The 25th Rant

[mangosteen]

So, I wrote this a while ago. I still don't think it adequately expresses my anger and frustration with the current political climate, but it comes closer than anything else I've written on the subject.




[With apologies to Spike Lee and Edward Norton]
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Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this whole country and everyone in it. Fuck the SUV owners and their "me first and screw everyone else" attitude. For your kids, huh? Nice fucking example. Fuck the free-market fundamentalists who think the Invisible Hand cures all. News flash! It hasn't worked that way for 200 years. Read a fucking book! Fuck the American Family Association and their defense of marriage. Whatever. You're scared and you hate. Congratu-fucking-lations. Fuck the corporations who would outsource their entire workforce if they could. CEOs crying poverty and then giving themselves millions in raises because "it's hard work" to move educated jobs to India. Don't even get me started on the middle-class libertarians with their little corporatist fan clubs. Fucking Uncle Toms who think that if they're really nice to the vampires, they'll get turned into one, someday. You're not on their bus, and they don't give a shit about you. Grow the fuck up! Fuck the Free Mumia protesters with their shuffling around like attention-starved zombies. You selfish fucks would show up to a demonstration of a dishwasher. Get your own protest! Fuck the Naderites who think that they're "sending a message". Guess what? It's "Please Screw Us For Four More Fucking Years!" Hope you're fucking happy. Fuck the flag-wavers and chest-beaters who "found" patriotism after 9/11. Buying a bumper sticker or a big fucking flag or a t-shirt doesn't make the pain go away. You embarrass me, and you embarrass yourselves. And fuck you, Dubya. You're not a "regular guy", and I pity the people who think that you are. Spreading fear, spending the country into ground, sending our boys to war so your buddies can buy an extra yacht. I only hope that the day you meet your maker they'll peg you for the mean, pathetic, ignorant asshole that you are. You can go kiss my fiscally-conservative socially-progressive Jewish ass!

But no. Fuck you. Fuck you, Eli. You live in a country that had it all, and they're throwing it all away.

Comments

[tikva.livejournal.com]

*applauds!*

[jss]

Bravissimo!

[dsrtao]

You forgot:
- the FCC, kowtowing to the Media Megacorps
- the US Patent Office: 50% of challenged patents are found invalid
- Ashcroft and the Department of Justice
- the RIAA, the MPAA, and the aforesaid Media Megacorps
- every congressperson except maybe Bernie Sanders
- Microsoft
- Walmart
- ADM
- every corporation that's sponsored an H1-B visa and lied on the form
- the whole idea of corporations being persons
- the FDA
- the gun-lobbyists
- the anti-gun-lobbyists
- lobbyists. There's a group that deserves to have its profession outlawed.
- SCO
- and plenty of others

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

The fundamentalist Christians and Messianic fundamentalist Jews manuevering to cause catastrophic war in the Middle East in order to bring about the Second Coming/Messiah's kingdom.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!

I think that about sums it up.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

good rant, but it doesn't go far enough.

me? i'm embarrassed (almost ashamed) that i've got what i wanted, what i've been hoping for for ten years. because, if i hadn't, by the end of september, i was going to go and do voluntary service overseas which would have been putting my body (not money, cos i have none) where my mouth is.

as it is, i can hope only to work on the sustainable development side of things, with the hopes of producing really useful disaster relief stuff. while sitting here in the the uncomfortable knowledge that i have, where others have not.

that overactive guilt complex of mine is saying "fuck you, meirion".

-m-

[redcountess]

Right On! As for living in a country that's throwing it all away, you and your sweetie could come and live here - with your skills I'm sure a company would be glad to sponsor your visa.

[fj.livejournal.com]

It's the last sentence that I have felt for the last two to three years. It's all going. Becoming just another place. Maybe even worse.

(Egh, posted it on the wrong thread, which would be confusing.)

Amen

[siderea]

Say it brothah! Testify!

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned that I love you? :)

Yeah, that's pretty much the way I feel about it all. Also this, from Ron Reagan, Jr.'s article in Esquire:

And chances are your America and George W. Bush's America are not the same place. If you are dead center on the earning scale in real-world twenty-first-century America, you make a bit less than $32,000 a year, and $32,000 is not a sum that Mr. Bush has ever associated with getting by in his world. Bush, who has always managed to fail upwards in his various careers, has never had a job the way you have a job—where not showing up one morning gets you fired, costing you your health benefits. He may find it difficult to relate personally to any of the nearly two million citizens who've lost their jobs under his administration, the first administration since Herbert Hoover's to post a net loss of jobs. Mr. Bush has never had to worry that he couldn't afford the best available health care for his children. For him, forty-three million people without health insurance may be no more than a politically inconvenient abstraction. When Mr. Bush talks about the economy, he is not talking about your economy. His economy is filled with pals called Kenny-boy who fly around in their own airplanes. In Bush's economy, his world, friends relocate offshore to avoid paying taxes. Taxes are for chumps like you. You are not a friend. You're the help. When the party Mr. Bush is hosting in his world ends, you'll be left picking shrimp toast out of the carpet.

Fuck them with a rusty, unlubed chainsaw. Sideways. Repeatedly, and a lot.

[judith-s.livejournal.com]

My favorite line from that article about Bush: one is left with the impression that he is ineloquent not because he can't speak but because he doesn't bother to think. And that summarizes almost everything that pisses me off about this country. I don't even mind the rich assholes who vote for Bush, it's the middle class idiots who don't think that really piss me off.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Actually, Dubya's ineloquentness is just an act. I read something by someone who saw the gubernatorial debates in Texas when Dubya ran for that office, and Dubya was very well-spoken. He's dumbing himself down because that's what will get him elected. Americans want someone who's very slightly smarter than them, but not by too much. The last guy to blatantly act smart and run for President was Adlai Stevenson, and it was a crucial mistake.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

I have to say that even here, there is more and more of the SUV attitude that you note above. It's getting quite depressing how people will delay tubes to push themselves on, and possibly get a seat... It's all part of the same fucked-up mentality of me-first, doesn't matter what happens to everyone else. It's why we're still voting for the political right-wing (even though we'd like to think we're not). Blair and Blunkett are doing their damndest to fuck things up in the UK too. I wanna move to NZ.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Fuckers. I hate them all.

Word.

[kalimar.livejournal.com]

Posted a link to my journal.

Pretty much total agreement here.

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Dr. Elias Mangosteen, will you marry me?

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that position's been filled. ;^)

[awfief.livejournal.com]

So, I have to register a complaint about "clicking is informed consent" when you don't actually really inform us of anything. For all I know this could have been a detailed description of sexual affairs with my frigid mother, because all I got was "I've been thinking about this rant for a while, and now I'm posting it. It's got profanity and it's going to offend people. Clicking is informed consent."

Where would we be if

http://www.livejournal.com/users/solipsistnation/280253.html

were less descriptive?

Please, think of the children. :) Seriously, though, do give a bit of context so the consent is actually informed.

[mangosteen]

Well, what did I tell you?

"...this rant...." -- likely textual.
"...lots of profanity..." -- self explanatory
"...guaranteed to offend someone..." -- yes, that means (generic) you, too. I know my crowd.
"...clicking is informed consent..." -- don't blame me if you click, and don't like reading text with lots of profanity that's probably offensive.

What would you have changed?

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

And, the sentence preceeding the disclaimer stated the general content and context of the rant: "I still don't think it adequately expresses my anger and frustration with the current political climate"