Showing posts with label dilettante. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dilettante. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Republicans Hate America 25: Ben S. Shaprio says 'Work will set you Free'

 I can not stress enough how much Republicans HATE You.  Republicans hate Americans with a visceral passion.  And they get perverse pleasure at getting the people they hate to vote for them.

And no this isn't another leftist screed about how white people vote against their interests.  White people, especially poor and working class (the only workers the Corporate Media acknowledges) get exactly what they want from Republicans in office;  bad faith morality, racism, religious hypocrisy, and non-stop attacks on oppressed and powerless people.

If you think this post title is in bad taste Shapiro
defends rabid racist Jew-hater Elon Musk and 
argues for the extermination of the Palestinian people
However, every so often, a Republican will make it clear they intend to fuck over the working class by stealing social security and white people get indignant and upset... not at the Republicans mind you but, at Democrats, for instance when President Biden points out the Republicans absolutely intend to cut and swindle people out of the Social Security.

Back in 2010, Republican John Boehner, the soon to be Speaker of the House after leftists got mad Barack Obama didn't turn the United States into Plato's Utopian Republic, proposed eliminating Obamacare, raising the Retirement Age to 70 and making drastic cuts to the slender America social safety net.  Americans still voted in the Tea Party Extremists.

So, it's little surprise that Republicans continue their quest to impoverish Americans and ensure no one can every retire.  Here's Harvard educated elitist Ben SShapiro plainly stating American workers should not get to retire EVER but should work up until the day they die.

No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.  And let's be real about this - it's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States. It's totally crazy. Everybody that I know who is -- who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years. And if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by losing their job and they stop working, things go to hell in a handbasket real quick.  It's totally insane that you believe that you should be able to work from the time that you are essentially 20 to the time that you are 65 -- which is a 45 year period -- pay in, and then you'll receive Social Security benefits sufficient to support you and your family, you and your wife or whatever, for, like, another 20 years. That's crazy talk. That is not fiscally sustainable.

Ben posits that workers should consider they must work from 20-85.  Life Expectancy for men in America is 73, for women is 79...  the reason Americans die within 5 years of retirement is because they’ve worked themselves into the grave.

 Perhaps Ben is considering how his leisurely life will play out and expects to make it to 85.  Must be because he's not doing anything anyone in the world would consider "work".  Remember Ben counts sitting on his ass talking about Barbie for 2 hours, or complaining about rap music, or demanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) send him pictures of her feet as "work".  This pampered dilettante has never done a day's labor in his life, has never had a real job, never served in the military, never helped his community, never put a shovel in the dirt, or hammered a nail into a board.  But, like all rightwingers he feels absolutely qualified to lecture others about things he has no experience and no knowledge about and he always has.

Ben Shapiro is a man of leisure who has taken his Elite Education and coddled upbringing and used it to advance murderous illiberal and authoritarian Republican governments for 20 years.  He argued anyone protesting the Iraq War should be tried for sedition and treason under the Espionage Act.

If you protest this War I have no intention of fighting you should be arrested! 

I'm certain my Reactionary police officer co-workers believe people shouldn't retire at 65 even though some can retire at 50 and even the Tier 2 pensioners can retire at 55.  I Got Mine, Fuck You remains an animating principle of rightwing politics. 

But, Shapiro is far from the first rightwing influencer to argue you don't get to retire peasant, you work until you drop.  Racist Rush Limpballs made this argument years ago,

No, you're not supposed to retire when you're 55. You sound to me like you are totally capable of still working. People are retiring now at 50 and 55 and so forth when they are still capable of working. According to the tables at 55, you've got 22 years left... ~ Racist Limbaugh, [Crooks and Liars]

Infamous Twitter Troll Catturd2, claims he came to his conservatism by listening to Limbaugh daily while working.  Catturd2 has turned in his work pants for rightwing trolling finding it much more lucrative to tweet and be paid by Elon Musk.

Republicans hate You.  They hate an America in which people can possibly find relaxation and enjoyment instead of dropping dead on the job.  Republicans don't believe in the American Dream.  They don't believe in the American people.  Republicans hate America.

President Joe Biden believes in America.  He believes in giving the American people freedom and a chance to live.  This is why Republicans hate Him.  The choice is simple;  Joe Biden and the American Dream or Traitor Trump and jack-booted Fascist Dictatorship.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

New Black Panther Party Member Jonah Goldberg will beat you up to keep you from voting

The current water-carrying, torch-bearing, scholar of the Right is Jonah Goldberg. It's only in Modern America where a dilettante can be paid millions to write books claiming Liberals are meanies and "properly understood" Nazis, get invited repeatedly onto various "liberal" television news programs and makes sweeping pronouncements about things of which he has no experience.

Well, Jonah decided to educate his right-wing followers about young people,
“I don’t think youth politics is something very special or enviable. Personally, I think the voting age should be much higher not lower. I think it was a mistake to lower it to 18, to be brutally honest.”

"It is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity more than youth. So we should really explain to them why they’re “so frickin’ stupid about some things. We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

"The fact that young people think socialism is better than capitalism. That’s proof of what social scientists call their stupidity and their ignorance. And that’s something that conservatives have to beat out of them. Either literally or figuratively as far as I’m concerned."
Ah yes! Social Science which is as squishy as the giant band of fat encircling Jonah's brain and midsection.

However, I sure hope Faux News runs with the Conservatives have to beat young people literally to get them to vote Republican story as much as the New Black Panther Party video! You know who else wanted to restrict voting rights? Adolf Hitler and the Nazis! But, somehow video of blubbering, man-boobed, fleshy-faced Jonah threatening to have conservatives beat young people into voting "Right" isn't that scary...

Moreover, this is basically a warmed-over version of the If you're not a liberal at 20 you have no heart and if you're not a conservative at 30 you have no brain quote falsely attributed to Winston Churchill. So, besides being a literary hack, a chicken hawk coward and a liar (Jonah and his publisher have been claiming he has "twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize" when he never had) Jonah's also a sloppy plagiarist.

Sadly, Jonah Goldberg embodies everything wrong with conservatives in one fat corpulent form. He inherited his position at the National Review Online from his mother. He's never done a real day's work. Of course, Jonah is also a rank coward and chicken hawk warmonger (when Republicans are in power) who fastidiously shirked military duty to remain at his keyboard "defending" America.

Besides what I've mentioned Jonah has no credentials or accomplishments and he is clearly doing the bidding of the Plutocracy yet despite his utter lack of anything positive he is treated as a Very Serious Person.

On the release of his second manifesto about mean liberals, Goldberg got into a tiff with Piers Morgan when Piers asked Jonah how much the military operation to Kill Bin Laden cost. Jonah rather than admitting he has no knowledge of anything military related and would rather talk about how mean President Obama is, got flustered, and highlighted his hog-shit ignorance [See My Post: Jonah Goldberg pouts because Piers Morgan is mean and conservatives are Hypocrites].

But, even after Jonah proved he and his work is nothing more than recycled hog shit, Jonah keeps on talking about the military.

On Memorial Day, Jonah spoke about how he studied the military. Now mind you Jonah doesn't actually know anything about the military and he wouldn't go onto a military base to talk to active service members or to a VFW to talk to Vets. No Jonah spent his Memorial Day at the same place he spent the Iraq War, a Keyboard,
“I spent part of my Memorial Day going over some of the demographics of veterans,” Goldberg said. “And it shouldn’t actually shock us that Romney is doing well. It seems to me that if you were a traditional military voter, you might have some serious problems with Obama. The way he sometimes talks about the military, he talks about the troops — it can often seem narcissistic, political, and rub people the wrong way."
Leaving aside Jonah's continued despicable comments about the President's character, something he knows even less about than the Military, Jonah, like his mother before him, is nothing more than a paid goon for Rich right-wingers to attack Liberals. Jonah Goldberg has "seen the elephant" and he won't stop stroking him.

Related:
Why I am Challenging Jonah Goldberg to a Fight for Charity by Jamie Kilstein [Wonkette]

Jonah Goldberg is a Fucking Idiot by Bustedknuckles [Ornery Bastard]

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Jonah Goldberg pouts because Piers Morgan is mean and conservatives are Hypocrites (Updated)

“The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he’s going to attack Pakistan…” George W. Bush
Update:
Jonah Goldberg is also a liar. Jonah and his publisher have been claiming he has "twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize." So my earlier conclusion that Jonah Goldberg is regurgitated hog-shit has been vindicated.
Chicken Hawk, fat slob Jonah Goldberg thought Piers Morgan would let him rant on and on and on about how bad, bad, bad Liberals are and how he doesn't criticize President Obama, except when Jonah slanders President Obama at every turn. For instance, here's the first sentence of Jonah's awesomely even-handed response to the SOTU,
President Obama's State of the Union address was disgusting.
But, a strange thing happened when Piers Morgan pointed out Republicans and Right-Wingers were underplaying the significance of the Kill Bin Laden Mission. Republicans are mulling and crying like petulant spoiled brats because President Obama rightly declared he would get Osama Bin Laden and Mitt Romney declared he didn't want to get Osama Bin Laden. [See My Post: Bin Laden's death means...]

Jonah Goldberg was flummoxed in the Interview. Jonah didn't have answers for any questions, blubbered that Piers "cross-examined him", was "carrying water for the Democrats", and "you pried it out of me"! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Jonah Goldberg is a famous conservative chicken hawk.
As for why my sorry a** isn't in the kill zone, lots of people think this is a searingly pertinent question. No answer I could give -- I'm 35 years old, my family couldn't afford the lost income, I have a baby daughter, my a** is, er, sorry, are a few -- ever seem to suffice.
So, Jonah showed his absolute hog-shit ignorance when asked about military missions when Piers Morgan asked him how much the Kill Bin Laden Mission cost.

Instead of admitting he has no idea because Jonah Goldberg never had any intention of going anywhere near the military, he pulled a number out of his expansive flabby chicken hawk ass.
Golberg: It was a pretty cheap operation.

Morgan: How much does it cost?

Goldberg: It didn't cost --

Morgan: What's your idea of cheap?

Goldberg: Are we really going to do this sort of high school debating tactic crap?

Morgan: Yes. I'm curious what you think of what cheap means.

Goldberg: I would put it at – I don't know, $50 million, $40 million...

Morgan: Wow. And that's cheap in the Republican world? No wonder the country got into the mess it did.
Right-Wing world exploded with indignation! Jonah retreated to his home turf at National Review Online to declare, 'I won! I won! Waaah! La la la la la Liberals! He proved my point! I'm the winner!'

The blubbering Jonah turned to Rich Lowry and said, 'Tell em Rich! I won! Right?!? Right?!? I demand you declare me the winner or Im gonna hold my breath!' Rich Lowry dutifully declared him the winner, "Jonah Goldberg 1, Piers Morgan 0". Newsbusters proclaimed, "Piers Morgan belittled Jonah Goldberg".

World Net Daily Writer David Limbaugh (yes Limpballs brother) wrote,
After being waterboarded into answering, Jonah ventured a guess of $50 million, after which Morgan spent the next several minutes sputtering indignantly about how a Republican such as Goldberg could think $50 million is pocket change.
If Jonah Goldberg can't handle Piers Morgan, a friend of Ruppie Murdoch, how is he going to defeat Al Qaeda?

But, it's telling that Jonah Goldberg is such a star in Right-Wing world. On 12/12/2007, Goldberg infamously was the featured speaker for a lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, entitled All I am Saying is Give War a Chance. It's stated goal being:
Join the UMass Republican Club for yet another lively and edifying political discussion on the costs, necessities, consequences, and benefits of war. A question and answer session will be administered after the initial lecture.
Jonah is just another dog-shit stupid conservative dilettante who inherited his position as a "professional commentator" from his mommy. These pundit aristocrats are hired by Right-Wing Think Tanks to produce reams and reams of god-awfully shameful lies which the conservative base stoops lower and lower to lap up. [See my post: Good Conservative! Let the Racism Flow Freely! Brent Bozell is a Bigot]

Base Hypocrite is too polite a term for Jonah Goldberg, bucket of regurgitated hog-shit is more appropriate.

Addendum:
All of this, of course, stems from the fact, Republicans used Terrorism to win elections in 2002 and 2004. In the Kerry/Bush election Republicans shouted Terror! Terror! 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! and directly stated a vote for John Kerry was a vote for Terrorists. Republicans politicize Terror to win elections then and now. It's just now, Right-Wingers are pouting and stamping their feet how dare that Obama rightly point out Republicans didn't care whether or not Osama Bin Laden was killed/captured and President Obama did and got it done.

"It's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person." - Mitt Romney. Like George W(orst President Ever) Bush Mitt Romney didn't care about killing/capturing Osama Bin Laden.