Collective Conscious

Drift­glass:

I guar­an­tee you this planet-​​cracker from the late Steve Gilliard’s archives is bet­ter and more timely that ⁴⁄₅^th of any­thing you were plan­ning on read­ing today.

Sun­day, March 13, 2005

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This will not be for ten­der eyes or sen­si­bil­i­ties.

Ok, when you have a team, peo­ple bring dif­fer­ent things to it, but the goal is to fuck­ing win. You don’t get any­where by cut­ting down your fuck­ing team­mates. You don’t like Mike Moore and Move On, you bitch about them in a pri­vate e-​​mail, you don’t run to those fuck­ing bitches at the WSJ and pro­claim them the prob­lem. The only thing those ass­holes at the WSJ edi­to­r­ial page can do for a lib­eral is break their hands in a ski­ing acci­dent and not work for a few weeks. That’s the only help they can pro­vide. Any ass­hole who runs to them to whine isn’t on MY fuck­ing team. They’re out for their own fuck­ing selves and real­iz­ing that doesn’t take the genius a five year old uses in McDon­alds.

A lot of peo­ple wanted to buy into the bull­shit that the GOP was beat­ing us like a trailer park wife. Well that’s horse­shit. Our prob­lems is that our coaches suck. They not only don’t know how to win, they act like they don’t want to win. Yeah, yeah, Clin­ton won, but this is a dif­fer­ent team play­ing a dif­fer­ent fuck­ing game. The pub­lic likes clear choices. You may hate George Bush, but you know where he stands, and that’s why John McCain will NEVER be pres­i­dent. He’s too many things to too many fuck­ing peo­ple. And Hillary is march­ing down that same fuck­ing road.

A lot of you blame John Kerry for los­ing. Well, that’s also horse­shit. Even Tucker fuck­ing Carl­son thought Kerry had in the bag. We fucked up by dis­count­ing the church offen­sive of Rove. That’s where those votes came from. It wasn’t any fuck­ing Swift Boat either. They fucked up, accord­ing to Zogby, and peo­ple didn’t believe them. But that was one fine magic trick, tak­ing out Rather and neu­tral­iz­ing the draft dodg­ing issue against a bona fide war hero. They played a bet­ter ground game. Did Kerry fuck up? Sure, but it wasn’t about any vote fraud shit. That bat­tle was lost when Ken Black­well decided to play for the home team. Once he decided to Tom his way to pop­u­lar­ity, that was a done deal, Diebold or no, wacky Bev Har­ris or no. Part of the prob­lem is that Kerry was sad­dled with the same losers every­one else had to deal with. Coaches who can’t fuck­ing coach and try to win using the old play­book. They KNOW that play­book and hand our asses to us when we use it. They didn’t want to win bad enough. They thought there were rules. Our old friend Hunter Thomp­son knew that pol­i­tics had one set of rules, do any­thing to win which you can get away with. The fact that Kerry got close is a mir­a­cle, given the team he had.

But the real blame belongs in Con­gress. Any­one want to tell me how that wacko Tom Coburn is a Sen­a­tor? It’s like Theodore fuck­ing Bilbo rose from the dead and took back his seat. He should have been carted off to await the rap­ture in a men­tal hos­pi­tal.

The DLC should be called the dum­b­ass los­ing coaches. Al From couldn’t coach his way out of a fuck­ing paper bag. His day is done.

Here’s the deal: Amer­i­cans like the lives lib­er­als gave them. There have been fun­da­men­tal­ists since 1740 and, like roaches, they pop up, fuck up a few things and scurry away. Rap­ture? Every cen­tury brings out those wackos. Left Behind is Star Wars for Bible thumpers. Fuck­ing fic­tion. But what they don’t like is our unwill­ing­ness to stand for some­thing. The GOP has lied and bull­shit­ted so many times, it’s a mir­a­cle peo­ple can wipe their asses after lis­ten­ing to them.

And how do lib­er­als react? Oh, Amer­i­cans are sheep, let me move to Toronto, Bush is a fas­cist.

Which is just an excuse for cow­ardice. Con­ser­v­a­tives don’t say that shit in pub­lic, they act like they’re pro­tect­ing the poor while fuck­ing them in the ass. They sure talked up Jesus dur­ing the elec­tion, and then fucked them good with tort reform and bank­ruptcy laws. They talked up the mar­ry­ing fag­gots and then picked their pock­ets. The old­est hooker scam on the planet, get you think­ing about your dick, while pick­ing your pocket. Yet, how do we react, what do we do? Whine about Fox. Fuck Fox. Fox is for morons. Ignore fuck­ing Fox, turn it into a fuck­ing echo cham­ber. Thank God Bush decided to over­play his fuck­ing hand.

The bank­ruptcy bill is a fuck up, a fuck up assisted by the party of the rich, which is, of course, bipar­ti­san. And it will be such fod­der for good news sto­ries and legal chal­lenges that they will regret pass­ing it. But why did it pass? Because we let it slide and didn’t demand a fight. Now we have to get the horse and put it back in the fuck­ing barn. And praise God that Bush has always had a hardon for Social Secu­rity. If some dum­b­asses don’t lose their nerve, Bush will ride this puppy to defeat, a bru­tal ass­kick­ing defeat. Stop­ping Bush is the ulti­mate val­i­da­tion of lib­eral ide­al­ism and its effec­tive­ness, if peo­ple seize that and ram it up against the bull­shit free mar­ket ide­ol­ogy they never bother to prac­tice them­selves., What the fuck does some think-​​tank ass­hole know about work. he spends his day bull­shit­ting about ideas he’ll never live under. I say give them some field expe­ri­ence. Max Boot thinks the mil­i­tary is so fuck­ing great, well, there’s a job in Iraq for his ass and the rest of the war­mon­ger­ing chick­en­hawk pussies who jerk off to big guns and use the Mil­i­tary chan­nel as their porn. Mil­ton Fried­man would have been a com­mu­nist if he had to live under his own ide­ol­ogy. he spouted that bull­shit from a professor’s desk in a coun­try which granted gen­er­ous social pro­tec­tions.

The sim­ple fact is that the Amer­ica we have today is the result of lib­er­al­ism. You get to jerk off to Halle Berry and dream about Den­zel Wash­ing­ton because of lib­er­als. The idea that lib­er­als are pussies is bull­shit, bull­shit that we help pro­mote because we let these lunatics define us. Ann Coul­ter is a fuck­ing nut job, but every­one treats her like she’s sane.

And to all the lib­er­als who would say:, we can’t be like them, it doesn’t mat­ter what we do, I have a sim­ple fuck­ing reply: FUCK YOU.

Let me drop a lit­tle his­tory les­son on you: the Blitzkrieg was effec­tive when the Ger­mans used it. It was bril­liant. But you know the prob­lem, they never had enough equip­ment or men to do it full out. Hav­ing been taught well, guess who did? The Rus­sians. They not only had tanks and planes, but more of them, in more places. They chased the Ger­mans with the vene­gence of the wronged. The Blitz in Ger­man hands got them to Moscow, in Russ­ian hands, it got them to Berlin for 50 years.

We use our tools against the GOP and will split them and win. The Bible Thumpers will always be with us, and after a while, peo­ple get sick of them. They did in the 20’s and they will now. The GOP has one fuck­ing thing hold­ing them together, power. In 2007, a lot of fis­cal con­ser­v­a­tives are going to find their nom­i­nees for pres­i­dent are a high grade of wacko, like Rick San­to­rum. Peo­ple who are too crazy to win, but because the Jesus freaks con­trol the GOP street game, they will have to decide what to do. Just like we lis­tened to Jim Carville four years too long, the GOP will curse the name of Karl Rove for let­ting the Jesus freaks think the GOP is God’s Own Party. Per­son­ally, I plan on hand­ing them anvils and watch­ing the fuck­ing bub­bles hit the sur­face.

And about the media: sub­vert it where you can, pro­vide alter­na­tives when you can’t. We have to chal­lenge them when they are wrong. We can’t let them get away with bull­shit and then whine about it. And we have to start pick­ing friends and ene­mies. No law says you have to talk to the Weekly Stan­dard or NRO and I wouldn’t bother. Let them say what they want, racist thugs, the lot of them. We don’t have to make their job eas­ier.

The GOP workd the refs to the point that they shit them­selves. It’s time to do the same. Some­one ought to be decon­struct­ing David Brooks and send­ing out PR releases high­light­ing his fuck­ing errors and sex­ism weekly. This is not a game to win on defense. Sulk­ing about how things don’t go your way gets in the way of mak­ing them go your way. You have to assume that they’re against you and you have to ham­mer them. I don’t care if they say they’re lib­eral or not, their own­ers aren’t. They’re gree­docrats.

Which is why as much as I respect Lauire Gar­rett, it’s clear she suf­fers from news­pa­peri­tis. You can’t make news­pa­pers bet­ter. When they go, they go and don’t come back. But you can make print bet­ter, you can use dif­fer­ent tools. Any­one try­ing to save news­pa­pers is try­ing to revive the dead. TV? TV is about money even more. If sell­ing cat fur was a fad, TV would endorse it. Expect noth­ing from them that you do not fuck­ing make them do.

Oh, and one final fuck­ing point: if you are not with us, you are against us. If Al From wants to suck Wall Street cock, that’s fine. If Hillary Clin­ton wants to make nice with Man on Dog San­to­rum, that’s also fine. But if you step to us, try to blame us for your fail­ures, we will stomp a fuck­ing mud­hole in your ass. The GOP wins because we didn’t fuck­ing fight back. Now? We fight. And if you don’t want to fight to win, we’re gonna make you sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. We won’t be ask­ing, either. This isn’t the hip­pie left of peace and love. This is a left with money and balls and we’re gonna fight. Fuck Peter Beinart and his neo­con friends. Fuck­ing ass­hole lick­ing PNAC ass like a prison punk. Every time he goes on a show as a lib­eral, we should be call­ing the book­ers, e-​​mailing them, say­ing he’s not. We have to work the room, get to the edi­tors and the show book­ers and the peo­ple who run the machine. Not just bitch about how unfair it all is.

Because it isn’t unfair. It’s life. It’s only unfair if we sit around with our dicks in our hands doing noth­ing. You want to change this coun­try, you change it. You change the terms of debate, how it’s debated and who gets to debate. And you stop whin­ing how it’s all against us. In 1972, a lunatic like Rick San­to­rum wouldn’t have got­ten on Fir­ing Line, much less the US Sen­ate. Now, we have to do what they did, but meaner, faster, harder. The Ger­mans started with the Stuka, but it was the Stur­movik which ruled the skies at the end of the day. The GOP may have started this fight, but we’ll be the ones to fin­ish it, if we have the will to.

From San­to­rum to Neo­cons, from the Wall Street fuck­ers to Occupy the News­room, from the Quis­lings inside our perime­ters to call for a weekly decon­struc­tion of the lies of David Fuck­ing Brooks…it’s all there.

It was damn good advice six and a half years ago.

It still is.
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