Quickies. What do You Call Reverse (Geographically) China Syndrome?

Do you call it Toledo Syndrome? I don't have a globe here, and I am not up for the math. Wait. Let me google it. Ok. I got a little obsessed there, worked it out and if that reactor in Japan that has melted the floor of the plant keeps melting shit until it comes out the opposite side of the planet, I expect it to come out off shore of Argentina. So call it South Atlantic Syndrome?

Moving on. Donald Trump is full on racist opportunist mode, with his birther whoring. I always thought there was something fundamentally shitty about him. Now I am convinced beyond any doubt of that.

Bill O'Reilly can't see the forest for the trees, re Mrs. Palin. Yes, she appears weak in not talking to the REAL press, but I don't think her poll numbers are down on account of that. They are down because even with out real reporters asking her real questions, she still comes across as some ignorant, snowbilly who's maximum brain power is equal to a bucket of snot.

Oh, and speaking of insulting Mrs. Palin, it's not necessarily sexist to use really harsh insults in her specific direction. It might be mean and nasty and meant to sting, ya. But it is not an indictment or slur against all women to viciously insult her for being no smarter than a bucket of snot, in the harshest terms possible. (Bill Maher is a Jersey boy. Love us or hate us, we usually don't do passive aggressive insulting. We call out a ho as a ho! If we really go old school we use the pronunciation who-ah.)

Anything else? Herman Cain. Kudos Herman. You have just proven as a concrete fact that yes, blacks can be every bit a racist as white folk. It's just that you happen to be a black wing nut racist.

Lastly, touching on one of my pet peeve topics of late. Yes Andrew Breitbart. We are trying to shut you up. You make us sick. And as opposed to wing nuts, who seem to believe in some childish, warped, redneck outlaw, unsophisticated and all the fuck ways hypocritical view on non-governmental involved free speech, we hold some values higher than that. For example, I would say my right to tell you to shut the fuck up means more to me than your right to be an obnoxious liar and rat fucking GOP hack badly masquerading as a journalist. But that is my explicit way of saying it. The more general liberal way of saying it, is society has a right to protect itself from being violated by shit like you. If society does not have the right to set standards, there is no real civilization. There's just outlaw rednecks, stinking up the joint. And we don't need any more of that, fuck you very much. Ok. I'll end there.

I Get to Slam Wing Nuts With a Theory From One of Their "Darlings?" Excellent!

I get to say, when ever some wing nut or tea bagger plays the blame game, specifically the what's wrong with America game, that,"Ya know what? I agree with Thomas Sowell."

And they should ask what he said. And I get to reply,"Blame the rednecks."

How I got to this nugget, today, stems from my reading about some stupid appearance Mrs. Palin made on FNC last night. And I got to thinking about Jeff Foxworthy's definition for redneck; lacking in any sophistication. And I got to thinking that if that's America's most famous self-described redneck's definition of the term, then Mrs. Palin is the poster child.

And I did some net jumping, and finally stumbled on first a discussion about Sowell's redneck theory, and then, his own article: Redneck culture to blame for lack of intellectual development.

Turns out (and I knew it but forgot, as I never read it) that is the subject of an essay in, and the title of a book he wrote a couple, few years ago: "Black Rednecks and White Liberals."

Honestly, his core theory is nothing new. I've been saying it for years -- trash is trash, and poor is poor, and people on the bottom of society (all of them not necessarily trash, I must say plainly) do, as a practical matter, have more in common with each other than they have historically admitted, no matter their color. * (For the sake of the point, forget about institutionalized slavery and legally mandated inequality. That's a different point.)

I would bet that de Tocqueville figured that one out, nearly 200 years ago!

Anyway, the following, from the wiki art. about the book:

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

The title essay is based on Sowell's thesis about the origins of the "black ghetto" culture.

Sowell argues that the black ghetto culture, which is claimed to be "authentic black culture", is historically neither authentic nor black in origin. Instead, Sowell argues that the black ghetto culture is in fact a relic of a highly dysfunctional white southern redneck culture which existed during the antebellum South. This culture came, in turn, from the "Cracker culture" of the North Britons and Scots-Irish who migrated from the generally lawless border regions of Britain.

Sowell gives a number of examples that he regards as supporting the lineage, e.g.,

an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship,… and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery.[1]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Instead of making my own observations, here, I will go for the joke, instead. Yes. I finally got around to watching that movie Eminem did a few years back, 8 Mile. Now I know why he comes across as so 'authentic.' But there is no explaining that Vanilla Ice guy!

I'll leave it there, for now.

(*Side bar here. Back when I was still wasting time fighting with wing nuts on a message board, the enigma there, a black bisexual conservative redneck used to give me shit for my inauthentic ghetto trash talk. I told her I took that as a compliment. She and some of the other wing nuts there also criticized me for my believed to be authentic "Elitism." Like wise, I took that for a compliment, whether intended or not.)

That Snot Nosed Kid, Chris Christie, Reverse Charisma, Mrs. Palin, Wing Nut Infighting, Jealousy.

(A few observations, of my own, and from the noise machine are jelling in my head as I draft this. Forgive me for being a little more scatterbrained than usual.)

Ya'll remember that snot nosed kid? Right after the GOP lost control of Congress, some little snot nosed bastid was wheeled out at CPAC (or some other degenerate hate fest,) and the Party of Domestic Terrorism went batshit crazy for him. Why? What did he do? The little shit only parroted the three (alleged) pillars of conservatism. Something that any fool can google and get off the net in 0.17 seconds. (Yea. I checked, actually. That's the search time they gave me after running my query.) Sure, he had "written" a book. But again, the book was nothing more than regurgitated, old line, Party of Domestic Terrorism, ideology and bullshit. Truth is, the little bastid did absolutely nothing worthy of getting any attention at all. And yet those batshit crazy right wingers celebrated him like he single handedly captured Bin Laden, or at least, "The third in command of Al Qada in Iraq."

So what's the point in mentioning him? Heard of Chris Christie? He's now the darling of the party of domestic terrorism. What has he done? As a resident of NJ, I'm at a loss for a single concrete thing he has done. Seems lots of batshit crazy right wingers like what he says, and how he says it. (Just before I started typing this, I heard him described by Howard Fineman in a recent clip from Lawrence O'Donnell's show, as having reverse charisma. He looks like a bully and acts like a bully. Right wingers love that sick shit.) But accomplishments? Nada. Zip. Work still in progress. Call again in a year, and see if there's been any progress, then.

Yes. For what ever twisted reason, the right wingers are so drunk on their own ideology and the image of being true to that ideology, that all someone needs to do is parrot the right talking point in front of a camera and or microphone, and one can become an instant "rock star," for them. (As an aside, we on the left have all the real rock stars. Guess they on the right are used to C list, both literally and figuratively. Anyway . . .) This weird group-think delusion bears more and serious thought, but I am just mentioning it for the record, particularly now that Chris Christe is the hot shit, bullshit, right wing star du jour.

On to the next level. Is Mrs. Palin jealous of the attention given to Christie? Now that bit I mentioned above? O'Donnell's program?

That was the main thrust of the segment I was quoting from. Now I had watched the original clip of Mrs. Palin's remarks last night (more likely heard, as I often run clips but walk away from the computer) and I had missed the dig against Christie. But O'Donnell and Finemen explored Mrs. Palin's seeming jealous, yet restrained attack on the Bully from Joisey. Remember. Mrs. Palin is the original do-nothing, did-nothing, accomplished-nothing ex-rock star of the GOP. As mentioned in the report, she is down to number 21 on the "hot" politician list.

Ohh. That's got to hurt, particularly if one is a self-centered, egomaniacal, delusional, narcissist. (But I don't feel sorry for her. She is what she is, and I call it repulsive.)

I won't summarize the whole report, but what I found interesting is that both men speculated that Mrs. Palin is not jealous of Congresswoman Bachmann. I would not go on record saying that in public. Palin and Bachmann have done the BFF shit in public. Bachmann is actually higher up in the esteem of Tea Baggers. I would guess. At the least, she has positioned herself quite expertly, I have to say, as the official top elected dog for that rabble. Palin's only the Icon. But as an icon, she really is not doing any thing at all to fight for the Tea Bagger agenda. Tweeting and collecting her huge salary for her appearances on FNC is not the same as being seen in the vanguard of the fight!

As self destructively batshit crazy Mrs. Palin is, I think she can pull her punches and keep Bachmann in the category of a secret frenemy. For now at least. I don't think Mrs. Palin can be happy about any other right winger being top rock star for the GOP. But she is not going to piss off the Tea Baggers, just for the cheap thrill of getting her hate on. Christe's a better choice for scape goat/speed bag. He's a Yankee, East Coast Elite Republican. He's not a real American, at least under the vast majority of Tea Baggers' understanding.

Oh. Here is my semi prediction. Actually here is what I am not guaranteeing. I am not guaranteeing we will bear witness to the ultimate Right Wing Spectacle, the Cage Match, Grudge Match between the two Drama Queens of the Tea Bagger Wing of the GOP. But I am saying that if Bachmann announces she is serious about running for the GOP nomination, that cage match, grudge match is more likely, even if Mrs. Palin herself doesn't run. Just you wait!