. I do not like some pompous a-hole spewing his bogus crap about a life he knows nothing about – you know, a Christian life.
An ordinary life.
A life in which we stick to our principles, our integrity, where at times we tread water with our kids help firmly out of harms way while you tell me what I did to deserve my current situation.
The problem is, the republicans have continuously placed themselves as some kind of moral compass by which all of us should adjust our direction. Republicans came to power on the wave of integrity and character. Instead of going the good ole Christian route of humility and grace, they went the route of the self-righteous which is a forehead-slapper if I ever saw one.
Because inevitably you will fall.
You will plunge from that perch because we are all fallible.
We are all teetering between right and wrong, screwing up left and right.
You just happened to be the party that had to go around telling everyone that you weren’t like that. Your party has shielded people for the sake of the party at the expense of integrity and that is your demise.
The problem with all of this rancor is that ultimately the parties are made up, not of enemies, but of families, neighbors, friends, co-workers, who just happen to have different beliefs and ideas.
We all want to be safe.
We all want to protect our loved ones.
We all want our families and friends to be healthy.
We all want those that threaten us to be deterred.
We all want to be able to provide for our families the basics if not some extras.
We all want to be able to speak our mind without fear of reprisal.
We all want fairness and justice to walk hand in hand.
There is no difference in the wants of the citizens in this country, it’s just in the application.
We have applied this approach for a long time.
It doesn’t seem to be working for the vast majority of us.
Let’s try something different.
It’s not permanent.
If it doesn’t work we can change it again.
We are not so mired in tradition that we can’t change.Enough of the calling of fellow American citizens “enemies”, that’s just a bad road to travel down.
I am now the enemy.
One sentence later he said that the democratic party was the terrorist party.
Interesting approach.
But I have to say, yawn, a little old.
He kept going on and on about how the left is full of hate, venomous lies and despicable acts of anti-security, anti-American propaganda.
All the while the image just kept coming up in my head of this fat drug addict sitting behind his microphone spitting while hysterically waving his arms and turning multiple shades of magenta.
Caused a bit of a giggle, have to say.
He couldn’t understand how conservatives could actually justify “punishing” their congress-people, their president by handing everything over to the dems.
Makes no sense.
Then he said that the dems are being ignored. What about all their misdeeds during this time? Why were they getting away with it, and republicans weren’t? After all…it is harder for the conservative representatives to work with a conservative president than it is for conservative reps to work with a democratic president.
Medic! Oxycontin, stat!
The guy is delusional.
That was spun so hard that I actually got a little vertigo…a little nauseated.
Where on earth did that come from?
Is that right?
It is harder for people on the same team to work together than people on different teams?
Hard shake of the head.
Nope.
Still doesn’t make sense.
Then he launched into this tirade about the middle class being discontent even though Forbes had come out and said that they were better off than their parents.
They did a comparison between now and the 60s.
That’s right.
The 60s.
And we are doing FAR better…even when adjusting for real-time wages, income, etc.
But the malcontents in the middle.
Always bitching and moaning.
And why do they bitch and moan?
Because now, says lush, they have the internet, and they can look up what other people are making and they are getting jealous. They have access to other people’s salaries and they are dissatisfied that others make more. That and the fact that if they don’t attain the self-projected income they have set, even if it is off by a measly 1%, they’re unhappy.
The economy is flourishing, he says, hammering the table!
Oooook…oxygen please.
It is hard to believe that you are doing better when your energy bill has quadrupled. That might not be a big deal to you, crush, but to us it is crippling. It is hard to get joyous when you are paying over a third more for less groceries. It is hard to get gleeful when college grants, scholarships and funding are dropping like the proverbial mosquitoes after the bug sprayer truck rolls through the neighborhood. It is difficult to be tickled when you are literally buried by medical bills which are not covered by your primary or your secondary insurance, both of which you pay premiums out the ass every two weeks from your paycheck. When your paycheck has remained stagnant, but everything else has gone up, it is kind of hard to stomach your bringing up how much better we are doing than those living in the 60s. And are we only talking economics here or are we talking about quality of life in relation to our environment because it has seriously deteriorated.
You see, brush, we live here…in the real world…where we don’t have “people” to run around taking care of things for us. Where we don’t get millions of dollars from untold sources to do their bidding, to write books that glorify false opinions and “facts”.
And that’s fine.
Not all of us want to be rock stars, actors or actresses, or even famous.
Some of us don’t like the idea of the trade off.
The trading of your privacy for celebrity.
I am happy where I am with my man, my kids, my friends, my family, my neighbors, doing what I do. I don’t envy people with a lot of money. I just don’t appreciate some fatass prick telling me that I should be happy with the fact that we, at any moment, can be rendered financially destroyed by a medical emergency, that I can be arrested because I speak out against violence against animals, children, or something else that corporate America doesn’t want to have interrupted. I do not like some pompous a-hole spewing his bogus crap about a life he knows nothing about – you know, a Christian life.
An ordinary life.
A life in which we stick to our principles, our integrity, where at times we tread water with our kids help firmly out of harms way while you tell me what I did to deserve my current situation.
The problem is, the republicans have continuously placed themselves as some kind of moral compass by which all of us should adjust our direction. Republicans came to power on the wave of integrity and character. Instead of going the good ole Christian route of humility and grace, they went the route of the self-righteous which is a forehead-slapper if I ever saw one.
Because inevitably you will fall.
You will plunge from that perch because we are all fallible.
We are all teetering between right and wrong, screwing up left and right.
You just happened to be the party that had to go around telling everyone that you weren’t like that. Your party has shielded people for the sake of the party at the expense of integrity and that is your demise.
The problem with all of this rancor is that ultimately the parties are made up, not of enemies, but of families, neighbors, friends, co-workers, who just happen to have different beliefs and ideas.
We all want to be safe.
We all want to protect our loved ones.
We all want our families and friends to be healthy.
We all want those that threaten us to be deterred.
We all want to be able to provide for our families the basics if not some extras.
We all want to be able to speak our mind without fear of reprisal.
We all want fairness and justice to walk hand in hand.
There is no difference in the wants of the citizens in this country, it’s just in the application.
We have applied this approach for a long time.
It doesn’t seem to be working for the vast majority of us.
Let’s try something different.
It’s not permanent.
If it doesn’t work we can change it again.
We are not so mired in tradition that we can’t change.Enough of the calling of fellow American citizens “enemies”, that’s just a bad road to travel down.
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