DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

atomicsocialist:

paxamericana:

Rick Perry has challenged House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to debate him next week about his plan for a part-time Congress.

In a letter to Pelosi (D-Calif.) obtained by The Hill, the Texas governor wrote: “I am in Washington Monday and would love to engage you in a public debate about my Overhaul Washington plan versus the congressional status quo.

“I think it would be a tremendous service to the American people to see a public airing of these differences,” he continued. “Let the people decide. If Monday doesn’t work, perhaps we could find a time in Iowa over the course of the next month to discuss these issues in front of the people of America’s heartland.”

I actually was listening to NPR in the car today (I know, I know, it’s a very shameful champagne socialist station but come on, it’s either that or listening to two dumbass radio DJs telling terrible jokes!) and they mentioned this. 

I literally yelled in my car, dropping my lit cigarette in my lap

“You moron! Congress doesn’t work so cut their god damn hours? OUCH, FUCKING CHRIST MY SMOKE” 

This has been a glimpse into my derpy life 

Damn, you drive a car. Better watch out. Some vegan bicycle riding non-cis gender troll is going to have your head over this! And you smoke, too! oh fuck. There goes the neighborhood.

(via huberthumphreydeathrally)

2chainz-senpai asked: What are your thoughts on Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry?

As individuals: liars, elitists, anti-intellectuals, capitalists, Christian Dominionists, opportunists.

Liars: They’re consistently dishonest about themselves and others.

Elitists: They believe they know better than everyone else as a direct result of the unearned ambition conservative culture affords them. In addition, their brand of faith permits them to insist that they are chosen and blessed.

Anti-Intellectuals: Neither of them understand economic theory nor wish to do the work to understand it; both believe that being successful at business means being correct in methodology; both ignore massive inequalities to insist individuals have equal opportunity simply by being born in the United States; neither understand history beyond a sense that time progresses and events can be chronologically organized; they’re crass utilitarians.

Capitalists & Christian Dominionists: Both blindly subscribe to far-right discourse about the free market that engineers definitions for Equality, Liberty and Freedom that serve themselves and permits unbridled capitalism; both deny that separation of church and state is fundamental to our Union; both believe the US is a Christian nation; both are what you’d refer to as Christian Nationalists; both are imperialists and Zionists.

Opportunists: Both recognize that this is the election cycle to get the most traction out of a campaign. Perry, especially, is simply using cliched rhetoric and old-fashioned political strategy to garner the most media attention. Neither believe they can win, I think. Though they likely believe they can get lucky. In other words, they are not actual leaders. They are looking for the most efficient way to make a profit out of the current state of the nation for themselves, their families, their careers. See, Sarah Palin.

(I should add. I think they are hard domionionists. In other words, open to the whacko beliefs of the Christian Reconstructionists. So, I can add. They are dangerous.)

The Christian Dominionists are Coming.

Please help stop them. Thank You.

The Respectable D