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What would Atlas do?

by DougJ|  September 13, 20096:33 pm| 89 Comments

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Oliver Willis went above and beyond in capturing the colorful mosaic that is Glenn Beck nation. I like this pic best:

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  1. 1.

    Laura W Darling

    September 13, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    I do not care to see “mosaic” six short letters away from Beck’s name in a front page post, frankly.
    With all due deference to BOB.

  2. 2.

    malraux

    September 13, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    The most personally surprising element of the signs was the huge support of Fox. I can get, kinda sorta, most of the crazy on display. But support for a particular cable channel? I could understand support of Rush, Beck, or other talking head person. But not for an entire commercial venture. Something about that is very very wrong.

  3. 3.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    my favorite sign so far is the one that says “Lenin + Stalin + Hitler + Mao == Obama! Do the math America!”

    How foolish. Everybody knows “(Lenin + Stalin + Hitler + Mao) / Ted Bundy == Obama” is the correct equation.

  4. 4.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    why did this tardware strip out my equals signs?

  5. 5.

    Left Coast Tom

    September 13, 2009 at 6:46 pm

    When are they going to finally Go Galt? Are we supposed to pay them to do so?

    I thought the “Where Is My White, Privilege Males At” sign had a certain…incoherence. His or her “white” appears to be doing just fine, judging from the hand holding the sign. His/her sole complaint seems to be that he/she can’t get privileged males.

  6. 6.

    MikeJ

    September 13, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    WTF is that bee?

  7. 7.

    Incertus

    September 13, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    So now what? What’s their next futile move?

  8. 8.

    Funkhauser

    September 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    I gotta feel bad for OW – his comments are chock-full of the stupid.

  9. 9.

    Left Coast Tom

    September 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    @steve s:

    why did this tardware strip out my equals signs?

    It went Galt. It tried to warn you, but you didn’t listen.

  10. 10.

    geg6

    September 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Meanwhile, Oprah is laughing her ass off at these dimwits. She can buy and sell them, every one of them, with not even a blip on her bottom line. Even funnier, she’s one of those uber innovators that Rand purports to celebrate and whaddaya know? Instead of being a selfish and greedy fuck, she chooses to do some good for society with her cash and power. I’m not a viewer of her show, but I admire her entrepreneurship and her soft use of her power.

  11. 11.

    Cat Lady

    September 13, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    LOL. Each picture put together as a whole just make one big WTF? Another Exhibit A to the supposition that wingnut mythology is inscrutable and inexplicable to all but them. It sure is entertaining in the meantime, and now I haz a sad that there aren’t going to be death panels.

  12. 12.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 13, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    This struck me yesterday while checking out the wingnut signs. Especially on Oprah. I mean, she is about as non political a person as can be, though she did like Obama and campaigned some for him. For some obvious reasons.

    And all the signs of a whole array of dem, or suspected dem boogymen caricatured as HItler was a little, or lot much. I get it about Obama and Biden and a few others, as some dems did the samewith the Hitler nonsense for Bush?Cheney. But it wasn’t for a couple of years and the underpinnings for the meme was torture, preventive, and ill thought out war, laced with lies and causing 100’s of thousands of innocent deaths.

    Obama rescued the economy using some difficult but necessary powers that were begun by the GOP admin. and endorsed by about every leading economist left and right, at least in principle and necessity/ And now he’s trying to fix a broken HC system that most agree as needing fixing.

    So the right disagrees with part of his plan,. but offers none of their own, and Obama IS HITLER!

    Wonder what they’re really mad about?/snark

  13. 13.

    apistat

    September 13, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    The thing that gets me here is that the people with the most extreme, ridiculous anti-Bush signs were almost always teenage to 20 something anarchist wannabe looking punks who will probably look back on that stuff in 5-10 years and embarrassingly chalk it up to youthful enthusiasm. These people, on the other hand, are grown ass adults in their 40s-60s. What’s their excuse for being this retarded and hyperbolic?

  14. 14.

    Cat Lady

    September 13, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    @apistat:

    What’s their excuse for being this retarded and hyperbolic?

    I wonder that too, and can only think of one good reason.

  15. 15.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    “What’s their excuse for being this retarded and hyperbolic?”

    that skinny left part of the bell curve is packed with tea baggers and young-earth creationists.

  16. 16.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    September 13, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    OW got some good shots at the protest yesterday. But Tbogg wins the internets today:

    If they didn’t burn their Medicare cards,
    they’re just a bunch of fucking posers.

    That’s the caption below an old Fuck the Draft poster with the picture of a guy burning his draft card. Jesus, I will be laughing for the rest of the week over that one.

  17. 17.

    BDeevDad

    September 13, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    And what’s the chance that these folks could not even dig the outhouse for their Galt dream world.

  18. 18.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FdzzVlZj6so/SeojwGXhEPI/AAAAAAAAA6c/_6GPzR8gVOQ/s400/TeaBaggerLogic.jpg

  19. 19.

    SpotWeld

    September 13, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Not so much a mosaic as a Crazy Quit of pieced together bumper stickers and shredded logic.

  20. 20.

    Joshua

    September 13, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    Wanna bet the dude in the Gone Galt shirt cashes his Social Security checks every month?

  21. 21.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    @Joshua:

    IIRC that’s more or less why Whittaker Chambers told William F Buckley his conservative movement would fail in the end.

  22. 22.

    Bubblegum Tate

    September 13, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    @Joshua:

    I’d further bet that he wants to keep the government out of his Medicare.

  23. 23.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    I wonder what would happen if you went to one of these things with an american flag with Obama’s face glued to it, and set it on fire? Would they cheer, or attack you? I honestly don’t know.

  24. 24.

    Leelee for Obama

    September 13, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    @The Grand Panjandrum: Took me awhile, your link sends you to the top of this post. However, it was worth it. Funny stuff. Go read it, everybody,and the poster about the draft is priceless.

    Was listening to some caller on Wash Journal this AM, bitching about the raised taxes. He didn’t sound rich, so I assume he got a tax cut or at the least 250 bucks from the Stim. The only tax that went up that I know about is on cigarettes, and if I’m not bitching about it, why is anyone else? I don’t even own the pot I p___in. Wankers!

  25. 25.

    BDeevDad

    September 13, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    The Obama Redskin’s jersey is particularly awesome as 44 was John Riggins’ number.

  26. 26.

    Incertus

    September 13, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    @steve s: That’s a really good question. I’ve got enough wingnut Facebook friends that it might be worth a poll.

  27. 27.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    September 13, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    @Leelee for Obama: Yikes! Thanks for the heads up.

    @The Grand Panjandrum: Here’s the Tbogg link

  28. 28.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    It might be fun to imagine that you’re a tea bagger. What would your sign say? I think mine would say

    “WHERE’S THE DRIVER’S LICENSE?” just to be kind of inscrutably nutty. Or I’d I’d just try to be shameful and my sign would say “Obama hates ‘real’ Americans” and ‘real’ would be conspicuously white. Maybe with some pictures of white people in case anyone missed it. And I would have a t-shirt that said “ME GO GALT!”

  29. 29.

    kay

    September 13, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    @steve s:

    Very, very funny. I just love the driver’s license idea.

  30. 30.

    Cat Lady

    September 13, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    That Hoot-Smalley tag is perfect, innit. The one and only time I will ever thank Michelle Bachmann for her contribution to the discourse.

  31. 31.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 13, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    We’re the Saudi Arabia of stupid. Half the world’s proven reserves, baby!

  32. 32.

    Betsy

    September 13, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    @Left Coast Tom:

    His/her sole complaint seems to be that he/she can’t get privileged males.

    I think a lot of us can relate to that, amirite ladeez?

  33. 33.

    Morbo

    September 13, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    50 bucks* to the first person to find a black person in those pictures.

    *Not redeemable anywhere in this universe

  34. 34.

    Betsy

    September 13, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    @Cat Lady:
    I actually live in fear that seeing that tag so often will cause me one day, in front of students and/or faculty, to call it that. Because, as a reader of Balloon Juice, I see “Hoot-Smalley” far more often than references to Smoot-Hawley.

  35. 35.

    Cat Lady

    September 13, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    @malraux:

    Fox keeps them infromed.

  36. 36.

    FlipYrWhig

    September 13, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Isn’t the point of swapping a dollar sign for an S to make a derogatory comment about it? I’ve seen M$M, U$A, Bu$h, etc. So “Atla$ Shrugged” has to be anti-Randian. Maybe she’s accusing Oprah of being an objectivist?

  37. 37.

    Betsy

    September 13, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    @Cat Lady:
    That has to be photoshopped. It cannot be real. It is too perfect to be real. It’s like the “get a brain morans” sign.

  38. 38.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    September 13, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    So. Looks like you’re allowed to take breaks from Going Galt. ‘Cos I thought the whole point was to withdraw to one’s mountain top fastness and smoke cigarettes while the world fell apart without one’s guidance.

    Perhaps these intellectual giants and captains of industry were giving us one last chance.

  39. 39.

    BDeevDad

    September 13, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    @Cat Lady: Someone pointed out last night that the infromed are from Amercia.

  40. 40.

    TR

    September 13, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    Wow, 30000 protestors. The 9/12 crowd has managed to match the protest numbers of a midwinter antiwar protest in Iowa City.

    No wonder the liberal media put them on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. Their numbers were so mighty than not even the liberal liberals of the liberal media could ignore their non-liberal power.

  41. 41.

    Matthew Hooper

    September 13, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Well, to at least attempt to be fair, it’s a rare thing when conservatives take to the streets like this. Hasn’t happened in oh, at least eight years or so.

  42. 42.

    Cat Lady

    September 13, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    @Betsy:

    That picture will explain the early part of the 21st century to future historians.

  43. 43.

    maya

    September 13, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    And on the pedestal these words appear;
    “My name is FOXimandias, look upon my walks ye mighty
    and despair”.
    Around the decay of that colossal dreck,
    bagless and bare,
    the long and level Pennsylvania Ave stretches far away.

  44. 44.

    joe from Lowell

    September 13, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    OK, I’m not exactly David Axelrod or anything, but it seems to me that building a political movement on the strength of people who want to keep the government out of their Medicare isn’t a very wise long-term strategy.

  45. 45.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    September 13, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    I wonder what would happen if you went to one of these things with an american flag with Obama’s face glued to it, and set it on fire? Would they cheer, or attack you? I honestly don’t know.

    Shit, that is easy to answer. They would cheerfully attack you!

  46. 46.

    dr. bloor

    September 13, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    Is it really a “mosaic” if all the tiles are white?

  47. 47.

    Russ

    September 13, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    Newshounds has a pretty good one too.

    http://www.newshounds.us/2009/09/13/one_picture_is_worth_a_thousand_words.php#more

  48. 48.

    Cat Lady

    September 13, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    @maya:

    Apropos of this, I stole this post from an anonymous poster at the Hillman Foundation site and tucked it away:

    I met a man beside the firewall Who said: two vast and empty halls of stone Stand in the city. Near them, on the mall, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Truthiness of mouth, which to pow’r gave head, And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is WaPo, King of Mainstream Media: Look upon my works, ye Bloggers, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of those colossal wrecks, in troubled air The newsprint crumbles, rips, and blows away.

  49. 49.

    dmsilev

    September 13, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    I like this one, dug up by the fine folks at LG&M.

    It’s just wrong, on so many levels that it’s impressive.

    -dms

  50. 50.

    Jamey

    September 13, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    28:

    Mine would say: “US out of NORTH AMERICA!!!!1”

  51. 51.

    Cat Lady

    September 13, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    @dmsilev:

    That’s really weird, but fairly well executed. Think about how many ways this went wrong before the final product was proudly displayed. If you can’t articulate a simple concept on a 2′ x 3′ piece of cardboard with paper, scissors, a Sharpie and a dictionary with several days of a head start, then you’re a moran.

  52. 52.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    September 13, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    @steve s: Greasy Forane Hands of Leshp!

    The t-shirt would read “Amercia 1st!”

  53. 53.

    mutt

    September 13, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    And if these self declared Galts WERE to remove themselves, who would miss them?
    Like the Crapture moonbats- wouldnt we have a nicer country without them?

    Go, Galt, GO!!!! Skedaddle. Step off. You are an albatross of Stupid around the country’s neck.

  54. 54.

    Betsy

    September 13, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    @mutt:
    I know! They keep promising…

  55. 55.

    Gwangung

    September 13, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    Wow, 30000 protestors. The 9/12 crowd has managed to match the protest numbers of a midwinter antiwar protest in Iowa City.

    these folks are overly impressed with their numbers. They seem to think they’re hot stuff and disdainful of the antiwar numbers.

    Cognitive dissonance.

  56. 56.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 13, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    Is it really a “mosaic” if all the tiles are white?

    It’s a bathroom floor.

  57. 57.

    Onihanzo

    September 13, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    The Go-Galt/Randroids and the pro-lifers might need to sit down for a minute.

    An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn). Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?

    -The Objectivist

    And 30,000 heads exploded.

  58. 58.

    someguy

    September 13, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    You people are being waaaay too tough on the teabaggers. C’mon. They were really impressive, considering the material they started with.

    For one thing, they didn’t lynch any negroes yesterday. For another thing, they didn’t chase the Jews and Papists out of town. For another… well, I’m sure there’s something else praiseworthy about their 3000 Man March.

  59. 59.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 13, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    @Onihanzo:

    Stop it now before you make baby jeebus cry and then go off on librards.

  60. 60.

    cleek

    September 13, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    and look right behind that one: “Deficit neutral is psyhco talk” !

    WTF?

  61. 61.

    Onihanzo

    September 13, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Ahem.

  62. 62.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    September 13, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    No discussion of Galting is complete without Bob (not BOB).

    Bumper crop of Randroid mocking here.

    @Betsy:
    They are like a little kid who is threatening to run away. And like a little kid, if they ever stop telling us how sorry we’ll be and actually GtFo, they’ll be back the minute they get hungry.

  63. 63.

    Donald G

    September 13, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    What would Atlas do? She’d show us her juggs.

    Sorry, ladies, sorry, but ever since someone on Balloon Juice referred to Pamela Geller as “Atlas Juggs” in a comment, the appellation has stuck in my mind. And I’m not one who’s normally fixated on the mammaries.

  64. 64.

    Donald G

    September 13, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    @kommrade reproductive vigor: To the Galters: How can we miss you if you never actually go away?

  65. 65.

    bellatrys

    September 13, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    The depressing thing to me is that all the 9/12ers-FOXfans-Beckists I know are pretty well to do. Not in the upper 5%, and not all of them in the 10% but a good number of them, and the rest are at least property owners.

    They are for the most part (not all, mind you) still essentially illiterate, even if they own businesses and multiple houses, and this includes the college grads – one wingnut family I worked for used to regularly insist that wrong punctuation in their publications HAD to be right because “it looked right to them” and so they made us in the production dept print things wrong in order to conform to their unique vision of how the rules of English punctuation went (and not in a jokey, LOL-cat way.) All of them went to college, and half of them couldn’t spell the brand names in the product lines they marketed, even when said brands were 4 letters long.

    (The head of that business was also convinced that science fiction was somehow Satanic and dangerous to my soul. Not fantasy, mind you, which would be marginally more comprehensible involving as it does *dragons* and *magic*: a totally “hard” sf novel about rocketships and particles.) My current wingnut boss is convinced that FOX is the only TV outfit that “tells the truth” and can’t spell worth a damn – yet somehow has an MBA.

    (It was very depressing when I realized that all the asshole bosses I had had, and all the asshole customers, who were all so much wealthier than I will ever be (unless Fortuna takes a hand in my fate) were also all paraliterates who did not have any intellectual curiosity or even much common sense, but were very arrogant, pushy, and good at snow jobbing other people out of their money – so much for all that expensive coursework and that Magna Cum Laude, suckAR!)

    But – stupid, greedy, moderately-rich people engaged in mutual cheerleading (or circle jerks) dedicated to the protection of their pride and their property – this is the teabag contingent, at least up here in the Northeast.

  66. 66.

    Dan

    September 13, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    I’ve seen lots of pictures, most of them some flavor of crazy. In the credit where credit is due department I must say this one made me laugh. And yes I got it from No Quarter.

  67. 67.

    gbear

    September 13, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    @Morbo:

    OMG. If you follow @Russ: link and go back about a half dozen pictures, there is a photo of a <a href=”http://picasaweb.google.com/AUAndi/912Protest#slideshow/5380668551902060386″teabagger of color. This guy must live a very sad life.

    Can I have my $50 now. I owe a friend $10 for a church-basement turkey dinner earlier today.

  68. 68.

    gbear

    September 13, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    the words in between ‘a’ and the period should be ‘person of color’. I miss edit.

  69. 69.

    Mnemosyne

    September 13, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    Wow. That is seriously impressive.

  70. 70.

    steve s

    September 13, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    “To the Galters: How can we miss you if you never actually go away?”

    Maybe there are no banks in Galt’s Gulch where they can cash their gummint checks.

  71. 71.

    shoutingattherain

    September 13, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    @dmsilev:
    Funny picture. The catagory which it is in at LGM is funny too:

    Labels: i can’t believe it’s not self-parody, IT’S HARD TO THINK STRAIGHT WITH A TEABAG ON YOUR CHIN, wingnut silliness

  72. 72.

    Joel

    September 14, 2009 at 2:18 am

    In other words, Nate Silver is concern trolling re: these douchebags. Too bad, I thought Nate was a bit smarter than that.

  73. 73.

    b-psycho

    September 14, 2009 at 2:23 am

    “Psst…hey you, the teabagger with the sign referencing Atlas Shrugged: y’know Ayn Rand was an atheist, right?”

    These people have the accuracy of a pack of blind monkeys on shrooms. Citing objectivism, the constitution and the bible when each disagrees with the other strongly, calling their opponents both fascists and soshulists when the two are in opposition…almost makes you grudgingly respect the open bigots in the crowd for getting to the point, doesn’t it?

  74. 74.

    Zuzu's Petals

    September 14, 2009 at 2:55 am

    @dmsilev:

    The guy who took it has a really impressive collection on Flickr.

    The best part is the comments, though. BJ quality in fact.

  75. 75.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    September 14, 2009 at 7:49 am

    Talk about a good joke on the crowd numbers at the “event”. Someone pulled a good one and the Galtians fell for it.

  76. 76.

    Mike

    September 14, 2009 at 8:10 am

    what’s with using the word retarded? still stuck in 7th grade.

  77. 77.

    slippy

    September 14, 2009 at 9:30 am

    It was just recently that I discovered, from a footnote I think, what one of the main premises of Ayn Rand’s work was: the stumble-fuck stupid notion that the “leaders” of our society would pack up and just stop doing their sacred leadery thing, and leave the rest of us “looters” flapping helplessly like dying fish should we fail to reward them fulsomely enough.

    I look around at the tiny head of the social pyramid in America, and how many of these people are little more than frauds, phonies, thieves, and liars. At the dawn of the 21st century, most wealthy Americans’ stash is inherited or stolen. And the notion that they’re going to go “Galt” on us just cracks me up. GO AHEAD PEOPLE. DO IT! WE WON’T FUCKING MISS YOU.

    I think the aspect of Randian idiocy that cracks me up most is the air of superiority these folks assume. As if there were no other talented or intelligent folks waiting for an opportunity. And as if our social hierarchy never denied anyone anything, ever.

    Give me a fucking break. And libertarians wonder why I can barely engage them in conversation — I’m doubled over laughing at their fucking stupid ideas.

  78. 78.

    liberal

    September 14, 2009 at 9:38 am

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Obama rescued the economy using some difficult but necessary powers that were begun by the GOP admin. and endorsed by about every leading economist left and right, at least in principle and necessity…

    While the stimulus was a good thing, Obama’s continuing of the Bush administration’s giveaway to Wall Street and its bondholders was not. Nor was it necessary to rescue the economy.

  79. 79.

    Flugelhorn

    September 14, 2009 at 9:58 am

    @Mike: You will find that to be the case with many of the posters in this arena.

  80. 80.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    September 14, 2009 at 10:06 am

    @Mike:

    If you have to use it then you must be. I know people who are “retarded”, one who was related and passed away due to complications from her disability, and they are much better people than those who are frequently referred to as “retarded”.

    Those people are really just simpleminded, ignorant fuckwits. Calling them retarded is an insult to developmentally disabled people.

  81. 81.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 14, 2009 at 10:07 am

    @liberal:

    That’s your opinion liberal. I don’t like what was done with all the bailouts, especially at first. I changed my mind on the need for it, and agree it was necessary, though not enthusiastically, and not always how it was done.

    But you should take heart. The teabaggers agree with you 100 percent.

  82. 82.

    Leelee for Obama

    September 14, 2009 at 10:08 am

    I’m watching CNN, and they have some film from the tea-partiers, of course. Some guy just said the Gov is taxing us into Bolivian. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

    I didn’t look at all the pictures, so I know I’ve missed some of the best signage, but I thought this was worth mentioning.

    Carry on.

  83. 83.

    Brachiator

    September 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    @Leelee for Obama:

    I’m watching CNN, and they have some film from the tea-partiers, of course. Some guy just said the Gov is taxing us into Bolivian.

    I guess this means that “real” American women will all soon get some cool “Bolivian” hats.

    http://ngm.typepad.com/pop_omnivore/2008/10/hats-on-for-bol.html

  84. 84.

    Steaming Pile

    September 14, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    I gotta wonder, how does a dimwit go Galt? Does that mean he’s going to give up his highly skilled job as a…a…whatever it is he does and do…what, exactly? I wonder if the person with the “hey Oprah” sign has ever read any of Ayn Rand’s rantings. I hear they’re kind of a heavy lift for a mental lightweight.

  85. 85.

    Steaming Pile

    September 14, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    @Joshua: Naah, he doesn’t look old enough to be on Social Security, but I bet he factors it in when looking at his retirement plan.

  86. 86.

    Steaming Pile

    September 14, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    @Onihanzo: Is that an actual Ayn Rand quote? I love it!

  87. 87.

    Brachiator

    September 14, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    @Onihanzo:

    The Go-Galt/Randroids and the pro-lifers might need to sit down for a minute

    Thanks much for the link to the Rand Lexicon. So much fun stuff there.

    Ayn Rand on Christianity…

    Christ, in terms of the Christian philosophy, is the human ideal. He personifies that which men should strive to emulate. Yet, according to the Christian mythology, he died on the cross not for his own sins but for the sins of the nonideal people. In other words, a man of perfect virtue was sacrificed for men who are vicious and who are expected or supposed to accept that sacrifice. If I were a Christian, nothing could make me more indignant than that: the notion of sacrificing the ideal to the nonideal, or virtue to vice. And it is in the name of that symbol that men are asked to sacrifice themselves for their inferiors. That is precisely how the symbolism is used. “Playboy’s Interview with Ayn Rand,” March 1964.

    Ayn Rand on The Feminine

    For a woman qua woman, the essence of femininity is hero-worship—the desire to look up to man…. It means that a properly feminine woman does not treat men as if she were their pal, sister, mother—or leader.

    http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/femininity.html

    I seriously doubt that the wingnuts and tea baggers could ever measure up to Rand’s … standards.

  88. 88.

    JustMe

    September 14, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    That’s actually not such a bad sign. Pretty coherent, simple message, the spelling is correct, and the color scheme is creative.

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