In Which A Nut Is Picked

Went to the House of Althouse, as more than one source had indicated there was a big ol' fight going on because the peroxided platinum Prof. had suggested that ex-Alaska Gov. Palin might have bitten off more than she could chew in taking John Sidney McCain III's kind offer to wait for him to die so she could be President. We'd barely dipped our toe in when we found a summation of the tea partier mind-set, victimized by "today's victim society." We don't mean a semi-literate ranter, on about vast conspiracies to turn America into a fascist wasteland where people can obtain health-care. No, "shoutingthomas" can spell, punctuate, even compose entire sentences, but seems unable to obtain actual information anywhere, & winds up a textbook example of the bitter clinger, as he berates Prof. Althouse for thinking, or something equally evil. (We provided the bold.)

 shoutingthomas said...
Intellectualism appeals to you.

Intellectualism has just about nothing to do with being President. I know that you would like this to be the criteria voters focus on, but it isn't.

Intellectualism is your vanity.

Palin has some things to learn. She's busy learning them.

Politics is about self-interest. In today's victim society, politics is all about who's self-interest gets served. Palin represents the self-interest of a group of people nobody else wants to represent... white, hetero, family, religious, etc.

She will learn how to represent the self-interest of this group.

Intellectuals are dopes. In a high tech society, intellectuals are in demand for high ranking jobs. That's great, but this is not the province of politics.

Jessee Jackson and Al Sharpton are both succeeding as political shakedown artists for blacks. Intellectualism has nothing to do with these clowns.

Ronald Reagan was also constantly ridiculed for being stupid. He knew who he represented and who he wanted to defeat.

Nobody wants to represent my self interest. I'm a white, hetero, Christian man. Palin wants the job of representing my self-interest. McCain refused to represent me, instead cowering before Obama lest he be accused of being racist.

The dumb intellectuals who frequent this blow will now commence to debate their favorite vanity subject: their incredible intellectualism.

This is the problem.

Ann, intellectualism is the foundation of your trade. It is not the foundation of politics. Unconfuse yourself.

11/13/09 10:33 AM

Where to start? Do we question shouting's assumption that no one represents his "self interest?" Last we checked, there was one admitted atheist, a Muslim, one or two Bhuddists & perhaps a score (Maybe two score?) of Jewish people in the House of Reps. (Senate, we dunno, but they're all honkies now, w/ the exception of Sen. Burris of Ill., who's only there to fill out President Obama's term, & won't be there forever.) That leaves some 400 at least nominal Xians not to represent him in the House. Some of them are, we believe, women, who may not be able to represent that special "manliness" he no doubt has. Although he seems to have no problem w/ Palin representing his "self-interest." And of course some of the remaining Bible-thumpers are Negroes, so they don't really count, the interests of white people & black people being diametrically opposed: For example, only white hetero Xians even have "families."

The next bold is beyond comprehension. We'll assume it's racist, though what it really means is beyond our rational mind.

We were probably a bit generous in describing Shouty as literate. He doesn't seem to get that his "self interest" (Or, in the same paragraph & one sentence later, "self-interest.") is his, & his alone. And since he is not the only person in the country, his "self(?)interest" is not necessarily the interest of the rest of those who vote, or receive that vote. A rude surprise for him, if he ever learns it. Though considering  the anti-intellectualism ("Intellectuals are dopes.") that runs through his rant like E. coli through a meat-packing plant, we're pretty damn sure his capacity for learning is not the most striking thing on his resume.

"Nobody loves me" seems to be his point in the last part we bolded. One must admire his forward-thinking, as he seems to have transported himself far to the future, where the non-stop breeding of the non-white non-Xians homos has reduced white Xian hetero families & men to a tiny group w/o votes or influence. We imagine it would be of little use to point out to him that even when honkies stop being the majority group in these United Snakes they will still form a plurality for many yrs. to come. (We'd probably have to explain "plurality" to him as well. And we might have to point out that the President of the United States is not there to serve the "self(?)interest" of one American, on even one group of Americans, but all of us. )

There you have America's new dispossessed, cast adrift in a world where no one will speak for him & his kind. It reminds us of the days long ago, when we didn't live in a one-room brick bunker, but shared a servants quarters (Three bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, dining & living rooms. Not bad.) & could tolerate the presence of people other than  those w/ whom we were about to have sex, or w/ whom we had just had sex.

In said days our pal "Nick Danger" would occasionally come by, drink all the liquor he'd brought w/, start on our liquor, & sometimes go into what would now be considered parody troll schtick (except live & in person, in the living room) usually set off by the sighting of a person of color on the telebision ("There's nothing but Negroes on tee vee!") followed by the ever-popular "NAACP? What organization stands up for white people?" & going to something along the lines of  "Go ahead, marry a rhino! Have children w/ horns!" Except Nick was kidding, even though he'd go on like that for an hour or two.

About the only thing we can say for shoutingthomas is that he didn't bring guns up. Maybe he has no "self(?)interest" in guns. Wait'll he needs Viagra. His interest in guns will be piqued.