Fellow comrades,

I'm failing to see us Progressives dancing, celebrating, or even mentioning on here, this most joyous of occasions, the Progressive World of Next Tuesday is here! Our Messiah, Barack H***** Obama has been sworn into the White (soon to be red) House and lead our cause to the elimination of class struggle and capitalism.


No longer will our planet's climate change, no longer will the poor be turned away from hospitals because they simply don't have insurance (he is our insurance), no more racial, sexual preferential, or any other group warfare, in fact, no more war anywhere.

Now please, if you have been waiting for the Progressive World of Next Tuesday to come (by the way, the 20th was on a Tuesday), please join me in celebration by resupplying your car bike tire with air if it needs it, than grab hands with your fellow comrades and listen to Laika's transmission for the next glorious move.

Obama bless us all!

Comrade Commissar_Elliott,

Most equal work, comrade! This also explains how The One was able to travel to and from Hawaii, Indonesia, and the Continental US on the income of his progressive mother. I bet, however, he was frustrated as a child by his inability to splash in puddles; ah, just another obstacle He has overcome.

Haha. . . of course we know Comrade, "Through Him, all things are possible through The Party".

Do you suppose that he turned one coach airline ticket into 5000 first-class airline tickets, and one bag of peanuts into 5000 filet mignon dinners?

And what about the wine...

Hmm. . . I can't see why he couldn't.

No. And next he will raise JFK from the dead.

Nah. Too much competition. After all, we don't want Camelot to compete with Cameljock.

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Hahaha. . . Rush called it "Obamalot"

Commissar_Elliott wrote:(off)
Hahaha. . . Rush called it "Obamalot"

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Has Limbaugh been reading the People's Cube???
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=2129

As I was scanning through the frequencies today trying to find an NPR or Air America broadcast (hopefully His Obamaness will soon issue an executive order that ends the Evil Bush's policy of jamming Air America--that's the only logical explanation of why it is so hard to find a station that carries it) I ran across this Limbaugh character's show. He may indeed visit the Cube, as there was a parody of Simon and Garfunkel's "I am a Rock" today. I seem to recall some troll infiltrator posting a similar parody under my name in the People's Karaoke Section.

Imagine
-by YokO Bama

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No gods or guns to cling to
Above us, pie in the sky
Imagine all the people
Getting a tax cut, oooh...

Imagine all the countries
Talking their problems through
Nothing to kill or die for
(But terrorists can still kill Jews.)
Imagine most of the people
Living life in peace, oooh

You may say I'm a leftist
It makes me feel bemused
My ego is my core value
I'm Jimmy Carter TWO!

Imagine no possessions
I'll soon bring it to pass
No reason to be productive
An economy flat on its ass
Imagine all the people
Lining up for food, ooooh

You may say I'm a leftist
I'd likely pass the test
Don't care a lot 'bout reality
Gonna make a bigger mess.

Thanks, Opiate. Now I want to bundle up in a cozy sweater, settle down by a Gaia-friendly simulated campfire and make some organic fair market s'mores. Although we may have to start calling them "s'lesses."

Comrade Opiate,

May I quote Jimi Hendrix in assessing your work as "not necessarily stoned but, beautiful." Very inspiring!

I note, however, that in the last century, Japanese students knew who Yoko Ono is and uniformly had a bad impression of her in contrast to a universally positive image of John Lennon.

I do not know anything about Yoko Ono's life BJ (Before John), but she was in America at a time when Japan had currency export limits and the exchange rate was (I've been told by Japanese who studied abroad about the same time) fixed at $1 = ¥360. Since she was doing "art" when they met in NYC, but apparently not at a university (which would suggest a scholarship--other people's money), my wife believes Ono is from a very wealthy family and thus very, very guilt-ridden. It thus follows that she is progressive.

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Comrade Tovarich,

I also know little about Yoko or John's personal lives as celebrities lives are of little interest to me. I am of an age where I can remember the Beatles and their break-up and do recall she was blamed for much of the friction John and the other group members. Outside of that and the fact she was/is an "avant garde" artist (which I interpret to mean her work is generally unintelligible to a normal person) I don't know anything about her. I generally liked Lennon's music as well as the Beatles but it does not follow for me that I care about their ideas, their politics, their personalities, etc.

Your conclusion in general seems to be true; anyone who has a lot of money they didn't earn feels guilty about it and ends up as a progressive. It would be nice if they would solve the problem for themselves and simply give their wealth away to stop global warming, save the aardvarks or whatever, but for some reason they are more intent on screwing life up for the rest of us instead. This I resent about them more than their bloviating and posturing.

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It may be guilt but I think that there's something else. In <i>The Fountainhead</i> there is a very wealthy man named Mitchell Layton, who was irritated that people didn't accept his opinions as readily as they accepted his checks.

If you are rich you can afford the best cars. The best houses. The best doctors. And the best legislators. Working people are---at work. Wealthy people can demonstrate and make noise, which places them with the same leisured class as the unemployed.

In a very real way the most powerless people are people with jobs, who have lives, <i>because they're busy</i>.

Gentlemen,

Good points all round. The because they're busy helps explain why academics are apparently so influential. When one works just 7 months out of the year and is on salary for the rest yet cannot be fired, progressivism and propagandizing is reasonable outcome. When you can't lose your job, it's easy to write off or forget those who can.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Do you suppose that he turned one coach airline ticket into 5000 first-class airline tickets, and one bag of peanuts into 5000 filet mignon dinners?

And what about the wine...

Forget the filet, bring the damn ice cream cart back!

You know, he could have turned that cheap Boone's Farm into Dom Perignon. Or Bombay Sapphire, sorry, Mumbai Non-conflict Sapphire, gin.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:You know, he could have turned that cheap Boone's Farm into Dom Perignon. Or Bombay Sapphire, sorry, Mumbai Non-conflict Sapphire, gin.

Kind and Generous Leader, I do realize that you are somewhat underwhelmed by the Great and Powerful "O"'s first days I will remind you that we must all give "Change "a Chance. Yesterday as I was on an entrance ramp to I-95 before the George Washington Bridge, a man with a bucket came up to my car, the cardboard sign said "Change" (and some crap about hungry and homeless). I thought to myself that this prole must not have heard that the "O" was providing change. I put down my window and said "Comrade" the "O" is providing Change! He shouted a derogatory adjective, and the traffic started to move.

This was a moving experience, I noticed this agent for spare change was wearing a large link gold necklace, obviously sent to him by the "O". I thought to myself the reason change and rapture has not happened because we are not giving Change a Chance!!! That we just are not WISHING change will happen enough!!! I'll bet we will not hear much about change for the next 4 years or so, but in 2012 we will hear lots about More Change, or we will be standing on the ramp of I-95 begging for " Change"We need to wish for change!!!

Red Star, your tale made my old socialist's rheumy eyes fill up--with rheum. Yes, his O'liness will take care of us all--suffer the little children, and the squeegee men, to come unto Him.

But there is one little teensy, tiny thing. As George Orwell taught us in <i>Animal Farm</i>, all animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others. I will be very glad when the rag man on the street corner with the gold chain has his own corner room at the St. Regis, but only if I have the penthouse.

But I'm sure that His O'liness will see that to, once I am a Raptured, Made Progressive.

Because I'm worth it.™

Opiate of the People wrote:

Commissar_Elliott wrote:(off)
Hahaha. . . Rush called it "Obamalot"

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Has Limbaugh been reading the People's Cube???
http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=2129

Well, if you look on the title page, he DID name it the "Stalinist Version of the Onion." Couldn't do that without stopping in every so often, I'd say.