Angry liberal guy rant
POSTED BY: STDOUBT
UPDATED: Thursday, May 18, 2006 01:45
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I thought this was funny as hell...
copy/pasted from boingboing.net
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Angry liberal guy rant
A couple of years ago, C.B. Shapiro wrote a terrific proposal to allow the red states to secede from the blue states. He's back again with a new piece, titled "Hark, the Angry Liberal Sings."
There’s been some ink spilled lately denigrating so called ‘angry liberals,’ that is, people who have allegedly lost their right to be taken seriously because they are ‘angry.’ And they are ‘liberal.’
Well, I hereby declare myself a charter member in the ALC (Angry Liberal Club).
Sure, at first I felt guilty -- what right do I have as a patriotic American to be angry? Or liberal? Oh, I tried to repress the ‘angry thing,’ I tried -- if I was asked, I claimed I was a ‘peeved moderate.’ Or a ‘mildly upset centrist.’ But after much work through ‘BIT’ (Blog Immersion Therapy), I stopped feeling the shame. I’m coming out of the closet to announce I am an Angry Liberal Guy. And I am pissed.
You might be saying “Man, what are you so angry about, Angry Liberal Guy?”
I’ve compiled a short (and by no means complete) list just so I could see it all in one place:
I’m angry about the shredding of the constitution…illegal wiretaps…falsified intelligence…secret prisons… use of torture as an accepted means of interrogation…Terry Schiavo…the war on science…denial of Global Warming…the fascistic secrecy of our elected officials… presidential signings that declare the President above the law…the breakdown of the wall between church and state…the outing of a clandestine CIA agent for purely partisan political gain…the corrupting influence of K Street… the total sell-out of the legislative process to corporate interests… appointments of unqualified cronies at every level of government…Harriet Miers…Brownie…Abu Ghraib… Scooter …the complete mismanagement of the war in Iraq…the lies about the complete mismanagement of the war in Iraq…the grotesque budget deficits… the pathetic response to Katrina… a civil rights division dedicated to undermining civil rights…an environmental protection agency that refuses to protect the environment… (Take a breath, Angry Liberal Guy.)
And I’m angry about a smug, simple-minded, incompetent, unqualified President, and a press that denies the obvious fact that we have a smug, simple-minded, incompetent unqualified President.
If these things don’t make you angry, I have to ask -- what the hell is the matter with you?
And what would it take to make you angry? -- C.B. Shapiro
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"peeved moderate" -LOL
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Amen....I'll be a charter member of ALC along with you!
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May I be the first to join the Angry Liberal Guy Lady's Auxiliary, aka Angry Liberal Gals!
You are so right on.
ShinyOtter
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I’m angry about the shredding of the constitution ( it's not being shredded ) …illegal wiretaps…( there aren't any wire taps, and the NSA program isn't illegal ) falsified intelligence…( nope, none of that either ) secret prisons…( yeah, I approve of that one. Good job! ) use of torture as an accepted means of interrogation( gotta agree w/ that one too! Although it's not torture. Pity ) …Terry Schiavo…( You're kidding, right ? ) the war on science( ummm..you mean the view that embryonic stem cell study is entitled to Fed Funds? ) …denial of Global Warming ( where cries of which are greatly exaggereated, and not a damn thing man can do about it anyways) …the fascistic secrecy of our elected officials…( only to be outdone by the fanatical leaks of some political zealots on the Left ) presidential signings that declare the President above the law…( Remember this little gem " Stroke of the pen, Law of the land...Kinda cool! " Paul Begala , during the Clinton White House ) the breakdown of the wall between church and state…( break down? HA! ) the outing of a clandestine CIA agent for purely partisan political gain…( You're talking about Joe Wilson outing his own wife ? ) the corrupting influence of K Street…( Congressman William Jefferson (D- LA )? ) the total sell-out of the legislative process to corporate interests…( No worse than a total sell out of US security under Clinton to the Chinese ) appointments of unqualified cronies at every level of government…Harriet Miers…Brownie…( How about Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Justices Roberts and Alito? ) Abu Ghraib ( A few bad apples, which were uncovered not by ABC news, but by the US Military ) … Scooter ( yawn ) …the complete mismanagement of the war in Iraq…( kicked the hell out of Saddam in 3 weeks, didn't we ? ) the lies about the complete mismanagement of the war in Iraq ( oh yeah, the 'lies'. Ha ha ha! ) …the grotesque budget deficits..(hey, we agree on one thing! ) … the pathetic response to Katrina..( the least amount of blame goes to Bush, while you ignore state, local Gov'ts for their complete and utter collapse of duty ) … a civil rights division dedicated to undermining civil rights… ( huh? that makes no sense what so ever ) an environmental protection agency that refuses to protect the environment…( Except that the enviroment is better now than ever )
Take a breath, Angry Liberal Guy. ( You need far more than a breath )
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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First, I think that was a very cute and funny piece of writing and Mr. Shapiro should bed commended for his wit. Second, "so you're angry, so what"? This is Slactivism at its finest. Direct that anger and take to the bloody streets or something.
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One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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Direct that anger and take to the bloody streets or something.
I can't. 'Cause then the streets would be... well,
bloody. Don't much care for the sight of blood.
I'll just keep on slackin' 'till they come for me
and mine. Then there'll be some blood. I'll just
keep my eyes closed.
Don't want to sit and chant the obvious in a
"Free Speech Zone". Don't want to cast a vote
into a hackable blackbox. Don't wanna hurt
nobody. Don't wanna break stuff. Don't really
know WTF to do...
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@AURaptor
Man, you're right. I see the light now. Praise the
Lord and pass the ammunition, brother.
FWIW, you really gotta drop the whole "Clinton
was bad too" thing. WE KNOW. He's a globalist just
like your daddy Bush. Kerry too. It's called the
New World Order, and you're voting for it.
But what the hell do I know? It works in Star Trek...
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Originally posted by STDOUBT:
[B]@AURaptor
Man, you're right. I see the light now. Praise the
Lord and pass the ammunition, brother.
FWIW, you really gotta drop the whole "Clinton
was bad too" thing. WE KNOW. He's a globalist just
like your daddy Bush. Kerry too. It's called the
New World Order, and you're voting for it.
But what the hell do I know? It works in Star Trek...
Globalist as in our Border Patrol telling the Mexican Gov't where the Minutemen patrols are going to be ? You're right. But I wish the folks who got ticked off at Bush over stuff like that also wouldn't give Clinton a pass at the stuff he did. That's all I'm sayin'.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Except that the enviroment is better now than ever )
Your level of self-delusion is astounding. That's one of the dumbest damned things I've ever heard.
Edit: Damn. My brother used my computer and didn't log out. So, the above was posted by Storymark.
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Globalist as in our Border Patrol telling the Mexican Gov't where the Minutemen patrols are going to be ? You're right. But I wish the folks who got ticked off at Bush over stuff like that also wouldn't give Clinton a pass at the stuff he did. That's all I'm sayin'.
We can argue Left/Right, Liberal/Conservative,
'till we're Divided/Conquered... Meanwhile our
country is getting shitcanned by the people in
power. It ain't about the PARTIES. That's
what I'm sayin'.
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