Got 2 minutes for a good laugh? Ha! “Bad Lip-Reading,” Rick Perry. Personally, I can’t get enough of this sort of thing. More, please. As we begin this run up to the next phase of agitation, hand wringing and jubilation over who you get to have as your next zookeeper, it is a noble thing indeed to ridicule those professional jobholders with such aspirations to rule over and impose their values upon you in the Zoo Human.
Personally, I will be laughing at all of them and I do mean all of them. They ought all go find honest work somewhere (though I wouldn’t trust any of them to take out the trash).
Thanks for posting on a Sunday! Since I don’t go to church, I might as well do something productive with my time…like laughing my ass off. These guys do a spectacular job of lip reading. I too want more of this type of entertainment, because that’s all politicians are good for anyway.
Especially funny with captioning ON.
Hi Richard, I love the thesis you’ve been synthesizing the last few posts/months, and how your going about the manifesto and incorporating politics.
I just wanted to say that I’d love to see you lead the charge on the paleo side of things to perhaps uniting the paleo world with the quote unquote “manosphere” (meaning most any of the blogs linked here.)
I think the agendas being pushed on this country are the same whether we’re talking about politics, food, medicine, finance or whatever else.
It’s only natural to start uniting these small splinter cells and expanding the community.
You always go on about national elections but don’t say a word about the elections that are most important but hardly anyone votes in–local. Board of Ed, city council, etc. have FAR more of an effect on everyday life then national but because they’re not big and shiny like the nationals people stay away.
I suppose that’s because this blog has international readership and after all, the bigger and shinier, the more ridiculous.
True, but to condemn voting outright because it’s useless in national matters (which it is, I won’t deny) is wrong. I’m a firm believer in “think global, act local.” If you want to do the Paleo thing, I bet Grok couldn’t give a shit about what a clan on the other side of the river was doing but certainly cared about what went on in his own clan–and I can guarantee that politics reared its head even there. “I killed the bigger mammoth so my family gets the larger share of meat. Roc? Sure, he killed a few rabbits but it’s not like it was the mammoth that I killed.”
Trish, local politics, with their ability to prescribe values for your business and home via force is as far removed from a hunter gatherer society as is a national election. It’s a different scale, but principally the same.
And don’t even get me started on local police forces where a single individual on a whim can get you so wrapped up in the system you’ll be wishing for centralized control from DC so you can just get lost in the crowd.
I’m not interested in any of it, never will be.
As I am not American and live on the other side of the world, I usually find the year of primaries about as exciting as watching paint peel, and I avoid it as far as possible. But this is just sooo clever! Thanks for bring it to our attention, Richard!
Keith, I love it when I toss together a post that gets you to read and comment.
Always a good day.
My international readers are this blog’s salvation.
But you’re not quite willing to completely break away. I assume you pay taxes, don’t freak out when taxes are taken out of Bea’s paycheck. Plus she works for a complete political horror–a public school system (I was a teacher once upon a time and my immature ideals of educating youth were dashed upon the rocks of idiotic public school politics). Does she share your viewpoints? How does she reconcile her own beliefs to the idiocy?
I just love it when people assume they know all about me or even worse, my wife, from reading stuff I post on my blog. Bea is her own person with her own money. Why would you assume she reports her paycheck to me? It’s hers, not mine, as is her work. We’ve always had totally separate finances and accounts, and always will.
Where would you go to “break away”? There’s no frontier left. It’s one big global totalitarian government. Pretty much as Orwell describe in 1984.
Well that’s a good observation, Natalie. Obviously, they mean, “taxpayers”: anyplace I don’t own.
One way or another, this sort of thing always reduces to “love it or leave it,” like they own the place and it doesn’t matter where I might have accidentally been born. Bonus points if you can figure out who coined that phrase. (Shut up, Sean)
What are you doing to save your savings?
I am dumping everything I have into Gold, physical and in a locker nearby.
I can’t trust the economy or the government to save the economy :-).
Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while
This is the most productive thing I’ve seen out of the election so far, especially involving Perry. Thanks for the post!
I think we have found a campaign slogan for Perry. “Save a pretzel for the gas jets!” What’s not to like? They should shout that at least once every time he makes an appearance in public.
The original makes about as much sense as the video.
I live in Texas and would like to dump him as governor, but making him president would be much worse for the country.