The only person who can save us all is Dan Savage. We need him to do to the phrase “Go John Galt” what he has done with “santorum” and “saddlebacking.”
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Deep Thought #2:
Republicans are fond of saying Americans can do anything and everything and build anything and everything. Except, according to Republicans dogma, govern themselves. Only individuals can do that.
Porco Rosso
But do we need another word for onanism?
Josh Hueco
If it can be linked to the fact that Alan Greenspan used to be one of Ayn Rand’s fuckbuddies that would be even better.
Speaking of, can we coordinate our pundits and politicos to say ‘You’re seriously saying that we should listen to Alan Greenspan’s fuckbuddy?’ whenever some asshat threatens to go Galt or praises Atlas Shrugged?
MattF
gojohngalt: "To gojohngalt" is to discover that you have become incontinent.
Michael D.
I trust Dan Savage before I trust any of you people. He is an awesome voice for gay people. He just is.
Atanarjuat
Dan Savage is a racist, inflammatory blowhard who appeals only to a reactionary segment of society who are unable to see the world beyond black and white, Us vs. Them.
Even if you were to find someone who is the opposite of all these negative characteristics, I’d say that we’re in too deep in this economic disaster for any one person to "save us all."
That will take all of us pulling together — not partisan ankle-biters looking for an opening to advance some radical agenda that will only hinder, not help the recovery of our nation.
-Country First
Edit: my apologies. I read that as MICHAEL Savage. Ignore my comment above, as it doesn’t apply to this post.
mama whiskers aka cleaning baseboards
I’m just throwing this out there since it is the latest of the morning thread explode. Has anyone been tracking the rate of suicide among the "previously employed"? Losing one’s job is a massive blow psychologically. If you were not suffering from depression and possibly more serious disorders, this is the time when depression strikes even the most mentally healthy of us.
Add to that mix the fact that without your job you don’t have health insurance coverage which means you cannot get the vital mental health services you need.
After 3 years of trying to find stable employment with benefits (and instead moving from one temp position to another) I finally broke down and went to therapy because I thought I was going to absolutely die from grief, frustration and just plain anger. Luckily, my mental health providers are understanding about the fact that I just pay what I can pay. I’m one of the fortunate ones.
Most people who suffer from mental illness or standard depression are more of a danger to themselves than to others. So how many are just going to kill themselves in despair because they see no way out and the stress without occasional release becomes too much to bear?
More ominous, what about the few who are predisposed to do harm to others? I wonder how many instances we will see of people going "postal" on their former workplace?
MR Bill
The Red Pig @1nailed it.
To have sex without regard for the needs of others is pretty much wankery.
Or should be..
Porco Rosso
Now this is going Galt
4tehlulz
@Josh Hueco: Usual response: Not pure enough, not relevant, etc.
Michael
"Well you’re a lousy lay." "Fine, let’s see how you like it when I’m over here jacking off in the corner! HA! My Randian superdong is going JOHN GALT, and no one else in the world will ever orgasm now!"
Wow, their logic really can’t be parodied, can it?
mama whiskers aka cleaning baseboards
Porco Rosso: sick thought, but what if that guy realized he was dying and couldn’t get free, can you imagine you last thoughts being "they’re going to find me this way?" 8o
Josh Hueco
@4tehlulz:
Indecipherable, unfunny, etc.
@Michael:
Heehee…That put the sugar in my morning coffee.
MR Bill
It’s one of life’s little ironies that the former boyfriend, the one who dumped me last year (I was too fat, and depressed from bad job and stress as single parent, and pissed that after 13 years he said ‘we’re not lovers, we don’t have a relationship’), the is all antisocialist Neil Boortz fan, a Log Cabin republican, who never missed a chance to use his financial leverage as control ,a butch power bottom with a taste for getting plugged while wearing stockings, name is pronounced (if not spelled) like "Galt".
And according to mutual acquaintances can’t seem to find anyone who will put up his crap.
I’m sure his portfolio isn’t so attractive now, either.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist
We need him to do to the phrase “Go John Galt” what he has done with “santorum” and “saddlebacking.”
Hmmm…. it did involve running off and living in a hidden gulch, so there’s got to be some naughty interpretation of that. Even if it’s as innocent as a *permanent* state of having one’s head up his ass.
wasabi gasp
To go john galt is to shit your pants while searching for the cleanest stall.
Mudge
Deep Thought: What a dull world it was before John Cole came over from the Dark Side.
Walker
As has been pointed out on several blogs, the problem is that these people believe they are John Galt, when they are actually James Taggart.
demimondian
@Mudge: Oh, no. Things were a lot more fun when JC was a far right mouthpiece.
You see, back then, he provided an articulate, intelligent…ummm…wingnut.
Aaron M
Perhaps he could consult with WND’s Ilana Mercer, who teaches us about the "Randian majesty" of sex.
Josh Hueco
@4tehlulz:
Reads your previous post re: Greenspan on earlier thread, feels like jackass, apologizes.
dan
"To go John Galt" — To be forced to get a real job wherein you are paid a regular salary for doing something productive when you previously were getting money for doing something completely unproductive like blogging or trading CDOs.
No reason why the definition has to be sexual.
chrome agnomen
to think that all this time when i saw WWJD i never realized it meant what would johngalt do.
clone12
My prediction for the upcoming Atlas Shrugged movie: it’ll make a ton of money because about 50,000 people in America will each watch the movie 10,000 times.
John Cole
@clone12: In other words, it will be just like Serenity.
Josh Hueco
@clone12:
If the movie’s like the book it’ll be 13 hours long.
Obama Juice fka Porkulus fka Media Browski
To Go John Galt:
To refuse others the voyeuristic pleasure of your unsanitory and self-destructive narcissistic self-fetishization.
Oliver's Neck
@John Cole:
Oh, that was uncool.
Now I’m gonna go buy three more copies of the DVD.
camchuck
Anagram fun:
Going Galt = Gagging Lot
Jennifer
@Josh Hueco:
And it will suck donkey.
The Grand Panjandrum
Well I can think of one American who’s 15 (very long) minutes is about up. And not a second too soon. But it could be that this failure only points out that he isn’t a Real American.
Isn’t Donald Trump a modern day Galt in some sense?
Jim Pharo
Re: #2: The idea is that the American people can do anything, so long as they do not resort to government as a way to do it. This pretty much renders our society unable to accomplish much of anything.
Dennis-SGMM
@clone12:
I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the new and improved movie version. I went to atlasthefilm.com, clicked on "Current News" and the lead item there is "Angelina Jolie set to star in Atlas Shrugged," which would be amazing save for the fact that the item is dated September 21, 2006.
Apparently, the Atlas Society (The promoters of Randian Objectivism and of this movie) is a few Galts shy of Utopia.
Max
Kids today have their own way of saying Randian Objectivism.
"Fapping."
mellowjohn
to bugger someone senseless without even a hint of a reach-around?
Robin G.
to go John Galt: to end a sexual session rather than please one’s partner. ("I asked him if he would eat me out this time before I blew him, and in response he went John Galt and stormed out in a hissy fit.")
scarshapedstar
Hmm. What angle hasn’t been covered so far…
To go John Galt is to stand in the back corner of the orgy, looking aloof and superior, while secretly wondering if it’s OK to ask another man to fuck you in the ass.
jcricket
If the movie’s like the book there won’t be a single convincing human performance in it. The fucking cockroach from WallE displayed more human emotions than every character in Atlas Shrugged put together.
Even Libertarian-leaning douchenozzles like Megan McArdle are finally getting that point. There couldn’t be a more apt description for followers of Ayn than "Randroids".
dr.hypecube
I thought ‘going John Gault’ meant boning up your work so thoroughly that you end up killing two productive members of the community.
Jon H
I propose that the new name for a gimp mask be "a John Galt".
It actually works, too. See a person in a gimp mask, and you naturally ask, "Who is John Galt over there?"
clone12
Well, if that Atlas Shrugged people can’t get Angelina Jolie they may have to fall back to plan B.
Ann Coulter as Dagny Taggart
And if the Atlas Shrugged people have any business acumen, they would have Atlas Shrugged made into 20 movies (the Galt soliloquy by itself is about 2 movies), and force the Randroids to plunk down gobs of money.
Downpuppy
I don’t see any need to separate the Galt nonsense from the teabagging.
They did Dan Savage’s work for him.
Nicole
@Josh Hueco: Though imagining the love child of Rand and Greenspan amuses me immensely, I don’t think Rand actually slept with Greenspan- she was too busy sleeping with what’s-his-name, later wrote Psychology of Self-Esteem guy, who, admittedly, was reasonably attractive back then, while Greenspan clearly was hit with the ugly stick early and often.
The two biographies of her are much more entertaining than her novels, that’s for sure.
Nathaniel Brandon- that’s his name. Why the hell can I remember this but not anything useful like where my keys are?
Comrade grumpy realist
Someone over at Pandagon came up with this:
cafepress.com/roxpopuli
(Pandagon’s got a pretty good thread up batting the "go Galt" silliness around.)
kth
If I do say so myself, I believe that the thread-winning response is auto-erotic asphyxia.
anticontrarian
to go john galt: to stop fucking someone you fail to bring to orgasm because they don’t appreciate your awesome technique