When charming leftists stick their nose into things they don’t understand they become ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey-doodle and baked wind. They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy coddling tax lice applauding themselves for giving away other people’s money. They are the lap dogs of the poly sci-class, returning to the vomit of collectivism. They are pig herders tending that sow-who-eats-her-young, the welfare state. They are muck-dwelling bottom-feeders growing fat on the worries and disappointments of the electorate. They are the ditch carp of democracy.
19 responses so far ↓
1 Tristan // Apr 29, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Left/right there’s no difference. The right do the same, just pretend that they don’t redistribute wealth to their preferred group.
Most of the right are collectivist and support the welfare state for the powerful and live of the efforts of others whilst they use the state to grant them privilege.
No real difference, both help themselves to another’s earned wealth, they just wrap it up in different language.
2 Kit // Apr 29, 2009 at 3:27 pm
@Tristan
Thanks for giving us an example of “monkey-doodle and baked wind.”
3 AntiCitizenOne // Apr 29, 2009 at 4:10 pm
I think we’ve found someone stoopid enough to think lowering income tax is a subsidy.
4 john b // Apr 29, 2009 at 4:53 pm
What, so you’re seriously denying that most right-wing-labelled governments hand out enormous quantities of pork and similar corporate welfare? FFS, Bush grew the state and the deficit during the boom, precisely so that he could channel money towards the companies who bankrolled him…
5 jameshigham // Apr 29, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Well put, Tim.
6 Kay Tie // Apr 29, 2009 at 5:35 pm
“What, so you’re seriously denying that most right-wing-labelled governments hand out enormous quantities of pork and similar corporate welfare?”
No, I don’t think anyone is denying that.
7 Ed // Apr 29, 2009 at 6:21 pm
A similar speech by P.J. O’Rourke is linked here:
http://21stcenturyschizoidman.blogspot.com/2009/04/worth-watching.html
Excellent stuff, apart from the usual mistake of confusing average and median in statistics.
right-wing-labelled governments
Yes, incorrectly labelled governments.
8 Dennis The Peasant // Apr 29, 2009 at 6:48 pm
When exactly was it that P.J. met Richard Murphy?
9 JuliaM // Apr 29, 2009 at 7:09 pm
“FFS, Bush grew the state and the deficit during the boom…”
For which he caught a lot of flak from his ‘own’ side, IIRC…
10 diogenes1960 // Apr 29, 2009 at 8:46 pm
julia – remember John b doesn’t bother with facts
11 JuliaM // Apr 29, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Ah. Good point.
12 Nort // Apr 29, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Got it in one.
13 Doug // Apr 29, 2009 at 9:21 pm
“Yes, incorrectly labelled governments.”
How many governments have there been that fit your definition of ‘right-wing’ around the world, and which ones were they?
14 ukipwebmaster // Apr 29, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Strewth!
15 RobtE // Apr 29, 2009 at 10:56 pm
…ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey-doodle and baked wind. They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood…
Jeez, that’s brilliant. Poetry.
16 Monty // Apr 30, 2009 at 12:26 am
“First, he appoints a Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who thinks ”foreign affairs” means her husband is overseas.”
…. sweet.
17 ChrisM // Apr 30, 2009 at 9:38 am
“Excellent stuff, apart from the usual mistake of confusing average and median in statistics.”
I think you meant confusing the mean with the median. Both median and mean (and indeed mode) are all types of average. Median is just a specfic type of average.
18 Ed // Apr 30, 2009 at 10:30 am
How many governments have there been that fit your definition of ‘right-wing’ around the world, and which ones were they?
Sorry Doug, I’m still trying to think of one. Some like the Thatcher and Reagan governments of the 80′s moved in the right direction but never quite got there.
I think you meant confusing the mean with the median. Both median and mean (and indeed mode) are all types of average. Median is just a specfic type of average.
Indeed, thanks for the correction.
19 john b // Apr 30, 2009 at 1:33 pm
@diogenes, fuck you; everything I say is factually sourced and justified.
If you say ‘aaah, *actual* right wing governments don’t do that, but my platonic ideal of a perfect right wing government would’, then you’re just as dishonest/stupid as old commies who say ‘Stalin and Mao weren’t *actual* communism, that would be lovely and wonderful’.
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