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Monday, February 06, 2012

Rude Pundit Speaks for Us All

...and when I say "all," I believe even GOP turnout numbers back this up. Quoth the Rud'en:
"Fuck this nomination race. Fuck Romney. Fuck Gingrich." The Rude Pundit's taking a break from talking about them (unless they do something interesting, like shoot up a daycare or gut Ron Paul and wear his skin like a robe). They simply don't matter. Romney's gonna win the nomination. He's gonna lose to Obama. Badly. Period. What the Republican candidates believe and what they promise and what it means that they're fighting and all of it is fake shit from a disgraced media that needs a storyline better than "Jesus Christ, these are dangerous bastards who would drag the nation back to the Stone Age, and we can't pretend their ideas have any validity." So, for the next month, at least, he's not gonna play along for a while and pretend that they matter in any way. There's more important shit to talk about. There's people who actually have an impact on our lives who need to be taken down or fluffed up. There's congressional races that Democrats have a stake in that ought to be understood.

2 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

I got bored of the Republican race after Florida. The best comedians have dropped out. I was secretly hoping that a right wing populist would win the race and cause the GOP to implode dramaticaly. But the GOP has enough sense to forestall that from happening.

jimf said...

> "Fuck this nomination race. Fuck Romney. Fuck Gingrich.". . .
> [A]ll of it is fake shit from a disgraced media that needs
> a storyline better than "Jesus Christ, these are dangerous
> bastards who would drag the nation back to the Stone Age. . ."

Back to the future, with Mitt Romney!

http://thelifeofmanquamanonearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/newt-gingrich-paleofuture-candidate.html
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"I find Mitt Romney acceptable as a candidate, especially because
I consider the super-rich as "early adopters" of the lifestyles
that ordinary people could enjoy in a few centuries if we can sustain
exponential economic growth (by no means a self-evident scenario,
I admit). American families have a median net worth of about
$100,000, or so I've read. Assuming constant dollars and 2 percent
economic growth interpreted as the return on the capital in that
amount with reinvestment & compounding, $100,000 grows into
$100 million in about 350 years. That would seem to get you to
the threshold of "super wealth" by today's standards, and into
the neighborhood of Mitt Romney's family fortune. So to my way
of thinking, Romney has more of a futuristic aura about him than
Gingrich, especially because I suspect that bourgeois, patriarchal
and conservative values will return to social dominance in the
next few generations, led notably by the example of Mormonism."