WHAT MITTBUBBLE REALLY MEANS BY “VICTIM”
We all know by now that the MITTBUBBLE doesn’t mean what he says. Not in public, anyway. But, in part because of the recently leaked iPhone video of Mr. Romney’s speech to a coven of his highest donors in Florida,* I’ve just realized that when he does mean what he says, he STILL doesn’t say what he means.
So, there he was, the MITTBUBBLE at the lectern—PREACHING. We saw him—kind of—going on and on about his great insight into tactical electoral politics: that 47% of registered voters in the U.S. are “untouchables.” (In the orthodox Hindu religion’s meaning of the word. Not Eliot Ness’ legendary team of Prohibition enforcers.) Those people will never change—not in this lifetime (which, by the way, ends in 46 days). Oh, and, of course, they consider themselves to be “victims.” Of “the system” (I presume). Therefore, they think they’re “entitled” to be supported by the federal government.
That’s pretty much my synopsis, however snarky, of what the MITTBUBBLE said to his big-time, MORMONEY peeps—in private–more or less. And he said it, more or less, more than once. Probably just to be perfectly clear. Or, if you prefer, the MITTBUBBLE needed to hear himself say it again and again, to assure himself that it just might be enough to qualify him as a person who has an actual thought.
I now understand that the MITTBUBBLE is conceptually dyslexic. Let me take a stab at a rough translation of his lingo, what I call, “MITTWIT”:
Mr. Romney meant that THE RICHEST PEOPLE in America—his true constituency—ARE THE REAL VICTIMS of “the system.” They’re the ones who are “entitled” to be supported by the federal government. It should lower their taxes, give their corporations huge tax breaks, etc. After all, they’re the ones who make all the money, aren’t they? They’re the ones who end up paying THE MOST personal income taxes. They’re the one’s handing out new jobs to the “untouchables.” And if you add in the percentage they pay towards their employees’ withholding taxes, well… They’re also the ones paying the MOST money to shore up their employees’ (and everyone else’s) social security benefits!
For all of this altruistic service to their country, indeed, to the health and welfare of the American Economy, what do the richest people in America end up getting? PUNISHED, that’s what! In fact, they’re in mortal danger of getting their taxes raised by a democratic President!
THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
So that’s what MITTBUBBLE really means by “victim.” He means himself.
Oh, and did I forget to mention that 1 out of every 4 children under 6 years old in the USA is living at or below the poverty line? Yes: right here, right now! The MITTBUBBLE has given up on them as well. Ahh, that’s understandable. They won’t be voting for him anyway.
~ Robbie Conal
*Another little thing I learned from that iPhone video: Florida still hasn’t formally withdrawn from membership in the federal union. Who knew?
September 22, 2012 at 2:50 am | Latest News, Robbie's Rants | No comment
“CRAZY IS THE NEW SANE” *
Over my (many) years I’ve gleaned a few words to live by. Just a couple of sentences, not mine, but helpful to me:
- “Everything is political.” Attributed to Leon Trotsky. He’ll do, but I’m sure many people have said it.
- “The medium is the message.” Marshall McLuhan.
But since the Republican Convention, it seems I need to come to terms with a line my friend, *Paul Slansky, dropped on me the other day at lunch: “CRAZY IS THE NEW SANE.”
I’m sure Paul wasn’t just thinking of the Republican party, let’s just say it inspired the thought. The Republican national convention absolutely flaunted Mitt Romney’s lack of thought about the real politik of governing anything (notwithstanding his ungovernable lust for world domination and “MORMONEY.” ) Then they turned their mad little suburban dog, Paul Ryan, loose on us and the Federal Budget. Yes, the very cheese dog who’s spent just about his whole life tethered in the front yard, barking at strangers from behind a pretty white picket fence. I’m not even going to mention Clint Eastwood’s wacko vaudeville routine with an empty chair.
If we peel away the rhetoric, the bluster and the buffoonery, these ideologues (that’s a euphemism) seem to have only two–“no exceptions”–prescriptions for the governance of our country, in addition to and absolutely in the same spirit as “no abortions”—their not so hidden, yet so far unspoken agenda:
- Never ever again allow an African American to become president of their United States.
Which reminds me of something my wife, Deborah Ross, said that spun my head around, “Things will only get better when the US government apologizes for slavery.” Not better yet.
1a. Ditto for a woman president. (see: Hillary Rodham Clinton).
2. The Federal government exists primarily to make sure wealthy US corporations and large financial institutions have the leeway to do anything they deem necessary to maintain their profit margins, no matter its devastating affect on the health, education and the personal welfare of the large majority of American workers.
Which, sadly, reactivates an apt line from “Working Class,” a tune by Pete Anderson:
“They used to call us working class,
We’re just not working anymore.”
September 5, 2012 at 7:56 pm | Robbie's Rants | No comment
