Pukes: The Fuck Everyone But Me Cult

[hippiegranny]

this guy is on a roll - I found myself shouting AMEN BROTHER! while reading this most excellent rant.

excerpts:

>The broader, more descriptive and inclusive ideology that sums up the whole of the GOP – from the NeoCon fascists, to Christopath theocrats to the millions of just plain dumbfuck racists for whose throbbing electoral love the Republican Party gladly lubes itself up spreads ‘em – comes down to four, simple words.

Fuck Everyone But Me.

That’s what being a Republican comes down to in the end.<

~snip~

>And when you’re basic moral precept is Fuck Everyone But Me, you back yourself into a corner where you look absolutely ridiculous trying to judge or mock anyone else’s moral choices. What do you care who adults sleep with or marry? What do you care if terrorists kill Americans, as long as they’re not you. From what high moral ground do you get off prattling on about the various sins of Bill Clinton or anyone else?

Don’t get me wrong; it is at least an honest philosophy, and if Republicans were ever honest for five consecutive minutes they’d just own up to the fact that the loathe their fellow man and women on a sliding scale that reaches its zenith when the people on the business end of the shotgun are Poor and/or Black.

Republicans don’t give a shit if “those people” live or die as long as they don’t live or die near them. <


This driftglass guy... he is my new favorite blogger
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2005/09/depraved.html

[graywarrior]

1. FEBM. I like it.

[Waistdeep]

2. Driftglass is always good.

Sort of a high colonic for the political soul.

[Melodybe]

5. I think that they are devil worshippers

and that goes hand in hand with a cult.

So sure, I like it!

[hwmnbn]

3. Amazing writer.....

He absolutely nails the core concepts of the repugs. Thanks for the link, hippiegranny.

[walldude]

4. No wonder they are so uptight

The whole world is getting fucked except for them.

[MrModerate]

6. We risk rendering ourselves completely powerless and worse --

Irrelevant -- If we go down the route of demonizing our opposition to the extent this guy does.

If we're going to be honest -- to use the blogger's key word -- we have to admit that while there are truly wicked people in the Republican party (and that wickedness appears to outweigh virtue among their national leaders), most rank-and-file republicans DON'T hate their fellow man, don't want ANYONE to drown in an attic, and while they aren't comfortable living next to people of color or of limited means, they also don't want to exterminate them.

They're a leetle selfish, and a leetle sanctimonious, and in that sense pretty near the center of the American public.

If we lefties were so effin' virtuous ourselves, we wouldn't be using so much energy. Did you drive a car today? I did.

Let's turn off the taps of vile spew like the blogger you cited and try to regain a little perspective here. Most Republicans didn't vote for Bush because they believed he was a cheap crook, a hypocrite, a liar, a coward, and an incompetent (even though he is all those things), but because they believed -- wrongly -- that he was strong, and moral, and offered them a better chance to be comfortable, safe, and happy.

The challenge is to get such people to realize that the Republican way can't provide those things they want, and even if it could, it would be at the cost of their honor, their humanity. THAT'S where we need to put our energy, not thinking up half-clever ways to insult them.

[defiant1]

8. Excellent post, Mr. Moderate....

:toast:

[Waistdeep]

13. taps of vile spew?

Oh, please.

He's Johnny Rotten crossed with Molly Ivins. We need more "vile spew" like that, frankly. If you read his work critically, you'll notice that he's always coming back to a message to the Republican moderates saying, in effect: " stop fooling yourself, that is precisely who you are letting run your party for you ". He's doing precisely what you claim in your last paragraph that we should be doing.

[MrModerate]

15. Let's see . . .

"Creepy, hateful assholes."

". . . inbred hick delusions . . ."

". . . from the NeoCon fascists, to Christopath theocrats to the millions of just plain dumbfuck racists for whose throbbing electoral love the Republican Party gladly lubes itself up spreads ??em . . ."

"After all, since they were little shits . . ."

--and so on.

That'll REALLY get the "Republican Moderates" to listen, to think, to reconsider whether their support of the Republican machine is, perhaps, IMMORAL . . .

I don't think so. Instead they'll say, "here's another foul-mouthed, vicious, 'liberal' barbarian who I would cross the street to avoid, trying to teach me about virtue. Hey, buddy, why don't you stick it up your ass?"

And we've raised the tone of the national debate once again.

This fulminating crap is not helpful. We're angry already, we don't need the driftglasses of the world to whip us up. And we don't need 'em alienating the very people -- "moderate" people -- we need to reach if we're to take the country back from the traitors and looneys who are now running things.

And Johnny Rotten crossed with ANYTHING is a pretty scary image.

[arendt]

16. The GOP would murder Mahatma Gandhi and you are lecturing...

us about being civil?

Wake up. This is a war. The other side is beyond caring
about what we say; and decent people are fed up with
milquetoast defenders. They want someone who can kick
ass and take names.

This guy says it like it is; and til more people get clear
what is going on, it takes this kind of volume to "break
through the clutter" of the constant barage of GOP hate.

We need a rallying cry, we need pithy slogans.

You are good at them: "fulminating crap", "foul-mouthed, vicious
barbarian".

Why don't you try pointing your gun at the enemy?

arendt

[MrModerate]

18. "We all want to change the world . . .

But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out?"

Well, now I know why you applaud over-the-top blogging like driftglass: you want a civil war.

Thankfully, all reasonable people will pass on that option. 'Scuse me for the bucket of cold water, but there ain't gonna be no revolution.

Decent people are indeed fed up. But they want to make things better, not worse. Check out today's headlines from Iraq and tell me again that we are either in a war -- or should be.

I sincerely believe two things (actually more than two, but two for now): 1) That we WON'T GET ANYWHERE by flinging vomit in people's faces, and 2) we need to win the support of people toward the center of the political spectrum to get our country back. That doesn't mean selling out our principles, it just means convincing people who can comfortably shelter under the big tent of the center-left (i.e., the Democratic Party).

We lost a lot of these people's votes to fraud; we lost a lot to Republican political hardball that we don't do so well at because it offends our sense of honor and fair play. But we've lost a lot of those people because they didn't believe that they'd be as safe under Democratic leadership as they would be under Republican.

We know how wrong they were. We've known for years. Many of us smelled a disaster coming when Bush first slouched onto the national scene, and our judgment has been confirmed every single day that stinking goniff has polluted the White House hallways.

And the people are beginning to get it. Even though the media is sagging back into lap-dogdom after their brief feistiness of last week, a lot of damage has been done. Katrina is proving that no one is safe under this guy, no matter how much money you have.

We need to keep hammering, we need to use rational argument and field winning candidates, and convince more people that the only way out of this is regime change the American Way -- at the ballot box. Grab all the competitive seats in 2006 (and a few more). Get enough people on our side, and all the black box voting schemes in the world won't work.

[arendt]

19. I don't want a war'; but I'm sure as hell in one...

they are stealing my job, my retirement, my civil rights, my voting
rights, and everything else that is or isn't nailed down.

> I sincerely believe two things (actually more than two, but two for now): 1)
> That we WON'T GET ANYWHERE by flinging vomit in people's faces,

I'm only returning the vomit to its rightful owners, the people who barfed it on me.

> and 2) we need to win the support of people toward the center of the
> political spectrum to get our country back.

You falsely assume that you can win back support by being a punching
bag. Rational argument doesn't work with the anti-intellectual morons
of the far right; and the corporate media has made sure that rational
argument is buried in a sea of disinformation, faulty logic, evasion,
distortion, and agenda control. You can't have a rational argument in
the verbal equivalent of a bar room brawl.

> the people are beginning to get it. Even though the media is sagging back
> into lap-dogdom after their brief feistiness of last week, a lot of damage has
> been done.

You should change your signon to "candide" or "pollyanna":. I have never
heard such overblown optimism. The Dems are caving on Roberts. The GOP
congress has vetoed inquiries on DSM and Plame and Katrina. The haters
have not been stopped, they only paused to get new talking points.

We do not control anything in this country anymore. We do not get a fair
hearing, a fair investigation, or a fair trial. Your rational "hammering" will
be done with a child's rubber mallet against the side of a tank.

----

In the end, social change happens when people are fed up. The rhetoric
on that blog will make more people fed up with Bush than it will turn off.
I think I will start a DU poll to see what the reality is on this.

Do you want to jointly sponsor the poll?

arendt

[Child_Of_Isis]

7. And the Republican God said; "Thou shalt Fuck Everyone But Thyself."

Man, this guy is good. I laughed. Hard.

[OnionPatch]

9. Wow, that was great!

That was the best anti-Republican rant I've heard in a long time! He really pegs them down, doesn't he. (I'm assuming it's a "he")

And sorry if it's a little harsh, ModDem but maybe these people need to take a look at how they appear to the rest of the world. Ugly, very, very ugly, hateful and selfish.

And yes, I drove my car today and I will drive it tomorrow and the day after that because I HAVE to. If I could change the world and make everyone drive solar-powered cars, I would do it tomorrow, but until then I have to drive to work in a regular car like everyone else.

[tjwash]

10. Let's figure out their list of values too...

Here's a good start:

Dueling, Indian killing, slavery, apartheid, owning women as chattel, leech bleeding, witch dunking, public hangings, child labor, and
GUNS IN BARS AND CHURCHES!

[mzteris]

11. holy moley oley.....

that was GOOD.

I'd say that sums it all pretty well, don't you?

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Sorry, you can't be moderate with murderers

Especially the ones that want to hide their crimes behind the pretense of religion. It is time to take a stand and to do anything less at this point, makes one a part of the corruption. The deliberate mistreatment of other humans, especially the most vulnerable is a crime against humanity. There is no middle ground. Pick one.

[lectrobyte]

14. That kicked ass. Thanks for posting it here.

[earth mom]

17. LOVED IT! The BEST Rant EVER!

For "moderate" rethugs to be in denial about the true beliefs and racist attitudes of the GOP makes them equally as ugly and inhumane.

:grr: