03.20.14
Canned Tongue of Bigot: Sing the song of WhiteManistan
Three columns running, Ted Nugent still fixates on the great pure America he once knew. That’s the place unencumbered by the “bloodsuckers,” where WhiteManistan labored in united harmony, enjoying the fruits of shared upright Christian values and the money and success that comes from such piety.
And now, like last week, his heart is breaking. There’s his WhiteManistan, and everyone else.
“Can the ‘2 Americas’ ever unite?” he cries:
On my side of America are a–-kicking, hard-working, indefatigable, dedicated producers who cannot imagine taking possession of something we did not earn ourselves. And the proof of generosity and love from the producers is irrefutable and legendary, how we take care of our families, neighbors and truly needy fellow Americans and even strangers around the globe in time of need. We provide way more hands-up than we do hand-outs, for we know that able-bodied souls understand deep inside their responsibility to being assets instead of liabilities, and given a prod, will indeed get humping once back on their feet.
Heartbreakingly, as has occurred wherever the desouling scams of socialism and communism have been successfully implemented, weak, herds of uncaring people cut in line to take far more than the truly needy might have coming to them … The scammers’ war on poverty creates more poverty, the Great Society goes bust, the New Deal is a raw deal, and Social Security is antisocial …
“What will it take to wake up the takers to admit that they are destroying this once great, proud, ultra productive last best nation on earth?” Nugent asks.
It eludes Ted Nugent that FDR, World War II and the New Deal were responsible for much of the expansionary economy he so misses from his youth. And that nobody, except the Republican Party, considers Social Security “anti-social.”
Reading the rest, Ted sings the praises of the new tribe of WhiteManistan purity, the Tea Party. Of course he has it right. They hate Social Security, just as long as their checks keep coming. It’s everyone else who might get it coming afterwards that works them up so.
I had hoped Ted would deliver another rousing story of his Horatio Alger-like upbringing and personal tenacity. Perhaps a minder read this column and steered him clear of more anecdotes of chopping firewood, shooting varmints and stomping around the Spirit Wild ranch in Texas on his new surgical stainless steel knees, ignoring the pain and the stretching sutures to get the day’s work done.
Give it another seven days and I’ll be here to tell you the result.
In the mean time, Paul Krugman, explained the song of WhiteManistan in a Monday column:
Or we’re told that conservatives, the Tea Party in particular, oppose handouts because they believe in personal responsibility, in a society in which people must bear the consequences of their actions. Yet it’s hard to find angry Tea Party denunciations of huge Wall Street bailouts, of huge bonuses paid to executives who were saved from disaster by government backing and guarantees. Instead, all the movement’s passion, starting with Rick Santelli’s famous rant on CNBC, has been directed against any hint of financial relief for low-income borrowers. And what is it about these borrowers that makes them such targets of ire? You know the answer.
One odd consequence of our still-racialized politics is that conservatives are still, in effect, mobilizing against the bums on welfare even though both the bums and the welfare are long gone or never existed. Mr. Santelli’s fury was directed against mortgage relief that never actually happened. Right-wingers rage against tales of food stamp abuse that almost always turn out to be false or at least greatly exaggerated. And Mr. Ryan’s black-men-don’t-want-to-work theory of poverty is decades out of date.
“And as economic opportunity has shriveled for half the population, many behaviors that used to be held up as demonstrations of black cultural breakdown,” Krugman concludes.
Sing it, Ted, sing it loud.
Ted Jr. said,
March 20, 2014 at 9:23 pm
“how we take care of our families, neighbors and truly needy fellow Americans and even strangers around the globe in time of need. We provide way more hands-up than we do hand-outs, for we know that able-bodied souls understand deep inside their responsibility to being assets instead of liabilities, and given a prod, will indeed get humping once back on their feet.”
I didn’t want to comment on this article but I had to.
Perhaps philanthropists like Ted Sr, Gates and Buffet could get together and start a singing group. They could call themselves the ‘Three Tenners’ because that’s about all you’d ever get out of them, 30 bucks.
The kind of people Sr. would help would get a good humping, that’s for sure.
And as far as that reference to global help to strangers courtesy of Whitemanistan, well if that doesn’t prove Ted Sr. is a raving lunatic, then I am not sure what would accomplish that feat.
George Smith said,
March 21, 2014 at 8:14 am
Did you catch the story early in the week about the-rent-a-Seal-Team-commando-strike we deployed to seize an oil tanker off Cyprus?
The wrong people were sailing it, trying to market the oil.
Remember when we bombed Moe Gaddafi to give the Libyan people freedom? They eventually were able to 86 Moe, thanks to our help, and now live in a failed state. But we don’t like one of the tribes we collaborated with in creating the failed state.
They need money to set up their own little nation so they were availing themselves of ex-Libya’s oil resources. But the other tribe, the one we now support, says it’s the legitimate government and its little navy couldn’t stop the oil tanker from sailing away to market, or seize it off Cyprus. So we did it for them.
If you’re going to be in a failed state brought about by the application of force through the US military, you got to know who to grease going forward. And that one poor group didn’t know that Uncle Sam would steal back the oil they took from their rivals.
Philanthropically, this is what we do. Take shit off the poor and give it to the people we want to be rich.
Ted Jr. said,
March 21, 2014 at 4:25 pm
re: rent a seal
Yes, I noticed that. It’s only piracy when Somalis do it.
re: Moe
Moe wanted to set up a payment system whereby the US Dollar would not be required for payment to obtain Libya’s energy exports. That was Saddam’s mortal sin as well. Same ending for two cheap detective novels.
re: competing governments
Works so well in Libya, we’re exporting that to Ukraine.
re: failed state
There are some who might be wise to realise there is a contagion risk for those who create the scenario
re: Philanthropically
What has changed since central banking was started in the 17th century? Fiat currency by definition is a ponzi and requires uninterrupted growth in order to be self sustaining.
All that is left to steal now is the boomer pensions and the personal possessions of the 99%. Everything else is MIA replaced by worthless IOU’s.
It’s going to get very ugly at some future point and the public might be just a little annoyed when they arrive at the Johnny Rotten moment “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”