Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Dis and Dat
A few quick stories:
Here’s a decent resource for folks who are getting out the vote: CivicActions: Home Page Started by old Kucinich supporters, but now with a life of its own.
And the bleak news for whoever wins this (Presidential winner faces 'twin deficits' battle)
raises the issue of Is Kerry Better Off Losing? over coffee this morning. I was solidly in the No, He Must Win camp. Look, it may be true that Bush will go down in screaming flames if he steals another one, probably very quickly in fact, but I stand firm that if he does, we all go down with him. See the loose nukes post below for one example. And the poor will continue to get screwed either way until the workers control the means of production, which is gonna take some time. Anyway…what do you think? I remember in ’68 folks were saying something similar—better Nixon than Humphrey because Nixon will screw things up so bad it will bring the revolution… and we know how that turned out. Only one gal was unconvinced this morning—she thinks Kerry is getting set up if he wins to be made a colossal failure, that Bushco has made it so deliberately so that no matter what happens, the plan goes on. I dunno. All I know is, if Kerry loses, Hello Big Darkness.
I saved up for snow tires this year (damn near killed myself on bald tires in these goddam mountains last year) and went down to get them mounted and balanced this morning after coffee. The tire shop is an old tin shed out back of this guy’s house a way down the road, and I hadn’t been there since last year to get a flat fixed, and politics never came up then. Funny how politics is in everything now. Good, too. His neighbor across the road (who I don’t know) has a huge 4x6 BushCheney04 poster mounted on fence posts in his little pasture. The tire guy sees my stickers on the truck and says he’s voting for Kerry. He says, “You seen dat sign across the street?” I said, yeah, sure. And then the tire guy—a toothless old vet—goes off, and this is what it sounded like:
Dat sumbitch talks about how we gotta support Bush coz that means we’re supportin the troops in eye-rack, but I tell you dis—he ain’t got no sense, he never been in a war, he don’t know. I know! I tell you, my boy, he wanted to join the Marines, I tole him no! you ain’t joinin nothin while there’s a crazy man runnin things, no. Course he ain’t got much of a job, dat’s why he wants to join. Ain’t we learned nothin? I asks you. An dat mofo over there, what he really sayin is now dat we in the cesspool we might as well take a swim an thank the fool who threw us in. Crazy! Pure batshit! I cain’t even talk to him no more. Like he got a zipper in his head nowadays. Damn fool.
He went on about other things, too, like social security, health care and veteran’s benefits and shitty roads, but what stuck in my mind was the cesspool and the zipper-head.
Here’s a decent resource for folks who are getting out the vote: CivicActions: Home Page Started by old Kucinich supporters, but now with a life of its own.
And the bleak news for whoever wins this (Presidential winner faces 'twin deficits' battle)
raises the issue of Is Kerry Better Off Losing? over coffee this morning. I was solidly in the No, He Must Win camp. Look, it may be true that Bush will go down in screaming flames if he steals another one, probably very quickly in fact, but I stand firm that if he does, we all go down with him. See the loose nukes post below for one example. And the poor will continue to get screwed either way until the workers control the means of production, which is gonna take some time. Anyway…what do you think? I remember in ’68 folks were saying something similar—better Nixon than Humphrey because Nixon will screw things up so bad it will bring the revolution… and we know how that turned out. Only one gal was unconvinced this morning—she thinks Kerry is getting set up if he wins to be made a colossal failure, that Bushco has made it so deliberately so that no matter what happens, the plan goes on. I dunno. All I know is, if Kerry loses, Hello Big Darkness.
I saved up for snow tires this year (damn near killed myself on bald tires in these goddam mountains last year) and went down to get them mounted and balanced this morning after coffee. The tire shop is an old tin shed out back of this guy’s house a way down the road, and I hadn’t been there since last year to get a flat fixed, and politics never came up then. Funny how politics is in everything now. Good, too. His neighbor across the road (who I don’t know) has a huge 4x6 BushCheney04 poster mounted on fence posts in his little pasture. The tire guy sees my stickers on the truck and says he’s voting for Kerry. He says, “You seen dat sign across the street?” I said, yeah, sure. And then the tire guy—a toothless old vet—goes off, and this is what it sounded like:
Dat sumbitch talks about how we gotta support Bush coz that means we’re supportin the troops in eye-rack, but I tell you dis—he ain’t got no sense, he never been in a war, he don’t know. I know! I tell you, my boy, he wanted to join the Marines, I tole him no! you ain’t joinin nothin while there’s a crazy man runnin things, no. Course he ain’t got much of a job, dat’s why he wants to join. Ain’t we learned nothin? I asks you. An dat mofo over there, what he really sayin is now dat we in the cesspool we might as well take a swim an thank the fool who threw us in. Crazy! Pure batshit! I cain’t even talk to him no more. Like he got a zipper in his head nowadays. Damn fool.
He went on about other things, too, like social security, health care and veteran’s benefits and shitty roads, but what stuck in my mind was the cesspool and the zipper-head.
