Versaillistes, in their Roman numerals, are the Wretched of the Earth, bien sur.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
DeVoorhies VII, and the Other Occupy Oppressed
Versaillistes, in their Roman numerals, are the Wretched of the Earth, bien sur.
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A smashing outfit, there.
A cut of the jib worthy of Obamakles himself.
Mort Zuckerman, the quintessential pinko millionaire/billionaire insider, is getting slightly dispirited:
Among business executives who supported Barack Obama in 2008, he says, "there is enormously widespread anxiety over the political leadership of the country." Mr. Zuckerman reports that among Democrats, "The sense is that the policies of this government have failed. . . . What they say about [Mr. Obama] when he's not in the room, so to speak, is astonishing."
Well, maybe they should all pull a Pepe, and high-tail to Gstaad. We'll be left dealing with the mess, best we can. With Mr Rot snickering in the background.
Mr. Zuckerman says that when you also consider the labor-force participation rate and the so-called "birth-death series" that measures business starts and failures, the real U.S. unemployment rate is now 20%. His voice rising with equal parts anger and sadness, he exclaims, "That's not America!"
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Mr. Zuckerman reports that when he was a young man, 50% of the top quartile of graduates from Canadian universities moved to the U.S. Now, he says, "I don't want my daughter telling me, 'Dad, I want to move back to Canada because that's the land of opportunity.'"
It may happen. And rather soon. Despite Mr Rot's snarky barbs at Canada, it looks to me the situation there is in some ways better than here now. The only real advantage we still have compared to Canada are the Universities (of course, that's another subject of constant Rotter derision, but hey), and the health care system (but that's going down the drain fast is nothing changes in 2012, and that of course is what Rot is now openly rooting for, perhaps for spite.)
Unprompted, he spends much of our discussion reminiscing about the Reagan presidency. [..] 'I was not a Republican and I was not an admirer of his before I knew him," continues Mr. Zuckerman. "And you know, Harry Truman had a wonderful definition for the presidency. He said the president has to be someone who can persuade the American people to do what they don't want to do and to like it. And that's what you have to do. Somebody like Reagan had that authority. He was liked so much and he had a kind of moral authority. That's what this president has lost."
You don't say. Of course, Mr Rot never really appreciated Reagan (and even to this day he can rarely pass an occasion to take a jab at the man), whereas even some pinkos like Mort Zuckerman did,
after a while at least.
It's all making sense.
Is a fruity hagiography called a frugiography?
Proving my point, once again: if someone--anyone--says something nice about Reagan (who most everyone regards as Mr Conservative in modern-day America), you--like clockwork--make a disparaging comment (devoid of content, of course).
It's at the same level as Pepe, when someone says something positive about Christianity -- the automatic response is a disparaging, snarky repartee.
In either case, it only means one thing. I'll let you try figure it out.
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