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Republican Girls Gone Wild III (Girls Do Wal-Mart)

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THE VIDEO IS GONE, BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF EQUALLY GOOD COMMENTS ON THIS THREAD THAT DON'T LET ME DELETE IT.



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They tried copyrighting that smiley face. Foolish Kapitalists, they should know that once something falls into the hands of the people, it can never be retrieved.

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Much like when certain things fall into the toilet they shouldn't be retrieved...

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Unless it's $oft ca$h... well actually, it would be wet ca$h, but it still drives me to raise taxes for it....

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I am suddenly reminded of that brilliant scene in The Magic Christian... a classic Peter Sellers film also with Ringo Starr as his adopted son... There is a scene where they fill a huge vat with feaces and urine and then dump a bunch of money into it and invite people to retrieve it... It's a wonderful film though I haven't thought of it in years... I wonder if there's a clip of that scene anywhere online. I may have to get the DVD if it's available...


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Well, young Bet-sky (and I don't mean that in a demeaning way - only that it is a book and movie of a very specific time), it is part of the plot of the story... ... hang on.. here... I did a search and Wikipedia actually has a not bad explanation of the film's premise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic ... ian_(film). The basic story is that a rich aristocratic British Lord is... disappointed with the status quo that he sees around him in terms of the expectations of class and money, and decides to go about giving his away, but requires people to do all manner of embarrassing things in order to get it and to amuse him... in the process he adopts an adult son - Ringo Starr - and the two of them then spend the movie giving away money as a way of showing how much it governs peoples' better judgement and often their self-respect... The story is a criticism of capitalism in some ways... or maybe to say a criticism of money for money's sake would be more accurate, but either way, it is a satire... The scene with the huge swimming-pool sized vat of human waste into which they dump large amounts of money is set up in London's financial district and so bar none, almost every person who jumps in the vat is a bowler-hatted businessman in a three piece bespoke suit, carrying an umbrella and a briefcase - none of whom actually needs the money, but their drive to get more despite the inverse relationship between amount and utility means that they are willing to take a bath in excrement to get another pound in their pocket. Not subtle, but very very entertaining. I think you would appreciate it and enjoy it very much.

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As P.J. O'Rourke says, "Money doesn't buy happiness - it rents it."

Capitalism is about the ability for everyone to get large amounts of EARNED money. That is often confused with the cravings for the UNEARNED money caused by laziness, jealousy, and class envy - which is the foundation for all socialist attempts to redistribute wealth. Democrats also use it to win elections, and Jim Webb talks about it at length in his rebuttal to Bush's State of the Union speech, demanding UNEARNED money for The People™.

I haven't seen the The Magic Christian, but from your description it seems more like what the proponents of the Big Benevolent Government would do - offer free money. Only instead of labor to get it, people must pay with their dignity, by embarrassing and humiliating themselves before the benefactors.

That's where Hillary and Pelosi and Dean and Webb would like to be - standing clean, smiling, and self-righteous, next to a huge vat filled with feces and urine, watching The Huddled Masses™ crawl there looking for the money that the Party Leaders had dumped there. The grateful masses will bless the kindness of the Leaders, and the Leaders will feel all emotional and teary-eyed, with the altruistic goose bumps one gets while dumping other people's money in a huge vat filled with shit.

Yes, the difference between the English Lord and the socialists is that the latter will not be dumping their OWN MONEY. They will first TAKE IT AWAY FROM US FOR THE COMMON GOOD. And THEN they'll dump it into the vat filled with shit called the welfare system, and watch us dive in it and express our deepest gratitude to them for giving us such a chance. Hugo Chavez is already doing it with the nationalized oil money and invites the whole world to come and take a dive in his shit. Some are gladly doing it (Sheehan). Some refuse (the Alaskan town that told Chavez to take his free heating oil and shove it).

I want to see that movie. Come to think of it, I've already seen it many times over in real life, especially in the USSR. My Soviet boss at work once asked my how come he didn't see any ambition in me, as if I were some sort of a dissident staying away from the activities everybody else took for granted. If I had known about that movie then, I would've had a perfect answer for my boss. I didn't have much of an ambition for shit-diving, which was just about the only way to make a living in the erstwhile workers paradise.

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Precisely... and much more eloquently than I could ever have put it. I have only ever taken so-called Free Money once in my life - when I was simply too sick to work and then it took me reminding myself that I'd been paying into the system for twenty years in the form of unemployment (or as the goverment calls it to put a brighter spin on it and not taint the image of those who chronically abuse it, employment) insurance tax. I found it to be a humiliating process applying for and staying on it... yet, there are people who do it for a living... hmmm. I really don't think there's any shame in relying on a decent social safety net when through no fault of one's own an individual needs help - especially if they have paid into that system. It's the abuse of that safety net, the ever-increasing buraucracy that exists to service it, the ever-increasing tax-load that funds it, and the promulgation of a system of beliefs by those employed by it to protect their jobs by creating a philosophy that rewards those who abuse it... in a society that needs to feel good about looking after its 'lesser' members because they themselves are so stressed-out and stretched-out by the tax burden created by the social welfare system... a nice tidy circle spinning ever faster that becomes a whirlpool, sucking in tax dollars and flushing them down the drain along with ambition or the demands of self-respect and self-sufficiency... but what do I know...

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Just as there is a confision between the EARNED money and the UNEARNED money, there is also a confusion between CATASTROPHIC circumstances and NORMALCY.

A system of aiding victims of CATASTROPHIC circumstances (SMO) is insurance for all of us - because it can happen to anyone (accidents happen). But to demand that the government taxes other people to pay a lifetime catastrophic insurance for my toaster is what welfare is about.

There also are two moral codes - one for CATASTROPHIC circumstances (altruism) and one for NORMALCY (self-interest). Trying to live and make others live a normal life by a CATASTROPHIC moral code will turn everybody's lives into a never-ending catastrophe. That's how we lived under the Communist rule in the USSR - every reorganization was a "campaign," every gathering of the crops was a "battle," and every rain during that time was a "disaster." We were all sacrificial animals destined to selflessly give our lives for the common good. It was a mortal bourgeois sin to pursue your individual happiness. And then they expected to have a happy society. A society can't be happy when it's made of unhappy individuals. No wonder some people were nostalgic for the days of WWII - when "everything was more honest and people made sacrifices without thinking or asking degenerate questions."

They were scared to think - thinking for themselves could open their eyes to the scariest chasm into which we were all being pushed within the belief that a pile of sacrificed bodies might create a bridge for the future generations to cross that chasm. But that hellish chasm could never be filled - and even if it could be filled, what kind of happiness would you expect to evoke in my children who would know that to achieve it they needed to walk over my rotting dead body? What kind of monsters did they expect the future generation to become?

It wasn't worth anyone's sacrifice either way.

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Agreed... In full!!! And as always, so very well put. It is the same argument, in spirit, that I tried to make in Womyn's Studies classes at the Indoktrination Akademy - that to begin from a position of victimhood simply because I have an innie rather than an outie, genderwise, was to force me to take on the role of victim by default. Victimhood by default accomplishes two things - it creates victims in spirit by forcing them into a predetermined role that I thought we had broken out of, and it weakens the veracity/legitimacy of the position of a true victim. Woe be to the f**ker that assumes that becaues I'm a gurl, I won't hit back if cornered.

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Red Square wrote: What kind of monsters did they expect the future generation to become?

It wasn't worth anyone's sacrifice either way.

Compliant sheeple. Do not question, do not think, just do for the common good. Thinking is punished in a system such as that, for if you think wrongly you are punished, and guess what, no matter how brilliant you are, you're wrong more often than you're right. Its called learning. How many times does a baby stumble and fall before she gets walking down pat? It amazes me the direction we are headed as a nation, sometimes I think I'm the only sane person around, then I found the Cube ;).

I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged, and it's a brilliant piece of work. Reading what you just wrote Red pretty much summed up the premise of Atlas in a nutshell.

O'Brien

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

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O'Brien wrote:I just finished reading Atlas Shrugged, and it's a brilliant piece of work. Reading what you just wrote Red pretty much summed up the premise of Atlas in a nutshell.
I had long suspected that Rush Limbaugh might be Ayn Rand's fan, but yesterday I caught a piece of his show where he discussed Democrats' plans for the future and finished by saying, "Atlas Shrugged, anybody?" before going to a break.

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OK

I have a complaint against Wal-Mart.


Segways....I want Segways in Wal-Marts.
With a a medium sized basket on the handle bars.

I'll pay five bucks to rent one.

I'm a cripple, but not that crippled to need one of those God-Damned geriatric three wheeled scooters.

I shop Wal-Mart.

Last week I bought a Clown Loach and some Tetras for my tank.
Some lamp oil for all my oil lamps.
A DVD
A shrimp ring, some chips and dip, eggs and bacon, cheese ball and Triscuts.


I swear I walked two miles and my cartiledge-less knees were killing me when I got home.

Wal-Mart, The Cube is making this business idea offer today, pay us for this idea or you'll have 8,001 lawsuits!

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I will second that motion, Laika. I believe The People MUST HAVE Segways complete with streamers, Hello Kitty stickers and of course a rubber-ball horn for your squeezing pleasure. I was at Wally World the other day and must have waited in line for about 45 minutes (some folks in front of me had to two cart loads of food in the 10 items or less line....they paid with their Foodstamp debit card, naturally). Of course I bitched about the incident to the cashier telling her that this was the 10 items or less line ( I even scored extra asshole points by having her read the sign to me)...she paused and then said "theirs nothing I can do about it, they could report me to my manager if I don't let them check-out". I looked at her in disgust and then realized there is a shred of hope now for Western Civ. The rules are simply not rules anymore, and God forbid if you tell someone they can't do something...well, <gasp!> they just might report you to your manager for following store policy!

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Sister Massively Opiated wrote:I am suddenly reminded of that brilliant scene in The Magic Christian... a classic Peter Sellers film also with Ringo Starr as his adopted son... There is a scene where they fill a huge vat with feaces and urine and then dump a bunch of money into it and invite people to retrieve it... It's a wonderful film though I haven't thought of it in years... I wonder if there's a clip of that scene anywhere online. I may have to get the DVD if it's available...

Simply ask and the Party will make it so. Free money? Where we come from there is no money.

From the Party archives at gulagosphere manufacturing:

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Laika the Space Dog wrote:OK
I have a complaint against Wal-Mart.

Segways....I want Segways in Wal-Marts.
With a a medium sized basket on the handle bars.
I'll pay five bucks to rent one.
I'm a cripple, but not that crippled to need one of those God-Damned geriatric three wheeled scooters.
I shop Wal-Mart.
Last week I bought a Clown Loach and some Tetras for my tank.
Some lamp oil for all my oil lamps.
A DVD
A shrimp ring, some chips and dip, eggs and bacon, cheese ball and Triscuts.

I swear I walked two miles and my cartiledge-less knees were killing me when I got home.
Wal-Mart, The Cube is making this business idea offer today, pay us for this idea or you'll have 8,001 lawsuits!

Absolutely! I've gone from using a cane, to using one forearm crutch to using two as things progressed, and I'm gonna hafta find a way to roll around soon cause I just can't go far this way... But I'll be damned if I'm going to use one of those scooters. They're always trying to get me to use one in Costco (and they're free there)... But I tried a Segway in Montreal a couple years ago - just as part of an exhibition thing - and they are way kewl and they don't make you want to add a little geriatric toy licence plate and a stupid flag to your transportation. Plus, I'm always afraid that if I use one of those stupid scooters in Walmart, that people will mistake me for a greeter, even though I'm only 41. I'm not ready for a wheelchair - not matter how kewl and hard-core custom it is... plus, I don't want to move around the world at sitting-height... Segways NOW!!!

p.s... why didn't you share the shrimp ring with us?... and what the hell is a "cheese ball"? Jews don't eat things with the words "cheese" and "balls" in the same name...

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Comrade Otis wrote:Simply ask and the Party will make it so.
Free money? Where we come from there is no money.

Comrade Otis,
The Party's munificence is truly boundless, as is yours - I know what you had to wade through in the Party Archives at Gulagosphere Manufacturing just to give me this special treat.
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU


So long has it been since I've watched this that I completely forgot about the Ship's Vampire and Mistress of the Whip characters...

You've made my weekend and entertained me so, that I forgot about my cold (aaah-choo).
Bless you,
S.M.O.

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Sister Massively Opiated wrote: I completely forgot about the Ship's Vampire and Mistress of the Whip characters...

Raquel Welch in her prime.

Sister Massively Opiated wrote: But I'll be damned if I'm going to use one of those scooters. They're always trying to get me to use one in Costco (and they're free there)...

I've always wanted to jump in one of those things at the stores that have them and just go cruising. The Segway would be good, I've seen many people riding them with casts on, that kind of thing. A good salesman could sell those things, or lease them to stores. Not very long ago, here in Seattle, there was a voter approved measure to build a new monorail throughout the city. The price tag for the monorail kept on going higher and higher, I think the final (conservative) estimate was 11 billion dollars. It was pointed out that for that price the city could just cover all the city streets and buy everyone in the city a Segway and still have money left over. As it was, the Monorail Authority imposed a tab tax on everyone living in Seattle, used emminent domain to confiscate private property, produced absolutely nothing except for full-page color ads in the newspapers about how great the future would be with a monorail, and paid themselves generous six figure salaries - and accomplished nothing. And now everyone is a little poorer and there will be no monorail because everyone finally caught on to what the monorail authority was really all about - cushy jobs. If people had only listened to me they'd all be whizzing 'round the city on Segways and speaking Esperanto.


 
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