Comments on: The Beast is Red, Chapter 10: The Sugar and the Shit

By: Heywood J.

Heywood J. — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:07:41 +0000

“Look, Iraq has been good to us. Everybody knows that. Construction, defense, telecoms, it’s a whole new market.”

Here’s hoping “Tony” eventually meets a fate out of a Thomas Harris pot-boiler. It’s bad enough when they’re just stupid, but when they’re so comprehensively, indifferently evil like that, you just wonder where there might be a handy wood-chipper or vat of sulfuric acid.

Actually, the best way to really hurt a piece of shit like “Tony” would be to make him poor. Karma, do your damned work already. You’ve been lagging.

By: Flag Pin

Flag Pin — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:51:04 +0000

That shit is some fucked up shit.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:48:24 +0000

Someone said to me today we needed another revolution, but more like the French Revolution this time. I said I wasn’t sure I’d be willing to go that far, but this loathsome pustule of a stockbroker makes me reconsider.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:22:30 +0000

“That’s the problem with the conservative movement these days. Too much hope.”

Republican bumper sticker FTW!

By: sagra

sagra — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:10:31 +0000

Seems like a natural mistake… picking the spelling with “dick” in it.

By: sagra

sagra — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:03:48 +0000

“(4) Make Osama and Bill O’Reilly fight to the death, then shoot the winner.” = WIN!

By: sagra

sagra — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:57:19 +0000

I am aghast that such evil speaks its name in public. Tell me you made up the stock broker guy out of whole cloth before I start weeping.

No, really. That makes Cheney seem… cuddly in comparison.

By: Monkay

Monkay — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:46:05 +0000

Sir Norman Angell always never said that World War I could not happen.
This is in fact relevant; see The Great Illusion (your local university library should have a copy) in which it is explained that in today’s interconnected world (and this book was written 98 years ago) it won’t really pay to invade and occupy your rich neighbor country. World War I occurred, this thesis was shown to be true, and ever since, the militant right has libeled Angell as “that guy who said World War I was impossible, and wouldn’t happen)
Excellent work, LP!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:24:03 +0000

The “too much hope” thing is going the rounds because Obama talks about hope a lot. So the new meme on R blogs is “hope is for losers” and “hope won’t cut it with the jihadists”.

Just in case you mistakenly thought it was evidence of wit.

(PS Derek has gone now.)

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:13:42 +0000

I also suspected that the people disagreeing with me have very low reading comprehension levels. I think I have more evidence for that now.

I don’t understand what you mean.

Seriously, Derek (did I get that right?), if you don’t like MLP’s writing, then by all means don’t read it. Apparently, it’s compelling enough for you to get through ten (so far) chapters, so it’s not totally unreadable. Yeah, it’s a conscious homage to HST and gonzo journalism; and yeah, there can never be another HST; but really, so fucking what? As far as I can tell, you’re not MLP’s editor, and I (along with many others, to judge by the comments) have been perfectly happy reading MLP’s account of his trek to the Ninth Circle. So really, what is your problem? (Other than now being so defensive you’re flaming typos.)

By: justme

justme — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:50:03 +0000

Innocent Bystander said,

February 9, 2008 at 6:48

Pretty revealing…

Ol’ Gordon Gecko has nothing on these folks. In their minds, anyway. I suppose they figure that if you are entirely ruthless, you don’t have to be smart.

By: winterbear

winterbear — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:36:51 +0000

Iran is a fools errand and has a high potential for being another quagmire.

The first place we need to invade is Canada. I mean, its just sitting there… and it would be a lot more profitable than Iran. Its full of timber and white people. its got oil and no military. They are not known for their insurgents and suicide bombers and we could quickly integrate them into the country. Except for Quibec we wouldnt even need translators. We also wouldnt need anyones permission to mass our troops before the invasion and we would save a fortune in transportation costs. It would be a cake walk. They would great us as liberators and shower us with flowers after 200 years of tyrannical English rule.

I am sure we could easily convince the patriot class that they need invading. I mean, they have to have had some kind of nuclear development plan at some point. We could even claim to be rescuing them from the evils of socialized medicine.

Seriously… what are we waiting for?

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:22:59 +0000

“It’s a bigger country. It’s a richer country. It’s a country with a market class and a rich and developed economy. It wasn’t living under Stalinism like Iraq. Once we get our hands on those markets, we’re finally going to see a payoff for all the effort we’ve put into the wars.”

I keep saying it. It’s not power and cruelty and aggression that really drives these people, not in the last analysis. It’s greed.

By: Innocent Bystander

Innocent Bystander — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:48:01 +0000

Pretty revealing….it’s the new corporate raider playground….hostile takeovers of countries. Breaking up infrastructure to unlock value. They’ll “do the deal”, plunder the assets and leave another country completely bankrupt,,,pass off the remains to the workers (or the remaining citizens) and let them deal with the aftermath….. while they go on to the next “acquisition”.

By: Maggot infested sack of oozing puss

Maggot infested sack of oozing puss — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:58:52 +0000

Now you’re telling me!

By: WillyK

WillyK — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:22:56 +0000

HossierX is 100% right. I worked in Lancaster, CA for two years and it is unfortunately a perfect microcosm of ignorance-driven conservatism. Very few of them are a Tony but a lot of them have kids in Iraq and still haven’t figured out the joke that the Cheney and Tonys of the world have perpetuated on them. They will whole-heartedly support McCain over that “b*tch” or that Hussein-fellow even if he makes their little evangelical hearts skip a few beats.

By: Miss Whitehead

Miss Whitehead — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:42:30 +0000

Can I just say I love you guys for making me laugh so much is these very troubling times!

By: Arky the Blasphemer

Arky the Blasphemer — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:42:06 +0000

Has anyone ever spoken to a person high on speed, coke or possibly glue fumes?

‘K. Now think of that conversation and then go read Tony’s remarks again.

Sound familiar?

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By: Fozzetti

Fozzetti — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:02:48 +0000

Durr-Ick is just another troll with pretensions to literacy. I read about those kinds of guys in Mad Magazine.