Dylan Ratigan Rants. Is this our "Network" moment? Will anyone listen, take heed?
Found at Americablog.com
Found at Americablog.com
Of course, George Carlin's been telling us this stuff for years.
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rants. Show all posts
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Friday, June 25, 2010
Channelling Charles
Andy his accused me of an unseemly vindictiveness regarding the former ISAF commander. And that took me aback, because I like to think of myself as a thoughtful kind of guy, not the sort of streetcorner shouter who hectors passersby about conspiracy theories and the Club of Rome. And, frankly, I know nothing about the officer relieved except what I have read, and the Ghost of Judith Miller should have if nothing else cured me of believing what I read in the papers...am I losing my perspective? Am I ready for my tinfoil hat?
So I took lunch break, went outside in the sunshine, and thought about it for a while.
And I realized that, goddamn it, I AM becoming vindictive, cynical and sour.
I'm feeling vindictive that my country continues to spend bagfuls of money on Great Power games in the global hustings while its economy falters at home.
I'm feeling vindictive that the people who got us in to many of these quixotic (at best) or criminal (at worst) misadventures, who blew smoke up our collective ass, who were proved wrong again and again, are still there, still at it, still trying to convince us that dark is light and down is up.
I'm feeling vindictive that judges are sending poor people to prison for debt while showering the gentle rain from heaven on the oil majors "right" to drill in offshore deepwater despite the ongoing proof that they have neither the experience nor the capability to deal with the inevitable well problems that will result.
I'm feeling vindictive that money and influence make it harder for you to get out from under a $10,000 debt but easier for a Goldman Sachs bankster to slip out from under a cool couple of billion he lost on a bad margin call.
I'm feeling vindictive that my newspaper and television news are virtually content free, that I try and contact my "elected representative" and I get at best a form letter, that my countrymen seem determined to remain clueless and uninvolved while my Army is sent to fight badly thought out and problematic wars.
I'm feeling pretty vindictive towards all those people who seemed determined to keep things that way: from media conglomerates to editors to reporters to op-ed writers. From city councilmen to mayors to governors to congresscritters to lobbyists to Presidents. From admirals to generals to national security advisers to cabinet secretaries.
I'm not one to pretend that my country has EVER been perfect, or that even its recent past was "better" or "brighter" than the present. But it's frustrating and meddening to write and phone and pester my supposed-representative, the one that we theoretically elected after kicking the crony-capitalists and the foreign-adventurers out of office after eight years...and watch the same damn things happening, the same people spouting the same rubbish about the same damn garbage.
Back in the old Intel Dump days I used to get a little patronizing to Charles Gittings because he would lose it with people like MSR or Dionysus. I'm sorry, Charles, I admit it. I would think to myself, damn, Charles, chill, man. We're all here for the discussion.
But I'm starting to find myself coming to agree with Mister Gittings more and more; I think he'd just been staring into the same political and intellectual test-pattern for longer than I had and got angrier sooner.
I thought I was resigned; We Are So Fucked, right? But I find myself becoming, instead of more philosophical, less tolerant and more angry with the powerful fools and the fools in power. Like Charles, I'm having a harder and harder time pretending that everything's going nice and sleek and happy.
So I took lunch break, went outside in the sunshine, and thought about it for a while.
And I realized that, goddamn it, I AM becoming vindictive, cynical and sour.
I'm feeling vindictive that my country continues to spend bagfuls of money on Great Power games in the global hustings while its economy falters at home.
I'm feeling vindictive that the people who got us in to many of these quixotic (at best) or criminal (at worst) misadventures, who blew smoke up our collective ass, who were proved wrong again and again, are still there, still at it, still trying to convince us that dark is light and down is up.
I'm feeling vindictive that judges are sending poor people to prison for debt while showering the gentle rain from heaven on the oil majors "right" to drill in offshore deepwater despite the ongoing proof that they have neither the experience nor the capability to deal with the inevitable well problems that will result.
I'm feeling vindictive that money and influence make it harder for you to get out from under a $10,000 debt but easier for a Goldman Sachs bankster to slip out from under a cool couple of billion he lost on a bad margin call.
I'm feeling vindictive that my newspaper and television news are virtually content free, that I try and contact my "elected representative" and I get at best a form letter, that my countrymen seem determined to remain clueless and uninvolved while my Army is sent to fight badly thought out and problematic wars.
I'm feeling pretty vindictive towards all those people who seemed determined to keep things that way: from media conglomerates to editors to reporters to op-ed writers. From city councilmen to mayors to governors to congresscritters to lobbyists to Presidents. From admirals to generals to national security advisers to cabinet secretaries.
I'm not one to pretend that my country has EVER been perfect, or that even its recent past was "better" or "brighter" than the present. But it's frustrating and meddening to write and phone and pester my supposed-representative, the one that we theoretically elected after kicking the crony-capitalists and the foreign-adventurers out of office after eight years...and watch the same damn things happening, the same people spouting the same rubbish about the same damn garbage.
Back in the old Intel Dump days I used to get a little patronizing to Charles Gittings because he would lose it with people like MSR or Dionysus. I'm sorry, Charles, I admit it. I would think to myself, damn, Charles, chill, man. We're all here for the discussion.
But I'm starting to find myself coming to agree with Mister Gittings more and more; I think he'd just been staring into the same political and intellectual test-pattern for longer than I had and got angrier sooner.
I thought I was resigned; We Are So Fucked, right? But I find myself becoming, instead of more philosophical, less tolerant and more angry with the powerful fools and the fools in power. Like Charles, I'm having a harder and harder time pretending that everything's going nice and sleek and happy.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Warning, this is a rant...
Sorry guys, but I need to get this off my chest...the news...I'm pissed!
Begin Rant
I'm calling bullshit on the following...
Republicans and Tea-partiers
Get over yourselves already.
You lost the 2008 Presidential election, quit whining.
You're acting as if it is ordained by divine writ that the Republicans win all elections, and I'm more than willing to point out that that writ only exists in your juvenile mind.
Oh, yes, and further more, before anyone of you asshole GOP'ers or Tea-Partiers are ever allowed to comment to any newscaster or journalist you must first read the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence, take a competency test to ensure comprehension, and then, and only then can you open that pie hole you call your mouth.
Obama
Wtf?
You...seriously, what the hell?
Who are you?
A Republican doppelganger?
I don't know who the f**k you are, but I certainly didn't vote for your ass. I voted for Obama, but somehow, someway it seems John McCain became President...and I wnat to know...what the hell happened...a soul switch?
I want that Obama guy from 2008 to be running this country, not you...whoever you are!
And finally..
Americans
Seriously people...your worldview blows chunks!
Your bullshit worldview is what brought us to this point.
Guess what...America, you are not the good guy.
America has done, and is doing evil.
That's right, I used the word that throw atheists into fits because it means that an opposing moral exists called holy, and we are so far from holy we reek of shitty results that we have authored, and that needs to come to a freaking halt.
Now, America, you may be wondering, "what is he talking about" so here it is...
Your bullshit worldview is what brought us GITMO, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan war, the failed banks, the BP oil spill in the gulf, our trashed economy, and most of our problems stem from our gutless inability to confront our irrational fears of sickly little wannabe-Caliph hiding in dimly lit caves coughing his gloating rants over grainy videos.
Seriously, I think our forefathers would roll their eyes at the lot of us, and tell us to GROW THE FUCK UP!
How you go to this point?
It wasn't overnight, sweetpea, it was a series of fucked up, bad decisions that you said, "okay" too each time our government crossed the fucking red "never-cross-this-line-ever-no-matter-what!" line.
So consider this your wake up call, America, Grow the Fuck Up!
Learn your history, stop being afraid, live within your means, stay the hell out of other countries, be practical and fair in your business dealings, and don't give a motherf^&%9^&*% inch on your freedoms and rights that our ancestors paid dearly.
You are too willing to cashier your rights for unfulfillable promises, you need to stop that, and now!
Because if you don't...you will get.exactly.what.you.asked.for, and believe me you are not going to like that one.damn.bit.
/deep-breath
/exhale
thank you.
End Rant.
Begin Rant
I'm calling bullshit on the following...
Republicans and Tea-partiers
Get over yourselves already.
You lost the 2008 Presidential election, quit whining.
You're acting as if it is ordained by divine writ that the Republicans win all elections, and I'm more than willing to point out that that writ only exists in your juvenile mind.
Oh, yes, and further more, before anyone of you asshole GOP'ers or Tea-Partiers are ever allowed to comment to any newscaster or journalist you must first read the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence, take a competency test to ensure comprehension, and then, and only then can you open that pie hole you call your mouth.
Obama
Wtf?
You...seriously, what the hell?
Who are you?
A Republican doppelganger?
I don't know who the f**k you are, but I certainly didn't vote for your ass. I voted for Obama, but somehow, someway it seems John McCain became President...and I wnat to know...what the hell happened...a soul switch?
I want that Obama guy from 2008 to be running this country, not you...whoever you are!
And finally..
Americans
Seriously people...your worldview blows chunks!
Your bullshit worldview is what brought us to this point.
Guess what...America, you are not the good guy.
America has done, and is doing evil.
That's right, I used the word that throw atheists into fits because it means that an opposing moral exists called holy, and we are so far from holy we reek of shitty results that we have authored, and that needs to come to a freaking halt.
Now, America, you may be wondering, "what is he talking about" so here it is...
Your bullshit worldview is what brought us GITMO, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan war, the failed banks, the BP oil spill in the gulf, our trashed economy, and most of our problems stem from our gutless inability to confront our irrational fears of sickly little wannabe-Caliph hiding in dimly lit caves coughing his gloating rants over grainy videos.
Seriously, I think our forefathers would roll their eyes at the lot of us, and tell us to GROW THE FUCK UP!
How you go to this point?
It wasn't overnight, sweetpea, it was a series of fucked up, bad decisions that you said, "okay" too each time our government crossed the fucking red "never-cross-this-line-ever-no-matter-what!" line.
So consider this your wake up call, America, Grow the Fuck Up!
Learn your history, stop being afraid, live within your means, stay the hell out of other countries, be practical and fair in your business dealings, and don't give a motherf^&%9^&*% inch on your freedoms and rights that our ancestors paid dearly.
You are too willing to cashier your rights for unfulfillable promises, you need to stop that, and now!
Because if you don't...you will get.exactly.what.you.asked.for, and believe me you are not going to like that one.damn.bit.
/deep-breath
/exhale
thank you.
End Rant.
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