Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Can You Dig It?

The whackaloon political story of the day has to be Rand Paul's bizarre, mendacious speech at Howard University. Of course, Paul lied about his stated position on the Civil Rights Act, and claimed that free markets would equalize opportunity in African-American communities while ignoring the historical reality that African-American communities which succeeded due to market forces faced white backlash. It's hard to push a "states' rights limited government message to an audience which knows what such policies really entail, a population that had to rely on the federal government to counteract the bad policies of local authorities. Of course, the righty blogosphere is going to whine about how those blackity-black-blacks were rude to Rand Paul, and claim that liberals are the real racists and members of the Congressional Black Caucus are the real slavemasters on the Democratic plantation. Why, oh why, can't African-Americans truly dig what Rand Paul is trying to tell them?


Who is white congresscreep who tells off all the liberal sheep?
RAND! Damn right.

Who is the man that would push his dreck for the wealthy man?
RAND! Can you dig it?

He's the legacy hire, whose heart's aflame with freedumb's fire.
RAND! Right on wing!

I hear that Rand is a dumb mother...
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I'm talking about Rand!

An Objectivist man, but no-one understands him but his Paulbots.
RAND!


CAN YOU DIG IT?





Hat tip to squirrel_e_girl who inspired this post with a comment on my last post. Please, brilliant readers, contribute additional verses! As an aside, it's kinda amazing to see the paucity of lyrics in the original theme to Shaft when they are written out- the music is so lush, it really makes it seem like there's more lyrical content.

Cross posted at Rumproast.

12 comments:

mikey said...

That really is enlightening, isn't it? The fact that these idiots and bigots think they can somehow add to their voting constituency if only they can lie just a little more effectively.

They're running into one simple disconnect. They truly believe people of color are stupid, and can be persuaded to toss aside their hopes and aspirations with small, hopeless platitudes and an appeal to american political realities from 1870.

Memo to Rand, Bobby, Paul and the other "Young Guns". People can SEE what you're doing. Brutal cuts to social programs, education and jobs programs. Minority voter suppression. Repeated casual racial and sectarian and homophobic slurs. You can't tell them something you're obviously not.

Of course, the fun part is, if they want to be relevant in the national political conversation again, they have to become indistinguishable from the modern Democratic party. Which would be weird. So the question is, how long do are they satisfied with being a regional political party that can, at best, obstruct the national political leadership and preserve the status quo? I suspect that the next four years will be instructive...

Smut Clyde said...

Republicans point to the Reagan era when the economy grew at seven percent

O RLY?

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Don't forget the standard gooper filibuster, where they claim that the Dems opposed to Civil Rights Act (and ignore that those Dems became goopers as a result of it).
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anne said...

and who is the girl .. ,said anne as the honey van pulled up to bennas..as sh' was dancing to shaf t in 'er 'dow, thanks for the lift bigbad bald ,/ first listening to isaac ..in with my jazz man daddy's records /and i first landed on io z , with ashley a boy ,directing me there on a query to him on .. ron paul ,said 'er commas are messing up the coding

anne said...

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zencomix said...

Hey, thanks for that Smoke Signals clip at Roy's, I hadn't seen that in years, got a good chuckle out of it. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is one of those books I always reread.

anne said...

and sh' goes right to richie havens .. in 'er mind , no time to stop and read to day

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

That really is enlightening, isn't it? The fact that these idiots and bigots think they can somehow add to their voting constituency if only they can lie just a little more effectively.

I don't think they really want to win over African-Americans, they just want to provoke a response and tell their constituents that there's no reasoning with "those people".

O RLY?

It's cute, right? Never mind how much the deficit grew. These people have invested so much into throwing things down the memory hole, they actually believe their garbage.

Don't forget the standard gooper filibuster, where they claim that the Dems opposed to Civil Rights Act (and ignore that those Dems became goopers as a result of it).

I know- ignore the last fifty years of history because of things that happened in the 19th century... and ROBERT BYRD!!!

,said anne as the honey van pulled up to bennas..as sh' was dancing to shaf t in 'er 'dow, thanks for the lift bigbad bald

I live to serve!

Hey, thanks for that Smoke Signals clip at Roy's, I hadn't seen that in years, got a good chuckle out of it. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is one of those books I always reread.

It's a great movie. I love the "frybread miracle" bit. I think I have to watch it again.

and sh' goes right to richie havens .. in 'er mind , no time to stop and read to day

More time for dancing, eh?

anne said...

another quic k, it's all in the hair ,said fro, / BIg, no eh,never eh, i think that you need to come visit over the summer.. to see what you are dealing with here .. . ,of this gather , more peacefully gathered than any where else on the planet .. /a visit with donne roberts here over the next few days i think .. of my .. , to help the god idea that he had on his own before meeting with ..,to des'/grounded lovely , of a bal. of the magic of science as well ,

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

CAN YOU DIG IT?

Depends. Are there riffs?

anne said...

bald, you are starting to look kind of man perf' american , said .ca girl lovely .. ,quic k ag

squirrel_e_girl said...

Thanks for the tip o' the hat!! It's nice to know that someone other than me appreciates my super funny jokes ;)