It is with revolutionary glee that I can now proudly slap on the Che beret (no... no... not THAT beret. THIS beret) and exclaim it officially:Hubby and I are socialists.
Why exactly, you might ask? Have we taken a recent trip to rub elbows with that filthy Che-loving' Fidel? Uhhhh..., not so much. Although if keeping it real in the Fidel fatigues looks half as fun as these guys make it look, I'm so into that.
Naw, ya see, the clock on the lease on our General Motors' 2005 SUV ran out this week, and given that we adore the vehicle, that we treated it with tender loving care and that we strapped a mere 23,000 miles on it---- (Yep. Ya read that correctly. It is 4 yrs old and has less than 25K miles on it) we would have to be brain damaged and/or Republican to NOT buy out the car after the lease is up, right?
Well, not if we freaking love Uncle Sam and bleed red, white, and blue like all "real Americans" do, because apparently, real patriots applaud war, the failure of America, poverty, hatred and fearmongering, murder doctors performing legal medical procedures, shoot up Jewish museums and murder a black guard, turn a willingly blind eye when people like this enlist in our military, call Michelle Obama's ancestors "gorillas," send emails that show Prez O in blackface, whore out your children for politics when it suits you, deny gay people the basic human right to marry the adult person they love because you claim it somehow "threatens hetero marriage" while a man, a wife and a married mistress makes up their own "God approved' marriage equation, pray for war with Iran when that nation's election reeks of fraud (hmm... wonder how these freakos would have felt if Iran would have talked about launching a war against the US when BushCo was blatantly engaging in voter fraud in 2004 and was selected NOT elected in 2000?) and boycott GM.
According to the likes of rightwing buttplugs like Hugh Hewitt and Heidi Harris, all good little KoolAid chuggers hope for the economic failure of 1000s upon 1000s of Americans. Why? 'Cause their hatred for Prez O is so gianormous that they'd happily wish for the economic destruction of their fellow Americans and the possible economic destruction of our entire nation. Those are some super duper patriotic family values types, no? And so Christian!
Ya gotta check out Harris as she let tons of this serpentine spew roll off her forked tongue on Hardball with Chris Mathews. You'll swoon as she breezily tosses out this compassionate conservative gem: "We just need to let it (GM) die... All those GM lazy, shifless union bums... err... hardworking middle class workers need to just get new (yet completely nonexistent) jobs at other auto manufacturing plants. You know, there are other places you can work. And they can adapt... it's not the end of the world. "
Makes your heart melt from her cavalier and mercenary abandon, no?
I guess when your own vitriol towards the Dems, our Prez, our unions, and the American working class is so white hot that you personally pray for the demise of nearly 90,000 GM jobs and 40,000 Chrysler jobs ( and those job losses will certainly result in the loss of further countless unforeseen vehicle-related industry jobs) then the liquidation of the very industry that we the tax-paying people own a 60%+ stake in, somehow makes sense in that vacuous hat rack you call a head and that black crumb you call a heart, right?
Well, it makes zero sense to me and mine, so Hubby and I plan on happily wearing our Che berets with shiny socialist pride, loading up our little comrades in our GM SUV, and going for a nice lil Sunday drive this weekend... and anybody in the "real American" crowd who doesn't like it can suck it.
I am so sick and tired of hearing all those conservatard talking heads telling everyone to not buy any GM products because they are "govt owned." Last time I checked it was my tax dollars that were being used to help keep GM afloat. Why should I cut my own throat by refusing to support GM. That would be really stupid!
ReplyDeleteYeh, let's stop buying GM, thereby causing even more lay-offs in the auto industry. And not just at the GM plants but at all the suppliers, too. That would be real smart! A sure fired Rethuglican way to solve the economic crisis we have going right now! Just fucking brilliant on their part!
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ReplyDeleteMy wife and I went for a drive today, too... right past a republican demonstration with placards that read "There's a revolution coming!" and "No socialized healthcare!"
When we do that, we're anti-American and seditious, but when they do it, they're patriots.
And when you see them on the street, running over them only causes more touble than it's worth. Just can't win sometimes!
I disagree with Obama, about his not wanting to micromanage GM. They could be used to build mass transit and other societal needs.
ReplyDeleteI'm for deeper nationalization. The board of directors should be 1/3 the workers who work there, 1/3 the union movement and 1/3 government.
SheaNC: Are you daring to say that these protesters are hypocrites???? I. Am. Shocked. Simply. Shocked. I Say. (try saying THAT load with a straight face)
ReplyDeleteHmmm.... seems to me that Jesus had PLENTY to say about hypocrites, but there I go actually reading the Bible rather than just cherry picking it to throw hatred at gay people and women, eh?
Grandpa Eddie: These GM haters simply make me sick. They simply do NOT care 1 bit how GM's demise would further devastate auto workers and related industry workers. They simply could care less. Their actions and words prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
It is 100% O-U-R tax dollars used to keep GM afloat just as it is O-U-R tax dollars used to fund the Veterans Admin and the healthcare of vets, the care and upkeep of the White House and the President and his family members (for the time in the office as well as the rest of their lives), fund Medicare, Medicaid, Soc Sec, SSI, as well as the healthcare benefits enjoyed by the people who have been voted into office.
I wonder how many of the lawmakers and GM haters who can't spew enough lies about "socializing America" would feel if we the taxpayers said we absolutely do not want to pay for the above mentioned things. The minute a GOP lawmaker had his healthcare benefits snatched away from him, ya can bet your boots that he'd be waving around a "I heart socialization" sign asap.
Ren: I tend to agree with you, esp in regard to building mass transit. And as a longtime union supporter, your "1/3" idea intrigues me. Anything that allows workers to have more of a say in how the company runs and treats the workers is okay by me. But the war against unions and workers rights has been incredibly successful in America. And America's workers have St. Ronnie Reagan and his union-busting antics to thanks for making this happen and for making middle class Americans bend over and take it and think that they deserve such rape because they are just so damn "greedy" and "lazy."
I am all for being a Communist if it means we get Che to design our health care system. He did a great job in Cuba. You have to remember that besides being an activist/politico, he was a skilled physician. He became an activist when he traveled across his South American country (can't remember which one now) and saw the poverty of the people. He kept a diary of the trip which was later published as "The Motorcycle Diaries" and made into a movie.
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