January 19, 2010
Welcome to the Plenum
That would be the horror vacui, the abhorrence of a vacuum by Mother Nature. (An aside: I don't like the term Mother Nature. It's too formal. I alway suspected guys who called their mama Mother to be Little Lord Fauntleroys, which is a kind way of saying fluttering cocksuckers. At any rate, I see Mother Nature as an emotionless, violent, and unfocused monster. More Ma Barker than Mother Teresa. If Gaia could be corporealized, I imagine she would be smoking a cheap cigar, drunk to dishevelment, and liable to have runs in the stockings rolled below her corpulent thighs. So it's Ma Nature to me).
But to the plenum. For many years the vacuum existed on the conservative side. The nature of the classical liberal is to eschew action for the sake of action. Not so the leftist. He is always abuzz and animated with the next great social upheaval, the one that will finally fix all of humanity's ills. It is always action, action, action. March, protest, legislate when possible, cajole and threaten if necessary. If that does not work engage in dirty tricks. Steal elections. Stuff ballot boxes with the votes of the deceased and deranged. Legislate from the bench when public opinion is inconvenient. Prevaricate about the goals and the opposition. Consort with the enemy for cheap political gain at the cost of citizens' lives.
John Q. Public is not politically savvy. He follows politics loosely as a rule, and misguidedly presumes his representatives have his best interests at heart. He is a fool, of course. He will soon be parted with his freedom, and his money. Into this vacuum of public apathy swarm the progressives like the dread marabunta ant. The conservative, conflict averse, absorbed in the personal, is blindsided by the terrible actions that fill the vacuum he had not known existed.
In Massachusetts today we witnessed a turning of the tide, a reversal of the horror vacui. John Q. Public has awakened from his slumber, and seen the true vacuum: the empty promises, vacuous lies, hollow souls, and empty brainpans of the left. After decades of promising more, delivering less, and robbing the public blind it has become apparent it was all a shell game, a dastardly Ponzi scheme that did not even benefit the poor, but Goldman Sachs and their ilk of thieves masquerading as capitalists. Not that the recipients mattered: it was the theft by taking that rankled the soul of the average American in the first place. Wither the largesse has always been immaterial. And now, in one fell swoop, the message has been nailed to the door like Luther's theses:
Fuck with me at your peril. For even as I tolerate the bully on the bus, or the inebriate at the bar, I will eventually come upon the bitter end of my rope. That time is now, and now is the time for you to follow me behind schoolyard and tavern, and tremble in anticipation. That taste in your mouth is failure, and fear.
Whoo! I love it.
Posted by: Kikm at January 19, 2010 9:44 PMI'm giddy. And for the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of my state,
Posted by: rob sama at January 19, 2010 9:48 PMAs a rule I don't drink on Tuesdays any more. But on this particular eve of inauguration I think I might have me a neat glass of single malt Scotch.
I'd have a cigar as well, but it's a fine bit of hell getting the smell out of the apartment.
Posted by: Mike Wilson at January 19, 2010 10:39 PMMassachusetts is only renting this guy for two years so they don't get stuck with the snatch forever. If he doesn't take a left from here chasing '12, then I'm impressed. He will.
Posted by: james wilson at January 19, 2010 10:43 PMWell done, Massachusetts. I'm delightedly reticent, however, and vigilant against the attitude that shall creep in unawares: that we begin thinking we can relax. Time to kick out the jams.
Congrats to Brown. And God help him if he turns Left. If he fucks with the Trust of the people who elected him, God help him. He has no idea the pressure pit he's just helped himself to.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to pray for the man, for he actually seems quite genuine and normal.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at January 19, 2010 11:02 PMThat artwork looks very similar to the mural they just dedicated to MLK yesterday, with lots of scribble scrabble scenes depicting his life. Except the one here in Atlanta had a lunging dog in it. This post is a classic.
Posted by: Belinda at January 19, 2010 11:16 PMIt is a start...maybe some of the people on the outside looking in will get in the game. It's all about numbers.
Posted by: Yabu at January 20, 2010 8:14 AMAll this says to me is that the American system works. "Uh-oh, we may have fucked up big time, putting Obama in the White House. Time to hit the brakes and throw this tractor into reverse."
Or am I being a Pollyanna?
Best phrase of the day, the kind of thing you will get ONLY from Velociman: "...the dread marabunta ant..." In a class with the Dread Candiru Fish, I'm thinking.
Posted by: Elisson at January 20, 2010 8:47 AMEasy, dude. I'm old enough to remember Newt (may he eventually rot in everlasting hell) welching on a promise for term limits.
These fuckers are head and tails of the same coin. Simple as that. Bush and Obama ? Dems and Reps.
If I could become any more cynical, I would say that they(collectively) have decided the only threat to their plan to effectively enslave us to the lawyer class is a genuine third party threat. Thus they allow a Brown to win. Suddenly all Tea Party members are Reps again, threat of real change averted.
I ain't buying it. Neither should y'all.
Posted by: dr kill at January 20, 2010 8:52 AMI love the smell of burning liberals in the morning.
Posted by: dick at January 20, 2010 9:53 AMYour writing is so silky smooth. Excellent post. Thanks.
Posted by: Catara at January 20, 2010 10:13 AMA man is changing his oil in his garage. He's underneath his car and he hears a sound. His three-year-old son has grabbed the long handle of the carjack, and pumps it up and down, shouting "I'm helping! I'm helping!" As he wonders if the car will come down and crush him, he understands the value of doing nothing.
I compare the three-year-old to a leftist, but the analogy isn't perfect. After all, the former will be horrified if he creates disaster, and the latter will not.
No one can paint a picture with words like Velociman. I saw a picture of John Q Pubic as a skeleton picked clean by Democrat Marabunta Ants.
As for the fluttering cocksucker, I kept getting an image of Barney Frank with butterfly wings. Jeez....
Nice win there Kim.
One swallow?
The awakening of some conservative, not, RINO, spirit gave me a lift.
http://keeskennis.blogspot.com/2010/01/erections-and-elections-have.html
Cheers
Nic S
Posted by: keeskennis at January 20, 2010 3:31 PMIs Brown a RINO. Yea...probably. But at least he had the kahoonas to jump into the fray against all odds and give the Kennedys the one finger salute. So right he was when he reminded the citizens of MASS. that the seat he sought was a seat of the people in the US Congress and not a hereditary seat in the House of Lords.
Posted by: Tbird at January 20, 2010 8:24 PMThe bitter end of your rope only counts if it's got a couple of our corrupt politicians dangling from it. IMHO.
Posted by: Cappy at January 21, 2010 8:03 PMThe bitter end of your rope only counts if it's got a couple of our corrupt politicians dangling from it. IMHO.
Posted by: Cappy at January 21, 2010 8:03 PMIt felt so nice I said it twice. I blame the Department of Redundancy Department.
Posted by: Cappy at January 21, 2010 8:04 PMPin my tail and call me a donkey, that raelly helped.
Posted by: Bayle at September 4, 2011 6:24 AM