Haiti Speech
The Ol’ Perfesser teases us with a link-back to a post in which he ‘defend[s] President Obama over Haiti relief complaints.’ That sounds atypical for Reynolds, so let’s stroll on over to the Instapundit archives and see what’s what:
… As I mentioned before, disaster relief isn’t like ordering a pizza. It’s hard to get aid into a place where the infrastructure has been wrecked and ordinary social order broken down. I’m seeing some people start to go after Obama on this in an obvious echo of the Katrina-based criticism of Bush. I understand the appeal of payback, but I don’t see any evidence that Obama has blown it here; this stuff is just hard. Of course, the press won’t go after him the way they went after Bush, but that’s a given.
There’s actually not a lot to disagree with there, notwithstanding the coda in which Reynolds sniffs that the MSM is a bunch of biased meanies. But as so often happens with Ol’ Perfesser posts, the host’s banal statement about a particular topic is merely a dog whistle for his readers to send in their decidedly less diplomatic observations, which wingnuttery Reynolds can then publish as addendum while maintaining some distance from its sentiment. It really is the perfect gambit for an intellectually dishonest curmudgeon, and Reynolds is master of the form.
At any rate, in the first such update to the above post, ‘Reader Kevin Greene’ offers this thoughtful counsel to Haitian earthquake victims:
If you’re not prepared to go it on your own for at least a couple of weeks, with your own supplies of food and especially water and emergency medical supplies, then you probably deserve your fate. Those of us who survive will be all the better off in a significantly cleansed gene pool.
In short, when the coming Social Darwinastrophe hits, all the undesirables will be dying of thirst or buried under rubble, so we’ve got that going for us.
But not all Instapundit fans are quite so heartless, so in another update Reynolds is forced to allow that:
Some readers think Kevin Greene’s comments are a bit harsh [just ‘a bit’? – Ed.]. Well, yeah, but I think they were meant to get your attention.
The same could be said of cross burnings. But really — how great is it that even in the face of reader backlash, the Ol’ Perfesser cannot bring himself to simply condemn the ideas of a person who would use the phrase ‘significantly cleansed gene pool’? Is he afraid that Robert Stacy McCain would delink him if he ever did that?
Following the Kevin Greene updates, some more level-headed readers point out a number of potential disasters in the United States that could be equally or more devastating as the Haitian earthquake. But as dutifully regurgitated by Reynolds, ‘Reader Ben White’ responds that those America-haters are all wet:
You can look back at any number of disasters that have hit different parts of the US. Remember the disastrous Mississippi River flooding? No widespread deaths. No panicking. No anarchy. Remember the hurricane after Katrina that hit Texas? You probably don’t, because there was no widespread media-hyped chaos. It was hurricane Rita.
You can probably guess where this is going. It’s interesting to note, though, that Reader Ben White seems to think that labeling coverage of Katrina’s aftermath as ‘widespread media-hyped chaos’ is somehow a point in his favor.
The difference is the people. Midwesterners won’t have the problems that New Orleans residents have. Living in a neighborhood with smart, capable people of good character is, by itself, an effective disaster preparedness measure. New Madrid is a threat, but it threatens us where we are the most resilient.
Katrina victims’ two big mistakes were not having enough bottled water on hand and opting not to be be born into an upper middle class family in Ames, Iowa. Not necessarily in that order.
Your readers should try to remember what country they live in. America may be in decline, but every town is not Detroit (or New Orleans, or Washington DC) yet.
Also, Harlem and Chocolate City, USA. East St. Louis is a special case, because it’s technically Midwestern and therefore falling concrete should bounce harmlessly off its citizens’ heads. But let’s just say that when the Big Tsunaminadoquake hits, ‘darker’ things are in store for those people … LOL wink wink.
If those fuckwads ever get buried under rubble, I hope someone shouts down to them, “You’re smart, capable people of good character. Get yourselves out.”
Pro Tip: You’re dealing with people who have been eating dirt because they haven’t had enough money to purchase food, particularly since so many have been driven out of peasant, small-trade agriculture because a bunch of economists thought Haiti would be awesome at low wage urban manufacturing, and who have helped denude hillsides of trees just so they can have a bit of wood to use for fire because as of yet their non-transhuman bodies still seem to require cooked food, particularly given the low calorie, high starch diet they might be able to barely afford.
So, yeah, these people need to learn how to tighten their belts by a few feet, just like your average libertarian right winger thinks about doing in their alternate cyberreality.
That’s just beautiful. And if your supplies of food and water happen to be buried under several tons of concrete rubble, I guess you just didn’t plan properly, and you’re better off dying so as to decrease the surplus population.
Oh, and speaking of lazy-ass niggers, it appears that Massachusetts residents may be about to elect a Republican senator not because of a dsimal political miscalculation by the Democratic party, but because he looks like a real American:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/visceral-comfort-by-digby-sometimes.html
so i actually have some bottled water and canned goods in my house and a camping stove and water filter, tent, etc, which i actually use for camping but of course would come in handy in a disaster. so say an earthquake destroys my house and burying my emergency supplies. what then?
of course im middle class with a decent house and can afford these things and the room to put them in.
i hate these wingnuts.
It gives at Robertson a reason to squak about the evil hatian pact with the devil.
I’m sure Lrary Phelps ministries will chime in soon. There must be something gays did to cause it, too.
I’m seeing some people start to go after Obama on this in an obvious echo of the Katrina-based criticism of Bush. I understand the appeal of payback, but I don’t see any evidence that Obama has blown it here; this stuff is just hard. Of course,
the press won’t go after him the way they went after Bush, but that’s a giventhe earthquake was not visible on radar for days.Fizzixed for accuracy.
Katrina victims’ two big mistakes were
not having enough bottled water on handliving below sea level in a society which has ceased to care about infrastructure maintenance and opting not to be be born into an upper middle class family in Ames, Iowa.Fixx0red for great justice.
Kevin Greene is right! What kind of dipshit doesn’t stock up on dirtcakes and water hauled around in an old gasoline can???
FWIW, the US isn’t the only nation aiding Haiti. A recent article noted that the U.S. has aerially delivered about 1,600 tons of aid — maybe much more by sea. Venezuela claims it has delivered 5,400 tons of aid.
This ain’t just about the USA. And even nations which have national budgets the size of the budget of one of our medium sized states still mobilizes pretty serious quantities of actual aid.
I’m seeing some people start to go after Obama on this in an obvious echo of the Katrina-based criticism of Bush.
We had people on the ground in Haiti within hours, handing out water and food and helping dig people out of the rubble. Bush let dead bodies float for days. Haiti proves that even diligent efforts are difficult, Katrina proved they are impossible when the leadership doesn’t even try.
“Reader Ben White” obviously doesn’t know shit about Hurricane Rita, which hit southwest Louisiana (and southeast Texas) as well about three weeks after Katrina. And it was a clusterfuck too, there’s just not as much population there as in NO, and FEMA and the state of Louisiana were trying to be on their best behavior. Oh, and since Katrina had hit, when people saw a Cat 5 hurricane headed their way, they got the fuck out. FWIW, Houston’s “evacuation” was a nightmare.
Oh, and there were no federal levees to break there, either.
Fuckwad.
I see El Cid has beaten me to that point.
As far as the comparison to the nice, clean Midwesterners, never mind the fact that the circumstances were different. Never mind the fact that they had the infrastructure and government support in place for the floods, as well as the foreknowledge that the floods were going to hit, even if they didn’t know how hard. And that the areas hit hardest weren’t fucking urban centers.
And please don’t talk about the New Madrid fault. It scares the shit out of me.
If only the Haitians would learn from our noble pioneers who faced hard times, like those in the Donner party!
Someone should help Haiti or whatever I guess. I can’t personally do much–the French I learned in school and private lessons and on my European vacations in my youth is the French of the educated classes so I’d be unlikely to be able to communicate with the rabble. I’m also a gourmet cook but I hardly think those blackamoors would appreciate haute cuisine on my level, you know?
Plus I’ve still got mine and I’m still on the motherfucking boat. Did the healthcare thing pass yet? My family has been buying shares in Big Pharm like crazy for the past year and I’d like to know where my inheritance stands.
Oh Bush suxorz ROFL! You guys still all want my dick right?
Other nations offered tons of aid during the flooding of New Orleans. The Bushistas turned it down.
Well, we are in no danger of running out of cruel-minded assholes who don’t think it’s enough for people just to suffer disaster—by God, they have to blamed for it.
Assholes.
Nah, you just keep it in the jar. Tip: make sure it’s fully submerged in formalin.
You guys still all want my dick right?
Oh, honey, no. I would break you.
I got a drawer full of dicks. Been meaning to clean that out. Maybe donate one to Reid.
I’m seeing some people start to go after Obama on this in an obvious echo of the Katrina-based criticism of Bush.
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck (GOP Party Boss and GOP Party Boss-in-waiting) have been busy condemning Obama for responding to Haiti sooner than saying some words about the failed underpants bombing.
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Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck (GOP Party Boss and GOP Party Boss-in-waiting) have been busy condemning Obama for responding to Haiti sooner than saying some words about the failed underpants bombing.
hmm, let’s see….70,000 vs …..none
Yeah, but 70,000 wrong-colored people. Kinda like teh Prez.
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The offical drink of the Tea Party
If only the Haitians would learn from our noble pioneers who faced hard times, like those in the Donner party!
Just imagine what those assholes who rhapsodize about the Donner party would say if the people of Port au Prince resorted to those measures!
Yeah, when white Anglo-Saxon Protestants do it, it’s a measure of true grit…
These sort of objectivist cobags are the only people for whom I make an exception to my general rule of not wishing severe physical pain on anyone, because that’s the only conceivable way they’ll change their stripes. Of course, being libertarians, they’ll probably find some deluded half-assed way to blame it all on Teh State and continue believing that they’re super-duper special ubermensches for randomly being born into a wealthy American family and why can’t all these
darkiespoor people be just like them? That’s the only way that we’ll all enter the Randian paradise of infinite freedom in a world of finite space and resources.There really are no words to express my loathing of these douchebags.
But but but…there was surely at least one wrong-colored person on that flight, right? And them not getting blowed up is roughly equivalent to a white people getting blowed up, right?
Ah, who am I kidding. I can’t even do regular math, much less drug-addled wingnut math.
“If you’re not prepared to go it on your own for at least a couple of weeks, with your own supplies of food and especially water and emergency medical supplies, then you probably deserve your fate. Those of us who survive will be all the better off in a significantly cleansed gene pool.”
I await this day when we see who survives the thinning and who doesn’t.
I don’t really have much fear of marshmallow armed cubicle dwellers, hunkered down in their basements in piles of cheap sleeping bags next to empty oil tanks, or manning the front porch to keep the thieves away.
Either the police will be busy managing the throngs in the city and saving their lives, or they’ll be busy guarding the roads to the numerous suburban McMansions. Can’t do both. Either way you are screwed.
And as for the Mississippi floods. As a former long term resident of Alton Illinois, I can say for a fact that the fool has no idea what he’s talking about. Not only are vast areas of farmland just (after over a decade) coming back into fruition, their also was an entire community of farmers and an island that was completely wiped out.
But no urban areas were decimated, nothing was lost that wasn’t fixable and thanks to our government controls on shelter and the existence housing subsidies no one had to or was allowed, to be congregating on cheap land next to the river.
Funny thing that gubmint.
Once when in D.C., I had a conversation with a libertarian man who had lost everything to a hurricane in Florida. He was saying that that was fair, and he shouldn’t get any government aid, but he also looked like he was about to break and the only thing he had to hold onto was that libertarian belief.
Pat Robertson would be so proud.
Shorter goatfuck: I plan to mooch off my neighbors if the shit hits the fan!
Hey do we get to have some Sadly drunkblogging of Senator-elect Treasure Trail? Because I could use some third-party boozing, stuck at work until late and shit.
My son, computer geek, lived back at home for a bit, got a job and got fired a bit after. His new-found libertarianism had him refusing to apply for unemployment.
His newfound awareness of mama’s willingness to evict forthwith for nonpayment of rent changed that refusal pretty quickly.
Which anecdote supports my assertion always that most libertarians are enabled asswipes who’ve never tasted suffering. I’m sure that guy in Florida eventually got over his cognitve dissonance; they usually do when the chips are down.
His newfound awareness of mama’s willingness to evict forthwith for nonpayment of rent changed that refusal pretty quickly.
Goddamit, mom, I told you not to comment on my blog!
a neighborhood with smart, capable people of good character
Oh, you betcha! If those fat suburban scumbags have to go more than five hrs. w/o eating or electricity, it will not be a pretty sight. Merely having white skin is not an indicator of “good character.”
Goddamit, mom, I told you not to comment on my blog!
Thanks, D.A. I needed something funny!
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This is awful, so pretend I didn’t link to it:
http://www.pray4trig.com/
We ALL know that the Almighty has granted you (and yourn) an evil nature, S_McG.
So I don’t think any fair-minded Xtian could blame you for it.
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I don’t often pray to God for something bad to happen to someone…I like to think God is more concerned with helping us out, since He knows how hard the world can be…but Lord? Please? Give this man a debilitating cancer that forces him to sell his house and live out of a box for a few months during whatever passes for winter near him, and THEN hammer his ass with the ten plagues of Moses.
Let’s see his “be prepared” ass, then!
I call fake Jeebuspushers.
The fact is, your ACORN thugs have failed to deliver liberal bias and WE WIN. Real USA has spoken and we do not want socialism!
Poor ickle Gary. YOU don’t win anything, ever, even vicariously, YOU are just as much a loser as ever.
The fact is, HA HA HA in your FACE liberals WE WIN! We win USA and freedom, YOU LOOSE! You suck you are finished Obama is finished socialist health care is finished tax increases are finished freedom is back! Ooooh, yeah lazy black socialist parasites — finished! NEA — finished!
“Goddamit, mom, I told you not to comment on my blog!
Listen Mr. Revolutionary BlogMan, get up here and wash those dishes or you’ll find a new meaning to Sadly No!
— glad to report young one moved out a few months after because living with ma was so oppressive. Plan worked.
The fact is, your ACORN thugs have failed to deliver liberal bias and WE WIN.
either this is the real ruppert or the most convincing imitation in some time.
I call fake Jeebuspushers.
No kidding, they’d have a Paypal link up before the site was started, one lone working link on a lorem ipsum page.
The fact is, I am hard with joy over the iminint collapse of your welfare freeload USA to turd world country dream of Obsama. We, the Real People of USA, are back in control, left wing freaks go crawl under your rocks, we are in charge as it should be.
The fact is, Brown will follow the consitution and outlaw socialism.
Well, I don’t know what kind of lesson God is trying to teach us, but he certainly likes to laugh in my face and poop on my chest. Not life-threatening, but annoying. And smelly.
“The fact is, your ACORN thugs have failed to deliver liberal bias and WE WIN. Real USA has spoken and we do not want socialism!”
A win by a few percentage points ain’t no landslide Mr. Rooper and Scott Brown is no visionary leader either. This is a one-term fluke, I for one, am not worried.
I for one am planning the day when I’ll be scalping fat lilly hides like yours and using the rendered fat to oil my sharpening stone. I got lots of knifes and you people got lots of fat.
I for one I for one I for one. Just because I’m apparently liking that tonight.
I for one.
..hard with joy,,, is that like a Mohs 1 or 2?
(personally, I am flaccid with indifference)
I’m sure he’ll at least get another nudie spread in Cosmo.
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“The fact is, Brown will follow the consitution and outlaw socialism.”
The fact is, Brown will make dumb libertardians pull their right off
The fact is, Brown will make intelligent people irritated
The fact is, Brown will make farts in public
The fact is, Brown will make his wife stare at the ceiling when he humps her
The fact is, Brown will be black in his empty leetle heart and his tiny leetle mind
THe fact is…
I guess thinking of Brown’s tiny penis(seriously, did you see that picture? SAD) in the Senate for 3 yrs is like Viagra for Gare. I just hope they’re still requiring him to stay away from playgrounds.
Brown will follow the Constitution and outlaw Socialism? I bow to Gary Ruppert, the constitutional scholar’s, encyclopedic knowledge of that document, but could he please cite the section that forbids (or even mentions) socialism? Thanks in advance.
A lousy candidate can (barely) lose an election. Hoocoodanode?
I hope this does make the Party of Confederate Treason overconfident, and delude them into thinking they don’t need to fix their problems. I especially look forward to them running the gay-porn centerfold for higher office!
Nah, I don’t think the lack of a PayPal button is indication of fakeness. St00pidity and incompetence are better explanations.
btw, the latest over there is about free will – not the movie, the concept – so I gave them something to chew on.
Yet another pundit takes a swipe at Detroit, like folks haven’t heard that kind of thing before. Reynolds can go fuck himself. And not in a good way.
Look at this nitwit who believes that a co-host of Morning Joe saying “the media is liberal” is a gotcha.
Not to pry, Kate, but how is the little Randian doing on his own?
If you’re not prepared to go it on your own for at least a couple of weeks, with your own supplies of food and especially water and emergency medical supplies, then you probably deserve your fate. Those of us who survive will be all the better off in a significantly cleansed gene pool.
Uh huh.
Tell that to all those Americans who were killed in the four-star hotel in Port au Prince.
I’m sure the wealthy folks in Petionville had supplies of food, water and emergency medical supplies stocked up in the basements of their mansions…which are now buried under the collapsed slabs of concrete. Even the President’s Palace is crumbled.
WTF is this asshole talking about?
And re: Brown. His margin of victory was about the same as Obama’s over McCain’s. So while we’ll hear lots of gloating from freichtards and libertards, and lots of paragraphs with words like “rebuke” and “rejection” and “turnaround” from teh Libral Meeja, the Republicans really have no more of a mandate than Obama right now. Scratch that, they have far less of one, because this was one fucking Senate seat, in a congress where Democrats still dominate. So why haven’t you accepted Obama’s “mandate”, Possibly Real Gary? Of course, Real America, The Fact Is, Socialism etc, but I’d wager more that it’s because November 2008 was so long ago, and like most people of your ilk, you have the patience and attention span of a junebug.
That’s it, I’m changing parties. I can no longer identify with a party that can fuck up a wet dream.
Changing panties is not something I’m ready to discuss.
I just hope that the Yellowstone Supervolcano blows off*** so that I can stand on reader Kevin Greene’s tomb (well probably a couple of hundred feet above it) and say “Fuck yeah!”. Doesn’t the dickhead watch Fox News?
*** – not really
Someone needs to get fired.
I note how that volcano, on both occasions, managed to avoid most of Mexico, and instead spread its leavings all over the Heartland. Man, volcanoes are such liberals.
Sweet blood of Jesus, politics is only a distraction, & rapidly becoming a boring one.
“I drive a truck, vote for me.”
No one can really believe that any of this election crap has anything to do w/ what happens, how the nation is governed, etc., can they?
Not to worry, at least until we are pushing wheelbarrows full of greenbacks to the Mall★Wart for a loaf of Chinese SawDust Bread, & the Tea-Baggers & hippies (or Brownshirts & Commies) are engaged in serious street fighting.
I just hope that the Yellowstone Supervolcano blows off***
*** – not really
Me? Really!
Doesn’t the dickhead watch Fox News?
Is the Pope catholic?
Yikes! Bigger one two hrs. ago.
Maybe it will blow up Dick Cheney’s compound.
Maybe it will blow up Dick Cheney’s compound.
Veiled….ew…
Real Americans could totally outrun the exploding lava from a Jellystone volcano, like in that movie with John Cusack, only even faster b/c he’s a socialist retard.
…fast-moving currents of hot gas and rock (collectively known as tephra), which travel away from the volcano at speeds generally as great as 700 km/h (450 mi/h). The gas can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F)
we’ll be watching
“The fact is, HA HA HA in your FACE liberals WE WIN! We win USA and freedom, YOU LOOSE! You suck you are finished Obama is finished socialist health care is finished tax increases are finished freedom is back! Ooooh, yeah lazy black socialist parasites — finished! NEA — finished!”
I remember my facebook status on the night of November 3; “Chris congratulates Obama, salutes McCain, and the same for their supporters.”
On the other side, the recent victories by the right always seem to have yielded some variation of Gary Ruppert’s pronouncements – from him, conservative media, and just conservative friends. Sore winners in 02 and 04 made sore losers in 06 and 08 and it stands to reason that they’d make sore winners again today. Nice to know that their politics still haven’t evolved past the maturity of Jets and Sharks fighting turf wars.
The only consolation about the fucking shit-storm awaiting us as our nation implodes is that the fucking biggest cheerleaders – the Fox pundits, the idiot Rightwing bloggers, the Joe the Plumbers – will end up in the guillotines, too, and wonder “why me?”
I suppose fucking intellectual elitists and bureaucratic parasites like me and my family will have some small measure of solace about this, in our unmarked mass graves….
“The only consolation about the fucking shit-storm awaiting us as our nation implodes is that the fucking biggest cheerleaders – the Fox pundits, the idiot Rightwing bloggers, the Joe the Plumbers – will end up in the guillotines, too, and wonder “why me?””
Says who? They’ve been the ones spearheading the entire shit-storm.
Felonious: He’s doing fine, paying rent and living with a very smart, educated girlfriend who will probably go to grad school. He’s finally dropped all leanings of the libertardians and also decided that maybe going to college might be a good thing after all. Let’s see if he gets around to it.
He also came to the house X-mas eve and brought presents for the family, abandoning his, “I’m an Atheist and Christmas is a Consumerist Scam and I Will Not Be Duped!” which I had to get him to understand, is probably true, but you don’t play political whims on family and friends — and then buy that awesome video card for your computer two days after christmas.
They’ve been the ones spearheading the entire shit-storm.
yes. but the masters they serve won’t give a shit when they’re machine-gunned for political convenience. Or even if they rise up in surprise when the falsehoods they’ve been preaching turn out to be revealed.
they’re expendable.
Never mind me. It’s just a bottle of temperanillo talking.
“yes. but the masters they serve won’t give a shit when they’re machine-gunned for political convenience. Or even if they rise up in surprise when the falsehoods they’ve been preaching turn out to be revealed.”
A good point you may have, thinks I. The Leon Trotskys of the teabagger revolution.
Please do not use spear, head and shit in close proximity. It’s dangerously close to my trigger.
“Never mind me. It’s just a bottle of temperanillo talking.”
I thought you were channeling mikey there.
Please do not use spear, head and shit in close proximity. It’s dangerously close to my trigger.
Michael Franti scheisse porn? I’m sure it’s on 4chan somewhere.
The Leon Trotskys of the teabagger revolution.
Pfft, those pansies would go down like a sack of shit after the icepick went in their head. None of them has the fucking balls to fend off their attacker and survive a full day afterward with the icepick still in their fucking head.
Those guys are entirely Robespierre. Convince their followers to guillotine the class enemies, only to get thrown in the same device when they get too big for their britches. You can already see it the way Beck’s fighting off the birthers.
i dont get anything buy as im concerned obama should NOT be pressy hes stupid!!!!!!!!